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[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesclinton:
Thanks m8, i did actually and found the same thread but coming from HTC device i wasn´t too sure if that was the right tutorial but i finally got it working :D thanks anyway.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tknguyencsu:
My Note suddenly alternates between discharging and charging state even though it is not connected to a charger. As a result it can never go into a deep sleep and in the battery history it only shows the history for a few second. I try to reflash the rom and try different roms. However the problem still exists. Any solution for this problem? Thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rampy87:
just usb shorting!!

I had the same problem in Feb .... initially i thought wow!! Wireless charging but then noticed the considerable drain of battery.

Its just usb shorting within .. due to some water logging or maybe you pressed ur note too hard .. just get the usb/chargig slot changed at the service center..

Samsung knows abt the issue because of extremely tight tolerances its quite common.

Don't worry
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tinderbox (UK):
Try cleaning out the micro usb charging on the note, as dirt can cause charging problems.

John.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rampy87:
the cleaning is something i had tried ..... but i believe it just temporarily solves the problem

if the problem has started and you still have your warranty get it replaced .... just 20 mins work at the service center
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KaiZ51:
Currently with Bugless Beast, I like it a lot but it's missing some useful features...

I would like another ROM that would at least have status bar toggles, and working Facebook sync.

Also would be important for it to be stable, fast and have good battery life.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chronophase1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1425344

This seems to have FB sync that works. I would double check the thread though to see if there are any current issues just to be sure.

Sent by pocket technology
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gilipino:
Try Oodie's MIUI ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1470829

MIUI is awesome ROM and Oodie made it even better. It has FB sync of course and you can customize status bar toggles however you want. It's still in development so i can't tell it would be 100% stable for you, but i haven't any problems with stability. It's fast enough and battery life is also good.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deltatux:
I use this ROM, it's a mixture of AOKP and CM9. Really fast especially when coupled with the latest Air Kernel 4.3 with Linux kernel asynchronous I/O (AIO). It's faster than anything I've used out there. It's also properly signed so that apps and Google Play would treat the ROM as if it's an official Android build than a custom ROM. Whatsapp usually would warn that you're running a mod if it detects debug keys like in CM9 or AOKP builds.

deltatux
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigcignus:
try CyberGR-MOD|NS.NGN ver. 14 Hybrid Mix ICS

best ROM around
[HTC Sensation XL] goku16:
Is there anyway i can get to the power menu without press n hold the bitton cuz my one kinda looose

Thanks
[HTC Sensation XL] tleibran:
ntsntis are

What do you mean by 'power menu' exactly?

If you are referring to the to the Top-right button, when held - Giving

-->Power Off/ Airplane mode/ Restart options.

As far as i know that's the only way. If you phone was rooted you could probably use a su command from ./terminal to power-down or restart

Something like

tris@tristan-nix ~$ shutdown -r now (at least for linux)
[HTC Sensation XL] mantonas:
As tleibran mentioned, if tour phone is rooted, there are apps (shutdown) that allow u to turn off ur phone w/o having to press and hold the pwr button.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] AlwaysDroid:
Hey guys, in light of me getting my SGS i decided to put my Gio back to a stock firmware. Just cause i can. I seem to have downloaded the wrong firmware, it thinks its an s5660L now haha, (should be an M). It passed in Odin but is now bootlooping :p. I am downloading the correct firmware now, but i just remembered that odin does not reformat the cache and data partitions back to RFS, hence the boot loop. So does anyone have a empty cache and data img that i can DD back into place with ADB? :) thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] AlwaysDroid:
Woah delete this thread i am stuipid.... Just format from recovery i am laughing at myself... that was embarrasing...
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] FrankyDoodle:
Lool

P.S.

If I helped you in some way hit it!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dammit2Hell:
I upgraded my stock rooted GB SGS2 to ICS with Kies on the 12th. Battery life has been awful compared to what I got on stock GB (15-18 hours with normal use) I'm now losing about 10% an hour just sitting idle. If I use my phone at all it won't last 8 hours before the battery is at about 10%.

I did a factory reset and re rooted two days ago and I made it about about the same amount of time before the battery was almost dead again. Last night, I did a factory reset and flashed T989UVLE1_T989TMBLE1_T989UVLE1_HOME.tar with odin then rooted and still about 8 hours after I took it off the charger it's at 20% and I've barely even touched it today. I do not have any apps or widgets installed that I didn't before on GB. I didn't restore the apps with Titanium Backup, I manually downloaded each one from the Play Store. I've wiped the cache and fixed permissions in an attempt to get S-Voice to stop crashing.

Another problem I have is issues with bluetooth routing calls through my cars bluetooth. When it is paired my notifications skip and sputter when they go off.

