Hi all helpful human creatures,
As in the subject.
Nothing can be seen on the screen besides the home screen, no new notification or anything like that, no sound.
Just as if I woke it up with the power button.
And then goes asleep properly after the timeout.
Unrooted stock rom, Apex launcher.
I looked into the data of Better Battery Stats, but could not find anything related.
And I do not like it because the light sometimes wakes me up during my 'going asleep' process.
Any guess or recommendations what to check/try?
I do not want to root the phone, so a preferred solution would work without that.
Thanks
while you wait for the solution...keep the phone screen down in the night...and have a peaceful sleep
Mine does too but it's because one of my apps performs a certain task at that time and needs the CPU to be awake or whatever. I can't remember which app(s) n what tasks but that's probably why yours does it too.
Possibly clocksync? Or an anti virus scanner?
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Mine does too but it's because one of my apps performs a certain task at that time and needs the CPU to be awake or whatever. I can't remember which app(s) n what tasks but that's probably why yours does it too.
Possibly clocksync? Or an anti virus scanner?
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I don't have any of those installed.it's my suspicion as well that an app causes it but could not find out which.
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its caused by some apps,,,for me to it happnd 4,5 times so i did a clean wipe an always read comments an download apps cause even market apps r sometimes crap..
The only way that i can think of to find out which app is walking the phone up would be to go through them all, or at least all the ones you think could be doing it, and check the settings to see if it checks for updates or runs a backup or any other scheduled tasks once a day.
Pretty time-consuming but I can't think of another way.
Alternatively, you could just let it be like the first guy said.. It's only on for a little while and as long your phone is face down when it happens, it should disturb you.
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Does anyone know or could point me toward information about how to impact the multi tasking in Android.
The problem is:
- Somehow 'screen off' event is linked with the activation of 'deep sleep'. Now that's all nice and well but it's interrupting downloads and stopping appplications (try it with dolphin browser during a download, try turn off your screen with angry birds on, etc)
- Multitasking seems random: you can download market apps, move to angry birds, and play while it downloads, but you can't play angry birds, move to market app, and go back where you were in angry birds (it will restart the whole game).
Can anyone clarify the above? Thank you.
Turning the screen of will send the phone into deep sleep unless something is holding a wakelock, downloads should hold one till they finish, and if they are not, it's a bug.
As far as multitasking goes, yes it does seem random, and very much depends how the application was coded to deal with it, it seems that ICS will deal with this by adding a dedicated multitasking button.
Android will kill background inactive tasks as and when needed, but again it depends if the app was designed to hold its state in the background or dump out. And in low memory situations, which we shouldn't really get on the sgs2 it will start aggressively killing stuff in the background.
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Do you have the setting "wifi off when display is off" ? That could disturb/stop download I guess..
Thank you. The reason of course is that I'm trying to use the phone as a 'mini computer' and on your pc you can off course turn off the screen while downloading files and doing some background processing.
The solution for me so far is to accept that the screen must be on when doing anything that takes time, so I have it set to never turn the screen off while charging, and have a widget that takes brightness down to 0% in a single click.
I suppose I just have to accept that the phone will eventually be outdated and the screen would die long after that - so 'using' the screen is not that big a deal.
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Thank you. The reason of course is that I'm trying to use the phone as a 'mini computer' and on your pc you can off course turn off the screen while downloading files and doing some background processing.
The solution for me so far is to accept that the screen must be on when doing anything that takes time, so I have it set to never turn the screen off while charging, and have a widget that takes brightness down to 0% in a single click.
I suppose I just have to accept that the phone will eventually be outdated and the screen would die long after that - so 'using' the screen is not that big a deal.
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How do you set screen always on when charging? Can't seem to find this option.
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How do you set screen always on when charging? Can't seem to find this option.
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Amusingly they hid it under 'settings > applications > development > stay awake'
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Amusingly they hid it under 'settings > applications > development > stay awake'
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No luck there is no such item.
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No luck there is no such item.
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Really? What ROM are you using? I'm on Cog 1.5. I *thought* it was a stock option, maybe it's a ROM specific one.
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Thank you. The reason of course is that I'm trying to use the phone as a 'mini computer' and on your pc you can off course turn off the screen while downloading files and doing some background processing.
The solution for me so far is to accept that the screen must be on when doing anything that takes time, so I have it set to never turn the screen off while charging, and have a widget that takes brightness down to 0% in a single click.
I suppose I just have to accept that the phone will eventually be outdated and the screen would die long after that - so 'using' the screen is not that big a deal.
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I have actually been happy that with my device, I can actually start a download, using either stock or opera browser (haven't tried others) and not have to keep the screen on and have the download finish. Not only for screen timeout, but actually pressing the button to turn it off. With windows mobile 6.x, pressing the sleep button killed data, and only push mail or scheduled things (usually/hopefully) would "wakelock" the phone enough to receive something. It worked very poorly.
I honestly think you have a bug somewhere, because you should not have to leave the screen on for long periods of time just to let a download finish.
I just got my note and coming from the atrix with a notification light, I'm pretty let down this doesn't have one.
Does anyone know of an app or mod that can perhaps light up the soft keys instead? I know you can for the nexus S
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I just got my note and coming from the atrix with a notification light, I'm pretty let down this doesn't have one.
Does anyone know of an app or mod that can perhaps light up the soft keys instead? I know you can for the nexus S
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get one of the custom roms in the dev section, then use BLN control app.
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get one of the custom roms in the dev section, then use BLN control app.
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Well I just got the phone today, so I wanna do quite a bit of research before I go flashing this phone. I'm wondering if there's a more simple workaround
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Well I just got the phone today, so I wanna do quite a bit of research before I go flashing this phone. I'm wondering if there's a more simple workaround
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Not without a custom rom. just mess around with the phone for a week or two to get a baseline feel for it then go custom and enjoy!
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Well I just got the phone today, so I wanna do quite a bit of research before I go flashing this phone. I'm wondering if there's a more simple workaround
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you can use the NoLED app from the market but beware that you need to test and configure it to best liking, cause even though it might look like the screen is off is not, it puts dots in the screen as notification, so for the time being before you decide to flash a custom rom, give it a try, I used it for a bit but noticed that if I had a notification on for a long time it killed my battery significantly.
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you can use the NoLED app from the market but beware that you need to test and configure it to best liking, cause even though it might look like the screen is off is not, it puts dots in the screen as notification, so for the time being before you decide to flash a custom rom, give it a try, I used it for a bit but noticed that if I had a notification on for a long time it killed my battery significantly.
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This. I would get emails in the middle of the night, triggered the NoLED icon and keep my screen on all night. I would go to bed with 90+% and it would drain to about 30% in a few hours. Thank god it had the schedule function so you can disable it when you don't plan on caring about a notification.
Missed Message Flasher, which works for a dozen or two apps and general notifications. For Calendar notifications only I've switched over to Calendar Snooze because it gives more options for vibration, plus adds many options to snooze that the stock Calendar doesn't. I still use MMF for text and some other notifications.
Thanks to all the quick replies. I might try MMF, but will probably just end up rooting/flashing. I cant help myself lol. This note needs ICS...badly
NoLED has worked fine for me for well over a year now. I think the propblem people are encountering is not that their screen is on, it's that their phone is not able to enter deep sleep mode. The technology behind the screen is what allows this app to work without zapping the battery within an hour. Also most people charge at night so this is not an issue. Also noLED has a widget that makes turning the feature on and off a simple task. My phone lasted over 24 hours with no charging and had the noLED notification on at night so there may be more at work for those having issues with it, as I said I only saw it prevented deep sleep but did not trigger "screen on" time in stats as only a few pixels were actually on. I do only use the dots, not the big icons.
Unfortunatly, noLED would be your best bet at this time, IMO. BLN support is sketchy at best. Just make sure you have noLED setup so that it won't keep the screen on for hours on end and your fine. I tried to get BLN support working for the longest time, it was flakey at best on some roms, and all out didn't work with ohters that claimed to have support for it. And with ICS coming out today ( or so they say, look in the dev section for the posts ), BLN support won't exist anyway for a bit
Check out this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yryzWJ0p_cE
BLN control seems to work best for me. Bought the pro version so I could have even more control over the keys
Sorry, not specific to my RAZR (stock) but is there a way to fix this. I generally check Amazon app store for the daily free app. Have updates turned off. Yet it eats up nearly as much battery a day as my screen. Is this a unique problem for me? I guess I could remove then reinstall...
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I would contact Amazon tech support and report this. It sounds like a bug in their app; maybe too-frequent polling, or leaving a network connection open without proper error handling...
I'm quite sure they'll fix it really fast. It's important to them.
Thanks. I'll give them a call. I was curious if anyone else experienced the issue. I use circle battery widget to track use.
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I keep forgetting to check the daily free app, but I don't even remember it showing up at all in Circle Battery widget.
Do you hit the home button or the back button to get out of the app? I use the back button, maybe using the home leaves it running.
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I keep forgetting to check the daily free app, but I don't even remember it showing up at all in Circle Battery widget.
Do you hit the home button or the back button to get out of the app? I use the back button, maybe using the home leaves it running.
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It's not actually the Circle Battery Widget that displays the % used by apps, it's the Android battery meter. If you click on "Battery Usage" from within the widget menu it just pops up the Android OS battery usage dialog.
I had the same problem with the Android app. I'd even kill it with TaskKiller and it would just re-run itself. It was usually around 15-20% of usage on a normal day, so I just uninstalled it. It's not that big of a deal to me...I rarely used it.
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It's not actually the Circle Battery Widget that displays the % used by apps, it's the Android battery meter. If you click on "Battery Usage" from within the widget menu it just pops up the Android OS battery usage dialog.
I had the same problem with the Android app. I'd even kill it with TaskKiller and it would just re-run itself. It was usually around 15-20% of usage on a normal day, so I just uninstalled it. It's not that big of a deal to me...I rarely used it.
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I know thats where circle battery takes you, I was just stating for the sake of the OP that I check it the SAME EXACT WAY and it barely shows any if it even shows up. So the goal here should be to figure out why it uses so much for one person (the OP) and so little if any for another person (ME), not just the simple oh just delete it solution you posted.
I will try using the back button to see if it makes a difference.
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I will try using the back button to see if it makes a difference.
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For future reference, back button will typically close a program (when hit enough times till your back at a home screen) where home button leaves it running in the background.
This is happening to me also. The Amazon app is killing my Razr Maxx and that's saying alot. I've frozen the App with Titanium Back up for now waiting for a fix. What sucks is that while it's frozen I can't use any of the free apps I've installed. The battery drain is out of control. It's true it's only affecting some phones. There are scattered threads across multiple sites but they all just fizzle out with no idea how to fix it.
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This is happening to me also. The Amazon app is killing my Razr Maxx and that's saying alot. I've frozen the App with Titanium Back up for now waiting for a fix. What sucks is that while it's frozen I can't use any of the free apps I've installed. The battery drain is out of control. It's true it's only affecting some phones. There are scattered threads across multiple sites but they all just fizzle out with no idea how to fix it.
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Well number 1 first thing to try is the standard, uninstall the app, reboot the phone (full power down and power up) then reinstall the app, don't just freeze it.
second, and more for my curiosity then anything, when you "exit" the app do you hit the back button till your back to the homescreen or do you hit the home button? This question is for all of you that are having the big drain, as the best way to track down a problem is to see what is different between the users without the problem and the users with the problem, and what is common amongst the users with the problem.
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Well number 1 first thing to try is the standard, uninstall the app, reboot the phone (full power down and power up) then reinstall the app, don't just freeze it.
second, and more for my curiosity then anything, when you "exit" the app do you hit the back button till your back to the homescreen or do you hit the home button? This question is for all of you that are having the big drain, as the best way to track down a problem is to see what is different between the users without the problem and the users with the problem, and what is common amongst the users with the problem.
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I tried your advice today, gonna keep track of the battery drain the next few days and let you know if it worked. As of right now I'm at 3 h 27m @ 87% so it's looking good.
And to answer your question, I use the back button to exit out of the app...then I would go to battery stats, click on Amazon and force close it.....that obviously didn't fix it.
Thanks for the advice!
Is there no easy way to keep apps from self starting? It's one of the things that makes me crazy.
