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[Thunderbolt General] HorsexD:
My Battery Feels Like it was dying too fast on Bamf 1.5 Undervoleted Overclocked to 1.4 on smart ass Governor. Im gonna try on Demand to see if it helps. On Another Note, For some reason im always Seeing Data being sent somwhere and idk why. I Have only Mobile Network turned on and background data off and auto synce off. Tried turning on and off Airplane mode but that didnt do anything. Once in a while I see one of my Arrows near 3g Light up....huh weird..
[Thunderbolt General] KarbonKopy:
Same problem here. Bone stock and the battery is tearing itself apart. Phone feels very warm to the touch at times, and reboot only solves the problem for a bit. Losing large %'s (10+) between reboots.
[Thunderbolt General] sky high:
Yes I've also had this problem. I lost 60% of my battery in less than 2 hours with it just sitting in my pocket and it got very warm.
[Thunderbolt General] RogerPodacter:
just crazy, i dont even know where you could start with this issue. its the android system that is using all the cpu cycles, so who knows how to troubleshoot that one. current widget shows way too high.

hard reset and start over? try custom ROM?
[Thunderbolt General] cowisland:
same issue on stock, a daily reboot helps

I am running all stock and every two or three days the heavy drain occurs as everybody else has been describing: the phone gets warm and drains about 50% of the battery every 2 to 3 hours. According to a task manage CPU activity is close to nill and there is no traffic, etc. when the draining is on. Rebooting the phone stops the crazy drain. This is clearly some low-level bug in the radio or the like.

Here is something that has helped me at least: a daily reboot. I have been rebooting the phone each morning for the last couple of weeks, and this drain bug has only happened once since then, which is definitely an improvement.

I hope they fix this soon -- this is a pretty major problem! Typically by the time I notice the drain is on, half the battery is already gone...
[Thunderbolt General] Diversion:
Had same problem on Bamf 1.5.. After flashing 1.6 i'm seeing unbelievable battery longevity.. My phone literally stayed at 100% for 1 hour before dropping to 99.. I'm happy again! :P
[Thunderbolt General] yumms:
Download 'Android Status' from the market. Check the kernal cpu usage..is over 50%?

I froze some services with Antek Manager, and the kernal cpu usage never went down. After unfreezing them now the usage is less than 5%.
[Thunderbolt General] baffula:
I can unplug my phone right after it finishes charging and within seconds it is down to 97%. I come from an OG droid, and it took a few updates and ROM updates to get it to where it was awesome.
[Thunderbolt General] AndroidGraphix:
I had the same problem this afternoon. I'll post a log file from current widget. I encourage others to do the same.

Sent from Verizon in Phoenix, AZ, running a rooted Thunderbolt, with Lightning Rom v3.3.1 / Adrynalyne 4.4.3
[Thunderbolt General] AndroidGraphix:
How does this look so far?

Sent from Verizon in Phoenix, AZ, running a rooted Thunderbolt, with Lightning Rom v3.3.1 / Adrynalyne 4.4.3
[Thunderbolt General] Trumps:
I was having this issue as well, even with BAMF.

When I switched to CM7, and the 1.16.00.0402w_1 baseband and disabled LTE, the stock battery lasts all day with moderate use.

Before I'd notice my pocket getting warm, I'd look at running processes, and find nothing chewing up the CPU. I suspect there are conditions in LTE service areas that cause the radio to freak out.
[Thunderbolt General] ddarvish:
I started on a full charge today using the stock battery... BATTERY ALMOST DEAD!!! ****ing ****ty phone
[Thunderbolt General] AndroidGraphix:
4g makes my battery HOT

You're not the only one. I think we can all agree, running on 4glte gets our phones cooking. Mine easily averages 105 degrees while on 4g and moderate use. It gets more hot when running navigation.
[Thunderbolt General] ska.t73:
From the looks of that screen shot it is because you have almost no coverage... On CDMA phones crappy signal will drain the battery fast because the phones are programmed to find the best signal. When you signal is that bad it will be looking forever and draining your battery.
[Thunderbolt General] ddarvish:
I had no signal at the moment I took that image but most the time I'm sitting in too coverage. The Droid would go all day without dying. I also have days are my thunder bolt. Goes 6 hours but never longer than that

