So I'm having a weird issue with Camera 360 and was wondering if this is normal. Once I activate Camera 360, even after exiting, it still show in my battery usage info list (the list that lists, Android system, cell standby, phone idle, display, etc). And it's using 2-4% of the battery, even though I'm not using the app at all. And it's not listed in Advance Task Killer either for me to kill it. The only way I've found to get rid of it is just doing a a Hot Reboot.
Is this normal for Camera 360??
I use Camera360 too (great app, makes really good pics a way better than the stock) and never noticed this behaviour, anyway you can use a task killer to kill the camera360 task and see what happens...
rafpigna said:
I use Camera360 too (great app, makes really good pics a way better than the stock) and never noticed this behaviour, anyway you can use a task killer to kill the camera360 task and see what happens...
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I have ATK, and it's not listed. I also have autokill on as well, and made sure camera360 is not on my ignore list. But ATK is not killing camera360.
this should help
try watchdog lite...
you can find it on android market...
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Hi all just wandering if anyone has good suggestion for saving battery. Maybe an app that saves battery or recommend something else. Im constantly charging my phone 3 times a day and my battery goes quick. Im using task killer and killing unwanted apps that are running. I have lowered the screen brightness as well. But my battery still runs out quickly.
Thank you
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I have also tried cpu tuner and battery saving apps but they seem to make my phone run slow and sometimes freeze.
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you might be running quite a lot of widgets. or animated wallpapers. taskkillers sometimes aggravate the problem, since the apps they kill, will auto start.
try some system monitoring apps. these will tell you what apps are actually USING CPU cycles. they are the ones that kills your battery quick. then you have the option to uninstall the cpu-hoggers.
if all else fails, try a different battery, or have your phone checked
Background Data is battery killer
Also double check to see if background data is being used. Settings ---> Accounts and Sync. If background data is on, many apps will continue to open themselves and refresh their data before your task killer kills them.
ctalcant said:
Also double check to see if background data is being used. Settings ---> Accounts and Sync. If background data is on, many apps will continue to open themselves and refresh their data before your task killer kills them.
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Is this the reason why everytime I open advance task killer, a lot of apps show up even if I didn't use them? like yahoo messenger, music, mail,.. I think almost all of my apps show up and I only have like 20+MB of free space even if I kill apps every 30 minutes?
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Hi all just wandering if anyone has good suggestion for saving battery. Maybe an app that saves battery or recommend something else. Im constantly charging my phone 3 times a day and my battery goes quick. Im using task killer and killing unwanted apps that are running. I have lowered the screen brightness as well. But my battery still runs out quickly.
Thank you
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My suggestion is to stop using autokill apps (if you're on eclair). Just kill apps manually when you feel like your phone is slowing down. What launcher are you using? Zeam is lightweight and fast. Also, keep the number of homescreen and widgets to a minimum, only the ones that you need. I also think auto rotation of the screen consumes a lot of power (I may be wrong). Is you phone new? It takes a few discharge/charge cycle before the battery achieves its full potential. Turn off WCMDA when you're not using it (use only GSM). Turn off WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS when not in use.
These are the things that I'm doing and my battery lasts 2 days with heavy texting (when I say heavy, it's 100+ text messages sent a day plus 200+ text messages received), music (1-2 hours when travelling), 1-2 hours talk time per day and a few games. I also use navigation and facebook from time to time. I use Zeam and I have 4 homescreens and 4 widgets open (APNdroid, Clock wdgt, Power Control, XPERIA Flashlight)
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My suggestion is to stop using autokill apps (if you're on eclair). Just kill apps manually when you feel like your phone is slowing down. What launcher are you using? Zeam is lightweight and fast. Also, keep the number of homescreen and widgets to a minimum, only the ones that you need. I also think auto rotation of the screen consumes a lot of power (I may be wrong). Is you phone new? It takes a few discharge/charge cycle before the battery achieves its full potential. Turn off WCMDA when you're not using it (use only GSM). Turn off WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS when not in use.
These are the things that I'm doing and my battery lasts 2 days with heavy texting (when I say heavy, it's 100+ text messages sent a day plus 200+ text messages received), music (1-2 hours when travelling), 1-2 hours talk time per day and a few games. I also use navigation and facebook from time to time. I use Zeam and I have 4 homescreens and 4 widgets open (APNdroid, Clock wdgt, Power Control, XPERIA Flashlight)
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do this and in addion add some system apps that keep reopening to the task killers ignore list. Like for me for some reason the settings app opens 2 mins after i kill it, wasting battery. So i set it to ignore
I found that lowering CPU Frequency on Standby helps the battery. I squeeze about half a day equaling a day and 1/2 out of phone. To achieve this I use Overclock Widget(it's the only one I tried) and it does the job. Search the market for a CPU tuner that has Standby and Screen On settings. Hope u get results.
my phone lasts for two days now, and used to last only for ten hours. There are two important things to save battery: use 2g and kee gps turned off! I used to let it enabled thinking that if there were no difference if there were no apps using it. Stupid idea...
i'm using JuiceDefender beta
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i'm using JuiceDefender beta
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I tried it before. Actually I have the donate version, but don't use it anymore. Just use 2g and see what happens.
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Ok so I did the battery boost thing on one of the threads, which says that you only lose 0-1 % per 9 hours on CM 6.1.3 by wolfbreak
When I did that true to its claims it gave me that long battery life but now I see that my battery is draining quickly again
did this happen to anyone else before?
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Ok so I did the battery boost thing on one of the threads, which says that you only lose 0-1 % per 9 hours on CM 6.1.3 by wolfbreak
When I did that true to its claims it gave me that long battery life but now I see that my battery is draining quickly again
did this happen to anyone else before?
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this may not work on others. its just posted to share. its not 100% that ur battery will improve. re-flash the rom n dun try the thing again...or u can try again...if u wan.
Have you installed something after those ''tweaks'' that stays open in the background?
Just some games but no major programs
probably the autokiller settings are too aggressive, and because your apps (widgets maybe?) are being killed and trying to reopen constantly this is actually in effect draining your battery
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Just some games but no major programs
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Some games caused for me battery drain. So try looking with some kind of app (don't know name anymore) which one uses the most battery when on background.
fiscidtox said:
probably the autokiller settings are too aggressive, and because your apps (widgets maybe?) are being killed and trying to reopen constantly this is actually in effect draining your battery
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Apps won't reopen if you do nothing and closed them. So it will not cause battery drain. (And if they open without using them it maybe because it sheduled or you pressed a app that made it open)
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Apps won't reopen if you do nothing and closed them. So it will not cause battery drain. (And if they open without using them it maybe because it sheduled or you pressed a app that made it open)
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yes they will.....
Say if you have a calendar widget or beautiful widgets, etc...
Or apps that are set to be persistent
With aggressive autokiller settings, these maybe being closed and constantly reopening
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yes they will.....
Say if you have a calendar widget or beautiful widgets, etc...
Or apps that are set to be persistent
With aggressive autokiller settings, these maybe being closed and constantly reopening
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In theory yes. But in most cases the oom value of most commonly used widgets and their neccessary services are not raised or remain at around 0. AutoKiller is actually very intuitive with what apps priorities are raised it doesnt just kill everything indisciminately like most autokill task managers. I have used high values (150,200,250) for AutoKiller for more than 4 months and I have never had it kill any services or apps for widgets or even anything I want running in the background like Lookout, JuiceDefender, EasyFilter or DSP Manager. I also have numerous widgets and have never had problems with any of them being killed. I also get pretty awesome battery life. Chances are the problem is with some apps running unchecked in the background and not that apps you want in the background are getting killed.
Remember that everyone has different apps and everyone uses their phone differently so something that works for some people might not work as well for you. There are a lot of different things you can do to improve your battery life but if you try to set a target amount of battery drain (like the 0% in 9 hours) you can only be disappointed. Just use what you think helps you get the best performance for you and be happy for anything that seems to improve.
