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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Hey guys.

It seems like almost everyone with battery drain issues has Android OS at the top of their battery stats.

I just want to share my experiences with this particular Bug.

Maybe it will help anyone. Please share if it also helped with your problem.

I had the Android OS bug since I dropped my phone a few months ago and had the screen replaced. The guy who replaced it (official Vodafone shop employee) said that they didn't just replace the screen and that something else was also damaged (they didn't say what) so they also replaced the rest. Well, that's when the Android OS problems started. I tried many ROMs and many Kernels. Sometimes the problem went away for an hour or so, but it always came back.

Then I finally decided to use BetterBatteryStats two days ago (I really should have done this earlier, I know...). I came to the conclusion that I had some sort of the well-known "fuel_alerted" bug, since fuel_alerted was the service that kept my phone from going into Deep Sleep.

This bug should have been fixed long ago but for me it somehow still persists, even on stock JB.

It didn't only drain a lot of battery (I had 8-10h maximum without doing much), it also used up a lot of CPU time, effectively slowing down the whole system to the point that I wasn't able to use Spotify on my phone without severe stuttering.

Well. I found a solution to the fuel_alerted bug.

The procedure is: turning airplane mode on, shutting phone off, taking out battery, putting it back in after a few minutes, turning phone back on.

This solved the problem. No more Android OS draining the power. Phone goes into Deep Sleep again. Only 2% drain after an hour. Spotify runs smoothly again. Yeah!

BUT well... It seems like the problem comes back randomly for me, today I had to replace the battery 5 times...

Now I am trying to strictly follow another "rule" to keep the problem from coming back: Always waking and unlocking the phone before plugging it in or out of power. I never did this before so it could have been the cause of the bug. Now let's see how long it stays bug-free.

If it still doesn't help, I guess I have to conclude it's some kind of hardware problem, which could only be solved by Samsung...

EDIT: Nope. Problem still there. So not really a fix, but maybe still helpful for somebody.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Okay, what ROM are you on?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
It's the up-to-date stock Samsung ROM I guess. See attachment for infos.

Damn, it seems like the problem just came back without me doing much. I only checked BetterBatteryStats every 30 minutes or so and recieved 1 SMS just a minute ago. Seems like the bug started 20 minutes ago, when battery was around 78%. Now it's draining battery like hell again, Spotify stutters, Deep Sleep won't work...

Guess I'll have to pull the battery again.

Since I'm pretty new to all this: What kind of information would be useful to narrow down the source of the problem?

I can provide my BetterBatteryStats screenshots and logcat/dmesg files as well as my Android Battery Stats screenshots.

Is there anything else I could post?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Yeah, screen shots of partial and kernel wakelocks.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
I just rebooted the phone, waited for a few minutes and took screenshots.

Here they are.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Okay, this is what you need to do now, drain it empty, charge it (while phone off) till 100 %. Remove the battery, wait for 90 sec or so, put it back and power on.

It's a placebo, but it might work.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Okay, I will try and do the charging overnight. Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Good luck man.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
I don't know much about kernel and ROM stuff, but I was just wondering...

As far as I understand, the fuel_alerted thing turns on if the battery charge goes below a certain threshold. The old bug with it was that, when recharging, the fuel_alerted thing would sometimes still stay on, even if battery charge is no longer critical.

Could it somehow be possible that this threshold is not set to 15% for me, but something around 80% due to some horrible bug?

This would explain why it suddenly turned on at around 80% when everything was fine before.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
We're trying to adjust your fuel gauge and sort of calibrating your battery.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Okay, I did exactly what you recommended.

Everything went well for about 2.5 hours.

Then the fuel_alerted process began again, but this time only for a short while apparently.

It took about 5 minutes kernel wakelock time in a 30 minutes measurement.

Way less than usual and when I check now, it's no longer active.

So. The problem might still be there, or it might not.

Do you recommend going through a few more recharge cycles to get the gauge set properly or do you think this won't make it better?

By the way, thanks for your quick responses!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Not really.

Now, when it gets to 15% or so plug it in (while phone ON), get battery calibration from play store.

Run the app, when it gets to 100 % hit calibrate. Plug off the device. Turn off.

Take out the battery for 90 sec again, reinsert it and power it on.

That calibration app is another placebo but as I said before, placebos sometimes work.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Since the battery calibration app requires Root access, I flashed a Dorimanx kernel a few hours ago. Then I did a factory reset and the battery-removal thing. 5 hours have passed now without the bug, 3h of which were without wireless access (maybe it correlates with that).

I'll now let the battery (slowly) drain below 15% and then recharge it with phone on overnight. I will use the battery calibration tomorrow and will inform you about the results later.

