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hmm.. got my xda mini s for xmas, battery does not seem that great so i looking at ways of saving my battery, now ive noticed that all the programs i use do NOT seem to close after use, ive found this out by checking the task manager. is there something wrong with my device?
That's the way things work on the PocketPC, it's called SmartMinimize. The system will close any apps when it needs to. In theory...
If you want to close apps yourself, use a taskkiller like GSPocketMagic or SmallMenu.
I've made a tiny program that can be assigned to a hardware key to do the same kind of things (still in testing).
Read about it here
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I just assigned a close all and close all but current to mort button. Very easy.
knowsleyroader said:
I just assigned a close all and close all but current to mort button. Very easy.
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Of course the other side of the coin is that if you close all programs, they take longer to load next time you need them. Which can be annoying on WM5 devices because of the slow flash memory. So many task managers (including GSPocketMagic) allow you to specify which programs to keep running, so you can switch to them instantly (e.g. Messaging).
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knowsleyroader said:
I just assigned a close all and close all but current to mort button. Very easy.
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Of course the other side of the coin is that if you close all programs, they take longer to load next time you need them. Which can be annoying on WM5 devices because of the slow flash memory. So many task managers (including GSPocketMagic) allow you to specify which programs to keep running, so you can switch to them instantly (e.g. Messaging).
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Spot on, I use SPBPocketPLus to close all programs appart from IE, Outlook and Phone. Leaves plenty of free memory and the apps I use the most then fire up instantly
Fantastic guys, thank you got SPBPocketPLus, works like a wet dream!
cheers sipepguru
sipepguru: dude, you need to get out more.
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hmm.. got my xda mini s for xmas, battery does not seem that great
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That's funny ? I was just thinking last night as I charged our mini's that they had done really well on a first charge 7 full days ! I charged them both before wrapping on Xmas eve and they only finally expired last night at 11pm :shock: Ok so we are not fiddling with them constantly :roll:
What are the rest of you getting charge wise ?
Got mine yesterday, and I'm really amazed by the battery life (in ON state, cause is hasn't had much time to sleep yet )
This morning I've been listening to a webradio through wireless + using ICQ and MSN, I still had 50% of battery after 2 hours.
Before getting this one I had a blueangel, doing the same things with it would already have killed the battery by that time. I'm now waiting to see how it lasts just playing MP3s with screen off, the BA could give me 9hrs if underclocked at 100MHz. Unfortunately no clock setting tool yet for the wizard, still waiting...
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sipepguru said:
hmm.. got my xda mini s for xmas, battery does not seem that great
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That's funny ? I was just thinking last night as I charged our mini's that they had done really well on a first charge 7 full days ! I charged them both before wrapping on Xmas eve and they only finally expired last night at 11pm :shock: Ok so we are not fiddling with them constantly :roll:
What are the rest of you getting charge wise ?
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Getting about the same from mine, bit less if I fiddle a lot. Wel impressed with battery life.
(BTW I'm Uridium from AVforums under a different name!) Nice to see you found your way over here
Dear all,
I had updated my eee pad 36 hrs ago.
And I found some issues after operating.
1.
Music player builded in can't go next song automatically after screen off (battery mode).
2.
The audio may be broken when using headphone sometime.
3.
After rotating pad 180 degree, the desktop fresh rate might be slower.
Also some system animation.
I known some ones' gmail widget is gone, but I did not.
So I don't list this issue on this post.
Here are the issues I found:
1. Browser sluggish when scrolling. If there are images the page redraws when scrolled showing black spaces. Also using the dock, scrolling or navigating in a webpage is a pain, it keeps skipping or jumping to the top.
2. Flash seems to have stopped working in Dolphin browser, I tried watching some videos on gametrailers.com, and only audio plays, video is a slideshow. It works fine on stock browser though.
3. Frequent FCs in Launcher Pro, didnt have any prior to the update.
No g mail widget
Lots of lag going from portrait to landscape
Lag on home screens
sent from my LEE Pad Transformer........I wish
Forgot to mention, battery life that was amazing prior to the update is now plain bad. From a full charge at 8PM CST, it is now sitting in idle at 60% with no charge coming from the dock, so possibly the dock charge is drained out. I probably used it for 30mins playing Plants vs Zombies HD.
