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[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Greatbape:
I litterally just received an email from spigen 10 minutes ago stating that won't be making a glas product for the note 2. It's either xgear or something from china. I have one from Korea on the way.
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
I've had my N7 for almost a month now. Upgraded to 4.2.1 almost immediately, so had no baseline to compare against. Device has been working fine and I am very happy with it. That is, except for one small issue: a couple of times it has gone completely dead overnight for no apparent reason. After the first time I installed a task killer and Juice Defender that I use on my S2 with excellent results. Things were working fine and then today the N7 was completely dead again. So dead it would not even turn on until it got 2% charge on it. In looking at the battery stats it showed NFC service accounting for 60% of the usage with Facebook taking another 20% Screen time was a measly 15%! To my knowledge, I don't even use NFC so why is it sucking my battery dry? I have my N7 in a case with the magnetic switch. Both times it did this it was after I was reading a book and put the device on my nightstand (closed) with my TV remote on top of it. Could the NFC be trying to communicate with my TV remote? WTF? Any suggestions as to what is causing this greatly are appreciated.
[Nexus 7 General] XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX:
Its retarded. Jk. I just got my N7 for Christmas but I would try removing case, etc. And setting it away from everything else to see if that fixes anything
[Nexus 7 General] simms22:
turn off nfc if youre not using it. main settings, wireless and networks, more, disable nfc. if youre rooted, and dont plan on usimng nfc, id delete it and tags from /system/app/. i delete it after every rom flash since i dont use it. thats one less thing that wants to suck my battery juice dry.
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
Turn off NFC, Lose the case, and uninstall Facebook and you're good. Problem solved.
[Nexus 7 General] rcarnes911:
Might have the loose battery cable that will drain the battery quick to
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
Tried this, but the Disable option is greyed out and unavailable.:(
[Nexus 7 General] elsworth1983:
I'd try a FACTORY reset
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
Being I'm on unrooted stock ROM I fail to see how that would help. Left the N7 on the nightstand last night without the TV remote nearby and only lost about 4% battery. Hmmmm....
[Nexus 7 General] elsworth1983:
Only a suggestion. As this is what I would do 1st
[Nexus 7 General] rcarnes911:
Being unrooted and stock does not mean the software installed correctly a factory reset should have been the first thing you tried that is why that option is there
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
Actually, that option is there so that you can remove all user data in the event you need to sell it or give it to someone else. Doing a wipe/reset is a major pain, especially on an unrooted device with no TiBU to restore apps and data. If it happens again I will consider it, but so far it appears to be working fine. Haven't seen NFC started since that one night. I had another phone on the nightstand that may have been why NFC initiated.
[Nexus 7 General] wavrunrx:
NFS does *not* drain battery, unless you scan a tag, etc..

in other words, if its enabled, and but you dont use it, there is not battery used.
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
Like I said, when I discovered this latest rundown and looked at the batt stats, NFC service was responsible for 60% of the usage. The phone was simply sitting on my nightstand after reading a Play Books book, so I have no idea what I might have done to turn NFC services on or why my task killer did not kill it while it sat idle all night. My only guess is that the proximity of another smartphone or TV remote set it off, but I don't really know. I moved both items and it hasn't happened again since.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poolt:
I was curious about my new phone performance and I ran a couple of benchmarks on both my phone and my sister's one to compare, mine being a Galaxy S3 i9300 running stock rom and hers is a RAZRi also on stock and I'm puzzled.

In that comparison I found these results:

GS3 i9300 @ Quadrant: 5278 (losing by lots on RAM/3D Graphics)

RAZRi XT890 @ Quadrant: 4314 (losing by lots on CPU)

GS3 i9300 @ AnTuTu: 11847 (losing by lots on RAM/CPU/3D Graphics)

RAZRi XT890 @ AnTuTu: 14019

Could anyone explain or at least compare? Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Simple.....benchmarks are a waste of time ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
+ quadrant has changed benchmarks do not tie up with older versions .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
My totally stock (not rooted, never been near ODIN) S3 is suffering from a memory leak/issue that's requiring me to reboot my phone every 24 hours or so. I'm wondering if anyone else has faced this issue, or if anyone with any technical knowledge has any suggestions for how to fix it?

After 24 hours, this is what Applications Manager / Running looks like:

See all those processes in a start of Restarting...?

Looking at "Cached Processes" will show only 1, maybe 2 processes. Returning to the homescreen is slow and has redraw issues.

As soon as I restart the phone, no processes are restarting anymore, and the list of cached processes has 10-15 items in it.

