Visiting the xda developers site on your mobile phone. Pages reload for no reason. Other than maybe attempting to shove their ads down your phones throat. The most phone unfriendly site ive ever frequented.
trsix said:
Visiting the xda developers site on your mobile phone. Pages reload for no reason. Other than maybe attempting to shove their ads down your phones throat. The most phone unfriendly site ive ever frequented.
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you dont use the xda/tapatalk app?
you follow your signature quite well.
quit whining
edit..had the page open for a minute before posted.. didn't see the reply above
trsix said:
Visiting the xda developers site on your mobile phone. Pages reload for no reason. Other than maybe attempting to shove their ads down your phones throat. The most phone unfriendly site ive ever frequented.
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what browser?
try adfree or adaway.
oh, my pages dont reload, ever. unless i reload them. sounds like you either have something installed thats hogging your ram, you have way too many things running in the background hogging your ram, or you have terrible ram management (either you, or a mod).
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you dont use the xda/tapatalk app?
you follow your signature quite well.
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i dont, ever. why do i need an app that drains much battery, when the browser already does xda and does it better?
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what browser?
try adfree or adaway.
oh, my pages dont reload, ever. unless i reload them. sounds like you either have something installed thats hogging your ram, you have way too many things running in the background hogging your ram, or you have terrible ram management (either you, or a mod).
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i dont, ever. why do i need an app that drains much battery, when the browser already does xda and does it better?
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apparently the browser drains battery according to trsix. my tapatalk doesnt drain battery. not sure why it would.
EDIT: I just visit xda site on chrome. I'm not sure how the browser could better than the app. If it was much better then there shouldn't be a reason why xda created an app.
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i dont, ever. why do i need an app that drains much battery, when the browser already does xda and does it better?
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That's an interesting opinion. I always said the same thing, until I tried it. I am genuinely curious, have you tried it lately? The new version is a lot better. To each his own, I guess. I have it hooked into multiple forums... but I only use it for XDA, now.
Although, I can't for the life of me figure out why all links are directed through Tapatalk servers. There is absolutely no technical reason that has to happen. They are simply collecting your data. You tap the link, the link sends you to a redirect (on Tapatalk servers), that then sends you to the appropriate destination. Fishy much? Still not happy about paying for the same app twice (v2 and v4). They have definitely employed some shady tactics over the past few months.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure why I like it so much. Convenience, I guess.
polobreaka said:
apparently the browser drains battery according to trsix. my tapatalk doesnt drain battery. not sure why it would.
EDIT: I just visit xda site on chrome. I'm not sure how the browser could better than the app. If it was much better then there shouldn't be a reason why xda created an app.
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i dont use chrome, and really dont like it. i use the aosp browser, it looks and feels more like the desktop chrome than the chrome mobile browser, lol. and yea, chrome uses way to much battery. and theres plenty of reason for xda to create an app, its called money.
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plus there are more options via the browser..
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i dont use chrome, and really dont like it. i use the aosp browser, it looks and feels more like the desktop chrome than the chrome mobile browser, lol. and yea, chrome uses way to much battery. and theres plenty of reason for xda to create an app, its called money.
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to each its own i guess. i dont have to deal with zooming on a browser or tap links to read post. i find the app to be way easier to navigate and organized.
btw, have you even used the xda or tapatalk app?
simms22 said:
i dont use chrome, and really dont like it. i use the aosp browser, it looks and feels more like the desktop chrome than the chrome mobile browser, lol. and yea, chrome uses way to much battery. and theres plenty of reason for xda to create an app, its called money.
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plus there are more options via the browser..
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Looks way too crowded in my opinion. I read xda and other forums a lot on the bus (where I have to stand and use my phone one-handed), and I would really prefer not to zoom and scroll horizontally at all.
The xda/tapatalk app fits my needs. That or xda really needs to be responsive.
@op I know exactly what you are talking about. I have tried Dolphin, 2 different versions of AOSP browser, and Chrome on all 3 versions of KitKat and every single one of them will load a thread section list(ei. Android Development/Nexus 5 General) twice every single time you go to the page. It is by far my biggest peeve with this phone. When you open threads there is no issue but once you go to a thread section...BOOM page loads twice.
