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[Galaxy S I9000 General] azazin:
Hi everyone,

I have had my Galaxy S for a month now, I have been very unhappy with my battery life, so I thought, I gotta to fix without compromising perfomance.

I found it! :D

My battery life during this 1 month period was utter crap, battery used drained from 100% in about 10-12 hours on average.

At the time I was running the latest FWs (I kept updating as the FWs came out) with Mimocans EXT4 fix.

I was with lowest brightness setting, running on 2G without any screen animations.

So heres the fix:

Install SetCPU 2.02, make sure to apply on boot, make the minimum speed 100mhz and the top 800mhz.

This ensures the phone doesn't ever go to 1ghz but that the performance is never compromised (even when playing games, videos, apps).

Because I have the Mimocans fix, everything is smooth and battery life goes down very slowly!

Heres the stats of my battery right now:

Battery Level 70%

21h 40m 25s secs since unplugged

Display 37%

Phone Idle 27%

Cell standby 21%

Voice calls 7%

Android System 4%

Internet 2%

Android OS 2%

You can give this guide a go, sorry if it doesn't work, just trying to help.

Regards,

Azazin!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
Please update with display time, phone idle time, standby time and voice call time. Without it these are a bit useless, these don't seem far from my stats when I use the display for +/- 1 hour.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] azazin:
I have the percentages up in the OP.

This guide isn't just for turning crap battery life to good, it's also for people to extend their battery life if they already have a decent one.

Following the underclock to 800mhz my phone can last this long, compared to before when it used to last 10-12 hours with same usage! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
The percentages stand out, thanks, I saw them. Again, they are a bit meaningless without the time used. If you don't use your phone for 24 hours you should lose maybe 5% with sync off.

So, please, click on "display" and report the time that the display has been on, repeat for the other usage categories, other people will ask for this same information. I don't know if you didn't know how to do that or if you are witholding the information, hopefully it's just the former. I understand that, perhaps, you are doubling your battery life, but depending on the way we use our phones, relative to the way you use your phone we can see better or worse results. Doing this will allow us to know how much you use your phone and for what purpose, so we can make personal judgments about its merits to our usage.

TIA
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dagingaa:
This may fix the issue but it's merely a patch to cover up the wound. From my experiments I've found that in most cases the problems are related to the phone never entering sleep-mode. If you have bad battery life, please do the following:

0. Make sure you phone has been running on battery power for a while, usually a day with only 20% battery left is a good place.

1. Type *#*#4636#*#*

2. Go to Battery History

3. Other usage and "Since last unplugged"

4. Check the "Running" bar. Generally, if this is over 60% something is wrong.

5. Go to partial wake

6. Check if there's some application (e.g. Facebook) that has a high partial wake percentage. This is bad. System should be on top on most systems.

So, do you have the signs of something being wrong? Fear not! Usually this is due to a program or service misbehaving. I had bismal battery life (about 15 hours, just check the other thread for several of my posts), and then I uninstalled "Weather from Yr". I also let my phone discharge completely, then charge TURNED OFF over night. I then disabled auto brightness and "power saving" in the display. Yes, I disabled the power saving feature, and my battery life went sky high. Now I have about 2 days of moderate use (1h 30 min on) and about 1 day with heavy use. Letting any application run while the screen is off using partial wake KILLS my battery.

Unfortunatley, I didn't follow proper scientific approach when conducting my experiments, so I can't say which of the three things (uninstall weather from yr, complete discharge/charge cycle or turning off power saving) that did it for me, but it's worth a shot if you haven't rooted your phone. Post back with results.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] azazin:
Hi,

Oh okay lol, no problem.

Display: 1h 22m 8s.

Phone idle: 20h 51m 22s

Cell standby: 12h 12m 52s

It doesn't look like I have used it much but during the time the display has been on, I have either been:

Playing games,

Texting,

Twitter,

Or Internet.

