yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikaeldalc:
I see u just posted about this topic (Battery)... 1.3 was great for battery. I would leave the phone on overnight with no data on and lose only 3%.... but now on 1.6, I just woke up and had lost 18%.

Yes, I did restore my apps using TiBu, I also did that when I flashed 1.3 (no battery drain issues there). I refuse to not restore my apps/games and lose all my data on them lol.

Whatever u had going on 1.3, i'd go back to that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jrac86:
I can't move the app drawer icon though... thanks for the help with the lock screen - should have looked better in the options.

Anyone know if it's possible to move the app drawer to the center?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
Not asking you to never do it again, just for this exercise so that we can eliminate all the variables and see if it's the ROM itself, or something else :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yonith:
Guys with battery issues,

I'm sure many of u guys are well aware of this, but your battery life may take a few days to stabilize. After flashing, I also usually fully charge the phone while on and then turn it off and charge until it says complete there too. Just a reminder to those who may not know so they don't feel compelled to jump on the thread and post about a battery problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gkrules:
I had really bad battery drain the first 2 days. It seems a lot better now. I'm on 1.5. I lost 3% overnight.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcurley:
My battery life was good with just the Rom, now with the kernel it's insane.

I was one 1.4 wiped 3, no kernel. Went to 1.5 no kernel, wiped all cache to 1.6.

No gps or battery issues. Are the people with gps issues also having battery issues?

Sent from VZW S3 all 1.5 Synergized up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Glasairmell:
Before anyone posts here about battery issues with SynergyROM they should.

1. Do a complete backup in recovery.

2. Do a wipe and install the ROM clean and then test/compare the battery with 1.3, 1.6 etc.

3. Once done you can easily jump back to your personal build.

If you are not willing to do this, Oh well.

With all the apps and different variables people have with their phone you just can not make any statement about the battery usage on this ROM without cutting out those variables first. We are all in this together and the time it takes one to do this is a drop in the bucket compared to how much time the devs have put into creating this great rom for us!

Regards!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TechBSwift:
I always do a clean wipe and install on each update. I have never ran into any battery drains or problems for the most part. Most of the people reporting issues are the cause of the issue by using TB because they are to lazy to wipe.

Eschelon you shouldn't respond to those people who are to lazy to do a full wipe. Below you will find the easiest way to setup phone from clean install.

Download an app call app2zip, it will allow you to make a backup of your apps and save the in a zip format. (no your setting are not backed up only the apps)

1. fully wipe data/system

2. Install Rom

3. Let fresh install run for 20 minutes without adding or changing anything about the rom

4. Boot back into recovery and flash the zip you created of you apps.

5. Reboot back into phone and all your apps are there.

6. Now you have a clean and perfect phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] x86cpu:
That's exactly what I did!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] samscinate:
Glad to hear you got this!! A user who isn't afraid to help themselves. Hope everything works out!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
I understand that people don't want to wipe (which is understandable) and we try to accommodate that as best we can. But if you're experiencing random issues that others aren't consistently having or if you are unable to routinely replicate a problem, then first thing myself and every other dev on XDA will tell you to do is wipe and run the ROM naked for a while to see if the issue still occurs. If it makes you feel any better, I have to do a full wipe 10 times a day :/

Remember 8th grade science class when you learned the scientific method: Eliminate all but one variable and then track that variable (in this case, the ROM by itself).

Rest assured, we are aware of the problem you guys are reporting. We just need some more specific detail than just screenshots of Android System (which is actually hundreds of different processes) if we want to be able to take a closer look at the issue some of you are seeing

We're here to help. Just help us help you :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] StrumerJohn:
Okay guys so if GPS is not fixed by 1.7, then I'll go ahead and just post my GPS fix tutorial here.

I woke up today with 33 Private Messages >.<
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NotATreoFan:
Unless anyone, meaning the OP or a member of the dev team, has an objection, I'm just going to start deleting the repeat questions from people not bothering to search.

OK with you, eschelon?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TechSavvy2:
The battery life issue these people are reporting is strictly to do with titanium backup. All phones have the same issue, android os high usage is usually ALWAYS a backup of a system file that got reflashed during tibu. Always has been, OR just rogue apps being restored. EVERY time I have seen android os usage, I did as E said above and ran it naked......problem solved every time.

Personally, I'm on 1.6 I let it run all night off the charger (was drunk and forgot to plug it in :)) and dropped approximately 2% all night long. As I posted a few pages back, my phone sits in my pocket unused for 6 hrs a day during class and drops only 1-2% in that time so its NOT the ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bc760:
Sounds good because mine works and locks when I'm on wifi at home but when I'm at work on data it throws me across the street.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afmracer6:
because it works! i use gps at my job. thanks again! donation sent 11690397DC212020R
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] StrumerJohn:
Delete my Useless Google Wallet Announcement posts and my Old Google Wallet Posts too please! ^_^
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prenedo:
I think somebody said this already, but you have a lot of patience man.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TechSavvy2:
LOL to the person who suggested long-pressing the app drawer button to move it. Do you even use your phone?

But in all seriousness, I too am curious how difficult it may be to move the app drawer to center stage. Difficulties? I know its always much much more complicated than it seems.....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcool13:
Just FYI I'm my case, I have never done TiBu backup or reinstall using it. I'm coming from BlackBerry and was a hybrid OS builder. I always do a fresh install every time to eliminate any possible issues and can identify an individual problem at its source. We're not all lazy as was suggested in an above post. E, Thank you for your continued work and responding to our feedback!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
v1.6 has all stock GPS files. If you still have issues then flash all the way back to stock via Odin, then re-root, then flash Synergy again. You can also download an app like GPS Status or GPS Test and try updating your AGPS data :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] silver04v:
Fyi I have not even opened ti backup yet. On 1.6 and android system reading high. Battery still doing decent although could be better. At about 7and a half hours and at 79percent. Not sure what could be causing it. Seems rom since so many people showing the same android system as reading high in battery stats and better battery app also for me.

Sent from my Synergized vzw S3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
I'll need you guys to run the ROM naked while running powertop in order for me to tell what that is. Android System is a generic name that covers hundreds of processes, any one of which could be having problems. We need more detailed info :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcool13:
On it E........
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
Your at 79% left with only 7 and a half hours of usage? i'd say thats pretty damn good
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
In unrelated news, we're close to giving you guys read-only access to our repo so that you can see our commits live as we push them, and we'll also be moving to nightly builds :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
wooooh :D

question, will nightly build access require donating X amount of dollars? i know some dev's have done that in the past, or will it be completely free?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
For now you guys will not be able to clone the repo, you will only be able to see our commits but you can't download or diff the files. We have a buildbox that can optimize and build from the repo every night for you guys and we can automatically trigger a build any time we want too.

We're still trying to decide what to do about public/private svn access.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slvfox:
You must have your threads mixed up, this is not Liquids thread.;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nckmsn:
Anyone else experiencing a quick battery drop right after disconnecting phone in the morning? Should I be calibrating my battery? It seems overall like the top end of my battery isn't as strong as the rest of the battery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
That's normal. It's unsafe for the OS to keep charging when it hits 100% overnight but the software is written to report 100% in the morning anyway. Then it drops a little faster til it catches up.

They do this so that they don't have a million n00bs returning their phones to the store and claiming "My phone won't charge past 90%. It's broked. I can haz iPhone instead plz?"... even though it's working exactly as designed :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] silver04v:
I can get that done tomorrow no problem. What are the steps I need to take to get it done? Maybe even able to do it tonight.

Sent from my Synergized vzw S3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bc760:
Already flashed all the way to stock and full wiped installed fresh, I haven't attempted to use those apps you mentioned though I'll give it a shot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sccrluk9:
Yet Ive seen/heard of multiple people turning it back it because "It drains really fast till 95%" :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mutelight:
Exactly. It charges up to 100% and if you pull it off the charger right when the LED turns green you will have a full charge. Once the battery hits 100% it slowly discharges down to roughly 90% and then goes back up.

To the OP, In short, it really matters what state the battery is in when you pull it off the charger. All mobile devices do this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] seittit:
Success. Been running Spotify for last half hour and still at 99%. Attached screenshot

Steps I took to fix battery are posted above.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jgrimberg1979:
What app is that? I want it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] &roid:
My battery life is good and I like my app drawer on the right. :P

I came to this ROM, stock and did a full wipe before installing. I also don't run any synch apps other than Google. I'm curious why some like me have great life, yet others do not? I think if I could just get rid of the backup abomination thing in settings, this would be the best ROM for all the applyable customizations and themes out there because it's a clean ROM that has mostly preserved the original inspiration of the s3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] im_on_fire:
Who uses stock launchers anyways? Apex ftw

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] &roid:
Haha lol, I know. Easy change. Nova works well for those customizations too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] luthi3n:
So I flashed back to stock with Odin and then rooted, wiped completely and flashed 1.6. I'm still getting the gps issues. I have wifi off and verizon/google location services off and opened up maps and it can't find me at all. Says my current location is temporarily unavailable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jihoonie:
You can also try the GPS Status app. Just run the app once and let it lock onto a few satellites.

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gzsmooth:
I must have mis understood your Q. I thought you wanted to move the icon that opens your app drawer to the middle instead of all the way to right of your dock... And yes I do use my phone thaks...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] d1ez3:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&hl=en

G sam
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bbolton_98:
Just wanted to say Thank You to all the Synergy team. I'll be sending a donation asap.

Just for info running 1.6 with beta kernel= awesome battery and gps works fast and accurate.

Clean install restored via titanium backup selected each app to install with data.(no system files selected)

Use wireless energizer pad with official Verizon door, charges great, no problems.

In 3g area alot, use battery app to change to cmda auto prl and change back to lte/evdo/cdma when close to 4g area. Battery and signal seem to stay locked better in 3g area that way.

No matter what I'm sold on your work, been with Senergy Team since my tbolt and all four that I still have.

Again Thanks for a great Rom, and all the time y'all put into it. I've found that if I followed the op directions it works as stated.

bbolton_98
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stephenj37826:
Lol. I remember thinking how great it was to make it through a 10 hour day with extended battery on my vibrant and charged it during lunch too. This if course is streaming music all day lol. Now I can go the whole day streaming and so forth and make it to the end with 10-20 % left on stock size battery. I love this phone!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gzsmooth:
If I understand you correctly then you want to move the icon that opens your app drawer to the middle instead of all the way to the right using TW? Try moving an app out of the dock then move the App drawer icon to wherever you like then put the app you removed from the dock back to wherever you like. Hope that helps :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prenedo:
Just an fyi, you can't move the app drawer (on stock launcher)... I believe that's why he was bustin' your balls ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TechSavvy2:
That's what I'm saying, I think you are confused with the abilities of stock launcher. The icon that is on the far right, that opens app drawer, it does NOT move or have the ability to be moved. Hope that helps :)

Edit: lol, you beat me to it. Ninja'd
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] silver04v:
Does this look as it should or does it seem android system is reading high? I'm at 1hr 15mins screen on time.

Sent from my Synergized vzw S3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prenedo:
What would the chances be of having emoji baked into stock mms? I know the CM (aokp?) team rolled that out pretty quickly after ics was released. Not sure what type of files need to be modded.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jurassitol:
+1 for emoji :) but I think its the kbd that emoji gets added to, not the mms or other apps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jcool13:
After every wipe and delete of every app.,.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 760hacker:
Anyone having luck with the Mobile Hotspot app working as per the OP? Regardless of what i try it prompts me to subscribe and turns it right back off.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NxtGenCowboy:
The screenshot in the OP is from my phone sitting on desk in my office. I highly doubt this rom is affecting your speeds.

I just ran this speed test as well
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NxtGenCowboy:
That is a paid service - Please use Wifi Tether app
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
The new base gimps search. Samsung pulled search functionalties due to a lawsuit from Apple and VZW scrambled to pull it from the phone. You lose more than you gain with the latest base.

Typically the thing to remember is: If Verizon ever issues a quick update to a new phone it's to take something away from your phone, not to add it :)

Don't use Mobile Hotspot. Use WiFi Tether. We customized WiFi Tether (the name of the app) to work out of the box.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] taeksoo:
+1, I'd also like to have the Play Store auto restore of apps working too.

I was trying to figure out why it wouldn't do it after wipe... so, I ended up restoring then doing 'dirty' install over it.

It still works but I'd like to feel like I got a clean ROM.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong here... but, after restore of apps, I can still use TB to just restore the app data??

Sorry... still new and trying to learn.

****** BTW, I'm on Verizon GS3.. had ATT then switched to Verizon.. realized my signature is wrong and it's corrected.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 760hacker:
The OP says its enabled just "Tap and go" what does that mean.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sudermatt:
I just loaded BeanR2...only Delvik Cache wipe, then install ROM

After a couple reboots to make sure it was settled down a bit I ran speed test....from the same desk....I got 25mb consistantly.

Not sure what to make of this...but the numbers don't lie
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WizeGuyDezignz:
True, I know they pulled functionality away and that definitely sucks lol.

Well, here is my question with that being said. I recently flashed the newest kernel (July 4) and radios (VRLG1). With your ROM is that going to make things any worse or should I just keep it the way it is? I just want to make sure I am running your ROM at full optimization.

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
Wifi Tether =/= Mobile Hotspot. They are two different apps :)

The new kernel and radios work fine with this ROM
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drbveb88:
Is anybody having any problems sending long messages with the stock text message app? I keep getting failed if it is over 160 characters.

For the life of me I cant find any way to adjust this under the text settings.

Any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] salas2324:
What's the newest kernel?

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 4G LTE
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WizeGuyDezignz:
The newest kernel is a July 4 build. It can be found in NoSympathy's ROM thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
I'll update the OP to be more clear. Thanks for the feedback :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neur0t0xin64:
I have hotspot included in my plan and I can confirm it is working perfectly in this ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] d1ez3:
What are the changes between the new kernel and the original. Speed, battery life, anything significant and worth flashing for?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ssmaster:
4G seems to be on the fritz where I work, on Wall Street in New York. Went down to the Verizon store down the block, and both SGS3 demos were locked to 3G. When I am on 4G it is really slow as well, I think they are having network problems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WizeGuyDezignz:
I honestly don't know lol. I just got the urge to update my kernel and radios to the latest. For the radios I still get about the same reception. As far as the kernel, I haven't noticed anything drastic. Everything is still smooth with the same battery life. Not sure what it changed and I'm not aware of a changelog for it.

I would skip it unless you have free time to dabble with it and install them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] foocankill:
Flashed perfectly with cwm from mod manager app. 4G speeds unaffected, still getting 30+ mbps down where I get at least 4 bars.

WiFi download speed went from 30 max to 40 with this mod, 5ghz channel. Did tons of before and after tests to verify this. My cable modem goes up to 55 mbps FYI. WiFi range also drastically increased, bigger increase than using the old hack to turn off WiFi power save mode. I did not modify the WiFi strength but I will do that as time allows and do some testing. Tested with speed test app. Running Linksys e4200v1 router.

Will do tests on 2.4 GHz band later and post here.

I'd like to suggest everyone download the jellybean keyboard from play store as it is fantastic and auto correct is unreal (this means good). Wish my iPad was as good.

Will be buying your team beers next paycheck. Thank you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] troutbeck27:
OK I am new to the Samsung way of doing things so please bare with me as I came from a Droid 2 running the Liberty ROM.

I would like to try out this ROM.

On my D2 I used ROM Manager for flashing (at one time I used the D2 Bootstrap app).

Now I am reading/hearing about the EZ-Recovery app.

I am completely familiar with ROM Manager but have no clue about EZ-Recovery. What is the difference? Do I need both? What about making a recovery through abd?

Thanks,

Troutbeck27
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gzsmooth:
I apologize, I move the other icons around and never tried to move the app drawer icon...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pjamv5:
Am I the only one having issues restoring TWRP backups on this ROM? No problems backing up, but when I try to restore it gets about halfway finished then TWRP restarts. I tried at least 4 different backups on multiple Synergy versions with no luck. I can restore a NoSympathy TWRP backup with no problem. Do I need to switch to CWM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gzsmooth:
Ive never had any issues backing up or restoring a Nand using CWM 6.0.1.0

But dont think you will be able to restore a Nand on CWM that you made w TWRP
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RCOVA:
If you switch to CWM, it won't be able to read the TWRP backups. Don't know about the restore issue though. :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NotATreoFan:
I deleted the post, but let me advise against EVER asking a dev for an ETA.

[Insert Game of Thrones meme]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] baudi11:
Odin vs. CWM restore

I have seen two pieces of advice in this forum that don't seem to agree with each other.

1. Odin back to stock is the only thing that can fix some problems.

2. Restoring a CWM backup will restore your phone to exactly where it was when it was backed up.

So if I were to do a CWM backup of the phone after an Odin flash, why would I ever have to do an Odin flash again? Wouldn't the CWM restore do exactly the same thing?

I'm probably missing something important here, but I don't know what.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dwibbles33:
Essentially the scenario you have described would be correct, but if you don't do a nandroid backup of just the rooted stock then it would be best to do an Odin. The two methods do the same thing but Odin is back to factory everything, and nandroid is back to the exact state of the initial backup. Just depends on the individual user's situation and what options they have.

If helped you or you liked what I had to say. Save forum space and thank me using the thank you button.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NotATreoFan:
A CWM restore can fix nearly all issues incurred from flashing a new ROM. But there can be some corruption issues that only a complete wipe, including the internal SD data can resolve. That is where ODIN comes in.

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Sent from my rooted Galaxy S III using Verizon's fast LTE network.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Srambo217:
I was getting bad battery life and didn't restore any system settings.

I'll give your 'naked theory' a shot when 1.7 is out and not restore squat.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] triton302:
Any particular reason why my post was deleted?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] baudi11:
Does that mean that a CWM restore can actually leave corrupted data in the non-sd data part of memory? Or, if it doesn't fix the corruption, does that mean that the corruption was necessarily in the sd data instead of in the non-sd data?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] idelgado782:
You were the person who asked for an eta on the next update? If so check a few posts above.

If not, the mod said he was going go clean up the thread a bit and remove repititive posts. Could be that reason as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NotATreoFan:
It wouldn't be the first time CWM had problems with a restore, but I've also rarely had to use it for a rollback.

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Sent from my rooted Galaxy S III using Verizon's fast LTE network.