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Forgot to mention, battery life that was amazing prior to the update is now plain bad. From a full charge at 8PM CST, it is now sitting in idle at 60% with no charge coming from the dock, so possibly the dock charge is drained out. I probably used it for 30mins playing Plants vs Zombies HD.
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Yes I feel the same. Battery life seems to have degraded
Yes I feel the same. Battery life seems to have degraded
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Having the same issue myself, seems to be worse off now with 3.1 installed.
I'm having some bothersome little issues as well, and so I'm going to do a factory reset on mine today. If the issues are still there afterward, I'll report them here. I'll also report if a factory reset helps anything.
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2. Flash seems to have stopped working in Dolphin browser, I tried watching some videos on gametrailers.com, and only audio plays, video is a slideshow. It works fine on stock browser though.
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I just used gametrailers and HD videos (twisted metal is what I tried) worked great. Not only did the video and audio match, they both played smoothly. I know that doesnt help but, it may just be yours.. or your connection.
I had delivered these issues to my friend who is in Asus.
Hope this can help us to get better operations in 3.1.
As said in another thread, i have problems with betterylife too. Battery life was great, but now...
And it looks like stockbrowser is sometimes faster and better, but then at once it is very slow and laggy.
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I just used gametrailers and HD videos (twisted metal is what I tried) worked great. Not only did the video and audio match, they both played smoothly. I know that doesnt help but, it may just be yours.. or your connection.
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ok let me try that again then. If I could skip the stock browser altogether, some of my frustrations will be alleviated.
Should I skip this update until it is worked out? If so how without root? And if I do install it do you think a factory reset before would help some of these problems?
I also doing a factory reset now.
Maybe some problems will go with wind, I wish ...
Just updated and have none of the mentioned issues. Can't comment on battery life quite yet.
My issue is not the battery life... Mine is random reboots while docked to the keyboard dock... It happened three to four times yesterday and one time this morning. By the way, I'm using the leaked 3.1. I'm wondering if there are any differences with the official 3.1 update and the leaked one?
I have the leaked verison of 3.1 and the battery life sucks. Before I could ave about 10% for every hour now its down to 40 mins per 10%. I heard the guys over at the xoom forum are also not happy with the battery life on 3.1....I was hoping 3.1 would fix the lag on the browser but I guess not......the only thing they fix was the youtube app......pretty sad
WHOA...Official 3.1 and Mobile Sites ???
I swear since OTA 3.1 update, when I type a URL, eg, yahoo.com, or any URL, I get the mobile site version on my browser.
This was NOT the case with 3.0.1.
Is it just me ? Am I doing something wrong ?
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I swear since OTA 3.1 update, when I type a URL, eg, yahoo.com, or any URL, I get the mobile site version on my browser.
This was NOT the case with 3.0.1.
Is it just me ? Am I doing something wrong ?
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You will probably have to set the User Agent String under the browser settings to desktop (again).
transformerfan said:
I swear since OTA 3.1 update, when I type a URL, eg, yahoo.com, or any URL, I get the mobile site version on my browser.
This was NOT the case with 3.0.1.
Is it just me ? Am I doing something wrong ?
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For info I was getting the mobile URL on lots of sites with 3.01 ......
In the stock browser, when you search via the address bar. It doesn't work search just takes you to google home page.
Before the update everything was fine. Now if I turn on the screen or listen to music the phone would awake (it would show that it was asleep in jellybean). When I turn off the screen and I am not listening to music then my phone falls asleep. Android system used to be awake under 20 mins over a 15-30 hr span now it can be well over an hour in 4-9 hr span. I did a factory reset yesterday already, uninstalled all of my apps and reinstalled them when I seen that the problem still exist. I googled the problem, but can't find a solution. Is anyone else getting a Android System battery drain like me.
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Before the update everything was fine. Now if I turn on the screen or listen to music the phone would awake (it would show that it was asleep in jellybean). When I turn off the screen and I am not listening to music then my phone falls asleep. Android system used to be awake under 20 mins over a 15-30 hr span now it can be well over an hour in 4-9 hr span. I did a factory reset yesterday already, uninstalled all of my apps and reinstalled them when I seen that the problem still exist. I googled the problem, but can't find a solution. Is anyone else getting a Android System battery drain like me.
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Yes, I am having the same problem. I was told to do a factory reset but I cant even back up my phone with kies because it the MTP driver keeps failing to install and Kies says I have to use Kies 3 even though the Samsung Site says 3 is for the Galaxy Note..
Did you sideload your update or was it OTA?
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Yes, I am having the same problem. I was told to do a factory reset but I cant even back up my phone with kies because it the MTP driver keeps failing to install and Kies says I have to use Kies 3 even though the Samsung Site says 3 is for the Galaxy Note..
Did you sideload your update or was it OTA?
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It was a OTA. I did a factory reset already, but that didn't fix the problem unfortunately.
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It was a OTA. I did a factory reset already, but that didn't fix the problem unfortunately.
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yeah I side loaded the update and I am on 100% stock no rooting or anything. My phone gets really hot all of a sudden and the battery starts dropping like crazy. I have none of the apps running so I don't know what the problem is..
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yeah I side loaded the update and I am on 100% stock no rooting or anything. My phone gets really hot all of a sudden and the battery starts dropping like crazy. I have none of the apps running so I don't know what the problem is..
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that is odd. I was reading the forums on the sprint galaxy note 3 update, and people have posted pix of their battery stats. Their stats looks similar to mine. The people there was saying that maybe the problem would fix itself over a week. Im hopping it do, because I am really loving kitkat...minus this issue of course.
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that is odd. I was reading the forums on the sprint galaxy note 3 update, and people have posted pix of their battery stats. Their stats looks similar to mine. The people there was saying that maybe the problem would fix itself over a week. Im hopping it do, because I am really loving kitkat...minus this issue of course.
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I hope so, here is my battery screen shot. It was fine until all of a sudden it starting dropping
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I hope so, here is my battery screen shot. It was fine until all of a sudden it starting dropping
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I attached another screen shot which shows it better
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I attached another screen shot which shows it better
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oh wow. You definitely have an app that is not liking kitkat. Your phone does not fall asleep when you turn your screen off. Im really trying to figure out why your phone is doing that. Im going to assume that "lookout" and "Malwarebytes Anti-Malware" are the problem. My opinion is that you don't need those as much as you think you do. they are most likely the cause of your drainage. My phone falls asleep as soon as i turn off the screen. Now i have 90% battery life with almost an hr of SOT left, and thats on 4g LTE the entire time.
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I attached another screen shot which shows it better
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Heres my stats new stats
I had alot of problems when on wifi, don't use it anymore and sticking with 4g. I'm at 30% left with just over 4 hours screen on. I'm guessing it's something either Google or Samsung have syncing more often on wifi, on wifi I'd be dead at 3 or 4 hours screen on time
Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S4
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I had alot of problems when on wifi, don't use it anymore and sticking with 4g. I'm at 30% left with just over 4 hours screen on. I'm guessing it's something either Google or Samsung have syncing more often on wifi, on wifi I'd be dead at 3 or 4 hours screen on time
Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S4
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Thats interesting. I haven't used my phone on wifi yet, because its a little inconsistent right now. If your phone is acting up while connected to wifi then it got to be something on samsung's end. You can end up with just over 5 and a half hrs of SOT if you stick to 4g and don't want any problems. I would keep testing how things go on both wifi and 4g over the next couple of days if i were you to see if the problems continues though. What problems are you getting while connected to wifi?
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Thats interesting. I haven't used my phone on wifi yet, because its a little inconsistent right now. If your phone is acting up while connected to wifi then it got to be something on samsung's end. You can end up with just over 5 and a half hrs of SOT if you stick to 4g and don't want any problems. I would keep testing how things go on both wifi and 4g over the next couple of days if i were you to see if the problems continues though. What problems are you getting while connected to wifi?
