During these months I always searched for a solution to the very well known issues that plagued our Folios without finding something really useful, but now the game is over (so I hope). Let's see how:
The problem(s):
-Foliomod 1.4 (thanks Dexter, you made my day when I discovered it), is the best rom you can find ATM for the Folio table: it's fast, it's smooth and really stable, and it's based on the last Toshiba rom. But it suffers from a couple of major issues that make it less than perfect (all the issues are from the original Toshiba rom, Dexter did not add anything). These issues are the SOD (sleep of death) that make the device never go out from standby (you have to reboot to regain control of the device) and frequent spontaneous wakeups from standby that make your battery drain quickly when you put the tablet in hibernate mode.
The solution:
The solution is based on a mix of magics with a little bit of luck (only to say that what is working for me, can work for you too, or cannot work at all: I give no warranty!)
Download and install the following software from market:
- SETCPU
- SCREEN OFF (by techvision systems)
- BATTERY GUARDIAN
Now, in setcpu, configure the system as Tegra2 and raise the min clock to 608mhz and tick "Set on Boot". This will help with SOD.
After that, put a shortcut on your homescreen for the "Screen Off" app.
Then, go to Preferences and set the device to never go to sleep in display options.
From now, you'll use only the shortcut to the "Screen Off" app to put the device to sleep, and you'll use the power button only to wakeup the tablet. You'll notice that you have to press power button three or four times before the device really comes out from sleep, but it will never fail.
Finally, reboot the device to activate Battery Guardian (it's a little daemon that closes all network connections when the device is in standby, and reactivates all the connections on wakeup).
Ok you are ready to go. My tablet is really perfect with these mods, I hope the best for you too, but remember that what's working for me, could work or not for you: don't blame me if this doesn't suit your needs.
My Folio wakes up only when I need it, and it gave no SOD in one week of intense use. Post your feedbacks, please...
Thanks for share it with us, i will try.
Thanks for sharing.
I don´t have foliomod instaled but i gave it a go on cyanogen 7 and screen off works ( have to use power button 3 ou 4 times to wake up, but works) , battery guardian didn´t work (after wake up it won´t connect to wifi until i clean my wifi password , insert it again and connect manualy).
As nothing to do with foliomod but i wanted to share with everyone .
Problem
The SOD mode is wrong in the Foliomod 1.3d?
Thomas7610 said:
The SOD mode is wrong in the Foliomod 1.3d?
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Foliomod 1.3d is not different from 1.4 under this aspect. The kernel is older and some app FC randomatically. The only reason to keep it is 3G support.
problem
The screen off (by techvision) could not find in the android market..
Thomas7610 said:
The screen off (by techvision) could not find in the android market..
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http://techvisionsys.com/
I can find it on market, black icon with red power
Hi,
Is there any replacement app for SETCPU you would recommend?
I understand that SETCPU is not free...
I also cannot find the Screen Off app, even if I use the download link at their homepage
screen off
I cannot download also but I find another free version..Itt seems right now I have 5% decrease after one hour.This is good result?
lillknurra said:
Hi,
Is there any replacement app for SETCPU you would recommend?
I understand that SETCPU is not free...
I also cannot find the Screen Off app, even if I use the download link at their homepage
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forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505419
www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/screen-off_piig_download.html
www.androidblip.com/android-apps/screen-off-119036-download.html
screen off
Topogigi said:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505419
www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/screen-off_piig_download.html
www.androidblip.com/android-apps/screen-off-119036-download.html
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I send it to email but the android link doesn't exist....
Thomas7610 said:
I send it to email but the android link doesn't exist....
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don't know if it works: comes from my titanium backup. remove the last. zip extension before decompress and try...
I didnt find screen off either but I searched for techvision only in market and then I clicked on the button that shows other apps from the same company. There it was.
brunte said:
I didnt find screen off either but I searched for techvision only in market and then I clicked on the button that shows other apps from the same company. There it was.
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I tried this and found it
Problem is that the Folio says that it can't download it...
Can someone make a backup of the app and post it here or at a fileshare?
Try downloading with dolphin browser or opera
I have a question !
It's really necessary to have installed battery guardian ?? I want to be noticed with a sound if I have a new notification. Folio is going to deep sleep if i don't install battery guardian too ?
Hi guys!
I'm a new (proud?) folio owner, and so far I've tried FolioMod1.4 and FolioTNT1.0, but I've been seeing wifi problems, SOD and sometimes random freezes, and random wakeups from sleep.
1. I've downloaded the app called "CPU Master Free" which allows changing the minimum and maximum frequencies (as a replacement of SetCPU).
2. I've disabled the "screen timeout" in settings->display (I guess that was what was meant by display sleep in the OP)
3. Installed "Screen Off" to turn off the screen
Seems like it works, except that I guess the battery life is decreased by a lot as the device is running at the lowest running at 3x the minimal frequency.. (I get around 5h usage with screen at 50% + Wifi + Browsing)
I've also read that the SOD is a driver issue, and nvidia has released an update which "fixes" it... Anyone knows anything about that?
Another issue I've noticed with TNT is that a USB mouse does not work. The cross appears in the middle of the screen but it cant be moved. (This worked fine in FolioMod1.4)
Anyway, the rest of the system is prettyyyy sweet! Thanks for all the great work
sergi711 said:
I have a question !
It's really necessary to have installed battery guardian ?? I want to be noticed with a sound if I have a new notification. Folio is going to deep sleep if i don't install battery guardian too ?
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When the tablet is in hibernate state wifi is disabled, so youl'll get no notification for new emails. For all the other notifications (alarms, calendar and so on), battery guardian has nothing to do with them, as it only closes network connections. And yes, hibernate works without battery guardian too, but I noticed frequent unwanted wakeups without it.
Yesterday I configured my Folio exactly as described in the first post.
So far so good and all works well, but it seems, that this configuration drains the battery quickly and the battery was empty after 9hrs of standby (from 65 percent remaining).
Anyone got a solution for that, i.e. extending the standby time?
The tablet has been working correctly for 2 weeks, but today the battery has drained from 50% to 8% in just 8 hours with the tablet in sleep mode.
I've plugged it to the charger and I've opened the battery usage settings screen. There it was an app called nfx_log_service with standard android icon but the tablet FC when I try to open the app details.
Anybody has a clue what is this app?
I've done a power off - power on of the tablet hoping the nfx_log_service does not appears again...
It happened again yesterday. This time I recharged the tablet as usual leaving it on and today the battery consumption seems ok.
I've installed Better Battery Stats and it shows the nfx_log_service doing lots of wakelocks, but there is no process name or uid to identifiy where it comes from.
When I received the tablet it updated itself to Android 3.2.1. Do you think it's better to do a factory reset to start clean from 3.2.1 or it will not make any difference?
I noticed the same thing...it will always FC if i try to open it. No clue what it is
Hi all,
My S3 is lately draining alot of power somehow and it comes from a system process as battery manager shows even tho a game is supposed to drain more.
the things that drains in that system process are Alarm Manager and AppManager-Launcher, had something to do with winlock. the strange thing is also when my battery is on 15% as the android OS says, then i plug in the recharge cable but it will hardly recharge or even lose power. when i did shut down the phone (when the OS said it was 15%), the battery that you will see when your phone is off said it was on 50% or more so i turned on my phone and now the OS says it was 58% instead of the 15% before the shutdown.
those things are truly weird so i dont know if its the battery or the OS.
the phone is rooted but had not that problem, but it started later on.
there is also an app called S Suggest and i disabled it but it is still running and whenever i stop it, it starts back up even tho i disabled it.
the battery drain starts when i play the game War and Order, but the battery statistics shows that that game is not consuming much battery but the android systemprocess is. that process is twice in the battery manager.
any idea's on how to fix this thing?
If you have any task managing/app managing, turn it/them off.
If you have disabled any apps, restore them.
If you have low internal storage space, make space (500mb minimum, preferably 1gb).
If you run a custom kernel, disable any swap files/partitions.
Beamed in by telepathy.
i re calibrated the battery and now the android system proces is gone from 60% to 7% so that part is fixed but the battery drain problem is not.
now the game stands on 54% of the battery so that would be a normal thing i guess.
and somehow that program S Suggest isnt running also which is a good thing btw.
my free phone space is now 9,48 GB.
i assume when u rooted a device it is a custom rom? i know little about android so how do i check for those swap files/ partitions?
btw the weird thing with the battery % (how the OS shows it, and how the phone shows it after you turned it off) is still active.
i saw in another post that if you reflash the root file, it might fix the battery % problem. is it safe to overwrite the current root file with the same root file that i used to root my phone?
You have a rooted stock rom, so long as you dont have a custom kernel you wont have swap files or partitions. Imo the best setup.
Before you start flashing stuff you might want to try an ad blocker like adfree or adguard and turn off locations.
Beamed in by telepathy.
i did root my phone via Odin, via download mode on my phone and it worked then. i did have a app called root booster and i used that app to boost the speed of my phone but since that went laggy i changed the settings back to custom. is that the original custom or a program made custom? when my phone was rooted i changed back to factory settings due to the lag, after that the battery % problem started but the lag was fixed, so i think it might have to do with the factory reset and that the reset overwrite some of the files that were patched by the rooting process and now is not communication very well. but i am almost 100% convinced that the factory reset had something to do with it because only after that the problem of the battery % started.
Of course in the settings in PIP, it is enabled for chrome, YouTube, WhatsApp,Play services(idk y)
But it doesn't work, I read you just have to press home button, but doing that, pip doesn't activates, and I'm on home screen and the app is in background, no pip.
Also I wasn't able to upload screen recording and screenshots as it said, network error in XDA labs app, but the network and net speed both are good now, idk y all this happening
Also when I click on the "Buttons" settings, an error message comes:- lineage os has stopped, and lineage os keeps stopping
On first boot up, the google setup wizard took so much time and I hardly managed to set my accounts after many attempts because it said no connection although the network was fine and worked nice in another device, and also every gapps, core and the gapps of nano or pico (those where the only ones I was able to install as others showed error code 70) were contiously crashing one after another repeatedly.
After all this worked fine and smooth, unless my internet pack was over and I bought another, there was no internet suddenly although the pack was on, and worked on another device. I had to reinstall and try everything and after that I changed the access point then everything was back to normal.
Y did this happen on just changing an internet plan?
The recorder application never works you open and start recording either screen or sound and it crashes
There are many settings that never work, especially data saver(after reinstalling the os, it was fixed)and some that don't work sometimes but after restarting works fine, especially battery saver, which I always have to keep turned on, as the battery drainage is too much even in battery saver mode(if it works at all)
Well I have to admit the ui never hangs, never ever,and that's keeping me from trying some other ROM
Will there be an android 8.1 lineage os for my moto e? If yes, will all this be fixed?
How can I currently fix all this?
AND AFTER WRITING ALL THIS, THE POST BUTTON IN XDA LABS APP WOULDN'T WORK?
(am I just heavily gifted with problems?)
Hello forum,
background info:
I have a rare Pansonic Android 5.0.2 phone (DMC-CM1) with an excellent camera, what is the reason why I want to keep this device.
There are NO custom roms available and no info about key combinations on how to get into stock recovery mode. I can go there with adb of course.
I found a key combination to get into fastboot, but Wiping cache/data to reset the device apparently did nothing, even if wating for hours. It seems as well as if Panasonic tampered with the stock bootloader :/ This is why I had to send it to service (adb was not enabled before).
They reflashed the device with 4.4.4 and I installed the updates to 5.0.2 OTA. Everything seemed fine until...
present problem:
...now I have a strange battery drain. Bevor I sent it it, I had about 2-3 days usage time with average usage, a little messageing, a few fotos. I do not use the phone much.
Now I get a maximum of around 16-20 hours out of it while it is just resting on the table. It also gets warm.
what have I done so far:
- I rooted the device and installed better battery stats from the forum here. It shows around 8-10% usage per hour. Before the problem showed, I had 1-2% usage.
- I uninstalled EVERY own installed app and even booted into safe mode -> same problem
- I disabled all google app packages -> same problem, but improved it a little
When I check the battery via android settings, it is telling me that "android-system" is using >20% of the battery. In active apps I can see this app is running the fast dormancy service. When I kill this service and force the complete app to stop, it gets _a little_ better, around 5-6% usage.
I recently killed forced stop on all services that where not qualcom or seemed essential to me and disables wifi and bluetooth and over night usage dropped to <1%/h, which seemed the problem could lie somewhere with services.
However using adb shell and pulling "top" info, I dont see a process using much CPU.
What else have I noticed, which might be unrelated:
-After charging I see a 100% wakelock from qpnp-charger, that disappears only after rebooting. Might indicate that something with qualcom is "wrong".
-I set wifi to be _never_ be running in sleep mode. Better battery stats is telling me, that wifi is 100% of the time running, even if I can see the symbol for wifi is not showing and comes up a few seconds after I wake the phone
You can see, I might need help on how to identify the problem here.
Any hints, tips, advice?
Please excuse my "messy" english, it is not my native language.
regards
Stefan