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[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] JvBoss:
Hello! Yeah i went ahead and updated from the phone itself (OTA) to MiFavo5, very nice now. That was the only available thing. Loads of chinese writing on the updates notes lol and a couple of chinese writing when like i get a call of a private number (withheld) and some interaction between google play and ZTE market but its cool, i just let google play block and ignore ZTE market, dont need it. Nothing that really bothers me.

No signs of Oreo update tho, may look online for alternative.

Current build: ZTE_A2017V2.0.0B13

Hi-Fi now tho... amazing!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlkarakashev:
Hello there,

I know that it will be noobish for some people here, but for me is a big problem. I have Sony Xperia Z (L36h) C6603 which my wife bought for me as a present some years ago. Following the guides here in the forum I updated to RR rom 7.1.2. Everything was great, just the battery was holding not even full day. So I decided to return back to stock firmware and here is what happened:

I used Flashtool as it was said in one tutorial, I flashed the Commercial and Journalist (10.5.A.0.230), I locked the bootloader through Flashtool and I was waiting for the device to boot. Until now (already 2 weeks) I`m waiting for it to boot connected on the charger, but it shows the waves, the Sony Xperia logo and than black screen. Today I tried to unlock the bootloader with Flashtool, it takes me to the menu where it`s saying to disconnect the device, to power it off (I wait 30 secs after powering it off), to press the volume down and to connect the usb cable. The light on the right side of Sony goes red, than green. And that`s it. The menu how to put my phone in flash mode still stays there and nothing else happens. The same is when I try to flash other firmware with Flashtool. I tried Emma but it shows that the bootloader is locked and it`s sending me to Sony`s website to unlock it, through Emma I saw the IMEI and I got the unlock code (but how when I don`t have OS/FW to input the code?). If you know any chance to flash a stock firmware or any other CM/RR, TWRP in my case please tell me. I will try everything to fix it, because the phone is special for me.

Thanks in advance.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlkarakashev:
Unlocking failed

I got my IMEI from Emma and requested unlock code from unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com, using fastboot.exe I tried to unlock the bootloader and everything seemed to be fine, but Emma still shows that the device is locked. I`ll post the fastboot.exe output:

C:\Users\ruthless\Desktop>fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce getvar version

version: 0.5

finished. total time: -0.000s

C:\Users\ruthless\Desktop>fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0x2E24******99A7DE (6 digits replaced with * ;) )

...

OKAY [ 0.192s]

finished. total time: 0.195s

[MENTION=2784807]DooMLoRD[/MENTION] need your help ;(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jclot23:
Did you find a solution?

I'm stucked at the same point. My xperia z is allowed to unlock bootloader and fastboot unlock seems everything fine, but Emma still says is locked.

Thank you
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] tassamu:
Hello guys,

as we know the mediatek CPU is kinda laggy for playing games,

i wanna ask what is the best custom ROM for this device?

it's just so sad the 64 GB ROM and 4 GB RAM device can't maintain games like Mobile Legend or PUBG just because some kind thermal function :(. I really appreciate if any of you guys would recommend the custom ROM.

Best Regards,

Person who get this free device from his brother lol.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] MyNameIsRage:
?????????????

Sent from my Android P Supported Redmi Note 4 SNAPDRAGON VARIANT
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers] tassamu:
Well at least someone notice me with emoji lol
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] kaott:
hi MI A1 owners.

for those brave enough to use the latest vanilla, official OTA rom, what change did you notice?

does the battery still suffer huge drain that appeared in 2018 roms?

it's a big "NOPE" for me to update, i'm still on official DEC rom because of this drain issue.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] darkzero1125:
Battery life is good on 8.1 no issue for me getting 5-6 hours SOT on gaming.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] macelaru:
Never had battery drain problems. Only "issue" is notification led not blinking.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KDash4:
Just noticed that led light is no longer blinking when notifications arrive. Light stays on only when screen is off. Also Bluetooth is constantly disconnecting.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] hamzam4lik:
Ambient display isn't working for me.

Led notifier is also not blinking anymore!
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] celeronix:
Led not blinking, proximity sensor doesn't work properly all the time, some scrolling lag. That's what I've got so far :)
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] kaott:
dudes thanks for your answers.

i'm just more convinced to not doing the update.

maybe the drain i had was magisk-related. (?)
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Marcos OC:
Nothing for me, even got ten hours of screen after some cycles. Led doesn't bother me and it's the only thing i noticed.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
Yes, the LED is always on, which is annoying, but the bigger issue is there is no change in the battery drain. I charged to 100%, set the phone down and did not move it or use it overnight. 8 hours later almost 14% of battery was drained. I have tried everything I can think of to try, including turning off high accuracy location, not allowing any location things like safe area, etc. and still I get this drain even when the phone is not in use. Android kernel and system consumed 85% of that usage, and System UI, Play Store and Phone Services accounted for 7%! SO basically, basic Android paired with the A1 hardware seems to be the issue and I don't know that there is any fix for that.