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Another one of the major problems I am having is that sometimes my apps don't work. When i clicked on the camera it did not show up the app opens but the camera does not turn on. This leads to a major lag and when I try to press the home button it does not work. Then my phone's screen just shuts off and I cant turn it back on via the home button or the power button.
This also leads to the phone getting hot and losing the battery very quickly..
oh and btw the S5 does not seem to impressive to me..
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Another one of the major problems I am having is that sometimes my apps don't work. When i clicked on the camera it did not show up the app opens but the camera does not turn on. This leads to a major lag and when I try to press the home button it does not work. Then my phone's screen just shuts off and I cant turn it back on via the home button or the power button.
This also leads to the phone getting hot and losing the battery very quickly..
oh and btw the S5 does not seem to impressive to me..
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thats very odd man my phone doesn't do that at all.
The S5 didn't wow me either...lets see what HTC will do
had the same problem.
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Before the update everything was fine. Now if I turn on the screen or listen to music the phone would awake (it would show that it was asleep in jellybean). When I turn off the screen and I am not listening to music then my phone falls asleep. Android system used to be awake under 20 mins over a 15-30 hr span now it can be well over an hour in 4-9 hr span. I did a factory reset yesterday already, uninstalled all of my apps and reinstalled them when I seen that the problem still exist. I googled the problem, but can't find a solution. Is anyone else getting a Android System battery drain like me.
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I had the same problem at first. Waited a few days and it still drained badly. Then I went into startups and turned off a few of the apps I never use. Working fine now.
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I had the same problem at first. Waited a few days and it still drained badly. Then I went into startups and turned off a few of the apps I never use. Working fine now.
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What apps did you disabled, and could you include a screen shot of your battery activity if you don't mind.
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Thats interesting. I haven't used my phone on wifi yet, because its a little inconsistent right now. If your phone is acting up while connected to wifi then it got to be something on samsung's end. You can end up with just over 5 and a half hrs of SOT if you stick to 4g and don't want any problems. I would keep testing how things go on both wifi and 4g over the next couple of days if i were you to see if the problems continues though. What problems are you getting while connected to wifi?
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Same problem as the op. Android system would take alot and phone wouldn't sleep. But on 4g it sleeps. Could be an app I have I dunno. 4g is fast here so it's not a problem for me
Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S4
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Same problem as the op. Android system would take alot and phone wouldn't sleep. But on 4g it sleeps. Could be an app I have I dunno. 4g is fast here so it's not a problem for me
Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S4
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i reset the phone and didn't install any apps and come to find out that its something that is already on the phone. I had no apps on my phone and android system and android os were in the top three that was taking up a lot of battery.
I recently had an issue with Android OS draining a lot of battery. I read somewhere that disabling stuff from Google sync that you don't use can help, so I disabled sync for all Google services except the ones I use, such as contacts, calendar, app data, people details, and play books. I rebooted and watched my battery for the next couple of days. And it worked. My battery life is a lot better, and Android OS is not using nearly as much battery as it did before. Perhaps this will help you guys?
***UPDATE on HOW TO FIX***
I HAD terrible batt drain with nae.. so bad that i left the device on the charger overnight qnd woke up to 35% batt... i got mad and reflashed stockish v6.. but.. batt drain was the same...
so.. here is what i did... i ended up flashing negalite r6 and the batt was so bad my phone would be dead within 1hr.. SO, FOR KICKS, i reflashed the MK2 modem and HOLY COW!, problem solved!!
im currently on negalite r6 ( a nae rom ) but using the mk2 modem and my batt drain problems are gone. in fact im getting great batt life. i didnt change the kernal or anything. i have flashed ktoonsez kernal over it, and it has not effected batt life at all...
in conclusion, if ur batt life sux, try reflashing mk2 modem.. it worked for me.. and yes 4g, mms, calls, and wifi work without any problem...
hope this helps
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I recently had an issue with Android OS draining a lot of battery. I read somewhere that disabling stuff from Google sync that you don't use can help, so I disabled sync for all Google services except the ones I use, such as contacts, calendar, app data, people details, and play books. I rebooted and watched my battery for the next couple of days. And it worked. My battery life is a lot better, and Android OS is not using nearly as much battery as it did before. Perhaps this will help you guys?
