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'?
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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?
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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??
Since upgrading to ICS, I noticed that my AT&T Note battery has been suffering. Using BetterBatteryStats, I noticed that there is a process that caused "Partial Wakelock" for hours: com.coliris.picasa.contentprovider.
Based on my research (there's not much infor BTW), it has to do with Picasa syncing with the Gallery app. This was documented in Google Bug list (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24145) but that's it.
I wonder if anyone have any experiences on this and how to fix this issue. I DO want Picasa sync on my phone, but not at the expense of the battery life.
I'm not familiar with the Picasa app, but is there anything in Settings that allows you to set the sync interval, to perhaps Daily?
Picasa is the web-based photo sharing application, part of the Google products like GMail, etc.
The "Gallery" application in AT&T Note ICS have a built-in feature to sync pictures in the phone to your Picasa account and vice versa. Under Settings --> Accounts and Sync you will see "Sync to Picasa", among others like "Sync Gmail", etc.
So no, I cannot reduce the number of syncing. For now I am disabling this completely just to see what would happen, but wondering if anyone came across this..or even use Picasa.
I just about choked.....I thought the title said something else!!!!! still LMFAO!!!!!
Hi, i am on the latest carbon rom for the gt-i9300, and the one thing that drains my battery the most is Exchange services. I have an app called Wakelock Detector from the play store and the wakelocks singe 1h 49m 42s i've had 24s x172 wakelocks for mail service under the exchange services??? Is anyone else having this problems and if so do you know to fix it?
To those of you who are getting over a day of battery life, do any of you have Google maps latitude location reporting on ?
My phone has been unplugged for about 45 mins and maps is already on top of the list of wake lock detector.
I have it off and am getting about a day under fairly heavy use.
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I have the basic Location services on but GPS off obviously and i have maps frozen untill i need it (Maps is NUTS with wakelocks) and background data off along with everything else that shows up under data usage. All background off but email, hangouts, google services, play store, weather, gmail, or anything else i need for alerts i need to get. So all music, youtube, es file ex, goo manager, dropbox, has all background data off.
I also only use Air call-accept and quick glance as my only air, motion or smart screen options on. I'm getting 5+ hours of screen time on. I hope telling you what i do helps if your trying to get better battery life.
Turned it off from reporting. Wonder how i can add it to the greenify app list. Might have to convert to user app
I finally figure it out, what drains my battery. In accusettings it shows that Google services consumes a lot. I tried different Google play services - fixes. Nothing worked. Till I discovered that my calendar triggered Google services a lot. But the calendar app wasn't the problem, I enabled battery saving option (found in liquidsmooth rom e.a.): it disables autosync when screen off and so the calendar tries over and over again to sync....
I just had to disable batterysaving..
I would recommend installing CyanogenMod 11 Nightly :good: