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[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
It varies greatly according to reception.

Good network coverage= less work for the transceiver inside the device=less power drain.

It's not really constant.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tachikoma_kun:
Turning off 3G other than when you need it helps as well.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] crabby09:
Is this something you do as routine? I don't know if I have the patience to do that.

And my signal was 5 bar edge signal for my 'test'.

Since this morning, I watched 90 mins of video, surfed for 10 mins and made a 5 minutes voice call on the train... By the time I got to work, the battery was at 53%.

I don't feel my phone will last my journey home at 6 tonight, so I have had to put it on charge again.

But still... on 3 days old...

crabby
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tachikoma_kun:
Yeah, I just use that 2G/3G app and turn it off if I am not using it. I live out in the sticks so can barely get a 3G signal at the best of times. Might as well save a few mAh's by it not trying to look for 3G.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ariozo:
Easy a full day with 3g working nonstop and sms,mail syncing alot and mutch talk. Did help with new Firmware tho, if i not just se wrong my battery last longer with it, had no problem with old JF3 but new one works better and solved other things aswell.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rodh257:
I've had mine for a couple of weeks now and I'm not getting much better than that :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ConceptVBS:
That usually means that your antenna is working a little harder to get better signal. Seems like your in a bad signal area.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lenunited:
Hey guys just got my new galaxy and heard alot of different things about the battery.

First is it li-ion or li-pol

Second should I let the battery go empty before charging it first 5 times then I shouldnt let it die after that right?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
See post 7 in this thread.

It is my reply stating the battery type has changed from what we were initially told and is now a Li-Pol.

All you need to do is take the battery out, turn it over and read the contents. It states there what type of battery you have.

As to what to do with charging your battery ~ Li-Ion batteries do not suffer from memory errors/loss and it's always good to keep the battery topped up and not to let it drop lower than 50%.

However, it won't hurt the battery if you do and lets face it, the phone is designed to be used whilst out and about and as such that means using the phone for long periods without a charge.

To counter all the repeating top-up charging and letting it fall below 50%, my recommendation is as follows:-

1. After around 30 recharge cycles you let the phone go down until it switches itself off.

2. Now switch it back on once again and wait until it switches off again.

3. Take out the battery and leave it out for around 20 seconds then replace.

4. Charge the battery and when it is fully charged leave it charging for a further hour.

I've done this practice with all my latest phones inc the HTC HD & HD2 and have always had great battery performance figures.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker33:
I'm finding the standby battery use pretty appalling. My old TouchHD wasn't the best battery manager ever but this is very bad.

It seems to gobble up battery at stupid amounts when in standby, doubt it can be blamed on network reception as the TouchHD was using the same provider\simcard etc and that would only drop about 5-10% overnight where the SGS is dropping about 40%.

The only thing I thought may be causing it is the background data being enabled so have switched that off now and will see if it's any better tonight.

For in use battery it seems to be better than my old TouchHD, can do a fair amount of vids, browsing, calls etc and it holds up well.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tachikoma_kun:
My 18 month old TouchHD would last a week with light use, but you can't really compare the battery life on that to the SGS, it has a bigger screen, faster processor, different OS, etc.

My SGS is using about 50% a day now, and that's with still doing demo's to people in work on things like 3D gaming, the Marketplace, Layar, etc. Once the interest dies down in work ("Oooh a new phone that isn't an iPhone!") I am sure I can stretch 3 days out of it with moderate use.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Prior to changing my wifi settings I used to let it gather email every 5mins.

I noticed each morning the percentage had dropped by sometimes as much as 20%.

By changing it from every 5 minutes to every 1 hour (and absolutely nothing else altered) the percentage drop is now never greater than 2% overnight.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Totally agree in all you say here. I had the same with both my HD & HD2 ... but I also used to look after the batteries well.

We often hear of the phone not being as good as another but that's exactly it... it is not the same phone just as you rightly say in different screens, batteries, processor, performance, etc. etc.

I can get 2 days life out of the SGS, admittedly I'm not playing games and only get my email when I ask for them... but the screen even on it's lowest setting indoors it's still very bright... much brighter than my brothers Desire on a higher setting. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rtsbala:
Battery heats up mad

Hi all

I found this thread very useful to find out some good facts about the battery life and thankfully I won't return my SGS. But I have an annoying issue... Phone heats up like mad when using wi-fi, browsing for more than 10 mins, viewing video for more than 10 mins etc.

As of now, in about two days with two charges, the battery lasts for jus about 13 hrs with moderate usage and background sync, gps all set to OFF.

Pls let me know if any of you facing the heat issue, bcas that is ore annoying and worrying than the battery life.

Thanks

Bala
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker33:
I totally agree that you can't compare directly to the HD but lets face it dropping some 40% while idle overnight is far too much, there has to be something keeping the phone cpu active when in standby. Hopefully it's just that background data setting, my email is already set to manual sync so it's not that.

The only app i've got running in the background is Advanced Task Killer, if it's still bad tonight i'll take that off and see what the result is.

As I stated originally I have no complaints from the active use battery life and it seems actually better than my old HD for web browsing\video playing etc it's just when the phone is in standby something doesn't seem quite right.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
There's a very good application named SystemPanel available that I find is invaluable.

Amongst it's many items is an ability to see what programs are doing to your phone.

You will be surprised just how much processor time a certain App uses which in turn hits the battery.

The link I gave is for the free version but I find it that good I went straight for the paid one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] crabby09:
Well... I have gotten to my working week... Which means I will charge the phone during the day at work and then take it home and back each day.

The phone easily lasts the 14 hours a day away from work (3 hours of commute - internet, music,video), and I arrive at work with about 30% battery life.

I hope by this weekend it can last between friday evening and monday morning... but I am not holdin gmy breath.

If it stays like this, would you guys say I have a fault?

crabby
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
No, not a fault crabby but maybe you have either a setting or an App that is eating up your battery when your not using the phone.

Have a look at that App I mentioned in my last post. It helped me understand what was loaded and just how much I then realized I did not need it loaded all the time.

Amongst the many it does it shows a small graph in how it's eating your processor time. As such you can shut down individual Apps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker33:
That is a very good looking app thanks for the link.

It looks like Advanced Task Killer was hammering the CPU as it's used 6 mins of CPU time in about 3 hrs possibly due to the auto kill feature being enabled so i've switched that off and see what happens. Have also switched off live wallpaper and just have a static wallpaper now.

If the standby battery is improved i'll re-enable one feature at a time until I find the cluprit :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Pleased you're trying it miker.

It's surprising what you find going on under the hood/bonnet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] crabby09:
Looks like a good app... the only issue I have now is that I don't know what normal use is for apps... For instance, 'System' has used 30 minutes of CPU time over the last 18 hours?

crabby
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cicinho:
Everyone make sure you have use gps satelittes switched off when not in use. Its found under the location and security menu in settings. I noticed a vast difference when I turned that off.

I have my screen brightness set to full and my gmail app set to notify me when I get emails and when I put my phone in standbye mode I rarely lose more than 1-2% in an hour or more.

Today I woke a 7, its not 12:45 I used my phone for some light browsing, 20-30mins, some 40 text messages and reading a few emails and I am down to 78%. Not bad I must say. I also have my 3g turned off until I go to use the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natsirt789:
Great thread, especially about the SystemPanel app.

But with my last phone (samsung i900 omnia) I was finding all the little tweaks and apps i can to help me conserve battery.. managed to pull a few days with moderate usage, but now I'm looking back and thinking.. all the functions of the phone I've missed out on using because I wanted to not charge my phone everyday??

I say, experience and enjoy your galaxy S's before they become old and outdated.. If it can last a reasonable amount of time with usage that you are happy with.. I say, its already satisfactory. Lets use the phone, and not have the phone use us :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] crabby09:
Live wallpaper seems to be the main culprit for me?

crabby
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker33:
Yep that did the trick by losing the live wallpaper and advanced task manager the standby battery drain is down to approx 5% for 8hrs overnight which is much more respectable. Have put the live wallpaper back on now and will see if it's still ok tonight then it's confirmed that the task manager was to blame.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rtsbala:
Phone gets heats up issue

GUYS

Can any of you tell me whether you guys are facing the heat issues after using the phone on wifi for more than 10 mins, playing video for more than 10 mins etc

Pls let me know, mine gets heatsup mad, i have to decide on that.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natsirt789:
nope, mine does not heat up much at all.. the only time i felt heat was when it was charging, and even then, the heat was minimal..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Same here... no heat issues whatsoever.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
So here is my battery experience after 4/5 full cycle

it's unplugged for 10h30min and I have 25% battery left

I tried to be very soft on the usage so few phone call (10mn), few mp3 (20mn), no push but some manual mail sync, wifi almost always connected, minimal backlight, no push widget ...

The screen has been switched on only for 2h43 ( 47% of these 75% battery used)

So for the moment, it looks like I will have to be very careful to get through the day. I don't think I 'll be able to du much in the way back home

What do you think about this consumption ??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nicolopolus:
Hey Beards, thanks for mentioning this app - I've bought it and an finding it very useful! One thing: charged overnight and this morning I have three distinct occasions when the battery graph completely cuts out, with no consistent pattern then starts up again, on the same trajectory as before. Anyone else had this? It's like it's been unable to read the battery info for a minute or two.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nicolopolus:
Actually, I tell a lie. The drop in battery info seemed on one occasion to correspond to the cpu activity dropping to 0. During the night, cpu was at a steady 10%. Activity also dropped below 10 (but not to 0) the other two times.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisman99:
is there actally any decent browser for the hd2? opera is gennerally easier to use than explorer but doesn't work flash then theres drop down menus which is just a complete ball ache on both as there's no propper way of making a selection or with other scroll bars you have to zoom in on the little arrow and click a million times.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dobreandl:
try skyfire
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harky:
skyfire not longer available in my country
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
Try this........
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
Sorry, I just realised what you mean by that.

