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Hello, I just completely scrubbed the phone and started over with SimpleMod.
The problem is that I don't remember what app gave me the ability to set this value. It is dead useful in the car when using the navigator or playing music connected to the radio via USB.
Does anybody know how to enable this ability?
Menu->Settings->Applications->Development
check the box for Stay awake.
I am on BB351.
There are widgets in the market to allow quicker access and if you use tasker you should be able to set up a profile to do this.
Thank you! That should be in a less hidden location. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
After a very few days I have this amazing phone,
I managed to install on it Cognition v1.5 & Speedmod T27 kernel.
Im very satisfied with the results, but I have some questions left open which I hope you can help me with:
1. There's a 1sec delay when turning the screen on. Is it because the CPU is set to 200MHz while the device is sleeping? Is there a (safe) way to deal with it?
2. I still have my old Capdase usb charger from my old iphone, it has 2USB exits and its "works with iphone" crap. It outputs 1A. Can I safely use it? *Worth to mention that my (original) home charger outputs 0.7A
3. While taking a photo there's a delay from the second I press the button till the time it finishes saving and allows me to take the next photo. is it normal? I shoot 8MP photos.
4. What is the fastest protocol to copy to/from the device files from my computer? Which protocols do I need Kies installed and which I dont?
To upload photos/songs/movies do I have to use Kies?
5. Can I add to the standard lockscreen more details? Like new emails?
6. Is there a good car application? One that will recognize Im in the car once a BT connection was made, and replace the lockscreen for one with few icons of my choice? I guess a profile application is needed seperately, will it consume high power from the battery?
7. I use Hackers keyboard, its great but when Im in landscape mode, there's too many rows, causing the buttons to be very small. I wish to know if there's a good settings you know to make it have bigger buttons on landscape (even removing numbers row, which I dont know if possible)
8. I just woke up and found that the device was awake for a long time. even so, It lost only 4-5% during the night..which is ok, as bt,3g was on.
I had also a few applications left open: kies air (just waiting to start, not working with server on!), my orange, gmail..
But it doesnt matters anyway, as they consume only ram (right..?) so...What do I do next, in order to find the cause? or maybe I shouldnt be worried at all? the battery drain was normal for the night.
Its pretty long..I know. I appreciate it if you can help me out.
Thanks
Ok, I'll bite.
4. I just use usb mass storage mode. Just plug in via USB, and select the option on your phone to enable mass storage mode. I didn't install any of the Samsung crapware. You can copy any files you like to the device this way.
5. No, the stock lockscreen only shows new SMS messages. If you want more information, you could try WidgetLocker. Keep in mind it could impact battery performance though. It's either that, or you flash a custom rom like cm7.
7. Try a different keyboard. I like swiftkey.
8. Assuming you sleep 6 hours + over night, losing 4 - 5% is not something to complain about. That's excellent battery drain for idle.
Thanks for the quick response.
I tried another keyboard and it works better now.
though, I do have some other questions left open which I hope to get a reply from you guys.
Thanks
eranyanay said:
After a very few days I have this amazing phone,
I managed to install on it Cognition v1.5 & Speedmod T27 kernel.
Im very satisfied with the results, but I have some questions left open which I hope you can help me with:
1. There's a 1sec delay when turning the screen on. Is it because the CPU is set to 200MHz while the device is sleeping? Is there a (safe) way to deal with it?
Yes
3. While taking a photo there's a delay from the second I press the button till the time it finishes saving and allows me to take the next photo. is it normal? I shoot 8MP photos.
Yes its a digital camera .
4. What is the fastest protocol to copy to/from the device files from my computer? Which protocols do I need Kies installed and which I dont?
To upload photos/songs/movies do I have to use Kies?
No Cut and Paste via mass storage mode with USB cable
8. I just woke up and found that the device was awake for a long time. even so, It lost only 4-5% during the night..which is ok, as bt,3g was on.
I had also a few applications left open: kies air (just waiting to start, not working with server on!), my orange, gmail..
But it doesnt matters anyway, as they consume only ram (right..?) so...What do I do next, in order to find the cause? or maybe I shouldnt be worried at all? the battery drain was normal for the night.
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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Thank you. The app idea seems great.
I'll try it out tonight.
What about the charger? is it safe to use it even tough it outputs 1A (instead of the 0.7A of my home charger)
Hey guys, I don;t really use GPS on my Galaxy Player 4'', but I have notices that it will all the sudden display the GPS icon in the notification area even when it is off. I have disabled GPS and the "Use wireless networks" option, but the icon will appear at least once a day and won't disappear until I reboot the device. It just keeps blinking over and over until I reboot the device.
