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Root wake lock?

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bigbear6708

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Is there any way to see what may be causing a wake lock? My phone is 100% awake even with barely any screen on time. I am on mikg3.11 with underworld sbc test kernel.
 
I use battery monitor widget pro app...or menu/settings/about phone/battery/battery use...will tell you what is using battery and at what percent.
 
Another good utility to use is Watchdog Lite. It'll tell you what's using the CPU the most and will alert you when something starts running all the time.
 
Mikestony said:
Wouldn't Watchdog Lite be the same as going into Manage Applications and clicking on the "running" tab?:confused:
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Sure, except you don't have to go to Manage Applications and view running processes. And that doesn't tell you a percentage of the CPU that any one process is taking.

This automatically alerts you of runnaway processes that can drain your battery. If those processes stay below a certain threshold then they don't trigger an alert.
 
An app like that may be useful for figuring out what the problem is on a current wake lock, but having a program running in the background to check for other programs running in the background in order to let the phone sleep seems backwards to me.
 
AlkiDweller said:
Sure, except you don't have to go to Manage Applications and view running processes. And that doesn't tell you a percentage of the CPU that any one process is taking.

This automatically alerts you of runnaway processes that can drain your battery. If those processes stay below a certain threshold then they don't trigger an alert.
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Ah yes, good point :)

Rxpert83 said:
An app like that may be useful for figuring out what the problem is on a current wake lock, but having a program running in the background to check for other programs running in the background in order to let the phone sleep seems backwards to me.
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Another good point...don't know if watchdog keeps phone awake or perhaps checks every so often...maybe bigbear could use it to find out his problem and then delete the app?
 
thanks for the replys guys..I think I may have figured it out. I had battery widget monitor set to "track away from widget" or whatever to make sure SBC was working overnight..and forgot to uncheck the box upon waking. once I turned that part of the program off my phone seems to be sleeping better now.
 
Alright guys...need some more help getting to the "root" of my issue. Android OS is the number 2 consumer of my battery. looking at better battery stats i see that WiFi is keeping my phone awake. This does not make sense to me, as i use juice defender to turn off mobile data and WiFi when screen is off. My radios, etc are all the most current. My wifes phone sleeps like a baby...our only difference is she has underworld sbc and. have stock sbc kernel. Her pro, etc also seems to be one version behind mine. Think this could be a kernel issue as stock is running ondemand...no screen off profile to "kill"anything?
 
bigbear6708 said:
Alright guys...need some more help getting to the "root" of my issue. Android OS is the number 2 consumer of my battery. looking at better battery stats i see that WiFi is keeping my phone awake. This does not make sense to me, as i use juice defender to turn off mobile data and WiFi when screen is off. My radios, etc are all the most current. My wifes phone sleeps like a baby...our only difference is she has underworld sbc and. have stock sbc kernel. Her pro, etc also seems to be one version behind mine. Think this could be a kernel issue as stock is running ondemand...no screen off profile to "kill"anything?
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I also use juice defender, the plus version, and if not set just right, wifi will stay awake. I disabled the setting in JD for wifi and made some other settings in android for wifi to timeout after I think 15 min of non use.
Maybe double check your JD settings? Or, for now, disable wifi control in JD.

Edit: check 2 places on your phone for wifi settings (maybe you did this, but...)
1..menu/settings/wireless & networks/wi-fi settings/menu/advanced/wi-fi sleep policy. Set it to 15 min...I guess I have it set to "never", not 15 min as I previously stated
2..menu/settings/power/powersaver settings/check the box "disable wifi" (this will turn it off when not connected)
 
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