During these months I always searched for a solution to the very well known issues that plagued our Folios without finding something really useful, but now the game is over (so I hope). Let's see how:
The problem(s):
-Foliomod 1.4 (thanks Dexter, you made my day when I discovered it), is the best rom you can find ATM for the Folio table: it's fast, it's smooth and really stable, and it's based on the last Toshiba rom. But it suffers from a couple of major issues that make it less than perfect (all the issues are from the original Toshiba rom, Dexter did not add anything). These issues are the SOD (sleep of death) that make the device never go out from standby (you have to reboot to regain control of the device) and frequent spontaneous wakeups from standby that make your battery drain quickly when you put the tablet in hibernate mode.
The solution:
The solution is based on a mix of magics with a little bit of luck (only to say that what is working for me, can work for you too, or cannot work at all: I give no warranty!)
Download and install the following software from market:
- SETCPU
- SCREEN OFF (by techvision systems)
- BATTERY GUARDIAN
Now, in setcpu, configure the system as Tegra2 and raise the min clock to 608mhz and tick "Set on Boot". This will help with SOD.
After that, put a shortcut on your homescreen for the "Screen Off" app.
Then, go to Preferences and set the device to never go to sleep in display options.
From now, you'll use only the shortcut to the "Screen Off" app to put the device to sleep, and you'll use the power button only to wakeup the tablet. You'll notice that you have to press power button three or four times before the device really comes out from sleep, but it will never fail.
Finally, reboot the device to activate Battery Guardian (it's a little daemon that closes all network connections when the device is in standby, and reactivates all the connections on wakeup).
Ok you are ready to go. My tablet is really perfect with these mods, I hope the best for you too, but remember that what's working for me, could work or not for you: don't blame me if this doesn't suit your needs.
My Folio wakes up only when I need it, and it gave no SOD in one week of intense use. Post your feedbacks, please...
Thanks for share it with us, i will try.
Thanks for sharing.
I don´t have foliomod instaled but i gave it a go on cyanogen 7 and screen off works ( have to use power button 3 ou 4 times to wake up, but works) , battery guardian didn´t work (after wake up it won´t connect to wifi until i clean my wifi password , insert it again and connect manualy).
As nothing to do with foliomod but i wanted to share with everyone .
Problem
The SOD mode is wrong in the Foliomod 1.3d?
Thomas7610 said:
The SOD mode is wrong in the Foliomod 1.3d?
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Foliomod 1.3d is not different from 1.4 under this aspect. The kernel is older and some app FC randomatically. The only reason to keep it is 3G support.
problem
The screen off (by techvision) could not find in the android market..
Thomas7610 said:
The screen off (by techvision) could not find in the android market..
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http://techvisionsys.com/
I can find it on market, black icon with red power
Hi,
Is there any replacement app for SETCPU you would recommend?
I understand that SETCPU is not free...
I also cannot find the Screen Off app, even if I use the download link at their homepage
screen off
I cannot download also but I find another free version..Itt seems right now I have 5% decrease after one hour.This is good result?
lillknurra said:
Hi,
Is there any replacement app for SETCPU you would recommend?
I understand that SETCPU is not free...
I also cannot find the Screen Off app, even if I use the download link at their homepage
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forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505419
www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/screen-off_piig_download.html
www.androidblip.com/android-apps/screen-off-119036-download.html
screen off
Topogigi said:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505419
www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/screen-off_piig_download.html
www.androidblip.com/android-apps/screen-off-119036-download.html
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I send it to email but the android link doesn't exist....
Thomas7610 said:
I send it to email but the android link doesn't exist....
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don't know if it works: comes from my titanium backup. remove the last. zip extension before decompress and try...
I didnt find screen off either but I searched for techvision only in market and then I clicked on the button that shows other apps from the same company. There it was.
brunte said:
I didnt find screen off either but I searched for techvision only in market and then I clicked on the button that shows other apps from the same company. There it was.
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I tried this and found it
Problem is that the Folio says that it can't download it...
Can someone make a backup of the app and post it here or at a fileshare?
Try downloading with dolphin browser or opera
I have a question !
It's really necessary to have installed battery guardian ?? I want to be noticed with a sound if I have a new notification. Folio is going to deep sleep if i don't install battery guardian too ?
Hi guys!
I'm a new (proud?) folio owner, and so far I've tried FolioMod1.4 and FolioTNT1.0, but I've been seeing wifi problems, SOD and sometimes random freezes, and random wakeups from sleep.
1. I've downloaded the app called "CPU Master Free" which allows changing the minimum and maximum frequencies (as a replacement of SetCPU).
2. I've disabled the "screen timeout" in settings->display (I guess that was what was meant by display sleep in the OP)
3. Installed "Screen Off" to turn off the screen
Seems like it works, except that I guess the battery life is decreased by a lot as the device is running at the lowest running at 3x the minimal frequency.. (I get around 5h usage with screen at 50% + Wifi + Browsing)
I've also read that the SOD is a driver issue, and nvidia has released an update which "fixes" it... Anyone knows anything about that?
Another issue I've noticed with TNT is that a USB mouse does not work. The cross appears in the middle of the screen but it cant be moved. (This worked fine in FolioMod1.4)
Anyway, the rest of the system is prettyyyy sweet! Thanks for all the great work
sergi711 said:
I have a question !
It's really necessary to have installed battery guardian ?? I want to be noticed with a sound if I have a new notification. Folio is going to deep sleep if i don't install battery guardian too ?
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When the tablet is in hibernate state wifi is disabled, so youl'll get no notification for new emails. For all the other notifications (alarms, calendar and so on), battery guardian has nothing to do with them, as it only closes network connections. And yes, hibernate works without battery guardian too, but I noticed frequent unwanted wakeups without it.
Yesterday I configured my Folio exactly as described in the first post.
So far so good and all works well, but it seems, that this configuration drains the battery quickly and the battery was empty after 9hrs of standby (from 65 percent remaining).
Anyone got a solution for that, i.e. extending the standby time?
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hallo,
i installed different kinds of android (SD version) on my HTC HD2, lastly i decided to use the MccM HD V6 SD SENSE FROYO and im very happy with that.
but ive got a problem: when im using flight mode while sleeping (usually 6-8hours), the battery loses 40-45% charge.
here is the situation:
- when im turning the device off and on again before using flight mode (means boot to wm6.5 artemis and then launching android, activating sim card and then setting device to flight mode) it tages 3-5% of charge during the night.
- when i do NOT reset the device, just enter flight mode after using the phone the whole day (facebook, google maps, ...) then the battery loses 40-45% charge as said before.
so the problem might be an application, which - once it is startet - always tries to connect when im flight mode. i startet using zdbox with autokill on lock, later also autokill system programs - no sucess.
lately i tried batteriefu, but this only stopped my data traffic/connection right now.
i have no idea, what to do against that. a friend told me, its not necessary to use taskkillers at all in android - whats your opinion?
maybe the SD android is a problem? (when programs use the SD card during night, it drains the battery?)
thnx in advance
markus
ps: sorry newbie, first thread in this board - when im doing wrong, just tell me - it was not on purpose.
Battery drain
wHY NOT JUST SWITCH THE PHONE OFF AT NIGHT????. Am I missing something??
Good luck
- galarm? (alarm use)
- and it takes time to go to wm6.5 and then launch android?
John, your shift key is stuck..
I can't help you directly, but SpareParts has a log feature that will tell you which applications cause the device to not enter sleep mode correctly (wake-lock), using that you should be able to locate the program causing the issue.
ok, spareparts was one of the things i uninstalled
spareparts or spareparts+?
thnx!
Normal spareparts should be able to do it (at least the one that came with my CM7 does)
ok, installed it, checkt the logs, loading battery and testing this night
interesting, last 2 nights there was a batteryloss of only 3-4%.
no idea why...
I've heard of roms / kernels taking a couple days to settle before some of the kinks go away, so it might be something of that sort. Otherwise I would assume your phone should be saving power if it's not connecting to networks as frequently
VVarboss said:
I've heard of roms / kernels taking a couple days to settle before some of the kinks go away, so it might be something of that sort. Otherwise I would assume your phone should be saving power if it's not connecting to networks as frequently
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Y'know, I thought it was just me thinking this but I have noticed better performance once RevolutionROM has been in for 2 days or so.
I know there is politics for posting on a old thread but I saw this thread on Google while trying to see if this happened to anyone else.
I would like to report that right before bed I had 22%. My Samsung Skyrocket will eat right through 22% overnight if the cell radio is on. So without rebooting I turned on airplane mode (so I would have an alarm in the morning.) I woke up and my battery was at 28% I couldn't believe it. I will try to re-create this again. This was from 2am to 7am. In my battery details graph it even shows a little "hill" noting the increase.
I did hit the Task Killer button from my ES Task Manager widget right before airplane mode to make sure Facebook and Email were closed.
Any Input?
Have you tried betterbatterystats? I had high drain with new rom and seems to have been Audiout_2 which was started by the keyboard click. It was on by default in the ROM. Its off now and all is OK. Seems once it starts it must be continuously polling.
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my 10.1 seems to have decided it doens't like to sleep. I am running Task 650s ROM but it doesnt seem to be impacting anyone else. Does anyone have any ideas why the table wont sleep?!
I know I have provided a LOT of background here... but all I currently have is that the wifi stays on and therefore the tablet stays awake (note the screen turns off though). The battery usage shows minimal screen on events but continual wifi/awake time. I checked my running services and didnt see anything out of the ordinary.
Any help would be greatly appreciated -- this daily recharge bs is kind of annoying.
BetterBatteryStats might point to the culprit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Thanks for the link -- however the app doesn't explicitly point to any one thing causing 'wakelocks'. The only item showing continual use is the WIFI connection. I am turning wifi off for now to see if it allows the tablet to sleep.
Do you have any apps possibly running in the background that could be keeping it awake?
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A
No apps running that should impact it -- I just rebooted from CWM and it seems like its staying asleep when the screen is off (although wifi is registering as consistently on even when the screen is off -- is that normal?)
HoneyNutz said:
No apps running that should impact it -- I just rebooted from CWM and it seems like its staying asleep when the screen is off (although wifi is registering as consistently on even when the screen is off -- is that normal?)
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Yes, its normal for wifi to stay on even if the screen is off. Unless you have an App like Juice Defender that turns it off.
Hmm, Well it seems like the CWM reboot did the trick -- the tablet is retaining charge and sleeping again. I wonder why that worked when a normal reboot didnt... odd
Thanks for all your help!
HoneyNutz said:
Hmm, Well it seems like the CWM reboot did the trick -- the tablet is retaining charge and sleeping again. I wonder why that worked when a normal reboot didnt... odd
Thanks for all your help!
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Glad you got it all worked out.
Wifi during sleep is a settings issue. Go to Settings -> Wireless -> WiFi Settings -> Sleep Policy.
Hello to all and thanks for your time.
First of all i did search about such a thread and could not find any which seemed to help including the stickies.
My problem is something on my room is misbehaving and chews trough the battery like hell.i need help identifying it.
To id my system :I'm on 9100xxlpw stock rooted no additional battery managers.
to describe the problem. I charged the phone to 100% and 5 hours later it was 50%.(i was sleeping so they're was no usage)
CPU spy reports 30 min of deep sleep rest 200mghz.
I'll add battery stats later.but basically Android system is chewing the batt. System appears to sleep but doesn't go deep sleep
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Install BetterBatteryStats. That should give you some clues as to what's causing the drain.
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Install BetterBatteryStats. That should give you some clues as to what's causing the drain.
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Added Screen shots, please ignore media player and usb. I took screen shots as soon as I notice strange stuff but somehow system showed the screen shots duplicated so I deleted duplicates. Later I noticed I deleted the originals (most probably there was one c to begin with but gallery showed me duplicates, which is strange ).
New ones are taken after apprx. 1 hour of XDA browsing & listening to music.
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Added Screen shots, please ignore media player and usb. I took screen shots as soon as I notice strange stuff but somehow system showed the screen shots duplicated so I deleted duplicates. Later I noticed I deleted the originals (most probably there was one c to begin with but gallery showed me duplicates, which is strange ).
New ones are taken after apprx. 1 hour of XDA browsing & listening to music.
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open BBS app then press soft menu key ones then select more and in that press Dump to file
then u see the log file in ur internal sdcard, post the same so that it can be checked to determine the wakelocks causing batt drain
Sun90 said:
open BBS app then press soft menu key ones then select more and in that press Dump to file
then u see the log file in ur internal sdcard, post the same so that it can be checked to determine the wakelocks causing batt drain
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Gladly....
I think I have a possible culprit while searching for suspend_backoff
I found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1697899 the phone model is different but I decided to turn wifi off to test and my battery consumption is almost like flat line when I'm not using the phone now (Data & synch is still enabled ). I do not know what causes this but I am not trough yet. I'd appreciate anyone to ID the source of the problem and how to overcome it (other than keeping wifi off) or should I switch to another rom
I have the same problem as you, but I think it is related to the (known and not yet solved) problem of the "dirty WiFi network", as it happens only with my office WiFi and not with my home one...
However in my case the problem is intermittent, while I always have the same high drain under the office WiFi, the major source of drainage changes, sometimes is suspend_backoff, other times it's deleted_wake_locks...
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I have the same problem as you, but I think it is related to the (known and not yet solved) problem of the "dirty WiFi network", as it happens only with my office WiFi and not with my home one...
However in my case the problem is intermittent, while I always have the same high drain under the office WiFi, the major source of drainage changes, sometimes is suspend_backoff, other times it's deleted_wake_locks...
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I also had a feeling it might be wifi. I'm not sure what you mean by dirty wifi but. My home network seems to be suffering from dns problems. Also when I go to work one of my customers has a proxy while other has a unprotected wifi with web login. in both cases phone is able to connect to wifi but not to internet.
I also considered this might create some drain but it is too severe. I even thought my phone battery to be dead.
Hi guys! This is my first post here. Also i'm not native english speaker
Ok, right now i own a Galaxy Player YP-G1, rooted it with SuperOneClick like a week ago looking for a way to make battery last for longer time. Actually i've got good results after installing SetCPU and doing some reseach about how to config it.
However i still have a problem related to the GPS radio. It keeps turning on even if i disable it in the status bar and in the device's configuration menu. I've realized this GPS thing drains battery toooooo much and haven't found a way to force it to stay off. Always turns on by itself whatever i do.
Tried to disable autorun on all apps that used GPS localization with Gemini App Manager, still turns on...
I'd like to know if there's a rooted way to keep tgis guy off. Yesterday it turned on in the morning and even having used the music player for less than an hour the battery died extremely fast! and another days that it has stayed off battery has lasted until late night. It has to the the GPS.
Please guys help me, i've had univ courses of java and matlab so i have some idea of what i do when programing, so if it's necesary to write some lines i think i could handle it, maybe. Even better, if there's an app out there that fixes me this issue it would be even better.
Thanks !!!!
Up?
As per my knowledge, battery doesnt drain if you turn on gps and leave it like that forever. Battery drains are observed only when any app like google maps or apps like facebook use gps to set location. It might be your misconception about battery drain while gps turned on.
I would like to give an advice to use pdroid for custom roms. Pdroid is an app that enables you to change permissions of installed app so that you can disable any app to access gps location. This saves hell of battery.
Sent from Hell!!
Well I found an app that so far has kept GPS off since i installed it: GPS Toggle Widget (root)
(can't post the link for being noob )
I'll be updating if it really works in a few days
BTW thanks .xxx. !!!
Hey everyone,
Has anyone else been experiencing lag on their Optimus G when they scroll through settings, contacts, messages, or apps? On my phone i consistenly get some stutter when I scroll through the settings menus and I wanted to know if this was normal. I am on my second Optimus G after my first one had overheating issues and this one now seems to have some lag issues for some reason. Is this even possible? or am I being overly obsessive over this? I love the phone and if i do take it back it would be for another Optimus G I am just wondering if what I am experiencing is normal.
Thanks for the replies,
yidavs
I do see this once in a while.
Sent from my Nocturnal'd LGOG!
Me too.. Alot when I'm charging actually
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Already discussed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089649
Thrown up by my LG Optimus G, why you jelly at my superior phone?
But this isnt a lag per se I guess, its a stutter, I dont notice it when opening things up, it just when i scroll through screen, especially settings, its stutters a bit. I think I am just being paranoid.
yidavs2010 said:
But this isnt a lag per se I guess, its a stutter, I dont notice it when opening things up, it just when i scroll through screen, especially settings, its stutters a bit. I think I am just being paranoid.
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That's called ICS. Mine does it too. Haha.
If the phone is charging it tends to act strange. So if it is charging try getting a multitouch visualizer and try using more than one finger, it doesn't like to recognize some taps and multiple fingers. (The best way to reduce this is to use the stock LG cord and plug, I was using an older one and the phone was almost unusable, still sneaks in on the LG ones though).
If this is happening off the charger... I am sorry to hear that, I haven't noticed anything of the sort.
But I am on The Base with Nocturnal Mods (not sure if there are any performance tweaks in here or more just audio/visual candy) and am using a third party launcher.
Well firstly, I am using stock software, so ICS with LG's UI over it with no mods. Secondly, I was able to find a place where it lags every time: when I scroll between the sound and display settings. This makes me think it may only be a software issue and should be fixed with Jelly Bean when we do get it eventually. Although strangely enough, now my battery life is really bad, like it wont even last me a day where as a week ago it would last me a day and a half
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Well firstly, I am using stock software, so ICS with LG's UI over it with no mods. Secondly, I was able to find a place where it lags every time: when I scroll between the sound and display settings. This makes me think it may only be a software issue and should be fixed with Jelly Bean when we do get it eventually. Although strangely enough, now my battery life is really bad, like it wont even last me a day where as a week ago it would last me a day and a half
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Are you using the tabbed settings (I'm not sure, but I think AT&T made this... may explain why it doesn't work as well, you can get the default settings menu by just pressing the menu button in the main menu screen and selecting list view (or whatever the only option there is called).
Also, Are you getting wake locks or anything?
I just today had mediaserver DESTROY my battery (like 20% in an hour) and it was second only to android OS in my battery usage info.
I seem to have fixed it though (it didn't go away with a reboot). I had to freeze media storage, boot into recovery and clear my caches, reboot and restart media storage.
I also deleted a song I had downloaded from a youtube video (it was the only new thing I had downloaded it a day or so and thought the conversion may have corrupted the file which is a suspected culprit of media storage rescanning forever).
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Are you using the tabbed settings (I'm not sure, but I think AT&T made this... may explain why it doesn't work as well, you can get the default settings menu by just pressing the menu button in the main menu screen and selecting list view (or whatever the only option there is called).
Also, Are you getting wake locks or anything?
I just today had mediaserver DESTROY my battery (like 20% in an hour) and it was second only to android OS in my battery usage info.
I seem to have fixed it though (it didn't go away with a reboot). I had to freeze media storage, boot into recovery and clear my caches, reboot and restart media storage.
I also deleted a song I had downloaded from a youtube video (it was the only new thing I had downloaded it a day or so and thought the conversion may have corrupted the file which is a suspected culprit of media storage rescanning forever).
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Thanks for the settings advise, i did it and now it doesnt stutter when i scroll through it. As for the battery life, I am not sure how to do any of what you suggested. Are you asking whether i am getting any lag when waking up? is that what you mean by wake locks?
yidavs2010 said:
Thanks for the settings advise, i did it and now it doesnt stutter when i scroll through it. As for the battery life, I am not sure how to do any of what you suggested. Are you asking whether i am getting any lag when waking up? is that what you mean by wake locks?
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I'm glad the settings thing worked.
And for the other things, you would have to be rooted and unlocked with an app manager program like titanium backup pro or ultimate backup pro.
Pretty much, a wake lock is an app or process that keeps the phone awake even when the screen is off, using the battery when it should be sleeping.
If you go into settings>power saver>battery use you can see what is using your battery.
Android OS is high on this phone, then next should probably be screen and so on by what uses the most resources on your phone.
One of the big culprits (at least for me) was mediaserver, it was using a lot of power.
Another possible cause for battery drain on this phone is the way AT&T and this phone handles a data connection called fast dormancy (I believe this is for if you have 3G, not sure tough). There is an app that can fix that, but you have to be rooted for that to work I believe.
And you could have installed another app that is keeping the phone on, even if the screen is off.
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I'm glad the settings thing worked.
And for the other things, you would have to be rooted and unlocked with an app manager program like titanium backup pro or ultimate backup pro.
Pretty much, a wake lock is an app or process that keeps the phone awake even when the screen is off, using the battery when it should be sleeping.
If you go into settings>power saver>battery use you can see what is using your battery.
Android OS is high on this phone, then next should probably be screen and so on by what uses the most resources on your phone.
One of the big culprits (at least for me) was mediaserver, it was using a lot of power.
Another possible cause for battery drain on this phone is the way AT&T and this phone handles a data connection called fast dormancy (I believe this is for if you have 3G, not sure tough). There is an app that can fix that, but you have to be rooted for that to work I believe.
And you could have installed another app that is keeping the phone on, even if the screen is off.
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Thank you for the advice, today my battery life was better, but looking at the battery use break down my "google services" was the highest. I mean it was higher than Android OS which i have never seen before. Wifi was second which is understandable since I was on my college campus all day and then came Android OS. What does this include and is there anyway to reduce this?