yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
Simply, yes. Bloat affects battery due to "wakes".
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Red5:
Short answer: Yes

Long answer: Yesssssss

SNS and Data Management (the thing that looks for AT&T updates) are both known huge bloat stay-awakers.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] frankos72:
My Long answer:

Battery was one of my biggest concerns when I got my SGS2. After a couple weeks I rooted with the stock ROM. I used Titanium Backup to Freeze as many bloat apps as I was comfortable with (I wasn't sure what might break my phone if I deleted i so I just froze them) and I ended up getting about 2 additional hours per day.

With bloat, I'd get home and have to put the phone on charge before I put the kids in bed 9pm. After I removed the bloat, my phone usually makes it all the way to bed with me around midnight... some days not, some days it has lots left. Anyway you shake it though, I definitely got longer life by just removing some apps. I'm not sure what apps used the most battery, but it really doesn't matter. I say if you aren't using it, it shouldn't be on your phone.

Also, I will second the AP mobile. I had seen it using bandwidth in my data usage app and I had NEVER opened it. That's gotta use some battery for sure.

Also, I recently read on here somewhere that your modem can affect your battery life too. I was on UCKH6 now I'm trying out the UCKH7 modem. No noticeable difference yet, but it was just yesterday that I put it on.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] guitarjordan:
Ok so I know I'm a noob when it comes to some things on here, but I think this is a legitimate question so bare with me.

Basically, I have to move back home to Trenton, FL because of personal family issues. The problem is that I get absolutely NO service from T-Mobile over there. (It's horrible) I have a rooted and unlocked G2x for T-Mobile/ATT. My question is; can I simply purchase an ATT sim card and use their network back home without having to shut off my T-Mobile account and switch to ATT? From what I've researched, I'm pretty sure it's possible to "Borrow" service from ATT's towers over there with an unlocked T-Mobile phone and a data plan, but I'm not 100% sure. It's not a huge deal, but I'd like to know the answer before I actually move. Thanks!

Can someone please give me an accurate answer?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Волк:
In short, no. If you want to use Att's cell towers but have a tmo subscription that would be considered roaming. If you had an att SIM you'd have to have service from them, it wouldn't be service from tmo. You could get some sort of roaming plan (I think) from tmo that would allow you access to the att towers.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] guitarjordan:
I appreciate the help, but I'm pretty sure I have roaming from T-mobile. At least, I think I do, cause I think I've roamed before cause I've seen the symbols E and G on my service bar before. Hopefully this is good news! So I guess I'll just have to ask T-Mobile and see what's up.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] redmonke255:
The t-Mobile rep told me that wherever there is no tmo service you will piggy back on att's network for free. I've done it with both att and cellular one.

Call them and ask to be sure. But you shouldn't need to get a new att sim.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lotherius:
Wouldn't bother calling about this...

1) To roam onto AT&T's network, they would have to have a roaming agreement in place. They only pay for roaming agreements in areas where A) They realllly realllly need to have coverage, and B) They don't already have coverage. If T-Mobile already has coverage in an area, they won't pay for an AT&T Roaming agreement. Even if it is bad coverage.

2) If you put an AT&T Sim in the an unlocked phone, then it will have nothing to do with T-Mobile while the AT&T Sim is in there... that is, as said above, you would need to have a service plan with AT&T and as such a new phone number, bill, etc...

3) You can't add a special roaming plan. They don't exist. You get all the roaming that's available already. Now, if you go OVERSEAS that's different - you have to call to add INTERNATIONAL roaming, but that's done so you don't get charged for international roaming without having been warned first. But for within the US, no, you can't get additional roaming on your T-Mobile plan...

The sad thing is, Roaming used to be a lot more common. Wireless services have gotten so competitive, however, that many of those old roaming agreements are dead and gone. Nobody's willing to share their networks any more.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] oilfighter:
If you bought an AT&T SIM and use that in the G2x, then you would simply be an AT&T customer, except I don't think G2x supports AT&T's 3g band, so you'll just have EDGE.

If T-Mobile doesn't have coverage where you're going, you can call them and terminate your service with T-Mobile, provided that you have proof that you moved there, and T-Mobile has zero coverage in the town you moved to. Otherwise, either keep your TMO account alive, or you have to pay a contract termination fee.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] guitarjordan:
Damn guys I'm glad you told me all of this, especially the part about proving where I'm moving. That's awesome, now I don't have to pay two cell phone bills. Hells yes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fasinationinmotion:
Since we have NEON support would it be a good venture to port over sense 4.0 when a good leak comes out? How many people would use it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] edgeicator:
What does NEON have to do with the Sense skin? NEON only helps with decoding multimedia.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] robt772000:
omap4 does have neon support.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Valynor:
"OMAP 4 uses ARM-Cortex A9s with ARMs SIMD engine (Media Processing Engine, aka NEON) which may have a significant performance advantage in some cases over Nvidia Tegra 2s Cortex-A9s with non-vector floating point units."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fasinationinmotion:
Neon is needed to do Sense. Thats why it was never able to be ported to any of the old Galaxy S devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] edgeicator:
What? Galaxy S uses the Hummingbird SoC which supports the NEON instruction set.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] j.go:
I thought people bought Nexus devices to get away from manufacturer add-ons like TouchWiz, Sense, Motoblur, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] exceleth:
Absolutely :D

But I respect people who want sense on their phones, matter of choice.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Yeah neon is old as hell. Droid 1 did neon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joerkc:
Id personally like to see an optimized sense port. At the very least, something to play with.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Eh, have you seen Sense ICS?

Looks like poo.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mark manning:
There is no point to even try to put a a sense rom on a Samsung. Without a HTC kernel your just gonna get some crazy hacked version that will never run properly. If you like sense that bad I would suggest sticking to an HTC phone.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] shenoy007:
hi i brought new ray so many friends told bettery is good for one day..but me not getting one day ...with using browsing internet through 2 g one hour 15% is down..i thought it has got small screen and big battery..get lot of juece from battery..i didnt discharge my battery till now..have to do discharge battery to get good bateery life?? any body help..please tell ur ray battery performence....thanks...:confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hansip87:
That depends on your activity actually. There are 3 main power hogs in this (or any other Android) device:

1. Display Brightness

2. Mobile Data

3. GSM Signal Quality

Small Screen does not matter much, because the pixel count is the same with Arc. it is how bright the back light you set the display in. Mobile data should be turned down if unnecessary. And if the quality of 2G/3G is not good, it will drain your battery too.

For my case, when still stock, my Ray can survive about 1.5 day (texting, browsing for 1 hour a day, brightness at the lowest, no data connection when unneeded). If you use it too much, 12 hour is my best bet. Now after doing some overclocking, it is still the same case, but if i do some intense task (game, browsing large page) the battery might be lasting about 10 hours. If i use it like usual, maybe i can get about 1 day only.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vleutmans:
My battery lasts about 15-20 hours, with modest phone usage.

Settings: wifi on, BT on, auto-sync. on, GPS on., data on

Activities per day :

-About 45 minutes phonecalls

-about 5 SMS

-internet activity max. 1 hour (browsing)

I really like this phone, but also I'm a little scared to actually use it as I "see" my battery indicator count down percent by percent while using the phone.

Today I dimmed the display some more, hopefully that helps a bit.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hansip87:
LOL that's true :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] yujin_11:
I get around 24 to 40 hours on my Ray. And here's what I did:

0 to 20 texts a day(if there is anyone to text to)

2hrs music

0 to 5mins using the camera

20mins games

2mins calls(if there is anyone to call to)

my phone is rooted
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jjdoctor:
Hi ,

I am very much satisfied with battery life of this phone... Its the best amongst all the Android phones in world...

