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I'm using a Nexus 5, its my first Android device, and so my first time rooting.
I rooted yesterday using the Android SDK, and installed TWRP.
The root worked perfectly, and I have tested it. All I have done since rooting (unlocked boot loader at the same time, so I'm clean on stock), is install a few Play Apps like Twitter, WhatsApp and then BusyBox and dSploit.
I haven't added any customisations or anything, and my battery is now awful!
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My screen has been on for 50 minutes...
I have brightness on the lowest setting, have turned off vibrate on touch, turned off Wi-Fi, turned off Location, set to use 3G not 4G, set display to turn off after 15 seconds...
Im sure it can't be anything to do with the root, but I don't really know too much about it. Is there a problem with 4.4.2 and battery life?
What else can I do to improve it?
Ideally I'd like to be able to have a max of 3-4 hours screen time, and the device to last for 14-15 hours.
I was easily getting 14 hours before I rooted/updated, but now my battery life has just screwed up.
Why is the OS using up so much?
7ewis said:
I'm using a Nexus 5, its my first Android device, and so my first time rooting.
I rooted yesterday using the Android SDK, and installed TWRP.
The root worked perfectly, and I have tested it. All I have done since rooting (unlocked boot loader at the same time, so I'm clean on stock), is install a few Play Apps like Twitter, WhatsApp and then BusyBox and dSploit.
I haven't added any customisations or anything, and my battery is now awful!
i.imgur/AkdAKjW.jpg (Can't post links yet)
My screen has been on for 50 minutes...
I have brightness on the lowest setting, have turned off vibrate on touch, turned off Wi-Fi, turned off Location, set to use 3G not 4G, set display to turn off after 15 seconds...
Im sure it can't be anything to do with the root, but I don't really know too much about it. Is there a problem with 4.4.2 and battery life?
What else can I do to improve it?
Ideally I'd like to be able to have a max of 3-4 hours screen time, and the device to last for 14-15 hours.
I was easily getting 14 hours before I rooted/updated, but now my battery life has just screwed up.
Why is the OS using up so much?
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Is this not the first charge since you first saw the problem? The Android OS bug occurs sometimes. I would reboot and see how it is on the next full cycle.
sreen may be turning in coz some apps might be asking for root access.
I think you try greenify app and hybernate useless apps, m sure this will help you.
Hello guys,
As you know we are able to force 90hz for all apps. Not always it's a good idea because of :
- battery reason
- Google maps issues
- games which are not "high end" to avoid high battery usage (games like poker and so on does not need 90hz)
I wanted to ask some developers if they can create an application which can be configured themselve (black list for all apps which should not run in 90hz for example)
Thanks so.much (this would.be a reason to root if it requires root).
Put it on auto and let it manage itself or install gravitybox and you can change refresh rate from the quick-settings tile.
trapcoder666 said:
Put it on auto and let it manage itself or install gravitybox and you can change refresh rate from the quick-settings tile.
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Really ?
If I root and use gravity box I can change it for every app?
manutoxic said:
Really ?
If I root and use gravity box I can change it for every app?
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Well, you need to swipe down your quick settings and click the refresh rate tile. So, it's not automated but at least it makes things easier.
trapcoder666 said:
Well, you need to swipe down your quick settings and click the refresh rate tile. So, it's not automated but at least it makes things easier.
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I Wish there would be an application to configure it app by apl
manutoxic said:
I Wish there would be an application to configure it app by apl
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No but JOnePlus Tool lets you just turn it on and off with a single button on the fly. Just open the app and it's on the main screen there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jroot3d.joneplustools&hl=en_US
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=79813631&postcount=78
I also use the forced 90hz all apps and the battery drain from this is seriously overblown. People scream about what they know nothing about. People need to educate themselves before making claims. They just say it kills battery without even trying it. I did nothing different, changed nothing and used my phone the same way I normally do and it made a difference of an increase of .7% battery drain with the screen on compared to 90hz on auto. It went from 6.3% drain pet hour to 7.0% per hour of screen on time. And since I've gotten days with 6.1% with it on forced 90hz all apps. So the difference isn't of and significance. Just try it and if you don't like it, switch it back. You'll find it makes no real difference when using it.
