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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Snowstormzzz:
For the weather widget, what's the sync settings? If the app checks the weather data every 15 minutes, you're gonna have a bad time.

Not that I know, I use a custom app for my weather widget.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kharlitoh:
true

very true sir..even with other widgets they consume different percentages to the total battery life, i highly suggest using only the most simple widgets and removing the less important once, i only have a battery percentage widget and music player widget, i dont have a battery saving application though i have the stock ES task manager widget on home screen too but it only allows me to kill unused apps in a click and also when i turn off the screen.. my battery lasts 2 - 3 days max, no kidding, and i use it moderate to heavy,also brightness is set to just the right level.. this should apply to every other android device, though it still varies with the phones specs, if it has a large screen and multiple processor, it should consume more, but the little details that you adjust or disable should do the trick.. i also recommend using scheduled on-off which i believe is stock in most android phone, overnight, i only get 1-2% battery insignificant drain..
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] OmarBizreh:
hmmm... I don't recall having such issue with my XP because I change in the widget settings to make it check for info updates every 12 hours.

And I also have network mode GSM only.

Here is my Battery diagram, is yours anywhere close?

Thou I don't know why the first major drop down happened. but usually it doesn't :-/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sau94:
I had noticed this few days back.. Just set the refresh thing to 12 hrs dosnt cause any problems then :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] thunderising:
my xperia sola loses 20% idling in just 4 hours, its crazy. i dont know what to do with this stupid phone
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] espaciosalter20:
A lot of things!

1. Use gsm instead wcdma

2. Use WiFi wisely, don't leave it connected all day

3. Root your phone and install titanium backup, then freeze some apps

4. Install another launcher, like lightning launcher and freeze Xperia home.

5. Install another governors and io schedulers from Xperia u forum (search for ondemandax)

6. Use the limit background process between 2-3 (settings-dev options-limit background process)

7. Lower your screen brightness manually

8. Install init.d script support for stock Rom and add battery tweaks, you can find them spread over xda or just install pimp my Rom from play store

....

With that, and a little more, I can get two days of battery with my sola.

Enviado desde mi MT27i usando Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] RockitOut11:
well, my XU is not draining battery drastically at all, even with WiFi turned on, but when I freeze some apps and change the launcher, remove widgets, etc, I got battery for almost 3 days, and with everything stock I have battery +/- 1 and half day
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] MadManMark:
Turn on extended standby mode you knuckleheads :p, you will lose barely anything whilst your phone stands by in your pocket :D, still able to recieve texts and calls
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] MajestyZ:
I don't see the use of extended standby mode for me. I want to be able to receive Whatsapp and mail updates whenever they are sent to me, not only by checking whether I received something. That's what my smartphone is meant to do for me.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] MadManMark:
I see where you're coming from because I once had the same opinion but when I tried it out I didn't find I missed many emails worth reading nor whatsapp messages, because I check the phone so very often to check the time

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Periods where I don't check my phone is often when it's inconvenient to check email or whatsapp because I'm busy in a lesson or something
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] MajestyZ:
That's what I use my stylish watch for.. :) haha. I just want my whatsapp messages to be instant. Mail is not a big problem.

Just like I want text messages to be instant, as Whatsapp is the replacement of text messages right now.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] thunderising:
Using a custom ROM. I'll try Lightning Launcher and Titanium Backup. Expect those 2 everything is already done. I can't Limit Background Process it keeps resetting to standard processes.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mareq78:
same here ! Limit Background Process....
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] espaciosalter20:
you have to set manually every time that you reboot your phone... It's a know feature of dev options....(not a bug)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] adioperator:
I use the "Extended Standby Mode" and the battery is like this:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mareq78:
wow ! not bad !!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] MajestyZ:
That's kind of a contradiction compared to mine.

What was your display time?

Mine, on these screenshots, was 4 hours.

I was very intensively using Whatsapp, nothing else.

NFC off, GPS off, Bluetooth off, Autosync off, brightness on energy saving mode - low brightness.

And yes, I have deleted the weather widget.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] cyberbkk:
I have to ask at this point, lot's of people say "Disable 3G" - whats the point of having a 3G (or now LTE) capable phone if you disable it and use a 15 year old technology for data connectivity instead? Just asking. I mean, if you do not use the phone at all of browsing and other online activities, fine, then it doesn't make a difference, but if you do, that is a rather nonsense thing to do imo.

