yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
You can't. The system partition is read-only due to Android specifications and, unless Samsung's implementation is somehow bugged, cannot be made writeable at all. Your best bet would be a Magisk module that accomplishes the same goal without touching the system partition.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
I tried Overlayfs also could change folder names but after reboot names are back. So i guess u are right.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
Finally i could disable thermal and wrote empty files over all files in system/vendor/etc/.tp/ and thermal files in system/vendor/

I used STRP Performance and saw where he put his overwrites. And added empty files

/data/adb/modules/STRP/system/vendor/etc/.tp/

/data/adb/modules/STRP/system/vendor/

This makes error in kernel but finally no FPS drops!

Mission Complete!

The improvement is huge!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] yahmabr0:
Hi, wondering if you'll actually reply...

I don't see a .tp? under that dir?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
I use MT manager to be able to see the folder i am also root
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
Some weird mtk services started to run after some hours and some thermal stil seem to happened sometimes, so im going to try to force the stop of these by modifying STRP performance
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
Removed resolved with other options
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
From termux:

su

getprop | grep thermal

[init.svc.thermal]: [stopped]

[init.svc.thermal_manager]: [stopped]

[init.svc.thermald]: [stopped]

[init.svc.thermalloadalgo]: [stopped]

[init.svc.thermalloadalgod]: [stopped]

[init.svc.vendor.thermal-hal-2-0.mtk]: [stopped]

We get a list of all thermal services, you can stop a service by typing:

setprop init.svc.vendor.thermal-hal-2-0.mtk stopped

confirm that its stopped:

getprop | grep thermal

Enjoy
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
Great result without thermal 👌

Means it can run MUI 5 without problem.

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[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] frudda:
With "magisk hide props conf" you are able to make the config permanent. Boot stage has to be (both) on all settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] andoan1212:
You hero
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite] jaxzkeren:
this is great. i'm using 0.5 mm thermalpad, and the lagg is gone. metal backcover sometimes feels a bit warm, so this is good because heat transfer is working. thank you very much sir.
[Realme 8i / Narzo 50] 17721:
Are there any working modifications of Google camera, that will enhance picture/video quality compared to default stock camera?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mcoxall:
I am developing a windows mobile app to use for GPS tracking. This will feed back to a web page.

My Plan:-

* Every x minutes the GPS turns ON and gets a fix

* This location is then fed back to a web service with time of day and device ID

* This is stored in a Database and can be overplayed onto a google map.

* This data can be broken down by device and by date

Do any of you want to point me in a particular direction for help in this rather then me re-inventing the wheel.

I have been looking at the code for GPS Cycle for inspiration.

if you need to see what i am doing go to http://crt-alt-del.co.uk
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mugglesquop:
i'm pretty sure there are already programs for this...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Mandragore:
Yes, but if everyone thought and reacted like this, it would kill innovation and limit our choice in software.. ;)

You already know about GPS Cycle, so.. Good luck!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] thomasjohn1234:
Even I am using the same with my system. This is not an innovation. Add something new to make it different from the previous one.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Hakim Rahman:
if you want enable GPS Photo mode

Go to HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P10

set "Enable" to "1"

an how to Enable Built-In Compass in GPS Apps you can learn from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=571266 :):)
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Manikus94:
Good afternoon, tell me such a question. I have a Samsung S21 Ultra Live Demo Unit Unlocked on hand. The Samsung Pay application launches, it does not give errors, but when you click Get Started, the wheel constantly turns and nothing happens. There was an S20 Ultra LDU before that and everything worked there without problems. Is this a feature of the S21 Ultra LDU or is it possible to launch the Samsung Pay service? The CSC region is worth XAA. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Manikus94:
Video of the app opening is attached
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don Carnage:
Hey there,

I bought a couple of devices to repair and among them was a Galaxy S6. It had a very bad battery life, so I bought a new battery, put it in and reset the cycle counter. The battery life is better now but not okay.

What I found then was, it drains battery while off. And not like a couple of % a day, more like 5-6% an hour. When I compared temperatures, I noticed that the device is not hot, but it's noticeably warmer than another S6 I have around still, like lukewarm. Opening it up again, I tried to find the hot spot and looking at the ifixit teardown, it looks like the PMIC (the blue one) is the culprit - see here. I'm not sure if there is anything I can do about it. I tried cleaning it to make sure there is no shorts around but that didn't seem to help. I will try a hot air gun later today to see if that fixes anything. Any other ideas on what I could try to locate the issue?

Cheers
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Dorian.:
Hi,

Just ordered a Mi11 from China, and I would like to flash it with a global or EU stock firmware.

Would you recommend the Global or the EU one?

I am not a customer rom type really and I would just like to have the phone as close as a stock firmware experience with google services, OTA s and all.. although I understand it will never be perfect since the boot loader needs to stay unlocked.

Is it just a matter of unlocking BL and flash it with a stock firmware found here https://c.mi.com/global/miuidownload/index, am I right?

Thanks :)

D.
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Hunteres:
Yes...and i would recommend xiaomi eu.....based on china...but fastest updates and bugree with some tweeks...
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Dorian.:
Thanks, yeah I may give Xiaomi.eu a try perhaps after installing the EU or Global stock roms if I am not happy.

Any recommendations between the 2 stock Rom s available?

Thanks
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Dorian.:
Ah another question sorry, will I lose widevine L1 by flashing with miflash? if so, any alternative?

Thanks!
[Xiaomi Mi 11] or965:
Unlocking the bootloader or flashing with miflash or TWRP should not change the widevine .
[Xiaomi Mi 11] lil_kujo:
I personally have tested Xiaomi Eu and MMX, I find MMX in my opinion to be more stable even on weeklies even tho it's based on EU. It also comes pre rooted and if you don't want root just flash the EU boot IMG instead. On MMx you also get widevine l1
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Dorian.:
Thanks, actually I was not considering any custom rom, when I say EU vs Global I mean the official stock EU rom vs the Global one..

In any casa I don't think there will be much of a difference 😉

When unlocking the BL shall I proceed directly from the MiUnlock tool or start first with the developer option in the settings?

Thanks again
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Dorian.:
Also, is it worth it to make a backup of the persist partition, just to be on the safe side?
[Xiaomi Mi 11] lil_kujo:
I'm using MMX MIUI 13 latest beta build with some app updated from miui stock apps group and I have the new widgets and phone is very responsive and good battery performance. After I unlocked the bootloader I downloaded the fastboot rom from their site and just flashed every straight forward and easy. Just remeber to format data once you do the initial setup I'm case you have issues with storage permissions. So basically after you flashed go through the setup screen don't set it up just finish a quick set up and go to settings and format again through settings after it's done just setup device like you would normally do.
[Xiaomi Mi 11] skyler13:
How did you get the new widgets? i'm on miuimix 22.2.9 but they're still the old versions
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Pho3nX:
So you must said EEA, not EU for don't create understanding problems.

Be careful because you have a Chinese model, so don't relock bootloader (if using MiFlash) because by default MiFlash apply option "Lock & Clean". Each time you'll use MiFlash, be sure to select on the right bottom just "Clean all", never lock with a another ROM model than Chinese. If you lock bootloader with a EEA/Global ROM, you will brick your device.
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Dorian.:
You are right, apologies, my bad.

thanks for the tip about leaving the bootloader unlocked.

shall I download the stock rom from https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/miui/venus/ or https://c.mi.com/global/miuidownload/index ?

Thank you
[Xiaomi Mi 11] lil_kujo:
App vault CN version 5.2.65 will give you the new widgets in English.
[Xiaomi Mi 11] skyler13:
Many thanks for that, worked perfectly on my mi 11
[Xiaomi Mi 11] Dorian.:
Got the phone yesterday but the first impression is quite bad.

Poor build quality in my opinion and the battery is laughable.

Had a realme x2pro for more than 2 years and still going very strong, built like a tank.

Anyway, started bootloader unlocking countdown, only 150 hrs left :D
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
Please use this thread to post everything about the Battery live of our S22 ultras :)
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Kubas_inko_CZ:
Pretty bad the first day (drained 40% in 12 hours of not doing anything).

This is currently day 3 of me using it. The battery learning or whatever is done and it is noticeably better (but not perfect). Although the fact that on low brightness/ambient light you are stuck with 120Hz kinda kills the battery in the evening.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Bushido1992:
My Phone runs actually 2Days and 1hour without Charge. I have 7% remaining and 6h 5 Minutes SOT.

I Use energysaver mode(always on+bluetooth+wlan is non stop on) and all apps in deepsleep that i dont need

For me it´s good so far^^
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Abaddon:
exynos or sd?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Bushido1992:
Exynos
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
Thats sad mate... hoped that the Battery will be atleast as good as my s21 ultra...

Hope an Update will fix this. Also using 120hz and Füll HD and mostly mobile data. ...
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
So without 120hz?

Thats my s21 ultra...
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Kubas_inko_CZ:
When it comes to battery drain while the phone is not doing anything (just sitting with the screen off and all apps closed) it is worse than my almost 4 years old S9+...

While using it it is hard to tell, but sometimes it seems to just eat through the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
Think the "day one patch" will fix it a bit. Many people have stutter issues seems like driver Problems with the AMD gpu. it will release this Week.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Kubas_inko_CZ:
I hope. Although people say that updates won't fix it or make it better, the phone is running firmware from January 1st. So it seems like a prerelease to me.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
Yes the phone isnt officially out yet... Updates Wort fix something? The fixed my s21 ultra which also had bad battery in the beginning.... also Performance is was better than on Release day...
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] borijess:
I can't even get into the boot up screen to clear cache. It kicks me out and rebors phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
Tried with USB conection to PC?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] valrod:
I would be happy to have your results. Look at my S22 ultra (Exynos 12/256) Battery drain ! Just from reading my mails and using telegram and a little bit of whatsapp
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ekerbuddyeker:
Day one battery life is pretty awful! Hope it improves..

. I take it off at 100% and I watch the battery tick down almost immediately. Just general use dropped 16% in the first hour. Hope it gets better than this.

Q: Whats the name of the Samsung optimizer app that.one is supposed to run after an update?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
Wtf thats **** mate :/ hope we will See an Update on the official Release:/
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ekerbuddyeker:
Day three. This has the worst battery life of any device I have used in years. For example, Dropped 5% in first 16 minutes of use today. I used smart switch. Maybe that did it? Or is 5G?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] brachiopod:
I have 2 full days in now, and the battery life is good. S22U 512K unlocked SD version, no power savers, adaptive brightness. I have fast charge turned off and using Anker wireless charger, recharge in about 3-4 hrs.

Feb 23rd : 8h 43m SOT, 8h 22m screen off, 36% remaining at end

Feb 24th : 8h 48m SOT, 7h 51m screen off, 46% remaining at end
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] bobxxz:
I'm on day 5. S22 Ultra with 12/256. It is technically getting better but I do not like how quickly it drains. I been finishing about 5-6 hours SOT max but with battery almost completely dead. Just from unplugging it and driving to work checking notifications, it goes down to 97%. Never seen a battery drain that quickly. Maybe I am just spoiled from the iPhone battery. Also running everything max QHD, 120Hz, auto brightness and Snapdragon version.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] brachiopod:
One additional comment, I wonder if the battery drain could be due to the GPU and people's different usage patterns. I don't watch a lot of video or play games and my battery seems OK. That and the reports of the phone getting really hot when playing games and the refresh and screen glitches makes me wonder if people reporting higher drain are using the GPU more.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Mariuszuzd:
I have very similar results, google services are draining the battery. I did the factory reset yesterday and I believe that I have the same issue. Any recomendations ?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] djixon:
In my case, I just saw that every day what consumes me the most is Telegram. I'm going to try telegram X to see if it consumes less, or at least stops being the one that consumes the most
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] lawtq:
Crazy GPS drain. There's no hope. As long as I've known android this problem has always been there. Until they come up with an update that calms it down
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Mariuszuzd:
I hope that there is some hope. If not I will send it to Samsung as broken. As some people have very good battery life, this is something strange, don't you think ?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Sudo77:
Hey. I am getting around 5 hrs of screen on-time with light to moderate usage. I consider this to be very "average". Coming from an older device with 4000mah with 1080p display, the old device had superb battery life. I use Adaptive battery + 120 Hz + Light theme + WQHD+. I do prefer the smoothness.

To save battery, I turned off Location Services periodically, disabled sending usage data and limited network switching to 4G and lower. (I do not use 5g services yet). I am so glad Samsung did not offer 16GB RAM versions, as more memory addressed consumes power. I think the issue is WQHD+ is because the battery has to push that many pixels (regardless of resolution setting).

On the first day I thought the battery was defective lol. But that is not the case, because the device had to learn usage pattern. On the bright side, charging is fast and disabling Wifi before bed, standby for 10 hours consumes only 5% battery. Still, not Iphone standard... I just hope the battery doesn't degrade fast due to repetitive charging. Any other battery tips, let me know. Cheers!
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Paul_Deemer:
Ok I did the test again cause the last post I did I forgot I plugged the phone into the car port for Android auto for 5 min. So here is the new results. 100% down to 10%. WQHD Resolution with Power set to Optimized and Adaptive Refresh enabled. I'm going to do FHD Resolution next and then post results.

(512gb U.S. Unlocked model)
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Mariuszuzd:
Nice result! This is my, my best score at the moment. However, I have reset the phone yesterday so it is still learning.

Spoiler content hidden.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Sudo77:
For the sake of variety and statistics, here is my video-heavy usage results. Pretty good. The device will learn that you are viewing a video and battery drain will slow down accordingly. Settings are the preferred: (WQHD+, 120Hz, Dynamic battery, Power Saving disabled). 100% -> 10% (Snapdragon Variant)

YouTube is optimized well, however I feel that while Chrome is getting better, it is still the resource hog no matter the era. It will be the default browser if you use Google Search. A better optimized browser like Samsung Internet is better for web browsing. De-bloating apps is a good idea, as long as it doesn't interfere with critical system functions.

It is pretty consistent with the battery drain test here (although they perform much more intensive tasks):
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Goku1992:
This is nice!!
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Mobzter:
I'm happy with my battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Kris_b1104:
Wow that is god-tier.

What model do you have and what are your settings, if you don't mind sharing? Also, I noticed that you use a lot of alternative apps that drain less battery, I'm going to try that. I already use YT Vanced, Boost for reddit, and Instander, but I've never tried FMWhatsapp. I find that Whatsapp for me drains the most battery no matter what I do.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Digie:
My beginning of the 2nd day (got phone around 28hrs earlier).

So, the first day was full of installings etc and so today.

Charged briefly 3-4 times.

When most of the adjustments were finished, i charged it and put it aside.

1min SoT time and 1,15hrs (75 minutes) off time and already lost 2%.

Hope this is just for the learning phase.

I am scared...
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Mobzter:
That's what i felt like when i saw my battery stats today 😅 Before today, that would have been my battery life coming to an end. Could just be a lucky day? It's possible using Wifi quite a lot today reduced the battery drain? God knows lol

Tbh, i've always used those alternative ones. I've only joined reddit recently, so just the standard app there. FmWhatsapp is a very customizable Whatsapp with lots of tweaks and stuff. I prefer it just in general better than the standard one.

When you go into app info on whatsapp, and hit Battery, what Restrictions is it on?

So some of the things I've done...

* Alliance Shield X - to help disable packages and gives you additional options like firewall, adblock, etc...

* Background usage option within battery settings - to adjust which apps can sleep, which to put to deep sleep, depending on how important they are to you, incase you need urgent notifications, i suppose.

* Galaxy Max Hz - Great to adjust Min/Max refresh rates, as well as few other battery saving options in there

* Turn off 5G

* Just go through settings and adjust what you think would save battery and if you don't use it/rarely use it.

* You could try bump Ram Plus within Settings to 8GB like me. Don't need to use any Ram Boosters/Cleaner stuff.

** I used Adb last night, so i could permanently uninstall some of the disabled packages. I didn't go mental... I just got rid of the main things i never used, Forexample things to do with Facebook, Chrome, YouTube, Bixby, etc... left some of the uncertain ones as disabled.

There's probably more, but hope it helps you!

Maybe after you've done the changes you need. Charge your phone to 100%, Power off, then go into recovery mode to Wipe Cache, then Power on.

Good Luck

Ps - S22 Ultra 512GB Exynos user
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Mobzter:
You'll be fine. If Adaptive battery is on too, it'll start picking up on your usage pattern. The battery should improve, prob more after a good 3 or 4 days.

If it makes you feel any better... even with my good stats, the one thing I've realised is that my first 3% drain from full charge, goes down pretty rapid... Talking prob like 5 mins or so, with very light usage too. However, after that point, everything seems to work as normal and that's with normal usage. 🤔 I'm pretty sure even my last 3% of my battery disappears in no time!

I guess i let it slide, as everything else seems to be working far better than i expected 🤷‍ lol
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] rasel800:
Guys, any idea how to disable VoLTE in 908E? I see IMS wakelock is draining battery a lot.

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Tip: 3pp apps like GSam Battery Monitor gives way more detailed battery statistics . You can identify specific process/service killing your battery.

For me, I figured the fingerprint sensor in AOD has been draining the battery a lot. That's disabled now.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Sudo77:
Hmm interesting... I never thought of looking at consumption at the process level. I believe there is a VoLTE toggle in Settings, Mobile Networks. However, I am against disabling services that make quality of life better LoL. VoLTE which I always used on my old phone to improve call quality. Fingerprint Always On, despite draining battery is a 1 step unlock. Disabled, is a 2 step unlock.

For future devices, I think Samsung needs to spend more time refining the OS for more streamlined performance rather than focus on hardware changes on camera or S-Pen. For Android it is challenging, but it was always Apple's strong point.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Digie:
First thing first, yes that felt better 👍🏻

Just now, when i woke up, i checked and it was normal. I believe it was 91% with 5m screen one and 10 hr screen of.

Than, i pulled my spen out to take notes while checking morning messages etc.

First it didnt let me arrange the note size.

Than i realised the note slided off the screen by bottom and right halves and the screen was not acting as it should and it got laggy.

And it rebooted. It was a quick reboot and my clipboars isn't deleted.

But it was a reboot neverthless and drained like 7-8% of my battery in that 5 minutes.

I don't know if the unit is faulty but it is stupid after paying around USD 1,800, i have to even have a headache of thinking if it is faulty and if how i will evidence this happens and ask for a replacement.

What do you think?

Yours ever reboot like that?

I am running it on wqhd+ but it shouldn't matter since this phone is or should be designed to run on that setting.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Mobzter:
I don't think mine has ever rebooted on me yet.

Does seem very unusual. I would suggest you open Samsung Members app. Tap on Diagnostic button and use those test to figure out if anything is faulty.

It's within their own app so it's not like you could make things up 👍
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] adrianhoria:
Heavy drain on Spotify for me, any means to improve this ?
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Sudo77:
7%-8% after reboot isn't normal. For a normal reboot, should be 0.5% - 1% at most. For a reboot after a heavy update, 2-3% at most because they system may have to flash ROM, re-config updated apps and start them. It is more power intensive. Sounds like a background app was draining power at that time. Should monitor battery using AccuBattery or something of the sort, and kill the culprit bogging the system.

Spotify draining battery you say? Solution: YouTube Music. Jk. Though it has a more intuitive dark-mode and pretty well optimized. You can also try downloading your favorite tracks so you don't have to waste power fetching each track. Kill the app when not in use. Alternatively, you can also use Spotify Lite.