At one point, I thought an upgrade to the A2 was going to be a no brainer, but with the issues with updates being broken and this battery drain issue that nobody seems to be able to pinpoint and resolve, I am thinking I may not buy ANY other Xiaomi. It may be time to try something else because the only way I can get two days of battery is to turn on airplane mode when the phone is not in use! :(
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] macelaru:
Dunno what to say man. Mine is below.

2-3% at most over night.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
And now it would appear that there is an issue with airplane mode.

I put the phone into Airplane mode at 2300 last night with 90% battery and did not pay attention to it. This morning I turned to phone on to find there was only 69% battery left, and WiFi was working. (see screen shot) WTF???? I have started using airplane mode to keep the battery drain to a minimum when the phone is not in use, and now it would appear that this doesn't work either. :(

I am REALLY getting frustrated with Android and Xiaomi as it seems that every time they do an update, something else goes bump! I have gone from totally happy with the AI when I first got it to being ready to write off Xiaomi as a company I would consider for purchase.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
Thanks for the thoughts, but unless I totally misunderstand what airplane mode is, WiFi should not be active when airplane mode is invoked. You can see by the screen cap that airplane mode is on AND WiFi is active. This seems to be a one off as it has not happened again for the last two days. I turn airplane mode on to stop the overnight battery drain while the phone is doing nothing. I have location set to GPS Only. IIRC play services was just updated 3 days or so ago, so it should have the latest version. I will check it and see though. Again, thanks for the thoughts.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] ludditefornow:
I can't logically understand why you would think it is the hardware causing the issue. If it was hardware, what you are seeing would be happening to every owner of the phone and clearly that is not happening. By saying it is the hardware when you have other software loaded is akin to saying your car's air conditioning doesn't work properly when you have all the windows wound down.

There is something loaded on your phone that is causing the systemUI to be working when you think nothing should be happening. The first thing I see on the screenshot on your phone is that in the top left of the screen you have two non standard icons. That tells me that you have a skin or non standard software constantly running.

The way to solve any issue like this is to go back to basics. I would get the fresh rom and do a Miflash whilst keeping your data. Make sure you do a backup first.

If that does not work, back up your data and do a clean install and check the phone's battery life. Do not load any non google software / app at this stage.

Then each day add one app and test for 24 hours. You will find this issue and the offending app or apps and I would be willing to bet you a few Singhas it will be an app you downloaded not the hardware causing this.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
Actually, I think it is a combination of hardware/software, but that is just a WAG. Others have noted the exact same issue without running the same software. My bet would be on the RCS services stuff.

Those icons are my Email client and GSAM Battery Monitor (presently 0.1% and 0.8%) and are the only two constantly running programs other than the stock apps and Sophos (0.3%). Neither use much battery compared to the Android stuff. Presently Kernel is 41.6%, RCS/Phone is 30.3%. SystemUI is 3.3%, Play Services is 2.0% and Phone Services is 1.8%

Good advice. I will do this when I have a few days to play with it. In the interim, it's airplane mode every night. ;) Thanks for the reply. If it turns out to be one of these apps, let me know where to send the Singhas. :)
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] ludditefornow:
Good luck with it. I hope you find the solution. It can be frustrating, but getting to the bottom of it will be worthwhile. I haven't used Sophos for a long time and even then it was for PC. I am not up with how Sophos AV is integrating into Android but that would be my first guess.

I have only had one issue with this phone after updating and it was that the OS was constantly asking for a password on unlock after using fingerprint not just on startup. A clean install solved it and I have been trouble free since with every update. With over 50 PCs in my office, I could only wish that I had so few issues with Windows updates as I do with Android.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] fmorgado1987:
For me, night light auto schedule not working properly.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] sapemeg:
I can't tether via wifi/bluetoth/usb

Made another post with the problem.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
Just for grins and giggles, I uninstalled my email client, GSAM, and Sophos, the only programs that run constantly other than system and Line. I then turned my phone off and back on, forced stopped Line, charged it to 100% and set it down with the screen off. It did not move of get used for 8 hours, yet it still used 12% of the battery. (see screenshots) This is better than the 20% with those apps installed, but still not close to what I would consider normal. When I first got the phone, it easily lasted 2-3 days between charges, with 6-7 hours SoT. Overnight would use MAYBE 2% of the battery. Now if I want it to last 2 days I need to turn on airplane mode overnight and then I can make it through a day.

