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[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Seems like the.187 firmware must have an issue with powergenie enabled I lost about 5% in 5.30hr with 4hrs deep sleep, android system and kernel were the heavy use apps.

I'll remove powergenie again and do another test.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Hazzay88:
Optus should push an update soon for latest firmware hopefully .188
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Hopefully it's supposed to be completed by 1st Mar, so it should be rolling out by mid March if they don't abandon it like the last 2 firmwares.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Steajano:
What is Powergenie?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Time to remove powergenie again, doesn't seem to have any difference on performance, however my graphic issues with background uniformity is back. Obviously something it's doing causes an issue.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] cordonbleu:
The power saving function that is baked into powergenie is causing this brightness uniformity issues. When the amount of white on the screen becomes higher than a certain value, the brightness on some parts of the screen is lowered to save battery. So this causes the irregularities. Powergenie is only causing problems for me, brightness dimming in apps, screen irregularities, forced closing apps and so on... I'm really better off without powergenie. It has had no impact on my battery so far.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
My colour uniformity seems to be with dark background, mainly Huawei video after playing a video then going back to the video folder but this doesn't happen if powergenie is gone. Very odd.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] mathrania:
I removed power genie via ADB and it showed success. I still can see battery stats and app usages of battery. Is there anything particular that i can check to confirm it the power genie got actually removed. I am not rooted
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Did you do a reboot? Try the manual brightness and put it up half way then go into chrome or Gmail see if it auto dims.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] mathrania:
Worked after rebooting :)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] webpatrick:
adb shell

pm list packages | grep 'powergenie'
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Latest performance on .187

Standby 23hrs 57mins, Screen On Time 7hrs 33mins, battery at 9% when plugged in for charging.

Pretty decent.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Interesting fact

If I fully charge and don't clean the cache I get 11 minutes before dropping to 99%

Fully charge and clean the cache manually with all apps and system process I get 43 minutes before dropping to 99% plus about an extra 1 hour overall SOT

I don't know what app or system cache it is rebooting to recovery and clearing the cache doesn't seem to work.

Looking at app usage I can only assume that it's com.android.systemui
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Derpling:
Noticed that too in the mate 20 x, this is with powergenie.

I'll try to remove it again and we'll see
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] turilo:
Hmm this thread got me curious if this would work on the Mate 20 X. I'll give it a go either way.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Derpling:
It will, let me know if it makes battery worse or better
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Why if I have uninstalled powergenie is the service still running?

Check Developer options/Running service
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] mrbkkt1:
I'm running into the same thing. deleting power genie has helped most of my problems, still not getting my messenger notifications.

edit: I hit Stop on it, to be honest, We were never able to see the service running before. I also did a cache clear. If somehow it still persists, i'm just going to roll back to oreo. At least my phone worked flawlessly on oreo.

(Mate 10 pro)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
It would be great if anyone knows how to remove the actual item from the root directory there is a directory HwPowerGeniusEngine3 with files and an APK with the same name. But I tried to remove it and it says not installed for user 0.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] grizzlyspid86:
Hurmm i dont understand what is the needs to remove it. To make sure my selected apps got notifications, untick the app in app launch on battery settings (leave the 3 ticks after tap) & enable notification (if not turn on by default).

If still missed out notifications, then let start to dig deep. Go to settings>apps>apps, tap on the icon above, go to special access>battery optimization, change to all apps on column above, select the desire app, change to 'dont allow'. Done.

I never missed out notification on every apps that i have.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Need to remove it largely because of auto dimming but there's battery benefits, graphics benefits (for me) among other positive performance improvements
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] grizzlyspid86:
I see. Luckily i didnt experience any screen dimming on my Mate 20, & at the moment i didnt find any games or apps can make the Kirin 980 slow down.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Gmail, Chrome and Facebook ECT all Auto dim basically mostly all heavy white apps.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] grizzlyspid86:
Nahhh i didnt notice it. Maybe because i'm using the vanilla Mate 20 version, i heard its prominent on the Pro version only.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ggmarc1:
Hi, I have disabled "power genius" but I still have no notification :/ just for whatsapp.. when I turn off the screen, I do not receive notifications: no instagram video calls , no facebook, no messenger. clash royal,gmail, youtube, ecc.. then, when I turn on the display all notifications appear together! what can I do? Have I to do other things? help please :pianto:
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] dusun1:
Hello im facing the same problem as yours. No notification from mate 20 pro while screen off after 30 seconds. But the worst thing is, i need to reset wifi connection to get my notification come in. They do not come if i turn my screen on.