I have noticed it drains my battery way to quick when that icon appears (uses about 10% when the deviced is locked), which is crazy because it uses about (2%) battery power when it is locked during the night and the player does not shows that GPS icon in the notification area. I have killed pretty much every single application I have been able to kill to find out what app is trying to use GPS, but the icon won't go away no matter what process I kill. I use juicedefender and it has really improve my battery life, but when that icon appears, my device still will waste about 10% battery power even when it is locked with no apps running. Cannot explained why this is happening.
Has any of you had this problem?
Thank you
Try reseting to factory default, my batttery life on galaxy 4.0 is incredible.
I've had the same problem on my 5.0. I figured out it was an app that was constantly trying to get a gps signal. Simply going into the app and the exiting out seems to solve it however. It still happens but going into the app and exiting out helps. I would try to figure out which app is constantly trying to connect and if you don't use it very frequently uninstall it.
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I've had the same problem on my 5.0. I figured out it was an app that was constantly trying to get a gps signal. Simply going into the app and the exiting out seems to solve it however. It still happens but going into the app and exiting out helps. I would try to figure out which app is constantly trying to connect and if you don't use it very frequently uninstall it.
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Difficult to pinpoint this app.
Do anybody know any way to log what app is using (or trying to use) GPS?
I noticed this happening today. I have my notification bar hidden, so not sure how often this happens. I could make it go away by turning on GPS and GPS Test, then back off. I checked for apps that might be trying to find a location in running services, killed a couple "maybes", but the icon kept blinking. Only app I installed today was Simple Calendar Widget, but didn't see anything in it's options that would be pinging location...
I have Power Tudor that shows how much juice apps are using while you monitor them, the only app there that looked like it could be was something like "system_1025" or something like that.... nothing I could find to stop it.
Dampfire said:
I've had the same problem on my 5.0. I figured out it was an app that was constantly trying to get a gps signal. Simply going into the app and the exiting out seems to solve it however. It still happens but going into the app and exiting out helps. I would try to figure out which app is constantly trying to connect and if you don't use it very frequently uninstall it.
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tcat007 said:
I noticed this happening today. I have my notification bar hidden, so not sure how often this happens. I could make it go away by turning on GPS and GPS Test, then back off. I checked for apps that might be trying to find a location in running services, killed a couple "maybes", but the icon kept blinking. Only app I installed today was Simple Calendar Widget, but didn't see anything in it's options that would be pinging location...
I have Power Tudor that shows how much juice apps are using while you monitor them, the only app there that looked like it could be was something like "system_1025" or something like that.... nothing I could find to stop it.
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Also use Simple Calendar Widget, but I don't think it's the reason.
Did you use Samsung Dive recently? I did, in order to test the ring, lock and location service provided from within Dive. The service running on device tries to establish a GPS connection even if GPS is disabled. I didn't make a location trace, only a simple location test.
After reboot GPS icon do not show up any more ...
Looks like Google Latitude might be the culprit. Try opening it and signing out of that service. Also go into "Settings" --> "Location and security" and uncheck "Use Sensor Aiding". Once I turned those off the GPS Notification went away.
What does sensor aiding do anyway? Sure doesn't help the Compass!
I had the same issue with my HTC ONE M8 I did the same process as you. Went into my settings found my battery usage and saw what was draining my battery. It was groupon. So I force stopped the app and the GPS notification went away.
Hi!
Thinking of buying a dock and putting the tablet in the kitchen.
As it will not be used frequently, is there a software option to not charge it all the time, but only start e.g. below 50% or if I enable it again?
This way it will not charge every day.
Tasker is not able to stop charging, do you know any other app? My tab is rooted.
Thanks!
I use Spotify in my car and have set it to manually manage and allow it to run in the background..
However, the audio always cuts off to after a while after the screen goes off.
When I wake the phone I see Spotify still playing (audio via fone now, but this means it's kept running in background which is good) and Bluetooth remains connected to the device. It's like the android system just stops sending audio via Bluetooth after a while
Does anyone know how to solve this? My only workaround now is to keep the phone awake via an app like Google maps...
I'm on mate 10 pro. 8.0.0.131 c636
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Same for me with deezer app and car audio which hadn't any disconnects on my other mobiles. No help though....
I tried to change the codec in developer options, which didn't change. I hadn't any bluetooth cutoff since then (couple of days now). Maybe coincidence.
I have discovered the same problem just today (my mate pro is fairly new). It is clearly a software bug. It also fails to update the track name on my car stereo - still shows the first track name even several tracks in.
To get it playing again I turned Bluetooth on and off. Quite annoying. I hope it gets fixed.
happens on my P10, happens on my mate10 pro as well.
It's not a bug, just unintuitive EMUI.
Fix Launch settings for Spotify and add the app on the "Ignore battery optimization"-list under Special Access menu.
It can be difficult to find. Search for "Special" and it will pop up, or click
Settings/Apps & notifications/Apps/Settings/Special Access/ignore battery optimization/
vembryrsig9 said:
It's not a bug, just unintuitive EMUI.
Fix Launch settings for Spotify and add the app on the "Ignore battery optimization"-list under Special Access menu.
It can be difficult to find. Search for "Special" and it will pop up, or click
Settings/Apps & notifications/Apps/Settings/Special Access/ignore battery optimization/
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I did try this and it still doesn't work.
I don't think it's an issue with the app itself as this also happens on stock music app on stock launcher.
Audio cuts out, plays via the phone speakers so the app itself isn't being optimized or shutdown.. Seems like the Bluetooth function is though
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I set spotify up with battery optimisation off and with manual launch in battery settings as part of my initial set up. That is not the cause of this Bluetooth problem, unfortunately.
Mine cuts off regardless of app and screentime... so even if i am playing music behind navigation, the bluetooth audio still pushes via the phone after a while
bluetooth still showing connected to the device.
The issue seems resolved for me, but don't know exactly what fixed it.
The only 2 things I did was to manually manage all apps(battery settings), prevent almost all apps from running in background except the audio apps (music/Spotify, and other impt widgets.. Which was already done previously)
And reset defaults on developer mode (not that i changed anything)
See if u guys have any luck with this
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Hey guys,
Greetings from a Mediapad owner. (EMUI should have it's own subforum)
I first experienced this issue, or a similar issue for myself a few days ago - audio would cut out with the screen off, and would be choppy at best with the screen on (but my music player in the background). The music player itself would stay open, and as soon as I put in the foreground, audio would resume from where it left off (i.e. playback would be paused while the app was in the background).
I am also looking for insight. My suspicion is that EMUI's launch feature is responsible for killing an Android system process related to media, bluetooth, and/or battery optimization in this instance. Launch only allows you to specify preferences for user apps; system apps are managed automatically by Launch no?
Here is the insight I can provide:
This issue went away for me as soon as I plugged in a charger. Connected to a charger, EMUI's battery optimization is apparently less aggressive.
After trying random things, I once again attempted to stream music in the background without a charger plugged in. Eventually, the issue fixed itself. I am not sure if I did anything to accomplish that, however there are two things that may have contributed:
As with another poster above, I tried to change the bluetooth driver in Developer Settings. I was unsuccessful and there was no change for a while after.
The other thing I did, is I found what I think is the standard Android battery usage screen that EMUI hides from us, and I played around with it. This screen showed me that "Android System" was not set to ignore battery optimization. I tried to change that and couldn't. Really, I didn't change anything, but in this process it is possible that an Android system app relating to battery optimization may have been reopened after having been killed off?
The only way I know how to access that screen btw, is to download an app titled 'pNutsAnySettings' and then click on the tile with the battery percentage on it.
I had exactly the same issue with my Mate 10 pro in my car. Audio would cut off from car and continue playing on the phone but the car said it was still connected to the phone. I had the same kind of issue with my Garmin Forerunner watch which would constantly disconnect throughout the day meaning I missed smart notifications.
I found on another thread (Cant remember what one) that if you have root, use Titanium Backup to freeze the Power Genius app. Since doing this a few weeks ago I have not had the issue again in the car and my Garmin now stays connected all day and night
djclark25 said:
I found on another thread (Cant remember what one) that if you have root, use Titanium Backup to freeze the Power Genius app. Since doing this a few weeks ago I have not had the issue again in the car and my Garmin now stays connected all day and night
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I read that same thing as well - but freezing the Power Genius app (via Xposed Edge Pro) didn't help in my case. Maybe it would have if I had rebooted, or something.
In any event, I believe that freezing the Power Genius app partially if not fully disables EMUI's launch feature, which I generally like...
This problem returned for me last night. I turned bluetooth off and back on again. That fixed it.
My mate 10 Pro does this too. 2011 Camaro SS with MyLink conversion. I go into BY, hit the info icon and disconnects the media playback then reconnect it. Works for a few days. Comes back. No clue why
(Unrooted stock btw)
Update: I finally disabled Power Genius and rebooted. No more pesky issues and if anything my battery life has improved. Only differences I observe (on my Mediapad): there are no longer 'app usage' battery stats inside the EMUI settings app (I can access them by other means), and Launch now needs to be managed through the Settings app (rather than the App Info screen).
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Update: I finally disabled Power Genius and rebooted. No more pesky issues and if anything my battery life has improved. Only differences I observe (on my Mediapad): there are no longer 'app usage' battery stats inside the EMUI settings app (I can access them by other means), and Launch now needs to be managed through the Settings app (rather than the App Info screen).
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What app now
leo72793 said:
What app now
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The app you need to freeze or disable is Power Genius. It's a component of EMUI. It won't show up in your main app list, but if you are rooted you can use an app like Titanium or Service Disabler to do the trick. If you aren't rooted - this is a prime example of why people root.
If that's what you were asking?