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[Thunderbolt General] nimaim:
Yep TWS is the biggest culprit of battery drainage on these Android phones. If you're in a poor reception area, you're SOL because the phone will eat through the battery searching for a signal. I have an Epic and have similar battery drain issues due to this.
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
hmmm you might be on to something. Don't get good reception at home and my reception is ok at work, not perfect tho.
[Thunderbolt General] sublimaze:
First, you should seriously consider rooting, then flash a custom rom & kernel. The stock rom is no battery sipper, and custom roms & kernels are much more efficient. I was getting ridiculous overnight drain (>20%) on stock, but now I'm getting only 1% per hour (6-8%). Also, grab Autostarts from the market. It prevents unnecessary apps from launching in the background & wasting battery (& memory)
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
It'll show in the about stats when you press on the phone usage stats how long it was without a signal if you want to look (in case you weren't aware). Also I would make sure your phone is set to use wifi when sleeping always and not mobile (under wifi settings → press menu → go to advanced).
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
My mobile data off when I'm at work. So pulled my phone off at 6 am, made one call, checked my email and now I'm down to 93 percent. This is just ridiculous seems like my battery getting worst by the day.
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
I'm at home now on WiFi...my mobile data is usually off all day at work. Watch dog only alerted me to dolphin browser and I always close that out when I'm finished. I don't know what's going on.
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
Why do I need to baby sit my phone to get good battery life?
[Thunderbolt General] worwig:
This is not correct. The battery charge is controlled by the phone itself. the battery also has some electronics in it to limit the charge. The car charger provides 5 volts just like any USB port. You can (and I have) leave phone plugged into a car charger with no issues.

It is true that you should avoid charging the phone when it is HOT. So leaving it in a HOT car or any place HOT is a bad idea.
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
Checked the settings and my phone is using 3% battery life while it is idle. So I shouldn't be losing so much power. Is my battery damaged?
[Thunderbolt General] POQbum:
Yep, backing this guy up. The battery has it built in where it'll cut off the charge after it's full- and android has it that after it reaches 100% it'll let it drain down to ~90% because keeping it at 100% for extended periods of time is bad for the battery health.

For those more interested in your phone's battery and how charging works, check out this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=871051

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If you're losing battery life when you're idle you have a few main reasons.

- First check to make sure you have a low min. set for your CPU, you don't want to have your CPU rev'd all the way up all the time- it's just not good.

- Download "spare parts" and check under "battery history" and you'll be able to see if you have a lot of GPS usage, data usage, CPU usage, etc.

- I'm not sure if mobile data turns both 4G and 3G off. I know the 4G here totally demolishes the battery, even more if you don't have it in your area.

If you don't have 4G and would like to save your battery from a painful death, do this (easy to change back)

*#*#4636#*#* -- Go to "Phone Settings" >> change to "CDMA auto (PRL)"

This will turn off 4G and stop it from searching, while still allowing you to use 3G and not have to turn off all data.

Hope at least one of those points helped you out and hope you get some better life because that's pretty bad, shouldn't be normal.
[Thunderbolt General] crazed_z06:
Losing 5%/hour is normal for my phone when it's sitting doing nothing. The battery is a joke. I have Juice Defender Ultimate and that brings it down to maybe 2-3%/hour.
[Thunderbolt General] 4Gallovermyface:
I have as strong of a signal as you can get and my battery usage is still 50% cell standby. battery lasts about 5 hours.

I tried custom roms but then my phone has random reboots 5-10 times a day. even while underclocked.

Sent from my anus.
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
Thanks for the advice everybody. Rooting is not an option for me. I don't have the time to read up on that. I have a very hetic work schedule. How is juice defender? I thought Juice defender just disables your data when the screen is off?
[Thunderbolt General] POQbum:
Yep juice defender basically lets you pick what services to turn off during certain periods of time or certain applications/actions.

Honestly I find it to be a huge pain and never used it.. rooting with a custom Kernel/ROM is substantially better, but after rooting this phone I can say it's definitely a little frustrating and took me some time to get it done so I can see why you may not want to.

