I realised that something called mediaserver is draining my battery like hell(from 75% to 55%) screen of.
Can i turn it off or something?
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do you have any music app or something running in the background?
mediaserver chewing battery is just generally your phone scanning for media files
spazzy1912 said:
do you have any music app or something running in the background?
mediaserver chewing battery is just generally your phone scanning for media files
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No.
All apps are off?
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No.
All apps are off?
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hmm seems very strange
let it settle for a few days and see what happens.
sometimes with new roms on my phone it would do that too,
but yeah, try rebooting or going through a whole charge cycle :3
Could be you are uploading or synching pics on Facebook or Google+
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I had 2 accounts syncing in gmail.
Maybe that caused it.
I cleared the data of gmail.
See what happens know.
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It's the mediascanner.
The mediascanner introduced in 4.1 does not like many files and a cluttered folder structure. If you've migrated your sdcard from an earlier device, it's time to de-clutter your folders, get rid of old junk and make everything lean and clean again.
The mediascanner also tends to crash and hang on corrupted media files. This will result in the phone heating up and battery going down the drain.
I have no sd card yet.
Gmail isn't the problem.
Mediaserver is still draining my battery.
I copied some songs and pictures from my other HTC device to the Z.
Can this be the problem?
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Remove your multimedia files (music, video) and observe for a couple hours/days. If it recovers, check your files. If it doesn't change, theres obviously a need to look into the matter a little more indepth.
schaggo said:
Remove your multimedia files (music, video) and observe for a couple hours/days. If it recovers, check your files. If it doesn't change, theres obviously a need to look into the matter a little more indepth.
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Will try this and report later! Thanks
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It's the mediascanner.
The mediascanner introduced in 4.1 does not like many files and a cluttered folder structure. If you've migrated your sdcard from an earlier device, it's time to de-clutter your folders, get rid of old junk and make everything lean and clean again.
The mediascanner also tends to crash and hang on corrupted media files. This will result in the phone heating up and battery going down the drain.
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Mediaserver is probably audio playback service, it is differ from Media Scanner. Since Media Scanner is called as "Media".
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To OP:
Here is my Xperia Z battery usage, I found that Mediaserver will keep running when your phone is playing "sound" (including touch sound, typing sound).
Since after turning off "Dial pad touch tones, Touch sounds", it is not running unless I'm playing music.
Sorry for my bad English.
Anyone else has the same issue with Mediaserver?
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beni8978 said:
Anyone else has the same issue with Mediaserver?
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Check this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
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miniake said:
Mediaserver is probably audio playback service, it is differ from Media Scanner. Since Media Scanner is called as "Media".
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Turns out I was wrong, thanks for correction.
miniake said:
Since after turning off "Dial pad touch tones, Touch sounds" (...)
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First thing I do. Hence I never have it.
On CM based ROMs this translates into Audiut wakelock which is triggered by UI sounds, dialer touch sounds etc.
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Turns out I was wrong, thanks for correction.
First thing I do. Hence I never have it.
On CM based ROMs this translates into Audiut wakelock which is triggered by UI sounds, dialer touch sounds etc.
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Never mind.
Maybe those "Dial pad touch tones, Touch sounds and lock screen sound" are just one of the reasons that lead to battery draining problem. I don't know (maybe there are multiple possibilities lead to the same problem).
Anyway, if I don't start up any music player, the process does not show up in battery usage (at least up to now ).
When I use Walkman or dial touch sound or any sound thingy-Mediaserver % goes up.
I'm only curious is this normal or not?
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I don't know but I never disabling /Location services (on any phone)
But yesterday I did and the battery performance jump up to 25%
Second time I charged my Z,i'm getting better battery stats.
I turned off my locations,dial pad sounds,dock vibrations.
And every time I turn off my screen I turn off my apps too.That helped.
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I know there was a thread about this somewhere on here before, and I did a search but nothing came up.
Has anyone else have this come up in BetterBatteryStats? I remember there was a way to decrease the amount used by going to settings>sound and unchecking touch sounds and screen lock sound. I've had this unchecked for a while, but I still get a partial wakelock about this, and right now its showing 1 hr 9 min, about 204% ! Does anyone know what else could be caused by this? I haven't been listening to music, not watching anything, haven't even played any games today
Um, anyone? I still have this problem
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Yes I do also and on most ICS..Havent figured it out yet either.
Did you also disable dial-pad touch tones?
They used to make AudioOut wakelock for me too..
Yea I have that unchecked as well. Every since I learned about this wake lock about 2 months back, I now keep all these settings disabled. But i recently in the past week or 2 kept checking betterbatterystats again and this always comes up at the top. During the day, i dont watch anything, if I play a game, im usually in class and always have the volume off (for media and games)
It would be good if someone figured this out
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I know there was a thread about this somewhere on here before, and I did a search but nothing came up.
