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[HTC Amaze 4G] ericdjobs:
This happens to me from time to time, and the phone is ALWAYS hot when this happens.

What I've come to discover that it's usually something that' activating the phone while asleep.

The phone is hot, because the processor is being used. That's why the battery is completely dead so quickly, something is pulling it out of deep sleep and causing it to run full bore. The key sign is the phone is hot.

I recommend you get an app that lets you see wakelocks, and what's keeping the phone awake etc (I use GSAM battery monitor) Whenever I notice my phone becoming hot for no apparent reason, I know for a FACT that my battery will be dead in a matter of hours. Lately it has been "Android System" that's the culprit, and I can't quite nail down what is doing it, but it's very random and not much of a problem because I do a reboot and things are back to normal.

First, try to reboot your phone. Get system tuner and see what processes are using the processor when the phone is hot (make sure you show ALL processes, even the default excluded ones). Check the wakelocks. Get battery monitor and check the mA usage (it keeps a running history). When my phone is running optimally, I have a mA drain of around 70-90mA when screen off/deep sleep, and it should maintain this type of drain... when my phone is becoming hot for no reason, I see numbers anywhere from 300-600mA drain for no apparent reason. A lot of the time there was an APP that was offending, so I would first check that. Like I said though lately it has been "Android System" and it's kind of hard to nail that down, but it's so random.

When my phone is cool to the touch most of the time, I know it's running optimally because it's achieving deep sleep. I've found a lot of it has to do with what you had running before you turn the screen off. A reboot ALWAYS fixes it for me. If you can't seem to nail down the offending app, do a full reset back to stock and you should notice that your phone runs very very cool when the screen is off and it's sleeping. I usually get anywhere from 24hrs-2 days of moderate use with the screen off governor set to conservative, and maximum clock for screen off ~600mHZ. I use interactive governor for screen on, but that's for responsiveness and you'll probably have better luck with ondemand for battery life. YOu can set these in System Tuner.

Just remember, if the phone is HOT, it's using energy. If it's hot, something, somewhere, is causing the processor to run at a high clock frequency. If the phone is HOT after being in your pocket/screen off for a good amount of time, something is definitely wrong/rogue app. The phone should never be hot returning from deep sleep. I bet if you check your default battery monitor (The android one) you'll notice that the bar for AWAKE is probably almost solid blue, something is preventing it from going into deep sleep. If I notice my phone is hot when I take it out of my pocket, I immediately know that something isn't right. This should NOT happen.
[HTC Amaze 4G] paperWastage:
I'm just past my 9th day of using my Amaze 4G.... so far, if I turn off data and turn off autosync, my drain per hour goes below 1%/hour... so i could get >50 hour idle battery life + 4 hours screen usage

with data on and autosync off, maybe 2%/hour -> this translates to ~ 20hour idle battery life + 4 hour screen usage

with data on and autosync on, maybe 4%/hour -> 10 hour idle battery + 4 hour screen usage

I have only calendar widget on my home page, only Google Accounts on auto-sync (2 mail account, 1 contact, 1 calendar)....

EnergyROM 6.21.2012 ICS 4.0.3, faux kernel 0.07, ankor battery

what program do you use to measure battery drain? I use Battery Monitor Widget, but it's not giving me an accurate answer (lets say I had the phone on idle w/o data/sync... the available % is stable over 5 hours (~1% loss per hour), but the current usage says at least -100mAh)

for me, the idle battery drain (apps autosyncing/using data) is the problem

I see my device properly going to sleep (deep sleep is the majority of the usage, not too many wakelocks/processes.....)

with data off and sync off, idle battery usage goes to a minimum
[HTC Amaze 4G] ericdjobs:
I use battery monitor widget to measure drain.. as far as accuracy, I'm not sure? I don't know if it's EXACT but it seems to be a pretty good indicator of drain. When in deep sleep the phone usually measures anywhere from 70~mA-120mA. Usually it stays below 100. Before I changed the screen off governor / max freq (screen off) it was almost always 100+. Screen off governor is conservative with a max freq of ~600MHz.