So I guess the next step is to do as you recommended and load up the fresh rom when I have time to mess with it. At least I am now pretty sure that those apps aren't the culprits causing the biggest part of the battery drain. I hate to do it, but I am seriously thinking of a factory reset and seeing if that clears the issue. Would that put me back to Nougat?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
How do you disable this apk? I seriously think this is the major culprit in the battery drain.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] ludditefornow:
So those apps were causing 40% of of the 20% of the battery drain. That is a good start. I am confident there are software issues with your phone. I see you have some GPS app on your home screen, if that was running askew, it might be constantly pinging. That is just a guess.

In things like this, work methodically through it. But of cause a hard reset would be the best way to go. I see no reason why you wouldn't stay on your current version after a hard reset.

If you want to go make to version 7 you would need to use the MiFlash program and a downloaded standard fastboot rom. You may need to do something else to the phone to go back to 7, but I would not think so.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] barrack1:
I'm on the latest 8.1 rom and putting the phone on airplane mode for 6hrs didn't drain any noticeable battery power and the battery percentage didn't budge as expected. A factory reset will not downgrade your phone to Nougat. It will just clear the user data partition so make backups of everything you want to keep like pictures/videos, sms, and app data/config.

12% overnight drain is still excessive and since you have gsam installed, it would be easy to find out which app is using up battery overnight.

To disable a system app, you need root permission and a system app remover can be used or remove it via manual adb commands (pm disable or hide).
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
My phone uses 1% in 8 hours on airplane more. I did not turn on airplane mode for the latest test because I wanted to see the drain with the 3 major apps removed and the 4th stopped.

Yes, I installed it and gave it the 'extra' permissions to try to track the problem down. The apps I uninstalled did not show much usage, so I was surprised that it went from 21% to 12%. Unfortunately, one of those apps was GSam so I am stuck with the stock reporting. Based on another post, I am going to try something else this evening. I will disable ALL apps that are active and not system, and if that doesn't solve the issue, then I will also stop all the cached apps tomorrow night. That SHOULD answer the question of software vs combo vs hardware.

Yeah, to do this I would need to root the phone, so would need time to play with it. I have ADB on my computer and used it to set the extra permissions in GSam, but have not tried to root the phone yet. All the guides I've seen leave a lot to be desired in the form of expecting you to understand things like load TWRP instead of a true step by step guide. ;) I'm not afraid to mess with the phone, but I've never done it, so like to think I have all the needed information before starting, and most of the guides leave me asking myself 'what does that mean?'. :)

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That GPS app is a manual start/stop app, and is not running unless it is loaded and start is pressed. It is actually a decent GPS app and behaves itself as far as I can tell.

I looked at the running apps based on another post, and there are still a couple that are active. I will try this test again tonight, but stop those apps also and see where it ends up. I am thinking there may be an issue with one of them, My Cloud, as WD is not known for efficient software. I forgot it was on the phone as I only use it when I am away from my house to connect to my large data drive, and did not realize it was always active. It may well be the culprit as I've never been fond of WD software due to issues I have had with it on computers.

I will wait on the hard reset until I see if any of this other stuff isolates the problem. Thanks for the response. It helps. :)
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] ludditefornow:
Here is my battery right now. Screen brightness is at about 85%.

Plenty of apps running, Bluetooth headphones. Used for Bout an hour for music and plenty of surfing. Wifi was on the whole time as was GPS high accuracy.

I hope you find the software issue. It sounds like you don't have too many apps on your phone.

The cloud app might be a part of your issue.

Don't try unlock your bootloader until you have backed up. After the April update, unlocking will wipe your data, as I have been told.

Good luck.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
Ok, with EVERYTHING stopped except for Android processes, I STILL get an 11% battery drain overnight as opposed to ~1% in airplane mode. I stopped all apps and processes that were not system after charging to 100%, then turned off the phone and let it sit without moving it for 8 hours. Results were drain == 11%. So half what it was with all the apps, but still nowhere close to what it should be. See screen caps.

Without GSam installed, I can't tell the actual services that caused the drain, but since Kernel and RCS/Phone were the major culprits when I had GSam installed, and Android things were the only processes left running, I assume that they are what is causing the majority of the issue.

I guess my next step is to root the phone and turn off RCS or flash a stock rom and see if that resolves the issue. I don't recall 100%, but seem to remember the issue started when the RCS showed up instead of Phone back in Feb, March or April. Up until then I was getting very good battery life and SoT. I will have to do this when I have a few days to mess with it, but this test does tell me that at least a large part of the problem is Android itself.

Thanks to all who've helped me work through this, and I hope the posts I have made will be helpful to someone else who is having the same issue. I know there are others who experience the massive battery drain, but it seems to be fairly rare, which really doesn't make a lot of sense.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] kudos1uk:
Is 11% overnight so big?

