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HELP: Froyo killed my parents & my battery life

I know there might be a dozen threads about this, but its all gobbledygook and nobody seems to have a straight answer.
I just want to ask: What can we possibly do about Froyo draining our battery? Task manager auto-killers aren't working right now it seems.

Turn off 4G
Turn off WiFi
Turn off GPS
Turn down brightness
Stop opening crap
Problem solved.

Task Managers??? Are you kidding me? My battery life has doubled since Froyo because I dont use task managers or auto killers. Use Fresh Rom, with set cpu with perflock off, change the screen off to 245/245. Most important part is condition your battery...Trust me, i thought it was stupid as well, but it works.

drmacinyasha said:
Turn off 4G
Turn off WiFi
Turn off GPS
Turn down brightness
Stop opening crap
Problem solved.
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haha thats funny and true so i like it. i am running froyo official and have noticed an increase in battery. but hey when you get near your computer plug your phone in when you get in your car plug your phone in.

Froyo Killed Your Parents??
Sorry To Hear About Your Parents
R.I.P.

theres not much else u can do..just wait for a fix

I have ota and its the worst batterie ever with out doing nothing not even a phone call it died under an hour i only have gps enable had 3g off 4g to app all close no auto killer
Htc Evil Phone

I have the same problem. I read reports that Facebook 1.3 will not release the partial wake lock. I took FB 1.3 off and the problem persisted.
Here is how to check if you have a problem with your partial wake lock:
goto settings > about phone > battery and compare the uptime and awake time. If they are the same or very very close you have a wake lock problem. A wake lock allows an app to prevent your phone from going to sleep, even if the screen is off. If these times match then an app is creating a wake lock and not releasing it, and therefore your phone never sleeps.
As I said removing FB 1.3 did not solve the problem, but I was able to prove it is a wake lock as using Advanced Task Killer to kill 21 tasks allowed my phone to actually sleep, as indicated by a corresponding difference in the two times. So now that I know this is an app doing it, I will try to narrow it down and figure out which and report back.

OK I just found it. It appears the LED Light widget also causes a partial wake lock. To alleviate you don't need to uninstall it, just remove the widget.

Which led light? From market or the one with 2.2?

Borg1982 said:
Which led light? From market or the one with 2.2?
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The new "flashlight" app is not a widget...It's actually called LED Light, by picolyl.

I don't have a problem, for me is little better!!!! just buy a new battery that solve your problem

drmacinyasha said:
Turn off 4G
Turn off WiFi
Turn off GPS
Turn down brightness
Stop opening crap
Problem solved.
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Problem NOT solved. Or maybe 15 extra minutes.
Or don't use it at all, you'll save plenty of battery

Check to make sure that your Google Talk app is not automatically signing in. Go to apps - talk - settings. This is a typical battery drainer

totally forgot about google talk. have flashed a few ROMs back and forth, and now running a stock rooted ROM, I forgot to shut this one off...

use a custom rom, something without sense and try not to have a f***ton of widgets. im running cyanogen nightly and i get about 10 hours before i hit 20%-30% thats when i quit doing stuff and start trying to make the battery last. screen eats most of the battery so turn the brightness down.
my average 10 hours is 75-125 txts 30 + or - min of talk time and 3+ hours of internet (facebook)

oh, and about your parents... they are gone, there isnt an app or a rom that can fix that.

Indeed, the title of this thread is goofy. Froyo has literally killed my parents....... and has done a bad job for my battery life on my phone. Haha!
I guess an apostrophe would not have hurt after the word "parents" eh?

Doing a factory reset will fix your problem... I had the same problem when I updated.
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opie2l said:
Doing a factory reset will fix your problem... I had the same problem when I updated.
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I'm having similar issues with my OMJ 2.2 froyo rom. poor battery life, plus it seems laggy and unresponsive. i was much happier with OMJ's 2.1 rom

Lcd dim issues

I'm having issues where after going to sleep, it wakes up with the lcd very dark. It doesn't matter which level of brightness I put it on, the lcd is still hard to see. Rebooting solve the problem. Just wondering if anyone experienced this too. I hope it isn't my lcd dying...
This happen on both froyostone and bangster. I'm on the latest radio using tmousa.

