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I don't know if this is possible but thought it would be cool if it could be done.
Would it be possible to have the LEDs for the camera to flash when the phone rings? I know the phone would have to be face down but mine is actually quite a bit. Thanks in advance for anyone willing to look into this and see if its even possible.
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that would be cool but such a battery hog
I don't think it would use very much battery with it being an LED. I could be wrong though.
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That would be good for the disabled (deaf).
Yea. I didn't even think about that. I was mainly thinking for at night when my kids are sleeping and my phone is turned down real low.
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Hi all.. for the past the days I have noticed that the battery usage or the battery information tab (eg. Display 30%, Android OS 25%......) in the settings of my motorola razr doesn't add up to 100%.. It varies between 92% and 102%. All I did was root my phone a week back using Motofail and I unrooted it yesterday using Doomslord unroot. Should I factory rest my phone? Please help!!!
Also does anyone know or have you seen this "battery report.apk" file which is also known as "Cool Down Mode"? It is in your phone internal memory. Do you know what it does. Has anyone installed it and checked what it does?
Thanks I advance!!!
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Any help? ? ?
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Any help? ? ?
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seems to be a software hang. Drain battery completly and charge it without start the phone. This may fix the problem. If not, do a factory reset.
Thanks
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Oh thanks a lot..will do that today and keep you posted on the result!!!
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pedrotorresfilho said:
seems to be a software hang. Drain battery completly and charge it without start the phone. This may fix the problem. If not, do a factory reset.
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I tried both, but didn't work. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks.
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Freeze bloat
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Freeze bloat
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Tried that as well but in vain!!!
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Tried that as well but in vain!!!
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Try looking through your sync settings, set them as low as possible and be sure to exit your apps with the back button not hitting home
Edit : you could also use better battery stats
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I have my sync settings very low as well.. I use juice defender free version!! And I flashed into another build, from Asiaretail03 to PSHAsiaretail and still have the problem!!
How will Better battery Stats help me?? is there a free version of the app?? If not is there any other way?? will it affect my battery life???
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I have my sync settings very low as well.. I use juice defender free version!! And I flashed into another build, from Asiaretail03 to PSHAsiaretail and still have the problem!!
How will Better battery Stats help me?? is there a free version of the app?? If not is there any other way?? will it affect my battery life???
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I have the paid version of jd, it seems to make things worse for me in terms of battery life on the RAZR, and the lag in the initiation of the cell radio was very annoying. It was great for the og droid though. On another note, freeze all bloat!, and you may have to go through and change the sync settings on each app that uses network sync individually. I'm hesitate to suggest this because there's so many post claiming it's bad for your battery, while I understand the train of thought, I still question the validity of the advice. So do this at your own risk. Since the os is reporting more than or less than 100% battery my guess is that the os's scale is off. The os shuts down your phone well before your battery gets to zero as a fail safe, and stops taking a charge at 100%. When you flash a new rom, or didn't charge the phone fully before you turned it on when new, or any other number of variables, your battery stats get mucked up. The old school way to retrain was turn off and charge for how ever long it takes to know your fully charged (over night), boot into recovery wipe battery stats, unplug boot up and run the phone until it dies, charge to 100 with out turning back on, then use as normal. I dont advise that method, my advice is to run phone until it dies, charge to 100 with out powering up, run phone normally
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Ok I don't want to freeze my bloatware... And I completely drained my battery and charged it till 100 without powering up (twice).. But still have the problem...
Let me try the other method but where will I see the recovery wipe battery stats in the boot menu? ?
Thanks a lot for taking your time..
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Ok I don't want to freeze my bloatware... And I completely drained my battery and charged it till 100 without powering up (twice).. But still have the problem...
Let me try the other method but where will I see the recovery wipe battery stats in the boot menu? ?
Thanks a lot for taking your time..
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It is in cwm menu under advanced, if you don't have cwm there is a file in the root system, you'll have to research to find its location, (i cant remember where it is), that holds the battery stats, you can delete it and it does basically the same thing. You might could find an app on the market that will find and delete it for you. Just be careful, do it right, you can make it worse.
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It is in cwm menu under advanced, if you don't have cwm there is a file in the root system, you'll have to research to find its location, (i cant remember where it is), that holds the battery stats, you can delete it and it does basically the same thing. You might could find an app on the market that will find and delete it for you. Just be careful, do it right, you can make it worse.
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Oh ok..will try doing that, but the last line is creeping me out..
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Oh ok..will try doing that, but the last line is creeping me out..
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You should be fine, just let the phone charge to 100% and be sure not to boot up before it gets there, and by no means charge the phone while draining the battery
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How can you freeze bloatware if your not rooted? :s
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How can you freeze bloatware if your not rooted? :s
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No way i know of
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How can you freeze bloatware if your not rooted? :s
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I was rooted when I froze the bloatware.. This issue with my phone is there for a week now.. Now I am unrooted.. Thinking of rooting again to wipe the battery stats..I will do that if the problem happens even after charging the phone once more to 100%..
