yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lude219:
I keep mine on always. I lose 3% during an 8hr sleep and it'll automatically connect to my carrier data when my network is not in range. Sure beats turning it off and on a handful times a day.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moonsower:
Weird is that WiFi is active in either option you shoose during sleep. Even if you choose NEVER, open your battery use stats and you'll see that WiFi was active all the time during sleep. I cannot understand why is this issue so underrated here on XDA forums. Or is it some kind of misinterpreting from my side???
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rab1412000:
Yup afaik, choosing never will produce a wakelock to check the phone state and keeping it on will cause it to constantly scan even if connected to a network. Both choices will eat up battery.

I see many threads suggesting to just manually turn it off, preventing scanning, wakelocks and syncing all together.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giovag7:
So it is normal that if i choose Never in wifi sleep policy phone, i find the wifi always on in battery stats? This question is not so clear...:confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moonsower:
Is there any explanation of wifi toggles by author... Google?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rab1412000:
I'm not so sure if you will see wifi in the battery stats as I think wifi processes are part of the Android system in settings >battery.

Sent from a Galaxy far, far away
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
So has this problem not been solved?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lq_sunshine:
i also have this problem with omega v34..i hope it will be fixed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chavist:
I use the app keep Wifi alive. It pings my server to ensure I don't lose a connection. I the only thing I see missing with it is that my email sync stops until I go to mobile data.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XDAholic:
Thought maybe the devs could use this info. Anyway heres a link.

http://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp;jsessionid=126EA1005E8E4FDC829E150E1908B3BB
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BishelFish:
This is great news, hopefully this will make it a little easier for all the devs. Good find! :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] razorseal:
awesome, that should have the necessery drivers etc to build a kernel? I assume the only thing that will need to be tweaked is the LTE radios, which again are identical I believe with diff frequency stepping (which i assume is a very easy tweak compared to the overall job)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mike21pr:
Im asking since i just got my Nexus about a week ago and immediatly flashed JB stock ROM. My gripe with the Nexus before JB was the weak-ish GPU it had which made me steer away from it until JB announcement just made me get it no questions. Now im testing ShadowGun and it plays perfectly smooth and Quadrant 2D/3D benchmarks always are at or near 60fps. Since i did not have a Nexus in the ICS days, are GFX/Games better in JB or was performance the same? Because i underestimated the GPU before but its doing a great job so far in my tests... note to self: Just try the damn thing and forget the specs on paper *lesson learned
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simms22:
about quadrant and the 59fps.. our devices are capped at 59fps. plus, our screen resolution is larger than most other devices, more pixels to push. so, at 59fps, it still looks great, on ics and jellybean. in jellybean we did gain a few more fps, but not in quadrant. if you want, go to the the main settings, developer settings, enable force gpu rendering. things will look a bit better, in the ui especially and in apps that can use gpu rendering. the "weak" gpu is just a myth that the media has scared us with.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Marcb:
I'm in ICS 4.0.4 and I feel sometimes Shadowgun doen't play all that smooth... don't know if it gets better in JB... but it's not 60fps... no way...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simms22:
run nenamark2, thats the real fps that youre getting with some 3D games. using trinity kernel, i get 38.2fps. stock was around 31fps, if i remember right).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] simms22:
oh yea, thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Marcb:
thanks, I'll give it a try...

what about stock ICS vs. stock JB? any increase in gaming performance? or fps in nenamark?

EDIT: just ran nenamark, and got 26.6 fps...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nidhish91:
Hello,

I have a moto Defy with Wiui GB stable on it. I recently got Mugan 1700mha battery.

The problem I face is that there are big drops in battery levels. The drops happen a lot of time and is pissing me off. Any help I can get to fix it?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tone0511:
Have you tried completely draining the battery, then charging it to 100% and leave it charging after 100% for an hour more and then using a battery calibration app?

Sent from Defy (with dead LED flash--thanks to the effin Chinese SBF)
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nidhish91:
Mugan said never let the battery discharge upto 0%.

Its bit weird coz I can't figure out what's it upto.:confused:

S3nt fr0m my D3fy/w1u1 GB st4BL3
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patioheater:
Hi all,

New to all this. Have performed a root using the instructions here. Thanks lyriquidperfection

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1125414

Seemed to work ok, just installed first insecure kernal on the list without matching to my kernal, it installed Superuser but not Busybox, so installed that from the market.

The reason I wanted to root it apart from 4.0.4(needs to be rooted?) coming soon was in the hope I could get shot of some of the locked apps Samsung and Google installed on it. Busybox looks to me that you need to know what you are doing to use it. So the question is is there anything simple I can use to get rid of the locked apps that I don't want?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
check the link below for the same ma8

Spread Sheet of removable APPS

ps- read carefully the same to understand the apps importance and then remove it if its safe
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patioheater:
Thanks Sun, that will help greatly

Wonder why they make it so complicated, most of the pre-installed stuff is a lot of tosh, then again so is the Market stuff
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] meyourchum:
So here is Google Now ...

ONLY FOR AOSP ROMS

Check This ...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1747224
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ambroos:
Not much point in this for us right now since there aren't any AOSP roms for any of the 2012 Xperia's out yet.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lullesha:
Tbh I have it XPS, not really for AOSP only... looks fun, but still unfunctional on ICS ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] geiswiz:
I got my AT&T Galaxy S3 on Saturday and have seen this issue a couple of times now. The issue is that sometimes the screen will not lock after the time I have set (30 seconds). Also, the touch key lights stay on forever until I lock the phone. When I unlock it the touch key lights stay on and the screen doesn't lock. The only way I've found to fix it is a reboot. I first noticed this when I received a text. I use goSMS and have it set to turn the screen on for 10 seconds when a text is received.

Has anyone else noticed this issue or know how to resolve it?

I'm also having the wifi disconnect/reconnect issue and the issue with the cell standby using a lot of battery.

The phone is rooted with the stock ROM.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kirbo20:
Yep, I am having the same issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1761027
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] geiswiz:
Hmm, I did turn off the wifi power save mode using *#0011* because of wifi disconnect issues. I went in and turned it back on and rebooted the phone. I'll see if I still get the screen lock issue.
[Desire HD General] DoRiLoN:
Ho guys! I have noticed a strange problem when I was Viber-ing. I loose like 20% off my wifi reception when my headset is pluged in. I tried it a couple of times and its always the same when I remove the headphones it jumps with about 20% or so? U can see my configuration in the signature, any ideas?
[Desire HD General] salman1497:
Same problem sometimes while skyping... Any solution guys ??
[Desire HD General] Ka0n:
Give the phone a few bangs on the side, usually does the trick for me I have same problem for skype, surprisingly this sometimes sorts it out
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] ROFLkopter:
I downloaded a Jelly Bean GApp pack earlier. Some of the apps worked (ie. Maps, Street View, Play Store) and others didn't (ie. Music, Google Earth).

One of the working apps was called Currents. I searched it in the Play Store but couldn't find it so I thought I'd post it here for if people wanted it. It let's you view some newspapers, magazines, etc. It's pretty good, in my opinion.

Download (DropBox):

http://db.tt/5rIoFbSr

Screenshots:

Typed with SwiftKey 3 using XDA Premium on my GT-S5360
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] Andromeduh:
Thanks a bunch! Looking for this app too in G Play but no luck.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] blagginspaziyonokip:
So... Flipboard?

Sent from my toaster
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] Andromeduh:
Nope. But somehow related.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shanek17:
Hey all, i havent been on this fourm in awhile and I thought Id come on here to talk about an idea i have. Iv been looking for a way to have a better wifi signal on my phone, not just at home but also for public wifi spots. Then i thought of those usb Wifi adapters you can hook into your computer. Is it possible to use your cell phones usb charging cord and plug a wifi adapter into it and increase your cell phones wifi capabilities. I have a new samsung galaxy note , so i was hoping that this phone would be able to do the job. This phone is like a mini computer so i am considering trying it but just wondering if anyone else has had success with this or has any opinions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Chief Geek:
Those USB dongles won't yield much, if any, better results then your phones own. I havn't read up much on the internal workings of the Note, but I imagine your best bet would be some sort of antenna...or getting out of your car and going into starbucks to get better signal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shanek17:
yea id be okay with using an antenna , im trying to find one on the internet but its very hard to come across something that will work. Has anyone had success using an antenna on a cell phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Jim Dead:
If you take the back cover off of the i717 note, there are 2 different antena ports. Maybe something like this (not recomending seller but has a couple of pictures):

http://www.accessorygeeks.com/wilson-359921-adapter.html

would work to hook up an external antena

I don't know if one of the ports is for wifi though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Chief Geek:
The set by the SD card is for NFC and the contacts line up with antenna contacts located on some phone backs (see some of the highcap hump back packs). The other contacts however look like typical snap on wireless contacts found on many laptop wifi cards. This has potential and I'm curious about this not and I could mod a back to easily rig up an external antenna...damnit now you have me wondering what those contacts do.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shanek17:
someone on another forum is saying its possible and that ill need this adapter, the only problem is im not sure if this is the right adapter and even worst this ebay seller doesnt ship to canada !!

here is my phone and the ports on it, which one is for the wifi adapter?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Chief Geek:
The ones by your SD is NFC. The ones labeles R1 / R2 may be. But i can't say for sure, its merely a guess. Could be wifi or cellular.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Chief Geek:
Something with two leads is what I imagine you would need. Take a look at this

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/view...1062010788&index=0&nav=SEARCH&nid=84568821383
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shanek17:
How can these two wires work ? please explains some more, as I thought I Would be needing one cord to go to either the R1 or R2 port. How can these two wires be used to connect to one external antenna?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] eruk:
bumping old thread

I own a wilson antenna. Just found it in the garage. Would be sweet to use it. I bought one for a cell phone I had many years ago that people often modified. If you want to guess which one, I'll give you a hint: you could play snake on it.

The wilson antenna takes adapters and the ports actually look the same as the old phone - though now there are more, of course. Know there was that thread where people put wires in some of them blindly and lost wifi forever, etc, but surprised no one has taken more advantage of this. Someone must know how to use those ports. I remember sitting in the middle of a lake, on a boat, in a _remote_ place, plugging in that old antenna, and getting crystal clear cell signal. To have that for the note (at least for a car dock, etc) would be amazing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jamesc760:
Over at the Nexus 7 forum, someone posted a modded Nexus 7 with external antenna for a record breaking wifi, or was it cell, signal distance. I can't remember exactly. Too lazy to search for it myself, lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shanek17:
IT was most likely for the cell strength, but I could be wrong....All i know is that when i did a extensive search for a wifi extender for my cell phone I constantly kept finding products and solutions ONLY for the cell phone strength increase. When I talked to company employees about my increasing my wifi strength they seemed puzzled! But im sure its possible for a cell phone to increase the wifi, I just dont know how to do it properly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] johnus:
I read somewhere that R1 is generally for the cellular antenna, and anything with W would be the Wi-Fi, G for the GPS. Since there's an R2, maybe that has something to do with the phone having receive diversity (two antennas for the cell modem). I've heard of a lot of people shorting out their phones by playing with these ports, I'd be careful. :p

I remember seeing that, I think it was a record (about a mile) for controlling a quadricopter. Pretty awesome :3
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] kimtyson:
Pretty sure R1 and R2 are for Radio. Meaning cell, not WiFi.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
will be editing this to bring it current and for style this weekend, overdue for an update
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MiguelHogue:
This is very nice.. I wish I read something like this when I first got my phone months back, I had to take pieces of information from "here and there" and put it all together.. It can be overwhelming but it's not impossible to the new users
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
thanks for your input! i'd actually thank you but have used up my 8 already today! I thought this would be useful as I've been seeing a lot of the same questions all over the place recently which are already answered in various threads, and there are some really good highly detailed guides out there as well, but we're kind of lacking in something that brings them all together in a noob friendly manner, like if you've never had a Samsung phone before its not immediately obvious that you need to start with sfhub's Odin thread since you're all like WTF is a ODIN?!? same with is it safe to flash xxxx from xxxx... those of us that have been around know the drill by now, and i guess it is kind of elaborate vs flashing on most phones, but its bothersome to have to reply to the same question over and over again, so hopefully this helps make it easier... like i said i will continue to add to this and welcome suggestions, again thanks for your input!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] empiire:
Thank you for this excellent guide. I'm a dev coming from the 3D and was about as lost as one can be, and this was a massive help to me. I appreciate it. :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
No problem man, that's why I took the time to write it, have fun with the phone, its awesome... jet life till the next life
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingdazy:
great post, OP!

perhaps you might consider a concise explanation of build designations/dates (fdxx ffxx, ect) vs modem, and how they are related but not exclusive?

i struggled with that my first few days...

:)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
I will edit to add that in later today, thanks for the suggestion!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] empiire:
You already know man.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] debinnv:
Outstanding write up cp320703 !
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rafter_Man:
Thanks to everyone on this site, all guides were done so well I didn't have any questions and I rooted my phone and installed a custom rom and modem very easily. Thanks to all who made this possible. I was tired of waiting for ICS from sprint, so thank you all very much.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mrmojorisin67:
Thanks op.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jbhumphe:
Thanks for this guide, it has been really helpful. I have had htc phones before, but this is my first Samsung. Just a little bit different.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BlazinThat:
Great guide, I'm coming over from my evo 4g and was a little worried about rooting my touch. This guide takes away the doubt I had.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rantoca:
thanks

thanks for your guide and information; already I do some of the tested Roms and every I test i love it

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thanks for your guide and information; already I do some of the tested Roms and every I test i love it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] labelexpired:
Thanks my friend sextape recommended me this place as soon as I got the Epic :D..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sextape:
Ah I See You Finally Came Thru Here Glad To See Ya, People On This Forum Are Great Dude!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iceshark:
Okay, first off thanks for the guide. However for some of us senior posters coming from HTC phones there still could be a clearer clarifications.

You say dont flash from ICS recoveries. That is confusing some of us that are not rookies. I understand much different then HTC phones Samsung has the recovery in the kernal. So are you saying not to flash from the built in phone recovery to another ICS build?

From what I gather and please correct me if I am wrong. If you have a custom agat kernal from 2.1 up you can flash betweeen FF!8 official rom or from custom rom to rom as long as you use ODIN to do it? Or is is ODIN MOBILE only do do it as long as you dont attempt thru stock recovery?

How about if your on stock FF18 kernal. Can you still use ODIN safely to go from ICS rom to rom? Should you always use either SFHUBS or Caulikins format program first?

Sorry to sound stupid but the verbage is new to some of us from other phones.

Thanks a bunch!:cowboy:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
sorry just saw this post, ODIN is always safe, and now that the emmc bug is understood most all of the kernels in the repo are safe as well, a bit of code just needed removed from stock to make them so. Odin and cwm are two means to the same end for the most part, however outside of official leaks you won't really be flashing roms via ODIN. Basically if you are on stock ff18 rooted you would want to ODIN a safe kernel, then you would be good to flash roms via cwm going forward
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iceshark:
That perfect! Thanks for clarification on this. I am sure others wondered the same.. Now if there was just a nice Vanilla stock type tweaked non theamed ICS rom I would jump in. I will however ODIN Agats 2.3 to be ready! You rock!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JAWSxs:
Just want to say thanks for the thread. I've only had Evo's in the family, but our first og Evo broke so we decided on the Epic 4G touch.

I signed up for the best buy freedom plan gift card a long time ago so basically the phone was free.

I can't believe how nice this phone is compared to my 3d. Have a lot of reading to do, but thanks again for making it easier to locate.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ipaq3115:
Great write-up cp320703! I get my E4GT tomorrow and there is such a pile of info in the E4GT forums, it's not easy to sort through it all to find what's up to date. Immensely helpful, thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ttittoo:
thank you

thank you for this.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gogojons93@:
help no auto rotation

Hello, I have a 4G epic galaxy s2 and from several days I have problems with the automatic rotation of the screen, the phone works 100% but does not rotate the screen in automatic mode I had installed the original 4.0.4 android sprint ICS had root access and clockworldmod installed, try to repair it with unroor and restart and still continues to a proble of auto rotate the screen Since android install 2.3.6 ODIN :crying::confused:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Foragerst:
Thanks

Like some of the others in this thread, I am coming over from the Evo 4G. I started looking around to get my CM downloads and I was totally confused by the verbige and what not. I am so glad I found your thread as it will be a great read tonight.

Thanks again for helping the entire comunity out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] vipersilver:
working on this now. Sinking lots of time thats for sure.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
do you have to "auto-rotate screen" box ticked in settings>display? root/cwm would not be causing that sort of problem... did you upgrade from el29 to ff18? did you do a full wipe when doing so or no data? if no-data that may be causing the issue... I would make sure the box is ticked, boot to cwm, wipe dalvik, reboot, if still not working and you did a no-data upgrade I would personally do a full wipe and run the ff18 odin 1 click
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HdMsTrTeCh:
I apologize if this has been asked before but I can't seem to find answer and I would like to root my new E4GT tonight if possible. If I'm prompted to update (new phones here still ship with GB) to ICS OTA should I update first and then root? Or should I just flash and update to stock ICS root myself?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
The easiest way would be to not take the ota and just use the ff18 Odin one click linked to in the op... this will give you rooted stock ics and is the shortest and easiest way to accomplish what you're trying to do, ff18 is the ota...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HdMsTrTeCh:
Just to update Sprint was wrong and FF18 came with my new phone. I still read and followed everything in the OP and I'd like to say I now have a rooted E4GT less than 24hrs after purchase. Thanks for putting all this info in one place!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lord dredd:
Thanks for great work :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cw00dw0rd:
I must

Well now due to my curiosity even though I use Odin fine I must try out Heimdall on my ubuntu VM!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stank656:
this is great cp320703
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oshinqwe:
i like this only had my epic 4g touch for like a month now
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rtm7369:
I like this idea also .. I am going too try it out ... should be done hopefully in the next 20 mins ..

and this was a very good read ..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sburke046:
This is great, only had this phone for a couple days, i had gotten so comfortable with my htc inspire in the past all of a sudden i didnt know where to begin with this Samsung stuff, all this talk about bricks around this area of the forum is some scary **** . But none the less i had my et4g rooted within hours after bring her home thank you guys .
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stupidaznmunkey:
thanks for all the info collected in one thread! :)