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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MohJee:
Model: SM-N9005

Country: Unknown

Version: Android 4.3

Product Code: XSI

PDA: N9005XXUBMJ1 (previously N9005XXUBMI7)

CSC: N9005OJVBMI2

MODEM: N9005XXUBMJ1 (previously N9005XXUBMI6)

There is CPU-related glitch that I've experienced since I've bought the phone on the 25th of Sept.The bug existed in the out-of-the-box firmware as well as in the new MJ1 firmware. The reason I didn't bring this to light and seek advice earlier was because I wanted to wait for the first firmware update (which came) hoping that it would be fixed (which it wasn't).

Description of the glitch:

The processor would go on a state where it would ONLY start utilizing CPU1,CPU2 and CPU3&4 would remain "offline"

no matter how much stress is placed on the phone.

Symptoms:

I can clearly see the phone is only utilizing two cores with any CPU monitor from the market (see screenshots below); phone gets hot much easier under heavy stress as all stress is being put on two cores instead of shared between four; benchmark scores drop by half (example: quadrant score is ~21,000-22,000 , it drops to ~12,000-13,000 once the processer goes into that state); some demanding games start to exhibit lag and choppiness.

How frequently does the processor go into this state:

It sometimes happen once in a day. Sometimes it happens once in 2-3 days. As far as I know, it remains in this state unless and until I reboot the phone. I don't know how it's triggered.

How to temporarily resolve the problem:

The only fix I came up with is to reboot the phone, whereby the issue disappears immediately once the phone boots up again (that is, until it comes back again in a couple of days).

Is the problem software related? Does the problem exist in other Note 3 firmware?

: I'm betting it is a firmware rather than a hardware related issue, otherwise the problem would not go away with a simple reboot. I don't know if the issue exists in firmware other than mine. It's probably not wide-spread, since I haven't seen it reported by anyone else. This is the reason I created this thread, to bring awareness to other people as well as to hopefully get help from someone more knowledgeable about this kind of thing on how to go about to get rid of this issue (the temporary fix is easy enough, but I don't want to bother with rebooting my phone every other day for one year.)

Could some root application be causing this?

: Nope. The issue occurred before rooting or modifying the phone in any way, it's still present now that I have rooted it.

Other things to note, power saving is OFF always. I never turn it on. I don't have any application that could restrict, under-clock or otherwise modify how the phone or processor operate in any way.

I have attached screenshots below of when the processor is operating normally, and when the processor goes into the utilizing-only-two-cores state.

Applications used: Stability tester [to put stress on the processor], System Monitor [..to monitor the CPU, obviously]
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KruseLudsMobile:
Do you have to leave the monitors running many hours to catch this issue or does it occur quickly after reboot?

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note III.

Prevous Owner/Hacker of... numerous other devices!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MohJee:
It happens so randomly and sporadically. I can go for 3 straight days without reboot and without the problem happening. I don't keep flying cpu monitors active all the time, I just opened them for the sake of taking the screen shots.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivant:
I had just noticed this on my exynos note 3 today, at least it may have been the same issue im not sure yet. For the second half of the day the touchwiz interface and several apps were noticeably laggy, not a huge deal but compared to what it should be. It was working at about the speed you expect from a midrange phone. Nothing special was running, I cleared all apps from memory but it made no difference. I restarted and it has gone, but if it happens again i will be sure to check how many/which cpu cores are running. I have rooted it but no other modifications.

Come to think of it chrome was lagging like a ***** all of a sudden the other night too... I was tired and went to bed without investigating further though. Perhaps that was the same thing as today, which could be the same thing you have...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Bigbabyjesus:
Hi all, I've been through all the S4 forums looking for a version of aosp camera with photosphere or a 360 panorama but I can't find it. It seems like not long ago I was seeing quite a bit of talk about it and now I can't find much of anything.

I am on liquid smooth 2.10 and there's no photosphere. If anybody could point me to a thread or even just a link to download the camera that would be greatly appreciated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Bigbabyjesus:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2443414

Here is a thread with the a flashable photosphere camera that worked for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2398594

And this is the moto x camera which works except for HDR and slow mo.

As I'm sure this thread is probably a duplicate or triplicate or whatever, mods should feel free to delete.
[HTC One S] rolo143:
I installed CWM recovery on my phone, but I want to install another recovery (TWRP) however, when I connect in fastboot mode and try to use the command to install it, it says can't find partition or something. How can I change the recovery? Please help. Thanks :(
[HTC One S] foeti:
Try with goomanager or flash image GUI from playstore

And btw:

What's your fastboot command?
[Omni Q&A] veloct:
Please support LG G2 on verizon and other variants too :)
[Omni Q&A] DesertHawk:
I will support the D802 when we sort our CM kernel. The D802 G2 may be use to you
[Omni Q&A] djkinetic:
hope support for the ATT (D800) version comes eventually.
[Omni Q&A] sacredsoul:
Just what I wanted to hear. :good:
[Omni Q&A] trh1341:
Please support the att version! I would build myself if I broadcaster internet
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajoli:
I'm coming from a Motorola Razr XT910 which I ran AOKP on. What I'm missing most on the G2 is the toggles that I had in the notification area.

