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[HTC One S] Reviewers:
It sounds like you don't know about how to manage phones.

You prob was running lots of applications at once and brightness all the way up it still won't go from 66% to 35% sounds like a bad unit you have.
[HTC One S] yuan_1202:
no... the brightness is at it's lowest level.

I use anrdoid assistant to kill process once an hour.

There is very unlikely this is a bad unit. Nowadays these manufacturers control the production quality very good that the chance I get a bad unit is probably as low as winning some lotto.
[HTC One S] unclespoon:
For starters, your device is BRAND NEW so battery will take about a week or so to break it in, just be patient. Also, killing tasks will only end up using more resources since Android will most likely just start them back up once it gets the chance. Run your battery down the first couple of days and charge it overnight and you will start to notice it getting much better.
[HTC One S] yuan_1202:
Kill Process runs only once an hour. So during the time I was playing, it probably just ran once. I doubt it will cost much power at all.

I understand it needs time for the battery to warm up. But even with that taken into account. it is not looking good. It reminds me the suffer that Desire caused my friend.
[HTC One S] unclespoon:
Hopefully this doesn't turn into a bigger issue; keep us posted!
[HTC One S] jodue:
sorry mate but this is just stupid. first of all the battery meter is not calibrated in a new phone meaning the reported battery state is not accurate. you have at least to charge the phone once to 100% and discharge it fully to calibrate the 2 extrem states. before that everything displayed is just a rough approximation. at the first discharge i had ~20% left and the phone was down to 0 in just some minutes of heavy use. after 2 cycles i get ~-10% for an hour of heavy use. so stop crying and give the phone some day's to adjust :D
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I think you have a bad unit.

Android Assistance/Android Task Killers only mess up your battery more.
[HTC One S] yuan_1202:
Well I sincerely hope you are right. Because I will be much happier. Let's see in a week time.
[HTC One S] yuan_1202:
Well I hope jodue is right: the battery needs time to fix itself.

I will give it a week to see whether things will improve. If not I will go to store to get a new one.

I have been using Android Assistant for my Streak and Atrix. It turned out to be just alright.

Anyway I will remove it and see how it goes.

Ppl have wrong idea that AMOLED is more power efficient. I remember reading a review some time ago on battery life of smart phones. It tested a number of phones and the outcome is that actually on average the AMOLED (at that time there wasn't SUPER AMOLED yet) devices last less than others.

But anyway...
[HTC One S] wally80:
This is the most stupid thing one can do. The processes will likely be restarted by the OS and you consume more power than you would have consumed by letting android do his things as designed.

Google itself suggests not to do it. Even the most honest task manager apps suggest not to do it. (e.g., http://android.nextapp.com/site/systempanel/doc/autokill ).

Anyway, before judging battery life wait few days. I own a One X, and battery life improved suddenly after few recharging cycles. ;-)
[HTC One S] Stiflerlv:
About the display. I readed somewhere in this or X forum, that:

1. LCD does consume less power, but for X version, since its bigger screen, it takes more

2. AMOLED screen power consume depends on what it have to display (colors). Black/dark colors need less power to be shown while white takes the most power...
[HTC One S] snowwhite007:
You get 25GB free on dropbox with all one series phones plus a further 25 per referal

Mod or Die
[HTC One S] Leviathan2k:
This. Many people don't know/forget about this. Using a dark theme on apps you use most on an AMOLED phone can save a lot of juice, much more than all those stupid Juice Defender/task killer/manager apps can ever hope to.
[HTC One S] l3ft3r1s:
250MB per referral
[HTC One S] yuan_1202:
You cannot ask all the website to go dark background can you?

Ppl use the phone to do different things. Games, Browing internet... thats the whole point, the phone should perform consistantly for all tasks, not just looking at dark home screen. HTC hasn't even figure this out yet??
[HTC One S] stesa:
in browser-setting you can invert white background/black background
[HTC One S] rboekee:
no battery issues here

No battery issues, with slightly higher than average use (downloading loads of apps, playing some games, using google maps and a half hour driving nav and some music lsitening) over the first few days I've averaged 24-36 hours which I'm pretty happy with.