Im currently using Push Notification Fixer from Play store apps

This application may help you to get notification while screen off. But only periodically 5-10 minutes. Not instant notification.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] DallasCZ:
have you tried:

for example for whatsapp:

-settings/notifications/whatsapp/ check if "allow notifications" is ON

-settings/apps/apps/three dots up right/special access/battery optimization/ whatsapp/ "dont allow battery optimalization"

-settings/battery/app launch/whatsapp/"manage manually"
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] dusun1:
Yes i had tried all of them. Even the hidden menu in special access - Unrestricted data access.

This problem occur since software update 9.0.0.222. I think the PowerGenie bug or software bug cause this.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ggmarc1:
Exactly: I noticed it after 9.0.0.2xx update D: before, powergenie desabled worked lol
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Check that notifications while screen off is on, also in security settings/face recognition that smart lock screen notifications is switch off.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] azcv:
Why you guys are disabling the best feature of the Huawei phones? The standard android battery optimizations are not working properly. Needed apps are killed and useless ones not. The Huawei implementation is good. But keep in mind that you have to set all the apps in manual mode. Normally I need 6-7 apps to run in backgroud (mail, viber, adblocker etc.). So I set these apps to run constantly. Everything else is killed immideately. Of coursre there are some apps like the official Youtube which are killed on screen off even when they are in foreground. Keep in mind that most of the issues are related to the poor developed apps. For example I am using Weather mate (Weather m8) for weather info. I want to use only a persistent notification with the info. But the app is buggy and is not updating. I put a small 1x1 widget to workaround the issue. So the app is updating only when the widget is present.

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[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Because it stops the annoying automatic dimming in chrome, Gmail, Facebook basically all the bright white apps. Also it has given me extra speed, more stability in graphics plus other benefits. So that's why.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ggmarc1:
Well, the dimming is useful to drain less battery lol all smartphones with oled display do it! Then , extra speed? Wtf.. Anyway, I did not receive notifications even without powergenie ? so I did a factory reset and after some day with notification problem, now suddenly, I haven't notification delay anymore lol
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
I don't have any issues with not receiving notifications, everything works well. As for speed, I mean a game I play loads a lot faster, while in the game, tasks required, screen changes ECT all are a lot quicker to load.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] lil_kujo:
It might be , i dont think it has a any impact really besides the screen dim, i spent the last week testing with different types of benchmarks and something that i did notice is that once you remove power genie you lose performance mode on you device even it shows like it's on performance mode is really not active also in th e battery regards it basically the same went through testing same apps same network etc and even try to repeat same usage pattern and there was no difference at all. The only difference is the performance mode, try it out run geek bench on your device with and without performance mode the results will be same at least with my device once you install power genie and you run the test again you will see the the results al totally different so to say that i was snappier i dont no I mean it really depends what's on you cache memory.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] azcv:
I am not using any of this apps so I am not affected. I prefer to have the Power Genie because I want to control the autostart of the apps.

P.S. Actually the most annoying thing with this phone is the Dolby Atmos which is trying to adjust the speakers volumeand I am constantly pressing the volume buttons.....

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[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
For some it's the best, for others the worst feature :). PowerGenie does not work for anything that's not user:0. So when you are using Android for work partition, it's going to kill your apps. For others it is trying to be clever and detect whether they are required to run or not. Despite its name, it's not very clever. If you decompile it, you will notice a bunch of hardcoded app names like Facebook and a bunch of Chinese crap apps. Those are allowed to run all the time, others are killed. Android has a decent battery optimization mechanism since Oreo at least. It does not get into your way and is never visible or annoying. It works based on machine learning, so it builds a list of apps which are required to run.

Huawei instead just kills everything, masking the fact that Kirin processors have a much higher battery drain than their counterparts.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
I have similar issue, as I have already posted in a separate thread.

[MENTION=1936648]klaus27[/MENTION] do you think this is a software bug. All these issues with notifications being late when the screen is off/locked for more than lets say 30 mins?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] grizzlyspid86:
Try go to settings > more battery settings > tick the 'stay connected when device sleeps'.

