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[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelly1969:
my wife has a sgt p1010 with froyo no mods stock.. her battery went to zero and shut off .. charged it back up and now the touch srcreen does not respond at all.. cannot slide the unlock on lock screen does nothin... is there any fix for this??? or do i sent it back to samsung for repairs???

edit:held down button to force tab to turn off ... now will not reboot at all... no download mode or recovery (bricked)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
When I'm looking at the screen before I take a picture its very vibrant and bright and the quality is amazing but when I capture it then view it there allways very dim, anyone have a solution?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] arhapsody:
I'm experiencing same issue. Just before I close it, it shows in true colors and disappears.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SimPup:
Same thing here. Only seems to do it while I'm using a rom that has the bravia engine though
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
Im on out of the box rom, there has to be a solution
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Midiman57:
In most cases, you have to learn how to use the camera. It's not a SLR system. What you see on the screen is not necessarily what you're going to capture. All the settings, and there are many of them... it's a pretty capable camera, in the camera menu are there for a reason. Leaving everything on "auto" is generally not the best way to approach photography. Experience is the best teacher. Learn what ISO, Exposure, White balance, Contrast, Scene mode, and two dozen other parameters do. It will help you get a great shot when you need one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dac1227:
are the pictures affected? i'd assume not if everything on auto setting as mentioned above.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
I played with the settings still dim pictures
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Numpangx:
Try increasing the brightness of the display. It should make the pictures look alot better.

Sent from my White Skyrocket in Space
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] qumani:
I believe you may have misread the question. I think he is speaking of the brightness of the actual image, not it appearance in the gallery. The images are still dark when dumped to a computer. I believe the poster above has it correct to alter settings.

There is information in various reviews online that state that the camera functions well at either high or really low levels of light. If there is SOME light you're out of luck. I find this to be true with mine
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] qumani:
I believe you may have misread the question. I think he is speaking of the brightness of the actual image, not it appearance in the gallery. The images are still dark when dumped to a computer. I believe the poster above has it correct to alter settings.

There is information in various reviews online that state that the camera functions well at either high or really low levels of light. If there is SOME light you're out of luck. I find this to be true with mine

Device: SGS2 skyrocket

ROM: still stock.

Blog: www.qumani.com/blog
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SimPup:
I read somewhere that turning off the auto adjust screen power in display settings help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Numpangx:
The poster did not state that. He simply said it was dim when viewing it. I honestly had the same problem. Taking a picture and seeing how nice it looked but then when I went to look at it in the gallery it was dim. So I tried turning the brightness of the display up alil bit, it looked just as bright when I initially took the picture.

Sent from my White Skyrocket in Space
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
Yeah its the actual picture not the display, has anyone played with the settings and had any better results?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
This is decently bright but the room.is much much brighter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SimPup:
I haven't played with the settings yet. But that one you posted is a really good looking pic
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Numpangx:
Oh I see. That picture is actually good tho. Here is one I took last weekend. The room was really really bright. The camera sensor on our phones need a decent amount of light for the picture to come out bright.

Sent from my White Skyrocket in Space
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
I only experience the issue when viewing in the Gallery, or immediately after taking the shot. When I turn auto-brightness off" they look exactly the same as they did on screen. As for dumping to the computer, I am not 100% but all of the ones uploaded to FB have been fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SimPup:
Yeah they ain't too great in dark rooms. But those pics look great. I compared some of my pics with my wife's 4s. She had to take the same pic several times to get it to show the detail mine showed with 1 shot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
Auto brightness on the screen or the camera
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
Perfect example really bright room and very dark picture
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SimPup:
Try it on night mode

And also I can tell a big difference when my flash is on auto then off. Seems a lot brighter with the flash off
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
Screen
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
Made it a bit better, but previously some one said that this camera is good at really bright or really dark which is what I'm thinking now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chuson1220:
I usually set my exposure to +1 or +1.5 and manually set the ISO according to the surrounding environment, the picture turns out a tad better than leaving everything AUTO. But again, our camera lacks the function and APP to adjust shutter speed (such as "slow shutter" app for iphone) so yah, have to live with it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nickdixon14:
Explain to me on how to know what ISO to set it at?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chuson1220:
I'm an experienced DSLR user so I just know what to use in different situation.

I will provide some basic here...