To the best of my knowledge when I Odin'd back to stock ICS that wiped everything out but since I had an issue with my old Vibrant having remnants left over when flashing ROMs I'm wondering if this could be a similar issue. I usually flash with CWM and not Odin Is there something I should be doing to completely wipe everything out and go to stock ICS? Most all comments I've seen say battery life is even better than GB. Mine has gone the opposite way. Help?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Download TDJ's superwipe (theres a thread for it in the dev section) and run it, THEN Odin the stock tar file.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dammit2Hell:
Thank you!

I notice it says after doing to the super wipe to stay in recovery and flash the ROM. Should I find a flashable zip of ICS or is it ok to use Odin after?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dammit2Hell:
I flashed the zip and went ahead and went into download mode and odin'd stock ICS. Google is actually restoring my apps this time...it didn't the first three times so, so far so good. Thanks for the help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dammit2Hell:
10 hours with very little use and battery us at 25%
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rosedog:
D2H, Question for you... You're rooted, have you tried calibrating your battery yet? The only reason I ask is because I was stock unrooted when I upgraded to ICS and my battery life too sucks BIG TIME. Maybe 5hrs, 6 definately tops. I even tried factory reset (which is questionable), removed the battery, let it drain completely and then pulled the battery again and full charged. Still on pace for 15%+ /hr. with light usage.

When I rooted my Sensation I used a battery calibration app and that improved my battery life by leaps and bounds.

I was thinking of rooting my SGS2 just for this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dammit2Hell:
No, I've not tried that. I used to do it with my Vibrant and never really saw a big difference. I also saw a post here somewhere on here stating that calibrating the battery was a myth.

I may as well try it though. Otherwise I'm going back to GB as this battery life is unacceptable.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rosedog:
D2H, so whats the status?

Myself I finally bit the bullet and rooted (OMG SO SIMPLE compared to HTC). After rooting I downloaded "BatteryCalibration" from google play (Same app used on my Sensation). After a full charge yesterday, I calibrated...to TRY to drain my battery down completely for the next charge I turned on BT and GPS. This all happened around 8pm last night... Well its 5:08pm next day now and my battery (with BT and GPS still on) is only at 68% now and that's after some surfing, video watching, games.

I have to say give this a try before going back to GB. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dammit2Hell:
Come to find out there was a beta release of HD Widgets that downloaded when all of my apps restored. That was the culprit. I'm back to 16 hours of battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rosedog:
Cool! It's going on 10:30 pm here and my bt and gps are still on and I'm at 29%... This includes more Internet browsing, games, phone calls and Txt msgs. No charging since yesterday. I won't be surprised if it's still on tomorrow morning.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DLD511:
OK I'm trying to find a 4.0 stock for the Verizon RAZR.

Can someone please send me a link.

This is really confusing and complicated trying to find a ICS Rom for the VERIZON variant.

I've flashed like 4 of em on on Tuesday and I'd get boot looped. :banghead:

------XT912------
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mkarps:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1692694

Just make sure to read and follow the directions.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DLD511:
This is stock like the Nexus correct??????
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BakaPhoenix:
No
[HTC Sensation] beeha:
Hi guys, i have a problem with my Sensation, OTA ICS update giving me boot loop

So here's the story:

I used custom ROM, then decided to go back to stock ROM

Flash RUU 2.3.4 then S-on, all seems normal at this point

OTA update a few times to ICS

First few update phone still normal, then ICS update and boot loop

Now the main problem:

I can't seem to do anything anymore to the phone

Phone is locked with HBOOT 1.27.000

When I try to go to recovery or factory reset it just goes to boot screen and boot loop

Steps I have tried:

Try to install RUU again by renaming zip file to PG58IMG.zip and it just says version is outdated (or similar, I forgot)

Try to flash various firmware using bootloader, but it just says parsing zip file then nothing

Try to flash firmware using CMD (flash zip) with admin privilege, but it says not allowed

Try to flash recovery img (Stock, CWM, 4ext), using CMD it says OK but nothing changes

Try to flash boot img (Stock, customs from Revolution HD 6.6.7) it says OK but nothing changes

Unlocked bootloader using HTCdev then retried all the steps above still the same

Please help, I don't know what else I can do...

Sorry if too long and confusing...
[HTC Sensation] darryll4sh0:
If your at the boot loader then it look like you can access fastboot. If you can there is a program called android flasher ( for windows computers and can be found in the sensation thread here on xda, if not i can upload it to dropbox for you). You can flash img's from there. Also make sure to read all instructions carefully because the Htc dev unlock has issues with bootloaders (BE CAREFUL), the revolutionary method is better, and give you a full unlock.
[HTC Sensation] beeha:
Hey Darryll, thanks for the response

I tried the android flasher, but when I tried to flash boot.img, it says error, your phone needs ENG bootloader.

I don't thinkI can use the revolutionary method tight now, because my hboot is already at 1.27.000

Do you know what might be causing the boot loop for my phone?
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
ohh you unlocked bootloader successfully ?

i answered your question in help thread ...

can you pop in irc ? (click IRC HELP CHANNEL present in my signature and join)
[HTC Sensation] beeha:
nervermind, solved the problem with help from ganeshp

Thank you very much ganeshp
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
Can you explain the steps you took to fix this. I am having the same problem. I've done everything beeha's done
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
persarv corner

Can you explain the steps you took to fix this. I am having the same problem. I've done everything beeha's done
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
i dont remember what i told him ..but if you explain your problem precisely i can help you
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
I was originally on GB rom, then I downloaded the OTA to ICS from my sensation 4g. Everything (The OTA) installed fine but when it booted the device i just get the white HTC and then it reboots and does the same thing over and over. I've tried all of the same things beeha tried and I've gotten the same results. Just a boot loop.

My boot screen reads..

*** UNLOCKED ***

PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-1.27.0000

eMMC-boot

Jan 13 2012
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
ohh you need to do hard reset

go to bootloader ..then from there enter recovery ...(triangle with exclamatory mark) then press volume up +down and power st the same time ..you will enter stock recovery and will have some options there ...select factory/reset and do it .. (you might lose all the phone data though)
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
Thank you for your response but i cant get into recovery at all. i cant even flash cwm because cmd says "remote not allowed"
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
What happens when you enter recovery? Btw when I say recovery I meant stock recovery only

Also that remote not allowed shouldn't come when you have unlocked bootloader

Can you post the exact command you've used?
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
It just reboots to the white HTC startup screen and gets stuck in a bootloop all over again.

The command i used was fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
Ok do this

fastboot boot recovery.img

If booted to the recovery.. Wipe cache and dalvik and data and then try rebooting
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
No luck. It will not go into recovery

C:\Android>fastboot boot recovery.img

downloading 'boot.img'...

OKAY [ 1.181s]

booting...

OKAY [ 0.003s]

finished. total time: 1.186s
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
No good then

. Try ics RUU of 4G if that installed fine but still bootloop means.. Phone got screwed.. And it's warranty time
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
I tried the ics RUU and it gives an error and wouldnt i have to lock the bootloader before i send it back to them?
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
yep lock the bootloader (fastboot oem lock)
[HTC Sensation] boygeorge:
Thank you for your help. After locking the bootloader, i got a security warning. I decided to try the RUU again and it went through successfully and its booting up finally. :good:
[HTC Sensation] ganeshp:
Glad it's got working :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshprince_776:
Hello,

Im Using Amoled Smartphones since the Galaxy (i7500). They all were always showing at 100% Brightness for Black parts of a picture a true Black like the Display is OFF.

If you put the Brightness to 100% and go to an complete Dark Room and open an Black Picture you see some Gray/Yellow Tint on the Screen. You can compare this good by locking the phone to see the Screen OFF and than unlock it to view the Black Picture again. You should see a huge difference. Hope to hear from your experiences.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
I've seen that already on the S1 when abusing it a a nightstand clock.

Best guess I've heard is that the (AMO)LED screen leaks some luminosity to other pixels in the background which is then visible as a very faint glow.

However I rather believe that the AMOLED are not truely off but rather get some leak voltage and thus have a very-very-very faint glow (like one photon per second xD )

That would explain the black spots most people seem to mind on AMOLED when on minimum brightness with a black screen; they are truely off or without insufficient leak voltagage (LED's requie a minimum voltage to work).

AMOLED production is somewhat complicated (very thin layer of silver as a power source and a control-layer) so I wouldn't be surprised if the above is true.

Nothing is perfect, especially not a rather new technology.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbadboy2007:
What else did you expect from a backlit display.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Becoming:
It's not backlit is the point.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
Correct me if im wrong here but amoled is, by design, not backlit.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshprince_776:
Yeah so I was wondering why it does this little/ hard noticeable yellow/gray tint on a dark room...

There is no Backlight... Unfortunely i Sold my Galaxy S2 so I cant compare it.. But im Sure it wasnt like this
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcreego:
I have this on my gsiii and also on the Gnote... I think is due to the pentile screen:(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zacisblack:
I had this on my Fascinate but realized it wasn't a big issue. Definitely more noticeable on my Gnex but it also has more pixels so that could be why you see more light. I wouldn't call it a problem because the majority of the time it's absolutely unnoticeable. Each pixel has so have some sort of voltage to be ready to react to changes. Turning off/on completely each time light is needed might waste battery.

P.S. I'm noob at displays but that's my theory.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sentrus:
I was curious about this issue as well. It's my understanding that OLEDs do not produce any light in their inactive state.

Regarding your theory, I wonder if it's similar to plasma displays. Even though plasmas are capable of true black (they do not use a backlight) The individual plasma cells have better response times if they aren't fully discharged on blacks. So they have a faint glow that comes from the low power they are using to keep the pixel charged up and ready to go when a color change is needed.

This actually costs a little power though, rather than saving it. So if thats what they are doing, it is for screen quality reasons so that movies and other things look better.

Did some Googling and I couldn't find much information, but there is talk of delivering pre-charge voltage to the OLED pixels to improve response times. So it could be that they are indeed similar to plasma displays in that respect: Capable of true black, but the benefits of not using true black are too good to pass up.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rovex:
Are you SURE the picture is actually true black? By that i mean pure 100% black in an uncompressed image? If not then you cant expect the phone to display true black. A JPEG of black may not be enough.

My screen it totally off when displaying true black.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
I can confirm the screen showing a faint glow on S3 with a true black screen.

Use Firefox with Fullscreen extension (Chrome and the default browser don't seem to have fullscreen mode yet) and go to http://d4f.pf-control.de/black.html

That's rendered on the phone so we can expect it to be the blackest black an app can produce, however in a (very) dark room you'll see a very faint glow coming from the screen and you'll be able to see the black spots (truely black) that people keep complaining about.

The theory about it being a precharge voltage does indeed sound plausible since LED's have a certain reaction time which unfortunately cannot be compensated by e.g. Overdrive as is used in LCD screens.

Note that the S3's "black" is still far better than any LCD.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rovex:
No mine is still jet black, no light at all.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Go to a COMPLETELY dark room and make sure the screen is actually turned on when on the website (not timed out).

Then take a long-exposure photograph of your phone (still make sure the screen is turned ON!).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rovex:
I don't have a long exposure camera, but the room is completely dark and my eyes have adjusted, there is no light.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rj3005:
All sgs3 ( as sgs2) screens emit a very week glow on a black pictures ( with the screen on )
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rovex:
It would seem to me that the 'ink spots' many have are not overly dark spots at all, they are what the screen should be. My screen emits no visible light when displaying a true black image, at least nothing my eyes can see, even at the edge of my vision field where light cell are most sensitive. My screen is on maximum brightness.

My screen has no patches, no streaks, no spots, no pink or excessively blue tint. I guess i have a screen thats as near to perfect as they get.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
yes there is very faint glow indeed making the screen a bit greyish instead of pitch black
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jfenton57:
Excuse me if I am being naive but where is real life use would this ever be a negative impact?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
no negative impact, but still raises a question "why so?"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sentrus:
I don't think anyone is trying to paint it as an issue that needs to be resolved. It's more of an odd technical mystery rather than a real problem. The blacks are still extremely deep on an AMOLED, just like with Plasma it puts LCD to shame in that department.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiG123:
coming from gs2, i do have to say that something is preventing true black from being displayed in the gs3. in videos and pictures with full black scenes, it sorts of displays a very faint shade of grey, to an extent I can distinguish the borders of the screen in a pitch black room.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkym0nkey:
This has been the case for a long time. Same thing happens with SGS2 as well. There was a huge thread about this in SGS2 section as well right in the beginning when people found out that screen is not actually turning completely off as it should or rather as AMOLED technology allows.

The entire display is always fed some bias voltage regardless the background is the conclusion I can draw. Its there on every SGS2, all its variants, Note and SGS3 as well.

You need your eyes checked if you cant see any glow in complete dark :P

You can tell where your phone is by just looking at it if screen is on and displaying black image.

We never found a fix for it since SGS2, I doubt we can do anything about it unless samsung decides to actually turn off the pixels completely. Or someone comes up with a fix (but then we should have had it by now for SGS2 or Note ).

SGS2 is slightly more darker though, but it too has this glow.

Does not really alter the functionality to be honest.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rovex:
Every screen is different, some have higher trigger voltages than others, Samsung use an average figure for every device because they cant possibly calibrate every single unit, this is why some some screens will have a glow and some wont. The difference is so marginal some pixels will be different even on the same screen and the result is the 'ink spots' people see. Not everyones phone will have the glow.

This issue exists in plasma TVs as well, i have adjusted my TVs voltages to lower the blacks, its a well known tweak for 2012 LG plasmas.

People need to stop saying everyones phone does it, because they dont, it might make you feel better, but its not true.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tom369:
And what if you repeated this test with minimum brightness, still - in a dark room, with completely black background? Still no patches, "ink spots" etc?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrewtst:
As I know this is AMOLED issue, all AMOLED got this issue. Also open brightness 100% is MADNESS! Your eyes won't hurt?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] defdef2050:
Black spots !

I use S3 for 8 months and black spots on the screen increases ....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lex360:
So still no news on that matter? howcome a SGS 1 can be 100% black and the S3 can't... :(