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[Streak 5 General] S.c.a.r.a.b.e.u.s.:
Rebootinf - fixed, phone calls problem not.

Hello everybody.

Yesterday, I tried to change the internal SD card in my Streak to solve problems with booting and with the discontinuous phone calls. And here is the result:

Problem with rebooting was solved, but not with the phone calls. I found only one solution to fix the problem with phone calls. I took screen from this Streak and I put it into another one with broken screen (which I had, because it was cheaper to buy a used Streak than new screen). So I made from two devices, with a different problem, one device which is working fine.

I think that there was some problem with Main Board.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mccloud35:
Hi,

I just bought a 2nd hand infuse 2 weeks back. I was using the stock GB for a while, and the phone was restarting sometimes. To fix this and get ICS features, I rooted and moved to the ICS CM9 ROM. Still the restarting didn't go away. I flashed everything before installing the rom. So, I guess this can't be an issue with either of the roms but probably something else. Also, when the restart happens the battery gets drained significantly.

After some searching, I saw in some threads that memory issues can do this or probably a bad app (I only have popular apps only though). I was wondering is there a way whether I can some info to debug the problem, when this restart happens?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] psal217050:
It might not be a ROM issue but a faulty power button. The are several threads on this. You may want to search "power button".
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mccloud35:
Hmmm, the power button seems to work alright. But if the power button is always pressed, I shouldn't be able to press it again and make it function properly, right? All the functions of the power button seem to be doing OK, i.e. menus pop up and it puts the phone to sleep mode, etc.

Is there anything more I can check to confirm that it is not the power button?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mccloud35:
Is there a way to get a thread dump or any other log at the time of restart?

A few more details -

- I believe it goes to a boot loop when it restarts (loops from the cm logo back to samsung

- goes to a charge loop if I connect to a charger

- long holding the power button at this time restarts the phone and brings it back to normal

- I notice it happens a lot at the lock screen, but it happens at other times too,still to figure out a pattern
[Samsung Infuse 4G] psal217050:
Try to get a logcat using aLogcat from the marketplace.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] ami2510:
I have the exact same problem. Please let me know what you and people come up with.

Battery drops at least 4 or 5% after those random reboots.

I put liquid smooth JB on the infuse and was able to reduce the reboots to maybe 1 or 2 a day but the battery drain is still insane. from full to empty in 7 hours (but the battery usage says 17hrs, so please dont be confused, its really only 7hrs), texting, checking emails but nothing else. no music, or gps or anything that it intense.

The battery usage shows a constant battery drain, everything is at either 5 or 10% usage, except the screen which is at 42 - 60%

Any ideas?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] mccloud35:
I've managed to get some logs when this happens using alogrec (attached). I haven't worked with the dalvik kernel or android apps much to understand what is going on.

I hope someone would be able to go through them and pick up something. My knowledge on the subject is not enough to pick whether anything is wrong here.

Also, I noticed sometimes the battery drops from around 30% to a whooping 5% when this happens. So, maybe this is a faulty battery problem??
[Samsung Infuse 4G] ami2510:
I ordered a new battery and hope that this will fix the problem, if anyone knows anything else please let me know. the battery is only 1 year old.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] electricpete1:
I had similar symptom (reboot followed by battery indicating lower) once when I had applied too much undervoltage applied.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] csandman1977:
I've had the same things happen with my phone.

1) the huge drops in battery isn't an actual drop. 99% of the time if you don't plug in a charger the battery will start 'charging' on it's own until it gets to the right amount.

2) just because the power button works doesn't mean there isn't something wrong. The infuse is notorious for messed up power buttons. There is a thread around here somewhere about fixing it. I've not done it because I managed to get things under control.

3) I've noticed that the reboots seem to occur more frequently when a large number of apps ( popular or not) are installed, or apps that are resource intensive. For instance I bought minecraft because my daughter has become adducted to it. Sometimes its fine other times it freezes and reboots. My solution is to only keep apps I use on my phone. I will most likely uninstall minecract until a later date.

4) For me smaller ROMs work better. The current slimrom works the best for me. Also finding time to remember to reboot my phone once a day no matter how it is running helps.

I'm down to a reboot every one or two days now. Unless I try to play minecraft. I blame those damn creepers. Good luck!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] ami2510:
OK so my reboots were because of my power button, I sent it in to mobiletech and they repaired it.

Now it's fixed and I have not had a single reboot.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] electricpete1:
Glad to hear that. Thanks for sharing your results.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ray3andrei:
Yeah....

Lg prices this around 570 euro in most European countries

http://www.phonearena.com/news/LGs-price-for-the-Nexus-4-to-be-twice-as-expensive-as-Googles_id36265

This isn't a problem If play store is available in your country, but in Holland it isn't...

Don't know about you, but my Gnexus just got a whole lot better

Sent from my GNexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Khizar:
if thats true i am skipping the n4 and keeping my gnex
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mortenmhp:
It should be possible to place an order somewhere in the UK, because as they have the play store, places such as Carphone warehouse will have similar pricings.

So don't worry. LG will soon enough discover that they cannot possibly expect people to pay twice as much.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] weppa83:
i hope so :cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crixley:
Can't buy devices in the Canadian play store so I guess that solidifies my decision
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matthewr87:
I'm pretty sure you can buy devices in the play store in Canada now...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kickthefreak:
Me too

Will be waiting for next nexus phone, hope it will be HTC
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] _2bad4u_:
Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet.

We're working to bring devices to more countries as quickly as possible.

Please check back again soon.

For europa the price is diferent. Where there is no play store. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_of_Europe#cite_note-24

Exemple, google released nexus 7 with 199$, in my contry is 250€. the device is with 50% more expensive.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KennyG123:
Please discuss other devices in the Sticky thread

Thanks

FNM
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Fateslayer:
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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] hell_lock:
Whats the difference b/w this cm9 and the one by whitexp? He has even fixed colours

---------- Post added at 03:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:04 PM ----------

You have copy pasted the link from whitexp's thread. This is known as stealing on xda and just because of similar reasons whitexp stopped coming on xda. REPORTED YOU!
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Hrustus:
Emmm... only me not understand this thread? Oo

You have the same bugs like CM9 from WhiteXP, and you have color bug, and he haven't ;)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Fateslayer:
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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] hell_lock:
BUMP! for OP
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] rio.:
oh really? can someone tell me who's the real dev? rofl

edit: WTF! @OP the dev section is not like your facebook wall.. LMAO

Sent from my Android System using Busybox Commands.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Manoj The Gamer:
Right!!

For OP:-read bellow lines

This is not your facebook wall where you share already created items.

This is xda where people create not copy paste.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Fallen_Knight:
close this thread

THE CAPTAIN your needed here
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] AmalD:
this thread hs to be closed immediately :mad:

whre is the moderator ?

u spammer give creadits to orginal dev WHITEXP
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] rio.:
i think OP may need to know more the rules in this forum..

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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Manoj The Gamer:
Happy holidays OP..:)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] deathviper:
time up

humble request to moderator

pls close thread....
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] rio.:
can i up this one? haha kidding! :p

:rolleyes: Happy New Year OP

@MOD kindly close this thread :D:D:D

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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Akash vibhute:
Hello captain..

Please delete this thread..

The op has deleted all his posts and there is no reason for this thread to be kept. Everyone is gonna curse op untill this is closed:):):)
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] The-Captain:
Thread Closed:

Guys keep in mind that I am on a different time zone than you guys. I just woke up. This thread is now closed, sorry for the delay.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cryptonakiassef:
First of all thanks for everything (for your help)!

Secondly i have another problem.....

In stock stage, my phone(SGS2) had ics 4.0.4!

Then i flashed it with custom rom(ressurection remix + siyah kernel) and i wanted back to stock!

Ive downloaded stock ROM but ICS 4.0.3....

Then i flashed kernel via odin ( Siyah)...

Thats all.... last night had 27% battery, i put my phone in standby mode from 1.00am - 10:35am... my phone had 13% battery! :S

Whats the problem???

Here is a screenshot...

Thanks men!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cryptonakiassef:
nobody?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HANDSY:
There is a thousand and one reasons to cause battery drain from misbehaving apps to the media scanner constantly running. To find the culprit download better battery stats from play store. Leave your phone as normal then post screen shots of results in the BBS thread where experienced users will help you out. All the best.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
Use better battery stats to check the wakelocks and cpu spy to see if your device is deep sleeping
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riro1612:
You can try to turn the phone off, remove the battery for 2 minutes and restart the phone. I think it is this "fuel_alarm" thing...

Sent with a homing pigeon
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
Then do the same thing mentioned in this thread.. No need to post the same thing..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
The stock charger provided with the Note 2 charges my phone extremely fast, after all we do know that it is rated at 2A. But naturally being a power hungry device I carry around a portable charger (5V 1A). It worked fine on my previous S2 but with the Note 2 the charge is insanely slow. Less than 10% per hour on standby. With that being said, if I use it while it's being charged, the battery % does not even budge.

Is this normal? Because if it is that slow, it defeats the purpose of carrying it around since it barely charges my phone. Are there alternatives? Do I need to resort to looking for a portable charger that also has a 2A output?

For the other Note 2 Users out there, do you experience similar issues?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Yes sir, normal.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GreenBot:
Friend. I STRONGLY suggest you to get a Samsung Battery Charger Cradle Kit.

