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I have searched the forum for an answer and can not find it anywhere so please bare with me if it has been answered previously, it's not easily found.
I have a rooted MyTouch running Cyanogen 4.0.4. I could have sworn in his previous releases, there was an option in the Dev Tools to keep the screen awake while it was plugged in to either USB or charging. Was I imagining this? If not, can someone please tell me where to do this because for the life of me, I can not find it again!
Thanks in advance!
Download Locale from the Android market. It's free and you'll be blown away by the features and ease of use. And it does exactly what you're asking. I don't know if this feature was in previous versions of Cyan's mods but I don't know who wouldn't love Locale!
*Personal tip for ya too, if you d/l locale and use it's other features, use the wifi positioning, not the GPS. The GPS positioning kills my phones battery because it checks your position every 10 minutes with GPS. Wifi is alot less power heavy on the battery. Go get the app and use it, then read my tip again...it'll make alot more sense!*
~*Apollo*~
*Locale, so you know, is location based profiles for sound, brightness, connections like wifi/bluetooth, vibrate, and ringer profiles, and also has power profiles for charging, or when the battery is below 20%, etc.*
yes there is an option. i am using it. it isnt in dev tools. it is in development option in your settings. the same place where you go to turn on usb debugging.
Sorry Slightly off topic but I was wondering if anyone knows of an app to turn the Screen off during a phone call?? I thought The app was "Spare parts" but it wasn't
Any ideas?
Thanks NguyenHuu! I knew I had seen it before and it was driving me nuts not being able to find it! Thanks again!!
Hi everyone!
I'm having a tough time deciding whether to get an HD2 or a Nokia N900, mainly because of one main feature on the N900: As far as I can tell, the Nokia N900 allows you to stay online (Instant Messaging, VoIP) permanently, even when the device is in standby - so ICQ, Skype, SIP, MSN are all connected, and if you get a new message or a call, the device will notify you.
I haven't used many modern WinMo devices, so I'm not sure if anything similar to this is possible with WinMo 6.5 (I've used WM6.5 ROMs on my Prophet, but I'm guessing a lot of features were stripped out to make them run at all )... is it possible to do this on the Leo?
I want the device to _always_ be online - if there's WiFi it should connect to that, and if not then it should connect to cellular data. This should obviously also be automatic, so that I don't have to manually log onto the WiFi every time I get home or to university...
Is this use supported? Or would it be more of a hack that runs down the battery like crazy (IIRC you can turn on WiFi permanently, so that it doesn't turn off when you put the phone in standby - not sure if the apps would stay connected, though)...
Thanks in advance!
I think the HD used to turn wifi off when the phone went into standby (I don't think I ever used wifi), but it used to stay connected over 3g for IM and the like when you turned the phone off (stand by)
Oh really? I thought 3G was turned off too... well, I guess that's a step in the right direction.
Anyone know about WiFi and automatic switching?
By default the WIFI is switched off when in standby, but it's possible to change it.
However, having WIFI always on will drain the battery completly.
Regarding to the automatic change, no idea!
And there's no way to lower the WiFi signal strength enough so that it doesn't drain the battery? What if you set WiFi power mode to best battery? On my Prophet it's unusable because the signal is nearly nonexistant, but I was hoping that they'd have changed this for the HD2...
Ideally it'd lower the signal strength as far as possible without dropping the signal when in standby, and then power up to a sufficient speed when the device is actually on...
Wi-Fi only turns off if you want ot too. You can change the way Wi-Fi works in the settings and let it be always on, even if you turn off the screen.
Is this new on the Leo?
Does that drain the battery quickly? Or is it in a low-power mode?
Even with the Best battery setting it won't last too long, I'm afraid. Or, as you have said, it won't have good enough reception to actually connect to anything.
I have no idea how this is implemented in Nokias, it actually sounds like a kind of magic if you're saying it doesn't kill the battery.
I've never heard about an automatic switching solution (or even about the problem, for that matter). It's relatively easy to implement periodic polling but even that will have serious adverse effect on your battery.
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Is this new on the Leo?
Does that drain the battery quickly? Or is it in a low-power mode?
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It's been on WM since times immemorial - it's a registry setting, and there are programs that allow you to change it without manually tweaking your registry.
Yes, it does drain your battery, even in low-power mode.
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Even with the Best battery setting it won't last too long, I'm afraid. Or, as you have said, it won't have good enough reception to actually connect to anything.
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Ah, so the Best Battery setting is still completely useless. Good to know.
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I have no idea how this is implemented in Nokias, it actually sounds like a kind of magic if you're saying it doesn't kill the battery.
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I'm not quite sure myself, but that's what a few of the nice people over at talk.maemo.org told me . I just hope I didn't misinterpret what they were saying
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I've never heard about an automatic switching solution (or even about the problem, for that matter). It's relatively easy to implement periodic polling but even that will have serious adverse effect on your battery.
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Meh. Think 12 hours is doable with polling?
vangrieg said:
It's been on WM since times immemorial - it's a registry setting, and there are programs that allow you to change it without manually tweaking your registry.
Yes, it does drain your battery, even in low-power mode.
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OK, so it's the same feature that's existed for a long time... I thought it was something new, that actually made sense (i.e. didn't drain the battery so frikken fast...).
Please note that I don't have HD2 myself, so I can only guess how it's going to work there.
Meh... you sounded so authoritative that I figured you must have one
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Ah, so the Best Battery setting is still completely useless. Good to know.
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Who says it's completely useless? It does save battery, I use this mode all the time on HD. Speed is lower though.
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Meh. Think 12 hours is doable with polling?
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It definitely should last 12 hours unless you poll every 5 seconds or so, but what will happen if it connects to Wi-Fi while in your pocket?
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Who says it's completely useless? It does save battery, I use this mode all the time on HD. Speed is lower though.
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Oh. I thought you said there were problems with getting enough reception to connect
That's usually the case on my Prophet...
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It definitely should last 12 hours unless you poll every 5 seconds or so, but what will happen if it connects to Wi-Fi while in your pocket?
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It's supposed to connect, and disconnect 3G to save on data costs (probably getting a plan with a 200mb cap...)
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Oh. I thought you said there were problems with getting enough reception to connect
That's usually the case on my Prophet...
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I think I said the Best Battery mode still drains your battery. A much lower power mode would have trouble connecting.
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It's supposed to connect, and disconnect 3G to save on data costs (probably getting a plan with a 200mb cap...)
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Sure, but you'd also drain your battery without noticing. I would certainly be cautious about it - I can connect to WiFi at work, at shopping malls, cafes, and sometimes even in the streets. I don't want to end up being unable to make a call because I saved a couple bucks. But maybe that's just me...
BTW, I did a quick poll here at my office - all Nokia owners have this feature disabled, they say it drains battery rather quickly. This is not in any way a scientific research, but I don't believe in miracles anyway.
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I think I said the Best Battery mode still drains your battery. A much lower power mode would have trouble connecting.
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vangrieg said:
Even with the Best battery setting it won't last too long, I'm afraid. Or, as you have said, it won't have good enough reception to actually connect to anything.
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That's what I meant
vangrieg said:
Sure, but you'd also drain your battery without noticing. I would certainly be cautious about it - I can connect to WiFi at work, at shopping malls, cafes, and sometimes even in the streets. I don't want to end up being unable to make a call because I saved a couple bucks. But maybe that's just me...
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Hmmm, there should be a way to limit which networks it should connect to
vangrieg said:
BTW, I did a quick poll here at my office - all Nokia owners have this feature disabled, they say it drains battery rather quickly. This is not in any way a scientific research, but I don't believe in miracles anyway.
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Uh... what Nokias? I doubt it's the same thing, because the N900 is the first Maemo phone
E-something Nokias primarily - they have this auto WiFi feature, don't they?
Don't know anything about this Maemo thing you're talking about, obviously.
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
That's what I'm trying to decide... N900 or HD2
I leave MSN loged in on my diamond all the time. Wifi is on. it turns wifi off in standby, but msn stays logged in over the normal network connections, I alerts me I receieved a msg in the same way it does with a text. When it comes out of standby it auto reconnects to wifi.
Does that work on Fring as well?