For anyone whos interested.......

I hope they bring out a 2.0 that you'll be able to use....

I quite like this browser...... itd be a shame if they killed it off.........
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisman99:
not a bad browser but would be nice if it supported multiple tabs and pinch zooming.

why don't they just make it where of you touch a scroll bar in a page it just moves that instead of the whole page?

what's with the little arrow and hand in the top right aswell?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poochie2:
Hello everybody!

I have a chance to replace my (not so old) HTC Hero, which just recently updated to 2.1 officially, with a HTC Desire for about 345 € (I'm from Italy).

Would you suggest the upgrade having the phone or having compared it to the Nexus or the Galaxy S?

The Nexus is quite hard to find here and the galaxy costs 450 + €.

I love custom roms and I'd really want a 2.2 rom but I don't know how well do the Desire's coocked 2.2 ROMs perform compared to the original Nexus 2.2. If it's worth a shot I'd buy it, otherwise I'd just wait for prices to go down or better phones to be available (used is not a problem) at 350 € give or take.

Any suggestion? :p
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Droidz:
http://phandroid.com/2010/07/02/dan-morrill-calls-foul-on-whoever-started-that-gingerbread-rumor/
[myTouch 3G Slide General] egzthunder1:
Thread moved to General.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] NoobGuru:
We prob won't ever see the andorid 3.0 on the slide due to if rumors are true...the minium cpu is 1ghz where the slide is 600mhz. Yes when the kernel comes out and we can oc it to 1ghz prob will work but no official release is planned.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] bodybombs:
google already said that the specs released for gingerbread werent real. so we dont know what the minimum requirements are. there for, there is no way to know if we will or wont get it. i doubt it though
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Drzfr3shboialex:
Uh-oh rUmors are back

http://www.androidcodex.com/gingerbread-is-coming.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_camp%20aign=gingerbread-is-coming
[myTouch 3G Slide General] RavenWulf:
it is basically the same article that came out beginning of last month
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Drzfr3shboialex:
Yeh but for some reason I think the slide won't get gingerbread
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XenSA:
I have about 7 programs that i use on all new roms is there something like this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=366333 but is a lot simpler to use that can just auto install programs after the flash?

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PINki92:
Create "Autoinstall" folder on your SD card and put the cabs in it. After you flash the ROM it should automaticlly install all the cabs, but the chef needs to integrate this function in the ROM.

Cheers!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicedude_abad:
Look for XDA_UC. Moreover, you can try NRGZ ROMs. They have XDA_UC included as well as his own settings exporter and it works fabulously well.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watcher64:
+1 Ditto ....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s_farid01:
Hi Guys,

I just bought a new HTC Desire and want to get into installing new apps.

I came across the Apps Installer 0.2.1 and downloaded it but have no idea what to do with the files.

How do i get the app installed so I can start installing apk file. Where do I copy the files, etc.

Anyone else recommends anything else to use as an app installed.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks and P.S, I love my phone. Its amazing and I hate iPhone!:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bellor:
Hi guys,

I have a problem with my BT headset.

It's a Nokia BH-504.

When I make a call and use the headset, hanging up sometimes sends my headset into a weird state in which it no longer responds to input. I have to reset it. It does not behave this way with other phones.

It does however work beautifully when using just the media routing with it.

Is there any way in which I could prevent the phone from using the headset as a phone call audio device? I mean permanently.

I am using a non-rooted official 2.1 GSM HTC Hero.

Thanks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eggy88:
Had flashed my HD2 to Artemis and after some minor problems i decided to flash back to stock room and flash to lates Artemis.

Did as i allways do: Took out Simcard / SD card and flashed stock room.

The flash went as allways and finished but when the phone restarted it got stuck in the first screen (White background with HTC logo on, right before the red writings stating Radio version etc appears, and cant get any further. Phone stays there for maybe 20 sec then reboots and same happends.

Have tried to flash the stock room via SD card not, but same happends.

Any ideas?

Stock room is: _HTC HD2_RUU_Leo_HTC_NOR_1.66.409.1_Radio_Signed_15.30.50.07U_2.06.51.07_Ship
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eggy88:
Up we go..

Thnx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
if it rebooting itself, then its likely a bent battery pin.

PLus, as soon as you flash a stock rom from sd, (even if the flash hangs at 0%) then it removes hspl, so be aware of that when you get it working and try to flash a cooked rom again.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eggy88:
Non of the pins are bent, all of them are 100% perfect. Have also tried 4 different batteries to eliminate a problem with the battery, without any luck.

