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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
Within the last week I have been experiencing major battery drain from 'sdcard' for no reason. Here is a screenshot of my phone last night which shows 'sdcard' as the largest battery drain '29%' over a total off charger time of nearly 14 hours. The 'sdcard' details claim that the uptime for the 'sdcard' is only a mere 45 minutes. This means that in 45 minutes the 'sdcard' was able to drain 25% of a full 3100mAh battery! I barely used my phone all day and yet the 'sdcard' issue occurs on its own. I decided to try to not touch my phone today / use any apps and the same exact issue happened. The 'sdcard' accounts for around 30% of battery drain and the total up time is exactly the same 45 minutes again. Here is tonight's screenshot.

I am running Verizon Galaxy Note 2 with 4.1.1 stock (turned down the recent OTA) with only root access, no unlocked bootloader or custom ROM installed.

How many other Galaxy users out there are experiencing this issue? Any current workarounds besides the factory reset, card wipe & reformatting?

I have been having great battery life since I got the phone in early December and now have my battery draining about 30% faster than normal. What happened?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BoostedB18C:
I think its something you installed disguised as "sd card." Sd card doesnt even show up when I look at my battery.

Sent From My Beans Powered Note2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
Absolutely nothing new installed. And what is installed is all legitimate applications.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] purged363506:
Have you installed BetterBatteryStats?

That will give you a more complete picture of what is keeping the phone awake, etc.

Do you have any sync services turned on?

What about downloads that are trying to complete?

Have you checked to see if you are burning data?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Sir-Lancelot:
Yeah I have never even seen sd card in my battery list.

Install better battery stats and track it down.

Will be interesting to see what that turns out to be.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] *Madmoose*:
I have a feeling your sd card is probably having issues. That's the only way I can see that coming up in your battery stats if you haven't installed anything. Take your sd card out for a day and see how it performs without it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ksizzle9:
Interested to hear a few more details. I have loved every second with this phone until about the last 3 or 4 days. I have experienced multiple reboots along with pulling my phone out of my pocket only to find it off, with only a battery pull being able to get it to reboot. The phone also seems sluggiah at times. Which is not normal for this phone. Praying its not SDS.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
I am going to test out the app in a day and I will post back the results.

Just Gmail which has never been an issue.

Cleared all downloads, so there is absolutely nothing.

No data burn at all, but I am on wifi 85% of the day.

It sure will!

The SD card is one of those 64GB class 10 nice ones that I would not expect to fail. I will try reformatting / wiping it after I try the battery app.

I loved the phone too, but I am also experiencing a bit of sluggishness from time to time. I also found a bizarre bug where I cannot manually turn off driving mode so I am forced to run S-Voice 24/7 in order to tell it to turn off driving mode. If i do not use S-Voice to turn it off I have difficulty using speakerphone while making calls or hearing people when they call me. Also the alarm clock shutting itself off after a few rings is a major annoyance. I cannot rely on the phone to wake me up as it just decides to shut the alarm off after 30 seconds or so. I am still trying to love it but keep running into issues. I am contemplating selling it and getting the next galaxy for the better screen.

Thanks for all the input I will try to reply back to here with some updates!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1ManWolfePack:
I bet your sdcard is crap. Back it up, reformat, see if problem goes away.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dougstoner:
This...that would be my first step. I've had strange behavior with a bad sd card before....though, never had battery drain from it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1ManWolfePack:
If it's a class 1-2 and the gallery keeps running media scan, that could be a cause. Actually, I bet that's where all the drain is - media scan, but that could affect any class of card.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dougstoner:
That actually makes sense. I think step one is backup, reformat, and restore. If that doesn't help, try a different card or without a card at all. If it still is doing it after all this, then it's a software issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
Wow get this,

I removed my SDCard and rebooted and guess what shows up under battery drain still.

SDCARD!

This is reallllllllly bizzare. It makes me think 100% that it is a software bug.