Just been playing around with my HD2 and have taken a couple of snaps with my camera with automatic flash enabled. All of a sudden, it has become stuck on 'forced off' mode and when I press the flash icon on screen to change it it will not.
Any help would be appreciated
Shall we assume you already tried soft reset and hard reset?
Okay here's the latest. I put the phone on charge and once it was over 50% it worked again, weird?!
ijob said:
Okay here's the latest. I put the phone on charge and once it was over 50% it worked again, weird?!
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In this case, we clearly understand flashlight stop working on certain level of battery for prevent immediately discharge...
must be some way to change the minimum percentage left
so now we all know
Same here, but who the heck programmed that? Cause the flash is actually workin for instance with TorchButton but not with the Camera, thats very strange...
It's on the camera software so other software can still use it.
I found the battery capacity below 20% and camera flash light icon will be grey-out. seems like prevent battery drain speed I guess~~
Maybe a solution via Registry???
Hey guys,
Just updated to the x10 after my samsung galaxy died on me, so far i am rather happy - except for the lack of root, but that will come.
I have noticed many complaints on the forum about battery life, and have experienced the same thing myself. From my experience, i think this looks like the same issue that was faced on a leak of 1.6 for the galaxy - it was referred to as the "No Sleep Bug".
TBH, the name says it all - for some reason, in many builds of android 1.6, phones were not sleeping correctly. There are many theories as to why, from cpu not being allowed to sleep, to permanent communication with google servers.
Despite all these different theories, one thing seemed to fix the problem - turning off all location services. Some people argue that a different carrier build, turning off just 'share with google' under location, turning off just AGPS etc. would fix it, but from my experience, the only real way to fix the issue was to turn off all GPS usage unless you need it. The once you have used it, reboot your phone.
This fix obviously sucks, and a new fix has recently been released by a veritable android-demigod around the Galaxy.
HERE IS A THREAD ABOUT NO SLEEP ON i7500 GALAXY;
(ok, some stupid rule says i can't post links - can a mod help me out?)
HERE IS THE FIX FOR THAT PARTICULAR BUG;
(ok, some stupid rule says i can't post links - can a mod help me out?)
LINKS ARE IN POST #5 - THANKS TO ONDOTEAM (would still be nice to get them in this original post though)
Now, from my experience, no sleep behave exactly the same way on the x10 as it does on the Galaxy;
1) I turn of all location services, and my battery life at least doubles.
2) After said turning off of services, 'spare parts' no longer says 100% running time under battery usage - in fact it can be as low as 10%.
These two factors are identical to my experience with Galaxy. SO; is there any way drakaz's fix can be applied to our X10's? It seems to me that the files he mods are standard Android system files, not sony/samsung specific.
Now i am no developer, so i dont know it this is possible - the first question that comes to mind for me is "do we need root access, or can this be done through developer tools using the android SDK?"
Can anyone help shed anymore light on this?
Seems to work for me. I disabled all location services. Spare Parts went down from 100% to 7.6%.
I'll just have to enable GPS when I need to use it..
Awesome! Glad to hear it has helped.
Let's keep testing this guys - if it does show up to be a big cause, then perhaps the devs around this place can help is figure out a patch for Drakas' mod to make it work with our x10's!
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Awesome! Glad to hear it has helped.
Let's keep testing this guys - if it does show up to be a big cause, then perhaps the devs around this place can help is figure out a patch for Drakas' mod to make it work with our x10's!
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Hello send me a PM with links, I will try to post it
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/61168-no-sleep-has-nothing-do-anything.html
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/78471-no-sleep-bug-fixed-drakaz.html
Links from n3man
No sleep is easy to fix, took me a while to figure it...
Turn your screen brightness from manual to auto, spare parts will now start showing proper running stats, no more 100% running.
The screen is a little dark in auto but it will cure the 100% running.
GPS and location services etc make no difference to my X10i, I am running the 1.6 version unbranded UK handset, the only thing to stop mine running 100% is to put the screen on Auto.
ronnyuk said:
No sleep is easy to fix, took me a while to figure it...
Turn your screen brightness from manual to auto, spare parts will now start showing proper running stats, no more 100% running.
The screen is a little dark in auto but it will cure the 100% running.
