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[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bhun:
Hi, found this on eHow and as automobile electrician dealing sometimes also with batteries i cannot confirm that your battery was bloated just because of playing games an charge phone at same time. Li-Ion cells don't like to be fully discharged. When u charge them before they go out of power is the best you can do to preserve their capacity.

Don't use your phone with silicon case when gaming because it can prevent air ventilation in the phone and cause it to heat up more when placed under heavy load like when playing games.

And now what can contibute to a battery bloatup: :)

Battery Components

•	Most cell phone batteries contain a lithium-ion mixture. Lithium is an alkaline metal, and its ion simply has more electrons than protons. The battery also contains a positive and negative electrode, and when you use the battery, the lithium ions move from one to the other, creating an electric charge. Under normal circumstances, the lithium ions can continue to absorb and dissipate energy. However, if you expose the battery to certain conditions, its chemistry can change, causing undesirable effects.

Water Damage

•	Your cell phone battery is extremely sensitive to water. The plastic casing provides some protection; however, if you expose the metal electrodes to water, they can corrode and become ineffective. Water leaking into the batteries case can cause it to appear bloated. Discard such a battery immediately because the lithium solvent can be harmful if you come into contact with it. If the phone has been submerged in water, this is usually enough to cause water damage to the battery if there is not a tight seal between the battery and the phone.

Heat Damage

•	The lithium solvent that carries the charge from electrode to electrode is extremely sensitive to heat. If you expose the phone to temperatures that considerably exceed 77 degrees Fahrenheit, the battery may lose its ability to hold a charge over time. This is considered normal. However, if you consistently expose it to higher temperatures, then you can cause the lithium-ion mixture to rupture the cell, which can cause the battery to appear bloated. Most lithium-ion batteries contain fail-safes that prevent them from operating in extreme temperatures, but there is no guarantee that these will work in every case.

Prevention

•	Prevent damage of this sort from occurring by not exposing your phone to extreme temperatures and unsafe environments. For example, do not bring your mobile phone near pools or inside of saunas. On hot summer days, keep the phone and other electronics out of direct sunlight.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] hanafi200:
try doctor battery, its available at the store free,
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] honeyx:
But I can confirm this. I´m having actually here 4 batteries for the SGW and one of them is bloated due to heavy usage while charging the battery. This battery was my best battery but now it´s just a paperweight. It´s still working well though it´s bloated, but I´m not going to risk anything.

You can´t simply compare a car with its lead battery to this device, because in the car the battery is just needed to start the car. Once the engine is running the battery is not needed as the generator is producing enough electricity for the entire car and to charge the not needed battery.

You can even remove the lead battery completely and just connect the car to a powerfull enough source to get it started. Onec its running, you can remove the source too and it will continue to run.

With the SGW and its LI-Ion battery things are a bit different. You for example can´t simply plug in the charger and turn the device on without the battery. The battery is still neeeded to power on the device for two reasons. First is the charger might be not strong enough to offer enough power but the obvious one is, the circuit inside the phone reduces the charging current to a max. level and the voltage to be 4.2V max. It acts like a constant current and constant voltage source where the preset max limits can´t be exeeded. The real charging current and voltage are depending to the charging level and the battery resistance, but will never exeed the max limits in a proper working circuit.

Additionally this circuit is feeding the battery directly, so the current is floating first into the battery and then the battery is feeding the entire device. So at heavy usage the power offered by the circuit will be not enough to be simply passed to the device and so the battery will be stressed twice, as it´s charging and discharging at the same time.

This is still a simplyfied explanation to what is really going on, but explains a little bit why you can´t compare a car with it´s battery to this device.

Also, the batteries for the SGW do not offer it´s own protection circuit. The only circuit that protects the battery is build in into the phone.

So the best advice that can be given here is to avoid heavy usage while the battery is being charged. Better charge it first, use it then and recharge when not in use.

I´m not sure where you digged this out, but this is simply not the full truth. In neutral stage each element is having as much electrons as much protons it has. Ions are either having temporaly more or less electrons. They can be ionized positive or negative.

In a normal Li-Ion battery it´s the anode that consists of lithium and is having positive lithium ions, so less electrons than protons.

In a lead battery both, the anode and the cathode consist of lead. One is positive ionized and the other one negative.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bhun:
Sorry if it souded as i would compare a Li-Ion to a lead battery. I was actually not doing that. By that i meant that i understand somewhat of batteries. I've learned about batteries (how different types work) back in school. All Li-Ion based batteries have their own protecting circuit. It is not depending on the phone. This circuit built in every Li-Ion based battery prevents it from beeing overcharged, wich would result in the battery exploding. It also gives the phone a limited feedback on battery charge status, and perhaps somewhat potecting the battery to be fully drained wich would result in irreversible damage to the cells. I agree with you that it is better to charge when not using them, but in real life this is not easy to do when you (by what cause ever) want or have to use your device. I am not a gamer so i am not using my phone that way.

Since i am using my phone lots of times plugged on a charger, making phonecalls and doing other stuff like email, surfing the web, watching videos and so on, and never get close to that issue (battery is almost 2 years old) i still don't think that that would be the biggest problem.

On hot days is it not recommended to use our devices with heavy loads, ofcourse you could climb into the fridge :D (may not be a problem then:cowboy:), and it is also advised to avoid humidity. That's all i know for now, that it would contribute to a bloated battery.

Sorry if i unattendedly caused some confusion.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] honeyx:
No problem, I´m just trying to clarify this :)

but with this I have to disagree

Not all Li-Ion batteries have their own protection ciurcuit. Only the protected ones. Do a search on google about protected and not protected Li-Ion batteries.

In cellphones most batteries are not protected ones because of the circuit taking to much space and so incrasing the battery size a lot. Therefore the protection circuit gets moved into the phone but the battery itself is not protected at all. In most batteries the feedback you will only get is the temperature. It´s mostly a simple thermistor either being somwhere close to the battery or inside the battery. The rest is calculated by knowing the capacity and monitoring the voltage and current drain.

So the only circuit you will find in not protected batteries is the one for reading the thermistor, if there is one build in. But this circuit will not protect the battery against a short circuit.

Just to not confuse about this. There are of course protected batteries for cellphones as long the circuit can fit into the part where the connections are.

But the truth is this circuit can fail to disconnect the battery from a short circuit and there are even batteries with fake protection. So there is a pcb with a circuit, but this is just fake and doing nothing.

However regarding this discussion about bloated batteries it doesn´t matter the battery has a protection circuit or not. The protection circuit only disconnects the battery if a short circuit occurs or the battery voltage drops below 3V.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Phenom96:
Buy a new battery.:D
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] hanafi200:
That is the best answer for your problem, maybe to alot of overcharge :angel:
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] cellgeek:
Okay - I've tried searching this topic and no success and/or nothing relevant comes back.

I've tried renaming \system\customize\resources\PowerUp.mp3, deleting PowerUp.mp3 and just about every trick I can think of to get rid of the AT&T boot up sounds (and animation). Every time I delete it, then reboot it comes back. It's like a recurring bad dream. This worked great on my old S3.

Anyone know how to make this go away on a stock, rooted ROM? I've been using Root Explorer to set the directory R/W and then make the changes. No luck! I'm not a fan of smart phones that are overly noisy, so, IMHO, a bootup sound is really annoying and unnecessary....
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] gunnyman:
You need to disable the /system protection in the kernel. There's a flashable mod in the international dev section or you can flash a custom kernel that disables it.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] cellgeek:
Gunnyman - thanks. Would have never thought about that "feature". I'll go look up the mod and/or do a Kernel....
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] gunnyman:
if you want to stay with a stock kernel download scrossler's cleanrom and pull the boot.img from it. It has protection disabled
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] ElBeaner:
Or this one which stock rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2252959

THere are options for both Odexed and Deodexed
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] cellgeek:
Thanks!! Turns out it's just a whole lot easier to flash a kernel for the moment. I did download CleanRom - I've always like Scrosler's ROMS for HTC devices. Once I get more acquainted with my HTC, I'll be flashing CleanRom...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] galatis:
I have an Qtek 2020 (bought in Greece).

I had the 1.66 ROM installed and tried to upgrade to the 1.72WWE version dowloaded by the xda-developers ftp site.

In the installation, at the time when the program erases the previous ROM I get the following error message :

ERROR 112 : CE ROM UPGRADE ERROR

To continue the upgrade please :

1. disconnect the Pocket PC from the USB cradle

2. perform a normal reset

3. reconect the Pocket PC and restart the upgrade

tried the above procedure with the same results.

Anyone having any hints? :cry:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] mrijn:
I had the same, trying to upgrade. Just do as the screen says (i.e.: restart the upgrade). Worked fine for me!! :lol:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] galatis:
done it at least four times with the same result.

The strange thing is that i performed an upgrade already to 1.66 withoutany problems a short while ago. The only difference was that I got the upgrade from my provider intead of xda-developers
[General Questions and Answers] JohnKersten:
hello,

I installed this version and is really running smooth, included GPS after the fix.

The only problem I have at the moment is charging the battery when power is off.

There is no ' animation' visible when charging.
[General Questions and Answers] JohnKersten:
I have no ssue with CM10 from Ivendor. So it's ROM related problem.

It's a known issue know.
[General Questions and Answers] JohnKersten:
Charge animation was not available in this ROM http://www.mediafire.com/?xj39pa7mokcikxc

Problem solved
[Ideos S7 General] Windsoull:
I tried volume up nothing happens. Volume down nothing happens. Power button Reboots the device. also i need to control this because im stuck on the Startup screen (the robot with blue background) im gonna do a format thru recovery mode. Please need immediate Help! If you cant help me with recovery mode. might as well help me with the stuck on the robot startup screen Thanks!

BTW im using clockwormod 6.0.1.2
[Ideos S7 General] savio_mascarenhas:
download

download a rom and flash it if your tablet is rooted than install cynogen mod or clockworkmod recovery :highfive:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Icarus1391:
Enjoy, guys!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/01r7tsyiqy5p27k/PyRZMM13DL?v=0swn
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] landeiro:
In games better than Xperia Z/ZL or Nexus 4 or inferior peformance? I have a doubt for whom bought this mobiles too...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eladwf:
According to some benchmarks i found in google they are pretty much the same. Just google "android benchmark".
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebtorres82:
Between the Nexus 4 and the Galaxy Note 2 I could say that the Nexus 4 is slightly better than the Note 2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone:
For gaming, Nexus 4 might have a small edge, but with an over all phone AND gaming, Note 2.

Unbiased.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] william1974:
Agreed.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarionCast:
How so? Isn't the Nexus 4 Cortex A15-based while the Note 2 is Cortex A9 only?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone:
So you're suggesting Nexus 4 is a better phone?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] landeiro:
Nexus 4 is better in games or not? I ask who bought nexus 4 too

Enviado de meu GT-N7100 usando o Tapatalk 2
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jhyrachy:
Hi,

I have a Wildfire with CyanogenMod 7,.1 and Clockwork mod.

I want to revert it to stock rom (gingerbread version) and update the radio, but i only found the RUU way, that delete clockworkmod and root.

There is a zip that i can flash to have GB?

Thanks a lot!
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slymobi:
Go head here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1029318

Scroll down to ruu

Flash the safe zip rooted

Return to stock

You don't need to go back to stock to reflash radio, there are hundreds of tutorials on upgrading/downgrading radio.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghilli619:
Hi friends,

I rooted my phone installed Custom ROM. Now i want to try the other ROM but i'm not bale to boot cwm recovery. Somebody pls help me.

Device - lt18i
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Attitude.SSJ:
You would have formatted system when installing custom rom... That removes cwm... You need to reinstall cwm...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HAAAAAATIUUUU:
My Galaxy S3 I9300 stutters when connected to Wifi and sometimes LAG the whole device. The only time the lag was removes is after a few minutes. I am using stock Android 4.1.2 Jellybean Rooted running Siyah Kernel (overclocked and undervolted) i also try the stock values in Stweaks but it doesnt solve the problem. I also flash back the stock rom again but it was no use. I tried also to turn off wifi PSM it kinda helped a bit but still lags :( . Im using Chrome as my browser. Pls help!!! Thanks in Advance :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] wholly1:
Please use old method for galaxy note,

just use:

*#0011#

Instead

*#197328640#

To enter service mode on galaxy s4

Good luck.
[Galaxy S 4 General] luisbeltranh:
Could you please post a guide or a link to the note's guide.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] wholly1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41516200

Above you have thred link for galaxy s4
[Galaxy S 4 General] dark_phoenix:
bro, i have GT-I9500, from belgium. i don't know the carrier. i want to use it in india. but the above code *#0011# or *#197328640# not working. please help me in doing that.
[Galaxy S 4 General] james2639:
samsung gt-i9500

i have GT-I9500 32 gb from korea. i don't know the carrier. i want to use it in kenya but the above code *#0011# or *#197328640# not working. please help me in doing that. When dial *#0011# it responses Menu not exist. But the whore issue stated after factory reset. Please help out.
[Motorola Droid 3] porky101:
I have had a Droid 3 for a while now, but the lack of developer community on it has saddened me. Although I say that, I would like to really thank Hashcode and dhacker for putting so much effort into a phone that was not very friendly to developers to being with, it is not the developers fault it is more so Motorola's fault.

Anyway, the real question, so since you can get a Galaxy Nexus for about $170-$230 on Craigslist or Swappa I was thinking about just buying one, since it still has a good developer community and it could probably last me until my contract is up and it is not that expensive. I did have a question though, since the Droid 3 was 3G and Galaxy Nexus is 4G, do I have to do anything special to activate the 4G SIM in the device, or when I do my normal activation the SIM will be activated too? I guess one thing that I have to do is make sure the 4G SIM is in the device and that they did not stiff me. Also, when I do move from 3G to 4G that does not change my data plan at all, correct?

Or I could be totally wrong and the 4G is not actually a SIM, I am not really sure.

Thank you to anyone who can help me with my questions or if you have any advice at all. Also, thank you again to all the developers of the Droid 3 community you have done so much with a phone that was not very friendly to developers.
[Motorola Droid 3] ricky12:
When I moved from a OG Droid to a Stratosphere (a 4G LTE slider that I ditched out of despiration for the D3) I put in the sim and called customer care to activate. LTE service uses a SIM card so yeah you'll need one...depending on the seller they may have kept their 4G SIM as one can store contacts on it. A Verizon store should be able to give you a SIM, likely for a small fee (like 10 bucks).

Will it change your plan? Nope, cause you're buying the phone without a attached contract. You should retain your unlimited data if you are grandfathered in.
[Motorola Droid 3] Dark Jedi:
Yes if you go from a 3g only phone to a 4g phone nothing changes on your plan. My wife went from a droid3 to a Droid 4 and kept her unlimited data plan. As it was explained to me by Verizon they bundle the 3g and 4g in to one. They dont charge a seperate fee for 4g. Data is data to them. So anyone who has 3g has 4g automatically if they ever get a 4g phone. It just doesn't show up on your account until you activate a 4g phone.

If you buy your phone outright your contract doesn't change. It only changes if you use your upgrade. I had a third account on my family plan that had a dumbphone on it. I used that upgrade to get my wife her droid4 then switched the phone to her line and put the dumbohone back on the other line and canceled the data package. To get a new similar card go to a Verizon corporate store and tell them you need a new similar card for your phone. They wont charge for the sim cards. They gave my wife no fuss of activating the sim on the new phone.

If you like rooting and being a flashaholic then a Google phone is for you. I have heard mixed results with the gnex having poor signal reception but its still going strong like all Google phones.
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
Coming from a D3 to a GN was a big change. 1. The GN has abysmal battery life. I get just over 1hr of screen on time with the 1850mah battery that came with the phone (could just be aging) 2. Leaving the keyboard was tough, Moto did a damn fine job on that.

With that said, the dev community for the GN is infinitely larger due to having absolutely no restricitons on this phone. You can't perma-brick it. All the files are there for recovery. OC'ing and frying it is just about the only way I can see that it could be killed. I can run my stable around 1700MHz, although this further kills the battery. I love the phone because of how open it is, but either the S4 or VZW One variant will most likely be my next phone, but who knows what the Moto X Phone will be like. Back to my keyboard point, Moto's hardware is almost always the best (GN is just another plasti-Samsung phone).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] joeym11:
I got this iron man of a phone yesterday and rooted yesterday. I noticed a lot of bloat so I uninstalled a bunch of it. Now my s voice doesn't work(it forced closed when I asked a question) so what apps affect it. What should I not have deleted? And where can I get it back?

I don't know what I deleted that did it because I deleted a bunch of stuff that looked useless.

Thanks

Joe
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] pakxelaos:
Might be the ChatOn.

To get it back, restore to factory via Kies or ODIN.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ViciousLSD:
I removed chat on but s voice still works. Did you remove Samsung apps?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] joeym11:
Yeah I think I took some out... gonna just factory reset -.-
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scheer:
S Voice doesn't work at all, even after a reset.

I didn't uninstall anything, but after I rooted, S-Voice quit working. It just crashes every time I try to use it.

I tried factory reset twice, and hard reset twice (vol-up + home + pwr), with the exact same result.

It is so bad, that after the reset, when the software asks what language do you want to setup the phone, text-to-speech quits before you can even hit next.

I tried changing the default tts from Samsung to Google, but I got the same result.

Anybody with any ideas???

:(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] erasat:
Yes, sorry, but you should restore back to Factory using Odin. But just in case you don't know, doing this won't reset your settings and apps, so feel free to restore back as soon as you have weird issues or errors.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] joeym11:
**** if you didn't uninstall anything, it might be the root that caused stuff to not work then. That is the same problem that I had, except I did uninstall a bunch of stuff.

*EDIT* I have confirmed that it is in fact the root that makes S voice not work. I restored to factory using my firmware from this site

And now it works fine that I do not have root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scheer:
I reflashed the original Rogers image -> S Voice works flawlesly.

I re-rooted the device -> S Voice CONTINUES TO WORK FLAWLESLY!!! \o/

Fantastic. No idea what happened, but now it's working AND my phone is rooted.

:victory::victory::victory:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] atari800:
I did this:

Install Titanuim Backup

Click on Backup/restore Tab

Locate "S Voice" application in the list

Hold finger on it, a menu will appear

Under SYSTEM ROM press CONVERT TO USER APP

Locate "Samsung Text to Speech Engine" application in the list

Hold finger on it, a menu will appear

Under SYSTEM ROM press CONVERT TO USER APP

Restart phone

Drink some beer (optional)

Bingo - I got my S Voice back fully fucntional
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Doymecca:
Works perfectly, was having the same problem after recent root.

You can set them back to system apps after you have reset.

Now I just need to get my default home launcher to actually launch when I reset the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] atari800:
"You can set them back to system apps after you have reset."

I noticed on my phone, if S VOICE is a user app, Double Clicking Home key works once to start S Voice but if I go to messaging or maps or any other application, double click does not bring me back to S VOICE.

I reverted S VOICE back to system app and double click works as advertised again
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] markh:
I got a 5.5v/1A USB travel charger but the XDA I/II use 5v chargers. Anybody know whether I would damage the battery with that extra .5v?