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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00450:
I have tried everything. I tried various ROM's, SpeedMod kernels T27, T29, T32, and T39, and the stock ROM, and NOTHING is working! I cleared out my Dalvik and cache partitions obviously, and I caliberated the battery. Nothing is working!

I used the phone for 8 hours today, and the battery dropped to 50% in those 8 hours. I had the display on for 1 hour and 30 minutes, browsing Tapatalk and the internet. I made no phone calls at all. Besides that I listened to music for 45 minutes, but that's it. The rest of the time it was on standby in my pocket. This is running Lite'ning ROM v6.1 and Speedmod Kernal T39. However, no matter what combination of kernels and roms I try, the drain is pretty similar.

I have the stock android weather and news app set to update every 3 hours, and K9 Mail to fetch new mail every 15 minutes.

This is with Wi-Fi off, GPS off, and bluetooth off.

What could be affecting my battery so much? Is there any information I should post here from my phone so you guys could see what is causing this? I can't even use my phone for one day without the battery completely draining.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NaawB:
Well, you problaby already knew this, but the real life-sucker in the SGS II is definately it's screen. Get the brightness down low and make the screen timeout after 15 seconds so that you don't waste any unecessarily battery.

Can't help to much otherwise, just got my SGS II a week ago, still getting to know it myself. But hope that helps abit anyway.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iwang:
There may be other apps synching in background. In my case fluent news trend to hang around. Check if every app is doing background work.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fulvian:
I can assure you mine is worse, drops to 50% in 6-7 hours, but as the other person has stated, the screen is the culprit, when I used the phone longer than you, I would expect worse battery life.

Gosh how I wish this phone was equipped with more energy-efficient, less bling bling screen. SAMOLED+ is only good for show-off, which I usually don't do.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayerfernandes:
Theres an app called betterbatterystats on the xda forum. Use that and see whats draining your battery, especially in the wakeloks department.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alias3800:
Updated Facebook? It's raping batteries so hard it should be on the 6 o'clock news tomorrow night. Or, you know, pretty much anything these guys say here.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alexpiri:
Try to use Betterbatterystats and see partial wakelocks and cpu spy to see if you have any problem with deep sleep! Also take a look to battery usage and the percentage of Operating System Android
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00450:
I'll post pics of both things here. Where does android save screen captures so I can upload them?

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poch_1421:
i definitely agree with this. i unticked the auto adjust brightness, and i set the screen brightness to the lowest value at all times (it's super amoled anyway, the screen is still visible even at the lowest settings).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sabrateur:
+1

Make sure you sign out of facebook chat. I had a funny feeling that the chat was keeping my phone awake. Turned the chat off and I have had excellent battery life since.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MeanEYE:
First of all I think you are wrong when you say OLED uses more power than LCD. Remember how these screens work, LCD lets light go through and is completely back-lit all the time while OLED screens emit light from pixels that are not black.

On the other hand, the real problem with SGS2, in my opinion, is the reason phone never goes to sleep. If you take a look at screenshot I attached you'll see that screen on my phone was not on all the time but battery drain continued. Also, "awake" bar is full meaning phone never got the chance to go to sleep.

I have no clue how to fix this, maybe someone with more experience can help. I use to have HTC Hero on which I could turn off "Always on" in network settings and get phone to sleep often and save battery that way.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00450:
How do I sign out of it?

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sabrateur:
Open up the facebook app, press on 'News' at the top left of the screen (to go to the facebook app main menu), press Chat.

At the chat screen, press the menu button on your phone, and select log out.

If you ever accidentally go into chat again it will log you back in. Just remember to always log out again. Do not use the back/cancel to get out of the chat screen.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dzontra11:
Log out from..latitude...facebook..skype...

Data off.....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupraN0va:
Download better battery stat from xda forum. There you can see what keeps your phone awake.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupraN0va:
Display drain about 1% every 4 minutes of browsing, this is in your case 22,5% .

Every 15 min email checking and the automatic update checking from other apps does the rest. There is nothing suspicious with your battery drain.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nud3eskimoninja:
Bad apps?

I've had bad battery drain for the last week.

I've rooted, romed, unrooted, changed every setting I could. Nothing has really worked. I'm was losing between 5-10% an hour.

Then I just wiped everything and re-installed the stock 2.3.3 firmware and started re-installing apps an hour at a time.

Battery burn was going good about 1% an hour installing about 5 apps in an hour until I installed TM World Clock.

Within an hour I had a 10% battery decrease and Watchdog saying that Event/0 and Suspend were consuming the 90% of the CPU. I uninstalled...it went back to a 1% and hour battery drain for 3 hours.

Re-installed TW World Clock to see it was a fluke. Within 10 min. the phone dropped 2%. and Watchdog started sending warnings for Event/0 and Suspend again.

There might be certain apps that aren't allowing the Galaxy S2 to go into a deep sleep...explaining why the problem is so random among different owners pending on installed apps.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mebo73:
Was wondering if anyone knows how to keep the facebook photos up to date. I have alot of pics that arent the new ones and hasnt been for a while.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mebo73:
Seriously i cant be the only one. I know when i had the evo you could go and hit sync and it would refresh it all. Not on the Photon!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Beach_Head:
Are your contacts set to sync from Facebook or Motorola? I think this is where your problem lies...
[Motorola Droid X2] Electroniko:
Hello,

Does anyone know what to modify to remove the date that appears on the status bar. I have attached an image (hope it shows). The date is located on top and it only shows when I slide the status bar.

I want to remove that.

Thanks
[Motorola Droid X2] dragonzkiller:
Here is one without the date. YOU MUST BE ROOTED.

Also, this is based off of stock, so if you are themed and using a different ROM, then this probably work work if SystemUI.apk is themed too.

If you need a themed on changed, post the SystemUI.apk, and I'll update it.

Installation Instructions:

adb push SystemUI-nodate.apk /data/local/tmp/SystemUI.apk
adb shell

$ su
# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system
# stop
# rm /system/app/SystemUI.apk
# cp /data/local/tmp/SystemUI.apk /system/app/SystemUI.apk
# rm /data/local/tmp/SystemUI.apk
# reboot

Let me know if you have any problems!
[Motorola Droid X2] TheMuffStuff:
Or you can just adb push to /system/app and not use any su mount rm cp commands. ;)
[Motorola Droid X2] dragonzkiller:
I guess you could, but I was getting some FC's when I did it that way. And you still have to remount the /system anyway, so why not just do it all at once?

Plus, it's a little more "friendly" on the OS.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Zzim:
So we got our Sprint Epic Touch 4Gs in stock I decided to open one up and take her for a test run.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] King_tee:
Nice!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] churro7:
unlocking bootloader?

Can you take a pic of the storage capacity?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tony45x220:
Can we get a linpack score?

Sent from my rooted, suited, & booted Epic 4G #knowdat!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Yes please. I swear I saw one smoewhere. I want to say it was 60+ Mflops in 1.5 seconds..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] duce102:
Download mode looks less intimidating lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
Aw, they even named it Odin Mode for us.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dkotoric:
hmm, call me a noob but what are we looking at in these pictures.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jesse Buck:
Noob, ;), those are benchmarks of the SGS2E4gT, the about page, download mode for flashing tars via ODIN and I believe the bootloader screen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] m4rk0358:
I have a feeling a lot of us Samsung noobs are going to need our hands held. Coming from HTC, the new terminology seems confusing. :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aaron130:
I couldnt agree more with you! Ive been flashing roms on HTC since winmo days all on HTC devices, all this terminology is confusing! LOL. I got the Photon too and its the same thing, REAL different from flashing HTC. I just havent "studied" enough with the Photon though (even though I am unlocked and rooted) because I knew it would just be my backup phone once the E4GT came out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nebrando:
Hopefully qbking77 comes to this phone because he makes awesome you tube videos that helped me a lot on the Epic.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] m4rk0358:
I found this thread in the international SGSII forum.

