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[Motorola Photon 4G] coachclass:
Hi,

My Moto Photon won't charge anymore via the USB port. The green light doesn't go on. But this isn't because the battery was deeply discharged. I tried to do my due diligence and search the problem.

This morning, my battery was down to 5%. I charged it at work, and it got up to 30%, but the phone was really really hot. There didn't seem to be any weird apps running or anything.

Anyways, I left it on and off, it left work at 20% charge. Then when I got home, it was down to 10%. But it wouldn't charge. The green light doesn't go one when I plug in the AC adapter and USB cable. It also wouldn't charge via the computer. While on, the computer didn't recognize the device.

I took the battery out. Blew on it. Restarted the phone. Still no dice. The battery indicator didn't indicate that it was charging either.

Now, the battery is pretty much dead. Won't boot up anymore.

Is this a battery issue or a phone issue? If I buy a new battery, would it solve the problem?

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] ScottieRotten:
Try getting a battery replacement?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
Hey guys on the forums!

I have been using SiyahKernel for quite since time, now and have recently noticed, there is a way to dual boot this phone. I had a Galaxy S II, up till the beginning of this year and I had dual booting enabled there, too. Does anyone have an idea, how to get this working here? I didn't find anything on Google, nor in the PlayStore.

Thanks in advance!:D

Cyanogenmodded very skankily via XDA app. Skanky, indeed :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrismast:
Go to the Siyah threat and there is a BIG how-to make dual boot work on S3 (its supported by Siyah)

to be more precise: here
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
I new about the capabilities of the kernel :)

I just couldn't find a tutorial. Thanks a bunch, dude :)

Cyanogenmodded very skankily via XDA app. Skanky, indeed :D
[Nexus 7 General] jonchill:
I've just updated my office Nexus 7 to 4.2 but come across a very strange issues, prior to the upgrade I had a 4 digit pin in use to unlock the Nexus, did the upgrade and now I have to put the pin in 6 times before it will unlock, does it every-time even after a reboot. Never did it before the update.

Is anyone else seeing this issue?

Thanks
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Logomotph:
Hey,

I don't really need a lot of the features in 4.2 that much, but I'd like the quick setting thing. Can someone port that to 4.1.2?

Or even easier, can someone explain how I can build JUST the SystemUI apk from the android repo, and not the whole thing, so I can try to do that myself?

Thanks :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] raducux:
There are so many good toggles apps out there (that is if you're not using a custom rom that already has it built in).

why would you like an extra page with settings that arent even quick ...they are just shortcuts ...

sure i tested knzo's and thedarkdude's 4.2 port and the page turn effect is eye catchy... but i see no meaning to it per all.

Ps: iamthedarkone is his name . A am aware of that .
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Logomotph:
I like the look of the quick "settings" thing on 4.2. Also, if I knew how to build just the SystemUI, maybe I'd be able to make them actual quick setting, instead of what they are now. I do have notification toggles through an app, but I'm not really fond of having a used notification spot just for that. that's why I'd rather have the 4.2 thing.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Spidergio:
I use it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=apocalipsisx.controlpanel
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Logomotph:
thanks, but that still requires a notification spot, and it feels as bit sluggish. I currently use Power Toggles.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] exgenmeikoj:
Good mornung sir. If you are feeling limber and wanting to program. There is a stock guide to porting 4,2 quick settings panel by bootmgr and spacecaker its pretty easy. I am currently porting it over along with lidroid toggles. The only thing is you gotta add your own toggles
[LG Optimus 3D] vpamir:
Hi, I'm wondering if i can use the CWM/TWRP to restore a CM7 (Gingerbread) .zip on a ICS P920 phone and then restore the ICS back again. I used to use CWM Recovery to go between official GB and CM7 but since I flashed and upgraded to the new ported ICS I don't know if this is possible. Does anybody have any experience on this?

Thanks.

PS. I plan to do this because the bluetooth drivers on the ICS port doesn't allow me to connect my DS3 controller over bluetooth.
[LG Optimus 3D] berni987654321:
No this isnt possible because the partition table of ICS is different from the gingerbread ones so if you restore the GB backup it will brick your device
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oscar-Mark:
Solved
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oscar-Mark:
Bump
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sl4y3r88:
Hi All,

My Gnex 9250 has a poor battery life, My brother has the same phone and his battery last much longer(with 3g) than mine. Please help.

1130 AM - Battery 100%

1 and half hour Music(Player Pro) - Not much screen activity(with 2G enabled)

2G on for 6 hours, Pretty long texting.

about 45 Minutes of Browsing(2g)

10 Mins on Voice calls.

No Widgets.Background apps = Swiftkey,Go launcher(No theme),Profile scheduler.

By 12am battery was 20%

Screen brigntness is VERY low so its not that, Its about 20%.

Phone is about a month old.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT - 4.1.1(No available updates)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] untruestory:
The fact your battery goes over 12hrs seems it's not too bad with moderate use. And who knows if your bro uses his as much as he says? If you want to compare then look at his battery stats in settings next to yours.

Try a different ROM? Kernel?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sl4y3r88:
Thanks for your reply.My brother does use as he said, Ive seen his battery stats, uptime was 1 day 9 hours(14% then). He doesnt text half as much as I do, but his voice calls are much more than mine. Also hes on 3g thats a bigger battery hog than 2g. Not too keen on changing the Kernel/Rom.

Could it be SwiftKey and Go launcher? He doesnt use either of them.

Thanks again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] blitzen12:
there are lots of thing that can affect your battery life one of it is the kernel ur using.

I already have this problem before.

i've tried lots of custom rom. the only custom rom that solve this battery issues is from Android Revolution HD 7.0.0

from this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1361348
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdaboobs:
imo the best battery/performance kernel out there is franco's. try it, battery will be 2x to 3x longer.

if you like to fool around with what's chewing battery you can get better battery stats and it will tell you what keeps your phone from going to sleep. sometimes nothing, sometimes crappy app that messes things up

good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sl4y3r88:
Thanks to all for your replies.

Guess that 12 hours is not bad afterall right? Seems like that from the first reply I got.

Unfortunatly I have no time to re-flash a differnt ROM/Kernel. But thanks for all reccomendations.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Khizar:
its a smartphone 12 hours is good imo
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dannejanne:
Buy the Samsung extended battery. It helps a lot.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Sam...462058?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item1c222d0cea

http://www.ebay.com/itm/150802739042?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] whpsnp:
You say that your brother doesn't text as much as you but he uses voice calls more. Remember that when you're texting the screen is on and that has a big impact on battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] untruestory:
There's not a kernel, ROM, or flying saucer out there that can triple battery life ;) Just saying. People get fanatical about certain ROM/kernel combos. The usual suspects are leaving on things you don't need and on occasion an app. People claim that different things work better on different phones but I think it's a bunch of crap. Much of what you hear is placebo.

I'm a fan of Trinity myself
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
Both valid points.

Sent from my i9250
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rts91:
So my ringer automatically goes to mute,and my data turns OFF. (however i think that may have been the power saving feature).

there's more but i cant remember. but the ringer going to mute is a real pain!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Cool story bro! Maybe if you add some details someone can assist you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crashpsycho:
That's gets a thanks just for one heck of an answer. And 2 op unless you know what is going or and also have Reference to a question then don't post dude. There no details to help and doesn't ask any question s for us to try and help you

Don't mean to be rude but we cant help without details
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rts91:
My question is. Can anyone think of why my ringer is going on mute?

And how do I fix it?

Edit! also some of my default settigs are getting erased. for example i choose messaging as my normal textin app. but after a day maybe when i try to text someone it asks me which app i want to use!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] billownz:
What crazy was trying to say is... Are you on stock or modified firmware? Have you tried factory reset?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jack_R1:
Your settings don't get saved.

Happens usually when you're restoring system stuff in Titanium Backup that you shouldn't be restoring.

Wipe data / factory reset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crashpsycho:
That's sounds pretty close to correct jack if something was backed up thru system setting restored could cause the issue if not then start from scratch bad flash
[HTC One X] morfey_ua:
i had maximus 8.0 on my HTC One X and for some unknown reason i couldn't connect my phone in usb storage mode. then i had put it in CWM recovery mode and put the android revolution hd and superwipe zips into sd card. then i manually flashed boot.img and thru recovery performed superwipe. all went well. but when i tried to install the custom ROM it just didn't start. i rebooted system, performed wipe once again and got same issue, after that my CWM recovery went off and when i was trying to go to recovery i just got bootloop.

Does anyone have any idea what can be done???

P.S. my HBOOT ver is 1.31
[HTC One X] rob9:
Try fastboot erase cache

Also, if that doesn't work, check this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1609190
[HTC One X] matt95:
Reflash the recovery, flash the rom's boot.img and flash the rom
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purpse:
Is there any way of disabling the OTA update nag screen (4.1 - 4.2)?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chismay:
lol me too , exchanged me 16g for the 32g yesterday and wont update till i know stickmount or nexus media imp' works again now the update screens peeing me off.

tried un-checking "notifications" n google framework but didnt help.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamelton:
i would like to know how to disable it as well.. tia..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domg73:
Use fotakill.apk by cyanogenmod... search for it here on xda forums...

I'm using it (installed as system app) and so far no nag since 48h.

ps: make sure to wipe cache partition after installing the apk
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamelton:
thx.. found and installed as system apk..

no more nags so far..

read this topic for detailed steps: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1998378
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] horr1blek1tten:
In ICS it lit up pretty good and now its kinda dim, what gives? Is this normal ? How can I make it brighter again?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] redhooka:
Looks the same to me, try a factory reset.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] -LBT-:
If not that, try an app called Light Flow Lite - that has some LED settings you can change.

T999/CM10
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] horr1blek1tten:
I'm bone stock and this is my second s3 in two days that the led looked dim after the update already tried a factory reset.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jbreeze228:
Mine is also dimmer than it was on ICS. After the OTA update I noticed it. Did factory reset with same results. Formatted everything and applied the rooted version through odin and still have them dimmed LED. Updated my brothers S3 and his is the exact same. I got a text message last night and the LED was fully illuminated, but after I opened it and received another message after it was dim again.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] horr1blek1tten:
This needs to be fixed I'm very ocd about stuff and this is fine of em
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] djrysk:
Same thing happened to me, my wife and I have the same phone but I didn't update hers yet and I have seen a big difference on the led. Mine is dimmer than hers. I did factory reset and same thing.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jjlean:
Mine is more dim after update too. I don't really like that much.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] horr1blek1tten:
I miss the brightness of the LED:(
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] x1tyme:
Same here and led dont stay on that long
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] IXChicharitoXI:
Same here. I don't mind it that much tbh.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jjlean:
Its terrible. No clue why they thought this was a good idea. Wish I knew how to fix it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SGSIIIUser:
Maybe it save battery? Don't quote me on that, it's a wild guess.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jjlean:
Well it probably does, but it can't save much. LEDs barely use any power.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elesbb:
I always thought they needed more power? but they are more efficient as using this power?? I dont remember its been forever since ive studied electronics :P

Anywasy, on topic, i run CM10 and dont think its all that dim. Maybe they added an option inside the settings for brightness? I wish it had the "breathing" option instead of just flashiing. But check for a setting maybe?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jjlean:
Not really positive about details. I think they are more efficient. Whether they use more power I have no idea. I know our utilities company is offering to take old Christmas lights and they give you LED strands instead for free.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chucktdriscoll:
Single color LEDs are quite efficient. These multi-color, variable brightness LEDs are somewhat less so. That doesn't really matter the question at hand though because most of the power drain of LEDs is just having them on. The difference in power drain from a low intensity to a high intensity is marginal.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Portista:
Hi,

Please could you direct me to the thread for the original CM 10 nightly build for S3.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acalmenvoy:
There ya go buddy
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhoenixMP:
Hi everyone,

My phone is the Samsung Galaxy S3, GT-I9300 (international version). I am in Australia, though the phone is an unlocked one from Hong Kong.

Earlier today I tried to install the Liquid Jelly Bean v2 RC 8 rom, which for some reason was only applying the 4.0.4 ICS rom. I then used the RC7 one which worked fine. To install it, I used clockworkmod recovery without rooting the phone.

Method was at androidrootz (can't post link yet)

Now the RC7 rom is working fine, except that my IMEI is gone, and so I can't make calls or use 3G.

I've also rooted the phone now and confirmed it with RootChecker on play store.

Now I have the EFS backup that was made when I did the RC7 or RC8 install of Liquid jelly bean. It hasn't been working when I try and restore it using root explorer. I copy the files, but the IMEI is still gone after reboot. I fear that when I installed RC8 is when the IMEI was lost, and the current efs backup I have is what the RC7 install automatically did. But hopefully that's not the case.

I'm trying out hellcat's kTool app to do it. However kTool doesn't detect my tar backup that the liquid rom automatically did (by default called efsbackup.tar.gz. I renamed it to efs.tar.gz and put it in /sdcard/efs on the phone. Doesn't recognise it.)

Can anyone help me with this, or provide another solution you might know of?

I know I did the wrong thing by failing to do an efs backup in the first place. It was my first time installing a custom rom and I looked at quite a few resources but didn't see any mention of it.

Thank you all very much, any help is appreciated.

EDIT:

Fixed the problem now. Ultimately, restoring the phone back to the stock rom worked (I used the exact one it started with from hong kong). The phone is working normally again and the IMEI's back. I'd actually tried out a lot of stock roms already, though only the exact correct one for the phone seems to have worked. Might just be a coincidence.

In case anyone ever has a similar issue, to find the exact stock rom for your phone's region (if you bought it online like me), open KIES -> Tools -> Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation. Enter your phone's model and serial number. The update itself will fail from KIES (did for me anyway), but before it starts you'll see the update name. The region for your phone is in the brackets at the end. Download the relevant firmware off sammobile or elsewhere and use odin to flash the rom.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
Hi,

I hope it is o.k. to post this question in the Xoom forum!?

In the download folder of my Motorola Xoom there are several files that I can't delete any more.

These files are pdf- and/or mp3-files that originally had a German umlaut in their file name. By copying/pasting these files into the download directory, they were somehow damaged. Now, the filenames are showing some strange characters and the file sizes are 0 kB.

As soon as I try to delete one of those files, my Xoom shows a message, that the file can't be deleted.

I already tried out to use several different file explorers which didn't work.

Unfortunately, even "MyPhoneExplorer" can't delete the files by connecting the Xoom to the PC. There, the files don't show up.

Renaming of the files doesn't work either and overwriting the files using a new file with the same name also doesn't work.

Can somebody of you help me with this problem?

How can I get rid of these 0kB files?

Thanks a lot!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runandhide05:
Its perfectly OK to ask questions, no problem this is to be a source of information. It should however be in the Q&A section. That said

You can try to delete the file using "android terminal emulator" app

In there enter the following command substituting the file name for whatever u r trying to delete

rm /sdcard/yourfilename.whatever

If that does not work and u r rooted you can try the same command after have superuser permission. Do this

Open terminal and enter

su

Press enter after that and allow superuser, then enter the same command above.

Attached is a screen shot of what it should look like
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
Thanks for your idea! ...unfortunately it doesn't work :(

Problem seems to be the filename. It was corrupted while unpacking files from a packed archive. The original filename contained several so called"umlaute" (German special characters) which the system on the Xoom obviously can't handle correctly. These "umlaute" characters were replaced by some other curious characters during extraction.

Example: "11. ڵoԠ(ڢer-unter-ober-Գterreicher).mp3" is the filename after unpacking the file. Before, it was " 11. Üuoö (Über-unter-ober-österreicher).mp3"

As soon as I try to remove the file, a message appears, telling me that there is no such file. At the same time, the terminal shows the corrupted filename, but suppressing the corrupted characters.

No chance to delete :crying:

I hope, I could explain it so that you can understand what happens (or what doesn't happen). Any further ideas?

Thanks a lot!

PS: corrupted files are not only mp3 but also some pdf and doc files. All of them show up with a size of 0Byte on the Xoom, while the original file size is shown as soon as I connect the Xoom to my PC using MyPhoneExplorer (which, btw, also isn't able to delete)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runandhide05:
Are the files located in a directory by them selves? If so u can try to remove the directory itself
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
Some of them are, others not. It makes no difference. If I try to delete an entire directory, containing one of those corrupted files, the whole directory can't be deleted. Anyway, "normal" files (uncorrupted) in the relevant directory can be removed individually... except those 0-Byte-files:p
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
No more ideas? ....anyone? :(

I can't believe, that it should really be impossible to delete corrupted files :rolleyes:
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runandhide05:
Are u rooted? I just had the same problem. Simple boot into twrp and delete thru the built in file manager
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
Yes, I am rooted. but I have CWM on my Xoom. I found the thread about TWRP in the Nexus section. will it also work for the Motorola Xoom?

Can I install it instead of CWM without loosing all my apps and data?

Thanks!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runandhide05:
Look at my signature, its twrp for our xoom
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trevd:
when using the terminal rm command you need to escape special characters ( i.e spaces, parenthese etc ) with a backslash or put the file name in quotes. so you file name in question can be removed by

rm 11.\ Üuoö\ \(Über-unter-ober-österreicher\).mp3

or

rm "11. Üuoö (Über-unter-ober-österreicher).mp3"

you can also do wildcard deletion based on fragements of the file name i.e

rm 11*.mp3

will delete all files that start with 11 with the mp3 externsion or you could start with a wildcard so a named example_file_name.txt can be deleted using

rm *file*.txt

obviously that will delete ALL files that have the word file in the filename and an extension of .txt so BE CAREFUL WHEN USING WILDCARDS but you get the idea ( hopefully ) :D

If that doesn't delete them then you've got problems.

---------- Post added at 01:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:54 PM ----------

A little tip, If you're not from the old school you won't know that it best to avoid spaces and special characters in filenames especially as your transferring between different filesystem types, obviously unicode characters are kinda inevitable if that's you native language but a demestorated here there's not 100% support for it, mostly due to westernized developers not taking into account internationalization!

TRIVIA: Early versions of MSDOS only allowed eight characters for a filename with a 3 characters extension. Imagine working with those constraints! :D
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gg777:
I had the same problem. The only solution is:

Install TWRP http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1782235

Reboot in recovery. Explore the files and delete whatever you want..
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
he e

Thanks, but it doesn't work. No matter if I use the backslash- or the paranthesis method, the emulator always tells me that it could not deleze as there is no such file or directory. :(
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runandhide05:
Just use TWRP if your unlocked. It will take care of it. ( see link in my sig)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
Success!!

Finally, I gathered all my courage and installed TWRP over my old CWM Recovery without doing any backups :D

And...yes, it did the trick!!

I was able to delete all the corrupted files and folders and everything else is still in place :good:

Thanks for your good help!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runandhide05:
Glad you got it working! Now would be a good time to make a backup with twrp because cwm backups will not work with twrp and vice versa
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deb10042:
Oups! :cyclops:

Thanks, that was really a good hint! Didn't know that and will do it at once after coming home this evening :)

Will it be difficult, to go back to CWM? ...just in case...:rolleyes: