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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsekh501:
The Galaxy Nexus has extremely poor battery life right out of the box. Now I'm using Modaco's ROM with UV/OC, and have been able to achieve some very decent battery life after undervolting.

How do you guys test the stability of your OC or UV settings? I'm using the following setting for now, which is relatively conservative seeing others' UV setting on the web (I'm not concerned with OCing, since I just want to get better battery life).

Mine:

1200MHz:1150mV

920MHz:1090mV

700MHz:950mV

350MHz:850mV

Default:

1200MHz:1380mV

920MHz:1317mV

700MHz:1203mV

350MHz:1025mV

The phone seems to be stable after a day of use. Right now I want to lower the voltage at 700 and 350 MHz as much as possible, since those are the frequencies that the phone stays at most of the time.

The way I test it is to use SetCPU to lock the frequency at, say 350MHz, and then set the desired voltage. Then run a series of benchmarks repeatedly, and if it crashed or rebooted, raised the voltage. So far the phone seems to be stable at 800mV for 350MHz and 925MHz. I'm going to lock down the max/min clock speed of the phone at 700/350MHz for the next few days and use it normally to see if it is stable or not.

Btw, the phone is surprisingly responsive even at 350MHz. Even Tiny Tower runs fine at that speed!

Is there any good CPU stress test apps that you guys can recommend?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] razzbaronz:
I've set the same voltages as you using Franco's nightly 6 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1367341) and the Kang AOSP build for LTE (http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12451-rom-android-open-kang-project-toro-milestone-1-dec-27/), with minor changes:

1200MHz 1100mV

920MHz 1000mV

700MHz 900mV

350MHz 800mV

So far, stable for about 2 hours of doing everything I normally do, tried all of my games, web browsing, some YouTube, and Swype is running beautifully. I have been using "Stress Test" at the bottom of the Info tab in SetCPU to make sure it's stable running for a few minutes, then back).

Any ideas on Up threshold? I have kept it at 75% to make it snappier. Is that a reasonable value?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] D_Magic:
U could use the app stabilitytest , used it on my sgs2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsekh501:
I know SetCPU has a stress test function. But since it is not configurable, I'm not sure what it is doing.

Right now I'm using StabilityTest, which seems to work pretty well and have a number of configurable options.

I'm testing my phone by stress testing it at each frequency separately. For example, I'd use SetCPU to lock the frequency at, say, 350MHz, and then run classic stress test to see if my phone is table at that frequency at the specified voltage. I do this when I'm sitting on my desk at work not using my phone. I do this for every frequency and let it run for about an hour. If it is stable, I lower the voltage a tiny bit and then try again. And when I go to bed, and set min/max to 350/1200, and let the phone run scaling stability test overnight.

Currently my phone seems to be stable at:

1200MHz 1100mV

920MHz 1025mV

700MHz 900mV

350MHz 775mV

This is significantly lower than stock voltages and I'm getting much much better battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
I just lower by 25-50 until it locks up.. have had no problems doing it this way actually
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
You might be able to get up to 50 more on 1200 mhz. I'm running at 1141 and when get time I will tweak that and 920 mhz. My 920 is 978. I can probably get 5-10 more there. My last bump was 15mv up because it was giving me problems. My last two are 877 and 757 respectively and those are tweaked out. Some ding dong was running 650, 750 850 and 950 and saying he was stable. He never got back to us to tell us if they were because I called him out on it. I've seen some tweaks that are close to ~1150, 1000, 950 and 850 or close to that looked close to maybe going lower. Everybody is different though. I havent seen anybody lower than my 920mhz and 350 mhz voltages and claimed rocked stable yet. I have had any reboots for a week now. I hope I can pull about 10mv lower on my higher frequencies when I get a chance. Uv won't help dramatically with battery as much as people like to think. They help with heat and longevity of phone more. You're only going to see maybe a 10% improvement or so with uv'ing. Need to see if voltage can be tweaked on gpu and screen. That would help more.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ikon8:
What kernel are you guys running? If you want a stable UV you need to check out LeanKernel, Imoseyon's kernels are the best out there imo. Here's what I've been running, stable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
I'm a fan of Leankernel. I was able to UV down to 650 for 350 MHz.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
There is a lean kernel for GSM.. hand I'm pretty sure most kernels work with both.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jkoljo:
1100

