yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Cruise General] JulianL:
After my post with real data, I'll go "vague impressions" for this one. I'm now on my second battery charge and I've been playing with the device mostly as a stand-alone PDA (calculator, reading ebooks, playing games and just flicking around the settings).

Unfortunately I don't have a program right now to actually monitor how long my device has been switched on for so, short of remembering to start and stop a stopwatch each time I switch it on/off, I have to guess. My impression though is that I had my device switched on for at least 4 hours yesterday and the battery this morning (about 24 hours after unplugging it from the charger) is at 64%. GSM was on all the time but no calls were made or taken (I really do use my smartphones predominately as PDAs, I don't actually like mobile phones that much).

A lot (an embarrassing amount!) of that 4 hours was spent playing a very graphics-rich Solitaire program which, from my experience with my old Artemis, is one of the most power-draining PDA activities that you can do. My Artemis used to give me something under 11 hours of on-time until it hit the 10% point, and that was with most of the activity being ebook reading which is one of the least power-draining activities you can do.

If my impression of 4 hours is anything near accurate, and that much of that was Solitaire, then I suspect that in my day-to-day usage my TC might even give me better battery life than my old Artemis which again makes me wonder why that review I linked to that started this whole thread got such a bad result on the TC for the MP3 test.

- Julian
[Touch Cruise General] Muyz:
PowerGuard v1.1

I released PowerGuard v1.1. For a list of new features, plans for v1.2, and (of course) download of v1.1, I refer to the PowerGuard website.
[Touch Cruise General] ---Alex---:
Muyz,

You doing a great job.

It will give a good insight of the capabilities of the HTC Cruise battery life.

However, I am still impressed with the battery life of HTC Cruise compared to my new IBM (Lenovo) laptop.

The HTC Cruise beats my laptop with respect to battery life, despite putting my laptop in optimal power savings and the HTC Cruise Backlight on the second level. Comparison based on getting the same e-mails, internet use, and MS Word.

Alex
[Touch Cruise General] victoradjei:
That expresses my own observation too.

I have also observed that the battery on the TC does not heat up at all compared with many other htc and E-Ten devices I have used :cool:
[Touch Cruise General] kwickone:
This looks fantastic Muyz. Does this work for other WM devices? I would assume so...but you know what assuming does ;)

I will try it on my Kaiser and let you know.

Thanks for the effort involved!
[Touch Cruise General] Muyz:
Yes, it will work on other devices :) A collaegue of mine runs PowerGuard on his Kaiser.

Tonight, I published version 1.2 of PowerGuard on the PowerGuard website. The website contains a list of updated features, such as secondary Y-axis, start with Windows, and continue session after reset. Please let me know on the PowerGuard forum if you have any feature requests or if you find any bugs...
[Touch Cruise General] DennisCooper:
Hi all,

In this thread, most of you guys are power users and have been looking into the battery life thing in higher detail.

My Orbit 2 is now about 2 weeks old and I immediatley noticed in the first few days how 'quick' the battery meter was going down compared to my Orbit 1.

So I ordered a replacement battery off one of the Hong Kong ebay sellers for £9 delivered. At least I'll have a spare in case it goes flat whilst in use. Along with the other poster, I do this with all the PDA's I have.

My Orbit 2 is completley standard right now, I haven't loaded any applications on it and this morning I took it off charge and have made 3 calls, one of 5 mins, 1 of 30 seconds and the other of 1 minute, sent 2 txt messages and have the screen brightness at level 1 (the lowest level being no backlight) and I'm now on 92% battery and its been about 3 hours since unplugging from the charger.

On my Orbit 1, the unit would still show 100% - in fact, I could do the same and have my bluetooth on for my headset, have same couple of short calls all (working) day long and it'd still show 100 or 98%.

I'm on O2, and the 3G icon is showing - even though I'm not on a 3G tariff - does that mean it's 'connecting' to the masts with 3G potential and hence eating battery life more?

Cheers, Dennis! West London UK!
[Touch Cruise General] JulianL:
Hi Dennis,

Welcome to the thread! Your 92% figure after fairly modest activity doesn't sound great but the good news is that I think the answer to your question ("I'm on O2, and the 3G icon is showing - even though I'm not on a 3G tariff - does that mean it's 'connecting' to the masts with 3G potential and hence eating battery life more?") is very probably yes. I am on T-Mobile (in SW London) and despite not explicitly being on a 3G tariff I did confirm with T-Mobile that my SIM would access 3G where available so I suspect that O2 will do the same.

To prevent this go to the Settings/Personal/Phone application and select the "Band" tab (4th one along). You will probably see the first drop-down ("Select your network type" set to "Auto". If you change that to "GSM" then this should force your phone onto the GSM network and that should reduce battery drain.

- Julian
[Touch Cruise General] BadTasteUK:
Another option is to try unticking "HSPDA" in the connections menu, as that seems to have helped my battery life a bit, and O2 don't really have HSPDA anyway.

Always worth a try.
[Touch Cruise General] SvanteH:
Listening to music (3G): -237 mA

Listening to music (G): -230 mA

Just keeping it running (3G): -130 mA

Just keeping it running (G): -144 mA

That's like, quite funny.
[Touch Cruise General] SvanteH:
bump

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[Touch Cruise General] DennisCooper:
Hi JuianL and Badtaste!

I've set the network to GSM and the unit was already showing the HSDPA selection as 'unticked' anyway.

3G icon has now gone back to the square with the G inside it as I always used to have on my orbit 1. Will monitor battery performance over the next few days.. Edited to add - just after posting this the square has now gone to a square with an E - which is for EDGE connectivity - i guess my tariff allows EDGE if i want it - isnt this whats used for transfers for those 'un'lucky enough to have an iPhone? - end edit

Also switched the Camera shutter sound to 'off' and pics are indeed much quicker to take. Feels better!

When I did a search for 'camera' in the forums search box, the thread didn't show up and the ones I clicked into, I couldn't see where it said to disable the shutter sound - maybe I just missed it!

Cheers so far!

Dennis! West London UK!
[Touch Cruise General] FlaTEriC18041983:
Hi, using ResInfo 1.54 (freeware) for battery information.

Anyone knows if it does its job correctly, for me it seems so...

Concerning this app.: I very much appreciate the logging of up-time and stand-by-time with one battery-charge, this is a very useful info to compare. Is there any app, that has this feature, + standard battery monitor, without all other features of ResInfo?

For battery-life, I now charged it for the second time:

first time it did hold for about 2 days (GSM and active sync on, while I was testing progs), second charge did hold for about 4 days stand-by and 7h working (installing and trying apps)...

I guess if I only would used it with GSM, in stand-by with short calls or sms, it could hold about a week.

I'm satisfied with the result until now...
[Touch Cruise General] JulianL:
Yeah. This looks very wrong (much too high). I'm not too familiar with 3G results because I keep my device locked to the GSM network unless I really need to do a bit of high speed browsing but you can probably see from my earlier post that my current consumption with GSM is much, much lower. A few things occur to me that could be giving your high figures. The first, and of course most annoying one, is a fault on the device.

Next obvious thought. You are doing these measurements with the device disconnected from the charger? PowerGuard also sees charge current going into the device so if the above are with the device charging then you are probably seeing the net input of current (i.e. <charge into device> minus <current being consumed by devive>).

Other thoughts are:

1) What other wireless do you have switched on (WiFi and/or Bluetooth)? As a test case it would be interesting to put the device into aeroplane mode and see what it draws just sitting on the desk with the backlight on the first setting. That would give a comparison with my tests.

2) Are you in a really bad reception area? Maybe the GSM/3G is really struggling to stay on the network.

3) Are you sure you have no other apps running in the background which might be doing something and draining power?

4) What backlight setting do you have? The screen on high brightness is somewhat power-hungry.

5) For the music tests, they again sound high, but this can depend a lot on how your music is encoded. How is it encoded and are those figures with the screen blanked while the music is playing? As a point of reference, I draw about 100-120mA when playing 64kbs CBR AAC+ (v1) files.

- Julian
[Touch Cruise General] S.V.I:
Just tried this on my rom (Merlin 6.1 Slim edition for Wizard)

odly enough putting into airplane mode made it draw more juice.:(

it runs at 170

then airplane 183.

My original rom used to draw only 39mA; 49mA; 59mA and some other ridiculously low numbers while sleeping.

So what is the issue with most of these new roms anyway??!!

I used to be able to run my device for about 2.5 days without charging it. in fact, the lowest I have ever seen my Batt go is about 30%.

Nowadays I get that far in about 8 hrs.

...Then a sudden drop to 145.

Does this tool measure draw while the device is "asleep"?
[Touch Cruise General] Muyz:
Nope, not as far as I know.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] runtime_Err0r:
Hi!

I'm trying to go back to stock to try knox features like secure folder. I have restored my device (Spain unbranded) with SmartSwitch and flashing firmware through Odin.

My problem is that Knox and Secure folder says that it can not work because I have installed unauthorized software. SafetyNet passes, on download mode, I see all official, and Apps (like banking apps) works fine without detecting root.

I have warranty void bit = 1. This means that, even flashing again stock firmware, I will never be able to use Knox? I'm worried about using root cloacks methods because of something stops working (for example due an update) I will unable to access to secure folder.

Thanks a lot in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Gr3atGeek:
As your knox is tripped already i.e. showing 0×1 so you will never be able to use knox related security features as well as samaung pay on your phone..When knox is tripped once while in rooting or trying any unauthorised software installation, it will never been reset to initial state either by trying to install stock firmware again..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] runtime_Err0r:
Ok thanks a lot for the info!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Piravinth:
https://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/how-to/guide-secure-folder-samsung-knox-s-t3560079

^^That thread has a tutorial on how to get knox features working if your knox was tripped however I don't think it will as secure as it would be if used the knox features without knox being tripped.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] CFSlayer:
I can recommend you flashing ambasadii's ROM. I'm currently using it with the latest SuperStock Kernel and have secure folder fully working. You'll have to download the full 10.1 ROM and the 10.2 OTA which is about 500mb
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Dirtylarry11:
So Im using my WIFI hotspot to connect my note 4 to my S7 Edge and I am getting this error. Ive never seen this before, Is this a new security feature or something? Anyone know how to fix or "Unblock" the app so It can use the Hotspot?

Thank You!!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Dirtylarry11:
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Telperion:
List of CIA Android exploits:

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_11629096.html
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiereMallao:
Hi,

i've a little (big?) problem with my xperia tablet z (wifi; pollux_windy). 2 years ago i've rooted the stock-rom (4.2 or 4.4) and installed dual-recovery. a while a did nothing with the tablet. later i installed cyanogenmod 11 using the installed recovery. someday in 2016 i updated to cyanogenmod 12, but i can remeber how i did this exactly - maybe with a update-app? after the update to cm 12 the dual-recovery was overwritten with a cyanogenmod-recovery.

i don't know whether the bootloader is unlocked. i've unlocked i to root the device for the first time. when i search for the imei in "about tablet / status / imei" there is only "unknown". so at the moment i can't unlock the bootloader again.

when i boot the device in fastboot mode and try to flash twrp with

i get this error

maybe this is because the bootloader isn't unlocked anymore? how can i find out that? how can i unlock the bootloader again without the imei or how can i find out the imei?

a user in a german forum said i can use the sony tool emma, this should reset the tablet. but WHAT will emma reset? can i flash twrp after that? can i root it again?

pieremallao
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -Pepe:
From fastboot you have to type
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiereMallao:
what is the different between

fastboot flash recovery

and

fastboot flash boot

?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -Pepe:
as far as I have understood they are two different partition, Sony devices have the recovery in the boot partition whereas other phones, such as my OnePlus One, have a dedicated partition.

