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[Vibrant General] pandahboyz:
I got a good deal on eBay for a 2batteries and a charger for 10 bucks . . Go find out. And about the battery I get around 3/4 day of pretty heavy use, wifi on all day and such.
[Vibrant General] hydrogenman:
get Juice Defender if you want to squeeze even more out of it

but having the display on almost 4 hours....that's gonna suck the battery no matter what phone you have
[Vibrant General] boodies:
mine has superb battery life. I am always confident it will get me pass the day and more. obviously, if I game and web a lot, it will drain faster. For my typical day, it's perfect. I went on to over 2 days with this charge. What an awesome battery!
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
I get about 5 hours of usage. On wifi it goes up a like a hour .
[Vibrant General] joshthewaster:
Have to agree with this. I tried it out and got quite a boost. I didn't keep as good of details as the OP on my battery use but prior to juice defender a was struggling to make a day. Now a day is not a problem. My typical usage is probably pretty high, lots of internet, lots of tinkering right now plus working on morphs and things, I do keep my screen all the way down except when outside (rarely use my phone outdoors so not much of that), no widgets, no task killer. When I installed juice defender I used the stock settings with the exception of allowing gmail and chat to sync anytime. Juice defender says I'm getting an average of 1.7x the battery life. I think almost all of that comes from when the phone is asleep.

Edit. Checked on details.

Pulled my phone off the charger at 6 am it was at 100%. Used to to do some reading on my way to work (about 30min on the train) worked on some morphs, checked some emails, downloaded some stuff. I'm at 82% and it's 12:20.

Cell standby 39%

Display 33%

phone idle 23%

Various 5%
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
I use my phone for quite a bit during the day and pull about 13 hours before it starts blinking at me. I personally have zero problems with that amount of battery life from a device of such caliber. My best friend was complaining about her battery in her Vibrant and like I tell everyone else, it's probably some rogue app somewhere. She didn't believe me so we swapped batteries 3 days ago and I still get the same usage times out of her battery as I did mine and her battery life has improved significantly as well.

I don't know what is is that people are doing to get 4-5 hours but 13+ with average use (text, moderate browsing, syncing all day, screen at full brightness all day) is to be expected with this phone. I will post a screenshot of consistency over the course of this weekend to visualize my point.

Also I do not use a task killer of any kind except the Android built in one and I removed hers as well
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
You mean if you actually use the phone it will drain a lot faster. Your post is a perfect example of what I mean when I said people post very misleading results. For those ~40 hours that your Vibrant has been up, your display has only been on 1,

maybe

2 hours (hence only 8% battery usage). Your result is not accurate at all - you aren't using the phone. Anyone can get great battery by letting it sits for hours on in.
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
Thanks I will look at Juice Defender, but I am not too sure what it will do to help improve my battery which I am not doing already. (I leave GPS off, WiFi off when im not using, have applied lagfix, etc.)

The Droid X is known to get 7-8 hours; and considering the Vibrant has power-friendly hardware, the Vibrant should be getting the same.
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
When you say 13+ hours, do you mean total up-time or total usage time? Because, as I mentioned in my post, my total up-time was ~19 hours, but usage was actually ~4.
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
I apologize for being unclear before. total usage time is about 6.5 hours of consistent usage. Such as watching movies, playing games, and browsing the web. I will post some battery usage screenshots a little later.
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
Thanks for clearing that up! Well, it sounds like you are fairing better than me, but without actual data it is hard to say.
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
Oh, and an FYI: I just called up T-Mobile and had them send me a new battery. FWIW, I am not being charged anything (not even shipping) and I don't have to send back my current battery. I love the retention department :D.
[Vibrant General] implosive_disgorgence:
Can someone post up what they do/what settings they use for juice defender? I installed it but I really don't see how it could save me any more battery seeing that I keep wifi, gps, and all that off, plus my screen is on the lowest setting at all times
[Vibrant General] jdkackley:
Hi all,

What I found out that works best for me is, no task killer, no juice defender, lowest display setting possible, and turning off 3g. 3g ready drains the battery. Task killers are pretty worthless. Do some research on that topic. Android kills programs all by itself. And task killers run in the background, using up battery. My phone is rooted, so I run autostarts to control what starts at boot. My uptime isn't great, but its adequate enough to last from morning to night. I do agee that the battery life when using the phone itself for voice calls is sub part at best. I do believe froyo will help with a lot of these problems. Just my 2¢.
[Vibrant General] MilkPudding:
DON'T use task killer. Vibrant has really good system resource management. With task killers constantly killing core system processes, the phone has to use more power to keep restarting them.

You can read more about it here: http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

And only turn on active sync for apps that you absolutely need to have them syncing all the time.

This should make your phone last for a whole day with decent usage. If you are still getting very short up time, you probably have a bad battery. Call T-Mo and ask for a replacement.
[Vibrant General] fizban007:
It all depends on usage. The first days when I got my Vibrant, I was downloading apps all day, or browsing websites, so the battery barely lasts for a day. I usually leave my phone plugged in to my laptop when going to sleep, and set the laptop to auto-shutdown in 4 hour, so the phone gets unplugged at about 4:30 am. With that heavy usage, I needed to recharge at about 7 pm.

However, now that I'm not playing with it that much, the battery life improves greatly. Now I usually do 10-20 text messages and about 30 minutes voice call everyday, also some browsing on the xda forum, and maybe reply several emails. The battery is usually at 40 percent at 10 pm. The only thing I can complain about is that with 40% battery left, I don't want to do a complete recharge, but it won't last the second day either.
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
I forgot to take pics lol. (busy with my fantasy draft). I will take some today. Rebooting my phone right before I leave for work and some throughout the day.

It still will be hard to say why my battery life exceeds yours but you will at least be able to compare the two.
[Vibrant General] Mark271:
I get around 5 hours display. Using wifi sporadically, juice defender paid version, lowest brightness. Our screen is too bright. Lol on lowest it looks like the evo's middle.
[Vibrant General] mr2t32:
i can usually get around 6 to 7 hours of usage from my vibrant. mainly on the web, chatting, texting, and email. I have GPS, wifi, BT off. for sync, I have contact and calendar unchecked since i don't need to syn those two other than the first time to get my contacts. I noticed you need to have the puzzle lock on or else whenever you get a text message or missed call the screen will stay on.
[Vibrant General] wergeld:
I can get about 6-10 hours. Only limiting factor is how much Pandora I listen to =)

Average day consists of:

Email checks (how the hell can I get the Email app - not the Gmail app - to not tell me I have mail when there is no new mail? kthnxbi)

Facebook

Twitter

Engadget

Some web browser usage

Texts

More emails

...and of course the ever present rapist of my bandwidth - Pandora!

So yea. 6-10 hours is pretty good for me. My G1 would have curled up and died at around the 5 hour mark.
[Vibrant General] cthach11:
Strange. My battery almost tripled too.

Sent from my messenger rabbit
[Vibrant General] Relikk356:
It sounds like the issue that might be killing most of your batteries is constant radio fluctuations between 3g and 2g. Also, 3g uses much more battery. If you can live without the fast internet speeds switch to 2g and I bet you will see a massive battery increase. I just turn on 3g when needed. I've been loosing a little more the 2.25 percent an hour for my normal usage. Batteries will last days without charging. Also instead of “Taskkiller” , if rooted, use “Autokiller”. “Autokiller” just increases the threshold of the imbedded system memory control to you your preferences. This way Android controls what apps are closed and not closed as it deems necessary.
[Vibrant General] z0phi3l:
Other than Lag fix, and removing the update widget I get great battery life

I turn off wifi at work since the router that's set up is garbage and use 3G all day, I also turn off sometimes the GPS and I make it through a 10h shift with more than enough battery, and that's with constant email and twitter checks, weather updates and web/apps being used during break/lunch
[Vibrant General] demize!:
What it does is automatically shut down your data connection while the screen is either locked or off. I have mine set to sync every 15 mins. It absolutely helps exten up time. Of course people are getting long batt. life if they arent using their handsets, but thats not what they were designed for. That 2 batt. External charger is a good deal, but you have to hear that obnoxious jingle when shutting down and booting, so I'll prolly get that Samsung ext,batt.case when it comes out.
[Vibrant General] Relikk356:
See attached image, got 2days 3hours before I hit 30%. Sorry just got the screen cap app not sure how to get rid of the cover screen.
[Vibrant General] :
I can't say what the exact cause is (Vibrant9, had the phone for a while), but I got almost 2 full days out of a charge with light to moderate usage.
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
I realize turning off 3G will increase battery life but we should not have to turn off basic phone functions to improve battery to a usable level.