Thanks man!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Good to know :)

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
I did the battery calibration. Bug is still there, no changes :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Post you battery details and a couple of BBS screens.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Okay, here are some screenshots.

From the graph you can clearly see when the bug started.

Is it normal to have >26 kworker processes running?

Something else that concerns me: >2h without or with unknown signal. The whole day I was in an inner city area where the signal should be good...

Can you conclude anything from the screenshots?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
I will now try something which I also should have tried earlier ;)

I have a spare battery (not original samsung, less capacity) which I just put into the phone.

I'll let it fully charge with phone off and then I will try if the problem persists even with the other battery.

If it doesn't, the problem might come from the battery itself...

Is this a good idea?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
No it's not.

You gotta post detailed info there, we can only guess what's draining your battery.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Okay... I posted the screenshots you asked for...

What more should I post?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Post here!

We can do NADA from that pic alone.

Got betterbatterystats app?

Copy the image url and paste it on the image link button.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Ah you mean as attachements? okay...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Aw man :D now it screwed with the image size...

Sorry!

I'll try again:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Can't see a damn thing.

Spotted fuel alerted wake lock there.

Going for a swim, I'll get back with a fix (probably).

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
I posted the screenshots again in a higher resolution! now you should see everything.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Back.

This is what you're gonna do:

Flash latest siyah V6. via odin / mobile odin.

Reboot, use the phone for a couple of days and that fuel alert wakelock should be long gone.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Okay. For whatever reason, I couldn't get my phone to boot with siyah 6 or 5 and the stock ROM so I flashed the newest CM10.1 and Siyah 6.

Let's see if this helps. There should be no more fuel_alerted bugs according to the kernels changelog, but I wouldn't trust that because the same was said about the newest ICS versions a year ago...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Siyah v6 is for jb

siyah v5 is for ICS.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] araz.rozh:
Take Off the battery and put it on charging for about two hour. Try that then let us know what happened
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
Do you mean plug the charger into the phone without a battery inside??

Or take battery out, put it back in, then charge?

Sorry, it's pretty late here and I'll be going to bed soon, is it okay to extend the time from 2 hours to 8 hours? ;)

I was just about to drain the battery, take it out, wait a few minutes, put it back in, then charge the phone overnight while it is turned off.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayden485:
1. buy a charger

2. plug it in

3. enjoy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Drain it till the device goes off, plug the charger (don't power up the device), go to sleep.

When you wake up unplug it, remove the battery and wait

90 sec

aprox, re-instert it and power it up.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derSchmiddi:
AW: My Android OS battery drain fix

I am unable to get the Siyah kernel running properly.

I tried with the latest CM10.1 nightly build and the latest Siyah but it seems like my radio drivers don't work (I couldn't get any signal at all...). The same happened with the latest Dorimanx kernel. Should I try flashing different radio drivers after flashing the ROM and kernel? Is that even possible?

Well. Now I'm back to CM10.1 with it's own kernel and it ran fine for over 5 hours. But then the bug came back when battery level was at around 75%. Kernel wakelocks now show a high activity by "deleted_wakelocks"...

I will try different ROMs later to see of I can get one to run with Siyah or Dorimanx kernel... Okay?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Arggghhhh....okay.

No more of that fuel alerted right?

You should calibrate every time you flash a new ROM.

Sent from the little guy
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandonpa:
As the title indicates I am not fond of the clockwork mod recovery and would like to use the teamwin projects which is AOSP based. I want to load up the official deoxed debloated ROM which as far as I know if non-AOSP based. is that going to be a problem? Sorry for the dumb question, first time loading up a new rom only started rooting a couple weeks ago.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigviar:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15118710

[FAQ][UPDATED 10/12/12] The Thunderbolt Root User's Dictonary v1.0.2
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disconnecktie:
No but a better recovery is 4ext. CWM is old and doesn't properly wipe the boot partition.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandonpa:
Sorry for the late response. That is exactly what I was looking for an alternative to clockworkmod recovery. Thanks a bunch.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] youplaymenot:
I have a white i717 and I can't fix the insert sim problem. I know I'm not the only with this issue. I flashed a T-Mobile radio and tried to fix it and then went back to stock and now it says insert sim. I got my sim card updated so its new and it won't work again. I've read the only fix is to send it in but Im 2 months past warranty. Any help is appreciated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Jamesyboy:
How are you two months past your warranty when the phone came out a year ago, nearly to the day.

Find the modem thread and reflash the ATT radios. If that doesn't work, return to stock using ODIN and the instructions from the Return to Stock thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paulsonmcreilly:
I got this message today after trying to flash the eye candy theme from a Verizon ROM.

