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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] touchpro247:
Downloaded it last night and I used it on the Google IO 10.1 Tab.

You may want to stay away from it until it gets more feedback.

You can flash pershoot build, if you want.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1090289

pershoot's build restores backups better for me.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] tyshemi:
Lets talk about the ups and downs of refuse and infused! Ive been running infused since it came out and love it gtg did a great job. I was thinking of trying refuse so whats the general consensus?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Grim Reaper:
Refuse is like that person you know that's real cool, but your scared to talk to him in fear of something different.

Infuse is like that person that you can approach and has a very good and easy going personalty.

Not trying to offend any of the DEVs.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Optimus-Prime:
and then there is Bionix Infinity, who looks like a amazing person from far away, as you start to approach and talk it takes a sword and back stabs you...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hoofadoo:
Hey.... Its gonna be good, the kinks just need to get worked out. :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Optimus-Prime:
Hopefully, it gave me a brick.

seems kind of cool.

I noticed that on Infuse i have slow GPS locks times, i mean slow... even after the GPS improvement thingy
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hoofadoo:
bricked me too, but it was fun
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Optimus-Prime:
o.O why would it be fun.

i was like :o after i couldn't get past the rethink possible screen, but i found the fix on how to fix it that same night after flashing like 5 times. saved everyone! lol
[Samsung Infuse 4G] thaimiishoe:
same with me. my GPS is slower even after the GPS fix on infuse 1.2.1. it was fine on 1.2 before the update patch added
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Optimus-Prime:
i thought it was just me being a little B@#!$ but no its actually slow, with stock its fast but here it just sits there usually until my screen turns off and then i have to turn it back on and the whole process starts again... kep in mind my screen turn on time is 2 mintues...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] eroracing:
That's weird cuz mine works perfect. I can even lock inside my house. And its within 10 seconds
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russmac:
Out of the blue I am not able to swipe down to pull down the notification bar.

I was on Miui 1.6.3 and it was working for a week when all of it sudden it didn't. I tried flashing CM7 and it didn't work there either. I restored Miui and still doesn't work. I tried Launcher Pro and it won't work. It does work with ADW launcher but I think that is because it has it's own swipe settings.

Where would this be from? Is it a kernal thing?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] punman:
LauncherPro won't work? Do you mean the app won't work, or you still can't swipe? Some launcher replacements have swipe settings you can change. Did you modify a setting? If your touchscreen works for everything else, it's likely not a problem with hardware. Do you swipe from the same "spot" every time? Can you try a different spot (farther to the left or right)? Do you have problems tapping on other stuff on the screen?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russmac8:
Lancher pro works, just having the same swiping issue with it. No settings changed. Rest of the screen is fine. The weird thing is not working in different roms.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Austride:
What other roms does this not work on?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russmac:
So far all I have tested...Miui, CM7 and OMGB. Miui was running fine for a week and one afternoon it just stopped swiping down. ADW is the only thing that I can use as it has a setting that if you swipe down anywhere on the screen it will come down. I know it makes no sense...screen is fine otherwise and even reacts fine directly under the bar. Can't see how it is hardware...several different roms and kernals tried. Could that function be deeper, like in the radio? That was flashed a week or two before this problem happened.
[Galaxy S II General] Noam23:
cnet Australia: "Poor battery life keeps SGS2 from being our phone of the year"

http://www.cnet.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-339309232.htm

Title says it all.

I wonder who spread the rumor that version 2.3.3 has any trouble with battery life for double CPU smartphones (HTC Sensation has superb battery life under 2.3.3).
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Have you actually owned or played with a Sensation? I had friends complain about the battery life being worse than the DHD despite the battery being of a higher capacity. :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] designgears:
Ditto, there is a guy in my office, constant ***** fest about the battery life.
[Galaxy S II General] zkyevolved:
I can third this. Some people I know have this dhd on steroids and they like the phone but say its on par with the dhd. Not better by any means. Which is a good thing too. But still I can get through one day on my sgs2. That's all that matters. Would I like better battery life? Yeah. So far its OK. :-) the sensation on the other hand is worse.
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
I think that unit that they tested was faulty. In 7-8 hours, my battery lost 7% whilst syncing (all via push) gmail, Microsoft exchange, facebook app and hub, and hotmail. I had one SMS message, 4 fb notifications, 5 gmail emails and 2 exchange emails. Hardly poor for idling. When I've been using my internet, the battery has been really quite good.

And I highly doubt the Sensation is better. On A SIMPLE LEVEL - qHD = more pixels, and so the battery is using more power, to power the pixels, and it has a smaller capacity, and on Super AMOLED Plus, black pixels need no, or very little battery because the pixels aren't illuminated (or something like that).
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
Eldar Murtazin(or something like that)
[Galaxy S II General] Greenie-UK:
Dont know where he claims battery life sucks, my SGS 2 Battery life is awesome ! way better than my old DHD and iPhone 4
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
I'll believe the DHD, but there is no way the SGS II has better battery life than an iPhone 4.

My SGSII has great battery life for an android phone, but it isn't even close the iphone 4 i had.
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
The iphone 4 has a good battery life. But not with all handsets. 3 of 7 people i know say their iphone battery is rubbish. My desire could out last two of those three people. Its not as simple as you may think.
[Galaxy S II General] android53:
Allot of iphone users probably don't know they can turn power draining features off, and they are much more likely to have the brightness set high.

I bought an iphone 4 to play with for a few weeks, the battery life is absolutely amazing compared to android.
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
Battery life is also amazing on my gsii if i turned draining features off. And many of the people i know, know how to save battery, because they need to. I just strain my eyes trying to look at the minimum brightness screens.
[Galaxy S II General] stevehy:
Completely agree, as I own both.
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
I dont think thats right dude, I remember him championing the battery life. He said it was great and 50% better than Galaxy S.

I think think half of these "my battery sucks" threads are user error or dodgy apps.

When I first got my phone I installed everything under the sun and my battery didnt make it to the end of the working day. After a hard reset and a careful reinstall, I can get 2 days on the same useage.
[Galaxy S II General] davey.tran:
I'm not sure about other devices but, me and my friend who both have a galaxy sii agree that the minimum brightness is still way too bright for night but actually very adequate for shade use. But if your trying to view minimum brightness in daylight, then I suggest you just switch to manual brightness and use the notification bar as a brightness bar. seriously I'd rather turn it up to read whatever at that moment out find a shady area, seeing it in sunlight at minimum is way to hard. not worth the 30 seconds of battery life you'll probably save
[Galaxy S II General] lynxboy:
From looking at the battery graph on the review, that has to be either a faulty device or possibly a brand new device which hasn't had even a single charge cycle. I'm not going to say this phone has the best battery life ever (name me a phone on XDA without a battery life complaint thread or a battery boosting kernel), but it is much better than my N1 and DHD, although it did take a few cycles to reach this level.

So to me, the SGS II is CNET Australia's phone of the year!

Bonza!

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] Locster126:
Honestly all these battery threads and battery bashing reviews make me want to vomit *PUKE*...

seriously I'm having the best battery life with my sgs2 then I had with any other phone before and yes I did own an Iphone *shoot myself in head*, Desire HD, Wildfire, Dell Streak...

I doubt its faulty hardware and I'm sure that android OS bug is due to another reason (fixable, as lot of people dont have it) and I might get flamed for saying this but I bet everybody that has sh!t battery life is retarded and doesnt know how to setup his phone properly.

If you get sh!t battery life = blame yourself!
[Galaxy S II General] davey.tran:
what do you mean by careful reinstall?

Anything you can share with us about your way of installing carefully?

Edit: I am actually very happy with the battery life that I get out of mine. I wouldn't even say I heavy use of the phone, I'd say constant use which is like only sometimes putting the phone down to walk to another building at uni or talking to a friend who is walking with me. Or of course im occupied with something else

Its a curse, I can't get enough if always playing games with it, or reading xda or looking through market or when I'm thinking about what else to do on the phone, I play with my smooth launcher pro home screens and 3D app drawer. So basically here is my battery graph

Basically you can see with that much awake time i got roughly 7-8 hours on a single charge, also im not sure what that giant dip in battery llife is any ideas cant remember what i was doing. But even with that im happy
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
I just mean think about what it is your installing, does it run in the background? How much battery is it using? Do I really need it? Does anyone else have a problem with it? etc. Theres a lot of crap out there.
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
Completely agree. Through colours still look vibrant on minimum.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
i'm not trying to start trouble, but i would like you to prove that and do tests to support your claim. i would like you to set up your SGS2 however you want, airplane mode, factory reset, remove every single app from the phone, dont log in to any google accounts, whatever you need, and then make it last as long as an iphone 4. do both phones screen on time, web browsing over wifi, or watching a movie. cause i just dont believe the SGS2 can ever outlast an iphone 4 even under the best conditions possible.
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
SG2 > DHD in terms of battery! On very light usage my SG2 can last over 2 days, heavy usage usually lasts me a day, and medium usage lasts me about 1.5 days.

My previous DHD would struggle with those stats!

Apart from my previous BB 9700 which battery life was amazing the SG2 is very good for an Android device!
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
I don't think we're on the same page. Not disputing the battery on all iPhone 4s. I was referring to the portion of iphones that have an equally as "poor" battery life as the GSII or any other similar phone.

It is annoying how when the GSII has any issues, they are just inflated and Samsung are slated for them. However when iPhone users have similar problems, they're just swept under the rug and no-one cares. As I said 3 of 7 people I know, with iPhones have a poor battery life, not all of them.

If you read some of the other posts in various threads. A large proportion (compared to how many there should be if the iPhone 4 battery was as consistently that good and it was/is supposed to be) of GSII users actually find their battery better than the iPhone 4.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Knowing that 2.3.4. fixed the suspend process bug in the SGS, and that we're due to get it any day now, is the current battery horse still worth beating?
[Galaxy S II General] tro11:
It's only June, how can they even be talking phone of the year?
[Galaxy S II General] zkyevolved:
Not on mine. 5 hours of the screen being on, and using it, and it's dead. MAYBE 6.
[Galaxy S II General] android53:
I got 10 hours screen on time on my iphone4... 50% brightness

Get 4-5 max on my gs1, min brightness
[Galaxy S II General] Shocky2:
One app which does drain my battery fast is actually Chainfire 3D, playing games with that driver installed the battery graph looks almost like the straight drop, it's scary.

With it uninstalled it's not so bad, might have something to do with individual games as well but when I don't need it the chainfire 3d driver is not installed and the battery life seems allot better.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
cool i got ya. i literally am wanting to actually see this test as described above just to see the results. i'm an android fanboy thru and thru. i just search to try and understand how apple got the power management so good on the iphone 4. (previous 3 iphones were not good of course).

it does seem like the SGS2 has excellent battery life and the best out of android and probably nearing the iphone 4. its just that screen-on time that i cant understand!
[Galaxy S II General] greyhulk:
SG2 is good, but not the best. I would say that my Atrix had the best battery life of any Android phone I ever used, but it also had 300 maH more to play with. That being said, my SG2 is a very close second. I have no complaints about battery life with it.

Word to the wise, though. I set one of the live wallpapers on the second day I had it, I was losing more than 10% battery life/hour just idling. I thought I had a bad unit until I changed back to static wallpaper, now all is fine. It was the Windmill weather one.
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
Jesus, talk about head in the sand. Google Know there's an issue with 2.3.3 and they've fixed it in 2.3.4, first for the nexus and now the Galaxy S. The S2 is next.

