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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] carhauler1969:
That's not entirely correct :rolleyes: Example: on my wife's Epic 4G Touch with no battery saving measures in place & very light usage she'd get 6-7 hours of use before having to plug it in. With the built in Power Saving Mode enabled she'd get 8-10 hours of use. With Juice Defender Ultimate on the "aggressive" profile she regularly gets 48+ hours of use before having to recharge, granted this is with very light usage, which is the norm for her. Here's why, JD on the aggressive profile kills the radios when the screen is off. You still get calls & sms, but all other connectivity is disabled until the screen is turned back on. How will that use more battery?

I agree that most so-called battery saver apps are nothing more than placebo, & some actually cause increased battery usage. But Juice Defender does what it says, and really does work. Android does not natively control radios, BT, GPS, WiMax, etc, etc. Hence the toggles in the notification pulldown.

Now that has changed a bit with the advent of LTE on the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 powered devices since the LTE radio is incorporated on the chip itself, the OS enables the LTE radio when an LTE network is available, & disables it when only a 3G network is visible. This is the reason all of the US/North American SGS3's come with the S4 chip and not the Exynos quad core chip that the GSM SGS3 has, the only reason.

Now if we were talking app management and task killers I'd agree with you 100%, Android does a much better job of memory management than any task killer does natively while still allowing for true multitasking.

Something iOS still hasn't managed to do effectively, and HTC has chosen to severely handicap on the One Series phones by overly aggressive memory management similar to the way iOS handles memory management.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Jaytronics:
Incorrect. The phone will do what you want. Just not that specific one. My phone does it just fine. I use my phone to its max. I am going to assume that you had reservations about moving away from your iPhone in the first place. Also the iPhone does not run processes in the background the same way that Android does. So don't expect spectacular battery performance like the iPhone has. Now, you can make adjustments to Android devices to make them more battery friendly. But I am suggesting you swap out that phone for a replacement. You have a lemon in your hands. Turn it into lemonade. Otherwise you are wasting something good. And if you can not get over being without the iPhone. Then go back to that. Plain and simple.

Sent from my, Whatever device I see fit to use at the time.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] RandoStRand:
so has anyone had issues with motion features being wonky from the get go? None of my panning or tap features work, yet a clino app operates just fine.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] proc_freq:
I also have had iPhones since the original iPhone, and every iteration of it... I also worked for apple for 3 years. A couple questions...

Why do you need to know the number of gmail messages you have? You have new mail means you have new mail, 3 or 50 messages. My exchange account shows the number of messages and I can't stand it.

I have 5000+ songs in iTunes of all different formats and the only ones that don't work are ones I no longer am authorized to listen to.

Bluetooth I've never used.

Battery life is great, I'm currently in an LTE area and I see the same as what my 4s saw on "4G"

I'd say return the phone and go back to the iPhone... this phone isn't for basic users
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] s2556:
I was having the same music skiping issue though I only tried it on power amp. I emailed the dev and have found a fix for it.

Poweramp Settings => Audio => Advanced Tweaks => Audio Thread Priority => +2

it doesnt play quite as loud as before but solved the problem i had, I still don't max out the volume while using headphones/car

Hope this helped! and if you have further issues I would suggest an exchange like others have already said.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
i disagree with you, doesn't mean im crazy.....you shouldn't be so subjective

maybe juice defender costs you only 1% battery life because the stupid program turns off your radios

IT IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE FOR ANY PROGRAM TO TURN OFF YOUR RADIO...wtf..this is phone first
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] akkidy:
I'm sure most android users are glad that you are giving android a try. Most of my friends using iPhones don't even want to acknowledge that android do have some or mostly better features. As you use your android phone more and get to know it better, you will find it hard to go back to iPhone with the features you have been enjoying with android.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] prophetx2:
I think you are misunderstanding. It turns off the mobile data radio in after a set amount of time and then turns it on every 15mins to get new mail and data. At no time does the phone go in airplane mode meaning phone calls and sms will always come through no matter what. It's fairly smart and will not turn off the radio when i'm streaming music for instance.

I've never missed a call with juice defender. Also I have low reception in my home and it is smart enough to enable the wife radio while sleeping the mobile data radio. Due to this behavior my battery life has been much better than pre juice defender.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
i think you are misunderstanding......i used this app for a few days with my SGSII...it turned off my phone radio...so i couldn't receive/send texts/calls due to this app
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] carhauler1969:
That's impossible, Juice Defender will never put the phone into airplane mode as you describe unless YOU TELL IT TO. Sounds to me like your SGS II was experiencing LoS and you were using JD at the same time so you blamed the app, when in reality it was probably the LoS problem that a lot of SGS II users experienced early in that phone's life.

I've been using JD Ultimate for two years now and that's never happened to me, through 3 different phones, the EVO 4G, the SGS II Epic 4G Touch, and now the SGS3. Take 5 minutes and read up on how that app works & how to use it properly before you bash it. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] sabre31:
I switched from iPhone to this phone and I like to the os and customization a lot it kills iPhone hands down and the larger screen but I do miss a lot of good apps and games from iPhone. IPhone rocks for games and they get them way before we see it on Android or ever. Also I miss good apps like reeder. I wish devs would release same apps for both platforms at same time someday perhaps.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] carhauler1969:
You should really take a deep breath, & do a little reading about battery life + radio management.

One of the best ways to increase battery life is to actively control radios. Using Wi-Fi when available instead of your phone's 3G/4G data connection can save you up to 50% of your battery. You'll still get calls & sms messages, but the Wi-Fi radio consumes far less power than a cellular radio ever will.

And it is perfectly acceptable for an app to turn radios on and off when the user specifies. Juice Defender is in the advanced mode, capable of turning radios on & off at specific times, auto syncing your social networks on a user defined schedule, and even forcing airplane mode at night when you're asleep so you can go to bed with a full charge, and wake up with nearly a full charge. It can also be configured to automatically connect to your Wi-Fi at home, at work, or anywhere else that you frequent.

^^ Someone who knows how to properly setup & use Juice Defender :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
i didnt mess with any of the features...i tried putting it on the most standard mode possible

i understand it may want to turn off my wifi or 3g, but it went as far as disabling my calls and texts too
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] carhauler1969:
It can't do that without user input, period. Now if YOU selected the "extreme" profile and YOU enabled it, then it will disable all connectivity once your battery discharges to the USER DEFINED level at 5, 10, 15, or 25% depending on where YOU set it, the default is 15%. Once the battery hits 15% on the "extreme" profile only, all connectivity will be disabled, i.e. the app will force airplane mode in an effort to conserve the most battery life, because that's what YOU told it to do.

When you select a profile in juice defender a description of that profile's characteristics is displayed on the screen.

Actually, within that app there are detailed descriptions, &/or instructions for each function the app has the capability to control, so the user can learn how to properly setup and use the app without creating the problems you encountered unintentionally.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] knyque:
As an experiment, I used my phone very little to see how the battery was. I unplugged it on Friday morning, and on Sunday afternoon, I still had almost 30% left. I made a few phone calls, surfed a little, played a few games, but that was it. I have stock root with some of the bloatware frozen with TB, but nothing else helping me. I've stopped plugging my phone in at night because I only lose 1-2% over 7 or so hours.

As far as the GMail notification, the built-in GMail Widget gives you unread. I think the smallest you can make it is 2x2 or 3x3, don't remember. With Apex, I can get it down to 2x1, but I like it wider so I can see my email in it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Success100:
i bet if we slapped a apple symbol on the back of this bad boy you would like it! lol.

no seriously. u don't like it, then return it. problem solved.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Androidfreakz:
What the other guy said, IPhone users are not welcome here.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] s1mpd1ddy:
Juice defender works for me.

Although not using it currently
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Jamin13:
I appreciate his journey into the Android ecosystem. While some of you berate him for the issues he's running into, some of them may not be his fault. Give him a break. Not all phones are flawless.

|Trolling with a smile|
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Cicatrize:
I can't comment on the first thing, as that doesn't really bother me all that much, but as for the rest (other than what's been said already)...

My battery life isn't exactly fantastic either. I do use my device a lot more than my old ones, but still, I'm not seeing this 4-5 hour screen on time everyone is raving about. Mine usually goes dead prior to 4 hours, but that is with games, so...

For music and bluetooth, I stream Spotify on extreme quality over bluetooth on my car's stereo daily, and I have never had a single issue with it. I am not using power saving mode though. Still, that seems odd you would have those two issues, since mine performs better than any other phone before it for bluetooth and music streaming.

And to those of you bashing this guy: what's the point? He's a convert, and that's good. Let's spend less energy being rude and instead try to help him out with learning Android. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anil_puri:
IN my samsung galaxy 3, i have made some folder on home screen and when i open folder a lady's voice comes out saying that " folder open" and after ' Folder close". That is very annoying me and i can't disable this function. Please anyone can help me to get rid of this sound while open folder.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnr21:
:D

What launcher you are using?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanceOff:
This is galaxy sIII forum not galaxy 3

Wrong phone forum and then wrong section LOL

Are you kidding me XD

Press the "Thanks" button below if I've helped.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anil_puri:
i am using Samsung Galaxy SIII Launcher.

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3

Rom: Omega v8.1

Kernel: Siyah v1.3.8a

Radio: XXLFB
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aimara:
you have light flow installed ? if not go settings -accessibility -talkback
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anil_puri:
do i able to turn of this sound when light flow is on?

Thanks for you help here. it is disable when light flow is off. how can i turn off this sound while i am turning on light flow?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aimara:
there are claims its a light flow bug , have to wait till issues is fixed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Siberian Tiger:
Open light flow and go to general and untick accessibility check.

I think that's the way you won't have the voice :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vnguyen972:
I don't have lightflow but the voice is there... it gets so annoying everytime I open a folder or close it... please help!
[myTouch 4G General] redvenger:
I have been using ICS on myTouch 4G for a while now and in every rom I've used the video camera was missing or had Force Close error. The developers keep saying use a video camera application from google play to play videos, but no video camera application seems to exist on Google Play. Please show me which video camera application should I use since I need the camcorder on my myTouch!
[myTouch 4G General] Synthetic.Nightmare:
Videocam Illusion
[myTouch 4G General] zoe047:
just flash Miui.us last rom everything works and i use cameraPro is better
[Android Themes] x-dira:
thanks! u can make THEME TEMPLATE - CM7

sr! is my english so bad
[Android Themes] pFo-Mac:
Thanks for this. I'm sure it will be of tremendous help to many of us.
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
If you're asking me to make a CM7 template, there isn't a need because there are already templates for CM7 like the cyanbread theme.
[Android Themes] ebs512:
This thread should be stickied!
[Android Themes] Kameirus:
dumps some strawberry syrup all over this thread

there now its real sticky ..lmao

just kidding around
[Android Themes] Nate456:
Thank you anthony for making this
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
Updated OP with directions about making your theme compatible with different screen densities.

PLEASE READ

those directions

, because if you don't you will have problems applying it. Take special note about

installing the proper framework-res.apk with apktool

.
[Android Themes] SXUsr:
Thanks for this! Do you have any tips in regards to batch editing images for mdpi? It's going to take me a while to get through the 2587 images in the hdpi so when I've done it would be nice if I could just run a handy tool of some sort to re-size them all for mdpi/xhdpi.
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
Batch resizing is a bad idea with all the .9.pngs, but if you want you can batch resize non-.9's. Batch recoloring is very simple with Photoshop (which I don't have).I use GIMP to batch edit. There are a couple plugins for it, but I use a script and edit using the command prompt. If you have Photoshop though, use that, it costs a lot because its the best. //Advice
[Android Themes] SXUsr:
I'll just do what i usually do and go through one by one where I don't already have an image to replace and batch what I can. I do use PS as my main editor along with Paint.Net for certain things.

