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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] No_Nickname90:
Yes!! The insane battery dropped started happening like a month ago. That's all that was happening though. Just random battery drops. I thought it was the ROM at the time. The phone would freeze up, reboot and the battery would be 30%+ lower.

About a week ago I started experiencing the craziness. Phone rebooting, flickering screen, pretty much everything you've stated. And yes I've been using the latest modems. My battery can also spin like a top. For a very long time I might add. Some other dude with a regular Qwerty phone has a battery that can spin, but it only spins for like 3 seconds. His phone is pretty old.

My phone is about a year old and the battery spins for ever. I guess this is a good test to see how bloated your battery is, since I can't really look at it and tell.

I do charge over night since my phone would die over night. I don't think my phone will fry right now since my phone is on the charger and the battery temperature is at 66 Fahrenheit (18 Celsius). Ordered a new battery hoping for the best. And I will be using ROMs that are based on the FF18 with the new battery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] eagles16:
first power button broke, now battery is taking a **** upon itself, exact same issues :(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rsngfrce:
Check this out... as I said, after my wife had been having this issue for a couple weeks on her stock E4GT, on Thursday her phone would never boot past the boot screen. She took it into Sprint on Friday and they determined the battery was bad. They tried a new battery, still wouldn't get past the boot screen. They ordered her a new phone 'overnight' which is supposed to arrive Monday. She is going into withdrawal, so for the hell of it I plugged her phone in, booted to stock recovery and did a factory reset... reboot and the phone (apart from the bad battery) works perfectly. My wife asks why they wouldn't have done that at the Sprint store? :eek: What a bunch of idiots!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] flyinghigh1105:
ICS prob

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I have the above listed problems with my SOny Xperia Arc S after I updated it to ICS.. It is kinda frustrating..coz it turns on and off by itself, or sometimes it just froze that will makes me manually take out the battery..But when I haven't updated it to ICS there are no problems like this...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ankurcshah:
Do look in what forum you are replying to before replying. This is the E4GT forum. NOT Sony!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] arionfrost:
This is a specific problem related to E4GT. I think its the characteristics of this problem that make it unique, the instantly dead battery, the battery bloating, and something to do with recent ICS updates. I am hypothesizing that it has to do with battery overcharging that somehow got introduced to recent builds of ICS that is causing this.

I just got my new battery in yesterday, and sure enough, it fixed all of these problems. It's an Anker battery, and, although I am no expert on batteries, its a really nice third party battery, and feels weightier than the stock Samsung battery. Now I'm worried that ICS will destroy this battery as well, so I am being very conservative when it comes to charging.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] FallenSB:
I was having the same issue with my last E4GT running FI27 STOCK ROOTED.

1) LOS to reboot then low battery from full

2) using apps like spotify, maps and voice search on 3g would also cause it to reboot to low battery

3) screen flickers (like cm10 flicker) and then reboots
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Beremat:
I don't think the issue is related to ics but rather the age of the phone, but i could be wrong.

Has anyone had their battery die after upgrading to ICS when their phone was less than 8 months old?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rsngfrce:
Pesonally, I agree... my belief is that this is a battery age issue. Now, I won't say that the battery should age so quickly or that it should start bloating, but no one has had this issue with a newish battery have they (say, newer than 6 months)?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] arionfrost:
I dunno man. I have had an Epic 4G, an HTC Evo, and evne HTC Hero that I kept for quite a while and their batteries never bloated and exhibited these kind of software based issues. Sure batteries degrade over time, but it's almost like the software was glitching out when it was killing my battery and causing strange reboots and lock ups, not to mention instant drain.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] maurisue:
new battery bloating within 2 weeks

Hi there, first post here, I was just browsing the web for help with this issue and found this thread. My galaxy s2 eg4 also had the bloated battery after ics update, it was shutting off randomly, flickering, etc. I replaced the battery first part of december 2012, and within 2 weeks it had started doing the same thing again, but not as often. Sure enough, brand new, previously flat battery was slightly bloated. It has gradually gotten worse, so I just purchased 2 new anker batteries to see if they fare better. When I changed the battery and took out my one month old battery, it was quite bloated and spun for quite a while.

Hoping it does better with the anker batteries, but only time will tell.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Batteries bloating has nothing to do with ICS or the software. Its a heat issue and weak cell walls inside the OEM batteries. The cell walls barely meet requirements to make the 1800mah cells fit in a 1500mah size housing and they don't hold up well to high temps. as the battery reaches 120°F+ the solid state chemicals used in the cells begin to expand, a normal battery's cell walls can withstand the slight increase in pressure but the thinner walls in these batteries begin to crack and/or separate from the housing and then the chemicals can mix. Once the chemicals begin to mix the reaction causes the air inside the battery to expand and swells the housing out as it has nowhere to escape.

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jared King:
I have the same problem l. Even with a 3800mah battery. It will start.acting up and if it gets better it will all of sidden go up to 70% or more, and i know it takes a couple of hours to get it to 70% from being dead at 15% or less.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] maurisue:
I have been using the anker battery for over two weeks and no issues, longer battery life, etc. So far, so good. :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PanchoPlanet:
Most definitely a battery issue, especially when your phone is a year old or close to it, I don't know what was up with ics but that sure put hurting on the Epic Touch.

I have two Epic's and they are both 14 months old and in Dec they both got new batteries, an Anker and a original Samsung and they are both running like new again. Ones on GB and the other is on JB roms.

They both experienced the bloted battery syndrome and they also experienced ics, for a short period before going back to GB and now JB. Ics was a catalyst for the batteries to fail the way they did, not to mention that charging and discharging a battery for a year or so is going to also take a battery to its limits, especially when you plug it in overnight. At present we have no issues with our Epic's and we are just going to wait it out for the GS4 to get here before we upgrade.

EViL is on the right track even thought he likes to break stuff. :p

Pp.:)

sent from a jellybean filled epic touch.
[Android Apps and Games] tharlegames:
Tharle Games are Happy to introduce their first android game release

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, the best part is it's free to download and play. Have a nice day Andro Gamers.
[Galaxy Note II General] lucian75:
Hi,does anyone know where can be best price to buy on blackfriday?

Please writte here where u see best prices.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sixedup:
I'd normally post this as a reply to Chainfires [2012.10.26] CF-Auto-Root v1.0 [GT-I930x/T/N][SHV-E210*][SHW-M440S] thread in the Galaxy S III Original Android Development subforum, but without 10 posts, I can't post to a development thread, so this is the best I can do for now...

I've a 1 week old SGS3 International (GT-i9300) that has upgraded to JB OTA, now running JB 4.1.1, baseband I9300XXDLID, Build number JRO03C.I9300XXDLJ4. I am unable to root my phone using Chainfires recommended method, as described in that thread. I see the software download to the phone, and then the phone reboots into CWM, and then sits at the CWM menu. Rebooting from CWM menus results in normal start of the phone, and everything working (apparently) normally. Update counter is incremented, and my phone is now detected as modified. However, root is not available, and there appears to be no SU binary on the phone.

Attempting to install SuperSU from the market doesn't work. Running Root Checker from the market confirms that the phone is not rooted.

I appear to be one of several people for whom this method is now failing (though the use of Linux rather than Windows makes me slightly unusual) and wanted to (a) report this to Chainfire, and (b) get some help on what to try next to make this work, as I really want to get root on my handset.

For information, the method I used:

I run Ubuntu, and have no access to a Windows PC, so I made the updates with Heimdall v1.3.1, which as others have noted (around post 120ish) does work and I also double-checked that that specific version could talk to the phone correctly (detect and print-pir both work as expected).

I took the latest CF Auto Root for my phone hardware from Chainfires site (at autoroot [dot] chainfire [dot] eu), and extracted the recovery and cache image files. switched the phone to download (PWR, Vol Down, Home) then Vol Up, plugged in the USB cable and ran "sudo heimdall flash --recovery recovery.img --cache cache.img", resulting in:

Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Attempt failed. Detaching driver...
Claiming interface again...
Setting up interface...

Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...

Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 131072

Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download sucessful

Uploading RECOVERY
100%
RECOVERY upload successful
Uploading CACHE
100%
CACHE upload successful
Ending session...
Rebooting device...
Re-attaching kernel driver...

During code download, progress bars move on the phone as expected, and it then reboots into CWM, where it sits waiting for manual input. Rebooting the phone from CWM does not seem to result in root, even through the flash counter has been incremented and the phone is detected as modified.

I would appreciate some help, or a kindly moderator moving this to the right forum/thread and allowing me to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks

Richard
[Windows Phone 8 Apps and Games] vpalhories:
Hi there,

I do a lot of driving and my phone is connected via Bluetooth in the car. I love the fact that the OS will read text messages over my car speakers and allow me to respond all hands free when a new message comes across. I've been looking for something similar in the marketplace for email but can't find anything. Is anyone aware of an application that will read your email aloud when your phone receives it?

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 8 Apps and Games] SimzzDev:
I don't think the current API's will allow access to a user's email, so the only way this would be possible is if the app itself connected to your email. I haven't seen anything that does that.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyijedi:
Does anyone know for sure? I've seen reports of both, but haven't found a confirmation on whether the radio actually supports 42 Mbps like the Nexus 4.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OLYMPIAKOI:
Hspa+21 only, it is on its web.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyijedi:
Thanks. I've seen reports of both on the web, so I wasn't sure.

Actually, I just found this. I have no idea if it's true or not. Anyone else here of such a thing?