Get a grip, and don't be a fanboy, it makes you look like a douche.
[Galaxy S II General] quad2012:
Most of them being android fanboys and havent ever actually used an iPhone4 (not getting me wrong I love android as well but at the end of the day Im not religious), it always depends on the user and the environment but I know enough people with iPhone 4 (well actually just too many :( ) and when we played games like Angry Birds e.g. SGS2 drains MUCH faster, standby is equal but as soon as the screen is on it just sucks that battery dry. I would bet a good 100$ in favour of the i4's battery (while heavy using browsing/ gaming), despite the faith and believe the iPhone 4 just has got a better battery life.

The SGS2 still has a good battery life but I guess the dual core cpu running on an unoptimized version of android (honeycomb is the first to actually support dual core) just wastes a lot of juice, maybe the sgs2 will have overcome the iPhone 4 one day but just not yet.
[Galaxy S II General] Noam23:
Well, maybe because the screen on the SGS2 is just so much bigger than that of the iPhone 4...
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
I get great battery life with my sgs2. Make it through a workday without issues. But my wife's iphone4 kills my phone. She charges every 2 days or so before actually dying.

Her usual day from 8-3(call center/billing and coding). Streaming slacker, watch movies, stream movies, 45min-1hr worth of calls, 20text, 2 email accounts syncing. Also jailbroke for special icons and looks like a android with scrolling **** everywhere. Doing wedding stuff.

By time she gets home she's at 50-60%. On our short vacation trips with gps on my phone is under 20% with heavy use.
[Galaxy S II General] quad2012:
Well that shouldnt count that much as people think, as the SGS2 uses Super AMOLED Plus (which should save power) and has less pixels + the retina display is equally bright (doesnt have the great colors tough) if you dont turn brightness on 100% which I didnt even dare while gaming (always on minimum). For me the 4.3" display is just an excues Im pretty sure the problem is android being really bad optimized, especially for dual core devices.
[Galaxy S II General] zoobzone:
I have a friend with the Desire Z that drains 30% battery overnight.

My Galaxy's battery life is doing much better than the iPhone 4.
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
The SGSII has pretty good battery life when used as a regular smartphone. But when you use it for heavy web browsing (flash etc), it does drain battery quite quickly. My phone will only consume 4% over 8 hours of standby while I sleep and it will consume only 10% over a 30 minute phonecall (which gives 300 minutes or 5 hours of constant calls if assumed to be linear). However, when used to browse (I use Dolphin HD), the battery will go from 100% to 50% in only 2.5 hours! This is constant browsing when you are stuck on the train or waiting for an appointment. I was waiting for over 2.5 hours and that was how much my battery was drained. Also, screen brightness was set to minimum (0%) because I was indoors and cellular data (H+) was used. Also note that I got my phone when it was first launched in the UK, so the battery has gone through many charge cycles and can be assumed to be already run in.

So the graph that is shown in the review is pretty believable.

I also have an iPad and I always think that the SGSII has ****ty battery life compared to my iPad which gives me a whole day of usage. I have tested and it gives about 10 hours of video playback in airplane mode and about 6-7 hours of internet browsing over wifi. However, if you look at the battery capacities, the iPad has a 3.75V 6500mAh (24.8Wh) battery while the SGSII has a 3.7V 1650mAh (6.11Wh) battery. So assuming that the SGSII draws the same amount of power as the iPad (let's say the iPad's larger screen balances out the SGSII's flash playback battery drain), then the iPad should last 4.05 times longer than the SGSII. However, here I have the iPad draining itself over 7 hours of browsing while the SGSII uses 50% in 2.5 hours to give it about 5 hours. So all things being equal, the SGSII is doing very well given its small battery capacity.

One thing that bugs me though is the damn wifi sharing process on the SGSII. It chomps through 20% of CPU cycles once in a while when it is off. I end up having to manually kill the process when this happens. Funny thing is that when I am using wifi sharing, the process actually uses 0% cycles and does not even appear in the battery usage list! So I think the fact that wifi sharing appears in the battery usage list when it is not even supposed to be there points to a serious bug where the process just goes crazy.
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
Wow another battery thread lol, there is a 112 page thread on this already and another thread on ip4 vs gs2 . lol I own both devices i know what is better at what and not one of them is the best at all things but if combined will the the ultimate phone. lets get over it there is no clear winner.
[Galaxy S II General] Locster126:
sorry not a fanboy, just getting great battery life. It must be you that suffers from a slight retardation by being unable to setup your phone properly and blame it on 2.3.3....hmmm my phone is been unplugged since 1day 1hour 44min ( 25hours 44min, because of your retardation I converted it for you).

Now I made an hour phone call, 3hours screen on time and browsing over wifi and 3g. 2 hours screen off and playing music (poweramp) (so about 6hours usage) and my battery is at 32%, so can easily push through the rest of the day with LIGHT usage. My android OS is at 4% with 17min usage. HMMM hold on did you not say there was a confirmed bug with 2.3.3...sorry I dont have it and I know most other don't as well....
[Galaxy S II General] huzz:
Everyone who has good battery life, could you guys please share your details here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1118977

It would be really appreciated,

Cheers.
[Galaxy S II General] rohitgarewal:
I've noticed mixed results.

the other day I went 20 hours and had 32%...granted light usage...I had all my accounts syncing automatically...

However yesterday I spoke for one hour on bluetooth and light usage the rest of the day and was down to 36% in 6 hours...the crazy thing is after the phone call I was at 85% which was expected.

Its really weird, but I think I had some locked processes that were chewing up battery.
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
On that note, it's only fair to say that I automatically clear my RAM every now and again. So for me, that could increase my battery life by killing the locked processes?
[Galaxy S II General] :
I am not sure why would anyone check reviews from CNET. They are even worse than engadget. These sites do reviews only for attracting web traffic. It feels they had the phone on rent for 24 hours and did the so-called-review. I, personally like the following sites:

gsmarena

anandtech

swedriod.se (http://www.swedroid.se/test-av-samsung-galaxy-s-ii/)

nordichardware.se (http://www.nordichardware.se/testlabb/441-smartphones/43045-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-saetter-ny-ribba-foer-smartphonemarknaden.html)

A very interesting article on battery life on GS2 and performance parameters.

http://www.nordichardware.se/testlabb/441-smartphones/43263-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-topprestanda-kommer-inte-gratis.html

Even though I don't understand swedish, I enjoy using Google translator to check this website.

And here's a 19 page comparison between Sensation and GS2:

http://www.nordichardware.se/testlabb/441-smartphones/43230-htc-sensation-tungviktare-med-hoeg-upploesning.html

Someone could write a better review for a scissor then CNET can do for any smartphone.
[Galaxy S II General] tameracingdriver:
That swedish article about power consumption is very interesting, and pretty much confirms anything that most intelligent beings will suspect; you can choose only 1: superb battery life or 2: raw power.

If you use the potential of the phone, then yes it won't last long.

If you just want something with good battery life, get a iphone, N8, WP7 or Blackberry.

Personally, I think the performance of the SGS2 is acceptable for what it is.
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
+1 I'd rather have the ability to use it as a power house for less time, then not having the ability to do that at all.
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
Uh-huh. Typical "I don't have a problem, so no problem exists " response. Retarded is right. Stop wasting our time.
[Galaxy S II General] leedavis:
I hear you. My iPhone 3GS wipes the floor with the SGS2 regarding battery. Charged everynight but never worried about it. Every other day I need to plug the SGS2 in at work to get through a work day. Ignoring the battery life, the phone is fantastic.
[Galaxy S II General] saar73:
Same here. GREAT battery life!

and btw, htc sansation battery sucks.. really sucks :mad: