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[Vibrant General] ConceptVBS:
Maybe you should get a replacement.
[Vibrant General] kizer:
I can plug my phone in around 10pm and at 6am my battery sometimes says 98-99%, but normally is good to go shortly afterwards. I do turn my phone off at night and those that need me do have my home number too unless I'm traveling.

As well I normal usage is 6am-10pm or so and I have typically 40-60% left on the battery depending on the usage. Yes I do check the About Phone and not relying on the wacked out battery meter.

I don't leave wifi, gps or 3g on all the time simply because I don't need them. Id rather squeeze the battery than have something on that isn't being used anyways. Having that quick settings drop down in the Notification bar rocks. :D
[Vibrant General] rjscott2005:
I have the same issue. It always takes about 4.5 -6 hours to 'fully' charge my Vibrant from <10% regardless of whether the phone is on or off. Then after unplugging the charger, the battery info states that the battery is charged to 96%. My belief is that there are firmware issues with at least some TMO Vibrant phones. I'm also dubious of the USB charger. I've ordered a regular charger and I'll see if my suspicion surrounding the USB charging system is founded. Maybe...
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
Mine takes about 3 hours to charge but I normally get about 13 hours a day on it with normal to serious use. I haven't had a problem with battery life since I purchased it but I have been trying new battery saving techniques to see how long I could make it last.

Currently using a mostly black background. Wifi only when I'm in the house. Brightness all the way up. Synching two email accounts and Facebook all day. Definitely getting the most out of the battery that I could expect.
[Vibrant General] joshthewaster:
Well mine takes a while but not that long. I'm going to try out the juiceDefender that was mentioned but the other thing I would recommend is the accurate battery mods that can be found in the Themes and apps section. You can flash with clock work and it's a great way to know what your battery is actually at so you can see how much you're using for various things.
[Vibrant General] dattaway:
Make sure your charger or USB port has high current output. There are some out there with only a few hundred milliamps. The phone will take nearly one amp and should charge in a few hours.
[Vibrant General] rjscott2005:
Excellent point. For me, I'm using the supplied Samsung USB to 110v adapter and I'm getting 4.5-6 hour charge times.
[Vibrant General] dattaway:
Also the USB cable is important too. 1 amp over a long, skinny 5 volt cable can drop the voltage. If the charging chip sees a lower voltage, it will think the USB port is at capacity.
[Vibrant General] stepinmyworld:
I love this phone but I must be honest.. this phone is worst as the Motorola cliq battery wise. it's terrible. I had 100 percent battery life at 8am and at 10:50am I had 23 percent battery left............ no matter what I was doing.. even if I had the screen on full blast *i had it on the lowest* it still shouldn't be almost dead in 3 hours .... smh!
[Vibrant General] dattaway:
One poorly written application running in the background could be causing the CPU to wake up constantly. Yet I can talk for hours and the battery will still be nearly full.
[Vibrant General] kizer:
I know for sure one of the latest versions of Facebook ate batteries like crazy. I ended up installing an older version and my battery life returned.
[Vibrant General] zaduma:
Update on the issue. I was using juice defender but it wasn't doing anything for me as far as I could tell. I have since turned off vibrate on touch, and noises coming on during clicking. I am using a usb hub with two vibrants on it. I'll plug it into the wall tonight and see how that goes.

I have been turning off my wifi when not using it. A little better I suppose. While typing this I went from 49 to 46 percent and I am a fast typer. No wifi bluetooth gps.
[Vibrant General] sigeltek:
Yes the battery drains pretty fast, and it does take about 3 hours to charge... my main problem is... at night when I plug in to charge, couple hours later I get woken up by a beep and popup window telling me charging is done and to unplug...

anyone know how to turn that off?
[Vibrant General] TDS1234:
Something I've noticed that saves my battery while keeping my phone and charging it is going through the the running tasks with task manager and manually ending all the unneeded apps. This also helps a bit of a lag issue and my phone seems to be running a lot cooler. For some reason with the vibrant all of the 3rd party apps that are installed by default stay on even though you hit the back button. So in short you may have lots of apps running in the background killing your battery. Oh and I'm using a third party app called "taskmanager".
[Vibrant General] Stresa:
That is absolutely correct...all it takes is one poorly written app to completely tank your battery life.

I have a certain streaming app loaded on my phone that uses significant battery power even when the process is SUPPOSED to be idle and the activity is no longer visible or accessible. I've seen this idle process use over 15% of my battery in less than 2 hours.

That is the reason that I still run a task killer...to conveniently deal with the occasional app that behaves like that. I know that Android does a fine job managing memory...but there is no default means for it to deal with malfunctioning power hogs.

The only reason that I leave this particular app on my phone is that its the only source for the specific content that it delivers.

Sent from Samsung Vibrant
[Vibrant General] joshthewaster:
So I tried out juice defender and thought I'd share my results. After a couple days of use I am noticing increased battery life. Previously I was just barely making it through a day with moderate use and if I was out late or something I would end up with a dead battery. I installed juice defender and used the stock settings with the exception of telling it to allow gmail and chat to sync all the time. It's stats tell me I'm getting 1.70ish times the battery life. I don't know if it's that great but now I can go a day with moderate to heavy use and end with 30-40% of my battery left. That is a pretty good improvement if you ask me.

I will keep using it and hope it continues. Luckily I only have to use the super crappy interface on occasion.
[Vibrant General] flameinthefire:
whats a juice defender
[Vibrant General] zaduma:
Juice Defender
[General Questions and Answers] courier131:
Any advice on how my phone should be setup which apps etc and general advice would be welcome, cheers.
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Welcome to forums

Enter to your devices section, over there you´ll find a lot of stuff so you can decide what you want to install.

Read, Search, Respect and Enjoy!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kilboy:
Hi!

We have released an application on the Market, and then made the worst rookie mistake possible: we don't have the passwords for the keystore or alias.

Now we have a HTC Hero that's been getting some weird GPS data, and to find out what went wrong we need to examine the app's sqlite database on the phone. We have an exporting function in our app, but it doesn't give us all the data we need. We've been trying to update our app in the phone via ADB with a new function that will give us what we want, but since the application is downloaded from Market and we don't have the passwords for they keystore it won't allow us to make any updates without first uninstalling it.

After that we've been looking into various ways of rooting the phone and obtaining the data that way, but no success so far. The easiest solution seemed to be InstantRoot, but that refused to work on our phone (it just said that the activity wasn't found and never started).

What possibilities can we explore a little further? Is it possible to retrieve the data at all? We've been looking into other ways of rooting it, but most of them seem to involve installing a custom ROM which in most cases requires Android 2.1. Does upgrading to Android 2.1 wipe our application data? Is there easy way of rooting it without needing to upgrade to 2.1? If possible we would like it to stay at 1.5.

Thanks,

kilboy
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kilboy:
I managed to solve this myself after a while. I would post how I did but the forum doesn't let me post the link...

Thanks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] neforce:
Hi guys!

I was wondering if there is a CAB to restore the classic WM 6.5 bubble sms client.

I searched the internet, and threads in this forum, tried some cabs and tweaks but no one did what i wish.

I have:

WM 6.5

Manila 2.5.2012
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nicolopolus:
Hey all, just trying to determine whether this is just a software issue I'm having or if it's my handset. I'm using an international i9000, unbranded, on JM2 firmware with the ext4 lag fix. The problem that's really driving me crazy is that I'm getting loads of lag with the menu and back buttons. Often I'll lightly press the menu button and it opens the search - driving me mad!

Anyone else finding this? I've got a invisible shield fitted, but this problem only seems to have started recently. Should I just stick it out til Froyo?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Billus:
Have you tried taking the screen protector off?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nicolopolus:
Been trying to avoid that as they're such a pain to put on. Also, it's not consistent so I'm thinking it's something else. Seems to do it a lot with internet browser and other web apps...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gravejester:
I have this exact problem! International version, JM2 and One-click lagfix v2.3
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nicolopolus:
Hmm, am thinking of going to JM5 tomorrow - hoping it's just a bug in JM2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gravejester:
Let me know how it goes! :) It's quite annoying..
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wikywwj:
It can only use MPEG4 now when set to 720p.

Possbile to modify it ?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xvenom89:
I'm pretty sure Cyanogenmod 6 rc3 does this.
[Vibrant General] banasik72:
Used the 1 click method to root the Vibrant, overclocked it, and did the lag fix. Was getting horrible distortion when on calls, using the Vibrant 2.1 Vanilla ROM, so I decided to 1 click unroot. For some reason upadate.zip was not on my SD but on phone HD so the unroot was unsuccessfull. Now Im stuck with the root, recovery mode allows me to select reinstal packages - nothing happens - and I'm back to the same rom/root - once phone reboots. I even put the update.zip back on the sd - but phone is not recognizing it or installing it for some reason. I somehow lost superuser as well. Please help me get back to unroot - if its possible!

Thanks
[Vibrant General] pandahboyz:
i'm a noob here too. but this happened to me before (the pc doesnt recgnze the sd card or phone storage. )

just place in one of the drive that PC recognize and then use eStrong or some file manager to copy & paste it... hope this help..

Dropbox is a nice tool too.. figure it out.. it's really useful
[Vibrant General] banasik72:
I will definitely try that! Thanks. I tried downloading/installing Titanium Backup - as I previously backed up apps - it asked for Busy Box, which disappeared! I downloaded busy Box - it said my phone was not rooted! WTF! It looks rooted - just like Vanilla ROM - defiantly not like stock, when I bought it. I just hope I didnt mess it up. After i initially "1 click" unrooted - I thought it had worked, I restored phone to factory settings - this might also be causing my predicament! I just cant get passed the , reinstall packages, in the boot menu, like before - phone reboots itself right away, after partially/or not at all installing the update.zip from SD!

I think I may need a manual way of getting unrooted/ back to stock!

Please help! Phone works fine otherwise - just looks like the Vanila Rom and root, without any of the benefits!
[Vibrant General] freekyfrogy:
boot into download mode and flash back to stock using ODIN :P if you look around you should be able to find some tutorials for it. You'll need to have the android SDK and samsung's drivers installed on your PC though :)
[Vibrant General] banasik72:
OK, thanks - sounds like I have to reroot my Vibrant, since it has a lot of the root stuff missing afyter I accidently reset to factory settings while rooted! After I root Ill just have to unroot, right!

Ill look for tutorials, thanks!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plumflorin:
Hello,

Someone can help me with my problem?

I've just upgraded my G1 with CyanogenMod V6 RC2 + Google AddOn and everytime when I connect to internet my phone reboots itself. It dos that when I connect through WiFi and 3G.:mad: It didn't work even after WIPE/Factory reset

Sorry for my english, guys.

Thanks a lot
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blakeboro:
I've read thru all the posts on Delivery reports etc and it's a bit of a downer that they are either on for everything or off for everything.

Anyone got any thoughts on a button, perhaps where the BSB "Send Message" button would sit saying something like "Request Delivery Report" that would request a report for that one message.

How many of us need to know that every single message sent is delivered? mostly it's just the odd important one

Tip/Tricks/Thoughts and ideas welcome. Even things like "Shut up Blakey, You're an arse!"

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blakeboro:
146 views....No ne with any thoughts on this, seemed to me it would b fairly straihtforward for the right mind (clearly not mine)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chuupa:
put *0#{space} at the start of important texts

{star}{zero}{hash}{space}{your text}

eg *0# Important text
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blakeboro:
Hmmmm Thanks Chuupa but there must be a better answer than that!!

Any Takers?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbobeckyj:
Delivery reports are part of the newtwork operator settings, not the phone.

Create a custom link file to tmail.exe.

#"tmail.exe" -service "SMS" -body "*0# "

copy this code into a SMS.txt file, then rename it to SMS.lnk

(SMS being the name of the file, whatever you want).

Then run this file whenever you want a delivery report.

This will open a new SMS with the "*0# " already in the message, you just need to type what you want after that.

See my sig for more info on links.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blakeboro:
Top Answer, Thanks for that, works well!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] madwolfchin:
Hi

We are toying with the idea of letting user customize their live wallpaper with an SMS alert.

User could upload any picture and specify the fonts and background

When a SMS arrive on your phone the background and SMS will appear as shown om the screen shot.

This would be made available as an extension to our ownskin live wallpaper capability.

I would like to see if there any suggestion to this

Thanks
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] soxozor:
Wow that is a brilliant idea. I will look forward to it.

Any ideas would be

-Different styles

-Bubbles

-Lines(Webos or Android style maybe?)

-Transparency

I think many people customize phones and transparency is a must.

Anyway I am looking really forward to this
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] rubadubdub:
WOW..I would definitely donate maybe .99 for it. Great idea...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] EVO-lution of Man:
Wow! Sounds great. Will wait for a release.

Spoken into my EVO cause I'm probably driving.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] nebenezer:
I hadn't heard of OWNSKIN before I saw this thread. Very impressive work!

*edit- I just did a little customizing on a LWP just to see whats up, WOW, truly amazing
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] madwolfchin:
This is just an idea at this point to add to our LWP customization.

Just wondering if people would consider this an invasion of privacy ? Because our App would be reading your SMS.

How about GPS data. We are also toying with the idea of Grabbing the GPS data from the phone and use it for some Live Wallpaper fun.

We are not collecting the data. But it will appear as a warning when people try to install the apps
[Touch2 General] Trevas:
My Htc Artemis died, so I decided to get the Touch2, its much faster and it brings manilla which is very nice, the problem is it doesn't have no soft buttons, so there is no way to play old games, but this is a problem in modern PDAs, anyway what is really annoying its the zoom bar, what's the point, there is a new opera version, new office, new copilot, and the zoom bar only works with the old pre installed programs, I've sent an email to HTC and they say the zoom bar is a powerfull tool.

I hope someone here can design something to make it work in new programs or anythinf else, anyway I will send another email to HTC to ask them to make the zoom bar work in new programs, its a hard choice having new programs and a completly usseles bar bellow the screen, or old software with the zoom bar working.
[Touch2 General] Gothik:
yes even i feel only in opera 10 that zoom bar should have been supported. yes its a powerful tool, and you sir are wrong about it. its really good, one of the best feature. but its opera 10 or any other devs fault that they didn't support it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Havok316uk:
Hi all is there an app which could log to a text file the change in signal strength? Im trying to determine if a person goes into a dead spot / low signal area and for how long. Its for windows mobile 6.1
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
A registry key holds the GSM signal strength.

Check out this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=382262
[Desire General] courier131:
I'm a quite new user to smartphones I've got a desire but just want some general advice on how to have it setup what apps are a must have and also recently got that stupid Vodafone update.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Regarding the Vodafone update, hopefully they'll have the FroYo release out soon for you branded guys. As for apps, it depends what you want of your phone. For me, I only use it for the odd email and FB/Twitter so I don't need a lot...others think it's a desktop replacement so need every app under the sun!
[Desire General] Kinma:
Just try what other people are using and see if you like those apps too:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=676109
[Android Themes] madwolfchin:
Hi

We are toying with the idea of letting user customize their live wallpaper with an SMS alert.

User could upload any picture and specify the fonts and background

When a SMS arrive on your phone the background and SMS will appear as shown om the screen shot.

This would be made available as an extension to our ownskin live wallpaper capability.

I would like to see if there any suggestion to this

Thanks
[Android Themes] danwguy:
sounds awesome! im all for it.
[Vibrant Android Development] clivo360:
Over on the galaxy s forum (under galaxy s development forum) someone has taken the gps files from the epic and put them on his galaxy s. He is now seeing great results with his GPS.

Can somebody please do this for the Vibrant and report the results?

(The thread has the link to the files on the androidcentral forums, sorry I don't have link privileges yet)
[Vibrant Android Development] danielmid84:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=759976
[Vibrant Android Development] oakie:
did this on my vibrant and have already posted the (positive) results in the original thread.
[Vibrant Android Development] frankencat:
Kind of mixed results over there.
[Vibrant Android Development] drewtang:
I installed this, and have noticed an improvement. I went from ussually 40 to 50 feet accuracy, to about 20, and it seems to be locking more quickly...
[Vibrant Android Development] bradycl_84043:
Haven't seen an answer from anyone in that thread yet... anyone with a Vibrant who has done this notice in GPS Test if this corrected the time the GPS uses being off?
[Vibrant Android Development] Arr MiHardies:
Very mixed results. As usual for the gps fix threads.

Sent from my Vibrant using the XDA app.

Typos, incorrect words, gibberish, and other nonsense brought to you courtesy of Swype.
[Vibrant Android Development] psjames:
I applied the epic fix and I now get in use of 3 to 4 sats in less then a minute with an accuracy of less then 30 ft.

The time is still off by 5 hours.
[Vibrant Android Development] krichek:
Odd isn't it? I just don't get it honestly.. I get 4 sats in use with sub 20 ft accuracy almost always.. My wife's Vibrant shows 7 to 9 sats in use same sub 20ft accuracy in the exact same spot heh.

The time isn't off. The GPS Test program is written by a company based in the UK. Look up the current time in the UK and I bet that is what time you are seeing. I'm pretty certain the developer has hard coded the GMT offset into the app itself which is GMT+1 for London.
[Vibrant Android Development] Shane_pcs:
I flashed it, and while it shows my location very quickly, I am still not seeing the GPS locking in GPS status app.

It shows 11 visible but 0 locked. All in all still not a strength of the device.
[Vibrant Android Development] ttabbal:
I think that's more of a bug in whatever generates the nmea output. It has shown me 20ft locks with one sat in use, which is impossible of course. It would be nice if they would fix it, but at least it gets a fix faster now.

For the time, it's not a bug in gps test. On my g1, it shows the time properly, that's a samsung bug.
[Vibrant Android Development] lqaddict:
I tried flashing epic gps files via CWMR and I ended up with no GPS at all, once rebooted again, the stock GPS got there back, I checked the files that were supposed to be there were not. I have my input in the OP in Samsung Galaxy S development forum. Weird to say the least. I hope the fix comes here quicker than what Samsung vague September ETA.
[Vibrant Android Development] gsvnet:
indeed, or hoepfully samsung is referring to something like early september rather than mid/late.
[Vibrant Android Development] ytj87:
No improvement for me, on Vibrant6. Getting 2 locks out of 10 seen in my backyard, same as before.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mizuchi:
Hi guys,

First time posting a new topic. I have a problem with my Docomo Magic 32B and I'd like some confirmation that either my battery is dying, or the ROM is doing stuff in the background it's not supposed to.

Recently I've been trying out several Froyo ROMs just to see which one is best. During that time, I realized that my battery doesn't last as long as it used to. I've tried CM6 and SuperF and both have given me similar results.

Just to make sure I wasn't imagining things, I used Juice Plotter to generate a graph of the battery usage. Have a look at my attachments. Note the time I took it off the charger, and the rate in which the battery is discharging..

For some reason, there are times when the plotter says that my radio is WiFi, but I can confirm that the WiFi is off all the time. Unless some app is activating the WiFi without my knowledge..

Additionally, the battery is almost always warm.. the battery temp has never dropped below 30C, even though I have set a profile for when the screen is turned off in SetCPU. I have the Max set at 528MHz and Min at 122MHz as the normal profile, and Max 245MHz and Min 122MHz for when the screen is off.

So what do you guys think? Dying battery? Or just inefficient ROMs?

On a side note, it takes forever to charge the battery, even when the phone is turned off. I will try to downgrade to either an Eclair or a Donut ROM just to check whether the same thing occurs.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nickislauw:
hmm maybe your battery is to its end now. :P

maybe you should buy a new one! :D

//Nick
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mizuchi:
Yea, I think so too. Only problem is, it's not that easy to find batteries for non-Japanese phones around here.. I just wanted to confirm before ordering one off the net..