[Q&A] [ROM][4.4.4][golden] SlimKat - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Q&A for [ROM][4.4.4][golden] SlimKat
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the same to me - jstath1972
jstath1972 said:
Again everything is fine for me except Slim Launcher. FC when i try to enter to Settings / Homescreen, Dock, Drawer etc. Am i doing something wrong ? Maybe it's time for a clean install ???
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@jstath1972
the same to me. In addition, if rightones are located in external SD then there are lost after swith on/off the phone. Probably it's a bug in slimROM
so question to
 @andriod-Andi from which device the rom is ported?
Then we can talk to slimROM comunity.

YanecXDA said:
@jstath1972
the same to me. In addition, if rightones are located in external SD then there are lost after swith on/off the phone. Probably it's a bug in slimROM
so question to
@andriod-Andi from which device the rom is ported?
Then we can talk to slimROM comunity.
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I hope that helps you: move the ringtones to Ringtone folder in internal SD. The same and with Notification ringtones (to Notification folder).

solution
please, download slimlauncher3.apk from download sections.
works ok, for me

I have two problems, maybe someone can help:
1) PacPerformance won't keep statistics of the CPU frequencies reset, even when I press the button multiple times. After waiting a little (usually around 30 minutes) it adds the recent frequencies to the formerly deleted ones..
2) My phone goes to deep sleep quite rarely (~10%), even in the night, airplane mode on. WLD doesn't detect anything above 10mins wakelock, Battery statistic say phone wasn't active.. is PacPerformance wrong?
Thanks in advance!

Jkay7 said:
I have two problems, maybe someone can help:
1) PacPerformance won't keep statistics of the CPU frequencies reset, even when I press the button multiple times. After waiting a little (usually around 30 minutes) it adds the recent frequencies to the formerly deleted ones..
2) My phone goes to deep sleep quite rarely (~10%), even in the night, airplane mode on. WLD doesn't detect anything above 10mins wakelock, Battery statistic say phone wasn't active.. is PacPerformance wrong?
Thanks in advance!
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Try this PacPerformance alternative http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2401988 and report back please:good:.

jstath1972 said:
Try this PacPerformance alternative http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2401988 and report back please:good:.
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Okay will try.
Also one more thing:
Double tapping the status bar locks the screen, is there any option to disable it?
Edit: Oh pardon: sakuravtive, sio

Results from Performance Control in the last night and WLD for the last 15 hours:
And the lowbat_wake_lock is the only significant wake lock, in CPU wakelock there is nothing above 30 minutes..
Battery shows no active CPU for the time of charging, so why does it stay up?
Shall I try to freeze the apps one by one looking for the right one or is it more probable that the kernel causes it?

Couldn't add this in the other post:

Jkay7 said:
Results from Performance Control in the last night and WLD for the last 15 hours:
And the lowbat_wake_lock is the only significant wake lock, in CPU wakelock there is nothing above 30 minutes..
Battery shows no active CPU for the time of charging, so why does it stay up?
Shall I try to freeze the apps one by one looking for the right one or is it more probable that the kernel causes it?
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To freeze the apps one by one is one of the solutions. It could be many things and many conditions that cause the problem (3G always open, GPS always open, WiFi always open, bad install, gapps, some apps etc). I suggest you first to close all the connections and check if the problem persists. If it does reflash the rom and new gapps (avoid full gapps and prefer the pico pa gapps) with full wipe (Dalvik Cache/System/Cache/Data/Internal Storage) and without your apps. Five minutes after make a check with Pac Performance to see if you got the proper deep sleep value. If everything is ok install your apps one by one to see which cause the problem.
Btw try this combination: smartassV2 CPU Governor with deadline I/O Scheduler.

At night I have it in airplane, GPS is perma off, wifi only on when at home..
I let it run for the day now, as seen on the pictures..
Anyway thanks for the help, I think I will start freezing anything I don't use daily..

Hey guys. I'm thinking to flash a kernel. Would you suggest any kernel by android andi or cropol kernel or stock slimkat kernel is good for better battery life?
And if i update my baseband, would it help? And if i back up a nandroid and restore it later, will my baseband turn back to normal? I have xxamg4 baseband atm.
Thank you so much and im sorry for too many questions.
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AnyKernel is similar to the built-in Kernel. Cropol and F_Kernel from Fred68... are interesting alternatives because of OverClocking and min frequency. I made very good experience with F_Kernel, specially for battery savings.
Baseband is diffcult. Depends somtimes on your provider and location. After testing several Basebands I'm back on AMG4. With others I had often Problems with Wakelocks which ends in Battery drain.

Thank you . I'll keep my baseband as same and will try f_kernel then. I checked other roms but guess slimkat is the best about battery life. Just having a bit issue when I have my Wifi on. I'll check f_kernel. Thanks again. It helped me a lot.
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Not work on SlimKat 1150 MHZ ?
For life of battery i concur, this is obvious
Sorry i can't post in the original thread. So i will post it here. @Fred6681: 1150 MHz and SlimKat is no problem for me. No reboots, no force close[emoji3].
Greetings K.

Link to f_kernel from fred68? I wasn't able to find it for some reason..

Jkay7 said:
Link to f_kernel from fred68? I wasn't able to find it for some reason..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-mini/development/kernel-fkernel-4-4-x-roms-f2fs-t2898666

ersersoy said:
Hey guys. I'm thinking to flash a kernel. Would you suggest any kernel by android andi or cropol kernel or stock slimkat kernel is good for better battery life?
And if i update my baseband, would it help? And if i back up a nandroid and restore it later, will my baseband turn back to normal? I have xxamg4 baseband atm.
Thank you so much and im sorry for too many questions.
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Free mobile app
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iwogu said:
AnyKernel is similar to the built-in Kernel. Cropol and F_Kernel from Fred68... are interesting alternatives because of OverClocking and min frequency. I made very good experience with F_Kernel, specially for battery savings.
Baseband is diffcult. Depends somtimes on your provider and location. After testing several Basebands I'm back on AMG4. With others I had often Problems with Wakelocks which ends in Battery drain.
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1-Andi said in the original thread that the built in kernel of the rom is better and newer than any kernel, by himself. So, you might just keep it or try others like cropol (for oc)
2- I had ANA2 baseband atm I flashed the rom and experienced some 2g - 3g issues. Then I updated to ANE 2, much better now
3- Other than that, anyone alse having the clock freeze bug? Mine had the minutes ok, but one hour late, i just change the 12-24hs box twice and it was fixed.
4- My AOSP keyboard and google keyboard do not recognize when I longpress the "." button to use the ¡? etc... symbols.

Hi! Loving this ROM. Just a question. Is by any chance a possibility to have Netflix running in it? The only one thing missing to me. Thanks!

juliomm64 said:
Hi! Loving this ROM. Just a question. Is by any chance a possibility to have Netflix running in it? The only one thing missing to me.
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I second this, Netflix running would be awesome!

Related

[Q] Questions about ICS (B4 at now)

General questions about ICS working on our Streaks.
My first: i cant go to the fly mode whithout a crash rebooting. How we can solve it?
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Quick review:
1. Fly mode brings into crash -> Dont worry! Simply restart and dont power off this mode, it saves your battery a little
2. No 2g/3g radios -> We are sorry
3. I dont need useless SMS/MMS stuff -> You can uninstall it, but dont uninstall the phone.apk and telephony.apk
4. I have flickering screen at low brightness value -> [Only one way is to change it to a different level] UPDATE: use ScreenDim
5. Floating charge of battery -> ?
6. Games dont work! -> tegra2 drivers not exists
Don't do it.
giveen said:
Don't do it.
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That is the funniest answer ever!!!
2G Radio / Network
Can enable this function 2G in ICS for better Battery ? ... and future support ICS make voice calls ?
joshepw said:
Can enable this function 2G in ICS for better Battery ? ... and future support ICS make voice calls ?
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do you have ICS ?
its work fine?
not problem?
s.m.hosein said:
do you have ICS ?
its work fine?
not problem?
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Yeah, all works fine! , better than HC ... more battery life 300%, free ram, CM9 !! ... iu can install DSP manager ...