I have no idea how exact it is, but when it's reporting ~300mA, my battery is definitely draining much faster.. and when it's reporting 500-900mA~ my battery is draining incredibly fast, so it at least seems to be a solid indicator of current usage.
[HTC Amaze 4G] paperWastage:
On my previous phone (LG Optimus T / Optimus One/ P509, CM9 ICS ROM), Battery Monitor Widget reports more accurate readings (idle with data off= -2mA or -20mA<dont remember>, accurately representing that 1% of battery would last at least 2 hours)

Phone with the new kernel (KozmiK Ruby -0.5a) still goes battery drain crazy (even with Juice Defender installed now).... I hit 10%, then got fed up, turned off data... then the phone slowly sipped battery for the next 3 hours going down only 1%.... sigh

I think Facebook Messenger is the data hogger in my case, since I do use it often... will try a new ROM build without logging onto facebook messenger, see how it goes
[HTC Amaze 4G] camapghe:
What you said is true, at least for data on - autosync on. My battery last around 10 hours idle + 3.5 - 4 hours on screen usage. It seems that autosync eats a lot of battery. Will try to turn that monster off and see how much it will improve. I have bad habit to push refresh button on gmail/facebook widget, even with autosync on, :eek:
[HTC Amaze 4G] hasoon2000:
I used to get 14-16 hours. Now my battery won't last more than 6 hours. I gotta replace my Anker :(

Sent From My HTC Amaze 4G via Someone's Room ;)
[HTC Amaze 4G] KnowledgeBroker:
Most recently I got 1 day and five hours with a fair amount of use by using faux 011 kernel and using CPU editor script to set it to battery saving profile. I'm at 45% right now with fairly heavy use after over 18 hours.

Battery life is totally under your control, it takes some work to get it where you want it.. but you also have the option of buying a bigger anker battery with external charger for $20 and carrying that spare battery, and simply not giving a damn.

Just saying, battery doesn't have to matter for a very small price and a little space to carry the spare battery in your pocket.
[HTC Amaze 4G] camapghe:
Yup!!! I'm thinking to take an spare Anker, just in case. Setting kernel profile helped me save my batter a lot. 21 hours 30 minutes passed and my battery is at 56%, with normal use of calling, texting, light gaming and data sync.
[HTC Amaze 4G] KnowledgeBroker:
Having too many things syncing, too often, or a badly written app that abuses GPS, wakelock, or any other process can be a huge drain.. a lot of things can be narrowed down with an app like betterbatterystats to make sure the phone is properly going into deep sleep.. but a well written kernel with the right settings or a spare battery can make this issue/question go away.
[HTC Amaze 4G] icepixie:
What screen brightness setting are you both using? I have my screen on auto brightness so that's prolly draining more battery than necessary.
[HTC Amaze 4G] paperWastage:
right now, my battery lasts 15 hours with data+autosync + 1-2 hour of usage after reflashing RUU and another ROM

I have mine on auto brightness right now... too lazy to change it even if its under the taskbar quick settings, or the tweak that you can adjust brightness sliding the taskbar itself

16 hours:
[HTC Amaze 4G] musti95:
Also ı have same problem.I used almost all roms and same results.Just ı saw you are talking about "cpu editor".How can ı edit my cpu ? ı didnt see any guide about cpu editor in forum.Is anybody help me about it?I would like to see 15-16 hours on my phone :) btw ı use stock htc battery
[HTC Amaze 4G] PeartFan40:
Moved this thread to Q&A section. Please keep all question related threads there. Also, please use the search function before creating threads. Chances are, a thread with your query already exists, with answers. ;)

Thank You.

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[HTC Amaze 4G] KnowledgeBroker:
I bought an app called lux auto brightness, it requires root, but gives amazing brightness control.. set how bright you want it in whatever lighting, never think about it again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
EDIT: see 2nd post about virtualbox questions.

I'm just curious what people are using to build android, aosp or other, and how it's working out for them. When ICS first came out, JBQ noted how much longer it would take to build than GB. So feel free to post details about what and how you build/mod/theme/decompile. If you have something outrageous, then please post pictures or screenshots.

I'm using an i7-2600k with 16gb of ram, running ubuntu 12.04. Building ICS/JB from scratch takes about 30 mins. It's a little faster if there aren't too many changes. I have an SSD and a raid 0 hdd too, but I don't think it changes the build time much.

sent from my transformer
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
I recently started playing around with virtualbox, and the performance hit is shockingly bad!

I tried compiling other non-Android projects, such as clamav, and it builds at a decent speed. I can see all the processors are engaged and busy.

When I try to build aosp or an aosp-based rom, things go really slowly. It seems as if virtualbox is using less than 25% of the available computing power on my machine.

I am building in a shared folder, but I wouldn't think that would slow it down since I don't see the disk spinning out of control. It's like there is some virtual throttle that is set way low. Any hints?

I guess I'm looking for either that building in virtualbox is really, really, slow; or that it can be built, almost as fast as the native host.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
OK, I figured out a few things- it builds much, much, much faster when the aosp source is on the actual vdi disk image. I was being "lazy" and just mounting the repo through a vboxsf share. Apparently, this slows things down incredibly. On the host, I can build a jb rom in about 33 minutes, but on the guest with the repo mounted through a share, it would take over 8 hours, and I think I even stopped it before it finished.

I copied over the repo to the guest "hdd" and it worked at the same "speed" as the host. There is a little overhead, but at least the build output is scrolling along fast enough that it I can't read it and it starts to resemble the Matrix. On a quad core host cpu with hyperthreading and a guest with 7 cores, the build time is 44 min, which I estimate is an extra 17% for overhead.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
Which Phone do i consider if i want to trade my galaxy note off.

I would ideally want a cheaper option or preferably in the same cost bracket. i cant go for s3 or iphone 4s as they would be expensive. what i was planning is getting a galaxy nexus. Is it worth it? is it better than note, if i am looking for change? Please help :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M3TALLICA:
Note 2 or Note 3

edit, if you want a phone in same cost bracket go for s2 / galaxy r or ace 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahilarora2003:
Htc one x or v.

Google nexus is also a good option. SII worth a shot also if you want to go cheap. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
lol that would take long. Also i wanted a smaller phone..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
S2 would be a step backwards.. atleast with google nexus it would be amazing shape and i ll get the latest updates.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sujal:
GNex. As somebody already said, S2 will be a step backwards, and for that matter even GS3 will be. Yes it has some cool stuff but for lots of us, its still not an upgrade. Go for Nexus or the Nexus 7 tablet and a cheap phone. Why I recommend 7 is because I don't know how you will manage with small screens now, for me it's next to impossible.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akiainavas:
If you don't know what phone you want, why are you selling the Note ? :)

Anyway, how about new Sony Xperia handsets ? They're pretty nice.

Or Galaxy Nexus, this one seems to be perfect.

Or get the Galaxy S2 and Nexus 7 tablet if you don't mind carrying two devices with you. You should be able to get both in Note's price. I know many people consider S2 as "step backwards" but honestly i don't see the difference between S2 and Note in terms of performance...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
I was getting slightly bored with my note. i love the device though and i am not hell bent on exchanging it. just wanted to explore options.:)

As for nexus 7, i dont see myself carrying 2 devices. so i would prefer only a phone. moreover i dont like tabs :P
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
lol true that its gonna be difficult to switch to a smaller screen now. but do you thing Gnexus screen is that small?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitanshu91:
You can also try htc one s

But believe me note is the best
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
Don't want HTC .. just don't like it. And ya I know, note is the best and I hope I don't regret trading it later.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
After doing my research, i came to a conclusion that i would be stupid to trade my note for anything below S3, HTC one X.

But i really want to try GNexus. the downside is it isnt available here in india, n i'll have to use it without warranty.:(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] utshoo:
S2

You Can Try Samsung Galaxy S2 For Your Note. Galaxy S2 Is Much Better Than Galaxy Nexus.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivek2701:
S2 is so similar to Note in terms of form.. it is indeed a great phone, but wanted to try something different :P
[Acer Iconia A500] maxx1973:
Hello guys,

yesterday i updated my stock 3.2.1 a501 with ota ics 4.0.3 stock and and everything went well.

After this, i tried to root it with afetrota, but because of the lack of attention in doing it, i made an error and i bricked.

Booting i see a message: "boot verified failed" and nothing more happen.

I tried an hard reset and other things but unsuccessful.

In apx mode, i tried to load, alwayas with afterota an update.zip using sono files but on reboot the message is an illegal blob and update stop.

Anyone can help me to get out of this somehow?

I think boot loader in ics now, but i'm not shure...what can i do?

Thanks all in advance

Massimo

p.s. sorry for my bad English
[Acer Iconia A500] maxx1973:
Ok, after a loto of try, errors, ect, I'm back to hc 3.0.1 unstable.

But...a new problem :) i don't remind the way to back to a501 stock to get ota updates....in a few words to back like my tablet was unpacked first time

Thank for help.
[Acer Iconia A500] startinoffsmall:
Oh man, your going to either have to run tlss little honey ( stock but rooted) or put on a custom rom, you will need root for this good luck
[Acer Iconia A500] maxx1973:
Thank you for your reply.

Now the problem is solved....finally :)

Regards
[Acer Iconia A500] maxx1973:
This thread could be deleted thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] RoyalYeo:
i just finished reading 65 pages of post in the wire trick thread and i didt find and answer ,

so my question is in flashed to boostmobile will doing the wire trick affect my flash (trying to install ICS)

and if it does it there anyway i can back up my flashed setting and restore then back? sorry i didt flasht he phone my self so i would't know.
[HTC EVO 3D] _xNova:
I have the same question, also can someone link to the original wire trick thread for EVO 3D?
[HTC EVO 3D] RoyalYeo:
heres a link to the wire trick thread - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1585846
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] aniketbullet:
hey friends i have been trying a couple of roms but each custom rom i try it gets stuck on bootloop

except for the stock

please help me with it

asap
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] aniketbullet:
hey guys please don't just view please reply i need to get a custom rom

i am looking forward to install the 2.3.7 stock like

thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] 123shree:
Well just explain the steps you do before you install any ROM briefly.. coz i do that stuff all the time and I don't end up in bootloops.
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] rodrigolopezpeker:
Please HELP! I'm in the same situation.

I made the steps to unlock my phone:

1 c:> cd C:android/android-sdk-windows/platform-tools

2 >adb

3 > adb shell

4 > su

5 # cd /

6 # mount -o remount rw / (

7 # mkdir /efs

8 # mount -o nosuid,ro,nodev -t vfat /dev/block/stl5 /efs

9 # cat /efs/mits/perso.txt

10 # umount /efs

it seems like I format the efs partition, or the bootloader.

Anyway, I tried everything I found, with no luck... I can enter in Download mode, and Odin detects the phone, but if I install any stock firmware or cmw, the phone enter in a loop and reboot without showing me the Samsung Logo.

Please HELP!

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Anybody?
[HTC One X] mr1029x:
I'm really confused by HTC advertisement

As we all have known, the HOX comes with a Tegra3 Quad-Core CPU 1,5Ghz

But in some HTC One X Catalog provided by HTC, they say that the HOX has one more core to manage the performance and power to increase the battery life of the device

Can anyone confirm this info? It is really confusing
[HTC One X] Alex240188:
Yes. The phone has a 1.5 GHz quad core processor. It also has a single companion core which it offloads to for low power. Usually when deep sleeping
[HTC One X] Fredz:
Yes, the hox has 5 cores. The last one is a low power core. It is running only when performance is not needed and when the other cores are disable. His goal is saving power.
[HTC One X] Yod-b:
As people stated here, yes, it has 5 cores. 4 full power cores for harder processes. This is why it's called quad-core. But there's another, "small" one, which is called the Ninja core. It's active when there are no CPU extensive tasks, it eats less battery (smaller consumption) than the "big" ones.

Sounds really nice, although I'm unsure how useful it is. I found different opinions on it. Obviously Nvidia says it's a really cool thing to have, but other people state it's useless, since it's almost always off, others say it's making the things worse, since sometimes it tries to perform tasks, but it's too weak, so the things are slower with it than without it. But as I sad, I don't know, these are just opinions.
[HTC One X] HebeGuess:
FYI the core swithing thingly is hardware control rather than software, less prone to programming mistakes..
[HTC One X] death__machine:
I think the ninja core is what accounts for the INSANE standby time HOX can have.
[HTC One X] mr1029x:
Yeah I think it's quite useful when the HOX is in standby mode or opening small applications. If there are some how the developers can active this core as well as the other 4 in gaming than the game will be a little bit more smoother. Am I right?
[HTC One X] Rusty!:
nVidia officially call it a '4+1' processor
[HTC One X] kholk:
We've got two clusters in the Tegra 3 SoC.

One is the "G" Cluster, containing 4 cores, and the other one is the "LP" Cluster, containing one core, called "Companion Core" (or also, someone likes calling it "Ninja Core", fugly and inappropriate IMHO).

The cluster switching is not made by hardware, but by software.... if you don't believe that, go watch into the kernel source :)

...oh and...yeah, nVidia calls it "4-PLUS-1 architecture".

@mr1029x

Absolutely not: you won't have any improvement by activating the LP core for normal operation.

@death__machine

Did you know that the companion core is practically the same of the other cores in the G cluster? ;)

The EternityProject Team Manager & Main Developer,

--kholk
[HTC One X] death__machine:
By practically the same, do you mean the companion* core is underclocked or undervolted (software lock)by nvidia?

If thats the case, its similar to how ATI & Nvidia used to reduce the the performance or even pipelines of their gfx cards via software and we could just flash another fw and unlock it.
[HTC One X] muamers:
HEUREKA :cyclops:
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] reizen:
Hy guys!

Please can anyone provide me a rom from Romania?
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] Avilove.Cullen:
Check Samfirmware :)

Edward Cullen
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] Harpratap:
romania code is XF i guess...there is nothing after froyo 2.2.1 for romania i suppose

get any other european firware
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] reizen:
froyo will be great to if it's for romania but i can't find nothing
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] Harpratap:
sorry mate,neither did i find any!

bot why do you want only romanian rom? O_o
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] reizen:
because I need it for my warranty and it realy bugs me that I cant find it
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] Avilove.Cullen:
You can flash any stock rom.

I hope that will not void your warranty
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] kidoscopic:
latest romanian firmware (samsung 2.3.6)

here's a link for you posted by RazOne, in case u r still looking for a romanian stock rom

bafta la instalare! :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] Harpratap:
dude that is for GIO not FIT!

it would brick his device :p
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] gabyif:
Man try S5670XWKQ2 it's the stock rom.And why you need RO firmware?? Sper ca am ajutat ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] kidoscopic:
alive and kicking fit

well, Harry, too late now! fooled around and soft bricked mine already. got white screen of death.

solved my own mess with odin. now i'm back on russian 2.3.6 stock ROM S5670XXKPY (july 2012 update).

so, everything's back to normal. skipped a heartbeat though, have to admit... :D
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] alexsirb:
Please tell me... does it have Romanian language? I might be able to change it from settings menu.

Multumesc :cyclops:
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] kidoscopic:
setări limba română

da. Alex. are si romaneasca noastra cea de toate zilele, pe care o poti stabili din setari.

sa fii atent, dupa ce rezolvi (cu succes!) instalarea, o sa vezi intreg meniul in rusa. nu ne speriem. te duci in zona de setari si cauti icoana care incadreaza majuscula A intr-un patrat alb. acolo dai click si setezi regionala noastra. chit ca, daca vrei upgrade cu adevarat, ar trebui sa te obisnuiesti cu engleza, ca doar asta-i limba tehnicii mondiale...

bafta! :good:
[Galaxy S II Accessories] FromiOSToAndroid:
I just bought an anti glare SP for my i9100 and to be honest, it SUCKS.

The screen looks like it has water on it(little spots disturbing the color) and the phone overall feels like CRAP.

Sent from a thing
[Galaxy S II Accessories] Mazzstrikers:
Glossy is still the best. I'd rather clean the screen more often for fingerprints than bear with the poor visuals of the anti glare screen protectors.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] iAnoop:
ya its really sucks... huge drop in brightness and color aberrant specially while viewing picture.

Glassy one looks better but problem is finger print and get sometimes chopped which need cleaning after a while.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] anshmiester78900:
Thanks for posting was about to buy one . So now my decision is changed
[Galaxy S II Accessories] FromiOSToAndroid:
Welcome
[Galaxy S II Accessories] FromiOSToAndroid:
But do make sure that you get a glossy or any kind of SP because gorilla glass isn't all that tough. I have a hairline crack on my i9100.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] bloodyshyt:
You mind giving us a photo? I am using anti galre myself i dont have any issues. Either or I am blind :cool:.LOL