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[Hero CDMA General] unCoRrUpTeD:
I'm running the latest froyo build and mine now says sprint.
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
I just tried to go to my market, which didn't have that button last time I looked. My market was on the downloads screen already, so I pressed my back hardkey and it closed. I relaunched, and it closed itself again. I launched it a 3rd time and bam, the sprint button.

Junk apps in there, nothing related to or released by Sprint, either. Just a waste of space.

How do we stop that from updating, and how can we get the old one back with the downloads button instead of that dumbass sprint button?
[Hero CDMA General] HeroMeng:
Maybe it has to do with the prl. I'm on CyanogenMod 6 Test 4 and PRL 60666, just rebooted and it still says downloads.
[Hero CDMA General] ziggy682:
Because it always had a "Downloads" button whenever you pressed Menu from the market home screen. That's always been there, and I just verified it on my wife's Samsung Intercept (which still has the old Downloads tab).

What has changed is the tab has changed to link from Downloads to apps that Sprint is pushing now, just like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all do.
[Hero CDMA General] VampireRollen:
I'm on RC1 with latest prl and I've cleared cache and rebooted and I don't see a Sprint tab. I've changed Sprint in eri.xml. Could that be why?
[Hero CDMA General] Irisht:
I bet, the market is seeing your phone make... Hero200 which is unique to sprint and a few other small carriers that piggyback off of sprint. Not to mention subsidized MEID's and snooper trackers that tell a carrier exactly which device you are using. Just some food for thought. :)
[Hero CDMA General] feefeeboomboom:
Mine did thus crap to... lame super lame.
[Hero CDMA General] intx:
Can debunk this, I'm using a PRI from the Eris builds w/ Fresh 2.3.3 and I just noticed "Sprint" there.
[Hero CDMA General] cteneyck:
i don't have the sprint button yet

Im using DD2.7 "kangslayer" with the newest prl

market version 1713

cleared cache and rebooted

still no sprint button
[Hero CDMA General] gonzoangel:
ditto
[Hero CDMA General] Zardos66:
Sprint button on latest Fresh release.

Not really that big of a deal though.
[Hero CDMA General] d-shade:
I have the sprint button as well using RC1 although I am not with sprint.... maybe it is related to the mnc setting?
[Hero CDMA General] Irisht:
Same Here. No Sprint button either.
[Hero CDMA General] :
I have market ver. 1712,running Fresh 2.3.3 and now have the sprint button:mad:
[Hero CDMA General] ipfreelytech:
*Non sprint user* My market still has downloads tab. I get a downloads option as well when i push menu. I'm running Csrom 2.1.2 and I was too lazy to change the xml file so my screen even says sprint.

and whoever said smaller carriers "piggyback" off sprint is dead wrong. The closest sprint tower is well over 1000 miles away as they have none in Alaska. To the best of my knowledge none of the other members of the ACG "piggyback" on anyone's networks; they all operate independent networks.
[Hero CDMA General] danaff37:
I think they are referring to boost and virgin mobile, as they use the sprint network.
[Hero CDMA General] user7618:
Running Iced Honeybun 3.6 here and I got the Sprint tab. It's for carrier suggested apps. They are all crap, IMHO.
[Hero CDMA General] danaff37:
considering most of us here refuse to run a carrier suggested RUU or OTA, why would we want their suggestions on apps? lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaokollaa:
this is my problem

i have clockworkmode recovery 1.8.... and i need the new version

i try to flash the 2. something with rom manager and when i reboot my phone into the recoverey it ask me for (apply update.zip) when i hit that the clockworkmode version is still 1.8...... i dont know why

i try to flash the amom_RA recovery with rom manager and its the same apply update.zip and it goes back to clockworkmode

the reason for what i need this is becouse i cant install the new radio with my recovery and also cant install the cyanogen mode rom

please if some one know how to solve this please let me know..

thanx in advance and sorry my english is not perfect
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DomSim:
You do not flash an update.zip to update clockworkmod. You just launch rom manager then click the top button to flash the latest version. Also, you can scroll down to the bottom and there is an option to flash an alternate recovery to flash ra
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaokollaa:
yes i did that and when my phone reboot i hit recovery and then i press volume up and power like allways and then i see this screen

android system recovery <2e>

use volume key to highlight :

click power key to select

reboot system now

apply sdcard: update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

the only option i have is apply update.zip so please help thanx what i have to do to get a new recovery without this option (apply update.zip) or a newer update.zip file ?????
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 702DROID:
rename or remove that update zip from card
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaokollaa:
i did that and the same menu appears and i hit update.zip and now it give me a error after that error the only option i have is reboot

thanx
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaokollaa:
please help!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
So you have your zip file that you want to flash on the root of your sd card?

What recovery are you running right now?

what error is it giving you now?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaokollaa:
ok look im gonna tell you step by step

-i enter to rom manager

-flash lastest clockworkmode i think is 2. something

-reboot

-hold volume down and power and i see this:

SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.79.0000

MICROP-O41F

TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab

RADIO-1.39.00.04.26

APR 14 2010,15:41:34

HBOOT

FASTBOOT

RECOVERY

CLEAR STORAGE

SIMLOCK

HBOOT USB

-----------------------------------

SO I CLICK RECOVERY

and it boot into the recovery and i see this pressing up voume and power

reboot system now

apply sdcard: update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

thats all i see so i click update.zip and i see this:

clockworkmod recovery v1.8.1.7

- reboot system now

- apply sdcard: update.zip

- wipe data/factory reset

- wipe cache partition

- install zip from sdcard

- nandroid

- partition menu

- advanced

- +++++Go back+++++++

so you cAN see my clockworkmod is not updated its still 1.8.0.7

and the same happends if i flash amom_RA recovery i see the same menus

and with this clockworkmod version i cand update the radio and i cant install cyanogenmod 6

please help if any idea thanx in advance
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
is your NAND unlocked? I am running the eng-boot loader and my version is 0.76.2000

I am not 100% sure because I don't use clockwork, but I think the newer ones actually flash the recovery partition, whereas the older ones put an update.zip onto the sd card. So if you are sure that your NAND is unlocked, you should delete that update.zip on your sd card. If your NAND is not unlocked then you need to go do that :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaokollaa:
yeahhhh thank you men it fynaly works
[Vibrant General] YR11:
How has everyone's battery life been with the Vibrant? I'm having a few issues with mine, I barely used my phone today, and its down to 57%, with cell standby taking up 33% of the battery.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Search the threads.seriously there are like 5000 battery life threads
[Vibrant General] mystycs:
So is there a fix for it? Or is it all samsungs fault? Or will the update solve it? This sucks, my battery can loose 30 percent in a matter of 2 hours...
[Vibrant General] kizer:
Your battery has and always will react to the way you use it. If you a new user and play with it all day then its going to go fast. If you use 3g, wifi, bright screen you are going to get crappy battery life.

If you use it like a normal person with 6 to 10 calls a day, light web usage, some text messages you should get a battery to last you all day.

Fire up the screen and watch videos or listen to mp3's all day well then your not.
[Vibrant General] mystycs:
I turned off every little thing, and i still get crappy battery. Wifi off, gps off, sync off, wallpaper off, the whole shabang.
[Vibrant General] down8:
Does your phone actually die, or does it just show a percentage you are unhappy with?

The measurement seems to be a bit off on the Vibrant.

-bZj

_____

-sent from my Samsung Vibrant via XDAapp
[Vibrant General] splat matt:
I was disappointed woth my battery life as well. But I wiped the phone and the battery performs better in my mind. Anyone else have a similar experience?
[Vibrant General] DKYang:
After discharging/conditioning it a couple times, my battery is much better. 9 hours of standby overnight, it only lost 10% battery. That's pretty good IMO.
[Vibrant General] YR11:
I just unplugged my phone an hour ago, watched some videos, browsed the web and my battery is down to 86%. It dropped 14% in less than an hour!
[Vibrant General] ram100987:
Is this your first smart/android phone? Your battery doesn't sound far off for an high end smart phone.you'll eventually learn how to extend the battery, especially after the newness wears off and your not playing with it 24/7 like most of us right now.remember this is an extremely high end phone, it takes a lot of juice to run the high end chip set.if you buy a high performance sports car do you expect to have some fun with it and get 30+mpg doing so? You've gotta understand what you've got. Soon enough there will be extended batteries available and if your willing to root, many devs are capable if tweaking the os to get the most out of the battery without hampering speed our features.
[Vibrant General] dalepa:
I'm having major issues too. Down to 28%(down to 25% now just typing this message) after 3 hours this morning. I just powered off and back on and I went from 50% down to 28%

Here we go again g1 all over again Seems like the only way to keep power is to uninstall everything.

I'm also seeing cell standby as a possible issue.

Frustrated... Guess it's time to reset to see if one of my apps is the issue...
[Vibrant General] MMcCraryNJ:
I have 35 percent left after being off of the charger for 1 day and 5 hours. This is with light to moderate use, meaning some browsing, some phone calls, some market downloads, about 20 minutes of gaming, syncing, and reading e-mails. Of course my mileage varies if use the phone more. When the phone is about to die I'll snap a pic to share how long a full charge has lasted me.

Already this battery is lasting me 2-3x longer than the G1.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
I tried a different battery and it's been really good to me =)
[Vibrant General] dalepa:
What percent do you show for "cell standby" from setting->about phone->battery use? I'm starting to think that my poor reception area is my issue.
[Vibrant General] Vegastouch:
I think the battery percentage shown in the Status is off compared to what is shown on the battery icon. That said, my battery lasts all day with normal use. If i use the web more than normal, of course the battery goes faster but still i usually get all day out of it. May have to charge it some in the evening.

Was hoping it would be better like the iPhone 4 battery seems to be. It is said that 2.2 will have a bit battery life but we'll see. Believe it when i see it.....if we ever get the update :cool:
[Vibrant General] IDtheTarget:
My wife and I got Vibrants at the same time. She was getting great battery life, around 70% by the end of they day, and I was dying just after 1pm. I assumed that i had a defective phone, but decided to wipe it and try running "stock" prior to returning it for a new one.

After wiping the phone and starting over, I'm getting much better battery life, but I think that it's because I didn't use "push" email. I have a corporate Exchange email/calendar/contacts account, and before I had it set to 'push" (or something like that, my phone is syncing DoubleTwist right now, so I can't check. ;) ) When I re-setup my email account, I told it to check only every 15 minutes.

My battery life has been much better this time around, and I think the email sync setting is 1/2 the reason, the other half being that T-Mobile coverage isn't great where I've been the last week. I'm guessing that the "push" sync meant that the phone needs to keep a data link to the server, which is fine if you have strong coverage. When it's weak, then the radio has to work overtime trying to maintain a link, which drains the battery.

I'm going to try this out today and tomorrow, and if the battery life is better than I'll keep it rather than try trading for a new one.
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
For one, if you're having a battery issue, buy a charger or spare battery. Get a task manager to kill your apps after a certain time and check into what services are running in the background. Just cause you're not playing with the phone doesn't mean its not running or using the battery.
[Vibrant General] MMcCraryNJ:
Cell Standby is at 24 percent.
[Vibrant General] YR11:
Maybe its some quality control issue in the batteries? Everyone is getting such varied battery performance. I'm thinking of calling T-Mobile and requesting a new battery.
[Vibrant General] Welshy992:
I notice on reboots many apps get started automatically. I've gotten better battery life just by manually shutting them down with astro file manager app. Ultimately any time an app is running even if its not using cpu cycles it still costs power to keep it in ram. Manually shutting down will minimize this obviously.
[Vibrant General] MMcCraryNJ:
Still about 10 percent left on the battery, will probably run in standby for another hour, hour and a half, but this is how much I got out of one full charge. Light to moderate use, screen brightness turned all the way up, pure black background (don't know if that makes any difference), syncing set to once daily for all of my accounts, GPS and Bluetooth on.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
I really think it might be a quality issue with the batteries.... my new battery has been giving me awesome battery life. Production date 6/28 vs my old one which was 6/21
[Vibrant General] dalepa:
I reset my phone and it resolved my battery issue. After a full charge, I'm only down to 85% after 5 hours. Now when I go into sleep mode, I'm getting no drain.

I must have installed some bad app causing the drain...

