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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmyrunumbra:
Hi,

I would be very interested to know if I could upgrade my ROM without completely wiping /data. My only idea would just to be to backup /data before upgrading so I could just throw everything back on when I was done. I'm going to guess this is not possible, but just thought I would give it a shot. Thanks. :cool:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] znnet7:
Hi

you mean what kind of Upgrades ? I upgade CM7.1 every week without wiping data
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmyrunumbra:
So like, lets say i wanted to go from cyanogenmod 7 to cyanogenmod 8...is there a way i could do that without wiping /user?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
As long as the base OS is not a huge jump then upgrading custom roms is not always needed. If the OS version changes it is suggested due to possible code changes that effect settings and save data. TIBU gives you the best of both. Doing a full wipe to make sure no left over bugs and restoring your user apps and data. You do have to reset up your system settings but once it become habit you do it without thinking. Lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmyrunumbra:
I guess the root of the issue is the extremely large amount of applications I install on my device, it's a pain to re-download them, and it definitely does make sense to just be able to write over the existing ROM if there was not an extreme amount of changes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] A.Abdalgalil:
I've a GSM Galaxy Nexus yakju and my problem is that when I make or receive any calls, I've got no sound from the main speaker, but the sound works just fine from either the loud speaker or through the headset when connected. I faced this problem with version 4.0.1 as well as 4.0.2. I also tried a reset to factory defaults, but the problem still persists. Any suggestions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] papertreeprophet:
First off, I am loving the phone. It is such a massive leap from the N1 I had been using. While I expected lower battery life, I did not expect to run through 70% of the battery in 4 hours with moderate usage.

I have heard of people getting far better battery life, and have tried the various methods, from charging to 100% then turning the phone off and charging again to 100%, using juice defender ultimate, and even resorting to factory resetting the phone. Still I can't get any kind of good life out of the battery. My question is should I try and get a full replacement for the phone or just the battery? I've only had it sinceblast Thursday, so I know AT&T will happily exchange it, but if yall think it's just the battery, I'd rather just replace that then the whole phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] GalaxySkyrocket500:
Have you found out what is using your battery?.. Even before I rooted and all the other stuff was getting at least 10hr.. now Im getting 24-28hours...

Are you running another ROM other than stock?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] papertreeprophet:
Didn't want to root if I needed to return anything, so I am running stock currently. Looking no app seems to be running away and draining all the battery. Everything looks the same as it did on my N1 in terms of what's draining the battery, which is what lead me to believe it's a bad battery possibly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] GalaxySkyrocket500:
Yeah.. it very well could be.. mass produced items= bound to have some duds here and there..

Return it for another.. This is a great phone!!!:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] OFWGKTADGAF:
definitely return it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] appdroid:
Well if you do root than TPC's Rom is the best. It comes with kernel and the battery life is outstanding.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mortem Tuam:
I was concerned with battery life at first as well. When I first got this thing I had to plug up 9 hours after I unplugged. So now I am near 30 days with it and the battery seems to have leveled out enough for me to be happy. I got 16 hours on it STOCK no ROOT the other day without plugging in, was at 10% when I finally plugged in. Yesterday I activated Juice Defender again after getting some questions answered. I got 17 hours without a plug in and was still at 25%, so i probably could have gotten 20+ hours if I needed it.

So I am happy now 17+ hours is plenty long enough for me, I always plug in at bedtime anyway.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mimart7:
I'm wondering how many people who are reporting battery issues, if they have calibrated them. Charge your battery all the way, use the phone until the battery dies, then fully charge. This will give a more accurate reading as far percentage used.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mortem Tuam:
first thing I did ;) and I actually never have reported battery issues......I was giving it time to season :p and it has leveled off nicely.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] odeccacccp:
There is a new ROM Piret RC1, the battery life is amazing, it has a different Kernel as the one with TPC has it';s problems.

RC1 is clean fast and in 2 hours I used up 4%. Then turned every possible service on used it up like crazy to drain the battery, installing/backing up/ flashing new rom and it took 2 hours with heavy usage to drain from 17%. Just to compare last night I had a TPC ROM and was on WhatsApp for about an Hour and battery went from 85 to 34 %.

Re: Returning the phone.

First once you root you can the same way unroot, make sure first you install a stock ROM.

My friends have the same problem, one with this phone, and others with android phones in general, don;t waist your time returnig. To be safe you also have a year to send it to Samsung to get fixed if there is something wrong with it.

Basically, running apps will kill battery, location services kills it the most, sync not so much, heavy use of data does to (I have LTE plan). Use power saver to start at 70%, configure it right, use the CPU app to manage the speed ondemand.