As you know LG has replaced this with their own quick settings thingybob, which isn't really bad at all, I just prefer the other one.

So, is this something that can be done through Xposed Framework? I would love to get it back, but I can't find any proper 4.2.2 or 4.3 (preferred) ROMs for the G2 yet. This in itself isn't strange at all as its a rather new phone.

So, any tips on how I can do this? Like I said, Xposed would be awesome if it's possible and some modder is up for it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maethem:
+1

I want this too!!!!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grosu64:
You can use Xposed installer and then G2 TweaksBox
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kapybarus:
And with gravity you can modify them too and add some more.
[Sony Xperia M] icoolguy1995:
ALSO ALWAYS REMEMBER THE GPL LICENCE:

To put it short,

Reference taken from Micromax A110 forum
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiltsguy1982:
I'm so torn between these two phones but I want a phone that has a great camera, I like the fact that the G2 has OIS but does it actually make much difference?

From what I understand I have heard that the LG G2 has a poor weak flash which is unfortunate as I know the flash on the S4 is very good and powerful.

I like the design of the G2 and I know the battery life would be better but it's so hard to decide.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TexasAggie97:
I went with the S4, best decision ever (techwise)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Spec wise the G2 is pretty much ahead of the S4. Faster and also the screen with the lg g pro are the two best screens on the market right now.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
In my opinion the G2 is definitely the better device, no contest. But if you're interested in the S4 and have verizon then check out my swappa listing:

http://swappa.com/listing/BMJ715/view
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Datafiend:
I previously owned a S4 and if you can live with touchwiz(I couldn't) you will get the benefit of having external storage and a removable battery which could be useful with your picture taking. From all accounts LG's UI is lag free and OIS really helps when taking videos. If you are mainly focused on taking stills then I would go with the S4 mainly for the external storage and removable battery, if you don't mind putting up with touchwiz.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samusalo:
I know it's a bit quick to judge, but after four days with G2, I'm thinking of switching to S4.

I always root my devices, and really miss Slim Bean ROM from Nexus 4, so touchwiz would not be an issue.

Mainly I'm a bit disappointed in G2's camera, and that I can't use Automatic call recorder from Play Store.

Also there seems to be a lack of devs for the D802 version.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiyeon90:
No reason whatsoever to get a phone with last generation specs

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[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v2.2v:
+1

And I'm not even a spec junkie. I've had both and the G2 is just simply the better phone.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiguy99:
G2 > S4. Period (That should help you)

G2 compares to the Note 3.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WizeGuyDezignz:
I dumped my S4 as quickly as I could to get my G2. I was severely disappointed with the S4. It was a huge misfire by Samsung imo.

Touchwiz lags like crazy on that phone. They seemed to have fixed that issue on the Note 3 if you're interested in a phone of that size.

But between just the S4 and the G2, there is no competition. The G2 blows the S4 out of the water imo.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Exactly. The G2 competes directly with the Note 3 therefore the S4 is not even comparable. The S4 is arguably the most disappointing flagship phone this year. The HTC One is much better in my opinion.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noam23:
Actually, the S4 is currently so disappointing, that the rumor says that Samsung will present the S5 already in January.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiat...s-ii-flagship-smartphone-smartphone-portfolio

The G2 does not compete against the Note3, because these are from two different categories. The effective screen size of the G2 (meaning what you are left with because of that Nav bar, which is about 4.9 inch), is still far smaller than that huge 5.7 inch of the Note 3.

The Note 3 is a huge screen, two handed device, while the G2 is a regular screen (a bit smaller than the S4) with excellent one handed operation (and battery life).
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaT Franchise:
G2 no question, the only thing i miss about touch jizz is the alarm and the ability to swipe to call from text messages and from contact,
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jspradling7:
Everyone has their opinion. Myself, I have both and love both. But, my Verizon S4 didn't locked down with the ME7 update like many did, and I run Hyperdrive on it. No lag at all and great battery life. It's a damn nice phone and I'm glad I have it. If I had to choose between an ME7 S4 and a G2, I would take the G2 in a heart beat. But between a pre-ME7 S4 and a G2... that would be a tough call for me.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupaSwag:
I came from a pre ME7 S4 and don't regret it. Hyperdrive is a very overrated rom imo. I ran aosp on the S4 but when I needed Touchwiz, I usually stuck with beans. Both are top devices though and no one can go wrong with picking either one. Still deciding whether to keep the S4 or sell it.

