[problem] Screen gets darker in certain apps - Huawei P9 Plus Questions & Answers

Hi, since the OTA update to VIE-L09C432B181 on my P9+ there's the problem that the screen gets dimmed in some apps like chrome, Gmail, Nova Launcher, while other apps show normal brightness.
This can best be seen when clicking a link in Google+ (normal brightness): when chrome opens, the screen gets a little darker. Going back to Google+ restores the normal brightness.
I had this symptom on the older firmware B170 only when power mode (energy plan) was set to "intelligent". When set to "power", brightness remained constant for all apps. But with B181, the problem is always there, no matter what energy plan I choose.
I heard from someone who did the firmware upgrade to B181 manually using a "preview leaked version" that he is not affected. So it's the OTA version that causes the problem?
Do you have any idea, what I can try in order to fix it?
Preferably without having to Reset and Reinstall all apps from scratch?
Thank you.

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[Q] What Bloatware have you frozen/uninstalled without incident?

On my LG Revolution My SystemPanel App shows about 350 MB memory and 12 GB on the SD card. It also cites System Storage 1 GB, Application Storage 1.5 GB and Cache 193 MB. The SuperBox app shows 1.5 GB "Phone" memory. With about 25 applications "active" and several widgets installed, I still have 134 MB memory left
So far I've found the battery life not great, definitely have to charge during the day with 4lte and wifi on.
Noticed a bunch of the bloatware widgets took up memory even when I deleted them from the homescreen. Used TitaniumBackup to Freeze
Apps I've frozen with no apparent problems (yet).
411 Search
AutoRun
Backup Assistant
Bing
BitBop
Blockbuster
Bookmarks Widget
City ID
com.android.LGSetupWizard
com.android.providers.applications
come.lge.mobilehotspot
DeskHome
Digital Clock Widget
Email
Email Widget
Friends+ Widget
Guided tours
Home 2.2.2
In Touch Widget
Lets Golf
LGWirelessChargingService
LTE Test Application
Message Widget
Mobile IM
Music Visualization Wallpapers
Netflix
News 1.0
Polaris Office
Rhapsody
Rock Band
Setup Wizard
SmartShare
Software update
Sync Service
Today+Widget
VCast Apps
VCast Media Manager
VZ Navigator
Weather
What's New
What's New Widget
Wi-Fi control widget
World clock widget
Cutterstark said:
On my LG Revolution My SystemPanel App shows about 350 MB memory and 12 GB on the SD card. It also cites System Storage 1 GB, Application Storage 1.5 GB and Cache 193 MB. The SuperBox app shows 1.5 GB "Phone" memory. With about 25 applications "active" and several widgets installed, I still have 134 MB memory left
So far I've found the battery life not great, definitely have to charge during the day with 4lte and wifi on.
Noticed a bunch of the bloatware widgets took up memory even when I deleted them from the homescreen. Used TitaniumBackup to Freeze
Apps I've frozen with no apparent problems (yet).
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Ya, coming from the incredible, even stock I would have 100-150 mbs of ram, and rooted I'd have usually 180-210. This phone, having the same amount of ram as that, will be anywhere from 30-100 usually. That's some pretty bad bloat.
In 3g only network, the phone actually has a really good battery(compared to the incredible), I can go all day without root so far, the baddest part is the % i lose just sitting there without use and the screen off, it sucks.
And have you been able to assign Google where Bing had priority before? I have the bing search relatively good, just really laggy.
Thanks for this list! I had started to experiment but kept it on the safe side since we don't have a recovery yet.
I noticed that there is quite a bit more listed in Bloat Freezer over Titanium which was my first freeze app. I tried Bloat Freezer when I noticed that some things that were frozen were still showing running processes.
A couple of notes to add on to this -- I'm running Go Launcher and cannot use any of the LG specific widgets, Friends+, What's New, etc. but:
What's New is still running and has functionality beyond the What's New widget. I forget the details but I think on a missed call I got the What's New app to display missed call, sms and email count from the pull down alerts. It was late and I didn't think twice about it until the next day (which is what prompted me to find out what was still running in the background even though I'm using Go Launcher.
I'm not sure exactly which Verizon app is responsible, but i recently unfroze all Verizon specific apps while experimenting and I was prompted to try the new data usage widget from Verizon. When I originally froze all these apps, that widget had stopped working in stock home. So it is not dependent on your home/launcher, but it is dependent on one of the VZ apps.
I'm tempted to just go down your list and freeze everything all at once, but maybe I'll do it in small batches and report back any findings.
Again, thanks for the list!
Wow, that is a ton of frozen bloatpops... didn't think too much of it but that's more apps than i had on my Inc. total on CM.. lol.
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hmm.. how to restore search button?
I can confirm the following, as well:
DeskHome
Digital Clock widget
Email
Email widget
finance
friends+ widget
guided tours
home 2.2.2
lg keyboard
lgwirelesschargingservice
news 1.0
rhapsody
slacker
sns
v cast apps
v cast media manager
vs navigator
vzw package installer
vzw sms filter
vzwservice
weather
world clock widget
I also just completely uninstalled bing search + bing voice.
I seem to be experiencing a couple issues:
1. Search button did not remap to Google Search... so it does nothing at all
2. Lockscreen music controller seems to control a separate instance of the notification area music controller
Avail: 154MB +29MB in 4
(bah!)
I've gone through most of these without a problem -- the last one is VZWSERVICE which is now repeatedly popping up:
Sorry!
The application com.vzw.push.vzwservice (process com.vzw.push.vzwservice) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