I mean, this is the reason why i get a phone that is LTE capable:

If i want 2 G technology, makes no real sense to buy the latest smartphone :)

Anyway, why i was commenting here is that my secondary phone is an xperia P and i had the same issue. for me, too, disabling the weather widget improved the battery live greatly.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tyan888:
The man speaks the truth. Power & battery should be 70% of the R&D!

THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH!

Game junkies they should have the option to go for the "high performance gaming phone" models, the rest of us who uses it mainly for IMs and general communication use should be given the option with matchcing specs that allows for maximum battery longevity per day.

SONY SUCKS, VERY POORLY DESIGNED PRODUCT IN TERMS OF SOFTWARE AND OPERATIONS!

I regret getting the Xperia P/LT22i. Fix it up, stupid Sony people. Your latest firmware update didn't solve the issue. The battery still drain to nothingness within 5 hours -- and that was with most of the things off, in STAMINA mode.

Crap stamina s****.

Don't tell us there's some kind of technique for charging the phone.

We paid a good sum of money for it, assuming that Sony/Ericsson has progressed from 30 years of brick sized battery power management.

WHY WOULD YOU BUY A PLANE THAT PROMISES TO FLY BUT DOESN'T FLY OR ONLY FLY TO CRASH AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY??
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] peter-k:
Could it be speaking with them in a friendlier tone can help communication?

If there was a sort of cordless recharging available, I would not mind much the battery holding up a day only.

In real life I hang it onto the charger more than once per day, even though I know it can survive the day. That's because I do not always know when I will have a charging chance again, so I will charge it whenever there is one. That's the same as if the tank my car had only 20 liter capacity, but the fuel consumption was 10 liters per hour: I'd stop at each and every petrol station.

The goal should be a week. But if there was a matt or something else similar to what Nokia has, that's fine with me, too.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] P.A.M:
Who tried to disable vibration on touch and keyboard settings? I think it is also helping to preserve some battery life.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
Of course, it's the first thing I do after installing new ROM or factory data reset.

Out of the box JB will drain about 2% per hour with wifi on and some apps installed, you can lower it for abou1-1.2% disabling uneeded service and some tweaks.

I get like 30-35% drain per day with minimal use, with contacs calendar and backup sync is on, over wifi.

but most drain is caused by the screen, calls, and data, and there nothing we can do about that
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] P.A.M:
Sad to hear that, I think it is the last phone from Sony for me, despite the device is good everywhere, except battery.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] cyberjava:
You can use Apn4Apps for this purpose. It does the same thing that extended standby mode does but the only difference is you can get your notifications from whatsup, facebook etc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] steviee7:
okay will this reset my phone completely? or just install root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] moose1313:
Question can this be implemented in to custom roms the "not tripping the counter"

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Just root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
No. Custom roms would trip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] qbking77:
Nice work!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] moose1313:
Thanks I only asked because I figured if it could be injected as in tricking the phone this is coming from the manufacturer you could also tweak other things and still get away with it. ..Also without an OTA released yet can you say 100% an OTA will go through with no problems if we used this Thanks again

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] twinturborex:
maybe im just a lil special at the moment, i haven't tripped the flash counter yet i learn something when i had the s3 i think that after you flash the tar for the recovery wait till its done (uncheck reboot before u flash) and then pull the battery and it doesnt trip the counter. if im wrong someone please correct me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wraptor:
Just wanted to let everyone know I did this method then accepted the OTA update and I'm still rooted. Thanks for this!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
Very nice! Thank you very much! This will make it easy to go back to stock AND have custom recovery!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goodpup420:
Anyway u could get this in the hands of devs particularly joshbeach so he can start getting this in the jellybomb rom?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JBizzleFoSho:
If I odin this, does it reset everything? Seems large for just a reocvery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Its not just a recovery. that's a root method that trips the counter. Maybe you responded in wrong thread.

This will reset nothing, just fyi.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
yay gonna run this and flash the new update .... ive been doing dirty jellybomb flashes for quite awhile time a start with a fresh base :good:

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I did it and lost root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
yes you should as it overwrites all /system. use an ota rootkeeper or supersu survival mode to retain root through the ota process.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wraptor:
Yes sorry must of been delirious last night. Some of my programs that need root (like mybackuppro) still work after the OTA so I just assumed all was good. Titanium backup doesn't however confirming no root =/. Best method to get it back?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
i ran CF auto root then installed rootkeeper than flashed the update again ..... still tying to get custom recovery going at the moment TWRP from goo manager says it installed but its not sticking i goto recovery and its still stock :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
actually i looked at the patch.... I don't see where it would be removing root.... I must be missing something.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
if you have a root explorer go to /system/etc and delete the install-recovery.sh file you see there. Or just rename it something else like install-recovery.bak
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Testers? Testers?

So it seems root is being lost with the OTA update. I think the files are there it is just messing the permissions on them.

So I took the OTA provided by cincyelite22 and made one small change to get the permission on su correct.

So for anyone who has rooted with my stock root injected rom in this thread and would like to flash the OTA and retain root without doing anything special please try this:

Download my modified OTA here.

Then
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wraptor:
Since I already had the OTA losing root do I need to start over or just run this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
Id try running that before starting over
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
yea you can just try running it first.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GARGANCHUAN:
Thanks for working on this. I tried flashing the update. It said it was unable to verify the package and failed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
and can you verify all you flashed was the stock root inject in the OP? Did you de-bloat (remove any system apps) at all or install a custom recovery etc?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wraptor:
I don't have an SD card currently so I tried ADB sideload and I get "Signature verification failed" Installation aborted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
ah.... stock recovery... wants signed by samsung i'm sure.... :(.

ok so i'm back to you'd have to use SuperSU survival mode if you want to simply retain root throughout the OTA.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wraptor:
Hmm guess it's not meant to be for me. Odin back to your Stock injected L900VPALJ1. Checked survival mode in SuperSU. Ran OTA and lost root again =/

Thanks for all the help I know it will get figured out soon enough. I really do appreciate your work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Then i can only offer this... if you were to flash a non-stock recovery (the optional part in the OP)

You could use this to flash the OTA with the root retained in this version.

Just can't do in stock recovery as it wants those zips to be signed by samsung.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
Try rootkeeper its what worked for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
Rooted recovered kernels im a multi window freak today lolz
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Luismig2:
yay

teach us oh android master :victory:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GARGANCHUAN:
Yup, flashed the rom in the OP and left everything the way it was. I guess there's no way to do this and keep from tripping the counter. Thanks for giving it a shot though. Much appreciated.

Update: Tried rootkeeper and it worked. Thanks, fatboypup. I'll try to connect to a Allshare Cast dongle when I get home before using Triangle Away to check the counter. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
Just run triangle away my counter says zero now ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cherylbaker:
Looking for someone to help me as I am not sure where to go from this point. I restored to stock. Plain old unrooted stock with stock recovery. I than did a factory reset cause my files where all there and I really wanted to start clean. I than manually applied the ota which had downloaded to my phone.

So now I need to root and install twrp. Once I get root I can install goo manager to get twrp but how do I get error. .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Updated OP with method to rootkeeper to retain root through OTA and also my flashable zip of OTA if you have TWRP or CWM recovery.

thanks guys for the testing and feedback.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1956180

or start with my steps in the OP here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cherylbaker:
I am already updated what is the best way to get root now :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
I used CF root then ran rootkeeper then flashed the update again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] BigJPNut:
If you used CF root then why did you go any further?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
Because it reverted me to LJ1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dstorm:
Non stock recovery update failed in TWRP. twice now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatboypup:
Only updates from stock recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dstorm:
This one from the OP

Non-Stock Recovery: If you have loaded a non-stock recovery (per below) you can simply use it to flash the OTA update flashable zip I've created.

Download: OTA Update LJ1 to LJC
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rydehard86:
I tried TWRP to flash zip. It starts and then I get error (status 7). Tried root keeper, got error, tried triangle away, got error. Any ideas?

Sent from my Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dstorm:
Triangle away worked for me, but the Update for non-stock recovery in OP does not flash.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Do you know how far it gets? Sorry can't test myself don't have this device. I can fix it in morning.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wraptor:
Ok thanks guys root keeper worked!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
i can confirm flashing with TWRP does not work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rydehard86:
To clarify, I used rootkeeper then tried to flash using TWRP, got the status 7 error, then rebooted, and used triangle away, then tried to install zip again and got the same status 7 error. Gave up after that. Seems as though it goes most of the way through before discovering the error and failing.