1000

875

775

Rock solid for two days now, very intensive usage and testing :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] razzbaronz:
Have you tried Franco's nightly? It's the only kernel other than stock I have tried and it's working very well. I'm down to the following now, no issues:

1200MHz 900mV

920MHz 800mV

700MHz 750mV

350MHz 700mV

Any reason to switch to the lean kernels?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsekh501:
OK, it seems that I was too conservative and I can try to lower the voltage somewhat lower. I'm using Modaco MCK kernel its custom ROM.

Is there any stress test/benchmark apps, beside StabilityTest and SetCPU that can loop continuously to stress my phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jkoljo:
I doubt the UV interface works in Franco kernel, I am now supposedly running 1200 MHz at 600 mV :D Of course there are limits to uV, but it should still be possible to make the device hang.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kvaju:
Hi

As I can remember 'weirdest' place is on weddings, on my workplace, at collage.

On toilet is kinda normal for me :P

You? :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esteway.619:
While I take a dump and right before sex lol. :p
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suksit:
Today, in the hospital. :)

Last few weeks, on the bus to Chiang Mai.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orangestrat:
I was crackflashing while getting ready to go out for breakfast the other day, and wound up having to re-flash google apps or some fixes or something like that during the car ride.

Trying to use google wallet to buy stuff lead to me downloading and flashing a new version in the middle of the mall, wandering from store to store staring at my phone.

I love the way this eventually becomes an addiction for everyone with a nexus :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esteway.619:
Ohh ya also when I drive, while in a meeting at work. While I work. While at the skate park while I ride. And so on. Lol
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
Lol, usually infront of a computer. BUT, when ICS OTA came out, m8 was nagging me with update via Google+ Messenger the whole time so I started doing update checkin's while in a club with a friend. Who happened to be a girl and wanted to dance :"not yet, lemme umm check my mail".
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david279:
At red lobster....

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flodb113:
A couple of hours before an important exam... fortunately for me it was straightforward. Both the flashing part, and the exam:D

EDIT: on the toilet (what can I say, it was a scary exam. Had to relax :D)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KrisMurdrum:
most my flashing has been done at the crapper at work <<
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lynyrd65:
A better question might be, where haven't I flashed a rom?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo_x22000:
right after sex laying next to my gf!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shockem:
lol @ the thread. Toilet maybe:P
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mixtapes08:
Lol. At the toilet, after having sex with my gf, meeting with my boss. :-)

Sent from my 1st android phone Nexus S
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimDroid:
Some of the wierdest places is probably in the line at the store, or at the toilet as many of you others :p and at work while talking to costumers lol, I hope my boss didnt notice.

Sänt från min Nexus S med XDA Premium
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juliano_q:
Two weeks ago I flashed a rom at my work right before going to lunch with some colleagues. Something went wrong and the phone started to reboot and get really hot when I was at the line of the restaurant. I had to reflash the rom while I was putting food in my plate with the other hand lol
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stremax:
Yesterday during xmas party with mine and my GF parents... two times cause i don't like first one.... today afternoon on the couch with my GF ironing my pants and shirts
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shark_On_Land:
Jack in the box just to flash a rom with wallet

Sent from my Galaxy S Nexus (2010 nov)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KodiakDraco:
I always flash new roms while taking a shower in the morning. I use a waterproof camera sleeve so I can have my phone in the shower with me.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robrob777:
At the Sauna (dry of course).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shark_On_Land:
That really is weird.
[XPERIA X8 General] xmanner77:
Hi All,

I have a question here.

Is it possible to have a kernel recovery for our X8?:)

Maybe our developer can make a kernel recovery or adding some menu in CWM recovery.:p

Thanks.
[XPERIA X8 General] ShankyJain:
i dont think so kernal recovery it is possible... however you can find the backed up stock kernal on this link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1254225
[XPERIA X8 General] droidx8:
You can download stock kernel from BL unlock thread. When you downloaded it, just copy the .ftf to /flashtool/firmwares and flash it via Flashtool.
[XPERIA X8 General] xmanner77:
Thanks mate.:)

What I mean here is we can backup & restore back our stock/custom kernel via recovery.Just using our phone.
[XPERIA X8 General] TimeWasterNL:
I don't think so.

CWM or xRecovery comes after the bootloader started up.

There is nothing which could get you in a pre-stadium from the bootloader.

In other words, when you press the power-button, your phone will first get into the bootloader, then in your ROM or CWM/xRecovery.
[XPERIA X8 General] xmanner77:
Thanks for reply.;)

It's mean we need to put a recovery into a stock kernel.For example put a recovery into stock kernel.After we flash a stock kernel using flashtool and reboot and press back button to enter into a recovery to restore stock/custom rom.

Or maybe just an idea.
[XPERIA X8 General] TimeWasterNL:
Oooh, i missread your question. I thought you wanted to backup the stock kernel etc (whereoff the reason wasn't clear to me).

If you use the stock kernel, you can simply install xRecovery by apk.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IndomitableIrk:
Hello

I recently flashed the Galnet 2.11.26 ICS framework based rom and all was fine until yesterday when I started experiencing graphical anomalies and the lock screen sometimes not showing up which I solved with a battery pull.

This morning though the screen would stay "black" constantly.

What I mean by this is that I dont see the boot logo on anything but a black screen.

The screen starts off rather white with some colored stripes here and there and then fades to black over time. This could be because of hboot's white background, but it always eventually fades to a mostly black screen with a coloured vertical stripe or two.

I am wondering if the HW acceleration part of the ICS based framework has somehow messed up my display drivers or is at all to blame for the problem?

I found other cases of black screens and they all replaced the phone under warranty. Since it is a public holiday I am unable to take it in even if I wanted to and while I wait I figure I might as well try fix it.

I have managed to blindly navigate in clockwork recovery to mount my usb storage and put a new (non-ics based) rom on, but I have difficulty flashing it. After searching around I tried to push a command txt file containing the line:

--update_package=/sdcard/update.zip to /cache/recovery/command (copied successfully) and then rebooting into recovery but it never seemed to flash the rom. It can currently still boot fully into the galnet rom and I can even managed to play music, but the screen stays black.

I have an HTC Desire Z with permaroot, cwm recovery and engineering hboot.

I replaced to galnet boot audio with an htc quietly brilliant one so that if I do take it in they will, hopefully, not realise a custom rom is flashed.

Any help would be much appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] augustya:
Hi Guys,

It is with a lot of hope and help that I am asking you guys to help me out here :-) I am a Huge...Huge Fan of using Pandora Radio, and Holy **** it is just not available on my device even though it is available in the Android Market. I have just bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 3 days back. So I dont have any plans to root it at the moment as it will Void my warrany and I dont wanna do it so soon, void it not in 3-4 days. So besides rooting isn't there any other way by which I can install Pandora on my device and start using it. If someone gives me the apk file for pandora and if I just install it on my device (wihout rooting it) is that it will Pandora start working then ??

Somebody help me here...I desperately wanna have Pandora on my Radio !!

Cheers !
[Captivate General] scrypt:
I have a serious problem with my flash player I think. I am unable to view youtube videos in more than 360p, at 480p the video lags like hell and the phone becomes quite unresponsive, 720p is out of the question. Moreover, the full screen button doesn't work it just shows a blank screen when pressed and upon pressing return the browser sees the flash object as an image and the video wont load.

Facebook chat is almost always placed in wrong position, half of the buttons don't work.

This has happened to me on all ROMs but the fullscreen bug only occurred in the ICS(RC1) and I have tired several different methods to fix these issues, still no luck.

So I wanted to know is this normal for flash player to behave like this? Or Do I have some sort of an issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deejaylobo:
TL;DR : Use Market Access and if Google won't accept your credit card due to the address not being from a "supported billing country", edit the card details in Google Wallet and use a US address. Thanks to Anomaly for sharing his method.

I cannot find a way to purchase apps on ICS. The Market Enabler method does not work, neither does it's Fake On Boot feature. But regardless, even if the Market is successfully spoofed by Market Enabler, I cannot get past the "Accept and Buy" page. I'm always hit with something like "The item could not be found" or "Your country does not support purchases". Market Enabler method used to work fine on Gingerbread.

Is there another way you guys in non-supported countries purchase apps? This is currently my biggest problem with ICS and no one seems to have any fixes.

Logcat of the problem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vF6X4L99u7Yug96pZ0-iWLkAZ81SIg2zKiPDd_rQsFs/edit
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] arimus:
try Getjar and or Appbrain, see if that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chadmd23:
I emailed the devs of the market enabler app, and they seemed to think I didn't know what I was doing when I told them it didn't work with the GN. Maybe someone else will have some luck, I would love to have access to the TMO-USA shop.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deejaylobo:
I did the same thing but, got no reply. I will try again. I'm pretty sure it's an ICS issue. Google has changed something. Market Enabler worked fine on Gingerbread but, I could never purchase apps when I used it with ICS on my Nexus S.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deejaylobo:
Which Market Enabler did you use? The one by "rac" or the one by "Artou". Artou's won't even take root for me. rac's works fine and displays paid apps but, I can't purchase them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] B1ny:
Try MarketAccess, works great for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
There is something strange with ME now, set on boot definitely does not work on ICS and most of the time doesn't work otherwise. I will try wiping data in the Market app and rebooting and 1 time in 10 it will stick and GoogleMaps will show up for me...but most of the time it doesn't work.

You need a USA card to purchase (which I have) but when not working not even free apps will show up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Market Access is the same app as Market Enabler but I gave it a shot, no go. Tried uninstalling updates too.

Last time I had to restore a nandroid backup just to get my market working. Currently not working, very frustrating!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] B1ny:
MarketAccess 1.0.6 have been setting US provider at every boot for me.

Market Enabler 1.8.1 from For2w does not, but it works when I set it manually.

And for the last 3 years or so, I have never had to use a US card, except for buying and renting music and movies.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Are you on a Galaxy Nexus? What ROM? What market version? Are you in the US?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
What do you know, Market Access set on auto change on boot worked. I notice that it calls for root very early after boot, so maybe the change gets in before the Market starts to run or something. Thanks, a lifesaver!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deejaylobo:
Hmm, can't seem to find Market Access.

It's messed up. I've pulled out my SIM, spoofed it to Verizon, set up a US proxy, Cleared Market data and the Market still tells me purchases are not available in my country! This Market 3.4.4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Its not in the market; a quick bing gives: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1272690

Didn't work until I set it for Emulate on Boot. Make sure your data APN is setup and working before you reboot and you should be ok, changing it with market spoofing enabled will not work. If your data gets messed up you have to disable emulate on boot, reboot, reset your APN settings, and go again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deejaylobo:
Lol, this is ridiculous. My phone says it cannot open the file! This has never happened before! And sideloading other apps is working fine!

Anyway, I'm using Market Unlocker which seems to have the same options plus it let's you proxy the Market through a US proxy of your choosing (Nicer UI too!) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.evanhe.marketunlocker . Since, according to the developer, the new Market checks your IP address as well. I even put the Market through TOR and used My IP to make sure I come up as in the US. Still no go! I suspect Google has maybe blocked/flagged me or something. Can't find any other explanation for this. When I get to my CC, I'm going to try a last attempt to use a different Google account with the same spoofing methods.

Thank you for trying to help.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
It won't open from the "Downloads" app, browse to downloads in a file explorer and open from there...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tititake:
Thank you, Market Access did work.:p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deejaylobo:
Using Market Access now. No longer getting a "Purchases are not allowed in your country", now the message has changed to a consistent "The item you were attempting to purchase could not be found." or "An error occurred: Please try again."

So, I guess something's changed!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Try clearing your market data now that Market Access is installed and rebooting?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] deejaylobo:
First thing I tried. Repeatedly. No go! I'm so frustrated. I'm thinking of just going this route: http://www.usunlocked.com/

Getting a virtual card with a US billing address so that I can use it on the web market as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Figured it out. Just flashed a new rom and it wasn't working, moved from Bigxie 5 to 6... one of the changes was restore from market now works. So I setup and some apps were coming down but I stopped to restore from TB. And Market Enabler etc no longer worked. Rebooting and clearing did not help.

So I removed my Google account from Accounts and Sync and then cleared data and uninstalled updates for the Market. Set Market Access to emulate on boot and rebooted. Logged into the Market (it asked for credentials) and back working fine.

Think it remembered from first boot and set my Google account to the wrong market.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simplistian:
If you have root and init.d supported kernel (ramdisk), try this:

Create a file without extension in init.d with "Execute" permission, with the following content:

#!/system/bin/sh

sleep 60
setprop gsm.operator.numeric 45400
setprop gsm.sim.operator.numeric 45400

where 45400 is an example of "mobile network code" of Hong Kong CSL.

Reboot and you should be able to fake it.

If it does not work you can verify if the prop are changed by adb shell or terminal with the following command:

getprop gsm.operator.numeric
getprop gsm.sim.operator.numeric

If they are not changed try to rename the file to .sh and run it with Root Explorer to see if it works. If it works by manual execution you need to change the sleep seconds from 60 to other value like 120 and try again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
And...gone after reboot. Thanks for info above, never done anything like that will have to read up...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Just tried in terminal, only gsm.sim is changed not gsm.operator after using market access...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simplistian:
Yes but I need to modify gsm.operator to make it work. If market access fix your issue you don't need to mess with scripts :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Created the script and rebooted (how else to run it?) but no change. Will try 120.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Well changed the script to 120 (couldn't figure out how to run .sh file as I don't have RootExplorer) and on boot the value was wrong, but on running ME it changed to the correct value.

Tried the Market and no go. Cleared market data and rebooted (ME set to enable on boot) and no go. Uninstalled updates and cleared data and rebooted and no go.

Still showing the correct value in Terminal with getprop gsm.operator.numeric which it wasn't before but still not go. Frustrating! Will try clearing my Google account again. Thanks

edit: tried one more time booting in Airplane mode with wifi off after clearing market and unistalling updates, and its working after I took airplane mode off. Seems so random.

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Does this script replace ME or allow it to work?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simplistian:
It replaces ME with additional change (gsm.operator).

For my case ME does not work as it only change gsm.sim.operator. So I need this script (actually I run this with tasker, I'm using stock ROM stock boot.img without init.d support and I don't need init.d support).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ldn.still.hf:
thx, my GN has the same problem, and now i use market access, it works.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
So in theory do not need MarketAccess? Scared to try reboot without it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Rac updated MarketEnabler today, I am scared to reboot can someone else try it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chadmd23:
I am trying to get the TMO market (have the US market & a TMO SIM), none of the 3 apps are working for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mnemoch:
Uhhhh if you have a t mobile sim you will get that market automatically...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chadmd23:
I am getting the generic USA market, not the T-Mobile specific. I would like to use the TMO apps to check my minutes, etc.