Isn't chrome a resources hogger?
well, i don't feel dirty.
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to each its own i guess. i dont have to deal with zooming on a browser or tap links to read post. i find the app to be way easier to navigate and organized.
btw, have you even used the xda or tapatalk app?
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Looks way too crowded in my opinion. I read xda and other forums a lot on the bus (where I have to stand and use my phone one-handed), and I would really prefer not to zoom and scroll horizontally at all.
The xda/tapatalk app fits my needs. That or xda really needs to be responsive.
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yea, ive used it before. the thing is, i use the browser for much more than just xda. its easier for me, and saves the resources of having another app(s) running. i dont have to zoom btw, i zoomed out just for the screenshot. what really got me to stay with the browser isnt the xda app, what nailed it for me was facebook, and its notoriously bad app. when i got rid of the facebook app(more than 2.5 years ago), i started noticing my battery life improving. slowly, i moved to using most my social sites via the browser(except twitter and g+). its been since then that i regularly get 4.5-7 sot hours on all my devices since. those apps drain a lot of battery, even when not even using them(facebook). a lot of them are pretty badly written.
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dicecuber said:
Isn't chrome a resources hogger?
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chrome is, the aosp browser isnt. chrome will come with the stock or stock based roms. and the aosp browser comes with the aosp it aosp based roms.
wrong answer
simms22 said:
what browser?
try adfree or adaway.
oh, my pages dont reload, ever. unless i reload them. sounds like you either have something installed thats hogging your ram, you have way too many things running in the background hogging your ram, or you have terrible ram management (either you, or a mod).
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wrong.
does the same on our evo lte. your phone does it also fanboy.
and i have 1,4 free ram probably more than you.
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AndrasLOHF said:
@op I know exactly what you are talking about. I have tried Dolphin, 2 different versions of AOSP browser, and Chrome on all 3 versions of KitKat and every single one of them will load a thread section list(ei. Android Development/Nexus 5 General) twice every single time you go to the page. It is by far my biggest peeve with this phone. When you open threads there is no issue but once you go to a thread section...BOOM page loads twice.
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But it's not just this phone my evo lte does it also.
Finally get to what you want and resize the page for bigger and yikes even reloads again.
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wrong.
does the same on our evo lte. your phone does it also fanboy.
and i have 1,4 free ram probably more than you.
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heres where youre wrong, my browser doesnt reload(again, which browser are you using?) and im not a fanboy(i care not about what phone you or anybody else decides to use, i just dont give a shít). and you have 1.4gb free ram, at boot and after you kill apps, not while your phone is in use. well, unless you are killing apps every few minutes. im not as dumb as you look.
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But it's not just this phone my evo lte does it also.
Finally get to what you want and resize the page for bigger and yikes even reloads again.
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then it is something that you are doing or are choosing to use.
oops wrong again
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heres where youre wrong, my browser doesnt reload(again, which browser are you using?) and im not a fanboy(i care not about what phone you or anybody else decides to use, i just dont give a shít). and you have 1.4gb free ram, at boot and after you kill apps, not while your phone is in use. well, unless you are killing apps every few minutes. im not as dumb as you look.
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then it is something that you are doing or are choosing to use.
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never killing any apps.
i do have sync and various google crap turned off though.
1.3 after running 18 hours.
you have a magical phone if xda doesn't reload the pages.
trsix said:
never killing any apps.
i do have sync and various google crap turned off though.
1.3 after running 18 hours.
you have a magical phone if xda doesn't reload the pages.
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again, what browser are you using? if its chrome, then many complain about it reloading pages, it beung resource hungry. the aosp browser is fairly lightweight, and not resource hungry. pages dont reload(on low ram phones it reloads pages though). on the nexus 4 it didnt reload pages, and the same on the nexus 5.
I must also have a magical phone, cause my browser doesn't reload pages on its own.
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I don't think it's the phone or the browser. The reload mentioned in the OP happens on my laptop with Firefox but not on my nexus 5.