Oh and i already have the lagfix applied.
[Vibrant General] johnnyh64:
My latest test I got about 1 day and 8 hours with light to moderate use.with wi-fi on for 12 hours but gps, bt and 3g off(just used wi-fi for surfing). 30 minute phone use and 3.75 hours of display.

Trying to upload photos.
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
Mmmm. Thanks for the numbers. Let's see if my new battery provides me with better usage, although I have my doubts.
[Vibrant General] mr2t32:
well, after taking one of the suggestion from someone from the forum, I turned off gps, wifi, bt, disable all sync activity and run the phone for a whole day with the battery fully charged. I was able to go through the whole day without charging. Unplugged the phone 8am and still had around 28% by 11pm. This is with checking xda, text, web, few phone calls and just constantly checking battery life. I then reenable sync one app at a time. After a week of testing, I have found the app that was draining my battery. It was ebuddy. With ebuddy off, I was able to get ~10 to 11 hours of my normal usage. with ebuddy enabled and running in the background, I can only get 5 to 7 hours. I also noticed gtalk drains the battery quite a bit too, but not as bad as ebuddy. Now, i just have the battery save enabled in ebuddy and take the 15min delay as a trade off. I also have calendar and contact sync disabled since i don't use calendar and contact only need to be synced once. Anyways, if you are noticing a big drop in battery life, I would pay attention to any app that requires a update frequency.
[Vibrant General] mesajoejoe:
Correct me if I am wrong but I thought we all already figured out that the battery status information wasn't entirely correct?
[Vibrant General] allthrottle:
If I only talk and text and some light internet usage, I can go from around 7am until midnite on average before I charge it. Brightness is set to automatic and gps/wifi are off. I never have to turn off 3g or adjust brightness or modify the way I use the phone, like I did on my g1 and cliq.

I went on a road trip tuesday and was able to use the gps for 4 hours straight without getting a notification for low battery. The battery isn't nearly as good as my 9700 bold, but about average for a phone with a screen this size.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
unplugged yesterday at 8am, and the battery finally died at 11:30pm after moderate to heavy usage throughout the day. this was on it's second full charge. we'll see if there is significant change after a couple weeks.

so far, my strategy is going to be charging during the day on friday and saturday, to have sufficient battery for the weekend nights. weekdays i should be perfectly fine charging at night, especially once i stop playing with the phone all the time.
[Vibrant General] d01100100:
Before I rooted my Vibrant and removed most of the default bloatware as well as running a task killer, my vibrant was lasting maybe from when I left in the morning ~8am 100% charge to end of the work day ~5pm, 35% charge.

I removed all extraneous apps that I never used, which includes a lot of bloatware that was periodically starting itself even though I never opened them. Slacker Radio and MobiTV was guilty of this.

- Removed the task killer.

- Turned my brightness all the way down (the screen is still more than bright enough).

- Under advanced wi-fi option, wi-fi sleep policy, I have it sleep when the screen is turned off. I have wi-fi both at work and home.

- I have autosync enabled, and set to 30m - 1h for most items.

- I junked the Google Finance app, and replaced it with a bookmark to the revamped Google Finance website. Yet another item that doesn't need to autosync and the website is far more responsive for me. Likely related to a RFS bottleneck.

Now I can use the phone for 2-3 hours at work as my mp3 player and still have plenty of juice leftover for the drive home, over the 60%. On weekends where I'm not actively using my phone, I've gone from Sat morning until Sunday night (over 36 hours) before need a charge.
[Vibrant General] raduque:
I watched 4 and a half hours worth of TV show episodes one night at full screen brightness, and my battery percentage went from 70% to 30%.

