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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] terinfire:
I got an HD2 for my girlfriend and ROM'd it over to NAND Android. Everything works fine, but there is one resounding issue. For whatever reason, every now and then, her phone completely loses cellular signal (for text/voice). Not sure which modem is in it, or if there are any modem updates or something that would help with the stability of this. Currently, she's using HyperDroid.

Any thoughts?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ty5982:
edit the gps.config folder to the area u live using root explorer
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] No_Nickname90:
Ok. I'm browsing around the web looking for a case for my phone.

The color I HIGHLY prefer is a smoke-grey, or something Grey. I also don't mind black, but as you may have noticed, I really want a grey.

Max price range is about $20. $30 is pushing it, but I'll probably take that if I like the case. I'm not looking for some shock-resistant Area 51 case. Oh, and I also don't want to plain solid either. Has to have some type of design going on.

This is the closest to what I'm looking at, but I'm preferring grey before I get this.

http://www.amazon.com/GLOSSY-Shades..._1_6?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1321369045&sr=1-6

The reason why I'm asking here is because all the cases I'm finding have one thing in common. There translucent and that's hideous. Sorry, but my opinion. I'm looking for a solid color, some type of design, smoke-grey case.

Thanks if you can help me out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tracerit:
I have One for sale http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...-options=see-all-buying-options&condition=all

Its for $9 and practically brand new
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mikest1978:
I use the TPU Smoke case linked above. Here are some shots I took of it. As you can see its smoke grey but its still somewhat translucent. Its really easy to take on and off (essential for me since I use a car dock and a desktop dock). Its pretty slender but just thick enough to keep me from accidentally hitting the power button constantly. The volume controls aren't cut out though, the case is flexible and its molded around the volume rockers. It makes those buttons feel a bit stiff but I got used to it rather quickly.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jameson JC:
Ill take that touch if u still have it

Sent rapidly using my Samsung Galaxy S-II Epic™ 4g Touch |•XDA App•|
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tracerit:
you're interested in the case? send me a PM if you are.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jameson JC:
Yes I am but pm's don't work on the xda app for phone. I dovitvin morning when I boot my desktop

Sent rapidly using my Samsung Galaxy S-II Epic™ 4g Touch |•XDA App•|
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tracerit:
you can reach me at (username]@gmail.com as well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cordell12:
I have this same case :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sirkuttin:
this seems to be the only case that doesn't look terrible.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TurboTsi:
If all else falls through, I have the same case brand new. I never used it.

Check my history, you'll see I'm truthful.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jameson JC:
I am already using the matte black TPU case, and it is wonderful looks/feels great. The smoke one improving on that would be a welcome surprise....

JC
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
i find the matte grey offers a nice contrast to the dark black phone.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mcramer19:
Isn't that high? What are people getting?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrZ123:
android os 47% on mine,much more than my og Droid or zoom ever had! Anyone have a solution for this?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garywojdan81:
Try freezing smart actions if you don't use it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrZ123:
Froze, lets see if it has an effect
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xRogerxC:
How did that work for you? Do you have alot of apps installed that use background data all the time? If so, you can increase the time between syncs. That should help you as well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrZ123:
didnt do much as of yet. Don't have many aps installed yet and have a ton frozen with titanium.

Anyone have any other ideas if why Android OS would be consuming close to 50% of battery?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] obededom:
so with TI, freeze both Smart Actions 1.0 and Smart Profile 1.1.100?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bond32:
I was under the impression the android OS generally uses that much, but normally we are used to seeing the screen outweigh everything. Since the screen in the razr uses less juice perhaps we are noticing other things draining.

My words with friends was the top user yesterday for 8 hours of use with 40% left
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mattiacris:
the same for me..30% usally..now 24% maybe it will improve freezing some apps..
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mcramer19:
I've had quite a few android phones and the only time android os has been so high is if something on a rom was acting up and usually a reflash and wipe helped. I'm at 60% battery after 4:20 and 33% is the os with 20 minutes of CPU usage. I am not using smart actions.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] megalonebula:
How do you freeze apps?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garywojdan81:
I just checked on mine & I have android os @ 18%. Mine shows screen as top user. I have nothing frozen & am still mostly stock with only the golf game uninstalled.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stunno:
Er. . what golf game?

I didn't get any games on mine at all

EDIT: oh and I am at 40% with screen using 25% and OS 16%
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garywojdan81:
It's the Verizon Droid Razr, so it came with some bloatware, one of which is Let's Play Golf 2.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Oaklands:
28% by OS today. However I added juice defender todtay along with my work smart action and big improvement.

Yesterday after 12 hours I had 30% left. Today after 15 hours I had 40%. This is normal usage. Few pics, tapatalk, setting up, surfing and a few phone calls with some texting.

Pretty happy with that.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rnewton01:
I'm at 15 hours on battery. 2 hours of display on. 40% battery remaining. My Android OS taking up 35% of battery use. 28% display use
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrZ123:
What do you u have smart actions for work setup as?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dgiaffe:
Yea same here, big usage on Android OS.. 18% with 30minutes of CPU usage.. I'm at 15 hours, 15% battery left, but this is my first charge.. heard around that it gets better after a few days.. still happy with the 15 hours, however, i would wonder why the Android OS takes so much..
[Motorola Droid RAZR] talon95:
Just chiming in. Same thing here, high Android OS usage. I've had 2 other Android phones (Evo 4G and 3D on Sprint) and the screen was typically the dominant power user.

How do I see awake/sleep time on the RAZR? I can't seem to find it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garywojdan81:
Battery info graph kinda shows it at the bottom. CPU spy from the market works well & it's free.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] talon95:
Tried CPU Spy. It shows 68% of my time as 300mhz (10hrs 48min). Only 13% in "deep sleep" (2hrs 11min).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mcramer19:
So the phone isn't putting itself to sleep. I just unplugged mine. Checked it about 40 minutes later. 90% battery left with 53% eaten up by android os.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zepfloyd:
Has anyone tried SetCPU or CPU sliders in ROM Toolbox?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Oaklands:
Ringer 100%

Display timeout 1 minute

brightness 29%

gps off

cellular data off

bluetooth on (for my bose soundlink)

background sync on

wallpaper set differently so I know it is on work mode

---------- Post added at 06:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:05 PM ----------

Ringer 100%

Display timeout 1 minute

brightness 29%

gps off

cellular data off

bluetooth on (for my bose soundlink)

background sync on

wallpaper set differently so I know it is on work mode
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Oaklands:
Sorry for the double post.

Tapatalk and Toshiba Thrive.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] robstunner:
Same here. 31% display is at 22% with 1 hour on
[Motorola Droid RAZR] zetsumeikuro:
Android OS usually is 7-10% for me.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Oaklands:
Keep in mind since the screen is using less power, the other percentages will go up.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] buxz777:
ahhhhhhhhhhh the famous aos bug that has plauged the sgs2 forums for a while

there are some massive threads on this on xda :-)

iam at work at min so cant link them but if you use the search and put something like

''i9100 aos bug''

''sgs2 aos battery''

i am sure you will find pages of information on it :-)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dgiaffe:
So basically.. Nothing we can do yet uh :/ if i understand, it was a problem with 2.3.3 for the sgs2 fixed in 2.3.4 but we got 2.3.5 :/ so guess we need to wait until ICS comes out or a dev to fix it somehow.. Well at least we know it's a problem!

Sent from Droid RAZR
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mcramer19:
Do you have the razr?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xchaotiKittenx:
soo i am having the same problem as everyone else here :( android os is using about 47% of cpu..i installed cpu spy and when i woke up this morning it said the timr the phone spent ar 300 mhx was 8.5 hrs.. Time spent in deep sleep... 1h 23 mins..i dont jnow if that was because it was on the charger or not..so im going to monitor it today too...the thing is some of you guys said that even though android os is taking up alot of your usage youre also getting like 15 hrs of batt life.....im lucky if i make it to 8 hrs and thats just with some texting and short calls...yesterday it went from 100% to 80% in 1h 35 mins just being on the couch next to.me..

