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[i am not a hacker]

Ok on better battery stats look at wake locks or something similar in the app as that would be the most likely cause if the prevention of deep sleep.

Btw, over time the battery will become better. Give it a few weeks

[flibblesan]

Ah. I deleted social gallery from the system partition and replaced with the stock 4.0.4 gallery application. That'll be why I don't have the issues.

[punjabi]

flibblesan, on 17 October 2012 - 06:28 AM, said:

Ah. I deleted social gallery from the system partition and replaced with the stock 4.0.4 gallery application. That'll be why I don't have the issues.

That's it then!
Where did you get the stock gallery from...?

[Gibson.1]

Why would the gallery be using an audio_in process? Also, when I listened to music earlier on my OSD a new process appeared as Audio_out under com.intel.android.gallery.media.social gallery and it ran for 10s more. Its probably irrelavent I'm just wondering why a gallery app would be using audio in/out.

[BlueMoonRising]

punjabi, on 17 October 2012 - 07:00 AM, said:

That's it then!
Where did you get the stock gallery from...?

Possibly https://play.google....GxlcnlpY3MiXQ..

[BlueMoonRising]

Gibson.1, on 17 October 2012 - 08:24 AM, said:

Why would the gallery be using an audio_in process? Also, when I listened to music earlier on my OSD a new process appeared as Audio_out under com.intel.android.gallery.media.social gallery and it ran for 10s more. Its probably irrelavent I'm just wondering why a gallery app would be using audio in/out.

I'm using Quickpics but Social Gallery can play Video files can it not? That would explain the audio link.

Although I believe it's fixed now I came across this from within betterbatterystats regarding a bug in Chrome posted back in July :-
http://forum.xda-dev....php?p=28676218

"I found that using Chrome for Android would, at times, drain my battery in the background substantially, to the point where it would be the first or second highest "reason" listed for battery drain, even when I hadn't opened the app all day.

Thanks to Badass Battery Monitor, I found that Chrome was using the Gyroscope in the background. This doesn't make any sense, so I assume it's a bug.

Here are the steps I used to resolve it:

1. Open up Chrome
2. Go to Settings
3. Select "Developer tools"
4. Uncheck "Enable Tilt Scrolling"
5. Reboot the phone"

So battery draining reasons might not be soo simple as it first appears.

[BlueMoonRising]

Which stat should we be concentrating on within betterbatterystats for wakelocks? Count, Wake Count or Expire Count? I'm presuming Wake Count.

[Gibson.1]

BlueMoonRising, on 17 October 2012 - 09:13 AM, said:

I'm using Quickpics but Social Gallery can play Video files can it not? That would explain the audio link.

Yeah but it was under my pillow for an hour or two when it was using audio_in, I would presume its just a bug, I'll disable and install stock ICS gallery and let everyone know what battery is like today.

[flibblesan]

BlueMoonRising, on 17 October 2012 - 09:07 AM, said:

Possibly https://play.google....GxlcnlpY3MiXQ..

I did it the hard way be deleting social gallery from the /system folder (which needs root & unsecure adb) but disabling social gallery from the Settings > Apps control panel then installing GalleryICS will work just as well.

[Gibson.1]

flibblesan, on 17 October 2012 - 11:33 AM, said:

I did it the hard way be deleting social gallery from the /system folder (which needs root & unsecure adb) but disabling social gallery from the Settings > Apps control panel then installing GalleryICS will work just as well.

BetterBatteryStats is still showing *overflow* and audio_out under com.intel.android.gallery.media.Social Gallery  
despite having force stopped then disabled Social Gallery. Why would it still have anything happening? I just find it slightly strange that for a gallery app its using audio in/out while I'm not using my phone and after disabling it still has processes going on.

[flibblesan]

Did you reboot the phone after disabling social gallery?

[Gibson.1]

flibblesan, on 17 October 2012 - 07:55 PM, said:

Did you reboot the phone after disabling social gallery?

Ahh, it appears I've made a newbie error lol. I'll reboot and keep an eye out to see if it goes away then. I'd imagine it will though.

Edit: just rebooted and *overflow* is at the top of the wakelock list since boot.

Edited by Gibson.1, 17 October 2012 - 08:40 PM.

[BlueMoonRising]

Gibson.1, on 17 October 2012 - 07:39 PM, said:

BetterBatteryStats is still showing *overflow* and audio_out under com.intel.android.gallery.media.Social Gallery  
despite having force stopped then disabled Social Gallery. Why would it still have anything happening? I just find it slightly strange that for a gallery app its using audio in/out while I'm not using my phone and after disabling it still has processes going on.

OK, I am a newbie and obviously missing something obvious to you guys. I've got the same entries after rebooting yesterday despite disabling the app, why does rebooting put them back in BetterBatteryStats list?

[Gibson.1]

BlueMoonRising, on 18 October 2012 - 08:41 AM, said:

OK, I am a newbie and obviously missing something obvious to you guys. I've got the same entries after rebooting yesterday despite disabling the app, why does rebooting put them back in BetterBatteryStats list?

I've rebooted twice and they're still there, first reboot just left two, second reboot and after a sleep I all of a sudden have all of the wakelocks back.  

I think that the social gallery process actually deals with other parts of the system, specifically audio, and that's why its not going away. I'm pretty new to this stuff, maybe the android gallery process does deal with audio etc. And its well known, but I just assumed gallery meant pics/video.

[jikobutsu]

Social Gallery is a strange one, I noticed that even after freezing it still shows in stats.....then I uninstalled it and now its history

[flibblesan]

Just delete it manually and replace it with GalleryICS or something. Job done. You'll need to set the system as read/write. Easiest way is to install the unsecure adb app from the market and enable this, then on your computer open up the command prompt/terminal and do

adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/SocialGal*

and boom - it's gone

[xgt001]

Hi

Confirmed that Social Gallery is a major battery sucker.... can anyone report any major difference in battery life after removing it? I have just disablied it yet, not completely removed it....

[schkinx]

cant find " unsecure adb" on the market

[flibblesan]

https://play.google.....chainfire.adbd

It'll let you use an insecure adb so you can use adb push and adb remount commands from your computer. Easier to delete and replace files with this enabled.

[xgt001]

okay, thankfully looks like it is successfully going into deep sleep... I had to remove Viber and turn off data as I have wifi...Will test it again with Juice Defender on. Also removed some annoying games which "might" be waking up the device with notification ads, and as discussed at length in this thread, Social Gallery is a culprit too... will report once I get rid of it completely