I have used several different phones but all gave me less timings...

For me it lasts 22 hrs after

3 hours web browsing

30 min calls

5-6 text messages

Display ON time of about 6 hours

Wifi ON all time

Facebook sync ON

No Data, No GPS

I had HTC Sensation previously and that used to give me half the time i mentioned

I am kinda satisfied with it... If i use it lightly, it sure would do more than 2 days

The first 50% drops quicker than the last 50. .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] muz2000:
New battery aka new phone would need a few charge & discharge cycle before it get to optimum performance.

Last weekend I manage to get nearly 2 days of battery life. Of course with minimal usage with WiFi always on, only a few call of the day and about 30 min on internet. Most of the time phone in idle.

FYI, i'm on stock rom
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] veimus:
standby mode in my Ray, no calls, fiev sms, 2g, no data connection, 12 days ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] coolkaas:
from our 4pda.ru guys (8 days of real use) (not my shot):

now I not find it but was a shot with 10 days.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mylow777:
I also believe that it has got thing to do with the new battery. It will be better for sure.

My one: Rooted, overclocked (1,5 Ghz), stock rom

Around 1,5 days with

1-1,5 hour gaming (PES 2012)

few calls

Data on

No autosync

Wifi around 5-8 hour

Music 30 min...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] zstoichev:
TU

Quite happy hear, almost 23 hours of heavy usage, 3G, WiFi, Calls, Internet, 2 email accounts, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Battery is still on 29%... Good ray!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Xtremy:
2 Day's now and still 65% Battery.

Wifi= 20min. max. (router in same room)

auto-sync.= off

GPS= off

Bt= off

SMS= 3 received/ 4 send

Call= 4 (2-3min.)

Display Brightness= Enabled Automatic Light Sensor [Mod]

No mobile data service.

Phone is 4 to 5 months and rooted.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] [GER]Roxxor:
Well, running Cm7 FXP54(? Dont know exactly anymore; the first version with working flash) I get ~24 hours with medium usage (GPS tunerd on but no activity; 20 Minutes Browsing, ~5 Minutes calls, a lot of Whatsapp LED blinking; I would equal the Whatsapp usage with 20 SMS).

At first I wrote and thought low usage... Well I was wrong :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kyrius:
I noticed a big improvement after installing easy battery save. It seems that i will be able to have my ray going for 5 days. Until now i was happy to have it going 48 hours :p

I'm running FXP103.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sirkay:
rom: stock repack4pda-v6

kernel: bootuv6.img by aire

baseband: .48

rom: blendMIUI modded by chiefy

kernel: bootuvMiui.img by aire

baseband: .64

current rom!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] KristianKenneth:
I only last at max 1.5 days
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ko93:
my battery wears out very quickly, but display is not 100% i use the automatic brightness :(:(:(:(:(:(

om: stock repack4pda-v7

baseband: .64
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kizsleg:
try to flash another baseband.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rayray2:
My ray is lasting approx 2/3 days average.

much better than my old x10 mini, (1 day)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] drydeniv:
Poor Ray battery life

I have a new Ray ST18a (american version) with AT&T and running the .62 firmware, and i have very poor battery life. Compared to some of the numbers I've seen in the above thread, I only use my phone moderately:

- 2-3 Hours music,

- maybe 20 text messages a day

- about 10 mins. worth of phone calls

- 30 minutes of web browsing

- bluetooth on (no devices connected) and

- GPS on (though hardly ever use)

and my battery has yet to last 14 hours on a full charge. If I charge to 100% before bedtime, and leave it on overnight, it has decreased about 50% without being 'used' at all - it is only in standby mode. I have noticed that in the battery usage screen - 'Cell Standby' is the dominant user - and it claims to have 'Time Without Signal' up to 50%. I've read in various places that this is a bug, but it is a serious battery drain on my phone. I have an AT&T 3G Microcell in my living room, so I have very good signal strength, and yet it still claims to be without signal upwards of 50% of the time.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? Can anyone suggest any other methods of troubleshooting?