There are a few software things I don't like though

First, I miss having settings in the notification tray, it's one less tap of the screen. Also, the tweaked recent apps list seems pointless, you have to flick from one to another... the Stock android 4 recent apps scroll is much better, it let's you see/do more with less interaction. I also noticed a bug where the wireless signal will appear as null in the notification bar but if you view the the details in settings it says that the wireless signal strength is excellent!

Don't let any of this put you off though it really is a great phone and feels great in the hand... CM9 may rescue all!
[HTC One S] pzboyz:
Have the One S now, arrived a short while ago. The most annoying thing is that a stock device only has 9GB of that 16GB free when you get it.

This is nuts, I will not be using dropbox, there are many nefarious reasons why HTC want people to use dropbox or any cloud storage, this does not work well while I am roaming folks. This is not good for a business phone, I maybe sticking with my DesireHD.
[HTC One S] psych0t1c:
Its sad, that many ppl who consider themselves technophiles do not even understand the battery of their devices.

ANY device with a modern battery should be initially charged overnight or 7-8hrs at least even of the little green light tells you it is all OK after 4 hrs. Do that, and give it a week to break in and I assume there won't be anything to complain about anymore.

Somy link to a decent site discussing these battery care tips and characteristics should be auto-pinned to each new device subforum cause the first complaints are ALWAYS about the battery life it seems...
[HTC One S] yuan_1202:
Thanks didnt know
[HTC One S] yuan_1202:
its sad

ppl think he knows everything about others.

i charged 12 hrs immediatly after opening the package.

but could u tell me why we need to do that?
[HTC One S] jodue:
you don't ... just charge it till it's full -> if the device thinks it's full (green led) it will stop charging the battery anyway. everything else (like charging 10 hours?!!) is just BS and an urban legend unless somebody can actually point me to a scientiffic paper that suggest otherwise (which i highly doubt) ...

one thing not mentioned here however is the difference in actual battery state and the reported value. the percentage reported is calculated from the output voltage which is of course not exactly the same for every battery and changes over time. especially in the beginning the reported value can be wrong which produces scenarios we all know. -> battery is charging and shows 99% for half an hour.
[HTC One S] psych0t1c:
You said it yourself basically. If the battery gauges are "off base" (be it due to software or charging firmware misalignments) the phone LED turning green does not mean anything. It just assumes the battery is full

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_when_to_charge_table

"No priming needed, apply topping" it reads for initial preparation of Li-based batteries.

This is also exactly the fix that HTC gave out to customers who were mifffed about Desire HD battery runtimes... "charge until (the miscalibrated battery gauge) says full by turning the LED green, unplug, wait a few mins, plug back in". Miraculously a lot "my battery is broken" customers (and users on here) noticed that the phone LED went amber for another few hours and the battery actually was charged to what constitutes 100% and not what some charging circuitry thinks are 100%.

The original post I paraphrased that from is buried somewhere deep in this forum.

My One S has been on the wall charger for 4.5hours now, the LED is green for quite a while now and for some reason the back of the phone is still just as warm as it got when I started charging it. If the circuitry actually has cut the power yet, why is the battery still maintaining the temp is has when being charged? (Trickle charges, even if they were used by the charging circuits can hardly account for the same temp as an initial continous charge). None of my HTC ever did that (after the break in period, when the gauges were adjusted). Then a green light actually could be taken seriously (and even when the phone remained plugged in with the LED being green, the battery did not feel warm to the touch as it does during charging).

Of course you can handle your batteries any way you like, and disregard an initial long time charge phase / topping as bunk / urban myth but I never had problems going through a full work day on my Desire, Desire HD or Sensation with some sort of data connection always on and addditional regular use. I only had to charge in between during the day when the phone was in use for navigation but that comes as no surprise.
[HTC One S] Jazd71:
the One S is an awesome phone, perhaps sometimes we miss the point on these devices,

they are after all "smartphones" which denotes they are first and foremost a phone that offers facilities that used to be on separate devices; i.e. sat nav, games, music, email/ web browsing etc etc, I have had 9 different HTC phones and I have to say this is by far the best al-rounder I've had, even prefer to the One X for everyday performance. If you start using it as a games device, for which it is very capable, then you have to expect the battery to drain pretty quick there aren't many handheld games devices that you'd get much more than 5 hours out of on full tilt gaming anyway.

I have found the battery on the One S to be very good and I would consider myself to be a highly regular user but not heavy user and easily get a full day from mine; consisting of web browser, emails, f book twitter, music, gps, ebook reading, and games (angry birds space, damn you Rovio for adding to my addiction!!!!) so from the perspective they are sold from as a smartphone these things are amazing because of what they can do, they wont satisfy everyone as we use them all for different priorities and battery life will always be a source of frustration for many until the technology catches up with the demands of the consumer.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
It's a amazing phone/battery life just give it time to kick in as it's new and don't use any task managers/brightness all the way up.
[HTC One S] pzboyz:
On the subject of batteries, for Li-ION batteries, they will not be holding full charge capacity until theu have been through 2 or so full charge and discharge cycles. This is all down to chemistry.
[HTC One S] TheSobadef:
There is so much wrong with what you're doing it's difficult to know where to start...

First, install an app called betterbatterystats which can be found for FREE here on xda.

Second, check for wakelocks to make sure you don't have apps like facebook running in the background keeping your processor busy and preventing deep sleep.

Third, give the phone about a week or two before judging the battery life.

Finally, DO NOT INSTALL APPS LIKE TASK KILLER... These do more harm than good and Android has built-in functions to kill apps running in the background. ICS itself can be tweaked in the dev menu to kill apps in based on a maximum you want to have running at once.
[HTC One S] davidsteele1975:
Nah sorry. First One X box we opened was dead on arrival. Second and subsequent are fine. ;)
[HTC One S] angler:
Years ago I have bought 2 HTC Diamond2. Both of them have fault earpiece that did not sound. Incoming caller's conversation can only be sounded in the external speaker. Wonder they were from the same batch and one unit failed after weeks of another. Both have gone to HTC repair center to have switch of the earpiece and went back to work. This might have happened to most modern electronic device in the initial batch, like Nokia N8. I am still have much confidence of HTC product despite I have the 2 Windows Mobile poor quality of that batch.
[HTC One S] jadedrk:
Trickle charge

I can confirm that the battery is still being charged when showing green light. I have a portable 5000 mah charger which turns off automatically after charging completes. I noticed it kept on long after showing green light.
[HTC One S] QuintusDias:
From my experience the battery life of the One S is excellent. I would classify myself as an moderate user during the week and a mildly heavy user in the weekeds/free days. During the week my One S easily lasts two days on a full charge. In the weekends it lasts about 24 hours.

Combined with the fact that it is a great phone (I notice myself more and more finding other peoples devices look/feel like crap, can't help it lol) I do not regret my purchase one bit!
[HTC One S] dlorde:
As I understand it, the HOS is in rapid-charge mode until the green light comes on (at about 80%?), then switches to continuous-charge mode until full. When full, it trickle charges to keep full charge.
[HTC One S] doktortaru:
Negative. The green light doesn't come on until 100%
[HTC One S] dlorde:
Ah. But is the rapid charge followed by continuous charge sequence correct? I don't recall offhand where I read that, but it seemed to make sense at the time...
[HTC One S] Hunt3r.j2:
100% is basically arbitrary, charging can go on as long as 30 minutes before the phone actually decides "welp time to shut off charge until battery voltage drops enough to warrant charging."

Use CurrentWidget to determine when charge stops. 0 mA is when the charge is done, and usually either 4.2v or 4.3v is when the battery is charged.

My suggestion when you first get the phone is to use it. Use it until the phone shuts off completely, then restart and try to get the phone to boot up again, and use it until it shuts off. After that, go to bootloader and drain the battery until it shuts off in bootloader mode.

If you're sure your phone has no wakelock issues, it will be fine to turn the phone on with the charger plugged in and charge it up until charging terminates. Keep in mind, however, based upon the battery meter design of the Nexus One/Desire, it will calibrate the battery at around 100 mA charge left. If you're concerned, shut off the phone until it finishes doing a full charge. Go do something else for a few hours.

After that, you shouldn't need to calibrate the battery for a year or so. Normal usage should help calibrate the battery if it gets out of whack.

If you didn't do this when you first got the phone, just use the phone normally and over time it will calibrate on it's own.
[HTC One S] TramainM:
I think its just you bud, my battery last from 7am to 12pm with 42% to spare. Thats with uploading facebook, listening to music for 4 hrs playing temple run and angry birds, and taking about 150 photos.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nexus2515:
Hi all again, i need to know how can i use the 1.) SyM buuton as back button 2.) GLOBE button(for language change) to menu button on the keyboard ????
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jason.hamilton:
EDIT:

Reported as not working. =(

Hello,

scrolling through the forum and found this. Quickly read through it and it should work for most phones. Ill give it a try in a bit on my skyrocket with ICS.

Must have a Deodexed Rom installed

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1583232
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dee Hos:
trying it now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jason.hamilton:
Make sure you do a back up before. It hasnt been tested w/ the skyrocket yet. I am doing a nandroid then applying it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dee Hos:
doesnt work, it opens, but crashes almost immediately, a freeze, then in 30 seconds force closes...it looks sooo nice though!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jason.hamilton:
How did you get it to install. I tried to copy it into the system/app folder and it wants to replace it, i hit yes, and it doesnt replace it... Getting frustrated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dee Hos:
rename the old Mms.apk to "Mms.apk.bak" and then paste the new "Mms.apk" onto /system/app/ and it will install, then reboot...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jason.hamilton:
Trying to rename it and it keeps saying i dont have the rights. I used Root Explorer and when i hit the Ro/Rw button it wont change it to RW. Then i used ES File Explorer and i clicked the option to enable RW on /system but it still wont let me rename it. Using the ICS NexusMod BETA 3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dee Hos:
your system isnt writeable, flash a different rom, or different kernel..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] edgex:
Trying this on MHX 5.0 will report back shortly. Nope.

issue seems to me is that there are related files not just the apk, like for the VVM i pulled for someone else, they needed the jar and xml files i gave them too. we need someone with a nexus to go a search for mms in root explorer and give us everything.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jason.hamilton:
Has anyone on Nexusmod tried this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1574675

Uses CM9 framework... For some reason i cant get the stupid file to work. Keeps reverting back to the stock when i paste it. I fixed my permissions issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] edgex:
did you remember to change it to RW from RO in the top of root explorer?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] R4INS:
Nope, FC's
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vadrieldur:
Hello guys.. i want to find that AP News widget comes with the S2. I found a copy ported from S2 but i couldn't installed it. I really want that widget do you have any idea how.. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] miss_h:
I couldnt find a manual :(

I wanna flash BLACKEDITION FOR THE SGS2 ~~~!!

plz help me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Like any other ROM :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] miss_h:
you mean...just same way...? using same tar file?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bsbachert:
Are you rooted?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Assuming you're rooted, download the zip and flash from recovery. After wiping all appropriate caches.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] miss_h:
appreciate it lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shrubbry:
First like to thank everyone who worked on this! Especially for getting it out so quickly.

For the most part everything has been working really well. Using this as a daily driver right now.

Couple questions I have though. I am running the apex launcher that was included as well as the MIUI lockscreen. About 25% of the time when I turn the phone on I get the stock lock screen then the miui lockscreen. tried disabling the stock lock screen. that worked until I rebooted the phone then i had no lock screen at all. Re-enabling the swipe locksceen brought it back but still get the stock swipe away screen randomly. Guessing this is an issue that will have to wait to be resolved with a custom ROM?

Also having an issue with apex. Sometimes when hitting the home button from any app it goes to a completely blank screen. I can see my wallpaper but that's it. Have to hit home again to actually get to home screen.

Anyone can point me in the right direction to turn haptic feedback off on the keyboard? I can't seem to find the option anywhere.

One last thing I'm noticing, when I'm scrolling with the s pen in the browser, it just randomly zooms in. Im sure I'm not hitting the button or double tapping. Anyone else getting this?

Thanks,

Shrubbry
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] studacris:
Since you didn't specify WHICH keyboard...those buttons are the settings fit each keyboard

Also remember, it's an alpha build, based off of a leaked firmware, that the leak itself has bugs in, a completely bug free experience isn't to be expected
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jb0nd38372:
I can help with the blank homescreen issue, I think. Goto Apex Settings / Homescreen. You will see options to set the number of screens AND, which screen you want to make your DEFAULT screen (when you hit the home key). Set that screen to one that's not blank, (the one you use the most) and I think that will fix that issue. As far as miui locker, I have not had that issue your describing, yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shrubbry:
Sorry for not being specific. I'm still using the only keyboard that came stock. The Samsung one. A little bummed that ICS didn't come with.... The ICS keyboard. Need to work on getting that on there later today. At work right now. I checked all the settings in the Samsung keyboard and couldn't find it. Possible that I am blind. My wife tells me I am all the time when I can't fins stuff in the fridge...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shrubbry:
Thanks for this tip. I think it fixed it. So fat so good. Will update if it does it again. A little weird though. I wasn't actually going to one of my blank screens. When it did it I couldn't scroll out of the blank screen. Had to hit home again. I set it to screen 1 and it hasn't done it since.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shrubbry:
Ah I spoke too soon...

Exited chrome with a single tap on the home button and it went to a blank screen with just my background. No amount of swiping, tapping or long press on the screen gets me out of there. Just have to hit home again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] studacris:
There are plenty of other launchers... Try another :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shrubbry:
Valid point!

I just like apex and have been fiddling with the ROM as is until I have a little more time. So it was apex or tw so far and I do not like the tw.

Appreciate the responses :-)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Alpha4:
Yep, I'm having exactly the same 'Missing Homes-Screen' issue with my HTC one X and Apex.

Unfortunately, pressing the Home button does nothing for me... I have to restart to get the Apex Homescreen to display.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lSuperuserl:
alpha II issue

I am having power down issues it freezes and also when I try to restart .Everything is great other then this part.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] the2rrell:
This issue should not be on alpha 2.......i could restart and reboot many times with no issue what so ever. but now that i am on the Collective build 4 i do have the issues that you speak of. i just hold the power button to do a reboot now you can use the hotboot options if needed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lSuperuserl:
alpha II

when to phone settings and i was correct its alpha II. any suggestions? ??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] VonEsch:
Run a search for trebuchet launcher on XDA in Android software, it's good, free, and clean
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lSuperuserl:
at least im not the only one. every rom has a issue wich I have found out and im stock rooted now. ics has issues mainly a game i play is under my account and i cannot acces it with ics i can star over but without the name i had and acomplishments . wait for att !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unless you love to flash ive tried every rom here i like all of them
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fr4nkie77:
I have this problem on ICS...it's not rom related...cause i had it on Blue Lightning 1.1.0 and also on SLim ICS 3.1...the problem is that after some time (also after reboot) my contacts in people apps dissapear...it shows no contact...but when i open phone app contacts are dispayed there...i thought taht problem was because i had inverted contacts app...but now i have normal and again :/

Can anyone help me with this problem?