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[HTC Rezound] jayochs:
gotta remember, the reason moto stuff is pushed is because it's part of the DROID line. remember the incredible 1? that thing had insane media time because it was a DROID. inc 2, not so much, but still had some. they push the droid line like crazy, and moto is the king of droids lol
[HTC Rezound] Thadrow:
If the razr maxx had a HD screen or even a better looking qhd display, imo the screen is horrible itd be very intriguing. But no unlockable bl kills it for me .. my rezound is great imo, screen is perfect, processor great. Just wait till the software is just right ..
[HTC Rezound] FabianaS:
Do you have an extended battery? That's really good actually!

*for the person who got 20 hours with 5 hours of consecutive music*
[HTC Rezound] :
Let me tell you people that are thinking of getting a Motorola, to seriously think about what you are getting into. I had the D1 and the Bionic and my girl has the Razr. I will never touch another Moto again. The software that comes with those phones is absolutely horrible, and you can't even change it because development sucks on Motorola phones. Also there is a boobie-trap lying around every corner on Motorola phones. You can't manually boot into recovery, changes kernels, recover from bootloops without a PC, and not to mention Moto punishes you if you install a leak of an update. Having low battery will seem like a trivial issue compared to all the issues you will have with a Motorola phone. You better love stock Moto crap if you get a Moto because you are basically stuck with it, and if Moto gives you a buggy update, they then say too bad and make you wait another 2 months for a fix. HTC cares about its customer more than Moto does for sure.
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
I think you just proved why. Pushing 720p screen vs WVGA. Big difference in pixels to power.

With extended battery and heavy usage at work where signal is poor (hospital), I can get 12-16 hours. I just use 2 batteries and swap.
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Then in the next month or two it'll be replaced by the DROID razr MAXX + lool!

Friends Razr MAXX chewed up 35-40% battery overnight and he's just on 3G.. Superior battery?

What type of battery life are you expecting from your phone? I have the extended and couldn't be happier. Even the standard battery was just fine and I'm a heavy user.

^this is what drove me from Motorola, that and the Bionic > razr scenario, and they did it again w/ the razr > razr maxx. Motor just cares about $$$$ and not about their consumers.

^ This.
[HTC Rezound] paullson:
Lets not forget Google now owns Motorola. I realize they've stated Motorola will still be independent but there will still be more influence from big G on Motorola phones whether they admit it or not. I'm kind of hoping to see Motorola release more stock android phones in the future with a lot less bloat.

But perhaps I'm just a dreamer :/
[HTC Rezound] jmorton10:
The only time I have any problem with battery life in the Rezound is when I stream audio, that absolutely destroys battery life on ANY phone.

I need to use one of my extended batteries just to make it through a workday streaming from iheart radio or Sirius online, but if I'm not doing that the standard battery gets me through a day with battery left to spare.
[HTC Rezound] THE-COPS:
Honestly, I just love htc phones. Motos always seem more buggy, especially in the video/display processor dept. My sister and bro inlaw both got Droid Razr Maxx. Its a nice phone dont get me wrong, but I could already tell I wouldnt want to own one. Verizon pushed an update, and when my sisters phone rebooted, she had no service and it had to be master reset. The thing with the Razr is, whst if the thing freezes? How do you pull the battery to reset it? You dont :/ Gotta love my Rezound. Battery life sucks but I'm thinking of getting extended battery. Only thing that I hate is the audio artifacts that wernt fixed with the ota update. Stupid audio codec problem..oh well..cant have the whole pie and eat it...

Verizon pushes whatever makes them $$$$$$, not what device is more superior or what works better. Of course Veri$on dont like htc. Verizon couldnt have their way fully with its customers because htc allowed people to get past VZWs restrictions and hinderances...yah..
[HTC Rezound] mrslax:
I won't touch another moto phone after my experience with the droid3.

Don't forget Verizon needs to pay off that expensive iPhone and the rezound won't do it for them.
[HTC Rezound] Cares:
Exactly this! I've helped several people root and install custom ROMs on Motorola phones. It is seriously a nightmare! In it's current state, stay away from all Motorola phones! Just not worth the headache it'll cause you if you want to root and flash. But hey, if you're okay with stock and just want the better battery life by all means!
[HTC Rezound] :
Amen to that. Nightmare is the right word for explaining the whole installing roms and rooting process with Moto phones. Not to mention the hours it may take to unbrick your phone if one makes a small mistake when flashing. Moto takes all the fun out of Android for me. I didn't realize how big of a deal the encrypted bootloader was until I actually owned a Moto. It's not just locked, it's practically military grade encrypted. No one is cracking that thing, except maybe Google.
[HTC Rezound] fernando sor:
The first day the rezound came out the floor sales crew didn't even know it was in the store. And I went to two stores.