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Have you ever considered something as simple as % rounding error? Seems more likely, currently mine shows 101%.
I was also curious, what in the world compelled you to bother to add up the percentages in the first place? ;-)
Peace!
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Just to be totally sure, you're having problems with battery life, its not just that your battery usages are off. The percentages are rounded, but shouldn't be off by more than 10%, if so than its a tell of another problem, also if your a medium- heavy user your screen should be the highest percentage, if its android os or system using a large percentage its normally bloatware in your root file system, if it's media, you need to look at the motocast apps, if its cell stand by, check the time with out signal, if you have a large % with out signal, you should 1st check for the most recent radio, 2nd find out where it is you're getting poor signal and keep your phone in airplane mode in that area if possible, if not only turn off/ on data as you need it, your cell radio seaching for towers will drain your battery quick, also, the reason i suggested better battery stats is it can provide a more detailed breakdown of what is using your battery and identify apps that are keeping your phone frome going into a lower power state with wakelocks
A little more info.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Wakelocks
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Just to be totally sure, you're having problems with battery life, its not just that your battery usages are off. The percentages are rounded, but shouldn't be off by more than 10%, if so than its a tell of another problem, also if your a medium- heavy user your screen should be the highest percentage, if its android os or system using a large percentage its normally bloatware in your root file system, if it's media, you need to look at the motocast apps, if its cell stand by, check the time with out signal, if you have a large % with out signal, you should 1st check for the most recent radio, 2nd find out where it is you're getting poor signal and keep your phone in airplane mode in that area if possible, if not only turn off/ on data as you need it, your cell radio seaching for towers will drain your battery quick, also, the reason i suggested better battery stats is it can provide a more detailed breakdown of what is using your battery and identify apps that are keeping your phone frome going into a lower power state with wakelocks
A little more info.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Wakelocks
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Thanks for the info.. The battery percentage ranges from 92-103%... And my highest battery consumer is the Screen followed by Voice calls and Android OS..
I will try getting better battery stats and check but I don't want to buy the app and experience the same problem..
If the battery life is getting affected will it be because of a faulty battery? can I get a replacement because of this?
And yes thanks a lot for spending your time..
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I did battery calibrations with two different apps, i even let the battery died from 100% this is my 3rd exchange Idk what do at this point, it seems like I'm not getting battery life like other droid maxx users, i looked under settings and battery and the screen is always 78% or higher any help is appreciated. I can't get any screen shots to upload here is a link to one from my Box account 'Screenshot_2012-04-20-05-29-22.png' has been shared with you through Box Check out this file on Box: https://www.box.com/shared/ba3e674bdc8203fffecc
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Okay got one posted
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And one more
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Get a MAXX. ICS leak on mine lasts longer than a day.
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I'm sorry what do you mean, this is a RAZR Maxx
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Tryin doin a factory restore. Dont install any apps
Try that for two days...bet one of ur apps is causing the problem
Do u have netflix installed??
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I have just the regular Razr and my battery life is significantly less than Gingerbread. When I check the settings it says that the major usage is screen, even though I have it down to 18% brightness level. As an official release is months off I kind of expected bugs to be worked out, but hopefully someone figures this out before then.
Nila
What is your screen on time and how long is your phone awake. Maybe an app is forcing your phone to awake instead of letting it idle/sleep even though the screen is off. Check the other graph with the bars on the bottom.
No I don't have Netflix install, i even set in developer options back round processes to only 1, i did a titanium back up restore for my apps
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Yes same here my screen is set to 18%
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It's set to 1 minute
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There's a wakelock keeping your phone from sleeping. I believe its in the android os grouped apps, probably means it bloatware.
Here's a bit more info
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It's set to 1 minute
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No wonder look at all that extra crap you have running.
False alarm folks..
I sort of made a fool of myself here but the info maybe helpful to you
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Right now the battery is at 70%. It's been on for 4.5 hours and only a few phone calls made really. Screen accounts for 35% and Voice calls 20%, Android OS 19%. There's a separate Android System that is 3%. Time on shows 26m42s. I'll keep an eye on the time on and see if it looks right to me later.
I got the same battery life on ics I get on gbread. 5 hrs screen on on 3g. Use battery indicator. Its free in the market and there is a checkbox that shows 1% increments. If you can't get 4+ hours screen on time something is running away and you should do a factory reset. Start over.
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Right now the battery is at 70%. It's been on for 4.5 hours and only a few phone calls made really. Screen accounts for 35% and Voice calls 20%, Android OS 19%. There's a separate Android System that is 3%. Time on shows 26m42s. I'll keep an eye on the time on and see if it looks right to me later.
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The reason i think its a wakelock is because of your screen shot, if your android os time on keeps pace with your phones time on, its most likely going to be an app in your /system/app folder keeping your phone from sleeping. I had the same problem, I found for me it was the Verizon backup apps I had initially set up then decided Verizon were evil bastards and removed my account, set my phone to stop syncing in settings, but the apps still held a wake lock and network connection that started at boot.
One thing i cant stress enough is to exit your apps with the back button, not the home button, the home button is for multi tasking between apps and keeps apps fully running in the back ground, that will help a little with all the apps eating small percentages that add up
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I got 3 hours and some change yesterday on my original RAZR. I dont think the battery stats are reading correctly because my phone lasted for a long time at 5%
Check the last link i posted, read the whole thread, it may help.
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What is your alls opinion of this?
I read that the OS will manager the apps in its own way...
I've also read that killing tasks will save battery...
Thoughts?
Personally, I use one only because it drives me NUTS knowing theres junk in the background
I think the general consensus is that Android and task killers do not jive. Any battery savings is negligible compared to the strain you put on the processor.
I just uninstalled task killer.. I'll let you know if i notice anything.
You can use built I ones, those are okay, just not 3rd party ones.
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i also don't use an automatic task killer...but i do use a startup manager so certain things just won't start in the first place
Having a task killer/manager that you manually use to stop a bad acting app can be handy - which the built in task manager is good for when needed. But using an "auto" task killer will usually result in wasting battery as well as cause glitches and crashes you would not otherwise have.
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Having a task killer/manager that you manually use to stop a bad acting app can be handy - which the built in task manager is good for when needed. But using an "auto" task killer will usually result in wasting battery as well as cause glitches and crashes you would not otherwise have.
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This.
I can't stand how every program I open thinks it needs to run in the background. This is is why I use the standard task manager when RAM starts running high.
I used to use task killers and managers as well as juice defender.. All trying to save myself battery.. I got. So stressed out it was like using my phone was against the rules.. Lol gotta conserve that juice! I then I just stopped. I got sick of it. And what's funny is... I get around the same battery life I used to get now without all that. So in the end.. Just use yer phone. And have fun.
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I used to use task killers and managers as well as juice defender.. All trying to save myself battery.. I got. So stressed out it was like using my phone was against the rules.. Lol gotta conserve that juice! I then I just stopped. I got sick of it. And what's funny is... I get around the same battery life I used to get now without all that. So in the end.. Just use yer phone. And have fun.
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I was in the same boat. Had battery defender. Used JD at one time too. Had task killer. Then switched to es task manager.
Then after tons of reading up on the topic I decided to just dump everything.
Battery life hasn't gone down one bit. In fact, flashing to shostock v3.0.2 has increased my battery life. Loving it!
So far so good guys! It's still driving me INSANE knowing there's crap running in the background!! but battery seems the same!
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U can do eeeet. Show that background crap who's boss eh? Lol
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Guys which is better???? Anybody tried out both on GSM RAZR?
They're pretty different. Like, different purposes. Smart actions is more about controlling things on-off.
Juice defender is more.. Fluid. It can add more intervals and similar things. I use both in conjunction for a fuller coverage.
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i prefer juice defender ultimate for saving battery as it has much for functions dedicated for you to do so
I don't use any. I just let Android do out as the other apps will mess up your phone with how Android handles memory allocation.
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yup i too dont use any apps because ICS has smarter garbage management system
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I don't use any. I just let Android do out as the other apps will mess up your phone with how Android handles memory allocation.
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Juice Defender has nothing to do with memory, it triggers data connection, wifi, brightness, background data, 3g/2g.
I think JD is much better then then Smart Actions.
I've found with juice defender and ics battery is rubbish. Take it off and reboot and its fine
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lukas77 said:
Juice Defender has nothing to do with memory, it triggers data connection, wifi, brightness, background data, 3g/2g.
I think JD is much better then then Smart Actions.
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Same functions as smart actions then
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Smart Actions has improved my battery life dramatically... I never have had much luck with Juice Defender. I just have it stop background sync when screen off. Saves a lot of battery....
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Smart Actions has improved my battery life dramatically... I never have had much luck with Juice Defender. I just have it stop background sync when screen off. Saves a lot of battery....
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...but JD can turn on background data every 5 15 30 (of your choice) and check your emails, talk, fb messages when screen is off. SA don't turn on background data when you have screen off for example 3 hours.
Correct me if I wrong.
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...but JD can turn on background data every 5 15 30 (of your choice) and check your emails, talk, fb messages when screen is off. SA don't turn on background data when you have screen off for example 3 hours.
Correct me if I wrong.
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True but that does improve battery life... Lol... I may give JD another shot....
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Guys which is better???? Anybody tried out both on GSM RAZR?
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Juice Defender is more difficult to handle in my opinion, but is more powerful if you spend time to configure it.
I actually tried juice defender and it messed up my phone. Smartaction is the way to go
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Same juice defender is awful. Really messed my phone up. I'm sticking with smart actions or just leaving it alone. I wouldn't use anything but it helps slow things down when it gets over worked.. My phone used to get hot and have a ton of processes going at once. Now it stays cool and runs smooth with it killing background sync when display is off...
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