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Hey all,
I've got a strange situation with my i-mate device.
I used to have an alarm, set to 23:00, on a daily basis. A couple of days ago I didn't need it anymore, so i've canceled it (The time was set to the original 06:00 and the checkbox was cleared). The strange thing is that it keeps alerting me every 23:00.
Have you any idea?
Thanks.
Do you have any other alarm softwares installed on your unit...that could be the cause...
Unless the device decided to take it out on you for breaking its sleep on a daily basis
Rgs/DD
Nope
No other program.
I'm clueless...
ghost alarms due to restore or update....
I kind of remember that after a upgrade process, or restore ( can't remember which) I had double up of alarms going for each set I had defined. Did you a restore or any such activity when this happened?
Hmmm,
Hi,
First of all, I do backup every other day.
Now, I did have a series of backup/restore events a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't restore since then. I too think my "Ghost alaem" got saved to my desktop, and it syncs back without appearing in the Alarms' screen.
Is there any way to edit the list of "floating" alarms?
Thanks...
Hi, i had somthing simular the other day and a few months ago. See the link below, theres 2 files to download that did the job for me, it was a simple case of the system not deleting it in registry.
Not sure exactly how these programs work, just backup your system first then apply them, one clears un needed reminders on each soft reset and one is manually started and clears the unrequired alarms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=19520
Hope this helps
Oh
Thanks, Adam!
I saw a couple of clock.exe events, set to 23:00 (The "Ghost" time).
I guess it'll do the trick (It's 21:33) in here...
By the way... It's important to read http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/ppc_cn_overview.html before applying these applications.
Thanks again.
Hi,
I have done this script:
#r(#wlanon)
#r(\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\TCPMP.lnk) #p(\Storage Card\Capital.pls) #sleep(5000)
#r(#kill) #p(player.exe) #sleep(90000)
#r(#wlanoff) #sleep(5000)
It's a kind of wifi-radio alarm clock. If I run it manually by clicking on it, the script works, but really I can't get it to work by running this script with scheduled option. I mean that I'd like to run it during some working days but really I don't know how to do it. I tried this:
open SKSchema/new/command/:SKSCHM #r(#script) #p(sveglia.sksc)
After than I setted days of the week, time...
This is the related .sksp file generated:
#rSKSCHM #r(#script)) #p(\Sveglia.sksc) #hh(7) #mm(57) #days(2,3,4,5,6,) #waitfor(1) #vol(7) #d(Sveglia!) #a(2)
Coming back to Queue view I tapped on scheduled event created/Execute, to test it, but it doesn't work.
Where I went wrong?
You say it works if you run it manually so maybe it is a timing issue. You only allow 5 seconds for your WiFi LAN link to be active and if the machine is in standby this may take longer. You could also try moving the .pls file on your storage card to main memory - just to see if that makes a difference. Have you sent an email to their support - I have had very rapid responses to my questions in the past.
regards cjb.
Well it's not a metter of time or .pls location, it seems that the script doesn't start at all. Infact neither player nor wifi start.
So I should verify if
#rSKSCHM #r(#script)) #p(\Sveglia.sksc) #hh(7) #mm(57) #days(2,3,4,5,6,) #waitfor(1) #vol(7) #d(Sveglia!) #a(2)
is correct.
When you talk about support do you mean mail support?
THX so much for you replay.
:wink:
I think I solved the problem...I'll test it tomorrow in the morning. If I will be late at work, than I wasn't right...
I opened with txt editor .sksp file and changed:
#rSKSCHM #r(#script)) #p(\Sveglia.sksc) #hh(7) #mm(57) #days(2,3,4,5,6,) #waitfor(1) #vol(7) #d(Sveglia!) #a(2)
into
:SKSCHM #r(#script) #p(\Sveglia.sksc) #hh(7) #mm(57) #days(2,3,4,5,6,) #waitfor(1) #vol(7) #d(Sveglia!) #a(2)
:roll:
I'm looking for software that will automatically reset my device every 30 minutes. It should postpone resets if device is active (screen on).
The software I've seen so far only schedules once daily. Pretty dumb. I tried ShutXP, but I can't figure out how to make that automatically reschedule the next reset ... anyone?
I can write up a script for ya... install mortscript while you wait, if you haven't already...
Love you! Awesome! I have Mortscript installed already.
ResetTimer v0.1b
Here we are...
xd1936's ResetTimer v0.1b
-scroll down below and try v0.2 please -
Features:
-Soft resets the device at any given interval
-Time may be adjusted in the registry...
Go to \\HKCU\Software\xd1936 and change the value, in seconds. The default is 1800 seconds, or 30 min
-Please soft-reset after installation
Just let me know if this proof-of-concept works... the whole screen-off thing hasn't been implemented
Let me know if anything is wrong with the software, or my math
It is beta software...
Enjoy!
So, I guess it's worth asking, but why do you need your device reset'ed so often? That's gonna do terrible things to battery life.
Error: Unknown funtion regreaddword
Line:
y=RegReadDWord("HKCU","Software/xd1936","waittime")
Seems Mort has permanently gotten rid of RegReadDWord in 4.1. I replaced with RegRead and it worked.
As for your question, no matter how I configure my device, I always end up with memory leaks and need to reset my device fairly regularly ... if not every 30 minutes, then every hour or two.
Cool, I think this'll work better... I can't test them currently, so bear with me
xd1936 ResetTimer v0.2b
you could try the freeware Oxios closeapps and Oxios hibernate to reclaim your memory instead of the soft reset, works pretty well for me. It's an executable not a schedule thing but should be easy enough to script something in mortscript or skschema. I just run it manually every so often.
So is it working? What's the story?
Hi, I am using watchDog to try to see what processes start while the phone is in sleep mode. But I cannot find anything on WatchDog that tells me what is consumming battery.
I hope I make it clear.
The situation is the following.
When the phone is sleeping, with no 3g or wifi, it takes around 10% in 8 hours. Just iddle. This happens at night. When sleeping.
As soon as I wake up, I turn on 3g. And the battery starts draining. I understand this is normal. But should the phone be awake all the time just by having 3g on?
The awake bar is almost full. Eventhough the phone is locked. This happens only when I turn 3g or wifi on.
That's basically my question. Sorry if it is misleading or something.
Regards
the phone will be awake if you installed some rogue app that connects to the net every 2 minutes to check something, or just some badly coded app.
So I should start uninstalling each app to see which is the one? Or can I use an application that will tell me that? Itried watchdog, but got no success.
Any ideas?
I've found eBuddy to keep my Awake bar completely solid... EVEN if I'm completely exited out of it. It has to do with the fact that like any other app, Gingerbread keeps a cached version of the process in the background. But in eBuddy's case, staying cached causes the phone to stay awake, so the only way to resolve this is to completely kill eBuddy and any of its cached processes.
That's why I still run ATK at 30 minute kill intervals. Getting great battery life. Here's my original post on this issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094666
almorsol said:
So I should start uninstalling each app to see which is the one? Or can I use an application that will tell me that? Itried watchdog, but got no success.
Any ideas?
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You can start by going into settings -> applications -> running services
Tap the "menu" button and make sure you are looking at only "show services in use" as opposed to all services including cashed.
You will get a list of about 10-30 (depending on what you installed and how you configured the phone)
Then go to settings -> accounts and sync, and under "manage accounts", see what accounts you created that sync up with somehting. make sure the icons (round circles) are green only for the accounts you truly want to sync.
Also tap through each account you do want to sync and check the sync settings . If there is an account that is set to sync every 2 minutes, or is set to sync at an unreasonable short time, change that. There could also be a bunch of account you what to totally switch into "manual sync" mode, for example email addresses you do not care about.
cmd512 said:
I've found eBuddy to keep my Awake bar completely solid... EVEN if I'm completely exited out of it. It has to do with the fact that like any other app, Gingerbread keeps a cached version of the process in the background. But in eBuddy's case, staying cached causes the phone to stay awake, so the only way to resolve this is to completely kill eBuddy and any of its cached processes.
