Hey folks. Just need some opinions or hopefully some knowledge that will lead to a solution.
I do NOT want my phone to sync time on the network. I have always set my phone 6 minutes ahead of the clock where I work. (For a myriad of reasons.)
I have disabled network time and such. I did this with my phone when I first got it and it worked just fine.
Recently wiped the phone, cache, etc to get 2.2 on there. Was the deodex version that adrynalyne put out at the following link. (Although I think that the post has been edited since then...)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948679
I used Odin to flash EB01, got the RED Clockwork update, cleared cache (several times), updated the ROM image from the SD card, etc. Everything works pretty well now I suppose. Seems faster in many ways but more importantly, performs more consistently.
No other mods like Voodoo, etc...
But I CAN NOT get the clock to stay at the time that I set it to. It seems to drop 11 minutes back and that causes problems for me. (Was late to work one morning because of it.)
I can't pinpoint WHY it's doing this. I can't figure exactly what time of day it's happening. But I check it every night and it is 100% guaranteed that the time changes back. It's not even in sync with the network time. I have turned on the network time and it jumps forward a few minutes. I then turn it off again and set the time 6 minutes forward where I need it.
Getting a little aggro about this. I have a few basic alarm programs installed, etc. But none of these screwed with the time on 2.1. Not much of my software load has changed. I have recently started using "SystemPanel" for managing my phone. (Which does an excellent job from what I can tell...)
Any idea why my time keeps changing back, folks? I really haven't been successful in finding any answers.
Hey there.
I'm having some GPS problems with my Galaxy SII running Resurrection Remix rom.
It can hardly find any satellites. Most of the time it takes around 1 full minute to get 0/1 and after 2-5 minutes I have 0/2. After that, nothing else happens. I have tried installing the aGPS fix as found in here, but this doesn't help either.
What else can I do?
Thanks already!
Get GPS Status if you don't already have it. Then make sure you're outside in a clear area that has good line of sight in all directions. Also make sure you have data connectivity.
Turn data on, fire up GPS Status & go into tools/manage a-GPS state & press reset to clear cached GPS data. Then press download to get fresh data/ephemerides. Then stand there for as long as it takes until you can get a good fix/the phone 'learns' where the satellites are (can take up to 10 minutes in extreme cases).
Once you've done this, you should get a fix fairly quickly for at least a few days (and probably longer), tho once you get over a week or so, it will start to take progressively longer to get a fix as the ephemeris data ages. Simply repeat whenever the time it takes to get a fix becomes intolerable.
I've done this whenever getting a fix has taken ages, and after getting a fix even indoors has always been fast.
Edit - If this doesn't work, it's probably something funky on the rom/kernel side. I'd do a completely clean install of the rom/kernel, and if it was still not playing dice then a completely clean install of stock to possibly rule in/out a hardware issue.
I lurked and this reminded me of the fix.
To make it even clearer,
what this is doing is resetting
/etc/gpsd.conf
but not touching:
/etc/sirfgps.conf
Both are included with the ROM as far as I know.
For testing it can be useful to have Droid VNCServer. Android Screen Monitor with adb enabled over WiFi is a security risk because afaik
some links (testing url shortening)
http://bit.cur.lv/droidvncserver
http://bit.cur.lv/adbScreenMonitor
http://bit.cur.lv/adbScreenMonitoring
http://bit.cur.lv/sirfTweakExample
There's a megathread somewhere with all the different things involved with GPS. I think I may have even written a summary somewhere myself but can't seem to find it.
update, ok it's here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37501364#post37501364
So, it's been bothering me for a while but my now 2-year-and-2-month old Samsung Galaxy S3 always just runs incredibly slowly. Not only that, but I tend to burn through the battery easily within 6 hours. For the past year and a half, or so, I've had to resort to carrying around two spare batteries with me as it has a tendency to run out of charge in the middle of the day, let alone if I'm out at a music festival or something. I'm not a particulaly heavy user, as in I rarely play video games on my phone, nor do I really watch videos or ever use bluetooth. Occasionally I do use GPS or WiFi, but I try to keep them turned off when I'm not using them. I tend to use my phone for music when I'm in the car, or texting / whatsapp / occasional snapchatting, or checking Pulse News or my internet banking. I don't have a particularly huge amount of apps installed, I don't think. And I regularly hold the Home button, & press the close-all-apps button to make sure that they're not running in the background.
Yet, my phone is so laggy. It's like there's a constant 3 or 5, or even sometimes 10, second delay for whatever action you've initiated to actually occur. You'll press Messages, and it'll take about 4 seconds for my text messages to show up. You'll press Home, and it takes about 3 seconds for it to close. Facebook just took about 8 seconds to load. It doesn't sound alot, but it can be quite infuriating when you're trying to get things done in a hurry. It's even worse when apps are running in the background!
