My phone is only about 3 weeks old now, but after a day or 2 of normal, heavy usage it starts to lag. A reboot always seems to clear up the problem and it runs super fast for the day and then all of a sudden it starts lagging again. It's most notable when I lock the phone and then try to unlock it again within a minute. It just hangs there and won't respond for up to 30 secs or so. It's really frustrating if I get a phone call and try to answer it.
It seems to me that there is something that's running in the background that is eating up resources, but I can't seem to tell what it is. I'm currently running Google Now Launcher, but I've seen the problem with stock TouchWiz as well. Is this a common problem and anyone have a solution for it. I love the phone with this one exception.
Thanks
I'd also like to add that when I go into battery usage, "Android System" seems to be very high. Any ideas what is causing Android System to be my highest battery drain?
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I need some help to find out what drains my damn battery so fast =(...
My phones battery usually drops in less than one day and I noticed that in the Battery History the "Execute Time" listing sometimes rises while the phone should be in sleep mode with the screen off. This is probably caused by an app or widget I guess. Or could wifi on also cause this? I've set the wifi sleep policy to sleep when screen is off so that shouldnt be the problem, and this also occurs with wifi off.
My Firmware is Doc's Froyo JPO with hardcore kernel (K2.2 200hz)
I have no rfs advanced ext4 lagfix and the tweaks enabled.
On the phone I use the following apps/widgets:
LauncherPro v0.8.1.1
Jorte (plus widget)
Fancy Widget 1.3.0 (auto-updates disabled, old version for the sense look)
Droid Wall (blocked alot of apps which load ads)
Fruit Ninja (blocked internet access with droid wall)
Root Explorer
ES File Manager
and a few more which I havent been using lately so they cannot cause this either.
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The thing is:
When I restart the system, the execute-leak doesnt occur anymore. It starts at like 90% right after start (meaning 90% of the time the phone was on there was something running) .. but when i turn off screen and let it lie for about 5 minutes it goes down pretty fast.. so nothing is running then. But after using the phone a bit.. the leak occurs and the execution time rises and rises..
Of those apps I mentioned, are there any known to cause excessive battery drain? My guess is fancy widget.. ill try it out without it.. well I already did but the results were not clear yet.. the leak still occured with fancy widget deinstalled (but i think i didnt restart system afterwards).
Or: How can I find out exactly what is running still on the phone while the screen is off? Would logcat show this?
Hope someone can help me please, this is really a big problem for me atm if the phone doesnt even last one day.
Anyone know how you can get battery usage PER APP as my battery is dying within 4 hour in standby with "nothing" running so I want to ascertain the little ****er doing it...?
I would also appreciate any help!
Matt
Hmmm .. it seems that Fruit Ninja is causing this problem somehow... but I have to investigate further.
After I play Fruit Ninja the execution time keeps rising even after i exit game and "mediaserver" is showing in the cpu usage statistics and keeps rising.
Maybe its because I put it on the SD, but I tried out another game before and this also lies on the sd.
I will investigate further. While Fancy widget might still drain battery its definetely not the thing that causes execution time to rise when the screen is off.
Ohh I just browsed the web and searched about fruit ninja and mediaserver.. some other users report that.
It seems mediaserver isnt properly closed when the prog exits.. but how can i kill the mediaserver it doesnt apper in tasks
Man I hate replying to my own threads.. but it defenitely is mediaserver.
Now I can only fix it if I restart the phone it seems.
How can I end/kill/restart that damn process? I tried killing it in the terminal but ps still shows it and its still taking cpu time.
kill -9 mediaserver
kill -9 /system/bin/mediaserver
kill -9 android.process.media
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all didnt work so far it seems.. someone has to know a way to kill that process or fix that problem.. please guys. It will probably help alot of people since that mediaserver "bug" of taking so much cpu power seems to hit quite a few people.
Hi, I've the same problem, after exiting fruit ninja, mediaserver eats a lot of cpu. I've to run script with "killall mediaserver".
