[Q] Strakdroid 1.7 WiFi and Data Connectivity - Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anybody have this issue while Dell Streak is connected to WiFi could be able to connect to internet and once you go out of range on the WiFi, data on Edge will not do its work? In other words, it would not do it automatic. I usually reboot the phone to be able to connect again.
Thanks everyone for your input!

i believe what you are looking for this here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947134

Thanks I will try that and let you know.
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It didn't work. Any other option?
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I disabled Juice Defender earlier today and my wifi/data are working flawlessly. I have not had to reboot to switch wifi to data since. I was having same problem as OP.
Side note, battery life has not increased/decreased since disabling JD.

krazman325 said:
I disabled Juice Defender earlier today and my wifi/data are working flawlessly. I have not had to reboot to switch wifi to data since. I was having same problem as OP.
Side note, battery life has not increased/decreased since disabling JD.
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Is Juice Defender part of Steve's 1.7 ROM?

No, Juice Defender is a separate app. It is supposed to automatically monitor and change certain settings to increase battery life between charges. One of these changes is blocking data connectivity at certain pre-set times or events.
While it does slightly increase my battery life, the trade off in wifi/data connection issues outweighs the increase in battery life for me.

Well, I can't find any solution to my problem so I just rolled back to 1.6.1 which is extremely good on my wifi & data issue. I'll just wait for the next release hoping it would fix other issues. Thanks Steve and the gangs for giving life to our Dell Streak. I'm enjoying it now!

Updated to 1.8 and everything works!
Thanks a million Steve.