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Is there no easy way to keep apps from self starting? It's one of the things that makes me crazy.
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Same here.
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Hi all,
When I charge my HP TP running CM9 nightly, a clock screen is displayed automatically. I note that after my screen time out period of five minutes, the screen does power off, however when I wake up in the morning the screen is on displaying the clock screen - I guess email or some other notifications turn the screen back on.
Basically, can I change the behaviour so that when I put the TP onto the Touchstone, nothing special happens and this clock isn't displayed? I have an app that switches the screen off when the case is closed, and essentially this charging behaviour is interfering with this. I don't want the TP clock blazing away lighting the screen up all night.
Thanks,
Andy
Wow some refuse to do any work on their own....
If you want to shut the screen down all you have to do is hit the power button and the screen shuts down
As far as the Desk Clock app... You simply go into app manager and clear the defaults for it
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Thank you for your reply - unfortunately the option to clear defaults for the clock is greyed out.
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Wow some refuse to do any work on their own....
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I'm puzzled by your sarcasm - no, I can't figure this out by myself as I can't identify the configurable part of android that triggers this clock front end. I had Googled it but I can't find a suitable answer there either. Whilst I can shut the screen off with the power button, as per my original post when I wake up in the morning the screen has come back on.
Cheers!
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Thank you for your reply - unfortunately the option to clear defaults for the clock is greyed out.
I'm puzzled by your sarcasm - no, I can't figure this out by myself as I can't identify the configurable part of android that triggers this clock front end. I had Googled it but I can't find a suitable answer there either. Whilst I can shut the screen off with the power button, as per my original post when I wake up in the morning the screen has come back on.
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Then you have something installed waking your TP that we have no way of troubleshooting without some type of log.... when you shut the screen down there is no reason for Android to turn it back on unless YOU have EXPLICITLY given an app YOU installed permission to do so. As far as the clock... when you set the TP on the Touchstone one of two things happens... a dialog box comes up with the apps that can by default be activated when placed on Touchstone OR YOU HAVE designated a default app to do this....
Now if YOU can't remember which app YOU ALLOWED to run then you have one of two choices.... go through all the apps in app manager clearing all defaults OR wipe all data and start from scratch and pay attention to what you press this time
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Then you have something installed waking your TP that we have no way of troubleshooting without some type of log.... when you shut the screen down there is no reason for Android to turn it back on unless YOU have EXPLICITLY given an app YOU installed permission to do so. As far as the clock... when you set the TP on the Touchstone one of two things happens... a dialog box comes up with the apps that can by default be activated when placed on Touchstone OR YOU HAVE designated a default app to do this....
Now if YOU can't remember which app YOU ALLOWED to run then you have one of two choices.... go through all the apps in app manager clearing all defaults OR wipe all data and start from scratch and pay attention to what you press this time
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Thank you for your reply, but unfortunately you are wrong.
I only have the clock app installed that triggers when the device docks - no other apps respond to this event, therefore when I dock the device I don't get presented with the option/choice, it just displays the clock as there is no alternative. I've found the best solution to be to install 'Screen Off ' from the market. This has an option to act on the dock event, and now when I put the device on the dock I get given the choice as to whether to show the clock or to power off the screen. This works pretty much perfectly, and without the clock showing the screen stays off, instead of coming back on randomly after I shut it off - therefore, I don't think that the clock was coming back on before due to notifications from apps/emails, but be cause the clock app itself was triggering - possibly when the device reaches full charge or something and temporarily disconnects from the dock or something, I don't know. In summary, you need more than one app installed that is coded to respond to the dock event, otherwise when you dock the device android just defaults to the dock event and powers the screen back on periodically. I have never explicitly enabled this behaviour, and without installing another app it seemingly cannot be changed or disabled.
I thank you for taking the time to reply to my post, but I think you should learn something from this thread - just because a problem may seem to be user error doesn't necessarily mean that it is - your post is completely wrong which is fine as I appreciate that you are just trying to help, but by getting all aggressive over it you've just ended up looking a little stupid. The forums should be all about helping people, not ridiculing them - hopefully this post will serve to help anyone out with a similar predicament.
Cheers.
Ignore cdzo72 - he's one of the most sarcastic members of this forum. He seems to have a hate on for anyone who has an issue with anything, and can't solve it for themselves. You get used to him, and ignoring him.
I'm glad you found your solution.
Thanks for posting that man, beginning to think it was just me. Guess every forum has one - hopefully if anyone else comes across this thread it might solve their problem too.
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Thanks for posting that man, beginning to think it was just me. Guess every forum has one - hopefully if anyone else comes across this thread it might solve their problem too.
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Yeah maybe they'll miraculously use the much talked about but seldom known to noobs SEARCH fumction
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Yeah maybe they'll miraculously use the much talked about but seldom known to noobs SEARCH fumction
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Er...dude, if your implying i didnt use the search beore psting then please show me where the pre-existing thread with my issue and resolution clearly described is. If not, well I'm not gonna sit up and play forum wars with you all night, I've got work in the morning.
Saw this post and was excited as I was looking for this same thing. Too bad someone had to ruin this post. Is it just the touchpad forum? Don't seem to encounter this on the other xda forums.
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Thank you for your reply - unfortunately the option to clear defaults for the clock is greyed out.
I'm puzzled by your sarcasm - no, I can't figure this out by myself as I can't identify the configurable part of android that triggers this clock front end. I had Googled it but I can't find a suitable answer there either. Whilst I can shut the screen off with the power button, as per my original post when I wake up in the morning the screen has come back on.
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The clock app doesn't trigger itself. Mine charges all night and never turns back on. That said, it is almost impossible to move the pad while it's on the TS without charge disconnecting and reconnecting. And that will trigger the clock app. So, if you have the TS on an unstable surface that allows ir to be inadvertently "jiggled", that could cause the clock to turn back on.
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Saw this post and was excited as I was looking for this same thing. Too bad someone had to ruin this post. Is it just the touchpad forum? Don't seem to encounter this on the other xda forums.
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Hey Man,
I don't know if it affects other devices to be honest. On my phone the clock app is configurable, but on my Cyanogenmod9 HP TP tablet it isn't something that you can change the behaviour of (if you tap the stock 'Clock' app it just locks the screen and displays a clock, you cant set any options like on my SGSII). I don't know if this is a feature of tablet OS'es in general, or just the CM iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich.
Either way, the 'Screen Off' app references working with a number of docks (blurb specifically references Sony ones) so I'd give it a shot and hopefully it will work for you.
I had that problem too, it was very annoying. I installed dock no op from the market and it finally stopped waking me up. That seems like the only option since cm9 doesn't let you set the dock behavior.
Hey everyone,
After playing a bit with my Honor battery this week, I realized that my phone barely goes into deep sleep mode.
I have few Power consuming apps running in the background such as Facebook, Google App, Google Play Store, Textra, Gmail or Pebble.
Using tasker I periodically turn on and off the Auto Sync parameter (1 min of auto sync every 30 minutes) and I always shut down all the applications running in the background.
In my previous Nexus 5, I didn't had much of a problem with the CPU Deep sleep but now that I'm on EMUI without Root on I feel like I can barely control anything that's happening on my phone anymore, especially on the battery.
Overall the battery is still correct but I'm just wondering whether I'm the only one noticing this.
Thanks !
If battery life is normal then it doesn't matter. All cpu operate differently, maybe its just how kirin is. If apps are consuming power in background , emui will tell you.
Have you gone through the power saving and background apps managers of EMUI itself ? Maybe there is conflict of that with Tasker.
I just create battery discussion thread, I appreciate if you can post info here , Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7/general/battery-life-discussion-t3196324
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Have you gone through the power saving and background apps managers of EMUI itself ? Maybe there is conflict of that with Tasker.
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Yeah, I'm spending a lot of time checking out the power saving in the background and after a few day it seems that the phone kinda got used to it.
Facebook and G+ are still coming up first in term of power consumption (I actually wonder why every time I kill them, they just come back... even though they're both not synchronized anyway)
I've gotta admit that the on screen time is pretty amazing! The one thing that's kinda scaring me is the background power consumption but I'll try harder to get this right if anything can be done about these app running in the background. (I'll try rooting and grenifying it)
Other than that, yeah the phone last me a good day with a good amount of on screen time!