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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BoostRoid:
I'm seriously about to cry. How are you guys getting those numbers?? I'm afraid to even use this phone for more then sending a few texts. I think my the battery life is terrible . I can never get more than say 2hrs and 30mins of screen time. I'm at work most of the day so the phone only really gets used during my breaks. I'll do some browsing. Maybe send a few texts. I don't play games on it because I'm afraid of what they'll do to the battery. I hate seeing the percentage drop as I do simple tasks. I have to carry the charger with me everyday. It must be something I'm doing wrong since you guys use your phones more than me and you're still getting incredible life.

Sent from the best smartphone in the world!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AnaMayShun:
My phone is doing the same thing. I'm tempted to take it in to get looked at and possibly replaced. Too many people are able to use their phones with medium to heavy use and have a full day or more of us. While I get 12-13 with little to medium use.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] composi:
Something is seriously wrong if thats the use (or lack thereof) you're getting.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TrinitYPL:
Here's mine
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] elosogrande7076:
I feel you. Here is mine. I have been at work most of the day. A few times checking sites and txts but nothing crazy. I'm not sure what to do.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jebise101:
I had very light usage today few hours of music and an hour of screen time and i have 50% charge left and 14 hours since unplugged. Seems like battery has improved after removing bloat.

For the people that want better battery life, here are a few best practices that i tend to do with any new device i get.

1.) When out of the box never change it and let it die completely. Like keep trying to turn it on and you will see it will boot up a few times.

2.) Take out the battery leave for 30 seconds and put it back in and try to turn it on, sometime it will turn on for a few seconds before it dies. When you do this you actually bring the battery down to zero.

3.) Charge while off till 100%

4.) Take battery out and pop back in and charge again while off. You will notice when you do this the battery will charge for a few more minutes even though it said 100% before.

5.) Repeat at least 2 more times during a 7 day work week.

6.) Disable bloat, android OS can disable by default see here

7.) Facebook FACEBOOK, it has always drained my battery I set the widget to update every 4 hours, if i have it set to every hours my battery is gone within a few hours.

I added a few extra steps that may not have any effect but it makes me feel warm inside. The main object is to cycle the ion cells in the battery and to make sure all cells gets charged/discharged and I find the above works well to make sure all juice in the battery is used. The other major object is to remove bloat apps that eat up ram and cpu cycles. I do not just any battery saving apps or powersaving option in the SGS and always keep wifi/GPS on syncing gmail/hotmail plus have weather sync every hour.

I used the above and I can tell you I have noticed an increase in battery life each day i own the phone and its only been 4 days. FYI I'm rooted with CWM but using stock kernel and ROM.

Battery Life Each Day

Day 1 Out of Box (50% charge)

Lasted 4 hours

Day 2 After full Charge medium to heavy use:

Lasted 11 hours

Day 3 After full charge while off and above steps 1-5 (very heavy use)

12 hours'

Day 4 (today) very light use 1h of screen time and 2h music, text etc. But removed bloat yesterday night.

14 hours and still have 50% left.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AnaMayShun:
This is what kind of use I get out of my phone everyday.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] woodydog:
Was getting 4-6hrs screen time on ICS AOKP with ktoon kernel. On jb AOKP with ktoon kernel. Its to soon to tell with the jb rom
[Android] m4570d0n:
I've been racking my brain about this for a while now (whenever I've had some spare time over the past week or so) and scouring the internets in search of an answer but either I'm not very good at searching, or there aren't very many people doing what I'm doing that do not already know the answer to my question.

Here's what I would like to do. I have completed a full build of AOKP for my device (GSII Skyrocket). If I were to make an edit to a system app package, Contacts in particular, how can I rebuild the package without redoing an entire build? I am aware of the "mmm" command, but if I run

$ mmm packages/apps/Contacts
$ make packages/apps/Contacts
$ make Contacts

or any derivation of that command, it defaults to building:

PLATFORM_VERSION=4.0.4

TARGET_PRODUCT=full

TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=eng

TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release

TARGET_BUILD_APPS=

TARGET_ARCH=arm

TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=armv7-a

HOST_ARCH=x86

HOST_OS=linux

HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release

BUILD_ID=IMM76I

which then immediately craps out because it's building for a generic product which has no kernel source configured:

make: Entering directory `/home/m4570d0n/AOKP'
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:53: **********************************************************
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:54: * Kernel source found, but no configuration was defined *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:55: * Please add the TARGET_KERNEL_CONFIG variable to your *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:56: * AndroidBoard.mk file *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:57: **********************************************************
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:58: *** "NO KERNEL CONFIG". Stop
make: Leaving directory `/home/m4570d0n/AOKP'

When I was building CM9 it would actually make a Contacts.apk in /out/target/product/generic, but even then it was mdpi, odexed, and pretty much garbage.

What I'm trying to figure out (and rather surprised that I haven't found more info on it yet), is what configuration changes do I have to make or flags that I have to set so that I can just rebuild Contacts in the same way it would get built if I were doing a full build for the skyrocket so that I can incorporate the changes I made to the Contacts package? (Obviously this question would apply for any device, I'm just using the Skyrocket as an example since that's the device for which I'm building.)

On a similar note, if I can get that first question resolved, can I just add:

LOCAL_AAPT_FLAGS := -c xhdpi -x 10

to my Android.mk for Contacts if I wanted to build contacts with xhdpi resources? Would that work?

this is probably the most useful info I've come across (in addition to the stuff on developer.android.com) but it seems like some of it is now outdated and I'm not sure if it addresses my particular question.

http://www.jokersax.com/dev-guides/android-building-faqs/

http://elinux.org/Android_aapt

Any help would be much appreciated.
[Android] lithid-cm:
Just type.

make Contacts
[Android] m4570d0n:
As I mentioned in my post, I have tried that.
[Android] lithid-cm:
Well that's how you build just one app.
[Android] m4570d0n:
I am aware. That was not my question though. That command by itself will build one app by looking to build/target/product/full.mk which has:

$(call inherit-product, $(SRC_TARGET_DIR)/product/full_base_telephony.mk)

$(call inherit-product, $(SRC_TARGET_DIR)/board/generic/device.mk)

PRODUCT_NAME := full

PRODUCT_DEVICE := generic

PRODUCT_BRAND := Android

PRODUCT_MODEL := Full Android on Emulator

That's not going to work. What I'm trying to do is build it so that it looks to my device configuration which would be this:

$(call inherit-product, $(SRC_TARGET_DIR)/product/full_base_telephony.mk)

$(call inherit-product, device/samsung/skyrocket/device.mk)

PRODUCT_NAME := full_skyrocket

PRODUCT_DEVICE := skyrocket

PRODUCT_BRAND := samsung

PRODUCT_MANUFACTURER := samsung

PRODUCT_MODEL := SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[Android] lithid-cm:
Then use lunch and select your device. Maybe I'm just not understanding why you are doing so strange.
[Android] m4570d0n:
I'm not trying to do an entire build though. That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I just want to rebuild one package based on my device configuration and current built sources in /out. I am not trying to make an app for a generic device/board to run on an emulator, which is what the "make Contacts" command will try to do by default.
[Android] lithid-cm:
I do what you are all the time. For example. I make clean and clobber. Use lunch to load my device and build a specific app. I like my Mms with the holo dark theme and built just that. IRS possible you will come into errors while building though if that app needs other files compiled. If you are trying to make an app more "universal" do a port and build it in eclipse against the framework you need to.
[Android] m4570d0n:
oh wow. I'm retarded. I usually use brunch or use lunch aokp_skyrocket-userdebug && mka bacon 2> warn.log

or something like that. For some reason I was thinking that after I used lunch and selected my device it would automatically start doing an entire build. That worked though. Thank you! :D

Now, I had that LOCAL_AAPT_FLAG in the Android.mk for Contacts, but it still built the apk with hdpi resources. How might I be able to flag it to use xhdpi instead? The reason I ask is that I know that this build will work on the Galaxy Note even with the hdpi images, but would like to build a version with xhdpi instead.
[Android] toxicthunder:
I am not sure I understand clearly, but how exactly did you manage to go past

build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:68: **********************************************************
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:69: * Kernel source found, but no configuration was defined *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:70: * Please add the TARGET_KERNEL_CONFIG variable to your *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:71: * BoardConfig.mk file *
build/core/tasks/kernel.mk:72: **********************************************************
[Android] m4570d0n:
Let's say I want to build Contacts.apk from CM10 for the Skyrocket. The commands would be:

. /build/envsetup.sh
lunch cm_skyrocket-userdebug
make Contacts

It will build Contacts.apk and put it in the /out/target/produce/skyrocket/system/app/ directory.

My confusion when I created this thread was that I thought the lunch [device] command would start the build like the brunch command does, but all it does is essentially load the build configuration for the device. The "mka bacon" command is what will start a full build. The lunch command is the same as the breakfast command, except you can select devices that are not officially supported. The brunch command is the equivalent of "breakfast [device] && mka bacon".

That said, I'm not sure if the squisher and opticharger scripts are run when you build just one package this way, but my guess is that they are not.
[Android] lithid-cm:
glad its all working out
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] puneet9:
I have an LG Optimus one p500 that's stuck in fastboot mode.

After doing factory reset,phone entered in fastboot mode. After selecting that the phone rebooted but was stuck in Fastboot mode. It's been stuck for 5 days and I can't figure out how to exit fastboot or just reboot regularly.

Methods tried:

-Battery pull then turn on

-Press and Hold Homekey, Powerkey and Volume down when booting

-Run fastboot on my command prompt and reboot, continue or flash command

-Phone is not entering emergency mode

<But they all end in fsatboot mode "Fastboot: Processing Commands" still>

I've tried everything and read everyforum, My questions

1)How can I just reboot my phone regularily! so it's not in fastboot mode?

2) Is there a command prompt for fastboot that willl exit fastboot?

I just want my phone to work normally! Please help, much appreciated!

Please reply fast because my phone's warranty is over.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJBhardwaj:
Now this is spamming.

I've already posted a solution on this thread.

Ask a moderator to delete one of these :)
[HTC EVO 3D] invince2:
What is the best sense 4.0 rom for my 3d GSM s-on ??
[HTC EVO 3D] flashallthetime:
Yah s-on, predatorunity has one on rootzwiki. I don't believe you can flash it with s-on here's link http://rootzwiki.com/topic/28917-cd...redatorunityrom3d-v18beatstweaksxloudbassmod/
[HTC EVO 3D] EM|NEM:
Yes it can be flashed while being s-on but ofc you'll need to flash the kernel using fastboot (or use 4ext)
[HTC EVO 3D] elias17:
U can flash predator unity 3d on s-on just search for my thread (sense 4 on hboot 1.53.007) and see how it is working for me:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonlisty:
Hello,

I work for a corporate TV channel that broadcasts in hotels. We have a 1hr program that changes every month and is looped all day every day on the channel. We have our own equipment inside each hotel. Currently we distribute USB sticks with the new show on every month. It's time consuming and expensive.

We want to start updating the show more regularly - every week, maybe sometimes every day. Short of fully-fledged IPTV, we want a system whereby we can quickly and easily distribute the new version of the show over the internet... in HD. There is another complication. Each client needs a slightly unique set up; as well as the regularly updated show, they also have a unique video about their hotel. The two videos play in a loop.

Yes, we could use Focus Media to do it (I think). But we want to do it cheaper if possible...

An idea I've had:

Use Android boxes (like the Mele A2000) at the client side with Dropbox installed. This will synchronise a folder on the client machine with a centralised office machine. When we update the show in the office, it is automatically updated on the client.

But... if the client is playing a video when it is updated, the video will halt as Dropbox deletes old versions of a file and replaces them with a new one. So... We could use two playlists that alternate each day. Playlist A will play the local hotel video then the current show from Dropbox. Playlist B plays the same but from different files. As long as the playlist A show file is updated when playlist B is playing and vice-versa, the stream won't have to close. I was thinking I could schedule a task whereby the correct playlist starts at the beginning of each day (i.e. Playlist A starts running at midnight on Monday, Wed, Fri, playlist B starts at midnight on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday).

I would use webkey as a remote access system, allowing me to administer each machine individually should issues arise.

I've got as far as playing playlist files - android doesn't seem to like them. I'm playing around with .pls files but not having much luck. Does anyone know how to build a .pls file to play videos on android?

Also... Is this an overly complicated idea? If anyone has opinions/advice I'd appreciate it, and be ruthlessly honest!

Cheers guys,

Jim
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BinkXDA:
I dictate a fair amount of my text messages and, quite often, my standard English is replaced by slang. For example, when I say "want to" it is replaced by "wanna." Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nhan Lam:
mine replaces "wanna" by "want to" :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BinkXDA:
No one else with English OCD issues know of a workaround for this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
speak more clearly? as in, enunciate the gap between "want" and "to"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lojak29:
Itl be a few years before these new voice apps clearly repeat normal everyday slang /mumble mumble just as we state it.. All u can do is speak slow and clear and pronunciate words clearly
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] yoohoohoo:
Hey guys just wanted to know how does different network/radio affect the battery life? I am on rogers.. if I am on LTE I usually only get about 10hour or less on 3G I can go for more then 2 days...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
There is no easy answer to this question. Battery life is often a function of network reception, which varies drastically by location. If you are seeing such a huge difference from being on LTE, its possible you are in a fringe LTE reception zone and the phone is constantly scanning and trying to connect to LTE and draining the battery. Flashing a different radio may help, but its not necessarily a silver bullet.

Battery life always varies quite a bit from person to person, even regardless of LTE. LTE adds another level of complication. I'm on LTE all day, and I can easily get 24 hours or more before needing to charge. I think some on here have mentioned getting 2 days on LTE.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] wirbelz:
I'm on LTE 24/7 and my phone makes it through days no prob. I do charge each night while sleeping, but that's to be expected IMo.

Using: HTC One X // Paranoid Android // Tapatalk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DDM123:
I've tried searching high and low for answers to this one, so hopefully someone can help before this gets buried.

I'm out of town quite a bit, so I rely on my VPN to keep me entertained since I have a fast 150/70 FiOS connection. Using my Galaxy Nexus, I can connect to my (Ubuntu 11.10 using Openswan) L2TP VPN at home just fine. However, my 4G downstream is excruciatingly slow, around 400kbps even though upload on the same connection runs at 8000kbps. I tried running PPTP as a test, and I get decent speeds that are roughly what my local 4G LTE speeds are at about 12Mbps up/down. Most confusingly, I can use a laptop to tether to my phone, run the L2TP client, and speeds on the laptop are once again at about 12Mbps. PCs connected to the same connection can transfer just fine.

I'd much rather use L2TP over PPTP since PPTP has some security vulnerabilities and it seems to disconnect more easily than L2TP does.

Things I've tried in order to resolve this:

Switching ROMS (CM10 JB 4.1.1, TeamVicious 4.1, CM9-RC1)

Switching Openswan versions (and trying the patch for Android 4.0.x)

Testing out the connection with PCs/Macs

So I hope some of you have run into this before and can provide a solution, or at least try it out for yourselves. I'm pretty dumbfounded over here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DDM123:
Bump
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Altair8800:
I have the AT&T Galaxy S3 with a Sandisk 64GB micro SD card mounted. I can see the card

using file explorers on the phone. But I would like to transfer files onto it from my Mac. The

Android File Transfer app does not seem to see the external card. Could anyone recommend

an application that I can install on my Mac which would allow me to transfer files between

my computer and the external SD card in my phone? I am completely new to Android

coming from iOS. Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gunnyman:
if you look at the Android File transfer program there should be two buttons on the top of the window. Phone and card
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Altair8800:
Thanks. Sorry for being a noob.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gunnyman:
No worries I didn't see it at first myself.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lin013190:
I'm getting a replacement on my nexus 7, I was wondering how to restore what I had to my new replacement new. Such as game data and such. Is the only way if I rooted it?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nxxx:
No worries buddy. It automatically restores through your email. When you start up the N7 enter in the same one you did with your previous Nexus. :thumbup:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lin013190:
Really? It'll remember where I left off on games too? I had a galaxy s2 and got a replacement, but lost all my data. :(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frozndevl:
You will probably need to root and then use a backup program like titanium to backup from the old device, save the backup files to an external location, then restore to your new device. Of course rooting the new device too.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funkyboy1281:
Titanium backup + a box or dropbox account will become your best friend.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lin013190:
eh. I have a mac with me though for the next month or so.. Won't rooting now, erase my data anyways?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] No_Nickname90:
I think it's an ICS thing. I'm not too sure about the data, but your apps are ok. I know they're backed up by Google. As for the data, I'm rooted. So...

What you can do is copy your data folder on your phone. You can actually see the file when you connect to your computer, and then just manually start copying your app data. LoL!! I can only imagine how impractical that is.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IsaacGzak:
im new here so...here goes my problem...

Device : SE X8 E15i

Stock Kernel

Baseband 015

Android 2.3.7

Upgraded from floyo to gdx v028...when i wanted to install instagram then this came out on Playstore.."Your device isnt Compatible with this version."

Can anybody tell me what the problem is?

thanks XDA!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScatteredHell:
Have full wiped?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackRabbit1703:
hahh??

really?

yeah,,,

dont forget after falsh the kernel - backup

then factory reset

wipe cache

dalvik cache, etc

finally Flash ROM

I use instagram too..and everything is going well :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] combatjedi:
I hate to do this but there is so much conflicting info out there on different rom's.

I am just looking for a rom that I can use that everything works on and is stable without the verizon bloat wear. I don't care about the latest version or anything I just want a fully working vanilla rom. Any help would be appreciated.

I am interested in eclipse 3.0 does all the hardware work on it?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Underwater Mike:
Yes. It is, by far, the best GB-based rom out there. The only feature that doesn't function is the text reply to missed calls. I think Nitro had planned to fix that, but I'm not sure whether he ever got around to it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] razz1:
Eclipse is a great stable rom. Always has been. There are many themes for it also, but if I were you I would go to rooted stock .232 ICS and just remove the bloat yourself. It seems to be stable and works very well but you lose the ability to OC. .232 will either keep you at 1ghz or automatically bump you to 1.2ghz. It just depends on your cpu. I'm on the .232 ICS leak and rooted with init.d support. I removed all the crap I never use and have pulldown toggles ( notification toggles app) that are easily themed and work just like those in a custom rom. I have 9 cpu governors to choose from at any given time along with the new sio i/o scheduler(it's an extra download). I am also running init.d scripts from various custom roms to make it fly. AOKP and CM9 have there issues but the .232 ICS leak does not. Even if you don't do all the tweaks I have done, ICS has a better user experience, and is far quicker than any GB based rom. IMO GB is dead. If you don't like the leak you can always go back to GB and get eclipse but I would give it a try. If you have any questions on ICS let me know.

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[Motorola Droid Bionic] pdiamond1964:
I have been running eclipes 3.0 on droid bionic a little over a week. Runs great. on system version 5.9.905x875. Can any one recomend Other costom roms for this version.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jetknife:
I have been running .232 as well, but have found it very slow at times, compared to the leak based ROMs (CM9, AOKP, or liquidsmooth). However, I haven't liked running those due to their bugs. I was wondering what scripts you are running on .232 to speed it up.