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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espenfjo:
Hi,

My phone charges extremely slow when connected with USB to my MBP.

I checked with the OS X tool "USB Prober" and it says 96mA, checking my old iPhone it shows the correct 500mA.

What might cause this, and how may i fix it?

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Espen
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espenfjo:
No one knows?:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] System of a pWne!^:
At what power-level was your phone when plugged in? Because when it was already in the 90's, it charges slowly since the LiIon charge cycle is meant to work that way.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espenfjo:
Oh, that might be a very good point. I will let the battery drain a bit before i plug it in the next time.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espenfjo:
It seems to draw 96mA still, even if the battery was down to 75 %.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rampler:
This would mean, your phone needs about 19,8 hour to load to 100 % from 0%. (1900/96)

It is correkt ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espenfjo:
When connected to USB it definitely sounds correct, it takes extremely long time to just move one percentage up. Even when the phone is not in use, and the display is off.

19.8 hours should mean 5 % an hour, and that sounds very correct.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rampler:
Do you have also the problem, if you charge via a AC adapter ?

While I had it I found out that if you take a car charger or a usb cable and solder the two inside pins together (the data lines) it tells Android you are on a wall charger and charges at the higher rate.

If you use a special usb charger cabel, it should work
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espenfjo:
Using the AC adapter it charges normally.

I will see if i can mod one of my cables to short the data lines.

Thank you
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lekselius:
Are the SGS II enumerated properly, that is the USB drivers are loaded so you can browse the SD card or connect with Kies or similar? Before a USB device is allowed to draw more than 100mA it has to negotiate this with the host. And the USB port has to be capable of delivering 500mA but since your iPhone shows 500mA this should be ok.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espenfjo:
I think so, yes. If i chose to mount the SD cards i can fine browse them and upload files etc.

I can also use ADB when connected.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pdario:
Same situation here...

The phone negotiates only 96mA with my Win7 PC; other devices, on the same PC, negotiate 500mA and the phone charges fast with wall charger.

Does anybody know hot to bring my phone to 500mA on PC?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banjara:
If you dont mind flashing a kernel try dori or gustavo's. The app where you set the kernel level params, e.g. synapse or stweaks, has an option where you can set the current the phone can draw from a usb connection. By default its 500 ma only.

Btw,did you see the same results with different usb cables/ports/pc?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pdario:
I'm using Apolo kernel and it is set to use 450mA from USB (default), but the phone only uses 96mA...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
To begin im not rooted or unlocked and ive read through the stickies and pages at "solutions" but i gotta say this is the worst phone ive ever owned. I figured it would be at least on par with my old g2 or mt4g but they would smoke this paperweight on edge network. Ive factory reset, used task killer, rebooted, called tech support, and im about ready to committ cellular homicide and mail it back piece by piece. I know im not the only one here....who else wants to vent some steam by sharing a nightmare?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] icy56:
Um it would quite help if you were to explain the reasons why you don't like this phone? And it would also really help if you didn't judge this phone stock because when its on the stock rom, its a piece of sh*t. I almost ran over this thing.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
It shouldnt have to be rooted to compete with the g2 or mt4g...this beat the iphone 4 in a speed test. This thing lags on every scroll and takes a good 10-15 sec to open anything you touch. This isnt the first one ive experience this with either. Tmobile hyped this up like its hot sh** but its just cold diahrea
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] icy56:
If you are clearly having issues why not custom rom it? I really don't understand why are you refusing to do something that has SOO MANY benefits and zero disadvantages. Sounds like lazyness to me. Shouldn't even bother with xda if you won't even root the phone
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] candler33w:
My wife and I both got the SGS4G at the same time she had all of the same complaints and eventually caved in and got a different phone. I on the other hand came to XDA and got help and now I am perfectly happy with the phone. the Vibrant had all of the same issues and its a software problem form Samsung. I loaded a custom ROM and all of the issues I had are gone. the great thing about software is that it can be fixed. Hardware issues are another story of which this phone has none that I have found. It is possible to revert back to stock firmware and software so that its like you never did anything if you want to sell the phone later. So this is not the place to vent about how crappy your stock phone is it is the place to come and load the software needed to fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] camalus:
I'm.with you... I miss my mytouch 4g. Such an awesome phone. So many roms. So fast.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] icy56:
Honestly this is like if you bought a Ferrari and it had a rev limiter set at 2k with the top speed limited to 10mph but refused to turn off the limiters. The limiters are clearly there and you can clearly turn them off but you refuse to and instead of fixing the issue, you complain saying that you shouldnt have to turn them off and your ford fiesta is faster.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
Lol...damn dude you got me pegged huh? It couldnt be that i dont have a pc right now, and thats one of the requirements to take off your so called "limiters". Think a little before you flame boi. I feel real sorry for the people that dont know anything about root and deal with this steaming pile daily.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] icy56:
I know that rooting the phone isn't simply going to make all the problems go away. I absolutely hated this phone. Then when the new gb roms came out and all the tweaks started pumping out, I actually started to like this "p.o.s". Well why don't you wait till you have a PC and flash a custom rom first before you go flaming away at the device.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
That B.S. dude this is a forum...i dont have to come here and download software. Thats only part of what this sites about. I also like coming here and shoting the breeze about phones..maybe ill talk about dev stuff maybe ill talk about how slow my phone is.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
i think ur saying stock=crap rooted=good....so you basically agree with me so far...we both hate it stock and when my pc is back up n running ill root and update my review when i got custom rom. But as it stands im at 1ghz slow as hell. And its like i said before i dont want to buy a phone depending on root in order to make it function like its supposed to. If the cpu acted like it was at 1ghz i wouldnt be slammin this p o s.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] RaverX3X:
just a note you dont ever need a pc anyomre to cough root a phone and flash a diffrent rom at all all yuo need is root explorer and to start off the recovery from krylons cwm final and then the update.zip and then the custom rom :P or a few of them push the recovery record reboot install zip via update gets u to cwm and then install new rom :P never once haveing to touch a pc :P

and if your on froyo u can use the market and get root :P theres apps that work for that :P
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] candler33w:
You came here with the sole purpose of complaining about the phone and not showing any interest about doing anything about it. If you want to complain about how bad this phone is try doing it on the T-Mobile forums so at least people who are thinking about buying the phone might be persuaded against it. I fell into it by commenting in the first place and I overlooked the first rule of the internet...Don't feed the trolls.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
Ok...when did i say i didnt wanna do anything about it? Your the ones that came and flamed me for speaking blasphemy. I just made a topic for everyone whos pissed at this phones sluggishness to come and vent, maybe tell some funny experience and we all feel better at the end of the day. Thats what venting is to me......guuuussssffrraba.....get it?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] RaverX3X:
seems the market app may have been removed sent u a link with one that will root any 1.6-2.2 android rom without needing a pc :P just make sure to pick 2.2 version of froyo :P should work
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] bkoon1218:
Part Four, is that you?

Anyways, I've actually played with my cousin's MT4G (3 cousins have that phone). I honestly wouldn't say that the SGS4G falls too far behind it.

My cousins always complain about the battery life, since they can't even get half a day's worth with the screen at the lowest setting. On the other hand, the SGS4G put up excellent battery life since I got it. I ran it with its first brightness setting and easily got a full day's use out of it.

Speaking of the screen, you can't deny that this screen is quite beautiful.

As for the stock speed of the phone, I kinda have to agree that the MT4G is slightly better. It's not ridiculously faster, but it is faster by a hair. On a more interesting note, my friends had a rooted G2 which lagged more than my stock SGS4G.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
Ill give you the screen, it is beautifull and that was a big selling point .my battery drains fast and charges slow ive downloaded maybe a couple apps, my display takes 99% of my battery and its at half power if you can believe that. But a g2 that lagged worse? He should get mexdroid or pyromod and start blazing up and down the superhighway. Those were my fav anyway
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
Yeah i tried all the one clicks but to no avail...i tried like hell to find superoneclick that didnt require a pc but it doesnt exist yet apparently. Ill probly mess around with your cwm method....thanx for the tip
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] icy56:
But don't stay on a froyo rom. I didn't really like those either. The big difference is when you start using a gingerbread rom which you will need a PC for to flash the bootloaders.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] camalus:
I have two mytouch 4gs. The screen on that phone blows away the sgs4g. The only reason I don't use it is because the wife and daughter have taken them over and stuck me with this thing.

Mytouch4g running Faux123's AOSP rom gets well over a day with heavy usage. About the same as CM.

I like the sgs4g.... its what I'm stuck with for now... but its no where near what the mt4g has to offer.

Better camera. Flash. Better screen. Better wifi.

And AOSP.

This phone with every tweak and rom doesn't come close to the mt4g.

Sorry. But its true.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
Maybe its just the size of the screen idk but i thought that was the only real edge it had on the mt4g. Tdj is a beast for his demonspeed miui....cant wait to try these roms and see if this thing cuts the mustard...who knows maybe with the right rom ill like the sgs 4g just as much
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
lol. bkoon, you're right. part four has returned. i knew this forum was getting too quiet.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Exodian:
My wife has a g2 and my sgs4g stock ate her phone up. Better screen fast response faster download speeds.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] bkoon1218:
Glad someone got that reference. ;P Always ♥ you jager555.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
When i ran pyromod i was getting 3800. I know people dont believe in quadrant scores but i sure used to...and it was blazing fast i kid you not
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] bkoon1218:
That's because the Hummingbird processor isn't optimized for Quadrant like the Snapdragon is. That's what I read somewhere. I forgot where though. :/

For example, Octane 2.X has a stock score of 2,700. I'm sure the smoothness and speed of Octane would be on par with Pyromod.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] htaak:
Wolfson / Voodoo sound....big selling point for me. I listen to music all day at work and matched to an old set of MDR-7506 this phones audio quality is phenomenal. I personally would never even consider buying a phone that doesn't come with Wolfson.....
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jigglynuts:
I really enjoy my sgs4g however I do have to agree that stock... this phone is not even a great paperweight.

I have previously thought that when buying a phone that it should not have to be modded or rooted to work properly. However, if you follow those rules you will not have an android smart phone whatsoever. So far every android phone I have used has been much buggier than I assumed "factory" would be. I had this issue on the G2, XT720, GS4G and most recently the admire.

The fact is that the phones simply are not released running to their full potential. I do understand the frustration because honestly it should work 100% out of the box. That is just not the case. That is often times why phones come out with official updates to repair the bugs that the phone had when it had originally came out.

Now Samsung clearly knows there are bugs with this device. They have GB leaks all over the place. Hopefully whenever/ IF EVER we get an official GB update from Samsung it will make the phone as close to 100% working out of the box as possible. Obviously, most of us on here are still going to mod quite extensively beyond that however it will at least give us a better base to build off of.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Fluidification:
If you are reffering to CM7, well I gave up. I doubt we'll get it

Sent from my SGH-T959V using da premium
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] :
This thread is even more stupid than the ones talking about "Hi, I bought a new phone so I'm leaving this forum". Who cares what you think about this phone? Return it or buy another. Simple as that. While there's people actually doing something to make this phone amazing you come here saying it's a p.o.s. because it's hard to root and you have stock? Get the smoke out of here. This forum is for the ones that would like to make the phone better. Not complain about having the worst phone ever because some fairy doesn't come and convert it to a Holy OMFG Nexus running Android 10.0.

About trolling, I don't care. These forums are filled with useless threads and mods seems to like them. Soooo... I'm being fed, I feed back.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
This phone really isnt hard to root, and im all for making this phone better...it needs all the improvements it can get. Im messin around with cwm final right now, it seems promising. When/ if i root ill do all i can to help the devs make great roms.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
YOU will HELP? judging by your attitude, that seems very unlikely.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] RaverX3X:
so i guess u did follow the pm i sent u with the root app :P well yw
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] :
I take it as you didn't read much to make your phone awesome with all work from developers here. You just wanted someone to carry you around telling you exactly what to do. Before you ask, EVERY ROM here is great. Try them out. READ. No need to make another thread.

#@$%^$&#%$&%@$%*#&%^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] nazcalito:
This phone was getting official 2.3.6 leaks from Samsung last month, which is more than some phones. What happened to the leaks, I don't know. Maybe nobody's been posting them here. btw I have a leftover Samsung Player One if you want to trade
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
Yeah i did...i said it didnt work. Then i went to your first post about cwm final
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] smokeuout:
Damn dude read a little before you troll...i said i dont have a pc to work with right now (which complicates the simple process of rooting) and thats why im workin with cwm final. I never asked for anyone to hold my hand and root for me. You love putting words in peoples mouths and thats a pet peeve of mine. I havnt flamed you at all but that seems to be all you can do and if im right (which i hope im not) your one of the people giving xda a bad name. You have your opinion i have mine
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] redspeed6:
When its all set and done... its still just a phone. Roms here are great - I been playing with a few - recently loaded GB and playing with Audiophile's beautiful sgs4g Rom - its nice and stable so far - few bugs but I still don't expect it to run nor function like a PC or Tablet. Just use it to talk/text and the kill time while standing in line playing angry birds :P
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] RaverX3X:
because whitehawk myself and desexton really felt there wasnt a reason to keep updateing the roms to the newer builds do to the fact nothing was ever really changed? You know the old saying if it aint broke dont fix it really all that was changed was the version info wi fi still had issues.. And even then whith the latest leak if it is fixed its not like u cant just flash the new modem ;P

corrrection i cant say fixed as it is no where near what u had in froyo but its a little better..
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] zelendel:
OK guys this thread has gone on long enough.

OP this is a development forum. Not a come here and complain about your phone. Now if it is not up to what you think it should be and are not happy then do something about it. Be it swap it to a friend, sell it, find a way to root it or even blow it up. But don't come on to a development forum to just complain. If that is what you want to do then do it on another site.

Thread closed
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeePA:
Does this device have video call over 3G network (not over 3G data, using gtalk, skype, etc.) or this funcionality is still not present in Galaxy Nexus / ICS?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] th0r615:
Don't all phones need 3G (or 4G/WiFi) data to make video calls?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Philio25:
Video call = 3G network, not using your 3G data plan.

Skype etc = 3G data.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] th0r615:
Which phones allow you to do that?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WhiterThanWhite:
I thought pretty much every 3G phone has been able to do this since 2004? At least in the UK...?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Philio25:
If you're talking Android, then Samsung phones can.

Also tonnes of other non-Android 3G phones, the technology has been around for around 10 years in the UK now, vaguely remember the huge brick video phones that were first on the 3 network.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] th0r615:
Must be a UK / European thing then... I don't think I've heard of that before.. every time I've done a video call its been with either Skype or FaceTime or some other service like that. Never done it over the carrier voice network.. always over 3G Data or WiFi
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeePA:
My Samsung Galaxy S can do these video calls over 3G network, but Nexus S can not. So I was wondering if this could be a new functionality in GN or ICS...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tjotte:
I could do native video call on my HTC Touch Diamond 5 years ago.. or was it 4 years..? Anyway when it came out. And the techniqe has been around alot longer in Sweden..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
It's not possible on Verizon, since CDMA2000 EV-DO is data only. It might be possible on AT&T, but I think I read somewhere that AT&T limits its UMTS network for data only, and uses 2G for voice.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mskip:
I think it is mainly a European concept as when I bought my HTC Kaiser (TyTN II) 4 years ago it had video calling facility via the front facing camera but the American version of the same phone did not have the front facing camera.

Basically its the same as making a voice call but you would select video call from the menu instead. As long as both phones had front facing cameras and supported video calling then you could have a video conversation over the carriers network without using data but the video calls were not part of the inclusive minutes bundle and were ALOT more expensive (around 50p - 75p a minute depending on carrier). Same thing goes for the phone before that (HTC Hermes) but I never once used either phone to make a video call lol.

With the advent of Skype and Google Talk there is really no need for carrier video calls anymore, I have never seen any per minute pricing for video calls in the carriers books for years and think its pretty much dead.

Hope that explains what the OP was asking about.

Mark.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
I had the Touch Pro and Diamond 2 (HTC Pure) on US AT&T way back then... and it included Video Calling over cellular. Of course I never used it because no one ever had it back then.

Even today I don't know anyone to video chat with except my gf's netbook over skype.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
the Euro version of i9000 and i9000M allowed that

came with build in "face time" per say to allow video chat

my SGS2 phone dialer did not include video chat, seems like they removed the feature

so it's unclear if it's going to be supported by stock ICS
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] list-mails:
Any update on 3G video call capability?

As the Galaxy Nexus is already on the market in the United Kingdom for a few weeks, and now even in Germany, I wonder, are there any updates on the capabilities of the 3G video call capabilities of the European devices? (That a US-Verizon-Galaxy-Nexus will not have 3G video calls is obvious.)

I know that the Samsung Galaxy S2 in Europe definitely supports native video calls via 3G. But does Galaxy Nexus as well?

I appreciate any helpful response.

Thank you,

list-mails
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mysamnexus:
video calls

Video calls with no internet connection has been in australia for years now also. In regards to the topic question.

It would seem the galaxy nexus comes with no native video dialing free of an internet connection and no app's appear to be available for this option either. I find it to be a big disapointment when it comes to delivering options we have got used to being standard features on mobile phones today. Further more whilst the device seems to run quickly and relativly bug free it is a phone with substandard basic graphics for most of it's menus and general features. I use fring to make video calls and it seems to work fine however it does rely on an internet conection and a fring account $$$ if you wish to make video calls to people who don't have fring installed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mskip:
Video calls or a cellular network have pretty much been phased out now due to the advent of internet calling such as skype/google talk/fring/etc/etc. I remember when I had my HTC Tytn2 about 4 years ago it had video calling over cellular network but even if you could find someone else with a similar functioned phone then it was over 5 times the price per minute than an audio call and I never used it once in the 2 years I had the phone. I dont think america have ever had that function in a phone as I dont think their networks ever supported it and no british network that I know of (maybe 3 network) has video calls listed in their charges. Cant comment about Australia but its a pretty dead technology now and I cant see it making a return in England at least.

Mark.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wilsonlam97:
Rogers here in Canada had that but they gouged the FK out of it. So it never caught on. I know it's very popular in Hong Kong from what I've seen in the movies:p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] طوني تبولة:
Its been available for years. I remember it was in my Nokia 6680 (2005).

However this feature has to be supported by the carrier. Being on a 3G network doesn't necessarily mean you can make video calls. I remember trying that on my 6680 in 2005 and on my Vibrant (ported I9000 ROM) and of course got an error.