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Jelly Bean has killed Light Flow

Installed Jelly Bean this afternoon and so far so good.
However, Light Flow keeps crashing, so I can't use it. I've followed all instructions, restarted, removed and reinstalled but still no luck.
Anyone else having the problem, or know of an alternative?
I only need it for Gmail and Handcent SMS.

It's not Jelly Bean - it looks like the latest update to Gmail caused it.

milesg said:
It's not Jelly Bean - it looks like the latest update to Gmail caused it.
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Ah ha, good point. I just assumed it was the update to JB, but you're right, Gmail updated pretty much straight away afterwards aswell.
In that case, hopefully the lightflow guys will be on it pretty quick...

Lightflow fix is now available on Google play

milesg said:
Lightflow fix is now available on Google play
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I've just installed 3.5.2LITE and still having the same issue?
What version are you running and is it fixed for you?

I've just checked back on Play and fix in the next few hours, so I'll give it a look in the morning.
Thanks for the pointer though

WannabeMKII said:
I've just checked back on Play and fix in the next few hours, so I'll give it a look in the morning.
Thanks for the pointer though
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You'll need 3.6.0 to show in the play store.
Manic evening for me with over 10000 emails in 5 hours!

andrewpmoore said:
You'll need 3.6.0 to show in the play store.
Manic evening for me with over 10000 emails in 5 hours!
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Great, thanks for fixing so quickly and that's quite a few emails
One minor issue, I'm unable to change or the settings for 'Google Now'. If I click on it, it does nothing?

andrewpmoore said:
You'll need 3.6.0 to show in the play store.
Manic evening for me with over 10000 emails in 5 hours!
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I've been using the free version up until now - just bought the paid version!
Great app and good back up deserves to be supported :good:

milesg said:
I've been using the free version up until now - just bought the paid version!
Great app and good back up deserves to be supported :good:
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Hmm, removed the free version and upgraded to the paid one... now I don't get any LED flashing for Gmail!

milesg said:
Hmm, removed the free version and upgraded to the paid one... now I don't get any LED flashing for Gmail!
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I'm still running the free version at the moment and getting no notification for Gmail?
I'm also still unable to change anything for 'Google Now'?
Can anyone else do anything with 'Google Now', or is it just me?

I've updated to JB but don't have a app called Google Now, am I better leaving the phone as is?

kenrw7 said:
I've updated to JB but don't have a app called Google Now, am I better leaving the phone as is?
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I don't appear to have an app as Google Now in my drawer, but it's showing in Light Flow?

You start google now by holding the home softkey on the display and move your finger up to the magnifier.
Tip: Don't even try it out, let it disabled. Your phone will have ~30% less runtime when it's activated.

CentaXx said:
You start google now by holding the home softkey on the display and move your finger up to the magnifier.
Tip: Don't even try it out, let it disabled. Your phone will have ~30% less runtime when it's activated.
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Yeah, I stumbled across it that way aswell and it's disabled, as I've no intention of using it.
I just wish I could also uninstall 'SmartAction', but that's another story for another thread, as keen to get my LED notifications working first.

Thanks for the Google now I'm leaving it as well

WannabeMKII said:
I'm still running the free version at the moment and getting no notification for Gmail?
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Ah well, not just me then. I dropped the developer a mail, I guess he's probably sleeping after spending the previous night fixing the crashing problem caused by the gmail update.

WannabeMKII said:
I just wish I could also uninstall 'SmartAction', but that's another story for another thread, as keen to get my LED notifications working first.
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You can't uninstall SmartAction but you can disable it go going into settings\apps\all apps, find SmartAction and click on the disable button at the top right.

flashsam said:
You can't uninstall SmartAction but you can disable it go going into settings\apps\all apps, find SmartAction and click on the disable button at the top right.
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If you're rooted maybe, but you can't if you're not. The only option is to uninstall updates.

New version of Lightflow (3.6.1) in the Play Store that is supposed to fix the problem with Gmail notifications.
Still doesn't show Gmail notifications via the LED on my phone though.
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Quick update - I've been in touch with the developer and he suggested the following, which worked with the latest version (3.6.1) for me:
Go into lightflow->notifications gmail, select the gmail label you want (disable and enable it if already enabled) and see if that works.

Acoustic Warning

Does anyone know the name of the process that monitors acoustic levels and pops up when you turn the volume to max on headphones? On my Razr Maxx it was it's own app and I used Disable Service to stop it from warning me EVERY time.
I use a Tasker app to set volume to max in my car when streaming to bluetooth and on KitKat it only goes to about 75% volume, and I have to manually slide it up to max and press OK for it to actually change.
I can see it on my Droid Razr Maxx on JB 4.1.2 as a standalone app (can't disable from regular settings menu) but I could disable the service that monitored it. I'm guessing it's integrated into Android System or System UI now and I haven't taken the time to look at every single service in there to see which it is. Just curious if anyone else has found it yet, or another way to stop it from interfering with my desire to listen to satanic music at obscene volumes.
Thanks!

