Endomondo prevents STAMINA mode

[ilya1725]

Perhpas this question was asked before:

I have this tracking app that I like to use to track my long hikes in the mountains. The phone is in airplane mode to prevent it from constantly searching for cell towers. I've enabled the STAMINA mode and also added this (Endomondo) app to the white list in STAMINA settings. The application uses GPS+WiFi to get the location.

However, the phone keeps complaining that this application is preventing it from going into STAMINA mode. I'm running the latest FW.

How can this be fixed?

[Uliwooly]

That's an app issue, you will have to uninstall it or contact the app developer regarding this. 

[ilya1725]

What kind of issue?

I mean, I can contact the developer, but I need to give them some details.

[MyAliasIsGary]

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@ilya1725 wrote:

Perhpas this question was asked before:

I have this tracking app that I like to use to track my long hikes in the mountains. The phone is in airplane mode to prevent it from constantly searching for cell towers. I've enabled the STAMINA mode and also added this (Endomondo) app to the white list in STAMINA settings. The application uses GPS+WiFi to get the location.

However, the phone keeps complaining that this application is preventing it from going into STAMINA mode. I'm running the latest FW.

How can this be fixed?

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yep... I know the app. I use it myself (the free version; not Pro).

One thing - why have you got wifi on? Surely there are no wifi signals up in the mountains?

I've just tested it and it works with just GPS only active (i.e. device only). Your journey will just sync the next time you go 'online' and run the app.

i.e. in airplane mode, with wifi off, you shouldn't have a conflict with stamina mode.

Having said this, I've also tested endomondo with stamina mode. I switched on stamina mode first. I did not get an error message.

Endonmondo started up fine, with stamina mode active and appeared to log my 1 minute walk fine!!

When you say "...the phone keeps complaining...", could you post a screenshot of the error and where you get it, etc?

Thanks,

Gary

[ilya1725]

Hi Gary:

• I don't have the WiFi ON per set. I have this "High accuracy" location mode. It uses GPS, WiFi and mobile networks. So during the operation in the mountains the WiFi is probably off. I listed it to be concistent.
• The notification message is: "Endomondo application is preventing the phone from going into STAMINA mode". Or something like that. I'll get the screen shot when I see it again.
• The app works fine with GPS only in airplane mode or not. I'm just curious if this STAMINA message could be resolved.

Thank you,

-Ilya.

[MyAliasIsGary]

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@ilya1725 wrote:

Hi Gary:

• I don't have the WiFi ON per set. I have this "High accuracy" location mode. It uses GPS, WiFi and mobile networks. So during the operation in the mountains the WiFi is probably off. I listed it to be concistent.
• The notification message is: "Endomondo application is preventing the phone from going into STAMINA mode". Or something like that. I'll get the screen shot when I see it again.
• The app works fine with GPS only in airplane mode or not. I'm just curious if this STAMINA message could be resolved.

Thank you,

-Ilya.

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hi Ilya

I was trying to make the point that you don't need to burn battery by using high accuracy mode - and I'd have thought that wifi scanning for networks, etc, would cause some drain. Also, if you're in airplane mode, data and/or cellular location won't be active i.e. you might as well just use "device only" location.

Also check your settings for stamina mode. According to the info about the mode, the application whitelist ("apps active in standby") only appears active if extended standby is selected... and this sub-mode disables mobile data and wifi, which are irrelevant given you're in airplane mode and don't need wifi on. Again, if you use device only location, then maybe you could eliminate the error message. The only thing I don't know is if GPS gets disabled in extended standby mode i.e. you might need endomondo in the app whitelist OR just don't used extended standby.

One side-observation - maybe this error message is indeed something specific to do with Endomondo. I say this simply because I've found, according to my battery usage history, even after I've properly quit Endomondo, even if I've moved to "battery saving" in location, etc, the GPS is reported as active (in the battery graph),  I've tried force stopping endomondo, I've literally turned off location mode entirely. Only a reboot seems to kill GPS in the battery graph. This doesn't happen with other gps apps (e.g. copilot, google maps, GPS test) i.e. endomondo could be misbehaving. I raised this as a problem with endomondo but didn't get anywhere / any successful outcome.

Could you just check and confirm you have no other power saving measures active? Anything else active under power management (e.g. ultra stamina)? Do you have any apps as well that have power saving functions?

It would be interesting to see the screenshot too (you can take a screen shot by pressing and holding power button, then select screenshot option in menu.

Regards,

Gary

[ilya1725]

Two screen shots are attached. If that is what you were looking for.

No UltraSTAMINA mode.

Aso, a couple of times I've gotten into this screen that looks like application information. There was a button on the left to enable STAMINA mode, for each app. But this button was grayed out. However, I can't find this place any more.

When you set the GPS only location, do you get this constant nagging from LifeLog?

-Ilya.

[Rickard · Accepted solution]

Some apps may, depending on how they work, prevent STAMINA from working and when this happens you will get that message with information about which app that's causing it.

I don't know the exact reason for this but on our site for developers, our developer team has posted some tips for app developers on how to reduce battery usage and making apps more optimized for STAMINA: http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/04/04/5-coding-tips-to-make-your-app-power-efficient-and-optimi...

[MyAliasIsGary]

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@ilya1725 wrote:

Two screen shots are attached. If that is what you were looking for.

No UltraSTAMINA mode.

Aso, a couple of times I've gotten into this screen that looks like application information. There was a button on the left to enable STAMINA mode, for each app. But this button was grayed out. However, I can't find this place any more.

When you set the GPS only location, do you get this constant nagging from LifeLog?

-Ilya.

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Hi Ilya

thanks very much for the images.

You have a stack of power saving measures active.

I know it sounds perhaps a little crude or simplistic but why don't you try just using stamina mode and nothing else, just so we can establish whether it's one of the other power saving measures which is causing the problems?

i.e. forget about low-battery mode, location based wifi, queue background data, etc etc

Let us know whether this helps at all.

Btw, I've tested endomondo again, with STAMINA mode enabled and I can't generate the error you describe.

I suspect it's one of the additional power saving measure that you have enabled, which is generating the messages you're experiencing.

Cheers,

Gary