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[Q] Awake Time

I thought maybe we should have one thread where everyone having the same problem can come troubleshoot it.
On EB01, I have 100% awake time. I tried wiping and reinstalling fresh, but still sporadically it won't sleep. I've had some results turning off GPS, then back on. But that doesn't always work to resolve it.
Anyone else have anything they tried and it works consistently for them?

For me, if gps is on in the pull down shade, the phone doesn't sleep.
Probably a bug that will hopefully get addressed before release.
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nmyeti said:
For me, if gps is on in the pull down shade, the phone doesn't sleep.
Probably a bug that will hopefully get addressed before release.
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Confirmed issue heard from others btw. But where's the point of having gps even on when you don't need it? Just kills the battery anyways...

jenisiz said:
Confirmed issue heard from others btw. But where's the point of having gps even on when you don't need it? Just kills the battery anyways...
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In all other versions, it wasn't actually "on" until an app needed it. In this version it's still not "on" it's just preventing the phone from sleeping.
Best practice for EB01 is to disable it until it's actually needed and then your battery life should significantly improve (assuming i'm not the only one that suffers this bug).

nmyeti said:
In all other versions, it wasn't actually "on" until an app needed it. In this version it's still not "on" it's just preventing the phone from sleeping.
Best practice for EB01 is to disable it until it's actually needed and then your battery life should significantly improve (assuming i'm not the only one that suffers this bug).
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interesting...i'd heard from some that their gps would continuously try and lock unsuccesfully. Thanks for the info...

jenisiz said:
interesting...i'd heard from some that their gps would continuously try and lock unsuccesfully. Thanks for the info...
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On DL09 I could keep it enabled and the only time it would "activate" was when I started Maps or the browser (Google is my homepage and i've enabled location sharing).
Either way my battery life is pretty much back to normal just by disabling GPS in the notification shade.

I've realized that upon boot, if I turn off GPS for a few minutes, turn it back on, then go into maps or latitude, the awake time will go back to normal. If I reboot and never go through this process, I'll get 100% awake time.

I seem to have forgotten where the awake time is displayed. Anyone refresh my memory?
Cheers
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Domush said:
I seem to have forgotten where the awake time is displayed. Anyone refresh my memory?
Cheers
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I'm using spare parts from the market to access the battery stats.

settings > Battery use > Display > Time on
Is that what you're looking for?

Just download spare parts from the market. Its free and has tons of information and settings that you can tweak.

Regarding Batteri Issues "Temp fix maybe"

Hey,
Iam getting my phone tomorrow, but i have been doing some reading in the different topics.
I found this link in one of the topics postet by "xdadroid88"(thanks to him
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15057
i have read through it and this is the tips i found.
1. Set the wifi policy on "always on"
2.Location & Security -> Use wireless networks / Use GPS satellites. I've disable both options
3. switch off Latitude
Seems like this is a issue in Gingerbread 2.3.3 and is resolved in 2.3.4
Try this and post the results

So disable wifi/gps and battery is better? That's news!

Dont need to be rude, just trying to help, it can be a different problem on the sgs 2, just telling people what they can try and maybe maybe it works for some
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CEPi said:
So disable wifi/gps and battery is better? That's news!
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LOL.......

That's not even what he said, those settings are for letting your phone track your location. :-/
I'll give this a go OP and post tomorrow. Thanks.

the OP actually meant to say "wifi sleep policy". and yes the issue was with wifi. ironically setting wifi sleep to NEVER is better for battery life than letting it go to sleep, because when it switches back to 3g it uses more power. leaving on wifi always uses less power than leaving on 3G because of latency and other factors. counter intuitive but true.

[Q] Anyone else having locking/freezing issues with CM 7.1 RC1?

I updated to CM 7.1 RC1 last week and I've noticed a few times where the device has locked up after "going to sleep". Essentially, if I leave it on the coffee table with WiFi on and let the screen turn itself off, it won't respond when I return to it 20-30 minutes later. I have to force reboot via the power button + nook button.
Just curious if anyone else has noticed it or if it's just me. If it's a common issue I'll escalate to the CM folks, if it looks like just me I'll start the long and tedious process of uninstalling apps one by one. =)

I have at least one every day. I figure its just a price I pay. Over all its the best rom I have used.
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Only once have I had the issue you described. I leave WiFi on some of the times, but majority of the time I have it off when I am done using it. I know some people have mentioned using Tasker or something similar to turn WiFi off when screen goes off so that it can perhaps be prevented.
EDIT: I don't believe I can link yet on my account, but search General for the post "NC, CM7, Dalingrin OC kernel.. Sleep of Death" and start about post #6.

Thanks bio, that looks like the exact issue I'm experiencing.
For the next guy with this issue: Link to the thread biohazard mentioned

Installing Droid wall has fixed the problem for me and has doubled my battery life
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mrkavanagh said:
Installing Droid wall has fixed the problem for me and has doubled my battery life
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That's a pretty generic statement... what did you blacklist within Droid wall to increase battery life / fix the issue?

I'm facing random freezes when I open an application like tweetdeck or mercury and leave it updating from the internet. After some time, I'm not using it, it just stucks. To get it back to life I have to press for a few seconds the power button to shutdown it and then again to power it on. I have used different nightlies, voltages or governors but it is still here.
Now, I don't have freezes since yesterday that I really reduced the voltages but I'm not sure if my problem is solved.
configuration: 144 nightly 300-1100mhz xlv profile

not sure if anyone has told you that what you describes is called:
Sleep of death.
Felt to be possibly related to wifi being on all the time. In wifi settings, go to advanced change it wifi to off when screen off.

skylar.sutton said:
That's a pretty generic statement... what did you blacklist within Droid wall to increase battery life / fix the issue?
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I'm sorry. I use the white list feature and only check mark the current application that I want to use and allow to access the internet. It keeps everything else from using background data.
For example right now I selected xda and updated rules.
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Phatdawg said:
not sure if anyone has told you that what you describes is called:
Sleep of death.
Felt to be possibly related to wifi being on all the time. In wifi settings, go to advanced change it wifi to off when screen off.
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It seems that I solved it reducing the voltages. When sod occurs a black screen appears right? I never had sod, only random freezes.
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[Q] ICSbattery drain

Hey guys, i'm using acronium ics 1.0 with stock kernel plus cwm. First night and the next morning it's like 50% battery overnight.
And the andriod system have them most! It usually goes to the display in GB. any potential issues here or how do i fix that?

Same problem here. I am using doom kernel v4.
Anyway try to use wifi or 2g if possible. The battery is awesome!
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chding said:
Same problem here. I am using doom kernel v4.
Anyway try to use wifi or 2g if possible. The battery is awesome!
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So the problem was caused by GSM data?
I'll try turn it off and see what happen.
Is this only acronium? or the ICS?

1/ Try to reset your phone after charge ...
2/ Remove some file in init.d if (1) isn't solution.
3/ Try another kernel

lake0ftearz said:
1/ Try to reset your phone after charge ...
2/ Remove some file in init.d if (1) isn't solution.
3/ Try another kernel
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1) definitely not helping
2) don't know what to do
3) worth a try
from the other threads this problem could be caused by baseband .70, so maybe flash back to .64 is the cure. Not tested yet

I have arconium ICS 1.0 and stock kernel with CWM, the overnight drain is about 10% with everything on (Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, Wifi,etc)
What I did notice however is if you switch off Wifi the drain gets higher, try leaving on the Wifi and see if that helps.

I am using the official ICS Nordic rom and also had problems with the battery retaining the charge. Have changed the following and it seems to be ok now.
Go into settings/wifi and press the menu key
Go into advanced/Keep WIFI on during sleep and change settings to Only when plugged in.
Also try this
Go into settings/Developer Options Put a tick in Stay awake and then immediately Untick it. Do a restart and should be ok.
It's a long shot but it may just work for your ROM

I flash back to CM7 and happy now. Might wait and see for a while for another try for ICS.
I try the tips you guys provided (btw, thx!) and nothing changed. It's always power hungry plus GSM data slow and problematic. I can't even play funghi and temple run properly. On my drive back home the device just reboot itself, and all I did was using stock music player.

Bugs in 10.4.B.0.569 update

Even though we have finally received the 4.3 update from SONY,
it seems like shipped with some noticeable bugs.
It's better if we can mention the bugs we have encountered after the 4.3 update
1. ) SONY Select
As many people have reported this service is not working in either mobile broadband or wifi connections.
Only a error text is shown as "No network connection. Please try again later"
2.) NFC icon
It suddenly get disapeared while it's already activated by quick settings.
3.) Airplane mode
When the Airplane mode is turned on by power button menu, it cannot be turned off using the same menu since it's disabled.
I had to go to the settings menu and turn it off from there.
4.) Network mode switching
3G networking and LTE network mode switching does not happening correctly in automatically (sometimes).
work arround found :
Had to go to the network settings and disable the mobile data
turn on the airplane mode on and again turn it off
enable the mobile data again then it will correctly jump to LTE network type
5.) Battery bug
Battery suddenly dropped from about 40 % to 8% (without any downloaded applications.)
6.) Overheating
Phone is incredibly overheating while using the HSPA+ or LTE data connection.
with 4.2.2 i didn't had this much of overheating issue.
Please share your findings also :highfive:

