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[Streak 5 General] Dragonner:
I've been pondering about this question for some time now and would like to seek for some people's advice on it. We all trust the developpers in the Dell Streak community with their custom roms and I do trust them since I've been using their roms in my D.Streak. But my question is that what if a rom developper puts a malicious code in their rom(stealing accounts,passwords...) and we flash it without knowing about the potential security issues that could result in using it. Has this happened before on Xda forums that a Custom rom contain some malicious code?
[Streak 5 General] sajibcy:
dont be in the middle. use custom rom or just wait for official. u dont have any other choice unless if u can cook for urself. but thr is always some guys who can find something if thr is anything wrong in roms. like Themanii who find that Olleh roms have serious bug. so dont worry mate.
[Streak 5 General] streakOwner:
That Olleh ROM works perfectly fine , that was just FUD , check the DSC ROM which is based on 406 ROM thread in development section, the most stable ROM uptodate, the Manii need to correct that mistake he did there.
[Streak 5 General] btvbtv:
I've been thinking of keeping track of outbound connections.

You could easily see destinations if you have a good firewall.

You may use osmonitor to see active network connections.
[Streak 5 General] gregianos:
Have you tested os monitor on the streak as 3g watchdog is unable to track application's use on the streak specifically.
[Streak 5 General] 903tex:
None of your devs put there changelog on a github???
[Streak 5 General] btvbtv:
I'd track connections using external (gateway) firewall.

Streak firewall is good in whitelisting applications you trust.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
If you're unsure then dont use custom roms.

The majority of code work is in the kernel, everything else is more or less unmodified or basic stuff like deodexing, there's virtually no work done on roms outside kernel/theming/non-code tweaks.

There's really only 1 kernel too, Streakdroid more or less, pretty much all roms with custom kernels are based off the SD kernel. You can grab the source and compile your own rom, and do all the tweaks yourself, the kernel is 99% of the work.

The only safe way to to monitor it from an external method, if hypothetically there was malicious code inserted, i would imagine it's in the kernel and i'd imagine it could mask itself from any app. Just because the source is given doesnt explicitly imply that it was the source for THAT EXACT kernel since duh you wouldnt point out that it's there.
[Streak 5 General] indiandon:
No way the do not contain malacious code
[Streak 5 General] Kolteabhiman:
Yes they do not contain any such mal code
[Acer Iconia A500] guyver76:
Iam using the stock google music app and I synced my music with Windows Media Player 12 from my Windows 7 laptop. I have all my Album info but no Artist info. I've search for a way to get the info and I have removed all my music and resynced. Is there an app that can help or did I do something wrong when I synced my music. Thanks for the help.
[Acer Iconia A500] jon-.-:
I haven't used WMP in a long time but I'm guessing when you say sync, you actually hooked up the tab to you laptop and than synced within WMP?

If so, than maybe just try directly copying the mp3's over from your laptop to your micro sd card.
[Acer Iconia A500] guyver76:
Tried that too no luck. Thanks for the suggetion.
[Acer Iconia A500] Neoprimal:
There are a couple ways to get artist and album info into your music. There are some apps on Android that can do it, but I personally find that it's music better to deal with doing this on a PC or Laptop than within Android.

The first and easiest method is to use WMP. Once your music is in a place WMP can actually find it, ie: a monitored folder of your PC, by default I think it's My Music but you can add folders manually, then you can open up WMP and hit the Find Album Info button, and go ahead and match your tracks to what you see in there. This works best if you have the music already arranged in folders using the Artist and Album names.

The second way is manually, there's an application called MusicBrainz Picard which is really good at identifying mp3s and also tagging them. If you ripped your music yourself from CDs or purchased them from Amazon or iTunes it should find the information and will match it up for you.

If MusicBrainz doesn't work for you, the last ditch program is Mp3tag which can look the information up based on Album or Artist names, then you can have it batch tag the files for you, based on your arranging the mp3s into the proper order, or you can just tag a few - whichever you prefer.