I had this on bangsters 1.2, but haven't seen it on 1.3b, but only been running that build for a few days.

azzzz said:
I'm having issues where after going to sleep, it wakes up with the lcd very dark. It doesn't matter which level of brightness I put it on, the lcd is still hard to see. Rebooting solve the problem. Just wondering if anyone experienced this too. I hope it isn't my lcd dying...
This happen on both froyostone and bangster. I'm on the latest radio using tmousa.
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i had this a few times before on a shubi build. I came to the conslusion that it is the screen not fully coming out of sleep. Seeing as it only happened when I put the phone to sleep and then tried to wake it immeadiately or got frustrated and impatient with it and tried tapping buttons repeatedly until the screen came on.

palosjr said:
i had this a few times before on a shubi build. I came to the conslusion that it is the screen not fully coming out of sleep. Seeing as it only happened when I put the phone to sleep and then tried to wake it immeadiately or got frustrated and impatient with it and tried tapping buttons repeatedly until the screen came on.
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I had this same experience. Patience is a virtue with these phones. As long as I wait if its taking a bit to come out of sleep, I get zero problems.
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thanks for the advice. I hope its just a software glitch. I will just have to be more patient when coming out of sleep.

My solution
azzzz said:
I'm having issues where after going to sleep, it wakes up with the lcd very dark. It doesn't matter which level of brightness I put it on, the lcd is still hard to see. Rebooting solve the problem. Just wondering if anyone experienced this too. I hope it isn't my lcd dying...
This happen on both froyostone and bangster. I'm on the latest radio using tmousa.
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Here is my solution, i posted it in a similar thread, I think the key element here is the bsb tweaks part, hope it helps, thanks:
I solved this problem in my phone.
even turn on/off/on/off/on/off etc the screen, the devices wakes up correctly every time.
I don't really what exactly fixed but.
i installed Miris romm 20.0, then i turned off the auto screen off *start/system/power, so the screen nevers dims or turn off. I turned off the charge the device when it is connected to the computer, turned off quiet pickup, turned off 3g.
and now i think this is the key, installed bsb tweaks and turned off everything(even power savings), disable data connections and screen rotation, I only left use high glymp cache. reboot and run android, in winmo i dont have anything installed besides bsb1.6
in android i have the task killer on and set cpu at 768mhz ondemand. no profiles. battery last well over 24 hrs moderate use. by the way im using shubcraft, and the gsensor disabled kernel. thanks,
edit: also my auto sync is off in android and my wifi is always on.

I dealt with the problem by putting a widget to control screen brightness on my home page, if it goes dim I can find it ' blind'
Sent from my HD2 on mattc froyo sense.

Yeah it does happen to me if I'm being impatient and banging on the screen before it fully wakes up. Haven't found a real solution yet, but so far I would just try my luck by turning on/off/on/off several times, hoping that it get stucks momentarily again to let if "fully" wake up. Worst case scenario, reboot.

[Q] Dropping wifi

Has anyone had any wifi problems, mine was OK yesterday but today it drops the wifi but then joins back as soon as I click the wifi in the notification bar. I'm just thinking if its because my battery is low or is it a common problem.
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I've had this issue with a speedtouch router, but didn't have it with a netgear DG834
Does it have full signal?

Yes its full but then just drops altogether. I have charged it now and seems to be OK so not sure if it was because of low bat or mabee just a hiccup
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Go to your wireless setting and then click Wi-Fi disconnect policy.
Set it to "never disconnect". You can also set it to Never while plugged in if you have the cable connected. Some routers will have trouble auto-negotiating if your device has a sleep/disconnect policy set.
That or it's some other weird issue like a low battery/wi-fi issue like you said.

I had this happen once while I was using the touchpad to scroll down a website. Was anyone also using the dock touchpad when it happened? I thought I found a gesture that turns off the WiFi. Of course, this has only happened once in about 10 hours of use.

Kilmar said:
I had this happen once while I was using the touchpad to scroll down a website. Was anyone also using the dock touchpad when it happened? I thought I found a gesture that turns off the WiFi. Of course, this has only happened once in about 10 hours of use.
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I had a similar issue and the new firmware released today fixed it for me.
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I am 3.1 and not root but my Wifi keep droping off once in a while when the tab in sleeping mode. I set it to never disconnect and have to reboot because it kept scanning and wouldn't find it till reboot. Any suggestion?

randy_c said:
I am 3.1 and not root but my Wifi keep droping off once in a while when the tab in sleeping mode. I set it to never disconnect and have to reboot because it kept scanning and wouldn't find it till reboot. Any suggestion?
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I have dropping wifi issue, and i had to disconnect and connect again without rebooting. This happened since 3.1 update. I think this may be caused by decrease in wifi driver version.
I also posted this issue on another thread (issue with 3.1) and hopefully ASUS rep will see and fix this issue.

Since 3.1 I am also having this issue and its pissing me off Hope for a fix soon.

Now I'm having wifi issues as well... My wifi will automatically turn off... When I tried to re-enable wifi, the wifi setting will say "turning off" and grey out... Only way to recover was to power cycle..
Now I'm starting to worry about 3.1 update... I wish that I can downgrade to 3.0.1 without any major force close issues.

my gf has this issue with her tablet resuming from sleep mode, just throw it in airplane mode, wait 5 secs n turn off airplane mode.

This new-with-3.1 issue has been mentioned in a couple of other threads.
Now... if only we noobs had a clear way of reporting significant bugs (like this!) to the appropriate folks at ASUS.

Yes I have been having the same problem. Just started today.

same to me~~ the wifi keeps dropping randomly, I want a fix!!!

Me too
martabakeju said:
I have dropping wifi issue, and i had to disconnect and connect again without rebooting. This happened since 3.1 update. I think this may be caused by decrease in wifi driver version.
I also posted this issue on another thread (issue with 3.1) and hopefully ASUS rep will see and fix this issue.
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Ever since 3.1 update, I too have problems with wifi disconnecting. Seems to happen most often after I wake from sleep. I have the wifi set to stay on all the time, doesn't help. After waking from sleep, flipping the wifi off (airplane mode) and on again seems to fix the problem.

martabakeju said:
I have dropping wifi issue, and i had to disconnect and connect again without rebooting. This happened since 3.1 update. I think this may be caused by decrease in wifi driver version.
I also posted this issue on another thread (issue with 3.1) and hopefully ASUS rep will see and fix this issue.
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i'm havig the same issue,wifi drops, when the tablet is sleeping, I have to discoonnect, then connect again to get it working. Wifi speed also seems slower with 3.1.

Possible Fix
While fiddling with my router I just made the discovery that when changing the channel to 12 or 13, the signal dropped out. Channels 1-11 worked fine. When set to 'auto' detect the signal occasionally drops out. I assume that when on auto it is occasionally accessing channels 12+13 and that is the cause of the problem. So for those having wifi signal problems try setting up a specific channel in your router settings and see if it makes any difference for you. I hadn't any problems before the 3.1 update, but Asus seem to have rolled back the wifi driver, and I guess this has affected a fair few users.
My device is running stock 3.1, never fiddled with the system in terms of rooting, ever. It's a WW sku device.
Obviously this shouldn't happen. And most likely wont affect US users as they don't have these channels. It may not be a fix for you but hopefully it will help someone running a non US build.

Finally sod fix for me.

I was reading another forum about sod. I have had this problem on all custom roms so went to ICS ota and still had sod. In the other forum the guy said to, "forget you wifi", so after I tell it to forget. No sod, not a fix but at least it works now.

shaun298 said:
I was reading another forum about sod. I have had this problem on all custom roms so went to ICS ota and still had sod. In the other forum the guy said to, "forget you wifi", so after I tell it to forget. No sod, not a fix but at least it works now.
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Yep. I forget me wifi all the time, then have to go home and get it.
If I understand you correctly, you are leaving wifi running, and "forgetting/removing" the currently remembered wifi access points. Is this correct? As the only way to "forget" a wifi access point, is to have wifi on, then turned off after deleting the access points.

Moscow Desire said:
Yep. I forget me wifi all the time, then have to go home and get it.
If I understand you correctly, you are leaving wifi running, and "forgetting/removing" the currently remembered wifi access points. Is this correct? As the only way to "forget" a wifi access point, is to have wifi on, then turned off after deleting the access points.
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Yes, touch my connection that is already connected and select forget and then turn off wifi. Don't know if turning off wifi is necessary yet but will test.
Normally 1 min till sod and just tried to wake up after several hours and sod. Had gone 3 hour. Oh well not had any screen flicker since ice ota and really smooth and battery is back to excellent.

WIFI turns on and off constantly

when turning my wifi off it seems it goes into some weird loop of turning on and off constantly by itself, it doesn't seem to be trying to connect just flipping the wifi switch on and off none stop.
noticed it because i had a huge battery daring overnight and while trying to fix it i saw the switch going off and on all the time.
when turning it back on it seems to connect normally .
did a network setting rest but it did nothing ...
I'm guessing a factory rest will fix the problem but I'm hoping to avoid such a overkill solution :crying:
does anyone else had this problem and can help me fix it?
thanx!

avivzamir said:
when turning my wifi off it seems it goes into some weird loop of turning on and off constantly by itself, it doesn't seem to be trying to connect just flipping the wifi switch on and off none stop.
noticed it because i had a huge battery daring overnight and while trying to fix it i saw the switch going off and on all the time.
when turning it back on it seems to connect normally .
did a network setting rest but it did nothing ...
I'm guessing a factory rest will fix the problem but I'm hoping to avoid such a overkill solution :crying:
does anyone else had this problem and can help me fix it?
thanx!
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This was on a new custom rom ?
Or did it just happend on a rom that have worked perfect for days?
And have you seen which app or system app been casuing the drain?

LyLu said:
This was on a new custom rom ?
Or did it just happend on a rom that have worked perfect for days?
And have you seen which app or system app been casuing the drain?
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original samsung rom.
just happened (i have the device for a a while everything was fine) its the android system that drains the battery in the battery status.
when i leave the wifi on it stops and works fine ...

Have you turned off ''Keep Wifi During Sleep''? I know this can drain battery.
It's not so easy to troubleshoot on an orginal none rooted phone.
You can try clearing dalvik and cache.
Turn it off and then on holding power and vol down button, then clear cach/dalvik and restart.

Try uninstall update beaming service for samsung then restart
If still persistent try uninstall update microsoft onedrive and skype then restart, just in case
I found it after factory reset (forgot internal data backup :crying and update all apps, this problem occuring after the last 3 updates (beaming, onedrive, & skype) which more suspect beaming service update make that problem

Your not alone
You're not the only one who suffer from this exact problem, on Friday or Saturday the same problem started occurring with my phone too, WiFi turns on and off in a loop and huge battery drain!
I saw an increase of 6% of battery drain per hour, so I ended up on 9% total drain every hour. :crying:
I have original Samsung Rom and phone worked prefect until now, no settings or apps installed before this happened either.

What rom version are you guys on?

I'm having the same issue. However, I'm on PhoenixX Rom. Major battery killer and has only just started happening within the past few days.
Since my phone has been unplugged, 3 hours ago, looking at BetterBatteryStats, It is showing com.google.android.gms as having quite a LOT of wakeups. 40 per hour (everything else is about 2). Don't know if this is normal as I don't remember it before the Wifi issue.
Looking into what the wake ups are caused from, Location and heartbeat were the major culprits. So i have turned of WIFI scanning when not on and also the body sensors for Google Play. We shall see.

LyLu said:
What rom version are you guys on?
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See attachment.

Easy fix. Just disable Wi-Fi scanning.

the_scotsman said:
Easy fix. Just disable Wi-Fi scanning.
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its not a fix at all . it dosnt scan for wifi , just turning it on and off non stop.
like pressing the light switch agin and agin

I had this after installing "GoodLock" software from Samsung! Uninstalled and everything is ok

same here, just noticed I wasnt on Wifi and the switch is just flicking on and off by itself. Standard S7 with all the updates installed

Been struggling with the same for some days (4 - 5) I haven't been able to get exactly whats triggering this. I'm on stock rom with root. I've reinstalled firmware clean again and re downloaded my apps but it is still happening randomly. Some times after a few attempts to switch wifi on (even when it is toggling by itself) it manages to keep on. Sometimes restarting makes it work again. One thing I'm almost certain its that this usually happens after I turn wifi OFF and then try to turn it back on.
It's been crazy and the phone starts to overheat after a while off this on-off loop.
Any ideas?

its very wierd it started to all of us in the past few days-weeks . seems like samsung has a bug they need to hurry up and fix.

AT&T just pushed out the October Security update for the S7 family, I'm guessing something that came along with it is creating the problem.

mine did a software update last week and I've been away in airplane mode so it could have started then. I've just disabled scanning and that seems to have got round the issue and I'm now connected to WifI

I'm not sure whether it is a Samsung Issue or a Third party one... It is true that something recently affected all of us, but as far as I know, it could be a third party app that wasn't well developed for our phone.

I've noticed the same problem on my phone and it's also only started up in the last few days. On stock Sammy rom, unrooted. Will be monitoring this thread to see if the experts here can narrow down the culprit.

I had the same issue and I was able to stop the toggle by turning off the wifi scanning in Location - Improve Accuracy - WiFi scanning. It's a fix for now. I think it may be an app that may have been updates that is persistently looking for location updates.