1 no
2 no
3 no
4 no
5 no
6 its normal
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1 - No, it is working fine since 2 days ago.
2 - No, this is a customization thing, if you flashed a firmware from a different region it may have been disabled. It is normal, you can re-enable it editing build.prop.
3 - No, it works fine on mine.
4 - No, i don't have this problem.
5 - It happened to me in the first two hours of installing the new firmware, but from 13% to 0% reducing itself in 1% increments every 2 seconds (and it turned itself off), it may be some kind of battery recalibration after installation, it hasn't happened again since then.
6 - I don't feel like it is overheating more than before.
I thing you should do a factory reset. I did it after 4.3 update and the only bugs i have found are:
1 - Progress bar overlaping text while installing applications
2 - Standalone wifi hotspot toggle widget not working (the one in the configurable toggles in notification area works fine)
3 - Bluetooth A2DP music streaming skips a lot in my BMW Car Infotainment system while not charging the phone. It could be some kind of energy saving feature on the bluetooth that it is screwing things up. It worked 10 times better when i was in Android 4.2.2
cheers.

RoberM said:
1 - Progress bar overlaping text while installing applications
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There is a xposed module which disappear the overlapping.

gripfly said:
There is a xposed module which disappear the overlapping.
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Good to know but anyway that is not an important bug, I can live with it. But if I ever need xposed for anything else I will remember this info.

Wifi doesnt work when i have my smartwatch2 connected. It finds almost no networks (not even my own in the room) . When i turn off the sw2 , it finds all the networks in the area! Unbelievable...

guys can someone tell me where is burst mode in new camera?? tired of searching in camera app

AlexR29 said:
Wifi doesnt work when i have my smartwatch2 connected. It finds almost no networks (not even my own in the room) . When i turn off the sw2 , it finds all the networks in the area! Unbelievable...
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I can confirm this one on existenz v5, not yet tested on stock Rom.

Does video stabilization option works for any one.
For me it doesn't look making any difference

Camera Bug
Tho only bug I noticed is in Camera Addon AR Effects. The Pictures a very dark and there´s no chance to activate LED Flash....

my phone's screen timeout resets back to 15 seconds every once in a while, and wakelock bugs also present

Sometimes SMS received without Notification

I have issues with access to OpenXChange Servers. No new mail can be received.

Just a wakelock bug for me, Suspend_backoff (Android OS) eating battery, it drains like ~5% hourly.

gerickjohn said:
Just a wakelock bug for me, Suspend_backoff (Android OS) eating battery, it drains like ~5% hourly.
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This is absolutely true. Battery level is going down soo rapidly.
When i check with BetterBatteryStats this has been shown.
Media scanner service is eating the battery ?

NetSkill said:
1 no
2 no
3 no
4 no
5 no
6 its normal
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What they said x 2.
I've had no issues you describe and I have not wiped. Ever.
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coolrevi said:
guys can someone tell me where is burst mode in new camera?? tired of searching in camera app
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First go to Camera > Superior Auto
Press on menu icon at bottom.
You'll see an option saying burst with long press, select standard or high speed.
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AlexR29 said:
Wifi doesnt work when i have my smartwatch2 connected. It finds almost no networks (not even my own in the room) . When i turn off the sw2 , it finds all the networks in the area! Unbelievable...
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I'm also having the same problem with WiFi when the smartwatch 2 is connected, does anyone know a fix for this. I have tried resetting watch and reinstalling all software used on the phone.

basky19 said:
I'm also having the same problem with WiFi when the smartwatch 2 is connected, does anyone know a fix for this. I have tried resetting watch and reinstalling all software used on the phone.
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So you reinstalled 4.3 and it didnt fix the problem? Some users said they reinstalled 4.3 (which means complete data loss and having to set my phone from the beginning ) and the problem remains. I dont want to go through a clean istall for nothing.
I also emailed sony for the problem , maybe they will answer me

xchasa said:
What they said x 2.
I've had no issues you describe and I have not wiped. Ever.
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You sir or ma'am have a dirty butt lol
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