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[Galaxy Note II Accessories] nswenson:
Find a very short cable and you'll see rates up to 2100 ma (as measure by battery monitor widget). I use the short usb cable that came with my jambox combined with the the phones stock charger. The charger gets so hot due to the high current that I worry if it might burn out. The cable is very short, like 6 inches. I use this one when i need a quick bump before going out.

At this low of voltage plus high current, the shielding on most cables is not enough to protect against the voltage fluctuations caused by the high magnetic field. The longer the cable the more shielding is needed. Additionally, the cable shielding gets less effective as the cable gets older due to general wear. My original usb cable can only due around 740 - 1250ma, where it used to do 1800ma when new nearly 2 years ago.

If you could find a cable where there the positive and negative wires are separated in parallel strands like traditional AC power cords, it would also help. I have a cheap charger with built in cord like this and it charges consistently fast.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] pacificwing:
Most USB cables will work with the charger, but some cables (usually longer or smaller gauge wires) will restrict the charge to a lower amperage. I still haven't quite figured out how the phone knows what cable is being used, because, realistically, in a simple DC circuit, the consequence of using a cable that is too small is heating up or burning out. A cable that is too small alone will not prevent too much amperage from going through itself. This is why they invented fuses. Somehow the phone detects the gauge/length of cable being used and restricts the amperage being pulled from the charger by changing its own resistance on the circuit.

I suspect you're right. The impedance of a cable is the only thing that would change over a period of time that would result in a cable that could once pull 2A to start pulling less than that. Still, it would be nice to have a list of chargers/cables that consistently pull 2A before dropping $15-$30 on one of them. There exists such a list on this forum, but it is filled with comments like "It's good enough for me", without any real data as to what performance they are getting. Hence my rules above. ;)
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] ElDuez:
The charge rate depends on your kernal not the cable. I use Agni and get over 2 amp charges from a USB cable I paid 12 cents shipped for on eBay.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] carlz28:
I purchased this cable about two weeks ago and it delivers!! I can charge my 9300mah Zero Lemon battery from 0-100 in just under 4 hours. Stock battery in about 1.5-2hrs. Of course I'm using a 2.1 amp charger, but NONE of my other cables come close. I'm averaging 1800-1900mah charge rate with it. Next highest rate cord only gets about 1200 max. I plan on ordering 2-3 more. $5 and change with PRIME.

2.1A Micro USB Sync & Charging Cable (1M) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009Z94PV2/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_7MD2tb08CY1N7R0J
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] pacificwing:
Thank you! This is exactly the type of review I was looking for!

:laugh:
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] MunkinDrunky:
Check this out. http://voyager8.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-choose-good-usb-data-and.htmlI found it while looking for the 6ft cable I used to use until it shorted from heavy use (bending a lot) and I got a pack of 10 short flat wire style 3ft cables. My 6ft one has a ferrite end and printed on it: 28agw/1p and 26awg/2c. It could handle 2A just fine, but this requires any wall outlet adapter that can output that amperage. The oem outlet adapter that comes with the phone says 2.0A output, but you can fine any 'reliable' one that has 2.0A output.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] manuel1992:
if the original cable is not 1800mA, there must be a reason
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] McLaren__F1:
Get one of these

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=1030307&p_id=5457&seq=1&format=2
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] DoctorQMM:
anyone have this cable... or know if it is a 28AWG/1P + 24AWG/2C (i.e., 24AWG/2C for charging)

http://www.amazon.com/Mediabridge-U.../B004GF8TIK/ref=pd_cp_e_1/186-6092214-7798820
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] dipansh29:
Hi

Hard to get something original for samsung nowadays
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] one80oneday:
I have those monoprice cables but get different results every time I plug in (1698ma, 1300ma, 600ma, 460ma, etc...)
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] Asquared:
Which 2.1 amp charger are you using? I have one for my car, looking for one for home use. I also have the 9300mah ZeroLemon battery in my T-Mobile Note 2. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] carlz28:
I was using the 2A charger that came with my Nexus tablet. But I bought an additional one for work.

iXCC ® Dual USB 4.2 Amp (20 Watt) SMART High Capacity [High Power] ... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HPTU0OU/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_PR7.tb01EM5CB

$11.99 thru PRIME.

Had this one for almost 3 months now and it works VERY well. I get a full 1900-2000mah charge rate on the Note2 and can charge my tablet at quick speeds simultaneously.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] davidjan1:
some fake cable limit current.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] shizuku:
Got similar problems as the OP. I wanted to charge my phone in my car and using the phone as a navigation device without depleting the battery (which occured a few time).

Tried several usb cables, even did some mods like shorting the white and green data wire in the cabel at the phone side, but that all didn't help.

Then i came to Kopi who sells usb cables which can deliver a full current.

http://kopi-d.com/?recent_works=553

Bought a few for 6 dollar each and am now a happy camper.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] linkhunter:
We're sorry, but there are no items available in the Micro USB (Android) category lol on the web site
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] shizuku:
I just saw it. Why don't you email them and ask about availability? I had contact with Victor Leung (victor@kopi-d.com).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nbarr7655:
Hello all. Wiped my ROM, tried to install a new ROM and it didn't work. Alright fine I'll just grab my backup and be on my way. No. Upon trying to use my backup I got the md5 mismatch error. So I fixed that by deleting the md5 file and it started to recover the backup. Then when I get to recoving /data I get an error after it does a few files.I can exactly see which file it takes a crap on. What am I suppose to do?

Am I screwed or am I missing out on something? Thanks all!

At&t galaxy s3

ROM I'm trying to recover is aokp

Clockwork Mod Recovery Version 6.0.4.7

UPDATE: Was trying to go back to stock....now phone has black screen. no vibrations, no nothing. The only thing I get is a noise from my computer letting me know it's plugged in. THATS IT. HELP!!!!!!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crazymonkey05:
You can try the sdcard debrick IMG see if that helps
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DocHoliday77:
As for your backup, it sounds like it got corrupted somehow. Always be very careful forcing something to flash if the md5 check fails.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
Hey, so I'm fairly new to the whole rooting and customizing Android, so please forgive me if I come accross "ignorant" or generally childish. I bought a galaxy note 3 the other day and researched what rooting did. After getting convince that rooting was "awesome," I actually managed to root. I also played with some Xposed modules because they were fairly simple and cool. After more research, I found out that Verizon had a locked bootloader which prevented me from using any other roms? I also read that verizon/att users can use safestrap but i couldn't exactly find some specifics for it. So whats the disadvantages of safestrap? Do specific roms have to be used?

Another concern, I'd like to get a faster rom than stock touchwiz, but i'd also like to find a rom that can use ART runtime as well as maintaining a nice multi window feature. I tried XHaloFloatingWindow and another xposed module, and I can't say I was pleased with them compared to the touchwiz one. I'd also like to maintain S-pen features? Does anybody know of any roms that may come close to fitting most of these topics?

Final, completely random question, The lg g3 has this lockscreen widget where when it rains out, drops of water will cover/slide down the entire lock screen on top of your notifications. I thought this was awesome, but wasn't sure if it was possible to get on a note 3.

Anyways, Hope to get some simple answers :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeftyGR:
Safestrap is as close to a custom recovery as we'll get, right now. Due to our bootloader, stock based rom are all we can use. However, we are not stuck with one rom. Check in the dev threads for roms compatible with your device. Also check the dev and general threads for more info on rooting, safestrap, and how to flash roms.

Art not available for us. Only stock based. See my recommendation above for other roms. There are a few with some pretty cool features and add-ons!

Not sure about this one...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scott_65:
Not sure about your specific questions, as I don't use multiwindow or the other features you listed. But I thought I would point out, what method of root did you use? Make sure of what system your running at this point. beans or kitkat? You will have to select a rom based on that. Or vice versa, re-root if you find a rom that you prefer thats running different android version. Either one will run safestrap obviously, since there are roms for each. You will find pros and cons to each. The con that I'm currently experiencing on kitkat that has me thinking about going back is I can't seem to find a modem that will get me decent reception so I'm assuming at this point that its kitkat thats causing it. Just something more for you to research. Being new to it, you've got ALOT of material to read about. But if you've already rooted, sounds like you've got a decent idea of the process. For me, tutorial videos were a life saver
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
Alright so perhaps you can help me with just a few more concerns. I researched roms and such. I successfully downloaded safestrap, made a backup of my stock rom and put it on mycomputer. I also made a backup with titanium backup before that and it is also on the computer. I am looking at hyperdrive or jasminerom for the note 3. On there, it explains normal directions to install, but then it says to flash with odin, but when I read something about a tutorial how to install cutom roms on a website "Galaxynote3root" (I can't post the URL yet, says i'll be spamming) , it explained nothing of odin. What is odin? is it mandatory? Does my phone have it by default? hm.... Also i have a build number of NC4, does that build not work with NC2? sorry for inconvenience or annoying noobish questions. Thanks if you respond :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scott_65:
So being on Kitkat, did you use the beans method that installed a rom with root basically built in already? And by saying you downloaded safestrap, is it successfully installed? When you boot the phone, do you get the safestrap bootup screen allowing to go into recovery?

If you've already gotten that far, your pretty well set to install either of those roms.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
Well i rooted my phone via towelroot. I got safestrap hooked up and installed, so in other words when i reboot, yes it does have the splash screen. I am on kitkat as well. but do i need to install some sort of odin or something? sorry
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeftyGR:
I think as long as the rom's op says it's based on nc2 or nc4, you should be good. You should not need to worry about odin, since you're already on kk.

Since you're new, I'd suggest not touching the stock slot. It gives you a fall back if something goes wrong. Make sure you understand using safestrap, and start trying some stuff out.

---------- Post added 30th July 2014 at 12:00 AM ---------- Previous post was 29th July 2014 at 11:58 PM ----------

Sounds like he rooted the nc4 with towelroot, cuz he started on nc4. And sounds like ss is working for him, if he's made a backup.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
Okay thanks, that boosts my confidence a bit! I'm just afraid of bricking my phone, as any noobie should be.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeftyGR:
Good man.

If you find something that you don't know or understand, search that thread for an answer. Then ask if you don't find an answer. And always try to give any other details you think might help.

As long as you remember search is your friend first...then ask...you will almost always find people to help you out!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
alright alright I'm very sorry for this final question as I actually have tried to search for this but only got comparisons between titanium backup and safestrap. So, if I were to make a titanium backup right now, after the fact that i made a safestrap backup or installation, will that effect anything? I'm really really sorry if these questions are beyond beginner, I just like to play it safe.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeftyGR:
Nope. Tibu backs up specific apps and it's associated data and stores it on sd. When you open tibu, it gets it's info from files it stores on sd. Recovery backs up your entire rom environment, but doesn't actually touch sd card user space.

This is why tibu is so helpful. Everything pops up that you had backed up, even on a new rom.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scott_65:
I'm not familiar with the towelroot method. Only the old Kingo for jb, or the beans method for kk. Sounds like your good to go for any KK roms, and Lefty seems familiar, good deal. Not sure how old you are or how far back your computer knowledge goes, so this may do you no good. Odin doesn't go on your phone, it goes on your computer. I always think of it as the old school DOS, or like now when you boot to command prompt if windows isn't working. Its like a back door when your phone operating system isn't working, or if you need to make changes to part of the system that would otherwise need to be running to make those changes FROM the phone. Its flashes the changes TO the phone from your computer instead.

I'm rambling. Its too early. Anyhow, glad your getting things moving along. You can try roms in various rom slots, but you may have issues. I had some roms work well, others not well at all. The ones that have problems, they seem to work better in the stock slot. So you have to wipe the stock slot and flash it there. No big deal, just don't goof up, flash it all at once. If you pause, take a potty break and the battery dies, whatever, don't forget, you have no operating system at that point. Thats when Odin would come into play
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
Alright so quick update. I successfully installed both roms into slots 1 and 2 respectively. Everything went okay, I rebooted system, but the screen just stayed black. They aren't loading, i still can go back to stock rom. But uhm any idea as to why this is occuring? Could it be the NC4/NC2 build things?

In the hyperdrive rom for the note 3, it says it will work with verizon and also states that after the initial reboot after flashing the rom, there will be a 10 minute wait until it actually boots up. I'd say i've waited 15 minutes and nothing has shown up. So I'm assuming something went wrong. Perhaps i should try to reflash it?

EDIT: I read the directions further ahead and managed to flash a file via odin for the first time, now im getting a rom's boot animation which is good. I hope this'll work :D!

Edit 2: I successfully installed it and booted it up, everything went okay, I restored my titanium backup and then titanium prompted me to restart. I restarted, and now its bootlooping android.process.acore or something like that is crashing everything =/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
uh oh now my stock rom is bootlooping as well. :eek: i in trouble
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeftyGR:
What did you flash in odin?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
In JasmineRom's instructions it says to flash a file called unified_KK_Firmware_RE.tar.md5. After flashing it, it booted up to the new rom.But seemingly once i restarted after titanium backup restored everything it crashed. I then cleared all the cache and data through a factory reset in the safestrap settings and it started up normally. Am I not going to be able to restore my things through titanium? I would send you a link to the odin flash file, but I can't until I have a certain number of posts
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeftyGR:
No need. I know what you're saying. So flashing that file shouldn't have been really necessary, given you're already on nc4. But it doesn't hurt and should not have caused what you described. So you have roms in stock, slot 1, and slot 2? Which ones bootloop?

For tibu, I would uninstall, reboot, reinstall. Somehow it didn't like you doing that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
Alright so as we speak right now, I have slot 1 with jasminerom and stock which should be the untouched stock rom of course. I have a backup through safestrap of that. I will uninstall titaniumbackup and reinstall and see if that works?

edit: sorry I feel as though I'm being unclear as I can hardly comprehend my own messages. Before, both slot 1 and stock were bootlooping. This bootloop came after titanium backup promted me to restart. But when i cleared the cache through the factory reset, the slot1 rom started to work agin (jasminerom), I haven't tried stock rom to see if it works yet. I'm currently on jasminerom about to re-restore my apps through titanium backup like you said.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATalkingRock:
alright i finished re-restoring through titanium backup. Once it finished it provided a notification saying "batch complete, 66 elements failed" Right now all my apps are here and everything is seeming to work. Should I restart to see if it bootloops again?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeftyGR:
You should be ok. How many apps did you try to restore, if 66 failed?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badboyg200:
Guys, I am getting terrible battery life on the newest BajaRom. I was getting decent battery life but somehow everything changed. I want to note that I cannot access the Media Battery Drain Fix in the BajaROM settings as it crashes EVERYTIME i open it. I have tried everything to install something that will fix media battery drain but I am unsure if this is what is really causing my battery drain. Please any help would greatly be appreciated!

Installed on STOCK slot

SYNC, Bluetooth: OFF

Powersaving/Smart Network: ON
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badboyg200:
Nobody?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasdman:
Wakelock Detector and Greenify... are ur best friends on the Note 3.

Turnoff wifi,bluetooth,gps,etc when not in use. Set CPU to on demand. I always have power saver on unless I want to run a game... doesn't seem to effect anything else.

There are a ton of tips for Note 3 battery life...just search here...

I also use LUX for screen brightness, that made a big difference also. Change you wallpapers to darker colors... mine are some sort of black background...

I can make through the day with reasonable usage on Hyperdrive RLS8 and still have battery left...

Haven't tried BajaROM yet...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badboyg200:
Thank you for your response. I have greenify'd most of my daily apps and I use wake lock detector and still cant find out the culprit here. It says that my SCREEN is taking up 30% of my battery life after just 2 hours unplugged and minimal use and I'm down to 82%. Can my phone just be inherently defective????

This DOESNT feel right. I NEVER had any complaints of battery with my NOTE 2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjh68:
Sex
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donc113:
Check your data usage. I had the similar situation, saw nothing in the battery usage area....but then checked data usage. I had over 2 Gigs of data usage from EMAIL in only 2 weeks! I had been using the std email app...and get maybe 10 emails a day. Obviously something goofy going on in the sync. Yet battery usage showed next to nothing for the sync process or email app.

I removed my accounts from the email package, froze the email package and installed AquaMail and my battery usage cut by at least half....my data use flatlined.

Obviously it takes power to use the radio for a Gig a week of data....but that does NOT seem to show in battery usage.

so check your data usage...see if email is way out in front. That may be your problem.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shakenfrog:
I had the same issue with battery life after I flashed to and of the KK roms. My problem was Greenify, and I don't know why. Removing it didn't solve my problem so I'd restart from the beginning. My drain is less than 1% per hour idle without it and almost 10% per hour running all the same apps with greenify in different settings. Jasmine ROM just drained for me all the time.

*first post, be nice. I only joined because of all the trouble I went through to get my battery life back.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] tle:
Are there any downsides to downgrading to bootloader v1.04?

Does v1.06 have anything extra that v1.04 doesn't?

I have an X01HT (v1.06)

Is it possible that future ROM upgrades could be tied to the bootloader version?

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] pof:
Bootloader 1.06 enforces CID checking, bootloader 1.04 doesn't.

Bootloader 1.06 doesn't have 'rtask' command, bootloader 1.04 does.

rtask command allows you to do some "interesting" things, for example enter radio bootloader, and GSM AT command interface, where you can type AT commands to the phone from bootloader. Read the wiki Hermes bootloader page for more info.

No, it has less things... rtask command removed :(

The "extra" thing is that your CID is checked when flashing a ROM, so you can't flash ROMs that are made for other Hermes devices such as HTC TyTN or Cingular 8525 on your X01HT.

it is possible, but unlikely to happen, shouldn't worry you too much now.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] tle:
Thanks for the quick reply, pof.

I guess that if a ROM were to be tied to bootloader v1.06 then someone would have to make a bootloader only upgrade... Do you foresee and potential issues there. (excluding copyright issues? ;)

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] pof:
No issues at all, and no "bootloader only upgrade" needed... if you are on 1.04 you just have to flash any ROM containing bootloader 1.06 to have bootloader 1.06 on your device. Then you could do the 'tied-to-1.06' upgrade.

But at the moment 1.06 and 1.04 are very similar, the only difference I've noticed is 'rtask' command and CID checking. rtask command also allows you to go radio bootloader and flash the 'extracted radio rom upgrades' (using rwdata), so you can't do a radio-only upgrade in 1.06 at the moment.

Anyway... I am investigating the way to provide an alternative method to go from 1.06 to 1.04 without copyright issues (as with the previous method from imei-check). Now I can jump from WinCE to IPL at physical address 0x0000000 and then the IPL reads the SPL from flash and executes it correctly.

The next step is to load the nb file for SPL 1.04 and place it in RAM at 0x3000000, and instead of jumping to IPL jump to SPL when this is done it will be possible to downgrade the bootlodaer for those of you on 1.06 :)