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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohebq:
Here is my analysis after using galaxy series for a year. My usage is gaming, browsing and music

s1 Average screen on time: 3hrs

s2 Average screen on time: 4hrs

s3 Average screen on time: 5hrs

Note 2 Average screen on time: 6-7 hrs

This shows you the clear difference between s3 and note 2. Battery is quite good.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daz_2000:
I came from s3 and love it. The battery life is much much better. Ive been getting 6 hours screen time and that includes hd video playback and gps on using navigation.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josuts:
Got the Note 2 just yesterday and i was coming from iphone 4s too.So my short experience is yes get the Note 2.Its a beast from all aspects:)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiguelHogue:
For heavy use, the note 2 would be nice for battery life.. But as always ymmv and im not sure about that iphone 5 due to my brother telling me he basically has to stay on the charger with it

-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pglandscapes:
Personally coming from the IPhone 4 s....and having every iteration of the IPhone beforehand, I simply love the note 2 and am blown away by itw battery time.

For the first time in many years, I have a device that lasts all day, and believe me I hammer it.

Working as a designer, I use this to its fullest and the multi windows feature, s pen usage, twitter and web browsing, and now using photo shop touch on my note 2 constantly (thank you kind members for donation of the apk), the phone just copes so well with plenty of juice by the time I get home.

Never looking back

No more Apple for me
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NEXUSBOY:
Note2 is the best. Go for it
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex217c:
Sounds like the battery life is good on the note 2. I guess I'll sell my s3 and get it :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vplevris:
Battery life

I had the original note. I had problems with the battery life, never satisfied with it. I have note ii for 2 days. I am impressed. Not only battery life is outstanding - conveniently one day with heavy use, but charging is super fast also. Major improvement in battery and charging, it is a great phone in total!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skugpezz:
Comparing your 4s with an s3?

If you used the s3 just the same as you do the 4s I bet it would last longer. You are using a device with more capabilities so of course its going to die faster.

Nothing will beat the note 2 battery life though.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ms.Dummbunny:
Battery life alone is worth it, but there are a million other reasons to get this phone! Keep in mind mine is Int'l version (no LTE radio) and i am not a power user, but still i can't put this phone down and i haven't chargd it in almost 3 days, still 60+ percent left : )
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fogducker:
The RAZR maxx HD should as it has a bigger battery and a smaller screen, no?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulyDerek:
I am a very heavy user. And my Note 2 lasts for a full day. My Note 1 used to run out in half a day.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nygrik:
i also have to s3s(my wife) has one and no room to upgrade anytime soon...is there a significant difference other than battery?...i felt like my OG droid was the best phone and now all these new ones are a huge upgrade in hardware for me
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prinzhernan:
Yes. There is a huge difference specially when multi tasking. This is the reason I gave up my s3. No matter how many apps I load on the note it doesn't stutter but on my s3 it does. Also, when calling apps back to the screen, on the note they don't have to reload all their content, on the s3 it reloads every time.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikeshashimi:
Why not just get a portable charger?

or why not zoidberg? :silly:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] luigic81:
o this is weird, I just got back from a vacation in CA, back home to Portland, or and I have no data what so ever.

Been on Viper's rom for a while. I know Portland just got LTE like this week, not sure if that has something to do with it? Any suggestions? I already reflashed the rom and no dice
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
Try changing network mode to GSM/WCDMA Auto (or any of the other settings without LTE) and see if you get data.

What build of Viper? And what network icons? I've found the AT&T icons cause more trouble than they are worth. Almost any other ones cause less troubles. If using the AT&T icons, reflash using the stock icons.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] luigic81:
Sweet that worked thanks. I did choose ATT icons, I will reflash right now with stock icons.

Hopefully that will make it so I can have LTE without issues, but for now changing the network mode has me back in business :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] luigic81:
hmm still can't get LTE, I tried putting in a new apn per the insturctions in the AOKP thread, but it still loses data when it switches to LTE
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
I'm not clear, are you on AOKP or Viper now?

If still on Viper, did you try to reflash the ROM, picking the stock network icons this time. You can "dirty flash" and keep your data.

If you are still on Viper, and on the AT&T icons, I believe changing the network icons actually changes the build.prop, and for some reason this screws with LTE, and simply changing the APN settings won't fix it. Not sure why this is true, its counter-intuitive, you would think the AT&T icons would work better on the AT&T network. But I don't know the details of how the build.prop gets affected by the network icons.
[General Questions and Answers] Brennon19968:
I'm looking to beta test new phones for HTC but I am unsure how to get a hold of it so that they can look into it and possibly add me on. I'm also willing to do it for Samsung if HTC is not possible. Any ideas or help?
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
First start would be getting a degree in something relevant.

Sent from Arkham
[General Questions and Answers] herrmidnqer:
Do you really want to get stressed with all that bugs? I won't do this hard work just for free phones.
[General Questions and Answers] Brennon19968:
I have beta tested for a few people but only software and I just like being able to try to find issues with the new phones. I really don't care that its free and as far as dealing with bugs I already do with some of the ROMs I run so it would just be a different set of bugs.
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
The beta testing of devices is alot different then basic rom trouble shooting. You would need to know the base coding and how to decode the code to find issues. I really dont think you understand what your asking for. You would need to know java, C, C+, C++ and Linux and that is just for the software side. As you would need to be able to over solutions on how to fix any issue. Ex. Say I gave you a device to test. The GPS, WIFI, and radio antenna keep failing. Would you know how to fix it? Could you offer something more then "this is broken" Once you got into hardware then you would need to be employed by the company as Test devices are never given out side a set team.
[General Questions and Answers] gagdude:
Like zelendel stated above, phones are an entire deifferent league of beta testing.

Rather than finding bugs and reporting them, you actuall have to know how to fix them yourself
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jboy15:
How to make two cores working for better performance?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] theboss23:
You can use CPU Editor, It's a script that allows you to force dual core and allows a lot of customization. For instance you can run different frequencies on each core along with different govenors and so on, could be great for saving battery life too.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] kevin619:
If you have a dual core processor in your Windows 7 computer and one of the processing cores is disabled, you have the ability to make both cores work again. Utilizing both processing cores instead of just one will substantially increase the processing performance of your computer, which will translate into faster operations.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
Root your phone. Download system tuner pro from the app store got to Cpu and change the governor to performance instead of on demand... This will use a lot more battery tho.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] theboss23:
I actually wouldn't recommend that, in some cases performance is the better govenor for performance but I heard the S3 or the S4 processor is actually optimized for the ondemand govenor. I did some tests and I noticed that they scored pretty close to the same in the benchmarks department, I noticed that the S3 gets hot when using the performance govenor and then it starts to lag here and there but I did not experience this with the ondemand govenor.

OnDemand:

Scales CPU according to the processing needs of the programs running which saves power and is still snappy as ever.

Performance:

Locks the CPU at the top frequency regardless of processing needs which drains battery and can make the S3 insanely hot.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
If you read ops request... He wants to know how to make both the cores work at the same time... And I gave him the right answer regardless of what it does to the phone he wanted to know how to do it and I answered.

Now would I recommend having both cores on at all times absolutely not... Phone drains the batter and gets pretty hot.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] theboss23:
I never said you didn't give him the right answer I was just trying to give him a bit more info on the performance govenor.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elesbb:
Naturally the second core will come on when it needs to based off the type of governor set. As said before performance governor locks at Max. SmartassV2 does not have smp so the second core never goes offline. Simply turning on the second core really won't give you a noticeable difference in performance.

But using root explorer or terminal emulator, setting

/sys/devices/system/CPU/CPU1/online to 1

Then change same files permission to read only will yield an always active second core.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] xakuvo:
i would like to mimic gremlin remover with heimdall, but i am unsure how gremlin remover works, so i would LOVE some more info on it

i understand that it is an odin executable

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1500427

accoring to http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/

kj6 is 2.3.6

So does Gremlin Remover flash KC1(pit, datafs, kernel, factoryfs, cachefs, etc.) firmware first?

then the app proceeds up the list? does it go through the different andriod versions? like skip KD1 because KC1 is already 2.2, just jump to 2.3.3?

that is a good start, but there must be an order to the way things are flashed. And EVERY stock ROM? 600mb now seems a bit small, with an avg. of 200mb per rom.

what paramaters might that be? partition?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] eollie:
Gremlin Remover is just a name thomas raines gave it. It is a one click package of odin. Which with some searching will tell you what it does.

I just cant grasp why you cant grasp that. Reading what thomasraines has posted explaining it was more than enough for everybody else. I mean it really cant be explained any better. It takes the packages he has pre-loaded and flashes them all in one click.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] xakuvo:
i would like to know specifically what firmware packages. and in what order, oldest to newest? it can be explained better if you read my question and understand what i am asking.

how is the gremlin remover.exe only 600mb IF it contains ALL various firmware version files, that is at least 7, 200mb stock roms. explain? redundant data?

ive searched, and provided the information i have come up with, and asked many times, yet i get the same answer:

"works like heimdall, but heimdall is open source, blah blah blah, BS."

COOL, i know that, and ive tried reading into heimdall, on their offical page, through this forum, not the information im looking for.

eollie, you posted of "variables" that heimdall doesn't like, but odin will tolerate, what are you talking about? partition parameters set up by the pit? the flash not following the partition? sizes of partition? i would like a COMPREHENSIVE ANSWER, if you want to post that i should know this info or what-not, DONT, just answer my question, this is the Q&A board.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] hechoen:
It doesn't contain all the firmwares. Just one. Read the thread for it. All the info you want is in it. If you really want a "comprehensive" answer PM the creator of the program.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] eollie:
Did you even read the first post in the gremlin remover thread? The above quote is taken from there. He does not ever say it uses every firmware it says it formats every

PARTITION

.

As for the variable I spoke of. Think about what all variable are in play when connecting your phone to your computer. Common sense thinking and deductions would give you your answer. But mostly these are things like usb ports and usb cables.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thomas.raines:
Gremlin Remover is a PROCESS not just the one click. If you are wanting to recreate the Gremlin Remover 1- Click package as a Heimdal 1-Click package, then you will have to extract /system, /data, recovery, /cache, kernel, pit, and modem images from your device yourself. Depending on what ROM you are using will determine the method in which you do so. Then you will have find the correct tools to package everything up as a 1-Click. I actually already have a Heimdal 1-Click built and working, but have been too involved in other projects to remember to upload and release it. Maybe I will do that this weekend...lol

However, everyone is correct. READ MY OP ON GREMLIN REMOVER! I have included all necessary information as to what ROM/kernel I used to create the 1-click.

Take heed in what you do here as you could hard brick your device. My advice would be to perform the UBM on your phone before you start messing with this. I speak from experience on this as I didn't perform the UBM mod and bricked my device. Which was my encouragement to go UBM...lol
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] xakuvo:
oh,gremlin remover version is jumbled into the OP, sorry i missed it

anyways, ive made a hiemdall of my current rom(AtonX's 2.3.6, Blastoffv2, LightningZapv5) using http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1348392

there are more paritions to copy than the few listed in the guide, how do i list the partitions on my device using adb?

this is to see the partitions available on the phone? using adb

so i would copy EVERY single partition by name? how do i figure out to what they are associated?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] thomas.raines:
Honestly:

You don't want to mount/copy your partitions via adb to your computer because sometimes it doesn't read correctly. You want to use terminal on the phone.

Depending on what you are using, ie bml or mtd, depends on what/how you mount/copy them. For example, /system in mtd is /dev/block/mmcblk25 (if memory serves me correctly)...

I don't follow too many Roms or kernels on the sgs4 anymore because I have many of my own projects going on.

I can tell you, Google is your best tool and asset at this point. That's how I figured 90% of this stuff out...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Fluidification:
Personally, I have my own recovery/fix methods which I am too lazy to explain and will take thousands of words, but if you want to use raines' gremlin remover, you have to have a reason. Gremlin remover isn't a toy or a happy method of swithing android versions. It is a re-virginator if i remember correctly. You shouldn't use it unless you have a specific problem.

and thomas, that's bml mounting I believe, not mtd. MTD is mtdblocksomenumber.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] xakuvo:
pesky gremlins

im bad at reading "to the letter"

specific UBM guide you followed? or the generalized UMB by AdamOutler: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1338073

i cant use the adb prompt?

terminal in the phone? eeww,

what if i just want to copy the contents of these partitions to my sd card?

could i use adb shell and copy them to sd card?

looking at heimdall, i only have 11 blocks labled/granted by heimdall to overwrite

could i read the .pit somehow? notepad is no good
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jeffsf:
If you're really this confused, what you are trying to do is way over your head. Take some time to learn how Linux works, down to the filesystem and boot-sequence level. Without that, you're looking at more trouble than you know, and won't get much sympathy.

Posted from my SGS4G, thanks to Team Acid development
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] xakuvo:
BML @ EXT4

no MTD

AntonX's Barebone KJ6, blastoffv2 kernel. thinking about getting the modem out of Valhalla black... simple

Q&A bro

its why i ask, hoping to get an answer

could have typed an answer in the time you spent typing some NO-ANSWER response, what do you think i do in my downtime? constantly refresh page looking for an answer? i wish i could consider forums a consistent, reliable source, but they are only an intro to the means to get to the end, at best. xda is one of the most helpful forums, but like all forums, there are these "elitists". EX: so you spent years and thousands of dollars learning something, you have a great understanding of it, someone asks you a stupid question pertaining to your specialization, you consider your knowledge to be "too-good" for this noob, he must learn himself. but, you have a great understanding and could explain simply and thoroughly, but you dont, cuz you're "elite". :highfive:

i could shovel through some google pages, but i have a transmission to work on, RAID 5 setup to install/replace old RAID1&2, water-pump to replace, shifter assembly along w/ the cables on my bicycle, and a girlfriend to entertain(computers and cars really turn her off).

i understand most people are busy with their lives, so why waste both of our time with a response that has no information? obviously i have more to learn about lunix and android, this is the Q&A...?

my rant, tired of useless responses, google = #1 source

it doesn't seem like i could include any more than the 11 listed partition labels in heimdall

so i will just try find the 11, and rip them?

i'll try through phone terminal, and through adb terminal, both will be ripped to external sd card

is my plan bad?

i know the .pit has partition information, i would like like to know how to view it.

ls -lR /dev/block

gives lots of results

all of the paritions in the dev/block?

cd proc
cat partitions

mount

2nd page of this thread, and im the only one who posts code, and yet im asking...

is there a better cmd line that i can use to retrieve the available partitions?

what do you mean?

BTW: i flashed the heimdall one-click i made. worked like a charm. was i just lucky, considering i used adb terminal to copy phone partitions to the sd card? i dont understand the problem, is it the adb cmd or the actual transferring of blocks from phone to computer?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] eollie:
Look people are trying to help you and when they offer help you come back with a question that has been answered. Now you are saying you dont have the time to use search/google to find the answers and expect people to repeat or find them for you. No. There isnt one person that has responded to you that get paid as tech support for xda. We do this because we want to help people avoid making bad mistakes and enjoy android. The number one rule of xda is Search before posting. Number one rule. Yet you just stated you have better thing to do than search.

Everything you have asked can be answered by taking the time to read and comprehend what is being said. Yes this is the Q&A section but it is not the hold somebodies hand because they are too lazy to do something on their own. If you are worried you will break something maybe you should reconsider doing any modding. Or accept its possible to break and it will be your responsibility to fix if you do.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] xakuvo:
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. if there is a cliff and i choose to jump off, is it the cliffs fault for being there? or mine for jumping?

no answers here...more feelings...

so i asked a stupid question that was answered in the OP, whops, my bad, SORRY.

who said my phone was not my responsibility?

i didn't say i didn't/dont search, it is implied that i have... i only stated i have a busy schedule, and i was also pointing out that ALL of us probably do.

telling me in in over my head? naw, just answer

no personal opinions please, i posted my opinion/rant/feelings, enjoy it? NO

maybe i should post this in the stupid question thread... im SO STUPID

advancing further into my attempt to assemble something like gremlin remover in heimdall.

how about posting some code to list the parition map? bet it would take less time than posting personal feelings

i thought it was mostly driver/OS issues which are the "variables" between heimdall and odin

thomas mentioned something of adb not reading partitions right on the computer from the phone, is this part of the "variables"? because of the cables or port? or is it the android debug bridge itself, reads data on phone wrong, which then sends to computer? or does it get messed in the transfer process? adb reads correctly, transfers correctly, jumbled somehow through cable/port(DOUBTFUL). i dont know too much about hardware, but i dont see how usb cables can differ other than usb 1.0/2.0/3.0, voltage through cable is limited...i can grasp how the usb ports can differentiate; motherboard ports, extension ports?