Has anyone else have this come up in BetterBatteryStats? I remember there was a way to decrease the amount used by going to settings>sound and unchecking touch sounds and screen lock sound. I've had this unchecked for a while, but I still get a partial wakelock about this, and right now its showing 1 hr 9 min, about 204% ! Does anyone know what else could be caused by this? I haven't been listening to music, not watching anything, haven't even played any games today
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Did you install any program to boost volume like Volume + etc? They have profiles which Can cause wake locks, the sad part is poorly written programs Can cause wake locks even when profiles are off, I am not suggesting any program in particular but we wary of any betas. In my SG 2 I had to do a Nand Restore as even after deleting a program to increase volume had those wake locks. Surely keep all vibrations and haptic feedback off.
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Princeomi said:
Did you install any program to boost volume like Volume + etc? They have profiles which Can cause wake locks, the sad part is poorly written programs Can cause wake locks even when profiles are off, I am not suggesting any program in particular but we wary of any betas. In my SG 2 I had to do a Nand Restore as even after deleting a program to increase volume had those wake locks. Surely keep all vibrations and haptic feedback off.
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Hmmm, that could be it. I've installed dsp manager before couple times, even after flashing different roms, whether it was already loaded into the rom or I installed it as a stand alone. I'm currently, on liquid smooth and it wasn't in the rom, and I actually haven't installed it again. But obviously I've done full wipes and such where needed. So I don't know if that's still the issue.
What about haptic feedback on the keyboard presses?
Edit: I don't know know if removing haptic feedback on the keyboard helps for this issue, but i can certainly type better and faster now . I've always had hf on, on the keyboard. But i guess it's just a distraction. Hopefully this helps with the wake lock too
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Edit: I don't know know if removing haptic feedback on the keyboard helps for this issue, but i can certainly type better and faster now . I've always had hf on, on the keyboard. But i guess it's just a distraction. Hopefully this helps with the wake lock too
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It helped me when I had the same problem as you.
When using the phone with 'Stamina Mode' switched on I got the message that the phone was kept awake because of 'Devices'. I went into my Pwer Management > Battery Usage, and to my surprise Devices is at the top of the list, it has used 19% of my battery. It has a red icon (round circle) with a 'Movies' pictogram in it. The information about Devices is the following:
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CPU Total: 12m 58s
CPU Foreground: 0s
Keep awake: 2h 33m 48s
Data sent: 2.98MB
Data received: 9.30MB
When I open Settings > Apps > Running and look for 'Devices' I find three services: DlnaDmsService, PushDerviceImpl and UpnpServiceCp. I also find the com.sonyericsson.dlna service. Does anyone know why dlna is running on my phone, even when I'm not connected to WiFi? What could be causing the wake? I do not have dlna enabled, and I think 'Devices' is a strange name for an Android process, especially with the Movies icon.
TL;DR:
What is Devices, why iis it running when I'm not on WiFi, and Can I disable it permanently?
Did you use throw or media share?
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abd_alazeez2002 said:
Did you use throw or media share?
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I have used throw once on a Bravia TV, but I have turned media sharing off after that. This was about a week ago, and I have rebooted the phone at least two times since. My bluetooth headset has been connected for about an hour, and when it connects it is in the 'Throw' list. But is this a reason for the phone to use CPU wake time when WiFi AND Bluetooth aren't even connected?
Noticed mine was doing the same since yesterday over 45% battery useage for Devices.
I did work out how to use Throw yesterday, cant seem to get it to stop now
Just done a power volume+ reset and see if it clears up
If you refresh batter stats - the "Devices" changes to com.sonyericsson.dlna for a fraction of a second
Yup this is what kills Stamina Mode if you use throw you're phone will be like this for a while. Even when you turn all the auto stuff off it will happen again when you next throw. Hopefully it will be fixed, if not then it settles down again after a day or two.
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Yup this is what kills Stamina Mode if you use throw you're phone will be like this for a while. Even when you turn all the auto stuff off it will happen again when you next throw. Hopefully it will be fixed, if not then it settles down again after a day or two.
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But does using a Bluetooth Stereo Headset qualify as 'using Throw'? Because it shouldn't have anything to do with dlna, right?
It has happened to me once when I've used Walkman but I haven't managed to replicate it, but Throw it has done it to me repeatedly.
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It has happened to me once when I've used Walkman but I haven't managed to replicate it, but Throw it has done it to me repeatedly.