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Last night I was just browsing and the phone froze up and I had to pull the battery. This usually happens 3 times a day and it's just fine. But last night it just died. It still won't charge or turn on. Can anybody help? At this point i'm thinking about just getting a Nexus.
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Last night I was just browsing and the phone froze up and I had to pull the battery. This usually happens 3 times a day and it's just fine. But last night it just died. It still won't charge or turn on. Can anybody help? At this point i'm thinking about just getting a Nexus.
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Oh I hate to hear this as you are a regular around here lately. Sounds to me like you OCd too much and fried your phone. I say that because of the many battery pulls you had to do all the time which is a symptom of OCing too high. Am I right on this or were you using a stock kernel?
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Oh I hate to hear this as you are a regular around here lately. Sounds to me like you OCd too much and fried your phone. I say that because of the many battery pulls you had to do all the time which is a symptom of OCing too high. Am I right on this or were you using a stock kernel?
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I wasn't using an OC kernel. I was using CM10.1 stock.
cmason37 said:
I wasn't using an OC kernel. I was using CM10.1 stock.
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Wow sounds like you had a bad phone then. Any chance you are still under warranty? If not well then if you can move on to something like the Nexus I would.
Ok, If you plug your phone into your PC you will probably see it recognized as a strange device, basically you have hard-bricked your phone and unless you have access to JTAG for your exhibit II and the ability to use it you are probably boned, It's rare for this to happen but it is the same kind of issue that occurs when pulling a battery during an OTA update.
Congrats, you won the Lotto.
Call T-mobile, tell them the phone won't turn on, don't resist and they will ask for your IMEI and all the related account info, you will be asked to ship your phone to them for a free replacement If you qualified under warranty still.
cmason37 said:
Last night I was just browsing and the phone froze up and I had to pull the battery. This usually happens 3 times a day and it's just fine. But last night it just died. It still won't charge or turn on. Can anybody help? At this point i'm thinking about just getting a Nexus.
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Just get the n4 I'm getting one soon great price, this phone was good for a while but just too danng slow
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IRX120 said:
Just get the n4 I'm getting one soon great price, this phone was good for a while but just too danng slow
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Yeah I feel your pain. It has been a one year war to get this thing to perform without freezing, rebooting and so on. It's fine if you use a GB ROM like RR or CM7 but I've gotten to rely on Google Now and don't want to give it up. Trying CM10.1 with PBE kernel for a few days. It froze up a bit today but I think much of the problem lies with Superuser which seems to be slow as Christmas at granting super permissions after booting. After switching to SuperSu, OCing to 1612 max (ondemand) with SIO things are running nice. SO FAR!!! Use to think SuperSu sucked but I'm starting to find out the truth.
This is kind of a last ditch effort. I have someone who's willing to buy it and if they decide to, that's all the excuse I need to get another phone. I don't think I'll get the Nexus though due to the fact it does not have expandable memory from what I can tell and even 16gb is not enough for me as I have a lot of music stored on my card.
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I don't think I'll get the Nexus though due to the fact it does not have expandable memory from what I can tell and even 16gb is not enough for me as I have a lot of music stored on my card.
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Actually the Nexus 4 is perfect for me. I uploaded my music, picture, and video collection to Google. I keep like 1-2 high end games on my phone (most are on my Nexus 7). I'll be ordering the 8GB soon.
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This phone was designed to work on gb, period.With all due respect to all the devs work how bout improving on GB ?
Why try to improve an outdated os? Just because a phone was shipped with or never updated past gb doesn't mean it was only meant to run that os
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smartguy044 said:
Why try to improve an outdated os? Just because a phone was shipped with or never updated past gb doesn't mean it was only meant to run that os
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Why not? It was shiped with this os. Why not improve on it?
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Is it to much for the smartguy? :laugh:
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Im just sayn, lets break bread
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BTW nobody has done this
Besides RR ofcourse which is also a nice ROM. An do believe Exquizit (sp) but recall there was a security problem? Not counting Peach in this simply cause as i believe Jocala put it "debloated stock".
