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[General Questions and Answers] SammiSaysHello:
If you "turned my brightness low, turned of Wif and disabled bluetooth, when not using, shut down many services and disabled apps, disabled location, and account sync services", you don't need any battery apps because that's all they basically do - but in 1 tap instead of 10.

1. I don't use any because I need all those features that they turn off to save battery

2. Use only 1 because they all basically do the same things.

:)
[General Questions and Answers] Guitarman:
Like mentioned earlier, you don't need any battery saving app if you're already taking precautionary measures. Those apps are primarily aimed for the less technologically inclined individuals that know nothing about simple battery saving techniques. Running one or both might actually be detrimental to your battery life as they require processing power

Sent from my Fire Kindling A-Pad
[General Questions and Answers] sanguinesaintly:
I wouldn't bother with any of those apps. It's not hard to manage yourself. Remember that 3G eats battery when searching for a signal, 2G eats less, GPS only really eats battery when enabled by an app like Maps, and wifi eats a bit of battery when searching for a signal.

How long do you get from a charge - I just stick mine onto the charger every night although I can get 20+ hours from a charge with reasonable use.
[General Questions and Answers] Indium Indeed:
In my experience Juice Defender is useless. I use advanced task killer to close apps from the background, but otherwise there is not much that you can do.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aymericHTC:
Hi, i think chainfire 3D can brick the kindlefire HD.

With a custom rom on my HTC Desire HD i have install Chainfire 3D but after reboot the rom don't load.

I needed to go on recovery (Clockword mod) and flash a new rom, but if the Kindlefire HD have a locked bootloader its possible to brick it with that no ?

Nobody have test it ?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jailuis:
I would love to have that same question answered.. Asked it twice here, but got no amswer, so dont raise your hopes that high. It seems that the users here rather not to use it
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aymericHTC:
Ok, I think it is dangerous for the moment... waiting for a real bootloader/recovery
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrownEye02:
Ok so I've been digging for an answer for the past few days. With the recent fcc lawsuit against verizon on charging for tethering its been hard filtering through all those posts. I currently have barnical installed and working but this doesn't work with consoles like a 3ds due to it operating in ad-hoc. I've been reading there's ways to wifi tether with an infrastructure network but no one is giving an answer. Im with verizon so if I use the built-in in tethering feature I get redirected to the verizon page. Just to let you know I currently have the cola rom installed. Yes I know verizon can tell that I'm tethering but I've done this in the past with no issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndrewMPhoto:
Ive been trying to get fastboot to work on my phone for weeks, no methods on this site have worked. Ive tried another pc with windows 7 and its the same story. I have rooted my phone but I kept the bootloader locked. Is an unlocked bootloader an necessity for fastboot or am I missing something?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] devilakos:
you must have the fastboot and flashmode drivers installed on your pc ,and the xperia s drivers also.....

you enter fastboot when you turn off your phone and you have to press volume up while you connect your usb to pc and you see a blue led .....

i assume fastboot is working before you unlock your bootloader as you unlock the bootloader using fastboot...

what do you want fastboot?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndrewMPhoto:
I want fastboot to install custom roms on my device. I could use a hand getting the drivers to work.

My system is windows 8 which is know there is issues with but i have tried:

Plugging phone in while holding volume button.

Lights comes on green and windows sees the device.

Right click and click update.

Select the drivers and select bootloader interface

plug the phone back in and click next

Then the update fails.

Any thoughts?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fareeed:
You need to disable driver signature verification. Do an advanced restart from windows 8, from there there is an option to disable it. After that you should be able to install the drivers fine.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndrewMPhoto:
i forgot to mention i have tried that also. I've stumped. I don't know why none of the methods aren't working for me haha!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SXUsr:
Give this a read and a watch - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2044804
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
You can not unlock the bootloader without fastboot.

Some phones can access fastboot some are locked out. Chances are, if you paid a discount price through your carrier, your phone has fastboot blocked. If you bought the unlocked full price version you should have access.

You can check if the phone can access fastboot. With the phone off, press volume up and plug into a charger/pc. Do you get the blue led on phone? If no blue led then pc drivers won't help.

~Jaramie

sent by my ION
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndrewMPhoto:
Thanks for your help, the light is green so im guessing I dont have fastboot. Is there any other ways I can install custom roms to my phone? Or un block fastboot?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] inerhead:
I have the same problem! im so sad, im going to seel this one and buy an unlocked one.:(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 4lex96:
If you are with windows 8 connect your phone by an usb 2.0 port. This solve your problem. Fastboot, flash mode and software like Emma, flashtool doesn't support usb 3.0 with windows 8.

Best regards

Look the end of that post
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
Make sure your pressing the volume up button to enter fastboot mode, blue led. If you press the down button you should get the green led for flash mode. They are different modes. Flash mode is for .ftf files. Fastboot is for .sin files.

From the dialer enter *#*#service#*#* or *#*#7378423#*#* then click on configuration. This will tell you if you can unlock or not.

~Jaramie

sent by my ION
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndrewMPhoto:
I do t use usb 3.0 with my phone. All I want to know at this point is since my phone is with o2 and my bootloader is locked has fastboot also been locked? My phone is rooted, there must be a way to unblock fastboot if that is the case
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndrewMPhoto:
Hmm, nothing happens at all when I hold the vol up key my phone just boots as normal
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
Then no fastboot. My AT&T branded Ion is this way. When I do the service code in previous post, configuration shows bootloader unlockable NO. Means no official unlock, no unofficial way yet to unlock at all :(

~Jaramie

sent by my ION

Xperia SOFT-BRICK Recovery Thread
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndrewMPhoto:
Mann thats lame. Hopefully there will be an unofficial way at some point!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vfrvulcan:
New to the N7 - only had it for a few days and in the early days it was fine copying stuff to/from PC.

Now, after rooting, the xfer speed is much reduced (on multiple PCs) and quite often the copy process with timeout part way through.

Before rooting I quite happily copied 8GB onto the N7 but now I'm having trouble copying 20MB - sometimes it will copy, sometimes it won't. Just hangs. Need to remove USB cable and re-insert and copy in small chunks waiting for it to happen again.

Never seen this on my (rooted) One-X or Desire in the past.

I would ask if this was an artefact of MTP storage but it was fine before rooting. Rooting method was Wug's without installing a custom recovery.

Anything I can change or do to get this working reliably again?

MTIA

Aaron
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ngoralph:
i dont think its related to rooting try to wait for a bit when transferring like 10-15 mins mine also gets stuck at the last part and i hust wait for about 5 mins then its done
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vfrvulcan:
Pre-rooting I could xfer 8GB with no problem. Filename currently being copied shows in the Windows Explorer diaglog box as it rattles through them.

Copying the same set of files and you can see it hang on a single filename for what seems like ages and then get a Windows 'device has timed-out error, skip or retry'. Both options fail.

It's not a case of leaving it 10-15 mins because it *fails*
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Groid:
I'm rooted with the stock rom at 4.2.1 and my Usb transfers are every bit as speedy as before rooting. Big files, little files, lots of files, doesn't matter. I get very fast transfers. I did do an fdr after the latest update.
[Xperia Play General] cheeze6661:
Sorry if this in the wrong section.

Forever I've been trying to get the WiFi tethering to work on our Jellybean Xperia Plays. I have yet to see anyone who has got it to work so I figured I'd post my method.

First download the WiFi tether for root users:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.android.wifi.tether&hl=en

I spent a long time messing with the settings to finally access the internet. A lot of people were saying it wouldn't work or only in ad hoc mode. :( Not the case. I figured out I was able to "trick" the WiFi driver to enable tethering.

Simply under setting change the device profile to that of the Google Nexus One.

Leave the setup method on auto.

Make sure to tick WiFi driver reload and routing fix.

I also change the channel setting to auto.

Start up the WiFi tether and there you go! I used WiFi tether constantly for my pspGO and laptop when out on business. After updating to Jb ROMs the native tethering was broke but now there is a way. :thumbup:

Tested and working on my at&t xperia play 4G boot loader unlocked running cosmic dans turbo Jb kernel v9 and the fxp unofficial cm10 latest build.

If I've helped simply click the thanks.:D
[Xperia Play General] fma965:
Great find but think it should be in general or themes and apps, just not development
[Xperia Play General] cheeze6661:
Can a moderator please move this topic to the section that is necessary. Thank you.

Edit: just tested this method on TurboUi v4 with the Lupus v6 jb kernel and can confirm it working. Looks like there's our hotspot walk around for Jellybean ROMs. :cool:

Sent From My At&t Xperia Play 4G Boot Loader Unlocked Lupus JB V6 w/ TurboUi V4
[Xperia Play General] fma965:
Ad hoc works fine any way but yes can confirm infrastructure works with these setting , tried this my self before but was no nexus one at the time :( thanks
[Xperia Play General] cheeze6661:
True but some devices might not support ad hoc connection. And here's a thought for xplay jb devs, is the sources for the nexus ones WiFi driver/modules available and if so could they be ported/tweaked to compile with the xplay jb roms? Just a thought in finally getting the hotspot fixed. I'm not a developer of the android platform so please excuse me if that was a completely dumb question.

Sent From My At&t Xperia Play 4G Boot Loader Unlocked Lupus JB V6 w/ TurboUi V4
[Xperia Play General] fma965:
.

Yeah ok, i was thinking the same thing aswell :), just asked cosmicdan in his jellyzeus thread.
[Xperia Play General] cheeze6661:
Thank u maybe this will be the answer.

Sent From My At&t Xperia Play 4G Boot Loader Unlocked Lupus JB V6 w/ TurboUi V4
[Xperia Play General] santiis2010:
Thank you! i was tired to use the stupid usb cable :/
[Xperia Play General] cheeze6661:
Your welcome:D
[Xperia Play General] MegaAndy:
Thanks

Thanks for the info, i could connect my tablet to my play using this method though i cannot test the data yet as my rom isn't working correctly anyway
[Xperia Play General] astralfxtech:
Works like a charm for Xperia NEO L (Turbo kernel, CM 10.1 UNOFFICAL ROM). Had to use Wifi-driver reload, with inside tether script), not Wifi-driver reload 2 that requires SU.

However it's no longer on the Play store, instead go to http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/, download "wifi_tether_v3_3-beta2.apk", change device profile to "Google Nexus One", tick "Wifi-driver reload" (not Wifi-driver reload 2).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pacorno:
Hi i bought a samsung galaxy 2 skyrocket from att and i updated to the newest verion 4.0.4 and i wanted to go back to the 4.0.3 or Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) but i dont know how? could anyone help me please??

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astancheff:
Hello all! I am a bit confused... the problem is: my rooted international note2 (+Crash mode v.3.2) displays me again basic setup wizard... i am not sure how it happen... please help me... thanks in advance! Greetings from Bulgaria!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakure:
Did you do factory reset in settings or wipe in recovery

scribbled from my note 2 (N7100)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astancheff:
No... all my data is up... thats is the problem... im not sure is there a chance to access the wizard in other way. Thanks for reply.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astancheff:
Any other ideas are welcome...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astancheff:
The potential problem files are SetupWizard.apk or SecSetupWizard.apk...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Themes and Apps] Raymond199483:
I have bochs on kindle fire hd windows 95 runs fine but I'm having a hard time trying to find a windows 98 img if someone can post a link to a site or upload it thanks

