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Is this normal?

I assume it is since it happens for my X10 as well as my girlfriends.
1) While texting it seems to freeze and have a constant vibration, then if your fingers kept texting it would eventually type all those keys or the last key multiple times.
2) Run out of memory. I use ATK and I notice after a day it starts off at something around 136mb of free memory then later in the day it will say "7 apps killed, 119mb remaining" and it has gone down to the 80's before. Where is this memory being used?
3) I seem to pocket dial/text a lot even though I lock the screen every time...
4) When on the phone it hangs up a lot from my cheek lol Is there a way to fix this other than bringing up the dialpad and hearing the keys being hit
Also might as well put this here. Is 'rooting' your phone the same as jailbreaking an iPhone?

C3LL0PHANE said:
2) Run out of memory. I use ATK and I notice after a day it starts off at something around 136mb of free memory then later in the day it will say "7 apps killed, 119mb remaining" and it has gone down to the 80's before. Where is this memory being used?
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Basic stuff for an android phone. High memory usage is nothing to worry about, it's actually almost the opposite, more the merrier.

Hmm I think I've experienced most of those things. They're odd occurances. But be glad they're software issues, because software can be changed/fixed!
As for rooting vs jailbreaking an iphone... the thing is, since iPhone is locked down so much, jailbreaking an iPhone can make a big difference than a stock iPhone. Rooted android allows access to hidden system files, so can allow for more tweaking, but an unrooted Android phone already does so much, as opposed to an unjailbroken iPhone. Rooted android can by far do way more than a jailbroken iPhone. And even in some ways, an unrooted Android phone can do more than a jailbroken iPhone as well.
PS: can you share the numbers of some of you girlfriends? maybe I can help them out with their technical issues

C3LL0PHANE said:
I assume it is since it happens for my X10 as well as my girlfriends.
1) While texting it seems to freeze and have a constant vibration, then if your fingers kept texting it would eventually type all those keys or the last key multiple times.
2) Run out of memory. I use ATK and I notice after a day it starts off at something around 136mb of free memory then later in the day it will say "7 apps killed, 119mb remaining" and it has gone down to the 80's before. Where is this memory being used?
3) I seem to pocket dial/text a lot even though I lock the screen every time...
4) When on the phone it hangs up a lot from my cheek lol Is there a way to fix this other than bringing up the dialpad and hearing the keys being hit
Also might as well put this here. Is 'rooting' your phone the same as jailbreaking an iPhone?
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1) I've noticed this. The pattern I notice is that this only happens when you're receiving text and typing. Since in the options for the keyboard you can enable vibration when u type I believe this is the problem. I haven't tested it but the way the phone seems to respond, it seems to be so. It seems to be able to only output one vibration feedback at a time. So in effect it delays those linked to your typing until the vibration for receiving text has ended. I could be wrong though.
2) It is most probably being used by background running processes. Typically you only really close a process by pushing the back button until it closes. If you continually open new tasks after pushing the center button you're essentially putting the current program in the background.
3)What you can do is enable a simple swipe pattern lock to help this, but even so you run the risk of locking your phone if you "guess" the pattern lock too many times. So I would recommend you buying a case for it if you don't have one. I have not had any problem like this and I use a case.
4)It sounds like your proximity sensor isn't working or isn't being properly activated by your cheek. What you can do is go to a mirror and call someone, while speaking to them shift the phone a little bit at a time until you see the screen black. This indicates the proximity sensor has detected your face being close to the phone. While you are at it you can also slide the phone a bit to get peak volume with your phone. From what I can see the in-call speaker is very directional.
EDIT: Yea you can consider rooting to be the android equivalent to jail breaking. Considering you're asking that I am guessing you have not rooted your phone yet. If you don't have the latest firmware it might be a good idea since it fixes some little oddities on the x10 as well as offering battery and speed improvements.

There's an easier way to test the proximity sensor:
While in lockscreen, press: Menu Back Back Menu Back Menu Menu Back
This opens the service menu. Go to Service Tests-Proximity Switch.
Now just move a finger over the sensor to test. It also gives you a sound so you can also try holding it to your cheek!
Hope that helps!