So, I got to check my running processes and there's just loads of things running that both don't appear to be running when I hold the Home button but also shouldn't be running because I haven't used them in forever. It appears my phone has approximately 850MB of RAM, yet my phone tends to ALWAYS run at around 725MB used (currently it's at 751MB, as can be seen in the screenshot attached). But when I do go through the list of things running, the right hand side it tells you how much RAM is supposedly being used. Yet if I total up all of the RAM being used by all of the apps that are apparently running, it only comes to about 300MB. So where the heck is this other 450MB of RAM being used?! THIS is what is slowing down my phone, I think.
Not only that, but there are things in this list that are running that shouldn't be running, & I don't understand why they are. Facebook, sure I can understand, in case you get a notification or something. But TuneIn Radio... I'm not listening to the radio at the moment, nor have I used the app in weeks (and my phone has been restarted numerous times since then), why is it running? S Voice, too? Video Hub? Google Play Music, I've never even used it. And then there's loads of things I haven't got a clue what they are, like Exchange Services, ELM Agent, SmartcardService, etc. Now I understand it's like a computer, where there are a number of background processes that have to run to make the OS work, but why are all these other apps running that I'm not using?!
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Furthermore, I've started trying to use Google Now because I would like to get a Moto 360 (but I'll ask questions about that in a seperate thread). So, it seemed to work fine a few weeks ago. It gave me stocks, news updates, ETA to work or home, started remembering where I was parking. But now a few days ago I go back to it, after not using it for a little while, & it's all reset; Asking me to set it up again. So I did, & it mostly works but I can only ever seem to get the first "page" of cards up. When I click "More" at the bottom I just get an endless spinning circle & then the message "No Internet Connection - Content was last updated X minutes ago" appears as the top card, when infact I know I do have an internet connection. Exiting the app, closing it down, & then re-opening does not fix the issue either. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do.
Furthermore, it always asks me to "Improve my location: For more accurate location, let google search for Wi-Fi connections, even when Wi-Fi is off." I don't understand how this works, and what it's trying to do? If I turn it on, is that not going to be effectively the same as leaving my WiFi turned on at all times? Well, except without the benefits of being connected via WiFi. It's just going to drain my battery more, as leaving WiFi on usually does.
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So tldr:
- Why is my RAM mysteriously using 450MB that I can't vouch for? Where is it going? How I stop it?
- Why is Google Now not letting my manually update the cards?
You are missing huge amounts of very basic information, search and read for what is safe to disable on stock rom, some things are vital others are optional.
If you leave everything running as default then 6hrs battery life is about right.
Benaholic said:
So, it's been bothering me for a while but my now 2-year-and-2-month old Samsung Galaxy S3 always just runs incredibly slowly. Not only that, but I tend to burn through the battery easily within 6 hours. For the past year and a half, or so, I've had to resort to carrying around two spare batteries with me as it has a tendency to run out of charge in the middle of the day, let alone if I'm out at a music festival or something. I'm not a particulaly heavy user, as in I rarely play video games on my phone, nor do I really watch videos or ever use bluetooth. Occasionally I do use GPS or WiFi, but I try to keep them turned off when I'm not using them. I tend to use my phone for music when I'm in the car, or texting / whatsapp / occasional snapchatting, or checking Pulse News or my internet banking. I don't have a particularly huge amount of apps installed, I don't think. And I regularly hold the Home button, & press the close-all-apps button to make sure that they're not running in the background.
Yet, my phone is so laggy. It's like there's a constant 3 or 5, or even sometimes 10, second delay for whatever action you've initiated to actually occur. You'll press Messages, and it'll take about 4 seconds for my text messages to show up. You'll press Home, and it takes about 3 seconds for it to close. Facebook just took about 8 seconds to load. It doesn't sound alot, but it can be quite infuriating when you're trying to get things done in a hurry. It's even worse when apps are running in the background!
So, I got to check my running processes and there's just loads of things running that both don't appear to be running when I hold the Home button but also shouldn't be running because I haven't used them in forever. It appears my phone has approximately 850MB of RAM, yet my phone tends to ALWAYS run at around 725MB used (currently it's at 751MB, as can be seen in the screenshot attached). But when I do go through the list of things running, the right hand side it tells you how much RAM is supposedly being used. Yet if I total up all of the RAM being used by all of the apps that are apparently running, it only comes to about 300MB. So where the heck is this other 450MB of RAM being used?! THIS is what is slowing down my phone, I think.
Not only that, but there are things in this list that are running that shouldn't be running, & I don't understand why they are. Facebook, sure I can understand, in case you get a notification or something. But TuneIn Radio... I'm not listening to the radio at the moment, nor have I used the app in weeks (and my phone has been restarted numerous times since then), why is it running? S Voice, too? Video Hub? Google Play Music, I've never even used it. And then there's loads of things I haven't got a clue what they are, like Exchange Services, ELM Agent, SmartcardService, etc. Now I understand it's like a computer, where there are a number of background processes that have to run to make the OS work, but why are all these other apps running that I'm not using?!
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Furthermore, I've started trying to use Google Now because I would like to get a Moto 360 (but I'll ask questions about that in a seperate thread). So, it seemed to work fine a few weeks ago. It gave me stocks, news updates, ETA to work or home, started remembering where I was parking. But now a few days ago I go back to it, after not using it for a little while, & it's all reset; Asking me to set it up again. So I did, & it mostly works but I can only ever seem to get the first "page" of cards up. When I click "More" at the bottom I just get an endless spinning circle & then the message "No Internet Connection - Content was last updated X minutes ago" appears as the top card, when infact I know I do have an internet connection. Exiting the app, closing it down, & then re-opening does not fix the issue either. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do.
Furthermore, it always asks me to "Improve my location: For more accurate location, let google search for Wi-Fi connections, even when Wi-Fi is off." I don't understand how this works, and what it's trying to do? If I turn it on, is that not going to be effectively the same as leaving my WiFi turned on at all times? Well, except without the benefits of being connected via WiFi. It's just going to drain my battery more, as leaving WiFi on usually does.
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So tldr:
- Why is my RAM mysteriously using 450MB that I can't vouch for? Where is it going? How I stop it?
- Why is Google Now not letting my manually update the cards?
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Debloat the Rom and use Root Cleaner from Google Play Store
*Requires Root*
Good luck
Benaholic said:
So, it's been bothering me for a while but my now 2-year-and-2-month old Samsung Galaxy S3 always just runs incredibly slowly. Not only that, but I tend to burn through the battery easily within 6 hours. For the past year and a half, or so, I've had to resort to carrying around two spare batteries with me as it has a tendency to run out of charge in the middle of the day, let alone if I'm out at a music festival or something. I'm not a particulaly heavy user, as in I rarely play video games on my phone, nor do I really watch videos or ever use bluetooth. Occasionally I do use GPS or WiFi, but I try to keep them turned off when I'm not using them. I tend to use my phone for music when I'm in the car, or texting / whatsapp / occasional snapchatting, or checking Pulse News or my internet banking. I don't have a particularly huge amount of apps installed, I don't think. And I regularly hold the Home button, & press the close-all-apps button to make sure that they're not running in the background.
Yet, my phone is so laggy. It's like there's a constant 3 or 5, or even sometimes 10, second delay for whatever action you've initiated to actually occur. You'll press Messages, and it'll take about 4 seconds for my text messages to show up. You'll press Home, and it takes about 3 seconds for it to close. Facebook just took about 8 seconds to load. It doesn't sound alot, but it can be quite infuriating when you're trying to get things done in a hurry. It's even worse when apps are running in the background!
So, I got to check my running processes and there's just loads of things running that both don't appear to be running when I hold the Home button but also shouldn't be running because I haven't used them in forever. It appears my phone has approximately 850MB of RAM, yet my phone tends to ALWAYS run at around 725MB used (currently it's at 751MB, as can be seen in the screenshot attached). But when I do go through the list of things running, the right hand side it tells you how much RAM is supposedly being used. Yet if I total up all of the RAM being used by all of the apps that are apparently running, it only comes to about 300MB. So where the heck is this other 450MB of RAM being used?! THIS is what is slowing down my phone, I think.
Not only that, but there are things in this list that are running that shouldn't be running, & I don't understand why they are. Facebook, sure I can understand, in case you get a notification or something. But TuneIn Radio... I'm not listening to the radio at the moment, nor have I used the app in weeks (and my phone has been restarted numerous times since then), why is it running? S Voice, too? Video Hub? Google Play Music, I've never even used it. And then there's loads of things I haven't got a clue what they are, like Exchange Services, ELM Agent, SmartcardService, etc. Now I understand it's like a computer, where there are a number of background processes that have to run to make the OS work, but why are all these other apps running that I'm not using?!
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Furthermore, I've started trying to use Google Now because I would like to get a Moto 360 (but I'll ask questions about that in a seperate thread). So, it seemed to work fine a few weeks ago. It gave me stocks, news updates, ETA to work or home, started remembering where I was parking. But now a few days ago I go back to it, after not using it for a little while, & it's all reset; Asking me to set it up again. So I did, & it mostly works but I can only ever seem to get the first "page" of cards up. When I click "More" at the bottom I just get an endless spinning circle & then the message "No Internet Connection - Content was last updated X minutes ago" appears as the top card, when infact I know I do have an internet connection. Exiting the app, closing it down, & then re-opening does not fix the issue either. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do.
Furthermore, it always asks me to "Improve my location: For more accurate location, let google search for Wi-Fi connections, even when Wi-Fi is off." I don't understand how this works, and what it's trying to do? If I turn it on, is that not going to be effectively the same as leaving my WiFi turned on at all times? Well, except without the benefits of being connected via WiFi. It's just going to drain my battery more, as leaving WiFi on usually does.
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So tldr:
- Why is my RAM mysteriously using 450MB that I can't vouch for? Where is it going? How I stop it?
- Why is Google Now not letting my manually update the cards?
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Root Your Phone
Install Xposed
Install Greenify
And hibernation your apps
Often when waking the device from screen off, I get wifi data lag. As in it takes about 10-20 seconds before any apps will load any downloaded data. During this time the wifi icon shows uploading and downloading. App elements that I believe are part of the app itself (frame elements, text, icons, etc) are all on screen, but no remote content (which is why I believe it's data lag, as the phone itself is loading apps and such just fine). After that, data downloads just as snappy as it should. I can turn the screen off and back on with no lag. Then if the phone sits idle for a while, it often happens again. Or sometimes does not. Same thing with rebooting. Lag is there sometimes, sometimes it is not. And I know it's not my wifi, because I already tested other devices that download data just fine while my phone is still waiting for data.
Anyone else have this issue?
Do you have queue background data turned on in power management settings? Or maybe you have turned off keep WiFi on during sleep in WiFi advanced settings.
jimmyhauser said:
Often when waking the device from screen off, I get wifi data lag. As in it takes about 10-20 seconds before any apps will load any downloaded data. During this time the wifi icon shows uploading and downloading. App elements that I believe are part of the app itself (frame elements, text, icons, etc) are all on screen, but no remote content (which is why I believe it's data lag, as the phone itself is loading apps and such just fine). After that, data downloads just as snappy as it should. I can turn the screen off and back on with no lag. Then if the phone sits idle for a while, it often happens again. Or sometimes does not. Same thing with rebooting. Lag is there sometimes, sometimes it is not. And I know it's not my wifi, because I already tested other devices that download data just fine while my phone is still waiting for data.
Anyone else have this issue?
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@rappa619 nailed it.
Sounds like wifi queue is enabled in your power settings.
I have queue disabled, wifi optimization disabled, and keep wifi on during sleep. None of that helped.
Not positive, but it may have been my internet (even though two laptops and three ipads in the house were not having this issue). Internet went out completely a few days ago, and since resetting it, the lag seems to be gone.
How the bug works:
So I can be connected to my wifi, surfing the web, on youtube or anything else. But all of a sudden my phone disconnects me from my wifi. Now, this in itself is quite frustrating as usually I'm in the middle of doing (please note though that it has also happened plentiful times whilst I haven't been using it too) something and it takes a few minutes to realise that it had happened. But unfortunately, this isn't the end of it. When I go to reconnect to my wifi I press it and nothing happens. Literally nothing. No animation, no sound and it never connects it just refuses to. So then the next logical solution is to turn off my wifi and turn it back on so it re-connects. And it works it connects to my wifi. But about 30 seconds later it will disconnect again. Sometimes though when it disconnects, it does state that an authentication error has occurred. But back to the bug. Then when pressing it nothing happens again. So I have to turn off my wifi and turn it back on usually 4-5 times before it finally stays connected.
This bug usually happens twice a day and is very frustrating, so again any help would be amazing!!
What I have tried:
- Turning off the device does not work. The bug is still present
- Using WPS to connect works sometimes but is very hit and miss
- setting my wifi to stay on whilst the device is sleeping
- wiping all network settings
- wiping all wifi settings back to default (in the router that is)
- Factory Resetting
Some other things to note:
This bug has not always been present. It has only started to occur within the past two months and I have had this device for 2 years now. I have not changed any wifi or device settings for it to happen. And it just started one day.
My dad's S6's wifi is completely dead.. I click the toggle switch and no networks show up.
Also tried clearing cache, resetting network settings, and even factory reset.
I think the WIFI antenna is dead/dying?
Just happened out of the blue as well..
Perhaps a root and new rom will fix?