Then make sure your desired apps untick on settings > battery > app launch (but keeps tick the 3 option after tap)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
Removed PowerGenie yesterday. NOTHING changed with my notifications. I still rarely get gmail on time, if at all. Gmail is the biggest issue, followed by Whatsapp which, after 40ish minutes of locked screen, regulary has one check by the message on someone's phone when they're sending a message to me and it is only delivered when I physically enter the app. Messanger usually lags a good, solid 45 seconds to a minute, even if the screen was recently turned off. I tried EVERYTHING. Manual app launch, mixed app launch, auto app launch, ignoring battery optimization for the apps in question. Dynamic IP. Static IP. Pre-set DNSs. I checked for notifications to have them enabled in the settings multiple times. Literally clicked everything. To show banner, to prioritize, to show in status bar. EVERYTHING, for every aforementioned app and beyond. I even had the tech service of my internet provider come and replace the router (the same company, same model, just a different unit) and install 2.4ghz & 5ghz. I'm beyond disappointed. I really thought uninstalling PowerGenie will help me get notifications on time, but I guess not. I'll reinstall PowerGenie back because the removal fixed absolutely nothing. Hell, even my P20P didn't have any delay in notifications. I love the design of the phone, I love the camera. I love 40w fast charging speed. But due to EMUI 9 on M20P acting like absolutely the WORST software one could have approved EVER - I'll be forced to sell it and settle for, what will likely be, S10. **** my luck
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
Hang on before you spend another fortune on the S10 :).

I guess you rebooted after removing the PowerGenie? Please go to settings, battery, usage. You should only see "Hardware", "Software" and "Other". NO single app should be in there.

Only if that's the case, you have successfully uninstalled PowerGenie.

While in battery settings, you could try the performance mode. I think it is the first option from the top.

This one is important! Go to settings, apps, apps, open the 3 dot menu from the top right, open special access, battery optimization, set everything to don't optimize (not sure how these options are spelled). You might need to change the filter to all apps. Make sure to also disable battery optimization for the following apps:

GMAIL

Google Play Services

Google Services Framework

Push services

With Gmail being your number 1 issue, I think that it might just be Gmail trying to be clever. If you go to the settings in Gmail, click on your gmail account, select notifications and select "All" instead of only high priority.

WhatsApp, I have 0 issues... Can't comment on that.

Maybe some other settings if the above did not work:

- disable do not disturb mode

- check data saving settings (disable)

And finally, if the above did not help, I would at least do one factory reset and start fresh
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
In addition to that, there is a very good article around gmail notifications. You can set them on every single label and by default it only notifies you for the first email that arrived.

Check this really good article

https://mashtips.com/fix-gmail-notifications-android/

I was an avid Inbox user until Google sent it to death.... Gmail have me similar headaches, bit it was a matter of setting it up properly
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
This article lists all the locations in proper english :)

https://dontkillmyapp.com/huawei
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
Thank you, [MENTION=1936648]klaus27[/MENTION] I tried everything you said, even before, and nothing seems to be working..?

I honestly don't know what else can I do. Tried literally everything you said in the last 3 posts..
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] grizzlyspid86:
Its really weird when mine have zero issues regarding notifications, & i dont even remove that Powergenie thingy.

Is it because of your network? Some nasty 3rd party apps causing it? Many possibilities.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
I have no 3rd party apps installed. Only the ones from Google Play..
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
Even adjusting the label settings in Gmail? This is odd. Mine works absolutely fine after removing PowerGenie and tinkering with these settings..

When you enable performance mode, the phone disables any remaining power saving mechanisms. So if you still having an issue with Gmail and Whatsapp, then there is something else wrong.. Nothing we could solve from here, I am afraid..

At least we tried... :confused:
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
I am confused, too. I have it under warranty. I may as well take it to the repair shop. Whats there to lose besides time

Check the screens
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
I even have wakelock v3 and am using the option for wifi high performance
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
Looks good to me. Any battery optimization app? Did you restore from backup when performing the factory wipe?

Take it to the repair show, I would guess. Makes sense...
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
I have GSAM and wakelock, but I didnt have them before when it was also happening

I bought the phone off of someone, performed factory reset, used my old P20P to clone everything and that was it. So yeah, originally I did factory reset, but after these issues with notifications started to happen - no, I didn't. Should I?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
Yes, go for it. Don't clone or restore from backup :good:

Get rid of PowerGenie afterwards, so it won't be too frustrating when it happens again, but this time because of PowerGenie :).

