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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] natsirt99:
It happened to my GF's S3, lets call this S3 A, screen fickers and with series of lines vertically, phone freezes, had to do hard boot, then the battery dropped to 3% instantly. We think it's the battery, lucky us, we have another S3, we'll call this S3 B, in which has no flickering issue, and we exchange the battery and the flickering did not happen on S3 A anymore but it did happen to S3 B in which has no flickering issues at all from the start.

And we noticed the S3 A battery is beginning to bloat (it is getting fatter than the battery of S3 B) maybe due to wear and tear or over charging.

So our conclusion, the battery is culprit, we've replaced it and we'll observe for about a week.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NoobInEverythingGuy:
I can also experience flickering and very crappy battery life. Guess I need to buy a new batter then? I don't want to waste money if changing batter doesn't work so please tell me if I should buy or not.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Moricon:
Does anyone know of a tempered glass screen protector for our Nexus 7? I have one for my Galaxy S III and love it.

Thanks.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] Treatcon:
http://bit.ly/OGOoZV

I have the one for my GN and love it. Working on a version for the N7 as well.
[Nexus 7 Accessories] sagarkar:
astleter

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[Nexus 7 Accessories] Treatcon:
http://www.xgearlive.com/products/android/asus/phantasm
[Nexus 7 Accessories] JaSauders:
Quite a steep price (I was hoping for half that), but it sure would add some protection to the unit.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] extol1337:
I've been searching and havent found a definite answer to it. Is there anyway to disable the OTA notifications permanently? I'm tired of having to cancel it manually every 5 seconds after unlock screen. I'm on 1.85 rooted, bootloader locked. Tried date changes, tried letting it download then cancel, cache cleaner app, etc, nothing seems to work permanently. I even let it download once just to watch it fail and give me the error that it failed to install so wait until the next update is available. Did that and notification for the same update came back up again a day later. Or am I just stuck with always having to cancel manually?

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
Delete the update.zip in your sd card and change the extension of the HTC/AT&T OTA apks in /system/app/.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Vendetta-NY:
Can we get the location of the downloaded OTA on the SD, and names of those specific APKs?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] extol1337:
Yes, ditto on the specific apk names please
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] extol1337:
Hmmm looks like it might just be "updater.apk" I renamed the extension to .bak and rebooted. No OTA notification...yet. I'll report back.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Vendetta-NY:
Can someone in the know please confirm that renaming updater.apk is all that is required to prevent the OTA notification?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] extol1337:
Yup, renaming the extension worked for me. Hasn't notified me of anything OTA for the last 2 days.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] lazarat:
Just delete it and you will be fine. Thats what i always do just to be safe.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Vendetta-NY:
I haven't gotten an update notification in more than a month since I renamed updater.apk and .odex to .ap_ and .ode_ but today it started happening again.

How can I kill it dead?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
It seems that the battery drain on my newest N7 (RMA'd first one) is waay worse than on the other, I'll attach some screen shots of what I mean.. it may be just the WiFi is using a lot more than the other's :S I left it 4 hours alone with WiFi and the battery drained 20+ % which even with WiFi on seems excessive does it not? Is it possible I got one with a faulty WiFi radio? I will be testing tomorrow (or maybe tonight) to see battery drain with WiFi turned off to compare, because it also seemed to drain fast when I was just out and about with WiFi off :/ worried I have bad battery, deep sleep isn't working right (it is going into deep sleep or at least thinks it is from looking at cpuspy), or faulty WiFi... or just too early to judge XD has anyone noticed battery improve over time ? I forget if I did was a month ago I got the original

BTW first screen shot was taken pretty much right as I was leaving for work, so you can compare the battery drain there..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast95135:
I doubt it's a bad wifi radio, its probably an app that is syncing like crazy in the background.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PJE66:
I'm currently watching the MediaServer app use a disproportionate amount of battery (14% and rising). I deleted a number of images which must of kicked in the scanner which must be very inefficient.

I also noticed my N7 become very slow at the same time.

Possibly you downloaded a large amount of images/music/etc before putting your device to sleep...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
I really wish I could figure out why maps keeps starting a process.. can you check to see how many instances of maps there are ? In particular one running Prefetcherservice.. as for the other comment, media server is sitting at 6%, android is at 14%, and screen at 67%.. though I did copy a bunch of songs and pictures over after the RMA, is there a way to fix these or should I delete them to see if it gets better ?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Sigh, I might just have a bad battery, or preferably poorly calibrated, since another hour of use, just browsing and such, and I'm down 20% more -_- hope I don't have to RMA again :(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
As a side question.. how hot does your tablet get under normal use? Mine has been heating up quite a bit in the battery section i think with just average on browser use :/
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] findmike:
Nothing you've mentioned sounds even the slightest bit out of the ordinary. I know a person who thinks they are always sick is a hypochondriac so is someone who always thinks there is something wrong with their computing device a hypo-com-driac?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Bahaha good one :P I dunno, the problem is that this is literally my fourth N7 since the other three allll suffered from major screen lifting, so maybe I am looking for something wrong just so i can make sure it's perfect... Though I do think the battery life is pretty weak, I think I may have figured SOMETHING out, the only difference between this and my original is that my original had a huge section of the map of my area downloaded, and since I did that maps hasn't started any additional processes.. so good sign ? maybe ? haha
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] findmike:
Yeah this might be a good time to stop looking for trouble and just enjoy the tablet for a while. I drop mine on the charger in the morning and don't ever really think about the battery other than that. Whatever the battery stats say now they won't say in a week and they won't say after you flash to a different ROM. If you have wifi on apps will sync and the tablet will loose it's charge. I'm never far enough away from an outlet to make it much of a concern. So maybe just take a breather, install the Angry Birds and have some fun for a bit. Eventually we'll have ROM's and kernels that make this thing sip electricity but for now I get the few hours a day I need out of it on one charge so I'm set.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
You think the battery life will get much better than what it is? My only other android experience is my HTC Desire Z which has a horrible battery as it is so it didn't improve much at all with custom roms :P

Speaking of improved life through ROMs and kernels, have you noticed any kernel providing particularly better battery life ? I'm on trinity right now, no voltage changing, but underclocked to 1.1 ghz from 1.3
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
Factory reset, see if the problem continues. That's the only way decide if it's a HW problem.

And my N7 uses effectively 0% battery in standby, it was off the charger yesterday for 6 hours and when I started playing around it was still at 99%. I turn off wifi on screen off, however.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
Use http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 to find out what's waking up your phone, the apk is in the second post. Install, charge it up, unplug, leave for 4 hours idle then look at partial wakelocks and alarms.

I saved quite a bit of standby time by disabling location services and Facebook.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex xander:
If your not using nfc that could save battery?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00303:
^ do that

I used Better Battery Stats to figure out Google Maps was causing wakelocks. I cleared data in the maps app and now my 7 idles without much battery drain at all.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Haha I actually just read your post in the kernel thread about this and immediately cleared map data, now I'm about to unplug and see what happens!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00303:
:good:

If that doesnt work for you, Better Battery Stats should be able to tell you what app is causing the drain.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Well, left it for an hour on standby with wifi on, 0% drain, let's see how rest of day goes !
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
So it seems like partial wakelock is mostly audioout_2 which i assume comes from me playing a game with music amongst other things?

Alarms says com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox has 50 wakeups, and maps has 38 :S why does maps keep trying to kill me?! and what is the googlequicksearchbox doing waking the tablet up...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deekayy:
Wlan_Rx_wake seems to be the culprit of semi bad battery. Is there a way to prevent the tablet from waking up all the time? Maybe just unsync or turn off WiFi instead?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00303:
When my battery drain was bad I had something like 250+ wakeups from maps under the alarms section in only a few hours off the charger and Maps was showing up as the most common reason for partial wakelocks.

I think AudioOut_2 is normal - Im not sure what it does though. Im now at 8+ hours of standby with 99% battery. Under alarms im showing 138 Maps wakeups and 76 from google quick search box. My drain is all gone now though so i assume this is within normal range. The better battery stats thread and a few other threads on XDA have detailed descriptions of the different battery draining wakelocks and possible remedies. Not all wakelocks are bad though.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salty Wagyu:
Yeah AudioOut_2 is just sound from games, media players and touchscreen pressing sounds. Can just ignore that. I think googlequicksearchbox is from Google Now, mine stopped increasing when I checked it today, might be related to when I turned Google Now off yesterday.

Probably apps that are syncing for new data. Try delaying the interval on twitter, rss, facebook and news apps. Currents is also probably downloading a lot of data in the background if you opened Currents before in the past but don't use it day-to-day, I caught that one when I checked Data Usage in android settings.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Hmm.. why does maps wake so much?? XD I mean, I guess battery life is okay now, it's MUCH better than it was when I first posted this forum! Now though mediaserver seems to be getting a wee bit high.. though my question is, does mediaserver use battery to play all sounds? like when playing a game it would use mediaserver to play the music for it? Or even to play the video, cause my friend played an hour of goo world, and now media server ramped up to 15% with an hour of keep awake time, would that be considered "normal" then? Or is it possible to have corrupted media files (i remember someone talking about corrupted media files make media server take a ton of battery, but this doesn't seem like that much battery so..)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast95135:
I would try turning off sync for Currents, Play Magazines, and Facebook. From what I've read these can drain the battery.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Yeah I did a ton of sync disabling, like I said it's much better than what I posted in first post, but now it's kinda like, i've come this far to make it better, while im at it i might as well go the last little bit to be extra sure ;P
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
Does anyone know if its possible to disable WiFi location and GPS until it is explicitly asked for? Like have it off until I open maps, or until I open Google now and such
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Im not 100% positive but im pretty sure the app tasker can do that. When "X" app is opened, enable GPS for instance.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noneabove:
One last screenshot to check it I'm around normal, I left it on all nice and all day, WiFi on constantly so I imagine that's a large portion of the drain, minimal syncing but still some, 2 hours of screen on time, what do you guys think ? It seems like it went suuuper fast while screen on, but that might just be because its over 24 hours so it looks steep..

Edit: forgot to add more info, according to betterbatterystats:

awake for 14 hours (seems high no?? Even for syncing :S)

Alarm wakeups: quicksearchbox 239

Com.Google.android.gsf 137

Email 106

I'm mostly concerned about it saying deep sleep was only 10 hours and it was awake for 14.. I'll see if I can do the same experiment tomorrow without wifi
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindstalker:
It seems that on my Nexus 7 switching WiFi off doesn't reduce power drain. In fact it even increasing.

But I found that switching 'Restrict background data' on in Data usage options menu makes drain unnoticable (about 1% in 12h) even with enabled WiFi.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tony yayo:
Ive never tried the restrict background data option. How does it affect phone usability?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stroker396:
So my N7 came with 4.2 and the problem I am having is keep awake drains 80% of the battery in sleep or stand by mode

Any ideas is that the updates keep waking it?

I get 47 hours of stand by with no use.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darthbader:
My nexus 7 2013 gets about 18 hours mostly in standby before it needs to go on the charger. its worse than my original nexus 7. when I take my original N7 off the charger I get about 48 hours before I need to charge again.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Get gsam and see why. Done. ;)

I get a week on a charge with 4 to 5 hours screen time.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Bruno Rodrigues:
Hello guys,

Can you advice me on some bluetooth keyboard and mouse to use with my SGS3? My main objective is to connect it to the TV via MHL cable and to read some e-mails, some you tube, and navigate in the Internet.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] freecharlesmanson:
Amazon. .....get the one shaped like a black berry
[Galaxy S III Accessories] terradune:
This: http://www.amazon.com/Rapoo-Wireless-keyboard-9060-Black/dp/B0072NUWNI

Rapoo's the top brand in China and Taiwan right now. Have a BT keyboard myself and have happily been using it for ages now, no problems connecting etc. The other reason being, obviously, that it's one of the cheapest in the market, lol.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Bruno Rodrigues:
Thanks freecharlesmanson and Terradune.

Terradune, is this rapoo keyboard bluetooth? I need it bluetooth because I'm going to need the usb for an MHL HDMI? On the description i seen only 2.4 ghz. I imagine that it works only with a usb dongle...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Beemer533:
It does look like a nice keyboard/mouse but it isn't BT..

It requires a USB port for a dongle (similar to my Logitech Darkfield mouse)

Quote

Keyboard Host Interface:

USB Nano Receiver

Keyboard Wireless Technology:

2.4Ghz RF
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bossman137:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00695OFE2/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

I do not have it yet but it gets to me tomorrow. Reviews look great. I need it for school so i wanted it to able to be very portable. Case is perfect and doubles as a stand.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gianluca.tomat:
Hi, since April the camera is not working anymore in my Atrix, when I open any camera app the screen is black and after a bit they freeze. When I try to use flash as torch it works the first time I turn it on and then I have to reboot to make it work again. I tried to flash another ROM/ kernel but that did not work. I opened the phone and the interior seems OK as far as I can see. Does anybody know what kind of problem it could be and how could I possibly solve it?

Thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatperson:
I think either your camera sensor, the connector or your motherboard is screwed.

Sent from my undervolted, underclocked, power saving Motorola Atrix.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gianluca.tomat:
So I think I will try to replace the cable/sensor.. they are about 10 € on eBay...
[HTC One X] ahmed4never:
Hey guys!

I'm wondering if there is a safe cleaning material to clean the white HOX, I mean the back side to return it to original pure white...maybe windex..Jeff..clorex..etc
[HTC One X] HebeGuess:
Ok, I provides my method but I never recommeding you to do the same with me..

This is how I cleaned it: rinse my hands with water, pour out a bit, hold my HOX, mop around with hands, wipe it off. (while water is most effective medium to clean thing, please make sure the quantity of the water will are not enough to spills in microUSB and ear jack holes)
[HTC One X] cleancorekiller:
Ive used windex on mine before, put a little bit on the screen too, makes it all lovely again
[HTC One X] ahmed4never:
Thanks guys I will try windex
[HTC One X] PhoenixFx:
I wouldn't use windex, if you must, then make sure its at least ammonia free. I'm not quite sure about the One X, but some phones have very thin layers of anti-glare/anti-fingerprint coatings applied on the screen, use of strong window cleaners can damage those layers.

I mostly use a wet micro fiber cloth and that does the job well, rarely even use soap. I suggest you start with just water and if it doesn't work, try with soap and finally move into special purpose cleaners if you must.
[HTC One X] Hunt3r.j2:
Rubbing alcohol will work. Wet a microfiber cloth and squeeze out excess fluid, then wipe down the device.
[HTC One X] maxilick:
Fussy with your phones..........I wonder if you guys are just as fussy with your cars/houses??? :laugh:
[HTC One X] ahmed4never:
I tried Windex ...it did the job thanks a lot guys
[HTC One X] cleancorekiller:
Haha my house is a tip. My phone is perfect!!
[HTC One X] androidboy123:
Hi guys

I just bought my htc one x

And today i would like to install custom rom, so i wanted to unlock my bootloader(HTC Dev website) as i did for my previous sensation xe.

But when i research on the internet about unlocking the bootloader, I saw people are using different methods.

Now i would like to clarify whether i can use the HTC Dev website to unlock my bootloader or i should do something else to unlock it.

Thanks in advance.
[HTC One X] cleancorekiller:
Follow this step by step, its the best video that I could find, all works first time too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIeq8Jx28cs
[HTC One X] androidboy123:
Can i know where is the link?
[HTC One X] cleancorekiller:
Just edited the post and added the link, my bad.....been awake wayyy too many hours.

cheers
[HTC One X] androidboy123:
Thanks Bro......
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] lartomar2002:
I have previously have installed drivers for 3 android devices and never had a problem except now. Neither my pc or my laptop (both win7 64bit) can recognize it. I've tried changing ports (could not change cables because I do not have an extra micro usb cable), I have installed and uninstalled several times on both computers. I've even tried to see if it ewas a compatibility issue with the 64 bit sytem but when I went into setup.exe properties there was not a compatibility tab. I bought this refurbished from Walmart so Acer no longer covers it under warranty. I did buy a 2 year extended warranty that I can use as a last resort.

Is the micro usb cable suppose to seat flat against the body of the Acer a100 or can you see a portion of the metal part of the plug? Also, should I be able to wiggle the usb plug back and forth. Any assistance with this would certainly make my day. I have been working with this for 2 days now.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] niteh@wk:
I'm assuming you installed the driver downloaded from Acer? My laptop is also 64-bit and it recognizes just fine after installing the driver. Yes, you can still see some metal part of the usb plug and it does wiggle, at least it does on mine.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] lartomar2002:
Yes, I did download from Acer. I finally went back and reviewed the paper work that came with Tab and found that the company that refurbished for Walmart has a 90 day warranty. I have emailed there warranty support service, hopefully I will hear something from them tomorrow. The only thing I have not tried is a different usb cable which I will pick up tomorrow at good old Radio Shack. If that does not fix the problem then the problem must be in the Tab. I have installed drivers for 3 other android device on the same pc's and never had a problem. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day for me. Dealing with this issue, going to the dentist :( and I am suppose to get the new Vizio Co-Star so I will be setting that up and then learning how to operate it and seeing what its potential is.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] lartomar2002:
Would it be possible to install clockworkmod and root and install the rom over wifi? I not sure how to do it but, I am sure there is someone that has done this before. :)
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
Only if you have adb over network, which stock doesn't have, so no you can't do that, has to be USB.

Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] lartomar2002:
Da*n, Oh well, back to the drawing board. :)
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Izzyb914:
I also have this problem with two Computers,Windows 7 64 Bit and Windows 8 Consumers Preview 64 Bit. Many Hours Lost trying but still unable to find a fix. It has to be a Security Issue possibly with an Exploit in the USB Driver Software. My Resolution was to Break Out the Old Trusty Dell XP Laptop. Copy and Pasted the Same Downloaded Files to a USB Drive and used them on the XP Laptop and in Less then 5 Minutes Successful Root !
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] lartomar2002:
I was at Radio Shack and bought a cable for $20.00, what a rip-off I could have gotten the same cable for $4.95 from Monoprice. Anyways that was the problem and now the pc sees the device.