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First of all i would like to thank the Dev's for this ROM it is the first i have put on my T-Bolt and am very pleased with it. I am however having an issue with friend stream. It will not pull my Facebook Account and says no recent updates. I am a NOOB at all of this ROM stuff so take it easy on me please. I have tried deleting the account and logging back in, i have cleared the data and cache and have checked my sync settings and still nothing. Anybody else having this issue ?
While I am using BetterBatteryStats to determine how I can improve my Galaxy S II's battery usage, I notice 'StartingAlertService' (Calender) is on the top of the list on Wakelocks list. Does anyone know what is 'StartingAlertService'?
Ask here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Maybe an event in Calendar!
I have the same issue with StartingAlertService, it is the Calendar but not sure how can it be addressed.
Alternatively, any good calendar apps, maybe little less trigger happy than the stock one, that anyone can recommend?
Can't post in that thread, I have yet to hit that absurd 10 posts rule
My battery usage is definitely better during weekend because my no meeting in my work Calender. Maybe I should not sync my work calander during weekday and see whether the battery usage is a lot better.
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Hmm, please post whether turning off sync for the Calendar did improve your stats. Mine is off and still that service is on top of the list.
startingalertservice in my phone consumed 93% of my battery after 7 hours usage. i found out this problem caused by .com.android.mms.
so i uninstall mms.apk tru systemappremover after i had installed GoSms. after all, the problem solved.
startingalertservice drain.
emptyara said:
startingalertservice in my phone consumed 93% of my battery after 7 hours usage. i found out this problem caused by .com.android.mms.
so i uninstall mms.apk tru systemappremover after i had installed GoSms. after all, the problem solved.
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Hi Emptyara,
I have the same issue... (with drain by startingalertservice).
How did you found out it had to do with MMS? Can you guide me through your resolution process? before I simply remove apps which might not solve anything...
Thanks!!
i'm having the same problem. it just randomly starts (switching from two or three diff roms).
i'd have great battery life and etc, and then all of sudden, wakelocks goes all whacky and StartingAlertService is the main problem.
i've already played with calendar notifications and monitoring the mms service now.
anyone else?
Same issue here, even though I've stopped using the Calendar, and turned off both syncing and notifications. But I checked today and Calendar had a partial wakelock of about 14 minutes when my phone should have been otherwise asleep.
I don't think it is related to MMS. I think some people are getting "StartingAlertService (.com.android.mms)" whereas I'm getting "StartingAlertService (Calendar)"
I also think it might be specific to the Samsung version of Calendar since I don't see any posts about this except in the Galaxy S II forums. I just uninstalled the Calendar with Titanium Backup and will see if this stops the issue.
Appreciate any other feedback on this.
Uninstalling Calendar did work, in case anybody was wondering. No more partial wakelocks from StartingAlertService (Calendar). Of course, now I don't have a Calendar app, so there's a trade-off. I might try an alternative calendar app like Jorte or something, but right now I don't use the calendar much.
Got the same issue here.
Do you guys have EasyProfiles installed?
Bcause I set up EasyProfiles to switch to the "Meeting"-Profile, when there is a calendar entry.
Maybe this is what causes that?
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Another possibility:
I noticed, that syncing with MyPhoneExplorer is not the best thing since either Lotus Notes, MyPhoneExplorer or Android itself does not handle recurring events properly.
This led to events showing up today that have been in the past.
I deleted the whole calendar data and synced again and they were gone, but my colleague has the same issue.
I'm also suffering from this problem.
If anyone finds a remedy, please tell me.
Will removing MMS really help here? (the wakelock is because of the calendar, not MMS).
If it says Calendar, then remove Calendar (not MMS). I never used the Calendar much, so I just keep it uninstalled these days.
Just noticed my battery had dropped more today than usual.
Checked BBS and noticed "StartingAlertService" calendar taking 13m 49s ie 9.7% in terms of wakelocks, over a 2hr 22min period.
I do use, and need the calendar. Sync is set (via autosync account activator) for every 2 hours -- but it's been like this for a while without me seeing this process pop up.
Hopefully a one-off but wish I knew why it was there...
Everything else is done at the 1.5 min or less (twitter, google search, activity, google+)
The only thing dfifferent about this morning is I enabled gps and used maps briefly....
I also have one appt today with an alarm set (though that's a couple of hours ago now)
I think it is the appointment notifications that set it off (hence the "starting alert"), and not the sync or anything else. You can turn off notifications in the Calendar app but I think any events in Google Calendar with reminders will still get through. A Calendar without notifications is not that helpful to me anyway, since the whole point is to remind me of all the stuff that I forgot. Anyway you can try clearing all your alarms and see if that helps.
