Did you start messwerk to see if it was still showing something for accelerometer or orientation? Maybe it was the effect I described before where lipstick lost orientation sensor capability.

Anyhow I advise everyone to stop using watchdog and just replace the sensors so file like described in my post.
It works way better this way and running it for a couple of days I can clearly see an improved battery life.
The memory leak thing is a minor issue in my opinion as it is not always doing it. I have a memory usage about 3 MB for 2 days already so its not even an issue always.
I did not managed to track when and why the menory usage grows yet.

For me proximity sensors do not work at all with the Android 5 sensor*.so file. I rebooted several times and checked with Messwerk and MCE low power mode which stopped working, romu has similar issues.

I don't want to start a flamewar or discussion about programming styles.
But in general grep is faster than awk most of the times

Yes, but is two greps plus one awk faster than just one awk?

So then we have to find out whats the difference between our installations.

I installed the image like instructed here: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Ada...eps_to_install

Installed via CWM Recovery. Then upgraded like instruced in the same wiki to the latest version.
Did you install via another method ? Maybe used another cm base ?

If not. Then we need to find out if there is different hardware involved. But I hope it is only a software issue and not hardware related because that would mean we need different drivers for different models which makes everything a lot more complicated.

So then we have to find out whats the difference between our installations.

I installed the image like instructed here: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Ada...eps_to_install

Installed via CWM Recovery. Then upgraded like instruced in the same wiki to the latest version.
Did you install via another method ? Maybe used another cm base ?

If not. Then we need to find out if there is different hardware involved. But I hope it is only a software issue and not hardware related because that would mean we need different drivers for different models which makes everything a lot more complicated.

your blob file doesn't work for me either
i wonder if it depends how we unpack the file

can you upload your file again without compressing?

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165292 Feb 23 01:03 /vendor/lib/hw/sensors.msm8974.so

Multirom for sure and probably TWRP too, if this is the one with a black background and buttons as big grey rectangle, right?