It doesn't look like much, but I recommend you try this and post results before and after :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
2 things:

1) the phone number thing is pretty cool, in the past I've used "Spare Parts" for identical and a bit more information. I encourage people to use one or the other.

2) You can still fix the unscientific nature of your experiment by a factor of 1/3. You can turn power saving back on, and I'll try it. Also, I'll assume that 1 charge wouldn't make a world of difference, so I think that could've added a few minutes to your phone life (more than charging with the phone on) but maybe someone with actual technical knowledge can chime in.

As for any program running in the background, I had a similar situation where I was going from losing about 30% in a day, similar to the OP, while using the phone, and hence the display, for about an hour at work. I also, always preferred to leave the phone off the charger overnight, so I'd have been unplugged for 16+ hours. One day I allowed 3 things to run to check both battery and 3G usage (I have 500mb per month until I decide to change my plan, probably waiting for the new deal thats been announced for unlimited data for an extra 10 bucks sometime this month). So, I ran:

Sync

3G data monitor (To test if I would go over what I'd use too much data from my allotment, refresh every 30 mins IIRC)

ATK (to kill tasks, hoping they'd use less of my precious bandwidth)

This 2 tasks plus sync just CRUSHED my battery, by the first time I turned on the screen I saw more than 50% drain from my battery, probably around lunchtime (probably 3.5 hours from the start of work). I turned off all 3 and, like you, I haven't conducted a scientific experiment since. :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] XQC:
I tried something similar with overclock widget, but I had the impression that underclocking made the SGS really unstable. It freezed completely like 3-4 times a day. After uninstalling overclockwidget the device didn't crash anymore.

So how are the longterm effects (say, 1 week) of setcpu?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ShezUK:
If anything I'd OC my phone, not the other way around.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
The software probably isn't optimized for your usage scenario, I don't think an underclock, if done right, should be that bad, OC on the other hand...

I'm in the same boat, screen uses 80%+ of battery when the screen is on, as long as I'm not wasting battery when the screen is off and processes aren't running I have excess battery life, not to mention a spare battery, which I'd like to get more use out of if I could better my experience.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mihirr:
crap battery life

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crap battery life
[EVO 4G Accessories] sanjsrik:
I just got my weekly email alert from "The Shack" and it had this link at the bottom to"

"The Shack has HTC Evo 4G Accessories"

So, I click on the link thinking they've finally gotten some good accessories in. Turns out it links to page that has a grand total of FIVE accessories.

http://www.radioshack.com/family/in...m=151172802&csc=97542&csa=151174454&csu=97876

Now, I understand that they aren't the official sellers of accessories, but beyond eBay has anyone else noticed that there just don't seem to be any "official" release like Apple had with all their partners for accessories for this device? That page FULL of accessories that was leaked, almost none of those have come out.

Anyone else feeling a bit frustrated that HTC/Sprint can't seem to get their act together enough to release or get the OEM makers to release any good accessories.

And by good, I AM discounting anything made by Seidio because I don't consider anything they make worth buying.
[EVO 4G Accessories] GaryJ51:
Agreed! Where's a decent desktop charger/cradle? Where's a car mount? I remember hype from Sprint that all this was going to be available. Unlike many, I don't care too much for the $5 Amazon stuff. I don't mind spending $30 for a Sprint asccessory if it's available. I have the Sprint charger for the car that has a usb charging port in the top of the plug. it can charge two phones at the same time.

This is one of Sprint's biggest shortcommings. They hype too much vaporware.
[EVO 4G Accessories] kf2m:
I can understand the feeling. Feel the same way. But to put it into perspective, you are comparing Apple's to Evo's. How many iPhone 3's are out there? It is all about numbers. Now if the Evo was being produced in the numbers that the iPhone 3's are for example. I bet we would have more accessories thanyou can shake a stick at. Pretty much everything outside of being an Apple, or RIM product is a niche market.

The same could be said about America aftermarket car parts. If you have a GM based product you have your choice of AM goodness, followed by Ford stuff. But if you have a Chrysler. Good luck. Us Chrysler guys have to resort to using stuff from other product lines to achieve what we want to do. Much like I use a Droid dock with my Evo. Plus if you pull off that tab in the back, you can use an extended battery case (at least my eBay 2700 battery+case).

Just my two cents.
[EVO 4G Accessories] muzz3256:
That's it, I blame Apple (cause it's fun to do). The accessory companies dropped everything to make iPhone 4 things, they are now just getting around to making EVO stuff.
[EVO 4G Accessories] mj41374:
They can't even keep up with demand for the device itself, much less worry about silly things like accessories ;-)
[EVO 4G Accessories] corwinmortac:
The company I work for orders alot of stuff from seidio, I called our rep today and she told me that they are having production problems with both the car dock and the desk dock and that they expect to have an update in the next few weeks.....
[EVO 4G Accessories] davebu:
Well the 2.2 update just added car dock functionality now, rumored to be released in august, as the media dock was rumored for july and never came... i've been waiting for the OEM docks since day 1... have a great ebay case, no need for a screen protector imo, and got the palm pre car charger (1000 mAh as opposed to 500 mAh almost all other car chargers). Didn't get a micro hdmi yet, waiting to check out the OEM dock first and make sure I can use hdmi out with a custom fps unlock/oc/uv kernel
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] knfevg:
Since I been away from the HTC scene for some time and now reviving my TYTN, I'm looking for a new ROM for it. However, I see lot's of all topics floating arround with old ROMS. Which are the currently-alive roms? Which is the fastest?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Spardorp:
You can try build higher than 23000 being winmo 6.5 with cool layout but memory and cpu consuming. I tried them, but eventually kept running "wm6.1 Pays ROM WWE with Big Storage build 19199 v3.05".

This is because I have the HTC TyTN with 64Mb.

- [FAST] Shamanix`s Grass v2.2 [FAST]

- [22 FEB 2008 / FASTER] Pays ROM Lite & Full - WM6.1 v3.05 FINAL WWE with Big Storage
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] 332017846:
i can't download
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rjstep3:
I managed to download, so persevere. now running Pay's full ROM which I have to say is a beaut. (after applying the keyboard fix).

I'd like to get WM 6.5 on there, but there is just too little memory to make it worthwhile.

rjstep3
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] lynxxx:
try darkvision, I think, this WM6.5.x is one with the most RAM outside? 28-30MB RAM, who has more?

And it has a kitchen, to disable or enable some apps.

But where in this forum ist the description of all the oem-Packages, like GPSID, MediaOS, etc.?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] styleage:
6.1 new new 10th August 2010

Old Que ROM 6.1

V1 Naked 6.1 OLDQUE Rom : http://www.mediafire.com/?8b9p6c3driqwr8f

V2 Full 6.1 OLDQUE Rom : http://www.mediafire.com/?b891mzmbfvvklyi
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] styleage:
can you help me delete some apps defauls on darkvision 5.0 ?

T_T
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] paulvdhout:
you found a darkvision version download somewhere?

could you tell me where?

my other phone broke down, need to use my old Tytn for some time now, and I want to upgrade it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] styleage:
here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=505170
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] miltostammy:
hallo my friends

I have a motorola milestone with 2.1

i want to print via bluetooth. i have bluetooth file transfer and when i sent a pdf or word file for printing it says tranfer is ok but nothing happens.

When i sent a photo everything is ok and the printing is succesfull.

Please help me.

Is there any other application for printing pdf or word files????

Thanks and sorry for my bad english
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] miltostammy:
Any Help??????:(:(:(

I need it for my office.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tongas:
Guess you are posting in the wrong forum, this is more a dev forum than question & answers forum. Try the Moto milestone forum.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] tomthemd:
Open your car with your Windows Mobile device ?

It's not impossible!

I'm looking for information on this topic especially on

MERCEDES BENZ cars.