Any how just wondering how fast and smooth GB could be with the right dev on the job.
I've seen posts of several loving 4.4 and others going back to 4.2. Is it worth it? Battery life? Are there known bugs and issues?
Imo, its still very much subjective. As much as I've frequented here throughout the years,I would probably still be considered a noob. With that being said, here are my thoughts
Initially I was regretting the update. My battery life being terrible was my biggest gripe. I decided to root it only three days of having the stock 4.4 rom. Once I did that, my battery life levels returned to 4.2 levels. I'm getting about 15 hours off a single charge which is huge for me. Not sure if rooting actually made the difference but that's the only thing I changed after I initially made the switch.
Plus I love the new camera app which isn't offered for 4.2. I just wish Google incorporated a long press to kill apps feature. Seems like the only way you can get that is through a custom rom
Also, my screen rotation seems to be broken. It works on certain apps and not on others. It will work if I click on a video within flipboard, but not in my picture gallery. I can deal with it for a while but not too much longer
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Imo, its still very much subjective. As much as I've frequented here throughout the years,I would probably still be considered a noob. With that being said, here are my thoughts
Initially I was regretting the update. My battery life being terrible was my biggest gripe. I decided to root it only three days of having the stock 4.4 rom. Once I did that, my battery life levels returned to 4.2 levels. I'm getting about 15 hours off a single charge which is huge for me. Not sure if rooting actually made the difference but that's the only thing I changed after I initially made the switch.
Plus I love the new camera app which isn't offered for 4.2. I just wish Google incorporated a long press to kill apps feature. Seems like the only way you can get that is through a custom rom
Also, my screen rotation seems to be broken. It works on certain apps and not on others. It will work if I click on a video within flipboard, but not in my picture gallery. I can deal with it for a while but not too much longer
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You may want to look into xposed framework and either wanam or gravitybox. It will give you your long press back to kill along with a while host of other features. I could never live on a stock ROM without one of those.
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Duckman5 said:
You may want to look into xposed framework and either wanam or gravitybox. It will give you your long press back to kill along with a while host of other features. I could never live on a stock ROM without one of those.
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Dude, you are a life saver! I was able to put it on my phone with absolutely no problems. Long press to kill is back!
You wouldn't by chance happen to know how to fix the screen rotation problem would you?
Reel E. Weird said:
Dude, you are a life saver! I was able to put it on my phone with absolutely no problems. Long press to kill is back!
You wouldn't by chance happen to know how to fix the screen rotation problem would you?
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Honestly, no. That's really weird that it's hit or miss like that. There's a reason they pulled that update, though. I'm wondering if there's not different hardware revisions or something and 4.4.2 just works better with some than others. Only suggestion I could make is make a nandroid, do a factory reset, and see if that fixes it. If not, just restore your backup.
Did you make any other modifications or delete any system apps after rooting?
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Honestly, no. That's really weird that it's hit or miss like that. There's a reason they pulled that update, though. I'm wondering if there's not different hardware revisions or something and 4.4.2 just works better with some than others. Only suggestion I could make is make a nandroid, do a factory reset, and see if that fixes it. If not, just restore your backup.
Did you make any other modifications or delete any system apps after rooting?
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I actually saw something that suggested it was related to the removal of the Samsung hub app. I could probably do a reflash but I'm Judy now getting all my settings finalized. Idk man
Reel E. Weird said:
I actually saw something that suggested it was related to the removal of the Samsung hub app. I could probably do a reflash but I'm Judy now getting all my settings finalized. Idk man
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No idea how or why that might make a difference, but I made a backup of mine with Titanium Backup and I've attached an archive with the files in it. You can use that to reinstall it. I just froze all the stupid system apps on my phone. I figured it was safer that way. Anyway, let me know if that works. Hope it does.
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can anyone upload the camera app+need apps for camera from 4.4.2 ?
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No idea how or why that might make a difference, but I made a backup of mine with Titanium Backup and I've attached an archive with the files in it. You can use that to reinstall it. I just froze all the stupid system apps on my phone. I figured it was safer that way. Anyway, let me know if that works. Hope it does.