That's why I still run ATK at 30 minute kill intervals. Getting great battery life. Here's my original post on this issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094666
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I will install ATK and follow your steps buddy. Will let you know how this worked for me.
Regards.
I will do the same. Thank you!
Have a query, What Auto Kill level should I set and what's the difference between Crazy-Aggressive-Safe? I atm at Agressive!
ithehappy said:
Have a query, What Auto Kill level should I set and what's the difference between Crazy-Aggressive-Safe? I atm at Agressive!
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I do Crazy, 30 minutes, and Low level so that I can see all processes (including system level). I then run my phone as usual and add any/all system related processes to the ignore list.
Good luck, and hope it works for you as well.
I just made a test, and found that the app that makes my phone to be awake all the time is the MSN Talk Pro.
I disabled it, and everything went to normal.
Is this normal in IM apps, since the other person was having the issue with ebuddy?
How could I have the IM app running without having my phone awake all the time?
The task killer would definetly work, but then I would not be able to get msn messages.
Is this the only option?
Thank you.
almorsol said:
I just made a test, and found that the app that makes my phone to be awake all the time is the MSN Talk Pro.
I disabled it, and everything went to normal.
Is this normal in IM apps, since the other person was having the issue with ebuddy?
How could I have the IM app running without having my phone awake all the time?
The task killer would definetly work, but then I would not be able to get msn messages.
Is this the only option?
Thank you.
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Let me try to explain the situation.
If you have an IM client and you want it to be ready to accept messages from your buddies, it has to be in "listening" state to "hear" from your buddies. How that "listening" state is implemented by the developer defines how much batt power the application is eating.
Two opposite example:
1) Some stupid developer coded the IM client to always stay in foreground on your phone, actively pinging the servers on the internet , asking the servers if you have new messages. Your battery is wasted big time man.
2) A smart developer coded the IM client to use Google's C2DM interface (Cloud to Device Messaging framework). Such an app will stay dormant on the phone, and will be woken up by the android core processes whenever a new message arrives for you - Google servers will wake up the app on your phone. Such an app will not waste battery much.
There are a number of variations that go in between (1) and (2) above. So there is no clear-cut good or bad app. All depends on the implementation, and also on the way you configure your phone and the app on it.
Latest version of eBuddy was supposed to use C2DM too.
Ad the new Trillian is using C2DM. I never tried any of these though, can't vouch for any.
Just keep trying various IM apps until you find one that does not stay awake.
cmd512 said:
I do Crazy, 30 minutes, and Low level so that I can see all processes (including system level). I then run my phone as usual and add any/all system related processes to the ignore list.
Good luck, and hope it works for you as well.
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It has worked for me mate, worked well I should say. You deserve a Thanks mate.
I set it on Aggressive mode, with Auto kill at an interval of 1 hour, and NO apps but only my Power Schedule app in Ignore list, and I kept the Network On (Normally I use Flight Mode at night time), and after 9½ hours the battery drained just 2%, from 90% to 88%. Usually on Flight Mode I used to have a 3-4% drain overnight, so it's a big improvement.
BUT there are still two small but solid Awake bar present there while the Screen was off! What could be the reason? Is it because ATK was running and caused the Awake bar by itself or other apps? Take a look at the pic.
I have another query,
If I don't add any system apps (those come by default) to the Ignore list will there be any problem?
Regards.
kreoXDA said:
Let me try to explain the situation.
If you have an IM client and you want it to be ready to accept messages from your buddies, it has to be in "listening" state to "hear" from your buddies. How that "listening" state is implemented by the developer defines how much batt power the application is eating.
Two opposite example:
1) Some stupid developer coded the IM client to always stay in foreground on your phone, actively pinging the servers on the internet , asking the servers if you have new messages. Your battery is wasted big time man.
2) A smart developer coded the IM client to use Google's C2DM interface (Cloud to Device Messaging framework). Such an app will stay dormant on the phone, and will be woken up by the android core processes whenever a new message arrives for you - Google servers will wake up the app on your phone. Such an app will not waste battery much.
There are a number of variations that go in between (1) and (2) above. So there is no clear-cut good or bad app. All depends on the implementation, and also on the way you configure your phone and the app on it.
Latest version of eBuddy was supposed to use C2DM too.
Ad the new Trillian is using C2DM. I never tried any of these though, can't vouch for any.
Just keep trying various IM apps until you find one that does not stay awake.
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Thanks man.
I will keep trying some of them. Starting with the ones you said.
almorsol said:
Hi, I am using watchDog to try to see what processes start while the phone is in sleep mode. But I cannot find anything on WatchDog that tells me what is consumming battery.
I hope I make it clear.
Regards
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I have recently removed watchdog and noticed that battery consumption rapidly reduced...
hi everyone i am looking for application that really saves battery for non rooted phone
i used greenify but phone gets laggy after it
Actually there are plenty and you don't really need any to get good results. For system applications, that can't be disabled/frozen we have package disabler pro, everything else can be manually force stop. The only problem is you got to spend time to learn which programs you need and which you don't. To give you example I fully charged my phone last night, about 11:30 PM, got up 6:30AM and had 99% left. Once you stop programs that you don't use from running in the background, it will be like a new phone. To put it in perspective, just few weeks ago I had battery drain over the same night period, same phone 20%. You better believe the phone didn't last me whole day. All I did is manually force close all the programs that I don't use ATM. The are programs like Android assistant that make this process more automatic.
The phone already has a built in app that puts unused apps to sleep.
peachpuff said:
The phone already has a built in app that puts unused apps to sleep.
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I'm not sure what putting app to sleep does, when I do, it still seems to be active and you can still force close it.
If you run any program once it will stay active in memory for 3 days and it will reload even if you restart the phone.
My problem with this approach is that some programs I use rarely, for example test internet speed once a month, when it seems slow or play a game to kill some time on the weekend and yet those apps stay active for days, unless you manually force close it. Even Google maps which I use for traffic info twice a day during commute, doesn't have to be active in memory when I'm working or at home and yet there is no way to unload, except manually force close it. And the difference in loading speed I can't tell without the stopwatch even if I actually would ever care. But those apps run in background and eat your battery and I can see it very well at night, when my phone should be on standby and sometimes instead runs full steam.
pete4k said:
Actually there are plenty and you don't really need any to get good results. For system applications, that can't be disabled/frozen we have package disabler pro, everything else can be manually force stop. The only problem is you got to spend time to learn which programs you need and which you don't. To give you example I fully charged my phone last night, about 11:30 PM, got up 6:30AM and had 99% left. Once you stop programs that you don't use from running in the background, it will be like a new phone. To put it in perspective, just few weeks ago I had battery drain over the same night period, same phone 20%. You better believe the phone didn't last me whole day. All I did is manually force close all the programs that I don't use ATM. The are programs like Android assistant that make this process more automatic.
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thanks for reply i bought package disabler pro today and have put some aps on disable
then i looked up xml file for it. one usser said that its the best configuration for that app but some functions were not working for example wallpaper changer battery stats and etc
i am looking again for best xml file to use that app correct
Here's my list, I took someone's basic list of 90 or so apps and added a few more. Everything is running stable with no force closes. I have AT&T bloat disabled so you might have to tweak the list some. I am also using BK Disabler but I'm pretty sure my XML will work on package disabler pro.
The biggest pain is to figure what are you using and what not, since everybody is different and one set fits all approach doesn't work. But you got to do this once. Also I would suggest not to uninstall anything, you never know what you may need 6 months from now and some system apps are not easy to reinstall.