But what I'm sure is that when I flashed TWRP in my OPO I used the "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" but in my pollux_windy I had to use "fastboot flash boot twrp.img"
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiereMallao:
doesn't work. i tried this on ubuntu 16.04 and in terminal i see the message

sending 'boot' (10688 KB)...

since 30 minutes. maybe this is because the bootloader isn't unlocked? but i'm not sure about that? how can i check this?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -Pepe:
I remember very well the code I entered to get TWRP, now I'm also thinking you have somehow a locked bootloader...

if you use a stock ROM try: contacts/press three dots/Settings/press a place above home knob for few sec/it will appear Enter service Code/type *#*#7378423#*#*/Service info/Configuration
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiereMallao:
no, i dont use a stock, i use cyzanogenmod 12. i dont have the contacts app on mz tablet installed. i have tried to install google apps but the cyanogen recovery cant install the gapps. can i tried the service codes with an other app?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -Pepe:
Try to download ExDialer - Dialer & Contacts and launch the code from there. I tried with it but it didn't work (probably because I'm on RR) so I doubt it will work for you but give it a try.

With the same app try

*#*#759#*#*

and I have "OEM mode = off" but I'm not sure if it means that your bootloader is unlocked.

Or download Secret codes, the app's icon is a magick stick with a star at the and it shows some codes and you can lauch them from the app itself. I think it only shows the codes available to your phone/tablet because it doesn't show 7378423.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rootk1t:
On CM there is no service menu, so it won't work.

Unlocking is possible with Flashtool or fastboot commands.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiereMallao:
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[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] FIFAR4:
Can anyone give me a guide to root from start to finish?

FIX includes DRM.

Thank you very much !!!!
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhrokib:
Such an informative post in this thread.

Really appreciate.
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ifo0:
Thank you! I am happy you found my post informative! If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer!
[Xiaomi Mi 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhrokib:
Actually I don't find any question now. If I just found one then I'd do.

Thanks for asking.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MintyTrebor:
The new 5.1 release is fundamentally flawed and does not allow apps to set resolution or refresh rates, plus suffers from HDMI blanking/disconnects when set @ 4k resolutions. None of these problems are present in the previous 3.3 version, and I need to switch back. Unfortunately every time I have tried to go back to the previous official firmware from nvidia, I just get blank screen/no signal. So I am stuck on 5.1.

I suspect this has something to do with the partition sizes/layouts, or some other 1 way change which is preventing the older firmware from booting. Has anyone got any ideas how this downgrade can be achieved?

Thanks in advance
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ichijoe:
I don't think that is possible. Unless you want to brick your Device.

Well that's what happened when I tried it. Thankfully... (Or, not) I have the Pro version so finding a working SSHD backup image was simple enough. But, I don't think you'd be nearly so lucky with just a non-removable 16Gb eMMC Chip.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JulienPr:
I also tried it, from Nougat 5.1 to Marshmallow 3.2 and to Marshmallow 3.3.

Unfortunately, this is not working. Fortunately, fastboot is still accessible and I can get it back to Nougat (I've done it several times, the only time I add a problem, it was because of a suddenly faulty USB OTG cable).

That's unfortunate, because now that I'm on Nougat, I can't managed to find a functionnal version of Skype with my Logitech C920 or C930e webcam (while I had it on Marshmallow, with StockRestyle by [MENTION=1469500]zulu99[/MENTION]). I tried both with the standard version and with full android (see this post for more details on Skype on the standard Nougat ROM).
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MintyTrebor:
Oh well. At least I know I'm not doing anything wrong when I try and downgrade. I'll just have to stick with 5.1 and hope they resolve the ability for apps to set refresh/resolution.

TBH I'm a little perplexed how it got passed testing @ nvidia. Changing refresh rates to match content source is common video playback functionality, and resolves many jerky playback issues.

Thanks for the input!
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalpik:
Ah, I thought I was the only one with jerky video playback. Let's hope Nvidia resolves it in a future update soon!
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] ajsmsg78:
Does anyone know who the forum Moderator is?
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] dscline:
This post holds a clue... https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=71323545&postcount=66
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] RR-99:
There's also a very large hint at the top of the index page :)
[Asus ZenWatch 3] anandbibek:
Since I got the phone I reset it 3 times, all this while, the Google Fit app on my phone is tracking my walks and runs correctly, but on the watch it always shows zero. I suspect the ZenFit watchapp maybe hijacking the data, but enabling disabling sensor permission doesn't seem to have any effect on any of the apps. I ideally want to disable zenfit, that I could probably achieve via ADB. And I would also want to Google Fit to run only on my watch, as I don't want battery drain on the phone. Is it feasible to set up like that? Please suggest any fixes or workarounds.

Solution

I am confident that I have finally found the universal solution. I checked my Watch Fit apk version using Advanced settings app from here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sssemil.advancedsettings

Found that wear fit apk version was much lower than what version phone had. Grabbed latest wear fit apk from here. http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ss-tracking-1-63-09-200-android-apk-download/

Connected watch via ADB and installed manually using this command

adb install -r googleFit.apk

Voila! Everything showed up on watch instantly. Even history of days I didn't have phone fit app installed.
[Asus ZenWatch 3] giocchi27:
I'm in the same situation
[Asus ZenWatch 3] ed_bracam:
Me too, I would like to disable zenfit to use only Fit. Especially because I use also my LG G Watch R in parallel
[Asus ZenWatch 3] giocchi27:
what do you mean in parallel? one for each wrist? :)
[Asus ZenWatch 3] ed_bracam:
No, only one at a time :D

Just I want to use some days the ASUS and some days the LG. Using the same fit app allow to centralize the measures.
[Asus ZenWatch 3] anandbibek:
I am confident that I have finally found the universal solution. I checked my Watch Fit apk version using Advanced settings app from here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sssemil.advancedsettings

Found that wear fit apk version was much lower than what version phone had. Grabbed latest wear fit apk from here. http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ss-tracking-1-63-09-200-android-apk-download/

Connected watch via ADB and installed manually using this command

adb install -r googleFit.apk

Voila! Everything showed up on watch instantly. Even history of days I didn't have phone fit app installed.
[Asus ZenWatch 3] giocchi27:
IYO, does uninstalling apk with Advanced settings and reinstall with the sync from phone work as well?
[Asus ZenWatch 3] anandbibek:
I'm not really confident about the inbuilt apk sync. I mean how ridiculous is that the apk wasn't updated on watch even though I installed Fit on phone 2-3 days ago and had done "Resync" also. Either the sync is so pathetic by design or the Fit apk is bugged so that it doesn't get auto pushed.

If you're not comfortable with adb via wire, try ADB over Bluetooth and maybe you can do from phone also. The command will remain the same.
[Asus ZenWatch 3] giocchi27:
I used ADB over Bluetooth.

Thanks a lot, it worked!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] filo4u:
whats the best radio to use on t-mobile usa
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] mikej4:
Its a matter of trial an error. I recently updated to 1.27.12.17 and it seems to be ok. The main issue most people are upgrading or changing is battery life and reception. If you aren't having an issue with either, I would leave it...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] filo4u:
do you guys happen to know the stock radio version for tmobile wing? and will it work for the tilt? im having reception problems
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] arexben:
T-Mobile wing is not the same as the AT&T Tilt.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Charlie1618:
Read on... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=349375
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Accessories] madalex24:
Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out, I have a Sony Xperia Z4 tablet and the sim card holder is missing. I was wondering if anyone know of anywhere where I could get one from? Ive tried ebay amazon, done online searches but cant find anywhere, ive even tried sony and they dont produce it anymore. Any help would be great.

Thanks

Alex
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Accessories] rebski:
Hi

Try a search on eBay.co.uk, my search produced lots of results

Good luck

:good:
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Accessories] tcfx44:
Try this link:

https://stellatech.com/en/sony-xperia-tablet-z4-lte-(sgp771)-sim-card-tray,a,826469.html/
[Xperia Z4 Tablet Accessories] sieg01:
Hello everybody,

in my Sony Xperia Z4 LTE Tablet is brocken the SIM card slot, does anyone have instructions on how to change it?

Does anyone know whether he is accessible from the display or from the back over?

Is the SIM slot soldered or plugged into the board?

I am very grateful for any help.

Regards, Siegmund