Thanks.
[Android Themes] ebs512:
Get adobe fireworks for batch editing if you just want to change the color...otherwise if you use gimp get a plugin called bimp (batch image manipulation plugin)
[Android Themes] Woody77:
Could anyone please kindly help upload the template to another file host service?

For some reasons I was unable to download it from mediafire.

Thanks!
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
I updated the theme template. CHECK the FIRST post.

CHANGE LOG:

* Themed the volume sliders and other sliders

* Fixed the problems with inverted apps not showing up correctly (most of them)

* Removed some unnecessary images from the template (cuts down on size)

Enjoy. I'm glad to see a bunch of you using this already, glad it's helping :)
[Android Themes] marcellocord:
Do you know how to fix missing assets? I know I can ignore it, but it's just annoying. btw, those lots of redirections at redirections.xml are really needed? I've never seen any theme like this.
[Android Themes] waterpolo:
4.4 To make compatible with everything

1. Open up the AndroidManifest.xml and add a backslash "\" before "drawable\preview.png"

This is confusing because preview.png isn't in the AndroidManifest.xml.

The correction is "\" before "@drawable/preview"

There is another thread with the how to make a T-mobile theme which have more detail what can be themed, see link. A reference to the post is helpful for beginners.

Please update the first post.

Thanks for posting.

---------- Post added at 07:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 AM ----------

The redirections aren't required when you delete the following line from the AndroidManifest.xml

<meta-data android:name="com.tmobile.theme.redirections" android:resource="@xml/redirections" />
[Android Themes] ssettor:
how to change the white settings font color..what xml to edit?
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
Thanks waterpolo, I completely missed that.
[Android Themes] muzicfreako:
Thank u very mch. A much needed help.
[Android Themes] waterpolo:
Do you mean the system white color?

\\res\values\colors.xml

<color name="white">#ffffffff</color>
[Android Themes] muzicfreako:
Please keep this updated whenever it seems relevant to you.....will surely buy your theme to support you!!! Thnx again!
[Android Themes] SXUsr:
Wish I'd have seen this before starting work on the first. :mad::p
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
I'll add a link in my signature so that even when it gets buried people will still be able to find it.
[Android Themes] dligon:
C:\Windows\system32>cmd

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>apktool b C:\Users\l]\Desktop\CM9_TEMPLATE_updated_7

.20.12

Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.directory.PathN

otExist: apktool.yml

at brut.androlib.Androlib.readMetaFile(Androlib.java:142)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:159)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:154)

at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:182)

at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:67)

Caused by: brut.directory.PathNotExist: apktool.yml

at brut.directory.AbstractDirectory.getFileInput(AbstractDirectory.java:

103)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.readMetaFile(Androlib.java:138)

... 4 more
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
You deleted the file apktool.yml so its throwing that error. It is included in the template originally. Put it back. It contains the directions for apktool to tell it what to name the file.
[Android Themes] dligon:
I did not delete the apktool.yml i just edited not sure what to do after that.
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
What did you edit it to say? Make sure you didn't move it anywhere else.

EDIT #1: make sure you edit it with notepad++ and ONLY edit the part that says NAME_GOES_HERE.

EDIT #2: your problem actually is that you tried compiling the whole folder. Instead compile the folder inside the Theme_template_updated_7.20.12 folder that's named cm9_template_work
[Android Themes] ebs512:
LOL I never touch that file, a hazard waiting to happen
[Android Themes] dligon:
I edited it with notepad++ just changed the theme name goes here.apk part
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
I edited my post too late.
[Android Themes] dligon:
Ok well i'm going to do a little more work on some of the png and change some color and cross my fingers and see if i can get it to build. I can still edit the apktool.yml file to change the name of apk?
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
Yes you can change the name of the apk, just make sure when you build it that you are building the folder that's inside the zip that contains the yml file. So the build path should be something like: apktool b C:\Users\Desktop\CM9_theme_template_updated_7.20.12\theme_template_work
[Android Themes] ebs512:
It tells you what's wrong, you have duplicates of a lot of images...
[Android Themes] dligon:
well i guess im going to have to start over from the beginning I thought I just swapped out some icons in the drawable hdpi folders and changed a few colors in xml.
[Android Themes] ebs512:
Or you could find each image that it says is already defined and delete it
[Android Themes] dligon:
arrg!!! I finally get it to build and I get parsing error when i loaded it.
[Android Themes] Aarush:
Sign the apk first

Sent from my Xperia neo V
[Android Themes] SXUsr:
Got a couple of issues that I can't seem to figure out, I've changed the phone_dial_background_texture but it refuses to change when installed, and the two images in the drawable-nodpi, background_dial_holo_dark and background_holo_dark also refuse to change, along with some lock screen images that stay white.

I've also made some color change in colors.xml but the color is still blue in contacts, the preview image shows when I go to change themes but when I look at the apk in Root Explorer it's just a white box with "Your Icon HERE"?.
[Android Themes] ebs512:
I can help with at least one of those, I assume your referring to the text being blue in contacts? Changing only in colors.XML isn't going to fix that, you need to redirect it in the styles.XML to point to the color, the way I understood boy did it to change the framework text color throughout the phone is direct it to @color/bright_foreground_dark and in colors XML change the bright foreground dark to whatever hex color you want, decompile bboys free murder theme for preference
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
I'm not sure if I actually have any code in the correct xmls to get those nodpi backgrounds to theme. They have never themed for me, but I didn't try very hard to make it work. Most likely there is a typo in the correct xml (I'm not sure which it is most likely android.xml). As for the "icon goes here" problem, that's because you never gave your theme an icon which is called icon.png located in both drawable-hdpi and drawable-mdpi.
[Android Themes] SXUsr:
Sorted the icon issue but the background and phone texture is doing my head in. I've decompiled a few theme apks and played about but no joy, and when I'm trying to get rid of as much blue as possible it's past annoying now.
[Android Themes] LeviaThaN7:
for background_holo_dark make sure this code is present in android.xml, if not, then add it. Rename background_holo_dark in nodpi folder by adding a prefix "framework_"

<item name="drawable/background_holo_dark">@drawable/framework_background_holo_dark</item>

for background_dial_holo_dark check the same as above. But its code is entered in com_***something***_contacts.xml.
[Android Themes] tysj:
Try editting drawable-mdpi/contacts_dial_background_texture.png

Took me the longest to find out how to get it to change on hdpi, somehow my last ditch effort in the mdpi folder worked :good: (I think this was the one).
[Android Themes] idan_mo:
i'll glad if you can help me:

i wish to make a cm9 theme but i don't want to edit images, i only want to change the colors.

for example - from the default holo blue to one different color and the background to another different color.

no images for modding.
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
So you just want to change the font? Or you just want to change the whole color of the whole system kinda like the themes in my signature?
[Android Themes] idan_mo:
the whole color (like your: Zombie CM9/AOKP Theme, Slate CM9/AOKP Theme etc).
[Android Themes] anthonycr:
Ok, so what you'll need is an image editor so you can just change the hue of all the blue images. If you have Photoshop (I don't) you can batch edit the images to change the color from the blue to another. You'll also have to open up all the xmls in the values folder and change all the hex numbers that are (ff33b5e5) to the hex number of the color you want (ff is just the opacity, the last six are the actual color). Between changing the colors of the images and the xmls you'll have your own theme.