Do you reboot frequently? Because I only get that prompt once, and then it never comes up again until I reboot the phone.

use gravitybox to disable it
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Yes very annoying. It shouldn't even be on for a bluetooth. Any way to disable it without root?
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Care to post your tasker profile
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SR3TLAW said:
Care to post your tasker profile
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I use one profile to detect if I'm in the car or not. It checks if I'm connected to my bluetooth device in the car and sets a variable %INTHECAR to yes.
The actual Pandora task runs if %INTHECAR is yes and the time is between 9am and 6am (I listen to a local morning radio show on my drive to work instead of Pandora, so don't launch if it the morning show is on).
The actions for the Pandora task are:
Load App - Pandora
Wait - 5 seconds (this accounts for Android trying to reset Pandora to the previous volume you listened at)
Media Volume - 15
When bluetooth disconnects, %INTHECAR is set to no, and there is an exit task that will kill Pandora and revert some settings:
Media Volume - 0
Taskkill - Method: Extreme - Pandora
Go Home - Page 0 -- IF %SCREEN ~ off
I use the Taskkill app which adds kill support to Tasker. The built in option doesn't work anymore since like Android 4.1 or 4.2.
I have other profiles that run off of the %INTHECAR variable (auto SMS reply is one), which is why I have it set out on two different profiles.
I'd be happy to answer any questions that anyone has.

waiflih said:
use gravitybox to disable it
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Is this the only way? I've never used Gravity Box so I am not familiar with it.. Does anyone know the service name or what it might be bundled with?

fury683 said:
Is this the only way? I've never used Gravity Box so I am not familiar with it.. Does anyone know the service name or what it might be bundled with?
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It's easy to use gravity box
And in kit kat in moto x you will don't be able to find that service, because all of the services that was in a standalone app in jelly bean are integrated in kit kat in one process: android OS

d14gvn said:
It's easy to use gravity box
And in kit kat in moto x you will don't be able to find that service, because all of the services that was in a standalone app in jelly bean are integrated in kit kat in one process: android OS
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Well first off, thank you. I've used CyanogenMod before and this adds basically all the stuff I liked from it to my phone, and more.
Just to clarify, the setting in Gravity Box looks like it's defaulted to off for the audio warning. Is the unchecked state what I need for off?
Thanks again!

fury683 said:
Well first off, thank you. I've used CyanogenMod before and this adds basically all the stuff I liked from it to my phone, and more.
Just to clarify, the setting in Gravity Box looks like it's defaulted to off for the audio warning. Is the unchecked state what I need for off?
Thanks again!
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I think when you enable gravity box it turns it off
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Where do I find gravity box? I see an app in the store by that name but its a game...

jideay said:
Where do I find gravity box? I see an app in the store by that name but its a game...
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Here it is for 4.4: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554049
Here it is for 4.1/4.2/4.3: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316070
Do read the first post and all of the instruction for installation/compatibility.

OK thanks. As far as I can tell, I better not install it. I have SlapMyMoto 4.4 rooted installed on my locked phone. I do not have CWM installed either and the way the thread reads, Gravity Box may or may not be compatible with my Moto X.

jideay said:
OK thanks. As far as I can tell, I better not install it. I have SlapMyMoto 4.4 rooted installed on my locked phone. I do not have CWM installed either and the way the thread reads, Gravity Box may or may not be compatible with my Moto X.
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I rooted with SlapMyMoto 0.5c and have 4.4, with Xposed and Gravity Box and it works fine. You do need to disable write protection for Xposed to work properly, though.

Another question about Gravity Box.. How does it impact battery life? It seems like the stuff it does (battery look/feel, additional context in menus, etc) are stuff that's already there, but "hidden". With it, I've already been able to remove two existing apps from my phone, one I used for torch and another I used for a reboot button. I also turned on the network traffic monitor in the statusbar.
I assume since so many people use it that it must not take too much battery, but who knows.

fury683 said:
Another question about Gravity Box.. How does it impact battery life? It seems like the stuff it does (battery look/feel, additional context in menus, etc) are stuff that's already there, but "hidden". With it, I've already been able to remove two existing apps from my phone, one I used for torch and another I used for a reboot button. I also turned on the network traffic monitor in the statusbar.
I assume since so many people use it that it must not take too much battery, but who knows.
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I've noticed no increased battery use. But then I'm also not turning on features that require additional power. When KitKat was introduced someone at Google was quoted in a press release who said the network activity indicators in the status bar consumed a "surprising" amount of resources. If that's true, then I should think turning them back on would entail a bit of a battery hit.

