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[Android General] snarf.snarf:
My buddy told me this a few days ago and I just had to share it......

He asked me Why does iPhone last much longer than android phones. Simply because they do less....like the multitasking is a joke, no flash etc. He said so people say its better because of that? Its like saying the moto RAZR v3 is better cuz it lasts forever

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Sent from my Jelly Bean powered Nexus Snarf 4G
[Android General] xredjokerx:
Their OS is better tuned, especially for the hardware.
[Android General] martonikaj:
With the iPhone you have software and hardware made specifically for each other. Not to mention that the screen is smaller, there is no real multitasking, and applications are quite limited in their access to the system and hardware. Also, iOS has historically been a very "disconnected" OS, with really no cloud syncing at all.

That being said, Android devices have been improving their battery life over time, as the iPhone's battery life has decreased. As iOS has added cloud features, wireless syncing, streaming and most recently LTE, battery life has really decreased quite a bit. The power user on an iPhone isn't seeing a drastic improvement in battery life over a competing high-end Android device nowadays.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] kralju753:
I bought used milestone 2 days ago and it is slow. I know its rooted because there is superuser icon.

But because of my noobity i dont know what he installed then. Strange thing is that it says Android version 2.2.1 which should be Froyo, but launcher looks like Eclair.

Screenshot pics are below, can you conclude what has he done? And what would you suggest?

About phone in settings: ttp://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/222/20120927013327.jpg/

Home screen like Eclair: ttp://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/20120927013831.jpg/

Im not allowed to post links so i removed letter h from my screenshot links. I hope that doesnt break the rules. I apologize if it does.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Erovia:
If i were you, i would definitely do a Factory Reset. Not because of the launcher (probably it's just a custom one), but the slowness.

Besides that, i would install kabaldan's CM7 or CM10. :p
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] kralju753:
I did factory reset and everythings the same, so i decided to install something else.

It is already rooted but i dont really know what im doing so i would like to go by some of those tutorials for rooting and installing rom. Can i do the same process as if it wasnt already rooted?

I mean, is it a bit more simple if its already rooted?

Would i mess something up if i did everything from the beggining as in tutorial?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Erovia:
THIS is the best tutorial you can get.

It's for CM7 which you can download from HERE.

But if you decide to give CM10 a try, you will find a link to the latest nighly in my signature, and a guide to make it bootable here.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Eiertschik:
It took Motorola forever to bring the 2.2 Update - but still they didn't manage to integrate the Froyo launcher.

Might as well be the official 2.2.1.

Anyhow - the stock roms are pretty bad - use CM (7 or 10, I prefer 7) or something CM-based (like MIUI).

The installation process is the same for every ROM.

Flash vulnerable recovery partition, install Open Recovery, wipe, apply update.zip.

For details refer to the tutorials Erovia posted.
[HTC Rezound] vcmstone:
I have an issue with the Stock HTC music player. I have downloaded music that is save on both the internal and external SD that plays just fine through the music player. The issue that I have though is that once I delete a song or album, the Music library never updates. It just continues to display the songs that were deleted. When you click on them, it gives you an error saying that this file type is not supported.

When I deleted the folders that had the music tracks in them, I deleted them using ASTRO and the app no longer sees these files anymore. Also, I have tried rebooting, force stopping the app and Clearing the App data in settings and I still have the problem. Do you guys have any suggestions?

P.S. I am on Vigor 360 v1.1, s-off with the newest global RUU. I know this shouldn't matter, but I figured I'd throw it out there.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheOtherTiagoTiago:
This is partially a Windows support issue, but hopefully someone here has had a similar experience or at least got some good ideas how i can troubleshoot this...

When i plug my Note on my machine if i got USB debugging enabled, Windows starts installing the drivers, but then the device installation thingy freezes (i've tried both just letting it do it's thing automaticly and the add hardware thingy from the control panel, same results), i can't even start the add hardware thingy afterwards (it complains some hardware is still being installed and it can't install more than one at once), Windows won't shutdown afterwards; and if it is plugged with the computer off or remains plugged when rebooting Windows won't finish booting, even if i try to boot in safe mode (but if it isn't plugged while Windows loads the boot goes just fine).

The pc is running WinXP 32bits SP3 (in brazilian portuguese if that matters), and the Note still got the factory's Gingerbread UBKK3 (not rooted yet). Feel free to ask for any additional information you believe i can provide that could help you help me figure this out.

Any ideas how i can figure out what is going wrong here?

ps:before anyone suggests it, no, reformatting the PC is

not

somthing i'd be willing to consider at the moment; and unless there is no drivers avaiable for WinXP i definitly don't wanna downgrade to 7, much less Vista.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
1. have u installed samsung kies. if not try it

or

2. Check this http://liamcrayden.blogspot.in/2012/03/galaxy-note-adb-drivers-without-samsung.html?m=1link
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheOtherTiagoTiago:
Kies is installed and works just fine; do i need to install that stuff from that blog? Can i even trust that site to not sneak malwares inside the drivers or the executable? (no offense intended, i'm just not used to installing thirdparty drivers from sites that don't appear that big)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
If Kies is installed and up to date then you don't need any further drivers.

Might be worth un installing Kies and samsung usb drivers, reboot, download Kies again and install, reboot. Make sure you're connecting the phone in the rear (motherboard) usb ports and see how it works from there.

Is it just the phone that causes this issue, or other usb devices also?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
if u have a good anti virus program I don't think u need to worry. I haven't tried it myself but I guess mite help else follow the procedure from the above post
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheOtherTiagoTiago:
I already tried uninstalling and reinstaling Kies as well as the "devices" that get installed when i plug the note; things still go screwy if i try plugging my Note with USB debugging mode activated.

Perhaps i'm not explaining this right. What i call "installing drivers" is what windows does when you plug a new device; i'm not talking about just having the files avaiable, but actually setting things up to use the device.

Btw, it seems Windows doesn't recognize the Note as the same device with and without the USB debug mode, it installs more than one of some of the "virtual" devices; i noticed it 'cause it installs a "Samsung Mobile USB Modem #2" after i try to plug the device both with the USB debug mode disabled, and with it enabled (had to do that trick to show unplugged devices to actually see both the plain USB Modem and the USB Modem #2 at the same time, but the fact there was a #2 being installed clued me it had another one it still counted as being present)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheOtherTiagoTiago:
A small update: I might've found a lead on what is going on; according to Wikipedia

I don't get BSOD's, but that is precisely the version of the ADB driver that gets installed for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheOtherTiagoTiago:
Nope, that wasn't it :(

I tried the drivers from that blog, and even though they are a different version things still go bad if i plug the Note in USB debug mode :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
cannu trybit on a pc with win 7
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syncopath:
I can't say exactly what the problem is, but had you seen that Gingerbread has USB options in 3 different places in the Settings menus?

- Location and Security, Disable USB debugging mode;

- Applications , USB Debugging;

- Wireless and network, USB utilities, Connect storage to PC (button).

I found you have to play around with those to get the connection working properly. I also found it's not a good idea to try to use Kies and Samsung drivers together on one PC. There's quite a lot about these issues on this thread and links therefrom. Hope this helps.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immortel_la:
i got an issue regarding Usb mode too @@

recently i upgrade Note to blackCNA v2.1 and i can't "turn on usb" neither "turn off usb". when i stick Note to the computer, it's showed as "portable media player".

i've tried installing and uninstalling then reinstalling everything, from Kies to samsung usb driver, then reboot, then do it in another laptops, but it doesn't work @@

what can i do to fix it now @@
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheOtherTiagoTiago:
Do i need to uninstall Kies, or just kill all Kies* processes before plugging it in? (i think i already tried both, i'm not gonna try again unnecessarily 'cause when it freezes the driver installation thingy, Windows won't shutdown (it freezes after a while before finishing the process) and i'm forced to go for the physical power switch; i already had some bad experiences with HDDs developing an increased amount of bad blocks during similar circumstances in the past so i don't feel quite comfortable having to cut the power before the OS says it is ok if i have a choice)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syncopath:
Whether you use Kies or Samsung drivers really depends on what you want to do with your device. Kies lets you synchronise your contacts, agenda, etc. with Outlook on your computer. On the other hand if you are going to work on your device's software (rooting, flashing, modifying, (de-)odexing or even just transferring files) then you're better off with Samsung drivers. See this post for a download link. If you read the posts around this one, you will see how Chasmodo stresses the importance of completely getting rid of Kies before installing the Samsung drivers.

I would recommend you completely clean your PC of all drivers, Kies or Samsung drivers (software and registry) with your Note completely disconnected from it. There should be no yellow-triangle devices or anything like that in your PC device list, and your PC should be rebooting normally again. Next install either Samsung drivers or Kies, depending on what you want to do, with the Note still not connected and only when they're comfortably installed and your PC is still working and rebooting properly, reconnect your Note and let the PC detect and finish the installation.

