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[T-Mobile LG G2x] androidfeen809:
Just wondering how is the battery life on this phone, had the chance to play with it @ a tmo store for a good 1 hour and its an awesome device ran benchmark on it and it scored really good, I was suprise it beat the G2 even when I overclock it to 1.42 ghz lol. I really want to know about the Battery life in these dual core smartphones, as I'm tempted to get me a G2x.

T-Mobile G2 1.42 GHZ
[T-Mobile LG G2x] regP:
Its great.

inb4 use the search button :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
It really depends who you ask about it. There are a ton of battery complaints whereas I and many others find the battery life to be exceptional.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] regP:
I think most of the people complaining about battery life either

A) Haven't performed a factory reset which fixes the phones constant power usage even when idle. OR went into the hidden menu and changed the radio to GSM and WCDMA Auto.

B) Have a defective battery (ie those who say their battery drains even when the phone is powered down)

C) Have unrealistic expectations for battery life all together.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
Well on point C, I can say with absolute confidence that this battery is the best I've ever had out of all my smartphones (PPC-6700, Mogul, Touch, Touch Pro, Touch Pro 2, Curve 8330, Bold 9700, Palm Pre CDMA, HTC Hero, Evo, Inspire, and the Samsung Captivate) with me being able to talk for four hours and still have 30% of the battery left and then I can game for another 2 or 3 hours. Most of those phones would have been dead after the phone calls (the Captivate would be close to death, the Curve would be about an hour behind it) let alone having to power such a nice display and high-powered graphics chip.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DebauchedSloth:
I tend to think the actual answer is (d) the battery driver is so vastly broken that any reading it gives is essentially fictional. In this case, some people will be happy with their battery life (because their readings are fictionally high) and others will be freaked out (because theirs are fictionally low) but the actual answer is "nobody knows".
[T-Mobile LG G2x] regP:
This battery outlasting my Vibrant by hours with the same usage pattern isn't at all fictional. Not saying the drivers arent messed up.. But if battery life is as good as it has been for many users already it can only get better. Either way in its existing state its still better than many android phones.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
This is not the case if you are running Faux123's .8 kernel.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DebauchedSloth:
Am doing so.

Not at all convinced that it's accurate - still saw something like a 60% drop in a few minutes, on a brand new battery.

It does seem to help the "stall" problem.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] player911:
Exactly. If the battery driver reads "0" then it will shut off. That doesn't mean the battery is depleted. This explains why you'll get awesome battery if you clear battery stats on a full charge initially. It aligns the counter with the actual battery.

Mine runs from 8-midnight with some to spare with heavier then normal (thanks xda!) usage.

LG G2x - CM7 2.3.4
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jrwingate6:
The G2X has with out a doubt the best battery I have ever had on a smart phone and has been since day one. I never had any battery problems but that might be because since day one I have used SetCPU, rooted my device and froze all of the bloatware including WiFi calling. I constantly get about 15 hours with moderate use and 8 hours with heavy use which includes 1 hour worth of playing games, 1 hour browsing the internet, 1 hour reading all of my RSS, 30 minutes reading Fox news and CNN, 50 text messages, 1 hour of phone calls, 2 hours streaming music or playing my MP3's and about 30 minutes browsing facebook and twitter.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] androidfeen809:
Yu sure was 60% in a few minutes?

T-Mobile G2 1.42 GHZ
[T-Mobile LG G2x] androidfeen809:
Well I just asked because of the bad review on battery life on tmobile website but I will probably get the phone in august, by than it'll probably have gingerbread. Only thing I don't like about the phone is the lack of hardware keyboard especially because tmo considers it part of the G series which it doesn't fit in, and only god knows I what I would do if this phone had a keyboard to get it LOL I would rob a bank.

T-Mobile G2 1.42 GHZ
[T-Mobile LG G2x] regP:
that kind of stuff happens when the battery isn't calibrated.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] androidfeen809:
How do yu calibrate a battery?

T-Mobile G2 1.42 GHZ
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DLeeHarley:
Could you please explain what you mean by "Clearing your battery stats" for us newbies out here. And thanks to you all because we are learning a lot just by lurking and reading.

Dennis/Idaho

G1, G2x
[T-Mobile LG G2x] GideonX:
Charge to 100%, reboot into recovery, go to advanced->clear battery.

or

Download this app and follow similar directions in-app.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&feature=search_result
[T-Mobile LG G2x] allthrottle:
I picked up my g2x yesterday.afternoon. Charged it to full at about 7pm, played a little dungeon defenders, web browsing, and I've been on xda for half an hour. 12 hours after unplugged and I'm at 72%. Not too bad, but 6 of those were idle. We'll see how well it does today.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] donutman:
Good on wifi, horrible on 4g.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] regP:
Unless suffering from some issue idle drain is awesome. Afraid not much can be done about the drain during use though besides turning screen brightness down and using wifi instead of 4g.

I pretty much never use wifi anymore because its so damn slow.. but hopefully that will get fixed because with wifi on battery life is just unreal even when in use.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
I'm at 57%. Off charge at 9am and its 1230. My g2 battery was waaaay better, but then again it's the first day since buying it too. I have been using gtalk SMS and some xda and some web browsing and about 25 min phone calls.

Nonsense!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
I'm at 48% now. Sad sad sad battery life.

Nonsense!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
And at this time with no use at all other than two text messages sent I'm at 42. Crazy!

Nonsense!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] regP:
I think we get it. there is obviously something up with your phone. have you done any of the suggested options to fix the drain?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] androidfeen809:
Get a replacement, it shouldn't be that hard but make up something else like the phone is not charging when plug, cuz if yu say it dies too quick it won't qualify for an handset replacement

T-Mobile G2 1.42 GHZ
[T-Mobile LG G2x] allthrottle:
My battery life isn't really horrible so far, and I'm in an office all day with low 4g signal which causes the phone to bounce back and fourth from 4g to G. I don't have a ton of apps loaded yet, but I've just been checking the running processes and stopping anything not being used(like the news widget service that keeps starting itself).

You're either in a poor signal area, have a defective phone/battery, or have services running that you aren't stopping.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] tackleberry:
LOL. Not yet. I'm going to research that method later on today. Its also the first day I had the phone too.

Nonsense!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] assface2009:
hey guys, I'm sending my phone back due to crazy overheating and battery issues, but I need to first put everything back to stock before I ship it back to T-mobile. I'm currently using hspl 2.08 and illuminati's custom rom version 3.14

Is it as easy as downloading the stock version from htc's website and running it in boot loader? or do i have to do something else??

the last thing i wanna do is brick the phone before sending it back lol.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tictac0566:
Flash the stock ROM via SD card, this will replace HSPL with the original SPL.

As easy as that.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] kcab87:
Anyone else notice how much RAM the web browser uses up after about 5 minutes of using it? The phone get so slow! And that's with plug ins set to on demand!

I'm starting to get tired of this, I may consider returning this and getting the atrix or iphone4.

Sent from my Infuse 4G
[Samsung Infuse 4G] gtg465x:
Two words... Opera Mobile. Android web browser sucks on Hummingbird processors.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeytennis:
Hi, having an issue in that when I long press icons they just go straight to move rather than bringing up the little menu that lets you re-name, size, and change icon pic. Anyone now a work around. I am on the newest edition but this has been going on for the last 3! Ed
[Atrix 4G General] bungles2:
Sorry to be a pain I am a newbie to Andriod I would like to root my Atrix simply to be able to tether in Europe as hotels and the like have crazy wifi tarrifs also I would like to be able to use hdtv dock webtop without paying for the mulimedia dock.

I already am updated to 1.8.3 not rooted my question is if I root with gingerbreak how do I unroot if I have to return phone under warranty. Please explain how to do this in FOR DUMMIES mode as I am completely clueless and I am not tech savvy at all and never done anything like this before.