i would like to also add that current widget shows BRIEF periods of 40mA stanby and then spikes in the 400 mA for longer periods of time.. something weird is happening for sure
[Thunderbolt General] ddarvish:
Here is a quick update to my post from yesterday. Today i seem to be doing a lot better than yesterday but it still freaking sucks. at this rate i will have a dead phone in about 6-7 hours.
[Thunderbolt General] iRepairWorks.com:
I am getting about 6 hours on my Thunderbolt, I think that's the average you can expect. With heavy 4G usage, I get about 4hrs.
[Thunderbolt General] ddarvish:
right. i was just comparing yesterday where i had SEVERE battery drain compared to today where it isnt as bad. though 6-7 hrs is stupid as hell. i hope they fix the power consumption of this phone. i cant understand why 4G drains the battery so much. it is SUPPOSED to be a more efficient than 3G in terms of power use and is running at 700MHz which means there should be better building penetration thus providing a better signal. I am extremely annoyed by this.

i also noticed the ambient light sensor SUCKS. it is either TOO bright for a dark room or too dim for use outside in the sun!
[Thunderbolt General] dbisch:
I've been experiencing the random battery drain today. I had a 15 drive to work on a full battery. After a half hour of being at work my battery was down to 90%. I have the extended battery, BTW. When I reboot my phone there's at least a 8-10% difference. It's so goddamn annoying. I'm almost tempted to return the phone.
[Thunderbolt General] sprodigy:
Anybody have luck with Juice Defender? I used it last night/today and it says i saved 1.7x of my battery life. Maybe i'm just paranoid but after I disabled it I felt like my battery was getting BETTER life.

Does disabling/activating the data drain more battery than just keeping it on? That's the hallmark function of Juice Defender.

I am running Adrynalyne Kernel 4.3a with stock rooted rom.
[Thunderbolt General] dbisch:
I would think that constantly disabling/enabling data would drain the battery faster. I stopped using that app a long time again just because of the annoyance with waiting for data to kick in everytime I unlocked the phone.
[Thunderbolt General] ttran97:
I'm getting severe battery drain today, too. This happened last time right before the big 4G network died. I'm pretty sure the 4G network is somehow responsible for the massive drains. On a regular day, I can go the whole day just fine, but now my battery is dropping insanely fast. No weird background services or anything. My temporary solution is to disable 4G via the LTE on/off app. Sucks...
[Thunderbolt General] erishasnobattery:
Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in on this. I'm a developer (not ROMS, apps) so my phone is hooked into Eclipse for debugging most of the day.

There are a couple things I have noticed that really throw up a red flag for me. (Coincidentally, they are also Error messages in the DDMS and display in Red. :) )

The following appears at about 2 second intervals regardless of connection type (3G/4G) with good signal. CDMA is set to eHRPD, although I doubt that plays any part of this.

05-04 16:01:40.928: DEBUG/DATA(1715): [QCTMM] DataNetStatistics sent == 0 && received == 0 newActivity=NONE
05-04 16:01:40.928: DEBUG/DATA(1715): sentSinceLastRecv=1,watchdogTrigger=10,maxindex=1
05-04 16:01:41.933: ERROR/TrafficStats(1587): [QCTMM]tryAll index=1
05-04 16:01:41.933: ERROR/TrafficStats(1587): [QCTMM]tryAll index=2
05-04 16:01:41.933: ERROR/TrafficStats(1587): [QCTMM]tryAll index=1
05-04 16:01:41.933: ERROR/TrafficStats(1587): [QCTMM]tryAll index=2
05-04 16:01:41.938: DEBUG/DATA(1715): [QCTMM] DataNetStatistics sent == 0 && received == 0 newActivity=NONE
05-04 16:01:41.938: DEBUG/DATA(1715): sentSinceLastRecv=1,watchdogTrigger=10,maxindex=1
05-04 16:01:42.508: DEBUG/StatusBarPolicy(1587): onSignalStrengthsChanged
05-04 16:01:42.538: DEBUG/BluetoothHandsfree(1715): cdma iconLevel: 4

This happens literally all day every day. To coincide with this, the data icon flashes on about every 10th occurrence of this. This will occasionally settle down, for a few minutes, then pick back up again.

I assume this is some sort of "check-in" on the network, but I am almost 100% sure it's not good for the battery to make all those data calls.

Also worth noting, the code below repeats every 500ms or so.

