Remove PowerGenie to allow background apps to receive push notifications

Darkat70

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My colour uniformity seems to be with dark background, mainly Huawei video after playing a video then going back to the video folder but this doesn't happen if powergenie is gone. Very odd.
 

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I removed power genie via ADB and it showed success. I still can see battery stats and app usages of battery. Is there anything particular that i can check to confirm it the power genie got actually removed. I am not rooted
 

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I removed power genie via ADB and it showed success. I still can see battery stats and app usages of battery. Is there anything particular that i can check to confirm it the power genie got actually removed. I am not rooted
Did you do a reboot? Try the manual brightness and put it up half way then go into chrome or Gmail see if it auto dims.
 
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I removed power genie via ADB and it showed success. I still can see battery stats and app usages of battery. Is there anything particular that i can check to confirm it the power genie got actually removed. I am not rooted
adb shell
pm list packages | grep 'powergenie'
 
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Darkat70

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Latest performance on .187

Standby 23hrs 57mins, Screen On Time 7hrs 33mins, battery at 9% when plugged in for charging.

Pretty decent.
 

Darkat70

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Interesting fact

If I fully charge and don't clean the cache I get 11 minutes before dropping to 99%

Fully charge and clean the cache manually with all apps and system process I get 43 minutes before dropping to 99% plus about an extra 1 hour overall SOT

I don't know what app or system cache it is rebooting to recovery and clearing the cache doesn't seem to work.

Looking at app usage I can only assume that it's com.android.systemui
 

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Interesting fact

If I fully charge and don't clean the cache I get 11 minutes before dropping to 99%

Fully charge and clean the cache manually with all apps and system process I get 43 minutes before dropping to 99% plus about an extra 1 hour overall SOT

I don't know what app or system cache it is rebooting to recovery and clearing the cache doesn't seem to work.

Looking at app usage I can only assume that it's com.android.systemui
Noticed that too in the mate 20 x, this is with powergenie.

I'll try to remove it again and we'll see
 

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Why if I have uninstalled powergenie is the service still running?

Check Developer options/Running service

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I'm running into the same thing. deleting power genie has helped most of my problems, still not getting my messenger notifications.

edit: I hit Stop on it, to be honest, We were never able to see the service running before. I also did a cache clear. If somehow it still persists, i'm just going to roll back to oreo. At least my phone worked flawlessly on oreo.
(Mate 10 pro)
 
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Darkat70

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It would be great if anyone knows how to remove the actual item from the root directory there is a directory HwPowerGeniusEngine3 with files and an APK with the same name. But I tried to remove it and it says not installed for user 0.

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Hurmm i dont understand what is the needs to remove it. To make sure my selected apps got notifications, untick the app in app launch on battery settings (leave the 3 ticks after tap) & enable notification (if not turn on by default).

If still missed out notifications, then let start to dig deep. Go to settings>apps>apps, tap on the icon above, go to special access>battery optimization, change to all apps on column above, select the desire app, change to 'dont allow'. Done.

I never missed out notification on every apps that i have.
 

Darkat70

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Hurmm i dont understand what is the needs to remove it. To make sure my selected apps got notifications, untick the app in app launch on battery settings (leave the 3 ticks after tap) & enable notification (if not turn on by default).

If still missed out notifications, then let start to dig deep. Go to settings>apps>apps, tap on the icon above, go to special access>battery optimization, change to all apps on column above, select the desire app, change to 'dont allow'. Done.

I never missed out notification on every apps that i have.
Need to remove it largely because of auto dimming but there's battery benefits, graphics benefits (for me) among other positive performance improvements

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Darkat70

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I see. Luckily i didnt experience any screen dimming on my Mate 20, & at the moment i didnt find any games or apps can make the Kirin 980 slow down.
Gmail, Chrome and Facebook ECT all Auto dim basically mostly all heavy white apps.

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Hi, I have disabled "power genius" but I still have no notification :/ just for whatsapp.. when I turn off the screen, I do not receive notifications: no instagram video calls , no facebook, no messenger. clash royal,gmail, youtube, ecc.. then, when I turn on the display all notifications appear together! what can I do? Have I to do other things? help please :pianto:
 

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Hi, I have disabled "power genius" but I still have no notification :/ just for whatsapp.. when I turn off the screen, I do not receive notifications: no instagram video calls , no facebook, no messenger. clash royal,gmail, youtube, ecc.. then, when I turn on the display all notifications appear together! what can I do? Have I to do other things? help please :pianto:
Hello im facing the same problem as yours. No notification from mate 20 pro while screen off after 30 seconds. But the worst thing is, i need to reset wifi connection to get my notification come in. They do not come if i turn my screen on.

Im currently using Push Notification Fixer from Play store apps
This application may help you to get notification while screen off. But only periodically 5-10 minutes. Not instant notification.