[Q] media process background eating up battery - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Earlier today I downloaded a transparency widget from the market it makes any app you put on your home screen transparent and about 15 minutes after I tried it and took it off my home screen I started getting a notice from watch dog for Android media process background exceeded threshold which is set to 30%.As soon I turn my screen on it pops up I have then deleted that app and have not downloaded any other apps and have been using cm7 7.0.2 since it came out with no problems.I cleared all data from adw ex so it would delete anything from the screen and start everything over my display under battery use is at 18% this is driving me crazy has anyone had this problem or know what I can possibly do I have rebooted numerous times and really trying to avoid factory reset.

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Android Blackout!!

Hello thread, I recently ran into a roadblock, as earlier today i was customizing my Core Droid 5 build. I installed extended control and put the screen brightness widget on one of the sense screens. When i was selecting the type of control the screen brightness had i set it to custom and with a %, i tapped on it and it went from 32% to 62% to 100% and then i tapped it once more, the screen went black. I pressed the screen once again in the same stop and it came back.
Now my issue is when i was chaning the brightness, it went to black again, and i cannot get it out, i rebooted the phone and now when it loads the rom it is stuck on black after it says Android.
Is there any way to resolve this by editing something with ought loading android, and keep all my setting, i loved the build and had everything set to my liking, all the apps everything, i periodically back up my setting and apps but this week i didint :S
Please help! Thank you

Unresponsive screen

Android 2.3, 407band, DSC 7.0 rom, Go launcher (default), Zeam launcher (secondary)
Today while using an app called wallbase, I hit the home button while the app was setting a wall paper for me (normally I wait until it says wallpaper set). The home screen popped up but then Go launcher had a FC error (which it has never had since I've been using it). It had the option fc or wait I hit wait. Next my wall paper went black then my screen followed by two vibrations and a notification sound I never heard my device make.
I rebooted to the lock screen with a black background and no service on the screen. It was unresponsive to my touch and after about 10sec. it gave the same two vibrations and sound from before then shut the screen off. The power button did not turn on the display so I had to hold it down for about 20sec for it to reboot to dell logo. From there i went into nandroid and flashed severals roms loaded to the lock screen, rinse/repeat, to find the same result (simple streak, streakroid, older version of dsc).
I reset permissions, wiped cache and dalvik, calibrated screen. Want to avoid a factory reset because I don't have a backup.
Help guys? Mods please move to the appropriate forum.
If all fails and you don't have another alternative.
install the DSC v0.70 update, it shouldn't delete your 'data'.
I would backup your streak, better be safe than sorry.
So I tried letting it sit with the battery out for the night (6 hours) and booting it up this morning with the ac charger. It loads to the same lock screen (standard screen with black background and no service on screen) and all my start up apps loads, it even showed me a text notification. I did notice that the time was wrong though and never changed.
Any one have this issue before? What suggestions are there to combat this? The G.Note doesn't fit into my budget right now. May have to factory reset this and sell it as a last resort.
Help guys?
Outlook for this issue looks grim. Seem others with a similiar issue on different devices have had to factory reset or return it to manufacturer.
Before I do that, is there are any possible way for me to backup some of my app data?
Anyone know if Dell still helps with this device?
I use the app cadrebible often(its the only one I really care about) but it doesn't auto sync/backup and my last manual backup must be from Dec2011 - yea makes me want to cry.
I can load into fastboot, so is there a way I can uninstall a few apps I suspect are causing the issue? Move files from the phones to the sd card/computer?
factory reset. Mod feel free to close thread. -- yes im crying.
Did you try calibrating the touch screen?

Several apps missing upon reboot?

Let my Nexus 4 run down to 1% charge, then turned it off to charge it. Turned it back on when it was almost fully charged and then left it on the charger for another 15 minutes or so. When I took it off and started using it, I noticed that my weather and calendar widgets were no longer on my home screens. I think that's odd, so I go to re-add them, and notice that they are not in the widget drawer. So I open up Google play, and sure enough, they are not listed as even "Installed." So I look around a bit more and notice several other apps I downloaded have somehow gone missing, including Screen Off and Lock and Audio Manager Pro.
Not a huge deal I guess, but has anybody else experienced missing apps upon reboot after phone has been off for a few hours? Mildly disturbing.
Edit: WTF just noticed Lite Flow is gone, too. That one kind of annoys me since it takes a few minutes to set up.
Edit 2: WTF that hsic wakelock bug is now also worse than it previously was. Previously it caused about a 2% wakelock for me. Since boot, it has caused a 9% wakelock. It's never been that high for me before. Gotta admit I'm increasingly disturbed.
Only time i was missing apps was after flashing a custom rom and using tb to restore apps and not all showed up like lightflow as you mentioned had to set them up again.
SysAdmNj said:
Only time i was missing apps was after flashing a custom rom and using tb to restore apps and not all showed up like lightflow as you mentioned had to set them up again.
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I'm not even bootloader unlocked or rooted, much less running a custom ROM.
Weird.

