yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
I was like that too with 4.1.1

Well, I'm a very technical person, I like to know how things work deep under.

I do own and use, a playstation 3, even though I don't exactly know how it works.

So please don't take my words out of context, I do use stuff without understanding specifically how they work.

In the Freeze/Deactivate case - I tried them once, They didn't quite work, in other words. I'm used to uninstalling,

And don't feel that freezing is any better, I prefer apk's are just removed.
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
An update of my battery status today :

13.3 Hours from charging time.

3 hours and 20 minutes with almost max brightness.

1 hour of Waze (GPS/Screen on)

15 minutes of Fun Run (internet+GPU+Screen)

42 minutes of talking (3g only)

Some browsing, some emailing, some photo taking.

I still have 30% battery. This is a very impressive improvement over what I had before removing all those apps.
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
Another update :

My phone ran out of juice today in the morning. So that was around 25 hours without a charger, with the stats elaborated in the previous post + reach 4 hours of almost full brightness screen time.

I consider this to be heavy usage, 1 hour of driving with GPS, lots of talking, gaming, high brightness, wifi + 3g + bt, also I am OCed to 1.8GHz and have touch responsiveness at 1GHz, So the phone really flies.
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
Hi.

Please can you share a screenshots with your screen on time and the home of battery stats from 100% until 10 or 20 or any else percent.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II General] DrMuhammadElHanafy:
Context!

Seriously!
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
Will do in the next charge cycle.

I charged the phone not to 100% today so it's not been reset. I will fully charge, and then wait for it to deplete and post screenshots and stats.
[Galaxy Note II General] AbraKdabra:
Thanks for sharing all this info, it's really useful, I will try all that you recommend.
[Galaxy Note II General] slimfire:
Thanks for the trick :)
[Galaxy Note II General] xedualMCx:
Just used titanium back up to freeze some of the apps that the op's suggested (mostly cloud services)
[Galaxy Note II General] dsims7_2000:
1. I get similar stats and I have done absoutly NOTHING to this device except add my normal (bank, stocks, news, facebook, 2 e-mails accounts, 5 or 6 games...) apps? don't really talk as much because I'm usually at work, but I get @ 11 hours?

2. To your original post, I see a lot of threads mentioning overheating? I have NEVER had this problem (and 95% of the time i'm awake, its in my hand?)
[Galaxy Note II General] bushako:
Freezing works just as good as uninstalling only difference is in case you get FC's you can always defrost the systen app that should be running. Whereas with uninstall you will have to reflash the ROM or look around for that specific file online. Besides, the space gained by uninstalling default system apps cannot be used by the user.
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
How do you defrost an app if you're phone is not booting or stuck on boot?
[Galaxy Note II General] bushako:
What I'm trying to say is when your phone boots up but you get errors due to missing system apps, you can always defrost. Your phone will function but not the way it should and at that point you can still get into TB.

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For instance, you've deleted Bluetooth sharing app when you could've just frozen it instead. Now the only way to get it back is to reflash the ROM.
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
I have backed up all the uninstalled apps. So I won't be needing to reflash anything.
[Galaxy Note II General] Shadowjump:
Bluetooth share: Isnt this useful if you want to share files over BT?

Bluetooth test: uninstall

DioDict3Service: Is this the dictionary for Samsung Keyboard?

DirectConnectManager: uninstall

DirectShareManager: uninstall

Factory mode: uninstall

Factory test: uninstall

GlanceViewMk: This one is the feature that doesnt turn off the screen when you look at it, right?

Google Bookmarks Sync: What is this?

Goup cast: uninstall

Help: uninstall

NFC Service: Well, I use NFC tags :P

Quick Command: ?? This is for gestures with the S Pen?

S Voice: DUH!!! :P

Samsung account: ??

Samsung backup: uninstall

Samsung Backup provider: uninstall

Samsung Browser SyncAdapter: what is this?

Samsung Calendar SyncAdapter: which one is the Samsung calendar? S Planner?

Samsung Cloud Data Relay: probably for backup reasons with Samsung backup?

Samsung Contact SyncAdapter: uninstall

Samsung S Note SyncAdapter: backup the s notes with samsung backup??

Samsung Syncadapters: what is this?

ShareShotService: uninstall

SmartcardService: what is this?

SyncmIDS: what is this?

Try panning: uninstall

User Manual: uninstall

Voice Recorder: also need this!

VpnDialogs: uninstall

Wi-Fi Direct: uninstall

Wi-Fi Direct share: uninstall

WlanTest: uninstall
[Galaxy Note II General] logan_izer10:
I spent a considerable amount of time monitoring my battery in the last 6 or 7 months I've had my note II. The 1 key thing I've found increases my battery life drastically, and on my friends'/wife's Galaxy s III's is turning off google location settings. I watched like a hawk for weeks at a time in better battery stats and it appears that some apps which use location settings really put a damper on the battery. I am unsure if this is solely modem related or just a bug in the firmware. But it has made a big difference in a number of devices I've tested it on. Try it.

Only problem is, you have to re-enable it if you wish to use maps, or some google now stuff.
[Galaxy Note II General] Kremata:
What's the point of having a Super phone with awesome features if you turn off everything? You be better off to just buy a Nokia 3210. The Note II have an awesome battery, just enjoy your phone and charge it when needed. :good:
[Galaxy Note II General] biggynr3:
Right!!!:good::good::good:
[Galaxy Note II General] heorung:
What's the point of letting the uneeded features drain your battery?
[Galaxy Note II General] joshm.1219:
The classic pro/con of keeping our "superphones" running on decade old battery technology. There's nothing wrong with not using all the features these phones provide and then turning them off because of that.

Sent from my ParanoidMonster
[Galaxy Note II General] Ry2mkk:
This thread was a good read :cyclops:

I'd have to agree that the Note 2 has amazing battery life out of the box, however once you install your chosen rom/kernal it simply just keeps going !!
[Galaxy Note II General] BratPAQ:
The complete list of apps that can be safely removed is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1910885

It comes together with the info on the apps you you know if you can freeze it or not.
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
I have restored a few apps because I needed them, And they have not affected battery life.

So overtime, I will update which apps I have restored.

For now :

Wi-Fi Direct 1.0 (com.sec.android.app.FileShareClient)

Wi-Fi Direct share 1.0 (com.sec.android.app.FileShareServer)

Bluetooth share 4.1.2-N7100XXDLL4 (com.android.bluetooth)

DirectConnectManager 1.6 (com.sec.android.directconnect)

DirectShareManager 2.0.3 (com.sec.android.directshare)
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
As for the people who go crazy because they think if it works for them it works for everyone....

I had an awesome battery out of the box!

With LI1/3/4/7 everything was awesome.

Then SDS came, and I installed LL4, battery went away.

Something Samsung did, caused the change. It's pretty obvious.

Anyhow, I am using my SmartPhone to it's fullest.

I'm using Internet/BT/Flashlight/GPS/SPen/64GB Sandisk exFAT SDCard/

My phone is overclocked, both CPU and GPU, it's very very very snappy, I use the Camera all the time.

I use AutoGuard while driving in the background (paid version)

I play games.

I don't use NFC and Cloud crap. No one is going to fool me with this cloud crap.

Cloud only works for small files, for now.

S Voice sucks, we all know that.

Have you ever "ShareShot"ed ? I didn't think so.
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
Hi can you explain how much you have increased your battery life in term of screen on time ?

30 min ? 1h? more or less ?
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
Yes, I have always preferred high brightness, so my screen time was never like those who claim for 6-7 hours.

It was around 3 hours full brightness, I now get to 4/4.5 Hours.

Also, My phone is very "old", it is a Galaxy Note II from the first batches from USA.

My battery is probably not as good as it used to be + I am now seriously overclocked.
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
thanks i'll try your settings. Did you try to see how much you loose after a night of deep sleep? I also loose 3% for 9h of deep sleep.
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
Well generally no, I have not tried because at night I charge my phone.

I don't like starting a day with partial battery because I do use my phone a lot.
[Galaxy Note II General] youss59:
thank you for this interesting topic.

I'll try on my note 2 to see if there is a difference.
[Galaxy Note II General] Valkillmore:
Personally if I was you I would just find another ROM if you just freeze or uninstall half the software. Or find another touchwiz based rom thats perhaps stripped down a bit ?

