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[Nexus S 4G Android Development] derekwilkinson:
Having it on never will improve battery life when you have weak cell signal and strong wifi signal.

the nexus s doesn't have an end button :p
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Davidsr1127:
LOL! Well I'm assuming it means the power button maybe...? In Spare Parts it has an option "End Button Behavior" with four different options... Well I'll put it at go to sleep and see what happens :) Thanks!!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Maximilian Mary:
https://www.facebook.com/CyanogenMod/posts/10150798610925425
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] corythug:
Thanks for the heads up.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] BlackHawkA4:
Anyone having random reboots? I didn't try with the stock kernel really. I get random reboots with other kernels. Only one so far with matrix 6.5. About 7 with netarchy.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] TheBurgh:
I had the same problems. I went back to a different rom
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] decalex:
Here's another kernel you could try, as an alternative. I've found it to work well and has been stable for me for a few weeks.

http://www.peteralfonso.com/2011/08/download-nexus-s-263514-kernel.html
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] BlackHawkA4:
Ill give that a try. I just went back to stock and it seems fine. Miss the voodoo though.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] BlackHawkA4:
Hmm. That one started rebooting on me right away. I tried the bfs matrix this time. No weird green screen flash on wake up. Hasn't crashed once, yet.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] BlackHawkA4:
Last post for now. It's the rom. Or something messing with the rom.

Matrix stock netarchy npa. All crashing on me. Matrix bfs was the most stable for me so far. Might switch back to miui till they come out with another build.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] NYYFan325:
Go back a good couple pages and this is well documented in my post.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] fowen:
I flashed to the most recent nightly and the only problem I have is every once in a while the screen goes really dark and requires a battery pull. It is a strange dark, almost like if I soaked the phone in coffee, not like the back light turned off.

I searched the thread and saw a few people say something about it this past June but no resolution ever came.

Any idea the cause or how I can post logs for review?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Jorge330823:
totally random and off topic but I just found this. I'm totally amused. Go to settings, about phone, find android version and tap repeatedly!!!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] wild1z:
lol, that is pretty funny.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Davidsr1127:
So I was having reboots and freezes with the stock kernel that came with cyanogen so I flashed Matrix 6.5 and everything was good... Till I woke up to a bootloop... No alarm! Can't have that. Gonna have to change ROM's for now. I really like cyanogen so hopefully it gets worked out!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] GeezyAF:
That's been around for awhile, lol.

You can also do mod version.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] GeezyAF:
When that happens, is it bootlooping on animation?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Jorge330823:
I know but its still amusing
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] derekwilkinson:
what happens?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] darxiiide:
Lmfao wow that's awesome. I have been running cm7 since my HTC hero and never knew about that... thank you so much, that really made me laugh

NS4G CM7 Nightlies KE5 Matr1x 6.0cfs
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] 2wheeler:
Ahh Easter Eggs.

IMO the Team Douche graphic is trumped by Jack Larson's Zombie Art.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] xly15:
I am currently using the rc1 of cm7 and was wondering if I should try the most recent nightly. I currently have the netarchy kernel installed along with the radio file from the 2.3.5 update installed. Is it worth it for me to try and move over to a nightly build?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Jorge330823:
Its an Easter egg.just a picture of zombie gingy and andy
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] infernosoft:
I would like to know this as well!
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] rougegoat:
For both of you asking about whether its worth it, here's my advice. Do a full backup, full wipe, and try it out. If it turns it to not have been worth it, then just flash back to your backup.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] blacknet101:
Battery Dies fast!!!!

I've noticed a huge battery drain when using this ROM. I haven't flashed a Kernel yet or anything and in less than an hour i lose more than 15%

I was using the Oxygen ROM before i switched to CM7 and battery was great with that ROM.

Any suggestions or explanation on why I'm having a lot of battery drain with CM7

Personally i love CM7 and i will use this as my everyday ROM but if it's draining my battery then i might as well go back to Oxygen.

I appreciate any help i can get.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] fowen:
Nope, it does it randomly when I have been using the device. I have not seen it on boot and I have not had it bootloop.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] derekwilkinson:
wipe battery stats after a complete charge after flashing a new rom
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Anyone know what's the deal with the nightly updates? I heard about something getting hacked but did anyone else here anything more?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] derekwilkinson:
yeah they got hacked just follow them on twitter and they will give updates. they haven't really said much so far...
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Do you know there twitter name??
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] blacknet101:
kk thanks I will try that once I have a full battery! hopefully it works

I did flash a kernel this time
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] blacknet101:
kk thanks I will try that once I have a full battery! hopefully it works

I did flash a kernel this time

Sent from my Nexus S 4G - xda premium
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] derekwilkinson:
@CyanogenMod

lol

:p
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] blacknet101:
OK so I did what u said n left the phone off the charger at night. it dropped from 86% to 65% in 5 1/2 hrs. I didn'tt use of course, it was just sitting there

so is that good? or is there something better?

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] zeeraf:
i havent seen anything on twitter but i was busy this weekend is 95 the latest nightly ???
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] decalex:
I dont remember if this is still an issue, but u could check the 'time without signal' (tws) by going to Settings, about phone, battery usage, cell standby, and check if that percentage is high. (mine is 1%, which is good.. Today at least)

When I'm in areas with low signal, battery drain seems to be way higher. If that is the case, you could always try putting it in airplane mode overnight to see if that's really the cause.

. . NS4G . . CM7 . .
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Lol duhh haha :D
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] Esteway.619:
Yes it is.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] blacknet101:
ok i checked and right now its at 16%

but what is high is the Display which is at 51%, but that's normal isn't it?
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] MrDrumngun:
Display is always going to be your highest usage stat. Unless you stream Pandora for 10 hours and never once woke the phone up.
[Nexus S 4G Android Development] MrDrumngun:
I like how nightly 95 is recognized by Swype as a Nexus S 4G because I was able to get the Sprint skin when I downloaded the beta. It's so much better than the regular Swype skin.

Also does anybody know why vibrate will not work for me? Even On RC1 it did not work. I have the latest Matrix Kernel FWIW.
[General Topics] satifhasan:
I want to create widget for SPB Mobile Shell 3.x.x. i have created a Battery widget BMP file with Mask. but when i ever i try to put it on my PDA it shows nothing but a blank box. i put it on qa_battery_now.dat file, with index file in it. what i am doing wrong i dont know, can any one tell me complete method for creating custom widgets?
[Galaxy S II General] davey.tran:
Ok i just plugged into Kies and got the notification for

PDA: KE7 / PHONE: KE4 / CSC: KD1 (XEU)

Does everyone have this update?

And has anyone figured out what this update fixes or adds?

Just so all the people who aren't sure what they getting or, potentially, losing have a better idea.

Also any ideas why the big skip in numbers between KE2 - KE7
[Galaxy S II General] leedavis:
Hmm, not showing up for me.
[Galaxy S II General] p3t0r:
I got my notification:

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[Galaxy S II General] cmd512:
Odin odin odin odin!!!!

Where Intratech at... :D
[Galaxy S II General] jimbiye:
Odd... I am running the update right now while typing this...

You got the latest Kies intalled?
[Galaxy S II General] leedavis:
Possibly not and have to wait for my wife to stop playing Solitaire a minute before I can check. I'm pretty new to Android and Samsung. There definitely isn't a Kies for Mac is there? I can't find one
[Galaxy S II General] otacon888:
There is a Mac version on the following Samsung page.

http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/d...500BAAXEU&prd_mdl_name=GT-S8500&srchword=Wave

I don't know if it will work with the GS2.
[Galaxy S II General] kcaz:
It isn't working for me yet. Says I have the latest firmware version with KE2.

It is probably because my product code is FOP. Is there anyone without the XEU sales code getting the update with Kies yet?
[Galaxy S II General] BlueScreenJunky:
And now, as with every update in the months/years to come, I'll install it hoping it fixes the banding issues on my screen, while audiophiles install it hoping it will improve sound quality...

And we'll probably see no difference at all :D
[Galaxy S II General] leedavis:
Thanks. Tried it, but says SGS2 is not supported :(
[Galaxy S II General] Jeshter2000:
is there a way to hack kies?
[Galaxy S II General] mathieulh:
got KE7 through kies here.
[Galaxy S II General] Jeshter2000:
Here in holland not yet !
[Galaxy S II General] free-sidux:
Anyone can confirm no update for Germany?

I'm too lazy to boot Windows, which is sooooo last century.
[Galaxy S II General] otacon888:
Did you try rooting?
[Galaxy S II General] superutp:
I have got it too...Am on a rooted KE 1 UK GS2 from CPW...

will update once I get back from work...

any idea on the changes in this edition?
[Galaxy S II General] m00moo:
no sorry we're to lazy to help you and talk to you
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
Downloading now, UK XEU.

Hoping it fixes the Orange startup force close thing, will try shortly.

Edit: Yep, its fixed :-)
[Galaxy S II General] mathieulh:
Not yet but there is no reason for it not to work.
[Galaxy S II General] otacon888:
I managed to root but I can't seem to flash back the stock KE7 back. Odin gets stuck.
[Galaxy S II General] paranoid2007:
Where the hell did you get the KE7 files for Odin?
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
The development section.
[Galaxy S II General] poluks:
Aaaah si seulement ça pouvait être le cas ! Mais tu as probablement raison ! **** lol
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
Faut parler anglais ici ^^/You have to speak english here :).

But that's the problem : we're never sure what the update contains.
[Galaxy S II General] otacon888:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
[Galaxy S II General] poluks:
If this update could solve the editing text problem in the browser, it would be great : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079082
[Galaxy S II General] nickbarbs:
Excellent. Upgrading also
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
Try Opera. It's completely fixed all my browser issues :)
[Galaxy S II General] aciidius:
changelog , anyone?

Sent from Tapatalk using sgs2
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
LMAO!!!!! :D
[Galaxy S II General] aciidius:
I fail to see the humorous point. Maybe because I'm tipsy.

Sent from Tapatalk using sgs2
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
Samsung never releases their changelog.
[Galaxy S II General] hasan_abeer:
hi my s2 rooted and i have kdd firmware do i can update via kies please help???
[Galaxy S II General] a67543210:
Just had the same notification this morning. Upgrading right now.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Sorry, as pointed out it's been a mystery for a while now when it comes to firmware change logs from Sammyson.
[Galaxy S II General] aciidius:
Three hip hip hoorays for restricted development.

Sent from Tapatalk using sgs2
[Galaxy S II General] Quasar83:
Is this upgrade also available for Nordic countries?
[Galaxy S II General] Café King:
Not for me atm... Denmark here...

/CK
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Not yet, only XEU devices at present.
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
im upgrading now! UK, got the phone from Phones4u :)
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
Not yet here in Norge. But someone in Finland posted on the other thread that he got it via Kies:

Shouldn't be too long for the rest of us.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
He probably has an XEU device or flashed his device with an XEU firmware which changed the product code.
[Galaxy S II General] Moandal:
No update for O2 phones yet it would seem. Is this is another non-wipe update?
[Galaxy S II General] razorx123:
Im new to this.. I rooted my galaxy s2 some days ago.

Is it safe to do the update ? Or do i need to change anything?
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Should be unless you did something crazy with the phone whist getting high in New Amsterdam. :p
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
I just received my SG2 yesterday from the UK market and it came with KDD and when i connected to Kies it updated to KE1.

This morning the KE7 is available for me in Kies but the download is very slow and i'm getting check errors in the process so i canceled the update.

{}s

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
what errors? run KIES as administrator and u will have no problems :)
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
with KE7, i recorded a min video on FHD, transferred few files with kies air, and poked around a bit. Battery is still 100%, before it would always drop at least 1 % hopefully the battery is good now :)

ps: audio quality is still not good 16KHz
[Galaxy S II General] davey.tran:
Use the ODIN method. since you can download separately. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
[Galaxy S II General] Raspster:
If you are already rooted, will this update kill your root?
[Galaxy S II General] aciidius:
Scandic here using xeu. Didnt lose localization.

Sent from Tapatalk using sgs2
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
Scandic keyboard?
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Present! :D
[Galaxy S II General] a67543210:
Downloaded from:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278

1)Upgraded with Odin as instructed on that page,

2)Rooted and reinstalled original kernel as instructed.

SWEET
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
Battery life doesn't seem improved to me. It seems even worse. It drained 20% in 30 min, I didn't do anything special, not even gaming. Only wifi.
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
Popup an "error in download files" when downloading the rom with the options of restart or cancel.
[Galaxy S II General] danmc17:
Just updated to this. The phone seems a little speedier!

Hopefully the battery retains it's longevity like it did on the original firmware unlike the darn ke2 that was simply horrible
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
Nice... Doing it right now.

Edit: DONE. It's nicely in KE7 now.

Thanks.

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] CandyAndy:
Not sure which one I had..KE2 was previously but don't know what is the difference between XEU and rest :rolleyes:

But for me Kies updated already.

This far epic batterylife. I went running for an hour, listening music thourgh bt-headset and tracking my run with gps all the time. Now since 100% phone has been without charge for 3 hours and still 90% even thou the run period with constant use. :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] comebackqueen101:
waaah (wail) ...i bought an o2 pay and go phone-no update available yet for me? Other o2 people experiencing this?
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Did you flash any rom ???

jje
[Galaxy S II General] Mafiatounes:
Was your GSII with the XEN firmware? How did you do the update via Kies or via Odin? I'm from Belgium to still running on KE2 no updates via Kies..
[Galaxy S II General] mchimney:
How do you know if you have the XEU, or qualified firmware?
[Galaxy S II General] Mafiatounes:
By pluggin your phone with usb to your pc and looking in kies wat firmware it says..
[Galaxy S II General] ice_coffee:
I updated via kies today

my phone was an original off contract from phones 4U

I was on KE2

I was rooted

I went on kies and was offered the update, it worked fine first time but has removed root, so I will have to re-root

the upgrade has repaired the stock music player (I DON'T MEAN THE MUSIC HUB) so I once again have buttons at the top of the screen that allow me to browse my music by album/artist etc
[Galaxy S II General] davey.tran:
nice I think you're the first to point that out.

Good work
[Galaxy S II General] bogdan1234:
Having the XEN firmware and kies shows I'm running the latest firmware (KE2). Probably KE7 will be available for us preety soon (hopefully).
[Galaxy S II General] Raspster:
Tell you what, I don't care what the android OS is telling me as far as batt use. The KE7 is giving me better battery than the previous ROM hands down. I have not used my phone much today but I was on 70% 4 hours ago and just picked it up now and I am @ 69% batt. Now bad at idle for over 4 hours! And I have a good deal running in the background. beautiful widgets & live BW wallpaper, facebook, twitter, launcher pro and that's to say a few...
[Galaxy S II General] bogdan1234:
That's wonderful news. It seems like Samsung did a great job with releasing KE7.
[Galaxy S II General] lgkahn:
Not me 5 hours went from 100 to 85
[Galaxy S II General] shorty083:
4.5 hours for me on idle, with twitter/gmail/weather syncing in the background and still at 100%.

Although idle time on ke2 was good for me also, the problem on ke2 was actually using the phone, made the battery drop like crazy.
[Galaxy S II General] davey.tran:
+1

The moment of would turn on the screen and do something, the battery graph would start to plummet I think it'd the screen even though its on least

Brightness
[Galaxy S II General] ammcfc:
Definitely better battery life with KE7! Cheers :)
[Galaxy S II General] Bart1981:
Definately worse battery life on KE7....

Did you guys do a hard reset after upgrading?
[Galaxy S II General] rdy2go:
hard to judge after one day
[Galaxy S II General] umaradam:
I'm a mac user and after much effort the only way to successfully use Kies on a Mac that I have found is with a windows installation via boot camp.

The newer version might work in a virtual machine, although i havent tried it yet. The previous one didn't though. I just updated to latest firmware. If you are not getting updates from kies its probably worth flashing to a stock rom using Odin and carrying on from there with kies, much better!
[Galaxy S II General] XdaPete:
I just upgraded to KE7, I too have had poor battery life due to 'Android System'.

Running the "Android System Info" app in Tasks I noticed the new top task using 30-40% CPU time constantly was "com.sec.android.widgetapp.apnews". I think that this is linked to the AP Mobile widget which I removed after I first received the phone but a service still runs.

