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[Q] Stamina Mode?

Sony said:
Significantly improve battery life with Battery STAMINA mode
Smartphones use a lot of power, even when you’re not actively using them. All those apps that you’ve had open are still running in the background, using unnecessary battery. Battery STAMINA mode saves you wasted battery drain by recognising when your display is off and turning off functions you don’t need, while keeping the notifications you want. As soon as you touch the screen and wake up your phone, everything is up and running again.
Get only the important notices
With Battery STAMINA mode, Wi-Fi and data traffic are disabled during standby, but you still receive incoming calls, texts, and alarms. And since everyone has different needs, you can easily customise which apps you want to receive push notifications from even in standby mode. Facebook notifications on or off? It’s up to you.
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Turns off data while the phone is asleep. Anyone else think this is going to be a bit af a pointless feature? Surely the single biggest drain on any phone is the screen, background data is relatively insignificant. The other consideration is that every time you wake the phone, won't there be a suddent surge of data transfer while all the disabled apps wake up and reconnect, which will amount to the same battery drain overall?

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parapaul said:
Turns off data while the phone is asleep. Anyone else think this is going to be a bit af a pointless feature? Surely the single biggest drain on any phone is the screen, background data is relatively insignificant. The other consideration is that every time you wake the phone, won't there be a suddent surge of data transfer while all the disabled apps wake up and reconnect, which will amount to the same battery drain overall?
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I'm more curious as to HOW this works. The quote says that data and wifi are turned off. How then are messages and email delivered? Isn't that driven by data? If it works it sounds great but I'm skeptical .

Stamina Mode?
stiffi2011 said:
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I'm more curious as to HOW this works. The quote says that data and wifi are turned off. How then are messages and email delivered? Isn't that driven by data? If it works it sounds great but I'm skeptical .
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You need to check the video relating to the Stamina Mode during the CES presentation. Except phone calls and SMS all other data will be turned off. But they also have given options to select individual apps that You don't want to turn off

stiffi2011 said:
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I'm more curious as to HOW this works. The quote says that data and wifi are turned off. How then are messages and email delivered? Isn't that driven by data? If it works it sounds great but I'm skeptical .
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I think that if you put any data-enabled app in the whitelist, stamina mode might not turn data connection off as it'll be needed by whitelisted apps - but that's just my guess.

AW: [Q] Stamina Mode?
Data isn't turned off, Stamina only sends all apps except whitelist to sleep. In that state the apps don't connect and decrease battery.

parapaul said:
Turns off data while the phone is asleep. Anyone else think this is going to be a bit af a pointless feature? Surely the single biggest drain on any phone is the screen, background data is relatively insignificant. The other consideration is that every time you wake the phone, won't there be a suddent surge of data transfer while all the disabled apps wake up and reconnect, which will amount to the same battery drain overall?
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Its a pretty pointless gimmick to be honest, espically if you don't use data at all, that's my opinion anyway

Sv: [Q] Stamina Mode?
I reckon it's rather intuitive build in feature from Sony. Ofcourse something that you would be able to achieve through root-software, but it shows a desire from Sony to be innovative. Like guest mode on the xperia tablet s. Sony Cooked it in that rom, and now 4.2 will have it in stock Android. Could happen the same with stamina.
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Raedek said:
I reckon it's rather intuitive build in feature from Sony. Ofcourse something that you would be able to achieve through root-software, but it shows a desire from Sony to be innovative. Like guest mode on the xperia tablet s. Sony Cooked it in that rom, and now 4.2 will have it in stock Android. Could happen the same with stamina.
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Yes i know, it is good, but the battery is a tad disappointing, for a 1080p phone with 4G i mean cmon

Raedek said:
I reckon it's rather intuitive build in feature from Sony. Ofcourse something that you would be able to achieve through root-software, but it shows a desire from Sony to be innovative. Like guest mode on the xperia tablet s. Sony Cooked it in that rom, and now 4.2 will have it in stock Android. Could happen the same with stamina.
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Root? Nah, checkout Green Power Premium app, it functions pretty much same as Stamina mode and has whitelist too. And yes it does save battery.
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AayushDhuria said:
Root? Nah, checkout Green Power Premium app, it functions pretty much same as Stamina mode and has whitelist too. And yes it does save battery.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
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Exactly, that's what i mean its pretty pointless with apps like green power about!

In that respect the camera, dialer, launcher music, email app etc are pointless since multiple variants are available.
It's nothing revolutionary but kind of nice they include it nonetheless

Please elaborate your statement seems like it doesn't have any sense. Why are camera, dialer, launcher music, email app pointless? And whats with multiple variants? And what does that got to do with stamina mode? Then why nothing revolutionary? I don't see any phone having that feature at all.