I am getting 30-40 hours and 4+ of its screen time without freezing a thing. Thats just me, dont fix what aint broke but interesting info and thread nonetheless.
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
It depends on your type of use. He told us to brightness max and overclock. Did you do same with all sync on? He has increased his battery life for more then 1h of screen on time.

I'm sure he tried a lot of rom before doing these settings
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
Actually I have not tried ANY custom rom on the Note II.

I have had all those experiments done on my previous Galaxy Devices (S,S2,S3,Note1)

And kinda lost the will the try custom roms, and deodexed roms.

I was somehow convinced that Odexed roms perform faster and better.

Don't know if that's true. But really, the Note II just works great.

The only problem after flashing a more recent Stock Rom was the battery,

I didn't want to start all the backup/restore/factory reset/phone customization process once more.

I have Xposed installed for call recording, and Multiview hacked as well.

Don't want to lose SMS messages, don't want to start setting up everything from scratch, just don't care for it anymore.

I even know there are a lot newer roms, and I just don't care.
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
Some one on this forum told his story about update OTA. Itseems that ota doesn't Flash correctly instead of odin because there are more files with odin Flash.
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
Heard about that, but I didn't flash ota.
[Galaxy Note II General] Aumkar:
I think I may have fixed my partial wakelock problems without sacrificing network location. I finally saw that the phone was awake very little while when the screen was off ( ie when I was sleeping last night ). Had a battery drain of 4% in 6 hours or so.

I had disabled Google location access, rebooted, enabled location access, disabled location reporting and history and such. Disabled Google Now as well, cuz I realized I don't use it as much. Or at all rather. I just use it for the weather, and I can just Google it.

Froze a bunch of stuff like the Samsung syncadapters, removed my Samsung account, and using ROM Toolbox Lite, I disabled the maps friend services that automatically started up.

So far, I'm at a day and a few hours, some 2.5 hours of screen on time, an hour and a half of music wakelock and half an hour of 3G calls, and I still have 32% left. Not bad at all. If I have such light usage, my phone will last all day today as well.

=====

I had also disabled bmw pro since I have GSAM running.
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
I have some issue with my phone.

I disabled all your bloatware and now i can't see the red light when the screen is off. It mean i can't use fast movement for wake up the phone when i put my hand up to the screen.

Do you know if some of these apps i disabled are the origin of my issue ?

Thank you
[Galaxy Note II General] Aumkar:
GlanceviewMk is the one responsible for that.
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
I was afraid of breaking something. I'll try later but i think this tweak drains battery. I hope so no
[Galaxy Note II General] Zanr Zij:
Finally how about your result?

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] Simone:
Hi,

Here is another recommendation to save battery life.

©koop2

"Opt for a plain black background

If you are using a mobile device with an AMOLED (also known as Super AMOLED or OLED) display, please use a black background whenever possible and it will save your battery life."
[Galaxy Note II General] Aumkar:
Oh yes. I do that too. And I opt for dark/black backgrounds for most apps. Because I use my phone at night a lot.
[Galaxy Note II General] Valkillmore:
Yes that is very true. I think its more likely to find two identical snowflakes than two identical setups and users when it comes to todays phones. Regardless though, there would be no way I would tear into a ROM like that to gain an hour. I'm overclocked , and run auto brightness and have a scheduled sync cycle. I use Tasker so its constantly doing stuff, including regulating my wifi and bluetooth. As well its always syncing to dropbox and my tablet and phone are often talking to eachother, and constantly scanning my location, self locking depending on location, turning my pc's and webcams on or off depending on location/time.

My phone has great idle time, and deep sleep scores and tasker wont leave wifi/data on unless unless certain conditions are met. Other than that I just use my phone normally, and I typically charge every night.

Sent from my A500 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2

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This is why I went with then ultimately back to the Note-orious Prime ROM after a brief Paranoid Android trial . Everything works, TW based, Multi-View built-in and all the goodies. Still has the great battery life that came out the box. I lucked out, especially since I initially chose it because of its name :p. And, whether you adhere to or acknowledge Quadrant scores, the Note-orious Prime ROM constantly scores up at 8800 or more where as the PA ROM consistently down at 5500. So, without starting a Quadrant debate, when I compare apples to apples that is huge.

But yeah, we could debate usage and compare battery saving techniques but I think most Note 2 users can agree Samsung finally did it right with this device, its software and its battery.

Sent from my A500 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note II General] ppn7:
]This is my new stats with your settings :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhf8lb18hd4csr8/Screenshot_2013-05-21-12-29-25.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1bdm2yxv3kdy5o/Screenshot_2013-05-21-12-29-08.png
[Galaxy Note II General] eitama:
Nice :)

I have 2g disabled.

Today I had 2.5 hours of gps driving (waze).
[Galaxy Note II General] wayneywoo:
Hi, can you tell me how you achieved this please? I've tried searching both on Google and on XDA and can't find anything...

Many thanks
[Galaxy Note II General] rajaganesan7:
Normal Usage 3 days Battery backup While Data Connection is on

Heavy Usage 1 Day Battery Backup

I am using N7100 Android 4.3 Stock Rom I Disabled WiFi, Bluetooth,GPS, Brithness in Auto and using power save mode , I hanged Up Calls and Using Messaging Services Like as What's app , I Got Battery Backup 3 days and After 3 Days I Switch off my mobile and I removed my battery for 2 hours , Then I insert the battery and charged 100% after I'll use it

This Trick is Improved for Your Battery Life

Sorry For Wrong English
[Galaxy Note II General] rchi84:
Thanks for the tip.

After I started using a custom ROM, i noticed my battery life went up considerably, even while using HSDPA network.
[Galaxy Note II General] wayneywoo:
Hi, what font have you used here please? Link?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II General] rajaganesan7:
Cool jazz font i used
[Galaxy Note II General] rajaganesan7:
See my Battery Usage I attach a photo here

Note :Tip to Save a Battery Drain

Open Any Applications from menu or Any install app

After u close the app

Press long press Menu u see the recent the app in the screen Click previous app as long Press "App info" Press App info click FORCE STOP AND CLEAR CACHE , NOTE DONT PRESS CLEAR DATA..Like that u close all apps from this method ,then open taskmanager click Clear memory Note option u got minimum 590 or 540 MB for Free Example I coming to say 540 of 1.76MB IF GET 650 MB memory above high usage , Restart the Mobile Go Task Manager and Click 5 times Clear memory button, u got 520MB, plug the charger and battery full charged Switch off the mobile and remove the battery for 1 hour , then insert the battery use the mobile as normal

That's All It's a Natural Way Don't Install any software for battery saver
[Galaxy Note II General] ronak_143:
^ Your device was rarely out of sleep mode. So it is bound to get 2 days easily!
[Galaxy Note II General] VuBoo:
Sorry for double post :/
[Galaxy Note II General] Zubair1024:
Great!

That's great, upon that try a rom that uses less or minimal ram and is quite lightweight along with a good kernel for voltage regulation. I personally prefer Perseus kerne. But then again it differs from device to device and user to user. :o
[Galaxy Note II General] acerulz:
My battery life is great on stock itself without freezing any apps only Google location is off , use it only when I need it ..
[Galaxy Note II General] romdroid.:
Thats irrelevant. What is your screen time usage?
[Galaxy Note II General] Zubair1024:
My battery stats
[Galaxy Note II General] fade2black101:
Please don't bother posting up battery time without also posting up the screen on time.

This should be made compulsory until everyone understands this.
[Galaxy Note II General] clarkck:
safe battery life for non-rooted phones

Download 3 apps

1. Easy battery saver -> custom battery saving mode

2. Greenify -> hibernate all unused or less frequently used apps (the app supports unrooted phones now)

3. Clean master -> clear your ram regularly
[Galaxy Note II General] zealsth7:
How did you Deodex your ROM?
[Galaxy Note II General] Miyamusashi:
viber, tango and softwares like that have same effect on battery..draining.

also the programs which are asking for notifications they are draining battery also.

greenify them all.

i use dn3 kitkat version 4.0 and lots of phone calls , lots of whatsapp messages,also dozens of emails and i still have %40 at home now.. unplugged at 8 o clock and now time is 22..
[Galaxy Note II General] alp_sehic:
Yeap...

yeap, this is the exact receipt what I am also applying, but instead of Easy Battery Saver, I am using AutomateIt Pro, i.e. I have built the same functionality via different rules...
[Galaxy Note II General] bahtsiz_bedevi:
The most annoying battery consumer is the Google Services and there is no proper solution.

Greenify is not working well with the Google Services as its developer already stated even if it's converted as user app.

IMHO there is a thin line for Google between benefits and OS performance. Lately, Google wants more benefits from its product and forcefully run its services even if you disable them. Such as location services.

There was a test done between identical two HTC One M8s running Android and Windows Phone.

Windows Phone literally kicked the **** out of Android in the term of battery life.

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-one-m8-windows-vs-android-battery-wars-20342029/
[Java for Android App Development] saif kazi:
Hello guys

I was thinking to create a simple build.prop editor. someone can help me where should I start. it's a simple project so I want to work myself to get some experience in android app development. As I know I have to provide root permission in android manifest. Xml but how the activity can read build.prop file

Thank you
[Java for Android App Development] saif kazi:
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[Java for Android App Development] nikwen:
Root commands need to be executed the command line way.

You can get the content of a file using

cat <filepath>

For executing these commands I recommend using the RootTools library.

First of all get basic Linux command line knowledge. :)
[Java for Android App Development] saif kazi:
So it means I should use Ubuntu :confused:
[Java for Android App Development] nikwen:
No, it does not mean that. :)

If you want to do anything which needs SU permission, you need to do it without the Android API. You run a command on the built-in command line on your phone from your app. Now in Java you are able to read the output of the command and parse it to get the required information.

There is no other way of doing it because Android was not designed to be rooted. ;)
[Java for Android App Development] Nx Biotic:
I used this repo as a base for mine, see if it can be any use to you and try altering it as much as you can so you can see what your able todo

https://github.com/nathanpc/Build.prop-Editor
[Java for Android App Development] nikwen:
Looks like he has already forked it. :D

https://github.com/saifkazi/Build.prop-Editor

If you want to release your version, have a look at the original license: https://github.com/nathanpc/Build.prop-Editor/blob/master/LICENSE
[Java for Android App Development] nathanpc:
Haha, I was about to suggest my project when I saw the Google Alerts email, but looks like you already did.

Thanks very much! :)
[Java for Android App Development] Nx Biotic:
No problem man!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] LilBlinx:
Credits to Mohammad_Adib, original creator of this app. Original Thread
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Pandemic:
Nice one :)

But make an all in 1 thread [MENTION=4694376]DavidMKD[/MENTION]

Otherwise we get tons of threads from stand alone apps;)

:: Pandemic .:: [Recognized Contributor]
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Imperial_Raj:
Nice find bro. Loved the rounded corners in MIUI, and now can have then on stock too!
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arry2006:
Hello, I would like to display the date and time in standby mode (like the old Nokia Symbian OS) because I don't want to keep pressing the power button to see what time it is. I want it permanently displayed.

Does anyone know if there is some app that do this? I have searched but cannot find one.

Thanx for your time. :good:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saulius.mockus.off&hl=es

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...29tLlN0ZWVsQ2l0eUNvLkFuZHJvaWRDbG9ja0ZyZWUiXQ..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEwOSwiY29tLm5lZGRhc2hmb3gubmlnaHRjbG9jayJd

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEwNCwiY29tLmtlcGhyZW4udG9wY2xvY2thZGRzIl0.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...iY29tLnNsdXNocHVwaWUuZGVza2Nsb2NrLmRvbmF0ZSJd
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] alexc2005:
Hi Guys,

I have been having issues pretty much since I got my phone.

This has been to do with reception, it will say that it has full reception but just won't send messages, make calls or have any connectivity.

I was silly in thinking that maybe flashing a custom rom would help, I still have the issue.

I assume this is a hardware issue so I am at the point where I want to return the phone to Telstra.

I believe if it is a hardware fault I can return it no dramas, just have to flash it back to stock Rom?

Cheers for any help

Alex
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Heisenberg:
Yeah I'd return it to Telstra and try your luck. But I'm not sure whether they'll replace/repair it under warranty though. I've worked at a mobile repair centre for one of the majors here in Australia, they do check whether the handset has been altered. Their excuse for not covering it under warranty will most likely be that the changes you made could have affected the handset, thus causing the issue you're having. It would have been best to send it back before rooting it, then they wouldn't really have a leg to stand on.