Hello,
- My battery is approx. 1,5 years old. If I buy a new, genuine battery for X10i, would it increase my phone duration usage significantly? Or do li-ion battery's stay the same during time?
- Is their an alternative for the standard camera app? It loads so slow ...
- I accidently deleted my standard movie player. How can I restore it?
- I moved all apps from phone to SD, but they get smaller when on sd. Example: Adobe air from 24mb to 80 kb. How is this possible. (apps using adobe air not working as result)
kr1st0f1 said:
Hello,
- My battery is approx. 1,5 years old. If I buy a new, genuine battery for X10i, would it increase my phone duration usage significantly? Or do li-ion battery's stay the same during time?
- Is their an alternative for the standard camera app? It loads so slow ...
- I accidently deleted my standard movie player. How can I restore it?
- I moved all apps from phone to SD, but they get smaller when on sd. Example: Adobe air from 24mb to 80 kb. How is this possible. (apps using adobe air not working as result)
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-About the battery - I recently bought a new battery and it lasts significally longer (about 24h in mid to high usage vs 15 on the old one). I also bought an external charger so I use them both
-There are a lot of cameras on the market that you can download, but from my experience the semc stock camera has the most features.
But you can try angel camera, it's the best of the free camera apps imo
- I recommend MX movie player, it's much better than the stock one...
- When you move an app to SD, it still leaves a very small portion of the app on the internal storage, and that's the 80kb that you see....
Hope I helped
I would suggest moboplayer for video works great and supports most of formats.
I would suggest camera360,camera zoom fx etc but picture quality in stock app is better.
Thanks for the replies.
Also, When I restart my phone, some apps dissapear from desktop , any reason for this?
kr1st0f1 said:
Thanks for the replies.
Also, When I restart my phone, some apps dissapear from desktop , any reason for this?
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which rom are you using?
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Coming from iPhone, i was used to play music without any noticeable battery drain for long time. I mean, while on aiplane mode, phone used about 10% of battery to play music for 6-7 hours (during long flights). Now I play music with Google Play Music using my regular IEM phones (Xears Maestro MH700PRO) on HOX+ and it takes about 2-3% for 30 minutes of music, tested on my trip from home to work. And it seems to me bit too much.
I checked battery stats and found out that most juice is used by Mediaserver app. From searching around I found out that this process is handling playing media, but also scanning storage for media files. And it sometimes gets stuck in infinite loop from some messed files. So I used some NoMedia app to create .nomedia files in every folder of my virtual SD card to avoid Mediaserver scanning, since Google Play Music uses system Data folder to store its cached files. And it also has .nomedia files in its folders.
Problem is, that nothing changed, Mediaserver process is still on the top of power usage while playing music and phone still uses too much power to play simple MP3 music. Any ideas how to solve this?
More digging brought more info - used simple CPU Spy app to monitor which states are used while playing music in period of 30 minutes. And result is interesting - most used state is 760MHz with 21:33 and second is 640 MHz with 9:55. Unfortunately app doesn't show how many cores were active during that time, but even assuming it was only one, its still bit too much for playing simple MP3. Or is it normal with Android devices?
Try Media ReScan Root - if you are rooted It should stop scan your mediafiles without having to create .nomedia files...
Pls report back, I too have the feeling that this task uses a bit too much... not a problem, but could be better...
Have root, Media Scan Root (app has different name after install than on play store) installed and active, CPUstate reset and running music test again. Its quite annoying to see how much power phone uses to play music, simple MP3 player costing few bucks have like 1000% better power usage than phone in this price range. Wonder if there is some specialized player, maybe requiring root rights, but able to significantly lower CPU speed to save battery...
EDIT results are same, most used states are 760 and 640 MHz, most battery drain goes to Mediaserver with 45%, 20% goes to Google Play Music. 30 minutes took 3% of charge.
Wlk said:
Its quite annoying to see how much power phone uses to play music, simple MP3 player costing few bucks have like 1000% better power usage than phone in this price range.
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It's the same as running a V8 while not driving, you will use more gas than with a v4 doing the same
Hmm, nice theory, but when apple can do it with their hw, android should too...
Wlk said:
Hmm, nice theory, but when apple can do it with their hw, android should too...
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I wouldn't say that, i say you have installed a power hungry app!!! I just used the stock Music player at the gym for 2hrs straight and guess what? I walked into the gym with 73% battery and walked out of the gym with 73% battery, did not use a stitch of battery. Coming from an iphone 4 and always using it for the gym (which i still do cus this stupid phone doesn't offer wired headset controls yet!!!) i'd say this device gets just as good if not slightly better battery while ONLY listening to music. Now if you are using third party apps, streaming music, blah blah blah, well duh you're going to use up battery. Common sense there. If solely only using the Stock Music Player to listen to music SAVED on your phone, you will not see much of any battery consumption. Actually very impressed myself!
This was also before i rooted and was using the stock rom/device. Now i'm rooted and running a custom rom, battery is even better across the board!!!
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Hmm, nice theory, but when apple can do it with their hw, android should too...
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For starters your comparing a 1.5ghz dual core iphone 5 with a 1.7ghz quad core, secondly 3% for listening to half an hours music is good. What planet are you from? Either buy an ipod or a less powerfull phone. You chose to buy the most powerfull phone on the market. No one made you, now you have to live with the limitations that brings
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So guys, I've changed to temaseks rom 2 days ago. I did a mega wipe and formated my external SD, since that I'm having a pretty good experience in every way, except when the phone has any kind of audio, music, YouTube, or a game.. It shows like media server in the battery and audio_out2 in bbs, I installed media root rescan but my battery drains really fast, up to 25 per cent each hour, even with screen off while playing music, is it normal? What should I try to do
Luvinus said:
So guys, I've changed to temaseks rom 2 days ago. I did a mega wipe and formated my external SD, since that I'm having a pretty good experience in every way, except when the phone has any kind of audio, music, YouTube, or a game.. It shows like media server in the battery and audio_out2 in bbs, I installed media root rescan but my battery drains really fast, up to 25 per cent each hour, even with screen off while playing music, is it normal? What should I try to do
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try other custom kernels
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I've tried temaek's one, do u have any suggestions for another?
I accquired a 128 GB SD card a while back after losing my iPod. This was put into my phone hoping it could be a worthy replacement and also more practical that I would only need one device to carry around all the time. My problem however is that most music apps if not all are really slow to browse and they also trigger the "Do you want to close the application" dialogue when they are launched. They eventually respond, but having to wait for that each time is really cumbersome.
Is there anything I can do to get a faster experience with music players in general? I mostly use shuttle+, but other players are really slow to use aswell. I do have a big library of about 100 gigs and about 15k songs, so maybe that plays a part.
vonVaffel said:
I accquired a 128 GB SD card a while back after losing my iPod. This was put into my phone hoping it could be a worthy replacement and also more practical that I would only need one device to carry around all the time. My problem however is that most music apps if not all are really slow to browse and they also trigger the "Do you want to close the application" dialogue when they are launched. They eventually respond, but having to wait for that each time is really cumbersome.
Is there anything I can do to get a faster experience with music players in general? I mostly use shuttle+, but other players are really slow to use aswell. I do have a big library of about 100 gigs and about 15k songs, so maybe that plays a part.
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vonVaffel said:
I accquired a 128 GB SD card a while back after losing my iPod. This was put into my phone hoping it could be a worthy replacement and also more practical that I would only need one device to carry around all the time. My problem however is that most music apps if not all are really slow to browse and they also trigger the "Do you want to close the application" dialogue when they are launched. They eventually respond, but having to wait for that each time is really cumbersome.
Is there anything I can do to get a faster experience with music players in general? I mostly use shuttle+, but other players are really slow to use aswell. I do have a big library of about 100 gigs and about 15k songs, so maybe that plays a part.
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Even your laptop will have delay to load 100GB of data! and maybe freeze if load them immediately.\
anyway If you think there is unusual delay in media play app first check the sd-card format
(format it to FAT32)
and also tell about sd-card detail? brand? is it C10/U1?
> for stock music play (Walkman)
- clear cache/data and force stop then install the latest update (you can find simply by a search)
- If it doesn't help try to repair firmware of phone by PC companion
> for 3rd party music player
- just contact its developer (tell them about amount of data + details of sd-card and phone)
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Geeks Empire said:
Even your laptop will have delay to load 100GB of data! and maybe freeze if load them immediately.\
anyway If you think there is unusual delay in media play app first check the sd-card format
(format it to FAT32)
and also tell about sd-card detail? brand? is it C10/U1?
> for stock music play (Walkman)
- clear cache/data and force stop then install the latest update (you can find simply by a search)
- If it doesn't help try to repair firmware of phone by PC companion
> for 3rd party music player
- just contact its developer (tell them about amount of data + details of sd-card and phone)
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It's formatted to exFAT, isn't that supposed to be suitable? It's a 128GB sandisk C10 card. Regarding the amount of data, it doesn't play slowly on any computer. I can easily make a library of the songs in itunes and play songs with album art etc without any issues. The walkman application, while good, doesn't have thumb scrolling meaning that it will take ages to go through several thousand artists. Shuttle+ has this along with many other players. Clearing cache etc. doesn't fix it, neither does a soft/hard reset of the phone.
2 days ago, or so, my screen mirroring was working well (yeah, it lags a lot, but we're talking about a Xperia M4). Today I had to study, the presentations that I needed to read were on the device, so I decided to use the screen mirroring and put some music to study...here starts the problem. When I opened the music app, it worked well for less than 2 seconds...then the phone got....damaged? I dunno. The thing is, if I open the music app, I get stuck on the screen mirroring (Yes, nor the screen mirroring, nor the phone can be turned off, just using the little button on the SD card slot). Also this will bug the phone completely, making it act like it had around 10mb free ram (And it has 40% free ram, so, it's just the phone acting weird). CPU usage is also normal, half of the cores arround 300-900mhz, half arround 1000mhz. Help me please, what can be doing this? I thought it was an app that changes navbar color, but I uninstalled it and the problem remains. Also the music app is factory restored. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the phone is NOT rooted.
Also, if you could help me remove the album app, it'd be great (I want to replace it with the Jellybean model, since I use MX player, also, Jellybean's version is way more beautiful and clean).
Nevermind.
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2 days ago, or so, my screen mirroring was working well (yeah, it lags a lot, but we're talking about a Xperia M4). Today I had to study, the presentations that I needed to read were on the device, so I decided to use the screen mirroring and put some music to study...here starts the problem. When I opened the music app, it worked well for less than 2 seconds...then the phone got....damaged? I dunno. The thing is, if I open the music app, I get stuck on the screen mirroring (Yes, nor the screen mirroring, nor the phone can be turned off, just using the little button on the SD card slot). Also this will bug the phone completely, making it act like it had around 10mb free ram (And it has 40% free ram, so, it's just the phone acting weird). CPU usage is also normal, half of the cores arround 300-900mhz, half arround 1000mhz. Help me please, what can be doing this? I thought it was an app that changes navbar color, but I uninstalled it and the problem remains. Also the music app is factory restored. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the phone is NOT rooted.
Also, if you could help me remove the album app, it'd be great (I want to replace it with the Jellybean model, since I use MX player, also, Jellybean's version is way more beautiful and clean).
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So, while I was writing this message and searching for solutions on the web, I left the phone, mirroring its screen and DOING NOTHING, and PHONE DISCONNECTED showed on the TV. Then I discovered that it was due to a senseless reboot on the phone... And it fixed it! Actually, screen mirroring works better than never.
Seeing similar problems the Pixel 3 had with only 4gb. XP1 camera is closing out any background music after taking the pic, which is dumb.
I don't use my phone all day like most & when I do it's for YouTube , Spotify, Gmail, simple stuff. Why am I averaging usages of 4.3 / 6.0 gb of RAM ? Seems very poor, especially for how I use the phone AND for the fact that it's simply vanilla Android with very little extra added features
What's your opinions?
davey_wavey said:
Seeing similar problems the Pixel 3 had with only 4gb. XP1 camera is closing out any background music after taking the pic, which is dumb.
I don't use my phone all day like most & when I do it's for YouTube , Spotify, Gmail, simple stuff. Why am I averaging usages of 4.3 / 6.0 gb of RAM ? Seems very poor, especially for how I use the phone AND for the fact that it's simply vanilla Android with very little extra added features
What's your opinions?
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4.3 is fine, I'm getting 4gb with Similar usage. System and Google will take up 3gb+.
Music stopping when taking a pic is strange, any apps taking up more ram than they should?
davey_wavey said:
Seeing similar problems the Pixel 3 had with only 4gb. XP1 camera is closing out any background music after taking the pic, which is dumb.
I don't use my phone all day like most & when I do it's for YouTube , Spotify, Gmail, simple stuff. Why am I averaging usages of 4.3 / 6.0 gb of RAM ? Seems very poor, especially for how I use the phone AND for the fact that it's simply vanilla Android with very little extra added features
What's your opinions?
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The music stopping is not a RAM problem, but something else. I've had this happen as well on the XZ3. It's annoying, but a bit better on the Xperia 1, since it just pauses the music instead of closing the app.
As for your usage, depends on what apps you have installed. I played a game of pubg, switched over to facebook, messenger, chrome; and about an hour later reopened pubg. It was still minimized.
Mackay53 said:
4.3 is fine, I'm getting 4gb with Similar usage. System and Google will take up 3gb+.
Music stopping when taking a pic is strange, any apps taking up more ram than they should?
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I figured something out. Not very practical, but def did a lot to open up RAM. Under Home settings I disabled the Google search bar located in the dock. By doing that , it freed up 275mb out of 315 that Google was taking up. RAM usage is now hovering around 2.4 gb over 3 hours. Interesting
Go to settings -> system -> advanced -> programmer's options -> in Applications section check limit of the processes in background. Make sure it is standard and not limited to 1-4.
friends you can turn off the camera sound in camera settings，then the videos and music will not paused