[SOLVED] gsiff_daemon killing battery, using up all my cpu - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

EDIT: Nevermind, i searched some more and found what i was looking for here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755180
I don't know why, but the 'gsiff_daemon' under system processes has been running like mad in the background using up 28% of my cpu. Nothing else is running on my phone and i just rebooted it a while before i left to go work.
Does anyone know what it is or how to stop it from running so much? Thanks
I have screenshots and ill post them as soon as i can.

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Considerable slow-down and/or lag...

I can't figure it out, but in the last two-three days, I've had considerable slowdown on all apps and ADW menus and homescreens. Is there an easy way to figure out what is using all the resources and remove it? I have gone over everything that I have installed in the last few days and deleted most of them, but I still have the lag and I can't figure this out. From the time I rooted and updated to 026, the phone has been great and pretty fast and the batt life has been pretty good as well, but now all of that has changed, so something is killing my phone slowly. Any ideas/help/similar stories??
Thanks for your help guys..
"spare parts" gives you various stats under battery usage, you could check what apps etc have been using up CPU time - could give you a clue?
Also bug reporter will let you email the log files to yourself for inspection.
Thanks for the quick response... I totally forgot about spare parts. It was helpful and the problem has been resolved. Back to normal and fast again...
Thanks for the help...
I find that if I leave my phone on too long without restarting then it tends to start lagging up a lot. I usually have to restart every 3-4 days.
agreed.. I find the same issue-- a required restart every few days or the phone begins to lag quite a bit. Not sure of the cause though.
Jikenda said:
Thanks for the quick response... I totally forgot about spare parts. It was helpful and the problem has been resolved. Back to normal and fast again...
Thanks for the help...
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Could you tell what the problem was and how you managed to isolate it? Thanks
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The problem seemed to be with fancy widgets, so I figured the update didn't install right, so I uninstalled it, re-installed it and rebooted the phone and everything is a-ok..
But, I did use spare parts to isolate the usage stats..
where is everyone getting fancy widgets? cuz i'm not seeing it on the market
edit: kk so i found a download for it on google. next question. you said your's recently updated.... to what version? i just got 1.2.4..
I'm sure 1.3.0 was the last version they made before they stopped..
here ya go!!
http://db.tt/XtRs4j
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The laggy problem after long time not reboot which your guys mention was caused by applications running, i think. Did you try Task killer? If not, after a day, there are many running program in the cache and your fone would soom run out of memory.
I do use advanced task killer pro and some cache cleaner as well, but even so, I still have to reboot every few days or the slowdown problem re-emerges..
I am keeping my eyes on the usage stats in case I have some rogue program that just eats memory too often.

i need help please..