ISO 100 - Use under bright (or good enough) light condition, provide best details.

ISO 200 - Use under good enough light condition to achieve the same brightness as above, provide best/decent details.

ISO 400 - Use under decent/not-too-dark condition to achieve the same brightness as above, might start to get grainy and noise reduction will kicks-in, provide decent/less details than above.

ISO 800 - Use under not-too-dark/dark condition to achieve the same brightness as above, start to get grainy and noise reduction will heavily kicks-in, provide less details than above.

Use night-scene mode to catpure dark condition, not sure what's the camera setting as it's not accessible, but shutter speed does significantly slower and will encounter less noise, but ISO function will inaccessible
[HTC EVO 3D] edback:
is anyone else having isues with youtube on their phone? it keeps telling me it can't load vids. I'm also having the same issue on my transformer.
[HTC EVO 3D] Cloaker:
Nope... are you on the same connection?
[HTC EVO 3D] edback:
i am. but even when i switch off of wifi to 3g or 4g, i get the same issue. maybe it's just something up with my account?
[HTC EVO 3D] oohaylima:
Sometimes it happens to me too. Can't explain it either.
[HTC EVO 3D] Cloaker:
Yeah, youtube acts weird. A while ago, my youtube wouldn't work on wimax, tested it on my gf's phone, same thing... Went to a sprint store, all their phones were doing the same thing. This had been going on for more than a month on my phone, but then I started asking around and realized it wasn't just my phone. Took sprint more than a month to fix it after I opened a ticket. Mind you, everything worked on 3g and wifi...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Interlaced:
I have had horrible battery life, I've got a replacement battery etc from att and they REFUSE to replace my phone! I'm still under warranty, have no scratches, cracks or water damage, I bought my phone in december of last year, and my battery only lasts 6 to 7 hours! What can I do!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sheolrock:
6-7 hours on LTE with medium to heavy usage sounds about right.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Interlaced:
Read my previous thread. I never used DATA. I have Everything off except wifi. Thats HORRIBLE battery what are you talking about? I never said Moderate to heavy usage. Never use LTE.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Midiman57:
What was the reason they gave you for not warrantying the phone?

EDIT:

Oh. You bought it in December and there's really no obvious defect. Why would they? You had 30 days to gripe about the battery life and didn't.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sheolrock:
Read your previous thread? Lol.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Budge:
Sorry to hear about that. It may be that you do have something wrong with your phone. To be sure, give Juice Defender a try and see if that helps your battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Interlaced:
Yeah. My previous thread. About my battery problems. Don't post if you aren't gonna answer my question... Just saying.

I have had a battery replaced, I've reverted to stock rom, updated, etc, done everything I can, every fix etc. I can't get near the 30 hour battery lifes I can see. Why would I get 6 hours MAXIMUM no talk time, 400-500 texts a day, data lte and gps and bluetooth off, brightness down. Thats pathetic battery. Idk what else to do.

The reason Given for not replacing is that is the average battery use. But on the specs it reports 7 hours of TALK TIME.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xxsicknessxx:
bat sucks buy a flip phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Interlaced:
I was expecting more helpful answers. My mistake.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sheolrock:
Why would you expect me to read a previous thread that you did not link to? I answered your question based on the information you gave in THIS thread based on my own experience. I responded to your question, it just wasn't the answer you wanted.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] randomnameftw:
How long would your battery last with data on? Whenever I leave

wifi on, my battery drains. For everything else, it lasts the whole

day without charge on moderate to heavy use with lte.

Maybe try your luck with a different att rep?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Interlaced:
With my previous skyrocket, I would easily get 14 + hours.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Man_Cave_Tech:
Relax. He's only offering some information to help you. The battery life on your phone is on par for that device. I have the original Galaxy S II and I average about 8-9 hours with heavy use, and an entire day with normal use. Just about all dual core CPU Android based super phones are going to have mediocre battery life. That's just the way it is. You can always get an extended battery, which should give you an additional 3-4 hours of useage. Aside from that, there's not much you can do about it.

What exactly do you expect us to do for you? You've tried other ROMS, a different battery, lowering the brightness, etc. If they sent you another battery, that means you have two batteries now. That should be plenty to get you through the day. You could always try trading the Skyrocket for a Galaxy S II, which is a better phone anyways as it has the Exynos CPU and slightly better battery life. :D

BTW, 400-500 texts per day is a LOTof screen on time, which would e plain the 7 hour battery life. And leaving WiFi on will also kill ypur battery life. WiFi is a huge power hog. My guess as to why AT&T refuses to swap your device is because you rooted it and installed custom ROMS. (which voids the warranty). And believe me, they know if you did that because they check the custom ROM counter.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
what is your screen on time? You sound like you use your phone slightly less than i do. Im lucky to get 5hrs out of my phone. Been this way with every smart phone ive had since the original droid.....and ive had a lot. 400-500 texts means your screen is on every couple of minutes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jedah:
I would agree with this. Display time is a huge battery drain. In fact, it's usually my largest battery drain (even more than LTE).

If you only turn on Wifi when it's available, then you will save battery because Wifi is more power efficient than 3G/4G. Otherwise, it will drain battery searching for a network. This also means if you use NO data, then turning off Wifi completely will save power.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dac1227:
Turning on and off your phone that many times will do it in six hours.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
to add---talk time assumes the screen is off for that time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] celljunkie707:
Call them back again and tell them that now your phone got hot and then shut off. say that you used your friends skyrocket battery to see if device still worked and it didnt. they will send a new one.

make SURE you tell them that it just got hot, and shut off. now it wont turn on at all.

Also, if the person you are talking to wont help you just say fine, hang up, call back. still doesnt work? repeat.

Im really not joking. just the other day i had to call them 3 times just to send me a replacement device.

Good Luck!

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Oh, and make sure you hit the thanks button when it works. lol

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oh. and call *67611 from your phone. so they dont know you are calling from the device, just in case you get some cowboy who looks at the phone number you are calling about. lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
You are on their towers and service...you really think *67 is going to block them from seeing who it is if they want to know?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Man_Cave_Tech:
^^ +1 on that. If he gets three bad replacement phones, AT&T's policy is to replace the phone with a different make and model of similar/equal value.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cashyftw:
Dude seriously? Just lie to them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] celljunkie707:
Well the *67 was more a joke for the overly paranoid. hence the lol.

Who said anything about 3 different replacements. I simply called them 3 times to get what I wanted. in light of baseball being right around the corner... The customer is right .333 of the time.

And what would be that bad about getting a equal or comparable device? The note is just around the aforementioned corner :-)

http://www.esnips.com/displayimage.php?pid=33569724
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nyydynasty:
wipe it or flash back to stock and dont load any of your own apps. Let it run for the day and see where you stand with battery life. If its something wrong with the phone, it'll continue to die at the same pace. If battery life is suddenly better, then its an app that you installed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrsexypants:
yo go on amazon or ebay and buy 1 of those non-stock SUPER BATTERIES they come with a back that will fit them too that ***** will give you longer battery life for SURE
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] billownz:
I second this. This will atleast rule out software and could help develop a solution.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sheolrock:
Having the screen on long enough to send that many texts is HEAVY usage.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zoso28:
absolutely.. That is a LOT of use
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
Lost me at 400-500 texts per day.

Oops
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
What is your signal strength?

Use the app network signal info

Or menu.settings.about phone.status
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] iOSlulz:
Boo boo bee boo

So why didn't you exchange within 30days?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ReggieSmith:
Just curious as to why get a smartphone at all if according to him, all he did is send text messages all day on wifi?? Doesn't make sense.

Someone said it earlier.... Screen on long enough to send 400-500 txts is a lot of screen time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
<rant>

I'm happy with the 8 to 14 hrs I get I'm a heavy user wit screen on 6 to 12 hrs of it I don't really calibrate the battery I just use the phone smart phones aren't built to keep up with dumb phones if they were we would have giant bricks just saying your using a device that is honestly getting close to a netbook if not better in specs you don't expect it to last a whole day if its on without plugging it in so quit complaining take a cable with you to work or something.

<\rant>
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] planoman:
Do what the others who are pissed at ATT do, go to t mobile.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
Do you keep Bluetooth, GPS, and/or WiFi on when you're not using them? Those will drain your battery.

Or try Juice Defender as suggested above. It'll help you figure out what's sucking your battery down.