The symptoms to me scream "memory leak!" but I'm not sure how to progress to debug what's causing the issue. I have installed Terminal Emulator and also connected to the phone via ADB, but there's nothing terrible I can see in the list of processes that are taking up lots of memory. I can't see anything bad in logcat, but cat /proc/meminfo shows that I'm running out of memory.

Can anyone with a good understanding of Linux/Android provide suggestions on how I can debug what is taking up all the memory? There must be some tools via ADB or shell commands I can run to get a better understanding of what's going on.

I'm also curious to hear if anyone else is running into this issue. If it's just me, it could well be an app that I have installed causing the problem.

Thanks!

- muppet
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xSpeced:
Probably a software bug, 4.1.2 is out, why not update? It works wonders for me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdf20:
Even I'm also facing the same problem since 4.1.1 upgrade. .. I tried all solutions by googling but nothing worked. Currently I'm restarting my device everyday. ... also patiently waiting for 4.1.2 update hoping that out will solve this memory leak issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
Because I am keen to find the cause, not just hope it might be fixed in a later version :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
Thanks for replying - good to know I'm not going insane here :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phobox360:
I experienced the same issue with stock unrooted 4.1.1. The problem is caused by some of the Samsung bloatware that ships with the phone as standard, this stuff is always running and cannot be stopped without rooting. I rooted and disabled a ton of it with Titanium Backup and all the memory issues I had were solved and as a side effect the phone is a lot less laggy. I highly recommend rooting anyway, it gives many advantages with one of the most important ones being the ability to control exactly what runs on your phone and when.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
Yes I'm familiar with rooting + more (If you look at my history you'll notice I released a few kernels for the Xperia Ray that I compiled. :) )

I'm trying to figure out exactly what programs/processes are the problem. Can you give me a list of those you disabled? Was there any particular one you disabled that seemed to fix the problem?

Thanks!

--muppet
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdf20:
If Samsung bloatware is the culprit, then why it sows more memory when booted? Please note that same number of processes (which you are calling as bloatware) are running irrespective of whether the phone is booted freshly or used for sometime... the problem is with memory leak which this ROM is unable to manage.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wmc90:
We're not entirely certain how Samsung apps (especially ones that aren't disable-able typically) are interacting with the system; so we can't really be certain of this. Android also does tend to hide some stuff from the services screen.

Anyway, I have a friend with this problem and we can't really find a reason for it; might go about disabling as much as we can (without root I mean) and see if we have any luck. On a sidenote, two others with identical phone/carrier/rom combinations without an issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phobox360:
The problem seems to be that some of the Samsung system processes tend to leak ram after some time. Which ones specifically is somewhat unclear, however I've had good results by disabling the kies process from running. Kies exists as both an android apk and an actual daemon process run during startup from init.rc. Disabling the apk and changing the permissions on the daemon so it cannot execute are quite effective methods of stopping it. I also disabled things like S Suggest, Video Hub and a whole bunch of others. Anything useful such as the fm radio, S Calendar, S Memo etc I leave enabled. I can give an exact list of things I've disabled if you like.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdf20:
I tried but couldn't find any process related to kies.... I've also disabled things like s suggest etc. But still experiencing memory leak. .. can you give me the list which you disabled on your phone?

I'm on stock and unrooted..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phobox360:
The kies daemon is called kiesexe and is located in /system/bin. Disable it by removing it's execute permission, then disable the kies related apk's and reboot. I shall post a list soon when I'm back home.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
This requires root though, and I don't want to root my phone (I know, call me crazy)

Also, from what I've seen kies daemon doesn't actually take up any memory, just leaves a lot of processes behind (that all share the same segment of shared memory)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Squall-Leonhart:
You cannot claim that a phone is totally stock, and then post a picture including processes like winamp, facebook, etc. Stock means its only running the software that it would be running after a fresh wipe.

I never had this problem under 4.1.1, so its either

* A kernel fault in the stock firmware itself

* A faulty application you have downloaded

* A leaking service process that won't appear on the running processes list.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wmc90:
Okay, 2nd person on a i9300T stock ROM (there aren't that many after all) with this horrible leak (one of the previously okay people I mentioned). Looks like the early jellybean builds just suck (well, more than we originally thought).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
Sorry but I disagree with you. Stock to me, and I think most people, means the stock ROM that it came with, no mods, not rooted etc. Otherwise where do you draw the line? Is it still stock by your definition if I've taken 5000 photos and put 2000 contacts in the phone? Synced it with 50 Gmail accounts?

Oh, you've never had the problem? Why are you replying? ;)

Yes, I'm aware of that. What I'm trying to track down is which one of those it is though. So I'm asking people what do they suggest so I can do that.

I'm fairly sure it's not going to be an app - apps run within the VM so killing them off would release all that memory. Much more likely is that it's a native ARM process (kiesexec for example) that's at fault. It could be an app I've downloaded though, there's no doubt about that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
Any suggestions on how to debug it? Without root there's still a number of nodes in /proc I'm able to read from - suggestions for where to look to debug some more?

Cheers!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mitch_Faiz_555:
(a noob here)

a reset may help

Still, if you can't fix it , take it to Samsung for a new one.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
Thanks for the reply, but I'm after advice for how to debug the issue. Not suggestions on how to fix it, what to do etc :)

I hoepd a couple of experienced devs might be able to suggest what things to look at (dmesg, vmstat, last_kmsg etc)

Please, no more replies of "I don't have it, reset it, flash the latest fw"

I want to understand what the problem is!

Cheers,

muppet
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Squall-Leonhart:
Stock means Factory Configuration.

not "Oh i have facebook and yada bullcrap 123 installed but its stock"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
To you I'm sure it does. Not to 99% of the users on here though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
I've found this rather awesome little app. I'm going to let the phone get it's leak on, then hopefully this will show me what process is taking up all the RAM.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wmc90:
AFAIK this won't work (although it does look like a nice app) since this sort of thing won't show up if you run 'top' in bash... which is what this looks like it's doing.

This is likely something slightly deeper in Android leaking like a sieve... y'know it wouldn't surprise me if it's like CM10 memory leak where certain things are causing gralloc to not release memory.

Anyway I do believe it's an issue with the releases surrounding K1, the more recent UK releases (which will hopefully filter down soon) don't seem to get this. Oh, and if you look on the AU Optus FB pages youll see a lot of people are complaining about this :p
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
System_server is the culprit

So that nice little app has helped find the cause, though I tended to agree with wmc90 and didn't think it would.

The problem is the system_server process keeps growing and growing and growing. On reboot it is ~70Mb. I just rebooted my phone 10 minutes ago because it was restarting every process and system_server process was up to 210Mb.

Now to figure out what's in system_server that's the problem...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muppetmania:
UPDATE

4.1.2 appears to have fixed the problem for me.

At the present time, I haven't seen System_server get above about 80Mb, and every now and then some sort of clean up seems to run and it shrinks down to 64Mb.

There's hope yet. I'm glad I didn't do a factory reset, though everyone kept telling me to (personally I think they're bull****)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdf20:
Same here. ..4.1.2 update seems to have fixed the memory leak issue. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skingg:
I think it hasnt completely fixed the issue yet in JB 4.1.2. Sometimes I can run a couple days where whenever I check how much ram was in use, it was in the mid 600mb and using the ram manager to clear the running apps I can go down to high 400mb or low 500mb. Other times it gets past 700mb and clearing the same I'm still having high 600mb ram usage.

Sammy Stock JB / Siyah 1.8.9 kernel
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpatil:
4.1.2 didn't fix it for me

I am running 4.1.2 and I still see this issue. Most of the processes (Maps, Atci_services, Settings etc.) show restarting. Not sure if it's because my device has only 512 mb ram (and that's not enough for 4.1.2 ?). I use Tasker, Nova Prime, SwiftKey which are always running and may be eating some RAM but still their total RAM usage is far less (< 80MB in total). So not sure if there's still some memory leak in 4.1.2 because after restart RAM usage comes down.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casualPhoenix:
Hi everyone,

I just got a TF300T for myself for Christmas, and I love it so far. This is my first time posting about it, and first post on XDA.

I'm trying to figure out where the micro SD card (that you can put in the tablet itself) and the SD card (that you can put in the dock) are located in the file structure. When I use File Manager or Root Explorer Lite, it shows "sdcard" as the internal memory, but I can't figure out where the cards are located. I tried looking at the different options under "storage," but didn't know if that was it or not.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Nate
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NixZero:
they are in /Removable folder.

as this its not the standard android location for sd a lot of apps cant find them - dunno why Asus did this.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casualPhoenix:
Looks like instead of calling it /removable they do call it /storage. Through trial and error I figured this out:

/storage/sdcard0 is the internal storage.

/storage/sdcard1 is the microSD storage in the tablet.

/storage/sdcard2 is the SD storage in the keyboard dock.

Thanks for the reply, you got me thinking and pointed in the right direction!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hkjavabean:
Hi, I have a problem that I applied the wrong CF root v6.4 onto my s3 lte i9305. My baseband become Unknown.

I tired to use the CWM Recovery Tar for i9305 to try to root the phone again. I am able to successfully apply via Odin, but i tried with no Autoreboot then pull battery , then to boot wih VolumeUp+power+home buttons. It just hangs there forever.

I now can either boot normally without baseband, or boot in download mode, or boot in normal recovery mode but not CWM.

Please advise how I can fix the baseband problem?

Jerry
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Flash stock rom via Odin .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leiros:
did you backup your EFS? You might've lost your IMEI number
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hkjavabean:
Can I flash stock rom using download mode? Without going into CWM or recovery mode? Please advise the exact procedure.

Also will my IMEI also get fix after flash the stock rom?

J.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WTVTom:
Yep course you can :)

Scroll down on here to the unroot section http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1911726
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hkjavabean:
I have not successfully root my phone yet since I still can't get into CWM. Therefore, I have not able to backup EFS folder.

Anyway to recover the EFS folder without backup?

J.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Where did you and how did you originally backup EFS folder .

Baseband is modem you can flash a modem through Odin .

Why not turn your phone off and read the basics first .

BASICS

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1927113

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hkjavabean:
I just want to confirm if I need to use triangle away to reset counter and to wipe the data and setting in CWM or factory reset in recovery mode before I flash the stock ware using download mode?

J.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WTVTom:
No you dont - you only need to do that if you want to send it off for warranty/repairs

You may want to factory reset after though in case you still run into problems
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hkjavabean:
I have flash the stock firmware using Odin. But my baseband is still unknown. I do not have backup of EFS folder and I think i lost my IMEI number.

Please advise of what I should do next?

Jerry
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
Hi Jerry,

Go to the bottom of the OP in this thread, there is a step by step guide on recovering your IMEI.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33048706&postcount=1

Good luck mate
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hkjavabean:
Thanks it works
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gocool767:
I just flashed the latest version of cm10.1 and now i have an R over my signal bar. Can someone tell me how to fix this? This happened once before when i flashed the 12182012 cm10.1 and it took me forever to fix.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BigErnM:
Try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2066275. Try what's in the last post before following the instructions in the OP.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Yea we are in the hundreds of new posts on this one. Would help if some would read before they flash. :rolleyes::cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
Agreed, it's getting ridiculous!

People know this.... 4.2 rom's have data problems. Practically every rom thread discusses this in a high level of detail. There are fixes if you read. Not gonna hand out this answer, as it's been said over and over in the forums. It's a source issue, even nexus devices are experiencing this issue.

Next, 4.2 will completely change your storage arrangement on your device. Legacy/and 0 folders will become dominant due to the multiuser features. Read, and learn what this will do, and how to recover from it if you downgrade back to 4.1. The op's all warn of these issues! :screwy:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Damn Duck. Even the devices released with 4.2 have problems. How they think gonna be stable on unsupported devices. I have $600 device. I want everything it came with to go faster but not willing to have cutting edge broke ****. :p:cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
Dog, it took me all of 2 min of reading to know to stay away from 4.2 on our s3 at this time. I agree, the hit or miss on data is to risky, especially when I'm a year and a half from an upgrade!

I'm running stock rooted pure Google 4.2.1 on my Nexus 7, and it is still a WIP. For custom roms, the multiuser partitioning for source/cm based roms is causing headaches. So much is different than 4.1. Simple theme engine themes are borking the devices, as the legacy folder doesn't know where to apply it. Brand new nexus and s**t is broken, how the hell is our s3 gonna be any better running this android version at this time! Hell, cm10 based roms are still lacking full Samsung source coding....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Glad to see you duck. Haven't heard from you for a while. Hey man. I'm rockin stock deodexed,kerneled, tweaked, themed 4.1.1 with all the 4.1.1-4.2 inverted apps available. **** stable. Everything works. And no hiccups. I'm good to go. Running 1.72/384 with Quad of 6500. If they didn't see my right handed app button wouldn't know I was running TW. Fast and smooth enough for me and I can call home if I need to. ;):cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
You too, been on eclipse aosp for the longest time. All decked out. Running a mix of Gunthermic's dh inverts, b-boys, and justins. Will be rocking some synergy once I finish up some beta theme testing
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Aerolith514:
Hey,

I recently updated to CM10.1 up from CM10 and installed the new gapps.

Lately I'd been noticing a major decrease in my battery life, so I checked my running apps and noticed maps and google services were running twice. I'm assuming this means I have two sets of gapps installed.

My question is: Is it possible to just remove the old set of gapps? If not, what steps should I be taking?

I've yet to use titaniumbackup (although I own the pro version).

All help is definitely appreciated,

-Aero
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simms22:
no such thing. you have one set installed. or you would have 2 of every google app in your app drawer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eqjunkie829:
If you didn't do a full wipe on the upgrade you definitely should. That should help with the battery drain.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
Jumping to different API levels requires a factory reset...