I have gone through countless battery reconditions, following various methods, very tediously, various roms (nero, bionix, trigger, etc.) trying to get acceptable battery life. After a lot of detective work I finally pinned down the problem to the 'mediaserver' process within the system processes. It runs CONSTANTLY and drains the batter within half a day from a full charge. This problem has been documented on google code: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6765
The process cannot be killed via any task manager as it seems to be a sub-process. So I finally mustered the courage to move the file from its directory into the parent directory to see if that would do the trick and restarted.
Now I'm stuck on the boot screen.
Can someone please help find a solution for this issue? I think I can recover from the boot screen issue but I know I will just encounter the same issue again and again.
I am currently on trigger 2.6.1.
Help?
I should also ask if it is possible to even ODIN back to stock from a ROM that has the voodoo fix enabled?
Just odin back, root, flash a rom, freeze the app with titanium backup.
Edit, n/m, just realized you weren't talking about an app. I'll read the link you posted.
I'm on trigger 2.6.1, no issues here. You sure it's not a bad app man?
As far as I can tell, no. It certainly could be but the I've been having battery issues since bionix 3 I think.
However I did read on that google link that certain media centric apps can cause it to go nuts. I am using the winamp beta app and youtube pretty heavily (although thats obviously unlikely to be the culprit).
I thought about freezing it but ya, its a sub process under the 'system processes'...process so I can't freeze it without taking down the whole thing and probably causing way more issues.
Thanks for the response though, appreciated.
Dude, winamp and youtube are going to use a lot of power.. How long is a full charge for you?
About 8 hours. I pull it off the charger at 7:30am, use winamp for music for about 1 - 1.5 hours and other moderate use. Dead by the time I leave work at 5. Get home, charge it up until I hit the gym (usually get it to roughly 50%) and listen to music, watch a couple videos and its begging for the charger by the time I get home.
Furthermore, I use the system panel app to find out exactly what is eating CPU cycles. That 'mediaprocess' thing is exponentially above everything else. So either a bad app is causing it to run and keep it running or something else is triggering it. I formatted both SD Cards per some of the suggestions elsewhere, but no dice.
seems like your getting normal battery life.
heavy usage on your phone will eat up the battery. especially watching videos.
So what do I make of the mediaserver process that is using up 40-50% of the battery? Watching videos, listening to music or not, I get the same results. I really don't think its that.
Are you sure you're completely killing the apps when you're not using them? Use the task manager and be sure the app is not running. Otherwise, be sure to freeze media hub and the DRM storage with TB. It should help with drain while the phone is on standby.
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Ya I'm sure. I don't even have mediahub installed on the phone however I am going to try freezing / removing the DRM storage thing.
Mediaserver constantly running is the reasons the battery drains. I didn't know if anyone has any solution as to how to kill it, or how to keep it from running continuously. This is a known bug as shown in the link in OP.
I'm guessing everytime I open up winamp or something it starts, then never stops after that. Who knows.
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Ya I'm sure. I don't even have mediahub installed on the phone however I am going to try freezing / removing the DRM storage thing.
Mediaserver constantly running is the reasons the battery drains. I didn't know if anyone has any solution as to how to kill it, or how to keep it from running continuously. This is a known bug as shown in the link in OP.
I'm guessing everytime I open up winamp or something it starts, then never stops after that. Who knows.
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Do you have allshare installed?
running Trigger 2.6
W/ dragon kernel uv/oc to 1.28
and Adw launcher ex
No sir. I've deleted pretty much anything DRM, Mediahub or Allshare related. Most of it is already removed with Trigger (ROM I'm using right now) and I removed a couple more services / apps in the quest for better battery life.

Help me track down my Random Lockups :'(

I cannot find out whats going on with my phone. Ive tried 3 different roms, kernals, radios and settings and I cannot find whats going on with the phone. It locks up for the weirdest reasons at the weirdest time. I cant track down whats causing it, and it is completely random.
Heres a log cat Ive got from BAMF 3.0 RC1 stock kernal MR2
http://www.mediafire.com/?uxljp5prhzff8f7
and another
http://www.mediafire.com/?b9oc6x78ujk7axu
Please help... any ideas will help me out
BTW ive also tried all different kernal speeds and governers
Anytime i connect to usb for logcat it locks right away, and when I pull a logcat on the phone through a terminal emulator i get a the normal thread, but then one always pops up...
E/IPCThreadState (random numbers) failed to find cpu subsys
... any ideas?
http://pastebin.com/CLvMv5HC
^ During this logcat
First boot, fresh install of the new BAMF build 3.0 RC1. Phone is still running and responsive at this point. Ill try and get another when it locks
Didn't look as I can't on my phone but are you undervolting?
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joshnichols189 said:
Didn't look as I can't on my phone but are you undervolting?
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Im running the kernals supplied and without editing them it will still do it
Can you please re-up your logcat dumps and put them on something a bit more friendly like pastebin.com?
Also, what exactly are you doing when you dumped these logcats (both in the foreground and background), just to get an idea of what was going on your phone at the time.
Were these lockups happening on froyo as well?
yareally said:
Can you please re-up your logcat dumps and put them on something a bit more friendly like pastebin.com?
Also, what exactly are you doing when you dumped these logcats (both in the foreground and background), just to get an idea of what was going on your phone at the time.
Were these lockups happening on froyo as well?
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Ill link them now in the OP
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Ill link them now in the OP
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as far as what i was doing..... nothing most of the time lol. most of the time it would lock on connecting to a PC, other times it wont wake up, then some of the times it will lock in the middle of scrolling through tapatalk or browser. its completely random and i can track it down
See if you can find out what process that is (2660) or whatever happens to be in the current error message. Process ID will probably change over time, but it's linked to some process on the phone.
You can find out about the current processes by typing:
Code:
ps
in the terminal emulator
EDIT: Just randrom things that might be causing problems, but cant say for sure:
The error you're getting I think happens when a process is in sync with another end and something more or less hangs up on it or goes out of sync so it can no longer find it. Pretty sure it's related to the davlik vm. If so, try going into recovery and clearing your normal cache and your dalvik vm cache under advanced. If that doesn't work...see below:
1) did you restore any data from previous roms/builds for this? Either previous GB ones or from froyo?
2) since it happens when connecting to the pc, it could be the htc hub crap that's causing the problem. If so, i would try disabling or removing the app, it's not that needed.
3) Are you using setcpu? It might be interfering with things.
Did you wipe data and cache prior to flashing? I've found a lot of my issues are corrected by wiping app data with Titanium b/u.
Well guys thanks for all the assistance. Ive tracked it down to being the speedtweak.sh script. Something just never quite worked right and whenever i would set the speed, governer or attempt a tweek it would then start the errors.
On the new 3.0 Build with the toolkit i dont need to manually go into the script and it seems to work fine. it may have been user error, or something just didnt jive with the phone...
although i still get the same cpu subsys error, but no locks so far

