{"id":2949,"date":"2014-06-14T18:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T10:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2014-06-21T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T04:16:32","slug":"android-up-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2014\/06\/android-up-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Android up time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have it with Android up time. \u00a0 Or to be more precise, Cyanogenmod on my S2 phone. \u00a0With every new CM version, new feature are rolled out CM11 and theme manager etc. \u00a0Android latest version, KitKat comes with better memory requirements and management.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that does not translate to a better up or operational time. \u00a0This is the length of time before a reboot. \u00a0This used to be about 5 to nearly 14 days for CM10.1. \u00a0Now I can barely hit 3 days of up time on CM11. \u00a0It is usually due to some the OS or app crashing, locking the whole phone. or \u00a0the infamous Sleep Of Death (SOD).<\/p>\n<p>I calculated if there are 100 apps in my phone, the actual number is 146, say 50 of them can cause a crash and takes 2 days to do so. \u00a0That would means a staggering 100 days test cycle, optimistically speaking.<\/p>\n<p>I think it would be saner to configure Llama to reboot the phone every night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/galaxy-s2\/development-derivatives\/rom-cyanogenmod-11-t2686887\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/galaxy-s2\/development-derivatives\/rom-official-cyanogenmod-11-nightlies-t2634693\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: 20 Jun<\/p>\n<p>Recently I have encountered several instances of SOD when I had some time. \u00a0Since I was in no hurry to make a call, I decided to poke around a little. \u00a0The volume and power buttons did nothing to turn the screen. \u00a0My home button took an extended holiday last year, so I did not bother. I plug the phone to the charger and the soft buttons back light turned on. Hmm lets try the buttons again, no response. \u00a0Unplug and plug back. \u00a0Left it alone. After about 10 seconds the boot animation started. \u00a0The phone had soft restart! \u00a0In another instance, I just plug in and waited and waited and it did the same thing again.<\/p>\n<p>Now to try it out on my notebook. \u00a0This will be a data connection not a charging connection. \u00a0I wonder if it works. \u00a0Or I can use one of those gimped USB data cables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have it with Android up time. \u00a0 Or to be more precise, Cyanogenmod on my S2 phone. \u00a0With every new CM version, new feature are rolled out CM11 and theme manager etc. \u00a0Android latest version, KitKat comes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241,303,294,319,280],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-cyanogenmod","tag-jelly-bean","tag-kitkat","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}