[Q] Lollipop 5.0 has turned my Nexus into a pretty paperweight - help!

So I finally got the notification that I could update my Nexus 4 to Lollipop; I was aware of some issues regarding performance/wifi etc but nothing prepared me for this;
I installed Lollipop last night and left my phone optimising its apps etc overnight. In the morning I had a couple of messages saying the launcher was not responding, I also noticed I had no wifi or mobile data connection.
I restarted and my wifi connected but the phone promptly froze and needed another reboot. After reboot it took a long time for even the 'no signal' triangle to come up and much longer for it to show any service, but still no data connection. Various apps are causing popups asking me to close, wait or report. Normally it won't respond to any of these options. I've not even tried to use most of the apps, such as Google Docs which has come up a few times.
Within a couple of hours all I had managed to do was let Gmail steal my emails and get a quick glance of the 'new look' (which I like).
A bit more careful handling got Spotify running for my drive to work but it froze and needed a reboot after removing the aux lead from the port.
Then it stopped responding and I left it for the day as I was working, when I came back it still said 9am on the screen. I cleared the cache via the recovery boot process, performance has improved but its still freezing and the data/mobile reception is very flaky. In 24hrs I still haven't managed to use the phone for anything except Spotify. Not even loaded a web page. Its probably had 20 restarts today.
Help!
Just done the following and there has been a marginal improvement i.e. I can actually open an app (occasionally) without freezing the phone but its still largely unresponsive and no mobile reception at all.
Go into the developer options as above. There are three options under "Drawing" in Developer Options :
-Window animation scale
-Transition animation scale
-Animator duration scale
Turn all three to 'Animation off'.
then, under the 'Apps' subheading (in developer options still), set Background Process Limit to "at most, 2 processes".
My N4 and N7 have been flying along since I did that.

LG G2 storage filling up, and extreme home key lag.

PLEASE HELP!
My Vzw G2 home key lags, I press it, and sometimes it stays pressed, then it goes to my home screen, when I try to open recent apps, I almost have to hold it down for 5 seconds for the window to appear. I woke up this morning, checked my storage and it said 455mb free (originally I had 19gb free) then I cleared cache, the cache said something like 19gb+. Got my storage back, but I just checked again a while ago and my cache was at 2.5gb.
I'm fairly new to rooting and such, but anyways, last night, my phone was absolutely fine, but my battery seemed to be dieing on its own, so I decided to "recalibrate" it by killing it completely and fully charging it, so I killed the phone, and put it to charge when I went to bed, woke up 5 hours later, and it was at 66% shut it off, started charging it, went back to sleep, woke up in 2 hours and was at 98%, then I waited for a bit for it to reach 100%, that fixed the problem, it charges normally now and dies as fast as it used to. So I unlocked the phone, and started using it, and I notice my home key is extremely laggy, I press it, it stays pressed, then goes to the home screen 3-5 seconds later, it does it frequently, the pressing animation for it seem to lose frame rate too, all other nav bar keys are fine. Then I check my storage, and It says 455mb availible, I originally had 19gb the day before, my cache was at 19gb+ so I cleared it, and then 7 hours later, the cache is at 2.5gigs again. So I cleared it just 20 minutes ago, and its at 610mb now. Does anyone know what's going on? Please help me, these problems literally came overnight, the day before I hadn't installed any tweaks besides xstana to mod my nav bar, which didn't cause any kind of lag for the 8-9 hours I used it. Another thing it was doing this morning was that it does is that it keeps underclocking itself to 1.9 or 1.7ghz, why does it keep doing that? Does anyone have any idea on what to do? What would you do? PLEASE HELP I've been trouble shooting this all day and haven't been able to find a similar thread.
How many backups did you make? The nav mod is probably causing your lag.
comk4ver said:
How many backups did you make? The nav mod is probably causing your lag.
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Backups of what? Doesn't really matter though I haven't made any back ups of anything.
Also I removed the nav bar mod several times, it still lags.
Fixed (kinda)
So I gave up and just reset my phone. I just finished setting up the entire phone again with all the mods/tweaks I had before, and everything works now, cache doesn't seem to fill up on it's own anymore, battery life is still normal, home keys are responsive again, BUT it still keeps underlocking itself to 1.9 or 1.7ghz, anyone have any idea what's going on? I had a fix for it earlier with an app that would set my cpu freq one every boot up but that doesn't seem to work anymore. I think I'm gunna leave this thread up because I haven't seen any other threads on cache filling, and home key unresponsiveness.
Edit: I take that back, the cache data is still filling my storage, I just cleared 10gb of cache data. Can someone PLEASE tell me why this happens? Or if there is some way to set a limit to cache data?

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