05-04 16:13:50.668: DEBUG/StatusBarPolicy(1587): onSignalStrengthsChanged
05-04 16:13:50.688: DEBUG/BluetoothHandsfree(1715): cdma iconLevel: 4

I know it's simply updating the status bar, but seriously, checking the signal every 1/2 second seems a little excessive.

In any case, I'm no expert in such matters, but for what it's worth, If I wrote an app that loaded an icon every 500ms, I'd have some unhappy customers. :)
[Thunderbolt General] CJNYC:
By the lean kernel, do you mean battsaver? Thanks
[Thunderbolt General] Makaveli1490:
If my battery keep draining I'm going back to kernel 4.4.2, im on 3 right now with 1.6 remix
[Thunderbolt General] ttran97:
I found that if I flash a new kernel, it stops the severe drain. I went from 4.4.2 to one of the other ones...and today, I switched to 4.4.3 about an hour ago and that stopped the battery hemorrhaging.
[Thunderbolt General] Makaveli1490:
Lol and I just went back and it stopped
[Thunderbolt General] ddarvish:
you might be onto something. i too notice that every so often my phone is sending data (arrows light up) and then stops. i cant imagine why something keeps communicating with my phone so often. i wish there was someone w/ more insight that could figure this all out.

as for now ill try another kernel and see what happens.
[Thunderbolt General] andydumi:
I thought someone said eHRPD has been down since the outage. Coincidentally that's when mine has started having the severe battery drain.

So I wonder if the phone tries to check in to a non existent signal, so it does it continuously.

Before the outage I could easily go a whole day and have 30-40% left, since then, I get a half day at best.

Oh and I am on 1x now, so no 4G or 4G at all.
[Thunderbolt General] HorsexD:
Yep. Evreytime I unlock My phone It has arrows lighting up and I have all BG Data Turned off and Evreything. Only Mobile Network on and No apps auto Update.
[Thunderbolt General] sprodigy:
Yesterday I noticed a severe drain on my battery (about 20% in less than an hour), and I noticed I lost all voice connection in a place that is normally full coverage. I'm in a 3G only area. Should I update the RUU to help my antenna out? :confused:
[Thunderbolt General] erishasnobattery:
To follow up to my previous post, I've tested again with eHRPD disabled and see the same results. If I remember correctly, the LTE network requires authentication, which I assume is the data calls I'm seeing.

It would seem anytime the signal weakens/drops it starts making the authentication calls and then stops when it locks. I never see the 4G icon drop, but in the logcat output, you can definitely correlate signal changes with the random data requests.

Also, setting the phone to CDMA (Auto) gets rid of these data requests completely and drastically reduces battery consumption, but I think we all knew that already. Seems to me, that until Big Red or one of the devs around can figure out a way to keep this thing authenticated for longer than 2-3 minutes at a time, we're going to keep experiencing these problems with 4G.
[Thunderbolt General] BennyJr:
I love juice defender. it works great. Yea u gotta wait maybe 30 seconds for the data to kick in but if u want it instantly it has an option to turn it on in the notification bar. I would suggest it. No if anything disabling/activating wifi may cause more battery drain but it is very slight. I can use my phone all day with sync every 1 hr and have great battery life. I really do love the app. If u have any questions about it feel free to pm me
[Thunderbolt General] SirVilhelm:
I agree with you completely. The problem with our battery drain is the 4g chip so I have it disabled while my screen is off (every 15 minutes it gets enabled so gapps can update) but will keep wifi on if I am connected or at home. With this config I am @ 7 hours unplugged and @ 54% battery left. This is with phone calls and playing 15minutes of death worm :)

Still not as good as what my D1 had but much better than out of the box stock.
[Thunderbolt General] sfctac:
Does your phone sleep?

I had severe drain a few days ago. I noticed that the phone wasn't sleeping i.e. awake time kept counting regardless of screen being on or off. I rebooted the phone and left it charging overnight and since then the phone can go through entire day (16 hours) without charging. It is currently showing

48 hours uptime

8 hours awake time

16 hours since unplugged.

voice calls 78 minutes

display 2 hours

That's about 4 hours/day of phone being active and 20% of battery remaining at the end of the day. I am on wifi most of the time, stock install, sync and background data are on.

I am going to try to find activity that caused severe drain a few days ago.
[Thunderbolt General] SirVilhelm:
If you are on wifi most of the time it makes sense why your battery is doing well. I think the general census is that it's the 4G chip that is the battery hog. Has anyone just ran strictly on 3G and seen what that does to your battery?
[Thunderbolt General] andydumi:
I tried this for a couple of days. We are in a strong 4G area.

