I'm running the cruz mod with GE. It took me about a week to get mine back to sleeping peacefully after I did the update to version 2. I turned my PDN on at noon today, read for about a half hour, and then put it to sleep. It's only lost 1 bar all day, and that's 8-9 hours. The trick for me was not to figure out how to kill everything, but to figure out what I needed to leave on (in the ignore list). Those things that keep waking up are going to keep waking up, so stop trying to shut them off. I have about 10 things in my ignore list. These are things that either need to left on, like the android system, things I want left on, like Aldiko, and things that the system apparently wants to have on because it keeps calling them. Losing 1 bar over 8-9 hours is just fine with me, so I'm not going to argue with my setup. It sleeps during the day, and I turn it off at night. It may seem counter-intuitive, but maybe you should be looking at putting more things in the ignore list.
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Because it seems that when a process wakes up, it brings the screen back up, too. If you leave those processes alone, they run in the background, using very little battery on their own. It's only when the screen comes back on, that I see major battery loss. I'm not saying that you should put everything in the ignore list. I'm just saying that if you see a particular process come back on on its own when it should be sleeping, maybe try putting it in the ignore list and see what happens.Now, I do shut down wifi before I put it to sleep because with the cruz mod I can't seem to make it shut off automatically when the screen is off, and that will drain the battery.ETA: Instead of shutting it down last night when I went to bed, I left it in sleep mode all night. The charging light was red when I put it in the drawer, and it was green this morning. It didn't wake up until I hit the button.
I had to reinstall the Cruz UI firmware yesterday, so I can't tell you what was in my ignore list before that. I'm working on setting this up again. I'll tell you what I've done and why. I hope it helps, but for right now, my own PDN isn't sleeping very well. It usually takes me a week of frustration to get it set to where it stays asleep about 95% of the times I hit that button.
Right now, my ignore list is this:
1. Task Manager and Alarm Clock -- these must be added by default because I didn't put them in there.
2. Android System -- If I kill this, the clock in the status bar stops updating.
3. Moon+ Reader -- I like to come back to a book where I left it, and this is my current favorite reader. Love the autoscroll.
4. Checkin Service, Settings Storage, Sync Feeds -- These are the ones that if I kill them, they immediately come back to life. I don't see any point in killing something the system insists must be running.
5. Settings and thumb keyboard -- These come back to life quickly, but not instantly all the time. They do seem to pop up when my screen comes back on, though, and I remember having to put the thumb keyboard in here after I first installed it on my old setup because it kept messing with sleep.
That's it, so far. I may add more things to it; I may even remove something in this list if I can't get sleep to settle down. For now, I'll probably concentrate on catching all of the processes that should be in the auto kill list. Although, I do manually hit the kill select button in the task manager before I hit the power button, so all running processes that aren't in the ignore list are dead before I put it to sleep.
ETA: I also uninstalled no lock because it interfered with sleep no matter what I did with it.
ETA 2: I had to turn off the Automatic Sync option, but left the background data transfer because the market needs that. Novel slept with no problem for the last 4 hours, but now, I'm going to read. I'm going to try to sleep it overnight with it plugged in. Hopefully, the little charging light will still be on in the morning.
Right now, my ignore list is this:
1. Task Manager and Alarm Clock -- these must be added by default because I didn't put them in there.
2. Android System -- If I kill this, the clock in the status bar stops updating.
3. Moon+ Reader -- I like to come back to a book where I left it, and this is my current favorite reader. Love the autoscroll.
4. Checkin Service, Settings Storage, Sync Feeds -- These are the ones that if I kill them, they immediately come back to life. I don't see any point in killing something the system insists must be running.
5. Settings and thumb keyboard -- These come back to life quickly, but not instantly all the time. They do seem to pop up when my screen comes back on, though, and I remember having to put the thumb keyboard in here after I first installed it on my old setup because it kept messing with sleep.
That's it, so far. I may add more things to it; I may even remove something in this list if I can't get sleep to settle down. For now, I'll probably concentrate on catching all of the processes that should be in the auto kill list. Although, I do manually hit the kill select button in the task manager before I hit the power button, so all running processes that aren't in the ignore list are dead before I put it to sleep.
ETA: I also uninstalled no lock because it interfered with sleep no matter what I did with it.
ETA 2: I had to turn off the Automatic Sync option, but left the background data transfer because the market needs that. Novel slept with no problem for the last 4 hours, but now, I'm going to read. I'm going to try to sleep it overnight with it plugged in. Hopefully, the little charging light will still be on in the morning.
Okay, so I have to remember to turn off wifi before I put it to sleep, but other than that, it's sleeping without any problems. It slept 7 hours last night, and twice, has slept through a charge cycle from red light to green without waking up. Except for making sure to catch any new apps I run in the kill list, I think it's back to being about 95% (or better) sleepable, which works fine for me. I'm done.
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