I'm going to slowly start reinstalling apps until i find the problem.

Battery graph is a great app for graphing drain over time
[Vibrant General] kizer:
Regular use of my phone with some phone calls, emails, txt messages, updating apps via the market, surfing and its been 15:55:37 off the charger and my About Phone says I'm sitting at 71% on the battery.

On my G1 at best I was typically around 50% after the same amount of time using a 1400MaH after market battery. It appears that this thing seems to get a little better each night or maybe its because I abuse it less every night. ;)
[Vibrant General] YR11:
I tried the navigation app today for a short ride and the battery dropped 30% in 20 minutes!
[Vibrant General] couped:
Lol task killers increase battery drain.
[Vibrant General] michael800:
I thought the same until I did my own testing. I had no task killer last night (after doing a factory reset) and in standby mode for 9 hours the battery went from 100% to 77%. This afternoon I installed Advanced Task Killer again and in the past 2 hours in standby mode the battery percentage has stayed not changed (stayed at 69% so far).

I experienced the same last week when I had ATK and overnight in standby mode I only lost 6% in 10 hours (this is with live wallpaper and weather/clock widget as well).
[Vibrant General] YR11:
This is crazy I unplugged my phone at about 9 this morning, it's about 1 now and my phone is already down to 40%. I've barely used it!
[Vibrant General] runal:
Screebl

I've been using Screenbl and I like it a lot but I realized it's been consistently using 5% or 6% of the battery. I stopped it and I've seen an improvement. Obviously battery life depends on the usage but with normal usage I've been seeing at least full 24 hours before there is a need for recharge.
[Vibrant General] jackhuny:
That sounds just fair! Do the calc it gives you about 6-7 hours of video base on your result.
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
What are your settings for ATK? Is it auto killing?
[Vibrant General] Yogi76:
My wife and I were getting pretty good battery life until I enabled Latitude in the Maps app. For the last two days, neither of us have made it through a full day. I just turned Latitude off on both our phones, so we'll see how we do tomorrow.

I'd really like to get an extended life battery. I know that it will increase the thickness, but I'm fine with that. I wish someone would release one.

Yogi
[Vibrant General] BigWorldJust:
My phone barely dies, lol. I unplug it at 9AM and plug it back in at about 12AM and it is at about 40% to 50% with some moderate usage such as video viewing and texting.
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
The reception problems are REALLY taking a toll on battery life. Those getting great battery are probably in coverage-saturated areas.
[Vibrant General] Raceves:
Yeah this is true. In my room I go in and out of 3G at certain spots, but I found a spot where it gets decent reception and that's where I set it at night. The battery lasts longer over night this way.

The longest my battery has lasted on moderate use has been around 22 hours.
[Vibrant General] YR11:
So after my phone died after about 4 hours of use today, I fully charged it, unplugged it at like 6 PM, didn't touch it. Its now 12AM and my phone has dropped to 58% and I haven't even used it in that time!
[Vibrant General] verve50:
The facebook app may have been the culprit of my bad battery life..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=744974

Still to early to tell..
[Vibrant General] Yogi76:
After turning off Latitude, I charged my phone fully last night. I took it off the charger at 5:00 this morning and haven't used it at all. I just checked it and the phone is hot and an only has 50% battery remaining. I'm uninstalling the Facebook app now. I installed the update at about the same time I turned on Latitude, which is aboout when I started noticing the terrible battery life.
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
Unrelated, but yeah I do expect that now with the new technologies coming alone

How about 94+ mpg for a super car?

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/porsche-918-spyder-confirmed-2010-07-29

Anyway, the battery tech is so behind today's demand for hungry smart gadgets power users.
[Vibrant General] JeremyNT:
I can't complain about battery life. Except...

Twice now, I've done something that caused my Vibrant to chew through battery like there's no tomorrow, and I can't figure out what it was. It was really, really bad, like gone from full to nothing in 4 hours with pretty much no usage. And it got hot as hell.

I'm thinking I ran some rogue app, but I can't pinpoint what it was yet.