Kies in particular is quite temperamental so it may take a bit of playing around before everything is set up for a sync if that's what you want to do.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Comancheiv:
Hi all,

i've a bug with my note when i flash a samsung rom, after the flash i've the "Null" on my screen when i want write a message and i'm obliged to pass by odin on my pc and lose root to solve the problem.

please help me !!

sorry for my english :/ i'm french
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
this is a very common issue

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1789981

---------- Post added at 06:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:40 AM ----------

odin select rom in csc and flash
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majdinj:
See the last thread on my signature.. hopefully it will help you
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
This simply means the csc file hasn't flashed correctly. Extract the tar and flash the cache. IMG in csc. Not a bug, common flashing error.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.ketan:
You are on which ROM?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Comancheiv:
i'm on LRQ.T roms
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.ketan:
Flash this

http://d-h.st/3Ws

With PC Odin for CSc tab.

It won't erase root/replace kernel

Though always good to have backup.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Comancheiv:
ok thank you all for this assistance :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.ketan:
Does it solved?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Comancheiv:
yes :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Please mark thread as solved.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] partin_us_99:
wth

What am i doing wrong?! I put my note in download mode click on odin plug in the phone use the cache.tar as the csc and IT KEEPS FAILING!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Should be a cache.img file.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
need to use cache.img with Mobile odin
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] partin_us_99:
Lol I didn't change it from tar to img but I used the voice to text to download go keyboard
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robertcohen:
It seems that Branded Samsung S3 are not compatible with BMW Telematics and Unbranded versions are.

I do not understand why this is.

This has been discovered by my service centre who have raised the question with Samsung.

They cannot flash my current Vodaphone unlocked phone with unbranded software as it will invalidate my warranty so they have send a job report and have ask if they would offer an exemption in writing so my phone can be flashed or better still be offered a replacement unbranded phone.

The baseband version on the unbranded phone was different to the branded version and it was not running the latest baseband. On my branded phone it did not work either the latest or the previous firmware as they had another S3 on T-Mobile & O2 and they did not work either.

THEY "Samsung" must either offer me a new phone or allow current phone to be flash it is not right to be held a will to have a phone that cost me £300 plus a two year contract and I cannot get it to work.

The Faults:

The fault is to due with Contacts stored in Gmail. The car cannot pull down the contacts and store them and it causes the phone to disconnect and remove it profile after attempting several times.

If you set the phone to not download contacts from phone to car, the phone works perfectly with the car.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .SoFLy.:
I'm running Liquid's most recent AOSP ICS ROM with .19 radios. Using 4EXT, did a full wipe before flashing the ROM.

The range on the tbolt for Wifi is legitimately 10-15 feet. I get 2 bars when I am standing next to (~2ft away) the router, and if I leave the room that the router is in, I lose signal immediately. This is the case with all networks, not only the one in my house.

I had previously been running Thundershed until about 2 weeks ago, and the wifi was fine and worked throughout the house and in other locations, but when I flashed Liquid's ROM it got worse. I reflashed Tshed to see if it was a ROM thing and the wifi range was just as bad with the old ROM, so this leads me to believe it's something that got changed somewhere, or maybe I need to do another full wipe and re-flash.

Thoughts? :)
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disconnecktie:
I can go from one end of my house to the other and almost to the back of my yard and still have wifi. This is probably a range of over 50ft or more and through brick and I still stay locked on to wifi.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feered:
Maybe the radios you have installed? That sounds strange. I have crap WiFi single as well, but not as bad as your describing it. My WiFi (which on other phones such as my dads Razr) on other devices get full bars. I get maybe 1 - 2 at the most - bars and drops every couple minutes... It's pretty bad. This is why we need an OTA release asap!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disconnecktie:
I just reread your post and it almost sounds like it could be an issue with the router you use. Since you changed roms and it still doesn't change the signal it could also be you phone but who knows. I can tell you that with liquid ics my signal isn't quite as good as it should be but it still gets good range.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .SoFLy.:
why would I be getting issues with any router if it's the one I'm using? I'll test one or two more tomorrow, but I think that this is something other than a router issue.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xs11e:
Try a different radio.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1864157
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disconnecktie:
Could be your phone too though and like I said I show low signal on liquid ics too but I still keep a good connection even from over 50ft away from my router.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .SoFLy.:
I was previously running the leaked radios and it wasn't better, but I'm going to try reflashing to see if there is any change.

I wish this was the case, but I definitely lose the connection fully, it's not just the icon :/
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xs11e:
Just try different ones, see if there's any improvement.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jra89027:
so i used to have a nexus and just find the experience of stock android to be superior to anything. I love the work on cm10, aokp, miui etc. developers are amazing, and i know they barely get compensated for it, but there work is amazing. while i have tried cm10 on my own s3, latest build about a week ago, I find i get about 40 percent less battery than a samsung stock based rom like high on android v3. i am not using any different kernels other than the ones that come with the rom. I dont want to undervolt or underclock, as I am not fully comfortable yet with all the aspects of doing so. Is there samsung you guys would suggest for me to do, to maybe get similar or slightly less battery life compared to a stock rom. i am fully aware that cm10 is still a work in progress, and I do not want to complain at all, because developers are amazing and they do this because they love it and we shouldnt expect anything of them. again its not like they are really getting paid. so if anyone could maybe suggest on things they are doing, or maybe its been just me tha has not gotten descent battery life, please let me know. I love cm10 and really want to flash it again, but for my use , i need it to last all day , i cannot be plugged in , thanks guys.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crawrj:
I made this for Micronads but thought I would post it for everyone to benefit from. This is a zip that will wipe cache, data, system and dalvik. This is meant to be a quick pre-wipe for flashing roms. You would flash this first and then the rom right after. This wipes data but will not wipe the /data/media folder. So your pics, music etc... will be safe. Basically everything in /sdcard will not be wiped.

Download: http://goo.im/devs/crawrj/Android/ATT_GS3/CWM-Wipe-All-GS3.zip
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] overlord727:
Thanks for this! Also whats the benefit using your script instead of doing all this manually aside from saving time? Is it a better wipe or something?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crawrj:
Just meant to save time. I think the recovery wipes have been fixed to not wipe /data/media. I know twrp has. I haven't tried CWM. That would be the only other benefit if they did wipe media. But I am almost certain they don't.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tiffany84:
Thank u for doing this. I've been hoping someone would put this together. Especially someone as talented and trustworthy as you:)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crawrj:
Hey Tiffany. Good to see you around. I wasn't sure where you ended up. Always loved your work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caspersfi:
+1 on that. Always good to have tiffanys themeing talent around. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Pete7ate:
Thank you,hope for better.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shyuan:
Hi guys,

I was told by Google advisor that i can only get a maximum of 2 replacement for screen flickering issue. They said it is a new replacement policy. :( They left me no choice. Is either i request for refund before 29/9 or i hold this screen flickering issue nexus 7 since i have already used up my 'Max 2 replacement for screen issues' quota.

Do you guys who face screen flickering issue being notified of such new policy? Why is Google not fixing or being responsible for this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] imcol:
Just wondering how's the battery life for you guys?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
It ranges from horrible to stellar.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] keclarke:
Bought a 3150mah and used ktoonsez kernel. Changed my life forever :P
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Killua_22:
I downloaded the Ktoonsez kernel today for my new S3(first android phone as well), but 1. It feels so laggy compare to my stock Kernel, and 2. My battery is draining like crazy! I when from like 94% to 88% in about 30 mins, and that was with the phone lock the entire time....

I also downloaded Flaux's Kernel. That one was real smooth, but it was also draining my battery a lot while the phone is also lock.

I'm currently using HighOnAndroid custom ROM and had to go back to the factory stock Kernel. I don't know what I'm doing wrong that I'm getting such horrible battery life using those two ROMs, when people are reporting such great battery life usage :( :crying:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
.The battery needs to build a cache to reference and stabilize to show proper battery stats. Flash a rom and kernel and stick with it a few days. I'm using ktoonsez on aokp right now with excellent results. Even on stock roms I use ktoonsez kernel and get much better battery life via the kernel itself and tweaking the settings.

Also, if your saying the rom wasn't smooth I bet it wasn't the kernels doing, it works awesome for most. Of course there are some phones some things just don't work with and that may be your situation but it'd be rare
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Killua_22:
And the rapid battery drainage problem will fix itself afterwards?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Well that could be anything, but ideally yes. Battery if very eradic after a full wipe and flash. Also try the app better battery stats, it will tell you if anything is causing your phone not to sleep, which would cause drain.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] js2021:
Im hapoy with the battery life. It is better than the htc one x i had, not by much though. And wayy better than the s2 skyrocket.

Lasts mee the whole day i recharge the phone when i wake up in the mornings.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] greenflaw:
Dejected at first but Totally worth it now

I'm getting the best battery backup now. :cowboy: Better than my previous Note. Average battery life is 25hours with wifi and sync always on and around 3-4 hours of calls.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] imcol:
Thanks for the replies.