There are other tools as well but these are the programs I use, so I can only speak for them.

Good Luck.
[Acer Iconia A500] jon-.-:
Than you could try a different media player and see if google music is the problem.

Theres pleanty of free ones in the market.
[Acer Iconia A500] guyver76:
Temp Fix

I sort of got my artist info. I downloaded IDFixer from the marketplace for free the only program that reads the née artist info is the Acer Media app. Hopefully Google will update their app to fix this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dgold21:
I absolutely love everything about my first Android phone, the hardware, software, apps...it's all good...except the battery life. I've tried most everything I've read here to try and maximize it, and I'm still having to break out the charger to get me through the evening.

Coming from BlackBerry, I've been used to having battery life exceeding two days...not that I ever needed to last that long, I always charge each night anyways. I merely want to be able to make it to bedtime each night without having to charge the phone, without having to cripple the features I love about it, and without having to be overly wary of my usage.

Is this dream possible with this, or any Android device?

I've tried the stock ROM, now on UnNamed...tried Juice Defender (got rid of it), SetCPU, Screebl, using Llama to shut off wireless when away from home or work, brightness down low (shame with such a beautiful screen)...and I still average around 7% an hour drain. CPUspy tells me I spend 60% of the time in deep sleep and 15% at 200mhz.

I don't really know what else to try, I want so badly to keep this phone, but don't want to significantly compromise the way I'm used to using my mobile device. I don't play games, I don't watch videos, I use my phone as an information and communications tool...and from that standpoint, this phone is simply awesome, if it would just get me through the day.

I have one week left to try and resolve this...what should be my next step?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] GS2Frank:
It does sound like you're having unusual low battery life, my phone says that it's been 2 days 6 hours since my last charge and I'm still at 30%. If I were you, I would go and try to exchange it and see if maybe they give a little extra time to test out the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dgold21:
See I would be ecstatic with 30% remaining after just one full day...I take the phone off the charger at around 7am, and would prefer not to put it back on a charge until 11pm or later.

I got it from Amazon Wireless, so I'll have to give them a call and see what they say about an exchange...you always run the risk of getting a device with an issue though, and this one is perfect otherwise...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Skv012a:
Best of luck resolving this man!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dgold21:
It seems that the drain is only really happening when the screen is on...I can let it sit for awhile, and the battery meter doesn't budge...but I pick it up and start using it and you can practically watch it dropping...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Bowsa2511:
Turn your data off when you're not using it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dgold21:
So from about 7:30 this morning until around 12:45pm, I dropped about 13%...which is around 2.5% an hour, something I can live with. Although that was with almost no use, screen off most of the time. In the last 45 minutes, I've been using the phone, reading emails, screen on much more, and it's dropped 8% more in just that 45 min period. My screen brightness is about 25%.

That can't be normal, right?

EDIT: Ya know, I'm just going to shut my mouth and enjoy my phone. I put it on the charger at work for the last 30 minutes of my workday today, and I'm at 80% at 8pm...I'm good with that. I'll pick up a couple spare batteries, and with chargers at work and home, I'm all good. I'll keep it as bright as I want it, sync data as often as I want, leave the CPU speed alone, and quit looking at the battery gauge...when I do that, it's a fricken awesome phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Tdiliplane:
I was having this problem also, I use juice defender pro, and setcpu. I have juice set up to kill all connections when the phone is sleeping and set it up to where it syncs my facebook/emails every 2hrs, in setcpu you can create custom profiles that allow you to underclock your cpu when its sleeping, charging, certain times of the day/night. Im looking at my phone now and im at 1 day 0h 16 minutes with over half left. If you need some help setting up custom profiles and configuring juice (I recommend redownloading it again.) Shoot me a pm and ill see if I can help you. Good luck
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] quarlow:
I didn't want to compromise how I use my phone either. Most days I take my phone off the charger at about 7:30. By about the time I come back from lunch 1ish, it usually above 50%, but right around there. I generally plug it in at work for a few hours and generally can get it back to 90+ before going home. The day includes generally 3-4 hours pandora, so I figure that's par for the course. When I had my captivate doing the same thing it was almost dead by noon.

I think I might just be able to make it all day on a singles charge with what I consider heavy use, but its nice never seeing my battery drop below 40. Here's my weekly use, you can see the pattern of small drain, recharge, drain, charge overnight.

Everytime I think my battery is draining too fast I think back to how long ago the power in my hands wasn't in a computer tower, and I calm down. My phone is an extension of my hand, always being used, I don't expect my friend to starve, and don't feel unreasonable to let him snack mid-day.

For what its worth I am on UnNamed. I used S8 and did not see the giant jump in battery a lot of people claimed, I felt it was the same. I wasn't on stock long enough to really tell. But, I feel you need a week or more to really know, and I didn't last that long on stock.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mfpearson:
What is your screen timeout set at? Anything more than 30 seconds will drain battery excessively. Also, do you keep your screen on when listening to Pandora, or while charging the phone? Those are also a waste of battery.

2.5% per hour when idle its not bad, and losing 8% in 45 minutes with the display on is actually pretty good...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] quarlow:
I leave the screen timeout on 1 minute, its too frustrating to me when I am trying to read a webpage or thread and it times out. Maybe I am a slow reader, LOL. 45 seconds would probably work for me, but its not an option in these ROMs. I leave my screen brightness to automatic, and turn off my screen as soon as I start pandora. I do use Bluetooth to listen to pandora, so I bet that doesn't help. I also listen to audiobooks over Bluetooth in the car to and from work. But I did all the same stuff with my captivate. I have started using wifi when at home, but haven't seen a battery impact for that.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mfpearson:
not surprising at all to see your battery drain like that when you use bluetooth so extensively. nothing wrong with bluetooth, but it is definitely going to use up your battery faster - there is a huge difference in battery drain between a regular voice call made with the handset, and a voice call of the same amount of time made in my car via bluetooth - i don't have exact statistics, but i'd say about double the drain. same thing between a wireless bluetooth headset, and a pair of wired headphones.

sounds like you have solved your problem with multiple chargers, but if you wanted to avoid charging in the middle of the day, switching to a wired pair of headphones when listening to all of your pandora would almost certainly do the trick.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] quarlow:
Wow, I didn't realize it was so much. I have headphones in my desk at work for computer trainings, but never use them on my phone. Plus I could plug my phone into my car's radio go play over the speakers. I think its a convienience thing more than anything else, not having to unplug for the car when I get to work, nit taking the headphones out to pick up something at the printer.

As you said another charger is a good fix, something I never need on weekends, but I ways attributed that to pandora more than Bluetooth. Definately food for thought. Thanks.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dgold21:
As far as the screen timeout, I use Screebl and it works great. It senses the position of the phone to know when it's being used and keeps the screen on, then also can tell when the phone has been set down and turns the screen off within seconds. You can manually set the angles and positions so it also works fine when you're reading in bed. Helps with both keeping the screen on for those long emails as well as shutting it down quickly to save a little battery life.

Without a doubt, it's the screen being on that is the primary battery killer on my phone...when it sits idle, regardless of how often data is being used, I'm under 2% per hour drain. When the screen is on, you can practically watch the needle go down, it's crazy.