I have tried various frequency switching methods (GSM only / WCDMA preferred / auto, and other permutations) - Nothing seems to help. I am wondering if it is a hardware problem, however the phone seems to work just fine, with the exception of battery drain.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] yujin_11:
Why don't you turn off your bluetooth and GPS first? You're just wasting your battery if you keep them on and not use them
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vleutmans:
I notice that both my display and the data connection (APN/3G) drain the most.

Bluetooth and GPS don't drain much....to my vision at least.

Try 'easy battery saver' (free from market) and don't forget to set it to 'intelligent mode' and send me your battery experience from this tool.

Easy battery saver toggles your data (also wifi) in the background when screen=off.

Br.

Michel
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eeeelliott:
Hi everyone,

I was recently experimenting with my LG Quantum, trying to add another theme instead of the two that are already available. I know you can just change the values of one of the existing themes, but I wanted to keep both of the other ones. Anyways, I was using the Registry Editor app (not sure whose it was), and trying to add a key called "2" to HKLM\ControlPanel\Themes. It kept deleting when I refreshed the Registry Editor, so I decided to go into MFG and create the value HKLM\ControlPanel\Themes\2\BaseThemeColor. I then tried to go into the Registry Editor application to see if it had created the Key. But the registry editor didn't open. So I restarted my phone and everything works fine...except none of the applications that have been installed will open. I've tried reinstalling them and downloading different applications that I've never had. Nothing works.

Also, in settings, under the theme, it usually says the name of your current accent color. Now it doesn't say anything, so I'm pretty sure the problem has something to do with the new key that's been added to HKLM\ControlPanel\Themes. I can't delete the key either because the MFG application and Registry Editor won't open... I have no idea what to do.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

-Elliott

EDIT: push notifications from applications work, I just got one.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JVH3:
Time to reset the phone.

Settings

then select about.

Then scroll down and select Reset Phone.

You will need to reinstall things and reconfigure your email accounts.

Use the same Windows Live ID and you will be able to reinstall everything without repurchasing.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eeeelliott:
that's what I was dreading... I'll just restore it in Zune. So it's not too far away from what it used to be.

LET THIS BE A WARNING FOR EVERYONE WANTING TO ADD ANOTHER THEME.... DONT DO IT
[General Questions and Answers] Android311:
Speedtest app how do I figure out a good connection speed?

HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom
[General Questions and Answers] I Am Marino:
Don't quite understand your question.

To get a better speed, have better signal?

-Sent from my Droid 2-
[General Questions and Answers] Android311:
Sorry about that, on the servers it tests the speed of wish server in each state, so if I click neveda does that mean my phone signal will be coming from neveda?

HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom
[General Questions and Answers] deepakpatil001:
looking forward for any good suggestion
[General Questions and Answers] mistermentality:
You pick a server as near your location as possible. The test will show where it thinks you are based and pick a suitable server for you to connect to.

Often it can claim you are a long way from where you are (for example I am in Wales but it says England). This doesn't mean you are there but that your network or isp provider sends your internet traffic through a server at that location.

Dave
[General Questions and Answers] rbeavers:
If you goto speedtest.net in the web browser it will do a ping test and find the best test site. Were the telco internet dumps out. Then in speedtest app settings set that site to test.

One way to do it anyway!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akurup:
Hi all, just installed the new 1/16/12 cm9. There was a post in the developer thread indicating that this version breaks face lock. Just wanted to pass along my experience. I did not have this issue. Facelock is working great. I did a full wipe data/dalvik/cache using the rogue cwm.

The only issue i Seem to be having is with the browser and ics browser plus. They seem very slow to respond to loading pages, and entering text (like searching in Google). Has anyone else experienced similar problems? I did not see this problem when I was on EOS nightlies build 36. Any suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated.

Also I did flash the latest gapps that was posted with cm9
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] al mon:
Good to hear 1/16 did not break facelock for you.

I can confirm that 1/15 Kang did have oddities around certain apps closing. For example, if you close Google Currents, Youtube, B&N Nook, Kang 1/15 would pause before closing the apps (minimized). Browser and others did not exhibit this issue.

As for your specific issue, 1/15 did not have browser load or other performance issues. IMHO, 1/15 had full functionality except for those apps closing.

There are some visual artifacts in "Burn the City" game where the screen would intermittently flash on 1/15.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Braindefect:
Same here (Installed CM9 from 1/16 with new GAPPS). No issue with the browser lagging. Did you wipe/reset your data before installing CM9 and GAPPS? If not, try wiping, then install the ROM and immediately install the Google apps (make sure you have the latest from 1/18 which is version 5.2) after the ROM without rebooting in between. Then reboot at the end. Hope this helps.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] al mon:
Overall 1/16 Kang is smooth. But I've had some weird app closing issues but only a few (Google Currents, B&N Nook Reader, YouTube).

When you're in the App and press HOME, the Xoom shrinks upper and lower by 1/3 and then waits for about 1/2 a sec then minimizes/closes.

On some games like "Burn the City" it causes intermittent screen flashing.

Other apps seem to run fine. Have other people seen this too?

Tempted to restore to stock and flash the official release.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Braindefect:
Let me us know how it goes with the official release. BTW I saw on the Development threads that there's a rooted version of the official release that can be installed via Recovery so you won't need to return to stock first (saves a few steps).
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalkat579:
reboot isues

my xoom ever since th 26th update has had restarting issues not all the time bout 4 times in a 24 hour period every time i update i wipe everything and start over but im still having this issue updating to the 29th update today i hope this fixes it has anybody else had this issue
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmnattas:
Hi

in my phone i tried to install about 8 Roms,

and there are only 2 Roms work

1 - LeeDroid 2.5 A2sd Final

2 - AuraxTSence 7.9 Froyo FRF91 by NeoPhyTe

_________________________________________

pleas i want leedroid kernal for desire i have not found it in the web.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Every ROM has a requirement like hboot type, sdcard EXT type and size, etc. Make sure you check the requirements of each rom and download the right link.

via xda app
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmnattas:
Thanks stankyou

1-how can i know does my phone need hboot or not, and dose there are many types of hboot, if there are witch type should i install.

2-which i need to install (normal/a2sd/data++/...).

3-can you pleas send me a LeeDroid kernal downlode page,

if you don't know send me the best kernal you know
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
1. every phone has an hboot its just a matter of what type of hboot you are using. You are probably on stock hboot. Check alpharev.nl to get an idea. You can check it by shutting down and then pressing and holding volume down button and power on your phone. It details should be on the upper left side of the screen

2. it will depend on the rom. Most of the time the rom would say "for stock hboot" or "cm7r2" hboot"

3. Search for SNQ. He makes Sense kernels.

via xda app
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Logimann:
if you know what do you need for HBOOT, watch at this page for instructions alpharev.nl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdhughes79:
Most Roms (particularly AOSP Roms) will fit on stock hboot.

Is your Desire GSM or CDMA? Only certain roms will work on CDMA phones.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlerota:
Then you are doing something wrong :-) Many ROMs are working with Desire :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] poktangju:
when using plume in portrait mode are you guys able to swipe sideways to your different columns
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] monkey hung:
Doesn't have to be widget but some thing that can make it fast to switch by just the click of a button. It gets annoying at home where its kinda dark and kinda pointless to use face unlock so I wanna switch it to a regular slide unlock. But if I go out, face unlock would be great to show to friends or if I lose my phone. So any such app out there or that can be created?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
No, but some roms allow you to remove the lock screen if you wish
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] monkey hung:
Aww. Well I don't want to remove the lock screen just toggle between different lock screens. I hope a dev can make this!