Another option is to try out a program called "tasker" which is much more specific. It pretty much has any combination you can think you (like once you open up a certain app, it will turn your data on, or GPS, vibrate mode, higher brightness, a specific music volume-- and once that app is closed it will turn it back off if you choose, or it will change the value to a different volume. OR if you turn the screen off it will turn off all data, GPS, etc- I think you get the point.

But this too would take some time to configure it to how you like it.
[Thunderbolt General] sonami:
Nooooo it is not! I can go 10 hours and only loose 2% and that's from missed call/SMS/vm's

If your looosing anything in standby something is eating your battery. Try turning off assisted dialing, tell HTC and phone finder. Those are usually pretty big culprits in eating battery while in standby

Sent from my TBolt using my f***king thumbs...
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
thanks will look into it!
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
how do I turn off assisted dialing, tell htc and phone finder? Would that mess up any settings?
[Thunderbolt General] sonami:
No it won't mess anything up, assisted dialing is in the phone settings, and phone finder is in locations I believe, I don't remember where tell HTC is, somewhere in the settings, just look for it. I just never turn it on during the initial setup when it asks

*edit

Ahh, I uninstalled tell HTC with titanium backup, that's why i couldn't find it in settings, lol. I uninstalled everything I don't use with TB

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[Thunderbolt General] jappetta99:
I was having similar issues to some where I would lose 2% within a half hour of unplugging my Tbolt, and then be down to 10% about 12 hours later with light use!

I am rooted, so I don't know if there is a way to do this stock, but I recently did this which has drastically improved battery life to where I am down to only 82% after 6 hours of moderate use (calls, Angry Birds, YouTube).

Fully charge your phone

While still on the charger, I rebooted into recovery and reset/wiped my battery stats

Used the phone heavily to get it almost dead

When the phone auto shuts off near death, I booted into recovery

Leave phone alone to fully die as recovery leaves the screen on and doesn't turn off

After phone dies, fully charge again before use

After doing this, my battery life was greatly improved. Nothing else changed.
[Thunderbolt General] sonami:
So bassically all this did was wipe your batt stats, which is what you should do anytime you flash a rom/kernel/radio/backup. The best way I've found to go about it is to charge till the phone is full, green light. Unplug, turn phone off and plug back in, wait till green light again, the longer this takes, the more ****ed up your batt stats are btw. Once it turns green, hold down low vol button and press power button, hold low vol till recovery boots. Wipe batt stats, reboot. Keep plugged in till phone boots and syncs and light turns green. Unplug and use till batt is. >5%, turn off batt saver to do this. Charge till full and that's it.

Sent from my TBolt using my f***king thumbs...
[Thunderbolt General] jappetta99:
Sounds essentially like the same idea, yeah. I do wipe everytime I flash, but I never did it while fully charged and plugged in so it probably didn't help. I was getting down to 5% after a very light day before where now I am at 50% after Angry Birds, YouTube, phone calls, texting, surfing, etc by the end of the day.

Another way to extend your battery is toggle off 4G if you are not using it. Staying on 3G most of the day is a huge help if your battery life is that bad.
[Thunderbolt General] sonami:
Yea, I only use 4g if I don't have wifi available and I need to dl something big, otherwise 3g works just fine

Sent from my TBolt using my f***king thumbs...
[Thunderbolt General] crazed_z06:
You only loose 2% in 10 hours? Sorry, but I dont believe this.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ErvMeister:
When i had KD1 rooted, Voodoo worked perfectly, but as i transitioned through KF1 it still worked. Then KF2 and KG4, it says no voodoo support kernel? Should i flash the Bali kernel to get voodoo to work, also does the SGS Kernel Flasher in the market work for our device?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
our phone doesn't have any custom kernels for gingerbread
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dazza_84:
Hi all, im not too sure what im actually looking for but what i had in my head was a equalizer widget that went up and down when music was playing?? Is that around anywhere??

I did have a look on the market but only found some that u can control yourself.

I was only after the electronic bars that go up and down.

Thanks if anyone can help
[Acer Iconia A500] MikeyUK:
I have the money and the ability to buy the Acer using the $100 gift card and i WILL be buying the Acer tomorrow.

NOTE: I already have a 7" Archos Internet tablet buy am looking to upgrade.

The only question i have is...

A) Do i open the tablet, have fun with it and hope that it will last long enough before the quad core (or more specifically, 7/8" honeycomb) tablets come out?

B) Sell the device on eBay which in turn would net me a profit of £70-80 which i could put towards a newer tablet? (yes i do live in the UK but i am on holiday :D)

Thanks for any advice that any of you are able to give me.

Mike.
[Acer Iconia A500] gammaRascal:
Where is the 'don't bother buying it' option?

Doesn't sound like you want it at all. Save your money for what will really make you happy.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
I was going to answer this question with somewhat the same answer, but passed on by, as I wouldn't have been as diplomatic as you were gamma. Mine would have included finding a hooker that takes gift cards?! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] MikeyUK:
XD

It just seems stupid to me to pass up on making £80.

Although this is the tablet that i have been looking at for a while i dont think it would hurt to look at both options.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
As it seems stupid to me to be asking strangers what to do with your money. Get it with your gift card, and put it on eBay and make your profit!

Now you have your answer! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] goodintentions:
Why not wait for a 2 quad core? Actually, if you just hang in there for a bit more time, you could get a multi-core tablet. In fact, if you wait a few more years, there's no doubt they'll have a quantum core tablet for you.
[Acer Iconia A500] MikeyUK:
Thats what's bugging me, im thinking that quad cores will be out by Q1 2012 but i will benefit by waiting for more of them (just look at dual core)
[Acer Iconia A500] Neoprimal:
lol, he was being sarcastic.

Anyway, you can't play the waiting game forever. Who knows what will be coming up after Quad Core tablets. For all you now, 6 core ones will be coming in Summer of 2012, then you'll want to wait on those. Impulse buying is never a good thing, but waiting and waiting isn't either. You have to take the plunge at some point.

I'm assuming you're buying the tablet in the U.S in order to turn that kind of profit in the U.K. But will you be turning a profit? I mean - what if you decide you DO want something before the quad cores come? That would mean you'll have to shell out MORE for another A500 or something else, since they are all more expensive there.

My advice would be to just pick carefully now - or decide definitively to wait for a quad core solution and stick with that decision. It's not worth it to get it now and then sell it for £80 profit, because that £80 is going to be eaten up once you decide you want something before the quad cores come.

Good Luck.
[Acer Iconia A500] goodintentions:
I'm glad someone picked up on my sarcasm.

My brother in law 2 months ago bought 2 transformers (1 for him and one for his dad). I just told him about the $100 off thing at home depot and he said "so?" To him, there's nothing to regret. He couldn't have known back then. He was ready back then to buy the tablets. He made the decision to buy them and that's final.

As was mentioned, impulse buying isn't a good thing. But if you want to wait for the next latest and greatest, you will always be waiting. Forget quad core. My whole family consist of engineers. I am friends with many people who work in the industry. I have been assured on good authority that if you're willing to wait just a few more years you will be able to buy quantum core computers and tablets. In fact, if you just wait a few more years, you will be able to get tablets with screens made from graphene, the strongest transparent material known to science at this time. It's also the most conductive material, so that computers and tablets will be much much thinner. I'm talking about paper thin.

If you can, you should wait a few more years after that. I'm sure by then someone will have come up with tablets that have neural interface so that you can just think it and the tablet pc will do it without you using on screen keyboard.

You get the point.

If you're ready to get a tablet now, then go for it. It makes sense to wait a month or so if you know for sure what you want will be coming like next month. But waiting on the rumor and the chance that the next latest and greatest will be here in a year... or two years... you can keep waiting if you want. Don't let me stop you. But to me, that's a boring life.

Added by edit.

Besides, this isn't the dark ages where you got a sword and that sword will last you the next 50 years. We now live in a day and age when everything is disposable. Even my house is disposable, meaning I can sell it if I need to. I'm not one of those people that pursue the latest and greatest. One of my computers lasted me for nearly 10 years. It's just nowadays it doesn't make sense to spend the time to wait for a pentium 3 or pentium 4 to perform a certain process on windows xp when I can spend a mere $300 for something that's 100 times faster.

I'm still using dvd's. I absolutely refuse to switch to blueray. I think they are overpriced. The differences just don't bother me, and I have watched them on the latest and greatest tv's nowadays.
[Acer Iconia A500] gammaRascal:
I was using an Archos 101 when I heard about the a500. I took the plunge. I preordered it and when it finally arrived almost a month later, I handed the Archos to the wife and never looked back.

Sure, it's an upgrade (a major upgrade) so it integrated into my already acclimated tablet lifestyle.

For the price point, it worked for me and with the TF vs Acer arguments already heated (by the time I got mine) it really was just a question of, you know what? I'm keeping it. I want it, I can definitely use it and I'll keep using until it dies - at which point, I'll get the next 'whatever' version.
[Acer Iconia A500] saint327:
Normally I would say go for it, but in this ecosystem its different. You can have all the cores you want, but if there is no underlying OS or apps that utilize them to their full potential, its a waste. In the end you're hoping something awesome comes out that will harness all that power, and eventually something will. Hopefully its sooner rather than later, because you are at the mercy of the manufacturer to continue to support the product. You have the dev community there to, who do great work, but most of them don't have the time to dissassemble/reassemble the code for drivers, so you end up with certain functions not working as they should when you try and load an OS that is not officially supported.

Case in point, the Motorla Atrix, which I drooled over for quite some time, is just now getting Gingerbread. I'm thinking full hardware acceleration for phones won't be in place until Ice Cream, which is fine as long as Moto contintues to support the product. I think Google is trying to clean that up a bit by asking OEMs to make a pledge to support their product for a minimum length of time (18months?). In my opinion, its best to go with something that is very similar to the lead product..in this case, the Xoom. So...anything with a Tegra 250. Unless you are beyond the halfway point between lead device launches, in which case it might be wiser to wait for that device to launch or the specs for it to leak.
[Acer Iconia A500] pov1:
Couldn't have said it better myself. In my younger days I fell into that trap & finally came to my senses.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibsk8:
Why not save the hassle and just sell the gift card?
[EVO 4G General] luciferii:
read this: http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-saying-sayonara-several-android-smartphones

my stomach dropped when i read it, ss i have just bought my evo in june.
[EVO 4G General] crypt0kiddie:
Sounds about right to me. It's been just over a year. That is about the current life cycle of most smart phones.

No worries though, the DEV will continue for quite a while still.
[EVO 4G General] nhoodjr:
I'm quite content on my Evo...there will always be community based DEV for the evo long after its phased out...Some of us cant afford to get new phones each contract period...I plan to keep mine as long as I can. :)
[EVO 4G General] trindy:
There are still people developing for the Hero, I'm not even a little bit worried about my Evo :)
[EVO 4G General] github:
Maybe HTC will give us an unlock in October as a farewell gift. :cool: I personally don't need it, but it would be a nice gift for those who got it pre-installed.
[EVO 4G General] Waffles And Syrup:
I, too, just bought mine in June. But I'm not even remotely worried. Even on stock, I'm loving this phone. I could definitely use the better battery life once root hits the 2.3, though.
[EVO 4G General] Jason Black:
Yah that's only because there'll be an iPhone in September.
[EVO 4G General] spider2346:
I'm not really surprised they are phasing the phone out, it was only a matter of time before faster phones hit the market. That however does not mean the all dev work will stop on it over night. This phone is still the OG & I'm proud to rock it!
[EVO 4G General] culua:
I have high hope for sprint I will be expecting them to improve there 3g and 4g coverage and the new phones.
[EVO 4G General] DJ1395:
I gotnmy evo in December and even though I can upgrade to the evo 3D soon I'm staying with my evo
[EVO 4G General] Jason Black:
Oh please.. You're going to get an iPhone by then.. Lol
[EVO 4G General] culua:
I would too if comes out.
[EVO 4G General] kevlar3d:
I am going to stick with the evo until sprint makes the jump from wimax to lte. Hopefully they wont be able to support both networks and give us some sort of incentive to switch. Wishful thinking probably- with the amount of wimax phones they currently have in the wild.
[EVO 4G General] Lokifish Marz:
A top dollar phone that will get stomped by the S2, Photon, 3D and 4G+ but comes with an Apple logo and manufactured by a company that wants Android to simply cease to be, I'll pass.
[EVO 4G General] culua:
I had iPhone before, getting an android. What I'm looking for a phone is long lasting battery life and more choices of games and bigger screen like my evo.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
Stomped? Do you somehow got the iPhone 5 specs out of thin air?
[EVO 4G General] Lokifish Marz:
Logical progression would dictate A5 dual core ARM9 cpu clocked at 1Ghz, GPU most likely SGX543 or 544, 1gb DDR2. It's not hard to see where it fits in the hardware specs. The only advantage I see Apple would have is OS and app optimizations out of the box as they control the hardware design.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
The A5 doesn't get stomped by any of those phones. Its likely that the GPU will be superior.
[EVO 4G General] stangdriverdoug:
I'm excited for the Galaxy S2. I'm hoping it's unlocked from the get go. Btw it just hit the FCC this morning!
[EVO 4G General] luciferii:
how did this get turned into an anti-apple thread? yes we all hate apple, but this is about sprint dropping our beloved evo!
[EVO 4G General] nate420:
+1

But I'm gonna laugh my ass off when the iPhone 5 comes out and its only hardware change is a "new look". And .2 inch bigger screen....... Oh and obviously "newly revamped OS"

I had the 3d for a month and sold it... To many "new hardware" bugs and I'm in love with a stripper, aka sgs2... I already had a Korean version of it on tmobile and about had sex with the SAMOLED+ screen....

-1 for sprints flagship phones retirement :(

sent from a different phone every week
[EVO 4G General] Jason Black:
Dude even if it comes with a processor that runs 245mhz, people will still buy it because it's an iPhone. It will probably still sell better than the evo if it runs 245mhz.
[EVO 4G General] mcwups1:
When you buy an HTC phone, does the money go to them, or does some of it go to Sprint?

The reason I ask, is because it only seems logical that whoever the money goes to, would not want you to "root" your phone, because they want you to buy the next phone that comes out.

Rooting to me means that I'll never have to buy another phone, because I can change the look of it at any time.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
Sprint buys the phones from HTC, and you buy the phones from sprint. So technically some of what you pay for goes to htc.
[EVO 4G General] jessejames111981:
tell that to the people who have a G1 or a hero. Slower phones won't be able to run all apps properly no matter what software you have due to hardware limitations.

I understand sprint phasing out the Evo. But being able to keep our own software up to date so it can last 2 years is important if companies want us on 2 year contracts.
[EVO 4G General] bkrodgers:
So I take it you're still rocking this bad boy then, right?
[EVO 4G General] androidfan123:
Will somebody just root gingerbread so I can have this phone last more than three months before I pitch it
[EVO 4G General] nate420:
Nope sorry sell it now...

sent from a different phone every week
[EVO 4G General] Zac95:
Gtfo this thready with your iPhone love.
[EVO 4G General] mcwups1:
Well, in all honesty, I meant to include that the only reason I'd get another phone is if it had a significant speed upgrade.

The EVO does everything you could ever really NEED right now efficiently.
[EVO 4G General] AA27:
In this case, the money goes to Sprint, they want you to use their services (specially thetering and hot spot wifi) that cost you money with them but is free if you root. ;)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShannonAUT:
When I connect my Tab 10.1 to my PC (usb debugging is off) I can access the tablet through the explorer. However when I try to copy to / from the Tab it takes ages. ~18min for 3gig.

Same USB port Galaxy S is MUCH faster. Is there any way to increase the transfer speed?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomasmedek:
I have same question. And another one: is there possibility to see Tab in Total Commander? Because if it is connected to PC, I can see it in Explorer as disk drive but not in Total Commander.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultanbrunei:
I found this to be one of the flaws of the new galaxy tab. And I don't think it is repairable
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShannonAUT:
Damn, how are there guys copying their MP3 library to the tab? Just keep it running over night?