I do use SetCPU to drop the CPU to 200-500mhz when the screen is off, and to drop to 200-800 when it gets below 30%...aside from that, I'm done trying to optimize. I want to have my email and other notifications come in when they were sent, not an hour or two later. I want to see the great screen in the daylight, not a dimmed version. This is why I bought the phone. All that power requires some juice, so I'm going to make sure I've got extra juice on tap. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Tdiliplane:
What is that app you're using?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] cheetablaze:
The SGS II has power drain issues as well? I had the captivate and I could turn it on and watch the battery drain. I'm on Atrix 2 right now and I have zero issues with the battery. Best buy has dropped the price of the SGS II and it's really tempting to switch. Hmm what to do... What to do...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dgold21:
I picked up an Atrix 2 from Best Buy off contract last weekend so I could compare side-by-side with my SGS2, I really wanted the notification LED...but I took the A2 back yesterday. Improved battery life and the weak notification LED couldn't overcome the stark disadvantage in performance and screen quality (in my opinion). Laggy web browser and menu scrolling in comparison and an overly backlit looking screen with little contrast...although if I hadn't already had a couple weeks with the SGS2, I'd have probably been fine with it.

Everyone has different experiences with battery life depending on how they use their phone, you should grab the SGS2 and do a comparison and see what works best for you. Battery life has dropped down my priority list as of late, since I'm using the phone so much more now for every little thing (becasue it's so damn gorgeous), I have to expect to use up some juice.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] cheetablaze:
Yeah I had to install miren browser, go Launcher, and handecnt SMS to change the color of the LED colors. Loving the phone and hopefully we will get an unlocked boot loader. SGS was really easy to root, flash, and OC. Still a bit pissed at AT&T for releasing another SGS II, no reason for doing that. I have a couple of weeks to kick the thought around. If its looking bleak for us A2 users then I'll jump on over to the OG SGS II lol. Screw the skypocketrocketshipboat.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] quarlow:
Its called device analyzer. Its an app made for data collection about android device useage for the University of Cambridge. It also keeps track of data use, but not as granular.

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] netarc:
try screebly, that will let you set you timetout to 15s, whiel avoiding the issue you speak of above.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eddies92:
Battery Calibration?

Calibrating your battery may help.

In the market there is an app called "battery Calibrator" authors name starts with an "M" member of xda made it. Its pretty straight forward.

Download it

Charge to 100%

Open app while phone plugged in.. click start button and then it will say successful

unplug..

profit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] HerbGirl:
I know this thread is waaaay old, but this was so sweet. It brought a tear to my eye. ♥
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpdevil:
any help from anyone regarding rooting iball slide i7011 android 2.3 tab. I have tried gingerbreak and also tried superoneclick as per guide but of no use.

both of them reports that the tab is rooted but when i try su command superuser wont give permission. its a mess up right now. and when i try to remove superuser its not done saying its a system app. and when i go to /system/apps/superuser its mounted as r/o.

can anyone help this ?????
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gourab4u:
I have tried almost all process from single click app to rooting via adb, bt failed. So I have changed its firmware, which includes a custom ROM...So using my iball slide with much more functions.. :)

Bt there is one problem..The camera is not working..may be the device driver is not working, I am trying to develop this issue, and will be back when I will debug that.. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffarhan.s:
Rooting Iball Slide tab

DISCLAMER you do all this on your own risk if you break your tab don’t blame me. You may want to backup some files before messing around...

1.	Full charge your slide, as we required to on/off it many times

2.	Download Gingerbrak.apk , saved it to the root of you SD card

3.	Make sure Unknown source and USB debugging is enable

4.	One file manager and install gingerbreak.apk

5.	One Gingerbreak.apk, wait until your device is off

6.	Press power button, let the devices start, go to application if you see Superuser Icon there, you half work is done

7.	If Superuser is not install, manually install it from market

8.	Connect tab to your computer with OTG, wait until driver are installing

9.	To check if deriver is install or not

Right click computer > Manage>Devices Management

And check for ADB Interface and android Composite ADB Interface if it is there that means your tab is ready for next step

10.	Again on your tab click gingerbreak application, wait until your mobile is off, let it be in off for now

11.	Type CMD in search, Click and run as administrator

12.	Type CD.. until you reach to C:\

13.	Then type [space cd space platform-tools] , without bracket

14.	Power on your device, wait until you see slide boot screen than

15.	type [space adb devices] enter it will show you message and List of devices attached, don’t worry even if it doesn’t shows serial no of your devices , if message come as “device not found” than you need to install OTG driver manually

16.	Now enter [space adb space shell]

17.	Wait for few second and type [ cd/system/bin], now you would see $ sign

18.	Wait till device is completely started, unlock screen

19.	And type [ ./su] that is DOT /SU

20.	Now check the screen, Superuser application should ask you for permission , Click allow

21.	Type [rm/system/busybox/bin/su].

22.	Type exit , Exit again, Wala now you are rooted

Download root check application to check whether is rooted or not

If it doesn’t happened repeat the process again, if you have any question, just put in comment, I would love to answer it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scorpdevil:
first of all a big thanks to ffarhan.s.... thanks bro ur guide was fantastic and worked like charm. i rooted my tab without any glitch. thanks a lot buddy.

but something more to say for the newbies,

1. download gingerbreak.apk and save it in ur tab's sd card(which means internal 8gb memory)

2. ADB composite device may not show up in device manager so dont worry. but android adb interface must be shown in the path computer > Manage>device manager>android phones>android adb interface (its very necessary)

3. .. as ffarhan wrote > Then type [space cd space platform-tools] , without bracket.. its actually the path of your android sdk folder. assuming u have downloaded the sdk folder under c:\

so the path will be c:\android-sdk\platform-tools

then type adb devices press enter. the result may show like this :

List of devices attached

MID_serials devices

.... below this blank.dont worry its fine.

the main part is point 16 - 22. these should work as ffarhan wrote otherwise repeat the process from start.

anywyz, once again thanks ffarhan.s for the entire process. take care bro.

have a nice day :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gourab4u:
I have done this, bt for my case it was a temporary root..I think it has to be made permanent...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edely:
will "root explorer" go ?my i7011 is ok(Root Explorer 2.17).

it can mount / or other partitions as ro or rw?

btw, can u mail me the file "/system/bin/wpa_supplicant" , thanks a lot, sz.wupeng@hotmail.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivdutta:
the device manager on my computer does show any ADB interface or android Composite ADB interface. What am i doing wrong ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivdutta:
New problem !!

on performing step 16, the $ sign pops up immediately and for the remaining steps i keep getting 'cannot find'. plz help me out.:fingers-crossed:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tausif Ahmed:
That's not a bring problem . And the correction in 21st step that it is rm system not rm/system. Hope u get it :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firoz_95:
well i have a few problems...i have ADB interface...that means the the drivers are installed right?but when i open gingerbreak..it does the process...but my tab shuts off...i switch it on and superuser is also there...then i connect with OTG and i guess my drivers are installed...then i dont understand what you mean by Type CD.. until you reach to C:\...what exactly am i supposed to do??can u please post screenshots...or even better...if it is not too much trouble a video on how u did it!! i really want to root my tab...but i just cant get through to it!! :|
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellfrens:
how to root iball slide with jelly bean (6309r)

can anybody please help me and tell how to root iball slide with jelly bean (6309r):crying:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sooorajjj:
This Procedure Works for every Iball Slide Tablets

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43037172#post43037172
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jprovan1:
I have a major issue. I flashed a new rom but my phone got stuck in bootloop. I went into recovery and tried to flash my backup. When I went into recovery my usb storage was unmounted. So I figured I'd go into oden and flash a new kernal. When I did this I placed the file in the phone section not the pda section of oden. I realized this mistake after I started to flash and paniced and unplugged the usb. Now when I turn my phone on its stuck at a screen that says hook the phone up to kies and go into kies recovery. It will still let me get into download mode. Anyone know how to fix and what is all needed to fix, kernal, drivers etc....... Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] valerinism:
Have you tried this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1329950
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluefire808:
Just Odin a stock Tom or any one of your choosing?