Sent from my LG G2
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ascertion:
If you're on Sprint then hands down go g2. It supports Sprint's future network.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
And that would be a huge mistake from Samsung. The reason why the S4 was disappointing in the first place is because Samsung rushed it to the market.

Yes, the G2 does not compete in the market against the Note 3, but i does in terms of specs, battery life and performance thats why many of us are torn between both devices.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curly9:
The g2. The s4 I had lagged even with root and all that stuff. The g2 also has a better battery life than s4. I love everything about the g2.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WizeGuyDezignz:
Agreed. I had the early S4 that I had fully rooted and it didn't matter. Some roms made it more manageable, but the lag was still there.

The G2 is in a different class than the S4. It's much, much better.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Hows your note 3 quest?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
Some of you may have noticed that battery life on this phone can be both unbelievable and mediocre. I've been trying to figure out what can trigger and cause mediocre performance and I'm at a loss. The problem is, there doesn't appear to be a smoking gun. No obvious wake locks. No rogue Apps. I have Carrier IQ disabled by System Tuner. Google Now is off. What I'm running right now is pretty bare bones. And the kicker is my phone is sleeping, as can be seen in the shots below. The vast majority of the time my phone was off the charger it was in deep sleep mode.

I noticed my phone in excessive drain mode Saturday so I let it run over night and into the next day, so that BBS and GSam could pick up as much data as possible, including sitting idle overnight and very little use throughout yesterday.

Here are some shots to show the story. The graph, which is definitely steeper than when idle drain is normal, which resulted in idle drain of about 6% per hour. Also as can be seen in these shots, there is not a wakelock problem. Deep sleep shows as 12 hours 38 minutes, Awake time of 1 hour 8 minutes, and screen on time of 1 hour. So, my phone was only "awake" for 8 minutes when the screen was off out of almost 14 hours according to BBS.

I did notice and oddity here though. BBS listed the unplugged status as 13 hours 47 minutes, while the phone's battery meter listed it at 12 hours 13 minutes.

Attached are the shots I took at 19%, as well as a final battery meter shot after charging the phone to full while powered off and restarting, where it's been purring like a kitten in deep sleep.

Part of me is beginning to believe there is a bug with the battery gauge. What do you guys think is going on?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gm007:
Try clearing data for google play services,google services framework and playsore than reboot and check if things changed.

And i would recommend uninstall the updates related to those apps and let them update itself again.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
Done. Although I won't know if any attempts to resolve the issue have worked until the idle drain triggers again (or doesn't).

Thanks for the advice.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
Well unfortunately that didn't solve the issue. The heavy deep sleep drain again triggered after a bit over one full day. I charged to full last night and let sit over night where it drained 6% per hour with no obvious culprit. Anyone else have any suggestions?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcm7:
It seem that your signal is week, did you get stable signal and have you tried airplane mode, to find out how much battery drain in this mode?

Also, did you disable LG MLT? This is a massive app from LG, can consumed about 150 MB RAM.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raverrevolution:
This might sound boneheaded, but what about just resetting the phone. Maybe some system app is causing some type of memory leak and thus draining your battery. Also disable wifi when you're not using it.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
I don't think it's signal related. I get an excellent signal at work and the idle drain still occurs. Also, it happens whether wifi is on or not. I have not disabled MLT, as I'm not concerned about RAM, just running processes. Rebooting the phone eliminates the issue, so something is obviously getting hung. The really odd thing is I was draining 6%/hr overnight, all while the phone was in deep sleep, yet my top battery consuming category was the screen at 35%, with just 1 hour of screen on time of 10 hours off the charger. If something was cranking in Android System that caused 40% drain overnight I would have expected Android System to be higher. It doesn't make any sense.

I may just have to factory reset.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m.r.ekcah:
My battery's been great until couple of days ago when I turned on GPS and Voice Notification (for speaking out names when phone call/message comes in). After I noticed the abnormal battery drain, I turned off those two options, because that's the only thing I did differently before noticing the drain. However, that didn't help... yet. I needed to do a reboot and battery's been fine again. Not sure if those two were the actual culprit, or just coincidence.

Have you changed any settings right before you noticed the drain? Just a thought.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fisher421:
had the same issue., wakelock detector, BBS, GSAM nothing could show what was eating the battery. i use mobile browsing a lot and almost 8/10 times this battery drain was happening with chrome , chrome beta and firefox browsers.

Only thing thats helping me is the Greenify app . Greenified the chrome and firefox and almost all the cloud apps and the battery is now much much better.

still ...IT IS AN PROBLEM to be found..
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
To provide a bit more info on this, attached is a pic of my reboot a couple hours ago (marked by the thin white vertical line). The change in the slope of the drainage line is drastic. Also, notice the small hump after the reboot? The line actually increased a bit, fell, then flat lined. More and more I'm beginning to suspect the battery gauge, but I just don't know.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tripster:
I have the same situation after charging. Even in"deep sleep" it would chew through the battery. Now I just reboot the phone after charging and it plays nice. The gerbil on the wheel seems to take a break and rest.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcm7:
To all who have excessive battery drain, did you charge your phone while it is on or off?