Most important don't frick out, the andoid phones are like that, the major difference is that Iphone does maybe 20% of what android phone does in standby and many things are not available on Iphone, so the battery is better. You will not get more then a day of use on android if you use it to your benefit. 28H is mostly standby, no sync, no internet usage, just moderate. I used to use Iphone heavy and battery would not last a day.

Get a good data plan, don;t use WI-Fi unless u have too, when syncing with the car plug it in the charger, spend extra $10 get a Samsung cable from them, don;t go for cheap 10 dollar once or even 1 dollar once from China, they are very slow to charge. My cable from the box take 1.5 H to charge to 100.

Hope it helps, please don;t quote me on anything, this is purely based on research and one week usage and trying different things, it's strictly my opinion, don;t expect your phone to last like they use too, it's 21st century and techno in it is overwhelming and needs power. Keep the phone have two cables and enjoy!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mimart7:
This is my first smart phone, after 20 plus years of having cel phones. I try to read before posting any questions. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mortem Tuam:
good habit to get into thanks for that....the search button is your friend. :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] papertreeprophet:
I have been reading on the battery issues, long before I posted. I have done everything from calibrating, to using juice defender ultimate, to doing a ritualistic dance to try and coax more battery life out of this phone. Still with nothing but 2 phone calls and one quick spelling look up, dead within 8 1/2 hours.

I just got my extra battery and charger from samsung in today, already fully charged up this battery and will see what it can do for a few days. I'm hoping my problems are just a random bad battery. I also factory restored and am running bare minimum on apps just to try and remove all variables. If there still is a problem I will exhange it for another one next week. I just hope they still have some white ones in stock :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aspexil:
My battery went completely dead too. I returned mine. Black model though. New one is doing okay so far. Better since it doesn't report 100% battery until a reboot...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] papertreeprophet:
Finally went and exchanged it last night. So far I have gotten 9 hours of battery life and am only down to 70%. Better than before, but the vertical lines on the screen are worse on this one than the last.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Midiman57:
I have almost the opposite "problem." Not that I'd call it a problem just yet. I had my phone running from about 10am till 1am yesterday. I went to bed and plugged the charger in and it instantly said "battery charged 100%. Remove charger." 15 hours with no drain at all? Granted, I didn't do much with it yesterday but send about 20 text messages.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] GalaxySkyrocket500:
Going on 32 hours+ battery life and no vertical lines.. bought it when it came out Nov6....

:D

---------- Post added at 12:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:36 PM ----------

30% in 9 hr's? you need to see what is killing your battery... unless you play games or on the net all day.. that is not good at all..

I lose about 1% an hour..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] appdroid:
I don't know what you smoking man but i tried his rom and never had issues. Let me tell you I Have ORD so my suggestion will be based on my usage rather than prediction. I have tried most of the themed/tweaked roms. Don't like stock rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] papertreeprophet:
Considering I used to be lucky to get 10% drain an hour on standby before, the 3% our so i'm losing an hour now is awesome. And in those 9 hours I checked google reader and played some levels of Trial Extreme 2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] papertreeprophet:
Here is my battery currently.

70% in a little over 20 hours was unheard of on my last one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] twiggums:
The phone seems to be awake an awful lot when screen isn't on. Anyone watching betterbatterystats or CPU spy to check deep sleep percentages and wakelocks?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] papertreeprophet:
It is all from the bloat from what I've seen so far.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cochranjd:
I've looked around and haven't found anyone seeming to have this issue and I'm sure it is user error, but here goes -

I'm having trouble with getting any image viewer (gallery, quickpic, thumbnails in root explorer) letting me see (and subsequently correctly choose) icons that are transparent with black lines. It seems that they are all set against black backgrounds which just make for an entirely black thumbnail.

I've tried using the "light background" option (whatever it is called in quickpic) and this seems to cause the background around the thumbnails to become white, but my thumbnails still show up entirely black. This is with any icon set that is dark markings exclusively, set on transparent background.

Am I missing something or doing something wrong?

I have a light background on a homescreen I'm working on but other than trial and error or counting squares on a "light" version of the theme and hoping the ordering is the same on the "dark" version, I have no way of setting these icons.

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iridaki:
You missed something really big there...

In QuickPic app there is an option to use Grid Pattern as background for PNG images with transparency. ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cochranjd:
I actually do have that checked and I still get nothing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jr67:
That grid pattern only shows up when you zoom in on an image. Try contacting the quickpic dev about this issue.

I use Total Commander file explorer and it handles thumbnail images correctly. If you change the background color the transparent background of the thumbnails also change. It's not on the market and the most current version is release candidate 4.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1131965
[TouchPad General] rpassmore:
So a funny thing occured just 20 minutes ago.

running xron b2_12142011

The volume has always been on the soft side, I've found I've always turned it up to about halfway on my headphones, where my phone is about 1/3. (skullcandy titans)

Just 20 minutes ago, its seems the volume got set to max..even though the volume setting shows it at the lowest setting above silence. I've tried looking for an app to see what the os sees as min/max to no avail. I have no idea what would have happened to do this..I'm pretty sure I didn't click on some toggle, in face I wish I could find such toggle. lol

anyone seen this? have a fix..or am I looking at a wipe? heh
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0h0rs3:
Hi all when I was trying to get Clockwork Mod sorted for my Huawei u8160 phone I accidentally chose to flash it with the official Clockwork mod for the Huawei u8150 stupidly misreading it as my own phone and now it has left me with an unusable recovery so I can't install any new recovery or ROM's or anything, I am getting almost constant errors whenever I try to run my phone saying whatever process has stopped working and that I need to force quit it. I have tried to start it in fastboot or whatever it is called but all I am getting is a screen that says "firmware update step 1/2 unpacking update failed", I have tried to start with many different key combinations but nothing is working. I have searched on many forums and googled the problem several time but so far have gotten nowhere, I am just about at my wits end and am losing sleep because of this.

So yeah please please please pleaseeeeeeee help me!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0h0rs3:
Please Help!!!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidiser:
My stock recovery also became unusable, after i installed cwm for wrong device, but my fastboot was working :) phew...

And i installed the one for my device via fastboot to get it working,

Btw, does the thx button appear for my posts?

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0h0rs3:
yeah you have your thanks button, but I can't seem to get into fastboot I have tried many different combinations of key presses that people have sent me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidiser:
Thanks exchange

Lol

Btw, if you can setup adb on your pc, then thus can be sorted easily,i think

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0h0rs3:
I think you need to have your phone in fastboot mode to use adb, or am I incorrect?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidiser:
No, just usb plugged, without tethering or usb data on.

Google this 'guide how to set up adb'for step by step guides.

U will have to install your phone drivers and some other stuffs.

After you're done search for adb commands to get the right one which can help you.

Press thanks button if i helped you!

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0h0rs3:
Awesome, I will try it and get back to you on whether or not it worked, thanks heaps!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidiser:
Any updates?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0h0rs3:
yeah i managed to get it working through adb after messing around with it for awhile, thanks heaps!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidiser:
You're the first person whom I helped here.:D

Hope your life is sweeter now !!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonoNeedsHelp:
Phone wont boot

I hv the same problem but b4 my phone died usb dedugging wasnt on so what can i do plz help me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidiser:
The only two options, as far

As my knowledge goes, in such a situation is to either restore using recovery or use fastboot, but as you've turned debugging of, none of the options is available,i think you better take it to service center

Hit thx if I helped you a bit :-)

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonoNeedsHelp:
Tnx ill try that
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solomoni_Railoa:
Try this

Have you tried the alternate method of entering Recovery Mode...

that is pressing "volume down" and "Power Button" , holding it for 10 seconds....

This worked for my Vodafone858 (or Huawei U8160) using Clockwork Mod Recovery...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0h0rs3:
I have fixed it now, yeah that wasn't working for me, I had tried that many many times, can't actually remember how I got it fixed hahahaha, but yeah I had tried restarting it holding down many different key combinations like I stated previously, including that one to no avail
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrey1703:
can you tell me how you do please ?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Hindle1225:
Wanted to let the 2 or 3 people who read this to know my consensus.

I've tried most the droid charge roms and some of you might not have.

I Odin back to the first froyo and let the updates occur all the way to 2.3.6. Than loaded clockwork recovery through Odin (with auto restart off). Booted phone into cwr instead of booting into os. Than I flashed the superuser zip file in recovery.

So now I'm rooted stock rom and its running the best so far. GPS locks on very well but caused issues with 4g data. Almost flashed 4p radios back into it but than I disabled gps, ran speed test and speeds were good again. Enabled gps and ran another speed test and everything was gravy. So you might have to disable and enable gps one time.

Couldn't be happier with this build.

Update: I've gotten a couple pms asking me.

After I odin the first froyo build to prepare for all the ota updates I skipped setting up any accounts until the final gingerbread update was completed.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
I agree. The only thing I don't like about Infinity is its instability and lag.
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
I agree. Other than the fact that I deodexed it, debloated it, rooted it, and themed it, my phone is stock.

I can put the original "poop color" theme back on the phone along with hiding certain apps and walk into a Verizon Store and the representative will know nothing about me having rooted the device.
[Verizon Droid Charge] HTCluva:
The nice thing about stock is that it doesn't have the annoying lag like roms do. Little things between page transitions. So yes it is a pretty good setup
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
For those people who do know how to root, tweak, and otherwise customize their phones... more power to them. It gives you, the user, power to do what you want with your device which is what Android is really all about; giving the end user power over their own device.
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
trololol

haha j/k :p been using it for over a week straight now (the TSM version too!!) and its worked flawlessly though obviously TSM parts isn't complete

blazing through on my Acer A500 via XDA app
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
tsm gives you hotboots, however rarely. Also there were times where infinity 1211 lagged a lot.
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
not for me fortunately, smooth sailing

blazing through on my Acer A500 via XDA app
[Verizon Droid Charge] 91point6:
Same here. Stock rooted. Nothing else. Works well for me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 71CH:
Same here. Don't understand why ppl say infinity is lagging on them. Bad flash maybe?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Yeah, I've never had lag, hotboots, or anything. I didn't even have problems with Titanium Backup.
[Verizon Droid Charge] braveally:
May have to agree

I always suspected as much, so I decided to flash over to the stock (deodexed, rooted, imoseyon and cwr) and phone is finally as smooth as the day I got it. I love Humble and Infinity but the lag and freezing just started to drive me up the wall. I do miss the widget selector though, is there anyway I can get that back?
[Verizon Droid Charge] jager420:
yea i had bad reboots and lagg on the infinity ROM...put it back to stock rooted..i dont even want to theme cause every time i flash something **** gets laggy..im over it..this phone has no development, and for as long as its been out thats pretty sad..safe to say we wont get any real development section on this phone...i had the droid incredible and they had tons of development..not hatin on the ones that are developing just sayin..
[Verizon Droid Charge] BleedsOrangeandBlue:
I ran infinity for a little more than a week. Did everything to make sure it was a good flash (went all the way back to ED1 to ensure I was bonestock). It ran great, and I'd still be on it if I didn't start having issues after flashing a theme and then reflashing the stock rom cause I didn't like it (first hotboot was <5 minutes after lol).

I had every intent on going back because it is so good. But after playing with the stock for a little bit, stock really is smoother. Its not a case of infinity lagging so much as stock feeling much more seamless. Its hard to describe, but you would probably notice the difference if you gave it a shot.

Again, not bashing infinity. I might even go back to it because I like some of the features.

On another note. I tried flashing the superuser zip like the OP discussed, but I lost root after reboot and can no longer boot into CWM. What could I be doing wrong?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Hindle1225:
You have to odin cwr again, make sure auto reboot is turned off. After successful "pass" of cwr, unplug to power down. You have to boot straight into recovery or else you will lose cwr. Than load superuser. If you don't boot into recovery on first reboot the stock recovery writes over cwr.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BleedsOrangeandBlue:
That was part of it, the issue was that I wasn't keeping root to change the permissions on the recovery installer.

Turns out, I wasn't mounting /system (mounting /facepalm instead).

Thanks for your help.
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
Yeah, that's a common occurance among the people who are new to rooting and using CWM. I screwed up when I was first doing this stuff too.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Falcyn:
I haven't tried TweakStock yet, but so far self-debloated EP4D has been the best experience for me as well. Infinity isn't bad, but as others have said it just isn't as smooth as stock.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ajac:
I am using this one to. The rest kind of suck Visual Voice mail dont work :( be nice if infinity had it working Id be using it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Kenbals:
Noob. How did you load clockwork recovery through odin? I just went back to ee4 now its updating all otas. just wanted to know if anybody can give me a hand. I saw a thread where imnuts put out a download of new cwr but too many problems. bricking etc. I just want stock rooted as above.
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
See the Development section for instructions on using Odin.

Bone stock rooted is kindof lame when you have some other options.

If you want to make it quick and easy, I suggest going with stock deodexed/debloated EP4D with IMO 4.0 kernel.

Otherwise, Tweakstock would be great, just follow the instructions in the original post.

If you want pure stock rooted, you could follow the directions in the OP of this thread, or you could Odin a stock image, then Odin CWM, etc.

I'm not sure why you would really want pure stock, but its certainly going to be decently fast if you want to go that route.
[Verizon Droid Charge] znc62511:
Stock deodexed rooted debloated themed please?

Is there anyway you can share your stock deodexed debloated rooted themed rom lol, I am just getting my charge, previous sprint user had the epic 4g touch (wish verizon had, best phone out there) but I like stock touchwiz but not brown lol... thanks for the help.