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[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narflynn619:
if you're asking unrooted, i don't think i can help much because mine's rooted, but i guess there's no real difference anyway, not if you heavily modded your phone after rooting..

i just noticed that after the 2.3.4 update, my phone's battery life just got poorer.. before the update i get like 2% deduction in battery percentage if i leave it on overnight for around 8 hours. after the update however, i was surprised from 100% it splashed down to 92% in 8hours overnight without using the phone. GPS is off, 3G is off, GSM ONLY is selected and no heavy apps installed and running. WEIRD. I think ICS is the solution now. after all, SE already confirmed it coming to our devices.

fellow filipino here mate! ;)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pelly_jelly:
quote as written above.

I think it's a phone signal issue, recently i've tryied for a couple of days to go keep the phone on airplane mode (but still using gps and wifi) and the battery life was astonishing, practically zero drain in standby, (1-2% went down during 12 hours of sleep, but with alarm ringing after that :D ) even with wifi and heavy usage of google maps-gps battery was amazing and could have lasted for 3 days (remember, average to heavy internet, wifi, gps and google maps using).

here's my experience with tinkering with battery stuff.

I've tryied setting manually the phone operator, as somebody here said that having it at automatic causes the phone to bug and keep scanning for an operator, but actually i couldn't notice big differencies between manual and auto.

Also i've found out that downvolting isn't worth it for me. It saves a bit of battery, but it lags the phone too much and is pointless with a gaming phone since you waste more battery always going and removing downclock when i want to play and then set it back when i finish.

overclocking wastes big chunks of battery and phone tends to overheat too much for my tastes and i know that overheating = bad for hardware so for 99% of my time i'm on 1024 ghz, which by the way isn't even THAT laggy at all.

Animated wallpapers kinda drops battery life a bit. It's up to you if you want to keep them, as for me they're fine, but i noticed that games (i've tested fifa 2012) lags a lot using christmas 3d wallpaper.

taskers like killing apps are useless for me, sometimes they MIGHT get the phone to be a little snappier, but for most of the times i feel like they EVEN drain battery MORE. I notice that the apps they kill tend to respawn a couple of minutes later, and this cycle of killing-starting does nothing more than spoil the battery. But let's say it's a personal thing of mine (hate taskers).

Let's say i trust android's automatic tasker better.

I tend to keep auto sync off and background data off too. Still to confirm if the latter saves battery or not, confirmed that the first does.

All i can say about my personal experience so far, is try to go around with only GSM, try to be smart and keep it like that when you know you won't use data connection that much, and switch back to gsm/wcdma when you feel like you would check the internet or stuff like that.

In areas with bad signal (my god forsaken girlfriends house) just pop in airplane mode or leave the phone in those areas of the house with have good signal.

Yeah you have to act like a friggin inspector gadget.

Forgot to add my personal solution to battery drain:

i just bought another original sony ericsson battery and now i always go out with one extra battery ready to come and save my days.

I can only shiver in terror at the prospect that i MIGHT go around WITHOUT my Sexplay (or with a battery dead one which is the same) :| :|
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andiemerchcomia:
thanks mate! been turning off the 3g and average internet via wifi cuts the batt in half.

ill try to set to manual my network connection. as i am using my SExplay as my cellphone.

ICS= happy SExplay! will wait for this update. loving SE now. i mean again!
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narflynn619:
i have very strong signal in my area, so i guess the phone-scanning-for-network problem is not the culprit.. back in 2.3.3, it was a way lot better.. :(

as of today, the phone deducted 3-5% of battery life in just an hour IDLE. :(
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andiemerchcomia:
Hey narflynn, i manage to get the network scan to manual and it some way i guess it saves battery. Am using it as my daily phone with some net via wifi and am still around 80+ battery.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narflynn619:
oh yeah i forgot to set it to MANUAL, oh boy

I actually used to do that way back in 2.3.3

i guess that's what you get when you don't use your phone for a month.. you just forget your routine phone maintenance.. :D

PS: my phone's hinge flex broke, wasnt able to use it for a whole month, maybe that's why i forgot the MANUAL stuff :D
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andiemerchcomia:
How come you broke it? Was it good knw? How did u go with repair stuff? And the damage? I mean the cost hehehe.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] malone972:
Can someone help me out with changing the color of the words on the Menu when it pops up? Just need a little layout or whatever to get it done. I changed around the framework, but couldn't figure out how to change the color of the words! Smdh...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Somairotevoli:
Its a pain.you need to decomplile the apk and edit some xml. Under res/values/ color.xml and styles.xml
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] malone972:
It's that bad??? Man, I didn't want to hear that!!! Thanks for leading me to the right path.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Somairotevoli:
Just loads of trial and error.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] malone972:
Damn, it's that bad!?!?!? There is no easy and quick way to change from black to white or blue?
[EVO 4G General] Pivo187:
Is this true or not? Ive been jumping from Swagged out, MIUI, to IC7 and it seems diff roms give diff signal strength...In one area where I hardly ever could even get 1X signal with the IC7 Rom I actually had a 1X signal...???
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
Aosp shows true signal strength. For example 2 bars on a aosp rom could show up as full bars on a sense rom
[EVO 4G General] jedjo:
is that also true for WIFI?

I can attest to the fact that I too get better signal on Sense Roms then on ASOP roms...

However...have been testing evodeck's ICS (ASOP) rom...and I am getting some great signal that rival gingerbread's signal....so maybe it's not so much a sense vs ASOP problem with gingerbread...

just a thought

what I get from my laptop on evodeck ICS using wireless tether
[EVO 4G General] officiallytook:
True, if ur looking for sense base...ice cream sense v1.1 3g/4g is amazing...right along with everything else
[EVO 4G General] Pivo187:
Guys im not talking about how many bars it shows or any of that...Im saying when I was on one ROM I got ZERO signal (no service) but in that SAME area with a different ROM I got 1X and Even 3g?! Is that possible that diff ROM can give you a signal while another might not in a specific area????
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Actually, AOSP Shows Data, Sense shows Signal
[EVO 4G General] xHausx:
How many bars it has doesn't necessarily show how strong of a signal you are getting. Some ROMs take in to account the signal to noise ratio, signal strength, etc. so there will be some differences there.
[Android Apps and Games] appman2:
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[Android Apps and Games] Cuppeerr:
Interesting.

Swyped from mah 3vo!
[Android Apps and Games] ArbiterGR:
How comes it's not compatible with Huawei Ideos x5 ? i can't download it through the market.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tahins:
Did anyone try to pull the .apk of "ICS People app" from the ICS source code/rom for X8/GingerDX custom rom?

This topic was also mentioned in:

Thread 1- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1352179

Thread 2- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330948

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tahins

this is all you need to know about me
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1kolaa:
i have tryd some app but only market and music work (i got forgot :))
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiel:
It is the "Contacts" in older Android Versions.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ovexi:
I cannot get rid of this new voicemail notification from the status bar no matter what I do. Atrix does not have an option to clear voicemail notifications like other phones.

I don't have a voicemail setup and I don't plan to do it.

My firmware is 45.2.17.MB860.BellMobility.en.CA. The phone is unlocked and rooted and I am using it on a 2G network (Speakout). I called Speakout but they could not help me.

Below are the screen captures of the notification.

Thanks for any input

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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flowsick:
Why don't you go into recovery mode and try to wipe some stuff like caches and such?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WiredPirate:
You could try clearing the data for Voicemail in TiBU, you could even try freezing the app since you don't plan on using their vm. Google Voice is a better alternative anyways.:)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ovexi:
How do I clear the data for Voicemail in TiBU? Thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xepter:
sounds like you could try a factory reset?

its in settings somewhere lol
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WiredPirate:
Download Titanium Backup From Android Market here. Go to the "backup/restore" tab, find the Voicemail app, select "wipe data".
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malfuncion:
I can't see the pic at work, but from what I remember my girlfriend had the SAME PROBLEM. It's the factory voicemail that is notifying you. If you use gVoice for voicemail, you got a VM before switching over. You can clear data all you want but the VM service runs off a trigger from the server and until you clear it- youre toast. You can clear all the data in the world and it wont resolve.

To clear the trigger, there are a couple ways.

1) If you are one AT&T do this:

To remedy this issue call the AT&T Pilot Voicemail. You can locate it for your area from this document.

For example, OKLA City is (405)664-6359, you can call that # if you have free long distance (most do this day and age and from a cell).

If you call from a land line it will prompt you for the Voicemail box #, aka your phone number. Input that, your pin, then it will let you in to clear the VM.

Should you be on another carrier, call that carriers Pilot Line for their VM service. A pilot line is a backdoor to allow say a secretary to leave a VM without calling your phone. Pretty neat.. also very handy for this situation.

2) You can set the VOICEMAIL Carrier in your settings back to your OG settings of the Carrier. This will redirect you #1 dialpad button to whoever does your carrier VM service. Call it and delete the message.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ovexi:
I tried in Titanium Backup but could not find the voicemail app. I custom searched for "voice" but no voicemail app came up. What is the name for this app in your phone?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WiredPirate:
On MY phone the name of my VM app is Google Voice, because imo it is FAR superior to any other VM app! But since obviously we are not talking about GV.. Do a search for "dialer", my results look like this:

You see where the Dialer application (CM7) says [voicemail] in front of it? I'm

guessing

that's what handles VMs from your carrier. Wipe data for it and see, you can "backup" before you wipe in case you need/want to restore.. I hope that fixes your problem!:)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ovexi:
For some reason I cannot find the "voicemail" app in TiB. I searched for "dialer" and for "voice" but all I got was "voice commands", "voice readouts", "voice search", "dialer storage".

Strange. Maybe because it's stock ROM?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smuuv:
Thank you for this solution. That stupid notification was driving me crazy!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkuso:
Thanks, worked for me.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehrules:
The other suggestion I was going to make was to call your mail box and clear down any unheard/saved calls as that notification is triggered by your carrier (well it is with mine, goes away once I listen to them, not when I call the mail box!)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cnstarz:
I dont know how many of you guys know about this, but this driver is a life saver for the Evo. For a lot of Evo's, GPS lock can take FOREVER. However, with these drivers, GPS lock on Evo is INSTANT (within 5 seconds)!

I thought that since our phones have qualcomm hardware, these drivers might work. My E4GT (stock with Rogue's EK02 kernel and recovery) takes for-e-ver to get a lock if at all (indoor locks are a bona-fide no-go). However, after flashing this, I now get a quick lock outdoors, and get a lock indoors within 30 seconds. Perhaps it's just a fluke/placebo effect, I dont know. Been rebooting and testing these GPS drivers for the last couple hours and everything seems kosher now. YMMV.

Original Thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15760767

Download Link:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=658352&d=1311002339
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Are you using Flash, Flash2, or Flash3?

The filename for the upload link doesn't seem to match the obvious ones from the thread.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cnstarz:
my bad, stupid me, the download link was actually taken from another thread that wasn't as thorough as the thread i linked to. lemee find the REAL original thread...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TalynOne:
How's the stability / speed of GPS lock after you leave the screen off 10 or so minutes?

So far I've been using the following gps.conf + SetCPU profile with good results:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1356865

I already own SetCPU, but it would be nice to offer a solution to friends with the Epic 4G Touch without having to set up SetCPU for them.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cnstarz:
i updated my op witht he correct links. sorry for the confusion!

edit:

can't tell you right now, i'm at work. :( i will tell you though, i did leave the screen off (with gps status running) for about 20 minutes while i was getting ready for work. when the screen came back on (after i got in my car), only took about 5 seconds to lock on after i opened google maps.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] type3:
thanks a lot this fix worked for me
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] autoprime:
i see mention of battery issues on some of the earlier driver revisions... can the people that flash this report on any additional battery drain?

is there a way to revert from these drivers? i guess just nandroid first and revert back if needed?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bjg020683:
Thanks GPS fixed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cnstarz:
Yes, I believe a nandroid backup will suffice. It's like that on the Evo anyways.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluefire118:
Can a MOD please sticky this...I think its very essential... this fix is flawless bro!

Drunk Browsing :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
Also I sometimes have issues when changing roms with GPS but I have found that the app GPS status works great by just clearing out cache. You go to Tools - Options - choice at the bottom.. let it do its thing and then check your GPS again.

Just an alternative but the GPS fix posted here has worked wonders for the OG Evo
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
Our device does not use the qualcomm gps, it uses a discrete sirfstar gps chip.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Calkulin:
I don't see how this will help as the filename included doesn't match what our devices use to load it, the zip one is gps.supersonic.so & ours is gps.s5pc210.so
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
The whole idea of it being for a differnt phone and manufacturer raises questions but it seems to work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluefire118:
Your right..but it does work..well for me at least...

Drunk Browsing :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rgregg504:
Yea it does work
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rmorrisonva:
Yup, it works

I have an OG Epic and had to flash a fix (the GPS started sucking pretty bad after the recent 2.3 update), so when I noticed my roommates ET4G was having GPS issues too I convinced her to let me root it (couldn't help myself), and more importantly flash CWM and this fix. I can say, their effects were nearly identical on both devices (albeit I used a different fix for my OG Epic: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1321049). After that fix on my device, and this fix on her ET4G we both went from 0-1 Sat locks in GPS Status, and unusable Google Nav to 4-7 locks and completely usable Google Nav. Neither device has had any other GPS issues since the fix (no freezes, etc).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] misticd:
GPS fixed!

Hi,

This is my first time posting on the xda forums as I only read others comments and try out things. Followed the cdma hero when I had it and now this. :-)

Well I had gps issues. when I got this phone I tried every type of fix in this these forums. I tried the trick about configuring the gps.conf in the other forum post, additionally tried putting the set cpu to the screen off 500-500 100priority trick. The gps would work at times but would take around a minute to do so or sometimes when I had the phone on idle for a few hours it would never connect until a reboot.

At this I would have tried anything to fix the gps and I found this thread. I was like might as well try it if anything I can just nandroid back. Man it worked flawlessly. I tested every scenario in which I restarted the phone and it locked in 5seconds and then idled the phone for over 4 hours and then turned on gps status and it connected within 10-15seconds. This is all without clearing the cache too. But when I did clear it, it would lock faster.

My phone is set up with all the previous configurations from the other thread and this gps fix. There is definitely a performance difference, so its not the placebo effect. I haven't isolated if this fix was the the fix that corrected my gps or if it was the combination of both. But this sure works. Sorry for the long post lol hope this helps whoever had the same problem as me.

Ps. The whole phone is perfect. No los. Good battery. It was just the gps issue.

Running eg30 baseband with the 1.5a calkulin Rom and rogue .eg30 stock kernel .
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kikoshi:
So then, you recommend doing a nandroid backup, then Flash the Drivers, if nothing ends up working, one can always reflash the previous backup and you're set as before?... also is there any wipes needed to be done before flashing the backup?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] datajosh:
Placebos are powerful things :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] misticd:
yes, I recommend doing a nandroid backup and if it doesn't make a difference for you. just reverted it back; no harm done.

I mean, I know the drivers don't match and Calkulin does have a good point, but the performance for the GPS lock as compared to before is like night and day. This instantly locks within a few seconds when idle for 2+ hours as compared to before the fix it would either take 1min or 2 mins or just not lock at all until a reboot.

I mean what may work for me may not work for others, so just give it a chance. What's there to lose lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kikoshi:
the phone? lol

but thank you! Will give it a try :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
I don't think very many CDMA phones would come with a sirfstar chip as they get the GPS almost for free with the qualcomm cdma chipset family and the sirfstar doesn't understand how to work with hybrid-assisted GPS.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] misticd:
While a google search in for our phone from ifixit samsung epic 4g touch by sprint it shows

Samsung K3PE7E700B-XXC1 Dual-Core 1.2 GHz Processor

Samsung Electronics Corporation (SEC) K521H12ACE

Samsung KLMAG4FEJA-A003 16 GB Flash Memory

Avago ACFM-7325 Band Class 14 PCS/Band Class 10 Cellular Band Quadplexer

Qualcomm QSC6085 CDMA Processor

Silicon Image 924480

Yamaha YMU823 Audio Codec

not sure if that helps. But I think our phone may be a qualcomm unit for GPS. Additionally, there is a sticker still on top of my phone that says "Digital by Qualcomm"
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] numus:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/09/qualcomm_brandishes_cdma_patents_handbag1/

If it is CDMA it is Qualcomm....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kikoshi:
This might be deep in the thread, but is it possible to uninstall this by just removing the Supersonic.so file from the hw folder? or are there other changes apart from this done when flashing?

Thank you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdunham:
Yes, deleting the gps.supersonic.so located in /system/lib/hw is the only thing you need to do. Nothing else was written or changed on the phone if you flashed this fix.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geoffrey_xie:
Hi, when i take a picture with my sony LT15 the camera button didn't work, and i can not use the camera button to open the camera, what's wrong with it? Can any body help me?:confused::confused:
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nujhum:
You sure it wont work? Cause it a bit hard to press.

You need to press it harder till you heard click sound...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mammenj:
why is my /cache partition always showing 30.1 m capacity and 30.1 available?

does it mean it is not being used at all?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] engelsione:
Ok how can I get this Google wallet on my phone?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notorious:
It's only for phones that have a nfc chip I think its called
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] engelsione:
AHHW CRAP!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daugusta12:
Ya, you need the actual NFC chipset in the phone allowing you to use the NFC functionality, here is a good list of what phones have it and what ones will have it in the future or may have it in the future.

http://www.nfcworld.com/nfc-phones-list/

Hope that helps
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
You can probably get the app from the market, but as stated, without the NFC chip, there isn't much you can do with it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theonebakery:
nfc battery for evo?

I noticed the NFC chip is usually on a battery, would there be anyway to get a battery with it for the evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
No, the evo wont support it.