Riyal said:
Please elaborate your statement seems like it doesn't have any sense. Why are camera, dialer, launcher music, email app pointless? And whats with multiple variants? And what does that got to do with stamina mode? Then why nothing revolutionary? I don't see any phone having that feature at all.
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It is a quick reply on the post before it

stefanve said:
In that respect the camera, dialer, launcher music, email app etc are pointless since multiple variants are available.
It's nothing revolutionary but kind of nice they include it nonetheless
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Mostly though it's a selling point to include it. I would prefer hardware innovation.

redThd said:
Mostly though it's a selling point to include it. I would prefer hardware innovation.
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yeah for sure, I guess most people will.
I for one rather have a 720p low power display than a 1080p display. Since most people don't see the difference I'm wondering how many phone generations it will last. ppi seems a bit like the old mhz en MP races.

Please, can you recommend me any app that works on the same principle as a real STAMINA MODE?
Most important feature:
"Another really useful functionality, is that you can actually choose to white list your most important apps, allowing them to run in the background even when Battery STAMINA Mode is turned on. This way you will get notifications even when your phone rests in your bag or pocket. This is handy if you still want to be able to receive instant messages or IP calls at any time."
I found many apps in Play Store, but the problem is that they have a "WHITE LIST" feature, but this works on another pronciple - see below.
It does NOT stop any app and background data when the white-listed app is running. .
DOES GREENPOWER PREMIUM SUPPORT THIS?
Stop all backround data, stop all other apps and keep only 2 my white-listed apps running (chat + notes)
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[Q] qpnp-charger-ef8e3800 wakelock

Anybody know what this wakelock is? It's kept my phone awake for 2 and a half hours today and I haven't been plugged into a charger since I left home at 9am.

retnuh730 said:
Anybody know what this wakelock is? It's kept my phone awake for 2 and a half hours today and I haven't been plugged into a charger since I left home at 9am.
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if its any consolation, i have the same problem, havent got a clue what it is either (moto g)

same here

Yeah same to me here........

retnuh730 said:
Anybody know what this wakelock is? It's kept my phone awake for 2 and a half hours today and I haven't been plugged into a charger since I left home at 9am.
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Could you past your screen shoot?
This wake lock should be charging wake lock .

Have it as well, any fixes? What causes it?

i have the same wakelock on my OnePlus One phone (snapdragon 801)

Same here... M8

I too have suffered the same thing in the past few days:
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Isn't this a process, which could be restarted with a busybox command (sorry dont have enough linux skillz to test)?

same here since today on 1+1 cm12.1 by sultanxda

I am on latest cos13.
Wakelock Detector shows while charging these only these two are awake
1.qpnp-charger-ee254800(100%)
2.PowerManagerService.Display(48%). Any solution for this? Phone is getting heated away while charging
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PlayersHeaders said:
same here since today on 1+1 cm12.1 by sultanxda
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I am on latest cos13.
Wakelock Detector shows while charging these only these two are awake
1.qpnp-charger-ee254800(100%)
2.PowerManagerService.Display(48%). Any solution for this? Phone is getting heated away while charging

kryshnakishore said:
I am on latest cos13.
Wakelock Detector shows while charging these only these two are awake
1.qpnp-charger-ee254800(100%)
2.PowerManagerService.Display(48%). Any solution for this? Phone is getting heated away while charging
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I am on latest cos13.
Wakelock Detector shows while charging these only these two are awake
1.qpnp-charger-ee254800(100%)
2.PowerManagerService.Display(48%). Any solution for this? Phone is getting heated away while charging
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Hello guy!
I got this wakelocks on cm13.
1. qpnp... This wakelock went from alone away, by me(or I installed an other rom, i dont know anymore)
Try this steps out:
If you have a custom recovery do this: wipe dalvik & cache (and reflash cos13)
If you have no recovery: try out rebooting
Please say me if you have a custom recovery.
2. That's your screen usage, i have this sh*t too, the screen is the biggest battery eater on android.
Cyanogenmod self got very buggy, many users have trouble with it.

Same issue any solution?

kryshnakishore said:
Same issue any solution?
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Since 3 days I got this **** again too, i dont know how to fix it. :/
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I FIXED IT!!!!!!
i am on ressurection remix. My phone: OnePlus One.
I played much with the settings, I am writing now what I did, if you have this wakelock too, try all this stuff out:
- "play" with the app "Google Settings"(on Android Marshmallow you find them afaik in the normal Settings, or it's an own app(on Lolipop afaik), you should find it. For example: deactivate Google Now, much people helped it, deactivate Ok Google and try out other stuff.
> i enabled in the ressurection remix in the SELinux section SeLinux Mode and activated Doze Batterysaver
Now the most important things what I did which killed the wakelock I think:
> On Cyanogenmod (based) ROMs, there is a privacy guard in the settings, open it, click menu and click on advanced, and then play there, show apps which are active or wake up much, deactivate all stuff which got opened very much like "keep active", " location" and more stuff. But be aware, if you deactivate for example "keep active" the app couldnt work good as it worked before. So just do it, if the wakelock is gone try out to active these stuff again
Now the second important thing what I did:
Watch what's active(see your RAM storage), under Android Marshmallow this option is a little bit hidden.
Activate Developer Settings and click on "active services" there you see your RAM storage and whats active at the moment. Watch out which apps are active, deactivate/uninstall them if you think they could be the troublemaker, then watch if it helped. I downloaded some weeks ago some apps which measure your charging power in ma. Apps like "Ampere", " Galaxy Charging" and and and, i think these are the troublemaker, after i did every stuff and played on every settings and uninstalled this charging apps the wakelock is gone. I am 80% sure that this charging measure apps were the troublemaker, because the name of the wakelock is qpnp-charger, and it comes only if you are charging your device, and this measure apps are working only if you are charging your device, because thats the sense of a charging power measure app.
I hope i could help you all guys! Dont hesitate to reply to this thread(don't forget to mark me or quote me so that I can see your post).
And now i am gonna sleeping, 23:26, i am f*cked tomorrow... ._.

PlayersHeaders said:
Since 3 days I got this **** again too, i dont know how to fix it. :/
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I FIXED IT!!!!!!
i am on ressurection remix. My phone: OnePlus One.
I played much with the settings, I am writing now what I did, if you have this wakelock too, try all this stuff out:
- "play" with the app "Google Settings"(on Android Marshmallow you find them afaik in the normal Settings, or it's an own app(on Lolipop afaik), you should find it. For example: deactivate Google Now, much people helped it, deactivate Ok Google and try out other stuff.
> i enabled in the ressurection remix in the SELinux section SeLinux Mode and activated Doze Batterysaver
Now the most important things what I did which killed the wakelock I think:
> On Cyanogenmod (based) ROMs, there is a privacy guard in the settings, open it, click menu and click on advanced, and then play there, show apps which are active or wake up much, deactivate all stuff which got opened very much like "keep active", " location" and more stuff. But be aware, if you deactivate for example "keep active" the app couldnt work good as it worked before. So just do it, if the wakelock is gone try out to active these stuff again
Now the second important thing what I did:
Watch what's active(see your RAM storage), under Android Marshmallow this option is a little bit hidden.
Activate Developer Settings and click on "active services" there you see your RAM storage and whats active at the moment. Watch out which apps are active, deactivate/uninstall them if you think they could be the troublemaker, then watch if it helped. I downloaded some weeks ago some apps which measure your charging power in ma. Apps like "Ampere", " Galaxy Charging" and and and, i think these are the troublemaker, after i did every stuff and played on every settings and uninstalled this charging apps the wakelock is gone. I am 80% sure that this charging measure apps were the troublemaker, because the name of the wakelock is qpnp-charger, and it comes only if you are charging your device, and this measure apps are working only if you are charging your device, because thats the sense of a charging power measure app.
I hope i could help you all guys! Dont hesitate to reply to this thread(don't forget to mark me or quote me so that I can see your post).
And now i am gonna sleeping, 23:26, i am f*cked tomorrow... ._.
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no luck for me,did all the above but i am on cos13, my issue is awake bar is always awake while charging i mean rest of the time based on my screen time it will wake,only solution i found is when i reverted back to cm11s 44 then it got solved

kryshnakishore said:
no luck for me,did all the above but i am on cos13, my issue is awake bar is always awake while charging i mean rest of the time based on my screen time it will wake,only solution i found is when i reverted back to cm11s 44 then it got solved
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I had terrible wakelocks and other stuff on cyanogen os too, this rom just sux, just get a custom rom or oxygen os bro, that's better, if you are gonna a custom rom you should install a good one, I tested all and I can say: Ressurection the best, for me(!), i would go away from cyanogen os, cyanogen/cm self get bader and bader.

PlayersHeaders said:
I had terrible wakelocks and other stuff on cyanogen os too, this rom just sux, just get a custom rom or oxygen os bro, that's better, if you are gonna a custom rom you should install a good one, I tested all and I can say: Ressurection the best, for me(!), i would go away from cyanogen os, cyanogen/cm self get bader and bader.
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ok i will try ressurection,can u send rom link

kryshnakishore said:
ok i will try ressurection,can u send rom link
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/rom-ressurrection-remix-m-t3270147

PlayersHeaders said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/rom-ressurrection-remix-m-t3270147
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thanks alot for suggesting,i loved it alot.......install xposed is bootlooping does xpsed work on this???

Galaxy S5 Android™ version 6.0.1, Marshmallow feature discussion, plus and minus

I do not see any thread discussing features on GS5 marshmallow updates, so I am starting one.
Good Stuff
-- Wifi calling. When enabled, always tries to use wifi to call. Not sure how it works if wifi signal is fading. Does it revert to cell signal in real time?
Unlike T-mobile, airplane mode needs to be off to use wifi calling.
Not So Good Stuff
-- Less control in power saving mode. No more individual tweak for CPU power and display (gray scale). Only choices are power saving mode
and ultra power saving mode. Does it mean MM is more power efficient so we do not need those extra modes anymore?

Stock automatic brightness sucks in Marshmallow
Automatic brightness sucks now in Marshmallow. It is changed from static automatic from range bound. This is a Marshmallow change from Google. It suppose to work like this: you set a brightness point, and Android use ambient light sensor to adjust around the brightness point you set. I have a Nexus 5 phone and it works flawlessly.
With GS5, it never works right. This is always too dark in low light environment or too bright otherwise. Most of the time moving slider does not change anything when auto brightness is checked. Even if it responds once a while. Turning off the screen and on would reset it.
I did some research and downloaded Velis. It works surprisingly well. Will see if it drains battery.

I'm seeing huge improvements in battery life. I usually leave my phone in power saving mode on a desk during working hours and when I was in Lollipop, by the time I got out of work my battery would be at 42%. Today, my battery was at 91% after a 9 hour day. So far it's been on battery for almost 16 hours and is currently at 71%.
I will wait a few days and see if it settles down. My past experience is that the battery life gets worst after a fresh update for a few days and then goes back to normal.
I am missing the mobile hot spot though, it came in handy.

Mobile Hotspot clarification
iJemuel said:
I'm seeing huge improvements in battery life. I usually leave my phone in power saving mode on a desk during working hours and when I was in Lollipop, by the time I got out of work my battery would be at 42%. Today, my battery was at 91% after a 9 hour day. So far it's been on battery for almost 16 hours and is currently at 71%.
I will wait a few days and see if it settles down. My past experience is that the battery life gets worst after a fresh update for a few days and then goes back to normal.
I am missing the mobile hot spot though, it came in handy.
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I just got the notification on my stock g900a a couple hours ago, and was looking for info on the update but have not found much yet, could you please clarify: does the update totally remove any option to use mobile hotspot? Just disable it, etc.?
I use this feature often while away from home and secure WiFi is not available for homework and other tasks where a keyboard is essential or a mobile device is not supported. I am hoping that there is some chance that the update just breaks it or something and the loss may not be permanent before I look in to blocking the update. I don't like 5.1.1, but loss of mobile hotspot would be a deal breaker; it was a major consideration into my initial choice to purchase.

Mobile hotspot works fine for me. Is it because it's unlocked and on another carrier? But that of course also means no wifi calling for me.
Automatic brightness control sucks. I get weird flickering instead of dimming when the screen starts to time out. Turn off auto brightness and it's fine. PG3 had the same problem for me.

I'm a big fan now of the update for the default Samsung Music Player (couldn't get it w/o MM)
You can't turn off the charger flap warning or disable the max volume warning...but you can at least disable the charger sound now.
Battery life is good...and I dare say (on both the official and unofficial official builds) consistent.
Wifi hotspot and tethering works for me.
Call quality is good. Call quality is REALLY nice when the other caller has a VOLTE capable phone.
In low signal areas...haven't had an issue with dropped calls or using mobile data.

Here are my thoughts.
1. I am getting some lag in the device. seems it does not hibernate apps well or just doesnt manage memory well. maybe I was just too used to a rooted device with greenify. I have tried greenify with no root but it just isnt the same. Pisses me of sometimes cause It gets REALLY laggy.
2. I cannot get mobile hot spot to work on ATT. It is supposedly enabled on my line (company device on company plan PER our ATT rep). but I get the attached error when I try it.
3. SMS fail to go through alot when on a Microcell. this issue stated with MM un-official and now Official.
4. I did get the battey cover and charge cover killed by using a debloater app. I just put phone in developer mode and enabled USB debug. then fired up this windows app and plugged computer in. it reads the apps and let me disable all the bloat crapola and the popupuiReceiver_m.apk app. Debloater by gatesJunior. Simple and easy to use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294
5. Battery Life has been pretty decent once it settled in. I did just get new batteries though.
6. I do second the audio qualty. I have noticed that some people are MUCH louder and easier to understand. Especially on my Wife's new S7Active.

