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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chrono_Tata:
It used to be that it was not healthy for the to leave a phone plugged in and turned on overnight, so many people would just leave their phones off at night and expect the alarm to go off in the morning. These days though battery management and technology is much better so people just leave their phones on and plugged in at night, so no phones manufacturers implement the "use alarm to turn phone on" feature any more.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
You still shouldn't leave it plugged in overnight...

But if you turn on airplane mode, modern smartphones consume so little power in standby mode that you essentially get the same effect as if you turned the phone off on a phone that has an alarm that can go off even when off (because in those phones a small part of the phone is kept powered on to keep the alarm function.)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chrono_Tata:
Android phones (or most modern phones for that matter) will float your battery level at around 90-100% when you leave it plugged in. You're not going to overcharge your battery.

Personally I wouldn't leave my phone on in airplane mode overnight since I would still need it to receive calls (hell if someone really needs to call me at night chances are it is an important call). Personal preference I guess.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flakz0r:
I swear i had this exact same reaction when i switched from my old ass Nokia to my Desire 1,5 years ago! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gambiting:
I think my old old old Nokia used to do that.....but that was like 6 years ago :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phazerorg:
I realize this is off-topic, but why is that? As someone else said, the phone won't allow the battery to overcharge. Every night when I go to bed, I put my Nexus One on the charger. I leave it plugged in and powered on all night. I need to have it fully charged when I leave in the morning so I know it will last the entire day.

I've been doing this every single day for over a year and a half and the battery is still working as well as the day I bought it. Could you elaborate on why it shouldn't be plugged in all night? Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] InternationalNexusFan:
BlackBerries have that feature.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
It's not due to overcharging, it's due to the phone constantly cycling between discharging and recharging while hovering at the 90%-99% charge levels as you leave it plugged in, which is bad for the lifetime and capacity of lithium ion batteries. This is why you want to unplug the phone as soon as it gets to 99% or so, so it doesn't start up these discharge-recharge cycles.

Some laptops like ThinkPads come with battery lifetime management tools to deal with this. As the battery ages, they automatically lower the threshold of the battery at which it starts to charge. For example my battery is quite old, and my ThinkPad set the threshold at 80%. This means that when I leave it plugged in, the battery won't start to recharge until it has drained back to 80%. This prevents these rapid charge-recharge cycles from happening. Unfortunately I don't think smartphones have this feature.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
Blackberries are stuck in the year 2002. That's why BlackBerries have that feature.

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So you're saying that the desktop charging dock for the Nexus One (which absolutely had the feature of it being a 'night stand' clock), and potentially the Galaxy Nexus desktop dock, are actually items that we should think twice about purchasing and using in their intended manner?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
When the battery is new it should be fine. The ThinkPad battery life tool sets the initial threshold at 96%. So I gather that rapid discharge-recharge isn't so bad at that point. But over two years it lowered the threshold to 80%. So if in a year or so your phone is still hovering at 90-99% while plugged in for extended period, you are probably shortening the usable lifespan of your battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] krohnjw:
This sort of power management is built into the kernel (I believe it was introduced with froyo). This actually caused an issue where people were trying to use a newer build (unofficial) with the Nexus One where the bit was getting stuck on and the battery would never charge (it had to do with power cycling while plugged in).

Whether or not you agree with how they implemented it is another story - this has been implemented though at the kernel level.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
My Desire HD alarm went off when it was powered off..

Was running a custom rom though
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pr3cision:
WAITTTT, u can actually turn off a cellphone? Sorry, never done such a preposterous thing ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harolds:
If you properly charged and fully discharged (not to 0, 10% remaining is fine) your phone several times when it was new, leaving your phone on the charger overnight will not effect the batteries life. If your phone never came off the charger, meaning it never went below 90% (then back to 100%), then it would eventually become an issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Wait... phone... turned off? How would the alarm ever work when the phone is off?

Just buy a $5 desktop alarm clock if you want to turn off your phone and have an alarm.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oscillik:
As has been mentioned earlier, many phones have been able to sound the alarm even while switched off. This includes Symbian based smartphones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spences10:
All my Nokia alarms I had (a long long time ago) went off if the phone was powered off
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phazerorg:
After using my Nexus One this way everyday for a year and a half, it's still almost always at 100% when plugged in. On rare occasions I catch it at 98-99%, and it still lasts as long as I need it to when off the charger. So if this really is ruining the battery, I'm okay with it because at this rate the battery is going to outlast the phone itself.