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Damn, thanks dude
My only "issue" is that I was trying to free up some internal memory. Freezing apps doesnt get rid of them right? It just suspends them from showing up in your app tray correct?
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d31v1d said:
can anyone upload the camera app+need apps for camera from 4.4.2 ?
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Why not just d/l the new google camera app from the play store? Its better (at least it is to me) than the stock camera.
Reel E. Weird said:
Damn, thanks dude
My only "issue" is that I was trying to free up some internal memory. Freezing apps doesnt get rid of them right? It just suspends them from showing up in your app tray correct?
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Why not just d/l the new google camera app from the play store? Its better (at least it is to me) than the stock camera.
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System apps live on a different partition from your regular apps and so do their .dex files (for odexed roms, which stock usually is). So no, unless you need to push some apps (supersu? ) to the /system/ partition, there is no need to free up space. Just uninstall updates and freeze.
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I've never had this problem with my other Notes. In the last couple of weeks I noticed this started to happen, where I'm losing battery ridiculously fast where I can't really use the phone for more than 3 hours. Battery stats show that "Android System" is using the battery. I got the G Sam Battery Monitor app, which reflects the same thing.
But Android System could be any number of things. Any idea what I should be looking at? Where I should start trying to find a culprit?
Is GPS icon flashing? If so, check which app is running in the backgroud that is using GPS.
Also, clear all of your recent apps and see if it fixes it.
No GPS isn't flashing. And I've gotten in the habit of clearing the recently opened apps. Memory shows 2GB of usage but "no active applications." I can't tell if something in the background would be using GPS.
Clean wipe, Odin flash the stock NJ7 build. re-root
Then reflash the ROM you want. Most likely you got something hung up in the code that it is trying to use and is failing so it is constantly running.
That our you have Facebook installed. Jk, sorta for real though worst app ever for battery.
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I'm still stock, so haven't rooted or anything. I've been trying to hold out as long as possible. Other than this new battery issue I was OK without root (gasp).
I do have Facebook, and I'm a Facebook and 9Gag abuser, but if those were the apps draining battery, the stats would reflect them, no?
Like I said, I've never experienced this issue. In the past (see my long list of smartphones) I've always been able to pinpoint what's using my battery. Not this time.
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I'm still stock, so haven't rooted or anything. I've been trying to hold out as long as possible. Other than this new battery issue I was OK without root (gasp).
I do have Facebook, and I'm a Facebook and 9Gag abuser, but if those were the apps draining battery, the stats would reflect them, no?
Like I said, I've never experienced this issue. In the past (see my long list of smartphones) I've always been able to pinpoint what's using my battery. Not this time.
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Facebook hides a lot of battery usage in the ”Android System“ umbrella. But you should be getting much better battery.
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You're battery should look more like this
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Screen shot your phone and let's see
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BACARDILIMON said:
Screen shot your phone and let's see
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Same thing for me.
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Same thing for me.
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You guys should 1 get wake lock detector. Charge battery and let it go for a few hours and see wake lock. Also is ur phone deepsleeping.? More screen shots would help of everything.
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Try and show more info
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You guys should 1 get wake lock detector. Charge battery and let it go for a few hours and see wake lock. Also is ur phone deepsleeping.? More screen shots would help of everything.
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Not rooted, anything else you can suggest? I just got battery doctor, hopefully that will tell a more complete picture.
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Not rooted, anything else you can suggest? I just got battery doctor, hopefully that will tell a more complete picture.
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Sorry bro if u not rooted you running a lot of bloat.
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Wakala....black background on settings??? Wakala
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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Lmao 3 times. ..not my intention was the app. But ew
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Wakala....black background on settings??? Wakala
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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Lmao 3 times. ..not my intention was the app. But ew
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Loving loco dark settings and all
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Loving loco dark settings and all
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Coolio bro! I feel you when the white can be too much
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Sorry bro if u not rooted you running a lot of bloat.
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Yes, but that's also not the cause of the battery issues. As Samsung doesn't ship out a phone expecting it get 5 hours of battery life and blame it on "LOL we bloated your phone."
