yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Topics] tODDaLLeN:
more battery life tips

The tips given so far are great for reducing battery drain, but there is another way to look at battery life.

Batteries degrade and lose capacity. The lithium ion / lithium polymer type batteries used in phones age faster with heat. At room temperature, ~68F a typical phone battery mght lose 7% of it's capacity per year. With each added degree the rate of loss accelerates. As temps increase the rate of loss can become very high. Leave your phone in a car in summer sun and you can lose a measurable amount of capacity in a few hours. Likewise as temps decrease rate of loss slows. If you have a spare battery that you only use on trips, storing it in a refrigerator will slow its decline. Storing in a freezer will slow it slightly more, but introduces a risk of damage from condensation when you take it out to warm. Also, the battery can be damaged by charging when very cold.

Unlike lead acid batteries which age faster in a partially discharged state, lithium based batteries age faster at higher levels of charge. Some laptops now offer an option to not fully charge the battery which is very helpful for people who mainly use them while plugged in to a charger. The combination of the heat from the laptop plus continuously being at a state of full charge causes rapid ageing. Lithium batteries degrade most rapidly when fully discharged so it is usually recommended to store them 50% charged, roughly 3.75 to 3.80 volts. When storing for very long periods of time one might want to start from little higher state of charge to lessen the risk that the slow internal self discharge doesn't drain the battery too far. Storing at lower temps also slows self discharge.
[General Topics] kyoshiro67:
use wallpaper and themes dark. it work on my device :D
[General Topics] joshxrain:
so it is fine to use my phone even it is charging ? hmm but i will not fully charge it ? just curious :)
[General Topics] robontop:
easiest way of increasing the battery life of your droid is simply to generally use 2g if you're just txt messaging and not webbrowsing or anything.. 3 days of bat life is def. possible.
[General Topics] xindoxs:
It is true that 3G drains battery but we all know the biggest battery theif is the screen.

Lower your displays brightness and battery life will be largely affected! And I would rather walk around with a dark screen that be on the 2G network on my 4G smartphone... But thats just me :)
[General Topics] joshxrain:
the point is we really have to sacrifice something to get a better battery life :(
[General Topics] tODDaLLeN:
Yes, use your phone while charging, just take care not to abuse the charging port.

Full charging is a bigger issue on laptops where people tend to leave the charger connected all of the time and laptops tend to run hot giving the battery a double whammy. If there was an easy option on the phone to reduce the charge termination voltage, I might set it down to 4.15 instead of 4.2 volts. But it's not as big a deal since it isn't endlessly left at peak voltage under conditions as hot. And phone batteries are cheaper to replace...
[General Topics] lord_nathan9:
I actually forgot about this method. I am gonna try it out for a while and see how it goes.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Deleted member 5045778:
A few details before I start

I am on Galaxy S3 i535 from Verizon, was running CleanROM 5.6 for a few hours after coming from Codename Android that I was using for a few days(I've been going crazy with trying roms lately.)

I flashed LiquidSmooth 2.0 with CWM (never have used odin)

On all of these flashes before i did so I wiped system/factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik cache, and formatted system, cache, and data.

I had just finished flashing Liquid Smooth about an hour ago and was installing a few things with titanium back up. everything up until this point was going fine, got all my apps instaIlled and ready to go, and I head into the settings and try to turn on a few things and edit some settings in the Liquidsmooth settings.

Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop and I'm not sure what to do. I have tried power/volume down, power/home/volume up, power/home/volume down, and nothing will get it to reboot. I dont know whether or not it is safe to take out the battery and start from there, so if that is the route I should take, please let me know.

I have no experience with odin, but I can most definitely look that up so I wont need help there. Just some help on whether or not I should take out the battery or do something else. I just don't want to brick it in any way if that is avoidable:fingers-crossed :fingers-crossed:

Thanks to whoever can help me!

Edit:

I used the search a little better this time and saw people say pull battery on similar cases, and I did that, and I'm still stuck in bootloop. (It seems like in most of the threads I found pulling the battery was a given so people didnt mention it, but I needed to know for sure.) So I am still in the bootloop and am just going to boot into download mode and go from there.

Alright I was able to odin to stock, and now im back to square one.

Not sure how to delete threads :S
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wingtytn:
ok i only read the first few lines but manually boot into cwm by either vol up or down and multi function and power at the same time and upload a rom like synergy i know it works and u should be good
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mar.ioo:
WOW!

This I cant believe! :eek:

Yeah, we noticed you only read the first few lines. :what:

If you are gonna try to help at least read the whole OP.

And to manually boot recovery its: Volume up+home+power.

Not
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidxrooting:
OP you are missing the point here. You have to take the battery out and put it back in before going to recovery. Once you have done that try vol-up/home/ power at the same time. Once samsung logog appears look at the top left if you see words release. it will boot to recovery. You can take it from there.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
im running out of memory,is there a trick like vold.fstab

for acro s?:crying:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] izzet3838:
root

Do you have root costum rom??

And do you mean phone memory or ram memory
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
yes! my phone is rooted and im currently using jb rom

i min swapping internal storage to external...

i see a lot of thread regarding this,but i didnt

find any for acro s...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
up!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] izzet3838:
I dont rhink thats possible for the acro s

Cause the acro s hasnt got the dofficial jellybean yet

And in ics you can move files from sd to extsd

But if its for games you can try link2sd

Or gl2sd

Search for them on the playstore they will move gamedata to extsd
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo3418:
I have a gsm galaxy nexus, running the latest jelly bean, not rooted. I recently noticed that my clock app is gone. I can no longer find it in the app drawer. Also, the widget on the lock screen is gone, replaced by an older looking clock that has none of the functionality (stop watch, alarms, etc...) that the stock app came with.

Does anyone know how I can get it back?

Anyone else had an app randomly disappear?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sashank:
Check if you've accidentally disabled it in Settings-Apps-All
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo3418:
thanks, found it hidden at the bottom.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaostrodamis:
Does anyone know if a mouse using an otg cable will work in multiboot TWRP recovery mode (also the multirom screen, but thats not as important right now) or if the screen rotates. I cracked my screen (digitizer cracked, LCD is fine) an am looking for a way to flash new roms but not dont want to restart my tab because im afraid i wont be able to get out of recovery mode (bottom half of screen is unresponsive). im running m-kernel 32a with multiboot. I cant even remember if that recovery supports hardware button presses.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Soldi3rxx:
I know I saw an article about this and I don't know it anyone else has recently but it discussed the possibilities of manufacturers letting customers build their own device kind of how computer manufacturers do now.

I think this would be a really cool idea. I would love to just build a phone the way I want it but of course I would just throw together a phone with all the best specs

Realistically I doubt this would ever happen. It would take away control from carrier's and also manufacturers. They love having customers in the palm of their hands begging for a new device just 2-3 months after paying full retail for the one they currently own.

Just imagine how much that would change the cell phone industry?

Any input
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ricecake2000:
That would be a neat idea but the cost would be ridiculous. I would not be opposed to having more options though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GreenMunky:
Holy ****... I just imagined an Alienware, custom built, Android-driven cell phone and had a geek-gasm...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Soldi3rxx:
Haha alienware! I just think it would be a very cool concept
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pyroemaniac:
Alienware is overpriced and overrated, much like apple(sorry I had to) the best way to build is just buy the parts yourself off of new egg or something similar. You will always pay less this way.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nosympathy:
Agreed! Plus since alienware was purchased by dell their quality went downhill.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] djquestt:
Back in the tmob g2 days there was a company that was making custom made to order android. phones
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GreenMunky:
I agree, I've built every computer I've used for the last 15 years. I just like the aesthetic quality of Alienware's products and thought it would be nifty if they would put those design aspects towards a phone chassis and UI.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blestsol:
If I had the money.. I'd do it. Question then would be how to like your phone without it infringing on another.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thesoldier:
I think that would make developing ROMs and kernels for phones nearly impossible with there being such a huge variety in hardware. It would be really cool for sure, but I believe development would pretty much die.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] timkd127:
Yea, then you could pay twice the price of the worth of the machine so you can get a little alien head graphic on it.:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] unique77:
I imagine there would be some some similarity due to the standards that would have to be put in place based on mobo size, case size, how everything fits together.... I'd still totally do it. Ive already heavily enjoyed building computers. Would give a nice sense of control over a device that can so easily erode privacy.

www.ryanhortonmusic.com
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AHMAD JB:
hi guys i`m looking someone to help me to install ota updates that i`ve got from sammobile
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
connect ur phone to a Wifi netwrk and select the update to install:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AHMAD JB:
sorry but i don`t have any wifi connection .

is there another way to install it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
then use ur 'Mobile Data' connection (but i would not prefer it over 'WIFI' since its risky).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AHMAD JB:
sorry but i don`t have any wifi connction

do you know another way to install it

please soon i`m online
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DesertHawk:
Either use mobile data or go to a coffee shop that has wifi
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AHMAD JB:
sorry but i need a way that it doesn`t need to be connect to internet& i have the ota update in my sd card but i don`t know how to istall it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
Searched some threads regarding the same and its been stated that ' U have to rename the OTA file to Update.zip and then flash the same from ur stock recovery.

But its again a risky affair if ur not sure about recovery flash as u may end up with BootLoop.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] demon2112:
Hij guys

Wat controls the sensor? Is it the ROM or the kernel,my screen isnt waking up when i wanna end a call,tested the sensor with a app and iets working,please help
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] demon2112:
Nobody? 48views and nobody knows?

That means its a good question i guess ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Herman76:
Kernel detects the signal and the ROM decides what to do with it? Kernel is just the "gateway" between hardware and software.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] henkewest:
I'm using CM10 nightlies and since a while back the front camera works OK in both the built in camera app and other camera apps.

But if I try to make a video call in Google Talk I only get a white image with some random colored pixels, it is also the same if I switch to the main camera.

I also get the same problem if I try to activate the face unlock-function.

Sometimes the correct image is displayed a second when I first turn on the camera but then it freezes and turns white like I described earlier.

Is this a known problem and is there any way to fix it?

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

CyanogenMod 10, FXP kernel, .77 Baseband
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] henkewest:
Common?

Can anyone at least verify that this is a common problem, or is it just my phone that has this problem? :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] srik9999:
Try Reflashing .

I too have that random pixel thing in Google now camera search.

Face unlock is working fine. But I used it only for 1 day.

...:)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] henkewest:
I have flashed maybe 5 different ROMs recently and I see the same problem in all Jelly Bean, in ICS the camera is OK but I want the smoothness of JellyBean...

I agree that the face unlock is no good but it would be fun to have video call working.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] srik9999:
I'm Sooo sorry ..

Face Unlock used to work on my previous ROM ( ICS)

.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Samak:
flash stock ICS first, then try flashing JB rom with full wipe... after flashing the JB rom flash Gapps also..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] henkewest:
Unfortunatelly no change. :(

Must be something with my phone if it works on other Neo's, the strange thing is that both cameras are working OK in both stock camera and Camera ZOOM FX so it is not a hardware problem.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

CyanogenMod 10, FXP kernel, .77 Baseband
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] deccan451:
Try flashing latest update so many here saying that except hdmi everything working fine.. In cm10
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] henkewest:
Using CM10 nightly 20130203, but I have the same problem now too.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

CyanogenMod 10, TWRP kernel, .77 Baseband
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] franciscofnet:
Hi there

I have the Compile][[Neo/Neo V]AC-man JB 4.1.2 Unofficial Release [v19.3.0 - 01/15/2013] rom on my mt15i with the lupus kernel

everything is super smooth, but I have the same problem in google talk video...

don't know how to solve it :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] algod:
It seems to be a generic problem. I have the same bug on my Xperia Ray st18i (CM10, FXP204 and FXP206).

Take a look at issue #1686 on freexperia project:

code.google.com/p/freexperia/issues/detail?id=1686
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Sash5:
Same problem..

Has the front camera issue resolved? I'm unable to carry out the video calls on Gtalk..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] coconutdog:
This is what they say in that thread:

I got the same issue with an Xperia Ray:

https://code.google.com/p/freexperia/issues/detail?id=1664

Hope this gets fixed somehow :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] neelsama:
front camera problem

Same here. Please help...

On Xperia NEO V , King bean 6.0 :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] coconutdog:
I'm on the latest release. Still not fixed. I'd like to know the cause. Is it bc a binary blob is needed for the cam to work?

Does anyone know?

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Sent through the interwebs
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] anivesh93:
Front Camera is not working in google now,face unlock,or any video calling application....it shows a green screen with random pixels......

Even FXP 219 has this problem.....

Does anyone know of any solution??

PLZ HELP!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] teobros:
Same problem here (FXP220 on sk17i).

Green picture at first, then when switching from front to back camera and vice-versa, a steady image alternating with random pixels appear. I tried re-flashing and reinstalling of Gapps as suggested before.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] deccan451:
Only thing that bothers me in jb roms is videos chat on various third party applications... Including handout & excluding Skype :(
[HTC Droid DNA] irockthebear:
I am wondering why on Speedtest.net App I get 6000 down and 3000 up on the AT&T i747 S3 and only get 3000 down and 1500 up on the Droid DNA?

I am using Straight Talk (AT&T Flavor) and get H+/3G on the DNA, on the S3 I got H+/3G/Edge

Tests were performed at the same locations, in downtown SF.

Is this something wrong with the settings? Is this a defective device? What could this be? Does the missing 1700Hz make a difference for AT&T towers? Don't tell me MVNO has LTE?
[HTC Droid DNA] croppz:
Probably just service related

Sent from my SuperCharged DNA
[General Questions and Answers] acmav289:
I'm a street photographer 1/3 of my images are taken with my DSLR another third are taken with my compact film camera and the final third is taken with my HTC Evo(supersonic)

I REALLY REALLY REALLY want Snapseed, unfortunately it requires 4.0 or newer, while my only phones are running froyo and gingerbread.

From my research there is not another editor like Snapseed for android, I'm saving up for a new DSLR so I can't upgrade to a new phone yet.

So is there any way to somehow get it to work on 2.3?
[General Questions and Answers] HTCTerrorist:
Im sure if you made it worth the DEVs while that they could edit the source, although unless its an open-source app then they wont have access to the source. Not sure about porting it though. But there are several guides and how tos on porting if you wanted to try yourself.

Device: Obvious :D

ROM Build:XWSL8-SHOstock3-v2.0

Baseband:I777UCLK3

Kernel Version:3.0.31-Jeboo_Kernel_v1.1f+ none@ubuntu #59

"Google is muh bestfrand"™

Aint no party like a SHOstock party baaaaabyyyyy!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] messi2050:
i think its possible
[HTC Droid DNA] vegetaleb:
Hello!

Well we all know that HTC never gave us a loud loudspeaker for ringtones,but I hope that the Droid/Butterfly are the first to be louder.

So how's the speaker for ringtones?

And if you can compare it to other HTC devices?

The OneX even with mods like Sony Xloud is barely hearable in a noisy place like a mall
[HTC Droid DNA] chameleon17:
When I'm playing music I set my volume to the lowest possible setting and it's still too much for my tastes. I can hear my alarm going off from the other side of the house. The speaker on this phone is incredibly loud.

---------- Post added at 12:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:12 PM ----------

Apparently some people have defective speakers. If you get a DNA that doesn't burst your eardrums I would get a replacement.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2111704
[HTC Droid DNA] Cerides:
The speaker on the DNA is plenty loud. Any time I use the speaker I have it turned almost all the way down.
[HTC Droid DNA] inexplicability:
I'm not sure how loud mine is. It seems very very loud for only one volume, but it seems very quiet on full volume.

Any thoughts?
[HTC Droid DNA] RigWig:
One might even say the speaker is TOO loud, laying in bed and watching movies even on the lowest setting allows my brother in the next room to hear what's going on. I'm wondering if there is a kernel mod that can be used to lower it actually. I know some devs on the nook color were able to boost sound output so I imagine one could also go in reverse.
[HTC Droid DNA] vegetaleb:
Sounds good!

I hope someone can compare it to OneX's speaker
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] me7ou:
My Phone is Rooted okai and i download games from Play Store so can i take the source of the game i have downloaded and if yes how can i do that !!
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] blazerphoenix:
Good luck have fun dude
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Uizz.UW:
Use Titanium Backup to get the apk + data of the installed app , or use Roote Explorer (or any other root file manager) and manually pull them (apk is in data/app and data in data/data)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
you can backup apps

but if you are thinking of pirating apps then you should not do it

else you can backup apps even without root with the help of es file explorer
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scooterdie:
Hello !

Unlocked my Bootloader and tried to flash CM 9 and 10.

Copied all necessary files of the rom on my sd and extracted de boot.img to my fastboot directory.

If i fastboot flash boot boot img. there allways some crazy errors like range errors etc or it just hangs at "sending boot.img"... After that phone want boot again.

When i flash a stock kernel "called kernel.elf for example" everythings fine and phone works again.

i hope you can help me,i dont understand wheres the problem i just followed the steps as described at the FXP homepage ??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scooterdie:
Solved ... Need second try to recognize i have to use the Nozomi file pkg .... :good:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hxc_pokecore:
Today when I woke up I checked facebook and the messages worked, but my news feed and notifications wouldn't refresh. I just ignored it. I checked again an hour later and it still wasn't working. I logged out and tried to log back in but it wouldn't log back in. Most of the time I get no error, it's just stuck doing nothing, but the error I do get it something stupid like "error: Cannot sign in".

I've tried restarting countless times, clearing the cache, clearing the data, uninstalling and reinstalling the Facebook app, using different Facebook accounts and nothing will work.

Using Facebook in the browser works fine.

Any ideas?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KyleDevlin12:
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hxc_pokecore:
Did you even read it? I said that I did..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kylec:
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling?

Kidding lol.

It could just be Facebook app being weird. Mine did that yesterday but today is fine
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mklass:
Even if you uninstalled it, it still stores some data.. You tried deleting the facebook folder in Android/Data ?

Also if you got to Settings then Apps.. clear the cache and settings from there too..

Hope this helps dude..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hxc_pokecore:
Just tried again and it's still not working, ill try the data thing later
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hxc_pokecore:
Got an app called Friendspace Pro for Facebook and it's supposed to be an alternative.. It wouldn't log in either.

Going to try and log in using the wifi at work tomorrow.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aswethinkweiz:
have you tried a factory reset? Could help.

Are you on a stock or custom rom??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UtkarshGupta:
Factory reset is bit too extreme.

Try clearing cache and dalvik from recovery.

Also install and open lucky patcher.

It often deletes some stored files.

P.S. I know lucky patcher is related to piracy and I am not promoting it. Just read and observed that it does help in some cases.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hxc_pokecore:
I ended up fixing it by turning off my custom hosts file.. No idea why that effected Facebook. (It was to stop an app from checking the licensing server)