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[General Questions and Answers] JimReid:
MEID/ESN

Just so you know those cannot be changed and if they could be you wouldn't want them to be. This is how they track stolen phones or phones that didn't pay their bills, etc. If the donor phone is a 'legal' phone you should have the esn/meid disabled or disconnected at the vendor and then you would have to go to you vendor and have it activated. You can't do it. If the esn/meid is not deactivated by the vendor who sold the phone then it cannot be reactivated with another.

Hope this helps.

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[General Questions and Answers] gtd2000:
Anybody using Viber on the ZTE Awe?

I have it running but can't get audio functions to work - keeps telling me that audio is already in use if I try to record an audio message to send to a contact.

When taking or making calls the device rings or calls but when the call is connected there is no audio either way.

Any ideas or is nobody else using Viber?

It's a great little phone for the money :cowboy:

Edit: Just applied the latest update and now I've recorded an audio message successfully! :)

Still no luck on the calls yet..
[General Questions and Answers] adi51096:
hi all,

i have xperia jb(rooted) and i want a good custom rom for my device,but i have not unlocked my bootloader yet:/ i have tried many times to do so,but failed.Any one click software for unlocking bootloader?Any help will be appreciated.

thanks
[Nexus 5 General] a senile fungus:
I don't have this device, nor do I know if I'll be getting it, but I must say that I applaud your method.

Bravo!
[Nexus 5 General] stumpy352:
I just turn location reporting off then select 'battery saving' setting & accept the request for reporting when it pops up. This allows you to use network location without logging. Google now & maps work fine although not quite as accurate. I just turn on gps if i need navigation. Never get more than 2% usage from play services & it's giving me a total kept awake time of about 28mins out of 12hrs of use with 3hrs screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] tylerdurden83:
If I disable the wifi and 3g, leave my phone on battery saving location, google location set to on, it is using wifi always scanning only and it didnt consume 1% battery in a whole night
[Nexus 5 General] HB_Mosh:
That is working for me right now.
[Nexus 5 General] iammuze:
I am experiencing this issue on my Nexus 5, as confirmed by betterbatterystats (NlpCollectorWakelock 5.5% awake time)

ROM: CyanogenMod 11 alpha

Build Number: KRT16S

Location Mode: High accuracy

Location Reporting: Off

WiFi On: Sometimes

Play Store Version: 4.4.22

Play Services Version: 4.0.34

This issue first appeared for me the other day. I noticed that my device was not appearing in the online Android Device Manager, nor the desktop version of the Play Store. To fix the ADM issue, I disabled remote wipe, cleared data for Play Services, reenabled remote wipe, and rebooted. To fix my device not appearing in the Play Store, I cleared data for the Play Store app. Both issues were thereafter resolved, but now I am experiencing the Network Location battery drain.

Is it possible the problem is related to requests from Android Device Manager? I was under the impression that location for that purpose was 'on demand' instead of logged, but what do I know.

Thanks for doing this! Others, please feel free to use my comment as a template, and post your own data.
[Nexus 5 General] DoesntPostAThing:
So I was playing around with autostart, and I accidentally caused a bunch of FCs for Play Services. Ended up freezing/defrosting and then uninstalling updates then let it update itself, and I noticed this (may or may not have anything to do with what I did): Even though it wakelocks, it barely uses up any batter. I was in an area of 2-3 bar HSPA+, with sync on, location reporting on at high accuracy, etc. and it drained 1% per hour. Still kept phone awake ~5% of the time, but battery usage was significantly better over what I recorded to be 4.8%/hour from last Friday.

EDIT: The only other change I can think of making is temporarily freezing Cerberus. I'll have to look more into that. However, check which apps are requesting your location. The new location settings in KitKat make this simple enough. For me it's only Google Now and Google Play Services, and whatever app that happens to require GPS such as camera (geotagging) and maps.
[Nexus 5 General] natezire71:
So, how should I replicate this? I'm using the Xposed Module that dev posted in your Reddit post.
[Nexus 5 General] the7thson:
How do you do this exactly? If I turn location reporting off, then I can't select the battery saving method because it's greyed out. This also causes location based cards to stop working on Google Now and Maps can't locate me either.

