yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC One S] qingdu:
CM9 is fairly good enough to use as a daily drive, though it may random lose signal (around one time per day or less).
[HTC One S] torxx:
BTW: You get OTA updates with ROM Manager with my TrickDroid ROM..
[HTC One S] qingdu:
Also I have tried LiquidSmooth rom several days ago and always have random reboots after several hours using. You may wait for the next release if you want to try it.
[HTC One S] Dilnad:
Well,

I'm rooted and now on CM 9. It didn't reinstall all my apps so I had to manually push them all back down but it's up and running and much quicker than stock ROM. Thanks again for all the replies!!
[Sony Tablet S] Eiyeron:
Hello there!

I wanted to develop some Android programs to improve my skill, but when I connect it (drivers intalled correctly), the touchscreen becomes messy: the touch input seems to be chaotic.

I'm on ICS 4.0.3 non-rooted; and if I turn on the touch trace (sorry, I don't know the english name, I'm French :-° ), the input goes like a sismograph: I included a screenshot where I just slided slowy my finger from left to center...

Anyone knows why this happen? Thanks in advance.

PS:Pardon my faulty english, French dude here! ^^
[Sony Tablet S] CoolApps:
It seems you are using Pointer location in Developer tools, that's a bug and only Sony can fix that since they own the modified Android OS :p
[HTC One X] EIAU:
HEY !

I've been using arhd rom for my hox since yesterday. And I'm using go launcher ex. When I have a missed call it shows itself on the phone icon in lockscreen. I look the missed calls section but it won't disapper until you launch htc sense homescreen and click its own icon . Can anyone help me ? Thanks.
[HTC One X] EIAU:
damn, it's fixed. Idk by the way. Eat the fruit, don't ask which garden, eh?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] O.LPZ81:
I live in Houston and have been able to pick up 4G since Friday. Ever since then I have noticed that my battery life has not been as good as it was before 4G went life. I used to be able to make it the full day without recharging but now im only getting a little over half a day.

This used to happen with my OG EVO thats why I always kept 4G off on that phone.

I have full 4G bars at my house but in downtown where I work its very spoty. I am guessing the battery drain is coming from the constant cycling between 3G and 4G.

Has anyone else seen a decrease in battery life after 4G went live?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eXplicit815:
One thing I have noticed about mine (I don't have LTE yet, BTW), is that I don't have a switch like I used to with my EVO 3D. Is there a way to turn it off? I'd assume that if you're running LTE all day long, you're probably going to burn more battery than normal.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] painkillaz:
Settings, mobile network, change from CDMA/LTE to CDMA only
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] iamkoza:
go in to settings, click on mobile network, then select cdma only if you only want 3G... I've found that you have to do that everytime you restart, for some reason it doesnt remember
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eXplicit815:
So, it's not just as easy as it used to be. I'm sure they'll run out an update with a switch like they used to have. That'd be ideal. You would think they would've put it in that last update.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] iamkoza:
I'd imagine they didn't include a toggle widget because they are selling this phone in areas where the 4G LTE rollout isn't even scheduled yet (i.e. beyond 2014).... if you give people a widget for 4G, it will just make them unhappy it doesnt work...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bobarune:
I was able to test out 4G in Kansas City for the first time yesterday for about 45 minutes and I thought it used less battery than 3G does. I was at a restaurant and while I was waiting for my food I ran speed tests (highest was about 10,000 kbps and my dad actually got around 9,000 kbps on wimax on his OG evo) and downloaded two 25MB games. It downloaded faster than my wifi... I left it on while I ate for about 30 min. and it was still at the same battery percentage when I started to use it again. It's probably draining a lot because of the cycling between 3G and 4G.

Sorry about the rambling.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cordy:
It's definitely draining faster if its cycling between 3G and 4G.

It's been discussed before but the logical reason behind there being no actual toggle widget for LTE is because a. It doesn't drain as much as WiMAX did because the radio is built into the soc and not separate so shutting it off completely isn't so much of an issue to save battery. If you wanna save a little extra juice you can stop the radio from searching for an LTE signal through the settings. The other reason is LTE unlike WiMAX is being built to be your permanent connection unless you have to fallback to 3G. It will have better coverage and penetration. It's not a supplement like WiMAX was. Not saying WiMAX couldn't have been but based on the frequency it is on and the way it rolled out it just never happened that way.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] digiblur:
Also keep in mind that not all towers have LTE on them so your phone may have to use more juice to reach the spread out towers. It will get better with time as all the towers are scheduled to get LTE.

Sent from my C64 w/Epyx FastLoad cartridge
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SoraX64:
4G is a much larger battery drain than 3G. Ask anyone with a Verizon phone. Using the LTE is obviously going to empty your battery faster.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] EarlyMon:
The S4 SoC contains a programmable world modem and zero radios. That's straight from the Qualcomm literature that anyone can download.

That Qualcomm processors contain radios is an urban myth perpetuated by uninformed blog writers and has been going on for over two years.

The radio transceivers are separate and housed in separate chips (usually more than one transceiver per chip). When properly controlled, radios are basically shut down when not in use.

Because all voice is on CDMA, it's a reasonable expectation to lose a bit more power when talking and downloading via 4G at the same time.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bobarune:
4G on this phone will possibly drain your battery a little faster than 3G (i mean a little). The S4 has the LTE radio built in to the chip so it's pretty much powered all the time, but not active. The Thunderbolt(example Verizon phone) contains the S2 which doesn't have it built in so it requires a separate antenna which will require more space and more battery. Only cycling between the technologies will cause the battery to drain the most.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] EarlyMon:
No.

The S4 chip contains zero radios. Please see my post above yours.

In addition to a separate radio for LTE, the Thunderbolt needed an additional LTE modem, because the S2 in the Thunderbolt had only the CDMA and GSM modems built-in.

Liike all Qualcomm chips, it had ZERO radios built in.

Yep.

View attachment 1204839

View attachment 1204840

View attachment 1204841

Modems, yes. ZERO radios. None. Nada. Zip.

The counting of the radios in the S4 shall be zero and zero shall be the counting of the radios in the S4. :D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cordy:
Thanks for the links and clarification. However I think the point at hand is the S4 was designed with LTE in mind and helps conserve battery when compared to other SoC's on the market. I believe the Exynos is currently the only other LTE compliant SoC however if I'm not mistaken due to production Samsung only used them for the korean SIII. Regardless using 4G will cause more battery drain but compared to older phones the drain will not be as bad thanks to the S4. And if the phone is constantly switching connections it will drain even faster.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] EarlyMon:
Yes, the S4 is more power efficient for LTE because it doesn't require one more modem chip in addition to the radios.

My point in clarifying is that people are over-estimating the power budget by thinking that separate radios are not in play.

If trying to wrap one's arms around performance as a function of tech (something I completely support), it's important to not be misled by the unwashed news bloggers on the tech side.

As for the Korean SGS3 LTE model, it contains a separate LTE modem chip, at higher cost and complexity along with lower reliability and battery efficiency.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/24/3115367/south-korean-galaxy-s-iii-quad-core-lte

Expect to see Samsung processors with embedded LTE modems in the near future.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gdrocks:
I don't understand why LTE would be a larger drain. If it is a newer technology, and the phone was built with the prime directive of utilizing a 4g network. Shouldn't it create optimal battery life when locked on "LTE only"?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] EarlyMon:
LTE only isn't an (easy) option, you still need the CDMA radio active for voice.

Someday, according to a statement by Dan Hesse, we will get SVLTE - simultaneous LTE voice and data. Then we can roll LTE only.

The target is get the LTE system power efficiency as high as possible.

PS -

All of the HTC WiMax phones used the exact same Sequans radio SoC, built on older, power thirsty 65 nm chip technology.

Can't get details without a proper teardown (and I spent the morning this > < close to tearing mine down, but I couldn't get a good macro photography rig set up) we can't know the actual chip tech used for our radios. I suspect it's state of the current art, though.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cordy:
Ok, once again thanks for the clarification. It'll be interesting to see Qualcomm's answer to those chips since both Samsung and Nvidia will have quad-core SoC's with LTE modems in the near future.

