Please help - UID 10121

[cjmac97]

All of a sudden this morning UID 10121 is keeping my phone awake constantly, causing material battery drain. Does anyone know what this process is linked to? I can't seem to figure it out. The two things I did this morning was install the Skeeball game that Amazon was offering for free this morning, and follow the steps in this forum to update the Blockbuster app and turn of updating in that app.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Edwill86]

All of a sudden this morning UID 10121 is keeping my phone awake constantly, causing material battery drain. Does anyone know what this process is linked to? I can't seem to figure it out. The two things I did this morning was install the Skeeball game that Amazon was offering for free this morning, and follow the steps in this forum to update the Blockbuster app and turn of updating in that app.

Thanks in advance!

Rooted/ unrooted?

 

[Edwill86]

User identifier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The UID value references users in the /etc/passwd file. Shadow password files and Network Information Service also refer to numeric UIDs."

Someone more advanced in coding should prob look into this.

 

[Edwill86]

IM with My Programmer buddy

Ed:

any idea what UID 10121 would be on an adroid device?

Dan:

its a UID
i have to ask
what the hell are you doing

Ed:

lol im not doing anything

Dan:

in linux (Android) a UID is just a number that represents a user (probably you)

Ed:

someone found a thunderbolt error
so why would that be in the running processes using a ton of mem?

Dan:

because all of the processes on the phone are started by you... and then all the processes have an owner UID of.. you 10121

Ed:

ok. but is it normal for this to show in the running processes keeping the device awake and draining power?

Dan:

well a uid is not a process
you have to look at what the actual process that is running is
but yeah, its totally normal on the phone to have a process that is started by you

Ed:

or is it more likely an application started by the user is being displayed as this
ok

Dan:

i think its pretty normal

hope this helps.

 

[cjmac97]

Thanks everyone. I'm not rooted, though constantly considering it. My Epic was rooted. I deleted the skeeball game called Roller that I had installed free this morning. That was definitely the culprit, as UID 10121 has dropped back down to nothing and my partial wake is only down to 4%.

 

[Forgetful]

That's really odd. Thanks for the update.