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[Galaxy Tab S General] ncguy68:
I have not seen any 8+ inch tablet that gets good battery life compared to the Nexus 7. The extra screen size sure seems to eat up a lot of battery. The LG Gpad has the same resolution as the Nexus 7 and a larger battery, but mine gets 3 hours less screen on time 7 hours v/s 10 hours. I never expected such a huge difference especially considering how much brighter the Nexus 7 screen is.
[Galaxy Tab S General] clintonroche:
I think mine is pretty good. It usually gets me thru a day and that is all that really matters
[Galaxy Tab S General] erasat:
For me, around 45-50% brightness is more than enough, I have my S5 at around 20% all the time except when I'm outside, then I use Auto. I use my Tab S 10.5 inside all the time, so for my eyes and environment having it at almost 50% is more than enough, and after a couple of full battery cycles I'm beginning to have amazing battery life.
[Galaxy Tab S General] toyanucci:
Coming from the note 10.1 2014 this is a huge improvement. I streamed about 5 hrs of videos or more here plus a lot of browsing etc. Very pleased, doubt I can kill the battery doing my usual activities on one long flight like I used to.
[Galaxy Tab S General] whmcal:
My battery is great. I get just over 9 hours use with heavy Internet use and video streaming on wifi. Very satisfied. Better than my Note 10.1 (2014)
[Galaxy Tab S General] Itchiee:
Battery life on my 10.5 isn't bad so far, but I'm hoping it gets better over time. With Samsung this can change from firmware to firmware so....

Sent from my Galaxy Tab S
[Galaxy Tab S General] reubenskelly1992:
To say 25 percentage is unusable.is the funniest thing I've heard. Unless your outside that amount if fine. Yeah brighter is nicer but to say most would find it unusuable is over the top
[Galaxy Tab S General] SrAdama:
Gotta say after one weeks of use with the Tab S 8.4 I'm pretty disappointed by the battery life. It's the worst battery life I've ever experienced on a device like this. It should have at least double the battery life. It drains so fast I like I'm forced to use less than 50% screen brightness and use power saving mode.. turn off every single program/service running in the background.. still, the battery life is horrible. I got way more than double the battery life on my old iPad that I gave away (iOS isn't my thing). Someone mentioned that white colors drains faster than black colors but I don't want to limit myself to darker colors just to save as much battery life as possible. I read some people were resorting to using night mode when browsing the web. That's sad. Having a device like this shouldn't be about doing everything you can to maximize the battery life. One shouldn't even have to think about doing such things. For this reason alone, I'm pretty sure I'll return the device... hoping Samsung can release a tablet with acceptable battery life. I don't mind it being thicker. Battery life is more important.
[Galaxy Tab S General] NixxonExxo:
I couldn't agree more. This tablet have it's downsides compared to the iPad. It lags and drains battery life like crazy. The only reason why I'm keeping this around is only for the screen. Other then that the overall experience is god awful.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mitchellvii:
I don't run my screen at 25% brightness for the same reason I don't wear sunglasses in the movie theater.

My 10.5 has never lagged even slightly. Read reviews on retailer websites. 95% of responses make no mention of this "lag" but rather praise the speed. Pretty clear a few bad units made it into the wild. A poll in this forum asked the question and 2/3rds had no lag. Considering people with problems tend to come here looking for help, I'm sure that 1/3 with an issue is overstated. Most of those experiencing lag seem to have the 8.4. Again, may be defective units. Happens.

Go to the BESTBUY reviews where the Tab S gets a 4.9 out of 5.0 overall. 35 glowing reviews and one guy with the worst lag in the history of earth. This is a small isolated issue. Not saying it isn't happening. Saying it is rare and hence probably defective.
[Galaxy Tab S General] SrAdama:
I'm thinking about keeping it just for use at home, mainly reading comic books.. but as a travelling companion it's awful. I brought it with me to my countryside and it drained so fast I had to charge it all the time when I wasn't using it. I haven't experienced lag like crazy, but it has lagged more than the typical lag android devices have. I was quite surprised that it lagged during gameplay and that there were some serious fps drops when watching movies. Another issue that's making me seriously considering returning it is the yellow/green tint the AMOLED screen has with mainly white colors, all of my AMOLED devices has had this issue but on the Tab S it's not evened out on the screen but a big round spot that moves around in the middle of the screen depending on how you tilt it, the slightest tilt and you'll see it moving which is quite annoying. The only reason why I bought it was because I couldn't stand LCD screens, well at least not up close like with cellphones and tablets. But with that issue I'm not sure it's worth it.
[Galaxy Tab S General] reubenskelly1992:
I dont experience any lag. I've rooted and debloated. Out of the box I could see Samsung has Improved touchwiz. I'd say out of the box it was on par with my note 10.1 2014 ed and that was fully customized with a Rom etc. But I have the same screen issue. Really annoying as my note 10.1 2014 ed. One of the things I didn't like about the screen was the yellow hue on whites. And I like to have pure whites. So after all the reviews about the screen I didn't expect the whites to actually side by side worse than the note. But odd it's fine at an angle. Other than that the screen is amazing. Blacks and colours are amazing. The pixels are sharper and tighter and there's no lightbleed which my note had a lot of. It seems all of us have this yellow hue problem . Wonder if a kernel or software can do anything to help the whites head on?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ShadowFlare:
OK, found anomaly with the battery, but don't know if it's software or hardware.

I fully charged the Tab S 8.4 LTE powered off, switched it on, installed latest update and done. Battery 100% and all, I put it to Flight Mode as I was going to travel and want to conserve as much battery as possible.

Ocassionally I woke it up to quickly check my notes and back to sleep mode, I noticed I did this on the 4th hour after it is on battery. And battery was already 99%

Woke it up again a couple hours later, 98%

An hour later, 97%

Odd, nothing is running yet it is going down so fast, so I decided to reboot. Back to Home screen, 96%

Then I had a video I wanted to upload to the tab from a friend's laptop, plugged it into the USB, uploaded it within 30 secs, unplugged. I understand It wouldn't charge through computer USB, and I saw the battery icon on top of the home screen with a red cross, so that's confirmed.

Checked battery stats.... somehow battery timer was reset back to zero as if it was charged.

And now battery is back to 99%....

Weird little thing.
[Galaxy Tab S General] flyer138:
Hi all

I have the 10.5 LTE. When It reaches around 30% the tab switches off.

When i connect it to the charger it start charging with the battery showing 0%.
[Galaxy Tab S General] xRevilatioNx:
I'm still getting amazing battery life.... weeks later

Over 8 hours and I still have 30 percent battery life left.
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
WHY, YOU STUPID POS, WHY. wtf is causing this bull now? god, my nexus 7 could idle for 7 days and barely be dead. this thing can't even idle for half a day without dropping 25 percent.
[Galaxy Tab S General] whmcal:
You've every reason to return it. This is a fault with your particular tab.. a major fault by the sound of it. I have had two 10.5s with excellent battery life. 9-10 hours web and video. Approximately 1-2 percent drop on overnight standby.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ShadowFlare:
Hmm 1-2% drop over night on stand by for 10.5, that sounds nice. My 8.4 is doing 4% drop and that is on Flight mode, I guess the bigger (61% more!) battery does that for you. Watching 1hr-episodes of some popular series, I think it eats 10% battery per episode (rounding up), so that's quite consistent with the 10hr battery life for watching videos.

[MENTION=2770600]jayochs[/MENTION] I wonder if it's because your WiFi is connected all the time and the Android OS keep polling through the internet regularly (location history updates, weather updates etc), waking your device each time it does that, therefore eating the battery. I don't know if you have tried configuring the WiFi to sleep when your screen is off.

We all use our devices differently, for instance I tend to put it on flight mode when not in use and all wireless connection off.

I still prefer the Tab S to be slightly thicker and heavier for bigger battery! Even the aged Tab 7.7 had 5100mAh compared to this Tab S 8.4's 4900mAh!
[Galaxy Tab S General] xRevilatioNx:
Totally agree with this! They sacrificed performance for aesthetics, unfortunately.. [emoji35]
[Galaxy Tab S General] simacca:
I don't get the whole 'slimmest, lightest tablet ever' jargon. I would easily sacrifice extra thickness for a bigger battery. Same with phones.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Melnificent:
Me too, I have a surface pro and the thickness doesn't bother me. They should let the others claim thinnest and go with best battery life, with the software optimisations that have been made to cope with these tiny batteries a 10,000mAh+ battery on the 8.4 will just fly through a couple of days of intense usage.
[Galaxy Tab S General] simacca:
I also find a thicker tablet or phone makes it easier to grip and feels nicer to hold.
[Galaxy Tab S General] jayochs:
also as an update, idk wtf I did, but now my tablet is idling pretty good. on like two days off charger and 2.5 hours screen on time and it's around 47 percent or so. that's not bad. I turned wifi off when it goes to sleep though, which is annoying bc i never had to do that on any device before.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ShadowFlare:
Yeah, I notice on my Samsung devices that they drain battery pretty fast when WiFi is on all the time. It's all the Android OS background services communicating regularly over WiFi, waking the Processors up each time. Configuring WiFi to sleep when screen is off helps.

It is noticeable on your battery usage details (first picture), where the device wakes up without the screen being on.
[Galaxy Tab S General] simacca:
I get amazing standby on my 8.4, but would like a bit more screen on time. It's not a major bugbear and hopefully future updates will improve this.
[Xperia Z1 General] cj95zz:
Just saw the news about Android L. I know it's in like beta and for developers only. But if this is the next big Android update. Do you guys think our Xperia Z1's will get it after its released? I mean like after taking in the time this Android L goes from developers only to stable release for nexus devices then finally maybe going to other oems.
[Xperia Z1 General] saintgein:
Xperia Z got Kitkat, so there is a chance. The hardware is good enough newayz.
[Xperia Z1 General] dedei:
The ART change bugs me as none of the xperias have the option to change it on the developer settings :rolleyes:
[Xperia Z1 General] Jiyeon90:
yeah for sure we will get it
[Xperia Z1 General] t1mman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat
[Xperia Z1 General] Tijmen:
This is useless speculation, there's simply no way of telling until Sony releases a statement. Besides it should have been in the Q&A section.

Thread closed.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] truth1675:
After watching part of Google I/O and seeing that android L will be heading to nexus devices tomorrow how likely is it that we might have a working port of L soon?

Thanks!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] detritu5:
It will be incredible
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ishyesh:
Quickly

From my personal experience compiling, tweaking, and writing code....it will come to us very quickly as soon as Cyanogen syncs to Android L. Android is very modular, and for that reason alone, very few tweaks [comparatively] are required to make it work on new devices. Thank Linux.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeoStark:
That was nice, I think the g2 will be much smoother than it already is with this new project
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer77:
Fairly certain that's not the case. Devs will have access to it but I don't think it's going to be pushed out right away.

Sent from my LG-D800
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shriom_manerker:
i'd say give it about 6 months from the time the nexus devices get the update. its lg afterall. i at least hope they go opensource with the IR remote. idiots just wont let us remotely control other ir devices which arent in the quick remote apk !
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxxPLETTIxxx:
I am sure there'll be a nice port.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ManOnTheMoon:
The UI for lg g3 seemed to me that the colors and how things are "flatter" were very similar to L. Maybe LG got the memo from Google regarding L. I honestly think that the updates are going to come sooner than they would now. Oems will get a 6 month headstart now.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reas0n:
Today N5 will get the L preview, maybe someone could port it? G2 and N5 are cousins :D
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedajoester:
Once someone ports it to the g2, it can work across all the other variants. I'm guessing cm is going to do the porting first, but once they finish KitKat. When KitKat came out they waited till they finished jellybean before starting KitKat, I assume they're going to do the same here. The developer preview shouldn't be that different than the final release, so porting it now should be a head start.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
For the sake of keeping things orderly, please use this thread for further discussions regarding L: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2796017

Thanks!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffrimerman:
Ok so I bought a phone off craiglist. I'm pretty cautious and had the customer service number and called Tmobile with the ESN/IMEI number. I asked them specifically if the person were to cancel their contract or if there was a contract or can anything that seller do in the future cause me problems and they said "NO". Now 7 weeks later the ESN is blocked. Do they keep records of my conversation? I had tmobile service and even have the time I called them since I still have the texts from the guy who sold it.

I called the guy and he said he would take care of it, but he could be just saying that then blocking my calls now so who knows. Has anyone had Tmobile fix the problems since they were the ones that said things would be fine? I called them and they said "no", but I didn't have the exact time and just realized I know the exact time and date I called them.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
at the time you checked, it probably wasnt blacklisted, which happened after.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffrimerman:
Yeah for sure. That's why I said is there any possibility that it can get black listed and they said "no". The lady yesterday on the phone said they don't recommend buying from a 3rd party. I wish the person I spoke to said that. I almost can't blame the guy who sold me the phone since I got off the phone with tmobile in front of him after they guaranteed no problems. :crying:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
no, you should blame him, for not being truthful. he had the phone blacklisted or he "stole" the phone from them by not paying for it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTDarthYoda:
Just switch to AT&T

should work fine with them
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
when its blacklisted on tmo, its blacklisted on att as well. they now keep a national registrar together.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffrimerman:
yes you're right
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffrimerman:
Is it black listed in foreign countries like Taiwan? How about mainland China. My gf can send to her family in China. So I can disclose it is blacklisted and maybe it's worth $150 to someone who can take it out of the country. My other friend is from HK so he can send to his brother.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
no, just in the US. i dont think that canadian carriers are involved either.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aooga:
Next time use swappa to see if it's being financed or not. If it's financed, don't buy it. It will tell you if it's fully paid off. It can't protect from it being a stolen phone, but it can help.

http://swappa.com/esn
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technote:
Not true, Canadian carriers uses the same database as well.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
not true? I said I don't think.. that implies that I don't really know if Canadian carriers use it or not. but now I know :angel:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Flash it to Page Plus. At least they will take it. Or maybe it will activate on Sprint?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gulid23:
Hello,

I have SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 10. The card came preformated in exfat format

I canno't delete files on my ext_SD. I cannot move larger files to my ext_SD (like 7 GB .mkv file). Windows 7 explorer freezes.

I see KitKat has a problem. I must gain root. If i use this TOOLKIT

I will unlock Bootloader, gain root and get S-OFF.

Phone will go to factory reste.

Will I still have stock softtware?

What will hapen with system updates OTA?

Regards
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billydroid:
Yes. If you just unlock, root and S-off. All you data will be wiped, but you'll be stock.

---------- Post added at 02:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:04 PM ----------

If you want Ota's, you could just flash from xda. Or remove the super user binaries and flash back the stock recovery. Then accept the Ota.

I personally would just download a flashlable version, from xda. Then flash it through a custom recovery.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] shaolinz:
Let me know your thoughts

PimpedOutNexus7 Buh-Bam!
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Rahul721:
They said specifically that it will be available for The Nexus 7 2013 edition

Sadly not the 2012 edition
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] danielsinnema:
I hope that I can side load Android L on my Nexus 7 2013. I'm not a developer, but I really hope to enjoy that new interface. As far I can judge from google io live stream it looks very nice
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] shaolinz:
Looks like we are getting it don't know when though can't wait!
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] brandogg:
You can install it tomorrow if you want to. Not as an update, but as a factory image. Of course the 2012 version will get it as well.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] shaolinz:
Will wait for the deva to get ahold of it first
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] brandogg:
That will probably be several months, I don't think they are releasing the source code tomorrow. Not to hate on any devs, but I'm pretty sure an official (albeit "preview") build, like the one that will be released tomorrow will be just as good as any custom ROM from a developer. Pretty sure the actual developers know what they are doing...
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] shaolinz:
True-dat
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Cubfan99:
Somebody will make it available for the 2012 version.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] shaolinz:
Tomorrow people are going to have their hands on the developer edition so things are looking good!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leap_ahead:
Any one can make sdk build for nexus s ? is possible ?

or modify the preview factory image from nexus 5 ?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smit.sanghavi:
I don't think it will be possible for modifying factory image. The maximum that you will be able to do now is to install the APKs (with some modifications/hacks of course). Let the source code get released. Only then will anybody be able to build it for Nexus S.

It's too early to even think of Nexus S and Android L together.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] digger_de:
I use a password to protect my data on the MDA Vario II. If I start it, I'm asked to type in the password. Any chance to use a touch screen to enter a numeric password instead of using the little keyboard on the screen with the stylus pen?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] mobilecat:
I can use the stylus/finger as well as the keyboard to do this?
[G2 General] in_dmand:
I'm surprised no one has posted this here... but I thought it was interesting!!

http://www.verizonwireless.com/news/article/2014/05/verizon-wireless-xlte.html

Our Lg G2's are compatible per this website as well...

I haven't seen any increase in my area yet (greenville, sc) even though it's listed on verizon's site as one of the initial cities. Anyone else noticed a difference in their dl speed?
[G2 General] in_dmand:
I just got off the phone w/ a verizon rep who said that there is nothing we have to do... a software update will be pushed to the phone. I am assuming this won't be the case for those of us who have a custom rooted device so it will be up to our devs!
[G2 General] njstein:
And please correct me if I'm wrong, but if we have a custom recovery on stock then I'd have to either revert to full stock or wait for a dev?
[G2 General] jamesd1085:
More than likely just an updated modem...shouldn't take devs very long to make a rec flash version
[G2 General] kxs783kms:
Odd. The article was written well over a month ago and I'm just seeing/hearing about it now. So it's as if we're already benefiting from it, yet I haven't heard any dev mention anything about it or about including it in their rom. Maybe there is nothing for them to update, no?
[G2 General] geoff5093:
This is old news, AWS has been active for months.
[G2 General] staticx57:
Pretty much this. As long as you have at least the 12b modem that is all you need. Its been active in the NYC area for months now.
[G2 General] geoff5093:
I believe it was the 24b modem that enabled AWS, but either way it was since this past winter.
[G2 General] kaluna00:
anyone seen this in the Tacoma / seattle area?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ye Adventurer:
I'm having a very frustrating problem with my phone. I'm trying to get the files from my TitaniumBackup folder onto my harddrive. It shows the files, it connects fine. adb devices shows the device as active.

However, when it begins to copy files over, it'll copy a few files over, and then it will say that the attached device is not functioning. adb devices then says the device is offline. I have to unplug the phone and plug it back in to get it to be online again.

I get the same problem with the adb pull command.

I don't know what's wrong. I updated my USB driver to the latest (rev 10) and it is correctly showing ADB Composite Device in my Device Manager. I'm currently on a rooted Android 4.4.4.

If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ye Adventurer:
Nevermind, trying a different USB cable did the trick.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Rahul721:
So it's here. Android Lollipop will finally grace our Nexus devices :cool:

http://www.android.com/versions/lollipop-5-0/

This is the right place to share your views on the next iteration of Android, Android Lollipop.

http://developer.android.com/preview/setup-sdk.html#top For Download!

HOW TO ROOT/FLASH TWRP/ COMPATIBLE APPS ETC ON ANDROID L CLICK HERE
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jmitr:
Well, as my phone is an HTC one (M7) with Sense 6 I love how material design closely resembles Sense 6.

Sense 6:

Android L:

I am loving this!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] defconoi:
its awesome, im F5ing the google images site right now!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jetbruceli:
Hey I am having an issue watching the Google io where my YouTube freezes and I have to force close every time it does. I am on stock 4.4.4

forget the thanks button, I want a high five!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] ProbyWaN:
We will be able to get the preview tomorrow they said. Does that go for everyone with a n7 or developers only?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Mashari_F:
can we the regular users of Nexus 7 try the L developer preview ?