Lately I battery is lasting far the charge all night, switch it off at 9 am, and after 3 hours and the battery was at 75% without using it, I have only synchronize Gmail. It currently (3:48 PM) and the battery is at 30% and have only used it slightly (10 minutes Internet surfing, text messaging)
Another thing I noticed is that the heated screen on top (where the CPU), just 10 minutes surfing the internet and the screen gets too hot, the battery reaches temperatures of 40 ° C - 42 ° C and even in the part where the battery is cold compared to the screen. Is this normal?
Another bug I've noticed is that sometimes the phone gets quite slow and starts to vibrate for 10 seconds and then returns to normal.
It perjuducial the phone to reach high temperatures? Sometimes I get to watch TV series online with Flashplayer and battery runs out fast and I have to leave it connected to the charger, but too hot to disconnect and return to lower temperature. Yesterday at least as I could not sleep with the phone from 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. and I wonder if the intensive use of mobile phone could end up damaging the phone by high temperatures.
Anything but I could not solve is the automatic locking of the screen is running where it should not, for example: I am on Google Maps and the screen turns off, I also happens in games and when I watch some videos with Flash, in the camera also turns off the screen, I searched through all settings and I could not find a solution.
Another bug that is annoying me is with the WiFi, that when the screen is blocking WiFi stops working I have it set to never stop WiFi but blocked the screen stops working WiFi, Wifi never turned off, but the problem is that it stops sending and receiving data, it is quite annoying because sometimes I need to download files larger than 100mb and I have to configure it not to lock the screen and the battery runs out faster.
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Use android market app OS Monitor to see what's going on in the background. Something is using your processor. OS Monitor should assist you in locating that process.
The only processes that are in the background is facebook (must be push notifications) Gmail, The Go Weather Widget, Google Maps (always stays in the background) and WhatsApp. The rest are system processes, if I'm going to stop using the phone close all unused applications, like Internet Explorer and other applications that need not be in the background. The phone just warms me when I use it for several minutes. The WiFi I have not been solved, as long I have to leave the screen on so you do not pause the download and the phone sometimes it gets slow for 10 seconds and return to normal
After unboxing and charging my new Note 9 I immediately rooted the device and flashed a custom FW.
Can a person on stock ROM please clarify these questions for me:
1) Is it stock behaviour that the fingerprint scanner on the back is always on while the screen is off?
2) Does this feature impact battery life?
3) If it's stock behaviour how do I disable this? I tried changing the secure setting "biometrics_auto_wakeup_enabled" from 1 to 0 without any effect. But maybe there is another switch? I don't know.
Thanks for any help!
1) If I remember right, I have not changed any settings related to the scanner being enabled/disabled while screen is off, i.e. it would be at "default". I haven't even looked for such. For me, it does unlock directly even when display is off. (Edit: fingerprint seems to unlock from any state before homescreen, except in the lockscreen note writing mode.)
2) I haven't measured battery life yet, let alone looked for changing the feature's behavior for another measurement, so I can not really tell. However, standby battery life seems to be ok. I'm using the phone with very varying levels still, so hard to estimate well, but I'd estimate from the early daily %-drops that standby time is at least 4-5 days. So, I guess the feature doesn't drain the battery that much.
Just a small follow-up, as I finally got a decently "normal" (for me) day and a half with the phone, only one short call, text message, maybe 10 gmails received (but mostly read on PC), a bit of "usage" with screen on time probably less than 15 minutes in total.
Seems I could get about 7.5 days of standby time.
Screen settings don't matter much in this scenario (as the display is off most of the time). Other significant settings are: wifi off, BT off, 4G LTE always there, GPS always available, NFC always ready, fingerprint sensor always waiting for finger, the only extra apps that could be battery hogs are Flowdock and Steam apps (both seem to behave nicely, Flowdock was nasty on my previous phone). Using the LED cover. (Quite the "default" setup with a relatively small number of installed apps or changed settings.)
In a way, that result is good. But on the other hand, with similar setup (minus Flowdock and LED cover, fingerprint sensor only works when display on, but add an extra email account on samsung email app with polling checks), my Galaxy S5 was getting about 6-7 days standby time, too, and that with its original battery (and the phone was bought pretty much the day when it came available here). Note 9 having much larger battery, and presumably better SoC (at least they always claim lower battery drain in idle from each CPU after CPU generation), better Android version... kind of "meh" result from Note 9. However, I did tighten some settings on that S5, like reduced email check frequency and such, which I have not looked for on Note 9 yet. And possibly will not look for, that 7+ days is good enough for me.
I have the Rog phone ii ( goblal edition ww-rom) version 16.0631.1910.64..
With mine since day 1 has never showed what was being used prior to this pic this all that show no matter how long I am on the for apps it just show the graph, show screen and mobile network standby and some times screen idle time. Since I got it back in Jan. This all it showed.
I did a factory wipe on 12/22/2020
I did a full wipe on my phone and it seems to now be showing all the apps that are being used now with in the battery graph, after I charged up the phone it goes back to showing the same thing in pic , screen usage only and some time Screen idle time …
I did another factory wipe in Feb and again, after the wipe it showed all that apps that were being used under the graph, but again after I charged the phone, all it shows is the screen time and screen idle time for the % of battery use.
so does anyone have a fix for this ( no 3rd party apps used like a external app from the play store, to monitor the battery) just use what asus offered pre-loaded on the phone.
Also the next issue is the back of the phone for the notification RGB rog light, I have it set to flash for notifications, and it seems to never work since I got the phone. the only way it kinda works is after I get a notification like email /sms/ and so on. is I have to turn the screen on then back off then the light comes on, which pretty much defeats that purpose.. tried setting in default and custom mode for the lighting and still the same does not work ( only the front small notification light works every time )
Also when the fan is connected. the back notification light seems to work 80% of the time.. But I am not one to keep the fan always connected... Thanks..
Hi, I would like to know if you too when I turn on the screen is as if it refreshes before turning on.
And the same thing when I turn off the screen and turn on the always on display it refreshes the brightness of luminosty the hour before decreasing intensity.
Thanks
Factory reset fixed this for me. Out of the box, it did not fair well and I noticed this after a day of use.
I'm on day 9 of the reset (recovery side), and it is going well.
Just got the S21 Ultra (from note 8). Stumbled upon Bixby Routines. It's great.
Always tried using Tasker but never used it much because it wasn't as easy as using Bixby Routines. Tried using similar apps as well but they never seemed to work well.
So far I've got auto-rotate for when I use video watching apps such as YouTube. Power Saving mode while I'm asleep.
Care to share some ideas?
Love Tasker but now giving a chance for Bixby Routines. So far I have set driving profile to start playing YouTube music, set audio to 100%, turn Dolby on, keep phone unlocked. Then Show AOD when charging, auto rotate on when YouTube is launched. Would like them to go crazy like tasker with some Good lock module but doubt it Had few htlm get task so I might go back to Tasker, but imo it should drain more battery compared to Bixby Routines
When i go to work, since i don't touch my phone that often, it auto changes resolution to fullHD, and turns on AOD + turns off bluetooth.
During the night turns on energy saving and airplane mode
Wireless charging between 10p - 7a will NOT fast charge so the charger fans aren't buzzing on my nightstand next to my head.
I hated everything Bixby but I see that I now have to use routines.
Good topic. How to see more useful usages posted.
I use Routines with my Android Car Stereo to Automatically start the Hotspot when it connects to my Cars bluetooth. It also turns up the volume on the phone and reads aloud text messages.
Definitely looking forward to a couple new ideas myself.
AOD & Sync on when charging, off when not charging (apps like whatsapp and outlook have their own sync which isn't affected by this)
Button on my homepage for 5G/4G
Power saving to turn on at 20% (I only turn this on if I plan to go out for the day)
Is there a way to perform an action on switching out of one app to another e.g. To close the app you switch from e.g. Chrome, so that it doesn't chew up battery in the background? Or when closing an app to put it to deep sleep?
I've set it to disable 120 Hz in apps like YouTube and tiktok and games where I wouldn't notice it anyway.
Also set network mode to 3G and disable data when connected to WiFi.
omnimax said:
I've set it to disable 120 Hz in apps like YouTube and tiktok and games where I wouldn't notice it anyway.
Also set network mode to 3G and disable data when connected to WiFi.
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So I think the WiFi one is sort of redundant as your mobile data swtiches off if you're on WiFi with WiFi calling.
The YouTube one is actually a great spot - at low brightness the screen stays in high refresh mode, so forcing it to switch to 60 is useful!
I created a button to force to 2G only in areas where reception is poor and i dont require mobile data (2g gives better reception).
But does anyone know where this button can be used other than as a widget on homescreen?
Set location services on when opening google maps
Play playlist from spotify when bluetooth connect to my car
Put on do not disturb when opening camera application
I love bixby routines, the only thing i keep after debloating a Samsung phone
Anandtech has a write-up on the S21U display. It appears it has the same odd behavior of forcing 120hz full time during low ambient lighting, like the Note 20. The screen therefore consumes more power in dark rooms than in a bright setting. I have an (arguably bad) habit of reading my phone in bed before I fall asleep, and before I get up. So I've set a routine to switch in/out of adaptive mode during my normal bed times, so much of my usage in darkness is in 60hz mode to save battery.