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what is draining my battery

I am currently not using x10 but i make sure to fully charge it everyday.Despite not even touching the phone, X10 last 20 hours only.I have all useless app freezed with no live wallpapers.Help needed on this!
I'm having the same problem. A few days ago it was fine.
Go into Settings/About Phone/Battery Use
isthisreallife said:
I am currently not using x10 but i make sure to fully charge it everyday.Despite not even touching the phone, X10 last 20 hours only.I have all useless app freezed with no live wallpapers.Help needed on this!
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I started having the same problem a couple of days ago too. I think it is one of the apps that I recently installed from the market (flight view). I did a hard reset (uninstalled the battery while phone is on) and everything was fine for a day or two. Then it started happening again, so I suspected it was that particular app since it was there in "Running Services" despite not starting it. So I just uninstalled it and will see how things go.
isthisreallife said:
I am currently not using x10 but i make sure to fully charge it everyday.Despite not even touching the phone, X10 last 20 hours only.I have all useless app freezed with no live wallpapers.Help needed on this!
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Did you use Wifi or 3G?
isthisreallife said:
I am currently not using x10 but i make sure to fully charge it everyday.Despite not even touching the phone, X10 last 20 hours only.I have all useless app freezed with no live wallpapers.Help needed on this!
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Go into settings and make sure all Auto-Sync options for updates and social web sites are not ticked, if they are ticked these run constantly to check status check them manually when you want to, also turn WiFi on and off manually don't leave it on all the time.
Had the same issure. Apparently the problem was 3G/EDGE data transfers. By disabling all data transfer battery life was improved a lot, but then i needed internet frequently so having to turn on and off data transfer wasn't the best idea. Flashed the phone with generic firmware, and so far battery life is decent.
i'm having crappy battery on the latest update 2.0.2.A.0.24
i'm using the rooted version and JIT v2 enabled.
lost 15% in 6 hours last night with the phone not being used at all.
cell standby is killing my battery (57%), but i have good signal strength.
phone idle is at 17%, display 15%, system 5% and acore 3%.
something is going on with the cell standby.
i can't figure out if it's because i'm using google voice or something else.
something else is that my phone is now listing it's model as x10i, when it's an x10a. i know this is because of the generic update firmware. but i wonder if that has something to do with the standby battery drain.
svtfmook said:
i'm having crappy battery on the latest update 2.0.2.A.0.24
i'm using the rooted version and JIT v2 enabled.
lost 15% in 6 hours last night with the phone not being used at all.
cell standby is killing my battery (57%), but i have good signal strength.
phone idle is at 17%, display 15%, system 5% and acore 3%.
something is going on with the cell standby.
i can't figure out if it's because i'm using google voice or something else.
something else is that my phone is now listing it's model as x10i, when it's an x10a. i know this is because of the generic update firmware. but i wonder if that has something to do with the standby battery drain.
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FYI - total battery use must always add up to be 100% - It may appear that the cell standby is using up the most resources.. that may not always be the case. Check your time without signal..
Hmm it seems happen to me too since I tried Jit v2. Will try to revert back to v1. Will report back when I tried it.
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Alright, so to update you guys, it has been 2 days since I removed the "culprit" app called flight view and my battery life is back to normal. So, if you all of a sudden see that your battery life is reduced, then go back and check the latest apps you installed. It is probably one of them that is causing the problem. Hope this helps.
I agree with certain apps constantly running in the background draining the battery. One way I found to determine what's doing what, is by using Advanced Task Killer, and periodically checking to see what apps are running(without being opened by myself), then killing all apps, then check back in a minute for the culprits. If it started up again on it's own and uses a lot of resources but I don't use it every day, I disable or uninstall it. When I need it again, I enable or reinstall it.
Also, set advanced task killer to kill all apps on screen off. That will help your standby time. Set apps you need running in background, like messaging, to ignore.
Also, turn down the brightness of you screen, and shorten the screen timeout length. They all can add a few seconds and a few clicks to certain tasks, but I still have 30% battery the mornings after I forget to hook up my charger the night before.
batman_112 said:
Alright, so to update you guys, it has been 2 days since I removed the "culprit" app called flight view and my battery life is back to normal. So, if you all of a sudden see that your battery life is reduced, then go back and check the latest apps you installed. It is probably one of them that is causing the problem. Hope this helps.
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The problem is I don't install new apps after applying Jit v2. And my battery works fine with Jit v1. Well today I tried to remark #dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit. Let's see how the battery performance today. ^_^
Btw the linpack score is still the same around 32.
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epinion said:
The problem is I don't install new apps after applying Jit v2. And my battery works fine with Jit v1. Well today I tried to remark #dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit. Let's see how the battery performance today. ^_^
Btw the linpack score is still the same around 32.
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With the line remark, I got boost of performance with the battery. In two hours and twenty minutes idle and texting twice, I still had 100% which is awesome. Now I will try to always on my wifi like before and lets see what happen. ^_^
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I still have these drainig problem and don't know why??
epinion said:
With the line remark, I got boost of performance with the battery. In two hours and twenty minutes idle and texting twice, I still had 100% which is awesome. Now I will try to always on my wifi like before and lets see what happen. ^_^
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Hey can u please explain about that 'line remark' code thingy?
I love xda app on my Xperia X10i phone =D
I've deleted some recent apps and my battery return to normal.
It might be because of apps running in the background. Things like moixer mail and track id is notorious for battery drain issues. Better get them removed via titanium backup
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mety333 said:
Hey can u please explain about that 'line remark' code thingy?
I love xda app on my Xperia X10i phone =D
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Sorry I thought you read everything. Here is the line I meant. #dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit . I post about it b4.
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If you updated your X10a into X10i, and you are now experiencing battery or connection problems it could be due to the missing cell broadcast widget called Cell Information only found in the X10a firmware and possible other unknown differences.
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Watchdog: events/0 and suspend