If the pin had been bent i would asume that it would reboot immediately, but the phone shows the HTC logo and the white background for 20-30 sec, then reboots.

I'm aware of that, but cant even get the phone to boot right after i've flashed the stock rom, flashing went as normal without any sign of error, and rebooted with the red button after that.

Any other ideas guys?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicedude_abad:
Were you able to perform Task29? Am just thinking loud here, it may help. I had a similar problem on my wizard and it came out to be that damn battery pins. I know you have tried alternatives but just my two pennies here.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
similar problem, same artemis rom HERE

you should both post in the artemis rom thread.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eggy88:
I have never been able to preform Task29 with the exe, i allways get an error before the program starts, but as i have flashed the stock room, and hard reset before flashing cooked room this should not be necessary (Flashing stock room also includes Task29 if i'm not wrong)

Could be, but i cant see any reason why Artemis should couse this. Note that this happend

before

i flashed the lates Artemis. Right after stock room was flashed. Used the same Stock room file as i have used before (have flashed close to 20 cooked rooms) so the file should not be damaged eather.

The other user you linked to got Artemis 23 up and running, and then the problems started after doing custom mods to it. This was not the case here.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaiderX303:
had a similar issue also on the latest artemis, please post details, radio version, spl
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eggy88:
Before the flashing:

Artemis 22WWE

Radio 2.12.50.02_2

HSPL2 1.66

Flashing stock room

_HTC HD2_RUU_Leo_HTC_NOR_1.66.409.1_Radio_Signed_15.30.50.07U_2.06.51.07_Ship

Radio: Stock in HTCNOR_1.66.409.1 (2.06.51.07)

HSPL2 1.66

How did you get yours up and running again, couse no matter what i do now the same problem happens
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sublue:
I'm using VillianRom 12, and it seems the 24hour clock is bugged and shows "12.03" instead of "12:03".

Someone got a quick fix for this? :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Owdy:
Its your locale, does same with Finnish. English works fine
[Hero, G2 Touch General] strider96:
I detect some ocd...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Owdy:
Is there way to edit translations?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sublue:
No.. Nor me or the Phone is high on something.. :p

Must be some simple setting somewhere, couldn't find it after two hours so i gave up.. :mad:

Sorta got used to it now, so i guess it's Ok. :D

"and by the 24h clock, i mean the top clock and the lockscreen clock. The vanilla lockscreen clock works fine, so the top clock is kinda annoying.."
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sublue:
Created a new thread over at Q&A, that's more detailed and in the right forum. Please delete this thread. :)
[HD2 General] katora:
Ciao ! Settore PERSONALE NEL delle IMPOSTAZIONI NON E PRESENTE La Voce INFORMAZIONI Utente , di Solito PRESENTE in WM.

E ' possibile aggiungere Funzione this ? Grazie: Confuso :
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
This is an English forum, you may post in your naitive language but you are required to post an English translation also.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] N0xTrUm:
Since two days ago, i can't connect to my Google account on my HTC Dream and others apps Facebook, Foursquare, Evernote..

I tried to reinstall Gapps and Cyanogen rom, and i have the same problem.. error in the network conecting to Google Servers (WIFI and 3G). But i can use the browser, google maps, seesmic.. and all computers are running ok.

Someone have the same problem?

Solved: I create a new account and late add the old and works ¿?

When i rebooted, the mobile don't charge the rom.. wait with de carrier logo. I wipe and continue failing in the acces to the Google Account:confused:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] skpampi:
maybe?

I had same problem on incredible. after 3 hours with tech suport and HTC on the phone the only way was to replace the phone. So what i did I watched the video how to unroot your incredible and I did it. Now it's working 100%. Resets did not help but that small soft. under video did.
[General Topics] don_yogesh:
I have got message that the "Skyfire service will not be available for your country from 01 July 2010"

So i think we will not able to use skyfire in india now...

anybody know any other browser like skyfire?
[Bada Software Development] VirtualVassi:
I propose creating new section about Bada Operating system

So far is only one device: Samsung Wave [s8500] but next two will be avaible in november.

Samsung made 'Bada Cup', so we can also win 300,000 USD

I hope, that we create a lot of good aplications
[Bada Software Development] svetius:
Are there any developers out there that are already or plan to hack around with Bada OS?
[Bada Software Development] VirtualVassi:
I think that it should great idea, Few users are browsing this section of forum.

Adding it will take second and I think, that users want creating on this platform will be find. Software on bada is creating in C++ and is familiar to Android, also on Linux code. On page Samsung we can find SDK for developers.

Sorry for mistakes, but English isn't my basic english.

EDIT:

Samsung Wave is selling in 40 countries so soon will be more people interess this platform