Sorry for the long post :D but was wondering if you think this is the bug problem, or something else?( considering the battery drains uber fast too)

Thanks
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mcramer19:
I was in conferences all day yesterday and aos used almost 50% as well with me hardly using the phone. It has to be a software issue.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] garywojdan81:
I don't know if it's just me, but it seems that the aos usage gets more prevalent the longer it goes w/o a reboot. I'm going to try rebooting after it's charged & monitor it for the next couple days.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mtxpert:
My phone is eating battery when it's just sitting there not being used. I even set up smart actions battery extender to try and help. My phone discharged in 6 hours last night just sitting there with nothing running. I've disabled 4G today and anything else I can think of, coming from my Droid X which ran for a full day without issue this is very discouraging. I just picked up the phone so depending on the Nexus reviews...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] xchaotiKittenx:
Thanks mcramer hopefully they send out a small update to fiX that.. baterys doing alot better sofar today .. however i havent really used the phone much at all tho battery drain when the phones idle is much better! Im not sure ehy.. i froze smart actions and disabled the auto rotation.. not sure if its that or just breaking in the battery
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrZ123:
Heard the SGS II had the same issue...

Any devs able to fix this for us to save battery?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stunno:
This is my first day of using this phone. I took it off charge at about 10am made a couple of calls, browsed a bit and went to play golf, using Skydroid Golf GPS. My usage is as follows:

Battery 50%

7 hours 21m 8s on battery

Skydroid 47%

Display 26%

Voice Calls 10%

Android OS 4%

Browser 3%

Wifi 3%

Mobile Standby 3%

Phone Idle 2%

Forum Runner 2%
[Motorola Droid RAZR] stevessvt:
If your doing nothing, then of course the OS usage will appear to be high. Because nothing else is being used. Have your screen on for an hour straight, then the screen will be a high % and the OS will drop. Make an hour phone call, same thing.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] todroid:
To all of those here. Yes, >25% Android OS is normal for this phone. It may be the screen technology, it may be the new blur integration. Just know this has nothing to do with the actual battery effect.

My use is 25-30% Android OS. I'm getting 7 hours of use on 4G (non-rooted) before the phone is below 80% battery life. The only thing critical to me was using Smart Actions to disable cellular data when screen is off or Wifi is on, and disable cell and background sync at night (you pick the hours). But the biggest difference was to uninstall Screebl. With it active, I was getting 50% battery drop in less than 3 hours.

Hope this helps some of you. Cheers.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] talon95:
My RAZR steadily eats the battery at about 5%/hour even with the screen off for most of that time. Big power user is Android OS. For some reason it just doesn't idle/sleep properly, at least when compared to my old Evo 3D. That said, with light use yesterday, I got 14-15hrs out of it with 10% left.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrZ123:
Turning off data when screen off seems ridiculous, then you can't get emails when the screen is off!

I want an app that allows me to switch to 3G only from 4G when screen is off...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] todroid:
Would't that be a pickle! :D You must think I'm an idiot...

Your emails and texts come from the background sync, not from cell data. I'm still getting all my gmail and exchange push emails real-time. Try it before you knock it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mcramer19:
How can you receive data with the data connection turned off? Unless your on wifi? If you only have 1x going you should get phone calls and texts but not any data service like email.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] talon95:
I think I may have found the problem with mine. I'm not 100% sure which app it was (I uninstalled several), but I'm now seeing much more idle time with CPU Spy. I think it may have been 3G Watchdog, but not 100% certain. Also removed a Sense style clock.

I report back in a day or 2 when it's more conclusive.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] todroid:
You get

notifications

of emails even without cell data. As soon as you fire up the screen to read your emails, cell data becomes active, and...

Just try it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mcramer19:
Are you sure your not on wifi ? There is no way for your phone to receive internet data with the cell data off. So your phone can't receive any notification of an email. Once you turn the screen on then your phone will reconnect data and it should check for emails and then you will get a notification.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rjom94:
if you turn off cellular data what features of the phone will that affect?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dgiaffe:
It been pretty much a week now and I can tell that I am pleased with the battery in my case.. Not sure if I am right but i think my RAZR version is not 4G, only 3G which is fine for me...

Anyway, what wanted to say is today was a record, i had 15% of battery after 18 hours. I do have Android OS eating out about 30% though and i did use my phone quite a bit :

2-3 phone calls,

news reading for an hour ,

Google music streaming for a few minutes plus availability to offline for around 50 songs ,

gaming for about 25 minutes

I have no SmartAction set and screen is 50% brightness with the pocket detector off.. My wifi is always on as well as my data.. I am pretty amazed.. I find it weird how much the battery life varies from a user to another...

Sent from Droid RAZR
[Motorola Droid RAZR] talon95:
I finally tracked down the real culprit keeping my phone from going to sleep mode. It's the frickin' WIFI. Unless I set the WIFI to sleep while the screen is off, the CPU state never changes to "sleep" (using CPU Spy). As soon as I turn the Wifi off, every time I turn the screen off it appears to immediately go to sleep mode.

Not sure why this isn't an issue for everyone, but it definitely is for my phone. So it's not any apps etc... as far as I can tell, just the Wifi.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dgiaffe:
Ah this makes sense, I'll try that, even tho I'm pleased with the battery.. had 23 hours last night and was at 30%! Still, Android OS was taking like 35% of tha usage. Thanks talon!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] trevoryour:
Interesting. Two questions. Does this still make a difference if Wifi is turned off. I rarely have Wifi on. The second this is I pulled my phone off the charger this morning and noticed that my phone never went to deep sleep. It showed that it was sitting at 300Mhz pretty much all of the time. Does the phone not sleep when its charging? I ask because after pulling it off the charger and setting it down for a few minutes I checked again and it showed that it had gone to deep sleep for those few minutes.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] harvey007:
Just sharing - could possibly solve the problem

Turning off the location service seems to work for me. I am not 100% sure but it's worth a try.

Settings --> Location & Security -> Use Wireless Networks (uncheck this)

For me, this seemed to bring down the Android OS process almost immediately. Seems that the process is constantly using the networks to triangulate and identify your current location. If you don't really need this function, might as well turn it off.

I hope this helps :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] hondabomdc5:
So my android OS s usually anywhere from 60-85% . Its retarded. I dont understand it. I will let my phone sit sometimes for hours without using it and the OS reads that high and kills my battery
[Motorola Droid RAZR] nevetsvsx:
I had the same problem and I removed the screeble app, and got the verizon ota and then everything seems to be fixed.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] UntoldForce:
Droid RAZR Maxx

I just got the Droid RAZR Maxx and run into the same issue. At one point Android OS consumed 86% of the overall battery usage on my fresh device (without anything set up-even a Google account), taking my overall battery from 100% to 15% in a measured 24 hour period. This is terrible for a device with a 3300 mAh battery. My Droid X can run for days without a problem like this. If it is Wi-Fi is there some way to fix it with root?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Szadzik:
I used to have this problem and the moment I upgraded to 651.167 it disappeared. Now I am simply unable to discharge the battery to lower than 40% in 12 hours.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] nameite:
Have the same problem here even with the OTA

Read a novel for 8 hours, from 100% down to 15%

Checked battery use, Android OS 37% and screen 27%

Coming from a Defy, the screen was always tops..good screen on the Razr but damn there's some software glitches here and there.

Seems there are settings or apps that tries to go onto the internet or access the gps, and when it does your phone gets out of deep sleep

So disabling GPS, or allowing wifi to sleep when screen off may help a bit, but not completely.

If you have any social apps, disable background data, location sharing, like in whatsapp atc, should help a bit
[Motorola Droid RAZR] core2kid:
Anybody here try the Battery Calibration app? It deletes the batterystats.bin file. I know Google says it doesn't do anything but I've always seen an improvement after doing that. I just did it last night so I'll post back after a full discharge/recharge.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Savid:
Hi all,

Just wanna share with you the GT 10.1 owners out there... There's a tiny little friend who lost her way and start to wonder around in my devices, trapped in between the glass panel and LCD, kind of funny when saw it moving inside there.

It eventually stayed static at one point, I don't know how to get it out from there, so I sent it to Samsung services centre for help. Since it still under warranty, they'll replace a new set of LCD panel cause they have no clue how remove it.

Aren't this thing supposed to be tightly seal?:rolleyes: or because it's SAMSUNG.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] gokpog:
Maybe it broke the seal? If there would be an opening with enough space to fit an ant, you would have had a big dust problem long time before the little guest found its way into the device.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] slack04:
Please tell me you took a photo or a video before you sent it in... That's too funny.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] psijac:
I think its sad. Your little ant friend will never find her way home. She like tom hanks in the movie Castaway
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] kmandel:
I recently added a data plan on my SGS4G and can't get a data connection. I asked about this in another Q thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19353990#post19353990

but so far nothing has worked. I suspect that ultimately I will need to revert to out of the box virgin state to verify if its a software or hardware problem. However, after that test I want to be able to go back to my current state.

I've done both a CWM backup and a Titanium backup.

What are the steps I need to go back to vanilla state and then to the backed up state? Do I need both types of backups?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TheKucho:
Well if you did a nandroid backup from CWM, everything is backed up, meaning your rom, modem, and all important files for your phone to operate. Titanium backup backs up all of your apps plus data for those apps, letting you restore them after a reset or a rom flash. Those two backups should cover your current phone state, nandroid restoring phone sensitive files and titanium restoring apps and user data. Be careful when restoring of different firmwares and such, that could cause a brick.

And to "reset" your device you can factory reset in CWM or in settings.

I'm not responsible for anything that happens, just providing some info.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] koriotto:
Have you tried other ROMS? never had that problem :S probably could fix trying a new modded rom, go check out dev section theres a rom galore atm lol you can find like 20 new rom/ports.

I recommend you MaxQ rom or GingerReal but every rom there its NICEEE you can try any you like
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chocodough:
So shortly after the GS2 came out I bought it to upgrade my Atrix. Loved the phone, the speed, screen..etc...

Then the SR came out and being that I live in an LTE area, although on the fringe, I exchanged my GS2 for a SR. Loved the extra screen size of the SR, didn't notice any of the pixelation other people mentioned. LTE was fast when in a good coverage area, SMS and MMS even sent noticably faster. At first I didn't notice any lag on the SR, but after having it a week I started to noticed a little bit here and there.

But although I really loved the SR, there are a few things that killed it for me.

The biggest reason was all the APN issues people are having, which I was as well. Randomly whether on LTE or HSPA I would get web sites which didn't load, or even some of my apps which use data wouldn't be able to make a connection. Of course WiFi worked just fine, but the data issues over the network is what in the end made me take it back. I know it will eventually get corrected, being as I am sure it is just a routing issue on the APN which just needs to be sorted out on AT&T's end. But I just didn't want to deal with it for however long it was going to take for them to fix it. I also didn't really feel like being a beta tester for AT&T's experiments at this time.

Also I spend more time in non-LTE areas than I do in LTE coverage, and when at home which is LTE I am always on my WiFi.

The other issue is the lack of accessories for it. There just aren't any good cases out yet that I like for it, and I suspect you will see much more stuff for the GS2.

My original opinion on getting the SR was to be more future proof being as it's newer and LTE, but AT&T will probably drag their feet updating LTE coverage and by the time it is more wide spread, the GS3 or 4 will probably be out. :) I'll also be moving next year to an area which isn't even HSPA yet, so I'm sure it will be awhile before that area gets LTE.

So I ended up returning the SR and going back to the GS2. I do really miss the bigger screen though. .2 of an inch doesn't sound like a lot, but to me it was. The GS2 screen just "seems" much smaller. That's pretty much all I miss I guess, it just the bigger screen.

Anyone else in the similar boat or contemplating it? Chime in.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garner:
Is anyone else experiencing issues with push notifications on our device i have never had one on stock or cyan has anyone got it to work???

Notifications show up on my lock screen but no alert or sound to tell me that they have arrived?