[GUIDE] Fixing massive battery drain on 4.4.2 (requires root/custom recovery)

The 4.4.2 update brings a rather annoying bug in the Google location service. That's the thing that's used in things like Google Now, Google +, but also the weather widget and such. In previous versions of the system, this used to just wake the device in a configurable time interval, check current location and go to sleep again.
In 4.4.2, this service keeps a nonstop wakelock, updating your location every single moment. There's no setting to make it less aggressive. You can disable the location service in settings completely, but for me even this didn't work and it also disabled all location-dependent features of multiple apps and widgets.
Here's what I did to get rid of this absurd battery drain:
install Xposed if you haven't already (this step requires root or a custom recovery)
install Wakelock Terminator and enable it in Xposed
look for Google Play services in the list of apps and enable “Prevent Wake Lock” for this app
tap on “Filter Wake Lock” and enter the following text in the pop-up:
Code:
NlpCollectorWakeLock NlpWakeLock CheckinService NetworkLocationLocator
finally, reboot your phone
Wakelock Terminator lets you filter the wakelocks of a single app for free; if you want to limit the wakelocks of multiple apps, you'll have to make an in-app purchase.
There are other ways to get rid of the wakelock. You can freeze the offending app using Titanium. You can use the Per App Hacking Xposed module to completely disable all wakelocks for Google Play Services. Both of these, however, will break a lot of apps, including the market. Wakelock Terminator is the only Xposed module I found that lets you select which specific wakelocks to disable and which ones to allow and this is rather crucial, since the app uses other wakelocks that you don't want to disable.
There's also Greenify, you might want to check that out as well. However, greenify doesn't let you decide which aspects of an app to block and which ones to allow either. It just forces the app to freeze as soon as you don't have it in the foreground, which, in this case, means it blocks the app all the time (Google Play Services only provides background services as far as I know).

Thank you, I was planning to go back to 4.3 or even 4.2.2 cuz I have been barely getting a day when i used to get a good 2 with my use. I'll try it tonight

Is this guide for rooted phones only?
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lebmb said:
Thank you, I was planning to go back to 4.3 or even 4.2.2 cuz I have been barely getting a day when i used to get a good 2 with my use. I'll try it tonight
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Exactly the same situation here. I used to get two days with a generous reserve (although not enough to last a third day) and was down to barely a single day with 4.4.2. This fix has made the mileage sgnificantly better on 4.4.2, although I think there's still some room for improvement.
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Yes, unfortunately. You need either root or a custom recovery to install Xposed. I'll update the OP.

Thanks much appreciated

Thanks man! Great stuff! I choose this phone because it has HTC quality and a great great battery! Thanks for bringing that back!

elf_made said:
Thanks man! Great stuff! I choose this phone because it has HTC quality and a great great battery! Thanks for bringing that back!
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Thanks for this, koniiiik. Battery drain no longer as crazy as before.

NlpCollectorWakeLock & NlpWakeLock are still at the two top places of Wakelockers

SkorpEaGLe said:
NlpCollectorWakeLock & NlpWakeLock are still at the two top places of Wakelockers
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No idea. This got rid of them for me completely. Are you sure you haven't made a typo?
At any rate, Google Play services is still the top battery hog on my phone, keeping wakelocks for about 30% of time, which is still a lot. The culprits are Checkin Service and Event Log Service, I'll try to find out more about them to see if I can safely blacklist those as well.

SkorpEaGLe said:
NlpCollectorWakeLock & NlpWakeLock are still at the two top places of Wakelockers
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AFAIK, NlpCollectorWakeLock stands for Network location picker - it can be connected either with Google services (have to clear all data from gapps and google framework) or if the option of automatic wi-fi searching by google apps is enabled.

i am using the sixth sense rom right now
and there is a AppOps thing in settings
is it the same way as this guide does
if i just deny the the keep awake option for google play services?

kingkong0821 said:
i am using the sixth sense rom right now
and there is a AppOps thing in settings
is it the same way as this guide does
if i just deny the the keep awake option for google play services?
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No idea. I guess it won't do exactly what you want, if you disable wakelocks for the whole Google Play services app, you won't get notifications from apps like gmail, hangouts, the market etc. Also, it depends on how it blocks the wakelocks – whether it raises an exceptions or simply silently ignores the request. In the former case, you'll be getting force closes from all apps using Google Play services all the time, in the latter case, it would work, but probably too aggressively.
Anyway, just try and see for yourself. It might work, it might not.

Has anyone tried a soft reset?
Seems to have worked for my stock unrooted Butterfly S.
Battery seems to be better than before the update.
Very relieved.
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So far no change in battery life for me, think it's time to go back to 4.2 or maybe viper 4.3 it was worth a shot though. Thanks for trying

Thanks dude
It's work for me
Last week i try to freeze all system apps
But no change
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lebmb said:
So far no change in battery life for me, think it's time to go back to 4.2 or maybe viper 4.3 it was worth a shot though. Thanks for trying
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YMMV, of course. Before following this guide, I recommend checking that Google Play services is indeed the culprit and that it is caused by the same wakelocks. It did improve things a lot for me, although not to the same efficiency as 4.3 or 4.2.

I haven't root my bs uet, but after turning off the stupid [OK Google] hotword detection, the battery will be a lot better
The setting is under Google Voice Search, if you don't see this setting, change your language to English (US)

Mine not rooted but this way works for me....I charged it full and plug it out, turn off my phone,
I wake up turn my phone on...and my battery suddenly became sooo much better.
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koniiiik said:
YMMV, of course. Before following this guide, I recommend checking that Google Play services is indeed the culprit and that it is caused by the same wakelocks. It did improve things a lot for me, although not to the same efficiency as 4.3 or 4.2.
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you know, i can never seem to tell what is really using up power, i've tried some apps but they didn't work well, the system one in the power settings is very vague and doesn't make sense. what do you or others use? anything reliable and trust worthy?
I haven't had time to downgrade, but too busy. I flashed the only custom kernel we have and i'm underclocked to 1024 and powersaver as the governor and still not making it past 10 hours. so sad

lebmb said:
you know, i can never seem to tell what is really using up power, i've tried some apps but they didn't work well, the system one in the power settings is very vague and doesn't make sense. what do you or others use? anything reliable and trust worthy?
I haven't had time to downgrade, but too busy. I flashed the only custom kernel we have and i'm underclocked to 1024 and powersaver as the governor and still not making it past 10 hours. so sad
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I've been using the GSam battery monitor app and it appears to work quite well. However, on 4.4, none of the apps in market are likely to work out of the box, for example, GSam requires you to install and use their root companion app to give any meaningful results. Alternately, you can try some of the Xposed modules that make access to the battery stats possible.

Massive Galaxy Apps update

Went to Galaxy app store and checked under "My Apps" I had updates for messages, Bixby Vision, Live Messages and about 8 or 10 other apps. They weren't there yesterday, so you all might want to check. I'm not sure what's different yet, but it was a hell of a lot of updates.

Thanks for heads up, here's what I got

same here...
hope something's good

I think the pull down for notifications is new

marcushesketh1991 said:
I think the pull down for notifications is new
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Glad to see that's up in the official app store. People had to sideload an apk to get that for the past week or so

marcushesketh1991 said:
I think the pull down for notifications is new
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What theme are you using.

I have like none of those apps on my Verizon Note 8 Verizon sucks......

I didn't have nearly that many but I also have been looking at it the past few days so I'm pretty sure I've done most of them recently

Just checked, had like 12-13 updates! Thanks for the heads up

thunderbread said:
What theme are you using.
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Android o black

Hi all. Just checked mine and......

marcushesketh1991 said:
I think the pull down for notifications is new
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That's the only useful new feature of all the updates.. rest all are related to integration with bixby.
It was pain to reach all the way up on this everest tall phone to pull down the notifications, real pain with one handed use. Now the issue is solved.
Thanks for the info

did you guys notice that if you go to optimize your battery it stays a 90% and if you agree to mcafee scan it bumps it up to 100%

cmart0125 said:
did you guys notice that if you go to optimize your battery it stays a 90% and if you agree to mcafee scan it bumps it up to 100%
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I disabled Mcafee...mine goes to 100 without it.

whelmar said:
I disabled Mcafee...mine goes to 100 without it.
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Did you turn it on first then disable it? How did you disable it?

cmart0125 said:
Did you turn it on first then disable it? How did you disable it?
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I use the program BK Disabler from the play store. ...Enables you to disable any program that is on the phone...including system apps...

whelmar said:
I use the program BK Disabler from the play store. ...Enables you to disable any program that is on the phone...including system apps...
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Awesome, what is the name of the system app, couldn't see mcafee.