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Every time I click on "force close" it just pops up again. I'm about to pull the battery.
...
Rebooted OK.
I'll add a few more to the list:
Amazon Kindle
Bing Voice
Quick Reference Guide
User Guide
I'm curious though what purpose do these serve:
SNS
VZW SMS Filter
VZWService
I have them frozen and already recieved an SMS, so no hindrance there. I recognize the SNS icon from when I first got the phone (one of the widgets I think). I can't see any effect of having them frozen other than the obvious of course.
Be careful with these, I used Bloat Freezer to freeze a small subset of the apps listed in this thread (and none others) and now don't have a home screen. I turn on the phone, slide to unlock, and then the screen is black (normal indicator icons at the top). Holding home gets me to a recent apps page with no recent apps. Nothing else does anything, I can't even turn off the phone without taking the battery out. Any ideas?
the ones i posted can be frozen with no incident.
of course i use a custom launcher (launcher pro) so i can't attest to the home screen working
however, after freezing some other apps listed in other posts my bluetooth wouldn't work...
I use Go Launcher and I was able to add a few to the lists above:
Tunewiki
Sync Service
Mobile IM
Messaging Widget
Messaging (I use GO SMS)
Does anyone know what the LG and Verizon hidden menus processes are?
System seems a lot faster now and has better battery as far as I can tell.
Only issue I can think of, is that When I have my BT earpiece on and connected, I can not seem to get music out of the 3.5mm jack and into the car's aux.
Anyone else have this problem? What is the solution?
What wifi tether is everyone using? My market won't update. So if anyone can post an apk that'd be great.
Also don't freeze autorun 1.0 i think it is. That is the connectivity option for our usb and hdmi slots. Without that it'll work but you can't change the options ever. So you'll be stuck with hdmi off or on and usb charge only cause i think it always starts as.
Little Buddy Sr.
OP:...just a thought, take it or leave it haha
It would be greatly appreciated if you could update the list every so often with new ones added throughout the thread. Then maybe this could become a sticky at some point.
Also:
Anyone else realize Latitude and Twitter for LG doesnt show up in Ti Backup yet is running every once in awhile.... or maybe it's just my phone?
Um I don't even remember twitter being on my phone, I use bloatfreezer and pretty much froze everything on the OP list. I don't think there is to much else that you want to freeze with out risking your phone
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Be careful with these, I used Bloat Freezer to freeze a small subset of the apps listed in this thread (and none others) and now don't have a home screen. I turn on the phone, slide to unlock, and then the screen is black (normal indicator icons at the top). Holding home gets me to a recent apps page with no recent apps. Nothing else does anything, I can't even turn off the phone without taking the battery out. Any ideas?
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If you use the stock launcher and then freeze Home 2.2.2 then you will have no home screen.
I use Go launcher EX so I was able to freeze home with no problems.
Only thing I can think of is a factory reset. But I'm sure others have better ideas.
I don't think Twitter for LG (or anything for LG) is active without the LG Home active.
I left lg home active, twitter doesn't show up anywhere in bloatfreezer. I have nothing on my phone that even refers to twitter.
Yea i'm not really sure where it's at. I think it's a sub-app(?) of something like one of those facebook/twitter/etc feed widgets. But every so often it shows up in my "running" folder on Go Launcher EX, and I used to see it in my task killer when I had one but i've never seen it on a list anywhere else.
rogue bloat? a new age in ruining our phones haha
As major said, and from what i've seen he's right 99% of the time, I haven't seen it since I froze/.bak LG Home. I'll post a screen shot if I end up seeing it again though
is there a reason that we can not just delete the .apk files from /system/app?
jxcgunrunna said:
is there a reason that we can not just delete the .apk files from /system/app?
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we're pretty much able to do that....but the hesitation has been because we have not had a recovery system and it's risky to start deleting any files at all.
However....a recovery system has been through testing lately(yesterday/today) and was released. There's no saying it's perfect but I haven't heard of anyone having big issues. So if you are comfortable with the recovery system available, delete away.
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we're pretty much able to do that....but the hesitation has been because we have not had a recovery system and it's risky to start deleting any files at all.
However....a recovery system has been through testing lately(yesterday/today) and was released. There's no saying it's perfect but I haven't heard of anyone having big issues. So if you are comfortable with the recovery system available, delete away.
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I will pick one up tonight and see what I can do once I get root and CWM on there. I will post my findings.
revolutionaryV said:
Be careful with these, I used Bloat Freezer to freeze a small subset of the apps listed in this thread (and none others) and now don't have a home screen. I turn on the phone, slide to unlock, and then the screen is black (normal indicator icons at the top). Holding home gets me to a recent apps page with no recent apps. Nothing else does anything, I can't even turn off the phone without taking the battery out. Any ideas?
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Hopefully you have this fixed already if not:
not sure if this will work but...connect your phone as a USB and hope it connects as a Mass Storage. Go into data/app and delete the Titanium Backup .apk
No idea if this will work, but it's possible that with TiBackup gone it will unfreeze everything.