So there really should not be a need to blacklist 90hz all apps for just certain apps imo
Im sure someone could setup a tasker profile for this reason.
equlizer said:
Im sure someone could setup a tasker profile for this reason.
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I did in 2 posts above that was linked, also its in the guides section.
I wish we could have possibility to decide to run some apps in 90hz and another in 60 hz.
For instance I wish KODI could run in 60hz.
netgar said:
I wish we could have possibility to decide to run some apps in 90hz and another in 60 hz.
For instance I wish KODI could run in 60hz.
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here is my guide
If you need some help setting it up let me know. This will let u choose which apps use 60Hz and others will force 90Hz
Any possibility without buying tasker?
I switch to maps, display switched to 60, I turned off maps and display still remains 60. Didn't switch to 90.
Thats the way that should work? I need to manually switch to 90?
netgar said:
I switch to maps, display switched to 60, I turned off maps and display still remains 60. Didn't switch to 90.
Thats the way that should work? I need to manually switch to 90?
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Not sure what your setup is exactly but if you're running the forced 90hz for all apps it is a bug that it shows as 60hz in the OOS setting under display. So if the tasker profile you are using switches from 90hz all apps and back to 60hz then your display setting will basically always show 60hz.
You can use this to test what your refresh rate is currently, either 60 or 90hz
https://www.testufo.com/
manutoxic said:
Any possibility without buying tasker?
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we cannot provide you that info on here... google may be ur friend on how to go about doing that.
Eric214 said:
Not sure what your setup is exactly but if you're running the forced 90hz for all apps it is a bug that it shows as 60hz in the OOS setting under display. So if the tasker profile you are using switches from 90hz all apps and back to 60hz then your display setting will basically always show 60hz.
You can use this to test what your refresh rate is currently, either 60 or 90hz
https://www.testufo.com/
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I don't use forsed 90hz all apps.
Ones I shut off maps I need to manually switch display back to 90hz.
no issues with maps at 90hz here. Strange as some do.
manutoxic said:
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So you want somebody to develop an app for your needs but won't pay for it?
I just found an app called Auto90. You can select which app you want to be auto/60 or 90hz. It's wonderful!
Hi,
I have my OP7pro since 3 months and overall I like it, but there are some things that f*** me up.
One of these things is that the device seem to change the display standby time (time until the display turns off) by itself every few minutes. Default is 15 seconds but I want to set it to 1 minute. I don't know how often I've changed again from 15 seconds to 1 minute again and I don't know what could cause this behavior. Until now my OP7pro is not rooted and I run Oxygen OS 9.5.11 with no modifications.
I have turned off every battery optimization features and RAM booster options I could find but the device keeps changing the settings.
Does anyone know what I could check? Is this OP related or Android 9? This is my first OP phone and also my first phone with Android 9. It is very annoying. There are some other annoying things but this would be another topic.
I would appreciate if some could help.
Thanks.
GP
You could possibly go to the official OnePlus web site and register a bug complaint...which doesn't fix your immediate issue.
You can also try the painful factory reset to see if that helps. Drastic...yes...but sometimes this will clear out many cobwebs in the system and help smooth things out. Otherwise this is the first time I've heard of this issue.
General-Pain-666 said:
Hi,
I have my OP7pro since 3 months and overall I like it, but there are some things that f*** me up.
One of these things is that the device seem to change the display standby time (time until the display turns off) by itself every few minutes. Default is 15 seconds but I want to set it to 1 minute. I don't know how often I've changed again from 15 seconds to 1 minute again and I don't know what could cause this behavior. Until now my OP7pro is not rooted and I run Oxygen OS 9.5.11 with no modifications.
I have turned off every battery optimization features and RAM booster options I could find but the device keeps changing the settings.
Does anyone know what I could check? Is this OP related or Android 9? This is my first OP phone and also my first phone with Android 9. It is very annoying. There are some other annoying things but this would be another topic.
I would appreciate if some could help.
Thanks.
GP
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Hmm.. do you have any Tasker profiles which might be doing that? I have set it to 30 secs and don't have any issue
I have just realised that my device, which I have only had for 2 days, is stuck on 60hz refresh rate and I can't manually change it back to 120hz in display settings. When I press on it in display settings it just doesn't do anything - ie it doesn't open the screen with the bouncing balls and the 2 options. Does anyone know how to fix this? It definitely worked before but I got a MIUI update yesterday and I wonder if that has broken it. According to my settings I am running Global 12.0.2 Stable.