Hi
I installed watchdog lite due to weird wakes up at night the last 2 days (I thought they were gone for good with last updates but it seems to have come back) and more battery drain than I used to have, although it still good enough for me, it was excellent just 2 days ago.
I found that there are two processes that had activate watchdog alerts: "events/0" and "suspend"
Any ideas what they are? any way to solve wake ups at night I did not have before?
See pictures attached
Thank you
Villainrom 2.4.2
Kernel ninphetamine 2.1.1
Modem KH3
Wifi on at home (otherwise off)
bluetooth off most of the time
gps off most of the time
at night everything off except 3g that I never disconnect (lazyness)
I use to get these causing the alarm on watch dog, both using up to99% , every 30-60 mins during the night when the phone is in standby till i white-listed them.
I dont know what they are some heavy system process or something, watchdog will not let me blacklist them.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
I use to get these causing the alarm on watch dog, both using up to99% , every 30-60 mins during the night when the phone is in standby till i white-listed them.
I dont know what they are some heavy system process or something, watchdog will not let me blacklist them.
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But if you whitelisted, it is just like shutting notifications off for those processes.. right? any way of keeping them sleep at night? like the rest of us ?
for me it's WLAN related, when i switch wlan off, events/0 and suspend wont go mad in standby at my SGS2...
someone proposed a while ago that this could be router related, and therefore not all users experience this!
this is the normal android gingerbread bug.. these are the two processes that keep it from going to complete sleep and chewing up battery. white listing them just removes them.. if you check they will still be chewing up cpu.. which is why you only get 1 day max on this phone with both wifi and 3g on vs. 2-3 days with my older sgs now running gingerbread.
turning off 3g and wifi gets rid of it but that is not really a solution...
I always manually turn wifi blue-tooth and gps off at night, and i still get events/0 and suspend waking up watchdog with 99% cpu usage?
So the solution until there is a better one is to turn off wifi and 3g...
I think I will do it at night, but during the day...
I had this phone to use it (internet, gps, etc...) not to keep it off all time, I already underclocked and undervolted... (that improved battery life a lot). If it only would go to sleep when not in use it would be great.
Thanks for help
Update: I turned off wifi and 3g and no watchdog alert from these processes or any other.
I will turn it on during the day and we'll see.
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I turned on 3g this morning and have 8 alarms from this 2 in 8 hours with 99%...
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but heres the issue
turning off 3G AND Wifi does not really tell you whats doing it. is it the data being on thats causeing the problem or a app that is syncing that is causing the problem.
How do I know which app? Watchdog only says events/0 and suspend...
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i also have this issue running CM7 build #36
i posted the issue in the q&a thread hopefully someone will get back to me
Hi,
What wi-fi routers do you have?
router: wrt610n with ddwrt firmware as wireless bridge.
modem: epc3825 who is actually serving dhcp.
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I have the same problem with very similar ROM/Kernel/Modem configurations.
Now I may be wrong, but I thought this bug was supposed to be fixed in 2.3.4 which VillainROM runs?
Also of note is that this "bug" does not seem to drain my battery anywhere near as badly as it did with my Captivate. On my Captivate suspend would usually sit at around 15% when bugged, and drain my battery like crazy. Suspend and events/0 both sit at anywhere from 30-60%+ on my SGS2 but it doesn't seem to affect my battery at all (or much, at least).
Could this possibly be a display bug? I've noticed Watchdog doesn't seem to update every minute a lot of the time, whereas it always updated on my Captivate.
So I've also found that the longer my phone is idle, the higher events/0 and suspend usually are. Doesn't seem to happen when the phone is plugged in though, as I never seem to get alerts from Watchdog overnight.
It is true that doesn't seem to affect much, but there are awakes, and should not be there any (or at least only a few). I gave up, uninstalled watchdog and forget it... I will enjoy the phone and will check periodically for updates.
Thank you everybody.
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tonovcp said:
It is true that doesn't seem to affect much, but there are awakes, and should not be there any (or at least only a few). I gave up, uninstalled watchdog and forget it... I will enjoy the phone and will check periodically for updates.
Thank you everybody.
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umm.. just whitelist the two event and then Watchdog wont give you any warning for thoes too..
What's the point of whitelist? they are running anyway, so I just uninstall watchdog and 1 less app running.
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tonovcp said:
What's the point of whitelist? they are running anyway, so I just uninstall watchdog and 1 less app running.
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well, a whitelist is for a process or event that you know might spike past your set % in watchdog. so for example if you know that Events/0 will spike past 50% for example, and you don't care to be warned of this process. So you can keep Watchdog installed and working, and when Facebook decides to sit there doing god only knows you WILL be notified.
Its kinda like a boy who cried wolf scenario, but with logic.
Watchdog catches a lot of apps that I mess around with, I think it is a super helpfull program.

[Q] does juice defender work

will jd ultimate significantly improve my battery life,i'm a moderate user on a rooted razr
I used it for a while, and didn't find any significant modifications.
I did notice a significant difference when using JD Ultimate. However I had to stop using it because it interfered with my apps that sync in the background (Dropsync, etc).
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What i did was I just went to stock.
I go back and forth. But I rooted and then
Bloat freeze and system app remover that could
help alot.
yeah it does work, helps to achieve the 12 hour battery life. read my thread on how to achieve it using juicedefender, just check threads started by me
It works well and I recommend it to everyone EXCEPT for whatsapp "whores" who needs a working connection every second.
What is does is simple. Basically, It turns off 3G connection, and turn it on every 15 mins. If you have an ongoing connection, like if you're downloading a file, it will not turn off its 3G connection until the download is over.
This will not affect phone calls and SMS.
For Ultimate, you can customise it turn 3G on more frequently during peak hours like checking every 5 min during 9 to 5 (working hrs), and set it to less frequently during sleep time.
I dont recommend jd ultimate, on rooted stock if your in an area with 4g lte and want to use it, it seems that it caused some strange issues booting down and up the radio, I used it on my og Droid with cm7 and it worked like a dream, so I'd guess it'd work better on an asop built ROM
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rigbyrobot said:
I dont recommend jd ultimate, on rooted stock if your in an area with 4g lte and want to use it, it seems that it caused some strange issues booting down and up the radio, I used it on my og Droid with cm7 and it worked like a dream, so I'd guess it'd work better on an asop built ROM
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Yeah, this ^
It DOES significantly improve battery life, but when you go to use something like a browser, there's a delay while the wifi or 3G/4G radio "wakes up". No free lunch.
Keep your GPS off when not in use, keep screen brightness at a reasonable level, use wifi over 3G/4G when possible, you'll improve battery life without the downsides.
I use it, better than smart actions for me, nicest thing it learns, and you can change it to your needs. Sometimes you do have to wait for radio's to reconnect, but it's seconds, and you can make it fit your needs, and it does save battery life, just depends how much you want it to control.
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Worth it when absolutely needed, has drawbacks
mikera67 said:
I use it, better than smart actions for me, nicest thing it learns, and you can change it to your needs. Sometimes you do have to wait for radio's to reconnect, but it's seconds, and you can make it fit your needs, and it does save battery life, just depends how much you want it to control.
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This is an accurate assessment of jd. I have ultimate and find that it does extent my battery life by several hours but you will notice a bit of lag with your data connection and inconsistency for apps with background sync. I turn it off when I know I'll be around a plug if needed.
19 hours yesterday!
i got 19 hours still had 30%battery life,normal activaties for me include fb,words with friends, speedtest,texting,even talked on phone for 20 minutes,jd ultimate really does work,you just have to play with it to get it right and remember not much will ever help if your screen is on a long time

Wifi Issue on Mean Rom 2.0

I have done some searching but haven't found any answers yet and thought I would ask. I am rooted with s-on using HTC dev unlock method. I am running MeanRom 2.0 and have upgraded from 1.7, to 1.9, to this current rom. I see in the OP that the wifi issues were fixed but am having the following problems and would appreciate any and all guidance. Whenever I leave my wi-fi on overnight, connected with strong signal (only 15 or so feet away) the battery drains from 75% down to less than 50%. I remember leaving my wifi on with my OG Evo overnight and the battery maybe draining 5-8% during the same time frame. I always leave it on at home because I get poor coverage in my house and data is slow. I did switch the wifi options performance to high in the settings because if I don't, it will continually disconnect and reconnect. Anyone have some help?
Thanks!
If it is constantly disconnecting and reconnecting then you should exchange the phone. I had the same problem with my 1St EVO, it is a defect.I'm also running MeanROM 2.0 with no issues. Hope that helps.
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Saints775 said:
If it is constantly disconnecting and reconnecting then you should exchange the phone. I had the same problem with my 1St EVO, it is a defect.I'm also running MeanROM 2.0 with no issues. Hope that helps.
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Damn, that wasn't the answer I was looking for! Any other thoughts before I go back to stock and exchange it?!?!
Go into settings, WiFi, Advanced settings and make sure that WiFi is always on during sleep
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Better for Battery Life: Wifi or HSDPA

