yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
Unfortunately my problem is not related to gsiff.daemon.

I'm closer to saying for sure that it's caused by LTE. I am now at 4 days uptime with no "plummet", while having LTE disabled. Another few days and I will be pretty sure I've "fixed" the issue...albeit by crippling one of the core technologies on the device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Deveron888:
I had to turn my LTE off as well and forgot to mention it lol I don't quite know why LTE is such a power drain. To be honest the speed wasn't too impressive either.

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Does anyone find that turning off the LTE has made their phone not heat up anymore? I totally forgot about the heating issue, maybe there is a bug with the LTE that drains the battery and causes the phone to overheat?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
I don't think the LTE, in general, was a big battery hog. I'm not seeing much better battery life with it off. I'm just not getting the "plummets" (yet).

I would speculate that there is some sort of radio bug with the LTE switching that is causing it to lock on or otherwise continually stay in a high power mode until reboot. I could go days with great battery life then suddenly it just plummets until I reboot.

At 4 days uptime now with no plummet and LTE disabled, I'm hoping to prove that LTE is the culprit. It's up to someone more technical to figure out WHY it's the culprit...but I will be reasonably sure of it if I can get through this week with a stable battery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Deveron888:
With how hard it is to pin down maybe its not just one thing doing it but a couple things interacting that's causing the problem? My battery would only drop when my phone hot booted for no reason, but after I removed the gsiff.daemon my phone stopped hot booting and draining. I looked into it a bit more and opened gsiff.daemon as a text file and tried to make sense of what was in it but kinda came up empty lol I have no idea what any of that crap means. figured i would give it a shot though. it makes mention of syncing and connections alot though so i though that maybe it was constantly trying to connect to something and if your using LTE constant internet connection even during standby would destroy your battery wouldn't it? Its just a theory though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brucealeg:
Hi,

I am new to the Galaxy 3 and when I first got it a few weeks ago I was saddened by the poor battery. My phone would get warm and the battery would just drain. I hit the forums and with luck i found a random post that nailed the issue.

Open S Voice, settings, turn wake up command off. This is the feature that allows the Siri knock off to hear you and respond. To do this it has to be listening all the time and that takes work.

This one change took me from two full charges a day to only needing the normal one. Even on LTE with push mail I have no problems getting through a day. The battery lasts just as long as my iPhone. If someone mentioned this already, my apologies. This feature seems to get overlooked and I've had other S3 users say it worked for them also.

Thanks,

Bruce
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
I appreciate your suggestion but this is not a typical "battery life" thread. As I keep saying over and over: my battery life is GREAT under normal circumstances. If it would stay that way, I would have nothing to complain about. The problem is a "plummet" that happens to my battery randomly, after a random amount of time since reboot.

The tip you offer is definitely good advice but it's not really relevant to this thread. For what it's worth, I have S-Voice disabled.

Thank you again but it seems like most responses in this thread don't really read the OP to understand exactly what the problem is.

Anyways I've now gone past 4 days since reboot - with LTE disabled - and no "plummet" yet. A few more days like this and I can cautiously say LTE is to blame.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mac11700:
I did this tonight on my new red att g3..and instantly went to screen being highest showing..android system next..and then cell standby..this is with wi-fi and mobile data enabled..Will post later and show screen shots of each when I get off work..Hopefully this will take care of 1 issue at least..so-far...so good after 2 hours on this..down to 93% as opposed to 70'ish...Your lucky your battery life is great otherwise...there are many of us that is not the case...I still think it has to do with the switching between the HSPA & LTE networks constantly..cause my blue g3 which I just exchanged for this one had a major issue connecting to the LTE network..and had great battery life...so I am convinced you are on to something with all of this..My sons new red g3 is doing the same thing as mine...so..if this works on mine I am pretty sure it will work on his if he keeps it..

Thanks for posting this..

Mac
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
I was thinking of upgrading from Juice Defender free to Ultimate, but was put off by all the settings. Do you tweak them or simply choose the level of aggressiveness. I'm using JD along with OS power savings setting and have what I would consider reasonable battery usage.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
When I picked up my S3 from AT&T corporate store, they warned me that LTE was a battery hog regardless of brand or model. I'm usually on wi-fi, so I haven't noticed, but I might look for an app that makes switching network modes quick and easy when I'm on network.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
That's typical know-nothing AT&T employees (yes, not all of them are like this but many!).

LTE used to be an extra component in phones that used a lot of battery. It was the norm for LTE to hog the battery.

With the Snapdragon S4 processor in our S3's, the LTE chip is -integrated- into the SoC. The result is significantly better battery life.

I have been testing my phone all week with LTE disabled and honestly don't see much of a difference in normal battery life.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dual_Everything:
OK so you have gone a while with LTE off and no battery issues. Can you turn LTE back on to see if battery drain comes back?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
I think they gauge this from customer remarks/complaints regarding battery life with their new LTE phones.

I assume your remark about processors is about both quad-core S3s (non-US) and dual-core S3s (US)?

And I think the time between polling for e-mail etc. can have a significant effect on overall battery usage.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
That's next. I'm going to let it get to 7 days as that was my original goal. If no plummet by then I will turn LTE back on and see how quickly/if it comes back.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
The international S3 does not have LTE. Only the newest LTE phones with the Snapdragon S4 have integrated LTE so any remarks about other LTE phones are totally different from these.

There is no doubt that polling - whether by email or other apps - will decrease battery life. The phone must wake from deep sleep and perform a task. The more often you ask it to do this, the less deep sleep, the less battery life.

It's totally irrelevant to the thread though because my battery life is solid (opinion) for hours or days at a time and then just suddenly nose dives - and won't stop until I reboot. I have taken measures to increase my battery life - disabled GPS, made sure no apps are constantly waking, monitored individual apps with BBS and GSAM etc. Those help my battery life when the "plummet" isn't happening...but when it is, nothing matters except how quickly I can reboot it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Are batteries typically liner in discharge? I know on my S3 there is a rapid descent from about ~40 percent or so. The first month I had the phone, when it looked like it was somewhere under half charged, the phone would be off several hours later. So I consider 50% or less time for recharging. Which is fine because in my experience battery life overall is much longer when the phone is recharged frequently from levels of 70% to 80% back to full. I have an S3 cradle just for this purpose on my desk, and I had one for my Blackberrys for years, replacing only one battery in the entire time I owned all the phones.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brucealeg:
I did read your first post and as many replies as I could handle and typically the setting I mentioned is missed by most users. I didn't see that S Voice was disabled, so I thought it might help.

I live in an LTE market and can go a day on a charge if I don't go insane with screen use, but wake on command was killing me. Your issue is interesting in that it appears to be unique I guess.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mac11700:
His isn't the only one that has done this..

I followed a few of the suggestions and did what he has done..and what others have suggested and mine stopped doing the same thing..Turn it back on..watch the battery drop like a rock..Couple this issue and a few other issues..and it just isn't worth the effort..not on brand new phones to me anymore..Too bad really...maybe 1 day Samsung will get it's act together..and be better at addressing it's issues on it's phones

before

releasing them..

BTW...I had 2 of the Red ones..and 1 Blue..all had issues with the LTE or wi-fi..and all had battery drain issues..in 1 form or another...I couldn't see having to root a brand new phone and change roms to fix it..and went totally different...I'll miss a lot of things with them..but won't miss the issues...

Mac
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] expertzero1:
is it maybe because your in a low lte signal area where its tries to switch to hspa or whatever. Happens on the one x, where its always searching for a signal
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eyecon82:
is this Gsiff_Daemon issue only for rooted users? I just got it too...after rooting...I never had this issue since june 30, since I've had the phone
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paniro187:
I hare when people post stuff like this. Why even buy a smartphone if you barely use it......
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eyecon82:
IN RELATION TO GSIFF_DAEMON

do any of you guys have the "increase volume in pocket" setting on in phone-->settings?

also do any of you have motion settings enabled and/or autorotation on?

Seems it has to do with the gyro issue

also are you guys rooted or non-rooted?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fluidd:
Looks like you need to flash the cell standby fix..

Its clearly the cell standby bug that you have on your phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Snaxxor:
I was thinking of turning mine in tomorrow for the battery plumet. Even with an app like Juice Deffender I still get it. But heres my question on this: I bought mine in July when it came out do I still take it to the ATT corporate store I bought it from and will get a new one on the spot? Or what do I do?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ejatds:
my battery randomly plummets occasionally as well, stock unrooted. i'll be using it before i do smth else, and when i come back and hour or two later sometimes it'll be dead if i left it at around 20-30%. i just make sure i constantly close all my apps/clear ram so this won't happen :/

maybe it'll be fixed with the jb update?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] proud a-clown:
Try taking out the battery and putting it back in. Even a restart doesn't seem to address the battery thing. Mine does this very rarely, and when I switch batteries all is well.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] AliJihan:
Hi.

i am looking for a apex rom for my samsung galaxy note GT-N7000. So if there is any apex rom for it please guide me to it.

Thank you
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Att.Fan1982:
Apex is a launcher NOT a ROM! Apex launcher can be used with any ice cream sandwich or jelly bean ROM, I'm not sure if it works with gingerbread roms.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Rulinglionadi:
as he said APEX is a launcher...

PS : you can try this ROM it uses Apex and is really good if you like APEX..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1714296
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] toofank:
most cm9 builds use apex launcher.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Rulinglionadi:
i know...i just said this is a good rom with cm9 build and Apex in MY OPINION...

i am a fan of TW...so i just tried all these roms for like an hour..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] bllod:
You Can Flash Kingdroid Notemania It Has Apex Launcher on it
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] AliJihan:
thank you guys... i really appreciate it. :victory:
[HTC Wildfire S] airfly:
I want to do a rom.I hava to odex the rom because I want to change something .And I end this change.

I want to Re-odex them because I thinkit will be beneficial to the rom.

So how can do it only in computer. I need some help.:confused:

Sorry for my poor english.
[HTC Wildfire S] csoulr666:
THERE IS A Q AND A SECTION HERE!!!!

After my tradition i would actually ask you to search the forums before posting questions

This is the first result i got on searching "re odex".....So you possibly CAN'T SAY that the search function is useless
[HTC Wildfire S] airfly:
Thanks for your reply. But I hava to say that you don't watch my questions carefully .

I want to find a way to re-odex rom only by computer. Don't need to link my phone.
[HTC Wildfire S] baluuu:
Someone corect me if im wrong but you probably want to deodex the phone. Look around for guides on how to DEodex not REodex.
[HTC Wildfire S] csoulr666:
He actually meant to reodex the rom...... Odexed roms have better load times due to the odex files keeping some information of processes
[HTC Wildfire S] baluuu:
Lol i got confused fromthe frist sentance +not reading carefully i tought he wanted to mod something :D . Anyway there was a thread in developement on how to odex your phone.

there it is. Dont forget to click them thanks buttons i lookd whole 3 minutes for this.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lightdesiny:
i have a sony Xperia mini st15a, i like flash custom kernels but i have the problem of 1 bad blocks encountered when i flash custon kernel with fastboot, i read that is a problem in the nand flash memory, in the boot partition, i want to know if is possible repair it or remap the nand memory for move the bad blocks to another partition

sorry for my bad english
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuisma:
The file system (yaffs) is supposed to handle this for you. When it detects a bad block it's automatically marked as bad and not reused again.

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Reading your post more carefully this time. The boot partition isn't really a file system, but more a chunk of memory, hence no yaffs to fix this error. I guess you'll have to try to remake the partition map, not utilising the bad block, if possible. I.e. leave the bad block in between two partitions.

No, I don't know how to repartition the Xperia nand - Google is your friend.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] earlyberd:
I originally saw this happen on Xoom devices over a year ago, but I never got the Xoom and thus didn't pay much attention to it. Now Android 4.1 is out, and I've taken the plunge with a Nexus 7. But, I still wanted to use it like a laptop in some cases, so today I finally picked up a Logitech keyboard to accompany my existing Razer Orochi. However, there's a massive conflict with this setup.

Every time I connect both of them over Bluetooth at the same time, the Orochi kicks out the keyboard, and it gets stuck in a constant loop of disconnect/reconnect. The mouse continues to work fine, but attempting any input from the keyboard during this will cause the OS to go nuts. I wish I had a better description of the behavior, but basically the app currently in focus will just refresh, quick and jerky.

When I'm in the Bluetooth settings, I can see the Orochi picked up as a mouse, but if I go into Language and Input, for some reason I can still select a keyboard layout for the Orochi. I witnessed similar behavior on my Galaxy Nexus when I paired just the Orochi by itself, basically I had no soft keyboard input while the Orochi was connected because the OS thought it was a physical keyboard.

What gives? How come Android can't differentiate a mouse from a keyboard, when it works just fine in Linux on my desktop?

Anybody else have this happen to them?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kermee:
That's strange.

I've paired an Apple Wireless keyboard and mouse and it works great concurrently. No issues.

Cheers,

Kermee
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] earlyberd:
I haven't heard of any issues with Apple peripherals. Just a few different mice that this happens with, such as the Orochi. Reference thread.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Couchpotato009:
has anyone else lost the google search function, ex, searching for twitter and the app shows up in the search results

all i get now is web results
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzone1510:
Do this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29391428&postcount=7935

Credits to umberto1978
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manmad:
or you could isntall google now, the new search function of google ;) its been ported from JB and works fine! Ive been using it for a few weeks and its amazing!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1747224
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Couchpotato009:
thanks guys

ill try both and see how it goes

and try to figure out why my bluetooth wont work either
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzone1510:
Are you using a custom kernel?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kranti2064:
The feature has been disabled by Samsung (patent war)..

A fixed firmware will be released soon.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Venal_System:
Just curious if anybody else's gets pretty warm after surfing the web and listening to some music or another instance was while video chatting with my wife? Is this been the case or do I have a defect. The vibrant I came from never really did.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisram88:
Yea it gets a little warm but nothing to worry about. Let's not forget how thin the back cover is.... So you will feel it warm.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Araltd:
Yeah, mine gets warm. I don't consider it "HOT"
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] omejia466:
Ditto....it heats up...and i feel it through my case...have not given it much thought thou.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] etherealglimpse:
yup definitely gets hot. Usually it's ok but when it's really hot outside it can be bothersome but not to the point that it burns or anything. At least not yet lol.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Venal_System:
Thanks guys, I feel better.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rakeshchn:
If you are too worried use some app that will display battery temperature. I use wifi tether. My battery goes to max 37 degree Celsius after gaming for half an hour. That's not bad considering the battery is designed to operate upto 60 degrees.

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Evo4eva:
Mine gets hot after about 20 minutes browsing the web without letting the screen turn off once, but it always cools back down really fast. I was freaking out the first couple of times this happened because T-mobile's exchange policy is retarded and slow. I waited long enough for the phone I didn't want to have to wait longer for a replacement. I also have an issue that has been happening ever since I bought the phone. I tried searching, but got nothing. com.process.google.gapps always force closes, but after I hit okay everything runs great. When it happens it does freeze everything on the phone except the notification bar. Then when it finally says com.process.google.gapps has stopped and needs to close, I just hit the okay button and it's like nothing ever happened. Anybody else have this problem and if so know what's causing it?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
Mine can get pretty warm too to the point where my hand gets greasy/ sweaty a little .. gets annoying
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] circuit.007:
Same here
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dave2metz:
You said heavy load... Lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
Mine heats up jus ten minutes after browsing the web.. I guess it's normal but I don't like it
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] esteho:
I can't tell... I live in Texas and even our ice is hot right now.

Sent from my phone! Suck it 1980's.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
Lol nice! That's funny ..pretty hot here in Florida too.. low 90s with a lot of rain = humidity
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] stevessvt:
Used my phone for navigation yesterday, perched on my dash in the blazing sun, screen on for an hour and GPS on using Bluetooth for music. Got to 44.8C.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Evo4eva:
Did you have any issues? Like the phone slowing down, rebooting or even shutting off due to an over heat?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] pgjensen:
Mine gets warm as well, but not "hot," so I don't worry about it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] etherealglimpse:
After flashing new kernel. It doesn't feel so warm. I don't run it overclocked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] suprkain:
I was wondering if anyone knows of any good cases that are geek inspired. Such as the Nintendo game boy case. I have only seen this one for the GNex in a hard case unfortunately. Anyone have any better luck than me? Or anyone else have any good ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] electronixgimp:
only ones ive ever seen were on ebay
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shreddintyres:
Cruzer lite has some good ones, i believe they have a Doctor Who Tardis case, you can also design your own and use CaseMate to make your case, and i think Cruzerlite offers something similar
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jdwrrzmm:
Etsy.com has some homemade ones. They have ones like the NES controller and Dr. Who and stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tracerit:
i'm trying to free up space on my GNex but I noticed that even after deleting the folder with the date of my last backup, there's a "blobs" folder that's still at 1.2GB large. what's supposed to be in here? i don't recall seeing this folder taking up so much space a month ago when i made my last CWM nandroid backup.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eksasol:
That's where your nandroid files are back up to with CWM version 6 onward. I don't know the technical reason for this. However, because of this I revert to CWM 5 for now so the backup can be in a single folder.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Read the OP here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1757146

Sent From My Toro+ via SkyBlue Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The_GreenTree:
Does anyone have the CloudOn apk and can send me a download link?

I'm trying to download the CloudOn app from the play store, but I'm getting that my device is incompatible. I'm running the paranoid Android ROM, so I know it'll be able to run once installed (dunno how smoothly tho as many people have commented that the app is very slow response). If anyone is running this app on the gnex, leave a comment here and lemme know how it runs. Thanks in advance!

EDIT:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] carlitoschivas:
I was able to install it with no problems from Google play store. I'm also have ParanoidAndroid 1.9.2a on my gnex. Could recommended reinstalling the ROM with a full wipe to see if it would fix the incompatibility issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The_GreenTree:
Just did a factory reset, wiped cache, and dalvik, and still I'm getting the incompatibility with cloudon app. How does the app run on your gnex? Is it even worth trying to get it working on my device? It looks like a great app, but from what I've read is that it runs really slow. Thank you for your feedback!