It’s no secret that I don’t like my Nokia 3.4 one bit. It’s the cheapest phone I’ve ever owned, especially since I’ve been using it for the first time in an hour. A few days ago, I put DreamLab back on my phone to help science and when I woke up, I found that the phone seemed a little faster than usual – this was because the CPU was active and the phone was deep. I wasn’t going. Sleep to conserve juice.
After a bit of googling, I discovered wakelocks that keep the CPU active. You can turn on these wakelocks using an app like Wakelock Revamp to keep the CPU active when the display is off, so when you go to use your phone it doesn’t take ages to wake up, but it’s instantly faster. And gets ready to roll.
Before finding Wakelock Revamp, I tried a very similar app but it didn’t offer a run-on-start feature and enabling Wakelock every time seemed like it could be annoying. Thus, I switched to Wakelock Revamp which offers a run-on-start option. With WakeLock in place, it turns out the phone isn’t really that slow. 3GB of RAM is a bit prohibitive when it comes to heavy apps, but unlocking the phone and using it is now nice and fast.
One question you may be wondering is whether not allowing the CPU to go into deep sleep is draining the battery. From my testing, it doesn’t seem so. In the battery usage section of settings, I can see Phone Idol and Wakelock v3 listed and both have 1% battery drain – when you compare that to the screen that used 5%, Mobile network standby which used 3% and my primary web browser which is responsible for draining 2% battery. It’s been nine hours since I unplugged my phone, I’m down to 75% and the forecast is 1 day and 4 hours until it’s empty.
It’s not clear how widespread the problem of severe lagging after waking up an Android phone is, I haven’t personally experienced it on other devices but many Nokia 3.4 users have complained online about poor performance. And the Wakelock Revamp app mentions the Galaxy Note 4. Name as problems. If you are experiencing any issues with your device, I highly recommend this app to give your phone a little boost.
Some other things I like about this app is the absence of ads so it runs very well, and you don’t need to mess with permissions or disable battery optimization. I can’t promise that it won’t affect your device’s battery life while you’re running it but in my use of the app, it hasn’t had a significant impact.
If you want to download it, just go. Google Play Store And press the download button. It has over 100,000 downloads and has a rating of 4.8 stars. It works on Android 4.1 and above devices so it is likely compatible with your device. I only had to enable processor wakelock but there are several other options including Wi-Fi Scan Only, Wi-Fi High Performance, Wi-Fi Normal, Screen Dimmed, Screen Bright, and Screen and Keyboard. Each of these options comes with a little description of what they do and if you want the app to run on startup, just go to the Settings cog and toggle the feature on.
Please let us know in the comments which device you have and if it suffers from any kind of delay on waking up and if you were able to fix the issue with Wakelock Revamp.