I just noticed that my Pixel 4 XL (currently has the newest Android 12/November patch) does not cycle between 60 and 90 hz anymore. I just noticed an unexpectated and new drain on the battery and finally found the culprit.
Yes, I checked developer options, the phone is NOT forcing 90hz. I checked with developer options (show refresh rate) and the phone is constantly, meaning 100% using 90hz, it never changes to 60. No matter what I do - Youtube, phone, scrolling, doing nothing, idling, homescreen, newspaper app, Audible - it matters not. It is constantly forcing 90hz WITHOUT having ever clicked the 90hz force toggle. This is putting a drain on the battery that is just unacceptable.
Can you guys confirm this?
Try clearing the system cache.
A factory reset maybe be needed after a major OTA firmware upgrade but there's no guarantee it will resolve it.
Updates tend to break things...
blackhawk said:
Try clearing the system cache.
A factory reset maybe be needed after a major OTA firmware upgrade but there's no guarantee it will resolve it.
Updates tend to break things...
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The phone was - actually - already factor reset. After doing the Android 12 update, I factory reset it and gave it to a family member, that one set it up new. So it's not a "remnant" of Android 11.
Morgrain said:
The phone was - actually - already factor reset. After doing the Android 12 update, I factory reset it and gave it to a family member, that one set it up new. So it's not a "remnant" of Android 11.
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I would re-flash with the latest full image, leaving the script intact (allowing the data partition to be wiped). This may be inconvenient but it's the only way you will know if there is a hardware issue with the phone. I'd also like to know what led you to the refresh rate. In other words, what made you look there. The stock battery monitor is not very good and even looking at system apps (screen, ambient display) you only get time and a percentage of the battery.
is the same on 12 and 11, i just installed 11 and is always 90hz
yes i can confirm, i had the same issue and i just boght my pixel 4 xl 10 days ago. updated to android 13 beta now and it still has the same problem. really weird but i think that google just decided that its best for google pixel 4 owners to have 90hz all the time now cause u know its "more common" now
Google changed how Smooth display works during the cycle of the phone. IIRC it was the same on A11 too. Basically the only time it goes 60hz is during battery saving mode & in some specific apps that prohibit it. It also disables it when HBM is on.
That doesn't make a lot of sense, you can save much more energy by just raising to 90hz for touch and animations and otherwise reduce to 60hz independently of the battery state.
I had the pixel 7 Pro for a while and can confirm that it works there as expected (60 for static content & no touch events, otherwise raises up to 120hz), just not for the pixel 4 XL.
This does seem like a bug to me and explains why battery life (SOT) got so much worse. I wonder if it's an intended degradation to get people to upgrade..
Fix it with adb, set minimal refresh rate
adb shell settings put system min_refresh_rate 1.0
adb shell settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90.0
Tested that, does not work either unfortunately. Display stays on 90Hz all the time
onemandivision said:
Tested that, does not work either unfortunately. Display stays on 90Hz all the time
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Confirm you have extra dim disabled, and brightness 60%
Confirmed, does not make a difference
Out of nowhere it started working. The only thing I changed in between is brightness and extra dim, ending up with the same setting as before (full brightness, extra dim disabled). Didn't work straight away, but after leaving the phone for 5 minutes and picking it up again, I immediately noticed (display refresh rate setting was still enabled)
Thank you for your help, Hamid!
onemandivision said:
Out of nowhere it started working. The only thing I changed in between is brightness and extra dim, ending up with the same setting as before (full brightness, extra dim disabled). Didn't work straight away, but after leaving the phone for 5 minutes and picking it up again, I immediately noticed (display refresh rate setting was still enabled)
Thank you for your help, Hamid!
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No problem, glad i helped!
Feel free to visit my optimization threads, it might help improve your battery life and performance.
One last remark: It didn't really work well at first, at least not as consistently as on the pixel 7 that I've tried. After some trial and error, playing around with various settings, the culprit seems to have the "increase touchscreen sensitivity" setting that I had enabled. Since turning it off, the switching between 60 and 90Hz is much better. Brightness and extra dim don't seem to play a role.
Battery life also seems to have improved a lot (now at ~50% at the end of the day compared to <20% before)