Some where in this forum (if not mistaken), I read that there is a bug while charging G2 when it is on. You should reboot your phone after it is fully charged otherwise you will experience excessive battery drain.

Mine always charged it while it is off and never had problem with battery life.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smallgreenbear:
i got the same issue which is very annoying, have over 85% deep sleep, no wake lock, battery draining like crazy, and it happens randomly. I wonder if factory rest fixes the problem, or hardware issue

i have done a bit testing for this random drain,

with mobile signal on ==> huge drain

without mobile signal on and only phone signal ==> huge drain

airplane mode ==> no drain

so i believe it is a bug within the phone software, actually sometimes the random drain started after a phone call
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalboy94:
I've been getting the drain too in the past few days. Last time i could fix it by factory resetting, but obviously I don't feel like doing that once per month. What I do know is that flashing another stock ROM (kdz) without factory resetting doesn't fix it. However last night I figured i'd try disabling WiFi (kept it on during the night until now) and I only drained 1% in 5 hours, down from 3% per hour. Perhaps this bug is related to WiFi.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steamer86:
Have you disabled LG MLT? It acts like CIQ for internal LG purposes. I have personally seen it cause mass wakelock in unexplained situations. If I leave everything on overnight under 95% battery, I will get around a 3% drain in about 7 hours. Pretty normal. The first 5% on these batteries seem magical. At 100%, with everything on, I wake to 100%.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalboy94:
Yup, frozen in TiBu. Will be factory resetting however when I get home as GSAM grabbed my attention. Never were system things so high up the list when i had no drain.

https://db.tt/Pw8bJ3CM
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shilent:
I been struggling with this since I got the phone (almost a month now). I've done all the usual:

Removing bloat

Disabled CIQ

Disabled Google Now, Location, GPS

and I have the same apps as my Nexus 5

Just last night I realized that this battery drain only happens after taking it off the charger. This got me to add the word "charging" in my search and I found this thread.

Is this hardware related, or would a custom ROM resolve this? I have the AT&T version.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kapybarus:
Ok and which stock rom does not do that?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcm7:
Probably this is a software issue. Never heard this problem on latest firmware or custom ROM.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kapybarus:
Guys could you write which stock rom does this wakelocks for you so we could eliminate corrupt firmwares?

For example I experience these wakelocks on latest F international version.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] votinh:
Uhmmm, I'm kind of confuse now.

I've tried to read and reread a couple of times but ............... what electronic devices that won't drain battery after taking off charger??? :(
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shilent:
Sorry, I wasn't clear. When I said "this", I meant this excessive battery drain, not normal drain. A reboot always fixes it.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] votinh:
Ahh, got it.

I guess we're in the same boat.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgoodpaul:
Maybe, just maybe if you let it sit on the charger for a little while after its fully charged that might help. Maybe its not getting the true full charge. I use my phone quite a lot and ive never had a serious problem with battery drain. I normally get about 17 hours before i go to sleep and i have 2 jobs during the day so i charge it every night
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesavagetony:
I just rooted my VZW Galaxy Note 3, and wanted to see if anyone had a list of the bloatware you can safely freeze with Titanium Backup. I did this myself and ended up wiping to start over because I was getting force closes, probably meaning I froze something that broke functionality.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NoFanboy:
This is my first Android device and I'm coming from an iPhone 5. I, too, would like a list or guide to removing bloat ware. What did you guys uninstall?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dclutter1:
I saw a couple of lists yesterday. Now I can't find them :(

Edit: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2478589
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] aegeas:
Over at Howard Forums we have a fellow with a setting that came on his unit that lets him map his soft keys. The thread is linked below. Can anyone help us get this thing out of his unit so other Wizard owners can enjoy it too?

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=760487&page=2
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] vijay555:
This is just a registry hack.

http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121114

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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] aegeas:
Tmobile

Actually the setting we are talking about is coming on TMobile Wizards in the UK. It enables a icon in the Settings area called "Softkeys" that allows people to change their softkeys without a registry editor or making changes to the registry.

That is what we are really looking for. Sort of "native support" of changing the keys as opposed to a clumsy registry hack.

Aegeas
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] vijay555:
Sorry, I meant it is possible to achieve easily in the registry.

If you follow the brighthand thread, it's also included in the upcoming Tweak2k. But if you find the native app, it'll be useful.

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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mitchello:
Yeah, I don't find the registry hack clumsy at all. I have reprogrammed my buttons several times, and its really easy.