Or, post a screen shot of your battery usage and let us know if you're on a stock rom or which custom rom your on. Some of the custom roms have awesome battery life and flashing one may be your solution...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sulpher:
I dispute everyone saying that wifi drains your battery while the screen is off... this is with wifi on the whole time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
Dude. Get a Blueberry, or raspberry, or blackishberry whatever.

A texting phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sulpher:
lol that is some sick battery bacheezy!!

What rom are you running?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
I still dunno how y'all do that haha
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Lucidmike:
Theoretically, leaving wifi on, when you have a wifi connection will save you battery life. But when you don't have a wifi connection, and it's just trying to connect to different random hotspots all day, this will drain your battery.

Juice defender has a feature where depending on the day and the hour, it will switch off your wifi for you and turn it back on to save you juice.

Another thing that could be the culprit is a weak reception of your carrier at your current location, especially when it comes to data. Leaving wifi on will definitely help in this case, if you have a working reliable strong wifi connection. If you don't, having a spotty 3g connection and leaving wifi on that is always searching for a hotspot will definitely drain the life of your battery.

I always deep cycle my batteries using a external charger with a second battery. I don't bother with juice defender because it puts up to a 5 min delay on my push notifications, even though it would probably give me 2 days of battery life. On heavy use, I get about 6 hours, and when I don't use the phone at all, I get about 30 hours. When I hit about 5-15%, I do a quick battery swap with my second battery that was on an external charger. I leave a charger at my home, work, and in car because it would guarantee that I would always be able to use my phone and be connected when important things are going on. Unlike apple products, OEM Samsung chargers on ebay cost about $6.

Last tip, I always do a external AC charge whenever possible. That laptop usb charge never charges the batteries as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
Running revenge of macnut (please excuse butchered spelling) from t-mobile. Darkside production. Those guys are brilliant.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hd2k10:
I don't feel like reading through all the posts but I just want to clear all the OP's complaints up.

6-7 hours isn't that bad if you're actually using your phone, there's also so many factors that YOU could have done to ruin your battery life with apps and such.

As stated, you have 30 days to exchange your phone, otherwise you need an actually defect/true problem with the phone to have a warranty exchange. Battery life is not.

7 hours talk time? When you're talking, the screen is off, hence drastically increasing the battery life. I'm sure if you went from 100% to 0% and did nothing but talk you could probably get close to 7 hours.

If you expect excellent battery life from a smartphone with a 4.5" screen, you're in for a severe disappointment, this isn't a blackberry or an old Nokia, it's a top-of-the-line Android, it's going to take a lot of juice, especially if you use it what it's meant for.

Don't buy a smart phone and treat it like a dumb phone and still expect it to last you forever.

_____________________

1d 13h and like 1d of awake time? Jesus, that's impressive even if your phone is idle most of the time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
I said the same thing
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] justcalled:
My First Skyrocket was using A LOT of battery and also the Android system there was using more than display. AT&T wasn't exactly eager to exchange it but I insisted and I am so glad I did it before 30 days were over! My new Skyrocket's battery and performance is so much better! Apparently there are some good and better Skyrockets out there.

A few tips from me:

Tip #1- disable WiFi when you are walking in the street or when you are somewhere where you can't be connected.

Tip #2- that works for me. Since I do not want to be notified each time a new email comes, I have changed "email checking frequency" from "every 15 minutes" to "NEVER". I check it when I feel like checking email - then I click on email and I see what's new.

Tip #3 - take a picture of something black and make it your phone's background -this should save some battery usage on display

Tip #4 - if you are a heavy texter, get a different phone:) I know that texting was always draining my cell phone's battery faster than talking on the phone. And with android phones with big displays, every moment your display is on is reflected in lower battery. Note than when you talk on the phone, the display turns itself off so you are saving battery...not so when you text.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Midiman57:
I like this one. Did the same thing a month ago. Just cover the lens and snap. I'm not a heavy user but I can get nearly 3 days between charges.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Man_Cave_Tech:
Never said anything about it being bad. Just offering a solution to the problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Man_Cave_Tech:
In addition to what "justcalled" stated, if you must text 400-500 a day AND want good battery performance, just keep your display brightness down to 20%.

Curiosity is killing me, and I have to ask...Does texting 400-500 times a day take up a lot of time? I can't imagine being very productive with that much phone time a day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kr3w1337:
Try my post for improving your battery life here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tacotino:
pm me dude