This is really bad that some applicaiton hangs this process. I'm on android 2.2.1 JPY (darkys).
same problem on insanity rom
even rebooting my phone can't stop this
is this a problem with the kernel, rom or the game?
Its funny, there called smart phones, but yet we have to manually and frustratingly
close apps ourselfs, sometimes I wonder that these smart phones are really DUMB!
I do love my SGS, but it has pissed me right the feck off so many times it aint funny, I think maybe if the SGS was released a few months later so Samsung could polish it up to what it can REALLY do, it would be worth the €500...rant finished...
Hi, looked for similar in threads but found no resolution.
After charging and booting I noticed the battery draining especially quickly recently. When looking at Spare Parts/battery history it shows running at 100%.I drop down Partial wake usage and usually two highest programs are Android system and UID 10015(?). When these are then pressed it shows the up time but not amounting to the total since boot.
When opening both CPU Spy and CPUStats they confirm NO deep sleep time.
To remedy this I have tried various from simple reboot, to kill all, changing various settings, opening apps and most recent flashing new rom CM 6.1.2 from previous CM 6.1.0.
Now here's the weird part - no one remedy works all the time, it's a question of hit and miss, such as this morning it took 3 reboots to work, yesterday a mess around with some apps cleared it.
Oh, and I did a full wipe/factory reset when flashing.
One last thing the problem only manifests itself from a reboot, so once cleared it runs sweet until I switch off at end of day and charge it.
Hope you can help cos although the problems not life threatening it sure is bugging the hell outa me.
Thanking in anticipation
Hi guys
I'm running Jellybam on my Note. Have had no problems previously. Lately, when i'm playing a game, the screen will start to flicker then the device shuts itself off.
I know this happens at low battery levels, however, this is happening when my phone is on full or near full charge. It's driving me crazy as I can't play any game for more than a few minutes at a time.
Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is and any solution please?
Try changing kernel and stay at stock freq.
Sent from my HTC One X
This is common with old, degraded battery's. If the battery is more then 1 year old or you use the battery a lot then you will have to change it. A friend had a similar problem and he just bought a new battery.
I'm having serious battery issues that just started out of nowhere. I'm currently only getting about 4 hours of light use before having to recharge.
I'd like to look at what apps are using the battery but there are only 5 apps listed and they add up to only 27% (the highest is screen at 12%).
Phone is not rooted and I haven't loaded any new apps recently.
I noticed this as well. I used to use Better Battery Stats when I was rooted, so I didn't know if it was normal to act this way or not. Sounds like it isn't.
Currently having the same issue. Seems like my battery started tanking right around Christmas. I got a Huawei watch and originally suspected that but turning it off and leaving it home for a day didn't seem to help. The battery stats on the S6 are garbage and I can't track down what is going on.
Been noticing the same issue on my G920A. I tried doing a cache clear, but that doesn't seem to have helped. I went through all the running apps and services to try and find anything that could be eating the battery, but nothing seems to be reported that adds up to the amount that's getting eaten.
I use greenify for handling the hibernation of apps when they don't seem to act right by themselves, but since the phone isn't rooted, I have to manually run this operation - and that really doesn't help much anyway. Figured I'd add my experience to this thread just as a means of documenting the situation.
So Lately my Galaxy Note 5 became pain in the butt. While watching youtube on "Youtube app" the screen turns to black, and then I have to pause or play, to have the screen back into play. Same happens with Netflix app I keep getting an error and it closes the app.
The other issue i am facing is battery drains so Fast. I leave the phone with a complete charge at night, and in the morning like in 6-7 hours , the phone is dead. Even if it is on battery saving mode.
I am with Verizon, and most of the time it is connected to WiFi.
I had this phone for 2 years, never faced issues such this? - Is there anyway to solve it, cause i do not want to change the phone yet. Also I have tried to do hard reset, everything, shutting it down ,etc.. it is not fixing the issue
Any suggestions? - Maybe it is the latest update causing the issue?
You might need to change the battery especially if you've done a hard reset among other things.