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I don't even have sync on to help with battery life. Then again i never have it on unless i need to have something pushed to me.
i was getting terrible battery life on the new rom so reverted back to the old B200 and now ive discovered that by running cpy spy the phone is not going into deep sleep mode??
ive reset to factory settings and tried it with no apps installed and still the same.
ive tried installing some battery saver apps as well but cant get it to sleep even with those.
does anyone have any ideass?
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i was getting terrible battery life on the new rom so reverted back to the old B200 and now ive discovered that by running cpy spy the phone is not going into deep sleep mode??
ive reset to factory settings and tried it with no apps installed and still the same.
ive tried installing some battery saver apps as well but cant get it to sleep even with those.
does anyone have any ideass?
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B321a is the firmware that you had problem with? There are many people that have same problem, but most of people experienced better battery life (like me). Hard to say what is going on, the only thing i can say is that my upgrade proces was B200 > B317 > B321 > B321a. I dont know if it does make any difference, but if you have time you can try the same process. No one can help you with this.
Im now on b321a and see how.it goes
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Im now on b321a and see how.it goes
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From the battery drain perspective I don't see any difference on the 321a. Still getting drained as f.ck to be honest.
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From the battery drain perspective I don't see any difference on the 321a. Still getting drained as f.ck to be honest.
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so your getting the drain as well?
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so your getting the drain as well?
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Yup, but greenify fixed it.
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Yup, but greenify fixed it.
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its weird, i dont need greenify to get 2 day of normal use, and i have a lot of apps, have you allowed apps in power manager? i got few i need notifications from, like skype, gmail etc, without single problem
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its weird, i dont need greenify to get 2 day of normal use, and i have a lot of apps, have you allowed apps in power manager? i got few i need notifications from, like skype, gmail etc, without single problem
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On the B321a firmware? How did you make it? I turned them all to prevent from havin' those working when display's off.
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On the B321a firmware? How did you make it? I turned them all to prevent from havin' those working when display's off.
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I dont knowm but i can tell you, i had the same problem with B200 when i got the phone, it was very frustrating, not even one day the batery could stand, but then i tried first beta of mashmallow and it got like twice of the battery life. Yesterday i was almost all day flashing some stuff (that didnt work) so i restarted the phone into recovery like 10 times, almost every time i had to restore backup and was trying something else, and at the evening i still had about 30-40 percent.
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I dont knowm but i can tell you, i had the same problem with B200 when i got the phone, it was very frustrating, not even one day the batery could stand, but then i tried first beta of mashmallow and it got like twice of the battery life. Yesterday i was almost all day flashing some stuff (that didnt work) so i restarted the phone into recovery like 10 times, almost every time i had to restore backup and was trying something else, and at the evening i still had about 30-40 percent.
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So u being still on the beta? Should be B317 or something. The B321 is the final one. Listen I am a bit desperate as having this phone charged to make 24hrs of medium use is frustrating
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So u being still on the beta? Should be B317 or something. The B321 is the final one. Listen I am a bit desperate as having this phone charged to make 24hrs of medium use is frustrating
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nope, i upgraded to B321a as soon as it was released, battery is the same as in beta, it can not be problem with that firmware
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nope, i upgraded to B321a as soon as it was released, battery is the same as in beta, it can not be problem with that firmware
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Well, I will be two days when will have the latest installed. I will see whether it doesn't settle down a bit.
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Well, I will be two days when will have the latest installed. I will see whether it doesn't settle down a bit.
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hm, i really dubt about it, the battery drain should be beter imediately, what ROM you upgraded from?
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hm, i really dubt about it, the battery drain should be beter imediately, what ROM you upgraded from?
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B200 man. Listen up just checked the actual SOT and it makes 4:23 hrs and 19% left still. Typically I dont play games but except that I squeeze my phone hard-music, web, youtube,gps etc etc
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B200 man. Listen up just checked the actual SOT and it makes 4:23 hrs and 19% left still. Typically I dont play games but except that I squeeze my phone hard-music, web, youtube,gps etc etc
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huawei´s smartphones are pretty weird, many people have various problems, some have problems that others dont etc, for example, many ppl says that B200 had better battery life than Marshmallow, for me, its twice as that, so its pretty individual, i was frustrated about this phone when i got it, at first i was happy for new phone, but the smile dissapeared very fast. Now, with MM im pretty happy, just pitty that we dont have CM or some mods (yet). Last thing i can suggest you ist, try to install xposed, then install Amplifiy app, i could help
im also desperate to the point the phones going!
ive had wifi off mobile data off gps off
Phones been on since 7am so basically 12 hours and im at 30% battery with 1h 30 min screen on time and 1h20m talk time!
its so god damn bad ............oh and greenify just says no apps need to hibernate.
ive got a couple of screen blemishes anyway so i might try a rma as its well with in warranty any how.
It seems that major prob for me have been google maps. Sounds like our device doesn't cope well with this app. Removing those off gave me normal SOT and phone can make 1.5 day easily
I'll try that howndoes one go about it ? I'm not rooted
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I'll try that howndoes one go about it ? I'm not rooted
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In Settings > advanced > battery > consumption
What are the top things that are using your battery?
check energy plan
Did you check your energy plan settings? After I first upgraded to 321 I observed battery drain as well. I managed to solve the issue by changing the energy plan in the battery manager. After upgrade it was set to performance. Once I set it to intelligent battery drain was ok. Seems like after upgrading performance is the default setting.
PS: The names might be slightly different, because the langugae on my P8 is not english.
Is anyone else experiencing VERY poor performance after the update to Oreo? Im talking like apps taking 10+ seconds to open, or just not responding at all. It feels as if the phone only has 512mb of ram, I have tried a format, cleared the cache after the update, all the same issue.
My phone is working smoothly...
Try installing latest update...
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Ze...4141.92927745.1529467536-347108712.1528916551
How is the battery performance? Could you share me screenshot?
Em Kay said:
How is the battery performance? Could you share me screenshot?
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Battery is fine, 2-3 days life.
Naman Vashishth said:
My phone is working smoothly...
Try installing latest update...
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Ze...4141.92927745.1529467536-347108712.1528916551
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I tried that, it was a lower version than what I was on.
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I tried that, it was a lower version than what I was on.
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What update do you have installed?
Thanks.
Let me know the SoT you're getting?
Is there any black theme present in the new update?
Hello! I'm also.having terrible performance after the Android 8 update. Sometimes it takes over 5 seconds to show the home screen after pressing home, and it also "soft crashes" to the lock screen at random times intervals, no matter if I'm using an app or not. I've tried doing a factory reset twice and wiping the cache from the recovery menu but that hasn't helped. Any advice on this?
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Hello! I'm also.having terrible performance after the Android 8 update. Sometimes it takes over 5 seconds to show the home screen after pressing home, and it also "soft crashes" to the lock screen at random times intervals, no matter if I'm using an app or not. I've tried doing a factory reset twice and wiping the cache from the recovery menu but that hasn't helped. Any advice on this?
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Are you using the stock ASUS launcher? Perhaps try another one from the Play Store for a few hours and see if you get the same result.
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Are you using the stock ASUS launcher? Perhaps try another one from the Play Store for a few hours and see if you get the same result.
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I have. Tried a few launchers already, hola launcher, Microsoft launcher and Evie launcher, so far, the Microsoft launcher has the better performance, but still does the "soft crash" I mentioned and takes forever to load the home screen sometimes ?(right now I'm still using the Microsoft launcher)
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I have. Tried a few launchers already, hola launcher, Microsoft launcher and Evie launcher, so far, the Microsoft launcher has the better performance, but still does the "soft crash" I mentioned and takes forever to load the home screen sometimes (right now I'm still using the Microsoft launcher)
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Hmmmm.... how is your battery life?
In your settings, what does it say is using your battery the most?
koimr said:
Hmmmm.... how is your battery life?
In your settings, what does it say is using your battery the most?
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Battery life is usually as good as new (I got this phone the past October). I can easily go through a full day with very heavy use (playing games on the phone that use a lot the GPU ) and two days when I don't play that much
Since around 8AM today, the top 3 apps that has consumed battery are:
Messenger 8%
Google play services 3%
Simple rockets 1%
Screen has used 5% and my phone has 74% as I'm writing this.
Diggie08 said:
Battery life is usually as good as new (I got this phone the past October). I can easily go through a full day with very heavy use (playing games on the phone that use a lot the GPU ) and two days when I don't play that much
Since around 8AM today, the top 3 apps that has consumed battery are:
Messenger 8%
Google play services 3%
Simple rockets 1%
Screen has used 5% and my phone has 74% as I'm writing this.
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Hmmm. Ok, look in Settings at the "Storage & Memory" section, poke around and you'll see how much memory some apps have used. Anything look out of the ordinary there?
If you have Dev Options enabled there's an option in there to view running and cached apps as well, might be worth a look.
Unfortunately I'm just guessing as I don't have this problem myself, everything seems to be working now as it did with Nougat for me. I don't consider myself a heavy user though so it's not a good comparison.
koimr said:
Hmmm. Ok, look in Settings at the "Storage & Memory" section, poke around and you'll see how much memory some apps have used. Anything look out of the ordinary there?
If you have Dev Options enabled there's an option in there to view running and cached apps as well, might be worth a look.
Unfortunately I'm just guessing as I don't have this problem myself, everything seems to be working now as it did with Nougat for me. I don't consider myself a heavy user though so it's not a good comparison.
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Well, then only odd thing that I see is that in the storage and memory, Android OS has almost 1GB of ram being used, while the next process is using only about 200MB which is another system process (Android system) after those two is Google play services.
I have contacted asus support as well, and they only advices me to do a factory reset and if that didn't help, send the device to them "to get it checked" but I'm not willing to lose my phone for over a month!!
I also have had the same battery and performance problems. I did a reset and now all seems good, back to battery lasting 2 days with ease. I have gone into the settings for the auto start manager and that seems to have helped with some issues i had with my home screen taking a few seconds to load. I know this solution wont work for everyone i was hesitant to do the full reset but now wish i had done it after the last update as it has made all the difference
So I have found that having a SD card completly destroys the phone, when I took out my 128gb card the phone performs better, not to the level it should, but I can at least use it now. Is there any way to downgrade it back to android 7? Cause I'm at the point where I'm about to buy a new phone.
Darcw0lf said:
So I have found that having a SD card completly destroys the phone, when I took out my 128gb card the phone performs better, not to the level it should, but I can at least use it now. Is there any way to downgrade it back to android 7? Cause I'm at the point where I'm about to buy a new phone.
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I was wondering if the SD card had something to do... I contacted asus support and they told me that they do not provide the ROM to downgrade, the only way they could help is for you to send them your phone so they can "check it". Which, as I said before, I'm not willing to do it.
Diggie08 said:
I was wondering if the SD card had something to do... I contacted asus support and they told me that they do not provide the ROM to downgrade, the only way they could help is for you to send them your phone so they can "check it". Which, as I said before, I'm not willing to do it.
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I went through a RMA with asus for my phone once already, took them a month, no advanced RMA process, they sent it back, it broke again in 2 days, then i was without a phone for another month. Their process is pure **** and sending it in won't fix anything, this is nothing but a software issue.
Darcw0lf said:
I went through a RMA with asus for my phone once already, took them a month, no advanced RMA process, they sent it back, it broke again in 2 days, then i was without a phone for another month. Their process is pure **** and sending it in won't fix anything, this is nothing but a software issue.
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Hey, I found this on zentalk, I haven't tried since I still have warranty (even though, I wanna try the unnoficial lineage is 14.1 for the zoom)
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-213377-1-1.html
Diggie08 said:
Hey, I found this on zentalk, I haven't tried since I still have warranty (even though, I wanna try the unnoficial lineage is 14.1 for the zoom)
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-213377-1-1.html
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Thanks for the find! I'm gonna try this right away, cause my phone is essentially unusable at this point.