Thanks for your help and patience I am an old fart pensioner 65yrs old
[Atrix 4G General] WiredPirate:
Rooting your phone pretty much means giving up that warranty, the end. However, Gingerbreak v1.2 has unroot. Never used unroot myself so I cant go into detail. Once you obtain root, use this to tether wirelessly, or this for wired.
[Atrix 4G General] bungles2:
thank you for your reply is gingerbreak 1.2v ok for att iforgot to mention i am on att
[Atrix 4G General] WiredPirate:
Yes, you can use it with att. :) You will have to enable sideloading. Wish i could tell you from experience about the unroot but from what i have read on the forums this user said he successfully unrooted his atrix with Gingerbreak 1.2.
[Atrix 4G General] WiredPirate:
I also read on ChainsDD's twitter today that the upcoming SuperUser Elite has a ghost mode resulting in undetectable root, we will have to wait and see. But the general rule is once you root your phone it is up to you to ensure it continues to function properly, not att.
[Epic 4G Accessories] primerib:
I bought a set of 3 OEM batteries with a charger off Ebay.

All the batteries work fine since i charged them with the charger..but I just realized when the OEM battery is in the phone it will say unsupported battery and wont charge.

Is there any tweak or kernel that tricks the phone into supporting the batter or bypasses the check?

Im running Frozen 1.1.0 right now
[Epic 4G Accessories] ankurcshah:
It should work. I have several batteries,they all work fine. Make sure the battery is for the Epic. (Fascinate batteries don't work)
[Epic 4G Accessories] primerib:
The battery says its for Sam i9000
[Epic 4G Accessories] Pvt WhoOkid:
So do mine and they charge just fine. Just because it's labeled that doesn't mean it wont work. Maybe it's the rom your on try changing to another rom.
[Epic 4G Accessories] iviyth0s:
Any pics of the batteries??
[Epic 4G Accessories] sauron0101:
Thats really odd. The Galaxy S batteries are supposed to be interchangeable. I know the G9 and G7 variants all work fine with the Epic.
[Epic 4G Accessories] ankurcshah:
I have the same one and it works flawlessly for me!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] rodneygoff:
Does anybody know where or how can i theme to make my nexus s look like the original vanilla 1.5 or 1.6 theme. I like a lot of launcher apps and wanted one kind of to remind me of where i came from (G1 'pre-cupcake) to gingerbread and soon ice cream sandwich.

So I guess, just looking for a cupcake/donut theme? How do i get the app drawer launcher and all that?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] decalex:
Do u have a nexus s or nexus s 4G?

Also, are u, by chance running cyanogenmod?

. . NS4G . . CM7 . .
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] rodneygoff:
I'm on a nexus S running cyanogen nightly
[HTC Sensation] xxnoelziexx:
Is anyone else having reception issues with the HTC sensation I had previous HTC and have all suffered from this problem I thought by now they would have sorted this issue out.

Also I have used the camera a few times and the phone just turns off.
[HTC Sensation] everyday48:
My signal is full. Someone mentioned in another threat he replaced sim card and problem solved.
[HTC Sensation] Bratag:
Sounds like a faulty unit to me.
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
I have same problem - in my room it tends to go from 1 bar to full all the time - downstairs its goes from on to off all the time, rather annoying !

Got a brand new sim card so cant being that, but so many people

have complained about it cant be one fault handset - its just

faulty design maybe??
[HTC Sensation] xxnoelziexx:
This is my second unit and I have tried 3 different sim cards no change. This is what made me take back the original HTC Desire. Looks like this is going back all previous phones I would get 3G in my home and work now I am getting gprs or Edge in the same locations.

I have missed a few calls tonight because of the handset reception goes to none.
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
just popped my t-mobile sim in it and it seems fine -

it bounces up and down but by 1 bar maximum!

Got my brothers sony play on vodafone - hes getting 4 bars when im getting 0-3 bars.

So maybe it some kind of interaction between vodafone signal and this phone???
[HTC Sensation] agent.m:
said it before will add again i get poor reception (gprs) with vodafone sim but great/better with t-mobile sim. Gonna request new sim. put sim in my desire and get the same response. must be the sim. i also think a new radio update would fix the reception problems. if HTC unlocked the bootloader we'd know for sure.
[HTC Sensation] PygoShlee:
Mines been playing up signal wise, ive just taken the sim out and put it back in and its working alot better. Weird.
[HTC Sensation] paulswift36:
Interesting. I'm a new Voda customer and I have appauling reception now where I had a good one with O2. However signal goes on and off all the time.

My phone also reboots if I take more than a couple of photos.

All sounds like software to me but I'm going to try a new handset and if that fails maybe change to Samsung, not happy with HTC pushing out such poor software on a cutting edge phone, who tested it???
[HTC Sensation] donbronzi:
Yeap, rubbish reception. Keeps coming and going even in the same location!

Awful!!!!!
[HTC Sensation] Lazzzara:
Just to throw in my experience with it;

I'm getting identical performance to what I got on my Nexus One (also on Vodafone obviously, you can't compare signal on one carrier against another and blame it on the phone...)

1-2 bars of HSPA in my home in Bristol

3-4 bars of HSPA in my home in Cardiff

3-4 bars of Edge in my friend's house in Cardiff

Signal on the train journey Bristol-Cardiff also the same. HSPA through Newport, Edge/GPRS through a lot of the fields and nothingness. I do the journey a lot so I know the sections where I can load up a new article or webpage :p

So far it is identical to what I've been getting for the last year and a half with the N1. I know there were signal issues with the N1 when it was released but those were solved with updates from Google and more stuff in custom roms. I honestly don't have any experience of any issue affecting the Sensation's signal.
[HTC Sensation] sjgore:
I was with T-Mobile when I had my Desire, and now I've moved to Vodafone for my Sensation. Reception with Vodafone is better everwhere that I've been so far, and I see the "H" connection symbol more frequently. However, I do get the "rising and falling signal bars for no particular reason" problem that others are seeing, but it's no worse than I experienced for the 14 months that I had my Desire.
[HTC Sensation] Philio25:
I called Vodafone earlier about the numerous issues with the Sensation, this being one of them. Apparently there have been some reception issues in and around London in the last few days (they tracked my calling location when I called them, stalkers) but should now be resolved. I seriously doubt this is the issue as I had no reception while the phone was sat next to an unmentionable other device on Vodafone which had full signal.

They told me to take it into a store to discuss the issues before returning it within the 7 day period, which I will do at lunch time, but I have zero expectations for this!
[HTC Sensation] Jas_932:
mine has been fine tbh, more or less always 3 or 4 bar. does drop for no reason sometimes... but not often at all. only problem i have had so far is the wifi not working properly sometimes :P
[HTC Sensation] eadred:
Yet another phone that can do everything except phone calls?

Average/mediocre signal would be a huge drawback. I will wait for some more feedback, otherwise I will opt for another device, even though I have never had any doubts until this issue arose. :mad:
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
ok - been testing at work as we are a vodafone buisness company and have about

200 htc trophy sitting in our cupboard.

got one out with my sim card, a old vodafone one and brand new vodafone one.

Walked round the whole building phone to phone and the

htc sensation was actually stable reception, better then the htc trophy. (though only a bar difference)

There i have conclude my issue are where i live the reception.

(Though im going to do more testing at home tonight with my pro sony play)

I was curious, vodafone do a signal boost, but its £50 for those under £40 month contract.

Has anyone had any success with getting the price down on these?

I would happily pay £20 for one if i knew it would give me full signal around my house.

Im so happy with the phone i dont want to return it !

I'll post later about my tests
[HTC Sensation] agent.m:
I politely said to the nice lady in the Vodafone shop I didn't want to buy a sure signal as a new customer and that I was on a high contract. I paid £20 but its taken off my 1st payment so got it for free. If it supposed to get perfect signal in your home and they check before you sign up then its only fair.
[HTC Sensation] agent.m:
Ps I get perfect signal with the thing. Using it now to post. Pity it I can't use it at work.
[HTC Sensation] xxnoelziexx:
Phone is now in the process of being returned to Vodafone. Great phone let down by poor reception :-( The lady on the phone said they have had a few returns of late for the same reason so I know im not the only one. Looks like it will be back to my old phone till I find something that takes me fancy.
[HTC Sensation] paulswift36:
From other reports (lots) the phone signal is unreliable and I dont think its just a network issue. I can watch mine go from full to nothing and back up again without moving or touching it. I have the camera->reboot issue on mine too that others are reporting so I think there's a bad batch. I'm replacing my handset today with little hope of it being different. I also know someone with a Sure Signal (£20 in store) who has had no problems at all. I'm on a 40/pcm deal so going to push for one for free for the hassle of going back to the shop but I get the same signal issue pretty much everywhere, including central London earlier this week.

Very disappointing start with Vodafone and with my 7th or 8th HTC phone. I really wish I'd kept my Desire now until this model had been out for a few months, lesson learned.
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
Has anyone replaced there phone and got better signal?

I dont now whether to go to the shop today and say - i have crap signal

and i want to return it, and see if they offer me a signal booster thing -

tbh it fine when im at work its just my house.

Not had the camera problem but it goes get hot after playing angry birds for a while!
[HTC Sensation] dragonglance:
I dont have any problem with mobile signal however I do find that wifi signal is awful, places in my house I could always get a good signal with the iphone the sensation just gets to one bar and then drops out, anyone else getting this?
[HTC Sensation] agent.m:
Has anyone who has poor Vodafone signal tried with another network sim? My t mobile sim works perfect apart from work but is better than Vodafone. Ordered a new Vodafone sim so should get it today.
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
Yer I've tried my t-mobile sim too -getting about the same i got with my desire everywhere!

I dont now much, but is it possible vodafone use some sort of

different frequency that just doesnt work well with the sensation?

I have a brand new sim card so new sim wont help :(

Want a signal booster but for cheap!
[HTC Sensation] paulswift36:
Ok, new handset and can't get it to crash with the phone issue. Seems fine so far but wont be able to tell about the signal till I get home. The shop refused to give me a Sure signal box and said I'd have to go through customer services for that...which I will if I still get rubbish signal. This handset has been on charge all afternoon and its not hot at all so suggests it was a specific handset issue.

Now that HTC are unlocking the bootloaders it wont be long before new radio roms are available and new versions of Android so I will wait for that and see if it can be fixed that way.

I'll keep you updated
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
Yer,

i would expect htc to be releasing an update soon before

it goes out on general sale,

1) to unlock bootloader

2) to try and resolve some 3g/wifi reception issues

3) and the random crashes people are having

4) to fix some other little bugs

After all it in their benifit, to treat us as a like "beta" testing phase

so when it goes on general sale itl be better :)

let us now how you do about sure signal from voda cs
[HTC Sensation] paulswift36:
New phone is not getting hot but signal hasnt been improved much with a new handset UNTIL I put the voda sim in another phone and it was perfect, put it back in the Sensation again and it seemed to have improved a bit. Just seems a little hit and miss really. Two HTC phone (Sensation and Desire) sat next to each other, the O2 Desire shows the Vodafone signal but the Sensation doesn't. That's not a good sign for me and I'm not impressed with this aspect of HTC's flagship phone.

I do feel a new handset has improved things, the other one definitly had a serious problem and this one doesn't so if you aren't happy change it for sure.

Not that its going to be unlocked soon we'll be able to flash a different radio which may fix the problems but that's not really for novices.

I'm going to call customer services this morning and get a Sure Signal box and I'm not putting the phone down till I get one free either. As a new Voda customer I think its the least they can do otherwise I might go back to O2 and buy the phone outright. It is available non carrier now anyway and DID YOU KNOW, there aren't sim locked to Vodafone anyway? No one tells you that do they.
[HTC Sensation] paulswift36:
Called Vodafone and they had no hesitation in sending me a Sure Signal box, free.

They did say they had heard no complaints about the Sensations signal so err maybe they should do some light reading on the internet
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
Paul - how much is your contract?
[HTC Sensation] west2cool:
here is a free sensation for £25.00 per month

http://www.mobilephonesdirect.co.uk/
[HTC Sensation] paulswift36:
I am on £40/pm. I have heard that you can get the SS for 20 if you are on 40 or above but he just said free, I would guess that they have enough complaints to try to resolve this, this way.
[HTC Sensation] Pinball_:
I just got off the phone to vodafone after having poor signal myself.

Guy had me turn off WCDMA and have the phone set to GSM only.

I now have full signal pretty much all the time , switch the phone back to auto gsm/wcdma and the signal is terrible.

Not sure whats going on with this.
[HTC Sensation] agent.m:
Full signal of what gsm? Cutting off wcdma is cutting off the 3G. Heard it does help with better phone reception
[HTC Sensation] Pinball_:
Yes full GSM signal , seems the 3G signal is really causing a problem on the phone.