It ended up that I used up about the same amount of battery, if not more. I think what is killing battery is the constant 3G/4G switching when you are in a weak 4G area. But in a solid 4G area, its no problem. This past week with all the 4G outages and weakness, I have experienced the worst battery life since I got the phone, mainly because 4G went in and out every 10 minutes it seems.
[Thunderbolt General] sfctac:
Wifi is not the answer to this. I disabled wifi for a few days and had similar performance running on 4g. However today on wifi I am seeing a severe battery drain again. It has been less than 3 hours since I unplugged by phone and half of charge is already gone. The phone is warm to the touch. I suspect this has something to do with me using navigation yesterday. The phone gets very hot when using navigation with verizon car dock and verizon charger. Looks like I am going to have to do the airplane toggle.
[Thunderbolt General] creccaj1:
What would be the average mA drain for the battery. Because ever since I flashed a new radio (New CDMA Old LTE variant due to reboots on all new radio) running Perfect Storm 1.4 and BattSaver Kernal on smartass I found that idle was about 38mA but when something was running like Handcent it was anywhere between 160-180. Never saw it go higher than that.
[Thunderbolt General] sfctac:
How do you measure current battery drain?
[Thunderbolt General] Forgetfull:
Download current widget.
[Thunderbolt General] darkrom:
Use the battery sipper kernel. It's the only kernel worth using imo. I get over 30 hours of actual heavy use with the extended battery. No other kernel lasts a day. It's truly miraculous to me.
[Thunderbolt General] sfctac:
Current widget shows 130mA on Wifi and 44 mA on 4G on my stock phone.

These values are meaningless. The phone doesn't last 2x on 4g vs wifi.

As for the sipper kernel I'll wait for it to be out of the beta. First of all I need the phone to be stable. Unless I run into this strange power drain condition it lasts me a day on regular battery, granted I am not using it heavily. The occasional power drain can be quickly detected by how warm the phone gets and can be alleviated with manual reboot.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameel:
Hi, I have a developer unlocked phone. Telstra Australia has only released 7008 update and not the NoDo yet. Shouldn't I still receive the update since I have a developer unlocked phone? Any idea?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oscardog777:
You could try debranding your phone.

With a registry editor, go to HKLM\system\platform\devicetagetinginfo\mobileoperator\ and then clear out the string.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angush:
Hey can anybody help me out, I managed to brick my screen when downgrading my desire, to fix it it looks like I need to turn usb debugging on, i've read loads of sites telling me what to press to turn it on but it doesnt seem to work, how do I know if its on? :confused:

Is there an update.zip I could apply to turn it on?

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGhost1233:
Just look for droidzone's guide on how to fix slcd brickes. Don't think you need adb.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] le_pere_noel:
hello,

I just get my xoom and i would like to be able to read video file from my Pc (windows). I don't want a stream software (like orb) I would like to read with moboplayer or another one. I try to use es explorer to access file on the computer but when I launch the video but player as to copy everything before. I try to use cfis manager but it is not working with tiamat 1.3.2.

So if someone get a solution it would be perfect :)

thks
[Xoom Themes and Apps] myv6mustang:
hmmm...did you load the cifs prior to using conf manager? THat's what i use and it works great. ONly option out there unless you encode your videos for streaming.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] wwallace55:
I play movies from a pc drive by mounting the drive on the xoom.

Here is a guide I wrote up to get it working.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036316
[Xoom Themes and Apps] i_am_the_one:
i use tversity. Prettygoood post here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1039808
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Two things that may simplify the process for you.

Look for an app like Twonkey that will allow UPNP streams. They are NOT converted so the file will need to be a playable file format on the Xoom for it to work. As a bonus Twonkey will allow you to stream video from the Xoom to your PC or UPNP/DLNA capable TV.

Wait for Plex to release their update for the Xoom. This is VERY close to completion, but I can not give you any exact details. Plex makes Orb look like a steaming pile of you know what, with regard to browsing your media library and the quality of the transcoding. As a few lingering bugs get worked out it will also allow for native streaming of the file with no transcode if bandwidth allows.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] stinkyjoe:
Yeah so when is plex coming out for xoom? I've been waiting for it since february! patiently, no less! as it is i'm using skifta as a dlna client, but the image is wonky and it doesn't work nearly as well as plex does on my iphone.

You could just, you know, send me the plex beta apk? I already bought it for android. thanks?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jhychin:
I use Ubuntu at home and here is my setup. You can certainly modify it for a Windows box.

I use Coherence as a UPNP server on ly computer. Youcan use Tversity on Windows for a similar service.

On my Xoom, I run an app call UPNP Play, which will find all UPNP severs on your wifi network. I choose the file I want, and play it via Rockplayer.

So far I haven't had any problems. No need for transcoding at all. Most files I tried have worked beautifully. But I haven't tried a h.264 file yet.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] a042349:
Playon has a beta MyMedia function that converts and streams and works pretty well on my Zoom to watch my .avi and mkv files. Not free but it works pretty well and gives you Netflix too.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] KerryG:
PlayOn is my top favorite since I can watch shows from Hulu on it

Skifta is my second choice because I use it to stream all other types of contents from my primary media server - http://vortexbox.org
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Well we are working on the RC for public release right now. Two major bugs were found in it and are being fixed as I type this. Public release should be right around the corner.

Sorry but I cant hand out the beta apks. Hell I probably should not be telling you that its almost out. I know its been far too long and some are loosing interest, but the wait will be worth it.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] le_pere_noel:
thx for all in fact the problem was in the cifs.ko not loaded, now everything work except cfis manager that I have to load from the market (not from the app ) :/

Now i have to find a quick way to encode video (all high profile :/)
[HTC Aria General] LlamaLord:
My girlfriend has this phone and i have it rooted with clockwork on it but what i am looking for next is a good rom.
[HTC Aria General] DroidRunner:
Seriously? Just search a little bit.
[HTC Aria General] CallMeAria:
There's only a handful of rom's available for the aria. Just look around the development forum. We've got roms based on android 2.1-2.3.3.

Sent from my cm7 Aria.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flazeroth4th:
Let say im using Go sms, is it possible if I remove the original messaging app? can anyone tell me plz.. i want to remove unused app to free up space? :confused:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andddy:
not quite sure why you want to do that but ok. you could purchase system app remover off of the market. if you have rooted your phone and that will allow you to remove system apps such as the messaging apk.you could try a file manager and delete the messaging apk from the system data but i havent tried that so cannot promise you it will work.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
I would say no because of the fact the app is probably linked to the ability of all text messaging on the phone. So i wouldnt remove it even if u have a third party app.

Sent from XDA Premium from my X10a rooted running 2.2.1 CM Rom from Rendeiro2005
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andddy:
i deleted my contacts apk and used gocontacts and all was working. but sms is a different thing all together, backup and give it a shot.only way to be sure i guess
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flazeroth4th:
Yeah, was gonna remove contact as well....
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finkyfeke:
Assuming your phone is rooted (probably has to be to do what you want to do) you can use Titanium Backup.

Find Messaging, press it and select "Un-Install." If that doesn't work, long press and select "Force remove app (by recovery exploit)"

Same for anything else you want to take off.
[LG Optimus 2x] gtergy:
Hello

Now there is an OTA update avail. when i go into "Softwareupdate". But the OTA update fails to install???

The update downloads fine. But when it will install i get an error saying "Ugyldig Softwarepakke" in Danish. This is something like "Invalid softwarepack" in english.

So an official OTA update will not install on my optimus 2x.

The version on my phone (both before and after the update) is V10a.

Please see attached images.

I am on stock firmware and on the 3.dk network in Denmark.

Does anybody else have this problem?

And are there any suggestions on how to resolve the issue?
[LG Optimus 2x] eniux:
Had the same problem ended up updating by use of computer.
[LG Optimus 2x] ULJ:
As mentioned, you should try updating using LGMobile update application.
[LG Optimus 2x] gtergy:
Thanks, got it to work trough my PC as suggested. However I still think that it should work over WiFi.

(Now i have v10b - but I have not yet noticed any major differences in that from v10a. So still waiting for 2.3 like everybody else)
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
1: I have got V10a and can not update through LG‘s mobile updater as it claims my phone is running V10b which is a lie

2: I find it very stupid that you can NOT check for OTA nor download them unless you are on wifi. That's the most stupid thing ever. My HTC would do OTA over mobile data.
[LG Optimus 2x] ULJ:
1: Only solution for you is to flash the V10b firmware using nvflash. See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1032896

2. I agree with you.