And step away from those hacks like high performance WLAN mode. That's certainly not needed.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
The thing is, I have 65gbs worth of applications, pictures, documents, videos, songs. I don't wanna lose that. .
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
you can copy the pictutres, documents, videos and songs manually. But using any of the corporate migration tools is not a good idea, as they try to migrate Android settings and may fail doing so. I would give it a try with a clean factory reset. Then uninstall PowerGenie, make your performance and battery settings, then setup Gmail and Whatsapp and see how it goes. If it works, fair enough. If not, return the phone.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
Yeah, that makes sense. Should I back up everything to HiSuite right now, before I factory reset it? And you're saying once the phone's been rebooted - I should skip every option that ask for a restoration of my apps/photos etc.? How will I be able to add them to the phone later then? Sorry I'm confused..
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
You connect to your computer via usb, select file sharing mode on your phone, copy stuff off from folders like music, photos,... Whatever you want to keep. Afterwards you copy it back i would say.

And yes, skip all these options
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
Got it. Thank you. Should I also reinstall Powergenie or will it automatically be reinstalled with the factory reset?
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] jhs39:
Just out of curiosity do you have a BOE display? I had LG and BOE M20P and noticed some bizarre autobrightness issues and pixel lag but only on the BOE model. Never had those issues on one with LG display.

Unfortunately I am having a problem with calls sometimes going straight into voice mail without ringing on this phone. Never had that problem with P20P or M10P. Not sure if battery optimization is the cause.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] Darkat70:
Mine is a BOE and I did also have the issue with calls not ringing in the phone, I missed a few important calls. Also had occasional call dropouts, but after removing power genie this seemed to have stopped. I'm not sure if it is that or just a fluke that things started working.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] je1992:
Here is my experience removing powergenie.

I seem to see a decline in overall battery life, expected since battery management is a lot less aggresive.

The great thing is, I can finally have apps stay open in the background forever.

Before, I was unable to do this, even if I did all the tricks mentionned everywhere for app launch, etc.

Here is a useful example.

I open google maps, and see an itinirary.

Before, a few minutes later, if i were going back to the app, it would refresh, and I would need to rewrite the adress.

Now, I can reopen the app 15 minutes later, and my itinirary is still there.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
If you factory reset, PowerGenie should be active and loaded. If you don't root your phone, you can't really delete the app. You can only tell the OS to not respect the APK, even though it is there. If you factory reset, you are wiping this preference of yourself, hence you need to tell the OS again.

So factory reset, then pm uninstall and off you go. Happy camper :)
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] furiouszagreb:
Unfortunately, it did not work. The issue persists, even with the genie off. I still am lacking notifications for gmail, whatsapp, messanger and they only appear once I actually enter the apps, then everything syncs. I have disregarded battery optimizations for the said apps, I have set them to launch manually with checking all 3 boxes. Didn't work. I have then factory reset the phone, uninstalled genie, left everything as it was (manual, no battery optimization) and it was the same. FOR ME, there is NO different with or without powergenie. I'm missing notifications no matter what. Or they come late.

I have noted something midly interesting though. I receive EVERY important notification, except for gmail, ON time, whilst on mobile data. So, whilst on mobile data, I receive whatsapp, messanger, IG, everything on time, except for the gmail.

When I'm on home WiFi - I rarely receive notifications from whatsapp, instagram, messenger on time, if at all. Usually, they're lagging behind and only come through when I enter the app.

I'm starting to think there might be WiFi issue with my phone and/or an issue with my home router? The only thing that doesn't add up is gmail lagging behind on both WiFi and mobile data?

Thanks.
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] klaus27:
I am pretty sure we are barking up the wrong tree here. If it works on mobile data and not on Wifi, you can probably uninstall whatever you want. Whether it is relating to your Wifi or mobile is impossible to tell from here :).

And the fact that Gmail is still not reliably telling you when an email arrived - sorry - must be a configuration issue with Gmail...

I am out, I can't help anymore :angel:
[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Themes, Apps, and Mods] madcapfrog:
Thanks for guide [MENTION=1936648]klaus27[/MENTION]

But disabling powergenie didnt help me either like [MENTION=9202891]furiouszagreb[/MENTION]. Still not getting whatsapp notifications till i manually open app, especially with wifi and even sometimes with mobile data.

Interesting thing, it happened suddenly in 1 day, after using my phone like 1 year without any problem.

Now no matter what, i can't fix it, even after disable power genie.