I am struggling at times with battery drain - nothing new for Android devices but I still cannot figure out how to prevent apps from autostarting. Many apps have Permissions Autostart OFF but still start sometimes and are running in the background. The only way I can even find out if they are running in the background is by looking at Settings, Apps, Manage Apps and check which ones have the blue dotted circle. Apps like Advanced Task Manager do not even show those apps running. Apps that frequently autostart despite my attempts to shut them up are: Amazon Shopping, [Google] Calendar, Camera, Contacts, Find device, Google One, Messages, Mi Account, Weather and Xiaomi Cloud - most of them I use rarely or never.
Does the phone need to be rooted or can I prevent apps from autostarting?
Is there a task manager which shows really all apps that are running?
Gollob said:
I am struggling at times with battery drain - nothing new for Android devices but I still cannot figure out how to prevent apps from autostarting. Many apps have Permissions Autostart OFF but still start sometimes and are running in the background. The only way I can even find out if they are running in the background is by looking at Settings, Apps, Manage Apps and check which ones have the blue dotted circle. Apps like Advanced Task Manager do not even show those apps running. Apps that frequently autostart despite my attempts to shut them up are: Amazon Shopping, [Google] Calendar, Camera, Contacts, Find device, Google One, Messages, Mi Account, Weather and Xiaomi Cloud - most of them I use rarely or never.
Does the phone need to be rooted or can I prevent apps from autostarting?
Is there a task manager which shows really all apps that are running?
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You'll have to root and use e.g. 3c toolbox to prevent apps from autostart
Every event like boot, change in network connection & many more send an intent which wakes up apps. Before rooting you can try these
1) Remove bloatware with adb platform tools
2) You can restrict background activities for some apps which shouldn't run all the time in background like games, OTT apps, social media (not including messenger apps) (settings > app > manage apps > any app you wish > battery saver)
3) Restrict internet connection to apps which can work offline. Also Restrict background data for apps which you've restricted to run in background (settings > app > manage apps > any app you wish > data usage)
4) Deny all unnecessary permissions to 3rd party apps (settings > permission)
5) keep miui optimization enabled
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Thinking we can create a thread that documents all the background services that can be safely disabled. I used a similar thread to disable a boat load of services on my Telus Mobility GS2, and the battery life increase was incredible. I used Titanium Backup Root.
Well I don't know about the background services, but I use LBE to disable unused apps and apps from auto starting.
I just disable unused stock apps like Browser, Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Email, Talk, DRM, and autosyncing, which is toggle through the power widget.
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Hello,
My battery drains crazy fast (see screenshot) what can be the cause of this??
Well can you provide the advanced settings -> battery manager -> consumption level statistics?
Here ya go
Well, looks like Facebook is draining a lot. I see it right that it drained the battery from 100% to 50% in 4 hours, 14 min without using the phone much? What is your SOT (Screen on time)? And did you change the Protected App list?
I would suggest uninstall facebook and try if it gets better.
I use Swipe instead of the official Facebook app.
It works great and saves battery.
Try unprotecting FB in battery manager settings, ive left FB messenger protected, seems to work for me.
Some of the things I have done to reduce battery drain
1. All apps are kept in protected mode. As long as i don't kill any app, the notifications for whatsapp and facebook still come through. From my experience,it better to not kill any app and let it run in the background in protected mode.
2. Switch off the huawei backup app
3. Google photos/Flickr : change option to sync only when charging.
4. Google location history : switch to off
5. Security: Apps with usage access: off google play
6. Google sync: off the auto sync apps I don't use: I have switched off Chrome(i feel its a security risk), Drive, Google fit data, play books, movies and tv,play music, people details.
7. Use a different default browser : I use Yandex with Adguard
8. Disable the built in Email app and use the Gmail app for your exchange accounts.
9. Advanced Data management: Stop access for some apps like Google play store, backup translate, Emui updater, photos,videos etc. These apps have frequent wakelocks if allowed mobile data access.
As a user of CM13, What is the minimum privileges set for built-in Apps in Privacy Guard that still allows Google apps like Calendar, Contacts, etc. keep working fine?
Recently I've restricted Apps' access to location and Internet to as least as possible and now my Calendar and Contacts not synchronizing anymore! It seems Google Play Services needed access to location to allow its apps working! When I do allow sync proceeds!!! Is this right?
Anyone has come up with a minimum list of apps with least data access?
Google Play was installed out of the box. i downloaded all apps through there.
-google contacts not syncing.
-i get no push notifications like from the Ring app, youtube or ESPN. i did tap on allow when i first opened the apps.
-is there any way to get google news to appear when i swipe left on home screen?
google photos, maps, play store, stadia all seem right.
maybe there’s a solution. i read through older threads and didn’t find one.
any help appreciated.
I noticed that the preinstalled play store sometimes does not work properly. I had to reset device completely. Play services are part of the rom and available right after reset, I just had to download and install the play store itself.
Google Play Store 25.5.27-21 [0] [PR] 375135971 (nodpi)
43.43 MB (45,537,921 bytes)
As for notifications, you might wanna disable or delete the power save app from vivo and enable staying connected all time.
If you factory reset your phone, the first app to download from the vivo appstore is Gboard, which will prompt you to download Google play. I logged in to my google account afterwards and have no issues syncing to all my contacts, calendars etc
For notifications not appearing, a lot of users experience problems with the vivo provided power management app (com.vivo.pem) cause it interferes with how your apps sends notifications or frequency of push notifications to save power. You may use adb to disable it or uninstall. Hope this workaround addresses your push notification issue
i fixed the contacts and calendar (also had no calendar entries) sync issues. i went to APKMirror.com through chrome and downloaded the latest Google Play Store. I had version 24... on my phone and the latest was 26... I installed it through chrome and it installed over the existing app. I uninstalled calendar and contacts and re-installed them. calendar worked immediately on opening. but contacts didn’t. i went back to APKMirror.com and downloaded and installed Google Contacts Sync. I now have my contacts.
to get the push notifications working I went to Settings -> Applications and Permissions -> Permission management -> Permission - Background pop-ups and none of my installed apps were toggled on. since enabling them, I have received a couple of notifications with the phone in my pocket. maybe the vivo power management app is still causing problems because im not getting most notifications.
can someone point me to learn about "adb". I've seen that in a few places here and i don’t know what it is. im a long long time android user since google's first t-mobile phone but ive never had a need to tweak.
thanks for the help so far. just need to get my notifications and im pretty much all set.
so my only goal today was to install adb on my mac and "learn" how to use it and hopefully disable com.vivo.pem
installed on mac, enabled developer mode on x60, have access to device...
using: adb shell pm disable com.vivo.pem I got an error message
using: adb shell pm disable-user com.vivo.pem i got a successful prompt
when charging my phone and having the apps opened in the background (ESPN, Ring, Fast Mail) I do get push notifications. also get them while using the phone with the apps open in background. but with phone sleeping and in my pocket i get nothing. any ideas?
my issues are basically resolved. hopefully this will help others. I read in another thread to enable "mobile data always on" in the developer settings. as long as i have the apps open in the background, i now get push notifications when the phone is sleeping and in my pocket.
Which carrier are you using in the states? And do you have volte or vowifi?
im using it with tmobile. i don’t know how to check for volte or vowifi. i don’t actually use for phone calls. maybe make 1 or 2 calls a year. lol
Hi
I have a problem with google message. I can't send photos over 300kb
And now with encrypted RCS I can't send photos at all to a person using google RCS message too.
Any clues
Is there any bloatware in ZenUI9 (e.g Facebook, Instagram, Netflix)?
If that's the case, can they be removed completely without using ADB?
Also, what are the proprietary apps provided by Asus?
tifter said:
Is there any bloatware in ZenUI9 (e.g Facebook, Instagram, Netflix)?
If that's the case, can they be removed completely without using ADB?
Also, what are the proprietary apps provided by Asus?
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Most of the obvious bloatware can be uninstalled the same way as you would with regular apps. There are about 4-5 apps. From memory these apps were installed by default: Facebook, FB Messenger, Instagram, Netflix. Also note that it comes pre-installed with 3 facebook services, that need to be disabled either via ADB or the system settings, so harder to disable.
The preinstalled oem apps are the file manager, camera, gallery, calculator, phone dialer, clock, contacts (Maybe I forgot one or two). It also comes with less usual apps like the system optimiser that lets you tweak some settings to improve performance/battery life. The rest of the default apps are from Google.
Adaoh said:
Most of the obvious bloatware can be uninstalled the same way as you would with regular apps. There are about 4-5 apps. From memory these apps were installed by default: Facebook, FB Messenger, Instagram, Netflix. Also note that it comes pre-installed with 3 facebook services, that need to be disabled either via ADB or the system settings, so harder to disable.
The preinstalled oem apps are the file manager, camera, gallery, calculator, phone dialer, clock, contacts (Maybe I forgot one or two). It also comes with less usual apps like the system optimiser that lets you tweak some settings to improve performance/battery life. The rest of the default apps are from Google.
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Really appreciate the detailed response. Thank you!