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[Kindle Fire General] yareally:
I mentioned to my friend they should write it up and post how to do it since it would be easier for them to describe the steps in more detail since they actually physically have a kindle fire and I do not; so I think they will be later. It's rather easy to do though once you have the steps (basically a handful of steps and the rest is waiting).

It should provide a recovery for anyone that bricks their tablets though.

EDIT: link for unbricking is up now: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1356257
[Kindle Fire General] Tylerbman:
It says you flashed the boot.img and recovery.img, I believe I have problems with those two areas on my kindle, are you able to give any tips on flashing those?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SonicD007:
Hi, I bought the EU model Galaxy S 2 off E-Bay that is already rooted and unlocked via software. I read online that the social hub uses the sim card to verify the location of the phone when adding IM accounts (not sure why but it does). My sim card is a US T-Mobile sim card. Whenever I try adding my windows live messenger account through the social hub, it says error occurred. I read that this happens because of the sim card not being EU.

So my questions are:

A) Would a custom ROM fix this problem?

B) Where in the source code can I find the application and modify it, if that is a viable option to solving my problem?

I also spoke to a T-Mobile rep about the 3G not working and he said it was because it was a EU phone. Anyone know if there is a workaround to get this phone on T-Mobile's 3G/4G instead of EDGE?

I appreciate the help.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the reason I even want to add windows live to this phone is because I want to take the contacts out of my wp7 and import them to this phone. Only way to do this is through cloud though.

EDIT2: Some more info that might help

Model number GT-I9100

Android ver: 2.3.4

Baseband ver: I9100XXKG6

Kernel ver: 2.6.35.7-I9100XXKG6-CL425236

se.infra@SEP-53 #2

Build number: GINGERBREAD.XXKG6
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dennisleussink:
I cant acces my internal storage after updating my miui to 110280.

I want to update to another version but my recovery mod wont acces my sd card for installing an update.

How do i fix this? I want to acces internal storage on my pc and use my sd card to update.

Now it said No files found wenn updating. :(
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] julle131:
So... You cant access internal on pc, and cant access sd on clockwork? Have you tried to format the sd and updating clockwork?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dennisleussink:
I updated to 5.26 clockwork recovery.

I want to update to another version but if i search in clockwork for my update file it said no files found.

On an earlier version of Miui I can acces my internal memory and put my update file on it but i cant acces it know onto my pc.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ValenteL:
On MIUI the internal storage is /mnt/emmc and on a PC you see one SDcard and one EMMC

On X5 Settings (see widget) you have the option "Internal/External Storage selection".
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wilbur-force:
OK. Im a gadget lover but no audiophile or Android Developer. Just thought id put my opinions based on moving from a much older phone ....

My thoughts one day in having moved from a rooted/flashed HTC Desire....

The Nexus is gorgeous to look at. Feels sturdier than the GS IIs that I have seen/played with. Feels substantial. i like to know i have a phone on me.

The screen is great. blacks are very black (IMHO) and colour is vibrant. The resolution is great.

I dont have huge hands but im not having a problem with the unit size.

Battery life so far seems MUCH better than my Desire. And everything is MUCH quicker too (hardly surprising).

Ive had a couple of Force Closes but nothing too drastic. I guess this is part of the downside of ICS early adoption. Hopefully the fixes will come thick and fast.

The camera is OK. better than my Desire but i wouldnt swap an SLR for it, but hey, its a mobile phone ! Very quick to focus and shoot though.

The speaker volume is moderate. Better than my Desire but not as loud as my wifes new Expedia ARC S.

The headphones that are bundled arent bad at all. Playing mp3 through them is fine but ive also used some SONY headphones. plenty of bass and the sound is clear. Again, much better sound than my Desire.

No Flash is a pain, but hopefully this will be with us soon.

No SD card .... shame .... had put me in the frame for buying a RAZR but having seen the GN in the shop I just had to have it :)

Face recognition is a fun novelty. i know its not secure but it works better than i thought it would.

ICS looks nice. Mixes the best from gingerbread and Honeycomb (I have a Transformer too). Not keen on the google search on every screen but thats what other launchers are for. At least with no physical buttons we can benefit from any changes Google decide to apply - hopefully adding a search button again ?

So far very impressed. I know a lot of people will be uber-critical about some things so just wanted to put a realistic slant on things :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jmbillings:
I'd agree with most of your post. I have come to it from a Desire as well. Google Earth doesn't seem to want to work which others have noted. Apparently Flash will be supported soon. The BBC News app doesn't appear in the market for me?

Face Unlock is weird. Sometimes it won't recognise me, even in good light, yet it'll occasionally work when I'm moving in a dark room and all blurry! Very odd. I'd say it works 90% of the time though. My only gripe is it takes a second or so from pressing the power button to the camera being ready to actually see me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wilbur-force:
Agreed. i think face recognition will be a novelty that wears off.

I think some people looks for faults in everything :)

Two problems in my view:

1) Flash (but hopefully this will be sorted)

2) No SD ... i will just have to start trusting the cloud :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] blunden:
Good thing a guy submitted a work in progress for a fingerprint unlock to CM Gerrit then. ;) I'm assuming it works like the capacitive fingerprint readers used in laptops.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jthornton71707:
So I've had this phone for a week now. Its a nice upgrade from my infuse 4g. But the battery life is killing me. I've tried every Tom.available specifically for the skyrocket and even the one kernel in the dev section. My brightness is 15% and I use juice defender set to every 30 min. I listen to Pandora for an hour and it drops 20%. Yesterday it was dead in 6 hours. Its to the point where I'm seriously considering going back to my infuse. Has anyone else had issues?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Kaze105:
Currently have juice defender, 0.2 kernel (didnt update and probably wont for now), and a few apps frozen by Titanium Backup. If I hardly touch the phone, it would last 41 hours. With medium usage, (Wifi, web browse, using poweramp for some time, calls, emails, etc) It would easily last my entire day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jthornton71707:
What apps did you freeze?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aretzios:
I have JuiceDefender Ultimate set to balanced, I have only the clock widget running, I have GPS running continuously, (I use Wifi occassionally), I have screen set to about 50% and with very normal usage, the battery is at about 20-25%. I have a good number of email accounts and they are polled constantly, notifications are normal (phone settings), I use the Market app and the browser a number of times a day and I hear the occasional podcast. By the way, listening a podcast for about 1 hour (I use BeyondPod and earphones) results in minimal battery usage (about 2% for an hour or so).

So, I have to say that I am quite happy with battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Willie3white:
I know what you mean.

I had a stock skyrocket running in a weak LTE market in New Orleans and it would last like 8 hrs then I rooted and frooze all the bloat ware and de-installed a lot of app that were always using the web. I manually set my screen brightness. And changed the launcher to go launcher. Getting 18-20 hrs lots of moderate usage lte and all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Numbaonei:
Yea something is wrong. I don't even use juice defender yet my phone last all day wit like 20% when I get home at 9. I use it to talk at least 3-4 and moderate usage for internet and am in wifi a lot. Youtube umm often..Defective maybe??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DANIEL133337:
Battery life is amazing for me with heavy usage. Just make sure when your not using lte to turn it off and use wifi as much as possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Nakel:
How do you turn off LTE?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shansmi:
look in settings, about phone, battery and see what is using all your battery. Battery life is very good on the stock ROM, rooted or not. You might also want to install Traffic Monitor and set it up for your billing cycle properly. Then watch for a few days to see what apps are using data. I do not recommend turning off LTE.

BTW there is already a very good Freeze list of Apps...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ElCamino:
I was also having very low battery times on my SR to the point it was draining about 5% every half hour. I checked everything and everything was set properly. Yesterday was ready to pack it up to exchange it and thought I try restoring the phone. After restoring it, I now get excellent battery life. I'm getting about 1% battery drop every hour. Today tested throughout the day and listened to some music, some web browsing, a few FB posting, a call for 20 minutes and have 95% battery life left.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jslanger:
I've had pretty bad battery life here in the DC area (LTE is available here). It'll last about 6-7 hours with very mild use. Maybe I should restore it?

What did you do @ElCamino to reset it? Maybe I'll try that too (though I'll hate having to set it back up again).

Also, I turned juice defender back on today, and I've noticed that it seems to be keeping the device "Awake" even when the screen is off. I have it on "balanced." Can anyone give me a little advice on setting it up correctly. I can't seem to get it to let me open more granular settings.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KewlRobD:
So I am starting to wonder if there are some defective units being shipped. My wife and I both have a Skyrocket. Mine is great, been using it for 13.5 hours today on medium usage. I currently have 63% battery life left. I am completely stock, no juice defender or any other like programs. I even had No-LED installed and used my flashlight app for about 5 solid minutes.

My wife on the other hand has the exact same setup as I do. She complains she barely gets through half a day with medium usage. I charged up her phone earlier today. 7 hours ago I took it off the charger. She has used it with very light usage in that time and it is down to 60% already. When I say light usage I mean sitting on the table for at least 6.5 of those hours. Often she charges it up while watching TV at night. Takes it off the charger when she goes to bed and by morning the batter is at least half drained.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ElCamino:
@jslanger I went to settings>privacy> and choose Factory Reset. Yes i know that you have to reinstall and setup the phone, but I am glad I did. Battery life has been great. I'm not in a LTE area but like mentioned battery was draining quick before.

Also I wouldn't recommend you use a back to restore, just in case that something with OS setup from Samsung causing this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ElCamino:
Try the Factory Restore and see if that helps. It helped me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sixk:
I have had my phone off the power since 10 am sunday and used moderately with calls and few games lots of texting and FB syncing. And now at 3:05 pm monday 27% with texting and FB no games and calls.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hinduboy74:
Anyway you could link to the list and also let me know what the app is that does the freezing. Mine is rooted but i'm kinda new to this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tejones36:
Search for Titanium Backup in the Android Market. You will have to check and see if it requires the pro version to freeze apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BKayrac:
just to help you guys possibly, i moved some APPS to my SD card last night, at work i noticed mediaserver was second in my battery list and my phone was draining faster than normal

after moving the apps back to the phones internal, the drain seemed to stop, i also wiped the sd card just to be safe as i usually stream pandora anyways :), but just another option to look out for
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jslanger:
Weird....

So I've been closely following my battery life because it kind of sucks.

I had great battery life at home while on wifi over the weekend...about 18 hours no problem. I recharged it today at work, and was not getting great life during the day while on LTE/4G

Got home, turned on wifi, and the battery drain completely leveled out. I also noticed that while on cellular, the "Awake" bar is solid. As soon as I'm on wifi, it was able to not be continuously awake.

Not sure if anyone can comment on the reasons that this would be, but usually its the OPPOSITE. I really dunno why this would be.

Any help is appreciated!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ElCamino:
Here is my battery life. Rooted and haven't froze any of the apps yet.

I know i would get better life with the SGII.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jslanger:
But your battery life isn't looking bad...looks like 9 hours and only down to 60%. Mine drops WAY faster than that. I'm at ~10 hours and down to 25% with very very mild use (much of that time I was at work with it sitting on my desk not being used).

I'm thinking I should reset it first, and then root (which I want to do anyway, but haven't done quite enough reading and prep work for _just_ yet
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ElCamino:
Yes battery not bad for 9 hours with almost a hour of calls. Also lots of email on 3 accounts with about 20 text messages.

@jslanger try doing the factory reset, as it helped my battery life a lot. Before seemed the battery was dropping like 5% every half hour.

One thing I wish the SR would charge me quickly. :-) I haven't froze any apps just yet, will see what others are freezing and give that a try as well. Maybe get an additional 1 hour.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shansmi:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1341558

the way I do it is freeze them for a few days and watch for errors etc... then I delete them. Most in this list I have since deleted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dranakin:
I get about 2-3 hours of screen on time, even after removing bloatware. I just accept this as a standard part of Android and having to charge mid-day as being normal. I came from an iPhone 4 which lasted me all day, easily.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
I get 6-8 screen on. You have room for improvement
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mentalcase:
I remember most samsungs need to have their battery calibrated before you get the best life. By calibrated i mean charge the device until the software says it is 100%. Unplug it and turn off the phone. Then plug the phone back in and let it charge until that says 100%.I used to do this with my captivate and Infuse, but I didn't try it on my GS2. But on the skyrocket once you plug the USB cable in the phone automatically boots up. Even if you power off the phone it boots right back up if plugged in WTF!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] movieaddict:
try a better kernel for better battery life!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsl55dsl:
I got my SG2 LTE 2 days ago. I love it to death but the battery!!!! Wow its just horrible. I know I shouldnt expect it to be my blackberry but give me 1 full day of moderate use.

I am using the Rogers S2 LTE version of the phone. I am wondering what application I could use to view whats taking the most battery.

Currently I am losing 1% of battery every 8minutes which is alot better then every 4 minutes this was improved after I removed every single widget.

I am currently syncing 2 email accounts, I get around 10-15 emails per hour, Facebook and some other little syncs. Barely any talk time.

Right now for battery stats I am using Gauge Battery widget. Is there anything you would recommend would be better. I really want it to identify per application if this is possible.

One more thing should I really calibrate my battery? What does that do exactly?

If you could help me with these quick answers I will make sure I will document everything I do with my phone so we could get to the bottom of this battery issue and enjoy this awesome phone.

Thanks guys,
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nizmoz:
Same here. My battery is just draining fast. I had to charge mine 3 times yesterday. Ugg. With Juicedefender (not ultimate but the free one) it was draining even faster. So I removed that. I now reinstalled it but the Ultimate version trying to fix this issue.

Any one have details on how to make the battery life last longer. Like a list to follow?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kwhit:
@dsl55dsl. I also have the Rogers version as was getting terrible battery life. I have since switched to GSM/HSPA mode only and my battery life has greatly improved. I believe what was draining the battery was that it was constanlty switching from LTE to 4g. Give that a try
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsl55dsl:
That wont be my issue. I am on Fido so no LTE for me. I already set my phone to GSM/HSPA.

