yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S General] frutelaken:
Reports are that using 3G a lot drains the battery immensly.

Try switching to use 2G only and see how that affects your battery life.

Greetz :)
[Nexus S General] asb123:
I dont think it is worth it to pay $30 a month to use 2g networks. I will try to turn off the 3g radio when on wifi though. And maybe only turn on 3g when i need it. As for the phone signal bar. Is it the same or worse than what you guys are getting?
[Nexus S General] krohnjw:
It already works this way. Wifi is going to be your best bet to lessen drain if available (both in standby and when using data - just make sure you have the sleep policy set to never).

If you have poor signal you are going to murder your battery - no way around it. The radio will boost power (Gain is adjusted automatically) in an attempt to get a better signal - and constantly search for a better one. So if you are bouncing between no service and 1 bar or even with just a weak 1 bar signal you are going to see atrocious battery life. There's not much you can do there except potentially switch to SIP in those times if you use a SIP provider.

If you are sitting with 4 bars then you should be seeing decidedly better battery life. What is the actual time the display was on in that screenshot?
[Nexus S General] zephiK:
I use 3G and its fine. What radio are you using?

the choices are: JK8, KB1, KB3, KD1

you can find them on the dev forums
[Nexus S General] simms22:
that looks pretty normal for that kind of usage. id say that you were a moderately heavy to heavy user.
[Nexus S General] asb123:
I usually have about 3-4 bars. The time on for the display was probably just over 2 hours (judging from what it is now).

I have KD1, how does that stack up?

also, I am using netarchy bfs kernel if that matters.
[Nexus S General] window7:
I agree. you're a pretty heavy user :) So far different radio doesn't drain battery, but only the difference of data connection speed cap.
[Nexus S General] asb123:
Yes I do love android (been tinkering around since the g1). I do realize that I am a heavier user than the average person but it might also be that I recently got this phone so I am using it more.

Aside from that, does everything else seem normal?
[Nexus S General] spamlucal:
"Android System" should not be taking such a high %. It should be about 1-2%.

There is (was?) a bug that causes high cpu usage (and shows as Android System) when wifi is on, but not connected to a network.

Another thing I can think of and is something I've experienced, is that sometimes you get an IP address from the mobile network that has a lot of noise, that is, it's an address someone has likely used p2p programs with and there are lots of connection retries. You can see it because the green arrows don't stay dark for more than a couple of seconds, and it kills your battery quite fast. Reconnecting to get a different IP address is the only solution...

Also, bluetooth may be a factor...
[Nexus S General] asb123:
Blutooth is always off unless I need to use it (which is rare). I am not sure how to make my mobile network connect to a different IP adresse, would turning it on and off do the trick?
[Nexus S General] KidCold:
Being in area where there is low/no signal also causes my battery drain to increase by a lot! Which sucks cos where i live i get either 1 or no bars of signal.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BMWpokerAce:
Steel Blue CM7 Theme for SGS2​

What do you get here?:

I want to introduce you my first portet Theme.

Original it´s from Team Carbon and i want at this point to say Thank you Guys for your great work.

In this Theme you

will not

get "Themed Apps".

At this moment, only the: framework/systemUI/Settings.apk is themed.

What do you need to install this Theme?

In 1. Post you find the Theme for Lite´ning ROM v1.X

In 2. Post you find the Theme for different other ROM´s.

Installation:

1.

Download the file: "Steel_Blue_CM7_Theme_for_Litening_v1.X.zip"

2.

Push the file you downloaded to the Main directory of your internal storage.

3.

Keep the Power Button holding till the:

extended Power Menu appear

.

4.

Choose: Recovery

5.

In CWM Recovery choose: install zip from sdcard

6.

now choose: choose zip from sdcard

7.

take the file: Steel_Blue_CM7_Theme_for_Litening_v1.X.zip

8.

Reboot the phone.

9.

Done!

What does the file include?:

automatic Backup of your files: framework-res.apk/systemUI.apk/Settings.apk to folder: clockworkmod

the Theme itself of course

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Lite´ning ROM v1.4

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Lite´ning ROM v1.5

Changelog for Lite´ning ROM v1.5

Fixed Bluetooth Icon

Fixed H+ Icons

Added Window Flying Effekt

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Lite´ning v2.1

The Files from Litening v2.1 are compatibel to Litening v2.2

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Lite´ning v4.1

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Lite´ning v5.0

Here you get some preview pics.

​

If you like my work, consider pushing my "Thank you Button" as a donation :p​
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BMWpokerAce:
Update 16/06/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Stock KF1

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Stock KF1

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Update 16/06/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Cognition S2 v1.03

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Cognition S2 v1.03

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Update 17/06/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Stock KE7

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Stock KE7

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Update 18/06/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Stock KE8

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Stock KE8

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Update 20/06/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Cognition S2 v1.05

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Cognition S2 v1.05

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Update 20/06/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Stock KF2

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Stock KF2

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Update 22/06/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Villain ROM v1.4

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Villain ROM v1.4

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Update 15/07/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for SkyRom v2.1

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - SkyRom v2.1

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Update 15/07/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Cognition S2 v1.13

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Cognition S2 v1.13

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Update 25/07/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for SkyRom v2.2

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - SkyRom v2.2

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Update 25/07/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Cognition S2 v1.30

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Cognition S2 v1.30

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Update 17/08/11

Here we go,

with the "Steel Blue Theme" for Cognition S2 v1.42

Download - Steel Blue CM7 Theme - Cognition S2 v1.42
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BananenAffe:
I am looking forward to it :) Looks very good ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mikeinessex:
nice. loving this. be nice to see the stock apps to go with it. calculator,calendar,clock. great work mate
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dtosun:
like your theme. I m waiting to install it:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Schrotty35:
Looks very nice.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] eatingking:
Does it work on KF1 stock rom?

Would you add CRT Effect in this Themes?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BMWpokerAce:
Hey there,

I fixed the Bug from yesterday.

Now u can download the Theme in first post.

Have fun and leave a comment.

@eatingking

I dont know if it would work with KF1 Stock.

Please try it and tell me if it works.

This Theme allready includes CRT and Overscroll Glow.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] gn00my:
Installed it and works fine and looks great :-) hope to see some more updates

Big thanks
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BananenAffe:
Yes, I also think ! I love it. :)

@ BMWpokerAce

Can you upload the babes wallpaper on the screenshot ? :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dtosun:
Two issues i saw, when wlan on notification pop up header is grey and wider.

Other is status bar image on landscape mode.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BMWpokerAce:
@dtosun

I relay dont understand your "Bug".

Please upload a picture of that.

@BananenAffe

Here we go.....

The babe Wallpaper.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kickassdave:
Works a treat. Loving it so far. Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mxn-:
i dont uderstand hw u push a file :(
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ferreinf:
Very nice, BMWpokerAce thank you for sharing..... :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dtosun:
Wireless notification header like this.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dada24:
great theme congratulations to Creator should just added a market black and blue you will find Here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=957331
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dtosun:
Landscape mode, status bar android mascot streched
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dtosun:
I think, when bluetooth on and device visible checked, bluetooth icon should be light.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mark2222:
Very nice looking work :)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
I'm stuck in a loop. I flashed CWM. Then proceded to partition. I followed GoodIntentions web page to the letter untill I got to the fix permissions. As soon as I executed it immediately said fixing permissions...Done! I was waiting for some on screen instruction but damn that was fast and it said "Done!" It then highlighted reboot recovery so I executed. Then it said booting recovery kernel image and took me right back to the first CWM menu then highlighted reboot system now. So I executed and it said again booting recovery kernel image and highlighted reboot system now again.

There were a few things that were odd to me during the CWM flash.

1. I already had a recovery file in my root directory of my gtab. I had to do a factory reset on the 11th because of something my kids did. Note kigs no longer play with gtab. The file was a text file so I thought that it would be able to tell the difference when booting. Maybe an issue, maybe not, just putting that out there.

2. The gtab never autimatically rebooted after CWM install. It did highlight the reboot option so I pressed the home key to execute.

3. There were no on screen instructions in the fix permissions. It just said "Done!"

For information purposes I am providing my bootloader version and CWM.

- Bootloader 1.2-4349

-ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.2.8 (GTAB 1.2 and NI Adam rev5)

HELP!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
When you reboot the system, make sure you reboot the right option. There are 2 reboot options in CWM: (a) reboot system and (b) reboot CWM. Whenever you're done flashing a ROM or fix permission, CWM will automatically highlight choice (b). You need to press the back button to go back out to main menu and choose reboot system.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
I did both

I did both and it still loops me back to the CWM main. At the root menu "reboot system now" is on the top and "advanced" is at the bottom. Reboot system now is highlighted so I execute then it shows me the birds and the kernel image message. Then I'm right back at the CWM root menu. The only thing I did was partition and fix permissions. The fix permissions just said done as soon as i hit they button. There was no instruction beyond that.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
How did you flash in CWM?

I'm guessing... oh gosh... tell me first how you flashed in CWM.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
While I figure out what's going on, have you checked to see if the volume + button is stuck?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
it's not stuck. I'm able to change highlighted options.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Ok, try this. When you're in CWM, do a data wipe.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
OK doing it now.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
ok I did it. it says data wipe complet and took me back to the root menu

What next?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Well, after data wipe then try to reboot system.

PS - we're trying to solve a problem over in development. Sorry, I'm distracted.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
nothing, still doing the same thing.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
No problem. Im just stoked someone is willing to take the time to help me out. I joke at the term dummies cause I'm ignorant to this new technology. But so you know, I'm exmilitary MI so I'm very anal about following instructions. I know I did this to the letter so it blows my mind as to what went wrong. Your web site is very thorough so I have to believe that it has something to do with that damn recovery text file that was already in my root directory before I unzipped the other. Just a thought.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
It appears that somehow your boot image has been replaced by CWM. Without delving too much into details, visit my page on nvflash and nvflash your way out. What rom were you running before you put cwm in?

Added by edit.

On second thought, yes that recovery file might have something to do with it. Without knowing what it is, I can't really tell you what it did.

You should just flash in a new rom using cwm.

Added by edit again.

You're not going to sniper me are you? If so, I'm x-cop... almost won the damn marksman competition, too.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
HA HA no sniping. But it is good to know I'm dealing with another person that has life experience. I was running 1.2-4349.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
1.2 stock rom?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
yeah 1.2 stock ROM
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
If you still wanna use stock rom, then nvflash back to stock rom. Look at the nvflash page of my website. If you want something better, I highly recommend the calkulin+clemsyn combo. It's in my rom page. The whole process should take you about 20 minutes and then you will have a tablet that's 10 times faster and smoother. Also, your kids will be able to play with it and you won't have to worry about them messing it up. Trust me, man, you'll be a lot happier.

PS - we got the problem solved in the development section. Good thing, too, because I'm about to go on my nightly run.

Added by edit.

Actually, go to start here page. And choose "You bricked your gtab and now you are freaking out."
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
The way I understand this is that I have to flash back to stock ROM first. Then install CWM. Then install the new ROM.

You are the man. Thanks for all your help. I'll give this a shot and post how it turned out. Enjoy your run!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkHorse281:
I have followed you instructions on the web site to the letter. I tried it several times and each time it stops booting at the birds screen. I went back and restored it using the backup file I created during the flash. That Part D has me a bit confused. I don't understand why you choose "install zip from sdcard" in step 1. Then what seems to be some reformatting when you "Choose wipe data/factory reset" in step 2 and "Choose wipe cache partition" in step 3 and "Choose Wipe Dalvik Cache" in step 5. Then you "Go back out and choose install zip from sdcard" in step 6. The only difference that I can see is that you expand the step by explaining how to find the zip file in the following steps. I have done it by the letter several times and I've also tried it other ways. As I'm typing this my tablet is still on the birds screen. I'm almost there. I can taste it. I just need a bit more guidance. As a note I will tell yousince I've had to do this the hard way, I'm not in the least bit intimmidated by this process. And I can do it with some speed now. Thanks GoodIntentions!

I have done some additional reading in the forums and discovered that this considered a soft brick. I do a CWM restore and everything goes back to stock and works fine, but each time I try to load Calkulin_Clemsyn Combo Overclock it locks at the birds during boot. I already nvflashed in case you don't remember. I can go back and do it again, but I'm at a loss. I'm not sure if it would accomplish anything more than my current result since I had already done it. I really don't know where to go from here. I also read that Viewsonic may have locked the bootloader to keep us from modding the Gtab. Which makes no sense cause modding is really the only thing driving the sales for these things. Even if I were to nvflash this thing again whose to say it doesn't do the same thing. I haven't seen a fix or workaround for this anywhere once it's been nvflashed again. What do I do from here?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flipd2:
I'm having the same problem here.
[Verizon Droid Charge] gunnermike:
This a port of Red Star for the Epic 4g by jstine671 found here and my Red Volt for the Fascinate found here.

Do not flash this unless you know what you are doing!!! I will not help you fix your phone if it explodes!!!! This is a test release. Once I am satisfied that it works, I will remove this warning.

Whats themed:

framework-res

twframework-res

dialer

mms

contacts

calculator

market hound here

Red Volt Version 1.0

Extract to SD card. Do not flash:

Red Icons.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dabomb420:
SWEET!!

oh yeah gonna flash this now, i forgot to report the blue is all fixed up but i figured you've seen that by now. ill report back in a few minutes, oh and gunnermike expect a diet dr pepper for this one coming as soon as i click a few buttons, THANKS

Notes:just rebooted and after a force close then automatic restart of launcher pro i seem to be up and running with all themes looking fine, except i don't know what happened to the dialer from now on i will take pics so gunnermike can actually see what where working with here's what i just took, i was hoping for a transparent dialer ? dialer on mine looks stock, i want to know what went wrong thanks.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dabomb420:
Red Volt 1.0 Pics

Heres some red volt 1.0 pics for gunnermike and others as well, enjoy the themes they rock!
[Verizon Droid Charge] gunnermike:
ok, the dialer is stupid and i will fix it later. i wanna get a couple more themes out there first though. thanks for the screenies.

oh yeah, so everything works well???

is it safe for prime time???
[Verizon Droid Charge] dabomb420:
Hey good to see you checking back so soon

yeah imho its ready for prime time even the blue midnight as well heres some more pics, oh and just rebooted to confirm, all is well and working dandy,
[Verizon Droid Charge] gunnermike:
awsome. thanks for your help and the dr peppers.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Outsider2011:
Bro....freakin great theme! I love the red! It all works 100% thanks.
[Nexus S General] rault18:
hey guys...so I was playing with the phone, installed some apps here and there and went to mem info and i saw that my available memory is never over 70 mb off the 345 !!!!

this might be causing some lag and maybe overwork the processor and messing with my battery life

I moved most of the apps to the usb part and still...I reset it..went up but then drastically went down again

Im running superaosp 8.6 .... I have no idea why is this...MY nexus one there was always at least 100 mb left (used app2sd)..kinda annoying to be honest

any advice?
[Nexus S General] frutelaken:
If you go through the list of running apps and services, is there anything out of the ordinary?

Try to close all of them and see what happens.

Greetz

PS: I have about 180mb free if I only let the vital stuff running - Google services, BLN, Maps (LocationService) and Swiftkey
[Nexus S General] mindwalkr:
I've got 156 MB free on mine.at least that's what the running services screen tells me.

However android optimizer tells me that I've got 35 MB free? What's going on? Is the stock android running services panel not showing everything?
[Nexus S General] rault18:
^^^exactly my thing...On the running services are it shows about 140 free but on thememinfo i have about 50...really weird

Another thing ...my battery usage goes :

display 40 percent

isnt that a little too high??

autorotation off, auto brightness off
[Nexus S General] mindwalkr:
Well I think on the running services it probably only shows you services that are actually running (actively). Whereas other programs (such as android optimizer) tells you the memory used by all programs that have been started at boot time.

I'm now just guessing here but many of these boot started programas might have been passivated by the Android OS onto disk so they don't really take actual RAM until you switch to any of them. Only to get passivated again after you exit them.

I get 40% usage of screen as well. It's normal, it's what takes the most. I've got auto brigthness on and it's usually quite dim. Auto-rotation is always on.

I would only get concerned if the Android System starts taking much battery use, rising above 10%. This might indicate some program misusing the system and keeping the phone awake too much.

Go Weather had such an effect on my Nexus S so I switched it off. Other programs that track your location in real time (like some weather programs... Weather Bug, but can be configured) can take a toll on the wake time of the Android System.
[Nexus S General] tailsthecat3:
running services shows my device having 234mb free ram
[Nexus S General] obsanity:
By saying "moved to the USB part" do you mean you moved most of them to the SD memory? If so, doing that will make your Nexus even slower. Memory and available app storage are two different things. I think you're confusing the two.

Nexus S and NS4G have:

1GB of app storage

16GB of SD storage

345MB of RAM

Also, having low memory available actually means your system is properly alocating all available recources. Do some reading on how androind manages memory. It's definitly not your typical Windows scenario :) Another thing to keep in mind is that RAM which is reported isn't accurate to what the usual "free memory" ideology is.
[Nexus S General] rault18:
Awesome answer sir!!! Thank you..it def help me understand some of the stuff.still a little confusing tho

Nexus one and s are def little different from each other
[Nexus S General] obsanity:
Yeah, they are different but besides the specs same rules apply. SD storage will be slower to respond than internal app storage and ram is filled up just about the same way.

Btw, this is a Nexus S section, isn't it?
[Nexus S General] rault18:
Yes it is..thus I mentioned and compared my one to my s
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jarmanuk:
Having applied the OTA update in Australia on Crazy John's, i believe i am running 136 Firmware.

Build number :-

U8800v100R001C00B136SP02

Very happy with the new firmware, stability much improved as is the call quality and camera. However, I am unable to root the phone using z4root.

Is there another method for rooting now?

Thanks,

Joe
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jarmanuk:
Superboot roots this beautifully :) painless

Can't post the link as i'm a noob. So google this :-

25 May r1: Superboot (and then some!) for the Huawei U8800 / Ideos X5
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] langers1972:
z4root worked for me after upgrade