Good stuff:
Better hearing quality in calls
New icons
Being able to hide system notifications in the lock screen (such as airplane mode or power saving)
Bad stuff:
I'm probably nitpicking but when you turn power saving mode on it turns the notification trail from transparent to this opaque gray, which I know it's in order to save battery but it looks bad.
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Also now the power saving notification is huge
Also when you turn off the device and turn it on again or restart you can't unlock with fingerprints the first time with a messasge saying: ''Unable to use fingerprints after restarting device. Enter password.'' I know it's a MM security policy but it's annoying

There is a choice to whether turn off all background data in power saving mode. If you did not turn on that one, you will get a much smaller notification msg. Mine only says "Device performance limited".
Yes, the gray notification bar for power saving mode is ugly. :cyclops:

What brand are the batteries that you got? and where did you purchase them from?
5. Battery Life has been pretty decent once it settled in. I did just get new batteries though.

pickupman66 said:
Here are my thoughts.
1. I am getting some lag in the device. seems it does not hibernate apps well or just doesnt manage memory well. maybe I was just too used to a rooted device with greenify. I have tried greenify with no root but it just isnt the same. Pisses me of sometimes cause It gets REALLY laggy.
2. I cannot get mobile hot spot to work on ATT. It is supposedly enabled on my line (company device on company plan PER our ATT rep). but I get the attached error when I try it.
3. SMS fail to go through alot when on a Microcell. this issue stated with MM un-official and now Official.
4. I did get the battey cover and charge cover killed by using a debloater app. I just put phone in developer mode and enabled USB debug. then fired up this windows app and plugged computer in. it reads the apps and let me disable all the bloat crapola and the popupuiReceiver_m.apk app. Debloater by gatesJunior. Simple and easy to use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294
5. Battery Life has been pretty decent once it settled in. I did just get new batteries though.
6. I do second the audio qualty. I have noticed that some people are MUCH louder and easier to understand. Especially on my Wife's new S7Active.
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AH...thanks for the popupuiReceiver_m.apk reference. PackageDisablerPro will disable that as well. No more volume/charger flap popups!
EDIT: popupuiReceiver_m.apk does not govern the volume warning for me...my bad.

yaboijay2029 said:
What brand are the batteries that you got? and where did you purchase them from?
5. Battery Life has been pretty decent once it settled in. I did just get new batteries though.
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I got a set of Anker batteries and the charger from amazon. we will see how they do.

clovehitch said:
I just got the notification on my stock g900a a couple hours ago, and was looking for info on the update but have not found much yet, could you please clarify: does the update totally remove any option to use mobile hotspot? Just disable it, etc.?
I use this feature often while away from home and secure WiFi is not available for homework and other tasks where a keyboard is essential or a mobile device is not supported. I am hoping that there is some chance that the update just breaks it or something and the loss may not be permanent before I look in to blocking the update. I don't like 5.1.1, but loss of mobile hotspot would be a deal breaker; it was a major consideration into my initial choice to purchase.
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My phone was originally from AT&T and I moved to Cricket. When I was in Lollipop my phone was rooted and I flashed the Wifi_Hotspot update to enable it. Now I can't use it. I get the same error as pickupman66 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68464559&postcount=7

Battery life is not better. its either at par with lolipop or worse. If you think you are getting better battery life.. that is just a placebo effect. i.e. this is new stuff so must be because of it I am getting better battery. It could simply be 10 other things.
Overall zero value. not sure why I needed to update.

I read somewhere that MM doze mode would turn off a lot of services to save battery if the phone is stationary for a while. This could be the reason this guy sees a huge battery life improvement. He did state that he left the phone on the table.

I like it.
I am always a fan of updating, except when it cost money. My battery life actually improved. It came from 1/2 of a day to 3/4 to 3/4 of a day to whole day. I like the new icon pack. Still had a lot of bloat ware. My speed improved. Yes I like it. Sad thing is. It came out after 7.0 came out .

Check out this verbiage from greenify. The white list goes to apps that are not optimized.
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I highly recommend using Package Disabler Pro v6.3b47. You can get it from Mobilism Market if you search for it. There are a lot of similar named apps but don't work nearly as well. Make sure you get v6.3b47.
Also, I just started experiencing the screen flickering issue on MM PG3. Eventually screen wouldn't even turn on. After a few days, I noticed it only happened at night and in the morning, not as bad during the day. I Googled the issue and basically, yes it is an auto-brightness issue and also related to the AMOLED screens the S5 has. This article, as well as others, give great detail and information as to why it happens and what is going on as well as practical solutions. You may have to scroll down a bit to get the best info. https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/272594/Flickering+screen+on+low+back+light
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I also use ShutAppPremium v2.60. Great app that really kills processes fairly aggressively. Works great.
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jeraspie28 said:
I highly recommend using Package Disabler Pro v6.3b47. You can get it from Mobilism Market if you search for it. There are a lot of similar named apps but don't work nearly as well. Make sure you get v6.3b47.
Also, I just started experiencing the screen flickering issue on MM PG3. Eventually screen wouldn't even turn on. After a few days, I noticed it only happened at night and in the morning, not as bad during the day. I Googled the issue and basically, yes it is an auto-brightness issue and also related to the AMOLED screens the S5 has. This article, as well as others, give great detail and information as to why it happens and what is going on as well as practical solutions. You may have to scroll down a bit to get the best info. https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/272594/Flickering+screen+on+low+back+light
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I also use ShutAppPremium v2.60. Great app that really kills processes fairly aggressively. Works great.
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Fwiw, none of the solutions for screen flickering worked for me EXCEPT: simply turning up the brightness on my phone. I had it set around 30% with auto brightness off. At that level, screen was always flickered when dimming, and when turning back on. But simply sliding the brightness up to about 60% solved the issue. Kind of annoying, because I like to have the brightness down to extend the battery life a bit. But whatever.

That is very interesting. If I recall correctly I purchased my S5 soon after it was released. I have not had any screen flickering at all.
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Disable Wireless Charging Sound

This has been driving my nuts, because wireless charging stand and pad receiver I bought have been constantly disconnecting/reconnecting, while the phone is on the charging stand. And each time disconnect/reconnect occurs, the phone makes annoying loud sounds, which cannot be muted, unless you put the phone in the Silent mode, which disables other sounds I dont want to disable. I finally found where those damn audio files are, so I could eradicate them from my phone:
Code:
\system\priv-app\MiuiSystemUI.apk\res\raw\
the two .ogg files inside the apk in that folder are responsible for my and might co-workers, who have to listen to my phone, nightmares. I tried replacing those files with blanks using APK editor. When I did that, the phone just started making a different sound from those 2, identical this time for both connect/disconnect events, but no less annoying and also loud.
Does anybody know of some sort of build.prop hack to disable charger connected/disconnected sounds, or a Xposed module, which can do the job? As far as I've researched, there is no native setting on MIUI phones for that, vanilla marshmallow roms do have it. TIA.

Apo11on said:
This has been driving my nuts, because wireless charging stand and pad receiver I bought have been constantly disconnecting/reconnecting, while the phone is on the charging stand. And each time disconnect/reconnect occurs, the phone makes annoying loud sounds, which cannot be muted, unless you put the phone in the Silent mode, which disables other sounds I dont want to disable. I finally found where those damn audio files are, so I could eradicate them from my phone:
Code:
\system\priv-app\MiuiSystemUI.apk\res\raw\
the two .ogg files inside the apk in that folder are responsible for my and might co-workers, who have to listen to my phone, nightmares. I tried replacing those files with blanks using APK editor. When I did that, the phone just started making a different sound from those 2, identical this time for both connect/disconnect events, but no less annoying and also loud.
Does anybody know of some sort of build.prop hack to disable charger connected/disconnected sounds, or a Xposed module, which can do the job? As far as I've researched, there is no native setting on MIUI phones for that, vanilla marshmallow roms do have it. TIA.
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had similar problems early on. solved with xposed module MIUI 8 Tweaks pro version
go to the Power tab
power connection behavior (i use these settings below)
on connection to charger - no system sound, keep sleeping
on disconnect - no system sound, keep sleeping (this one is important as yes, for some reason it disconnects randomly in the night and the phone screen would light up)
additionally, i wanted my led to not flash during certain hours. i used to do this with the xposed gravitybox module, but that is only to work with vanilla android. for some reason it also works to stop the led controls in miui during my quiet hours. now i am happy, when i go to bed i put the phone on the wireless charging stand and it stays completely silent with the display off till i wake up.

Apo11on said:
This has been driving my nuts, because wireless charging stand and pad receiver I bought have been constantly disconnecting/reconnecting, while the phone is on the charging stand. And each time disconnect/reconnect occurs, the phone makes annoying loud sounds, which cannot be muted, unless you put the phone in the Silent mode, which disables other sounds I dont want to disable. I finally found where those damn audio files are, so I could eradicate them from my phone:
Code:
\system\priv-app\MiuiSystemUI.apk\res\raw\
the two .ogg files inside the apk in that folder are responsible for my and might co-workers, who have to listen to my phone, nightmares. I tried replacing those files with blanks using APK editor. When I did that, the phone just started making a different sound from those 2, identical this time for both connect/disconnect events, but no less annoying and also loud.
Does anybody know of some sort of build.prop hack to disable charger connected/disconnected sounds, or a Xposed module, which can do the job? As far as I've researched, there is no native setting on MIUI phones for that, vanilla marshmallow roms do have it. TIA.
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Settings>Sounds & Vibration>Charging Sounds
You can disable charging sounds by turning the slider to OFF
This way you dont have to be on silent mode.

satishp said:
Settings>Sounds & Vibration>Charging Sounds
You can disable charging sounds by turning the slider to OFF
This way you dont have to be on silent mode.
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As I said in my original post - there is no native setting on MIUI phones for that. The setting you talk about does not exist on MIUI rom for Mi Mix.

Apo11on said:
As I said in my original post - there is no native setting on MIUI phones for that. The setting you talk about does not exist on MIUI rom for Mi Mix.
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What ROM are you on?
I'm running the stock EU ROM by xiaomi.eu, which is basically stock MIUI minus Chinese bloatware and pre-installed GAPPS.
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I don't think this is a feature specific to the EU ROM because I have a few other devices running MIUI and this option exists in the stock Global ROM on these devices as well.

knives of ice said:
had similar problems early on. solved with xposed module MIUI 8 Tweaks pro version
go to the Power tab
power connection behavior (i use these settings below)
on connection to charger - no system sound, keep sleeping
on disconnect - no system sound, keep sleeping (this one is important as yes, for some reason it disconnects randomly in the night and the phone screen would light up)
additionally, i wanted my led to not flash during certain hours. i used to do this with the xposed gravitybox module, but that is only to work with vanilla android. for some reason it also works to stop the led controls in miui during my quiet hours. now i am happy, when i go to bed i put the phone on the wireless charging stand and it stays completely silent with the display off till i wake up.
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Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for. Screen not turning on each time charging starts/stops is just a bonus - I was only looking to disable sounds! And it actually doesnt even require the pro version of MIUI 8 Tweaks - regular one can set those settings just fine

Apo11on said:
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for. Screen not turning on each time charging starts/stops is just a bonus - I was only looking to disable sounds! And it actually doesnt even require the pro version of MIUI 8 Tweaks - regular one can set those settings just fine
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If wireless charging keeps disconnecting\reconnecting frequently, you should be more worried about THIS rather than the sounds\notifications as this could potentially strain\wear the battery\charging circuitry.
Its comparable to having an instable circuit\loose connection which could heat up\spark out eventually.

satishp said:
What ROM are you on?
I don't think this is a feature specific to the EU ROM because I have a few other devices running MIUI and this option exists in the stock Global ROM on these devices as well.
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It doesn't exist on stock 8.0.12 MIUI rom. Trust me - I'm not blind, and if it was there I would have found it. if not after hours of googling then after your post for sure. I am aware the option exists in vanilla marshmallow and some other roms - I've said so in my original post. It doesnt really help to know that. Knives of ice's advice did the trick, so I'm good now, but there is no native setting for it.

satishp said:
If wireless charging keeps disconnecting\reconnecting frequently, you should be more worried about THIS rather than the sounds\notifications as this could potentially strain\wear the battery\charging circuitry.
Its comparable to having an instable circuit\loose connection which could heat up\spark out eventually.
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The 1000+ amazon reviewers for both, the quick wireless charging stand I use, and the wireless charging receiver sticker I use, who gave near 5 star rating to both, don't seem to be worried about it, so at this point neither am I. As far as heating up goes - I use Ampere app and closely monitor phone/battery temperature - it hardly ever gets over 42 C.

Apo11on said:
It doesn't exist on stock 8.0.12 MIUI rom. Trust me - I'm not blind, and if it was there I would have found it. if not after hours of googling then after your post for sure. I am aware the option exists in vanilla marshmallow and some other roms - I've said so in my original post. It doesnt really help to know that. Knives of ice's advice did the trick, so I'm good now, but there is no native setting for it.
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I see. I wasn't implying that your information was incorrect. I apologize if you felt so. All I was trying to say was that the feature exists on a few of my other Xiaomi devices that ship with the Official MIUI Global ROM.
I wonder why they removed it on the Mix. Anyway this is new information for me as I haven't tried the Official ROM as I mentioned earlier.
So that's one more reason for me to stay away from the official builds. Happy on EU.
Good to know that your issue is resolved!
Cheers!
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Apo11on said:
The 1000+ amazon reviewers for both, the quick wireless charging stand I use, and the wireless charging receiver sticker I use, who gave near 5 star rating to both, don't seem to be worried about it, so at this point neither am I. As far as heating up goes - I use Ampere app and closely monitor phone/battery temperature - it hardly ever gets over 42 C.
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Again, was not implying that your chargers are bad. Just saying, you may want to check why it keeps disconnecting\reconnecting frequently and what may be causing this to happen.
It could be a case interfering\a faulty (not poor quality) charger or even a bug in the ROM itself.
If you do find the source of the problem, this would be really helpful.
Even I've ordered a wireless charging receiver + Stand and they are on the way. So any information that you may find on the cause of the problem would be helpful to me and many others.
Cheers!

Question Bluetooth Battery Drain

Hey guys. Since the April update I've noticed I'm getting a fair bit of Bluetooth Battery drain on my Ultra. Only thing I have connected all the time is my Huawei GT2 Pro watch, but this has always been the case and never had the issue.
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Just a small snap shot from this morning.
Never used to see any Bluetooth use here really. Have rebooted both devices but seems to be getting worse.
Any ideas ?

Clear system cache.
Do a network reset... see if that helps.

blackhawk said:
Clear system cache.
Do a network reset... see if that helps.
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Easy way to do this ?

Quazza said:
Easy way to do this ?
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That is the easy way...
Do a Google search if you don't know how for that make/model.
Network reset is generally found in setting under connectivity at least on Samsung's.

blackhawk said:
That is the easy way...
Do a Google search if you don't know how for that make/model.
Network reset is generally found in setting under connectivity at least on Samsung's.
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Cache clear seems to have fixed it for now ....cheers !!

Ok nope, it's back. Sigh
Weird

Quazza said:
Ok nope, it's back. Sigh
Weird
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What Android OS version?

blackhawk said:
What Android OS version?
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Hopefully it's in here somewhere lol

I don't think Karma Firewall's logging feature works in Android 10 or 11.
That would allow you to see what is accessing the internet and how often. Might give you a clue to what app is responsible.
It may be an app connected with the watch that's gone wild. Google Play Services is a known troublemaker and battery hog.

Man it's somehow getting worse ...

Why is app usage so high?
It's not broke down by app. Wonderful.
More Android 10/11 security?
Try disabling Google Play Services... just a hunch.
If that doesn't work...
Go to Developer options>running processes/cache processes after a reboot and see if you can spot it.

blackhawk said:
Why is app usage so high?
It's not broke down by app. Wonderful.
More Android 10/11 security?
Try disabling Google Play Services... just a hunch.
If that doesn't work...
Go to Developer options>running processes/cache processes after a reboot and see if you can spot it.
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Is that high ? Went through ADB to break down the app usage ...

Quazza said:
Is that high ? Went through ADB to break down the app usage ...
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That is a mess. Ditch the trash social apps especially FB and insta****. Health is doing what? Is DeX just hanging out too?
All that message stuff?
G Board?
Which of these has bluetooth permissions?
Time to take out the trash... if you can bare to part with it. It all adds up.
The Adroid system looks high too.
Disable all power management after you take out the trash. Power management can cause erratic behavior and battery drain.
This what my 10+ battery profile looks like. I was using bt for a couple hours but it's bare bones.
The bells and whistles are power sucking and annoying.

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Is that high ? Went through ADB to break down the app usage ...
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Have you tried turning off nearby device scanning (under connections) and Bluetooth scanning (under improve accuracy in location)?
Also are you able to see if anything is draining your watch faster than it was before?

blackhawk said:
That is a mess. Ditch the trash social apps especially FB and insta****. Health is doing what? Is DeX just hanging out too?
All that message stuff?
G Board?
Which of these has bluetooth permissions?
Time to take out the trash... if you can bare to part with it. It all adds up.
The Adroid system looks high too.
Disable all power management after you take out the trash. Power management can cause erratic behavior and battery drain.
This what my 10+ battery profile looks like. I was using bt for a couple hours but it's bare bones.
The bells and whistles are power sucking and annoying.
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Health is the app used to connect to the watch. G BOARD is the Google keyboard ? Use that all the time (same as IG and FB unfortunately)

mtm1401 said:
Have you tried turning off nearby device scanning (under connections) and Bluetooth scanning (under improve accuracy in location)?
Also are you able to see if anything is draining your watch faster than it was before?
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Yeah they are off already. The watch itself seems fine though

Quazza said:
Health is the app used to connect to the watch. G BOARD is the Google keyboard ? Use that all the time (same as IG and FB unfortunately)
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That should be ok then.
Google apks are notorious troublemakers though. Even Gmail I keep on a short leash.
Maybe the data in Health got corrupted, try clearing data or reloading it.
Don't forget all the Google apps and their many dependencies. One might be polling constantly and going unanswered*.
Tracking something like that down on a unrooted Android 10 or 11 platform is a bloody nightmare.
*I simply disabled Google Play Services expect when I need it because this.

Quazza said:
Yeah they are off already. The watch itself seems fine though
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If you disconnect the watch does the drain stop? Does the drain continue if you connect a different device? Might be easier to try resetting the watch before the phone?

mtm1401 said:
If you disconnect the watch does the drain stop? Does the drain continue if you connect a different device? Might be easier to try resetting the watch before the phone?
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Will disconnect the watch tomorrow when I wake and see.
It's been ok today. Only at 2% for the day
(Google Play services however showing as my second most used app )

Quazza said:
Will disconnect the watch tomorrow when I wake and see.
It's been ok today. Only at 2% for the day
(Google Play services however showing as my second most used app )
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You can disable GplayS in settings to see what happens. Mine is disabled right now.
You can also download Karma Firewall then firewall block GplayS, Google backup Transport and Android Services if those latter two aren't used by you. See if this helps.