yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dsteppa:
I think the best way to measure if it's correct or not, to for example put some movies on your phone and let them play constantly, see how long your phone can manage.

You should get at least 6 hours of on screen time using that method
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nzzane:
It's too late to say this, but after getting a new battery/phone you should always drain it fully and then fully charge the battery so that the battery has a proper charge (it saves a lot of battery capacity and battery life)
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Good that it's too late, because it's incorrect. This suggestion dates back to the days of NiCd batteries which had "memory effect". Li-Ion batteries found in modern devices for at least the last several years and definitely since the beginning of Android don't have this effect, but have something else - when you drain the battery completely, you cause damage to the battery cells, and it can withstand only a few of these full-draining cycles before losing significant part of its charge capacity. This is why both laptops and phones have protective measures to turn off the phone completely before the battery reaches a dangerous drained state. And as the batteries go bad and their "low percentage" scale becomes unreliable (not able to sustain operation currents with low charge), these protective mechanisms can fire too late - which in turn can cause storage corruption to occur, if the power is lost gradually and not abruptly during operation.

To another poster that doesn't believe in faulty batteries - he better should. Batteries go bad with time and charge-discharge cycles, they're harmed by complete discharge, and can go bad in several other ways. However, I wouldn't expect a battery to start its life damaged - quality control of the manufacturer should prevent this.

My results for reference - I have ~2-3 hours a day SOT, 1-2 hours tethering, have several phone calls, messages and mails - and the phone is usually upwards of %50 at the evening. I have to run it through ~4 hours navigation to reduce it to sub-20% towards the end of the day, and actually see no reason why a smartphone should hold any longer - it's routinely recharged every night. The main problem for smartphones, to me, is not surviving till the end of the day.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
Thank you for sharing, but that advice is about as outdated and useless as changing your car's oil every 3000 miles. Batteries simply don't work that way anymore and some studies show that battery life is actually reduced when you perform full charge cycles instead of shorter recharges throughout the day.

Edit: looks like someone else best me to it :-/

Sent from my Xperia Z3 Compact
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nzzane:
Actually sorry to break it to you, but you are wrong, Li-ION batteries do have a memory effect, since about 2013, researchers have found that they do have memory effect.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Well, thanks for showing me something new. However, this is a very different effect from NiCD. While in NiCD this effect would prevent the battery from taking a full charge when repeatedly not discharged fully, in the research you've showed there are 2 very important points:

1. What matters is not the discharge, but rather a charge. Charging not fully is a way to trigger this effect. On the other hand, discharging partially (like in NiCD) doesn't trigger it. This point makes the info, while indeed interesting by itself, irrelevant to the current discussion, and keeps your previous suggestion wrong and bad for the battery.

2. If kept charging a bit longer - the battery would still charge fully, though it would take a different amount of time from the expected. For night time charging, when the phone is connected to the charger for several hours more than it's needed to actually regain the charge, I'd guess that most of the time it does the job of filling the battery properly even after an incomplete charging cycle.

[edit]

After reading it again - actually there is a third point that makes your suggestion even much worse than I thought it is:

This memory effect that you've pointed to is triggered by having an incomplete charge followed by a complete discharge. That means, incomplete charge with incomplete discharge don't cause it - a complete discharge is required. And when you receive a new phone, the battery isn't fully charged - so if someone goes by your suggestion:

He would actually be triggering the memory effect you've linked to, on its bad side!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
And just for reference, here is a recent article from 2015 that is far less technical, but does a great job of explaining battery behavior in practical terms that average people can understand:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/expert-advice-on-how-to-avoid-destroying-your-phones-battery/
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amplifiction:
Thanks you for sharing all that information, everyone. My doubts have been alleviated and I've learned quite a bit.

It seems the Z3C (including mine :)) can easily withstand a day's usage, which makes it dependable. Not the two days Sony advertises, but I suppose I should have known better :) Coming from an Xperia V, the Z3C's battery is without a doubt an improvement.

I just noticed there is actually another thread on this matter, for those who are interested:

http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/general/post-lp-battery-usage-t3056775
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
I've been using Stamina Mode since the first day I got the phone because the hours of battery remaining statistic always doubled when it was activated. Naturally, I assumed I needed it to make the battery last 2 full days without charging. It works, but I finally decided to see how much time I could get without the feature and was shocked to see that my phone actually idles better without stamina mode than it does with it. Over an 8-hour span while sleeping last night, the phone did not lose a single % of battery! I had not disabled any of the wifi or cellular functions, nor did i turn off any of the background data or auto syncing of apps. Stamina mode would always lose nearly 5% over-night. I'll keep using this throughout the day and see how it handles being awake, but so far, I'm very impressed with the stock battery performance without Stamina Mode.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] expos9439:
sudden drop in battery life

Hi guys:

I got my Z3C less than 2 weeks ago, and have been getting, on average, 2 days of battery life with moderate usage (stamina mode on after 40%) So far so good. However, this morning I unplugged the phone from charging overnight at 100%, and in less than 10 hours, it had drained to 30% on light usage (less than 1 hr of screen time). I haven't downloaded any new apps, or used the phone in any new way. I doubt it's the 4G or 3G signal since it's always been used mostly in my house, under the same conditions. I'm charging it right now. I will restart the phone once it's full, and see what happens. Should I be concerned?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
Could have just been a rogue app running in the background. Check your list of running apps for anything suspicious.

Sent from my Xperia Z3 Compact
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
Hi first post here so a quick hello :)

Just realised that my fire TV screensavers are taking up a whopping 375mb, I wouldn't usually care but with the ftv only having a crappy amount of free available storage it kinda sucks. My question is it possible to stop the afv downloading them all again after you delete them.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
You could try to create an own gallery with only one picture and use this gallery for screensaver.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
Thanks for the reply :) How do you create a gallery?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KLit75:
I'd be interested in this too. Actually kinda surprised I haven't heard anyone bring it up before and I didn't know they used that much space.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
You must upload your gallery (or your single photo) to your Amazon cloud drive. Then you can choose this folder as slideshow/screensaver instead of the Amazon slideshow/screensaver.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201453060
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
Well that sucks as cloud drive you get no free storage anymore, what a load of bs. :(
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
Cloud drive should be free for pictures with Amazon Prime.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
This is true but not everybody has a prime account. I use my ftv for spmc, oh well not much one can do about that. Thanks:)
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cd2022:
Where are these screen savers located?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
On the internal SD storage idk because I can't root my ftv, but you can delete data/cache from the ftv app draw, there located in pictures.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calibaan:
If you want to backup these pictures to use them for e.g. on a PC have a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/help/fire-tv-wallpaper-t2896323

Scroll down for a download link where all pictures can be found.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cd2022:
Great! I'm going to see how much space they're occupying and possibly delete or move them to an external drive.

Thanks.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
Has anyone found as solution yet?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wileykat:
Better try this tonight.

P.s Amazon offer all customers 5gb free, I am not a Prime user.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
No free 5gb anymore, its $12

Still need a solution!
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wileykat:
I signed up an hour ago. Worth trying a proxy or something to try and sign up at amazon.CO.UK?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
I am in the UK,

you get 30 days or so free and then they instantly charge you for the year. I cancelled!

http://liliputing.com/2015/03/amazon-cloud-drive-no-longer-offers-5gb-of-free-storage.html
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wileykat:
You sure?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
Yep not unless you have a prime account, then it's free.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
told ya
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magister1979:
Clear your cache for the app in options/applications. Then shut off the picture screensaver. No more storage issues.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
Are you sure because when i tried that, aftv just downloads them again back to the cache.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astro77:
Will the next person to reply please take the time to read this gigantic thread of three pages lol
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] Ronv:
I can't do HR,

Not with the Buttons combination ( Volume down+SR+OK+Power)

Not with the build in Format Storage.

Any Ideas ??
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] neildunne:
Hold the volume button down while pressing the soft reset with the stylus on the back of the unit.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] eaglesteve:
Alternatively, do Setting>System>Clear Storage and follow instruction there. This can be used if the device is still alive and responding to you.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] Ronv:
Thanks

It didn't work

maybe the unit is defective
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] LTxda:
Sounds like it. If you hold the sound button downward while at the same time pressing the reset button at the back of the unit with your stylus and it doesn't hard reset or prompt you to hard reset on the screen, then there is something wrong. Contact support, see what they say.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] jmdrizen:
are you holding the volume key down for a few seconds AFTER pressing the reset button.

I found that sometimes my Ameo wasn't very responsive, but did show up after a couple of seconds.

Regards
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General] Ronv:
After a lot of tries I have manged to do HR

Now evrything is working fine

Thank you all
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Q&A for [ROM][5.0.2][WEEKLY][N9005][N900K/S]Dokdo-Project 6.1.3 [19/4/2015]

Some developers prefer that questions remain separate from their main development thread to help keep things organized. Placing your question within this thread will increase its chances of being answered by a member of the community or by the developer.

Before posting, please use the forum search and read through the discussion thread for [ROM][5.0.2][WEEKLY][N9005][N900K/S]Dokdo-Project 6.1.3 [19/4/2015]. If you can't find an answer, post it here, being sure to give as much information as possible (firmware version, steps to reproduce, logcat if available) so that you can get help.

Thanks for understanding and for helping to keep XDA neat and tidy! :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devcon69:
I'm using N900S, I have found 2 bugs only.

1. There are crackling sounds while playing music with the stock media player.

2. Camera display is a little bit dark.

These bugs can be fixed by using 3rd party apps, but stock apps are better. So hoping for the fix.

This rom is awesome. Stable and has long battery life. Thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melrocks:
Fantastic Rom

Hello slg1119,

I installed your ROM yesterday when I saw you updated it. I have found it to be amazing, the battery life does last a lot, like 1% overnight, that is incredible.

The blur effect for the lockscreen is cool; however, it just blurs the background, making visible (not readable) my WhatsApp and anything else I had open. It would be cool (if possible) to blur the wallpaper in use.

The addition of a separate volume control for notification is something I love.

One thing I noticed is that when playing some games or some sounds through the speaker, they sound with a little distortion, this does not happen when using wired or bluetooth headphones. If you would like to try, I heard this sounds when playing Inifity Dungeon, Final Fantasy and Scribble Race (when drawing the line, music actually sounds fine). Maybe there is something I have to adjust in the Audio FX settings?

Very smooth rom, I love it and will be checking for your updates. Thank you for your hard work.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knauji:
Hi, I just updated to the new version 7.3.0 and noticed (maybe) a bug: LiveDisplay is not working on automatic setting. It is night time now and the screen stays in daylight mode. when I turn on Night mode it works. Hopefully you can fix that with the next update.

Love the rom and would like to donate! kkk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] lilbastxrd311:
anyone have this issue with their s6 edge?i recently noticed a reddish color or cable under the edge screen above the power button. Should i be concerned or return my phone possibly for a new one?:confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] junksecret:
I'd return it, mine doesn't look like that........
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] mjs2011:
I feel your pain. I discovered a dead pixel an hour after getting mine yesterday. Barely noticeable but I'm probably going to go back to best buy and swap it.
[XDA Assist] :
i have a samsung galaxy s5 g900h,

i am manually updating it but my odin does not have an AP option to download the update

where should i download it to, here are my options:

BL

AP

CP

CSC
[XDA Assist] karandpr:
Hi

Please post in Galaxy S5 Q/a for better support

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s5/help

Good day !
[Android One (First-Generation) Cross-Device Genera] vyshnav raj:
ViPER’s Audio is an audio enhancing software to provide everyone with better audio experiences in various platforms such as smartphones and PCs.

Warning

If you are on a custom rom like Cyanogen Mod then remove the stock equiliser like audio fx in that rom.

Official XDA thread

Installation

1. Download, extract and copy ViPER4Android_FX apk to your device.

2. Install the apk as USER app or SYSTEM app is up to you. Then install busybox.

3. Run FX app from app drawer, allow root access if asked.

4. When driver installation prompted, choose Yes.

5. V4A auto detects your CPU and show available driver modes below :

6. Choose your desired selection.

7. After installation done, Reboot device.

8. If you want to use only V4A as audio effect, follow normal mode. If you want existing audio effects to work, follow compatible mode.

Downloads

ViPER4Android FX

FX version v2.3.4.0 :-Download

This is not my work full credits is on zhuhang he is the one who owns this eq.

Feel free to give a thumbs up.:good:
[Android One (First-Generation) Cross-Device Genera] Saurabh K:
How does it improve the sound quality and how is it superior to the stock equalizer?
[Android One (First-Generation) Cross-Device Genera] Mr.trololol:
im using it since it is released and you must use it to experience the change, no other android equalizer app offer that much customization [emoji106]
[Android One (First-Generation) Cross-Device Genera] 1cefire:
Does this affect battery life?
[Android One (First-Generation) Cross-Device Genera] --jenana--:
When you install V4A in the highest mode, it will tell you it uses more battery, because this program uses CPU extensively. In my experience, you won't notice it. It's worth the extra use of the CPU ;)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasil.kolarov:
Hi everyone,

I have rooted LG G3 running Lollipop 5.0. I've managed to install a custom recovery (TWRP) and now I want to flash a custom kernel. But before doing so I need a nandroid backup just in case something goes wrong.

The problem is that when I make a nandroid backup (everything goes ok), I can't find it on my sdcard. If I boot into recovery and open a file manager from there, I see it - it's there. But when I try to find it using some kind of file explorer (I've tried ES File Explorer, Root Browser, etc) the TWRP folder, where the backup is supposed to be, isn't there.

I have installed the revovery over my stock one and haven't got any other recoveries before that (if that matters).

Am I doidng something wrong or there is just something that I am missing?

Please help.

Best regards and thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] abovenbeyond:
I would really like to use CM but of course will settle for rooted, I think I might lose my mind with out some of my root abilities...

So if I am going to get a HIGH END phone right now... what should I get?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] abovenbeyond:
No opinions
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] rinnycoop121:
Sorry there is no root for the Note 4.

But as to being stuck with AT&T you can unlock your phone and use it with Tmobile.

I have done this, I had to may to get it unlocked but it works fine on Tmobile.

Use Ebay for an Unlock Code
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] abovenbeyond:
I haven't gotten the note 4 yet, going in about an hour.

M9 rootable?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] rquinn19:
What's the debate about? Why not just get the N6 and be done with it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] abovenbeyond:
N6 a phone At&t sells? (Googling now too)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] PhillyFlyer:
Had M9 unlocked and rooted the first day I had it. Development seems slim on XDA and it was very similar to M8 so exchanged for Note 4. No complaints the M9 is a good phone. But was just ready for a change.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] EgoNote3:
Don't get it.....silly people

I guess I don't understand why everybody says that you cannot ROOT the SM-N910A? I guess you have never heard of ChainFires new program called flashfly. I highly suggest checking him out on Google+ enough said!

Personaly I'm running a AT&T Note 3 on lollipop 5.0 rooted without safest rap as well as AT&T SM-N910A rooted on lollipop 5.1. ....

But you don't have to take my word for it, checI out ChainFires on Googleplus!!

---------- Post added at 06:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:42 PM ----------

Wrong! Do your research. Chai fire on Google plus flashfly otg and Odin mobile pro equals rooted Note 4 no safestrap needed and on lolipop 5.1!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] thanitos:
Pics or it didn't happen, just saying.... note 4 still isn't rooted in att permanently and chain fire doesn't work, else we would all have root so if you wouldn't mind, screen shot of lp on note 4 att
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] sandman7793:
I see you was on Brians DKX. If you havent purchased the AT&T phone yet, get the T-Mobile note 4, take it home, get code from unlockocker.net in 30 min, slide AT&T sim in, put unlock code in when it asks, odin lollipop, ill see you on DPop in the T-Mobile note 4 thread. Call and cancel the T-Mobile plan.
[Xiaomi Redmi 1S] aqirul2411:
im flash many kernel, cody, beast and xcelerate, but none of them are working.. i wanna change governor to save more battery..

im on N5X 4.4.4 kitkat, i dont go to lolipop rom bcoz dont have lot of features kinda... like kitkat better... so could someone help me?

best kitkat rom or kernel for my little beast?
[Xiaomi Redmi 1S] Fap4k:
You can try carbon ROM or cm 11 both are good ROM and has decent battery backup
[Xiaomi Redmi 1S] aqirul2411:
im on vladius rom now.. kinda great will many function... thanks very much for your suggestion... ahahahah redmi 1s community lots support lolipop rom now... wish build kitkat more stable...
[Android Apps and Games] leducbao:
Out of Beta. Follow this thread for latest updates

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-sms-material-lock-emoji-spam-wear-t3114022

SMS+ app focuses on beautiful design, distraction free, and privacy​

SMS+ comes with simple material design, lovely emojis, secret message lock, spam filters, smart SMS popup, and tons of great personalization.

Features

- Handy reply SMS popup

- Scheduled SMS & MMS

- 1000+ beautiful and funny emoji

- Secret box to encrypt messages & protect your privacy

- Share your location/contact quickly with your friends

- SMS blocker smartly block blacklist numbers/keywords and filter spam messages

- Quick mute and snooze notification

- Swipe to call/delete

- Private notification

Customization

- Per number basic

- Conversation background

- Bubble color

- Sound/vibrate

- LED light color

Experimental features

- Dual sim support

- MMS

Download

.apk file:

Ver 0.2: View attachment 3272356

Ver 0.4: View attachment 3275880

Google Play:

Google Play Beta Testing:

1. Join AntTek Beta Tester Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/105760195857802084760

2. Become SMS+ Tester: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.anttek.messenger

3. Grab SMS+ from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anttek.messenger
[Android Apps and Games] leducbao:
Screenshots

Screenshots
[Android Apps and Games] leducbao:
Change logs

Ver 0.2

- Initial release

Ver 0.4

- Fix force close on no-sdcard devices

- Support MMS over WiFi only

- Fix delete SMS issue

- Fix crash reports
[Android Apps and Games] reywal:
So how will we disable the original messaging app to avoid double notifications?
[Android Apps and Games] Hesham Sleem:
Nice Work Sir....keep on :good:

i will give you feedback if i found any bug
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Very nice app! Love the design!
[Android Apps and Games] leducbao:
It's depending on your Android version:

For prior to Android 4.4 Kit Kat: you should

KitKat and later: you don't need.
[Android Apps and Games] Hesham Sleem:
Thank you again...:o

i found some bugs :

1- No notification sound

2- any one can show my secret message when he tries to send sms for private people from call log
[Android Apps and Games] leducbao:
Thanks for report.

1. If screen on, it shows a floating window instead (with vibration) of standard notification. Is that the case?

2. Where do you see your secret messages? In your call logs or somewhere else? If so, it's certainly a bug.