Sent from my Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dstorm:
I decided not to wait, and re-installed stock recovery and updated, (with rootkeeper), then put twrp back on, no issues. But I have a 2nd note 2 if you update your file, i'll test a new version on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] CyJax:
How did you re-installed stock recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
ok, wish i could tell where it failed. it be easy then. anyway to tell what the last message it displayed before it failed? I'll look at this soon still not by my computer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
You can use galaxy note toolkit
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
any way anyone can tell me where it failed? the assert line it may have printed or last message you saw in twrp? the script is 3,922 lines long and I'd like to try to narrow it down.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Testing

Ok, new TWRP/CWM flashable OTA update. Download Here.

You still have to be on stock as it runs the same checks the normal OTA does I've just preserved root.

See if this doesn't error. if it does telling me the last message you saw or error would help immensely.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
still getting the same error using TWRP.status 7
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Is there not any other info you can say? Is there output before that?

Like I said there is over 3000 lines. I'd like to know where it gets up to. Take a picture or something...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
it was some asset something..ill re do and let you know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Yes assert something. Would love to know that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
i reverted back to stock recovery but when i try to flash i gen an error not signed. which one do i use to flash?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
In order to test this you need to load a non stock recovery per the OP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
heres the error i get
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
ok it failed on AccuweatherDaemon. did you de-bloat anything and remove Accuweather or something?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
no. i am running the very first clean rom 1.3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
You have to be stock to try this. I'm sure it's a stock based rom but it most certainly did its own debloating.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
im stock/rooted and have twrp...i need to update..want me to try the file you listed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Absolutely!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
failed...1 sec for screen shot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
heres screen shot

wipe cache and davlik...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
well i can remove that check too but are you sure you are completely stock? cause being stock that should have passed?

regardless.... pls try this, send screen shot if it fails: http://d-h.st/5vl
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
yup...fully stock rooted with twrp..im not big on rom flashing..i am flashing this from internal storage...twrp wont let me mount my ext sdcard...(not sure why)...but i'll give it a try...1 sec
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
and what method did you use to root? I just wonder if the cf-autoroot or something in the toolkit sets the ro.secure to 0 in build.prop.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
almost..this 1 was almost complete..wasnt an "instant fail" like the others...

screen shot attached.

looks like permissions need set

wait a sec..on edit my baseband is now LJC...but my build number is still LJ1

now what?

crap..and i lost root....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
here is a new one if you are willing: http://d-h.st/Wet
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
well..i already lost root....so this new one(if it passes) will give me the update and root..correct?

and i didnt use the "tool kit"..i used CF auto originally

and 1 quick question..if i just keep trying to flash these..im not taking up any partition space by flashing these over and over am I?..the previous one actually updated my baseband but not my build number...how will i update that if this one is successful?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
try this new one. it might work but you might be in a weird state with it half appplied half not.

regardless try it and send screenshot. if it breaks sooner then it last did(suggesting your phone is in a weird half upgraded state) then I'd suggest to flash the image with ODIN that i have in the OP. that will take you back to original stock with root. then flash the non-stock recovery again with goo manager or something and then try this zip again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
i'l give it a shot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
SUCCESS

ALL GOOD...NICE WORK!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE GOOD(BASEBAND AND BUILD NUMBER CORRECT)

ROOT VERIFIED...TWRP working as it should...data/wifi/phone functioning normally...screenshot attached....

I'd say its safe to update the title of the thread..."flashable update with TWRP"(not sure about CWM recovery since i don't use it)

thanks man :victory:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Thank you. Sorry i can't test myself but you are hired for the QA team ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
haha..QA is the easy part(well then again..some people just assume you know what they are talking about...it becomes a lot easier to fix things when you know exactly whats wrong)...thanks again for sticking with it..not being an owner of the device and still doing work like this shows you're definitely an asset to XDA...if you don't mind im going to steer folks to this thread now that this is working...if anyone attempts this and has trouble feel free to pm me and i'll pop in and try to give them a step by step of what i did since you don't have the phone....thanks again man....great work..

just a quick heads up...my flash counter says 5..so we did trip it a few times...i know the thread title says it won't...but it did..just an FYI...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Only flashing the odin file and the orig ota won't trip it. Once you load a non-stock recovery it'll trip. Maybe i need to make that clearer in the OP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
ahh..i see...either way i think this is the 1st rooted OTA flashable from recovery.....again well done without having the phone..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] meccadon123:
just curious..can you point me in the direction of a jellybean update flashable from recovery for the sprint GS3?