To add to EarlyMon's response. Another reason would be 4G requires more power because of the higher bandwidth. Even though the SoC is designed to support it by nature the higher bandwidth going through the phones has a higher power draw. It's just not as bad as it could be because the technology is evolving to accommodate it. Again e.g look at the Thunderbolt and a lot of early Verizon LTE phones. The technology wasn't quite there yet and the phones battery life was abysmal. As the technology evolves the battery life gets better.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] noneed2aim:
Than what do they mean by "integrated" they constantly use it when referring to lte on the chip, also i read in one of those links that there lte chip Supports multiple lte 4g, 3g, & 2g frequencies so does that mean when sprint swiches lte over to the iden network frequency that are phones will be compatible via a software update?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] EarlyMon:
Check out these two diagrams, first is the S4, second is the Tegra 3 -

Note that big block, upper left, on the S4 - lots of mobile radio technology _support_ is integrated, that's largely or completely missing on other processors.

The world modem is programmable, so instead of lots of unique separate chips depending on the carrier, they just program that block as needed.

As for whether or not our LTE radios can handle the upcoming 800 MHz operations, I can't say (don't know) but here's what would be required - either a programmable radio, or a radio with the function there but unused, and if either of those are true, then the phone would have to be recertified by the FCC to work at the new frequency. And, it would have to work with the existing complement of antennas.

So, I suppose that a firmware update is possible, but I don't know.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 00mred00:
There are a number of reasons for it. The main one being they WANT us OFF of 3g whenever possible to relieve that network. Similarly ATT phones have no toggle OR setting. If you are in LTE coverage, they (att phones) are going to connect to it. ATT is also beginning to do the same with wifi auto connecting. Sprint has taken a different approach there pushing that you should use wifi whenever possible, it will save battery life

Hey....I know you :D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ckoadiyn:
Thanks for the info and links and pics guys just when you think you understand something you learn even more
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] digiblur:
A modem or radio as some are calling it can handle just about any frequency. But the issue lies in the transceiver and antenna are hard tuned to a frequency band. No software programmable options for those yet. So no, the current LTE devices will not support 800mhz LTE. But by the time Sprint rolls that out your EVO will be 2 yrs old and ready for an upgrade.

Sent from my C64 w/Epyx FastLoad cartridge
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] EarlyMon:
Yeah, 2 receive and 1 transmit antenna per LTE band, so no soap.

Radio doesn't surprise me though.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] .jond:
I never used 4G on my original EVO.

3G is plenty fast for surfing the web and 4G kills battery.

Not sure what the hype is about. Maybe if you're plugged into a wall socket it's cool.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] russell1997:
[ATT] Problem getting "Charge Only" and "Mass Storage" options to work

Just got the S3 yesterday. :) :)

I downloaded the S3 drivers from samsung and i enabled usb debugging.

When i plug in to usb, I either do not get the usb prompts at all or when i do i only get mtp or ptp options.

Whenever I do not get prompts i can get it back by trying the dock then going back to straight usb (no dock).

I have never been able to get a usb connection via the dock which is sad because it was $50 and now all i use it for is to get my usb back.

Any ideas how to get back the options for "Charge Only" and "Mass Storage"?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] russell1997:
anyone?

how do i get ADB to work?
[Android Apps and Games] MeTa Apps:
My friend and I released our first multiplayer game today! :)

It's based on the classic hangman game, but there are no checks or predefined words; YOU are in control of the game! You make your own words and hints for your opponent! Therefore, every language is supported. Our random games language picker helps you find people playing in the same language as you are.

You start out with 5 letters to use. For completing games you earn coins, the higher you get, the more coins you can earn. With these coins you can buy additional letters, up to 50. With this you can create whole sentences! The first couple of letters are cheap, but you’ll have to work to get the last ones…

Hang Me has been tested on multiple devices of all sizes. Most screen sizes are supported perfectly, including tablets and small phones. So its playable on almost any phone! :) We’ve also concentrated on keeping Hang Me small, the installed app takes about 2.6MB of space. It is moveable to SD Card, after which it only takes a little over 0.6 MB. The only permission needed is INTERNET :)

Link to the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.meta.app.hangme

Have fun playing it! We certainly did making it :)
[Android Apps and Games] MeTa Apps:
Do bear in mind that the app i brand new, so there not many people to challenge yet in hang a stranger section :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sandeep23:
After I updated from GB 2.3.6 to ICS 4.0.4, in my contacts I am missing auto Birthday Event and thus missing list of Birthdays from the Calendar.

I know we can manually create a event and save the the contact by inputting the B'days, I was wondering is there a easy method to create the Event for all the contacts.

FYI...I did not face this issue with GB 2.3.6
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
I have mixed reviews from Galaxy Note users about my free Speaker Boost app (source code is here). The app is supposed to boost media volume (in the usual way, by using the Equalizer API). Most reviewers say it doesn't work, but one says it works.

I'd like to get to the bottom of this. To that end, I'm posting here. If anybody wants to try it (heeding all the warnings; if you use Speaker Boost at too loud a setting, you can bust a speaker--three or four reviews, for other devices, testify to this; my feeling is that it's safer for voice than music), I would appreciate reports.

If it works for some but not all people, maybe we can try to figure out what the differences are. If it works for nobody, I have another idea how to get it working, but I'll need help from users.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Kevterminator:
Working for me, Criskelo v8 & Speedmod Kernel 3-6 just incase it matters.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Is there anybody it doesn't work for?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Final5k:
It does not work on the Stock Music Player since it has its own equalizer presets but works on other players on ICS and I assume it will do the same on Gingerbread. The increase in sound is not that loud but this little boost is definitely nice.

Most sound boosting apps do not work on the stock music player. You should probably mention it on the description to avoid getting bad reviews.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Hey, you're right. On my Epic 4G Touch with 2.3.6, it also doesn't work in the stock music player (well, actually, I don't use Speaker Boost myself, but instead I use Earpiece, which has some additional functions, but it does the audio boost the same way). I've never used the stock music player before, actually (I never listen to music; I use sound boost for movies and audiobooks). Thanks for the hint that the stock music player's equalizer is overriding this. I think that at on some devices I can override the stock music player's equalizer by grabbing the session ID of the music player audio session from the log, and attaching an equalizer to it with higher priority than the music player's equalizer. I will experiment with that when I have some time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdp:
I'm noticing my idle battery drain on JB is slightly higher (but not significantly so) than it was on ICS. What is your idle battery drain % per hour on JB, and with what setup (ROM, kernel, # accounts syncing, etc.). Could this be entirely due to the "update location" checkbox in Maps (possibly for Google Now)? Any other potential causes?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] live4nyy:
The first night with Jelly Bean my phone went dead overnight (from about 51%), so I went through my settings and found that it was Google Now and/or the location updating in Maps. Probably contingent on one another. I turned Google Now off and unchecked the "Update Location" settings and the second night it only lost 4% battery in 9 hours.

Note: I also had GPS turned off during that first night so I don't know if that caused higher drain but I'm going to wait to see if it will be addressed in a future OTA before using it again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sloprest:
I am actually conducting a bit of an experiment to find out more about the battery drain. Im in school so my phone spends a great deal of time on idle as I work. Yesterday I got about 22hrs of battery life with 2 hours of on screen time and some light web browsing, only sync accounts is Google. That was with stock Kernel and BAMF's JB build. This was about the same, maybe even better than my stock ICS 4.0.4. However I flashed James Bond kernel (3.1.9.9) and was pulling 1day 15hrs average with the same kind of usage (maybe enven a little heavier, didnt take screenshots unfortunately). Currently I have Franco kernel (r220 384gpu) loaded and overnight with 4g left on for 8 hours I dropped maybe 5% max.

I have no reason to go back to ICS so I wont do more testing on that front but I plan to try some kernels on the rom I am currently using.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] helgi.ua:
For last night only 3% for 10 hours with wifi is on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdp:
So idle drain used to about half a percent per hour, today during work it has been 1%+. I noticed the "Keep awake" time under Android OS is over 2 hours even though screen on time is only 40 minutes. This is likely the problem right? I heard about possible issues with Light Flow on JB but I'm not sure if that would show up under Light Flow usage or Android OS. What are some other possible causes for the keep awake time here? Specifically related to Jelly Bean.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] niko001:
My battery drain has remained constant over the upgrade, I am getting about 2 days of battery life on idle, about 1 day on heavy usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdp:
Anybody else? My idle drain is now consistently at least 1%/hr or slightly more, whereas it used to be half percent/hr. I'd like to know what is causing this increase. Should I turn off Google Now? Are there apps I should try that will tell me? My Android OS keep awake time is still almost 4 times what my screen on time is...I don't think that was the case on ICS. What are other people's keep awake vs. screen on time?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sloprest:
Currently I have about 1hr 10min screen time and OS keep awake time of 7hr 33min. Total time on battery is 1day 2 hours and I still have 35% It seems that the kernel included with the Vicious build does not fit with my usage habbits and will be loading the James Bond or Franco kernel I had before. I feel like they had better deep sleep and governor management for my usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] helgi.ua:
My current usage and stat on stock: 1d 16h 30m, 48% bat, 1h58m on screen with wifi is on. it's amazing :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdp:
Ok, so yesterday I installed BetterBatteryStats. My phoned was unplugged for about 17 1/2 hours, screen on time less than an hour, and the Android OS "Keep awake" time was 15 hours and BBS showed Awake time as the entire 17 1/2 hours, and no deep sleep at all. However, I checked the various other things (wakelocks, processes, etc.) and even the highest item on each list didn't show more time than 10-15 minutes.

So I rebooted, checked several hours later, and it was in deep sleep for 90% of the time. That's good to see, but the issue is the no deep sleep thing keeps happening.

What can I do at this point to figure out exactly what app or process is preventing deep sleep? I've searched around and haven't seen many suggestions beyond BetterBatteryStats, which isn't showing me any major offenders.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ionnn:
I was thinking the same thing as you just as I was getting ready to charge my phone and wondering why Phone Idle + Maps were a third of my usage. I had 131 hours (32% remaining) on battery with 30% idle and 3% Maps, 33% screen with 2 hours 27 minutes on, 2.5 hours awake. I didn't start noticing this change until the last Maps update and turning on Google Now location stuff. Better Battery Stats also showed an awful lot of wake-ups each time I went to look before charging.

I also didn't notice this problem with 4.0.2 before I made the jump to 4.1.1 so it will be interesting to see if our increase in idle/Maps consumption is because of our Google Apps wanting to know where we are and if other users notice the same thing when they get upgrades - be it community or carrier based.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] abo3azzoz:
is there any solution for my battery problem ?as can you see the graph and time does't compatible with battery percentage(does't change) because i am unplug my mobile before many hours, told my just 19 s does't change ,i am trying to make out battery for long time and return it , reset factory ,and finally installing jellybean 4.1.1 but also same

my jellybean from Google ,i did't make root...

i hope getting good news :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] skytbest:
So I soft bricked my phone using LCD Density Modder, luckily I was rooted with recovery. I downloaded a stock ROM and installed it through Odin. I thought I was going to loose everything and have to start fresh but after the install when my phone rebooted it was like nothing ever happend, it was the same phone as right before I bricked it. How can this be? I thought flashing the ROM would bring me back to stock. Is this the case when installed any ROM on the SIII or did I get lucky??

I used to have a Droid 2 and when ever I installed ROMs on it I would always have to start fresh.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] KillaHurtz:
Odin doesn't wipe data, it just flashes the stock boot, recovery and system image.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] skytbest:
Cool. So this is only the case when returning to stock? Or will this work for any ROM I install with Odin?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] alkesh95:
U flashed a non wipe package

sent using repencis 3.5 wid a2sd

press thnxxx