I just rooted my phone (using this walk through but instead of pressing up and down volume use only the down volume). I froze a bunch of crap I dont need all the bloatware that rogers installs. I will see what happens now. I am just aiming to have 12hrs of battery life. That's all I ask, a quicker charge would be nice also.

So I will setup the following:

ActiveSync using touchdown

IMAP Server (2)

Facebook

Facebook Messenger

Twitter

Weather Widget on but Manual refresh

GPS on

Wifi off

Bluetooth on

Screen brightness like 30%

If you wish I will keep you posted on my progress.

If this fails I will start testing different ROMS and try to get another battery some people are reporting battery issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] spielnicht:
I don't know why, but I'm getting awesome battery performance when compared to my ex Atrix and Atrix 2 which lasted 7:00am - 6:00pm on avg with moderate use. With the Skyrocket, I'm getting to 11:00 pm with 45% still left on moderate use.

I'm impressed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsl55dsl:
Regarding quicker charge, I found the issue. Dont use any microUSB charger. I was using my blackberry one and was taking forever it to charge I plug it to the one that came with the S2. I charged 16% in 40minutes around.

Back to my battery issue, pretty much everything I said except twitter was on. I went in a 7hr span for 100% to 84% not so shabby. I was abit excited because I was finally figured out the battery issues. Not so much, my ride to work was brutal was on the phone (15minutes) on bluetooth to my car and it drained my battery 10%. WTF!!!!

I called Rogers and they told me I could just go get it exchanged I am going to continue hacking at it, for 1 more week, got 3 weeks to exchange it.

If I hit factory reset will it go back to the factory reset meaning Rogers?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] androidpixar:
Anybody's battery heating up?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nizmoz:
Yes my phone gets pretty warm. I finally did a hard reset on it back to factory settings and trying it again. If the phone continues to drain the battery fast or connect issues with my bluetooth devices it's going back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsl55dsl:
Well guys my phone is looking good.

I have maybe texted around 10 texts, 30minutes of talk time (20 minutes was with bluetooth), around 100 emails (send 10 vs 90 received), used abit of web barely (10minutes), Yahoo finance widget (5 minutes) and this is 6hrs 30min since I charged it I have the following battery meter. GPS was on.

Well it seems much better now, I could try to help out my rogers friends. I did the following. I rooted like I mentioned on my previous post, I disabled/froze a bunch of bloatware (if anyone cares I could share my list simply PM me or post here), I disabled a little battery widget that was giving me pretty % of battery seemed to be a battery hog itself. I also installed the free version of Juice Defender (will most probably buy the full version to support them).

I also did something funny that I read on some boards. I charged my phone to 100% on when the phone was ON and then once it reached to 100%, I turned off the phone leaving it on the charger and waited for it to tell me I was at 100% (took 2 minutes).

This is what I did and I got a feeling I might have this phone under control unfortunately I still think the battery is not awesome I will carry a spare battery in my car for those days I am away from home for extended period of time 18hr+.

Thank you everyone for all the help, I will continue to make so more battery testing over the weekend.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nizmoz:
Well after doing a hard reset on my phone, (factory settings) and reconfigured my emails, and weather/facebook widget only. Also put the battery meter back on it has hardly dropped over the last few hours. Which is a damn good sign. Will keep you guys posted, but it seems a factory reset really fixes some issues with the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Gary86:
getting this device soon...can juice defender and titanium backup be installed via the market?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dsl55dsl:
Requires to be rooted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] androidpixar:
Did the heat issue dissipate?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nizmoz:
Still had issues. It was draining a bit fast still after a full reset. So I got rid of the phone today at AT&T and went back to my old iphone 4 for now. Wish that thing worked better but they still have some work to do for the LTE 4g and battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] JFizDaWiz:
Granted. Phone has been sitting idle the whole tine but not bad
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nizmoz:
Try that on LTE 4g the whole time. You won't get a full day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Meilannu:
Just get a Power Skin for the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] whodat006:
I'm in a LTE area and I'm getn great battery life
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nizmoz:
I don't see how when no one else can.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Meilannu:
Me too. All day/night long. But i heard the same thing about the GSll. And mine got great battery life. I did get the PowerSkin for the Skyrocket so now i can go two days before charging.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] whodat006:
I'm not using nothing special

SKYROCKET
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] arberthebarber:
I just reinstalled my whole phone wiped the whole thing and installed bone rocketeer rom and my battery greatly increased. Maybe cause I was using Wi-Fi. Ill post a report tomorrow. With moderate usage (50mim display on, texting, twitter, some internet, auto sync two emails) 4 hours on battery now at 80%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] whodat006:
I am using skySTOCKeteer v1.5

SKYROCKET
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Meilannu:
Still impressive using wifi.