@beno1 cooooolll thanks man.
Sent from my X10a using XDA App

So I went into the testing part and checked the proximity switch and it says it is off. That's not what I want now is it? I couldn't figure out how to get it on.
As for pressing the Home button instead of Back.. wouldn't Advanced Task Killer close those applications anyways?

Put your finger over the proximity sensor and it will go from off to on.. then take it off and it will be off..

Tri3Dent said:
Put your finger over the proximity sensor and it will go from off to on.. then take it off and it will be off..
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I tried that and it beeps, but goes back to off

C3LL0PHANE said:
I tried that and it beeps, but goes back to off
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That's what it should do! It will only go to on when it is covered then as soon as you uncover it then it swiches back to off.
This is as it should be in the service test. It is working.

Looking for an App

Basically Im looking for an app that I can use to shut everything down on my phone literally except calls and texts. I know I can use airplane mode, but I still want calls and texts. I work 10 hour shifts and it sucks having little to no battery left when I get off work.
I do not use my phone for anything at work, but with a wife, kid, and one on the way, I need to be reachable.
I have the brightness all the way down, everything except background data is off or on manual sync, I guess is my next step to root? Can someone point me to a rooting tutorial?

Juicedefender.

mikeschevelle said:
Basically Im looking for an app that I can use to shut everything down on my phone literally except calls and texts. I know I can use airplane mode, but I still want calls and texts. I work 10 hour shifts and it sucks having little to no battery left when I get off work.
I do not use my phone for anything at work, but with a wife, kid, and one on the way, I need to be reachable.
I have the brightness all the way down, everything except background data is off or on manual sync, I guess is my next step to root? Can someone point me to a rooting tutorial?
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Juice defender is pretty configurable if you get the paid version!
do you have wifi at work? if you do turn it on and make change your wifi sleep policy to never! As weird as that sounds WIFI SAVES BATTERY GALORE!
below is the Samsung drivers you need them so install them! NOTE YOU ONLY NEED ONE!
32 bit drivers http://firon.net/xda/Samsung_Mobile_Driver_V1.3.800_For_SPH-d700_Epic_4G.zip
64 bit drivers http://firon.net/xda/usb_drivers_GalaxyS_x64.zip
once you have downloaded the appropriate drivers!
DOWNLOAD THIS FILE
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/500010/epic.aio.v1.13.zip
put your phone into usb debuging mode Settings/applications/development/usb debuging click it it needs to be checked
I take no credit for the files and information listed above I just mearly gatherd it for you credit goes to these threads
this thread for the samsung galaxy drivers http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388
this thread for the one click root and clock work install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=808103
if you have questions google is your friend or post back here and I'll do my best to help ya out

May I ask how I know which driver to get?
thanks alot.
We do not have WiFi at my work, I know that there are settings that I can shut off data and such but I just wish I could link all the things that I want to be shut off to one widget button on my home screen.

it looks like you want to disable data
i use dcswitch
http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/org.cohortor.dcs/DCSwitch

Turn off 3G

Some "sometimes" bug I found after a week using it.

1) Sometimes it takes more than a minute to fix gps.
2) Sometimes while pressing home button and hold it opens recent apps and freeze a while.
3) Sometimes Facebook app goes crazy and can't control it.
4) Sometimes it's calling and need to unlock to answer the call.

winteum said:
1) Sometimes it takes more than a minute to fix gps.
2) Sometimes while pressing home button and hold it opens recent apps and freeze a while.
3) Sometimes Facebook app goes crazy and can't control it.
4) Sometimes it's calling and need to unlock to answer the call.
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hi, abt your questions,
1) works flawlessly on mine
2)this is the normal scenario on android, long pressing the home button gets u to all ur recent apps. what do you mean by freezing?
3)please explain the facebook thing....
4) when u place a call, there is nothing special. when receiving a call, u will have to either swipe right or left( screen is same as lockscreen) but with options to answer or to reject.
sincerely i have not experienced any ''bugs'' u mentioned above. my guess is that u are not used to android and u r interpreting some of its features as 'bugs'.

1) Not only can't fix gps signal easy also cell and 3g signal is lost a lot.
2) I mean when a long press to return home, instead it open recent apps a turn off the home button so I can't do anything except to touch one of recent apps.
4) It happened twice with me when I was receiving a call the lockscreen aks me the pin code.
deeren said:
hi, abt your questions,
1) works flawlessly on mine
2)this is the normal scenario on android, long pressing the home button gets u to all ur recent apps. what do you mean by freezing?
3)please explain the facebook thing....
4) when u place a call, there is nothing special. when receiving a call, u will have to either swipe right or left( screen is same as lockscreen) but with options to answer or to reject.
sincerely i have not experienced any ''bugs'' u mentioned above. my guess is that u are not used to android and u r interpreting some of its features as 'bugs'.
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Be prepared to find more bugs.

onthecouchagain said:
Be prepared to find more bugs.
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You know, i'm very disapointed with gingerbread. It's unfinished with a lot of bugs.
Did you see the issues list at code.google?
I'm wondering if Apple also works like that launching ios versions with a lot of bugs.

Releasing software riddled with bugs is more or less commonplace nowadays, and that's not going to change. So get used to it. And everybody does it, even the QC whores at Apple. If you think these bugs are bad, you should try playing a modern-day shooter video game on a console.

winteum said:
1) Not only can't fix gps signal easy also cell and 3g signal is lost a lot.
2) I mean when a long press to return home, instead it open recent apps a turn off the home button so I can't do anything except to touch one of recent apps.
4) It happened twice with me when I was receiving a call the lockscreen aks me the pin code.
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My gps is working better here than any other phone I've used. It got a fix on my location in the back passenger seat of a moving car yesterday. Was awesome!

I've encountered the inbound call issue twice now. Heres the sequence for me:
1. User calls..
2. I go to slide to unlock..
3. Nothing happens...
4. Try again...
5. Nothing happens...
6. Lock screen
7. Unlock (pattern unlocker for me)
8. Eureka it Works! (Finally call answered).
...Very odd.

I know it's my imagination but, I swear, it's as if this phone has it in for me. Every time I want to show my friends something on my phone, it lags, or glitches, or freezes, or even once it just rebooted by itself. And you can forget about showing people a photograph in the gallery -- most of the time, you're just standing there holding your phone for upwards of a minute before photo albums will load. And then, if you're really having fun, it'll open the wrong photographs.
Just one of many embarrassing scenarios that can happen with this phone. Gingerbread Glitch-train, making all stops.

I had a issue with the home screens, swyping from one to another became very slow. So I went to apps in execution and stopped the launcher then back to normal, odd...
Also, I had the difficult trying to unlock the phone to receive a call, but it was a minor one.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

jamiemac1977 said:
I've encountered the inbound call issue twice now. Heres the sequence for me:
1. User calls..
2. I go to slide to unlock..
3. Nothing happens...
4. Try again...
5. Nothing happens...
6. Lock screen
7. Unlock (pattern unlocker for me)
8. Eureka it Works! (Finally call answered).
...Very odd.
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That happened to me many times

winteum said:
1) Sometimes it takes more than a minute to fix gps.
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Taking more than a min to find a GPS signal doesn't mean anything...satellites move
resetting/shutting down phone will reset GPS data and might take longer to get fix and also depends on available sats where u are located and might take longer
If everything you mentioned were bugs we all would have them and its not the case...have you tried restoring and if so IDK maybe return phone

Quickest way to determine which process keeps the phone awake

I'm currently running cm7.02 nightly #94 with a color theme.
I can see that sometimes my phone doesn't sleep properly. There are periods of time 1-2 hours long when the phone is awake with the screen still off.
What is the quickest and the most efficient way to figure out which process is doing that?
Thanks.

Spare parts, download it click battery history and them partial wake lock or something. I'm not sure if it still works. It would force close on sense 2.3 don't know about asop
Sent from my Evo using XDA app.

nabbed said:
I'm currently running cm7.02 nightly #94 with a color theme.
I can see that sometimes my phone doesn't sleep properly. There are periods of time 1-2 hours long when the phone is awake with the screen still off.
What is the quickest and the most efficient way to figure out which process is doing that?
Thanks.
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I like using Process Monitor Widget. Download it from the market. Open it up, then hit menu>record. keep the phone unplugged, turn the screen off, and let the phone sit for like 5-8 hours with Process Monitor Widget recording (preferably overnight). Then, stop recording, and hit analyze. It should be evident what is causing the wake lock.

k2buckley said:
Then, stop recording, and hit analyze. It should be evident what is causing the wake lock.
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Could you please explain in more detail?

I'm going to second and say use Spare parts, super easy and it will tell you what is keeping the phone awake.

Man best way to tell is to go to the menu and click on about phone all the way at th e bottom and check your battery there is a uptime and awake time if you are having wake issues both of these numbers will be the same even when the phone is off.
Been running synergy nightlys with latest OTA no wake issues for me.

reaper24 said:
Man best way to tell is to go to the menu and click on about phone all the way at th e bottom and check your battery there is a uptime and awake time if you are having wake issues both of these numbers will be the same even when the phone is off.
Been running synergy nightlys with latest OTA no wake issues for me.
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But this will not tell him which app is causing that awake time.

splmonster said:
But this will not tell him which app is causing that awake time.
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Most of the time it's when WIFI is on it will keep phone awake I noticed this when it's off phone sleeps like a baby. Some apps can do this also but mostly WIFI seems to do it for me on some nightlys depends on the rom tho .

reaper24 said:
Most of the time it's when WIFI is on it will keep phone awake I noticed this when it's off phone sleeps like a baby. Some apps can do this also but mostly WIFI seems to do it for me on some nightlys depends on the rom tho .
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I have never suffered a Wi-Fi issue like that. Never once have my problems with awake time ever been that. Always is a bad app... Which Spare Parts will show you which is doing it specifically.

nabbed said:
Could you please explain in more detail?
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Sorry for the delay. When you have process monitor widget open, if you press menu, one of the options is record. Press that to start recording. Let it sit for a few hours, then go back into process monitor widget. When you press menu, you'll see it says recording. Press that to stop recording, then press the analyze button and review the results.
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[Q] nexus 4 shut itself off on full battery???

First of all, I'm running cyanogenmod version 10.1.0-RC2-mako on my Nexus 4 and the only app that I have on it with root privileges is AFWall+. I'm very careful about what I install on it from the android market, I don't have many apps on it anyway. I do have a call recorder app that runs while I am on the phone with someone (Auto Call Recorder). Basically what happened was, I got off the phone with my boss, and set my phone down. Then about 5 minutes later I picked it up and turned it on only to find out that it wasn't on. I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't do anything. Battery was more than 90% full. I plugged it in to my charger and tried to turn it on, it still wouldn't do anything. After about a minute the "battery charging" icon on the LCD appeared saying the battery was nearly full and at that point I was able to unplug the phone and turn it on. I only had it plugged in for about 2 minutes tops. It came on as it normally does after I unplugged it and turned it on.
My first thought was that it was a problem caused by the call recorder app, but I haven't had any problems with this app before (I've only been using the app for two weeks though). But if it was the call recorder app causing the problem, the phone would still have turned back on after I tried to turn it on, right? Also, how is it that the phone came on after I plugged it in to charge it and then unplugged it?
Has anyone seen similar problems with this? Should I change out ROMs? Delete the call recorder app? I glad I was able to get it back on, but I didn't like how there wasn't a reset button on it like I had on my HD2, Sensation, and other phones.

match417 said:
First of all, I'm running cyanogenmod version 10.1.0-RC2-mako on my Nexus 4 and the only app that I have on it with root privileges is AFWall+. I'm very careful about what I install on it from the android market, I don't have many apps on it anyway. I do have a call recorder app that runs while I am on the phone with someone (Auto Call Recorder). Basically what happened was, I got off the phone with my boss, and set my phone down. Then about 5 minutes later I picked it up and turned it on only to find out that it wasn't on. I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't do anything. Battery was more than 90% full. I plugged it in to my charger and tried to turn it on, it still wouldn't do anything. After about a minute the "battery charging" icon on the LCD appeared saying the battery was nearly full and at that point I was able to unplug the phone and turn it on. I only had it plugged in for about 2 minutes tops. It came on as it normally does after I unplugged it and turned it on.
My first thought was that it was a problem caused by the call recorder app, but I haven't had any problems with this app before (I've only been using the app for two weeks though). But if it was the call recorder app causing the problem, the phone would still have turned back on after I tried to turn it on, right? Also, how is it that the phone came on after I plugged it in to charge it and then unplugged it?
Has anyone seen similar problems with this? Should I change out ROMs? Delete the call recorder app? I glad I was able to get it back on, but I didn't like how there wasn't a reset button on it like I had on my HD2, Sensation, and other phones.
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The app may not be compatible with android 4.2.2. The reboot can be done by holding the powerbutton for more than 10 seconds. There is also a safe mode https://support.google.com/nexus/4/answer/2852139?hl=nl to be able to boot without 3rd party apps.

gee2012 said:
The app may not be compatible with android 4.2.2. The reboot can be done by holding the powerbutton for more than 10 seconds. There is also a safe mode https://support.google.com/nexus/4/answer/2852139?hl=nl to be able to boot without 3rd party apps.
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Thank you! ( I also clicked your "thanks" button). I can't say my question was completely answered, but it was definitely helpful. I didn't know there was a safe mode, very handy indeed! I don't believe any of my other phones have had a safe mode. I have seen other little problems with the app, like only recording my voice and not the other end, but no problems have shut off the phone before. I will check up on the app to see if it is compatible with 4.2.2 and also if it is on auto-update and if it updated itself recently. And I don't think I held the power button after the phone call, if I did it would have rebooted, unless somehow my protector case held the power button when the call ended and caused a glitch in the software since it couldn't store the recorded call.

match417 said:
Thank you! ( I also clicked your "thanks" button). I can't say my question was completely answered, but it was definitely helpful. I didn't know there was a safe mode, very handy indeed! I don't believe any of my other phones have had a safe mode. I have seen other little problems with the app, like only recording my voice and not the other end, but no problems have shut off the phone before. I will check up on the app to see if it is compatible with 4.2.2 and also if it is on auto-update and if it updated itself recently. And I don't think I held the power button after the phone call, if I did it would have rebooted, unless somehow my protector case held the power button when the call ended and caused a glitch in the software since it couldn't store the recorded call.
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Look here for callrec. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998812&page=8.

gee2012 said:
Look here for callrec. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998812&page=8.
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thanks again! But the problem I was talking about was with the internal mic on the Nexus 4. Sometimes it doesn't pick up the other end of the conversation but it records me fine. I don't use any external mics or bluetooths with it. The app seems pretty solid, both my voice and the other persons voice are pretty close in volume, which has been an issue with recorder apps that I have used in the past. Thanks though. Is there an application error log in the android or 3rd party software for an error log to help determine the cause of problems?

match417 said:
thanks again! But the problem I was talking about was with the internal mic on the Nexus 4. Sometimes it doesn't pick up the other end of the conversation but it records me fine. I don't use any external mics or bluetooths with it. The app seems pretty solid, both my voice and the other persons voice are pretty close in volume, which has been an issue with recorder apps that I have used in the past. Thanks though. Is there an application error log in the android or 3rd party software for an error log to help determine the cause of problems?
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You can only make logs if you are rooted. There are several apps in Play available for that.

gee2012 said:
You can only make logs if you are rooted. There are several apps in Play available for that.
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mine is rooted, I'll check that out. Thanks again!