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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bakedbread:
yeah, i thought i was going crazy last night too, but i definitely have the same popping problem

its not very loud , but its there - i heard it when i was in my room cause it was dead silent. Whenever i played any type of sound file, you'd hear the little pop afterwards from the speaker =/

it kinda sucks with touch tones for the dialer cause it happens everytime you push a number

i wonder if google/samsung knows about this and if it can somehow be fixed through a SW patch just like the volume bug haha - cause this LOOKS like a HW issue again
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hellraiser_rob:
Yes, I certainly also get this, my hearing is very sensitive, so something like this is very noticeable for me.

Even "turn off touch sounds" doesn't seem to stop it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shodney:
I would guess it's just something as simple as properly muting the output to the speaker before turning it off. This should prevent the voltage spike from affecting the speaker.

Its not unique to the Nexus - it can potentially happen to anything with a speaker that isn't muted before turning off the amp.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bakedbread:
what's the best way to report this bug to samsung/google?

cause im looking through the general section and it seems like there are bunch of other threads popping up about this issue (pun intended? haha)

maybe if it gets enough traction like the volume bug they'll push out a fix
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shodney:
There's an issue already been raised, so you could star that:

http://code.google.com/p/android/is...=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars&start=100
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mcgon1979:
Yup. Me too. 1:32am and noticed it in bed. All my phone on silent settings but any ui interaction causes a hiss and a pop. Hmmmm...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thagov:
turn off touch sounds in the sound settings
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mcgon1979:
This works great. Thanks. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Taggard:
Wow, I've got this too, but I gave to put my ear next to the speaker to hear it. I wouldn't even call it a pop... more like a pip. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hiohokaybye:
That worked for me too! Thanks! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Eclypz:
It's not just selection sounds...the hiss and click happens about 2 seconds after every sound is played through the speaker.

I'm assuming this is a battery saving feature to disable the sound chip when not used, but it appears to be implemented poorly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Silent8Strike:
Noticed this as well, but I have to have the phone nearly against my ear to hear it. One exception is sudden shutdowns, like using adb to restart, then its loud.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MMcCraryNJ:
Hey everyone, I just came back from the Verizon corporate store, where I exchanged my device.

The new unit's speaker DOES NOT pop/click audibly any longer. My first device was so loud I could hear it happening across the room. With this one, I cannot hear it AT ALL! I am an audio engineer and my ears are pretty sensitive to this kinda stuff. From what I was reading online, some people have it and others did not.

What is probably happening is that, and this happens with every speaker, when electrical current runs through it/stops running through it, speakers tend to make a little noise. At first I thought since I have really good ears I was picking up on it, but after it was driving me insane, I finally took it back. As I said, I have really good/sensitive ears, and for the life of me I CANNOT hear the pop/click anymore on my new device. It must be that some speakers exhibit this more prominently than others. Every speaker is different, you know, even across the same assembly line.

I would advise everyone if you still can, go to your point of purchase to go get an exchange if this issue is annoying or bothering you. This is definitely a hardware issue/defect and NOT something that is happening with ICS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tb5...:
yup... just opened up the box started up the phone and noticed this... 2 sec after any sound is a pop noise.

not a big deal... but hope it gets fixed.
[HD7 General] msadeghd:
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HTC HD7 (WP7)
[Verizon Droid Charge] 71CH:
Hello

My stock browser is not working that well. It'll freeze up which causes the phone to reboot. I have javascript turned off and flash content to on demand.

Thanks for any help.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
I gave up on the stock browser the first day and installed opera mobile.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wampuscat:
I've always preferred the AOSP browser.copy to system/app and reboot.the bookmark button is at the bottom when u hit menu making one handed browsing easier and u can scroll before the page is thru loading without the checkerboard crap. Ill Upload it in a second

here ya go. its much better than stock
[Verizon Droid Charge] ilovesoad:
Get dolphin hd
[Verizon Droid Charge] wampuscat:
Btw before u copy it to system/app u could rename the stock one in case u wanna go back. Just put a .bak on the end of browser.apk on the stock one.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Jmjohnson1717:
Be very careful with dolphin hd. Do your homework in it as it's been reported to record user information and upload it back without user consent.
[Verizon Droid Charge] blueis300:
So if you rename the stock browser to browser.apk do it crew anything else up? Do it combine with any other system files? Is there a difference in resources when using firefox compared to the stock browser?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Dolphin mini is the same thing, but more lightweight and less pointless features.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nabeel_Nabs:
I'm currently trying to theme my dialer for my xperia play ; I've found that its located in semcdialer.apk but my problem is with changing the text colour of the numbers - They don't seem to be in picture format so i presume the information is stored in the xml files but I can't edit these using notepad++ (most of it is giberish).

EDIT- Fairly new to all this and i'm guessing there's a simple solution like using another program...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nabeel_Nabs:
Am i allowed to bump my own topic?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Taranis:
I have to charge my SGS daily.

Reading some opinions at forum I noticed that average SGS lasts about 2 days.

In 6 hours sleep SGS eats 10% battery (previous phone with same battery, more stuff: max. 3%).

What kernel and ROM are you preffering?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] smollocks:
MilkyRom - Best for battery

Hi,

I'm a fairly light user and I found MilkyRom v1.3 to have amazing battery life - I could get between 4 and 5 days use from one charge:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1207466

It's also really fast and stable too :) Downside is that it's only JVR :(

I've just moved to ZuBy's JVT ROM and that seems pretty good too - I reckon I'll get at least 3 days from a single charge:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1360372

Enjoy!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] $omator:
unles the creator of some particular mod have not broke anything there will be no change in battery life betwen mods

only thing that could impact battery usage is user
[Galaxy S I9000 General] whaave:
I got amazing battery life on stock JVT with Semaphore, as long as I disabled 3G and WiFi when I didn't need them. We're talking 3+ days with 3+ hours with display on...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] piccobit:
Oh, it's easy to get a long battery life! ;)

Just switch off WiFi, 3G, GPS, synchronizing, direct push, etc. and finally set your display brightness to 10%! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kicsihuszar:
is there the FC bug with Semaphore kernel also?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] siky_dude:
i get display on +6 hours on CM7 with fugu kernel, so yeah, there is that :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Taxiozaurus:
I use obsession XXJVT (wich is almost fully stock, only difference +16 lockscreens) chainfire kernel and I get full 48 hours of intensive usage. About 10 - 15 hrs of youtube, 2-3 hrs gaming, about 30 mins of talking and 30 sms to send. And with 3g and WiFi always on. To mention I do not use any tweaks than Juwe's RAM script.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kicsihuszar:
can anyone please confirm no FC with custom kernels?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pikachu01:
I call sh*t on this. 10-15 hours of youtubing, display time of 15hours? That is with gaming for 2-3 hours?

Impossible.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zero00zero:
Had the best battery life with some Darky ROMS so far, but I am always wondering about the stats some people post here. I was far away from these runtimes the whole time I own this device.

Maybe because I keep 3G, WiFi, Sync etc. on most of the time... But that's what I bought a smartphone for.

If I would disable everything that makes my Phone a smartphone I could also have bought a Nokia...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gsw5700:
yes, try semaphore 1.9.1, its very stable (and fast) I use it with stock jvt as I need phone to be reliable.

Sent using TCP/IP
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kal-El25:
It all depends on the kernel anecd the options that have been applied. Too many variables have to be considered and their corelations as well. That said no FC should take place if everything is applied correctly according to creator's suggestions.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Taranis:
For me it's also impossible.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] scrappy20863:
Whahaha youre completely wright. That is Impossible.

I am happy if i get 10 hours :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kalletin:
MIUI mint berry has a very good battery life. On samsung firmwares I had to recharge the battery 2 times a day on my normal usage.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] buttwad:
I currently use galaxydroid 3.3, with semaphore 1.9 kernal. This give fantastic battery life, drops only around 5-6% over night, I have wifi,gps and 3g all switched on all the time and the 3.3 rom gives loads of nice little tweaks, which are gone from 4.0
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DanDroidian:
I use jvz odexed stock with semophore 2.1.1 and I'm lucky to get 6 hours of screen usage with screen set to very dark... Usually just using 2g service with tapatalk....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] philipas:
I use S.U.R.F.A.C.E 7.01 ROM with Semaphore 2.1.1 kernel and Thunderbolt scripts, and battery lasts about 2 days with 3G on all day, wifi morning/evening, airplane mode at night, and moderate usage of Tapatalk, calls, browsing.

P
[Galaxy S I9000 General] soul18reaver:
I use Juwe Smart edition and battery lasts 3 days with wifi on and 3g and 2-3 hours of use
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Blaze9:
Alright, so I was using my phone and the battery was around 4-5%. I needed to do a backup, and update my rom.

Stupid me decided to load up CWM, and start an nandroid backup. Backup finished, so I decided to flash the new update. Update finished as well. Just as soon as I was about to reboot the phone, it just turned off. I plugged in the phone to charge using my laptop as a power source. The battery icon pop'd up on the screen, the softkeys flashed lightly, and the battery icon left. This kept on happening. I could not get the battery to charge. I tried to plug in the USB to another computer, still didn't work. Maybe my laptop wasn't giving out enough power. I then plugged in the wall charger. Same exact issue. Battery icon comes up, soft keys flash, and screen goes black. Battery Icon comes up, keys flash, screen off. Repeat for ever. Left it going for about 20-30 minutes, then tired to power on the phone. Didn't work.

The only way I got the battery to charge was to use my extended battery (1850) charger. I left the OEM battery in the charger overnight, and next morning the battery was 100% ready to go. I plugged in the phone to a charger just to make sure the USB charging worked, and it did.

So the battery was so low that it couldn't power the screen to show the battery charging screen, and for some reason the screen loop drained battery faster than the charger could charge it.

I don't know if someone can repeat this with another battery/phone, but be careful if your battery drops low and you're in CWM. It doesn't seem to shut off the phone when it gets to 1 or 0% like the android OS should.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylerdurdin:
You seriously decided to backup AND flash with 5% battery? I take you have not read about flashing below 50% and the risks.*facepalm*
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shadow65781:
I've seen this before, if you drain it past a certain point, it won't power on until its charged enough, the only thing that saved you're battery was the internal circuitry that shuts it off before it goes below the point of no return, normally the phone shuts down before that point but you weren't in normal operation mode so the battery itself shut down thus you have to wait for it to come back up to the minimum phone level which is above the minimum level in the battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Blaze9:
Below 50%? No, never. I've done the same with my G1 and this phone, battery WELL below 50%, It's never been an issue before, other than this one time. I've learned why it did that. Though, I don't think I can severly mess up the phone if the flash fails since it's only the OS. I'm not flashing a modem or a bootloader. If anything you can load the phone up in download and flash a new kernel and OS using odin.

Like I said in the first post, the OS usually turns off the phone at a certain percentage, which it shows at 1, but it might be a little bit higher. However since I was in CWM there are no limits to which I can use the battery. Just realized that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylerdurdin:
I am not implying that this was going to brick your phone...in general it just defies the laws learned in NOOB 101. As for bricking your phone...Maybe not this device but there are PLENTY of phones out there including my HD2 that it will. Not to mention flashing with low battery has been know and sometimes will cause battery calibration issues that are much harder to remedy. I was only taken back by the fact that nothing you did is worth risking anything, and is generally just not safe practice for any device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gr8hairy1:
+1

Everything he said

Sent from my páhhōniē
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] decimetar:
What's up people!

I use My phone explorer but often I got situation of duplicated contacts and bull**** I'm tired to deal with. If I leave it to google it will sync only emails but for phone numbers what do you use? I'm in canada on wind network so tmobile won't work... how do you easily deal with this?

Cheers!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mike-y:
I have all my contacts in google. None on the phone or sim card, just google. Every time I flash a rom, I get them all back on the first sync. Never had an issue with syncing or losing contacts doing it this way.

Also, make sure contacts syncing is turned on in your google accounts and sync settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thegoo:
Google agreed. Simple and effective.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vgcraze:
Contacts --> Menu Key --> Display Options

Set these settings to whichever combo works best, which I'm guessing may be to enable only Contacts on your Phone and uncheck most of the rest.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
GOOGLE is the easiest and it backs up phone numbers as well
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
+1 for google (get it?) contacts sync. It's made my life a lot easier.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] tehgyb:
I luld.

But yeah seriously, google.

Until recently I was relying on Facebook to sync my contacts... herp derp

Only problem is if you dont want to use the old tacky looking and buggy as crap facebook app... Most modified fb apps i've seen dont have that feature.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PizzaAmerican23:
Love CM, and enjoy trying out new roms/builds on my phone regularly.

I just bought a SGS2 on ATT about a week ago, and after a few days running stock, i am now on the newest CM KANG build.

It runs great, but my only concern (sort of) is battery life. When flashing CM, or any non i777 rom on my phone, there are drawbacks. Its not horrible, and deifnitley something i can live with, but im wondering is the nexus phones are faced with the same issues.

For example, my standby drain when using the stock rom w/o root was about 12-15% after using it minimally for 7 hours. That same use with CM is about double, which still isnt THAT bad.

Ive never owned a nexus phone, but im wondering how CM performs, and if there are any drawbacks to flashing CM over the stock rom that comes installed on the device.

As someone who flashes a lot, and someone who is starting to get tired of troubleshooting bugs, should i consider selling my SGS2 and gettings a nexus prime?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pukemon:
Cm is best on nexus phones.

Sent from my samsung gt i9250 which is in the wrong country.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OctoPI:
I've used CM on both my Nexus One and currently running it on my Nexus S. While I did enjoy it on the N1, it's been unstable on my NS.

I've maybe done one or two battery pulls when I was running the stock ROM on my Nexus S (in a 9 months period). Ever since I've switched to CM7, it seems I do about 4-5 battery pulls a week. And the battery life has been inconsistent. I'm getting ready to revert back to stock. In my case, the added features of CM7 do not outweigh the reliability I was experiencing on the stock ROM.

Once I get the Galaxy Nexus, I'll definitely rock the stock ICS build for as long I can.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PizzaAmerican23:
hmmmm, i thought CM is just an AOSP rom that is skinned and modded, so maybe the problem isnt the incompabilties with the hardware, but that CM is actually bad on battery life itself.

The rom that nexus phones use are just AOSP roms with google apps installed right?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Goat_For_Sale:
In all politeness to Cyanogen and G8D love him for his work on the android platform. I would never run one of his roms on my phone.

I have never really been that impressed with the actual running of the roms. They are great full featured produces but from my experience with them they have never been the best rom for a device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pukemon:
No skin. Extra features. More tweaked than modded really.

Sent from my samsung gt i9250 which is in the wrong country.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
Nice work droidphile, this will help many people around here.

One more thing, can you add the details about bus frequency selection? It will be helpful for starters
[Galaxy S II General] droidphile:
I will add bus frequencies and other parameters soon. :)
[Galaxy S II General] chetasus:
respect!!!!

Nice work droidphile :)
[Galaxy S II General] chadouming:
Wow, this is a real good work droidphile. I think this thread should be locked and sticky or at least only sticky.It's not only useful for siyah kernel. It could be used as an example for everyone. Thanks for the time you took to help nood :D
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Excellent thread. Stuck
[Galaxy S II General] avi.laza:
nice work dude
[Galaxy S II General] tolis626:
Really happy to see someone took this task on their shoulders.Well done droidphile,our fellow flashmaniac. :D

Hope you are ready to accept all these noobs in your thread,eh? ;)
[Galaxy S II General] droidphile:
Well, trying to add more noob questions and more info in first post so that i don't have to deal with too many questions :)
[Galaxy S II General] romibrid:
how this kernel compatible with δ-HyperDroid-Androidmeda-v3.0 ?

THX :)
[Galaxy S II General] droidphile:
This is not Siyah Q&A thread. This is.

I guess it is compatible with hyperdroid. Siyah is an unified kernel for stock/stock based and aosp roms.

If you're not sure, take a nandroid backup first. Then flash Siyah.
[Galaxy S II General] Vennaol:
Thanks

Thanks for making such a useful thread!
[Galaxy S II General] waldzias:
Excellent thread, thank you very much!

Just couple more noob questions you can add to your Question Time:

1. How to edit/change init.d script to change governor? Any examples, please?

2. How to check which governor is on by default? (in Siyah it is mentioned that default one is ondemand)
[Galaxy S II General] droidphile:
1. To change governor, Ex:

echo "smartassV2" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

2. To check active governor, just use Voltage Control/SetCpu. Or by script:

echo $(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor)

More info on init.d scripts: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19519757&postcount=10699
[Galaxy S II General] droidphile:
I don't remember exactly when was those two taken off from Siyah. As a temporary fix, you can flash an older version (may be 2.5.x) and find the modules.

And yeah, if you are trying to use modules downloaded from elsewhere, they should be binary compatible with the kernel version.

Recently, all Siyahs are compiled using sourcery g++ 2009 q3.
[Galaxy S II General] Aidan.Collard:
Thanks for the response - I will give an older version a try!
[Galaxy S II General] Aidan.Collard:
I am having trouble finding any downloads for Siyah kernel earlier than v2.6.6

The links to earlier versions on the gokhanmoral web page seem to be dead...
[Galaxy S II General] CamoGeko:
He removed them.

Sent from Origin Unknown.......
[Galaxy S II General] pclev99:
OMG I have gone cross eyed that was alot to read but well worth it thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] sag7392:
@Droidphile

First, let me say thanks for the extremely great information...which answered a lot of my questions. But, I have several questions to ask you.

Did you ever complete the interactive governor tweaks...I haven't seen them posted yet and would love to give them a run.

I have used your conservative tweaks and all I can say is DAMN! Those performance tweaks made my EVO 4G fast as hell! My only question is, does these tweaks turn it into the performance governor or does it just improve on its responsiveness?

Thank you again for a very informative read!

Edit- I believe after installing the nitro-lag nullifier...which is part of the V6 SC script in my sig...it took the down sampling_rate from 40000 in your tweak to 20000...is that bad or good? I mean my phone feels fast as ever...just don't want to kill the battery in the process, lol.
[Galaxy S II General] rommy667:
Fantastic thread so detailed just got a s2 last week so i gota a lot to learn and one thing is for sure im never getting a idevice again.
[Galaxy S II General] droidphile:
@sag7932

Been busy, didn't get time to add interactive tweaks.

Conservative tweaks will not make it an actual performance governor because when not required, the frequency will stay low.

20,000 is OK. But remember that if we polling rate get too close to the transition latency of CPU (which is something below 10,000) then it causes the governor to just keep polling, instead of doing the work.

So, extremely low sampling rate need not yield performance always.
[Galaxy S II General] sag7392:
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I understand being busy and you have already put in a lot of great work. So I'll follow this thread and will gladly wait until you get the interactive tweaks posted. Again, big thanks for all your time and effort!
[Galaxy S II General] ExMM:
I've never found such a detailed explanation on XDA about governors.

Really, thank you very much droidphile to make things clear!

Outstanding guide!
[Galaxy S II General] ljordan2:
@droidphile

How about moving or making this thread on "Android Developing and hacking General". Since this very useful thread is not only for Galaxy S2 but for all android devices. Anyways thanks for this awesome thread.
[Galaxy S II General] droidphile:
Sounds good. But there are many GS2 and Siyah kernel specific parts in this thread. May be i will extract only the info that applies to all android devices in general and start a new thread there. :)
[Galaxy S II General] carlos67:
Quick question guys,

If I don't use the FM radio can I stop the si4709_driver.ko module from starting? Also, is there any benefit eg. quicker boot-up times, by disabling the scsi_wait_scan.ko module?

My line of thinking is to run lean and stop anything from starting that I don't use. Also would like to disable logger.ko.

Presumably I can disable by just changing file from .ko to say.bak?

Anyone? Thanks in advance.