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[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] poit:
Like the Subject line says....

I'm still on the fence about this as a replacement for my Sprint Epic 4G slider. After reading as much as I can on this forum I've noticed a few things.

There are 2 versions of the camera, one made by Sony, the other made by Sammy. How do you tell the difference and which is better.

Also. some posts say that there are two points of origin for these phones, Korea and China. Are there any differences....does one have better build quality...a better screen?

Third, the reason I didn't pick one up the yet is that the screen on every SGSIII I tested appeared significantly dimmer than my 2 year old Epic 4G slider, even at full brightness and with power save turned off. Did I miss a setting somewhere, or is this screen just dim by nature.

So overall, if I go to the Sprint store to pick one of these up, what should I look out for. (I've read about the dreaded ink spots).

Thanks
[HTC One X] htckt:
Hi all,

Is this the newest version possible at the moment?

Android version : 4.0.3

HTC Sense Version: 4.0

Software Number : 1.29.401.11

HTC SDK API level: 4.12

HTC Extension Version: HTC Extesion_403_1_GA_7

Kernel: Briked

Baseband version: 1.1204.105.14

Browser version: Webkit / 534.30

I am asking because I checked out a black HTC One X at the store lately and I think the camera might be a newer version since I compared them side to side and the black one had a slightly cleaner image (When displaying small letters). And also the yellow hue which is quite accented on the white one was missing.

Thanks for any input.

All the best

Edit:

I forgot to mention, I am using the Ir1-1.29.401.11-DUO Deodexed version. Does this one upgrade normally from the server?

Thank you very much.
[HTC One X] EddyOS:
You're using a custom ROM based on the current official ROM. You won't get OTA updates from HTC
[HTC One X] stezo2k:
Latest unofficial version is 2.05, mean as you're using a custom ROM you might as well try this, seems smoother than the others and gives me slightly more battery. Bare in mind this is a prerelease firmware

Latest official is 1.29 (which you have)
[HTC One X] htckt:
Thank you for both the replies, in that case I might try using one of the custom roms that you can find.

All the best
[HTC One X] mickyw1980:
Would definately use the newer test base, i am using viperX which is amazing, but the choice is yours ofcourse :)
[HTC One X] htckt:
I just installed LeeDroid Extreme, which is my favorite custom rom.

How can I use the 2.05 base with Leedroid? Do you guys have a download link for it?

Thanks again

@25092992

Thanks, i'll give it a try once I find it :)
[HTC One X] EddyOS:
You can't, Lee hasn't updated it to use the new base...
[Kindle Fire General] moore.bryan:
I'm looking for some input into what you fine folks think is the best partition scheme for the Kindle Fire. Share yours, constructively criticize others; this is a battle royale in which the winner will get my KF partitioned under his or her scheme.
[Kindle Fire General] Jessical:
6/7GB and then the rest for the OS. Only because yesterday I tried to transfer all my Amazon MP3 bought stuff using doubleTwist and 5GB wasn't enough and didn't give me room for anything else. :silly: 1GB is enough for the OS.
[Kindle Fire General] moore.bryan:
Isn't this the default?
[Kindle Fire General] glennj99:
I think that's his point.
[Kindle Fire General] Jessical:
No, it's 5GB.
[Kindle Fire General] moore.bryan:
So, it seems, the forum has answered one of two options:

the ROM's native partition is fine or

increase the sdcard partition by 1GB.

About right?
[Kindle Fire General] glennj99:
It looks like I misunderstand the Fire's memory partitioning..

When I look at the partitioning my Fire running CM9 nightly's from Hashcode, I see its got 528mb for System ROM (281 free), 1.17Gb Internal (975 mb free) and 5.36Gb for the SDcard partition. I thought that layout was standard. That's more than 5Gb for the SDCard though, right ?

Adding that up I get only about 7Gb accounted for, so I am for sure missing something. Recovery partition for TWRP maybe ?

I got these numbers from Titanium Backup Pro, so maybe its not telling me stuff I don't need to know about.

You are saying you can increase the SDCard partition from 5.36Gb to 6Gb by reducing the size of the Internal partition ?

If so, would that limit the number and size of the programs you could install on your Fire, but give you more room for music and stuff ?