It seems to me that it's reasonable to want your phone charged before leaving for the day, and also reasonable to want to use it as a morning alarm. It would be unreasonable to wake up in the night just to plug in the phone so it would be charged in time. With those things in mind, what, exactly, would be the recommended way to charge a phone without hurting the battery?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
i'm not surprised

yes, he's most likely serious

personally i've owned 3 different Dumb phones (sony ericsson, samsung, some weird brand) that even when it's completely off, the alarm will still work

and the only way to get it to not go off at that set time, is to remove the battery

LOL :p

i actually got freaked out a few times, when i turned off the phone and forgot it was set

that was just when i switch from Dumb phones to Smartphones

it's just sad that now in days no smartphone has that feature
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phazerorg:
Same happened to me when I switched from a Nokia N95 to my Nexus One. I shut off the N95 and forgot about it... the alarm unexpectedly went off the next morning and I ended up just taking out the battery rather than bothering to boot it up and disable the alarm :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chrono_Tata:
While that is somewhat true, the cycle count of a battery is also determined by the depth of discharge. When it is hovering at 90%, it's really not wearing the battery out much as opposed to letting it discharge to say 50% then charging it back up.

Basically, while it's definitely better to put your phone is a low power state and unplug it rather than leaving it charging, the benefit really isn't that large as for any user to worry about it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
I usually charge it when I get home. It gets fully charged before I go to sleep, so I unplug it, and put it in a low power state. When I wake up it's still at 95% or so, so there's no need for me to leave it charging overnight.

For those who want to use their phones as a nightstand clock with the docks, I think one thing you can do is get a separate battery-only charger. Before you dock the phone, take out the battery and charge it using the separate charger. Then dock the phone and leave it overnight as your clock, since the battery is not in there it doesn't matter if you leave it plugged in all night. Just be sure to disconnect the battery-only charger when the battery is fully charged.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gambiting:
Because blackberries are never really turned off. Even when you hold the power button it will say that the phone is switching off,but in reality it isn't, it's just in a very deep sleep. It wakes up pretty much instantly when you turn it on again. Do a battery pull, it won't be so quick then :P And the alarm thing won't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
It depends on how often you replace your phone. If you upgrade every year, then you probably won't notice any degraded battery capacity no matter what you do to the battery.

But I hang onto my phones for longer, and over the lifetime of the phone I usually had to replace the battery a couple of times to get the most amount of battery life possible. So I try to minimize battery wear.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ThaBrazzer:
No androids work that way (at least what I've heard). But just turn on flight mode, is almost the same thing as turning it off ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] copkay:
No kidding. I loved my BB Tour when I had it, but it would quite literally take 12-15 minutes to reboot. Random reboots in the middle of a call are much worse in those instances. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Thats because they need to link back up with the BB servers and get all synced up just to be operational. Kinda lame.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AmesCell:
So they sell docks to purposely break batteries then or what? I've always charged over night. Never had a battery problem with any of my phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cenwesi:
Lol, i think he is SERIOUS!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
It won't break the battery, just shorten their usable lifespan. If you replace your phone every year or so it won't affect you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ericshmerick:
If you are concerned about "OMGRADIATION" while you sleep and want to turn your phone off while ensuring your alarm works...

1. Set alarm.

2. Place phone in airplane mode.

3. Sleep.

4. Wake.

5. Profit?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
This is what I do, actually. And it is about radiation, but not what you think. The jury's still out on whether non-ionizing radiation causes cancer, but studies have been pretty consistent on showing how non-ionizing radiation affect brain wave patterns during sleep. It seems people who are exposed to radiation from cell phones, etc. during sleep experience less deep sleep and have fewer dreams. So I just put my phone in airplane mode at night to get the best sleep I can.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hotleadsingerguy:
This is completely incorrect knowledge. There's absolutely nothing wrong with leaving your phone plugged in overnight.

Lithium-Ion batteries maintain their life by being at, or near, the very top of the charge as often as possible. What this means is that the more often it's plugged in and kept as close to 100% as possible, the longer the overall battery life will be maintained.

Synopsis: Plug in your phone as often as you can and keep it plugged in until you need to unplug it. It will maintain the overall battery life of the phone. The people saying otherwise don't know anything about Lithium-Ion and are still thinking in terms of Nickel-metal Hydride/Cadmium. Those batteries gained a "memory" by being recharged often. Lithium-Ion cells don't have a memory, so recharging them as often as possible is preferred.

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...not quite.

I've done the same thing with every phone I've ever used. I plug it in right when I go to bed, and unplug it first thing in the morning. I sleep between 6 and 8 hours every night. I've never had a battery shown to have a life of less than 96%...and that's over the course of around 2 years for some of them.

In addition, my Macbook Pro is plugged in at least 80% of the time and it shows 98% battery life remaining (about a year and a half old).

Lithium-Ion cells don't receive nearly as much of a negative impact as you seem to believe from staying on the charger. In fact, they maintain better battery life staying fully charged than they do if they're let drain. Don't believe the hype.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chirality:
Uhh...degraded battery life don't show up as a charge percentage. They'll still charge to full, but the difference is, a full charge for a two year old battery won't last as long as a full charge for a new battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pfmiller:
The custom ROM would have nothing to do with it. This feature is implemented at the hardware level, not the OS level. Either your phone hardware supported the powered off alarm from the beginning or it never will.

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The OS isn't running, but as long as there's a battery in there the firmware code is active.

This is actually a really nice feature that my old Moto Razr (like most dumb phones) had. Ever fall asleep and forget to plug in your phone so it powers itself off over night? With the smartphone you're out of luck if you were relying on being woken up. With my old phone when the phone powered down from low battery, it still had enough power for the hardware alarm to go off and get me to work on time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hotleadsingerguy:
Uhh...I'm talking about using a metering utility that measures overall battery life remaining relative to the original statistic. It measures mAh at 100% and compares it to the stock rating to determine overall battery life percentage.

You'd be surprised how long a battery lasts if you care for it correctly. I've sold phones that were around 2 years old that still metered over 96% overall battery life. It's not too hard.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NPS_CA:
Nokia S40 and earlier phones could do it as there was a power state mode on the baseband to support alarm wake ; power leakage for that was VERY minimal. Plus the RTOS on use for these phones could boot VERY fast to sound the alarm after the device wake event happened

S60/Symbian Nokia phones (some) could do this as well but as I recall the latter phones stopped supporting this.

NO Smartphone with a Cortex core is going to support this as what I've seen today no one is supporting a deep sleep power mode. This includes iPhones, Android devices AND Blackberry.

Blackberry supports Alarms when the device is off as the device is REALLY on! Using very little power. If you hit the power button you see an instant wake. Pull the battery on the device being off, put the battery back and see how long a cold boot takes. The warm/sleep state power on on Blackberry devices is done really well and allows Alarms to work

It would be possible for someone to make an Android device to wake on an alarm but it would require a microcontroller with a clock powered from the battery to wake the rest of the phone. In all honesty with most phones on 24/7 now and Airplane mode this is limited use. Would be nice to have but I don't see any phone mfr doing this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BinaryTB:
There is a good reason to leave the phone plugged in at night these days...

iPhone syncs and backs up when plugged in overnight

Google Maps downloads cache data overnight

And I've only been able to get Android OS updates on my Nexus when I leave them plugged in and on overnight (I usually turn my phone off at night too, personal pref). But that update thing could just be a fluke, but its been true for me since Nexus One 2.1 and the way to Nexus S 2.3.6.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pewipo123:
I scanned and couldnt find it right away, but somebody was looking for all the original wallpapers ( including LIVE ) from the galaxcy S2......well here they are....

hope this helps

http://www.box.net/shared/d4jq2c3joqgtfqr0pv2p

ENJOY
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LBTaylor1984:
Ok i've got a S2, and i've decided to use the google calendar sync service.

So i've put my appointments in the Calendar online, and though ok here goes.

open up the calendar and i'm greeted with 'Googl calendar cannot sync with Samsung Kies' well i don't have Kies so der. but then 'Local calendar cannot sync with Google calendar. You need a Google account'

ok so i've got one account, the sync for calendar is ticked, so what am i missing?

i've wiped data, and tried choosing 'My Calendar' and obviously the Gmail calendar. but no

If I create an appointment it appears on the phone and magically appears online? can't sync huh?

but it won't download my online calendar, but i can delete the entry on the phone or on the PC and it disappears on both. So what the Hell is going on?

Help please!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] shad0wboss:
My internet at home is slow and some of the gameloft games don't support resure capability so is there a way for me to configure some sort of proxy so that when i'm connected to my school internet and i download gameloft game's data since my school's internet has gameloft blocked...

I have a desire HD with 2.3.7
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
Title sums it up

This does not flash a modem, nor clear data.

It is simply a kernel repack and a rooted system.

http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showt...-rooted-tar-(No-modem-system-and-kernel-only)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] niv3d:
This won't work with EG31 right?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
Should since it doent include the modem

Edit: I mobile odined it it works fine
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
I got the following error while trying to Odin this:

<ID:0/012> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/012> Initialzation..

<ID:0/012> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/012> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/012> system.img

<ID:0/012> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/012>

<ID:0/012> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Anyone got any ideas?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
Was Runnin fine for a couple hours but if I turn wifi on the phone just does a fast reboot over and over until i'm quick enough to turn it back off before the reboot
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] satur9ine:
Anyone know why I would get that error in Odin?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] musclehead84:
Try redownloading the file.

Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] speedy0339:
So if I'm on eg30 can I still flash this without the modem? Thanks

Edit.... I meant eg31
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tomyboombotz:
U can flash the new modem as well

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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.617738,-74.158704
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] speedy0339:
Are there any performance or graphical improvements?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] itster2:
Chris, Thank you for the rom.

1 question, is ciq removed?

thanks in advance
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
Having some issues

I flashed through recovery twice. Wiped cache. I have 31 modem if it matters.

Phone keeps momentarily freezing up. Plus, if I hit multiple items like in a game while it froze they all go rapidly after the freeze. Never had this problem or any problem at all before. Any ideas?

Just seems like the touchscreen stops workiing anytime the cpu is spinning more. I hope my lingo conveys my message.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
CIQ is not removed on any of the stock EK02 ROMs.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
I would just like to add, this is by design. If you applied no-ciq to stock ROMs, you wouldn't be able to accept OTA patch-style updates.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] couchlife:
This started happening out of nowhere as far as I can tell. Whenever I turn the WiFi on, in about a minute it completely freezes up the phone and I have to do a battery pull. Sometimes it bootloops because the WiFi freezes up before the phone is completely on. I've flashed different radios, ROMs, kernels, the works. I can't figure it out. It worked fine when I got it. Any ideas?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orkillakilla:
Seeing as how you have tried different ROMs, kernels, etc. Have you tried unrooting to 100% stock?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] couchlife:
Sorry for the late response. Flashing to completely stock solves the problem. Rooting it (while keeping the stock rom) doesn't mess it up either. It's not 'til I put on a custom rom that the wifi begans freezing the phone. Any ideas?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carycooke:
the kernel is what mainly runs your WIFI so what rom are you using???

you need to stick with a stock sense kernel if it was working and use a rom based off a 2.x rom

all of IMOS sense kernels worked good for me
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlg19753:
OK I have an atrix that the volume rockers don't work to much flashing I guess but anyway I know it has two gtalk apks in system apps gtalk and gtalk2 ..can I just replace the first gtalk apk with the inverted apk or will it crash it? I downloaded the zip and just extracted the apk out of it can this be done or am about to mess my phone up

Thanks please need your input

Rooted 2.3.4

sent from my juiced up Atrix
[Droid X General] Level.1:
Hello,

Ive been an iphone user for the longest time and wanted an introduction to the android world so I picked up a droid x with clean esn for a really decent price.

The original problem was that it was stuck at the boot loader screen with an error code, I was able to get to a clean boot loader screen with cam+vol down and power, where I attempted to flash back a stock image. The boot loader showed 30.04.

The flash failed, and my screen was stuck at "SW Update in Progress" or similar, after which the unit completely powered down and has not come back up since.

I have tried new batteries, charging stock battery, all the tricks for trying to turn it on, removing battery and putting back in etc. and I cannot get any sign of life from the device besides a green charge light when plugging in via USB to computer (no light when plugged into wall charger). A couple times I could get the usb connection/disconnection sound from windows, but now I cant even seem to get that.

About to sell it on ebay for parts but wanted to check with the pros first to see if there is any other options I can try.

Thanks.
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
Try getting another, fully charged, Droid X battery, and using it to attempt the SBF process.

Then try to SBF the device.

Edit: Which SBF file did you try to flash the phone with?
[Droid X General] Level.1:
Well, I bought a new battery on ebay with a charger, charged that over 24 hours, charged the OEM one for 24 hours.. not a response.

New battery read 4volts on multimeter, OEM read around 2.5.

I think I flashed it with VRZ_MB810_2.3.34_1FF_01.sbf

Attached is the log from the flash if it helps
[Droid X General] Level.1:
ended up selling it for $50 so someone thought they could either use it for parts or fix it, which is just as well I only paid $25 for it.

Thanks guys.
[XPERIA X10 General] hon kin:
I think many of us had read this news on various sites, but still, i wanna post it here. According to Sony Blog, when you sign in with your Xperia device, you will get a free 50GB cloud storage for free[as much as they offer to iPhone and iPad, hurray!]

However, i tried installing and uninstalling the apps several times, i still havent get my 50GB yet. Anyway, i think this is a good news for us, at least it is for me.

What do you guys think?

Source

[It only works on your mobile!]

Link to box.net apps on market:D

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.box.android
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
And what perhaps are the terms of agreement?
[XPERIA X10 General] sahibunlimited:
Nope

saw this yesterday i was just to post this but saw afterwards it only gives 5 gb
[XPERIA X10 General] Pawnty:
I borrowed my moms ipod touch for a few minutes to take advantage of this a week or two ago :P dunno if I'll ever use the space though.