when I go to my taskmanager...(right above in the corner)
My lowest usage is 39 %.
Is this normal? or is this high?
I installed dotfred's taskmanager to see what is running @ the background...
the only thing I see when I go to the tab cpu usage is: idle process 85 %
what is this?
And offcourse my taskmanager 15 % but that's something I do understand..
That figure next to the CPU pic in HTC's Quick Menu is the amount of memory being used. 39% is very good! You still have 61% left to abuse.
Your system is ALWAYS doing something -- even when it's doing NOTHING.
Consider the "NOTHING" process as the "Idle Process".
That "Idle Process" means your system is waiting to be used or to be issued commands. Do something on your unit and the Idle Process will go down and give up cycles to something else that needs it.
In theory, if your Idle Process is 100%, it means that nothing is being done on your PPC and that it's raring to go (a good thing).
If your idle process is low, it means that your PPC is busy handing out CPU cycles to the various applications demanding them (in your case, the task manager itself).
I hope this helps!
Minus-1 said:
That figure next to the CPU pic in HTC's Quick Menu is the amount of memory being used. 39% is very good! You still have 61% left to abuse.
Your system is ALWAYS doing something -- even when it's doing NOTHING.
Consider the "NOTHING" process as the "Idle Process".
That "Idle Process" means your system is waiting to be used or to be issued commands. Do something on your unit and the Idle Process will go down and give up cycles to something else that needs it.
In theory, if your Idle Process is 100%, it means that nothing is being done on your PPC and that it's raring to go (a good thing).
If your idle process is low, it means that your PPC is busy handing out CPU cycles to the various applications demanding them (in your case, the task manager itself).
I hope this helps!
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ahhhh I get it!
THNX for the very clear explanation!
Yeah, I usually hover around the 40% mark...you're good.
You are very welcome, Pensador.
Me too normally 39 to 41 without any programs running apart from Active Sync
allrighty! thnx guys 4 all your replies!
Did a search but found nothing substantial on this:
Does anyone notice their Google Maps is constantly running? And I don't mean in the cached menu. It's running in the "used" column (left column of the "Running" apps screen.
I'm certain Latitude is off, in fact, I unchecked all the location update options and then signed out of Latitude.
What's causing Maps to constantly stay open? Even after I close it and Stop it from the Running apps menu, it reappears moments later by itself.
Anyone know a definitive answer as to why?
onthecouchagain said:
Did a search but found nothing substantial on this:
Does anyone notice their Google Maps is constantly running? And I don't mean in the cached menu. It's running in the "used" column (left column of the "Running" apps screen.
I'm certain Latitude is off, in fact, I unchecked all the location update options and then signed out of Latitude.
What's causing Maps to constantly stay open? Even after I close it and Stop it from the Running apps menu, it reappears moments later by itself.
Anyone know a definitive answer as to why?
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The answer I gave to someone asking about Task Killers earlier today in another thread pretty much answers your concerns here. I'll quote it below.
In addition to the explanation of why you shouldn't worry about killing apps I'll add that on my phone Maps is also always running, but it's not sucking up any resources I need (like juice or cpu) so I don't care that it's "running"...and neither should you unless you see it misbehaving.
Android's memory manager has decided that Maps is one you'll need or want running, so it's going to keep re-loading it until something else with a higher priority takes its place.
If you really just can't stand that it's running or it's affecting performance of the phone, there's a root-required app in the Market called AutoStarts, which let's you mark apps as not being allowed to start automatically under a particular situation. You could use that to mark Maps as not able to start on bootup or whatever, but be aware, Android will just load up a different app to fill up that unused memory space...
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In Android, free memory is wasted memory. People not knowledgable in how Android manages memory think that they're accomplishing something by killing tasks in the hopes of freeing up memory. It doesn't work that way.
Android has a threshold of what amount of free RAM should be maintained, and then does its best to fill up the remaining RAM with apps and stuff you might want to use later; it's like pre-loading your stuff so it loads faster.
The irony of people using task killers to free memory up to "improve performance" and "save battery" is that in most situations they're doing just the opposite. If you kill an app with a task killer, Android will frequently just re-open it in the background to frill up that empty memory space back to its thresholds, thus using up more cpu and juice to reload it.
There are apps or even terminal commands (for root) that let you change that threshold number, and on other devices (2.2 and lower) for me, tweaking that number did sometimes make the phone feel snappier, but it was real trial and error to get it right. I haven't felt the need for it on the Gingerbread Nexus S.
If you're interested in trying something like that, check out AutoKiller Memory Optimizer. Don't let that name fool you, it's a poorly named app, this is NOT a task killer app, it's just a GUI interface to the minfree settings that tell Android's own memory manager what thresholds to use.
There's another one I used to use MinFreeMgr or something like that, but I can't find a link.
And finally, there are limited times that killing tasks is beneficial, one would be if you have an app that's run amok and won't exit on its own. I'm sure there are others, but it's usually a good idea to avoid that practice.
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Sometimes it happens to me, but a reboot solves this issue.
Thanks Distorted for the explanation. A few more questions:
How come if Google feels it's necessary to keep it open, it's not in the Cache menu? They feel they have to keep it up and running? It can't be cached? Why? I'm mostly just curious about this.
Secondly, also for curiosity's sake, how much percentage does Maps show in your Battery Usage menu? It shows about 2% for me, and that's without actually using it. I'm guessing the 2% is just from running by itself.
It's not detrimental to my performance or my battery (2% is small), but I'm justu wondering why it needs to stay open, and what others' readings are in terms of batt. usage.
I've never noticed Map in my battery statistics as something listed. It's been running all day since I responded earlier, and not there.
2% may or may not be an issue, it depends on what else is used up. And remember, that 2% doesn't mean it used 2% of your total battery charge, it means it's used 2% of what's been used so far.
You lost me with cache menu; not sure what you mean there.
I just peeked at Maps in the Applications/Running apps again. If you click on it in there, it shows 1 process and 1 service. It looks like the service is the "network location services". I'm just wild guessing now, but perhaps it's related to having "use wirelss networks" or use "GPS satellites" enabled in Location & Security menu of Settings. Try turning those off and seeing what happens.
Also, you know that in the battery history screen, you can tap on anything that's listed there and it will give you more details on a new screen? Could you tap that on yours for Maps and see what it actually says? Maybe show a screen shot if you can capture one.
Sign out of latitude that's what is using it.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
leerobson99 said:
Sign out of latitude that's what is using it.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
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He said in his first post that "I'm certain Latitude is off, in fact, I unchecked all the location update options and then signed out of Latitude."
I'm curious what other locations aware apps or activities he might have enabled.
When you go to the Running Applications screen, if you click on the lower right of the screen (somewhere near the "Ram" or "200 MB free" indicator) it'll switch to the cache screen.
Anyway, after a night's full battery charge, Maps no longer shows in the Battery Usage screen, but if it shows up there again, I'll click on it and share more info. I do have "Use Wireless Networks" checked, so perhaps that's the culprit? GPS is unchecked. I only check it when I need to use Maps or Navigation. But I'm not running any location update apps.
But again, it seems it's not doing anything detrimental to my CPU or battery, so this is more of a curiosity's sake. Will report if I find anything new.
onthecouchagain said:
Thanks Distorted for the explanation. A few more questions:
How come if Google feels it's necessary to keep it open, it's not in the Cache menu? They feel they have to keep it up and running? It can't be cached? Why? I'm mostly just curious about this.
Secondly, also for curiosity's sake, how much percentage does Maps show in your Battery Usage menu? It shows about 2% for me, and that's without actually using it. I'm guessing the 2% is just from running by itself.
It's not detrimental to my performance or my battery (2% is small), but I'm justu wondering why it needs to stay open, and what others' readings are in terms of batt. usage.
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I have noticed it running also after I do a reboot but usually after a few hours the system usually moves it to the cache menu. I have tried to force stop the process but it will usually come back a little later. I noticed the same thing with the android market.
Found this shared on the web while browsing around... From g+ of a google employee who works with android...
Her post
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Here's the article for lazy people like me...
Today's myth debunking:
"The battery indicator in the status/notification bar is a reflection of the batterystats.bin file in the data/system/ directory."
No, it does not.
This file is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings.
That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."
It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you.
It has no impact on your battery life.
Deleting it is not going to do anything to make your more device more fantastic and wonderful... well, unless you have some deep hatred for seeing anything shown in the battery usage UI. And anyway, it is reset every time you unplug from power with a relatively full charge (thus why the battery usage UI data resets at that point), so this would be a much easier way to make it go away.
neojith said:
Found this shared on the web while browsing around... From g+ of a google employee who works with android...
Her post
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Here's the article for lazy people like me...
Today's myth debunking:
"The battery indicator in the status/notification bar is a reflection of the batterystats.bin file in the data/system/ directory."
No, it does not.
This file is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings.
That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."
It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you.
It has no impact on your battery life.
Deleting it is not going to do anything to make your more device more fantastic and wonderful... well, unless you have some deep hatred for seeing anything shown in the battery usage UI. And anyway, it is reset every time you unplug from power with a relatively full charge (thus why the battery usage UI data resets at that point), so this would be a much easier way to make it go away.
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Did somebody try this?
To almost double the Battery Life you can do these steps exactly:
1) Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more
2) Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour
3) Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour
I heard it from the same forum.
Can the battery indicator in settings>battery be reset to default without resetting/restoring the phone to factory defaults ?
When I got the phone the time/hours remaining, was larger than it is now, at a certain procentage of remaining battery. I believe that the software has learned how many hours the battery will last at "my usage", but I guess it will take some time to unlearn if "my usage" gets less and increase the hours of battery time.
I hope it makes sense
Maybe it doesn't work that way at all
Hello everyone!
So this thread is for those guys that are still having the standby drain even after trying everything and got no help.
My Device Is not Rooted​Since last 2 weeks my device was having super standby drain and I couldn't help that.
First I thought that it was due to the battery wearing out. But I had this phone(exynos version) for around eight months and that is not enough time for the battery to drain out fast. So I started looking for the fixes in the xda threads but none of them had a mass effect on what i was suffering from.
Then I read about that app named the "Better Battery Stats".
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats&hl=en
I used this app to monitor the usage that was being done by different apps.
Most of the battery i.e 61% was being consumed by the apps that were running in the background. And the second big consumer was the android system. So as was mentioned in most of the posts what I tried.
1) Settings> Display> Resolution> Fhd to hd
2)Settings> Device Maintenance> Battery> Save Power and All apps put into always sleeping apps.
3)Setting> Connections> Location> Google Locaation History and disabled it.
4)AOD Disabled.
5)Sync Disabled.
6)Wifi> Advenced> Keep wifi turned on while sleep and set it to never.
7) Reset> Reset network settings
8) Boot into recovery and wipe cache patition
9) Reset factory data(Wipe everything).
And after doing all these steps nothing much changed my battery life since when i after resetting my phone again updated all apps from play store and resetting battery got an SOT of around 3 hours.
Then I again started searching for the problem.
I installed the accuBattery app from play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery&hl=en
And saw that phone was not entering deep sleep for hours that was causing the standby drain!
The major reasons for the drain were.
1) TOUCHWIZ HOME!
2) Google Chrome.
3) Facebook app.
To fix that I applied Lawnchair as my default launcher.
set the theme to dark. Disabled the location permission in the facebook app. And disabled google chrome.
Other settings that also helped were
Change the resolution to hd. Disable google location history.
And boom.... It worked Like a Charm....
Now to add an extra something to the battery life i switch to MID Power Saving mode. That Also helps alot when phone is not being used as it stops background data usage by apps.
Now the average sot that i get from my phone is around 6 to 7 hours.
And the phone sleeps like a baby. 5% Drain in 10h and wifi was on for the whole night. Deep sleep for 9h 41m.
PS: I use most of the time my phone for gaming and heavy usage.
Hope this will work for you guys too.
Screenshots Are attached for the proof!!
Thanks for this man
How are your notifications? I'm having a lot of trouble with delayed notifications, emails/messenger/etc just wake up when I take the phone and I don't even have to wait more than 5-10mins for what seems to be doze to kill everything.
I get whatsapp calls that I miss because the phone never receives it.
And STILL my battery life is far from great.. borderline bad I'd say. So sad
In settings go to device maintenance and hit battery you'll see an option for "always sleeping apps" enter any apps you don't want to run in the bsckground, which will probably be most of them. Saves a lot of data and a lot of battery.