[Q] New Kies update details please

I have hunted for details of the new XXLT9 update and can find virtually nothing. We have 2 notes running LSO/LSZ very well indeed with good battery life and little lag and wonder what the total benefits/losses are of the new update. If it helps any one. I put our good battery life down to this, (phones have never been rooted by the way.) disable all unused/undesired apps.. yahoo etc, but clear each unwanted programs cache and data first then take the green tick out and only then disable. Even all the other programs you use take the green ticks out except chaton / messages /email and any other necessary priority app, I mean literally go through every app and take out the green tick unless its needed then set email to manual sync unless your a business, set the screen mode to the lowest brightness setting acceptable to you, then put power saving on in the task bar set screen time out to 15 secs unless your doing something special and turn brightness down as low as you find you can.I have just 27 good apps on mine (green ticks are out.). I have mentioned disabling for another reason as well, I noticed with the last maps and the play services updates that you cannot disable them or take the ticks out and I'll be surprised if I'm the only one out of millions who disables these, I mean why if you you use maps once or nonce a day should you leave it spying on you and using your data all day reporting back to google and taking up ram but I'm thinking the new update XXLT9 will have all the latest google versions baked in so people can't uninstall the updates back to the version they can disable, if this turns out to be the only reason ,thinly veiled by some little unworthy treat I'll stay put, but if theres any good new features/benefits it would be good if some one could share.
Thank you.

