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[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] NinthGhost:
Nice animations.

I was trying to replace the default animation on your Envi-Rom (no offence:p) but i cant copy to the system folder.

I noticed that i can't mount the system folder (i'm using ES File Explorer). Also tried it with other file managers.

I went into recovery and was able to replace the bootanimation file thru Philztouch. (just a bit troublesome)

I wonder why i can't do it in OS? i tried fixing permissions but still the same.

I'm on Envi-Rom V0.4.3b, before was on stock .314 rooted LB.
[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] Envious_Data:
I usualy use xplore because it mounts system to read and write before you do stuff (you just need to enable superuser mods)

Es explorer i think you need to change settings, not sure how to to it because i never use the app
[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] NinthGhost:
Used X-plore File manager, still can't copy to /system/media... It says Copy OK but nothing is copied!

Root access options set to Superuser + mount writable and got the SuperSU prompt too.

I think there is something wrong with my root access??
[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] Envious_Data:
Odd, i think you may have to reflash SuperSU, if that doesnt fix it, then i have no idea whats up...

Ive been having some issues with the rom when flashing via philz or twrp, cwm is fine though
[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] NinthGhost:
Yes it is weird. I did reflash SuperSU in recovery, still does not fix.

I did install thru dual recovery > philz...

Well it's not a crippling issue, will wait until your update based on 4.4.4 (hope you do release an update :good:) to reflash using cwm.

Oh by the way, can you give me some instruction how to wipe/format the internal SDcard in my next flash so to make sure i have a clean slate for the rom. (kinda newbie here, Z2 is my first android device:D)
[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] Envious_Data:
Internal SDcard format isnt realy needed

You can format from the device its self > settings > storage, or in the recovery

>mounts and storage > format sdcard

Its weird that reflashing superSu didnt fix it, ill have to try fixing that as i see it as a rom problem now

New to android~

Here is a tip for you

Reading sucks but reading will save your device many times

:D
[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] NinthGhost:
It might NOT be the problem with your rom, I may have missed some steps or overlooked somethings. Issue may come from a history of flash reflash unlock relock on other custom roms :silly:. Don't want you chasing a false bug.

Went into cwm and reflash SuperSU, still no fix. Not yet try to reflash the rom yet...

Oh ya this has something do with the issue too i think.. I can't reinstall Sketch after flashing to Envi-Rom. No matter how i try, from sony updater, from google play, from my Titanium Backup..

Yes I am looking thru your guides now for the device.
[Xperia Z2 Themes and Apps] Envious_Data:
Ill look into it anways as ive had this issue with the rom a couple of times and i have some suspicions of why this happens every so often with flashes
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mikeone33:
Since my switch to Tizen I have great batter life. 3rd day here and still at 29 percent.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] v8dave:
Have to agree, the battery life is far superior to the Android based Galaxy Gear.

I am on the second day and currently looking at 49% and that was from 7am to 10pm each day with as many notifications as I used to get when it was Android powered. Rest of the time is just idle by the bedside as notifications are disabled on the phone during the night.

It's given my Gear a whole new lease of life.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] iUseThings:
how?

i wonder why its better tho o0 they did a good job but what did they change? lol doesnt look or feel any different lol
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] xs4all:
Same here, I bit the bullet and made the switch to Tizen last week.

I was previously on Null, as much as I enjoy the android experience, the fun/wow factor wore off after a while. Also having to charge up the gear every night wasn't a problem, though I sometimes forget.

After I made the switch, battery life was great, I would check the battery % throughout the day and it would drop only a few %.

Thinking the battery % was stuck or hung, I reset the gear and to my surprise it was the same %.

Even though I charge up my gear every night, now I'm trying to get out of the habit and doing it every few days instead.

I get a fare share of notifications on a daily basis and the battery still chugging along nicely.

For those that haven't made the switch and don't mind not having the option of android/null rom, make the switch.

Regards
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Bladder61:
Tizen does seem to increase the Battery life. One thing to note is that everyone that is reporting 2-3 days probably has the biggest battery drainer (motion wake) turned off. With motion wake on under Null I could go from 6am - 11pm with 30% or more remaining at which time I put it on the charger. With Tizen I go from 6am - 11pm with 55% or more remaining. Both of these are with Pedometer, multiple SMS, a few FB notifys, and about 100 exchange emails.

I have been running Tizen for a while now with motion wake off. Same amount of usage and I can go 3 days (I even run the sleep tracker overnight). Very satisfying results. I miss the motion wake, I do not like having to press the button to see time. An always on or motion wake is what I want in a smartwatch (this is my 4th, (Liveview, Sony, Pebble, Gear). I am going back to motion wake, I will give it a charge at home before bed, use the sleep tracking and still get through the day fine.

Everyone is different in what they need/expect from a smartwatch. The Gear is definitely a great product, and even though I wasn't excited about Tizen I am enjoying the longer battery life and built in applications.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] linnil:
Dear Tizen users, does it support watch styler? I am so tempted to upgrade especially for better battery life. But I do need watch styler.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Ranulf WolfSage:
Delete
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Bladder61:
Watch Styler is in the Samsung Apps under Gear Manager now. Showed up for Gear 1 a few days ago. I installed and used it but have since taken it off as I don't change watch faces often.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sbrownla:
Well ... Mine keeps connecting and disconnecting even after factory reset of both devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Taskar23:
Well I'm running tizen for about a week now and I'm very disappointed. Battery life for me is worse than on android. After about 8 hours battery is on 54% and that's with few notifications. With android I could run the Gear for 15 hours and it was on 54% or more. Sucks that I can't go back.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] x72GYx:
Really happy with Tizen upgrade, just looks way better and battery life is way better than stock Android. Not sure yet how it stacks up against Null_ ROM but I'm sticking with Tizen. Also better looking UI imo :)

Taskar23: Actually, you can go back to Android. Check out this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2776157

Seeing as how you are a new member here, make sure to follow instructions exactly and do not downgrade if you're not sure of what you're doing.

But be careful, some users report disfunctional touchscreen. Using Null_ ROM touchscreen seems to work, but DOWNGRADE AT OWN RISK.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] BarryH_GEG:
I'm getting 2+ days with motion wake turned on. At first I was getting about 25% better battery life then Android. Then some combination of moving from BTU>XAC>ROM improved it to what other folks were claiming.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] linnil:
getting 4 days with motion wake turned off. I don't really need motion wake, too many false positives anyway.

4 days, i am so happy.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mikeone33:
Motion wake is enabled. It would be a pain in the ass to have to turn on the phone every time I wanted to check the time or an alert.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Taskar23:
Well I have decided to flash with the new NF1 ROM last night. Everything went well, gear is working. Uninstaled the GM and installed again, factory reseted the gear just to make sure and so far looks like about 4% battery per hour
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] markyboy81:
Mine is doing this too. And when it does disconnect (when out of range) it doesn't always reconnect automatically. Is anyone else experiencing this?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Volvogia:
The Tizen update for me is great. I have had it unplugged from the charger since 8am and it is now noon. Many notifications from girlfriend and checking the time. Still at 100% battery. This update has been nothing but a positive move. Layout is very nice. Love the background option and the fact that we can now access the internal storage. +1 for Tizen for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sbrownla:
Yeah, my Gear Fit does the same thing, so I think it's probably my Note II's rom. I've never wanted to go to Verizon stock so badly ...
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ko_latte:
Tizen lost 25-30% per 24 hour

stock Android lost 50% per 24 hour

Null_ ROM lost 50-60% per 24 hour

Same Using Condition and Setting
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Deckoz2302:
Meh, I was running Android with tasker and auto remote and about 40 task on my gear and was getting about a day and a half out of my gear.

I upgraded to Tizen, litterally all I use is the pedometer, and sleep(while plugged in). So I unplug at 7:50am every morning. Almost every night around 8:30-9pm the watch dies....thats barely 13 hours. What load of crap lol
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Bigjohn49:
I'm having great battery life but also have a problem with reconnecting automatically after the watch has been out of range.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tttuning:
Sorry but I have a rooted GG1 and looking to get the tizen update....when in the GM I get a message saying its been modified.....I do I get tizen??? I didnt see a thread about it under developement
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dd323:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53028751

This how you upgrade root or not..

Hit that thanks

[sprint htc one m7 + gear 1 on tizen =?]
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tttuning:
This works for usa ???? Says poland
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dd323:
Yes I am in USA in Los Angeles and it worked.. I think most them are universal to be honest..

[sprint htc one m7 + gear 1 on tizen =?]
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] tttuning:
Flashing now....did you ahve to do anything with gear manager??? Did you have to use a special one???
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dd323:
Depends what kind of phone your using for.. But it shouldn't need anything else as longest you have the newest gear Manger or upto date

[sprint htc one m7 + gear 1 on tizen =?]
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] raed81:
can you please tell me how to update to tozen ? i downloaded kies 3 and connected my gear but it says i have the latest firmware

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dd323:
I posted a link to thread if you read a few post back
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sbrownla:
Just so you know, I flashed back to N3BULA and now I have zero connection issues. I think it was definitely my ROM, and possibly KitKat. There are a lot of complaints about its handling of bluetooth, wifi and other radios.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] markyboy81:
Thanks I think it may be more to do with kitkat though as I'm on stock rom and still have issues although not all the time. Could it also be an issue with the new gear manager perhaps?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] vingar:
my Experience.... Null rom 3 days.

Inviato dal mio SM-N9005 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] gidi:
What is your battery life with Tizen and "wake up gesture" on?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] riche613:
My battery life had probably gone up 30% or so. But i can't find the fleksy keyboard for the galaxy gear running tizen, anyone get it working?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] titi974:
okay guys, you wanna be amazed ? look at this :p

okay, just trolling you because I'm still on android and got a pretty good battery life ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] thewilks:
I take my Gear 1 off charge at 100% and the battery is empty less than 20 hours later with almost zero usage and wake up gesture off.

I've been looking for a solution for two weeks now as I got three days with average usage with android.

I need to reflash the ROM I think. Any suggestions?

It was at 100% when I upgraded using Kies 3. I find it seriously unusable now and want to try and get to the bottom of it. A factory reset did nothing.

My flatmate has the same combo as me and is reporting three days out of his Galaxy S3 and Gear 1.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] crutzulee:
Did you do a full write in recovery after flashing tizen? I had to do this step after flashing the original update as well as after I received the nf1 ota update. In both cases, battery life tripled... It is a necessary step..
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] thewilks:
Thanks crutzulee, this seems like a solution. I'm a total noob with Tizen and got the update through Kies so just proceeded as per Samsung instructions.

I think this could be the key to a better battery life.

It came off charge at 2pm and it's now 5:18am the next day and it has 16% battery and I've looked at the time three times. Grrrr... i think I'm on 18 hours per full charge to shutting off with zero use.

I'll have a look how to drop it into recovery and do a full write and hopefully I'm good to go.

Big thanks for the suggestion bud.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] leoni1980:
By 'full write in recovery' do you mean open recovery on the watch and select it to do a factory reset? Or do you mean to wipe the phone again with Kies? I've been struggling with poor battery life - often down to 50% within 5 hours. I've never used my Gear with a Samsung device though, so not sure if crap battery is a result of using a Motorola phone with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] crutzulee:
Yeah..that should have been a "wipe" in recovery...and yes on the watch as a factory reset..
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] thewilks:
A little update here.

I tried the full factory reset in recovery on theach gear but it's still exactly the same. I think I'll load nf1 onto it and see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Much love.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] akz080:
great cant wait to flash back to Tizen
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dodgebizkit:
I'm getting terrible battery life, worse than android :(
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] thewilks:
Well I've tried three factory wipes, four gear manager updates and two Tizen firmware updates and still get 18 hours max from 100% to 0% with zero notifications.

I've found one thing.

If I turn off the bluetooth on my S3 I get 8 days out of the gear as a 'watch only'. Turning on bluetooth severely drains the gear.

Maybe a factory reset on the S3 could help? By updating the gear it only adds patches to the initial Tizen firmware and isn't a complete flash unless there is a way to total reflash the gear?

I'm determined to get to the bottom of this. It was perfect under android!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] sfb14:
My gear is on 2 days 6 hours connected to my phone with notifications on, witch watch styler face on, wake gesture is off and im at 49% still. I can't do this on android before. I would be at work with a dead watch. Im loving this!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] thewilks:
But the weird thing is I could get three days with Android!

Eight hours after taking it off 100% charge I have 50% and not one notification on it and it was checked once for 20 seconds for time.

Grrrrrr...
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] snk012:
Battery life is horrible after Tizen update

How are you guys getting through the day with the update?

I take my watch off the charger (100%) at 7am and by 6pm it is drained down to about 15%. I only set notifications for calls and texts. I am using a stock Tizen rom (NF1) and using a Galaxy S4 (Hyperdrive RLS 15). The watch is using a custom watch face on watchstyler.

I am dying with envy for those getting more than a day battery life.

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] phaggard:
After my first day with Tizen my battery is already at 29% at 3PM. Could the battery drain be that I am away from my phone a lot where the watch may be always looking for the phone and sucks down the battery?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] noellenchris:
Don't know for sure if it will help you, but I had originally had great battery on Tizen, then went back to Null and then decided to give Tizen another go. Well this time I had not so good battery life. I tried to mess with a bunch of stuff with no luck. So I finally decided I'd try what someone suggested and boot to odin/recovery/download mode by holding 10sec and then pressing power again five times to drop me to recovery, where I pressed power again to select Recovery and press pwr for 3-4sec to select. This will factory reset your gear. However to my surprise I had a whole lot better battery life. I don't know why and I even have been picking apart the Tizen OS to see if it resets a battery history or something, but either way I can go the whole day and still have greater than 80% now. It was a pain in the butt, but worth it. Good luck and hope this helps you.

Chris
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] snk012:
So I went ahead a went with your suggestion. Watch has been off the charger since 7am. It is 12:12p right now and it's only dropped from 100% to 96%. Much better than before.

I am going to run it all day and see how it compares and report back. But so far it seems a lot better than before.

Thanks for your help~ much appreciated~
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] lilstevie:
I updated to tizen using heimdall as I run linux and didn't have kies installed on my windows machine. I get about 3.5 days off a charge now.

With Android I had 16hours with stock kernel, and 1.5 days with my kernel so Tizen is certainly a massive improvement.

This is with smart wake enabled, and using the Weather Clock face with a black background.

I do wonder what percentage of those facing absolutely terrible battery lifes have something other than black as the background. As the display is AMOLED a black pixel means no light and no power usage. The more black on the screen theoretically the less battery the screen should consume.

Backlight is usually set to 4

Trying to figure what else may be pertenent to my exact config that leads to the battery life I get.

Consumption varies by the day, but the usual daily remaining charge breakdown is:

First day between 71 and 89%, second day 40-55%, third day 11-18% and will die about half way through the 4th. I have managed to make a full 4 days 2 or 3 times, but I usually throw it on charge at the end of the third day for the sake of making sure it doesn't die when I'm out
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dodgebizkit:
Just tried this... Hope to see good results :) I hardly use the gear because i cant be bothered to charge it every day...
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Fonzei:
Anyone else have any experience with TizenMod and Nexus 5 combo?

I loaded TizenMod 3.0 on my Gear 1 and haven't noticed any real battery advantage vs android. I did reset on the Gear and still the same. On regular standby paired to my phone I lose about 8% an hour and when using it as standalone music player with a Bluetooth headset I run thru ~40-50% in an hour. I'm paired up to rooted Nexus 5 stock ROM using Gear Manager 2.0.14031004. Any suggestions to increase battery life or is that as good as it gets?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ericmaxman:
Curiously, I was using the stock digital clock widget, battery can last one whole day without any issue. But when I tried one particular analogue widget, by 6 pm, my battery would be depleted to about 10%.

Changed back to the digital clock, problem gone. So weird. :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Cod3L1ne:
kernel

does your kernel support null23? if so link please
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Bornokjudak:
My gear use to drain batter at 8.4% per hour. Does this have something to do with the version of Gear Manager?

Can you guys share your version of Gear Manager currently installed too?

I envy those who can last their gear1 for days. Mine I have to charge it on a daily basis.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Fonzei:
Look around the forum, someone found a way to go back to an android from Tizen.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] WarlockBA:
Please test ...

For all you users who report great battery life on the gear one since the Tizen update, could you please try to enable the Auto-Lock feature and see if this still holds up? This was my favorite feature, but since the Tizen upgrade, while this feature is enabled, I barely get through the day with one charge.

Contacted Samsung about it, they pulled a /care on it, sent it to a chop shop, which just reflashed the watch (thanks a lot, could have done it myself) and sent it back. But of course without success. Upon contacting Samsung again they told be to contact the third party chop shop because they did not fix it right ...

thanks in advance,

meh
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] dodgebizkit:
Do the hard reset method that wipes the cache or whatever - then you'll get 3 days batt life out of it.

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My house phone's better than your iPhone.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Bornokjudak:
I saw this post, http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-gear/help/battery-dying-12-hours-t2887770

I am running same version and tried observing my battery:

9/30/2014 8:30 AM	100%

9/30/2014 3:55 PM	91%

So about 7h 25mins and only drained 9%, so that's about 1.2 percent per hour.

Setting:

Gear Manager 2.1.14071502

Watch styler = ON

Auto Lock= ON

Wake-up gesture = OFF

Notification is ON for the following:

Calls, Alarm, Facebook and Facebook Messenger, SMS, Email, Weather, some health apps, some messenger apps like Viber and whatsapp.

Tried to turn the wake-up gesture ON, but it drains about 12% for 2 hours of use. So I just turned it off back again.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] WarlockBA:
[MENTION=6046399]Bornokjudak[/MENTION]: What phone do you use your Gear with? And if Samsung, you use the original Samsung Firmware or some custom ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] joshrizzo:
Try reinstalling gear manager form scratch. Had the same problem after upgrading.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] thewilks:
I found out it was the proximity sensor causing the issues.

If I turn on the "auto lock" functions in the gear manager settings it destroys the battery. Turn it off and it goes for four days!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] hawkeye2188:
Is there somewhere that has a list of the tizen apps available for the Gear?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] JasW:
Wiping from the recovery screen didn't work for me. I don't have Auto Lock on, either. I'd also tried using an earlier version of Gear Manager as suggested in this other thread, but no joy. Then I wiped from recovery and tried with the older version again, but I'm still getting a drain of 10% an hour. I wish I could figure this out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borderfox:
As per the thread title, I'm looking for an alternative to this keyboard =>

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/produc...ndroid-win8-rt

The above keyboard has been fabulous. The size/form factor has been perfect - it's effectively a slightly trimmed down - yet full size slimline keyboard.

Works great.

Now the down side.

I've gone through 2 of them in the space of 18 months! Occasionally, leave it sitting on the passenger seat in the car (in the cover) - and it takes the occasional knock when I end up having to brake very had.

This has lead to some of the keys simply not working (unless I squeeze tightly on the top right hand corner of the keyboard (Obviously an unworkable ...workaround..).

Need the very same - but more robust. Does such a thing exist?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jeep_man:
Hello, I have a Qtek 9100 and unfortunately I dropped it and scratched the front of the casing up pretty bad. The phone is still in perfect condition and not even a scratch on the back or the screen. I am looking for the front housing. I do not have any scratches on the rear housing, keyboard, or even the battery cover. I have looked on Ebay and the only thing that I have found is for around $100 (US). I do not want to pay that much for something that I can conceivably drop again. So my question is; is there anyone out there that knows where I can get a front housing? I would even buy the total housing to use as a backup but I do not want to spend an arm and a leg for it. I would greatly appreciate any feedback anyone has.