I will undoubtedly end up rooting the phone, as I have done with all others, but I don't want to at this point.
Last night it ran out of battery completely while I was at the bar, so I couldn't charge it. That's the first time the phone shuts off in 21 days since I first got it. All my widgets on Go Launcher were lost for some reason. I'm going to let it run through the battery today and get some screenshots later.
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Yes, but that's also not the cause of the battery issues. As Samsung doesn't ship out a phone expecting it get 5 hours of battery life and blame it on "LOL we bloated your phone."
I will undoubtedly end up rooting the phone, as I have done with all others, but I don't want to at this point.
Last night it ran out of battery completely while I was at the bar, so I couldn't charge it. That's the first time the phone shuts off in 21 days since I first got it. All my widgets on Go Launcher were lost for some reason. I'm going to let it run through the battery today and get some screenshots later.
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Samsung may not but TMOBILE and all the junk running behind the seems and carrieriq and quite a few other things will. Yes they do bloat you and laugh at ya. Either way if you wanna experience great battery life root and get to work. You can also try to leave stock fresh wipe no apps and see for yourself how much bloat hurts you.
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Yup huge difference with firecat. Oddly enough my note 3 had great battery life from just the stock rom.
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Sorry, forgot to come back to the thread. After that night when I ran out of battery and the phone turned off (for the first time since I purchased it), I've had great battery life again. So something was definitely stuck. I've now restarted the phone and used it heavily the last two days and the phone has lasted me many many hours.
I've been having battery drain for a while I do recall not having that bad battery use when I first got the phone one app that I did recently install was Facebook messenger. I did notice before I did remove it today that it was my biggest battery drainer at the top of the list. My battery drained just by playing music to 80sh percent after one hour or less. After I removed it I'm getting low to mid 90℅ during the same time. Big difference. Just trying to help those who are having bad battery life with the phone.
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I uninstalled all of the facebook apps. I get 6 hours sot without them, about 20 percent more.
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i removed facebook from all my devices 4 years ago, as facebook was draining my battery about 20%, and i wasnt even ever using it. now i use facebook in the browser only, and couldnt be happier.
I have noticed this in the last few days as well! So did my other friend with a Nexus 6. Weird. I am uninstalling until a fix comes out.
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guitardoc64 said:
I uninstalled all of the facebook apps. I get 6 hours sot without them, about 20 percent more.
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6 hours? What carrier you on and are you rooted or running stock? Just curious what launcher you use, too.
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I have noticed this in the last few days as well! So did my other friend with a Nexus 6. Weird. I am uninstalling until a fix comes out.
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6 hours? What carrier you on and are you rooted or running stock? Just curious what launcher you use, too.
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i get 5.5-6.5 hours sot usually. what rom im on doesnt matter, as it doesnt give you your battery life. what matters is how i have my cpu set up and my network quality.
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i get 5.5-6.5 hours sot usually. what rom im on doesnt matter, as it doesnt give you your battery life. what matters is how i have my cpu set up and my network quality.
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i didn't know if you had a different kernel going on, I read that Franco kernel has been doing great for some.
HOw do you have your CPU set up, if that's what matters? I can't do anything about my network quality. Thanks for any input.
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i didn't know if you had a different kernel going on, I read that Franco kernel has been doing great for some.
HOw do you have your CPU set up, if that's what matters? I can't do anything about my network quality. Thanks for any input.
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i run my cpu with mpdecision disabled, all 4 cores always on(no turning core on and off constantly), ondemand/deadline.. and the kicker, i run it at 3033mhz/300mhz(elementalx kernel).
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I have noticed this in the last few days as well! So did my other friend with a Nexus 6. Weird. I am uninstalling until a fix comes out.
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6 hours? What carrier you on and are you rooted or running stock? Just curious what launcher you use, too.
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CleanROM on Sprint. Nothing fancy, using Nova launcher.
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megareyes said:
I've been having battery drain for a while I do recall not having that bad battery use when I first got the phone one app that I did recently install was Facebook messenger. I did notice before I did remove it today that it was my biggest battery drainer at the top of the list. My battery drained just by playing music to 80sh percent after one hour or less. After I removed it I'm getting low to mid 90℅ during the same time. Big difference. Just trying to help those who are having bad battery life with the phone.
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Yeah, messenger and facebook apps drain battery a lot and also eat RAM much. If you still want to use them, just greenify them Saves RAM and battery and no background process
Facebook Messenger is known to use a lot of battery life. I prefer using the mobile webpage via Chrome, it's much better than the app itself.
After a few days without messenger its been a big difference in battery life. I do have CleanRom as well on T-Mobile. Just removed it on my nexus 7 today. Same ROM.
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i run my cpu with mpdecision disabled, all 4 cores always on(no turning core on and off constantly), ondemand/deadline.. and the kicker, i run it at 3033mhz/300mhz(elementalx kernel).
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Thanks for the input. This goes to everyone as well. I uninstalled the messenger app and am thinking about uninstalling the main facebook app just to see what happens.
Question, what root method did you guys use?
The wugfresh one click? I read that it was mostly stable, but sometimes you had to re run it. I am using a Mac.
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Thanks for the input. This goes to everyone as well. I uninstalled the messenger app and am thinking about uninstalling the main facebook app just to see what happens.
Question, what root method did you guys use?
The wugfresh one click? I read that it was mostly stable, but sometimes you had to re run it. I am using a Mac.
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Always do it the manual way and not a toolkit. Toolkits are great to having the job done but you don't learn anything while doing so. The manual way is super easy as well, even easier than a toolkit.
Especially on a Mac since you won't have to download drivers. There's a stickied post in n6 general with a step by step guide.
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Nice. I will check that out. Manual as in topping each adb command? I'm there. I did that for my nexus 7.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2948481
This sticky, right? So the chainfire rooting process is still a script, though, right?
I noticed the battery drain issue with Messenger, as well. My battery dropped to below 70% in about 4 hours and noticed Messenger was the biggest drain. I hadn't even been using Messenger. Uninstalled the app and battery was back to normal.
Battery DRAIN not battery usage
Hey guys. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this thread is about Facebook Messenger really DRAINING the battery, not just the app's (intended) high battery consumption. I've had these issues as well over the past couple of days. My battery would run out within a matter of 8-9 hours, where I usually get 30 hours+ out of my OnePlus One - and that was even though I was barely using Messenger.
I attached 2 screenshots showing the issue.
As a temporary fix I had uninstalled Messenger and that seemed to do the trick. My phone had used up only 20% battery within 8 hours ago (compared to 100% before).
There was a thead on reddit about this as well (here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2vrcuj/facebook_messenger_causing_massive_battery_drain/)
One of the replies was:
UPDATE: WE RESOLVED THE ISSUE. Details: We identified a syncing issue on Android that was affecting people’s battery life. We have fixed the issue and Messenger should be back to normal. The issue was solved on our backend so no need to update the app. Thank you all for submitting reports. Reinstall Messenger here.
Hi Reddit I'm an engineer on Messenger for Android. We're tracking the battery drain issue and are currently try to find the cause. If anyone experience excessive battery drain wants to help out we'd highly appreciate "Reporting a Problem" with "battery drain" as the issue.
If anyone is familiar with taking Android bug reports, stack dumps, or logs, please PM me or directly email [email protected]. Thank you so much for your help!
We take this issue very seriously and are working hard to fix the issue.
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Not sure if this is really fixed now, but I just installed Messenger again and I will be monitoring the apps battery usage.
Let us know! I really do like the app and it's handy. In fact, for a few weeks I went all in with facebook and installed facebook Home and used Messenger strictly as my texts and fb messages. It really does work well and chat bubbles are fun and useful. I wish I could integrate Chatheads with hangouts.
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Let us know! I really do like the app and it's handy. In fact, for a few weeks I went all in with facebook and installed facebook Home and used Messenger strictly as my texts and fb messages. It really does work well and chat bubbles are fun and useful. I wish I could integrate Chatheads with hangouts.