PS I'm having a time getting the HDD folder to show up

sent from my kindle fire hd
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 440hsp:
Ok guys i need to put my nexus 10 back to stock. I used mskips toolbox to unlock, root, and install twrp. Everything went great,but when i try to use the toolbox to flash the factory image it says image not found, then says it is downloaded and asks if i would like to flash. I answer yes and it says image not found....... error. I have tried 3 different peoples computers here at work and all 3 say the same thing. I did donate to mskip and he did send me the donate code and yes i updated the toolbox on each computer i tried to use the toolbox with. Now i'm still rooted and i can't lock the bootloader until i flash the factory image. I did however download the factory image from google not using the toolbox and i was wonderng how to get the toolbox to read the image from inside the computer from my download folder. Or how can i install the image where the toolbox can read it. I'm not that good at running command prompts so i was trying to make this as easy as possible. That way i don't mess my new nexus 10 up before i send it back. Any help would be greatly apprecated. Thanks in advance.

BTW.... the factory image is in TAR file format. How can i use that to flash the image on my nexus 10? i also downloaded something called fastboot-windows-zip.

Edit... nevermind i figured the tar file information out. the boot image is in tar file and i need to inzip it. still need some help getting mskips toolbox to read the image i have on the computer so i can flash back to stock.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGrayHatter:
I can't offer help specifically to the toolkit you are referencing but IRC that it has not been updated to support 4.2.1.

Thus, i would go into the forums and fin the Nexus Root toolkit, install it and ensure that the drivers are installed correctly. (there is a large tab dedicated to this on the program, Can't miss it)

Then, I would Click the option to lash Stock image and re-lock. Viola!
[LG Optimus 2x] ilooze:
I'm seeing post everyday like.....How to upgrade to ics from CMx or from GB....or post like how to root ICS......or phone bricked.....how can be tha hard? USE THIS http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2020737 P990 Toolkit! In here you have a lot of options and instructions during install or flash or etc....Here you can flash ICS via smartflash (it is the easiest way) or Root ICS or GB or extract KDZ you can do anything here! You can't brick your phone! Install APX drivers and latest usb drivers and everything will work!:good:
[LG Optimus 2x] hybridtheory:
Hey buddy,

thanks a tonne! I take it you saw my thread :)

Q - When i flash ICS via smartflash, do I need to download the ICS rom? Also, do I need to worry about backing my data up?
[LG Optimus 2x] ilooze:
Well you have to download the KDZ from the ROM LINKER thread or from anywhere you want and with P990 Toolkit extract the bin and fls files and flash them via smartflash. But I don;t know how to back up your data. Really sorry for that
[LG Optimus 2x] Rayman96:
You can backup your apps by titanium backup or adb. Then restore it :)

Sent from LG 2X using Tapatalk 3 Beta
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soccerdad:
Ordered Nexus 4 from Google Play Store. They charged me sales tax but I live in Texas. The order shows it as being purchased from California and delivered to Texas. Called Google but their customer service could not give me answer. Has anyone else from Texas been charged sales tax? Did you ask for a refund?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakejm79:
Isn't the state sales tax in TX 6.25%, I assume that was what you were charged and should have been charged.

Despite most peoples thinking, online orders are subject to local sales tax, most of the time the retailer wont collect tax for online orders since the state wont bother to try and collect it (not worth their time and effort to collect on small dollar amounts with no easy means of tracing them). Google will collect the sales tax regardless, the only way they wont is if you don't have a state sales tax (NH, DE, etc). A lot of times companies will also only collect the tax from out of state purchasers if they have a company presence in the state the item is being shipped to (it's easier for the state to collect if from them if they have an company office in said state).

Either way, buying goods out of state does not exempt you from paying you local state sales tax, if you have not had to in the past on online orders, consider yourself lucky, it wont always be that way, as online shopping becomes more popular with larger dollar amounts the states are taking notice and making the retailers collect the tax from the customers.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Tell that to google(among others) who ships their profits offshore to avoid paying local taxes.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakejm79:
If you Nexus 4 was to be shipped 'offshore' you could file for an exemption certificate with your local state, provide said certificate to Google and you wont be charged sales tax. If you are a resident of a state you are obligated to pay and abide by taxes and laws for said state, there are loop holes that you and businesses (Google) are free to exploit if you so wish.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donec:
I paid sales tax 8.25% and I'm from Texas. With that said you may not always get charged sales tax when you buy online. Because online merchants are only required to charge sales tax if they have a branch of business in your state. I found this out by talking to Amazon. If I buy from amazon and the item is sold by Amazon they charge me sales tax because they have a storage facility in Texas(but they are considering moving their storage facility). However, when I buy from another seller even if it is fullfilled by Amazon then I mostly only pay tax if the company selling the item has business connections in Texas.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sy224048:
I was charge sales tax plus shipping bringing my order up to 392.

sent from my jingly bells
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc fan89:
6% sales tax is nothing compare to 13.5% sales tax in Quebec
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aindow:
Try 20% sales tax, AKA VAT in the UK. Luckily all prices in the UK include the tax and it isn't added on at checkout, unless you're buying from a business wholesaler etc.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wild homes:
Not entirely accurate re: Amazon in Texas. Amazon never used to charge, but they came to an agreement with the state government in May 2012 to begin taxation here, with the state receiving an agreement from Amazon to open a distribution hub employing a couple thousand people here in the state. Compared to a lot of states (where Amazon will begin charging sales tax if they don't already and WON'T be enjoying job creation), our elected officials actually did pretty well.

Cheers!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakejm79:
Correct, sales tax is meant to be charged regardless of if there is a business presence or not. It is just a lot harder for the states to enforce collection of it if the company has no ties to the state.

A lot of states are starting to realize the lost revenue and will be making the merchant collect tax regardless of business presence or not.

I expect the large merchants (I.e. amazon) to be the first to be hit by this
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Theteflondon:
Can anyone recommend a kernel for the T-Mobile galaxy note 2. I'm looking for something with great battery life...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mikeyinid:
Did you notice the Q&A section? Probably would have been a better place to post
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] exalgopana:
Uh oh get ready...

flame
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Theteflondon:
Sorry I reposted i5 in the Q&A
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berz:
Hi

I listen to a lot of music on my phone .

Previous phones

Galaxy Spica

Xperia mini pro

Galaxy nexus

music is like one of the main uses of my phone when im out im pretty much always plugged in and i none of previous i felt that i've had such high battery drain , Screen of and music with ear phones plugged in the drain used to be very very less even after a few hours of music , but on n4 the drop is significant i dont have any screen shots right now because i just charged the phone but i will update it as i get some .

Does anyone else feel the same way ? and any idea whats the reason for it ?

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogerski1:
I listen to podcasts all day at work on a Bluetooth a2dp headset and I can Agree with you. the battery drain is higher on this device compared to my galaxy exhibit 4g. I'm going to try another app and see if that helps. I am using pocket casts right now. I will get some screen caps tomorrow so we can compare.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] megapixle:
Have the same issue with podcasts, drain rate is up to 15% per hour, even when podcasts are locally stored. This is almost as muc power as the screen uses. Whenever I listen to a podcast 'Mediaserver' is at the top of my battery list.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dralways:
Sounds like you have the #1 most dreaded N4 battery drain issue. This is the one and only reason I would ever RMA. Absolutely terrible.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Locksmith81:
No drain here... I stream on DC-HSPA and have normal drain.... On Wi-Fi... It drains very slow.. Almost less than 10% / hour

But off of stored music and podcasts the battery goes and goes. I use Beyond Pod
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berz:
i would'nt call it battrey drain as such , But all im saying its almost double or more than that compared to every other phone i've used when it comes purely to listening to music .

other devices it used to be only the music playing app which drains battrey here higher or equal amounts are drained by media server so if out of 40 % drained 50 % is from these 2 for about 1.5 hours to 2 hours of music listening , Whihc imo is very bad for liek 20 + % battrey drain for 1.5 to 2 hours of pure music listening with ear phones .
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhut_tiger:
Not getting deep sleep at all its showing 90 percent in 384
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SudoHalt:
Do you use an equalizer? I suggest to stop using it if you are using one and see if there is any difference.