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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookoospite:
Phone is recognised by heimdall so probably worth a go if you have experienced problems like me. I had someone put CWM on the phone I am using with their machine. Wouldn't you know it all worked without a hitch. So I am not going to actually run hiemdall unless I am unlucky enough to be in a last resort position again. If I do I will post the, hopefully positive result. Hope my headaches and the absolutely great support I have received here will help you.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manmad:
i dont nkow much about flashing etc, but try buying an usb jig from amazon or ebay? they cost almost notting and that should fix your phone if its bricked

you got kies installed on your pc (you need that for odin to work) make sure no process of kies is running while you open odin !!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookoospite:
Thanks for the idea m8. But I can get into download mode fine its getting firmware onto the phone that's the headache! I have Already tried with kies installed and Odin gets stuck at factory fs and I am running as admin. Read thread if your interested I would welcome any new insight but think I have tried everything.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookoospite:
Thanks will keep in mind but I'm concerned about bricking it again if it doesn't work :-(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChriisM:
Download mode is fine, once you have that you should be able to work with it, Dont use KI4 its old firmware now, no rom update etc, but still has great battery life.

Now if you want to put ICS (ice cream sandwich on your phone) its stable and i made a vid yesterday , quite detail on how to do it. All links a 100% working in the vid, give it a shot. Download mode is all you need. Follow the vid and you should be fine

Link to vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0C0wO7PDVw

All DL links are in the description.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookoospite:
Yeah I would like to but I have used Odin twice and both times brick tried many times to ref lash firmware with no luck. If u read the posts you'll see what I tried. Any ideas? Really don't want another brick!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I hate to revisit this and I'm not trying to imply anything, but it's not a GT-I9100

G

, is it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookoospite:
Yes it does say G what does that mean for the phone and customization?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookoospite:
Just read post again and if u meant is there a G at the end of I9100 there isn't but there is one b4 it. See below. Thanks for your post.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I can't get much clearer. I'm asking if there is a G at the end, yes.

I'm just making sure you don't have a GT-I9100G is all. That is a common mistake, people owning a GT-I9100G, and flashing a firmware intended for GT-I9100. These are the same phone in name, very similar in model number, but have completely different hardware internals.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookoospite:
Just checking I understood correctly. No G at the end but thanks 4 the idea. Got any more? :-)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I dunno... Have you tried re-downloading the package you are trying to flash? Maybe it got corrupted.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
1) uninstall KIES/drivers

2) Download newest drivers from my 4shared (4icon in sig is link)

3) install drivers

4) Download a stock rom from the stock rom thread, check its the right size

5) put phone into download mode

6) Connect the USB cable and wait for the ID:COM section to turn yellow

7) put the files in the correct places (see this thread)

8) hit flash and wait

If the ID:Com section doesnt turn yellow try the following:

1) different USB port

2) different USB cable (The samsung supplied one is crap, I use an old nokia one which works great)

3) last resort different PC
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] CLCL:
I people anyone now software to backup MMS that really works well ?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Hakim Rahman:
look report about MMS Backup http://windows.modaco.com/topic/289211-mms-backup/page__view__findpost__p__1197273
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DanRyb:
Hey all,

I went back and re-watched the Google/Samsung announcement from October. The video specifically shows Matias as having a text (from the Messages app) from Andy Rubin and Andy's picture shows up there (like how it does for emails).

When I get a text message, I get the little box smiley face icon, and not the person's picture. Has anyone gotten a picture to show up there?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jstegeman:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DanRyb:
Yes you have a picture there? Did you have to do anything special? Are you syncing from Google+ or anything?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jstegeman:
I am synching with google+, yes, but the contacts who I have pictures for in the messages app are not from google+; they are just normal contacts. I added pictures to the contacts manually.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yardacz:
Hi, I have same problem. When I got SMS I have only "SMS app logo" in notification bar. Can you please advise how to achieve photos there?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mikeandjaimie:
I don't have pics showing up either in notification. My contact, Google+, etc all have different pics for the person biti still only see the messaging app icon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DanRyb:
Weird how it is working for jstegeman. I'm getting my contact pics from my Google Contacts syncing. I would hate to have to attach all the pics manually from the phone just to get it to show in the Notifications!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jstegeman:
Sorry, all, I just reread this. I'm not getting the picture in my notifications, but in the messaging app itself. I didn't notice the word "Notifications" in the thread title. Apologies for the wild goose chase.
[Nexus S General] m.sabra:
So i have noticed that after upgrading to official ics 4.0.3 the "Android OS" use lots of battery and it's a known bug in android,so i decided to gather some data and make stats about it to see how much this problem is affecting our battery life.

So everyone please post you:

-battery percentage

-the percentage consumed by Android OS showed in the battery stats,on the current battery percentage.

The results will be posted in the form of

Average battery level: X

Average batter consumed: Y

Average battery consumed by Android OS on this battery level: Z

And those results will be used to get some others numbers like every 10% of battery consumption Z% is used by android OS

PLEASE ONLY PARTICIPATE IF YOU ARE USING THE OFFICIAL ANDROID ICS V.4.0.3

CURRENT RESULTS

(21/12/2011)

Average battery level: 52%

Average battery consumed:48%

Average battery consumed by Android OS at this battery level:15%

So when you consume 10% of you battery 3% are caused by Android OS
[Nexus S General] m.sabra:
Battery level: 55%

Android OS: 36%
[Nexus S General] markjonassen:
Battery level: 70%

Android OS: 30%
[Nexus S General] lsharir:
Battery level: 70%

Android OS: 28%

although for me it feels as if the battery life was improved, maybe they merged older processed into Android OS in ICS? perhaps it is just because I installed a fresh system without annoying apps.
[Nexus S General] marcelnn:
Battery level: 26%

Android OS: 21%.

For me the screen still eats up most battery (29%). Up for 23.5 hours now.
[Nexus S General] JurreV:
Battery: 68%

Android OS: 34%
[Nexus S General] m.sabra:
I noticed a better battery life too,there was a good decrease in the screen consumption (about 50% all the time to 35% average),but in the other hand a big increase in Android OS consumption,maybe they have moved some of the process to the android OS since it's now my top battery eater.
[Nexus S General] guildamx:
Battery level: 75% (switched on at 8am this morning)

Android OS: 21%

I really used the phone a little today...

(sync always on)
[Nexus S General] devgee:
Battery level 92%

Android OS 36%
[Nexus S General] Jonathon Grigg:
Battery level: 85% (down from charged earlier, currently charging before I head out)

Android OS use: 40%
[Nexus S General] civicdrivr:
Battery: 67%

Android OS: 23%

I turned off twice to get into recovery. I am rooted and did a factory wipe and formatted system when I installed 4.0.3. Its using more battery then GB, as I was using 2% per hour on average.
[Nexus S General] wyk126:
Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] mytch444:
Battery level: 63%

Android OS: 23%
[Nexus S General] poid:
16hr 15mins (light usage, about 45mins of music via bluetooth headset and not much else today)

Battery 76%

Android OS 3%

No idea why mine is so much different to you guys. I wiped system/cache/dalvik/battery stats and installed the full 4.03 ROM.
[Nexus S General] cater923:
Battery level 86%

Android OS 18%
[Nexus S General] donsh00tmesanta:
Battery at 75%

Android os at 29%

Sent from an oICS'd Nexus S 4G v36 cuz Google dissed us
[Nexus S General] gogol:
This is interesting, the first time I saw Android OS under 10% ...

Please if you can post screenshots ...

Curious on your setup .. Widgets ... Sync ... Etc.

Use wifi?
[Nexus S General] donsh00tmesanta:
And what rom you are on?

Sent from an oICS'd Nexus S 4G v36 cuz Google dissed us
[Nexus S General] poid:
i took a couple of screenshots as i posted above, will upload when i get home.

ROM is vanilla 4.0.3, downloaded from a Google link here on XDA, with root and CWM added, as well as a whole bunch of apps that the Market downloaded (probably about 100 or so).

All the google/gmail related sync is on but nothing else is syncing at this stage (usually i also have some other email syncing, but havent yet logged in). Only widget at the moment, aside from stock market widget, is a Widgetsoid 4x1 switcher. I havent taken the time to significantly customise any of my home screens.

I havent used wifi on this charge. 3g/data is activated.
[Nexus S General] SA-07:
Whoa, I would try the following things.

1. UV a little more

2. Change governor and maybe increase min clock speed

3. Disable deep idle

4. Change rom

If none of those work, lemme know.

I am not kidding with #4. That does help a lot
[Nexus S General] evcz:
Logging out of G+ did not fixed the wakelock abuse done by android system... do I need to completely remove it?
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
Me neither, just a nice improvement but didn't fix the issue completely. It just help to make the day with a full charge and very moderate use.
[Nexus S General] atirage:
That looks awsome! Did you kill Gtalk too? Cause I need it :(
[Nexus S General] OCedHrt:
I don't even have G+ installed and still have Android OS wake lock issue and high battery drain. About 9 hours to empty with moderate usage. I guess I need to uninstall GTalk too.
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
Hi,

After 2 days of significant improvement by disable Google+, I realized the battery drain still occur, but when reaching 65% remaining, it seems to be back to normal.

The bizarre thing is the awake activity of the phone suddenly stop at 65%. This indicate that the previous activity should be high for a stand by period.

The picture below show the activity of my phone tonight, so I didn't wake it up except to check the battery activity and take a screenshot but it represents a few seconds.
[Nexus S General] hackqiang:
Battery level 85%

Android OS 32%
[Nexus S General] evcz:
I do not understand why keep awake time caused by android os can be higher then the whole uptime (after a battery stats wipe)

Anyhow sound on click is taking a lot of partial wakelocks that's something worth disabling too

Screenshots taken at the same time
[Nexus S General] jark99:
I'm using nexus beam. I got 1 day 6 hours with 4hours of screen on and android os being the top usage.
[Nexus S General] evcz:
for proper stats please use:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

as the builtin reporting is broken
[Nexus S General] skatastamoutrasas:
To me, the use of the battery is still terrible. It has no point at this moment to give you any screenshot or stats but I will on the near future as I - once more - drained the battery down to the shutdown of the phone and now I'm recharging it.

I tryed to use the phone without G+ and GTalk but to me it made no difference. The OS process is still the highest of all and I remember yesterday seeing a number of 40% or more.

Do we know what is Google doing with it? It is definetly a bug, either OS side or some Google's app side.
[Nexus S General] evcz:
Did you tried disabling "sound on click"?
[Nexus S General] rony1234:
Folks finally resolved it. Earlier my battery used to not last for even 9 hours and now it hardly discharges. I'll put together a list of things I configured after sometime and post it.
[Nexus S General] sceptor:
please do....as soon as possible
[Nexus S General] rony1234:
OK here's what I did.

1. Keep wifi on during sleep: only when plugged in.

2. Display sleep after 2 minutes of inactivity.

3. Remove live wallpaper.

4. Auto brightness enabled

5. Remove sync browser under accounts and sync

6. Disable options under location services,

7. Enable hardware rendering under developer options.

8. Under Google news and Weather disable prefetch, use my location and auto update weather.

9. Disable google+ under manage apps.

Now all the above might not be required but one of the options has definitely helped, I have a feeling it's mainly location services & google+ that was the culprit.
[Nexus S General] sceptor:
wheres the hardware rendering for #7? You mean "force gpu rendering"? Only thing thats remotely close to that. By the way your screen on time unless you really prefer it being 2 minutes shouldnt need to be more then 30 seconds. Less is obviously more ;)
[Nexus S General] jinsoku3g:
So does disabling Google+ stop it from alerting you?

What's the standard limit for background processes in developer options? I wonder if limiting them makes it better.
[Nexus S General] rony1234:
Folks I don't use google+ so didn't mind disabling it and yes I meant use gpu rendering. One of the above multiple steps definitely helped though I don't have the time today to experiment which. If you guys could try too it would be great.
[Nexus S General] rony1234:
Oh and to the other question, the standard limit to background processes is kept standard and my battery is still running strong with a good charge left in it compared to the earlier experiences.
[Nexus S General] sceptor:
I uninstalled google+ all together. Ever since it first came out and I was part of the epic 4g forums we discovered it was problematic and a huge drain for some reason even when not being used. I figured I might as well just remove it since I don't use its features anyhow.

