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[Thunderbolt General] pmdied:
I typically turn my phone off to charge; speeds things up 2-3 fold.
[Thunderbolt General] jbh00jh:
Mine doesn't even take an hour . Power it off and try it that way and see how long it takes.
[Thunderbolt General] lorijuan1024:
damn mine charges super fast compared to my nexus s i had
[Thunderbolt General] palomosan:
If you have plug to the computer it might take longer but not 6 hours, on the wall it only takes like an hour or two to be fully charge.

If it's an issue just take it back and get another one.
[Thunderbolt General] loztboy:
Yeah I might have to return this phone. Do you think it matters whether I use the cable that came with the phone, or a regular usb cable to charge.
[Thunderbolt General] fronc:
You need to look at the power ratings of the adapters you're using. This behemoth phone can receive 1000ma, while many car and home chargers (like Droid1) are only rated at 500ma. I'm still trying to figure out what the power draw is on the phone when just idling (battery monitor widget is hard to understand), but if the phone draws 250-500ma with regular usage, its going to lose charge plugged into USB (rated at 500ma per port) and running hotspot (drawing closer to 600ma). That's -100ma.

These numbers are guesstimates. I'm not sure if the cable itself can pose limitations, but would suspect that as long as there's no shorts in the wire, it would be able to handle any of the above currents.
[Thunderbolt General] nosympathy:
yeah i find it impossible to charge the thing on USB, and it takes forever plugged into the wall with the charger it came with.

Had an evo, and it would almost full charge (from the time it said to plug it in, so 15%) in about an hour and a half. The thunderbolt seems to take 3 hours ish for me. I know I can turn the phone off, but since it usually charges over night its not a big deal, I just think it is interesting that it is so different.
[Thunderbolt General] Old MuckenMire:
yeah I'm one of the folks who charges FAST. It has really surprised me...I actually thought everyone was charging super fast until this thread.
[Thunderbolt General] ufmace:
+1 on looking at your adapter. Use the one that comes with the phone or make sure that it's rated at 1000mA/1A or more. I tried a MicroUSB adapter I had lying around that came with a bluetooth headset; turns out it only puts out 200mA, so the phone would take forever to charge on it.
[Thunderbolt General] nosympathy:
with an output of 200mA I would be amazed if you could get this phone to charge at all, without having a custome kernel and underclocking the processor. If anything I would see it maybe staying same battery percentage.
[Thunderbolt General] coder_t2:
Overall I feel this phone does charge really slow. It is way slow charging on a computer. I was charging it and just doing some light texting and after 4 hours the battery only went up by like 25%.

I have a second wall charger rated at 1000mAH, and after 30min it went up like 10%. This was with the phone off btw. With it on, but not in use, it went up like 4% over 30min. I'm kind of surprised how long it takes to charge. I've had no problems charging it at night. Plug it in before bed, and its full when I wake up. How does the 1400mAH battery size compare to other phones?

I did a little math too, the battery is a 5.18 W/hr battery. So with a 1AH charge at 5V, you'd expect the phone to charge in 2 hrs if only about 50% of the electricity is getting retained by the battery.
[Thunderbolt General] zer071:
I've noticed that mine takes about 1hr 45ish mins to charge from completly dead. My Droid used to be an hour at the most.
[Thunderbolt General] gujupmp88:
i just checked on the adapter it came with, it's 200 mA...did people get better chargers than me or something? Mine takes forever to charge also...been stuck at 99% for 30 mins

EDIT: nvm, i was looking at input, not output...still isnt moving from 99% to 100% though
[Thunderbolt General] rawr4dj:
WTF are u talking about 0-100% or like 70-100%?
[Thunderbolt General] rawr4dj:
@lorijuan1024 im with you man the Nexus S took forever...... To charge
[Thunderbolt General] arasky:
its impossible for me to charge it through the computer, it went up 5% over 3 hours, wasnt on hotspot, sending texts.
[Thunderbolt General] destroyerbmx:
Mine charges fine on anything, I am using my old fascinate charger.
[Thunderbolt General] kovdev:
Charging speed seems to fluctuate for me... sometimes I get lucky and its fast. Other times, not so much.
[Thunderbolt General] gsxr1kmatt:
it came with a 5V 1000ma charger for a reason.

Motorola uses a 5.1V 850mah (from the atrix) and that charges quick too. on USB on my laptop it will charge about as fast as I can drain it (2 hours of off charger = 2 hours on)

you need to look at how much power your charging device is putting out, vs how much the phone is eating at that time. good chance is you're barely more than breaking even.
[Thunderbolt General] coder_t2:
I noticed that it charges a lot faster with my HTC charger than the my cheap Chinese eBay charger. Although both are rated at 1000mah. I have read some people saying the usb cable matters. So I am going to try swapping the usb cables to see if that is it.
[Thunderbolt General] eschelon:
USB charges at 500 mAh while the wall charger is rated at 1000 mAh. It's also interesting to note that if you have a car charger that is rated at a full amp (1000 mAh) the phone still detects it as a USB in most cases and will still only draw 500 mAh

The phone typically uses ~200 mAh (sometimes less) when in standby. A free widget in the market called "current widget" will show your charge/discharge rate.

So if you are plugged in via USB you are generally drawing 500 minus the 200 the phone is using for a net positive charge of 300 mAh.

Whereas via a wall charger you are getting close to 1000 mAh (it usually ends up being a little less) minus the 200 current phone draw while it is on for a net positive charge of ~800 mAh - which is almost 3 times more than when charging over USB!

So yes, charging via the wall charger is often 3 times faster than charging over USB
[Thunderbolt General] coder_t2:
Hmm. I noticed with my cheap charger it said it detected it as usb on the phone. But I wonder what makes the difference to it. Since the wall one that comes with the phone is a detachable usb one as well.
[Thunderbolt General] bunklung:
Yeah, charging is slow with USB via a computer.

I think there may be a charging bug in the phone. I think the phone will charge, slowly over USB, but when it's full, it won't trickle charge the battery. So what seems to happen is the phone says it's fully charged @ 100%, but the voltage on the battery dips until the phone dies. It still says 100% until you unplg the USB and all of a sudden the battery drops down to 42%. This is with tethering software running on the phone and PC.

I haven't tested it extensively.

I am wondering if someone else can verify this claim/results?
[Thunderbolt General] coder_t2:
Ok did a swap of the cables and it's definitely something up with the charger. Not sure why the cheap one gets recognized as USB and the HTC one gets recognized as AC. They are both wall plugs with the same output.

Also, does anyone know if they make chargers that are greater than 1000 mAH output?
[Thunderbolt General] DJ_Colo:
Yes, there are 2.1 amps chargers for the iPad. They're supposed to be compatible with iPhones too. From the reviews I read, it makes you phone (mostly iPhones) really hot and I don't know what it would do to your battery life over time.

For example, Belkin offers such a charger.

If anyone has tried one of these, can you post your feedback?

Thanks.
[Thunderbolt General] Stephenv1971:
My HTC charger got recognized as usb last evening, 6 hours and it only charged from 46% to 57%. I rebooted the phone and battery dropped from 57% to 37% but then the charger was recognized as AC. I sure hope they fix this...
[Thunderbolt General] coder_t2:
Hmm, Yea I was kind of worried a higher rate charger might damage your battery or charging port. At least if used regulary. Although in all honesty the 5V 1000mAH charger does charge plenty fast. I have chargers all over the place, I just get annoyed that they are only charging at 500mAH even though they are rated at a 1000mAH.
[Thunderbolt General] destroyerbmx:
my phone must be a prototype 126ma with screen on
[Thunderbolt General] nosympathy:
just figured I'd post since I posted earlier and my first Tbolt charged very very slowly, got it exchanged for an issue with the screen, and my new Tbolt charges really fast, maybe fully charge in an hour to hour and a half. Old Tbolt was 3+ hours.

BTW: It is the same charger, as they only swapped out the phone, and kept the charger that came with my new phone.

def something up with some Tbolts.
[Thunderbolt General] kierandill:
Wow - glad I came in here! I just recently got the slow charge issue, with only a net +230mA on both the HTC charger and an iPad charger, stock cable. So I checked and saw it was seeing the charger as USB. But I rebooted and un/replugged the charger and now it sees it as AC and battery monitor says +800mA.

I rarely reboot, so it had been in this funk for days.
[Thunderbolt General] trizzle21:
True it takes my hd2 1hrs to fully charge my ThunderBolt take about 3 ****ing crazy hrs to charge. I would understand if the damn thing had a monster battery but 3 hrs to charge for this flimsy battery. Some is definitely not right.
[Thunderbolt General] adrynalyne:
Mine charges exactly 1% per minute.
[Thunderbolt General] funkybside:
When on AC, same here. When on USB PC port, about half that.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Sira.:
is there Anyway 2 change the Screen resolution permanently ??

i tried a couple of apps .. it only changes the resolution till the Boot .

and it actually Boots after every time i change the resolution " density " of the phone ...

...

hope u guys gimme some good useful Adviced about that ..

one more thing ..

i need the files of the firmware .24 so i can flash my phone 2 them ..

.6 sucks .. ;\ ..

Cheers ..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] kvNN_:
Hey (;

If you wanna change your density just edit /system -> build.prop in root explorer and change the density value..

To complete this, do a restart and everything is fine for u :p
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Sira.:
THANK U MAN !! ..

that worked like CHARM .. o.o ..

oh damn it .. i posted this Thread in the Wrong section =S ..

..

THANKS AGAIN !! .. ;D
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] azadtaufiq:
its work for me but no statusbar..pliz help me
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] evilbarcode:
Hey guys root tools allows you to change the lcd density with a click of a button but the only thing is it doesnt yet support our small density value (110/120). But as was mentioned a few posts back just edit it in the build.prop for now.

The only two values you should use are 110 and 120. Anything higher and you may not be able to change it back with ease. Anything lower wont be too bad, but, if you put it too low then it may become too small to read.

I had this smae problem a few weeks back. I changed mine on purpose to see what happens and it wasnt good. Screen went so big i had to pull the build.prop using adb and then push it back to the phone again. It took me ages to figure out what it was originally set to.

Cheers,

evilbarcode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbaker81:
Hi

I have a Samsung Galaxy S and I want to back it up and update it to the latest version of software.

I have download Kies, but when I load it, the Firmware Information area says the following:

"This version of the devive cannot be updated"

"Current firmware version: PDA:JF3/PHONE:JF3/CSC:JE5 (ORA)"

I have tried Googling for an answer and tried Samsung's useless support area on their website but cannot find a solution.

Can anyone help? I seem to be able to backup my contacts, but not apps, or upgrade the software version.

I have various glitches and bugs when using my phone that I would hope this software would iron out. These include, phone not loading some apps, screen freezing, blank screen appears and only way to reset is to take battery out, loses connection to SD card so wont load gallery, wont allow an extra Google account to be added...

It seems to have some serious problems. Can anyone help?

Thanks

sbaker81
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
This version of the devive cannot be updated"

Means their is no firmware update yet for that branded model .

Contact phone provider .

I have various glitches and bugs when using my phone that I would hope this software would iron out. These include, phone not loading some apps, screen freezing, blank screen appears and only way to reset is to take battery out, loses connection to SD card so wont load gallery, wont allow an extra Google account to be added...

FACTORY RESET ..

Non provider firmware available via Samsungfirmware and flash via Odin read Faqs from main page .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=846913

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=723596

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbaker81:
Thanks for this

Why would there not be an update of Android for the Galaxy S? There has been news about it being out so this doesnt make sense.

Thanks for the other link - looks far too complicated for me to start tinkering with this. Is there no other way for me to get an update?

Do you know anything about how to back up apps?

Wont a factory reset clear everything I have on the phone, so I will lose everything?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Why would there not be an update of Android for the Galaxy S? There has been news about it being out so this doesnt make sense

I said and Kies says no update for your branded phone whoever you bought it from has not yet updated the firmware .

Pointless now as 2.3 due for release soon .

Wont a factory reset clear everything I have on the phone, so I will lose everything

yes

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbaker81:
I think Im unfortunate enough to have one of the first batch of Orange UK Galaxy S's which have issues with the Kies software and are, according to Orange "un-updateable".

Samsung are working on a fix but its a Kies issue apparently.

If I factory reset, I will lose everything. I have backed up contacts, I can sort images, videos ect easily, but how do I back up apps? There is no option for this in Kies?
[Galaxy 3 General] akku.a.aus:
i upgraded froyo 2.2 on my gt i5801. upgrading was successful but im not able to download and install adobe flash player from the market. what should i do.
[Galaxy 3 General] ronhoover88:
There is no flash support for galaxy 3 as of now...and some people say its not supported for the type of processor our phone comes with
[Galaxy 3 General] sheron:
if u want to use flash to cross the pesky download waiting counter and other necessities of browsing then use opera mobile it has built in flash

if u want to see videos then use youtube app from stock firmware

there is no SEPARATE flash support for our phones but apps which already have flash integrated in them will work
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiRo31285:
after CM6.1.3 gingerbread i deside to install the official again from SEUS.

after SEUS said that there is no new firmware nothing happens.

i try the sony pc companion and says to try again later.

AND after all of this

now the phone can't pass the white sony ericsson logo.

i have acces on xrecovery.

PLEASE HELP MEEEE!!!!!!!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiRo31285:
there is not an option to install mate. :(

i'm trying flash tool now
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiRo31285:
guys, i made this work by this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10879528&postcount=3

and after i use the SEUS and hope work it.. :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiRo31285:
YES THAT WORKS.. i'm updating to the original firmware using SEUS!!!

do it in case of a problem..
[Nook Color General] Bitcrusher_:
I've searched around both the web and forum, but haven't been able to find any means of removing the Nook library bar from the bottom on the stock ROM.

I keep tapping it, when what I really want to do is, opening the apps menu.

I'm currently running Nookie Froyo, but have since been made aware of the battery overcharge "problem" with that/other ROMs, and would therefor like to go back to stock, so something doesn't go up in flames ;)

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
First, Checkout Zeam launcher. It has a full screen option, that gets rid of the BN bar. You lose your notification bar, too though. Perhaps that in conjunction with another app to recover notification bar might work?

Second, overcharge issue?
[Nook Color General] Bitcrusher_:
1. Ok, I admit I have not tried Zeam, but I'm really hooked on Launcher Pro, and would like to stay with that.

I was basicly asking for a way to mod the stock rom, so I gets a normal Android feel to it (including a normal notification bar).

2. About the battery overcharging/overheating thing, I'm refering to is from this

As I can't post URLs yet, because of low post count, but if you search for:

you'll find it for sure.

To quote from the article:

I seen anywhere that this hack isn't necessary any more, but I'd like to be corrected.

The thing that makes me think that this has not been fixed yet, is that the charging is a bit weird on my NC with Nookie Froyo 0.6.8.custom.3 eMMM.

I left it to charge over night, and in the morning the chargemeter on the lockscreen still said 58% + the N on the charger cable was still orange.

When I unplugged it, it remained on 58% till some power was used and it increased/decreased to 99%.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior when charging on Froyo?
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
Yes, I'm on Eclair (stock) but I noticed my battery charge report takes a while to update after a charger. Though my cable does turn green when expected.
[EVO 4G General] storm1990:
i flash the latest vision but they dont work! help?
[EVO 4G General] storm1990:
NeVERMIND

i figured it out
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhamzahkhan:
Hey everyone,

I was trying to upgrade my phone to CM yesterday, but I seem to have made a huge fail.

I originally got put CWM on my phone in December or so, and also done the perm S_OFF mod (I can't remember which method I used), but I did not upgrade to CM.

So yesterday, I downloaded the CM zip file, booted into CWM and attempted to update (after clearing the relevant partitions).

The update seemed to go fine, but when I rebooted it wouldn't go past the HTC splash screen, so I tried to use adb to connect to the phone... but the phone wasn't detected :(

So, I attempted to use fastboot to re-flash the stock files, but I noticed I'm not on an engineering hboot, so I can't flash using fastboot, and I also noticed that its back on S_ON! :(

I am able to get back into recovery, but I am unable to flash CM from there because it is set to S_ON.

I also tried putting a PC10IMG.zip file in the root of my microsd card, but it complains that the Model ID is incorrect if I use "PC10IMG_Vision_TMOUS_1.19.531.1_Radio_12.21.60.09b_26.02.01.15_M2_release_149459_signed.zip", and says "Lack of Heap" if I try use the rom.zip file I extracted from RUU.

Is my phone dead or is there a way to recover it still? I have read the semi-boot instructions but it hasn't helped.

I currently have:

VISION PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.82.0000

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.02.01.15_M2

eMMC-boot

Sep 2 2010, 17:59:38

And CWM 3.0.0.5.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hispeedworm:
buddy try another rom... and do you have desire Z or G2? if its desire Z ... T-mobile G2 rom wont work as pc10.img

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=971109

download the rom... if its exe file open the RUU exe file and than in the temp files find the rom.zip and put it in your sd card and flash it....

although i would advice you to make sure you download the rom which came with your phone not of a variant... that has a potential of getting you into even more trouble....

all the best :)

get the rom specific for your cell from this thread
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] civano:
i've got the same problem , and using the RUU rom , wont make any diffrence ,i also had one renamed to PC10IMG , but still no detection just lack of leap....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HLeenders:
Parlez francais?:

http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/38890-root-le-root-du-desire-zdhd-en-v-172-desormais-possible/page__st__60

I think, although my french is not what it used to be, they solved it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] civano:
that's not really helpfull .... i'm not french
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _bottle_:
Something I just noticed, for one person who I sms regularly , the sms count next to their name displays (0/200) and is stuck at that number, does that mean the counter is limited to 200sms ?

I have no issues replying and receiving messages , just that the count doesn't increase

Edit : Sorry for being a n00b, went into settings and noticed that the delete old sms option was ticked and deleting messages after it hits 200
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m00nshake:
Good morning everyone:

So as of last night, my TB now is fully rooted with Clockwork recovery, but all of the available recoveries are 3.x and I'm not sure if any of them are intended for backing up 2.2. Does anyone know if any of the earlier 3.x available recoveries will work backing up my newly rooted stock rom?

Secondly, if the answer is a confirmed 'no', is there a possibility to get this accomplished by flashing an alternate recovery such as Amon Ra?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m00nshake:
Nvm on the second question, I just noticed there are no alternate recoveries available in Rom Manager...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mseliga:
The 3.x is the version of the recovery, not the OS version it supports. Your good to go as far as compatibility.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m00nshake:
Interesting because on other HTC phones the orange recovery only works with 2.3 roms... Anyone been able to successfully back up stock TB rom using orange CLockwork recovery?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] two_cents:
on the incredible the 3x cwm just allowed for increased features for CM7... cwm 3.0.0.8 fixed the bugs people were having with restoring cwm 2.x back ups ... 3.x is all thre will ever be for the tbolt... its still in its early stages but its coming along nicely... the new version allows use of the home button to select instead of the power button... haven't tried
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thrillhouse847:
I was able to make a backup of the stock rom last night. I read in another thread that backups don't restore though, but I haven't tried yet so I don't know if that's true.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superchilpil:
Not true

The new clockwork uses the intended update script called edify that made amend (old update script) useless

We on xda kept the old update script due to it being Easyer to write. Now our beloved koush is forcing us to update to the new update script so that's why cwm 3 was born

Hate it or love it your stuck with it untilled we get amon_ra
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pan466:
guys i have a really bad problem with my camera...

since yesterday i have two big black flakes on my photos (and on viewport too!)

i reverted to jm8 using odin...

then i dissembled the device to see if the problem is on cameras cover but even without that glass part those flakes are still there...

does anybody have any idea?

i think i need to send it to service

this is how it looks like now:

http://img291.imageshack.us/i/20110321005202.jpg/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pan466:
anybody.. :S