I think my stats are great but I still use 7% in an 8 hr overnight, currently, I charged 16 hours ago (inc 8 hours overnight) with hardly any SOT (11min) and it's on 85%.

You are never going to get 1% overnight without Airplane turned on and you should not expect it.

At 11% overnight you still have almost 90% for the day ahead. Can you not charge overnight and wake to 100%, that is what I used to do with my Samsung S4 that would hardly get through the day?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] riccetto80:
root + servicely + naptime + franco kernel + 25% underclock gpu +conservative cpu governor = you will be fine!

also, a reset of the phone can do wonders, i had strange issue on my a1 and all fixed as soon i upgraded to latest ufficial + reset.

What i mean, man, is in my opinion (and before root and optimize i was too thinking is better use custom rom and no root) with mi a 1 you MUST root + optimize.

Magisk+custom kernel+force doze+app sleep = mi a1 will change totally and turn so much better.

for exsample with magisk you can use this module:

https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/module-enable-doze-google-play-services-t3608783

to force google play to be part of doze optimization, this + force doze app will optimize so much the battery stand by you can't imagine!!!

with this https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/module-terminal-debloater-debloat-t3584163 you can debloat the feedback xiaomy app, who seems to keep send data to xiaomy and to me and others create battery drain for nothing.

and so on.

belive me, back up your stuff (data/apps), upgrade to latest stable + reset + root with magisk + optimize the hell out of the mi a1 and you will have basically a totally different, and better, phone.

and then you will never go back to mi a1 with no root. :o
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
Thanks. I will try this since nothing else seems to help the issue. :good:

Actually, to me it is. When I first got the A1, I could go 2.5-3 days (60 to 72 hours) between charges. Now I have to turn on airplane mode overnight to get 30-32 hours, 8 of which are in airplane mode. I am a light user and don't use the phone for video, music (much), games or other high drain activities, so I find this issue particularly frustrating since it didn't used to be like this. I also see where I am not the only person experiencing this issue, so something definitely went bump, but trying to find out what that something was leads to frustration but no fixes.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
Just an update. I tried this, and it did make a small difference in battery drain, going from an overnight drain of ~21% to 16% with my normal system load. The major culprits are still Kernel and Android System, which accounts for 97% of the drain according to GSam Pro.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
I normally get 2.5 - 3.5 hours SoT to about 30% of battery remaining, where I usually recharged before the drain issue. Now I just charge at night before bed, then put the phone in airplane mode. That will get me through the next day.

I have been clearing recents since day 1. No real effect on drain.

As I said, I am a really light user: no bluetooth, videos, games, etc. Of the original 64GB of storage, I have only used 17.13GB with ~60 apps installed. My 32GB SanDisk SD card has only used 5.35GB. When the A1 was new, SoT was easily 6.5 - 7 hours to the same 30% level.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] birarvindersingh:
Simple answer is that Xiaomi is not maintaining Mi A1. They are just giving updates as formalities. No Other Things...
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] NeTSk8:
Is there any way to fix the notification led? It doesn't blink anymore since the last update.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] KB_Thailand:
I think maybe there is some truth in that answer. It would seem that Xiaomi doesn't vet their updates very much before throwing them out there and don't fix the issues properly after they do. I have gone from being a huge fan for the first 3 months I had the A1 (5 people now carry A1s based on my happiness with it early) to seriously doubting I will buy another Xiaomi product. Unfortunately, to get better I will end up paying more I think.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] ludditefornow:
That makes very limited sense. Beacuae a small vocal minority are having issues, you are assuming that MI are not doing what their business is set up to do. If what you said is true there would be mass news articles about it in the tech sites, there would be mass return to manufacturer issues with owners demanding their money back.

The fact is, that is not happening. The vast majority of owners don't bother posting anything because their phones just work. Now you have a multitude of apps loaded I would assume. Any combination of those apps might be causing the issue. It might be a corrupted file in the operating system, that happens in every operating system. (Blue screen of death in Windows).

How about proving your point with some fact? Do a clean install of your phone and with no additional apps loaded, put up your results here. Otherwise you are really sounding ignorant and misinformed whereas I am sure you are just a normal person who is frustrated and doesn't know how to approach fixing your phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] birarvindersingh:
You are just writing an article which indirectly says I am a "Noob". But, Actually I am using AEX v5.7 with kernel that gives me a clock speed of 2.7GHz. I am happy with my phone but I am telling situation of other person. ??
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] ludditefornow:
Then you should understand that what I am saying is true if you aren't a "Noob." Nowhere in your post did you were recalling someone else's thoughts. They way it was written was from your point of view. My point stands.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] birarvindersingh:
Ok, leave it...