The battery drain it is pulling is over 40% at the moment!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BoostedB18C:
Im using a sandisk class 2 and im not seeing any issues with batteru drain. Just throwing my 2 cents out there

Sent From My Beans Powered Note2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
Any clue what this means? The app is not very user friendly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] *Madmoose*:
Heh, actually, now that I think about it, stock rom would consider the internal storage the sdcard. I'd try a factory reset an hope whatever is wrong there is fixed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
Should I do the factory reset through the menu or through android recovery? Never tried doing the one through the settings menu.

Will this bring back the the NFL and other bloatware apps that I used root to remove? I want it like fresh out of the box new if possible.

Also does it matter that I am rooted? Root only no unlocked bootloader.

I sound like a noob but I have never done this with stock I used to run custom ROM's 24/7 for 3 years(droid incredible) and just want to make sure things still operate the way I think they do! :good:

Thanks!

*now it is saying I have voicemails when I have no new voicemails! The device is getting rediculously buggy it seems like*
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] hlxanthus:
I would do the factory reset from recovery just to be safe. And that bloat you removed should stay gone. It can't magically put stuff back into /system. All a factory reset does is wipe the /data partition, wipe your /cache partition, and erase the /sdcard/android_secure. Backup your sdcard and format that at the same time. I would verify you have your device backed up to google too so when you boot up and sign back into your google account it should download some settings and apps back automatically.

Edit: I do not have this device, so you may want to have someone else verify this. But I see no reason any of my advice could harm your device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
Thanks for the input. I found the get back to out of box stock guide in another post so I am going to go that route I guess. I am concerned there is something wrong with the internals of my device and want to verify it before I go trying to get a return.

I have a huge list of bugs I have encountered while on the stock software and I want to see if they pop up again after hard hard flash reset.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] purged363506:
What does the partial wakelocks show?

Sent from my SCH-I605
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ohiwastedmylife:
Gave up and completely reset my device with og software via Odin. Pain in the ass to re-install everything manually and lose my root but the 'SDCARD' battery drain is gone. Back to full day battery life with heavy use hopefully!

Now I am having extreme issues getting facebook 2 step verification to work, my phone wont receive texts from them. Either it is the phone again or they are having issues / getting hacked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] FMXP:
Googling found me this old thread. I am having the exact same problem on my Note II. It's also on the stock 4.1.1, with root and a few minor mods. About a week ago it also started giving me battery drain with 'sdcard' the huge drain.

I have installed BetterBatteryStats and it shows nothing out of the ordinary. This is a very strange problem, I guess the OP for this thread was only able to fix it with a clean flash. I don't want to wipe my whole phone out and re-do all the mods I did.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JamesCaywood:
restore your phone! Wipe everything out! Start over and watch what you download. BC SD card doesn't show so its an app doing that!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] FMXP:
I've uninstalled every app I can think of and the problem persists. This is such a strange and annoying bug. I have no choice but to nuke and pave the phone. I guess I might as well upgrade to the kernel which solves the Exynos Abuse exploit while I'm at it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] FMXP:
I've been tracking this error back as far as I can go. I think there's something wrong with the OS, or the filesystem is somehow messed up on the device. I've wiped all data including the internal SD (and removed the external SD), and factory reset it. I'm using only the base stock deodexed rooted VRALL4 ROM. In order to trigger the problem of constantly hitting the storage, I simply need to fill the internal memory up with apps, then look at Settings -> Storage and watch it hang at Calculating under all the categories. The process 'sdcard' starts zooming up in the Battery use listing and the phone lags. The phone is definitely having issues because if I try to install or uninstall an app it then hangs at the progress bar for the app install screen.

My last resort would be to Odin back to pure stock but then I'll lose my unlocked bootloader and my root and everything. This error is super frustrating.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ajbencz:
unit: xperia nx so-02d

Android 2.3.7 Japanese

locked to DoCoMo

Platform: MSM8x60

is there available boxes or dongle can unlock simlock & bootloader of this unit?

my unit is almost 1 year but until now, i can't use here in philippines.

universalbox & hti box they can unlock thru server but the server is offline and

i cant find proof that they successfully unlock this unit without issues.

by the way i prefer to unlock this unit thru box, dongle, or stand alone software.

hope the expert can guide me on this matter. thanks.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vincemarti2226:
hey kabayan

Hey bro,

got the same unit. napa unlock mo na yun sayo?

i heard there's this cellphone store in Robinsons Ermita that unlocks the unit
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gordonthegopher:
So, still a faithful Atrix user, holding out for the ported ICS kernel.

In the meantime, I want to set up a dual boot setup. I use MROM as daily driver, so want to keep that on EMMC. I want to install a BLUR based 2.3.6 ROM with Webtop on the SD card (Nottachtrix or CSROM) so I can boot into it when I want to use Webtop. Is this possible, and if so, can anyone give a step by step guide? I know there has recently been a new easy dual boot system using SManager posted on this forum.

A few questions:

* Do I need a Class 10 SD Card to do this?

* Can I update Webtop apps with newer versions?

* I want to install UbunTop http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1281528 Is this workable on dual boot?

Hope you guys can help and we can create a useful guide from your answers.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravilov:
As far as I know, you can't use a stock-based ROM on the sdcard, that one will have to go on the EMMC. I could be wrong though.

Other than that, take a look here.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Night Walker!:
This shouldn't be on the general discussion forum or the the one of help? When you have a guide done you can make a thread here.

On: Here is a guide for dual booting: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2124668
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schwarzlichtkind:
Nottatrix on Sd works - I'm running it.

Search for dual boot and read the threads senddust just released a simple all in one solution for dual boot.

Edit:

You don't need class 10, but most people can vouch, that it is a better user experience.

Ubuntop doesn't work with Dual boot afaik.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gordonthegopher:
Anyone have any experience of CSROM on the SD Card for a dual boot setup? Or does Nottachtrix have better Webtop (which is my main reason for dual boot)?
[HTC Wildfire S] sioxz:
Hello fellow Devolpers

i wonder if any of you can share whit me the best Battery saving Rom's becuase i am gonna buy this phone today Really cheap and i thought of making it an Mp3player/Backup phone if i brick my LG P920 and are lazy and don't want to unbrick it in the middle of the Night /Sioxz
[HTC Wildfire S] ilyalinov:
Stock or KimsMod, i think..

---------- Post added at 11:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:41 AM ----------

But there is only one way to verify it.
[HTC Wildfire S] sioxz:
i will try both then thanks for your answer more rom tips would be good to
[HTC Wildfire S] ilyalinov:
But do you understand, that battery is not the most important part of rom?

PS On ebay you can buy battery on 3500mAh and don't worry about it. It costs around 10-15 dollars. ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] sioxz:
for me the battery and sound is the most important i am not gonna use it as a phone att all only an Mp3 player and if i brick my main phone will it be a backup phone :)
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] cmahendra:
Why not share now the rooted cwm backups?

Some say I rooted V10A or V10C and then did OTA update and kept root on V10E

Some say I rooted V10E and then did OTA update and kept root on V10G

etc etc....

This is happening since a week or more. But literally no-one, no-one did (tar format) backup of the ROM from CWM and no one did share it on XDA. :(

So does this mean everyone here is only for TAKING and not for GIVING???? Giving is such a joy but......

EDIT: How to share Rooted CWM Backup

Answer: Please visit this thread and check second and third post.

I am sure there are kind and exceptionally helpful humans in the world too who will upload backups very soon to mirrors.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] cmahendra:
Hmm.... 86 views and no reply. Great, that tells a lot.

Anyways I am not saying that this will work but we could give it a try and its safe too if done on matching variants. Still looking for sharers.:rolleyes:
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] nuzbabu:
i still have my cwm full backup taken on 10e when i had root. is there a way to share that without my personal data part? 1.69gb folder clockworkmod. w/o blobs folder just 25mb
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] cmahendra:
Finally first reply after 106 views. Thanks a lot @nuzbabu, YOU ARE GREAT.

I guess you have P765 by your name but I am confused how you got V10E rooted on it? Please share your city in your profile and also inform your phone L9 variant (P760 or P765?)

Pal, the procedure of CWM backup is already given in first post. You have to take backup (in TAR format, not blobs) without your DATA and APPS. Just factory Data Reset and take backup of plain rooted rom. Zip it (around 500/600mb) and upload it to www.multiupload.nl

IMPORTANT: Before wiping out data, take full backup for your own restore.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] spidr:
well many of us are stucked at 10a with root and cwm and also looking at this thread :silly:
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Mr.Brown94:
R: Why xda pals here are not sharing rooted cwm backups?

If only I weren't on v10a I would share my backup as fast as possible but that s it...

I'm thinking that some people are just joking us about what they root or not... but maybe is just idleness...
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] nuzbabu:
i am in usa with p769 tmobile 10g unrooted. but i have 10e regular backup folder. as i did know this and now unrooted (by mistake) can not be helpful
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] chicguy:
How many people here have installed CWM btw? I haven't actually, and trying to make the least modification to /system as possible (Titanbackup, AdFree, and Droidwall, that's all apps which picking at my /system).
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] hamdimo:
Re: Why xda pals here are not sharing rooted cwm backups?

I'm on rooted 10e p760, I promise to post my system dump as soon as I have time.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] nuzbabu:
cwm from adb

is there a way to install 10e kdz on tmobile p769 10g?
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Jrkoffjonson:
Re: Why xda pals here are not sharing rooted cwm backups?

I dont have root on my current device (10G P769) but I have a secondary device on 10G with root. Currently doing a system dump with all partitions in .img format. When im done I can do a cwm nandroid as well.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] cgigate:
flash 10e rom to your phone, but you need get LG 10e rom first
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] cmahendra:
I did not wanted to post all this, but SADly I had to do this, posting the posts of people who claimed they could KEEP ROOT on higher updates via OTA. If they share thier plain CWM Backup (without personal Data), rest of the people who can root V10A and could not Root higher updates can RESTORE it.

I even wanted someone post rooted V10H P760 CWM TAR backup, which I will flash on P765, yes P765, coz P760 KDZ works perfectly on P765 without any issue. In fact I am on unrooted P760V10H on P765.

ROOTED ITALIAN V10D http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37304467&postcount=55

ROOTED V10E INDONESIA http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37453409&postcount=85

ROOTED V10E http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37552485&postcount=968

ROOTED V10E http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37385582&postcount=9

ROOTED V10E http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37441966&postcount=32

ROOTED V10E http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37569309&postcount=2

ROOTED V10G p769 OTA http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37426282&postcount=15

ROOTED V10G P769Bk OTA http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37431196&postcount=24

ROOTED V10H http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37520230&postcount=108

That's what my idea is all about.:cool: WE ARE STUCK ON V10A/V10C AND COULD NOT GET HIGHER VERSION OTA (SMALL SIZE UPDATES) FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.

Thats Possible. Some might be trolling with us. :p

Oh USA. thats why P769.

Oh ho!!! FIRST PROMISE FROM SOMEONE. I hope you dont promise like LG and bring it sooner. he he he. :p

Technically yes!! But we have to find out. If you are on V10A rooted P769 and CWM installed. You should be able to Restore CWM backup of Rooted P769 V10E sent by someone else. All you have to do is COPY the BACKUP folder (2013-02-05.08.24.41) in...

/sdcard/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup/2013-02-05.08.24.41

...and restore. I dont guarantee this may work, but the thing EXPERIMENT for which we are all here on XDA.

If this gets successful, WE AUTOMATICALLY GET OUR SEMI-CUSTOM ROOTED ROMS. If fails we have nothing to lose. :fingers-crossed:
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Jrkoffjonson:
Uploading as we speak. I have a L9 at my job here. Has our dummy gmail on it to download apps, was too lazy to reset it lol.

Also comes with voodo ota keeper and root browser lite.

Multiupload says I have about an hour for it to upload so hang tight.

P.S. Doing a CWM backup, has the same stuff I just mentioned.

EDIT: Here's the link to the initial backup. Will post CWM later if still needed.

http://www.multiupload.nl/HQ7WFRXMXA
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] mjb1994:
I would, but I dont have CWM installed, even though I have 10g rooted, just because for now I am happy with just the root. Otherwise I would share.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Mr.Brown94:
:D

Have you tried to send a Pm to these users to ask politely to upload their backup for the community future? :fingers-crossed:
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] cmahendra:
Hoped LG L9 have bright time in future.

Yes, yes!! And I got just excuses one acceptable and one not. Please don't ask me to reveal names I dont want issues here. We just need GENEROUS people to upload their CWM backup if possible and as soon as possible.

MORE1: I also asked people to share the MIRRORS of downloaded official unrooted KDZ of P769 for my Archive thread. Because everyday LG links are disappearing (many P760V10E links are now not working after V10H came). But nobody uploaded anything to mirror. Two of them promised P769V10E to me but simply ignored till date. Again please don't ask names, browse a little and you might know. Now dont make me BEG to rest of them.

MORE2: I , alone, downloaded ALL (YES ALL) AVAILABLE SOURCE CODES (though not my variant) and MIRRORED them for future work and now we dont have to worry if original company links dont work. Now its not possible for single person to download all those KDZ (all 500+mbs) and upload to mirror. I expected my friends will also help the community, not a single mirror created by anyone. Fine...

In short, I am doing my best to keep this forum full of resources but not getting good RESPONSE and above that, I have to answer questions like you just asked me one here. Anyways thanks a lot to you too, because this made situation more clear.

I hoped LG L9 have bright time in future. Here I think "future" is the best word, and that time is not "now".
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Mr.Brown94:
There are no words to say how much your work is valued , from me but i'm sure also by all the users, I'm here to learn but also to help others (This should be the forum aim) ....

So even if my connection is absolutely ****ty ( Thanks Italy :D ) I'm here .. ready to mirror whatever is needed to do!

Just ask!
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] cmahendra:
This is great. With this willingness to help community, now I see some light somewhere in the dark.

As you are from Italy, I will only ask you to upload all the KDZ files already downloaded by you. First directly Rootable (may be V10A or V10C I dont know) and last few V10E/G/H. Or whatever you wish to upload. Post in fresh thread or in my Archive Thread, I dont mind.

Forget me, I am nothing, but xda community will be always be grateful to you.

And dont forget to post your ROOTED CWM TAR BACKUP :laugh: to be the first one to come. Thanks a lot. :) GOD BLESS YOU.
[LG Optimus L9 P760, P765, P768, P769] Mr.Brown94:
R: Why xda pals here are not sharing rooted cwm backups?

P760 V10a nobrand kdz coming ( brand Italy and Europe are the same)

P760 V10a CWM tar backup

coming in few days!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goister:
Hi,

I'm looking at various cases for the Nexus 4, and wondering what everyone thinks of them.

I've never used a case for any of my phones before, and I've never really minded the scratches, nor have I gotten any cracked screens despite dropping my phones dozens of times. However, the Nexus 4's glass surfaces have got me thinking perhaps it's a good idea to get some protection.

I'm primarily protecting against scratches, and the occasional drop. I'd like the thinnest and most non intrusive case possible, and one with some grip so the phone doesn't fall so easily.

So far, my choices seem to be Nillkin, Rearth, Poetic and Diztronic. I'm leaning more towards hard cases than soft TPU cases due to aesthetics.

Any pros and cons for the above?

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zenzic:
This is exactly what we need, there doesn't seem to be much comparision between tpu and hardcases.

How does the S-Line case compare to others say as it's only around £3 which is dirt cheap but is it crap and wouldn't protect my Nexus at all (If it actually arrived that is :p)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DutchDisturbed:
I'm definitely curious to the difference between soft and hard cases. In my experience some hardcases are damaging the phone a little...