Ryano89 said:
Went to Galaxy app store and checked under "My Apps" I had updates for messages, Bixby Vision, Live Messages and about 8 or 10 other apps. They weren't there yesterday, so you all might want to check. I'm not sure what's different yet, but it was a hell of a lot of updates.
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Yep and it broke my subs black theme for messages. I had to uninstall reboot and reinstall. All good again. I get concerned when they update the UI because subs applied can crash the UI then we need a factory reset.

touchwiz also updated. the new drop down menu in home screen settings might be new for some people but I downloaded a previous apk version from sammoble.com that already had the notification pull down option. FYI sam mobile uploads most of the apks a lot quicker then Samsung lol.

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touchwiz also updated. the new drop down menu in home screen settings might be new for some people but I downloaded a previous apk version from sammoble.com that already had the notification pull down option. FYI sam mobile uploads most of the apks a lot quicker then Samsung lol.
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Drop down menu?

How to prevent ColorOS[CN] setting from changing back?

I realized that when I change some settings in ColorOS it magically changes back without telling you.
I installed Google Assistant from the app store. It required Google Assistance to be selected as the default Assistive App [default value : none]. After I changed that.. it changes back at some random amount of time.. I'm not able to work out how long it takes for it revert the setting.. but sure enough it will.
Another App is LastPass.. It requires me to Enable Autofill from accessbility Options.. Once again I turn it ON.. after some random amount of time it will revert it back to "Off"...
What can be done to stop this from happening?

Blah blah blah! said:
I realized that when I change some settings in ColorOS it magically changes back without telling you.
I installed Google Assistant from the app store. It required Google Assistance to be selected as the default Assistive App [default value : none]. After I changed that.. it changes back at some random amount of time.. I'm not able to work out how long it takes for it revert the setting.. but sure enough it will.
Another App is LastPass.. It requires me to Enable Autofill from accessbility Options.. Once again I turn it ON.. after some random amount of time it will revert it back to "Off"...
What can be done to stop this from happening?
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Happens to some degree in the EU model too,noticed the lastpass app autofill stops amongst other things. Am thinkin maybe it's the Phone Manager app which I think kills battery intensive apps if you allow it

manus31 said:
Happens to some degree in the EU model too,noticed the lastpass app autofill stops amongst other things. Am thinkin maybe it's the Phone Manager app which I think kills battery intensive apps if you allow it
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I'll give this a try.. I've gone into phone manager -> startup manager and allowed the two apps.. the two apps wasn't there even though I have allowed the app to run in the background.
We will see tomorrow.

Nope that didn't work.. anyone else have other suggestions? Anything to remove delete or hack?

Blah blah blah! said:
Nope that didn't work.. anyone else have other suggestions? Anything to remove delete or hack?
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Man,I don't know what the issue is but read on the Realme community that the OS just reverts to defaults to ensure proper functioning of the phone,
ColorOS is certainly the biggest downside to this phone. Am missing OxygenOS on my 6T a lot though I'm Gona stick with the x2 pro for now,
Bought the phone for its flagship specs and storage and and to get away from the hassle of messing around with the phones setting's with tricks and mods.
Have decided to just accept colourOS for what it us.,though there is some battery drain,it's not awful and I'm still getting notifications.
Will just have to hope things improve with updates and the next big update should improve things a lot,mind you,it's a long way to April ?

Not notice anything revert on mine... This sounds like the same issue I had on the mi 9... I can't remember how I solved it but it was something to do with the auto security checks the phone manager app did... After a set amount of time the phone manager would perform certain checks and reset certain options throughout the operating system.

ngagephone said:
Not notice anything revert on mine... This sounds like the same issue I had on the mi 9... I can't remember how I solved it but it was something to do with the auto security checks the phone manager app did... After a set amount of time the phone manager would perform certain checks and reset certain options throughout the operating system.
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Sounds about right,Have feeling the phone manager app has something to do with it.It does not like the developer options

Ok.. I found my work around for now.
I'm using tasker every 10 mins to change the accessibility options for all the apps that need it and set the google assistant to default.
Working ok so far for the last day.

Blah blah blah! said:
Ok.. I found my work around for now.
I'm using tasker every 10 mins to change the accessibility options for all the apps that need it and set the google assistant to default.
Working ok so far for the last day.
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Seems like more trouble than its worth,the only settings I'm having trouble keeping are the animation ones, but honestly it's not bothering me anymore. Have animations setting set to fast in the stock launcher setting and it's not so bad.
Didn't think lastpass was working but it has been appearing to autofill login to sites in a chrome

Did anyone found a solution? Im having this issues too...

B0dYGu4rD said:
Did anyone found a solution? Im having this issues too...
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you can simply turn off battery optimizing for the app and check... it works

Nice suggestion... Ill try this :good: