yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Sensation XL] chaki-:
Oh yeah i did that but after few second's it starts itself. And as i saw the Sense is not 3.6 it's 3.5.221. Well i guess that would not get away unless i root the phone :mad:
[HTC Sensation XL] benjamin.j.goodwin:
Unfortunately, unless you root generally Sense will always boot itself back up in the background. It's a huge pain in the a**

If you want to avoid rooting then I guess staying on sense is your best bet.

But if you just root your stock ROM then you could delete the apk and use the launcher. That may help :D
[HTC Sensation XL] chaki-:
Thanks for the advice. But i kinda wanted to keep the launchers close to my "heart" and use them whenever i want :D
[HTC Sensation XL] stona175:
If I remember good. I saw somewhere a script blocking a defined luncher.

When i get up i will look for the link but i think was somewhere on xda HD 2 LEO.
[HTC Sensation XL] chaki-:
Would be nice but again, i got to be rooted....right?
[HTC Sensation XL] stona175:
I don't remember but i think yes ;)

This for non rooted phone. I can't find this script now ;/

how-turn-sense-evo-4g-and-return-stock-android-home-screens
[HTC Sensation XL] chaki-:
Thank for the effort stona175 ;) But that was the first thing i ever did. And it stops just the home screen. Widgets, lockscreen everything else is working. It will wait till i go rouge and root :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhystique:
Hi, I was trying to make some free space on my Desire, and now I have a phone that, I can't boot. I can only get into AlphaRev Unlock or what it is called.

Long time ago I followed this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_(GSM):_Full_Update_Guide

and today I installed simple2ext (after reading some threads in here), to try to gain more space, as I was running very low on internal memory.

I moved the dalvik cache and the applications to sd card, and the phone asked for a restart. Thats where I'm stuck now.

The phone just keeps hanging at the HTC boot logo, but if I hold "vol. down" + power button I can get into AlphaRev Unlock. But now I don't know what to do.

I hope someone out there can help me, as I seriously need my phone to be working.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desireleß:
- have you done a nand-backup?

- did you save your apps (for example with titanium backup)?

- do you have an ext3 or ext4 partition on your sd-card?

I would recommend a full-wipe (cache+dalvik)!! (you will lose your data if you did not do a backup!!!!!!!!!!!)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhystique:
No I don't think so, unestly I can't remember, as it is so long since I flashed the phone

Yes, but again not sure I got it off the phone. I had some issues with my Dropbox

Believe it's a ext3, but again can't remember

How do I do that? At this point, I don't give a rats a.. for my data. If I can't boot the phone, my data is lost anyway.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
Turn off ur phone then hold volume down + power. Then using volume buttons to move up or down the menu, select recovery and press power button to select and wipe options r there in recovery

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhystique:
Well if I select recovery, all it does is to go into "fastboot usb"
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
R you s-on?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhystique:
Yes
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
Ok go to Desire Q&A/ Stickies (first post) and thats bortak's troubleshooting guide. Go down to [2] s-on, and follow that.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mhystique:
Great that worked, though it was a little strange, as I allready tried that RUU (but another file), and it failed.

Well, now I got a worked phone again.

Can you recommend a guide to properly rooting my phone, so I can full backup and so?

Even if I made an ext partition on the memory card, it seemed like most apps where installed on the internal memory.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
Glad it worked :)

There is a guide in Desire Android development, 3 r 4 posts down. (stickies)

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Off-topic] needspractice:
Just Wondering.
[Off-topic] SimonTS:
ib4l
[Off-topic] needspractice:
Why this is off topic and not about cell phones? Are you okay in the head?
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
Ib4l

Where is

Archer

M_T_M

TRM

Conantroutman

when you need them? :mad:

Stop crapping up OT!
[Off-topic] - Swift -:
Yup, works every time.

IB4TL!!!

Sent from my Xperia™ PLAY using Tap?atalkHD
[Off-topic] John McClane:
IB4TL :D
[Off-topic] Jeremy:
If you're able to seal it before it escapes it may be viable.

However, I remain unsure at why your would introduce methane into a propane tank.
[Off-topic] LordManhattan:
WTF is wrong with XDA?
[Off-topic] ak700:
IB4TL! :cool::D
[Off-topic] dexter93:
ib4l
[Off-topic] ScubaSteev:
INB4t lock!!

Sent from my Wicked E4GT Sensation using HD xda app
[Off-topic] Archer:
I'm dumbfounded. Literally dumbfounded.

I imagine it wouldn't work as I farted into this thread and it simply closed.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Karmalot:
Anyone kind enough to post stock systemui.apk in zip so i could easily flash it via cwm? Just in case id like to switch back to stock status bar.

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Karmalot:
Anyone?:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] yewsiong:
Stock? without deodexed? what firmware version u want？
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Karmalot:
Finally. Yes stock. No deodexed. Stock dxlm3 rom. Thank you so much.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] guigadourado:
http://www.mediafire.com/?qqd8w2gg1r29xi8

here is your original systemui.apk
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Karmalot:
Thanks man. You're the best.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] yewsiong:
Just a reminder. The original stock dxlm3 ODEX file consists of .apk and .dex files. U need both of them.

AND if u do not deodex ur ROM, u won't be able to customize the theme.

My advice is:

1. deodex ur ROM 1st

2. Copy ur original deodexed systemui.apk and keep somewhere

3. apply custom theme
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Karmalot:
My rom is stock. So its not deodexed. But still I can apply modded status bars made by guigaduorado. And so far no issues for me.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] kemaro30:
buddy, do you have a link where we can get more icons and steps for editing?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Karmalot:
Yeah like which tool for modding status bar and the like.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] yewsiong:
U can use uot kitchen to do that. Just search it on google. It provides lots of icons and all can be done by the kitchen automatically.

OR

U can use ROMtoolbox to do that.

Yes. *SOME* of the mod might work with odex ROM. FYI, not only systemui.apk needs to be backup but also framework-res.apk. These two are the main files for customizing theme. U can also backup twframework-res.apk too.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Karmalot:
Ill keep that in mind. Thanks for the much needed info.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] kemaro30:
i do have a rom toolbox but it needs to download icons first, and can you teach us how to tweak safely? afraid that something might gone wrong. :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ruk_design:
hi mates i am having GT-i9000 with slim ICS rom, and i want to remove the 100 sms per hour limit, so kindly is there any way to do this.? any app which really works, or any other hacked method for ICS.?

Thanks..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speaker5:
Well I bought the Galaxy S3 on the first day of the UK launch and depleted the battery to 0% then charged with the original 1 Amp charger from 0%. I had noticed that this takes a very very long time, around 8 hours. The battery life after charging however is substantial and very adequate.

On the second charge after depletion once again, I decided to use a Griffin 2.1 Amp charger which I had used to charge the hefty Galaxy note with. The Galaxy S3 charges at a much rapid rate and takes around 2-3 hours to reach 100% from 0%. However I have noticed that the battery life depletes a bit faster, Is this due to my imagination or is a 2.1 Amp charger not suitable for this phone as it was with the tablet-like Galaxy note.

Also note that I tried to charge my HTC one X with the 2.1 Amp charger and it charge very slowly, while the original HTC charger has a much lower ampage than 1 Amp
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuhaohuang:
Hmm I have been using my galaxy s charger 0.5amp and it has been charging pretty slowly but seems to deplete faster.

I have been actively using for 50min on wifi now and 85% left. Which seems a bit quick for me. I will try charging with the standard 1amp tonight and see.

Now fast are you depleting at?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speaker5:
I measure my battery life by checking the screen on time just before the death of the charge which was 5 hours on the original charger, with the quick charger its 4 hours. My Galaxy note has no change in battery life weather you any ampere chargers. Also the general battery percentage seems to run low faster anyway on the galaxy s3 using the fast charger.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuhaohuang:
I shall try the standard 1 amp charger the next time my phone depletes
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexytlee:
Just wondering, since the S2 had a limit of 650mA for charging, does this apply to the S3? You guys make it sound like it charges slow as well...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speaker5:
Galaxy s2 does charge very slow for me aswell. Compared to htc phones the Galaxy s 2 charges painfully slowly. Now I regularly use the 2 amp charger on my galaxy s3 and have seen a huge improvement in charging speeds. It charges at around 2% per minute and still lasts around 4 hours of screen time for a full charge.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xifer:
I noticed that I can only charge fast using original charger. While charger with shorted usb data + & - (ie. htc 1A charger) will not activate fast charging.

You can verify by going into *#*#4636#*#*, Battery, using ori charger will show AC while HTC charger will show USB

I think samsung made some changes to the microUSB pinout
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasweb:
Thanx for the "shortcode". Where does one find those?

Also from reading about the MHL to HDMI cable from older devices not wotking, it does in fact seem that Samsung have changed the microUSB pinouts (although my Nokia 1.2A charger shows AC in that battery "menu").
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjgore:
Mine charges from about 10% to full in about two and a half hours, using the charger provided in the box.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oli2k:
My s2 came with a 0.7amp charger and took about 2.5 hours. My s3 came with a 1amp charger and takes about the same. Charges to 80% in no time and then slows down for the later part of the charge
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
A battery isn't like a fuel tank which you simply fill up through the hose until it's full.

Due to physical and chemical reasons, a nearly-full battery takes a lot longer to fill by a certain percent since it simply can't store the energy quickly enough.

Additionally, deep-discharged batteries often start with a slower charging speed (and then cranked up) to keep the battery from dying too soon and/or not being able to reach full capacity.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestD2553:
is the Nokia 1.2A charger ok to use with the samsung G3 as i got one of these spare and would prefer use it if so as the usb is way to short to reach from my desk up and around the back.

but the Nokia 1.2A charger lead is more than long enough
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neko0nna:
Just to check with all of you, i've been told that it is best not to charge your phone or any other handheld device IF the battery is not at a really low rate, at least not till your device actually prompts you to charge. They were saying that this would cause the battery life to be shortened. But at times, I need to make sure that i have enough battery to last me for a few more hours before i knock off from work, i would just charge the phone (battery at 25-30%) even before it prompts me to. Is it alright to do that often?

2ndly, at times when i stream videos on my phone for many hours, the battery would definitely drain fast and i would need to charge my phone at least 2-3 times a day. Is it alright for me to do that or am i "abusing" it? =X

Appreciate all your advises...Thanks in advance~
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestD2553:
so any update on if using the nokia charger is ok with it being 200mah more than the standard 1A charger since it has longer lead.

or there is the 700mah samsung charger from my old S2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erikk:
I don't know why this misconception still lives on; lithium ion batteries require no priming on first use. The WORST thing you can do with a li-ion battery is to fully deplete it before recharging. It is much better to top it off whenever possible; having said that leaving it turned on, on the charger once it is full is also not the best thing (though nowhere near as bad as depleting it fully).

I believe since this phone has a removable battery with external charger the best thing you can do is always charge your battery in the external charger and just switch out the battery when it gets to around 10%.

Nek0onna you should charge your phone whenever it's not full and you have a handy charger.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_when_to_charge_table
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestD2553:
what about using different chargers though as i have said yet not answered yet,

i got a samsung s2 700mah charger and a nokia 1200mah charger which will work the best for the battery etc

the 1A included one the usb lead is to short for use behind a desk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NIMBAH:
Yeah its fine, you can use it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farfromovin:
Can anybody check what the max charge rate is on this device with a battery monitor app? I have handfuls of 1A and a couple 2.1A chargers. I'd really like to charge at twice the rate if possible but not all devices support such rapid charging (kernel limits and such). Just curious before I buy one :-) Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael_P:
Even if Samsung slipped up and allowed a 2A charge i'd never want to try it, because tablet and laptop batteries are rated and manufactured for a higher current charge/discharge and most phone batteries would heat and swell up and possibly explode.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stu5797:
my HP touchpad charges with a 1A charger and it would be nice to use that with my sgs3.

Can anybody please check what the max charge rate is on this device
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuberone:
my s3 charges REALLLLLY slow ... like 1% in more than 30mins and 15% to 100% during my sleep ... is there any problem with it? any solution to quicken the charging ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oli2k:
I wouldn't use a 2.1amp. Stick with 1amp max
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speaker5:
My normal charger now charges faster than it had originaly done. This is probably because the first charge was the slowest. Perhaps you are using your phone whilst charging and so it charges very slow.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael_P:
I used a 1.5m USB extension cable with the original charger and cable and mine only charged a few percent in an hour so just bought a longer cable and working properly now, so maybe people with slow charge just need to change the cable.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Totòòò:
Thrn wifi/data off and it will charge much faster
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rizky77:
the 1st charge is always a slow charge its best to let battery fully deplete then recharge fully for at least 3 full uses... best to fully charge when phone is off to get max life out of battery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nYbEe:
Actually about the charging, i think it is good to drain the phone maybe once every month. But charge it often once the phone prompt you to charge, less than 20%. Charging more than 20%, maybe 30 on times when you really need to charge is okay, but not often.

My charger is alittle bit fast in charging, 1A for about 3 hiurs max
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aspot72:
I'm using HTC charger 1A for years and never had issues . Except with Nexus S where charging stopped at 95%. Now waiting for 3rd charge to see how my "baby" will perform . So far 2 days with mild usage. My S II does 3 days :-).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CNLiberal:
So the stock S3 charger is a 1A charger? Has anyone tested whether this phone uses the same resistor values for car/home dock mode? I'm curious because I want to use the phone as a music player/GPS/wifi hotspot/auto-brightness all while in the car. On my GS2 (AT&T I777) I can't do those things at the same time and still get the battery to charge. Has that changed with the S3???

In order for me to get that functionality I listed above, I have to clock the CPU down to 800MHz (from 1.2GHz), and turn brightness to half, then disable wifi/hotspot. I even had to get an external BT GPS receiver for the phone to actually charge. Thanks for the info!

Jim
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
damn it is so annoying after charging 6 hours and after removing charger it goes to 99% -.-'
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avdaga:
The point is that the phone disables charging when reached 100% to safe the battery - overcharging is very bad for Li-Ion, for that reason the SGS1 had a BatteryLifeeXtender mod, where you would set the maximum charge to for instance 90%.

Furthermore I see a lot of ppl talking about 1+ Amp chargers.

You can do that indeed, if you want to f*ck up your battery really quick. Better is to charge when you can and do not deplete/overcharge the battery.

I am sticking to the SGS1/SGS2 charger with 0.7Amp, which should drastically lengthen the battery. The battery of my SGS1 is now 2 years old and still can take 3-4 days under normal usage.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
lithium ion batteries can be charged extremely fast if need be. it does shorten the life however.

in engineering terms the optimal charge delivery to the battery should be 0.7C (0.7 of the total capacity of all cells) to provide the fastest charge with the least amount of "battery wear".

that said, it is totally safe to charge a lithium ion battery at 1C or more even if the temeperature of the cells remains within a safe range (probably something like 0degC - 40degC).

by that theory we should be able to charge these batteries with 1.47A chargers safely, allowing for a much faster charge cycle than the stock charger does.

i presume that samsung is using some sort of fixed value resistance across the data+ and data- lines in the stock charger to identify it to the phone as the "AC source" allowing it to charge at 1A instead of the 250 - 500mA range of USB which is why we are seeing diminishing returns from our non stock 2amp chargers.

for us 1C is equal to 2.1A so that is probably the highest output charger i would be comfortable hooking up but at the moment the current input is being limited by the phone internally.

re the last post; even charging a battery at 1C, the battery should still reach 94% of capacity after one year of use, diminishing to something like 75% after year 2 given reasonable temperature ranges.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CNLiberal:
^^

By this logic, the GalaxyS2 should have charged at near 1A as well. But a chip inside the phone limited the charge to 650mA. You could not get around that. There's a YouTube video out there showing this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL71G2YEIHU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

So until someone either performs this same test again with different valued chargers, or rips the phone apart and finds that chip, its all speculation.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
well, you'll be pleased to know that i have my multimeter out and am testing this. i need to wait for my battery to run below 90% again thou to see the full charge difference as it seems to be gradually reducing its current draw twoards 100% capacity.

i can tell you for a fact that;

the sammy oficial charger has a short over pins 2 and 3 (data+ and data-) as expected. this tells it that it's connected to ac instead of usb and measurably uses more current.

Generic 2A Charger with shorting dongle showing AC connected.

http://www.hefman.co.uk/Web/5.jpg

i didnt expect anyone to want actual current draw values for this so i hadnt set up for multimeter readings but i can tell you that with a 2amp generic charger and a pin 2/3 shorting dongle i managed to charge +11% from 79% to 90% capacity in 20 minutes which seemed to be a hell of a lot faster than the stock charger and deffo a lot faster than with no pin 2/3 short.

more to come once i run some battery down.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
OK, here we are....

Samsung Stock Charger - 5V 1A

Generic Charger - 5V 2A

FIGHT!!!

Stock Charger with pin 2&3 short:

max current - 0.63 amps, battery info showing AC connected.

http://www.hefman.co.uk/Web/stock.jpg

Generic 5V 2A Charger without shorting dongle:

max current - 0.42 amps, battery info showing USB connected.

http://www.hefman.co.uk/Web/genericwithout.jpg

Generic 5V 2A Charger with shorting dongle:

max current - 0.90 amps, battery info showing AC connected.

http://www.hefman.co.uk/Web/genericwith.jpg

generic charger with pin 2&3 shorted wins but charging current is limited internally in the GS3 to 0.9 amps. still faster than stock charger.

Conclusion; there is a mild benefit to non stock charger given pin 2&3 short but not by much. not possible to damage device or battery by delivering too much current due to device internal limits.

speculation complete.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CNLiberal:
So it sounds like there's some kind of voodoo in the Sammy Stock Charger (5V, 1A) that makes it not charge at the full .9A that the other charger uses. Wonder what that's about. It still sounds like the phone can't handle several simultaneous power draws like:

Screen On (Auto Bright)

GPS/Nav

BlueTooth

WiFi Tether

Playing music via headphone/dock audio

Any confirmation of that?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
As far as the stock charger not delivering the full 0.9 amps, i reckon it's just because it's a cheapo charger so the tolerances will be considerably wide on the components resulting in the lower than rated output. i'd put money on another one of those stock chargers differing in output by as much as +/-20% but obviously since i only have one stock charger i cant really test that.

One thing i did notice while testing this was that the stock charger gets pretty damn warm, bordering on hot, during charging whereas that 2A charger didnt even hint at getting warm at all.

While i had it hooked up to the ammeter i noticed no appreciable variation in the current draw when performing activties of any kind on the device. At the time i had wifi and sync on so was recieving email and facebook pushes and posting on facebook and here from the phone and the difference if any was small enough to not register at all on the ammeter.

using the straight maths of it, the stock charger should charge the device from totally flat (0aH) to completely full (2.1aH) in 3 hours 33 mins. factor in that you never really start from zero when charging and that the device is continuously consuming something a 2 to 2.5 hour charge on the stock charger from device about to die to 100% seems to be what you should expect. give or take how much you use it while charging. if i leave mine be on the stock charger it seems to charge fully in 2 hours 15 mins.

i havent timed it on my 2A charger yet because i was a special guy and actually left it at my friend's house last night but ill get it back tonight and see how much faster that goes.