Investigating The Galaxy S21 Ultra New OLED Emitter: Huge Efficiency Improvements
www.anandtech.com
dscline said:
Anandtech has a write-up on the S21U display. It appears it has the same odd behavior of forcing 120hz full time during low ambient lighting, like the Note 20. The screen therefore consumes more power in dark rooms than in a bright setting. I have an (arguably bad) habit of reading my phone in bed before I fall asleep, and before I get up. So I've set a routine to switch in/out of adaptive mode during my normal bed times, so much of my usage in darkness is in 60hz mode to save battery.
Investigating The Galaxy S21 Ultra New OLED Emitter: Huge Efficiency Improvements
www.anandtech.com
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It does this because 60hz changes the tint at low brightness. The oneplus 8pro was bad for this, you could see the display flicker and change tint when the refresh rate changed at low brightness , it was horrible.
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It does this because 60hz changes the tint at low brightness. The oneplus 8pro was bad for this, you could see the display flicker and change tint when the refresh rate changed at low brightness , it was horrible.
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I can't comment from personal experience, but from the Anandtech article:
it’s still not exactly clear at to the technical reason why Samsung is employing this limitation in the first place, as I’m not seeing any difference at all in the screen quality when tricking the phone’s ambient brightness sensor and it switching between VRR/LFD on and off.
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Regardless, switching to 60hz is a solution if you want to prioritize battery life in those conditions.
dscline said:
I've set a routine to switch in/out of adaptive mode during my normal bed times, so much of my usage in darkness is in 60hz mode to save battery.
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Hmmm, I set a routine @ 10PM to switch to 60hz mode, that was supposed to end at 7AM with the actions reversed. It didn't switch to 60hz mode @ 10PM, so I manually switched it, and it didn't revert @ 7AM. I'll try two distinct routines.
EDIT: I set up a distinct routine to set to 60hz AFTER the existing "time period" routine, and the existing time period routine took effect properly this time, so the redundant distinct routine wasn't needed. Don't know why it didn't work the first night.
Brightness turned down and Power Saving mode turned on during my sleeping hours.
I always leave my phone unplugged while sleeping (charge fully before sleep).
I guess if I were to charge while sleeping, I'd plug into a smart plug, then have the plug turn off after the charge reached 100.
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Hmmm, I set a routine @ 10PM to switch to 60h
EDIT: I set up a distinct routine to set to 60hz AFTER the existing "time period" routine, and the existing time period routine took effect properly this time, so the redundant distinct routine wasn't needed. Don't know why it didn't work the first night.
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Hmmm, I set a routine @ 10PM to switch to 60hz mode, that was supposed to end at 7AM with the actions reversed. It didn't switch to 60hz mode @ 10PM, so I manually switched it, and it didn't revert @ 7AM. I'll try two distinct routines.
EDIT: I set up a distinct routine to set to 60hz AFTER the existing "time period" routine, and the existing time period routine took effect properly this time, so the redundant distinct routine wasn't needed. Don't know why it didn't work the first night.
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Yeah, a couple times my YouTube rotate didn't turn on. But on my wife's note 10 plus, so far has been flawless.
Just bumping this up since Routines is very useful. Been using this since my last phone and it made life a bit easier.
My settings are:
1. IF connected to home wifi, THEN keep phone unlocked.
2. IF charging, THEN sync is on.
3. IF connected to car bluetooth, THEN media volume is set to max and play favorite playlist on spotify.
4. IF time period (12AM-6AM), THEN power saving mode on, DND on, bluetooth off, NFC off.
5. IF camera app opened, THEN DND on.
annson08 said:
Just bumping this up since Routines is very useful. Been using this since my last phone and it made life a bit easier.
My settings are:
1. IF connected to home wifi, THEN keep phone unlocked.
2. IF charging, THEN sync is on.
3. IF connected to car bluetooth, THEN media volume is set to max and play favorite playlist on spotify.
4. IF time period (12AM-6AM), THEN power saving mode on, DND on, bluetooth off, NFC off.
5. IF camera app opened, THEN DND on.
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Oh, gave me a great idea of keeping phone unlocked! thanks. I'll have to set one to keep phone unlocked when hooked up to android auto or the car BT.
I mess with my kids with the Low Battery Announcement (Phone needs charging, Bruh. No Cap). Lol
If it isn't connected to my Home WiFi between the hours of 10PM and 8AM, it alerts me because this typically means that the power has gone out.