I have 8 widgets on my homescreen, a background with lots of gold/yellow color, and my lockscreen has 4 widgets on it. I don't do many phones calls, nor long phone calls, but I do lots and lots of texting and web browsing.

I don't really pay attention to my battery, I just plug it in when I go to bed and unplug it when I wake up.

Oh yeah, and I'm always playing music when I'm in my car, too.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thatg:
Looking for a different keyboard for the hd2 more specifically the Samsung galaxy S keyboard. I've tried the HTC ime keyboard and the better keyboard from the market and actually like the android kaybiard better than both but get the feeling the huge screen combined with the spacing of the Samsung galaxy S keyboard would be fantastic.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] onslaught86:
Haven't come across that one myself, but I'll have a hunt now- have you tried the Droid 2 multitouch keyboard? It's not half bad. There's always Swype, of course.

Posted from my HD2 via XDA app.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] psykick5:
I'm waiting for BlindType. Google it. It looks AMAZING.
[HD2 General] kIsham:
Can anyone explain or guide me somewhere I can learn to change my radio to 2.12??? I've managed to change roms a few times and try different builds, I just don't get how to install the radio file I've downloaded... please help... I have a tmo us hd2 running chuckydroidrom and mattc nexus one build...
[HD2 General] kIsham:
Never mind I figured it out...
[HD2 General] Tref:
Hey Speedy

Man, you ARE fast :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] alansam1245:
I've got the frenzy2.2 v0.5b,but now i can't use vpn.

Is there anyone have the same question?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basnoslovna:
I have a problem with my HD2. The clock won´t work if I turn it off and remove battery (for inserting SIM card). When i turn it on again phone shows wrong time and date. I tried to change ROM but it doesn`t work.

Another problem is touch screen. Sometimes it stops funcioning and the only thing that works is tap on turn off.

My guess is that it`s not a hardware problem but maybe I`m wrong. :o(

Do you have some advice?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dXsL:
looking for a danish keyboard layout (with the 3 extra letters from the danish alfabet). searched here but could not find one...

I have a version for my HD2, which basically consists of a few Manila files that need to be replaced.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewaldtx:
You can use Scandinavian Keyboard, that you will find in market. It's working very well. And it is free :-)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xodeus:
You can sign up for a Swype beta. Yes I know it's a little diffferent to write with swype, but it's so much faster... :) I love swype
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TxDLoaD:
Does swype support danish.

sent from my wooden desk by an owl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frbon:
Don´t know about Swype, but SlideIt (download from market) supports danish and works very well.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TxDLoaD:
I just tried it :)

Its really nice :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dXsL:
life sure is easier in Android Land.

it runs smoother, it runs about 3 times faster than WinMO (on the same device!), and essential add-ons like keyboard are available on Market, instead of windows hacks.

tnx!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardcoil:
Is it possible to hack the slideIT layout? I have to click 3 or 4 times to insert a smiley, and I have that stupid graffiti button there, that would be a good place for a smiley button..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xodeus:
Oups sorry. The beta doesn't support danish. But the version that's newer that around here does...

Har du lyst til at prøve en swype med dansk, så send mig en PM.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TxDLoaD:
I'm hearing you man. I use smileys a lot, so its also annoying me. I really hope it's something they will fix soon :)

sent from my wooden desk by an owl
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Norupz:
I was annoyed about that too, but after a quick look at the userguide I came to this solution:

when you are in the symbols keyboard, you will find the "thumbtack button" in the upper right corner.

activating this will do the trick, it makes you stay in symbols keyboard, so you don't have to enter the symbols keyboard 3-4 times to make a smiley :D

Give the user manual for slideIT a try, it's really useful for understanding the full features of slideIT ;)
[XPERIA X1 General] vagrik:
I Finally found this method for fix Screen Random Freeze...

I don't know to work for All ROM. Plz Report me...

You can download & install this CAB FILE for fix this problem.

I use this method for my new ROM. [XARA Edition Version 1.0]

After install this CAB file, please SOFT-RESET your device.

Please Report Me...

