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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walda:
another battery thread? omfg...

sent from my SGSII via T*patalk
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocketpaul:
god help us !
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
haven't got one, but it is supposed to be much better than that
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delitero:
You can expect for more battery but you wont get until some optimization from google and samsung...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamdestiny:
Mate 3g browsing on the sgs2 does kill that battery in 3-4 hours max.. that is actually the time scale most reviews give.. i know its a pain i hate it myself, but ull find generally using the phone ie camera, music etc gives you a longer battery. The browser rocks! but its a serious power drinker, i did discover that some sites are saying that using a 3rd party browser helps things abit e.g dolphin or opera. It has something to do wiv the gpu accelaration which enables u to do things like play 1080p videos in the stock browser and the constant smooth perfomance
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamdestiny:
oh and i found the battery does improve after a few cycles, but i think thats mainly due to the fact u tend to not be constantly playing with the phone al the time
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
Yep, 4 hours tops for me screen on usage.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LawAce:
Using Juice Defender which helps a bit..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r_a_c:
Abouth the battery...

Earlier this evening my phone was at 28%, when i picked it back up an hour later it was 31%????

I watched the battery graph and it showed a Yellow line going upwarts slitghtly., is that strange??

Afterwards i saw green going down and than up again. I will post a pic of it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
Seriously, there are 5+ battery threads already, what is so specific about your case you felt the need to start a completely new discussion on it????
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
Fully charged this morning, moderate use throughout the day, on 52% now after 16 hours. I'm happy with that.

KE7.

Sent from my £2.99 Casio digital watch.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbob_me:
Im currently on 68% battery after 15h47m off charge. Wifi on all day. Moderate use. Photos and videos taken. A few benchmarks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbob_me:
Battery now at 66%, after 20 hours and 6 minutes. Android OS running at 32% and it my largest process.

2% drop in battery over 4 hours with Android OS running at 32%... android OS bug my arse...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habs101:
I wonder what would happen if people actually used their phones for talking.

I pre ordered this and waiting shipment. I can compare with the atrix i had, that the battery life was not to shabby but it had a 1900mah battery.

You can't expect amazing battery life with this phone

4.3inch screen

AMOLED+

1.2ghz CPU.

if they made the phone a bit thicker a tiny bit they could of put a bigger battery in there but samsung wants to compete with apple on thinest phones.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
And it's more expensive so it's all about how much profit they want make and what price it's going to sell at.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demondor:
well after the ke7 fw update my battery life seems to have improved
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vassalle:
Doesn't sip too much when it's idle but mine tops out at 3.5h with screen on :(

Stock KE7, not rooted.

Must say this is the only dark spot in otherwise excellent phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kulachi543:
Well still haven't got one and that doesn't discourage me at all
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redgreenlaser:
Mine is run about 1,5-2 days, not so intensive usage.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zkyevolved:
Wow this sucks! I hate reading these threads because they discourage me a lot. I use my phone A LOT. I currently have the iphone 4, WHICH IS FANTASTIC FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT EVERYTHING DECIDED FOR THEM! I hate it. The screen is tiny and the keyboard is tiny and .... bah! I hate it! I switched back to my 9800 blackberry, and I can't believe it. My Battery lasts DAYS with VERY HEAVY TEXTING! Reading this thread, to get less than 8 hours battery life.... wow.... I'm going to re-think ordering this one :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xinneth:
I sometimes wonder why some people bother having smart phones. 20 hours and on 66% battery with 32% Android OS as biggest usage.... have you actually used the phone for anything?

I'm on 34% after 13.5 hours with 1.5 hours on display, although KE7 does feel worse on battery for me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocketpaul:
KE7 is strange in that some people say battery has improved while half say it has got worse. I personally have also had worse battery life/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bajaj_86:
Hi All,

I hope you can help me with this. I'm using KE2, within 22 minutes the battery has gone done by 4%. I used yhe phone purely on battery.

Sometimes i'm just wondering how you guys use the phone which can last that long.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ussy:
Today I managed to get 28 hours usage with 4 hours and 27 mins of screen time and 3 email accounts synchronising every hour with wi-fi constantly on. Display usage was 27% and android os was 45% at 3 hours and 50 mins. I'm on KE2 firmware and very satisfied with my new phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
+1 for ke7 having worst battery life then previous firmware.

I say this to people that want great battery life, Get a blackberry. No phone comes close to the battery life of my old(all time favorite) Crackberry bold. You have to think of the benefits/features/extra functionality of the android.

Read if you care but great battery life to me is 20-24 hrs. I cant speak for others but I can squeeze 1 1/2 days before my battery completely dies. As long as I can leave at 7-8am and get home without worrying about a charger is excellent battery life.

Seems like not alot of people have the luxury of plugging there phone overnight. Ive colleted a couple microusb chargers over the last couple years so there never far away. Now if you cant get thru a work/school day thru a single charge then you definitly have a reason to complain.

Now what might help out with my battery life:

I dont facebook/myspace(no point im getting married, would only use to talk to women plus people I need to talk to or need to contact me have my number/email/etc)

I rarely use twitter(follow some mod communities and devs)

Ive turned into a media mostly audio guy recently. I can play music, games, videos throughout the day with no problem. I find it cool I can play powamp music player from 9-5 without worrying about battery life.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaotickelly:
That is out standing! Did you accidentally charge your phone during the day??

Do you mind sharing your configuration?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zkyevolved:
Have you done the hard reset? That seems to fix a lot of people's problems.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bawezy:
Guys hard reset is required as many found out that it is the root of the problem. Your battery cycle resets and the phone reconfigures to the way it uses the battery. I've always factory reset my phone after every firmware upgrade, I'm currently getting 2 days of heavy to mid usage off my phone with the courtesy of auto brightness. 2-3 hours of battery life means your phone is either faulty or your constantly browsing with max brightness.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rantzzz:
The more I read these battery threads, the more frustrated I get

I mean, Super AMOLED+ screen, dual core processor. Ain't all these supposed to increase the battery life? Yet, the feel that I'm getting is that it's not better than the iPhone 4.

I'm sick of having to tip toe on my usage especially coming from the Omnia HD i8910 (which was an excellent phone btw, except for the battery life)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
Can't really be compared to the iPhone 4. That's got a single core processor at 1Ghz (or possible less)

It's screen is also vastly dimmer.

It's screen is also smaller (although the increase in pixels may balance this out a bit)

Not to mention the fact the iPhone 4 hasn't got TRUE multi-tasking, unlike Android. (E.G each time I switch to IM+, it has to take a fair time rebuilding my session)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rantzzz:
Hmm but the dual core processor's supposed to improve battery management by segregating different tasks to each core isn't it?

Maybe it's not an apple to apple comparison to the single core phones on the market....

Still, there seems to be many problems with the phone.. Pink spot in the camera, GPS good for some, terrible for others, sheesh... :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
Yeah, there are. But what new phone hasn't got issues. The GPS (from what I have read on forums) generally seems to fix itself after a few days of getting the phone OR by the few firmeware updates.

Not too sure about the spot on the camera, heard a few people have got this, but if it were a BIG problem I'd imagine there to be more outrage! :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ekerbuddyeker:
updated to KE7 in the hope that it would improve battery life. it didnt. still drains at approx 20% per hour. thats double my Atrix. So it can never make it through one day. I just don't get why this is acceptable to people.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stoney73:
when I first got the phone, I had decent battery life, would get through 20-24 hrs without charging.

After I updated to KE7 via Kies, battery life got decidedly poorer, more in the 8-10 hrs lifespan

. So yesterday I backed up my apps(thank you Tb), wiped cache partition, factory reset through recovery, then again through settings/privacy, and I also wiped both my internal and external memory. Then I reinstalled KE7 via Odin,rooted,etc. restored my apps. that was +-7pm yesterday, it was also at 100%charge.

It's now 2:56pm, and after using the phone normally, listened to some music(50-60 mins), checked emails, have 2 email accounts on Push notification,fb and twitter syncing every hour, made one short phone call, sent 15 texts, played some angry birds(20mins), the phone is on 57%. which I think is a result.

I deleted the hubs, AP stuff, yahoo stock,etc.

Also froze:

samsung account,

kies air/wifi,

lets try panning,

listen,

memo,

mini diary,

mini paper,

music 3.0,

photo editor,

samsung account,

samsung apps,

setup wizard,

sns 1.5,

sns disclaimer,

sns accountLi.1.0,

snsaccounts Tw+Ms,

swype,

tuneinradio,

voice command,

wifi 1.0,

wifi sharing,

wifi sharing manager,

(all stuff I had frozen/deleted on the previous installs/roms)

I think the reason the battery dipped was because the previous installs had left debris behind. I usually run custom roms on my phones, and the advice when faced with problems on custom roms is that you should make a clean install to avoid problems.

Makes sense. I'm sure some of you with battery problems have done most(or more) of what I did here, but for those of your that havent...hope it helps.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilboa1:
Yeah the battery sux I only get over 2 days out of it!

People talking of 20% per hour are OBVIOUSLY telling bs. Even running a 3d game and having stuff in the background at full brightness i can't drain 20% in ONE hour and I don't believe the "hardware differences", they're 5% not more. Wake the f. up.

For the record the black parts without screen on are obviously when I sleep.. it barely loses a couple of % per night..

All stock (nothing frozen), KE7, 2 emails with push, full google syncing, 1 weather widget refresh every other hour, chrome2phone, wifi always on (on with screen off)

Graph ended with 3h40 of android OS, 2h20 of display as top 2 .. used music player, bluetooth audio, some gps, took about 10 pictures, recorded 2 short HD videos, read/received/replied about 30 emails, 10-15 sms, one or two phone calls, surfed the web here and there. Basically what i'd call medium use. Heavy use (gaming, lot of browsing/lot of phone data i get a bit over a day)

Pretty sure it can last over 4 or 5 days with very light use (few phone call / few sms only)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sovietunion:
I was expecting more from this phone, I orignially had the galaxy s captivate and the battery life was extremely bad and now i get my phone and I get twice the battery but it about 12H, with normal usage.

People that are getting over 12h are probably not using the phone or not making any calls. There is no way of getting that much without a custom rom. So the only way to get a good battery life, is to wait for a good rom release. It should not take much time.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ekerbuddyeker:
yeah, EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG, except you. A-HO*E
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjtj4444:
Of course you can get much more than 12h, currently my phone is at 64% after 13h. Display has been on for 1h38m so not heavy usage today but far from little usage (web browsing, angry birds, MMS etc). Only 7min of phone call today though.

Is your phone warm when it is in idle? Then restart the phone, a process has hung and drains the battery pretty quickly, has happened 2-3 times for me in a week. Install "Temp+CPU v2" and add widget to home screen and check that the CPU frequency drops to 200MHz when phone has been idling a couple of seconds in the home screen. If it stays at 800-1200MHz, then restart phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red786:
My usage...

15hrs 46m on battery

Wifi always on

Display on 2hrs 10mins

Android os 1hr 15mins

Games(all together) 46mins

Voice calls 31mins (+8 texts)

Emails received/sent (1hr refresh on),

Facebook chat, uploaded pics, statuses, comments - about 20mins

Browsed (sky sports football) 18mins

Battery left 55%

KE7 updated using Kies, No factory reset
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
Wish I could get anything like the figures suggested from here.

If I did anything like the post above me, I'd be on about 20% never mind 55%. :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red786:
Sh*t man!.. I really hope yours (and everyone elses) battery life gets sorted out asap!! (I'm sure it will. Samsung look like they're working on and sending out updates pretty frequently.)

My battery life was crap at the beginning but it seemed to sort itself out eventually, I always let it drain right down to a few % then charged it back to 100%..hoping that will kinda 'open' up the battery life..not sure if that helped.

Maybe the KE7 update helped me.. But can't be too sure.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
Right...

Every GSII owner goes on about KE7 noob question but what is it?

I know it's something to do with firmware. :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] red786:
When I connected my phone to Kies (on the pc) it told me there was a new firmware available KE7something.. So I just updated it.

I'm 99% sure its the newest Firmware, version KE7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdd543:
My battery life seems quite good so far. Unplugged since 6:45 am and I'm at 63% 8 hr and 45 min later. This is with pretty steady usage of data. Only a couple calls.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilboa1:
Similar to my usage / battery life
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orangejuice1982:
Better than my Hero, but still only a day and a half. And that half day messes things up.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soraxd:
for me, I left my phone for 13 hourd, not touching, came back and it was 54% (from 100).. in,airplane mode it will lose,maybe 20% in that time
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] da_in_sd:
Does anyone have a working version of skype.apk they can post here?

Btw, i have Android 2.2 on SGT from T-mobile.

Sorry for posting in wrong category. :(
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheChampJT:
What's wrong with the market build?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] da_in_sd:
Are you using it? And is it version 1.0.0.983 like on the market? ppl say that video calls are not working.

Does anyone here have a fixed apk?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
Does the Galaxy come with a version of Swype preinstalled??

If not then it would be considered as warez and therefore should not be posted here.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xrules:
Skype. & not swype :p

Still Skype can be found at the market. & is working
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keyhell:
In some countries people cannot find Skype on the Market. I'm not 100% sure but there are probably limitations... Anyway, it is easy to workaround them using MarketEnabler.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
Hahaha ok sorry.....

Its been a long day ;) :rolleyes:

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face......
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solo13:
check this
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] da_in_sd:
Thanks solo13. I tried and it complains "skype can not determine your phone number and will now exit." :(
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] da_in_sd:
Wait. Do I have to pre-register my tab's phone number using another skype client or their website?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikes60:
will this version is sama as the market version? cus when i using my existing skype, the front camera will be freeze after a few second ... was this is because of skype compatibility issue or the Gtab software issue ? appreciate someone can help ... thanks.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rustyshack3:
Skype doesnt support video on the Galaxy tab because they claim Froyo doesnt give access to the front camera. This is BS though, because there are many other apps that do.

Try Clearsea. Works great and there is a PC client too.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blue_algae:
I totally agree with you. A hacked version of skype works well with FFC though rotation still needs to be worked on: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1153285
[General Questions and Answers] firefox3:
What phone do developers make ROMS and kernels for? I am thinking of selling my Atrix to get the phone that does get most developed on.
[General Questions and Answers] jayharper08:
I wish I had the correct info for you, but I do know the Evo has tons of development on it. Pretty much anything you can tweak or port over has been done or in progress.

Sent from "The EVO" using XDA Premium
[General Questions and Answers] I Am Marino:
I want to say the Nexus One.

Evo is definitely up there.

Incredible is starting to slow down but still has decent activity

I'm sure there's more similar.

HD2 if you want to go that route, lot of stuff with that going on.
[General Questions and Answers] SERGI.3210:
+1 for nexus one (that has sense roms also)

+1 for HD2 that has meebo, wm6.5, wp7, and android 2.1,2.2,2.3 roms)

and in the future i´m sure that the nexus S is going to be the most developed with the touchWiz 4.0 environment available for it (ported from galaxy 2)
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
The HTC Glacier (Mytouch 4G) has a TON going on in development right now. We just had some of the evo devs jump over, and they already started porting their stuff..
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 4026423:
seems like the nexus S is developed for pretty well. I'm on a G2 and there's a moderate amount of roms.
[General Questions and Answers] delusion950:
The newer version the better
[General Questions and Answers] [O_O]:
Hi Guys,

I have tried to install a CM mod on my Motorola Defy as illustrated here. The problem is that despite the phone had been rooted, I had some problems with ClockWorkMod and rebooted my phone in recovery mode using the application that ships with the phone. I did remove the Cache and Factory settings and ran the zip file.

The problem is that upon restart, the phone kept rebooting itself, that is, I kept seeing the Motorola logo for a couple of minutes, and then, the phone reboots and the process is repeated.

Now, out of the blue, the phone is not even turning on. What I have is a small white light that turns on whenever I connect the phone to a laptop via usb. Any idea on how I can get the phone working? At the moment I do not really care about what OS version, as long as it runs.

Thanks in advance :)

Edit: There seems to have been an issue with the battery, I have managed to load up the phone to recovery mode. Can anyone show me how can I install a fresh Operating System? I seem to only have access to the phone's boot up screen. Also, the laptop does not seem to be able to connect to the phone via usb.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dpdoughty:
This is the CM7 Deskclock clock/alarm app altered to contain the Honeycomb Style Font. Im still working on a few things but I thought I would toss up what I have.

Whats changed:

- Font is Honeycomb Style

- Selection color is blue

- Font size is increased to 90dp

- Screensaver clock is CM Blue
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dpdoughty:
Reserved

Reserved by OP
[T-Mobile LG G2x] dnichols4:
Screenshots?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsu_golfer:
I've downloaded Smart Taskbar as an initial attempt, but it's a little clunky (IMO).

Is there anything that's smaller and more streamlined that acts as a taskbar?

Unfortunately, my dock is covered by forum reader apps (Tapatalk/Forum Runner).
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsu_golfer:
Bump?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Evilspawn:
Hey everyone

Just wanted to know if anyone has the same issue as me. I cannot set alarm just freezes and fc and the music app same
[Samsung Infuse 4G] :
i dont have that problem.

my alarms set fine and my music player works fine.

have you tried a factory reset
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Evilspawn:
Yup that fixed it
[Samsung Infuse 4G] :
There ya go. :D
[Optimus One, P500, V General] vk2r:
Hello! I have a small question ...

I wonder if there is any way to disable hardware acceleration and the stagefright in Gingerbread to increase the battery life.

I'm trying CyanogenMod 7 - Android 2.3.4 by milk_os ... v6.5.1

Greetings!

(Sorry but my bad English ...)
[Android Apps and Games] elaware:
Hi there!

We are two developers who have been following xda for a long time,

We are happy to announce a new kind of Application on Android Market and want some suggestions and testing by xda community!

This is the App's description:

NEW FEATURE: Tiny Layout and Shake&Background, watch them on last one screenshot or directly on Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/androcallbgnf

Now You can use non-invasive Tiny Layout on TOP of your existing CallScreen Layout! Tiny Layout is not a Popup but ONLY one button!

So what are you waiting for? Try out the app and let us know your opinions!

Thanks to all will help us,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.elaware.androplus.callbackgrounder

Elaware Team.
[Android Apps and Games] zerkai:
I was hoping more along the lines of being able to press the home/back button or something to put the call in the background. I like the stock slide to answer/reject calls method.
[Android Apps and Games] αкαѕнα:
How does something like this correspond whit apps like Go Dialer ?
[Android Apps and Games] elaware:
Thanks for replying, unfortunately Android System blocks Home Button so we can't override it!

But if you want something less intrusive you can use the "Shake Detection" function that let you activate the Popup ONLY by shaking the phone during an incoming call.

Any other feedback is appreciated.

Thanks,
[Android Apps and Games] elaware:
Hi,

We have just tried it with Go Contacts/Dialer and with Video Caller Id

and it works great with them.

We appreciate any further opinions,
[Android Apps and Games] xfullmetal17:
There's a way to press "home" during a call and talk to the person in the background while using your phone otherwise, similar to what the iPhone does. If it's not what the "send to background" option does, any way to add a "pick up but put in background" option?