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Well, as I said earlier today, I had re-installed the app and from what I can tell so far the battery drain problem really seems to be fixed. In the last 5 hours - with the app installed and running the background - battery on my phone went down by 8%. Just a day ago, within those same 5 hours the Messenger app would have drained battery by ~70% easily. If anything changes I'll let you know.
I noticed this the other day too out of the blue. Uninstalled it for now, can message within the Facebook app.
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I noticed this the other day too out of the blue. Uninstalled it for now, can message within the Facebook app.
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I thought you couldn't. I tried but it says I need to install messenger? Isn't that the stink that everyone brought up a little bit ago?
Moved to General Population for All Variants
Mods Do what you need to do if you want..
Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development/rom-dirty-unicorns-5-1-1-t3162408
Guess in going to be the first one
Oh... Yeah... Me second... LOL
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Me three ?
Anyone figure out how to download from that link via mobile? I only get ads.
The "download now" button worked for me
I dunno what it is then. Ive tried chrome, stock browser and some ****ty browser from the market. The market browser downloads something but it's only 16mb.
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Got Firefox to work. Thx
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I dunno what it is then. Ive tried chrome, stock browser and some ****ty browser from the market. The market browser downloads something but it's only 16mb.
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Got Firefox to work. Thx
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This was discussed in his other thread. Use chrome not chrome beta, long press in the blue download now and open in new tab
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@optimaprime
Everyone always has to have a first time, I'm proud of you bro.
Bugs?
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Bugs?
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You can get spray bombs for them, how bad are they?
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You can get spray bombs for them, how bad are they?
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[emoji23][emoji23] sorry for off topic, but I literally LOL'ed when I read this. Back on topic...
Lawlrus said:
You can get spray bombs for them, how bad are they?
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ROFLMAO
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Bugs?
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The only thing I see not working is NFC... It don't even turns on so might be something in the device tree. I have never used that feature and may never.
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Installed this last night and it feels very snappy, can confirm that nfc doesn't turn on. I do get correct carrier info (Verizon Wireless instead of Verizon)
Edit: no GPS either, showing 0/0 satellites on GPS toolbox
Yeah, GPS Status says no GPS device found on device. Rom runs real nice aside from that.
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Yeah, GPS Status says no GPS device found on device. Rom runs real nice aside from that.
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I just now noticed this.. I usually run location on battery saver or high accuracy mode. I will look into it when I get some time.
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nobe1976 said:
I just now noticed this.. I usually run location on battery saver or high accuracy mode. I will look into it when I get some time.
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Not sure if it's fully aosp based or still using cm parts, but it's probably like cm based roms, there's an old commit that needs to be cherry picked forward to get GPS kinda working. Though it's still flaky even with that commit. I have the commits listed on post 2 of that PAC thread, if that's easier than searching JPCs thread for the past where he listed them.
It's the commit for checking if messages are supported or not. Even with that though, GPS will cut in and out in most roms.
Also USB tethering does not work, it says USB not connected. WiFi tethering works though!
As far as the "no GPS found" issue, a rom we had a while back did not have the actual GPS hardware file, after we pulled it from another rom it worked. I forgot where that file is located (/system/etc maybe?), could that be one of the problems?
Edit: /system/lib/ had no libgps, maybe that's where it is supposed to be?
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Also USB tethering does not work, it says USB not connected. WiFi tethering works though!
As far as the "no GPS found" issue, a rom we had a while back did not have the actual GPS hardware file, after we pulled it from another rom it worked. I forgot where that file is located (/system/etc maybe?), could that be one of the problems?
Edit: /system/lib/ had no libgps, maybe that's where it is supposed to be?
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System/lib/lib.utils.so and system/lib/hw/gps.msm8974.so might be gps.generic.so as well.
Fustercluck doesn't work for this ROM, from what I can tell. It hangs on the boot animation.before that everything looked good, but I didn't try GPS or NFC like others reported
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Fustercluck doesn't work for this ROM, from what I can tell. It hangs on the boot animation.before that everything looked good, but I didn't try GPS or NFC like others reported
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This would need reported in the kernel thread so he can see why there is a compatibility issue.