Dont work:
... only cam, video cam, phone app, 3g and 4g,no sim detect,fly mode crash, dock station ramdoly crash.
No radios besides wifi/bluetooth work.
And voice calls are still in deep discussion if its possible.
If you restart after (crashed) turning on fly mode, you should stay in it. And you can save some battery power (~7 - 10%, GO power master said, because some telephone modules and mobile internet works in background, inspite of the fact that you dont have sim card). So you can use wifi and bluetooth too (in fly mode).
Also, my Streak charged in one hour and 30 minutes from absolute zero to 100%. Is it normal? Why it is so fast?
Discharging is rather long - about 32.5 hours!
One more question: can i uninstall some system apps such as sms/mms, calls and other useless?
Go ahead and uninstall the SMS/MMS stuff, but for now don't uninstall the phone.apk and telephony.apk, I've actually had worse device performance and more crashes because of it.
New question! How can i get rid from flickering screen at 20-40 brightness value? AnTuTu CPU Master cant use GPU control because it doesnt supported for our device at now. Can we change a kernel to more tweakable maybe?
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New question! How can i get rid from flickering screen at 20-40 brightness value? AnTuTu CPU Master cant use GPU control because it doesnt supported for our device at now. Can we change a kernel to more tweakable maybe?
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Because we do not have a 2.6.39 kernel nor a 3.0.x kernel from Dell, we have done the best we can in tweaking the 2.6.36 kernel to work with ICS.
How about not having it at the brightness level? Change it to a different level.
Not long ago i installed BatteryMix program and discover, that my battery have floating charge - sometimes when i power off the screen (cpu frequency and battery temperature is falling), the charge is raising for 2 - 3%! Is it safe?
Guys, i cant play games on B4 at all! I installed many popular games, but they dont run. Even TrialX2, that i played on stock and HS 3.2, doesnt work! I tried Chainfire, but it doesnt help. What is the reason?
Games dont work because of tegra2 drivers, that this rom doesnt have. I returned to HC for this time
I am pretty sure that posting questions that had already been asked fell under this... but then again n00bs never use the search bar
Nocturnal_50, this thread is a public talk with Giveen for me, mostly. I think its a good way to posting my questions in one thread. So, give me the links or describe the answer, if you can. Nobody needs your useless comments about nothing
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Nocturnal_50, this thread is a public talk with Giveen for me, mostly. I think its a good way to posting my questions in one thread. So, give me the links or describe the answer, if you can. Nobody needs your useless comments about nothing
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Look over this, people continually ask about it, giveen has told me he will no longer be creating ROMs for the Streak 7 and that DJ_steve is the only hope for ICS_b5 unless someone new steps into the game.
Ok, maybe. So where is some faq about it? We always should read 32 pages of text?
nicolay.n said:
Ok, maybe. So where is some faq about it? We always should read 32 pages of text?
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if you are taking the TLDR approach then try from about page 26 onward
There is one thread for all versions, not only for b4, maybe - i dont know, which problem exactly described for b4 (maybe for b2 or b1 or b0.0001). Second reason - this thread is very dirty (its my opinion). Helps him dell or not, have they problems in code or not have, do they need money or bear - i dont care (as usual user). I dont want to read all of this! We need different threads for dev and for users with their questions and faq - it is normal practice for many device branches on xda. But we havent normal thread for rom, normal faq, normal question thread - and you say that i should read all garbaged (for me in this situation) text.

[Q] I need help establishing a wakelock please?

Hello all. I am writing about my wife's Note1 (N7000, 16Gb).
The phone functions just fine except for one thing. At about 50% battery, it will just go to deep sleep and will require a long press power to wake up. Happens with any battery and have tried a few different ROMs (custom and stock). A SECOND Note we have (my sister's; I have a Note2) doesnt do any of this with same batteries and same ROMs, so does seem to be weirdness with this one.
I DO have a solution which has been proven to work with a scientific cause/effect relationship:
I installed THIS app from the PlayStore:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.wl
Now I dont fully understand wakelocks, but I reckoned the CPU was going into deep sleep so I set the wakelock to be FULL (see screenshot 1). This 100% solves the problem and the phone is fully normal now, and my wife says she cant tell any loss of battery life.
SO....
Looking to do one of two things:
1. is there a way we can have this app AUTORUN on boot cos she keeps forgetting to run it when she swaps battery (which is once a day cos she is heavy outside house user) and then wakelock not running then phone sleeps! DOH! If autoruns, then she can at least SEE the wakelock screen and press the lock to be active (we are still testing how LOW a wakelock can we get away with but for now using 7)
2. even better, is there a KERNEL I can flash her to that will give me same functionality so she never even needs the app? Something where I can set a minimum CPU level in a similar fashion and it is now a set-it-and-forget-it even surviving a reboot?
See pic2 for the stock ROM she is on now and is great. Given that phone is otherwise fabulous and all else is stable and functional, I would like to keep to this ROM if at all possible so as not to introduce new weirdness. Also, given that this is such an easy software fix, I am not looking to hardware repair the phone as just want to fix this and get on with life.
Hope this is enough info for an informative and educational discussion and looking forward to some good advice.
Thanks to all, and kind regards,
Asif
So are you wanting to prevent the phone from going into deep sleep?
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So are you wanting to prevent the phone from going into deep sleep?
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Correct, yes. Need to stop the phone from sleeping so deeply that it is effecttively off now as wife misses critical reminder alarms, as well as phone calls etc. As it is (without the wakelock) the phone is pretty useless. WAS actually my sister's but had to swap and now SHE has the wife's old one. Sister is a surgeon and when phone was deeply asleep, hospital could never contact her so not good. So swapped and sister has wife's good one so that is off my back. Wife's (sister's old one) is here and easier to test out as sister lives in England and I am in Glasgow. Easier to take dodgy one and work on it here.
So need phone to remain functional until such time as battery is dead, like you would expect any normal phone to do.
So need wakelock to remain in force as described above, as WITH the wakelock active, the phone is perfect.
Thanks.
Is the phone rooted?
If so you could flash this mod i made. It prevents deepsleep.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39915561
Only works on xxlsz though
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Is the phone rooted?
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Yes it is. Sorry forgot to mention.
See edited post above
maskerwsk said:
See edited post above
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Looks like the kind of thing I need, thanks.
Was very much not keen on switching ROMs tho as this one just working perfectly, and we all know that every ROM has it's quirks. Didnt want more headaches with the wife giving me daily anecdotes of weirdness!
What do you reckon would happen if I were to try flashing this on LSO ROM? I suppose the worst thing is a bork and then I just wipe and reflash LSO fresh? Is this just a typical CWM zip?
Or is there anything just like this (kernel or mod) that could be flashed on LSO?
Appreciate your time and help so far.
The mod is in the androidpolicy.jar so i doubr it will work. Worth a try as long as you backup first
maskerwsk said:
The mod is in the androidpolicy.jar so i doubr it will work. Worth a try as long as you backup first
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OK, thanks.
Before I do, will wait to let the thread cook a wee bit and see if any other alternatives emerge.
Cheers.
asifanwaruk said:
OK, thanks.
Before I do, will wait to let the thread cook a wee bit and see if any other alternatives emerge.
Cheers.
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Bump.
Any other ideas before I try the above?
Thanks.
Just a follow up if anyone is following this.
I DID flash the LSZ ROM and the zip patch and phone still died that night and failed to ring the morning's wake up alarm. To be honest, I am not sure what is going on with it. I have done a 'deep clean' (actually too much and I bricked it and then recovered it! Code Brown!!) and now flashed Slim Bean 4.2.2 to try something totally different and get away from a Sammy based ROM.
We shall see by tomorrow if phone can sleep at night without going into a coma, and then wife's wake up alarm can still ring.
If not then I think it is time for a service.
But wanted to come back on here and thank you for your time and efforts anway.
Kind regards.

how to check services running and problems?

hi, I have an N7000 with slimkat 4.4.2
sometimes the phone stops working (is like if some app is overloading) and starts heating so much that I need to remove the battery to restart the functionality (with almost 10% battery gone in the process)
Is there any app or any way to check if some service is running too long or is taking too much CPU and stop or restart it?
I ve had the same problem it comes from s bad cpu clocks setting.
Try to do a small underclocking.u will have more battery life and you'll have less cpu freezing. ( this was how i fixed this problem on my phone
My phone Gt-I8160 With Cm11 Developed by team canjica
My works : my YouTube Chanel called rubend447 ;D
If u want somethink : ask me, no problem.
thanks, should I pick any of the various app that can manage cpu freq or do you have one suggested for this problem?
zazolo said:
thanks, should I pick any of the various app that can manage cpu freq or do you have one suggested for this problem?
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there are two paid apps (set cpu and faux 123 but i dont like them.) i prefer rom tolbox that works fine and has a lot of freatures.

[Q&A] [KK 4.4.4][ROM]Mackay ROM 4.9.13 (11-Oct-2014)

Q&A for [KK 4.4.4][ROM]Mackay ROM 4.9.13 (11-Oct-2014)
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Thnx
Thankyou kasper,
I have update without problem.
Work like a charm.
Battery Life
I just installed this ROM, and previously I had the CM11 that was too slow for me. It's not incredibly fast on my I9000 but works fine, the only problem is the battery lifespan that compared to the original gingerbread 2.3.6 it's really less (10 hours almost)
Hi Kasper
I was wondering if there is going to be an update soon as the m12 has just rolled out with security fixes
Thanks for all your hard work
Hi peeps.
Just a quicky..
Is there anyway of changing screen DPI on this ROM.. If so how.??
(I have used kernel tweaker DPI function & two other DPI changing apps - but of no luck)
# sent from a blazing slim SGSi9000 using tapatalk 2 #
Profile & sound settings
Hello,
First of all, I wish to thank you, karsper_h. Your 4.9.14 ROM has given a real rebirth to my old SGS.
Unfortunately, I encounter a small problem with your rom: I am using the profile feature of CM to automatically switch setting (wifi, sounds, etc...) depending on where I am (or should I say when I am, since this is time based).
In settings/sound, I can change the ring volume all right.
However, The setting which is recorded in the profile does not get applied.
Assume the ring volume is set to the maximum. Then I have a profile called "work", where the ring volume is set to a low value.
Switching to the "work" profile does not modify the ring volume.
This was working on CM10 & CM11.
For the record, my phone went from stock 2.3.6 (factory reset) to CM10.1.3 to CM11-M12 to MacKay 4.9.14. I did not wipe the phone when going from CM12 to MacKay, considering the two roms are exactely at the same verion level.
I do not have experienced other problem: this rom is actualy fast and stable.
Is someone else experiencing this problem ?
remap bluetooth earphone buttons
Is there a way to remap the earphone bluetooth buttons ? Actually long pressing volumes up redial the last call, and long pressing volume down launch a voice recognition app that doesn't understand a word I say
thanks
Texdroider has always worked for me. It's in the store.
battery duration
How long is the battery duration with the i9000 whit this ROM (MACKAY 4) ?
james3Italy said:
How long is the battery duration with the i9000 whit this ROM (MACKAY 4) ?
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It heavily depends on your usage of the phone.
If I leave my I9000 alone, with wifi and data off, the battery consumption can get below 1%/hour.
In my normal usage, it's about 2%/hour on average, giving easily more than one day of autonomy.
If your battery doesn't last that long, then something is preventing your phone to go into deepsleep state when idle.
To find out what is causing this, I suggest you install the application BetterBatteryStats, available on f-droid (no ads) and the playstore (with ads).
Hope this will help you.
Problem with Google Apps
Hi kasper_h
I want to say thank you for this ROM. Really vgood and probably the best rom for our GT-I9000.
Regards
elhennig
Try PICO MODULAR PACKAGE - Proper DPI Play Services (recommended) from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2397942
I have no any problem since I start use it on cm-Mackay_ROM_4.9.14. On the new ...999 also works flawlessly.
Hello Kasper
First thankyou for this awesome rom,
I have a question for overclock,
I go to performace and to CPU frequency i select 1200MHz, but after usin phone with overclock restart automatically.
Can anyone tell me what is problem??
Your phone is designed to work at 1GHz frequency, perhaps 1.2GHz is too taxing for your phone.
Errors over and over!!!
any Crash Error that you can think about appear in my phone since yesterday! i was using this rom for months but these problems started annoying me from yesterday! it even doesn't let me check my sms messages and answer them! or even can't use dialer! etc.!
Errors:
Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped!
Unfortunately, process com.google.process.gapps has stopped!
Unfortunately, Trebuchet has stopped!
and ...
the errors show after another over and over! specially when i connect to internet(turning wifi on)
Even sometimes desktop does'nt load!! :| :| :|
Is there any solution!!??
* I don't want to lose any data and applications,sms, etc!
Problem with touch-input
Special thanks for the creator of this ROM for his efforts.
I have a question concerning a bug I am experiencing. Often I am not able to make any touch-command on the right wing of the screen, about 1cm, this is especially annoying when it happens during typing. I experienced the same bug on CM11, but not on the original firmware, I believe. The occurence is not bound to any special app, it even happens on the Home screen.
Is this a known bug and is anyone experiencing the same? Any suggestions what causes this?
Sometimes after rebooting i dont seem to be able to get my SIM card recognized and so have no mobile network.
does anybody else have this?
I think that this rom is the best of the best and i think the best rom must have the best splash screen so i prefer to change the splash screen
Hey i think you must re-install the rom and i think it will work
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA Free mobile app
Mackay ICS for i9000 which one?
Please could you gently tell me which is the Mackay ICS ? On the link I found 4 files
cm-Mackay_ROM_2.999_Final.zip
cm-Mackay_ROM_3.9.9_Final.zip
MackayROM_CM9_galaxysmtd_2014_1.7.zip
Mackay_ROM-1.9.0-cm10-full.zip
Hi Kasper,
I want to thanks you a lot for your ROM I use from 1.xx to 4.99 and my SGS go fine and smoth, Very Excellent Work!!! You are Great!!!
I am very happy that you are working on a ROM based on LP

Xperia Z won't wake up from a deep sleep state, then reboots.

Hey Xda'ers, I have this weird (and really frustrating ) problem with my Xperia Z, when it enters Deep Sleep mode, sometimes it won't come back (won't turn on the screen & wake up.) I keep tapping the status bar (got CM11 Nightly & tap to wake option enabled) and hitting the power button to wake up, but it never does, then it just reboots.
The only workaround i've found it's to implement a partial wakelock so the cpu keeps running even if the screen is off, but thats eating my battery away. I Bought the phone a month ago and since its arrive, has this problem, i know it's a software problem cause if it wasn't, then there would be no workaround like the cpu kept running all the time (or at least my noob brain figures that out ). it's been really frustrating. the most frustrating part is not finding ANYWHERE on the internet (not even here on XDA) any resemblance to the same problem im facing, they are all different kinds of rebooting problems, but not even one the same as mine, it means my problem it's really new or special, or i'm not looking up really well, anyways it's been so frustrating for me this month, cause i repeat, since it arrived it has this problem.
First i thought it was a Wifi Problem, cause it happens when i get a notification meanwhile is asleep (i've seen it happen more often but it happens with or without a notification too.) and the screen off; When i try to wake up to see the notification, the problem triggers and it wont wake up, so i installed "Advanced Wifi Lock" (I saw a thread with a similar problem but with an Xperia Pad of some girl on the Sony Mobile Forums, and one guy posted this solution as the only workaround he had found to the same problem.) and the problem was solved.
But then i realized that it was eating my battery, so i changed to "Wakelock Power Manager" (cause i read it was a lighter weigh solution than "Advanced WiFi Lock") and there, there is this option for the implementation of various degrees of wake lock, since i thought it was a wifi problem, i turned on the "WiFI_Mode_Hi_Perf" which is a wakelock that keeps the wifi running in a high performance mode even while in deep sleep, i thought this was a lighter solution to my problem, but then the deep sleep reboot problem started again :crying:. so i tried increasing the level of wakelock to a "Partial_Wake_Lock" which is a wakelock that keeps the CPU running even while the screen is off, but this wakelock won't let the phone enter in a deepsleep mode, so it's the "Advanced Wifi Lock" problem all over again. Battery Drain . And this pisses me off, cause my battery, that should have a more than 14 life hours, just have those with a 4-5 hours of screen on time with a mild use of whatsapp and facebook.
I don't know what to do, i've tried flashing other Stock Firmwares, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, reflashing the original (was a 4.1 "10.1.1.a.1.307 customized hk"),, rooting and flashing roms, and the problem persists. I left CM11 on cause i like it and i don't think it has anything to do with the rom or firmware cause i've tried so many already.
Finally, over a month of trials and reading and so, so, so, but SO much frustration, i come to you guys, i don't know what to do anymore, Please Help .
Just bumping with some screenshots with details about my phone, i guess it will be easier to solve the problem, if posible, somehow. Muy Xperia Z is a 6603 model btw.
Note: I set the minimun CPU frecuency to 486 because i had the weird "buzz" sound problem sometimes with whatsapp & messenger notifications, & found that solution here over the forums, anyways, the problem was there way before that change.
I ask for some help again developers, i didn't wanted to start a help thread before i did my research & exhausted all my options, but i've done everything i could, & still got no solution, hope the screenshots help .
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I had the same thing, and mine was fixed with increasing my minimum CPU speed to 384. Runs like a dream now!
I know you'v said you've tried a whole load of different roms but have you tried any different kernels? Mine seemed to come up only when using certain kernels.
i had the CPU running on 384 since i bought it, i only recently changed cause of the buzz problem, & no, i haven't tried different kernels, only different roms, i don't know how to flash a kernel only.
What kernel do you have? & Just to be sure, you had the same rebooting problem when it went to deep sleep mode right?
Thanks for answering.
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I haven't got a solution but get the same problem on the stock 4.4.2 kernel, intermittently between once a day and every other day, so I can live with it. As I recall the problem was more frequent until I got rid of a legacy app which put the phone to sleep when I shut the case, and was supposed to wake it up when the case was opened (which didn't always happen and about half the time I couldn't wake the screen with the on-button either, only reboot). It was a battery hog too. Running the CPU faster (up to 904??) didn't help, though.
mervluk said:
I haven't got a solution but get the same problem on the stock 4.4.2 kernel, intermittently between once a day and every other day, so I can live with it. As I recall the problem was more frequent until I got rid of a legacy app which put the phone to sleep when I shut the case, and was supposed to wake it up when the case was opened (which didn't always happen and about half the time I couldn't wake the screen with the on-button either, only reboot). It was a battery hog too. Running the CPU faster (up to 904??) didn't help, though.
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With once a day or every other day i could live with it too, i guess it's worth to let the phone deep sleep and save more battery even tho it reboots once a day or sometimes none, the battery saving should be greater than the annoyance, i hope mine was like that, but as soon as i release the cpu wakelock & let the cpu get into deep sleep, the problem begins, i get like 10 reboots in a day, and if only the reboots just happened when i weren't looking, but no, they barely happen this way, it happens when i try to use it and i notice it won't wake up, it's a really weird problem, & i find it very weird that no one has it. (you two guys are the first that i know have this kind of problem, and still, it's slightly different, for the number of reboots at least.) although it's good to know finally someone has the same issues as me, though i don't have high hopes since you told me you haven't found a solution.
I wanna try flashing a different kernel as orangejuice43 said, but i don't know how, or any compatibility issues with the rom i have (CM11 Nightly), sides, i don't know which kernel would be good to try.
Thanks for answering!
Flashed succesfully "Lightning Kernel v. 8.0" for CM11, will test for a few hours or days hopefully, if reboot comes i'll notify you guys, so far this is the first "new" solution i try.
After less than two hours of flashing the "Lightning v. 8.0" Kernel and the partial wakelock off, the reboot problem happened again, no solution yet, and have the wakelock up again.
Anyone having the same issues? anyone with another suggestions or fixes? bummed down here .
Jorge Plascencia said:
After less than two hours of flashing the "Lightning v. 8.0" Kernel and the partial wakelock off, the reboot problem happened again, no solution yet, and have the wakelock up again.
Anyone having the same issues? anyone with another suggestions or fixes? bummed down here .
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Flash another ROM...
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That's a shame, I'm using lighning v8 and my problem is sorted. Sorry I can't be of much more help... lets hope a more knowledgeable person may be able to contribute for you.
Have you got an app like Trickster MOD installed to control the Kernel etc? might give you more of an insight as to what's going on. If you set a governor that keeps your Z from going into deep sleep it may be a bit better for your battery life than the wakelock solution...
This might help for information about Kernels
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/general/ref-kernel-governors-modules-o-t1369817
Sorry for the late reply, i was on a trip so i couldn't actually test & give any feedback.
I downloaded Trickster Mod for my lightning kernel but all i could understand (after reading the post orange kindly shared.) was that every governor has this different settings that mod the cpu functionality & can be picked to adapt your own needs, i really doubt that any of them help with my problem, but as orange suggested, one may be a better choice compared to the wakelock fix i have used lately. i learned that since i flashed the lightning kernel, my governor was Interactive all this time, i really didn't noticed any battery drain or saving, i felt it just the about the same as before with the stock CM11 kernel.
a new question is, which kernel has the option or the setting for keeping the cpu awake? cause i didn't read any of them did this, or at least i didn't understood that any of them did this. anyways, that would be only another work around for the deep sleep reboot problem.
I though, read something interesting about frequencies and voltage of the cpu on the Thread, this:
Q. "Well i have set my favorite governor as screen-on governor and another one as screen-off governor. Why the hell is the phone not waking up after deep sleep. I need to force-restart the phone by pressing power button for about 10 secs. Is it a sleep-of-death?"
A. Yes it is. Do not use two governors as screen-on & screen-off govs, if they both have an upper frequency limit for screen-off state.
Didn't get it? Examples for Wrong combinations: (screen-on:screen-off):-
ondemandX:smartassV2
Examples for right combinations:-
ondemand:smartassV2, lulzactive:smartassV2
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The Question resembles just exactly what my problem is, my phone enters into deep sleep and then it won't wake up, the only difference is that i don't have to force restart it, it just. when i try to wake it up, restarts itself, with no need of long pressing the power button, and sometimes, i just find that the phone is off, and then i do have to start it by long pressing the power button (plain old power on.), but that brings me another question, isn't that maybe the problem is on the frequency & voltage side of my CPU? maybe the stock kernel (not CM11, and for the matter CM11 too, cause the problem persists, even with lightning kernel...) came with a rare code line or something? i dunno, im just wondering, maybe it doesn't make sense, but its just that the question and problem stated there on the thread about governors and kernel settings, resembles very much what my problem is.
I hope someone can orient me about this or make a mental link with something (maybe) wrong about my kernel or phone, could it be hardware? :crying: . I don't know, maybe i should try another kernel? maybe i should go back to Stock ftf and try another kernel? any suggestions or long shots are apreciated.
Thanks for the replies, & sorry for all the descriptions and text, it maybe kind of boring -_-.
Adding another detail that i may have not mentioned, the problem NEVER happens while plugged in, (don't know if phone has a setting preventing deep sleep while plugged in, if it does, that may be the cause )
Update: just flashed AOKP ROM (jellybean 4.3 version) will test for a few hours or mins till the problem arises again... (lost all my Xposed modules & settings :crying: .)
Update 2: After less than 2 hours again, around the 1:30-1:45 hours time, reboot problem happened. getting sick of trying...
Update 3: Just flashed AOKP ROM (Kitkat 4.4 version). less than 15 min into the flash, reboot happened... help...
will flash Paranoid Android 4.4 Later.
Update 4: Flashed Paranoid Android 4.4, nearly 2 hours of deep sleep and 2:14 hours of total on time, reboot occured, was getting high hopes about this ROM, but as i said on my first post, i don't think it has anything to do with the ROM- Side note: PA is really cool, im sticking with it. and hoping anyone still answers with some fix or advice. thanks for reading.
Jorge Plascencia said:
Adding another detail that i may have not mentioned, the problem NEVER happens while plugged in, (don't know if phone has a setting preventing deep sleep while plugged in, if it does, that may be the cause )
Update: just flashed AOKP ROM (jellybean 4.3 version) will test for a few hours or mins till the problem arises again... (lost all my Xposed modules & settings :crying: .)
Update 2: After less than 2 hours again, around the 1:30-1:45 hours time, reboot problem happened. getting sick of trying...
Update 3: Just flashed AOKP ROM (Kitkat 4.4 version). less than 15 min into the flash, reboot happened... help...
will flash Paranoid Android 4.4 Later.
Update 4: Flashed Paranoid Android 4.4, nearly 2 hours of deep sleep and 2:14 hours of total on time, reboot occured, was getting high hopes about this ROM, but as i said on my first post, i don't think it has anything to do with the ROM- Side note: PA is really cool, im sticking with it. and hoping anyone still answers with some fix or advice. thanks for reading.
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It's look like the battery is damaged or something...
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androidfreak70 said:
It's look like the battery is damaged or something...
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That sounds good cause the problem only happens when the phone is unplugged, but then again, what does it have to do with the CPU lock? the problem solves when i have a wakelock for the CPU, if the battery was damaged, probably it wont matter if the CPU is on or in deep sleep, it would just reboot randomly still, but that has never happened.
tldr: But CPU wakelock solves the rebooting problem, doesn't make sense.
Jorge Plascencia said:
That sounds good cause the problem only happens when the phone is unplugged, but then again, what does it have to do with the CPU lock? the problem solves when i have a wakelock for the CPU, if the battery was damaged, probably it wont matter if the CPU is on or in deep sleep, it would just reboot randomly still, but that has never happened.
tldr: But CPU wakelock solves the rebooting problem, doesn't make sense.
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There is nothing called *CPU lock* wake lock is not preventing the phone from waking up.
Wake lock is the apps which wake the phone from the deep sleep mode. Like WhatsApp. When you get a message the phone will wake up from deep sleep.
You cannot lock the CPU.
Anyway. Your primary problem seems with the battery because many people reporting while they unplug the phone it will reboot or turn off. So changing the battery may help.
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androidfreak70 said:
There is nothing called *CPU lock* wake lock is not preventing the phone from waking up.
Wake lock is the apps which wake the phone from the deep sleep mode. Like WhatsApp. When you get a message the phone will wake up from deep sleep.
You cannot lock the CPU.
Anyway. Your primary problem seems with the battery because many people reporting while they unplug the phone it will reboot or turn off. So changing the battery may help.
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Yes i understand that's what "wakelock" means, what i meant, it's that i have this app called Wakelock Power Manager, and in that app, i got this "Partial_Wake_Lock" on, & that's the only way around i could find for the problem, on the description of this option it says "Ensures the CPU is running even if screen is off." so that's what i meant when i said i had a CPU lock or wakelock, sorry if i didn't made myself understand.
regarding your suggestion, i don't know, i don't wanna spend more money on a "maybe" solution, i've already spent quite a lot buying this phone, and had a bad experience trying other common solutions as replacing the sim card with a new one, didn't solved anything. i would like to be sure that is the problem before spending more bucks on this.
Thanks for the reply.
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Yes i understand that's what "wakelock" means, what i meant, it's that i have this app called Wakelock Power Manager, and in that app, i got this "Partial_Wake_Lock" on, & that's the only way around i could find for the problem, on the description of this option it says "Ensures the CPU is running even if screen is off." so that's what i meant when i said i had a CPU lock or wakelock, sorry if i didn't made myself understand.
regarding your suggestion, i don't know, i don't wanna spend more money on a "maybe" solution, i've already spent quite a lot buying this phone, and had a bad experience trying other common solutions as replacing the sim card with a new one, didn't solved anything. i would like to be sure that is the problem before spending more bucks on this.
Thanks for the reply.
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Well yeah that's right. I suggest you to wait for others. I may be wrong.
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Jorge Plascencia said:
regarding your suggestion, i don't know, i don't wanna spend more money on a "maybe" solution, i've already spent quite a lot buying this phone, and had a bad experience trying other common solutions as replacing the sim card with a new one, didn't solved anything. i would like to be sure that is the problem before spending more bucks on this.
Thanks for the reply.
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Just a thought: are you sure it's not a misbehaving app? I'd start with the obvious suspects, those that run in the background or make regular checks, and find tb's freeze facility invaluable; not least your Wakelock monitor, perhaps!
mervluk said:
Just a thought: are you sure it's not a misbehaving app? I'd start with the obvious suspects, those that run in the background or make regular checks, and find tb's freeze facility invaluable; not least your Wakelock monitor, perhaps!
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About the misbehaving app, i really don't think so, as i said in my first post, the problem was already there 1 hour after unboxing, it could be a stock app, but im not sure how to 'find' it. and about the rest, sorry but i didn't understood could you be more clear (noobier) please? ha, thanks in advance!
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About the misbehaving app, i really don't think so, as i said in my first post, the problem was already there 1 hour after unboxing, it could be a stock app, but im not sure how to 'find' it. and about the rest, sorry but i didn't understood could you be more clear (noobier) please? ha, thanks in advance!
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If you are saying after 1 hour of unboxing so I think you need to talk with the seller. Maybe you will get another Z.
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