[Q] Youtube and IM problem

Hey, I have tried searching the forums but did not exactly come across the answer I was looking for. So, I am on my Samsung Galaxy SII and I just rooted my phone recently. I was having the problem of wifi sharing sucking up my battery, so I rooted my phone but at the same time I decided to try freezing up a few apps that I did not need to free up more ram and get more battery life. So, I followed the "safe to remove app" thread and I removed apps that were said to be safe from the spreadsheet, but could someone please tell me what is needed to run Youtube and the IM applications? For Youtube, everything works fine, until I get to the video part. I click on the video, and it never loads, the circle keeps spinning. I would think I disabled something important for loading the videos there as I can still load Youtube videos when I go to the website. Also, with IM I almost have the same problem. When I click on the application, the entire screen is black, with just the loading circle in the middle, but nothing ever happens. These two things seem to be the only problems I encountered so far. I only froze apps that were said to be for sure safe to remove. Nothing under caution or no. I hope someone could help me with this problem! Thank you guys so much for all your help! I do not know much about my phone as I just rooted it.
Not sure about IM app, i suggest try imo messenger.
For Youtube, did you remove video app?
(Videos; com.sec.android.app.videoplayer; VideoPlayer.apk)
Although im not 100% sure, I would bet that it's the cause of the video playback problem.
I think better to re-run all the frozen apps so that you will know that those frozen apps caused the issue. If not, then you have a corrupted system.
Alright, thanks for your help guys! I guess in the back of my head, I already knew I had to go back and test out each and every quarantined app again. I was just hoping someone knew exactly what was needed for those applications. Thanks though!

[Q] "Android System" using far too much battery, help

Hi guys. I picked up a Sony Xperia SX (It comes with Android 4.0.4) a week ago and have been happy with it except for the battery life; it's not quite as good as my old Nexus One.
I've been looking at the battery usage stats and things seem ok except for "Android System." This collection of tasks takes up a LOT of battery and I have no idea why. Does anyone know?
I've turned off all my Google Account syncing and removed some of the pre-installed bloatware (for example, McAfee AntiVirus, but for some reason this still appears under Android System - does that mean it's not uninstalled? If so, is there some way to get into the system and actually remove this process?). The screenshots below are for a full days worth of very light usage: a few text messages, browsed one web page for a few minutes, and a very short phone call.
Are there any apps I can install that track battery/CPU/activity usage per process so I can zero in on what is keeping the device awake so much?
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!
Edit: The attachments don't seem to be showing up, so here are some direct links:
Friendly evening bump.
Android system
try changing your kernnel
armandocorti said:
try changing your kernnel
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Unless someone's made a build for this device, I have no idea how to do that. :\
I have the same phone and same problem.
Have you rooted it?
If so you can use a root uninstaller to get rid of the bloatware
I installed juice defender yesterday and there seems to be a slight improvement.
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