---------- Post added at 11:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 PM ----------

Use Titanium Backup to FIRST backup Google Play Services. Then use it to uninstall GooglePlay Services. Then open Google Now or Maps, they will ask you install Google Play Services and take you to the app store.

If anything goes wrong, use Titanium to restore.
[Nexus 5 General] stumpy352:
You need location toggled on. Go down to location services & click on Google Location Reporting. Select off for both settings. Then go back out & select battery saving mode & accept the terms.
[Nexus 5 General] the7thson:
Turns out that's exactly how I had set up after all, doh! Thank you.

I have actually been getting really decent battery life, noticeably better than my HTC One, with exactly similar usage patterns and same apps installed etc.
[Nexus 5 General] stumpy352:
Also, Play Services is not the only app that uses this NlpWakeLock. Facebook also uses it & in my case has the highest time kept awake. I turned off location in chat & noticed that it is much better.
[Nexus 5 General] DoesntPostAThing:
That's what I thought too. That could explain why some people have this issue more than others.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] natezire71:
Have you tried the Xposed module that filters wake locks? I've been using it and the NLP counts have drastically dropped
[Nexus 5 General] DoesntPostAThing:
No, not using xposed. I understand that wake locks must occur for accurate location services (otherwise what is doing the reporting). What shouldn't be there is the incredible battery drain. Wake locks don't necessarily mean battery drain. You could have a 1h wake lock and drain 1% battery, or a 5 min wake lock that keeps CPU on high frequency causing a 10% battery drain. I don't mind wake locks as long as battery isn't affected too much.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] natezire71:
That was the point of this module. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.andro.wlt. Take a look and read the description. From my understanding, the location stuff still works--which for me has been the case. However, it stops the unnecessary wakelocks. I would like to believe my battery has improved.
[Nexus 5 General] sacapo:
Nice thread!!

I've changed my location settings and I'll report if it works!!!

Thanks!!!
[Nexus 5 General] the7thson:
Please keep us posted on this works out for you, it looks really promising!
[Nexus 5 General] natezire71:
I think it's working.
[Nexus 5 General] Vysin:
Can you tell us which apps you disabled wake locks for?
[Nexus 5 General] aimetti:
Its worse than ever it seems on 4.1 services
[Nexus 5 General] LeoRex:
I never put much stock in those 'improvements made in' updates. WHAT did they improve? Seems to be incremental, at best.

I'm running 442 ls now... turned wakelock terminator back on... I'll leave it at that. :)
[Nexus 5 General] Jspeer:
So if I don't use google now, couldn't I just greenify google play services and google search to prevent wakelocks since they are in hibernation? Then If I needed to use maps or search I could just re-greenify them after I was finished using the app? Basically would geenifying the apps prevent the wakelocks? This seems to work on my nexus 7 because it is hardly ever awake unless the screen is on.
[Nexus 5 General] LeoRex:
Well, if it works on your 7, it'll work on the phone.... it won't do any background stuff, obviously.

All this wakelock stuff us really for those who want Google Now to its thing, but limit its impact on battery life. If you don't use it, as Gordon Ramsey says, "SHUT IT DOWN!"
[Nexus 5 General] AndrasLOHF:
I did a clean install of the ROM I'm using 2 weeks and decided to try turning Google Now back on as well as location reporting and history. Part of the reason I did this is I'm having an issue with Google's Location Service constantly defaulting my location 224 miles away on the complete opposite side of the state and want to have information to send to them. Much to my surprise I have noticed that I have had a serious increase in the amount of wakelocks but with little to no difference in battery drain. I do get the initial drain from gps on a boot as mentioned and I guess that's used to get one definitive location. After that though battery is back to sipping when idle.

So I went from: Battery Saving Mode, Google Now Off, Location History Off, Location Reporting Off

To: High Accuracy, Googe Now On, Location History On, Location Reporting On

More wakelocks...same battery drain.
[Nexus 5 General] Gormsen:
Well, either you had crappy battery before, or you're using the phone with very heavy usage so wakelocks doesn't matter because the phone doesn't really idle.