TheIR incompetence in this day and age is amazing to say the least. I warrant the average person on the street is more informed.

This is based on dealings with at least five stores.
[HTC Rezound] AtLemacks:
Exactly, it was who VERIZON invested their money in. This has nothing to do with who Verizon is mad at or any of that nonsense. Verizon and Moto have a relationship that makes both parties money by Verizon backing their ads.
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
Ive had the same experience with t mobile. Launch day of a device and no display and the phones are no where to be found. Suprised stores sell any phones....
[HTC Rezound] brando56894:
This. I've repeatedly schooled their reps on their policies. A few days after I got the OG I went back into the stock to get the multimedia dock and the techs were blown away when I showed them my rooted and ROM'd droid.

When I upgraded from the Inc to the Rezound, the rep was like "can I see your phone so I can transfer over the contacts?" I told him it was locked and he didn't need to because they auto-restore when I sign in. I gave him my rooted Inc with Widget Locker (which had no unlock buttons since I used the trackball to unlock) and he stared at it awkwardly for a few moments and said "What kind of software do you have on here?" Not realizing he was talking about WL I said I had Sense 2 on it and he was baffled then said "I don think I will be able to restore your contacts". Once he set up the Rezound he was like "Let me show you a few things" and I told him he didn't need to because I've seen all versions of Sense but he insisted. Once everything was said and done I asked if I had the 2 month return period since I got it the day after the release and he said it was still two weeks, I told him I saw an official thing from Verizon that said it was 2 months but he still said 2 weeks. When I got home and looked at the receipt, sure enough it said 2 months!

A few weeks later I went into another Verizon store to get the extended battery for my Rezound since it was 50% off. I went up to one of the Reps and asked if they had the battery in stock and if it was half off, she said no and asked another rep who also said no. I said I saw that all the batteries for 4G phones were, that rep asked another rep who confirmed that they were all on sale!
[HTC Rezound] Eddie Hicks:
I went to Best Buy about ten days ago to buy a Rezound. There were no Rezounds on display even though there were several older models on display. I asked them why they didn't have the Rezound and they said they had them but not on display. They pulled a demo out of a locked cabinet for me. I used the buy back plan I purchased when I was bought my Incredible a year ago and didn't have to pay any cash for the 199.00 phone.
[HTC Rezound] NorthlandAZ:
Love the Best Buy buy back program, I've used it a few times.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] donlad:
Okay so, my last phone was a Droid X2 and I got a 3500 mah extended battery for it. It was on Android 2.3.5 and Android's battery meter did not correctly read the battery's percentage.

When it got to 1% battery it would simply stay there for a while before it died.

I am wondering if this problem is fixed with the Galaxy Nexus or ICS in general?

I purchased a Seidio 3800mah battery and I'm curious to know if I can rely on it's battery readings.

Thanks in advanced!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anton2009:
I have the official Samsung Extended Battery (2100mAh) and it reads it perfectly. Charges all the way to 100% and then dies at 0% (doesn't hang at 1%).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] donlad:
Thanks for the quick response :)

I see you said you have the official battery and I'm wondering if there's anybody with a non official battery (if that even makes a difference).

Also I'm wondering about high mah batteries such as the 3800 mah from Seidio or another from Mugen Power.

Thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
The percentage comes from the chip in the battery, not ICS. So any official battery would output the correct SoC which the driver can read. A cheap battery may or may not depending if that manufacturer setup the chip correctly.

Android 2.3.5 was identical. If it was a 3500 seido they typically give correct charge. If it was a cheaper one then thats why your droidx didnt display properly.

Has to do with the fuel gauge chip, not the OS. Galaxy nexus uses max10740. Nexus one used ds2784. Droidx was totally different too. All depends on that chip.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] donlad:
Yes it was a cheap off-brand battery and that probably explains why it wasn't showing correct percentages.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] NewPwnage:
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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] volgis:
Hi,

I've had my xperia S for a couple of days now and I did not notice a change in brightness depending on the ambient light. I've checked in the screen section under setting and there is no option for auto-brightness unlike my previous android phone (Nexus 1). Does the Xperia S have an auto-brightness option?

Moreover, I'm used to using the pattern lock on my previous phone. With the Xperia S, when I enable the pattern security feature, I am also presented with the normal screen lock (lock/mute). Is there a way to disable that screen?

Thank you in advance :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] gbil:
If I am not mistaken no SE phone has auto-brightness, reason is nowhere to be found....

The same for the lock screen, most probably the ingenuity of the SE/S engineers stopped after creating Timescape...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] volgis:
That is too bad, I really like the auto-brightness feature on phone. It helps improve the battery life.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Cholek3:
What about widgets? Check them (there was something like Power Widget, or Power Control, can't remember), or you could use external aplication. I think Extended Controls or Free Power Widget got something like that. It is not in Display Settings anymore.

UPDATE:

Power Control (It has Wi-Fi, BT, GPS, Sync and Brightness buttons) Brightness should have 3 settings: Max, auto and minimum.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] volgis:
I do use widgets to control the brightness manually (power widgets & beautiful widgets). Both control brightness and power widget even has an auto-brightness check box that has no effect what so ever.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] THeLogiC:
if you want to control brightness easy way try this app:

Display Brightness
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] floepie:
Woah, wait a minute. No auto-brightness? That can't be. The specs sure indicate there is ambient light sensor. There is indeed no "auto-brightness" box to check off, unlike with other Android devices, but I thought that this new Xperia series is supposed to work like iOS devices do. In other words, you move the slider to determine the *average* brightness of the screen, just the way an iphone or ipad does. The screen gets brighter in with more ambient light and dimmer in darkness, but the average brightness is controlled by the slider.

Most other Android devices use the slider to determine a "fixed" brightness, not an average dynamic brightness.

Are you sure the brightness doesn't change?? I find that hard to believe with an ambient light sensor on board.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] motionUS:
The white paper says there is an ambient light sensor.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] zaynal:
I just checked the user guide installed on my XPS. It mentioned about light sensor and brightness adjustment.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Kneko183:
Open Phonebook and dial *#*#7378423#*#*.

Service Tests → Ambient Light Sensor

It works.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] volgis:
I know it has a sensor, but I could not see a difference. Even when I cover the sensor with my thumb, I could not see the same change in brightness as I am accustomed too on my nexus one.

I did not imply that there is no light sensor, just that I couldn't find the auto brighness check box and couldn't notice the change in brightness.

Thanks a lot! I've checked it and my light sensor works. The change in value seems minimal though. I will play around with the brightness slider to see if I notice it now.

Thanks again! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] felips.110:
Hey just wanted to know how many of you would like to see onscreen buttons on whoevers ICS rom comes out first.

I took Xboarders Preview and got them working IMO they are sleek and like a bit more than the capacitive but thats

IMO anyways also I disabled the capacitive buttons so it all onscreen just wanted to know :

What do you guys prefer? and would you like to see them enabled Im sure xboarder will have an add-on or something

like that but in case he does not provide it its not difficult at all its just a thought

what do you guys think?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkamikaze:
I'll stick with buttons on my hercules.if i ever get another phone without buttons then I'd do that.but personally i like buttons.i used to not like capacitives but got used to them it's w.e. Really

-dark
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 8Fishes:
I feel like they would be a waste of screen real estate.

The capacitive buttons are there, why not use them.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 3sixV:
I like on screen buttons, but if our phone already has capacitive buttons then why would we just let them be there for no reason?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
this. man I can't wait for ics :)

Hercules was here
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Joy2DaWurld:
Personally I'd want the buttons even if my phone didn't have them. My Kindle Fire has the on-screen touch buttons like the GNex, and I'm not a fan of that. I'm absolutely glad our phone doesn't have the hard keys on the outside like some other phones too. A soft touch does the trick and that's just like how I like mine.

And to expand on what was said earlier, having on-screen buttons (even though we already have capacitive) is a waste of on-screen space, wouldn't you agree? Purposely, people who bought this phone wanted a larger-than-most screen so personally I wouldn't want to waste all that valuable space.

But...I guess it would be a cool mod to have. Not for me, but I could see users jumping on and wanting to flash this mod either for novelty or general use.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MrKnitty:
Pretty much.

Samsung Galaxy Swag II
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] G1ForFun:
If my phone has buttons...then I do not want them duplicated on the screen. I would rather have more space for content to display.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iloveandroid16:
I want the on screen button.. Im sick of holding the home button to do multitasking..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sunlaw2:
Why not make it as a zip/add on?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KillaHurtz:
This .
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Khizar:
This x2
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] haidharbbc:
hello everybody!!

can someone actually explain to me what is nandroid backup??and how it really works??what is the different with other backup on the market such as titanium backup??

thnxs for your time~
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] teiglin:
Nandroid is a backup option that completely backs up your system nand (internal memory), including the ROM, apps, etc. You can restore a nandroid backup and have everything working in case you flash a bad kernel, ROM, or something like that. It is fundamentally different from an app like titanium backup because it is an image of the entire system, not just individual apps and their data.

If you want to make a nandroid backup, flash a CWM recovery image, then when you boot into recovery, there is a "backup and restore" menu option. Backup to create one, restore will restore the entire state of your device from when you made the backup.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] suwandiapr:
Nandroid backup will backup your partition with this output

1.Boot.img-your kernel

2.Recovery.img-your default recovery

3.system.ext4.tar-all ROM file system

4.data.ext4.tar-all data likes apps, your progress

5.cache.ext2.tar- your cache..
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] lamenramen:
So if you use nandroid, is there no need for titanium backup?

What is the sequence of steps if I want to preserve my Google Play downloaded apps and its associated data, but I still want to wipe everything and install a brand new ROM such as CM9?

Would it be:

--make a nandroid backup

--completely nuke everything except the SD card?

--install the new CM9 rom

--restore from nandroid?

Where does titanium backup fit into this scenario?

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] LBN1:
Nandroid backs up your entire rom, apps and their current configuration as is. Titanium Backup is used to backup individual apps.

If you are flashing a rom, always do a Nandroid first; it is your way to get back to your last working system and configuration if flashing messes something up. Think of Nandroid, as being mandatory.

Some then use Titanium Backup to backup an individual app, such as your Email client; then you don't have to reconfigure your Email client with a new rom. I find it to be almost as fast, just to reconfigure individual apps after a wipe and new rom flash. So think of Titanium Backup, as optional.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] jimmbomb:
ok.. great answers.. now the queston becomes..

how to do a nandroid back up? .

is there a special app needed?

thanks....
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] boelze:
Reading totally helps here as this is written just a few posts above.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] jimmbomb:
thanks for the reminder to re-read the thread once again..

And thanks again for the quote as well....

I will quote this part here..

"If you want to make a nandroid backup, flash a CWM recovery image, then when you boot "

Now my next question is please elaborate on a "CWM recovery image"

Please forgive me for not knowing.. as the OP posted his lack of knowledge as well..

Please DO admonish me as well for asking in HIS thread on what a CWM recovery image is.. and or where to get one and how apply and use it..

I think this is a good thread for those who do not understand as the OP started..

His questions were answered...

So is it safe to move backwards for those who would like to know more about this procedure.

Thanks to all who reply.

All replies are welcomed and encouraged..
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] electron73:
I can tell you from my experience this (I'm still quite new to Android myself):

Nandroid (a funky concatenation of NAND and ANDROID) means a full IMAGE of your current system. It is like a partition image on Windows, like Acronis TrueImage or Norton Ghost... It backs up everything, your OS, all apps, data, settings etc. BUT you can only restore it as a whole (generally speaking) which means you get back to THIS setup. You can NOT install a new ROM and then restore only the apps!

That's why the best way to do it is to do BOTH! You make a nandroid in case you screw up and "brick" your device during flash, so you can always GO BACK to where you were BEFORE you tried flashing anything and then re-try.

You use Titanium Backup to just back up your APPS and their DATA as well as some important system settings like SMS history, Wifi AP list etc. THAT stuff is "transferable" into a new ROM. Consider that like you are burning CDs with your music and movies etc and then you install a fresh Windows. You have a NEW OS but you get your old DATA back. In this case it includes APPS and their respective data, e.g. game progress, saved documents, settings etc. for every app.

Oh and in order to make that nandroid backup, you need to search for and install "CWM" Clockworkmod Recovery. Now THAT is like a built in recovery partition on Dell or Apple laptops! It is a way to boot into an emergency system by holding down a couple of keys (volume up and power) if your main ROM becomes unbootable! There are lots of threads on here about CWM, where to get it and how to install it. Just DO NOT install the current CWM on a Verizon (SCH-i815) Galaxy Tab 7.7 just yet. We just found a couple of bugs that can prevent you from getting updates. If you have the "international" Tab (P6800 or 6810), you should be good.

Hope this helps bring a little light in the dark. Welcome to Android !!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] boelze:
Didn't want to offend you, you just asked an answered question.

CWM recovery means "clock work mod recovery" it is a custom recovery system. You can imagine a recovery system as something like BIOS for pc's. (not true but easier to understand) You can get there by holding volume up button while turning your device on.

So why do you need a custom recovery?

When you get a new android device it has stock recovery system installed which has very limited functionality. If you want to install custom ROMs from your SD card you need to install cwm recovery first. Also you will get ability to do nandroid backup and restore the same. Nandroid backup will copy an exact image of your current system. ROM, apps, configs and so on. You should ALWAYS do a nandroid backup before trying out new ROMs so you can easily switch back if something goes wrong.

Hope I could clear things out for you.

PS: sorry for bad english, it's not my native language ;)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] jimmbomb:
thank you electron..

I DO have the international 6800 that I got from negri..

I routinely swap my ATT sim between this on weekends and my GNote GN7000 during the week,

Using them both on ATT and working great..

Just that I have never flashed anything before on either device..

But I read quite a bit..

I still HAVE NOT got ICS yet on my Note either... Just too scared to pull the trigger..

I must be one of those who need hand-holding walk thru... but I wont ask for that.. not here anyways

repercussions will come down like hell fire..! hahahah