I now know better than to try that again. :)

Here's how I fixed it:

First I tried to flash a backup ROM - not fixed

Next I odin the stock at&t gingerbread ROM - not fixed

Finally I Odin the stock at&t radio - problem solved

I am unsure if the stock gingerbread ROM was necessary though.
[General Questions and Answers] SmokeyTheAggie:
Hello!

When viewing my tablet on a particular side it go opposite color and very dark. I attempt to show it in this video ( the last part where I say good side, bad side has a good view on it ). Does anyone know what this is?

XDA isnt allowing me to post links, so just put this after the youtube part: watch?v=0YHB1U9IN7s

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Pennycake:
I couldn't really tell anything from that video, but could it just be a viewing angle issue ?
[General Questions and Answers] SmokeyTheAggie:
Thanks for the reply. After watching the video, I realize I really sucked at showing it. Here's some nice clear pics.
[General Questions and Answers] jameski182:
For my point of view, It's just the angle issue on this one.

If you view onto the side. the LCD looks really dark but if you look at the opposite it's normal.
[HTC Droid DNA] emplox:
Does anyone have the zipwhip apk? For some reason the Google Play store is saying that it's not compatible, but had been using the app on the DNA for quite a while. I switched back to Browser Texting for a bit and now i want to go back to ZipWhip.
[HTC Droid DNA] Bigandrewgold:
Did you change your dpi? It's compatible for me.
[HTC Droid DNA] SolusCado:
It isn't showing up as compatible for me on my phone or tablet... An upload of the APK would be a great help!
[HTC Droid DNA] GuestD2238:
haha glad i clicked this thread.
[HTC Droid DNA] JWhetstone02:
The latest version of ZipWhip from google play as of today...

http://db.tt/cVkzt25R

Don't forget the Thanks :)
[HTC Droid DNA] darkace:
I'm glad I clicked on this thread to find out what the app does! This is exactly what I've been looking for but had no idea it existed!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxsicknessxx:
I want that bad on-screen lock mod for circles not included in lock screen someone explain where our how to get if. Also it's possible add color dpi switcher from paranoid to my Rom by hand? Someone explain how to do it to me I'm on root box I don't mind doing it my self just need help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxsicknessxx:
How to extract settings from other roms

Im just wondering is this possible. I run a custom rootbox rom. I just want to know can you "if you could"

Take Paranoid Android, or Pacmon or Paranoidkong or something pull out the settings for DPI and Color changing and add it to rootbox. Not for anyone else just for me. I don't want to run there rom I like rootbox..

What im really getting at is I want a custom rom for just my self and I want all the best stuff from everyones roms I won't give it away or sell it or trade it or start fires... not again... but I do really want the color and dpi settings from Paranoid android and thats all.. can anyone send me a link or explain to me simply how to start doing this or how to teach my self to do it. No smart ass remarks please I know its making my own rom but I dunno where to start searching brings up 100's of posts about roms I dunno man so if u know easy way to start doing this let me know please if don't mind helping me PM me please. I had long day work I could use something to get my mind off real life
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Monkeymannnn:
Chef central might be a good place to start. It's a forum here on xda.

However, a lot of what you're asking for requires frameworks specific to certain ROMs. If you can figure out what you need to run the features you're looking for, then you should theoretically be able to cook them into a ROM. Most features of android may as well be an apk that can be run anywhere, but many things require resources to function.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxsicknessxx:
Thanks for advise im checking the forum out now. Curious though. Is there a app or tool that can show me what goes with what app. Like paranoid settings whats needs along with it? I can look at PA sorce I mean its open its on ghub or whatever but I dunno how figure out what libs and stuff go with what app is there a file in there rom that explain it if I upzip it?
[HTC One X+] simorangkir_dcs:
Quick question here:

In TWRP recovery, if I choose to wipe internal storage, does it mean I only wipe the internal sd card or does it wipe the system ROM also? I am on the latest moded viperX+ TWRP

Thank you.
[HTC One X+] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Yes it will only wipe the internal sd card . If you choose format internal storage, it will wipe everything. SO DON"T FORMAT
[HTC One X+] ac3kill:
If you format interal storage why would that be a problem ?
[HTC One X+] NasaGeek:
When jumping between ROMs people generally like to keep the contents of their Internal Memory intact. It used to not really be a problem, because most Android phones had SD cards to act as their internal memory (this isn't technically correct, but you get my drift), and those SD cards would not be wiped when you formatted your system. Now that the phone's internal memory is actually part of the phone's filesystem, though, it requires a bit more effort to ensure you don't wipe out the contents of your "SD card" when formatting the phone.
[HTC One X+] Mikey F:
but isnt internal storage just where photos/music and stuff is stored? yet, certain apps have folders there, and twrp keeps nandroids there, titanium keeps its backups there, but if you KNOW this, you copy these folders to pc first, then format, then copy back those folders and can still restore nandroids or titanium backups, right?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thugnastie:
What roms have you guys gotten running on the lg phoenix/ P505 with the joban kernel
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabo_lope:
About your question, i got running on my lg thrive, which is identical in hardware to the lg phoenix; gingersnap, gingerdx, gtr, cyanogen mod 7.2,, only that ones...

Currently joban's kernel is only supported in gingerbread, even in those roms is kind of unstable...

Now, we have a new kernel from the great developer DJnoXd, it supports Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jellybean... But if you are only interested in Gingerbread, tell me and i will pm you a better method to get roms
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] savagephoenix:
DJnoXd kernel will work on GB also. Arjen has a kernel that will work on GB too.

joban kernel is old base band... so any p500 rom that is obb will work.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thugnastie:
can you give me the link to the rom and kernel your useing

Do I flash the rom then the kernel right after or do I flash the rom, boot up the phone then go back into recovery to flash the kernel
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] savagephoenix:
Just figured out djnoxd kernel no good for gb. Found in original development here on xda

Arjens is found at androidcentral under Phoenix / thrive thread

Sorry no links .. on phone.

Flash rom. Reboot recovery. Flash kernel. Recamend full boot. Then flash gapps. But can flash gapps after kernel
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeratos:
iirc I just read the new kernel runs on the p500/505/509, I don't know which one is the phoenix tho
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] savagephoenix:
i believe that to be the new 3.0 kernel
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thugnastie:
so no one could give me links
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] savagephoenix:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1587209 DJNoXD ICS and 4.1.x

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2144790 3.0 kernel by androidarmv6 team maybe ICS primarily for 4.1.x & 4.2.x

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2140930 sweetnsour i think still in beta, primarily for ICS, may work on JB

http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...gerbread-cm-2-6-35-kernel-thrive-phoenix.html Arjens GB kernel

dont be lazy. do read the OP and make sure you know what your doing. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BoxyBox:
I've always found the Play Store to be incredibly inconsistent when it comes to restoring apps.

When I recently Odin'd back to stock and signed into my Google account, the Play Store instantly began downloading all of the apps that I had installed on the last ROM. Apps that had been uninstalled were not re-downloaded; it only restored the apps that were on the phone most recently.

But when I just installed Synergy and signed into Google, it didn't bother restoring anything. I know that I can go to All Apps > All, but this is just a huge list of every app that I've ever downloaded on an Android device. It's far more tedious.

Anyone know the reason for this inconsistency?

(And no, I'm not a fan of apps like Titanium Backup.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikec86:
Some roms give you a check box to check if you want to restore apps and some dont. It should ask if you want to backup your apps and if you want to restore apps during the install.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Edgehood:
Google's play store backup only backs up your last ROM that you signed into with your Google Account.

So, if you didn't restore all of your apps when you flashed another ROM, Google Play restored "0" apps for that ROM and made a backup with "0" apps. That's why you aren't getting any restored.

I recommend Titanium Backup.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] chriscerv90:
Ok guys, sorry to start another thread on this but I have been going through thread after thread and searching endlessly for a solution and nothing has worked for me.

I was getting ready to do the S-Off procedures and my device is recognized by computer to transfer files, and adb recognizes the device as well, I was able to get the device ID. Reboot into bootloader and fastboot just hangs there and no fastboot usb. try to enter fastboot command and it just hangs at "waiting for device"

I started going crazy and uninstalled drivers. Installed HTC Sync, (never needed it before). Now when I plug in USB while in Fastboot computer recognizes device but says it is not working properly.

Under device manager > Android USB Devices > (Yellow triangle) My HTC > Device Status ( This device cannot start Code 10), (A request for the USB BOS descriptor failed). Driver version 2.0.7.14. I try to update the driver manually and it says "It appears the right driver is already installed." Tried disabling enabling. Unistalling, plugging back in. Nothing seems to work.

Running Viper 3.2.3

Windows 8 (didnt have the problem before using fastboot)

Sorry for long post. Thanks in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Venomtester:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2066805

Hope this helps.

AT&T HTC OneX

Android 1.1.1

ViperXL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] chriscerv90:
Thanks for the reply. That linked me to all the threads I went through by searching myself. I was just taking a stab to see if anyone had a new solution. Weird that this just started for me. VERY FRUSTRATING.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] DvineLord:
Windows XP makes life easier