Definitely helpful for those of us new to Samsung.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jesse Buck:
It's not so bad. Odin is just a tool to help flash a full image to your phone including modem and kernel. We still flash roms through clockwork mod most of the time. Tech associates at sprint stores use odin to remove your custom roms and root. We use it to flash completely back to stock. In order to use Odin (and for it to recognize the phone) you must be in download mode (was hold 1 and power on, on the og epic). Bootloader should be the same as on HTC, it is where you can flash custom roms (provided its not the stock bootloader shown here). Stock bootloader is where system updates are flashed once the update.zip is downloaded and detected on the sd card. Was real scary for me too...when coming from WM!!!

edit: hope the explanation wasn't too elementary, I'm no dev.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dkotoric:
well sorry I was just asking cause the screen talking about custom rom got me confused, but I have owned very very many phones so far and have rooted every single one of them

Evo 4g, Evo 3d, Photon, nexus S, Atrix, HTC Inspire, HTC Hero are just some of them
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] n2ishun:
It's very obvious to me that the bootloader is unlocked out of the box.

You get to *odin mode* by holding down volumne + and - keys at the same time along with the power key, release power key when device turns on while continuing to hold + and - keys untill the droid guy screen comes on, then release.

I'll betcha that the existing galaxyS 1 root files work :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Zzim:
I will try and get both today I am heading into work soon.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Pskillz87:
I can't wait to get this phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bhuggans:
thanks for the find. excited about leaving htc and teaming up with samsung!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ac16313:
They most likely will, the only thing maybe needed would be custom recovery.

You'll never want to buy an htc phone again when you get used to how easy it is to root, and fix soft bricks with ODIN for samsung devices.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ravizzle:
Odin has saved my og epic many a times when I got stuck in bootloops from flashing corrupt files.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ac16313:
And here's to many more saves for me and my og epic lol, going to have it for a long time to come.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Here is all the benchmarks that matter
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ac16313:
Whats the resolution and dpi again?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Resolution is WVGA, not sure about dpi probably 120
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] churro7:
can someone post a link to odin and tar? lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kawaski47:
Dpi only 120? That sounds low for some reason. Could be wrong though
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
I have no idea. I'm basing it off that dpi thread lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] anubis13:
Elixir2 tells me

240
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kn0wBuddy:
See here for the latest odin (v1.85), thanks to crawjr.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 12MaNy:
Op has booted into download mode and is probably using Odin to flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] The Root:
This makes me happy in many ways. I have love for #foreveralone

Sent from the American Dream.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kn0wBuddy:
Just to clear this up, the working ways to access download and recovery modes on the E4GT are:

Download = Vdown+Power

Recovery = Vup+Power

Not Vup+Vdown+Power
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Is the home even necessary?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kn0wBuddy:
Good question. I'll try on Monday if noone has done so before then.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Zzim:
No its not volume down + power = odin mode and volume up + power = recovery mode
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kn0wBuddy:
Ah, so Home isn't necessary?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KING SKILLZ:
Is the Odin process used to install CWM on the device? after this is most flashes done through CWM? the only Samsung device i own is the Tab 10.1, and i believe thats the first and last time i used Odin, all installed Roms were done using CWM, wondering if its the same process.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aburgthing:
Amen +10chars
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thekarens:
Ugh, my poor brain. I just spent over a year absorbing the way HTC rooting and flashing worked....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ac16313:
With this phone you'll forget it all and love how easy it is to do it on here!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Yeah, its really not difficult. I didnt even know what rooting was when I got my Epic. Now, I am so glad I have Odin to fall back on. It has saved me a few times.
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
This update just was extracted from the download I just received so here it is

DO NOT FLASH THIS IS FOR EXTRACTING AND DOING WHAT YOU WANT WITH IT

45.2.7.en.US (6.6MB) is official build number

In the zip you will see it say 45.2.5 but its the latest OTA pulled and it updates build to 45.2.7

DOWNLOAD

A software update for PHOTON 4G by Motorola is now available. The software update (Version.4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_6) 45.2.7.MB855.Sprint.en.US should be installed today for peak performance.

For more information on Motorola updates and product support,visit us at http://www.motorola.com/myphoton4g

Who Can Use This Release

ALL Motorola PHOTON 4G users. After downloading and installing the software release,adjustments will be made to Wi-Fi functionality.

How to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0FAjHym5TY

Thanks to qbking77 for the how to video.
[Motorola Photon 4G] qbking77:
Good work Tphillips :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Just got mine too. If I wasnt unlocked, rooted, ROMd and had a custom kernel, I would flash back stock and update.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
why is root explorer in the zip?
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
I just downloaded it to compare with mine and I dont see root explorer?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
the downloadfile.apk is root explorer
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
In patch>system>app?
[Motorola Photon 4G] winget5:
does anybody have a changelog for this?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
no it's in the first .zip along with Blur_Version.45.2.5.MB855.Sprint.en.US.zip, Blur_Version.45.2.5.MB855.Sprint.en.US.crc
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
What's the status if you have the unlocked bootloader/custom rom with this update? Last OTA update I was on stock without root and bootloader locked. So just curious. Thanks guys.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
probably going to need to be stock unrooted and locked again...
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Thats really odd....all I had was the 2 Blurs....1 file and 1 zip!?!?!? No root explorer!

---------- Post added at 02:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:22 AM ----------

Nothing yet that Im aware...even Motorolas web site only has the last OTA. They dont even have this one listed yet...

We will see!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Oh well. I guess this Update isn't that important is it? If I have to go through the hassle of relocking and unrooting. Is there really a benefit?
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Ive always been a very optimistic person when it comes to updates. Im sure they dont release an update but to release...Im sure there are benefits. Once a changelog is discovered, we will all know! :cool:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
here is what i see...
[Motorola Photon 4G] mdeezy:
Someone reported on my thread that the update stalled using Alien Rom...

I was using stock + torpedo root and my update went fine...Lost root of course but got it right back with torpedo again.

Hope this answers your question
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Okay.....is your bootloader locked though? Thanks for the info either way. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Here is mine!!! REALLY WEIRD!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] mdeezy:
No problem and yes mine is still locked. The other guy that had the issue was unlocked though.
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
You can be rooted and do the update and be fine...but if you are unlocked it may or may not take. Lots of risk involved unlocked. I would flash back with the last OTA and lock and unroot, re-root, flash this OTA adn then unlock and reroot again. Yeah...its a lot of work...but that what flashing is all about, right!! :eek:
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Someone point me in the right route for deoexeding and themeing I'm tired of sitting back :/
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Here you go kind sir!!

Hope this helps! LOTS of info! And a great place to start!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1060199
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Is the process to relock the bootloader as involved as unlocking it? After I figured out what I was doing, it was easy enough. Just confusing at first. Lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Yay 4 Juggs:
if you can wait i will upload a full deodexed and zipaligned template for theming tomorrow.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Thanks sir, I'm going to try and get a honeycomb version theme going on possibly and restart that rom I was doing

Beautiful, it won't be fancy with EXT4 or noting but I'm trying been making several versions over the past few weeks trying to find the right fit
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Piece of cake! Our man Juggs has an all in one, unroot and relock. Go here and follow the steps!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Any luck with moto mods for a unlocked bootloader or did you give up juggs? lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Sweet. I bookmarked that. And once I get a release of the stuff in the update, if it's worth it, I'll do that, if not, then screw it. Lol. Also, can I save my current theme with all the apps I have on my home page/save my apps? Or is that something I gotta just redo? I'm sure this is basic, but I have no clue, so I appreciate that help!
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
You can do a Nandroid backup (backup in CWM) and it basically takes a snap shot of your device and when its restored it is set up just as you left it...same messages, home screen, battery percentage, everything. Now keep in mind, doing this will also set you back to the current software setup you have too. Titanium backup will back up your apps and data, but you will have to reset up your homescreens and all that goodness. When you do an update like this or flash a ROM, it will always wipe your presets and theme. But Titanium will back up your info. You will just have to reset everything back up!
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So Titanium Backup is my best bet then? Thanks for all the info Man. I'm still trying to learn as I go.
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Yeah...Titanium is the best if you are wanting to save the data that goes with the app! (ex...level 47,000 on angry birds and you want to keep that). ;)

(I HAVE SEEN TITANIUM NOT RESTORE PROPERLY ON SOME ROMS AND/OR GIVE ERRORS WHEN BACKING UP ON ONE ROM AND RESTORING ON ANOTHER!!)

ME PERSONALLY, I use Astro File Manager. It backs up my apps to my SD Card. That all I worry about. I could care less about the data associated with the apps, just as long as I keep the apps.

Its totally up to you!!

...And you will never know unless you ask!! Glad to be of SOME help! :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
I don't have any games. And I'm not sure if any of the apps I have save data I need. So Astro File Manager saves them? Or you had to export?
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
You back them up to your sd card. It will recognize all the apps and you just select what you want backed up and it saves it. Then after you flash a ROM, install Astro again from the market and restore all the apps you just backed up.
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So I back them up to my SD in Astro. Gotcha, gonna do that now. Then I can take a picture or make a backup of my homescreen/system. Then reflash that once I wipe my system? Or I gotta start over if I wipe my system? Just so I'm sure I'm clear. haha, sorry if you answered this all ready. I got my mind on ten stupid things. Tryin' to figure out these new dive tables we gotta use now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Home screen setup will have to be set back up. As for astro, once you select the app and it opens, hit menu and then tools and then Application Manager/Backup. Once there you will see across the top 2 tabs....one says installed apps and the other Backed Up apps. Select all the apps you want backed up and back them up. Then once you flash a ROM you do this exact same thing, but select backed up apps and then install. BAM!! DONE!! :p
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
That's super legit Man. I really appreciate all the help. The forums have learned me a lot. haha. And now I'm able to actually do all this stuff, which is way helpful. What ROM are you currently running? I'm trying to think about what I wanna go with. I have Alien at the moment, but it has a couple little quarks that I've noticed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] justforflashing:
Right now Im running HomeBase 2.1 Deblurred. Its super fast and pretty stable. Im sure that sean, juggs, and shappy will have something in the works soon for this OTA update that just came out. We will see!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Right on. Is that the "Stock" ROM that was posted in the development forums?
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Downloadfile.apk was a mistake that was put in there by me and has been removed. My apologies to everyone to posting an app that was paid by mistake.
[Motorola Photon 4G] qbking77:
Anyone see any release notes yet?
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
i found the changelog guys

what was fixed:

EVERYTHING

;P

tphillips when will a version that you can flash via cwm be coming out?
[Motorola Photon 4G] qbking77:
Wasn't it just a wifi adjustment update?
[Motorola Photon 4G] anoroc44:
OTA update worked. Lost Root. Applied OCR methond and re-rooted. Very quick and easy to re-root.

Thanks to all.
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Later today I got the update right before beddy bye time so I'll have it tonight :-)
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
So I guess I am gonna attempt to relock my bootloader and get the OTA update we'll see how that goes.
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Ill have a cwm flashable update tonight when I get off work for you guys
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Sweeeeeeet. Thanks. But I'll need to relock my bootloader either way won't I?
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Nope :-)
[Motorola Photon 4G] xTMFxOffshore:
Sweet deal. Then I'll just sit tight and wait. Thanks!