yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] GaZ:
THAT was the reply I was looking for :D I needed it laying out for me in idiots terms, lol. I'm getting so pumped about this now. Thank you

Lastly, does anyone know if I can upgrade to this on my current contract NOW rather than waiting for renewal time again? I'm half way into my 2nd 12 month period but I took £70 credited to my account in place of a new handset at the 12 month mark. I'd be willing to pay the £149.99 up front but I understand this is a subsidised price, and common sense would dictate to me that I can't do it
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] mikealder:
Just phone O2 and ask them when you are eligable for the upgrade from the mobile its 202, landline 08702 410202, The Exec is a great device, very impressed with it - worth the outlay without a doubt - Mike
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Jackar:
Just a hint for the Internet. Use the NetFront, it is an awesome browser. It supports true VGA resolution (640x480) without any registry hacks/SW resets and it shows almost all the webSites as on the normal computer ! (if they are wider then 640px, then you have the horizontal scroller, so the site layout doesn`t get broken)

Bundled Internet Explorer is absolute crap. When you`ll try NetFront (or Opera), you won`t come back ;)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Gajet:
Gaz you will probably want a data alowance, considering O2 claim to be about to charge us for GPRS access. You could consider getting a new data only contract at the level you require and then swap the SIMs for phone use and heavy data use.

So you end up with 2 contracts, but it's only the same as adding a data bolt on to your current contract in terms of monthly recurring cost. The SIM swapping is a pain, but potentially worth it as O2 will not entertain an early upgrade.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] colonel:
you can add a data bolt on to a monthly contract with no implications for contract period. you can also ask o2 to raise the data speed to 384k. this is far preferable to having 2 sim cards.

rgds
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] GaZ:
Well, phoned them the other day and they said I need to wait til July. Not too bad I suppose, but I'm not known for my patience, lol.

I might look into getting a data bolt on as well. Cheers lads :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cpl593h:
Hello,

Here's my story: I have a perfectly working Galaxy Nexus (maguro), with a fried USB port. It won't charge anymore and is basically bricked.

I want to send it back to Amazon (it is still under warranty), but it

- is unlocked;

- is rooted;

- runs a custom recovery (latest TWRP);

- runs a CM 11 nightly;

- runs mpokang's kernel.

Now a friend of mine who has a GNex too kindly recharged my battery so I can resurrect the device for a few more hours. With a USB cable, it would be really easy to restore the JWR66Y image, the standard recovery and to lock it again, for instance with NRT, but I can't think of a (non-risky) procedure to restore the image AND remove TWRP AND lock it, so it appears as "legit" to whoever will repair it, without USB/fastboot/adb.

I've read a few older threads here about the same problem on the GNex and there were no satisfying answer. However, these topics are quite old (more than six months old for the most recent one) and maybe there's a more useful procedure now.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikram66778:
Hi.. Can somebody tell me if there is a way to convert flashable zip files to Odin tar.md5 files !!!!

I hav searched and read some related threads but none of them gave a conclusive answer for the question. Some explained how to convert .img files to tar files & some explained creating tar files by using 7zip (actually 7zip only create a file with .tar extension) but my question is how to convert zip files which don't have image files like for example if i wanted to flash some apps ported from other devices (camera, gallery, keyboard etc...) and i don't want to flash them through Recovery (I don't hav one:D:D) then HOW???
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Technically speaking, you'd need to create an image of the partition containing content from your .zip folder (with proper permissions and stuff created by updater-script) and then you should pack it as system.img into .tar.md5 file.

The questions is WHY you want to do this, it's NOT common and there's absolutely no point in doing that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Question is why no recovery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fzeta:
Well, consider installing a corresponding CWM :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikram66778:
I don't want to install a Recovery as it increases Binary count every time v boot the device. I personally don't like to increase my count. Every time i enter into Recovery to flash a zip file it will trigger the count. I know Triangle away can make the count zero but then i have to use it every time after using Recovery & I don't want to go through all that hassle.

Why i don't like an increase in count.... It's more like OCD:p:p:p

So, is there any easy n simple method to convert files !!! Am not much of a Android student. It's like am at Kindergarten level at Android University:D:D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
There's no easy way of doing what you want. There IS a way, but definitely not easy one.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikram66778:
Can u explain me in a simplest way possible. I want to give it a try.... Thanks for help..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustArchi:
Already done above.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Easier solution is mobile odin, although it can't flash all zips.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericantona7:
hi do you found the way to? my p7500 olny with internal sd, i cant move the file to it cause it keeps rebooting. i need the tar.md5 file in odin to flash it.

thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tromick:
Well, I need to do this cuz my screen is broken and I can't see the TWRP options.

I need to flash LockScreen_Security_bypassV1.1 to get my files. Can anyone help me about this? Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lancyboi:
I woke up this morning to my google play not working. Note that i have a scheduled titanium backup every sundays that backs up all user, and system data. i forced closed, cleared cache, toggled air plane and wifi. Rebooted, wiped dalvik and system cache in custom recovery. What do i need to do!! Any help is greatly appreciated.

Also, my wifi icon is red. What does that mean?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lancyboi:
google play store****

google play store******

sorry
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhilipTD:
You can try

- Clear Play Store data

- Clear Google Play Services data

- Remove/re-add your Google account

No idea about the red wifi icon.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lancyboi:
Did all of the above and could not sign back into google lol. It was a good thing i had a backup through custom recovery.

I got everything working again. Thanks:laugh:
[Sony Xperia ZR] boomshankar:
i am from india. yesterday i updated my xperia zr to 4.3. since then battery life has reduce drastically. i charge my phone to 100 % while at night and in morning without any use it comes to 90%

battery status shows android system using most of the juice.. and keep awake using juice for hours.

any one having similar issues or any know fix for this ?
[Sony Xperia ZR] Lasantha:
Use wake lock detector to find the process and also better battery stats
[Sony Xperia ZR] boomshankar:
thanks mate.. got the problem .. now just need to root the phone and disable it
[Sony Xperia ZR] predatorvbg:
I have the same problem! Have you had to fix the problem?

* Sorry for bad English
[Sony Xperia ZR] boomshankar:
i found out that certain process used by fast dormancy is the cause for this

and this thread has fix for it http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2382680

but your phone should be rooted for this.. and i am not sure how to root xperia zr after updating it to stock 4.3

any help is appreciated
[Sony Xperia ZR] adryanodej:
have you unlock the bootloader? if yes then try this :http://www.ranker.com/list/all-car-movies-or-list-of-car-movies/all-genre-movies-lists

For me it works very well .. And its` not that hard.. But if your bootloader can`t be unlocked i don`t think is there any way to root 4.3 .. Only downgrade to 4.2 then root with Vroot.
[Sony Xperia ZR] boomshankar:
Dude did u pasted movie list link in error?

To be honest I just have a stock phone, seems it is.not bootloader unlocked, as I haven't done anything on it yet

Is there any way to check it?

And how do I downgrade again to 4.2
[Sony Xperia ZR] yuan_1202:
Just got my xperia zr yesterday.

Updated it to 4.3 immediately.

And now one day after, I have to say the battery is very good.

13 hr 30 mins on battery, 1 hour and 50 mins screen in time and I m at 61%. And this is mostly on mobile data.

Happy.
[Sony Xperia ZR] adryanodej:
sorry, my` bad .. :)) here is the link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2427995

but first of all you need to unlock the bootloader ... First, you should confirm that it is possible to unlock the boot loader of your device by checking the service menu. In your device, open the dialler and enter *#*#7378423#*#* to access the service menu....tap Service info > Configuration > Rooting Status. If Bootloader unlock allowed says Yes, you can start unlocking your bootloader on this link: http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/instructions .

if your bootloader can`t be unlocked i advise you to wait until some dev find a way to root 4.3 with locked booloader.

Now if you want to downgrade to 4.2 or 4.1 you need to download Flashtool then frome here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2384512 download the FTF file for 4.3. 4.2 or 4.1 wherever you want and then flash via flashtool.. There are the instructions too how to use flashtool .. Sorry for my english. Hope i helped you :)
[Sony Xperia ZR] Kratellismorru:
Rooting method

I think THIS is a way to root 4.3, although a bit of a long way without unlocking the bootloader
[Moto X Q&A] davescarp:
Trying to find a way to tether my unrooted VZW Moto X to my nexus 7. Have used pdanet/foxfi in the past on other phones with great success so I figured I'd try. I know WiFi tether isn't supported on KitKat (according to PDAnet) and am having trouble getting the bluetooth tether to work. It shows I'm connected but can't get any data on any app.. Does anyone know if this is not possible with pdanet and kitkat, or am I being a goon... Thanks
[Moto X Q&A] davescarp:
Anyone???
[Android General] teembe:
I have Alcatel OT-991 with custom rom (modded stock 2.3.6), rooted. I have problem with voip apps because sound is played through loudspeaker on both, voice and video calls. Tried on skype, tango, viber, always the same problem. Turning on or off loudspeaker during a call makes no changes. No option in settings to switch between earphone and speaker. I thought that my phone is defective, but google says it problem on all Alcatel OT-991.

Is there a way to fix this.
[Android General] teembe:
No help? Anyone knows what file/files are responsible for sound routing, so I could use files from other smartphone with same chipset?
[G2 General] vPro97:
Hi.

I am used to get about 4h30min-5 hours max but after doing this little trick I am getting 3 hours 20 minutes with 55% battery left.

The trick is to go into settings- apps- all, find android system and force close it. Don't worry, it will start up again immediately but the battery draining process seem to be killed.

Android OS is no longer the one causing the most battery drain. Android system has settled down too. Check it out!

(It seems like I got another problem to solve - Facebook is draining a whole lot now cos it's using the GPS. Still getting amazing battery life though!)
[G2 General] vPro97:
Edit: (can't edit on my phone) - another thing I did was to disable NFC. Try that as well!
[G2 General] shadehh:
I left stock ROM mainly because of that. Thanks for the tip. Hope to hear what other people report soon
[G2 General] walidhiphop:
View attachment 2511917

***** pleaaaaaaase...
[G2 General] walidhiphop:
And here is another one with the same percentage as you.....with no stoping the android system....maybe when i stop it i will get more...
[G2 General] crashN2u:
***** pleaaaaaaase...

:p
[G2 General] JF4W:
HOW
[G2 General] crashN2u:
Coming from a Droid RAZR, you learn a lot of tricks to milk battery life. Trust me, the things I had to do to get those numbers aren't worth it. The drop off in the battery graph is when I got home and was able to turn everything back on and use it normally.

Right now, I average 18 hrs battery, and 5 hrs screen-on:

I am on stock ROM 11A.

Rooted and TWRP

Screen brightness set to auto/60% max

GPS and WiFi toggled on when I need it.

Everything on EXCEPT WiFi and Verizon location services

No disabled or frozen system apps or processes.

4 push emails.

I average 600 texts a month.

I average 6-8 GB on 4G a month.
[G2 General] bachera:
he put it on charger ;)
[G2 General] Howie Dub:
For your Facebook GPS wakelock, let it connect and lock onto your GPS and the wakelock should stop. If you're closing up Facebook before it has a chance to lock, it will create the wakelock. If you don't want FB to connect to your GPS, make sure GPS is off before you open FB. Also, turning off GPS while in FB before it can lock will create the wakelock as well.
[G2 General] vPro97:
I can't express my gratitude enough. I reinstalled it to make it work lol
[G2 General] vPro97:
Second day doing this "trick"

Currently at 78% with 1h 47 minutes... Too good to be true, lols!
[G2 General] shadehh:
You're talking about the facebook part or force stop android OS?
[G2 General] vPro97:
The android system force closure. I uninstalled Facebook and downloaded fast for Facebook since I'm tired of the gps issue.
[G2 General] Anarchia992:
Nice to read this 3d.i will try it tomorrow,but I what to know when I need to force close of the android system??at the beginning or maybe after 10 minutes after have full battery??

Thx
[G2 General] khanhnv3007:
You can try another Rom, it helped me a lot
[G2 General] zathus:
***** pleeeeeeease
[G2 General] crashN2u:
Actually, the numbers are legit. I will admit though, I've never been able to get close to that again. My average when I first got the phone was between 6-7 hours screen on time and about 12 hours battery life. Those 2 days, I just happened to be working massive overtime. Almost all of the screen on time was the second day. The dropoff on the graph was when I got home, turned everything on, and actually used it. It also helped that my work provides me a work phone which I was using during that time instead.

I have tried to hit those numbers again, but I can't, it was a one time deal which is why I took a screenshot. In my head, I'm telling my self that the battery is starting to get worn, but the truth is, I can't put it down long enough or put up with all of the disabled features.

The best I've been able to do since then is 18 hours battery life, about 3 hours screen on. And, 7 hours screen on, 10 hours battery. At this point, I no longer care. I'm happy with my 15 hours battery and 4-5 hours screen on.

It would be more if the battery wasn't starting to wear out.... :mad: :p
[G2 General] vPro97:
You have to do this whenever you reboot your phone. I usually turn my phone off, charge it and then turn it on. The first thing I do after putting my pin code in, is to force close andros system.
[G2 General] shadehh:
Fully charge here. Ended android system will report in when time is due
[G2 General] zathus:
I get pretty good battery when I use it normally. I'm giving this a try to see if there's any noticeable improvement. I would wonder though if there is improvement if a boot up script could be written to do this.
[G2 General] shadehh:
With me the android system usage seems to be on par with my screen in time. Quite sad. I Tried using your trick with no luck
[G2 General] vPro97:
Yes and it doesn't work any longer for me. 25% android system usage and 20% screen. I don't know anymore - I thought I solved that issue.
[G2 General] Xenovias:
Disable knock on/off

No more android system :laugh:
[G2 General] vPro97:
I did that, and I did indeed get increased battery life but it wasn't much. Android system usage was still high. It is not knock on/off.
[G2 General] Xenovias:
Yes not much, my android system only 5-10% after disable knock2

If you don't want high android system, don't let your phone into deep sleep or standby :o
[G2 General] vPro97:
I was still seeing 20% Android system drainage. Aside from that, I can't really live without knock-on.
[G2 General] metalboy94:
When I first got the phone I was extremely disappointed when I saw everyone getting way over 5 hours of screen time and 24h since last charge. Thought my battery was DOA or something.

And after some thinking I figured it out - most of the people with crazy battery times never use the data connection. And 99% of all of them set the brightness to some ridiculous value like 30% or lower. Seriously people, did you buy a smartphone to use it as a feature phone?

For the record, this is what I regularly get. I unplug my phone when it is charged up to around 95% (obviously can't prove it because the phone was charging when I took the shot - you'll have to trust me on this one). Used data all the time while WiFi is off. Screen time includes some light gaming; brightness set at 57% auto; also used Poweramp for about an hour. I can go over 24 hours since last charge if I use battery saver or round up only about 2h30m screen time.
[G2 General] Anarchia992:
Strange screen time.anyway try to not unplug the phone when it is.near to 95% as you do,but leave him charge full.and.leave another like 1 hour in charge after full. Try out one day as I said and.keep.your setting.as you doing always and post a screenshot when u are.near.to 10% battery.I think you will be able to get more.then 3.30 screen time.

See ya.:good::laugh:
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Leaving it to charge until full will degrade the battery much faster - and especially if you leave it plugged in even more after that. The battery goes up to 4.38V when fully, completely charged (around 30 minutes after the Full charge notification), which is already beyond normal Li-Pol batteries.
[G2 General] Anarchia992:
I have traied your mode yesterday and maybe I had a minor improvement,like 30minutes more in screen time.But better then nothing.I'll try up again in this days.:good:
[G2 General] Anarchia992:
Yes I noticed it already.but as u said where is the point to have.smartphone.and not use it at.fully power!? There are people who is saying the best battery time.charging is from 20-till 80% and other who saying our battery are new generation and can be stressed as.normal.use.and charge till full and more...it's your choices.how.to.use.phone.mine was only a help and choose to improve screen time.;)
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Thing is, I am using my phone at my full power, just taking care of it. Perhaps I should say you should take your car keys to the screen - it's Gorilla Glass, full power of the phone :silly:

The battery is said to be optimized by LG Chem, but better safe than sorry.
[G2 General] khaytsus:
So you're saying everyone is falsifying their results by dumbing down everything? If that's what you believe, who's to convince you otherwise.

I know in my results (total time on battery, I don't use the phone all day so screen on doesn't really apply to me) I was on LTE, email, weather, etc was still syncing, normal stuff was running, no cutting back on this or that.

That would be interesting as a use case (if I do XYZ I can get this many hours) but I'd hope most people here are reporting more typical usage for them.
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Not saying 'falsifying', just not using the phone completely - it's logical that WiFi will drain very little battery.
[G2 General] dallashigh:
What did you think? Minimal data use and screen brightness are the major battery tips going back several years.

Why should I leave data on when I'm not even using my phone? It's just a waste of battery. Oh no, it might be a couple of hours before I find out Grandma tagged me in another Facebook chain post! Lord have mercy!

I use a smartphone because it has apps that I like, especially full web browsers. If you use Whatsapp, Google Hangouts, stuff like that then obviously you will need a constant connection. But my phone is no less "smart" because I choose to actually have some battery left at the end of the day.
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Well you just mentioned a reason to have data constantly on - WhatsApp and other chatting apps.

That's just my take on things, it's quite misleading when someone had WiFi on for their entire charge. It feels as if they were constantly at home, so their experience is of no use to someone who goes out and demands always-on Internet.
[G2 General] khaytsus:
eh? I go from 7am to 11pm and I'm down to like 65%. If you heavily use the phone (sounds like you don't!) you would see similar battery.
[G2 General] Shryvone21:
I wish my phone would die like that...my phone dies way to fast! Look at my stats and you'll be amazed..
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Likely because of Google Play Music.
[G2 General] hkwildboy:
Simple! Use something like 2X Battery saver to switch on data/wifi to check messages every 15 or 30 minutes!!!.

I don't see why anyone will die if there's a 15 minute delay in getting a Whatspp message or email.

For those times you desperately need to be connected every single second, you can simply switch off 2X battery with one touch of the widget during those crucial periods. :cyclops:.
[G2 General] Sensamic:
I never trust those with 5 hours screen on time... obviously they have brightness at 20-30% and so on...

Just don't trust them.
[G2 General] kapybarus:
And isnt that more battery draining thanbpush?
[G2 General] hkwildboy:
Not really, it really saves my battery when wifi and data are off.

Consider setting connection interval every 15 minutes, it means wifi/data connection are only turned on for 2 minutes each x 4 in one hour.

That is 8 mintues IN TOTAL compared to 60 mintues of constant data/wifi connection.

You don't have to believe me, just try it out yourself.

That app received over 34,000 +5 rating and have been downloaded more than 10 million times.
[G2 General] bigsnack:
I usually have brightness set to 40-45%, with wifi on at work and sync off, and data and sync on everywhere else. I can get 5 with about 12% battery left so it is possible.
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Technically it isn't, although depending on how badly coded the battery saving app is, its wakelocks could cause a battery drain equal to that of constant data.
[G2 General] moocamr:
if I charge my phone in the morning , can kill it in 14 hours normally with 4 to 4:30 screen on time and one hour web surfing which drain my battery like hell and one hour texting (sms,whatsapp.....) !!! :| I have stopped every services that is possible in task manager and do greenify for most of my apps and disabled some app ! but I can't imagine how some people can reach 7 to 8 hours screen on time !!!
[G2 General] Fir3blade:
Like this?

Via LG G2
[G2 General] TheHaso:
Actually it won't degrade as I know. It won't charge beyond 100%. Just a charge/stop cycle to keep 100%

4.38 volt won't damage your device. Over 5 volt is dangerous
[G2 General] metalboy94:
We were discussing the battery meter value of 100%. And anyway, it's well known that staying for a long time at voltages around 4.2 V or more harms the battery.
[G2 General] TheHaso:
Actually not. ~4.2 v is a target value for a full cell charge. After the target is reached the battery is considered fully charged and it stabilizes the voltage down to 3.7 v

As I understood

http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~furrball/temp/rcheli-diagram-charge_graph.png