What firmware are you using? I think this is a specific problem with the S II (since I don't see any other forums talking about it) so I was hoping Samsung would fix it in one of their newer versions.
I have also identified startingalertservice as the source of my wakelock and battery drain.
*Every time there is a meeting the phone will stay awake for an half an hour or so.
*The awake starts with the time when there should be meeting reminder not when the meeting does actually start.
*It only happens when I have calendar app notification settings set to Off
I will try to investigate further but if you have any ideas then let it out.
About my background:
latest leomar75
touchdown for Calendar and e-mails
tasker for automated silent mode when in meeting
internal calendar for tasker, that annot read TD calendar (notifications off)
I have tested and turning touchdown and tasker off does not fix the wakelock but turning off calendar does.
Anything new about this issue? It drives me crazy when calendar sucks my battery....
Any tips how to avoid it?
Thank you
After hours of digging, I did not found an solution so I came up with workaround.
If Tasker detects notification *:*mins* (meaning Touchdown calendar reminder) from app Touchdown, it will just kill the app calendar.
I think you can use same approach with diferent scenarios.
I have the same problem. If i don't set a reminder for a event, there is no problem. The wakelock start when a reminder alarm is about to ring, and then it stays wakelock for a long time and drain battery. I9100 is the buggiest phone I ever owned. Now I wonder what will happen when ICS is introduced to I9100. I think there will be more bugs in the Touchwiz applications.
I found the source code that call the wakelock of StartingAlertService here.
I am not a dev so I might look at the wrong thing, but I can see that in order for the wakelock to be released, there are 2 IF statements that have to be satisfied. I think the problem might be there. Any Devs here would like to share any insights??
Take a look at my wakelocks. For some reason, calendar is holding one entirely too long. My Gmail wakelock seems a little high too, but not out of the ordinary (I receive and send a lot of emails during the day). I noticed the calendar wakelock when it was at 37 minutes. I thought it may have been because I leave calendar notifications in the status bar. Cleared them - no luck, still holding it. Went to calendar settings and turned off notifications - no luck, still holding it. Weird thing is my battery life has still been pretty good, but my device shouldn't be working that hard, for that long.
Does anyone know what "StartingAlertService" (associated with calendar) is? I need some help in pinpointing exactly how to stop this wakelock. Not using the calendar (or using an alternate one) is not an option.
Solution:
rodries said:
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The problem is in TouchWizCalendar.apk not releasing the wakelock properly in class ServiceHandler inside class AlertService
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The touchwiz calendar from his thread fixes the problem. It will work on any Samsung-based rom, 9100 hellraised or i777 bases.
Simba501 said:
Take a look at my wakelocks. For some reason, calendar is holding one entirely too long. My Gmail wakelock seems a little high too, but not out of the ordinary (I receive and send a lot of emails during the day). I noticed the calendar wakelock when it was at 37 minutes. I thought it may have been because I leave calendar notifications in the status bar. Cleared them - no luck, still holding it. Went to calendar settings and turned off notifications - no luck, still holding it. Weird thing is my battery life has still been pretty good, but my device shouldn't be working that hard, for that long.
Does anyone know what "StartingAlertService" (associated with calendar) is? I need some help in pinpointing exactly how to stop this wakelock. Not using the calendar (or using an alternate one) is not an option.
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Man that's weird... High sync wakelock usage seems like what I call "gmail weak-signal battery rape". Battery would start dropping like a rock if the phone lost signal at certain points during the sync cycle without the cpuidle fix. Things got much better after implementing the cpuidle fix in the kernel, but drain would still be much higher than normal. However your calendar wakelock doesn't seem to be related to sync. I suggest Googling it, or try temporarily disabling calendar sync.
Does this only happen when in weak signal areas?
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Man that's weird... High sync wakelock usage seems like what I call "gmail weak-signal battery rape". Battery would start dropping like a rock if the phone lost signal at certain points during the sync cycle without the cpuidle fix. Things got much better after implementing the cpuidle fix in the kernel, but drain would still be much higher than normal. However your calendar wakelock doesn't seem to be related to sync. I suggest Googling it, or try temporarily disabling calendar sync.
Does this only happen when in weak signal areas?
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I know, I thought the same thing. I'll keep looking around. It finally stopped at 1 hr 14 mins of wakelock. I hadn't figured out anything else to change so it stopped on its own. If it picks back up again, I'll disable sync in an attempt to gather more information. I've been in a pretty weak signal area for most of the day. I'll monitor it when in other coverage situations.
Update: So I found a HTC Hero thread over a year old over at AndroidForums and it appears that the remedy is to clear data of the calendar application (there were 3 in manage applications that were associated with calendar, so I cleared them all) and re-sync. I had to uncheck and recheck the sync option for Google Calendar, which is what brought my events back. Like I mentioned, the wakelock ended up stopping on its own, but hopefully this will prevent it from occurring again.