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Hmm... interesting. Thanks for sharing your insights! Tomorrow I'll disable the 'Devices' application and see what it means in terms of battery usage and loss of functionality. I'll report back at the end of the day.
Today I disabled Devices. Bluetooth worked as it should, and my battery is at about 56%. I guess it's okay if you don't use DLNA. Of course this is all subjective, but I do think that my battery is lasting a little bit longer. If you're not using throw I recommend disabling Devices. You can disable it in Settings > Apps > All > Devices > Disable.
Stop Throw
So, anyone knows how to totally stop Throw???
No matter what I try, I keep getting the Throw symbol in my status bar.
No and I would like to know this. Seems like when you load it once, you're stuck with it (unless you disable).
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Hi everyone,
I've had weird battery life with my phone since I flashed official V20A. Sometimes the phone goes into perfect deep sleep and sometimes it gets stuck at 51 MHz and drains battery like hell !
There are many people here complaining about the same problem and that the phone drains battery quickly over night.
The cause of this problem for me is that Mediaserver keeps running in the background even though I'm not listening to any music. Usually happens when I unplug my Headphones without pausing the music first (and sometimes it happens for no specific reason).
To check if this is also causing a problem with your phone, go to Settings - Power saver - Battery use - scroll down and tap "Mediaserver". Look at "Keep awake” and know the exact time, go back and wait for a few seconds then open Mediaserver again. If Keep awake time has increased and you're not playing any music, that means it's causing deep sleep issues.
The solution of this is to simply play then pause music payer (I use PlayerPro).
I have no idea what's causing this but this seems to be a temporary solution for me.
Let me know if this also works with you
I think i have the same problem,but i dont use the music player and i dont have any music on my phone.
The awake time of media server is 8h 33m. Any other solution maybe?
I don't have media server at all but in running application i always find active DMClient running as process in Software Update, PC suite and Google Play app.
But i noticed something that might solve my problem but i don't know how to do it. After i flashed to v20a first couple days i had 1-2% drain per night, but after a played in hidden menu trying to change FOTA server to EU-server my phone starrted to drain 12-15% per night.
Can i disable DMClient or FOTA?
tin1808 said:
I think i have the same problem,but i dont use the music player and i dont have any music on my phone.
The awake time of media server is 8h 33m. Any other solution maybe?
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Disable background data.
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Disable background data.
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How to disable background data?
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Navios92 said:
Hi everyone,
I've had weird battery life with my phone since I flashed official V20A. Sometimes the phone goes into perfect deep sleep and sometimes it gets stuck at 51 MHz and drains battery like hell !
There are many people here complaining about the same problem and that the phone drains battery quickly over night.
The cause of this problem for me is that Mediaserver keeps running in the background even though I'm not listening to any music. Usually happens when I unplug my Headphones without pausing the music first (and sometimes it happens for no specific reason).
To check if this is also causing a problem with your phone, go to Settings - Power saver - Battery use - scroll down and tap "Mediaserver". Look at "Keep awake” and know the exact time, go back and wait for a few seconds then open Mediaserver again. If Keep awake time has increased and you're not playing any music, that means it's causing deep sleep issues.
The solution of this is to simply play then pause music payer (I use PlayerPro).
I have no idea what's causing this but this seems to be a temporary solution for me.
Let me know if this also works with you
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hi,where can i find this mediaserver?
thanks
mimivg said:
hi,where can i find this mediaserver?
thanks
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To check if this is also causing a problem with your phone, go to Settings - Power saver - Battery use - scroll down and tap "Mediaserver"
What is the media server,is possible that the media server prevents the phone to goes into deep sleep?what is the best solution to solve this?
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neba123 said:
How to disable background data?
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Go in to mobile data. And set a data limit. Then scroll down and select the app you want background data off for.
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i had the same poblem but with audio out 2 wakelock, i isable all related with TalkBack and google speech text and the phone can go to deep sleep mode
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i had the same poblem but with audio out 2 wakelock, i isable all related with TalkBack and google speech text and the phone can go to deep sleep mode
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Even viber is a rogue app on 4.1.2 AFAIK
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I got baseband_xmm wakelock. It's drain 10-20% per night.
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Maybe this App would help.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaver
Just get betterbatterystats. Its THE solution
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Even viber is a rogue app on 4.1.2 AFAIK
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i don't use viber, in leak release i didn't have that issue
So ever since the JB update, I've noticed that the Android System is using up a good chunk of the battery. The phone seems to be "waking up" constantly. Anyone else have this problem?
Let it sink for a week or so then it normally should go down.
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Alrighty then. Thanks for the advice
I have had JB installed for almost 3 months now and it still sleeps very bad. Android system is around 11% in the android battery stats, i guess that's normal, but i just cant figure out whats waking up my device so often. I was so desperate to get it to sleep properly that i disabled auto sync, restricted background data for most apps and i disabled a lot of 'm. that didn't work. The highest wakelock in bbs is audioOut_2 but there's no real answer on whats causing this problem (for some people it's viber but i'm not using that) does any of you have the same problem? My drain on 3G is more than 3%/hour, that's way more than my xperia arc used to have.
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I have had JB installed for almost 3 months now and it still sleeps very bad. Android system is around 11% in the android battery stats, i guess that's normal, but i just cant figure out whats waking up my device so often. I was so desperate to get it to sleep properly that i disabled auto sync, restricted background data for most apps and i disabled a lot of 'm. that didn't work. The highest wakelock in bbs is audioOut_2 but there's no real answer on whats causing this problem (for some people it's viber but i'm not using that) does any of you have the same problem? My drain on 3G is more than 3%/hour, that's way more than my xperia arc used to have.
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I've been reading around forums and stuff. Trying to gather any information I can. From what I've read, it's just a bug in the Jelly Bean software. But of course, it could also be an app that is causing the wake ups.
In sound settings disable the last 4 options. Touch sounds and vibrate on touch and screen lock sound.
That will most likely fix your problem.
Please keep us updated.
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What a stupid bug... Incredible. Thank you!
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In sound settings disable the last 4 options. Touch sounds and vibrate on touch and screen lock sound.
That will most likely fix your problem.
Please keep us updated.
Cheers!
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buuut...it happens on all TL and T with new firmware?
borich said:
buuut...it happens on all TL and T with new firmware?
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As far as I know, Yes!.
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As far as I know, Yes!.
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So we are waiting for a fix by sony...veeeery good. :good:
As most of us know our beloved Note (1) doesn't have the "notifications LED" present in so many dumber and older phones.
After completely breaking the power button from just checking if there's any notification I've got a new phone and I'm on a quest for finding some alternative notification.
So, it seems that in order to actually GET that there's some notification you need to have talkback enabled and that's buggy (you get this spooky voice when doing certain tasks). FINE, I disabled (freeze) both samsung and google TTS (although I didn't really wanted, but OK). Then I get a hand icon in the notification area with "talkback activated". Ok, FINE. I'm using Flashlight Notifier (which flashes the camera LED) and it seems to be somehow working, except that it leaves the (camera) LED turned on continuously!!!
I seems that there's some other option to flash the soft buttons backlight but it needs some very old (I think GB) ROM and I'm not going there. For what is worth I'm on a stock new JB with speedmod kernel.
In short, any solution that "just works", getting extremely frustrated with all the stupid problems I run into? I need notification for gmail, hangouts, sms, missed calls, nothing fancy.
Whats wrong with vibrate and message/ring tone?
This is question. So should be in Q and A thread
a. vibrate/ring disturbs people around (especially when there are at least 10-20+ notifications coming every day)
b. you might step out briefly and you might not take the phone (all the time...) with you to WC and such. Yes, some applications allow for repeat rings (like the default SMS app) but that only makes (a.) worse
I think it is good to be able to just look at the phone and see that you don't want to turn the screen on as opposed to turning the screen on, see you don't need anything from there, turn it off.
If a mod wants to move the thread please and thank you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff
Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
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Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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Just want something to blink reliably ...
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Fork this, modify it any way you like, compile and bob's your uncle.
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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did not get you. warlock (literal meaning?, some user?).
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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Typo error. Sorry.
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NoLED seems to be fine (I was thinking for a long time that on OLED it might be a good idea to have some "few pixel" notifications, although I understand there is still significant power consumption even with OLED and few pixels on).
The device still deep sleeps (at least without notification) but of course this is the type of thing liable to kill the battery overnight.
Still, it works great and for most notifications I need it doesn't even need talkback (that's a big plus because I don't have to freeze TTS). And it looks great! Will report later or tomorrow how things go, with my luck I'll run into some issues in no time.
wow
treacherous_hawk said:
try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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I was looking something like this. (It has many options / choices).
Thanks.
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none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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The battery drain was extra 2-3% while me and the phone were sleep from 10pm to 6am. Acceptable. Good. With setting - noled always on and battery % while charging on.
Thanks.
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lol, maybe they obtimized it, that is good news if true. The wakelock occurs when not charging btw.
Thank you everyone!
NoLED is great for now, battery life is good, it catching all I want (maybe except hangouts) without enabling accessibility and is better than I dreamt.
Maybe, maybe a little concerned with display life now (it looks like there is still some kind of backlight, not only the small icons) but overall it looks good!
Maybe some option to blink the camera LED would still be good but you can't have everything.