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/11/15/nexus-7-hspa-sold-out-through-google-play-store/
[General Questions and Answers] amir4206:
i flashed my sony ericsson xperia ray with an ics updated which said it was pre rooted and once i was done its stuck at boot and it does not even look like its in boot loop! :(

i factory reset it

cleared partition

cleared dalvic cache

and then installed from sd card

i also tried to connect it to the comp to flash a official ics update but the usb debugging is OFF

is there any way that i could turn ON the usb debugging from command prompt??

if its at the wrong section please do put it in the right section

thanks in advance:)
[General Questions and Answers] Ghostfreak NB:
Did you try using flashtool to flash the stock Rom for Ray?

Or even SEUS?
[General Questions and Answers] amir4206:
it was a zip file so i installed it from sd card!!!
[General Questions and Answers] amir4206:
when i connected it to flashtool is said usb debugging is off!!
[General Questions and Answers] Ghostfreak NB:
What about SEUS?

Did you try that?
[General Questions and Answers] UchihaDareNial:
A few way to ressurect your phone :

Unlock its bootloader,flash a custom pre-rooted kernel,and flash a custom rom that are compatible with the krrnel,and hope your device can be turn on normally
[General Questions and Answers] amir4206:
i used flashtool but connected in a flash mode before i connecting it ie vol(-) while connecting the usb and was able to flash a stock rom :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] hatcyl:
Has anyone noticed that if you connect your Note II to your computer, open the camera app, and look at logcat you will see a ton of errors in logcat?

They seem to be mostly gps/location errors.

Can anyone confirm if they see these errors too?

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] homegeek:
I am noticing with several of my joined contacts that I am not seeing a contact photo. They have photos through facebook but not through my other links such as Google or other programs that I have them listed as contacts. Does anyone know a way of forcing it to use the contact picture from Facebook or making that the default? In my SG3 before the JB update I was able to click on the photo and use it for the contact but that does not appear to be an option in JB.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dafoxs:
I use Facebook contact sync from the market and it works fine

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync

I know on the note one you had to edit the contact and choose what pic to use.
[General Questions and Answers] jeremymg:
HI all,

What really mean the advice that N7 must be "booted to Android" that follows ADB mode i.e. in menu no.20) Device Information of ToolKit?

That is to say that I must go to N7 Vol+/Power sequence of fastboot choosing there "reboot" before starting with no.20) Device information?

Is this correct?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilldrever:
Hi,

Hoping someone can help me, i've searched for a couple of days for answers and tried out suggestions and followed procedures but not getting anywhere so could do with some direct help I think.

Handset details:

Galaxy S3 not locked to any UK network nor does it have any network specific software on it.

Not had any modifications done other than normal OTA software updates and is currently running ICS.

Problem:

Woke up one morning to find the handset frozen on the black & white splashscreen after it being fine the night before and still having plenty of charge. Now won't respond to powering off, just goes blank then returns to splashscreen, only way is to remove battery. Will not respond to normal reset method (vol up + home + power) but will enter download mode (vol down + home + power) and connect to PC.

Attempted solutions:

Have downloaded Odin3 v3.07 along with various firmware .tar files and followed the procedure to reflash the handset but it fails everytime at the 'NAND write' stage.

*Kies is not running at the same time as Odin3

*All drivers are installed and working correctly

*All different USB ports have been tried

*Only have the one USB cable to use

*All settings on Odin3 are correct with regards to checkboxes, etc.

The following is what appears in the message box after each failed attempt: (the <OSM> stages all complete fine)

<ID:0/006> Odin v.3 engine (ID:6)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/006> Initialization..

<ID:0/006> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/006> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/006> Boot.img

<ID:0/006> NAND write start!!

<ID:0/006> FAIL!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Any help would be much appreciated as I am completely at a loss as to why this has happened considering i've done nothing to the handset with regards to rooting, etc. and I don't really want to send my handset away for repair if I can help it.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Nand fail = service centre repair .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilldrever:
Thanks for the reply, I had a bad feeling that it would need sent away :(

Any ideas as to why the handset should just stop working all of a sudden? I could understand it if I had tried to install some dodgy software or otherwise mess about with it but there's been no tinkering, no liquid ingress, nothing.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
Service center for u buddy.. sorry
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gibbsrob:
. Uninstall any previous instance of Kies/USB driver

2. Download the latest Kies, specific to your S3.

3. Download Samsung USB drivers 1.4.6.0 (I've tried newer versions but they all failed)

4. REBOOT

5. Disconnect from internet (VERY IMPORTANT!!! - forcing Windows to install local drivers ONLY)

6. With the phone disconnected, install Kies + USB drivers downloaded in steps 2,3

7. Connect the phone and let Windows install the drivers.

8. Reestablish the internet connection.

KIES: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ay0aroxd2wdrezc/KiesSetup.exe

Samsung Drivers:https://www.dropbox.com/s/psldnrg39p...s_v1_4_6_0.exe

I do not take credit for this fix. I found it scouring various Windows 7 forums but IT DOES WORK!

Please give me some "Thanks" if this helped you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
I already have win 7 x64 settings to never install drivers from windows update and it still instantly installs drivers which fail. But I'm using kies to install drivers. Where did you download them?

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64

---------- Post added at 05:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:04 PM ----------

Also, since Kies install also installs device drivers, how do you handle that part?

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gibbsrob:
You have to uninstall KIES, download the newest version and uninstall whatever samsung drivers you do have on your computer now.

By being disconnected from the internet you force the proper drivers to be installed via KIES and Samsung USB drivers.

Just follow the instructions step by step and you can't go wrong.

http://www.mediafirelib.com/files/samsung-usb-driver-for-mobile-phones-v1-4-6-0.html
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
Kies installs both drivers, so I was wondering why and where you got 1.4 drivers and how you were installing them. Kies drivers are 1.5.

I did some system cleaning of remains of a previous install, and now don't get the hardware id msg. However, kies still won't connect via usb, just spins and spins until the phone says it can't find anything on the PC to connect with. Wi fi, is working fine.

FYI there is a new Kies version for PC released yesterday. I'll keep you posted as I move into hour 4 of this project. :D

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gibbsrob:
Here is the link to the USB drivers (Samsung) https://www.dropbox.com/s/psldnrg39pk6qa0/Samsung_USB_Driver_for_Moblie_Phones_v1_4_6_0.exe?m

I am uploading the KIES version that works for me now...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
Great! I had Kies working when I first tried in July. I look forward to the link. Do you have win7 64 bit. It seems there's more problems with this OS.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gibbsrob:
I am using Windows 7 64bit.

You must follow the instructions EXACTLY.

MAKE SURE YOUR INTERNET IS DISCONNECTED WHEN INSTALLING KIES AND THEN INSTALL THE SAMSUNG DRIVERS.

That forces Windows to install the local drivers instead of the Windows update drivers.

KIES: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ay0aroxd2wdrezc/KiesSetup.exe

Samsung Drivers:https://www.dropbox.com/s/psldnrg39pk6qa0/Samsung_USB_Driver_for_Moblie_Phones_v1_4_6_0.exe
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
Thanks I'll report back. I had done everything per instructions except overwriting 1.5 drivers with 1.4 due to the app update yesterday. Wasn't sure if they would be compatible.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gibbsrob:
You will have to uninstall the current drivers in Control panel, then install the old ones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
Are you doing that in device manager or programs and features? I could only find 1 samsung driver in device manager. I think there's 2 drivers installed. Thanks.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
So before I did anything I launched Kies and plugged in my phone and it worked! I think I failed to do a restart after my final attempt at using the built in connection trouble shooter. So it appears that the November 17th update is now compatible. There is one problem I need to look into which is that my phone is not being recognized as a Samsung, even though the correct model number appears, so no firmware updating until that's fixed. But back up and syncing functions properly. One nice thing that is different than the last time I used Kies is that the phone remains fully functional during these processes, including copying files using Windows Explorer.

Anybody with sprint and jelly bean able to update firmware using Kies? It says my current firmware doesn’t have this function to use Kies to upgrade.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gibbsrob:
KIES didn't say there was an update for JB so I just put the update on my SD card and flashed it through stocks recovery. You have to be totally stock, unrooted to flash: http://db.tt/2DJVmRdr
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
There's no update that I need, just wondering why Kies is warning me that it doesn't recognize my phone as a Samsung or a phone which can receive updates via Kies. Anyone else getting this. Model # and firmware versions are all correct on the kies screen.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trunkmonkey1972:
I'm back, the new drivers from Kies didn't 'take' as missing hardware id was back the next time I launched Kies. I uninstalled them, then downloaded a system cleaner from Iobit. This software is great and found thousands of things to optimize and scrub. Then I installed the older drivers from the OP (1.4) and all is well. It even recognizes the firmware now so future updates will be possible. Here's the installer for Iobit: http://db.tt/JUhoGGHC

Do reboots after all cleanings, installs, and uninstalls. My Geek bench scores on my PC jumped 15 - 20% after the scrub!

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jrny99:
Usb connection

I ended up removing kies and the samsung drivers, rebooted, plugged my phone in and presto, nutin up my sleeve, it worked. kiss simple
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ay_Ya:
Simpler way

You do not have to disconnect from the internet or uninstall Kies. Simply disconnect phone, uninstall Samsung Drivers from PC, re-install drivers(I used v1_4_6_0), and when you click the Finish button you will recieve a pop up from your system tray stating to click for details. If you do so, there will be a clickable link to cancel using Windows Update. Click it. Once all is complete, plug in your phone and it will be recognized immediatly. I hope this makes the process a little simpler for everyone.