I'm a proud owner of an IR locking/unlocking MB C-class

and would like the convenience of opening and closing

my car with my cell-phone.

In the past (with my old MB E-class, including one of the first IR opening keys, in which the ignition was still started with a proper key) I was able to do this

stunt with something called a Pocket PC without cell phone capabilities.

I simply downloaded an IR sending/receiving program and was able to open and

close my car with it. However keep in mind that the algorithm wasn't really innovative and the 'coding' that the key/car did was not very elaborate.

Now with my w203 model, I get the feeling that it would be a bit more complicated to adapt such a key into my cell phone.

So I am looking for a developer who could, together with me, make such a software that would receive several lock/unlock codes via IR from the key-remote and find the 'pattern' in order to specifically program the remote to resemble the key.

I was thinking of maybe even making a little app out of it and suggest the marketing of it for a little ammount - like 5 $ for a full-licence.

Of course we would offer the app free of charge to all the beta-testers on xda-developers.

I hereby declare that I had this idea on the 8th of August 2010 at 14:25 CET.

P.S.: There is some services out there - like the mbrace service that offer similar options. Yet, I don't want users to pay 100ths of $ for a simple unlocking service. I think that this basic (and impressive to geeks and girls) function should be free or for a small fee.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] tomthemd:
Ad

I'd also like to add a thing:

Unlocking cars equipped with transmission other than IR would obviously rather be a large problem, which couldn't be fixed easily. Since those ways of transmission are based on other bands (radio band for instance) and on frequencies our mobiles do not support. This can - in my opinion - be only fixed by installing a prepaid phone tweaked to trigger the car opening system when called or send a specific sms or data package to unlock.

If someone can draw a circuit, please do ;)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] alik106:
As a licenced ham radio opperator i can tell you that the merc dont lock unlock with ir at all its on a tumbler radio frequency way above the frequencys a mobile phone can reach and due to the tumbler it picks a random frequency every time so could not be done via a phone/pda also merc have a patern on the unlocking equipment, then imagine an unlocker thats via a hackable program ....... how long before folk have got it unlocking cars that dont belong to them.... could be fun,if you a car thief. but there is easyer options ,as some hamradio equipment definatly unlock/locks some cars not all ..
[Windows Mobile Software Development] rkrishnan2012:
WRONG. it's not on a random feequency each time. it's a rolling code which is all placed in the same frequency but it has a frequency that's definetly not IR.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] tomthemd:
It works sometimes.

Hem radio is fun!

A friend of mine in the U.S. is a hem radio operator too.

However I must disagree with you partially.

You are certainly right, that some (especially the newer) models of MB, DO NOT use IR as a means of communication between car and key. So a solution as suggested in my second post would be suitable.

HOWEVER :) I know (because I have one and I did IT) that it is possible in older models, as they have an IR based key/door opening system. That's why there is a little block (usually on the drivers side) on the handle of the door. That's where the IR device on the car is located.

As I said ... with my old Pocket PC it was a piece of cake to read out the code from the IR Key with WinRemote application and open up the car with the Pocket PC. (We're talking about a MB 1995 E 200 Diesel)

UPDATE: Such IR keys ... according to some key-programming websites were used between 1997 and 2005 in cars without the keyless go option.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] culturelol:
Anyone having issues with Kies updating itself? I can start updating the program, but it constantly says "check your internet connection" (which is fine tyvm..). Basically the 70mb it has to download is taking several hours on a 60/60 cable line :-)

To add insult to injury, when i try to firmware upgrade it tells me it can't find the Informationserver for the device. :D I wonder if Kies and HP printerdrivers are made by the same people :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Amdathlonuk:
The wife has a SGS and to be honest kies is always a nightmare to use.

It seems to take forever to connect every single time, its the most un-user friendly program I think I have ever come across.

To be honest I had been looking at getting an SGS (having sold my nexus 1) but this coupled with the GPS issues is really making me think twice.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] enigmameusa:
I had the same Kies update problem.

In the end I just uninstalled it and installed the updated version directly from the Samsung website. It seems to work OK
[Galaxy S I9000 General] odyssey61:
Amazing that Samsung has produces such a pos software for the phone. I just done use it at all.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ancient_One:
Format your internal SD memory and your problem should be resolved.

They were for me.

Remember to backup your data and apk's first.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twag:
Hello!

I did something really stupid. I rooted my Vibrant, and all was super easy and fine, but my home button was being unresponsive so without thinking enough did a reset on my phone. I wanted to make sure I covered my bases so I downloaded Titanium Backup and "backed up" all of the important things....call log, contacts, browser history, etc. etc. then did the master reset, but I don't think it worked. So now that I have done the reset it gives me force close messages on all of the main functions of the phone....dialer, web, you name it. Plus my home button still isn't working :/

So, the way I see it I have two options; risk sending the phone back to t-mobile under the guise of the home button issue....and maybe pay dearly for it (Superuser is still in the apps)

OR....

Hope and pray in the power of the XDA Gods, at least in order to get this to the workable category. :o

Thanks for any advice!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Are you able to get to the "Terminal Emulator" without it FCing?

You could boot into Clockwork Recovery and flash eugene's STOCK rom to see if that fixes anything.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twag:
hmmm, there's only the superuser and then the preinstalled apps. i did the one click root, so maybe that was missing the terminal app?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
No its not missing, the "one click" just does rooting for you. You have go to into the market and download the application "Terminal emulator," if you're able to get that then you can unroot yourself and exchange your phone without T-Mobile ever finding out that you rooted. Or you could try flashing a stock ROM with Clockwork Recovery
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twag:
got it! unfortunately though, every time i click market i get the force close :/ Meanwhile, I downloaded the clockwork recovery, but I'm definitely new to this, so where would I wanna go from there?

Thanks a lot by the way
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Get Terminal Emulator as well; where do you want to go from now? You want to try to troubleshoot this problem or just unroot the phone and exchange it

Edit: Figure ill just make it easier.

If you want to troubleshoot: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7329357&postcount=2 is what you're looking for. Follow those instructions and your problems will most likely go away.

To unroot

su
rm -r /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm -r /system/xbin/busybox
rm -r /system/bin/su

Also remove apps that require root access.

Either one will do the trick. I would go with troubleshooting, the directions are simple. If it doesn't work then.. unroot and make sure that all the bloatware is there + no root applications so they wont be able to tell.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jzero88:
Here dude. It seems you can not download terminal emulator from the market, so here it is with the root file for good measure. Only thing is I hope you have a way to download it and get it to your phone. Gl, and let me know if you need any more help.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twag:
Just making sure we're on the same page.....so you meant to install clockwork on my computer right?

My market FC's every time i try to go in there.

Any way that I can at least get this guy to fly in under the warranty inspection radar and be functional is the way I'm wanting to go. should i attempt to load the files from the clockwork program into my phone? Sorry I'm so fuzzy on this.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smashpunks:
One click root and unroot here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=746129
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAKIDD236:
If you can follow directions good, this post should solve your problem. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=747634&page=2
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jzero88:
Hey bro, here is a simple fix.

Download ROM Manager which I attached below and install it. Within ROM Manager you will have a option to install Clockwork, so go ahead and install in through ROM Manager. ( Clockwork gets installed on your device ). Then follow this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=740077 to download a stock Vibrant Rom. Follow the instructions on how to install the ROM, and you should be good.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsadizasta:
Forgot permission for "unknown" in superuser app

Ok, so I accidently tapped forget for the "unknown" in super permissions and now when I try to type su in adb shell it says access denied. Any help?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sendress:
I ve tried about 4 imulaters none will open.then I thought I had found the aswers to one of my issues, getting terminal imulator to work. But after ive installation and reboot just for good measure. I get the message that I cant install apps connected to the market. Im thinking maybe I should try unrooting and resetting the imei. Is there another way?