Ad Free draining battery? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

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Seems like it, also, how can I tell if these apps are on in the background or only draining during usage?

I guess that if you're connected to a network it will constantly be checking for the adds.

Use better battery stats, it will tell you everything you need to know for each app that uses battery.

AdFree? yes, it sure does.
Your posted image, my daily experience along with Biporch's thought, surely it does.
The question is that should we get rid of AdFree or keep it or any other alternative tool that not causing battery drain.

I use adfree to manually update the hosts file occasionally, but leave everything else off in settings.

Try Adaway. Its a nice alternative to adfree
No drain
Galaxy S II

CollegeProfesor what program is that you are using to track battery usage. Seems very nice.
I do have better battery stats but it isnt as easy to view.

nasapunk88 said:
CollegeProfesor what program is that you are using to track battery usage. Seems very nice.
I do have better battery stats but it isnt as easy to view.
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That is BetterBatteryStats. He is looking at the Process view, which can be obtained by clicking on the dropdown menu at the very top and choosing Process. If you are asking about the overall look of the app, seems like he has some ICS-esque theme going on there.

This is just the battery stats viewer that comes with the miui from
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You folks could also just place the host file yourself. No ad blocking application required. Though my favorite is adaway. Essentially init.doh adblocking is adaway with 1 more list merged thanks to adaway's awesome features.

Yea, I like adaway because it's open source.

Well, 2, 3 seniors suggest adaway then adaway, here I come
Give it a try.
Thanks all

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70% Battery Usage by Google Maps!

Any idea what's up with this? Surely this isn't meant to happen. I don't even use google maps, don't think I've even opened it ever.
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EDIT: Saw that there was an update pending. Installing, will report what happens.
Mine is almost always 90% display, even though I have all of the power saving options set on my Mesmerize... My battery lasts maybe 8-9 hours, but usually more like 6-7. It's terrible. Any ideas?
Its a known bug, install autostart from market and desible the autostart option for google maps. Try this and you will get a lot more battery.
boykioy said:
Its a known bug, install autostart from market and desible the autostart option for google maps. Try this and you will get a lot more battery.
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sorry to revive and thread. I installed autostart, but not sure exactly how to disable the google maps or other apps. Any clue or pointers?
TIA.
Try using titanium backup (free) and freeze google maps or , if you don't use it, delete it using the same.
reidanthony said:
Mine is almost always 90% display, even though I have all of the power saving options set on my Mesmerize... My battery lasts maybe 8-9 hours, but usually more like 6-7. It's terrible. Any ideas?
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Whoa. Do you have the touchscreen bug fix kernel applied? Because without that CPU usage on touching the screen is way too high and that would cause a lot more battery usage. 90% is still too much though.
And yeah, I updated to the latest version and it doesn't seem to be doing any weird stuff now. I'll keep a watch over the course of the day.
this is a bug that is stated somewhere in the thread.. either Cyanmod7 or Gingerbread. both have these problems.

[APP] ChargeBar - MIUI Battery Bar

So, I noticed the charge bar available in MIUI (and Shostock) and went searching for how to add it in. Needless to say, the editing and coding was quite tedious. I decided to put off adding it until I had the time. Randomly, I stumbled upon this app. A free application in the market, it provides the same, highly-customizable MIUI bar. I had to share. For those who aren't rooted, you're in luck; it doesn't even require root.
*For anyone not familiar with this, it provides a visible, representative bar of your remaining battery above your status bar (location configurable).
It runs as a running service. I don't anticipate it adversely affecting battery life, but I'll edit this post if it does.
XDA Link
ChargeBar - MIUI Battery Bar
Android Market
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tombarrasso.android.batterybar
If you look closely, it's activated. It's much more visible on your device.
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So, I noticed the charge bar available in MIUI (and Shostock) and went searching for how to add it in. Needless to say, the editing and coding was quite tedious. I decided to put off adding it until I had the time. Randomly, I stumbled upon this app. A free application in the market, it provides the same, highly-customizable MIUI bar. I had to share. For those who aren't rooted, you're in luck; it doesn't even require root.
*For anyone not familiar with this, it provides a visible, representative bar of your remaining battery above your status bar (location configurable).
It runs as a running service. I don't anticipate it adversely affecting battery life, but I'll edit this post if it does.
XDA Link
ChargeBar - MIUI Battery Bar
Android Market
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tombarrasso.android.batterybar
If you look closely, it's activated. It's much more visible on your device.
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I ran it for several days on ICScrewD 2.0.1 and did not see any unusual/adverse battery impact.
groovy. thanks for this.
Cool find! Thanks;-)
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[Q] Twitter disabled yet "tpd" process still consumes battery?

Firstly I have a HTC one S, stock, not rooted.
I have disabled everything twitter related, however, in better battery stats, the process "tpd" is still showing and using a fair bit of my battery, does anyone know what is going on and how to truly disable twitter?
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I have snowstorm and sense weather syncing every few hours and gmail push as usual, I haven't got anything else syncing.
Disabled most of sense apps apart from gallery, dialer/people, messaging, weather and a few other things.
I don't know for sure but I would guess you haven't disabled Twitter completely. There's got to be some app that's still running in the background. You need to root your phone and start uninstalling things.
Thanks for the reply
Everything that I can see related to twitter is disabled.
- twitter
- twitter for HTC sense
- TwitterAPIEngine
Is there anything else I should be looking for?
I have also disabled all the sense friends stream stuff.
Really don't want to root my phone just yet.
Try downloading Watchdog Lite from the Play Store. This app shows you which apps are using the most CPU cycles (and therefore consuming the most power). This could maybe allow you to identify which app this "tpd" process is associated with. (Having said that, BetterBatteryStats does usually show the app name as well as the process name, as you can see in the other entries in your screenshot, so if BBS couldn't identify it, Watchdog might not either. But the Lite version is of course free, so you may as well try it)
Ok thanks for the suggestion, will give that a shot and see
Just got a reply from someone else there regarding this and this is what he said:
It looks like tdp is just a system process betterbatterystats hasn't recognised, like surfaceflinger but added by HTC or just a new ICS process. (the PID is 0?)
If you look under Settings>Power>Battery use>Android System>included packages it can be one of those.
All the twitter related stuff will start off as something like com.htc.engine.twitter or com.twitter.Android in betterbatterystats. TDP is also a 3rd party twitter app last updated in 2010, that's probably where the twitter link came from?
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And I just checked there and this is what comes under "android system":
As well as system UI being listed there.
I will email the developer of better battery stats to see what the "tpd" process is.

Missing notifications - suggestion

I have a Mate 20 Pro, and I'm very pleased with it (except for slightly unreliable notifications).
I did a search for "optim" isation in Settings. There are 2 options.
1. The green Huawei "Optimize battery usage" which we all know.
2. The yellow "Battery optimisation" which I think is Google's.
Regarding the 2nd one, you can exclude your problematic app from battery optimisation in Google's Android. I noticed most of my Huawei excluded apps were missing in Google's Battery optimisation.
I really like Huawei's Battery app (settings), very good and informative. So, my thoughts are, could running 2 different battery optimisations be like running 2 antivirus programs?
My suggestion is to disable the problematic apps in both battery optimisers. My notifications are working fine now, so hopefully somebody else can try it. It's way easier than nuking Huawei's battery optimiser by ADB.
Worth a try at least. Apart from this, reinstalling the problematic app has helped me. (Google Keep).
Hope this can help somebody!
Hi thanks for this Could you post some screenshots?
Thanks
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No option to include screenshots
It's very easy.
Go to Settings, search "optim"
2 options,
Green one is the Huawei battery App launch
Yellow one is the Google Android Battery optimisation (I think)
Disable (Google) battery optimisation for the apps which are managed manually in Huawei's battery App launch.
Somebody with problems should try this, my notifications are working fine.
I think I have found correct one :
I've attached a screen shot.
Effectively we can see green one and orange one [emoji106][emoji106]
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No luck with screenshots
Not sure to following you lol.
Is is not correct? (not the French text but the icon are correct no?)
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Removing Adds from APK

Hi this is my favourite App! But has adds in it apparently. Not seen any so far but how do i check remove any lines with an editor?.. The Mod versions online reminders dont work.. and the app icon is changed... . I cant seem to see any adds in it anyone good at removing adds in it , be appreciated . Thanks.
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Try this:
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Try this:
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Brilliant thanks.. I thought that was only for internet browser. Not App as such! I'll give it a go! Cheers.
MaddieMoo68 said:
Brilliant thanks.. I thought that was only for internet browser. Not App as such! I'll give it a go! Cheers.
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It's global. It will block double click ads (not a bad thing), sometimes other mild glitches and may slow browsing down a bit on some sites. Close browser/reopen or refresh the page normally fixes it if it acts up. The very few sites it totally blocks probably should be avoided.
I rarely disable it. Been using it a couple months now.
blackhawk said:
It's global. It will block double click ads (not a bad thing), sometimes other mild glitches and may slow browsing down a bit on some sites. Close browser/reopen or refresh the page normally fixes it if it acts up. The very few sites it totally blocks probably should be avoided.
I rarely disable it. Been using it a couple months now.
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Well that was easier than editing an app..done!

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