yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Sensation] Jackos:
As a electrical engineer I have to disagree with some of the statements.

From what I studied it's best practice to keep your Li-Ion fully charged. Keeping your battery discharged for a long time may decrease your battery lifetime. Yes, there are safeguards, but still it isn't healthy for the battery. It's not like going under a magical barrier of 3500mV causes dmg to the battery and 3501mV causes no dmg at all. It's bull****.

How to maximize your battery life?

Do not charge your battery when you're running high demanding tasks.

Do not softreset your phone when you're charging.

Do not discharge your battery when it's not needed.

Keep your battery dry.

Do not expose your battery to temperatures above 50C or below 0C.
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Cool. Very good info, will add to OP if you don't mind.

Regarding discharge, I did say that if phone dies you should charge it immediately ;) I do not recommend "killing" it, ie trying to start phone when its dead repeatedly.

It is indeed good to keep Li-Ion topped up at all times, bit disadvantage of that is messed up battery stats, which will cause incorrect readings and premature shut down- hence bad battery life.
[HTC Sensation] Jackos:
Jepp, doing 100%-0%-100%-0% cycles will result in best battery "calibration", but that's just software based as you mentioned. This would be excellent for older battery types.
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
And very good for Android battery stats. Basically, what I posted is explanation how to keep battery stats healthy while not damaging battery. From battery point of view, yes just keep it topped up to preserve it the longest. From Stats point of view, drain,charge,drain,charge is the best thing. Both are not good for each other. But, I'd rather have healthy stats for best performance in day to day use if I had to make a choice, since Anker is only 12gbp, and if I kill one, I'll just get a new one.

OP is basically how to keep Stats/Battery balanced without affecting each other too much.

Just remember disclaimer, all of the info is what I found by reading and from personal experience. You don't have to take it for granted.
[HTC Sensation] Dope Ex:
Nice FAQ, mate. Helpful infos imo. :)
[HTC Sensation] bomczz:
Sensation Xe battery with 2 days use

i have rom ARHD 3.6.7, bricked kernel 1.5 and my battery last 2days ;) with moderate use :)

i only wip battery stat once when flash new rom.
[HTC Sensation] Sibbi:
The best charging strategy (for a long battery life, in terms of persistance) for a vehicle with a range extender (e.g. used in Stuttgart in some of the Mercedes buses) is keeping the charge between 40 - 60%. Higher and lower will shorten the life of the battery more. Since these vehicles use LiIon batteries, I think it should be the same for smartphone batteries.
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Not exactly. Technology is fair bit different there afaik. Also, them batteries cost thousands, Anker costs a tenner.

Purpose of this thread is not how to preserve battery longest, but how to get best performance day to day use without killing battery too soon. :)
[HTC Sensation] leyus:
Cool as you know my topic was closed most of issues have been solved although battery life remain in progress. If you don't mind I will be happy to post my results from anker here in compare to stockresults as I have plenty screens to compare and both batteries have been use on exactly same setup with same use.
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Yeah, carry on. Just specify wherever you followed advice from the OP or not. :)
[HTC Sensation] leyus:
Mostly. My topic was reopened so I will keep on posting there on regular bases however after week or two when I will finish testing will post my final results and comparison here as well. My topic is already messy so it will be kind of blog on testing battery life and because this one is clear and nice I will just upload screens with final results.
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Good lad. I like your style, seems very sensible ;)
[HTC Sensation] leyus:
Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, so also does the depth of discharge (DoD) determine the cycle count. The smaller the depth of discharge, the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid frequent full discharges and charge more often between uses. If full discharges cannot be avoided, try utilizing a larger battery. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine; there is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles other than to calibrate the fuel gauge on a smart battery.

Source:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

Comments:

Yes I will still do my 5 full charge, discharge cycles to calibrate stats nicely but then I will try to replace my batteries before they are gone, reading that convinced me that there is no point on doing this to often, at the end of the day, how big can be impact of software stats on battery life? With this article you can clearly see that way you charge it does have massive impact. I'm not arguing that proper calibration etc. does not have it but still don't think it is that much as this article reviled.
[HTC Sensation] nisroc23:
Thanks! :)
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Bad battery stats might simply shut down your phone before it should (say you might still have 20% left but phone thinks battery is empty).

Again, I'll repeat myself, I'll sacrifice £12 battery for the sake of having phone running longer any time, but main purpose of this thread is how to get most out of battery without sacrificing It's longevity too much too soon.

Let's not go down the route where people argue about how to preserve battery from dying for 10 years, its not the point.
[HTC Sensation] leyus:
Fair enough but I doubt will the difference be as big as 20% unless someone would do some crazy stuff like changing ROM on 40% battery and not calibrating at all. And even then after few full drains and full charges it should slowly get calibrated, but I might be wrong. Anyway to be keep it balanced I think best idea might be going through all first 5 cycles full and the drain it to 0 occasionally (with phone like sensation it will happen often anyway). That idea should keep it sensible between calibration and not damaging battery too much.
[HTC Sensation] mikef:
Good idea for the thread, thanks. I will follow it for the main purpose, but this post is about the Sensation battery jumps you mentioned at the bottom of post 1. I have been trying to do power offs instead of reboots when necessary and I am not seeing the battery drops. Well, 1% :D but not 20-30% like before. I am guessing there is something different about the way the battery stats file gets closed out, between the power off/on and reboot, maybe something in cache not getting flushed, I don't know. Would you possibly have any ideas on that?
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Lol, 20% was completely errmmm, can't find a word for it. Maybe massively exaggerated guess.

I do flash ROMs whenever, and I don't clear battery stats, but is do follow 100-0-100-0 to calibrate battery stats.

Indeed, i'm not saying to do it EVERY time, but I'd personally recommend full discharge (till phone shuts down) once a week or so, just to keep on top of the problem.

First time I've seen someone mention that, so no, no ideas as of yet. I will keep an eye on it :). TBH, it's quite random for me, sometimes it jumps, sometimes it doesn't....

BTW guys, whoever votes thread down. I'd appreciate if you explained the reason. Maybe you know something I don't, and I'm always ready to learn :)
[HTC Sensation] leyus:
Summary:

@average results on stock battery:

few results from anker on same kernel, ROM and settings:

So there seems to be 10-30% improvement comparing to stock battery. Is that a massive difference? No. But for that price (20 quid for two batteries with charger) it is definitely worth it's price and I can recommend it. Even if you don't consider difference being significant it is good to have another battery in my pocket.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .xxx.:
Hi guys..this is my first post here....I have wildfire for like 5 months now... Since then I have tried many roms like cm7, wildpuzzle, and many more... Currently I'm using zempuzzle which is an awesome fast and stable ROM with sense based... It's an a Android 2.2.1 ....

Guys I'm looking for a custom ROM sense based having 2.3.x Android os... Have tried sense on fire but it's isn't that stable....

Can anyone suggest me any custom ROM???
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3xeno:
Please read around a bit before asking already discussed to death questions again and again. There is NO Gingerbread Sense ROM at the moment which is stable enough for daily use. Senseonfire is the closest.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .xxx.:
Thanks buddy and I'm sorry for posting it again... I had already read all the possible posts but didn't find any ROM ... So I had to post the query myself ...
[Galaxy S II Accessories] mariom:
Just a short one. I got my S2 this week and wanted a decent traditional leather case for it, so I went down to Tesco where they now have a range of cases for it. Not necessarily the biggest range but it's probably available across the UK so I thought why not?

Anyway, they sell the Orbyx Flip Case and Orbyx Folio Case in leather for the S2.

Flip case (folds back at the top):

+Well made, no loose stitching

+Nice bright green suede effect inside

+Invisible magnetic clasp

but

- no credit/sim/memory card holder

- top strip of leather covers the proximity sensor preventing you from hanging up a call

Folio case (folds back down one side):

+Well made, no loose stitching

+Nice bright green suede effect inside

+several credit card slots

but

- questionable magnetic clasps to hold phone inside case

- no sim/memory card holder

- top strip of leather covers the proximity sensor preventing you from hanging up a call

So basically they are nicely made cases with a fatal flaw - you can't hang up a call if you have the proximity sensor activated. This was a deal breaker for me and I went for a flexi case with a screen protector instead.

I hope this helps someone who is considering the same cases!

Mario

Edit - added pics (you can see where it fouls the sensor) and here are the product pages that I used:

Folio:

http://direct.tesco.com/product/images/?R=213-8863&tn=/3/AW11213-8863TPS1214437.jpg

Flip:

http://direct.tesco.com/product/images/?R=213-7098&tn=/8/AW11213-7098TPS1219094.jpg
[Galaxy S II Accessories] rouvax:
how about photo ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] spryartist:
Hello People,

I'm in the crap from toes to neck. My brother was playing with my phone and I don't why he tried to install the Clockword mod recovery. He then turned off the phone. So now I cannot turn it on, put it on download mod and start the stock android recovery.

Can somebody help me. It is my work phone. I have all my important contacts & stuff inside.

Thanks in advance.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] surdu_petru:
If your brother installed CWM into your phone, than your phone is rooted, isn't it?

You can download your Stock Rom ( you can find on the phone box your version XWKD1 or XWKF2 )

Stock ROM FROYO 2.2:

For Euro B7510 XWKD1 : http://hotfile.com/dl/127133994/17d5d98/B7510XWKD1_OXXKD1_XXKC3_bysamsdroid.rar.html

For Euro B7510 XWKF2 : http://hotfile.com/dl/124407579/8bb1563/B7510_PRO_B7510XWKF2_.zip.html

---------- Post added at 11:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:34 PM ----------

Now you need Odin v4.28 : http://www.multiupload.com/B12P3BJBE6

Samsung Kies installed in your PC....( I hope that you have already installed the application on the PC)

■Now, after finishing the download you will have to now ensure that you are turning your phone off so that the download mode which is nothing but the safe mode is activated in your phone. After turning Off the phone, you will have to first push the “Q” button to enter in to the download mode which will look like as shown in the below screen shot. If you have successfully entered into the download mode then you will see a green screen which is shown below. Also, additionally note that if the device boots in the normal mode with the home screen then you will have to again switch off the device and retry the process and if despite retrying you are unable to get into download mode then you will have to fix the download mode error for your phone. You can see the download mode screen on how it looks like.

Poza1 ....http://www.4shared.com/photo/zA0HoG80/Poza1.html

■Now, after this you will have to connect the phone to the computer where you have downloaded and extracted the zip file from the above link. Please note that while connecting the USB cable you will have to make sure that the Odin software is open as mentioned and shown above, as soon as you connect the phone to the Odin, the ID COM block will turn yellow after which you will have to enter the files by clicking on the corresponding options as shown below,

Poza2.....[IMG]http://www.4shared.com/photo/k33bdHec/Poza2.html

BOOT – APBOOT_B7510...................md5,

Phone – MODEM_B7510....................md5,

PDA – CODE_B7510..........................md5,

CSC – ....B7510.......CSC...................md5,

■As soon as you feed in the files, you will have to double check the same and then you will have to proceed and click on the “Start” option to start the firmware update process. After clicking on the start, you will see that the firmware will be installed in your phone within a time of not more than 5 minutes.

Poza3......[IMG]http://www.4shared.com/photo/J-0BuaB2/Poza3.html

■Now, you can see that the flashing process is being in process and you will have to make sure that you don’t interrupt the flashing process as this may be fatal for your phone. So, after few minutes of time you will see the Odin screen as shown below,

Poza4......[IMG]http://www.4shared.com/photo/Iyc1MxXQ/Poza4.html

Now, that’s it as soon as you see that the above screen is shown in the Odin, you will have to wait for the home screen to see in the phone and there you go, you have now successfully instal.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] skull_beta82:
Euro B7510 XWKF2 dont have

Phone – MODEM_B 7510.... ....... ....... ..md5

you have this file?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sanjana das:
When my galaxy pro is in download mod, on pc driver samsung usb composite device not start win7 so odin is not turn yellow.

I have latest version kies driver, i start odin with administrator. All securty are off. When I connect usb, there is one driver on pc sam.. composte device device but not startted with ( error 10) on win 7…

What should I do?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nookcolornewbe:
I was rooting my nook color 1.2.0 with

gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip and

update-cm-7.1.0.1-NS-signed.zip

It was working well until

updating kernel

creating symlinks and updating permissions

chown: cannot access`/tmp/backuptool.sh': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access`/tmp/backuptool.sh': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access`system/etc/instoall-recovery.sh': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access`system/etc/instoall-recovery.sh': No such file or directory

..... (stuffs keep saying that no such file or directory)

/etc/init.d/S99initialinstall: /tmp/updatescript: line 1: syntax error: unexpected word (expecting ")")

and device is just stopped here for hours.

Computer recognize NC as a network adapter.

I am a newbe here so even I found a suggestion to do adb remount I cannot do it.

The device is not detectable so if i put adb remount it says error devices is not connected.

I am not able to turn it off nor operate it now.

What should I do here??
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patruns:
If you cannot shut it down, let the battery run out. In the interim, make your bootable SD card with CWR 3.2.0.0 or higher and put the CM7 and gaaps .zips on it. When battery is dead and Nook truly off, put the SD card in and plug in the charger. At this point you may get the red box in the center saying battery too low to start. Just leave it charging. Eventually when it charges enough you should be booted into CWR. Hold the power button in until you can shut it down and let it continue charging. When fully charged, disconnect and you should be able to boot from the card and do your CM7 installation.
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
[ THEME ] [ i2 ] [ iphone ] [ ADW | APEX | NOVA | GO Launcher | MIUI ] - 2226 icons

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i2Theme

2226 ICONS

[ADW - APEX - NOVA - GO Launcher - LauncherPro - MIUI - Tencent - QQLauncher Pro]

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- 2226 iphone style icons

- 0018 docks [works on ADW FREE and ADW EX]

- 0034 wallpapers
[Android Themes] kcls:
Yay, I was waiting for this... awesome theme! You'll be sad if you didn't try it!

Tapatalkin it from my IHO CM7.1'd, ICS Themed Optimus V
[Android Themes] Leonardo Teles:
GREAT THEME.

thanks a lot :D
[Android Themes] yeahtyeaht:
where is the mtz?
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
http://i2theme.webs.com/i2forotherlaunchers.htm ;)
[Android Themes] cop1976:
link for miui not working :(
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
yes is working, direct link http://www.sendspace.com/file/70bjr4
[Android Themes] abumhmmd1:
THNKs

Great wrk

::

DWNLD LNKs are blocked here in SA

another LNK plz
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
new wallpaper v1.4 with 34 wallpapers

i2theme v12.2 - ADW i2Theme
[Android Themes] cop1976:
Any plans to make a Go Launcher version?
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
can you help me ?
[Android Themes] TeranG__:
how to apply in qqlauncher?
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
1) follow menu > theme

http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/6444/fdsfsdfsd.jpg

2) follow themes gallery

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/2069/dfgdfgl.jpg

3) download this theme from web gallery (but do not apply it yet)

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/3649/fghfhfghfg.jpg

4) download my zip and extract it, rename file to ''圆润有爱'' and move to /sdcard/QQLauncher/theme/ (replace with downloaded one)

5) go back to theme gallery and apply downloaded theme (there will be old preview, so just set it)

If you need QQlauncher, it's here: http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1220695
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
new version 12.3 with 1313 icons

i2theme v12.3 - ADW i2Theme
[Android Themes] Leonardo Teles:
i love this theme
[Android Themes] lippol94:
Could you please update MIUI theme too? :)

I'd really like to use it on my phone!

You can use this to help renaming procedure: http://activities.droidicon.com/
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
what icons you need ?
[Android Themes] lippol94:
Well, almost every!

:D

I gave a look into MIUI pack and there are very few icons.

v1.1 says tha pack. ADW is 12.3!

i thought you shuould update it :)
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
send me the icon list you wanna, i will do it ;)
[Android Themes] lippol94:
Why not adding all icons you've added into ADW one?
[Android Themes] MistakenUtopia:
I know it is lots of Apps. If you can't, it's totally cool with me. :)

Go Launcher Ex Icons:

SetCPU

Screencast

JuiceDefender - battery saver

JuiceDefender Ultimate

Google Play Store: com.android.vending

ROM Toolbox Pro

Box

ES File Explore

File Explorer

Instagram

Solid Explorer

Android Antivirus

Titanium Backup

Superuser

GasBuddy

Gallery: com.htc.album

Amaze Camcorder: com.android.amaze_camera.CamcorderEntry

Amaze Camera: com.android.amaze_camera

Thanks a bunch in advance for all your efforts in making the theme.
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
tomorrow i will work on go launcher ;)
[Android Themes] thoiloidainhan:
thanks for apex theme. Beautiful sets. nearly all my most used apps are themed. Keep it up :D

oh BTW can u please change the Play Store icon??? It looks so last year ><
[Android Themes] Pink.Floyd:
Thank you dude for your update
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
what apps do you need ?
[Android Themes] revan17:
I downloaded QQ Launcher and installed it but there's no /sdcard/QQLauncher folder, only Tencent folder and there's no Themes folder inside.

Please help me install this on QQ Launcher.

Edit: I'm an idiot. i just saw there's an apk for qq Launcher, but it's version 11 so a lot of icons missing...could you please update it? Thanks!
[Android Themes] hadoryukishi:
thanks for the icons!

i like it
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
you need to download the Tencent theme ;)
[Android Themes] Simbo_:
Can you give me a direct download Link for the mtz?

The site doesn't load properly :confused:

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[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/93zix4

report to me if the miui theme is working.

thanks
[Android Themes] revan17:
OK I did. Now I extract the archive and there's Icon and Wallpaper Folders inside. Where do I put them? I have /Sd card/Tencent folder and inside of that QQDownload(this one is empty) and QQLauncher folder. Check the screenshot of the contents?

Thanks for your help, sorry if I'm bothering you.
[Android Themes] Simbo_:
Hmm, did you develop for miui v4?

I'm on gb, it fails at converting. Weird..

I will look in it tomorrow and see what's wrong.

Though great work! I didn't expect there to be a whole theme with framework and everything :D

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[Android Themes] MistakenUtopia:
There are some of missing icons like Play Store, Camcorder, Android Antivirus, ES File, Titamium Backup, Superuser, and Screencast. I'm using HTC Evo 3D.

By the way, I'm not here to complain. Lol. Thanks so much for your hard work. You did a great job, man! :)
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
can you post here a screenshoot, please...

its strange because i have Play Store, ES File, Titamium Backup, icons on my go launcher :S
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
GO version 1.3

i2theme v1.3 - GO i2Theme
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
i have lost track of things, what launcher you have ?

give me the apk link
[Android Themes] revan17:
:)

QQ Launcher, one from the market.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.qqlauncher

Now when you download the theme from your website, you get qqi2theme_v11.apk, which works but has very few icons as it's barely 1MB in size.
[Android Themes] MistakenUtopia:
Nevermind. I uninstalled and installed it again. Now there are three icons missing; Play Store, Screenshot and Android Antivirus.

Oh, and also it'd be nice if you can change it to Titamium's new logo.
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
yes... you have the real QQ Launcher, i tried to theme other icons, and dont work :(

if you find a theme for QQ Launcher with lots of icons, tell me i will see how they do it
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
MistakenUtopia,

made this version for you ;)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3r3ptm

-Titamium, has new icon

-Android Antivirus, has new icon.

-Screenshot ???, did you mean Screencast, Screencast is mine has you can see the blue shadow ;)

-Play Store, sorry mate, i just love my old market icon :p
[Android Themes] Listy2021:
And another one;

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lastmile.wifitimeout

Sorry for being a pain in the butt lol ;)
[Android Themes] MistakenUtopia:
Thanks! I feel satisfied for now. I'm going to hit the thank button every you posted. You deserve it. ;)
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
please see this video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCLRd7fBaa4

and tell me the activity names of the apps is missing the icons, i will do it for you ;)
[Android Themes] rjsmer:
Ok... Thanks will post all activity names... :):):)
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
test this version and report to me ;)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/42mabf
[Android Themes] Simbo_:
Ok mtz is working now! :)

I can upload by request

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[Android Themes] Listy2021:
Works great, thank you... that Apollo icon is fantastic!

Cheers :)
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
MIUI version 1.6

i2theme v1.6 - MIUI i2Theme

i hope the icon conversion problem is solved ;)
[Android Themes] GabrielSousa:
can some one report to me if this version works on MIUI v4 ?

thanks
[Android Themes] Noz85:
Great theme thanks

transmitted from the Dark Obelisk
[Android Themes] funkyjazza:
great theme

i loveit
[Android Themes] 1qwaszx:
Nice Share, Thanks Sir. :D
[Android Themes] -Grift-:
Beautiful theme :)