Thanks,

Glenn
[Kindle Fire General] Jessical:
I'm running Jelly Bean and it says my internal is 1.09GB, and then my internal SD is 5GB. I'm getting that from the Settings page...

It wouldn't limits the number of programs, but you'd probably have to push them to the SD card for storage (some apps already do that though). But yeah, it'd give you more space for media too.
[Kindle Fire General] moore.bryan:
Are you using this Jelly build?
[Kindle Fire General] Jessical:
Yep.
[Kindle Fire General] moore.bryan:
I tried it, briefly, and jumped ship because it didn't auto-rotate from landscape to portrait. I check the thread, also briefly, but didn't see anyone reporting the same. Am I missing something?
[Kindle Fire General] seishuku:
Model: MMC MMC08G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7818MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 131kB 262kB 131kB xloader
2 262kB 524kB 262kB bootloader
3 524kB 525kB 512B
4 525kB 525kB 512B
5 525kB 16.9MB 16.4MB recovery
6 16.9MB 16.9MB 512B
7 16.9MB 25.1MB 8191kB boot
8 25.1MB 25.1MB 512B
9 25.1MB 537MB 512MB ext4 system
10 537MB 1561MB 1024MB ext4 userdata
11 1561MB 1817MB 256MB ext4 cache
12 1817MB 2841MB 1024MB fat32 media msftres
13 2841MB 7818MB 4977MB ext4 linux

Of course I have nearly 5gb dedicated to linux, but that space can be used for media.

/thread :D
[Kindle Fire General] moore.bryan:
What makes you think this is the best way? Not being difficult, just trying to understand the inner workings...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gg84:
Hi,

I rooted my phone a couple of days back & upgraded to ICS using Hellfire v1.8 rom.

Since I was getting lags, I also got the flak0's lag fix.

I have started facing an issue the phone would freeze post a long call on the phone screen, I can't even get it to reboot by pressing 'lock+vol up' button. The only way is to remove the battery & put it back.

I saw a similar issue seen in this thread from partzman2:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28342782#post28342782

But unfortunately, I am unable to comment on the thread as I don't have enough posts in my name. I searched the forums for this issue, but couldn't find a solution.

Any help is appreciated.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gg84:
My sincere thanks to dev folks

Just wanted to take a moment to thank the dev folks who put in a lot of work in creating these roms/mods - experience is so much better, I can't even begin to explain.

I have had g2x for more than 14 months now & I had been running stock froyo 1st & then GB (2.3.3) - the experience was so bad, that I used it only for making phone calls or occasional emails, as i couldn't even browse or do anything w/o hitting some problem or the other. Even phone calls used to crash at times.

After updating to ICS, I haven't stopped using the phone be it browsing, watching you tube videos, trying new apps, emails etc, with occasional phone calls ;).

Again, thanks a lot for so much hard work, its really appreciated.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Blazing angel:
Hi, welcome to XDA :fingers-crossed:

I have some sort of sad news for you. In general-- ICS on the G2X isn't really stable right now. A lot of rom's have problems with lag after a few weeks, graphical errors, rebooting, and phone calles (as you mentioned). I'm not sure exactly how to fix your problem, but I had it too. I couldn't find a suitable fix, so i went back to Cyangogenmod 7 (gingerbread)

The latest nightly (newest build uploaded on their server) is available here: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=nightly&device=tenderloin

If you are NOT using the march 2012 baseband, flash "old_baseband.zip". I am looking for the file (not sure what thread it is in).

What baseband are you one?

Also, If you must try ics, i suggest Owain's build 77. It's one of the most stable I've found so far.

I'll update post soon.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gg84:
Thanks for the info. Actually, I went through quite a bit of dev threads before deciding to go with ICS - I was quite curios about its features & was ready to take the risk.

Only thing is that owain's recent 79 build seemed to have quite a bit of issues from the posts, & hellfire seemed a bit old/stable, so went with that. I didn't consider using old owain's builds (which might be an overlook from my part).

Is there a way I can find what I might lose (& possibly gain), if I switch to owain's 77 build?

I am using Jul15, 2011 baseband & kernel is 2.6.32.59-CM9-faux123-050.

Is there a better baseband/kernel that I should try?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gg84:
I switched the kernel to harsh kernel & I feel that the speed has improved, but "freezing on a call randomly" issue still exists. Also, it crashes & reboots once in a while but I still feel that its worth all the pain as now I am actually able to make use of the phone.

Blazing Angel, did you find the latest baseband which I can try using?

Another bug I found is that I cannot really configure the lock screen buttons/shortcuts - as in adding a an app to be able to accessed from the lock screen like we do for camera. I see the option of changing this in setting but it doesn't persist when I try to change it.

Anyone seeing this?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Blazing angel:
The latest baseband is march 2012. To update, you need to install Tmobile's V21Y update.

Follow this guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1674901

Note: If you install this, and try to use a rom other than CM7 7.2.0, you need to flash owains New_baseband fix after flashing a rom from here

http://owain.hopto.org/T-Mobile LG...w_baseband.zip
[T-Mobile LG G2x] C-art-toon:
Hi just want to add info with new baseband the bluetooth doesn't work.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr2000jp:
some of that i experienced my self , most of the times the camera and hdmi port is sacrificed in the g2x
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gg84:
Thanks for the info guys. Say my gps works/locks already (takes a bit of time though) with the hellfire ICS, is there anything I get by flashing this new baseband?

Does it or would it fix the random freezing on calls by any chance?

Basically, I read the instructions & it seems that I'd have to go back to stock, unroot & then re-root + reflash + restore my apps etc - seems like too much if I am not getting something out of it.

If it doesn't add much value, then I will consider doing it once another stable version of hellfire or owain's rom is released..

BTW, did anyone experience the lock screen config issue I posted in my earlier post - basically I can't add custom short cuts to the lock screen, there is an option to do this in the settings but they dont stick (I am on hellfire v1.8 right now)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jivy26:
Good reference guide from entropy

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1308030

[REF] Known identified battery drainers
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
That guide seems to cover Wifi and BT drain issues with the GS2. I'm not sure how similar our Wifi and BT is to theirs. Our phone hardware is closer to the T-Mobile GS2 hardware than the AT&T.

In my experience, our phone and the AT&T Note have the charger issue. I just tested my wife's AT&T GS2 and it does not have the problem. My problem charger that gives me a wakelock (and is reported as type 6) does not give her a wakelock and is reported as charger type 2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
I'm editing the OP as I discover more and more information and perform various tests today.

I think I've discovered that the wakelock is ALWAYS caused by using an iPhone certified charger (or one that the Skyrocket thinks is iPhone certified). To be certified for iPhone, the charger must include a special circuit that identifies it as such.

I also created a Tasker profile to easily test your charger. The profile reports your charger type when you plug it in and creates a notification if your charger will cause a wakelock.

I would really appreciate if some people can test these theories out. In my experience, chargers that are reported as type 6 ALWAYS create the wakelock. Any reported as 1 or 2 do not.

ALSO: I've always used Stock and Sky ICS. Can someone on an AOSP-based ROM check a known iPhone charger to see if it reports type 2 or 6? This can help us determine if this problem only exists in the Samsung-based ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] simplesid242002:
Very good info, I checked a couple of my chargers and they were working properly. Thanx

Edit..

I just checked my car charger, bought it at at@t when I got my skyrocket. On the attached charging cable it reads 6 in term. Emulator, and if I plug a cable into the USB connection it reads 2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rpr69:
I am running CM9 nightly 7/7 with Instigatorx kernel, and I just tested the following chargers with the same cable:

Stock Samsung Skyrocket

Stock Motorola RAZR

Stock Palm Pre

Stock 1st gen iPad

All but the iPad report as 2, the iPad reports as 6.

Also, I tried your Tasker profile but it says it can't find /mnt/emmc/chargetype.txt

Tom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
Thanks for testing.

I also flashed aokp earlier and charger behavior is the same. I wonder if this means it's a hardware problem, not software.

Chargetype.txt should be created in /mnt/sdcard/. I'll have to look as to why it works different for you. You can try changing the path for the read task in the meantime.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rpr69:
No worries, I just manually cat'ted the file. So far I haven't seen the charger wake lock recently on my setup, but I'm still investigating. I am seeing a lot of 'deleted_wake_locks', which may be related to my tasker profile that turns off Wifi and BT during the day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
You're not seeing the wakelock after using your iPad charger? In my experience, plugging in to a type 6 charger immediately eliminates the wakelock, even without restarting the phone. The wakelock seems tied to the last charger you used before unplugging.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
Thank you very much for this useful post. I sometimes charge my phone using my usb port on my MacBook at home (it's a work computer--I hate Macs), and I wonder if using that port is causing a wakelock issue for me. I charge it on that and then leave my phone off the charger at night, and when I wake up my battery is usually depleted by 15% minimum by morning (running CM9 nightlies currently).

I'll test it out tonight and report back (if I remember to...which I should...lol).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
A 15% drain over an 8 hour period of no use seems normal to me if you have accounts syncing. If you had the wakelock, it would be more like 50-80% drain over that same time.

Your MacBook should report charger type 1 (USB charging), but please let me know if it causes the wakelock (using the CPU Spy method).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NaughtyNinja74:
I've been using an app called Juice Defender, it's a pretty nice app that will turn off your radios while your phone is in standby mode. I can set my phone on my night stand when I go to sleep and leave it for 8 hours and get anywhere between a 7-11% percent drain. There is three levels of the app (free, pro, and ultimate)

sorry I can't link it cause of the 10 post rule

Just my two cents...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
A lot of people use Juice Defender, but the app is very polarizing. Some people claim it's made their battery last forever, while others say it's the same or worse with JD. I used it briefly on my Nexus One and didn't notice a difference. I didn't include it because of the controversy surrounding its effectiveness.

I'll look around and see if anyone has a really good thread explaining its worth and link it in my OP.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pctx:
My issues with the SR battery have been around the syncing that happens in the background. I finally got my work email down to syncing once and hour and gmail to once every 2 hours. Obviously this varies per person but I think how often the phone sync's is Androids worst enemy. With Juice Defender at least you have somewhat "universal" control over the radio's and when they connect when YOU want them to.

Whether or not you get better battery is in fact subjective to the user.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
As far as I understand push email, you shouldn't see much, if any, battery improvement by delaying gmail because it's pushed, not polled. Increasing polling intervals on Exchange email will help, though.

And you're right, the biggest factor in battery life is how people use their phones. The thing I hope to accomplish with this thread is to eliminate the problems that ruin battery life regardless of how someone uses their Skyrocket.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Frogacuda:
My charger was recognizing as 2 (AC fast charge) but I switched to OEM just to see and it does indeed seem to be idling much better and charging faster. Go figure.

I do suspect this is partly a software issue, but if using the OEM charger works, it works. Good thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dewaski:
Thanks for the good info! I try to monitor my usage as much as possible and once I root my phone it will be a lot more flexible, but some new stuff in here I'm gonna try out as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Thank you so much for putting this together. I wrote a couple of scripts in ROM Manager to test all of my chargers, and the two Griffin dual-USB car lighter chargers I have both return a 6... After reading this thread, it's not surprising because Griffin is in bed with Apple, and pins 2 and 3 must be open to receive Apple certification. My bad, but I like the Griffin products, and think they are robust and designed well. I've used them with my iPods all along...

I unplugged my Skyrocket the other day when I went to play golf, and used my Golf Logix GPS app. I had a full charge when I started, but I noticed the charge dropping rapidly as I played, even though I kept turning the screen of constantly. By the end of a full round (18 holes), my phone was down to 14%! I figured out was the golf app and uninstalled it, but afterwards, when I checked in CPU Spy, I found that my phone never slept the whole time, even with the screen off...

Turns out, out must be the charger in my car. It's currently cracked open, awaiting my soldering iron and my 1 year old girl's next nap ;)

Thanks again!

Sent from somewhere in Galaxy SII...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] whosgotlag:
Is Juice Defender worth it? With AOKP and many other custom ROMs you get toggles for data/wifi/brightness; shouldn't manually regulating their on/off state be just as efficient (if not more) than automated control? Or am I missing some features that Juice Defender carries
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] T.J. Bender:
It's a simplicity thing for me. Yes, I could flash a custom ROM and configure everything manually to max my battery savings. Or, I could root the phone, freeze bloatware, and set JD up so that it handles all that for me. I'd probably have somewhat longer battery life doing it the first way (or significantly longer, depending on the ROM), but my battery life with JD is fine for my purposes, so why mess with flashing a custom ROM, the ever-present brick possibility and resetting the flash counter later when I can just root it and forget it?
[HTC EVO 3D] LVTHN:
Good evening XDA -people.

I do not really want to bother anyone, but I'm sure I do.

SO. I'm quite stressed about this as it happens all the time.

I got the PredatorUnity Rom (1.1 I guess, but it already happened before)

And if I try to do a nandroid backup it says it does work, sometimes it does NOT work though. so, I restart after that backup (or just a normal reboot, any kind of reboot causes this, even if I just go into recovery and don't change anything) the rom starts and boots alright for a few seconds and then does a hot restart.

So once this made me SO angry, I changed rom. then it actually went alright until I restored my apps via Titanium. then the same thing happened. Don't worry, I'm not that dumb anymore to backup my system apps. Anyway I located the apps that caused my bootloops. Chrome, Busybox etc. I THOUGHT SO. It looks like theres more.

The problem now is, everything worked well for a few days. EVEN 1 REBOOT WORKED! so now, I went into recovery to do a nand backup via rom manager and then just this..

so sorry. wi'll give thanks to any useful comment ;)

oh yea. just for you to know if you need it;

S-Off

HBOOT-1.49.1107

Radio: 0-11.23.3504.09_M2

GSM

yes.

Don't hate. I've looked around and haven't found any case like this..
[HTC EVO 3D] LVTHN:
Thanks man

I am using the latest 4ext touch.. and I flashed it only about a week ago! I've had these problems before- and after the recovery change. should I reflash it anyway?
[HTC EVO 3D] LVTHN:
Okay I won't take it as an option then. At least not for now..

I did, but as I said it broke after I restored my apps via titanium..

Yeah, I've seen that thread and I can be sure it isn't this as it doesn't reboot randomly. only afer a reboot. Like, you wanna break your phone? reboot it! haha

I really love Sense 4 and the predators' rom is really awesome, but I'd even try a AOSP rom. Onbly problem is, I don't think I could restore sms (I saved them via the stock sense sms)

Oh and if this could be a problem; today I downloaded BootManager lite and saved my boot.img? didn't do anything but might have been a problem for the backup?? Ah I dunno...
[HTC EVO 3D] LVTHN:
aw man.. Thansk anyway :)

I don't know exactly what you mean, because all I ever did was backup and restore ;)

I do have Pro, but just because of Lucky Patcher haha

So Rom Toolbox Pro is better? (got that too, not using it tho)

Alright. it seems like all I can do right now is; flash the latest radio, do a super wipe, (now comes the worst) restore an old nand. sense backup, restore my sms, download another sms backup program, use it, do a super wipe, etc etc etc. and install the aosp rom (sense 3.6 feels ugly after sense 4..) or whatever else I find and restore the sms that way and then live like never before.

OR I try to install the latest predator, which has a new base.

I'll do the last thing haha
[HTC EVO 3D] R0M CHEF:
Use twrp everyone says 4ext is great but get twrp

Hit the thanks button if i helped
[HD2 General] xtntx:
hello all XDA Masters =)

- I have a Q. searched and maybe i do something wrong .... hope someone can help ....

- My micro usb riped off the pcb card ... with all the peds...

- i tried to solder it back ... tried it one twice thired time ... NOTHING! :crying:

- well im wondering if there is another way of charching my phone ? :confused:

- I LOVE MY HD2 ... Please help him to feel better!
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
take any type usb lead, cut end off, bare red and black wires, hold red to + and black to - on teh phone (look carefully, theyre marked) plug into wall charger for a while - battery has charge. not good to leave it like that for too long, though, so you probably want to look into an external charger.
[HD2 General] xtntx:
ill try it ... =)

are there any wireless external chargers ?
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
i think there are some yea, have a root around in the accessories section, and ebay.

keep an eye on the battery, if it gets warm AT ALL you probably wanna stop charging for a bit.
[HD2 General] xtntx:
I DID IT! =)))))))

ITS ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:silly::laugh::p

IM SO HAPPY =)

little dirty job ... but it was free =)))

finally im happy to be electronic engeneer =)))))))))) :cyclops: