Android System Partial Wakelock Usage on MCR 3.0

[Guest pulser]

I noticed today that my phone's battery had dropped by about 40% in only a few hours, with practically no usage. Essentially, I unplugged it in the morning, put it on my desk and looked at it just there (about 1500). The battery had dropped to 'half' on the indicator, and when I looked at Spare Parts, the Android System process had put a partial wakelock of about 3hrs 30 mins since unplugging from mains.

I routinely close apps using Advanced Task Manager (free version), and under normal circumstances, I would have still had either 100% or at least 95% after this amount of time.

The only thing I can think of is that yesterday I was playing a new game I bought on the phone (Toonwarz, a 3D FPS game). I have my concerns that the app was still 'running' in the background despite not being on the list of apps available to close in Task Manager. I have since rebooted the phone, as it felt slightly sluggish despite Teknologist's new kernel giving me a performance boost up until now.

After a reboot, it was all back to normal. So just a little 'warning' about games. It seems to confirm my suspicions that they can drain battery after closing. I may need to look for a better Task Killer though. Any recommendations (free/paid, as I'm not against paying for a useful utility like this) would be greatly appreciated, as I looked on the store but found loads.

[Guest uk786]

Try Taskiller full with ads [there is not an issue ads only appear in application not on widgets]

it offers a small 1x1 widget a long 4x1 widget [shows icons of running apps] and a mini widget 2x1

you can also set a unlimited amount of ignored apps and you can set it so all apps get auto-killed when screen is idle..

[Guest pulser]

Try Taskiller full with ads [there is not an issue ads only appear in application not on widgets]

it offers a small 1x1 widget a long 4x1 widget [shows icons of running apps] and a mini widget 2x1

you can also set a unlimited amount of ignored apps and you can set it so all apps get auto-killed when screen is idle..

Cheers for the reply. Got it from market, but can't find the setting to choose which widget to use. Might just be me being dense :)

Am I missing something really obvious here?

[Guest Noel.]

I had the same issue yesterday, but I don't have and there has never been a game on my phone. I thought the problem was that Fring never actually closed.

What could cause the 'Android System'-process to stay awake even if all other non-essential background applications are shut down?

Edited January 2, 2010 by Noel.

[Guest pulser]

I had the same issue yesterday, but I don't have and there has never been a game on my phone. I thought the problem was that Fring never actually closed.

What could cause the 'Android System'-process to stay awake even if all other non-essential background applications are shut down?

Funny you mention that! I had fring on here for a bit, but removed It as it kept reopening. If you wish to keep it, you might want to look at an app (forgotten its name, sorry) that controls autostarting apps (or just put in Taskiller with the widget.

Are you on mcr by any chance? Just wondering.

Fwiw, after that reboot, problem seems to be gone. :)

[Guest masterpfa]

Funny you mention that! I had fring on here for a bit, but removed It as it kept reopening. If you wish to keep it, you might want to look at an app (forgotten its name, sorry) that controls autostarting apps (or just put in Taskiller with the widget.

Are you on mcr by any chance? Just wondering.

Fwiw, after that reboot, problem seems to be gone. :)

"Autostarts" may be the app you are thinking about

Available in the market for a small fee.

As you also stated you can use Task Killer/Advanced Task manager etc and set up an ignore list. That way you can kill all, but leave essential apps running.

;)

[Guest uk786]

pulser, Long press on an empty space on your homescree, then go to android widget then, you will see the widgets listed there; mini task bar, Task Bar and Taskiller :)

[Guest pulser]

pulser, Long press on an empty space on your homescree, then go to android widget then, you will see the widgets listed there; mini task bar, Task Bar and Taskiller :)

Cheers! I didn't spot the 'Task Bar', as I presumed I was looking for taskiller of some sort (just me looking so hard I couldn't see it there, waving up at me ;) )

In my (miserable and pathetic) defense, I thought it was going to be like the HTC widgets such as clock/weather where you select the widget name, then get a '1 of 3' option with arrows to choose the style and size you want.

Thanks a lot anyway, got it on my homescreen already! Seems brilliant little app.

[Guest Noel.]

Funny you mention that! I had fring on here for a bit, but removed It as it kept reopening. If you wish to keep it, you might want to look at an app (forgotten its name, sorry) that controls autostarting apps (or just put in Taskiller with the widget.

Are you on mcr by any chance? Just wondering.

Fwiw, after that reboot, problem seems to be gone. :)

I do own Autostarts but didn't want to keep Fring on the phone.

I am on MCR 3.0. I didn't even reboot for the problem to go away.I just opened Astro and killed all non-essential processes. It was so weird because I can't pinpoint exactly what went wrong and how it was fixed.

[Guest phpdecoders]

I had a issue with MyBackup Pro, and the phone just stayed awake and drained the battery, killing the process fixed the problem..