Thanks

Vagrik
[XPERIA X1 General] Russell.Eclair:
Good Job

It's a good idea by provoking the BlockTime to 0,

Sure most ROM will be provoked.

But I think changing the registry is alright.
[XPERIA X1 General] vagrik:
I found other Solution!!!

Soon I write for other information about this!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SUNNY911002:
can u give me the link plz
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sturmeh:
Search...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=724251
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mickeko:
When mucking about with firmwares and such, it's always nice to know that you can revert back to the original line of firmwares should there be a problem. It's now possible (100% restoration is only possible for regions that has had an official update already).

Special thanks to Zangieff, whose finding made this hack possible.

You can actually use this hack to get any official firmware update available on Kies installed on your phone regardless of your phones region (assuming you have the correct data available).

Check the replies for an appropriate region with code. If you can't find one, it's likely not discovered yet (or has not had any kind of upgrade by Kies).

1) Start Kies. Start the upgrade software and make sure the upgrade software detects your phone properly.

2) If your preferred region requires you to have test mode ON, press CTRL-ALT-U-P. You should get a popup window stating that Test mode is ON. (Test mode is disabled in the most recent Kies versions, as far as I know it's also unused, so there's no real benefit in downgrading to get it)

3) Now close down the update program (Do not close Kies).

4) Run regedit, and browse to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Samsung/Kies/DeviceDB/. Under it you have a bunch of numbered keys, find the one that contains the relevant keys (HIDSWVER and ProductCode). If you find more than one HIDSWVER and ProductCode modify the number that also have a key with the IMEI of the phone you wish to upgrade.

5. Replace HIDSWVER and ProductCode with the apropriate values.

6. Launch the upgrade software, and update your firmware.

Enjoy your new firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mickeko:
About the hack:

There seems to be confusion about what this hack REALLY does, so I'll take this space to explain it a bit further.

Every region has a RegionCode (some operators have their own RegionCode too), to ensure people get appropriately localized firmwareupdates. This hack allows the user to trick Kies into thinking the phone is a phone from another region (or with another firmware version). It means you can get a firmwareupdate from a different region on your phone. It does NOT mean you can magically enter a code to have a localized firmware supplied where none has been released. However, should you have a branded phone there is a CHANCE (not all regions have officially released updates) that an update has been released for unbranded phones in your region. If that's the case, all you should need to do is figure out appropriate settings for the registry keys, and Kies will allow you to "upgrade" to an unbranded localized firmware. There is no way for Kies to automatically make hebrew (or any other language not available in chinese firwmares) available in a chinese firmware. Which means that you will NOT retain your localized settings should you upgrade to that chinese firmware.

Here's a list of currently known codes. Please post any codes not listed here that you find, I'll add to this list as they are discovered.

Sweden: (Currently upgrades to I9000XWJM2/I9000XEEJM1/I9000XWJM1)

ProductCode: XEE

HIDSWVER: I9000XXJF3/I9000SWC/I9000XXJF3/I9000XXJF3

Test Mode: OFF

TMN Region (portugal? spain? Something :) ): (Currently upgrades to XWJM8)

ProductCode: GT-I9000HKDTMN

HIDSWVER: I9000XWJM2/I9000TMNJM1/I9000XXJM1/I9000XWJM2

Test Mode: OFF

Unknown region: (currently unverified, will test when I have an opportunity)

ProductCode=GT-I9000HKDXSG

HIDSWVER=I9000JPJG8/I9000OJPJG9/I9000JXJG2/I9000JPJG8

Test Mode: Probably not necessary
[Galaxy S I9000 General] azreil24:
United Kingdom

ProductCode: XEU

HIDSWVER: I9000XXJF3/I9000OXAJF3/I9000XXJF3/I9000XXJF3

Test Mode: ON

Upgrades to Official XXJM1. With mickeko`s settings i get the XWJM2 official ROM.

Going to try some more combinations, I need the one for Orange Romania :P

Multi CSC Europe

ProductCode: VDI

HIDSWVER: I9000XWJFB/I9000OXX/I9000XXJF5/I9000XWJFB

Test Mode: ON

Upgrades to official XWJM2 with OXX *Multi CSC* (for Austria, Baltic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland)