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[Nexus S General] Paparasee:
I'm on stock 2.3.3 and ... :( I call myself lucky if I can get 9 hours! Damn, I find it almost impossible to get back home with a live phone (as I leave the charger at home). Have twice got in trouble with my boss cause he calls me and finds my phone "switched off"!

If someone can give me the slightest clue on how to get it beyond 12 hours, I'd be really happy and eternally grateful!

edit:

Forgot to mention:

BT off

Wifi off

email push

display auto

hardly any calls

and yet in about 2 hours the battery drops like 38 to 45% and the battery info shows "Display 83%" ... the damn screen is off most of time so don't understand why?

I use NoLed and touch calendar, Simi Clock widget ... I sometimes run Fast Reboot.
[Nexus S General] Phantom1275:
Have you tried disabling or uninstalling NoLed?
[Nexus S General] kktk:
I dont have wifi, bluetooth or gps on mine either.

Barely play a game or so for about 15 minutes.

Hardly any browsing(maybe 15 minutes or less).

5-6 calls totaling about 20 minutes.

Screen brightness set to low.

No live widgets.

Gmail sync on auto.

With the above usage, I get nothing more than 12-14 hours.

If the display was on more, I can barely get through 8-10 hours.

I dont know how you guys are getting more than 24! :(
[Nexus S General] zephiK:
ROM? kernel? radio?

use black wallpapers
[Nexus S General] mysterioustko:
You may need to calibrate your battery. there's an app in the market called battery calibration. Run that and you may see a difference.
[Nexus S General] thomasck:
Not surprised, I`ve gotten over 48 hours, leaving off during the night.. Wifi always off, brightness auto, 3G on, no GPS or BT..

Using NSCollab 1.17 with its own Kernel..

EDIT

Changing or upgrading the Radio file would change the battery performance?
[Nexus S General] sano614:
I get between 24-36 hrs on a full charge. That's with 3-5 hours screen on time (surfing xda, Facebook and messing around on the phone), usually 1-3 hrs of Pandora and around 50 texts and some short calls.

I am ALWAYS (Home and free city wide wifi with my ISP) on wifi tho, and GPS and BT are off.

Running NS Collab 1.0.12
[Nexus S General] bfksc:
Clearly something is accessing the display and that's what is eating the battery. I'd guess it's NoLED (uses the display) or another rogue widget/app. It's not a fault of the phone itself as many people are reporting similar battery life to what I get, which is very good - 24-48 hours of light to moderate use. I've never had the battery drop below 50% except the first day I had it where it was at 45% out of the box, and was put on charge at about 38%.

From another post of mine yesterday I had 13h 30m 43s, with 44% display use, and 72% battery left. WiFi is off most of the time (I have 6gig data plan), BT is off as I don't use an earpiece, GPS is always enabled (I'm a geocacher), Gmail is set to manual sync (work is too busy for personal email), Facebook/twitter/whatever are all disabled/not installed, News widget is set to update every 12 hours. I use a Live Wallpaper, Beautiful Widgets with animations, and I've never used a task killer as they're not needed.

Note I don't use the bump charge to get 100% either. I did it once to see, and since then I've just put it on charge when I go to bed and it's at about 96% when I get up. I figure an update may fix the 100% charge issue, if not I'll just do a bump charge once a month or so.

I've also read about a bug in Gingerbread when doing a factory reset - it doesn't load the icons for YouTube and a couple other apps although the files are there and installed. So I haven't done a factory reset yet either. I've been playing with a lot of different apps/widgets, so I'll need to reset it sooner or later to clear all that crap out and set it up the way I want...but I guess I'll have to wait a bit - not really interested in rooting to fix the issue. But I'm a happy camper with the Nexus S anyway.

:D
[Nexus S General] jaker.the.skater:
do you guys with great battery life use Google voice? it seems that its always in the running apps list.

I only use it for voicemail but I may switch to stock voicemail if it makes a difference.
[Nexus S General] kktk:
I am using the stock android rom...currently on 2.3.1.