It comes with:

One Battery Charging cradle + Phone Stand

One Extra Battery

I bought it for around $35USD. It may get cheaper but it solves all my problems. It charges your second battery while you use your phone, whenever your phone's battery is low, you swap the charged battery with the low battery one. That way you never have to keep your phone charging! Hell, one extra 3100mAh battery is less than $20 bucks, imagine Hurricane Sandy and you have saved up some leisure money to get a few extra batteries instead. You can last for a week without power.

It's a very good investment. Trust me. You can even ebay the used batteries when you upgrade your phone. Cos they are official accessories. Not those ugly battery sleeves.

BTW if you do want fast chargers, I recommend the Apple USB charger for iPAD. It is rated 2.1A. Any 1.0A chargers result in slow charge. Oh one more benefit, the battery cradle charger charges FASTER because there is no power drain on phone while you charge (compared to charging the battery inside the phone itself)

Hope it helps!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swejuggalo:
I'm curious on how you use the phone. The original charger fits in a pocket, and you can detach the cable and put that in a other pocket if you like. You travel around for so long that you are able to drain the battery and do not have access to either a usb port or a wall-outlet?

Regarding the stand/charger mentioned... The flimsy battery cover alone is a reason for me not to change batteries, unless the battery is broken. My future Otterbox totally wipes out any battery changing thoughts ;) Personally I do not drain the battery so fast that I do not have time to access a usb port or a wall-outlet before it shuts down... I've even beat my record this weekend. 34% at 3d 6h 58m, 3.5h screen time with Juice Defender controlling the screen brightness. Some Facebook, surfing with Firefox, 10 minutes phone calls, reading (g-)mails, installing some apps and such...

A tip on portable chargers: https://powertraveller.com/iwantsome/primatepower/powermonkeyextreme/
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
Thanks everyone for their comments. Yes indeed I do agree the stock charger isn't all that hard to carry around. But it's a good question that you asked about my usage. So to shed some light, my heaviest usage is during lectures. Some use notes, others fire up their laptops, another group their tablets. For me I whip out my Note 2, put it on a stand and I'm good to go. Wall outlets don't appear often, and even if I sit close to one, the cable length disallows me to use my note while charging. Other than that I would be on the move or in some classroom somewhere.

And yes I too am reluctant to remove my phone case and the flimsy back cover. But I will keep the spare battery option in view.

Right now what I'm doing is plug in my portable charger during lectures. It at least still can sustain the battery. My portal charger has a 5000 + mAh capacity. But the charging speed is so slow, it really doesn't matter. I also use it to listen to music while travelling, but that itself puts minimal strain on battery consumption.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ardatdat:
Don't know if you have scanned through this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33585646&postcount=31

You can actually take out your favorite portable charger and test the charger v.s. cable combination to find the best match.

I am now using the YOOBAO 8400mAh which is a famous brand in China. I do not dare to use unknown brand in China, but this brand is famous and the quality is great. You can easily search on Amazon.

When I use the original Samsung USB cable with that portal charger, I can get a stable of 1.4A current during charging. Which is by far the best current I tested on 1A output portable charger. Some statistics for your reference:

When using USB cable with computer: 0.46A

When using bad cable with 2A output charger: < 1A

When using Samsung original charger + USB cable: 1.8A

So, if you could get a value between 1A and 1.8A, it is good enough to charge the note 2 in a quite reasonable short period of time!

Cable is very important, if you use an iPad charger (2A output) with a bad cable, you may get less than 1A output to the phone...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
I have read your link. My phone is rooted, unfortunately due to known errors between Samsung and Windows Updates regarding the drivers to access the phone via USB, I at the moment cannot view my phone on my laptop. And unfortunately the app CurrentWidget does not work with Note 2.

My portable charger has a rated output of 1A. Provided along with it is a retractable charging cable that is much thinner than your conventional USB cable, presumably a dedicated charging cable. Now since it is the provided cable, I'm going to assume that the cable can release the full 1A? And here's another observation. Before this phone I had a Galaxy S2. It charges fine, and over time I can actually see the portable charger's power being drained. (It has 4 LED lights, 1 corresponding to 25%). Meaning from 4 lights, it becomes 3. So far, even after 2 hours of charging the note 2, the charger still registers at all 4 lights. Which is baffling, because this indicates that the charger, is charging my phone slower than it was compared to charging my previous S2. And indeed it does feel that way. A stock S2 charger is rated an output of 0.7A. So in the same amount of time, wouldn't my charger be drained faster from charging the Note 2? Is there some property of chargers that I'm not aware of? Like the phone only recognizes the stock charger to enable fast charge? It seems pretty apparent to me that somehow my phone is not tapping on to the full 1A output of the portable charger. I bought the charger at my local electronics store, also it worked well with my previous S2. So it's hard to imagine that the problem lies with a defective charger.

