Help Help! Up Time = Awake Time

[Liquoredolce]

Ok guys here's the deal. I've done everything I could think of to fix the issue, but a few days ago my up time started equaling my awake time. I uninstalled my most recent apps (weather channel, I don't remember what else haha).

I have my phone in airplane mode now and I went through the running apps list and tried to stop everything I could (including calendar, weather, etc.) I also took all of my widgets off the home screen including the clock, the live background (beautiful widgets), pandora, music, everything. I turned of sync (prior to putting in airplane mode) and everything. I'll list my downloaded apps and you can tell me what you think the next step would be. I'm trying to avoid a hard reset.

Fring
My Perfect Egg Timer
Urbanspoon
Pandora
Battery Widget
aCar
Calorie Counter
Bubble Burst
Astro
Dead Pixel Detect (I should really uninstall that anyway haha)
Google Buzz
My Tracks
Beautiful Widgets
Barcode Scanner
Beautiful Live Weather
Rainy Days
Sound Manager
RunKeeper
Fandango
Gesture Search
Text-To-Speech Extender
Google Translate
Fios Mobile Remote
Auto Valet
Zillow
Places Directory
2Banana Notes
HandyCards
Google Maps
Google Goggles
USA Today
Shazam
iStockManager
Real Blackjack
Robo Defense Free
SuperYatzy
Shopper
Favorite Recipes
Google Sky Map
Discover Mobile
DC Metro Transit
Breaktheblocks lite
Sudoku
Bump
Bartender
Mobile Banking
Bubble
My Verizon

Help Guys!!!

 

[palomosan]

Go to the market and download Advanced Task Killer, that should take care of your problem.

And by the way it's free. Link here.
Advanced Task Killer - Android app on AppBrain

 

[Liquoredolce]

I don' see how that would help, I've already gone through and manually stopped the apps. The last thing I need is an extra app running in the background all the time. I'm fine going into my "running applications" list and stopping them myself, which is exactly what I did.

 

[nightfishing]

download battery left widget and watch the "partial wake usage"

Battery Left Widget - Android app on AppBrain

If any app is showing significant partial wake usage that would be a good place to start.



And don't use ATK, it will not help (and will just add one more variable to the problem.)

 

[nightfishing]

I don't like to post things like this on the board because it leads to a bunch of unscientific misinformation being thrown about, but I thought it might help you with your issue (NOTE: these steps helped me but I have IN NO WAY done the testing to prove/disprove any of them as science.):

1. make sure all the apps are the newest builds (I have had apps with pw usage issues that were fixed with updates.)

2. Keep an eye on Maps. I have seen it spike on the battery "use" monitor and I do not know if it is an issue with the app or an anomaly on the phone. To be safe, I usually manually shut it down before bed.

3. Use System Panel. It is a great tool for monitoring/shutting down apps without the negative aspects of ATK et al. I do not use the background monitoring of System Panel, but only the on demand aspects of it.

4. Shut down and reopen Calendar daily. There is a Calendar bug, not sure if this helps, but I have never had any issues with it, so i keep doing it.

5. Monitor "Partial Wake Usage". I use Battery Left. Spare Parts can also do it. This is the first place I look if I think there is an issue.

I run 80+ apps and have ZERO wake issues. There have only been a couple of apps that I exiled due to battery draining issues, but it can be a PITA to narrow down the search.

 

[Liquoredolce]

5. Monitor "Partial Wake Usage". I use Battery Left. Spare Parts can also do it. This is the first place I look if I think there is an issue.


I downloaded Spare Parts per your recomendation

Partial Wake -

Android System (prob 90%)
Calendar (maybe 3%)
others...mail, dialer, handcent, etc. a tiny fraction.

Android System is always one of the top two in my battery usage. Does that mean it's not an installed app?

 

[howarmat]

Go to the market and download Advanced Task Killer, that should take care of your problem.

And by the way it's free. Link here.
Advanced Task Killer - Android app on AppBrain

ugh horrible recommendation to make so blindly to someone.

 

[Liquoredolce]

ugh horrible recommendation to make so blindly to someone.

lol don't worry, I've been around here long enough to know NOT to do that.

 

[nightfishing]

5. Monitor "Partial Wake Usage". I use Battery Left. Spare Parts can also do it. This is the first place I look if I think there is an issue.


I downloaded Spare Parts per your recomendation

Partial Wake -

Android System (prob 90%)
Calendar (maybe 3%)
others...mail, dialer, handcent, etc. a tiny fraction.

Android System is always one of the top two in my battery usage. Does that mean it's not an installed app?

That is what you "want" to see. Unfortunately it doesn't help you narrow your search any.

It's a good idea to keep an eye on those numbers, regardless.

What "I" would do next is before you go to bed (make sure it is charged), reboot the phone (and don't do anything else) and leave it on and not plugged in for the night.

If you see any significant awake time and/or a huge chunk of battery being used then you "know" it is something that loads with the OS. If the numbers are good, then you know it is something else.

 

[howarmat]

^^ good advice for the issue i would think

 

[Liquoredolce]

Ok I have no idea what happened but I restarted my phone and now I have over 2 hour up tome and 50 min awake time. It must have been one of the apps I ujinstalled, but I will keep an eye on it for a bit and see if it starts doin it again.

Thanks a lot guys!

 

[jasperwill]

troubleshooting steps for any electronic:
1:is it plugged in?
2:did you restart it yet?
3: restart it 1 more time anyway.
4: what did you do in the last few days differently then usual?
5:
6: PROFIT!?

 

[nightfishing]

Ok I have no idea what happened but I restarted my phone and now I have over 2 hour up tome and 50 min awake time. It must have been one of the apps I ujinstalled, but I will keep an eye on it for a bit and see if it starts doin it again.

Thanks a lot guys!

It is common to have wake issues after installing/updating an app.

Often a reboot is the solution.

 

[Liquoredolce]

Ok it might be back haha I don't know what's going on. I just looked at my battery usage and beautiful widgets was about 50% of my batt usage

 

[jasperwill]

try uninstalling beautiful widgets and restarting the phone. then test again.
it shouldnt be having an issue, i know lots of people use that app. but it could have a bug with other apps you are using.

 

[Liquoredolce]

Yeah that's what I did. I know its a good app, I'm hoping I'll be able to install it again after I figure this out. So far so good, but that usually is the case, but then after being on for a bit the awake time and up time will keep exactly the same diff between them. Meaning its not sleeping. Ugh, I'm so close to a reset haha

 

[jasperwill]

if you do decide to reset it maybe get yourself an AppBrain account and download the app so that you can backup your list of apps.
then after the factory reset you can try installing them one at a time off a list.
it should make it easier for you.

 

[Liquoredolce]

I wanna wait for froyo so my app data will be backed up too, although that may replicate the prob haha. I'm going to keep playing around for a few days. So far so good right now, but I want beautiful widgets back! Hahaha

 

[jasperwill]

well, i doubt you want to wait for froyo since even the N1 doesnt have it yet.
when i first got my phone i downloaded a ton of apps, (like it looks as though u have.)
messed up alot of stuff while setting things up and just screwing around in general.
after having the phone for less than 12 hours i did a factory reset and was more careful about everything i did. if my phone ran the way it did 8 hrs into having it i wouldnt have kept it.
after doing doing my reset and paying a little more attention i have made my phone work great and im really happy with it.

maybe doing a factory reset would be good for your phone?

 

[Liquoredolce]

I'm seriously considering a factory reset, however I would prefer not to lose data associated with some of the apps (mostly acar).

I might end up doing a factory reset, but for right now I'm around a charger for enough of the day that I have the luxury of being able to do some tests.

I restarted this morning after taking it off the charger, took off the live wallpaper (Beautiful Wallpaper), disabled the calendar, and it's now at 51 min up time and 9 min awake time. I'll keep it idle throughout most of the day and see if it can keep the awake time down. The next step would be for me to add the beautiful wallpaper back, see if that changes anything, then reinstally beautiful widgets and see what that does. Hopefully I can do those 2 steps and hold a charge the way it's doing now.

I'll keep updating as I do more tests.

BTW I reinstalled The Weather Channel yesterday, so it doesn't look like that was the issue.

I also have all syncing back on and wifi on, basically all the settings I would usually have on, just with a couple apps uninstalled and disabled.

 

[Liquoredolce]

Current -

Up time - 1:52
Awake Time - 0:12
Battery - 91% (seems to only have gone down 1% in the last 45 min or so)

Now I'm going to install the Beautiful Weather Wallpaper. (sorry, I'm using this for my notes, if you don't care you can just ignore it haha)

 

[Liquoredolce]

Now with Live Wallpaper active and a few texts and an email -

Up Time - 2:40
Awake Time - :19
Battery - 89%

Now to add Beautiful Widgets back to the phone and see if it can still work!

 

[Liquoredolce]

Hmph

Up time - 3:30
Awake Time - 1:10
Battery - 81%
Beautiful Widgets - 41%

Looks like we found the issue. Dangit! I really liked Beautiful Widgets.

Is anyone else having this issue? I know a lot of people have Beautiful Widgets.

EDIT: I emailed the devs in hopes that they will try to fix the issue. I uninstalled it and will keep an eye on everything, but from that test just now it looks like that is in deed the problem app. Hopefully they'll get back to me with somethin saying they'll try to work on it!

I also understand it could be a conflict between that app and another one I have, but would really like for this one to work for me!

 

[Liquoredolce]

Sorry for the millions of updates, but after uninstalling and restarting the phone (and then stopping the calendar application as well)

Up time - :49
Awake Time - :07

I want them to fix it so it works on my phone

 

[bjanow]

Well, Liquor, you inspired me. I had to figure out my awake time problem now. I don't have Widgets or beautiful anything. So I decided to uninstall the latest apps I d/l , reboot and write down the times. First shot! I liked the City ID thing although I didn't like it came preinstalled and costs some ridiculous amount. So I got another called Caller ID or something like that. Uninstalled it, awake time shut down. Go figure.