Havent updated to 2.3.3 or rooted the phone.

I am using black wallpapers.

To me it would be interesting to see how much "actual uptime" the display is using on folks who are seeing long battery life. % is one thing, but display taking 45% of battery for example doesnt quite tell us how long people have used the phone with the display on.

If some of you could post that as well, we could get a better comparison.
[Nexus S General] eyals76:
I have an I9020.

BTW I am now 27 hours unplugged and with 72% battery.

I also forgot to mention that I don't use auto brightness and it is set to a little more than the minimum in brightness.

During these 27 hours I had like 8 phone calls (non over 5 minutes tho I think), a few SMS messages sent and received, 5-10 minutes of web browsing, around 15 minutes of angry birds Rio and around 10 minutes of unblock me.

I think what saves me most of the battery is that when in the office I usually use the land line phone and same when I am at home.

I also don't run any live wallpapers.
[Nexus S General] mysterioustko:
I use google voice for voicemail and sometimes calls. I also use SIP calling too. I have both set to ask before each call.
[Nexus S General] bfksc:
I didn't think to post that info, but for my stats yesterday it was just under 2 hours for the display out of a period of 13.5 hours. So based on that usage, I'd say the phone is good for roughtly 8 hours of display on time, give or take a bit depending on other factors and usage. That's nearly double what my Desire could do.
[Nexus S General] eadred:
So I guess, since most of you guys are US based, there is no one here to praise the battery life of a i9023 device... My assumption will then remain that the sclcd version is not particularely satisfying in terms of autonomy.
[Nexus S General] eGozelle:
i have an i9023 SLCD device, rooted and stock 2.3.3.. and i'm pretty satisfied..

came from a htc desire with the oxygen rom (gingerbread 2.3.3) flashed. it's quite equal in consumption.

i usually have about 50% at evenings, when taking the phone off charge at 9 a.m.

yesterday i plugged it for charging after 1d 15hrs on battery, having 26% left.

use wifi only sometimes in the evening,

else 3G/H data connection is on 24/7.

BT is off

gps off (except when using navigation, which pokes my battery in the arse ;b)

display is auto

email is checking every 15 minutes.

twitter is on

facebook usually off, sometimes on for checking.

calls sometimes around 30 minutes a day, not really more..

about 50 texts a day and some whatsapping.

xda app a couple of times a day

some surfing, reading news here and there..

will check my display running time tomorrow, since i had a little reboot this afternoon (grrrr) and the values are not right anymore.
[Nexus S General] eadred:
Thank you very much eGozelle, this is very helpful!
[Nexus S General] mysterioustko:
On the charge that I posted about in this thread my screen was on for 3hrs 44min
[Nexus S General] xmRipper:
Just 24 hours? lol :) It's usually 2 days for me.

It's about 45% after 24 hours.
[Nexus S General] TheDarkKnight83:
It is very interesting to read all these different amounts of usage and the battery drain. It was already said that it is better if you are writing down the display running time. In most of the "i get 2 days out of my Nexus S" posts with screenshots i see very small usage of the display and this is the biggest energy killer.

I have my nexus S since february and i have the AMOLED version.

I use stock android 2.3.3.

On a normal work day i plug the phone from the charger at 8:30 in the morning. At this time the battery shows around 96 to 98% and is marked as "full".

My settings are

weather widget and facebook refresh every hour

calendar sync 1 hour

GPS, wifi, BT off

screen brightness auto

On a normal day i get home around 6 pm with a batteryload around 25 to 35%.

Display running time is around 2hours the day. I use the nexus very much.

Surfing, gaming, a few phonecalls, google talk, a lot of reading news with google reader, facebook, SMS, reading a few mails and reading news with a news app. Sometimes i hear music with my earphones for 30 minutes...

I have the charger with me every day when i am at work, because there are days with more useage and when i am not be able to get home in the early evening the phone will be almost empty... i had days with more then 2,5h of display running time with one charge...

When i am home, i switch wifi on and it is very interesting how much this is improving the battery life. When i am home the whole day and the phone is in wifi all the time, the battery last much much longer. I squeezed more then 5hours of display running time out of one charge. With heavy gaming and youtube... but with 3G instead of wifi this isn't possible.

I hope this helps for the people that are impressed with the other users with more then 2 days of running time. I my opinion these phones are in wifi most of the time or the usage of the phone and the display running time is very low.

Hopefully you can understand my english ;)

greetings from germany
[Nexus S General] jaker.the.skater:
couldn't have said it better myself. and your english is fine my man.
[Nexus S General] Smokexz:
/agree CM7 gave me AMAZING battery life... usually when I come home from school ( school is a dead zone, cell signals can not penetrate through walls) I get 20, but when I came home today it was a good 80, now it's at 60.... I am pretty confident I can go through tomorrow as well on this very charge, very impressed.

Sent from my Xoom
[Nexus S General] eyals76:
It could be that WiFi is better for battery life then using cellular data, as I mentioned I rarely turn my cellular data on, usually just for GPS navigation with waze.

Currently I am 52 hours unplugged and battery is at 44%.
[Nexus S General] Worsty:
I was intrigued by the topic of getting over 24 hrs on a single charge and doubt it since i can only get a max of 4-5 hrs (i'm fiddling with it almost all the time) and true enough, the reason being you lot turned a smart phone with all these nice features (push sync, music player, gps, web browser, games, videos etc) into a 'dumb' phone.

Turning data off? No sync? Not even making calls? I'm dumbfounded...
[Nexus S General] eyals76:
I don't agree with you. My data is off cause I use my work SIM card and its data plan is only 30mb a month, so I only turn it on when I need it, most of the time I have a WiFi connection availbe anyways.

I make calls from the cellphone when I need to, but if I have a landline availble I prefer to use it.

GPS is off except for when I need it, don't see a reason why it should always be on.

I surf the web with it quite alot, use apps and play different game when I need to or have some spare time.

Not everyone have to be a heavy user that constantly uses the phone to enjoy a smartphone.
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
for sure. wifi ALWAYS gives much better battery life, with higher screen on time, etc. using wifi saves tons of battery power. and you can look at manufacturers official specs to confirm. the iphone 4 lists 3G browsing at7 hours, but wifi browsing at 10 hours. nexus one lists 3g browsing at 6 hours, but wifi browsing at 7 hours, etc.
[Nexus S General] mysterioustko:
Maybe you should look at the original post again....It very clearly shows plenty of use. If you are only getting 4-5 hours on a charge then there are some things with your phone that need to be addressed (whether it's your battery or your configuration). You should easily be getting more life than that.
[Nexus S General] raeef:
I am on 2.3.2 , I get about 26 hours . Skype is always on

Sometimes I get 2 days with no Skype I guess.
[Nexus S General] bfksc:
That's my complaint about some smartphones, in order to get a day out of them you have to disable all the smart features. However, I don't have any problems with battery life on my Nexus S as it lasts 2 days of medium usage, one full day of heavy usage, and I haven't seen how long it will last with light use because I'm a moderate user, but I'm guessing it'll last 3-4 days easily. Much better battery conservation when used with the display on than many other phones and nearly double that of my Desire.

Let's see the lastest stats from my phone:

battery at 73% from a 96% full charge

23h 52m 53s on battery

display 30% with 46m 13s time on

cell standby 36%

For phone setup, I don't turn off anything unless it's not used, so GPS is always on as I use it regularly, but BT and WiFi are off, sync always, weather 1hr, etc. I use my phone as a smartphone, so I don't want to disable all those good features. Yet I still get decent battery life.

:)
[HD7 General] avensakias:
Cotulla did his magic AGAIN...!!!

Look at the picture that he posted today on his ftp server..

He already created RSPL for HD7 and i believe that the custom roms are near but also opens the door for other os to be loaded on the device.

:D:D:D:D:D:
[HD7 General] bubbl3:
That's fantastic news :D
[HD7 General] itsedstech:
sweeetness! too bad its not the hd7 :( lol but its a start!
[HD7 General] omaropa:
That's not an HD7 :(
[HD7 General] jachig:
yeap, te top&bottom part is more tiny on the hd7

also the camera button seems to be f*ckin´missplaced.

see u
[HD7 General] enyaj:
and there seems to be a USB cable attached to the left side of the pic. Theres nothing there on an HD7.
[HD7 General] sutt359:
This is a HTC 7 Pro with the slide out keyboard.
[HD7 General] arkatis:
Fisrt it was the video with an HD7 booting Android then this?????

Great news! Cotulla you are our Digital God!!!! ;)

Also on the picture it says "Sandisk partition info" so i suspect that we will be able to have dual boot option! Nice!!!!!!!!!! :D
[HD7 General] cool1fish:
Its a good news for me ...
[HD7 General] sutt359:
That is just saying its got an 8gb Sandisk Microsd installed like all HTC WP7 devices. If you put yours into bootloader mode it will say the same thing.
[HD7 General] Hamido123:
The hd7 is the same peace of Hardware like the desire HD, isnt IT?!

So it must be possible to use the Software of the desire HD (i mean the bootloader and the OS) on the hd7
[HD7 General] arkatis:
Oh i didn't knew that. Sorry.. Anyways i still hope that we can dual boot our hd7 devices..:D
[HD7 General] domineus:
wrong...

just because the size is huge, doesn't mean that the internals are exactly the same. Just like when everyone assumed the htc evo would totally help with development on the HD2, it really didn't in the beginning. Sure some things are similar but let's not make such a foolish absolute statement
[HD7 General] CsHeng:
nothing

I just hoping dual boot of HD7...

though it seems a little far away...
[HD7 General] smahmood143:
waiting 4 thisss
[HD7 General] gencaslan:
the hd7 has the same processor as the hd2 QSD8250 ...
[HD7 General] tchitchicruise:
look at here:

http://windowsphonehacker.com/articles/rspl_under_works_for_htc_windows_phone_7_devices-04-14-11

;-)
[HD7 General] agustinpac:
wow! cotulla is the king!
[HD7 General] -WP7User-:
Cotulla's just great! Though they've only done it on the 7 Pro and the 7 Mozart I'm sure that it'll work on any HTC WP7 device because they have all the same bootloader, don't they?

@Hamido123: They don't even have the same processor! HD7: QSD8250 / DHD: QSD8255
[HD7 General] sinakordi:
Very Gooooooooooooooooooooooood
[HD7 General] MrLeche:
Does this mean it can b done on HTC HD7? or is it still a different hardware than HD7 Pro.

I just posted a few minutes ago that I can't change my credit card country setting in my Zune account so I can't buy anything from zune. I'm starting to get annoyed to this account information sh!t. So much that I wanted my HD7 to run a 6.5. Or anything that doesn't need Zune.

Kudos to Cotulla.
[HD7 General] pedramcvx:
hi jigar! how r u?
[HD7 General] pedramcvx:
that is very good to have 2 system on a phone...but we should wait a little!!!
[HD7 General] sinakordi:
im very fain tnx
[HD7 General] phantom237:
ok ..but when we can see a link ???
[HD7 General] DavieGee:
The dark forces team are working the finishing touches in now, there planning for a september release when mango is brought out to devices, they want to crack the bigger OS to run android rather than cracking NoDo for microsoft to patch mango.
[HD7 General] wolfsstolz:
thats a fake, HTC HD 7 have USB cable under there not on left side XD

Why not close this forum !?
[HD7 General] DavieGee:
The OP didn't realise it was a HTC 7 Pro. It's Not A Fake, It's Just For A Different WP7 Device.

Theres The HD7's RSPL.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vitosans:
Looks like HTC Thunderbolt owners get skype with 3g / 4g wifi but no love for us..

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/11/skype-with-video-calling-leaks-for-htc-thunderbolt-celebrations/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyeburn:
try it install it but getting an installation error.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denis_y_s:
Skype With Video Chat Leaked!

Is there any way to make it work on Nexus S?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/04/11/download-skype-with-video-chat-for-the-htc-thunderbolt/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyeburn:
doesn't install
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denis_y_s:
Yes, it doesn't work as it is on Nexus S, but we have .apk! Can it be fixed? ;)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bajansurfer:
Tried installing via adb and the error I get is: "INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY" I also tried extracting the .apk and here are a few lines from the Merlin.config file:

default-videohost:off
default-voicehost:off
lg-voicehost:off
htc-videohost:on
htc-voicehost:on
lg-videohost:off
lg-voicehost:off
samsung-videohost:off
samsung-voicehost:off

I changed the samsung lines to to on and repackaged the app and resigned it but it still wouldn't install.. :(

I really don't know what i'm doing here though and I'm just messing around so if anyone with more experience can take a crack at it I'm sure we'd all be grateful.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyeburn:
You need to edit the AndroidManifest.xml. This is the offending section:

<uses-library android:name="com.htc.device" />

</application>

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="8" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DEVICE_POWER" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DISABLE_KEYGUARD" />.........

I tried to remove this section and rebuilt the apk but I get this error:

INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bajansurfer:
You need to sign the app I use apksign.... I'm going to try that now though.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxehkins:
have you had any luck yet?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
if some one manages to get it working, please posts the steps

thanks
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaliceOmega:
bumpity bump
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
cool, i might give it a swirl later tonight if i have the time, edit the xml, zip it and sign it
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TittieBaby:
I hope someone gets this to work

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hostile89:
I don't really know what I'm doing but I got it to install by deleting the com.htc.device. It has other checks though as it won't run. Will work on it tomorrow evening.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxehkins:
PROGRESS!!!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bajansurfer:
Nah sorry man, been busy...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bajansurfer:
Wow nice work!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyeburn:
Please consolidate the discussion here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1031944
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supercluver:
http://www.techpetals.com/skype-2-o...ndroid-devices-skype_2_0_0_45-signed.apk-3645

This works on my NS4G!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spyteris:
I just went through a series of reflashes on my Epic over the past week, going from rooted stock 2.1 Eclaire (DI07) back to stock DI18, then to EC05, midNIGHT ROM v5, now reflashed back to rooted EC05. I've kept a backup as best I could on Titanium, and have recovered everything pretty much except one thing...

VISUAL VOICEMAILS. DOES ANYONE KNOW A WAY TO TRY TO RECOVER THESE?? ANYWHERE THEY COULD BE ON MY SD CARD, TITANIUM BACKUP, ANYWHERE?? I NEED THESE FILES AND TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THEM!

ANY help is appreciated, Thanks in advance to the community at large here -:)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
Can't you just hold the one key and call your voicemail inbox. It should be saved on there.

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[General Topics] d1eharddan:
title says it all
[General Topics] freakzone:
Hi, I usually go to the relevant section, sort the themes by views - upper right click views just above the first thread, download the 3-4 most popular and see which works for me. It gets more complicated if none of them does :D
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] gunnermike:
This is mostly for themers. Ever start working on a theme and say "what the heck is the name of the png for the notification menu" or something like that? Well i have. The guys on irc told me once or twice and my mind being the steel trap it is....i forgot. I bet im not alone.

I will do my best to keep this thread updated. If you need to know the name of an icon or xml to edit, ask and when its answered i will update the appropriate post.

Many of these answers will be in other places. I will try and include the op in that case. I just thought it would be useful to have everything in one place instead of having to sift through hundreds of posts.

Post 1: png's

I will try to include screen shots so we are all clear what is being refered to.

Post 2: useful xml edits such as text color.

Post 3: not sure

Post 4: not sure

This is not a how to post. Nitsuj17 is already making one of those.

This will have to be a community effort. I have no idea what the name of "that" icon is.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] gunnermike:
notification pull down: status_bar_background.9