Going to calibrate my battery as best I can (96%) and give it a legit shot tomorrow at how long it can last with blue tooth on and 4g scanning constantly (intentionally trying to burn it some)
[Nexus S General] defia:
when i disabled google+ in app settings, the album failed to work after openning.
[Nexus S General] rony1234:
@sceptor Did you try disabling location services? Something has definitely changed in battery utilization after I did all the above, my battery utility is minimal.
[Nexus S General] Numb09:
Hello guys,

I found the Mediaserver took its place in battery usage after I listened some music with poweramp. I noticed the phone was awake when playing music with the screen off. I half-remember this never happened when in GB. While my battery doesn't drain faster obviously, I doubt if it is a display issue.

On the whole, the battery life is acceptable in ICS.
[Nexus S General] Lith808:
II
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
I give it a try but it didn't change anything yet. The biggest improvement was to disable Google+ some days ago.

I'm thinking about doing a factory reset. Did anyone had a batter battery life after this operation?
[Nexus S General] rony1234:
Folks it's sad that you are still facing a problem. Just to add though after my changes my battery utilization has really improved and it hardly discharges. The battery performance is even better than 2.3.6. To the other question a factory reset hadn't helped me, just the configuration I detailed above.
[Nexus S General] evcz:
Does you have "sound on touch" enabled?
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
That option was checked on my phone, what is it for? I never heard any sound when tapping something.
[Nexus S General] evcz:
mine makes a sound everytime I click on something.

When making the sound it takes a lot of wakelocks... disable it.
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
That's the sound the phone keyboard does when composing a phone number right? Never use it much, all my contact are known or I mostly use Chrome to Phone to transfer them from the internet to my phone.

Anyway, it's pretty useless so disabled!
[Nexus S General] darkchaos7:
Battery level : 37%

Android OS: 5%

Phone up for 1d 1h 48min since a charge at 95%

For me it`s the voice call which eats most of my battery: 87%

Surprisingly, Screen is only 2%

Sent from my Nexus S MIUI
[Nexus S General] mohamadsofi71:
i also have same problem....
[Nexus S General] elbarrows:
I've noticed this bug occur sometimes on my phone as well. I monitor the battery usage from time to time and when I see that the Android OS Keep awake time is too high relative to the total hours my phone has been up and running I just restart my phone and it seems to work fine then. I still have to figure out what causes my phone not to sleep
[Nexus S General] mrnhmz:
Battery 7%

Android OS 36%
[Nexus S General] ho666es:
thanks rony1234 I tried your tips and have vastly improved my battery life

1. Keep wifi on during sleep: only when plugged in. *done
2. Display sleep after 2 minutes of inactivity. *set at 1minute
3. Remove live wallpaper. * not in use but not deleted
4. Auto brightness enabled *done
5. Remove sync browser under accounts and sync *done
6. Disable options under location services, *all enabled
7. Enable hardware rendering under developer options. *done
8. Under Google news and Weather disable prefetch, use my location and auto update weather. ??
9. Disable google+ under manage apps. *still enabled but not logged in

point 8 - couldn't find

gone from 8-12hrs to well over a day

original nexus s i9020 uk spec updated and not rooted, just vanilla phone
[Nexus S General] p.pavljasevic:
hi, i have been playing around with different settngs and the change that helped me the most was disabeling 3g data and only using 2g networks.

This is acceptable for me becouse i mostly use wifi anyway, but its worth a try.

Also some apps like the smooth calendar, keep the phone awake all the time and drain a lot of battery.

Is it even possible that most of the apps we are using are not even compatible with ics?

P
[Nexus S General] ho666es:
the post above yours was with a phone running 3g and smooth calendar
[Nexus S General] AASonyKK:
with cm9 alpha 18:

Battery charge: 84%

Android OS: 12%
[Nexus S General] p.pavljasevic:
I dont get even close to that, but i see you screen "only" uses 10%, mine get over 30%. I like to play with the phone.

Yesterday I uninstalled smooth callendar, becouse it kep my phone awake for 5 h, and it got pretty hot. Now its a lot better.
[Nexus S General] davidsteele1975:
I'm seeing pretty much one hour of screen on time for every 25% of battery used; fortunately, I don't appear to have the bug with my Nexus S. Whilst Android System appears high up in the list, it's a statistic and therefore a moot point. I will see the claimed battery use from the Android System higher than the screen during a low use period, but the overall effect is still four to five hours of screen on time to a full charge.

I do, however, have the screen brightness at minimum or very close to minimum... ;)
[Nexus S General] nauvho:
Well i have reflash it several times (don't ask) and i notice that one of the times android os was using only 12-15% but most of the reflash times used 27-30% android os.

So its seems to me that something else is happening. Probably after a restore from google something goes wrong or some of my old apps cause the problem. We should test native ICS without any other apps to see how and where is the problems.
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
Fair enough. I just reset my phone and my previous settings has been imported (some of them at least). The phone is charging as we speak. So I can tell tomorrow if it's better or not. In case it's not, I guess I have to reset it and keep fresh settings to see if it's better.
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
Seems it worked out for me! The battery drain seems even better than Gingerbread!

For what it worth I uninstall some apps:

Smooth Calendar

Angry Birds

Some IT news apps

Also, I didn't take the risk to sign in Google+ yet. I'll wait until the new version due in January.

For people who didn't solve this issue yet, I strongly advice to reset to factory settings!
[Nexus S General] onthecouchagain:
Something strange I noticed. My phone was lagging a bit more than usual, so I decided to power down/up my phone. When I shut it off, it was at 79%. When it powered back on, it was at 70%. I was surprised that the phone drained 9% just for rebooting, so I tried it again, and the second reboot only made it drop to 69%.

I took a pic of the battery graph. Why the massive drop the first reboot? Is my battery calibration off? Thoughts?
[Nexus S General] pmpollet:
Before I reset my phone and encounter this issue too, the same thing happened to me. It was not everytime, but sometime a reboot drain more battery than usual. I tried everything to calibrate the battery but it wasn't the source of the issue.
[Nexus S General] davidsteele1975:
I've seen Android and BlackBerry handsets do this when rebooting; I've always put it down to the operating system having to process, re-sort and clean various databases.

My old 8520 with a nearly-full 16 Gb MicroSD card used to take around 20% off the battery when I rebooted. ;) I used to try to reboot when connected to mains power.

*thinks*

Well talk time was claimed to be four hours and it would take around twenty minutes to reboot, but during the reboot it must have been working hard as it would get a tiny bit warm...
[Nexus S General] Lxus:
dude, you're comparing Blackberry OS with Android.. Find the mistake ;D My Smartphone predecessor was a 8520 btw too :)

And you all shouldn't trust this little battery % this much. It's not like Android gives all his effort to display the battery % correctly, eventhough it's not possible anyway.
[Nexus S General] davidsteele1975:
LOL true it is a comparison that's a bit unfair, but they both do stuff when rebooting

Similar stuff...; )
[Nexus S General] skatastamoutrasas:
Guys, I'm to the point where I just want to return back to a custom GyanogenMode CM7 2.3.7 version. It's not only the much higher battery consumption from stock Androidi 4.0.3. I face issues when I browse 9GAG (..and if you are a 9gagger you can understand me), I see that some times the phone is getting too laggy and some other issues that come and go from time to time. My main problem of course is still the battery. I have too noticed that after a restart everything seems to go back to normal until I start using the phone again.

Thanks to the broken recovery I am still on ICS and that because I'm out of time these days.
[Nexus S General] p.pavljasevic:
This is the effect of going to only 2G data.

I have about 4,5 h of screen on time.
[Nexus S General] onthecouchagain:
The battery life certainly leaves a lot to be desired. It's arguably slightly worse than GB. Now a days, by the time I'm out of work, using the phone pretty moderately (mostly on my commute), I leave with about 40%. Previously, with GB using the phone more or less the same way, I'd leave with closer to 50%.