I'll add in some more information in case it helps:

- I have Juice Defender Plus and Advanced Task Killer. They do save my battery consumption.

- My brightness is always at 0% (I hate the glare, I do this on every screen I use. Laptop etc)

-I have the habit of restarting my phone after heavy use to ensure all background apps are closed properly (e.g. Lecture has ended and I'm hanging out with friends; or before I sleep)

- My phone is rooted, I use Gemini App Manager to disable the bloatware, so the respective background processes do not run anymore

- My ram usage is typically in the low 500s. After a restart It's in the 400s. I also have the habit of clearing my RAM via the task manager.

Edit:

I used ES File Explorer to view the files. And this is very weird. Using the charging cable, on both the laptop and portable charge, it showed an result of 100! I also tested it on my spare, micro-usb charger registered at 0.4A. The result is 400, which is correct.

So what happened here???
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GreenBot:
Guys the rear battery cover is not flimsy. It is thin But it has very high flexibility. It will not crack or deform unless you deliberately try to destroy it. It can be bent to 90 degrees without deformation.

I have put the cover on and off so many times that not even a single plastic clip has broken off. This is material science.

Get the charging cradle and battery pack. We are not iPhones with undetachable batteries. Utilize this advantage!

THE N7100 has a high power draw when you use it. It charges slowly especially when you are using it. Also, the USB cable grade and length IS VERY CRITICAL also. Try using a long micro USB cable n u will see How even more slowly it charges.

I have three batteries now n one charging cradle. I use my phone like I'm driving a Ferrari. Instant refuel When I'm out of batts.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
Ok an update. I experimented with the combinations. Using the default charger and cable, looking at the current_max, it gives me 1800. Current_now is 1698. But for that thin cable, it only gives me 100mAh.

Now here's the interesting thing. When I tried using the default cable with my portable charger, I also get the same numbers. 1800 and 1698. Also, by using other USB cables with the portable charger, I also get the same numbers.

My problem is solved. But for curiosity why is a charger, registered to have an output of 1000mAh, able to squeeze out as much as an 2000mAh wall charger? Or is it my phone that dictates how much power it wants to draw?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmaccc:
i'm using the xtra battery kit with my s3, and now looking forward to purchase it for my note 2 also.

heavy user must buy this kit due to no time to wait/waste for it to be charged, enough said! :)

must be the thin/cheap cable not having the right amount of circuit ;)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
Now I have a new question. Just now I have been monitoring my phone's charging speed. Looking at the current_max, it was at 1100. This was when the phone was at 40+ %. After 50%, no matter what combinations I used, even with the default charger, the max_current freezes at 400. Is this some feature the Note 2 has? That it cuts the charging speed after 50%?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Just to ask, how long did your phone take to charge completely with the stock charger and cable? And how do you monitor current charging value?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
From the method described by ardatdat here:http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33585646&postcount=31

As I'm doing work I just open up the current_max file to have a look. Starts off at 1000+ but after a couple of minutes it'll go right down to 400.

Now I've never actually timed it so I'm not sure.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
Does the number of pins affect charging? Upon close inspection the micro usb end has 4 pins instead of what I believe usually is 5. I need to reconnect a few times for the charging rate to be stabilized at 1300. So perhaps that accounts for the weird numbers I've been getting?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Mine has 4 pins too, that's the way it is I think.

Btw- What other chargers are there with same freq/spec as Note 2's Stock charger, i.e 2A/5V? iPad or anything?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quertiy:
I have current max 1100 and current now 1700 with original charger. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

Edit: with the galaxy s III's charger it's the same. Wtf
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicedino:
thanks for this tip. bought a ipad car charger and it did charge faster than my old charger :good:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
It's supposed to be that way. Refer to the post by ardatdat (Link in previous post). He says to look at current_max and current_avg. Not current_now. The value of current_now doesn't change no matter what charger you use. current_max and current_avg will display the amount of current going through at that moment. You can try plugging the usb cable to your PC. current_max will drop to probably 400 while your current_now is 1700. For me it always shows 1698.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laynee1:
I have some powerbank, which my friend bought to me in Singapore. It is 12000 mah with 2 outputs : 1A amd 2.1A. When i use cable that i got with powerbank i get 400 in max on 1A and 700 on 2.1A.

When i use Samsung cable with 2.1A i got 1400 in max.. Is that ok?

Handwritten from my Note 2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x3ternalx:
Yes it's ok. I get 1400 from the stock charger. I believe when you compare the stock usb cable to that of your power bank, it is thicker?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laynee1:
As far as i can see, it is more narrow than the stock one.. Maybe stock is even thicker.. I cant tell for sure :)

Why do you ask ? Do you have experience with similar cables ?