To fix I added the widget back (this stopped it using the CPU after a refresh), went into settings and set 'Automatic refresh' to None then removed the widget again. This service seems to run regardless if it is used and the refresh setting seems to be kept even after restarting the phone.

Too early for me to know if KE7 has fixed things but the phone definitely seems even more lively if that is possible!

This is my first post to the xda I hope this is helpful. Great forum - I have been getting the best tips from you all - Thank you :-)
[Galaxy S II General] XDA mark:
Wow am i the only one going crazy from all the 'its good' and 'its bad' comments about battery life. How is it possible that there is such A HUGE difference between everybody's battery life?

I am starting to think that we all see 'good' battery life different, so some people say 'I have good battery life' while the one yelling 'My battery life sucks' has the same battery life.. Only for him, its not enough.

Seriously. Isnt it weird that somehow there would be such huge differences in people using the same device AND the same firmware?..
[Galaxy S II General] jerome.d:
The battery life for me seems much worse than in KE2: after booting this morning, I launched "connectbot" which ran for ~10' in the background (not sending much data: I simply launched, through connecbot, a backup process between two distant servers), and 30' after booting I dropped from 100% to 96%.

The main usage was the display (~35%), whereas during these 30' it was off...

Adding to the fact that KE7 didn't get rid of those annoying sounds (when the camera takes a picture, when I plug the usb charger or when the battery reaches full charge), I am strongly considering flashing back to KE2, which seems at least to save much battery.
[Galaxy S II General] mb:
Definitely worse for me too. Down around 8% overnight, when usually it's just 1-2%. Android OS usage is also up to 60% from 40%.

I'll see if it settles. Don't really want to do a factory reset.

I realised only when I did this update yesterday that I'd had XWKDD_insecure.tar running as the kernel, not the stock one.
[Galaxy S II General] nadrift:
Has anyone else experienced problems with bluetooth since the k7 update? The bluetooth media volume adjuster does not work for me anymore.

Solved with hard boot
[Galaxy S II General] scottishlad80:
How is your Android OS usage so high mine is only 14% and on KE2 was around 27%
[Galaxy S II General] ronj1986:
My battery usage was high also after the update. I let the battery run completely dead"SHUTDOWN". Then I charged it. I have been on battery for 5.5 hours and still @ 100%. I disable data connection when not in use, and use the task manager to kill apps. Thats the only battery saving steps I take.
[Galaxy S II General] harshwinter:
I have expierienced the following:

"Android OS" dropped down to ~10%, while "Android System" now uses up to 30% ... What the hell?

I have the feeling that the battery life got worse. Maybe it gets better after a complete recharge from 0 - 100. I will see. In addition I have expierenced some issues with the automatic backlight again.
[Galaxy S II General] Kemetyl:
For me idle battery usage greatly improved with XE7, but only after freezing "WIFI sharing manager" and "WIFI sharing". I've also applied the FastDormancy fix by uskr earlier. Current battery level is at 67% after 24h light usage, only 2-3% lost during sleep.

When I have WIFI turned on battery gets drained really fast, which kinda sucks. But it's been doing that with all firmwares so far unfortunately..
[Galaxy S II General] aehmkei:
Same here: 3G, no noticeable draining, WiFi on -> goodbye battery
[Galaxy S II General] iznee:
After using the latest frimware..i noticed the screen brightness control is really laggy,when selecting automatic brightness control. When i go out from indoor to outdoor it takes about 2 seconds before the screen goes to proper brightness level. Did not have this issue previously. Anyone else having this?
[Galaxy S II General] mb:
I have absolutely no idea. I use Tasker and the National Rail apps, but apart from that, it's pretty much stock.
[Galaxy S II General] scottishlad80:
It is a strange one, even with mine being so low battery use is still heavy but I am on facebook and twitter alot.
[Galaxy S II General] Funk2641:
No SIM inserted in mine, it's been 16 hours and 16 min and the battery is 92%. Wi-Fi on.
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
Wifi kills my battery also but on idle it only uses 3% in 8 hours, i have a dir655 router and think it is the problem
[Galaxy S II General] jerome.d:
Yes, exactly the same behaviour with mine. I assume Samsung did this to avoid too many jumps in screen brightness (to avoid adjustments whereas the ambient light is changing very little), but I find this lag too long.