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I was having the same problem. I rebooted the phone, went in to the manage applications list and hit clear cache and clear data in the calendar app. Then I went to accounts & sync and re-synced the calendar and it has been working fine ever since. I also use spare parts to monitor the battery useage and awake time, so I can see if it ever pops up again. Been about a week now and the calendar is not keeping my phone awake any longer.
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OK, so it was a variation on sync battery rape.
I know if you have a Google service that doesn't seem to be syncing reliably (missing events in Calendar, missing emails in Gmail), clearing data for that app usually fixes it.
I have the similar issue but uncheck the calendar sync for my Hotmail solves the problem (just as it did on my Captivate 2.3 ROM). I can't believe Samsung hasn't address the Hotmail calendar sync bug yet.
Hello i have downloaded the facebook app for the Lumia, but for the life of me cant get it work, as it keeps throwing up an error when i try to sign on, yet i can sync all my accounts anyone else having similar issues?
I can't really help but i had the same issue at first and now it's work...
Does anyone else have an issue with Gmail notifications? Most of the time I receive no notifications about new email until I unlock the phone. Even then they do not always come in quickly. When I open the Gmail app they do come in.
Yes, they will "eventually" come in on their own but way later than they should. I have done every battery/data optimization/exception I can think of and find. This should NOT be happening in 2021! This is not a OnePlus phone and even then my 8T is not this bad. Also, the notification LED does not activate for Gmail while it does for Messages and WhatsApp. I have gone through every possible notification setting on the phone as well as for the Gmail app itself and made sure that using the LED was selected on them all. I hate that Gmail is installed as a system app! WHY???
Another interesting things is that Gmail is NOT listed as the default app. It is not even there as a selection. Messages is installed as a system app and it is listed as the default. WHY?
I am liking the phone, but not receiving notifications for such an essential feature as email is NOT GOOD!
The phone is causing Gmail to go into deep sleep when the screen is locked unnecessarily.
I may have found the solution. To start I went into Settings > accounts just to double check that the toggle for "Automatically sync app data" was turned on and it was. While in the same screen I tapped on my email account and then tapped on "Account sync", Here you can do a manual sync of all the various apps associated with your Google account. SO I tapped on the 3 dots in the top right and tapped on "Sync now" and the only thing that synced immediately was Contacts and maybe one other (can't remember which one. No matter how many times I would retry to do a manual sync the same thing would happen.
So I closed all of this out and went directly into the Gmail app > settings and chose my email account and scrolled down to "Sync Gmail" under the "Data usage" section and unchecked this setting. I rebooted the phone, went back into Gmail > settings my email and re-checked the "Sync Gmail" selection, rebooted again and went back into Settings > accounts > my email account > account sync and all the various apps listed in this section had now synced properly. I could tell by the time stamp for each one. I also did a manual sync again and everything in the list synced up within about 10 seconds! I was happy. I locked my phone, set it down, and within a minute or two I received several emails and the notification chime went off. I'm still not sure if the notification LED lit up or not but I think it did. Hopefully this fixes the issue.
Sometimes it isn't what is selected but the order in which you select things so as not to cause a conflict.
This is one area of Android that I think needs improvement (Samsung is the worst for this) that there are too many settings that seem redundant, counter intuitive, and conflict with one another.
Well, after writing all the previous entries I am still having the same issues with Gmail. On my OnePlus 8T every morning shortly after logging in my emails would come in without any prompting on my part. With my Xperia 1 iii I received NOTHING until I actually opened the Gmail app itself and sure enough there were about 5 emails that popped up! Something is very wrong here. I am not looking forward to a factory reset but I may have no choice. I will say this: If after a factory reset Gmail is still unresponsive I will definitely be sending this thing back!
Can confirm that there is something wrong with gmail. Just gmail. Ive tried 3rd party email apps and they work.
Totally understandable that you would prefer gmail over others. I too would actually prefer my gmail to work. I hope this is fixed in a firmware update.
hotcakes_shinku said:
Can confirm that there is something wrong with gmail. Just gmail. Ive tried 3rd party email apps and they work.
Totally understandable that you would prefer gmail over others. I too would actually prefer my gmail to work. I hope this is fixed in a firmware update.
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Exactly! I decided to NOT do a factory reset because I feel that it would not help. Instead I just disabled Gmail and installed Bluemail. It has more settings than I care to mess with but at least all my email notifications arrive properly! I am glad that I am not the only one this is happening to. Is there some way to inform Sony directly that they have a problem? I liked it better when Gmail was a Play Store install! I DO NOT like it when ANY apps are installed as a service!