I'm on 24 hours, 2 hours SOT and 50% left :)
[Nexus 5 General] katsuru:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhq4bkg7tvvl27h/Screenshot_2014-01-12-18-38-36.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zval2nm5cyw6eou/Screenshot_2014-01-12-18-38-46.png

GS 4.1 and Greenify all installed apps aside from whatsapp , facebook and facebook chat.
[Nexus 5 General] AndrasLOHF:
What I mean is I can see that the phone is being waken a lot more yet for the most part unless I'm streaming music with the screen off the battery is barely used screen off. Maybe 1-2% an hour which to me is completely acceptable for having absolutely everything turned on. I've always gotten good battery with this phone even though my signal is mediocre at best. Usually 3 hours SOT and 2-3 hours of bluetooth music streaming a day. I have chargers everywhere so I'm not trying to get 2 days of usage without a charge lol. Just as long as it gets me from 6 am to 10 pm I'm good.
[Nexus 5 General] LeoRex:
1% - 2% is perfectly acceptable... my issue is that those Google services wakelocks were causing 4% - 5%.

That's not good.. :)

Fussing with the wakelocks got me back under 2 again... under 1 many times. Happy times.
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Guys I read the some of you use wakelock terminator.. Is this safe? And another question.. What does Google Play services handle? I have the auto sync activated if I disable wakelock this will affect other apps? Because i don't really understand what it does...i know that is related with location but why all these wakelocks? Thanks in advance!

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[Nexus 5 General] Gormsen:
This has been discussed a couple of pages back, there's even a link posted by tylerdurden83 that goes into depth with the question.

There are still different opinions on the matter, but I find it perfectly safe with none of the features disabled. Give it a go, so far my phone has not melted or anything ;)
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Another little question...i understand that you used Wakelock terminator, did you see any improvement in terms of battery? Because if i check the statistics with BBS i noticed that there are a lot of wakelock but they didn't keep the phone awake (maybe because from the app opps i disabled this)...i noticed also that i can remove the access to the position in the app ops (to play services) and position still works (i tried google device manager with position disabled and it works) however after this i reverted to old settings because i don't want to cause something wrong on my phone!
[Nexus 5 General] Gormsen:
The difference is night and day, before I could bare go a day and now I can easily go two. I tried using App ops to prevent location and wakelocks, but it didn't help anything.

You're on a Nexus, you can barely do anything to cause harm to your device, a brick is almost always fixable ;)
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Well I know that I can't harm my device with these type things.. And I come from an LG Optimus 3D that is unbrickable... However last question but if you don't answer I will try myself :D because I know that I made a lot of questions! Hahaha do you use position's service like in your phone with wakelock disabled? I think that they works because for example I use Facebook without permission of position but if the app request the position when I use it.. It works :) and you have "high precision" in geolocation?

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[Nexus 5 General] Gormsen:
Haha, well there's no point I'm having this thread if people don't ask questions ;)

Yes, I use my phone as GPS when driving and the position is spot on every time. Now sitting at home it can pinpoint me to my couch (more or less) ;)
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Well You convinced me! Probably I will disable the wakelock because I suspect that it keeps my phone awake also if there isn't the voice in the battery graph.. I have also Facebook that made a bunch of wakelock but when I was using "only gps" in geolocation my drain wasn't too high! Thanks mate! :)

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[Nexus 5 General] Gormsen:
You won't regret it mate, it's the best thing I've done with my phone since I unlocked the bootloader ;)
[Nexus 5 General] the7thson:
One final update now that I've been running this set up for a while - with Location Reporting on and Location Mode on Battery Saving (using WLT with blocking the 4 wakelocks in my screenshot), my idle battery drain averages between 0.7-0.8% per hour fairly consistently. I use Google Now and it works well. Other apps that need location also work well. I'm on wifi a lot and my phone can very easily last 2 full days (not 2 work days, I mean a full 48 hours with 2 days and 2 nights) with about 2-4 hours of screen on time using Auto-brightness with Lux and without crippling any apps. With a custom kernel and running lower clock speeds and low brightness etc, I could probably get in to a 4th day of use on a single charge but I don't see the point of crippling my phone to do that.

I'm still deliberately using the older 4.0.34 version of Google Play Services to confirm that this method works and I would now consider this well confirmed :)

Supposedly, the new 4.1 version brings battery enhancements but I haven't felt the need to test it yet because this method is already working so great.
[Nexus 5 General] JazzMozz:
If you do, please let us know :good:
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
This post convinced definitely me to install wakelock terminator! Thanks :D

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[Nexus 5 General] tylerdurden83:
It doesnt bring any enhancements under this front sadly
[Nexus 5 General] momomok:
Are you using Location History? And does WLT affect Location History?
[Nexus 5 General] the7thson:
I have Location History turned off, although I don't believe it makes much difference. I would speculate that Location History does not fire it's own independent events, but rather - every time Location is gathered for any reason by an app, then Location History saves a record of it. I'll do some testing with History on to confirm.

To answer your other question - WLT blocks all wakelocks you list, regardless of what initiates them.
[Nexus 5 General] msgfromside3:
In Latitude time, it used to be that the location got sampled and the reporting frequency changed as there is movement.
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
Clearly, the only option is to turn off location history huh?
[Nexus 5 General] msgfromside3:
You need to turn off location reporting as well.
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
I guess so..so the new roll outs of GAPPS ain't changing anything huh? There's a new 1/15/2014 version so idk.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
another one? >.>

im still on 4.0.34 :(
[Nexus 5 General] JC Why:
Has anyone seen a large number of suspend_backoff (kernel wakelock) after using Wakelock Terminator? I started noticing a 5-10% occurrence of suspend_backoff. A google description gave a very vague description of this wakelock.

I started having "invalid premium purchase" errors with Wakelock Terminator, so I disabled it. The NLP wakelocks reappeared but the suspend_backoff appears to have disappeared. I don't know if it is a coincidence.

I had WT with the following filters:

Google Play Services: NlpCollectorWakeLock, NlpWakeLock, Checkin Service, NetworkLocationLocator

Google Search: NlpCollectorWakeLock, NlpWakeLock

Any ideas or just a coincidence?
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
Yeah at the Gapps thread, there's been a lot of activity recently.
[Nexus 5 General] LeoRex:
The Google pay services 4.1 rollout is a little slow. I haven't loaded it in my N5, but I put it in my s3... I think they reduced the battery impact, but not by a ton.

By the way, a bunch of custom kk roms are coming with wakelock blockers baked into the ROM... the one with OSE and Beanstalk list all fired wakelocks, making it really easy to configure.
[Nexus 5 General] momomok:
Yeah, my favourite one - BaNkS gapps package has updated three times

I have sideloaded 4.1.32 ( 978161-38 ) onto my N5. Still need more time to confirm the improvement in battery life, if any.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] TobiS87:
For me the battery life got way better. The Play Services drain significantly less juice. Just about 2,5h screen time with 15% left and two days of usage is totally OK to me.

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[Nexus 5 General] Gormsen:
I haven't experienced any of this, and I've been using WT on different Roms. Think it's just a coincidence. But do keep us posted. Regarding the invalid premium purchase, restarting the app usually does the trick for me :)
[Nexus 5 General] Hesse34:
There is some good information in this thread. I used the technique posted by [MENTION=4033185]Gormsen[/MENTION] on my Nexus 7 2013 tablet and it worked great.

I was seeing a lot of AudioMix wakelocks still in a system app 1013 and Google Search. I read it may be caused by the keyboard sound setting,but my sound is usually on mute. I disabled it anyway and also added the AudioMix wake lock to the blocked ones for Google Search. One of those fixed the problem and it's working really good now.

Also, maps still seems to work fine as well.
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
Bumpin on the basis of updating the status of phones post 4.1 update.
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Also i have the issue with audiomix wakelock... Is there a way to see who causes this wakelock? I disabled keyboard and lock sounds since the first days that I had this great phone!

Inviato dal mio fantastico Nexus 5 con Franco's kernel
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
refer to post number 3

another one
[Nexus 5 General] LeoRex:
Just wanted to update any watchers.. there is a second method that I just realized... App Ops.... many roms now include hooks into the app ops feature that Google (accidentally) included in KitKat. But there is an Xposed module as well.

Basically, it gives control over all those permissions... including whether a process can generate a wakelock, or 'keep phone awake'

Turn off the permission for Google search and Google play services, and they can't keep your phone awake. Sure, Google Now and location services won't update in the background when the phone is asleep, but we are already messing with that by disabling individual wakelocks.

I've run with it fot a day now... Now works fine when the phone is on, no tv's, etc... I'll keep this thread posted.
[Nexus 5 General] msgfromside3:
Just be careful. This can trigger Entries_refresh wakelock periodically and it can be as bad as nlpwakelock and nlpcollectorwakelock. I am not sure if it is still the behavior since I have turned of the location reporting without any other trick and it has calmed down both wakelocks.
[Nexus 5 General] VacTacks11:
So, if I can break down what I think I understand from this...

I can leave Location History/Reporting on, and use a program to prevent wakelocks, and still have access to Google Now features. Or I can turn off History/Reporting and still have access to Google Now features because Play Services is updated?

I guess what I'm trying to get at is, can I disable History/Reporting and still have access to all features in Google Now? Or do I need them both on to get everything out of it? Like you, I paid for a smartphone with great features. I don't want to have to disable things on it.
[Nexus 5 General] ubcjack:
Anyone seeing a lot more nlpwakelockcollector wake up after play services 4.2.42 update?

Before I was always having good battery life but now it's draining about 1% per hour while sleep (still acceptable but it used to be like 1% per 2 hours). I am also seeing a lot more frequent card reporting on google now somehow.. starting after 4.2.42.

Before it took a while for like bus station card to show up but now it shows up even before I arrive the place.

I'm just wondering is it only me.

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i've noticed this wakelock is more random than consistent
[Nexus 5 General] msgfromside3:
You can turn off reporting and google now still works. Maybe there are some features not working but for me it works for everything I need, including time to get to my next schedule.
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
So the battery drain is getting worse and worse every update?
[Nexus 5 General] Remoteconcern:
Noticed this too. Much worse now than it was a month ago.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
In my case, it's because of Google wallet. It has a feature that gives you offers near you and that thing runs continuously in the background using network location service, which caused those wakelocks.

Unfortunately, there is no way to disable that feature even though I want to use Google wallet!
[Nexus 5 General] msgfromside3:
Can't you disable it from the notification setting from wallet?
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I did, but it's still running, at least based on the report from BetterBatteryStats.

I am going to disable Wallet Location from AppOps and cleared the cache.

EDIT: Greenify reported that Wallet was woken up by NFC service. Greenify can't even hibernate Wallet. WTH!?
[Nexus 5 General] drigz08:
I don't know what I did but I don\t experience any drain from these. 9 hours sleep zero drain. Phone since November.
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Goggle Now has a "display loyalty card" thing you need to disable I think along with Google Wallet notifications.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
This is the best I can get - 10 hours and 35% remain, with about 2 hours of screen time. I do use 3 Gmail accounts, 1 GCalendar, so there is background syncing. As you can see, Android OS is keeping the phone. From BBS, it's GWallet, wlan wakelocks and a bam_dmux.

I wish Google will stop shoving background service to users when we do NOT need it...
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Android OS has been inconsistently bad this past week for many. Question, is your screen brightness 35% it less always?
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I use between 0% - 25%. I try really hard not to use beyond that, unless I am outdoor.
[Nexus 5 General] msgfromside3:
I have that enabled but I don't get wakelock from google wallet. Weird.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I completely turned off Location Service and I have VERY little wakelock now. 7 hours with only 12 minutes KWL.

I don't use any app that check for my location in the background, in fact, I use AppsOps to disable pretty much all application that require location access except for Maps and Navigation. Even with that, NlpWakeLock and NlpCollectorWakelock still running - so it IS GOOGLE that is collecting location data.

I wish Google will give us CHOICE on this, like iOS.

(Sorry for the darkscreen, took the shot when I had screen filter running)