GPS and location services etc make no difference to my X10i, I am running the 1.6 version unbranded UK handset, the only thing to stop mine running 100% is to put the screen on Auto.
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LOL... this is already going the way of the Galaxy thread!
My phone came out of the box with auto-brightness and i never changed that option, yet i still had no sleep.
Drakaz has done some fairly deep digging and is next to certain that it is an artefact of the geolocation bug discussed in the thread in which the problem was fixed.
I can't see "Spare Parts" in About Phone -> Battery Info
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I can't see "Spare Parts" in About Phone -> Battery Info
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Me neither.. I was wondering about that myself!..
Although I'd half assumed that they were referring to the total "up-time" figure which you can see at the bottom of the "about phone"; "Status" screen.. But perhaps not.?
Spare Parts is a standalone Program ...
(i don't know for sure if it is in the market or downloadable as .apk from somewhere here in the forum ...)
Bax
im_iceman said:
Me neither.. I was wondering about that myself!..
Although I'd half assumed that they were referring to the total "up-time" figure which you can see at the bottom of the "about phone"; "Status" screen.. But perhaps not.?
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You can download it here
Spare parts is indeed available from the market - it is a much more powerful tool for indicating battery usage than the regular android methods. The galaxy stared on 1.5 which had NO indicator of battery usage statistics at all, so we all learned about spare parts very fast.
Perhaps that is why no x10 users have realised about the potential no sleep bug; because so far only the android usage indicators have been used?...
Anyway, hopefully this can help us all understand the way our phones are working better together
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Spare parts is indeed available from the market - it is a much more powerful tool for indicating battery usage than the regular android methods. The galaxy stared on 1.5 which had NO indicator of battery usage statistics at all, so we all learned about spare parts very fast.
Perhaps that is why no x10 users have realised about the potential no sleep bug; because so far only the android usage indicators have been used?...
Anyway, hopefully this can help us all understand the way our phones are working better together
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14% it's mine value for running time, not 100%. By the way thats 30 minutes of 210 in total :S
I'm also experiencing "No sleep bug" after i used GPS. I use Battery Graph to plot my power consumption and after I use GPS, I can clearly see that power consumption is high even if i turn the phone in plane mode.
In addition SE widget, used to turn on/off GPS, seems to not work very well for me. So, to fix the bug, i manually disable GPS in parameter menu and restart my phone. After that power consumption is hardly null (20% in 8h with MP3 on almost all the time).
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I'm also experiencing "No sleep bug" after i used GPS. I use Battery Graph to plot my power consumption and after I use GPS, I can clearly see that power consumption is high even if i turn the phone in plane mode.
In addition SE widget, used to turn on/off GPS, seems to not work very well for me. So, to fix the bug, i manually disable GPS in parameter menu and restart my phone. After that power consumption is hardly null (20% in 8h with MP3 on almost all the time).
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Do you have 3G always on?
My phone has no trouble sleeping.
Gps hasn't really been an issue but I keep it off when not needed.
Here's my solid settings:
1) No auto sync
2) No moxier
3) Gps off
4) Restart after using wireless
As long as it's like this my phone lasts 2 days easily
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Do you have 3G always on?
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Yes, but I made a lot of test with and without 3G enabled and 3G seems not to be a problem for me. I think my problem comes from GPS.
ondoteam said:
Do you have 3G always on?
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3G always on.
n3man said:
LOL... this is already going the way of the Galaxy thread!
My phone came out of the box with auto-brightness and i never changed that option, yet i still had no sleep.
Drakaz has done some fairly deep digging and is next to certain that it is an artefact of the geolocation bug discussed in the thread in which the problem was fixed.
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I have been playing with mine for a month to work out what caused mine to not go into sleep, I keep GPS wifi etc on 24/7 but in spare parts I was running 100%, after numerous reinstalls and removing everything i chanced on turning on auto screen brightness, now when i unplug my x10 the running sits at the correct level.
No Geolocation bug here
I have this problem with 100% on and off. Sometimes when I check its under control (~10%), other times its at 100%. I have GPS off, no WiFi, auto brightness... don't know why it sometimes just gets stuck at 100% :/
In this thread I'll write (and add later) all the possible and effective ways to save more battery with this device, which has a pretty disappointing sot and doesn't last all the day. My aim is, though, to try explaining what's going on.
Since this is my very first guide thread expect a lot of changes in a short time.
Missing something? PM me or leave a reply here. You can discuss the various methods here as long as you're posting true tips
Let's start!
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Battery Related Tips
Make sure your battery isn't dying Tip popularity: ultra Works: probably
All those tips won't really help you if your battery is faulty!
If you're like "I used to have 6 hrs SOT but suddenly I get 2 hrs on a 5 total" (extreme case) then you should directly buy a new battery (possibly the s7 Edge one) and replace it with the help of your friends
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Replace your battery with an s7 Edge one Tip popularity: not so much Works: possibly
Just by installing an original S7 Edge battery you're theoretically improving your device's long lasting capacity by 41% (because their size is 2550mAh vs 3600mAh)
Then you'll need to calibrate it. Please refer to this telegram group if you are in need.
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Display Related Tips
Decrease Brightness more and more Tip popularity: ultra Works: how not!
You'll understand this more when you'll read the next 2 tips! Decrease your screen's brightness and install an app to go even further. Also, enable auto brightness at minimum. It's ok saving power but it isn't if this means having a black screen
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Black Themes Tip popularity: high Works: of course
This device features an AMOLED display.
If you didn't know, this technology gives you true black by shutting down the pixels on your screen!
Given this, you're actually saving power when your device is displaying pure black
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Grayscale Display Tip popularity: medium Works: possibly
By setting your device in grayscale mode you're removing colors (wow) and since our device still features that AMOLED technology you're more likely to save power because of darker colors forcing pixels to be almost black.
Don't think you're really shutting down the RGB leds! In fact you're lighting up them all, but with decreased brightness. This won't work well if you use apps with bright/white themes!
It could also save power because of the less data to process(not confirmed)
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Disable Always On Display Tip popularity: medium Works: yes Explained by: Nikx97
You can't use AOD for long. That's true and Samsung knew why (other than marketing purposes) when our community asked louly for having it on our device.
Behind that, our display is different from the one mounted on s7.
What's different then?
Our display requires the cpu to be awake everytime, updating the screen or not, because there's no memory this display could use to just keep showing an image. From s7 and later, there's this memory that gets updated by the cpu every minute.
This surely ends up with a huge drain
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Software Related Tips
Reduce your CPU usage
Enable UPSM if you really need it Tip popularity: medium Works: of course
If your phone isn't rooted (I'd ask why are you even here) it will set up for you a black theme and set your device in grayscale mode, while decreasing brightness and disabling most apps. Then is up to you disabling wifi, bluetooth and setting it in airplane mode. I'd rather shut down my phone directly in this particular case
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Don't play intensive games Tip popularity: Ultra Works: overkill
If you're not playing games your CPU will be grateful to you and your battery too. There's not much to be explained.
Of course you can still play games. Just try to prefer simple ones instead of PUBG Fortnite Asphalt 9 The Sims Minecraft Gta Online etc
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Set up your CPU governors Tip popularity: suggested only by developers Works: Overkill if set properly
First of all for this you'll probably need a good kernel. Not necessarily a battery kernel, a fairly customizable one would fit nicely (If you're using an S7 Edge battery and you're on Android 7.0, feel free to try my kernel, ask for LKernel here).
Here are the best settings from what I've tried so far (I'm going to explain also why)
You'll need to set (perhaps with the aid of Kernel Adiutor or MTweaks) POWERSAVE governor for LITTLE and CONSERVATIVE for BIG.
The aim of this is to force LITTLE to work more than BIG, because it uses less power and it is enough for off screen processes and whatsapp, telegram and also some games (such as 1010 or sudoku or 2048). If you want to go further with this configuration limit your frequencies: the lowest you can to 600/800mhz for LITTLE and the lowest to 1800mhz for BIG.
With this configuration, when LITTLE can't handle some tasks BIG comes in rescue and solves the problem.
Lazily but it does his work and, of course, use less power.
It is advisable going further with kernel adiutor's settings to save more battery. I'm probably going to post my settings file later
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That's all I got time for today, maybe I'll add more in a week
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