I chatted with Sony Tech support. They went through all the usual settings that I already tried several times. They escalated it so we will see what happens. One thing I have noticed, which may be relevant or not, is that with Blue Mail installed when I do get an email both Gmail and Blue Mail give a notification????
To me it sounds like you just need to whitelist the app in your battery saving settings.
aapok98 said:
To me it sounds like you just need to whitelist the app in your battery saving settings.
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Please, while I can appreciate the suggestion, do you think I did not already go through every possible setting and permutation in an attempt to resolve this issue? I am a retired IT Systems Engineer and I have used cell phones for so long it's not even funny. Not to mention there are others experiencing the exact same thing! However, I was forced to do a factory reset this morning so "maybe" things will start to work properly.
I have exact Gmail notification issue when I got my X1iii but the issue resolved after I upgraded to 61.0.A.11.92 this morning. After switched off Gmail sync off and on and turn on the notification on individual labels, the notification was back.
It might be the previous firmware used a bad GMSCore. My device is a XQ-BC62. BTW the install step 3 did take some time but my phone didn't stuck at that step and it went through.
I have different problem with gmail notifications. For some reason notifications are always coming when in the evening I plug in my phone for charging. After a moment gmail notifications are coming. And this happens all the time.
??? Sony?
Guys please treat everyone with respect.
We are here to help each other and exchange our experience. Not to offend each other.
Thank you.
I have had a few days now with the last update = .92 and so far it appears as if my Gmail notifications are coming in exactly as they should when the phone is locked. For sure much better than before the update. So whatever Sony did in this update (besides the security update) is working for me. The LED is also lighting up properly for Gmail! Good job Sony!
Gmail still does not sync automatically for me on the .92 update. Factory reset and it works for a bit but once after a while it stops. No amount of uninstalling GMS updates or clearing its data will get it working again, so I have no idea what happened.
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Gmail still does not sync automatically for me on the .92 update. Factory reset and it works for a bit but once after a while it stops. No amount of uninstalling GMS updates or clearing its data will get it working again, so I have no idea what happened.
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Have to ask...you did give Gmail unlimited data? Also, you did set Gmail to "excepted" in battery settings?
Even the most experienced sometimes miss things.
jaseman said:
Have to ask...you did give Gmail unlimited data? Also, you did set Gmail to "excepted" in battery settings?
Even the most experienced sometimes miss things.
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Just to be sure, I went through and double checked that Gmail, Google Play Services, and Google Services Framework all had:
* Battery/Power-saving Feature: Excepted
* Unrestricted data: Enabled
Still didn't resolve my sync issues
Did you try this: settings > accounts > tap your email google account > account sync > has everything synced fairly recently? Any of them appear to be stuck, not spinning? Top right 3 dots sync now, does everything finish syncing?
Just adding that I noticed this problem after the .92 update. I'm not sure if its there before. So the .92 didn't solve the issue on my end, glad it solved yours.
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I haven't had issues with gmail but I have had the kind of issues described in OP with other phone models and similar apps and the cause was a bit too eager battery optimization settings so I honestly thought it was the cause here too.
If it was not, then it is a shame I couldn't help.
But as a response to your comment: No. I don't think people here are idiots. I just think you are one.
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You make it sound like you think people are idiots because as already mentioned in the FIRST POST, he already excepted his apps from battery optimization. If you still ask people if they have done so, you obviously think we are idiots, since you ask a question that has already been answered. Grow up please.
Edit: Here let me quote it for you:
I have done every battery/data optimization/exception I can think of and find.
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Testing out a potential fix which seems to be working for now.
I found out that my phone backup isn't working either. Manually pressing the button, the backup keeps telling it failed and asks me to try again later. Searching online, there are some that suggest to remove the screen lock to see if backup starts working again.
After I removed my screen lock, I cleared cache/storage of Google Play Services, Google Services Framework and Gmail. Then I rebooted my phone and left it a while to let it fully boot. I can now backup my phone, and I am getting my Gmail notifications. Now I am observing to see if this is permanent..
If the fix is permanent, at least on my end, it seems that Sony's build of android has buggy encryption. This was an issue with other brands too.
Update on my problem. Firstly, after trying the above, I noticed a few days later that in general I wasn't getting notifications from anything. I concluded that I messed up Google Services too much and therefore factory reset my phone.
After that and readding my google account, My notifications was fixed, except Gmail still wasn't getting notifications, but phone backup started working. I was about to give up and use another email app, when today the September security update arrived in 61.0.A.14.3 update. Being desperate to try anything I updated without hesitation.
This seems to fix the problem and I am getting my gmail notifications.
Not getting my hopes up too much and just continue monitoring but I hope this the end of my google problems.