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Do you guys use task manager? Why or why not?
Sometimes yes...not sure if you really need to with this phone. Just a little OCD on my end
Only when some app is making problems, otherwise no
I often run a kill once at bootup, and then after that only if an app seems to be holding wakelocks or eating excessive CPU.
There is no longer any valid reason for using a task manager for memory management purposes, only for killing wakelock/CPU hogs.
I use Autostart to kill a few things that like to start up on boot, then ATK just for killing wakelock/cpu apps as well.
Mainly FB/Engadget like to stay running when I exit them and cause my battery to get eaten away.
I usually push the "clear memory" button.
I do along with Advanced Task Killer. It kind of nice to know less things is running in the background eatting battery...
ahh, thanks for the reply. cause i was wondering if i should have it as a widget (to clear memory faster) or not (save battery).
I use it when apps are misbehaving or my phone is warm. Mostly its the engadget app.. It runs cpu at like 70% when in background for some stupid reason.
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ahh, thanks for the reply. cause i was wondering if i should have it as a widget (to clear memory faster) or not (save battery).
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It's up to you if you want to put it as a wigget for easy access. I myself don't, because I hate clutter screen. It only take me 5 seconds to navigate to it.
All the time. just to make sure nothing drains my battery and nothing (especially Browser) is not continuously access internet when I outside WiFi.
Rarely. like others I use one to check and kill misbehaving apps.
I freeze or uninstall most unused apps and disable startup on some.
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Do you guys use task manager? Why or why not?
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Not really. I use watchdog task manager to keep an eye on things (with a fairly low threshold - 30%), and it does a really good job. I also use Autostarts to stop a few things from starting up at all.
Hi there, I am wondering if killing apps that I don't use will increase battery life or just freeing up some RAM?
If it does increase battery life, any app recommendation? I don't need it to auto kill, I can press it each time the phone boot. I tried some already actually, like Advance Task Killer but some apps labelled green can't be killed? I am not sure, I am new to this.
Thanks
You don't need a task killer at all, in fact it's better NOT to use one.
Also have a look at this post where I wrote a little about this.
Android is designed to kill apps on its own whenever it feels that your RAM is getting full. I used Killer apps and it only made my phone worse!
So its better not to use one
Hey guys.
So I need to say first, that it never drained as fast as this one. Probably the kernel, I will change it soon.
Right now I use
Illusion ROM 4.2.2
Devil kernel
I lost 11% during the night, wifi off, nothing in background, all apps are greenified... WHAT THE HELL?
I dont know whats wrong, I always had this problem with AOSP/AOKP roms but never 11% during the night...
Here are all of my BBS stats:
Night to morning 11%:
BetterBatteryStats-2013-08-21_083253971.txt
Rest of the day:
bbs stats.zip
Pictures are also included.
i think the main villain here is Audoiout_2
AudioOut_2 - AudioOut_2 is a major wakelock on many devices. The solution is simple. Before turning the screen off. remove all recent apps and in task manager , go to ram tab and hit clear memory. Then close task manager and swipe it away from recent apps as well. Then lock the phone. Alternatively you can download advanced task killer. (Viber seems to cause this on many devices.)
Any app that uses audio can cause this. as well as some games. You need to figure out what app didn't close properly that is leaving audio running
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i think the main villain here is Audoiout_2
AudioOut_2 - AudioOut_2 is a major wakelock on many devices. The solution is simple. Before turning the screen off. remove all recent apps and in task manager , go to ram tab and hit clear memory. Then close task manager and swipe it away from recent apps as well. Then lock the phone. Alternatively you can download advanced task killer. (Viber seems to cause this on many devices.)
Any app that uses audio can cause this. as well as some games. You need to figure out what app didn't close properly that is leaving audio running
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Ill try that thanks . anything else?
Still in need of help