Hi all, Blue here,
I am using a slightly modified rom made bsaed on the hktw rom made by a local. I am just wondering if wifi or data takes more battery generally?
BlueEditionE6 said:
Hi all, Blue here,
I am using a slightly modified rom made bsaed on the hktw rom made by a local. I am just wondering if wifi or data takes more battery generally?
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2g<wifi<3g<4g for battery drain, or at least that's what i've found from my side, with 2 g taking up the least battery, and 3g/4g taking up the most.
davtse said:
2g<wifi<3g<4g for battery drain, or at least that's what i've found from my side, with 2 g taking up the least battery, and 3g/4g taking up the most.
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On the Droid Razr (and infact any Android device) wifi uses MUCH less power and resources than HSDPA/3G+ services. The reason being that the gain needed on the radios part to receive a packet via wifi is (generally) much less than over a cellular connection, due to the quality of the signal being much higher. It hasn't got to work as hard to get a good set of packets to work with. Your phone will be working like a mad thing trying to buffer a YouTube video on HSDPA - dealing with massive packet loss and syphoning the 'good' data from the 'bad' data - whereas on wifi with much less packet loss and a higher rate of that 'good' data being received, it can relax a little.
My advice on battery life - download a data "toggle" widget and place it on an unused home screen. Whenever you are not using any mobile data services turn it off using this widget. Leave wifi on only when at home/a location where you know you will be able to use it. Turn it off when you go out. When you want to use mobile data when wifi is not available, just toggle it on. I get 3+ days of always-on use using this method.
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2g<wifi<3g<4g for battery drain, or at least that's what i've found from my side, with 2 g taking up the least battery, and 3g/4g taking up the most.
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FrankPlummer said:
On the Droid Razr (and infact any Android device) wifi uses MUCH less power and resources than HSDPA/3G+ services. The reason being that the gain needed on the radios part to receive a packet via wifi is (generally) much less than over a cellular connection, due to the quality of the signal being much higher. It hasn't got to work as hard to get a good set of packets to work with. Your phone will be working like a mad thing trying to buffer a YouTube video on HSDPA - dealing with massive packet loss and syphoning the 'good' data from the 'bad' data - whereas on wifi with much less packet loss and a higher rate of that 'good' data being received, it can relax a little.
My advice on battery life - download a data "toggle" widget and place it on an unused home screen. Whenever you are not using any mobile data services turn it off using this widget. Leave wifi on only when at home/a location where you know you will be able to use it. Turn it off when you go out. When you want to use mobile data when wifi is not available, just toggle it on. I get 3+ days of always-on use using this method.
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Thanks guys, coz I notice that it seems like when I am using wifi, the batter goes faster. Maybe it's because when I am connected to wifi I use it more often? Thanks again
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It could well be. Or if you have applications that are configured to only sync/update when on wifi, this will naturally put your phone to more use than if say you only used 3G/HSDPA for checking email.
BlueEditionE6 said:
Thanks guys, coz I notice that it seems like when I am using wifi, the batter goes faster. Maybe it's because when I am connected to wifi I use it more often? Thanks again
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When you say you have compared them with 3G , it means the phone's data sync causing this problem is out of question. As in both cases ( wifi and 3G) the phone would connect to data based on the set intervals.
Possible cause: if you have multiple wifi sources near your devices and you have granted them access, here your phone constantly tries to connect to the best available wifi . If this is true , just use wifi managers available on Play store or remove access to unwanted wifi routers/access points.

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