[Q] Xperia T automatically crashes all foreground apps

The issue started as a result of a crash while my phone was moving newly updated apps from the internal storage into /system (an option commonly known as Move Into System ROM). The next time I restarted the phone, and ever thereafter, the phone will not properly load the home launcher. The screen is black besides the notification bar, which I can also extend to fill the screen. Every app I manage to initiate immediately crashes. Mind you, I can only attempt to open Settings from within the notification bar and any of the apps from the Small Apps Launcher. Interesting enough, it looks like all background processes are working fine. I see the usual notifications for phone calls, texts, emails, app updates, etc. in the notification bar. As well, when I bring the notification bar down to fill the screen, the main screen will appear in the background, and go to black again when I minimize the notification bar again.
I have restarted the phone numerous times, including several hard resets, to no avail. With no other options in sight, I decided I needed to just re-flash the phone clean and go from there. The phone is no longer detectable by any pc running Windows 7/8 or Linux. I tried PC Companion, Sony Update Service (they only support the Z series now, terrible decision by Sony), Emma, Flashtool, etc. all using the latest Android SDK, and a few miscellaneous tools that used their own copy of adb. I also ran some commands directly on the adb daemon, and it does not see the device as well.
This is quite frustrating knowing that the hardware is just fine, software runs in the background, yet regardless the phone is rendered non-functional because of some lousy software hiccup.
sebzag said:
The issue started as a result of a crash while my phone was moving newly updated apps from the internal storage into /system (an option commonly known as Move Into System ROM). The next time I restarted the phone, and ever thereafter, the phone will not properly load the home launcher. The screen is black besides the notification bar, which I can also extend to fill the screen. Every app I manage to initiate immediately crashes. Mind you, I can only attempt to open Settings from within the notification bar and any of the apps from the Small Apps Launcher. Interesting enough, it looks like all background processes are working fine. I see the usual notifications for phone calls, texts, emails, app updates, etc. in the notification bar. As well, when I bring the notification bar down to fill the screen, the main screen will appear in the background, and go to black again when I minimize the notification bar again.
I have restarted the phone numerous times, including several hard resets, to no avail. With no other options in sight, I decided I needed to just re-flash the phone clean and go from there. The phone is no longer detectable by any pc running Windows 7/8 or Linux. I tried PC Companion, Sony Update Service (they only support the Z series now, terrible decision by Sony), Emma, Flashtool, etc. all using the latest Android SDK, and a few miscellaneous tools that used their own copy of adb. I also ran some commands directly on the adb daemon, and it does not see the device as well.
This is quite frustrating knowing that the hardware is just fine, software runs in the background, yet regardless the phone is rendered non-functional because of some lousy software hiccup.
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Do you have an installed recovery?
St.Jimmy90 said:
Do you have an installed recovery?
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Ah, I forgot to mention the phone was rooted with CWM for Locked Bootloaders. And no, I cannot access recovery whatsoever, for some odd reason. The blue recovery light does not show either.
I read somewhere that the touch interface, I believe it's called Timescape UI, might be the culprit. Anyone have any thoughts?
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did you move your apps to the internal memory or to the sd card?
after 4.3 update I read a lot of sd killed by the os, I suffered of that, so when the sd crash all the app moved to it will crash...

Snapchat background CPU usage!

Last two days my Nexus 6 has drained battery from 100% to 0% in less than 12h with less than normal usage.
I just realized that every time I receive a snapchat notification or open snapchat app (and exiting via home/back/swapping to another app) the snapchat background process will constantly use ~80% cpu. Saw this with app "Process view".
I have tried to clear cache in snapchat app, and also reinstalling it. This did not work
Opening "recent apps" and then killing snapchat will work, until I receive a snapchat or opening the app again.
I am on Google Nexus 6, Android 5.1.1, Build number LMY47Z.
Suggestions?
This is actually a Snapchat problem, it actually has been in a few blogs. There are websites that host older versions of the app, which may solve the problem (if the app still works with older versions). Or you can freeze or uninstall it until the Snapchat devs get around to fixing the problem.
Thanks, but which blogs? I have only seen data background usage, not CPU usage.
sliddjur said:
Thanks, but which blogs? I have only seen data background usage, not CPU usage.
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http://www.techradar.com/us/news/ph...date-is-killing-some-phones-batteries-1299189
I updated my snapchat yesterday and noticed it was slow as heck and would make my phone run hot. I finally I got frustrated and uninstalled it. Luckily I had made a backup of a previous version of it and installed that now my phone is back to running like normal.
In case you're wondering how to make a backup apk of app use ES File Explorer up at the top left are three horizontal lines click that/open the library tab/select "App"/ scroll to which ever app you want to make a backup of/long press and hit "backup" at the bottom. It will save under the "backups" folder. Now next time instead of installing the app from the playstore you install it from there. Make sure you uncheck auto update in the playstore though otherwise it will update then you will have to uninstall and reinstall the backup again.

Extremely High RAM Usage 5.1

Anybody know how to reduce the RAM usage? My phone consistently uses about 750-800MB for System and 750-800MB for Apps. I’m usually left with about 300-400 Free which causes my phone to stutter really bad when opening a new app sometimes or when audio is playing and I get a text. It gets really bad whenever my apps start downloading updates. It was never this bad on kitkat and I have Greenify installed to try and help but it doesn’t really help. Facebook never seems to greenify either for some reason. Some help would be appreciated!
This is why I removed the main Facebook app and installed Facebook Lite instead. Well, suffice to say I don't Facebook that much so Lite is good enough for me. For the problem you are facing, did you factory reset from recovery after the L upgrade? Its highly recommended and it has helped many with similar issues. Also if the issues are too severe its recommended not to let your Google account do a settings restore after a FDR i.e. turn of Backup and Restore from settings before initiating the FDR effectively deleting all stored settings on Google servers which can also be done from Google Dashboard alternatively. If you have too many apps installed like me you could also use a file explorer app like ES to back up their apks, just don't backup any settings.

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