Aside from that, my battery life is good. Average usage gives me a full day. Heavy usage (lots of Pandora, nav, and surfing) gives me about 8 hours. I'm observing that battery life under "normal" usage is about the same as my iPhone 3G was, but for heavy usage the Vibrant seems to hold up a bit better. Pandora on my iPhone would drain the battery within 4-5 hours if I didn't plug it in.
[Vibrant General] Chalup:
Yea, this phone has better battery life than my last phone.
[Vibrant General] jcott28:
The battery life had been great for me. I have a hard time deciding whether to charge it over night most of the time.

As for the rogue application, just go to settings, about phone and look up what's been rating the bulk of the battery. It should always be the display as the number one eater.(at least I would think it would be#1. Regardless it should tell you what ate your battery.
[Vibrant General] }{Alienz}{:
When I first got it, battery life SCARED the crap out of me.

I started conditioning the battery by draining it to 1% every night before a charge. I'm not sure if it did any good but here is what I'm getting right now.

Last night statistics: Uptime 15.5 hours till it got to 1%

Usage: 1 FULL hour of GPS navigation, 4-5 hours of music at full volume, ~200 texts, ~20 minutes in phone calls, 1 hour of video, 3 hours of tinkering with applications/web browsing/installing stuff from market. Wi-Fi was enabled for ~5 hours.

Overall, I was PRETTY happy it managed to last that long considering the usage I put it through. I kept the screen at minimum brightness (except when in direct sunlight, then I adjust it to full by swiping my finger on the notification bar). GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi were turned on on demand only. I do not have a data plan on it so 3G was off the entire time. However, I did have Wi-Fi enabled for about 5 hours and I did reinstall a bunch of apps on it. I will likely still buy a 3500mah battery when they show up for the Vibrant (to last me a good 3 days with HEAVY usage) but for now, I'm satisfied with my battery.
[Vibrant General] Chalup:
I'd sure as hell be satisfied too :) Would anyone happen to know for a fact whether the 3g radio uses more energy than edge when the phone is in standby?
[Vibrant General] Mark271:
Would a 3500mah battery fit in the phone just like ours? How much would it cost?
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
Since I am getting accustomed to it now, here are the pics

I think it's decent for a smartphone.

Do I wish it was better? OF COURSE :)!
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
Mine varies depending on me basically. That should be an obvious point but when I get into work, three hours later i'll still have battery life withing the 92%-98% range. I use it mostly on lunch for all my web surfing and stuff but by the time I leave 7 hours later i'm looking at about 75% roughly. Screen brightness all the way up, syncs both of my gmail accounts plus t-mobiles social network app.
[Vibrant General] achild:
Today, my second day having it I only got about 5 hours worth of battery. No real heavy usage. I was on wifi and bt...but not really using it that heavily beside just browsing through the market and menus. I will keep an eye on it and report back the next couple of days.
[Vibrant General] verve50:
Battery life is great after updating the Facebook app. Took off charge at 3pm and am at 90% at 9:45pm. 10 min phone calls and 25 min of surfing the internet. Much better than before in almost 7 hours of leaving my phone in standby I would have been down to about 50%..
[Vibrant General] tehnick:
I've recently gotten the phone and moved from a Moto Droid on CM6. Battery life on this phone is better than the Droid and I've been using it quite a bit because of being a new toy. I'm sure when the battery is conditioned it will run a little better. Right now, I'm getting about 8 hours of use on it before I need to recharge and I've had it for a couple days.
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
how on earth!?
[Vibrant General] }{Alienz}{:
3500 or at least 3000mAh batteries should be out soon enough from Seidio. They had them for the Nexus one afterall and the Galaxy S phones are outselling the Nexus easy. Will they fit? No. They will not. You WILL need a need back cover adding ~1-3mm on the back depending how large a battery you get. I think the phone is thin enough as is. Adding to it won't make it too bulky but I'd love it being able to hold 30-40 hours with decent usage.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Something strange has happened to my battery life! I typically get 11-12 hours before my battery starts flashing to charge....but as of yesterday...my phone started sipping on battery...i currently have over 1 DAY 5 hours and 34 minutes and still have 19% left...

The only problem is... I don't know why so I don't know if it'll be like this from now on...i haven't downloaded anything but games recently and don't use a task manager or juice defender or anything...haven't changed any settings recently either. I hope this is for good!