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[G2 and Desire Z General] tvdang7:
so i have tested my battery. running on hspa+ network i lose about 50% battery at work 8 hour shift some texting and browsing facebook. But it i click the use 2g only i only lose about 20-25%. So 2g uses half the power .

Still i am not happy with the battery life. I have the brightness at half and i am just browsing websites through wifi and within an hour i already lost 30%. Maybe that is normal since this is my first smart phone and i am not used to playing with my phone alot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ihateusernames:
So I have had off and on battery issues. Some times my battery would be great. Other times it would die in under 10 hours. When it was bad, I could see fast drops when not even using the phone.

I tried different kernals, roms and what not. I just could not pin down the problem.

Well, this past weekend, I forgot to put my phone on the charger before bed when it had 31% left. When I woke, it was dead. So, I stole my wifes battery from her G2, which was charged. That thing last me until I went to bed and still had 40% +.

So my wife charged her phone completely and found she was down almost 50% within 6 hours. Now she doesn't use her phone anywhere near as much as I use mine and she is stock with no root or oc. This tells me I have an issue with my battery.

So after using her battery a couple days with me getting great life and her not so great life I noticed I was draining pretty quick again. Great. Well, what I found was that market had tried to update an app and was hung up on starting the download. Once I stopped this, my battery went back to normal.

So in conclusion, I believe my original battery is going bad. I also think some of my issues may have been with market trying to auto update apps. Everytime I get a notification that I have updates in market, when I go there, I always have something downloading. I have noticed hung up updates before but never thought about until now. My wife doesn't set her apps to auto update because she didn't know she could so I am starting to see some correlation.

This is my case and I know others have different issues but hopefully this can help others having issues as well.

Sorry for the long post.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tvdang7:
lets hope you are right. i just called tmobile for a new battery and they are shipping one no questions asked and i get to keep the old battery.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
My brother and I both have the G2 (bought them two months apart)

We both have spare high capacity batteries) 1800 mah... I have traded with him and tested both phones with various batteries and we get between 8 and 10 hours heavy use. Light use we get about 16 hours.

Again this is with two G2's and FOUR different batteries.

Some people feel this is horrible, but this is about the norm for these phones. I definitely have to pop in a fresh battery by 5pm every day to get me through the night.
[XPERIA X10 General] argnom:
Just out of curiosity, since the X10 doesn't support flash (hopefully, that will change someday), then how is it possible to watch videos on youtube with the youtube app?

Does it stream the content using h.264 or something similar? Is the youtube app a standalone flash player?

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find anythig but rants about the X10 not supporting flash when I searched the forum.
[XPERIA X10 General] alankstiyo:
good question maybe is like in winmo

or because youtube and android are from google maybe a trick is hidden there xD idk
[XPERIA X10 General] kmaximax:
You could ask the same of USTREAM , BBCi PLAYER and MPLAYER (beeb player) and how does SKYFIRE stream media from sites?! as they all do the same :)
[XPERIA X10 General] -PiLoT-:
the mobile app essentially streams the 3gp version of videos from the mobile version
[XPERIA X10 General] argnom:
Thanks PiLoT. That explains it.
[XPERIA X10 General] tookieboy:
to my knowledge, it uses some mediaserver thingie, which apparently worked on my dumb T700 as well..

THAT phone certainly doesn't support flash, and when it failed to stream it says failed to connect to mediaserver..
[XPERIA X10 General] sl1nk3:
The videos on youtube are all converted from the original format to various other formats including H.264 and that's what is streamed to modern phones.

On the flash player they're playing a .flv file, which is just a container for the H.264 video. (Also, youtube always keep the original file on their servers in case they change change something and need to reencode, eg. if they increase the max resolution or something.)
[XPERIA X10 General] argnom:
Thanks for the replies everybody. Now I know.

/and knowing is half the battle.
[XPERIA X10 General] Shellcrack:
Hi , I have recently Installed the JIT compiler and from then my pre -installed Youtube is not working properly. As soon as click on the video from Youtube app...it keeps on saying loading video and never loads..i installed the custom app from other sources but no luck .help me in fixing this issue.
[Fascinate General] itzjonjon69:
hey guys just got my fascinate yesterday and i downloaded the speedtest app and to tell you the truth i was a bit disappointed i got 120 kbs down and like 80 kbs upload. I think read about the *288 and option 2 which updates ur PRL and after doing that i got 640 kbs down and 605 kbs up, with my iphone 4 i was getting 1.5-1.7 mbps down and 0.75 mbs upload. I was wondering what are you guys getting? What should i do?
[Fascinate General] rainbow ng:
Mine is 2.8 ~3.5 Mb download and 1.5~1.7 Mb upload , is nearly the same with the Iphone using same 3g provider.
[Fascinate General] chopper the dog:
Ping 110ms 1.45Mbps up and .80Mbps down.

good day.
[Fascinate General] itzjonjon69:
i called verizon and they basically told me that the speedtest numbers don't matter wtf? im consisently getting 100-400 kbps and maybe 700 in a blue moon! wish i could join the 1mbps club :(
[Nexus One General] peadarog:
Hi folks,

I tried out the MIUI ROM and liked it, but for various reasons, I wanted to go back to CMod again. So, I restored my NAND backup of my CM6 install. When I did this, I noticed that Bluetooth was no longer working correctly, i.e. it would pair successfully with my radio, but it failed to connect to it.

When I restored my MIUI backup, bluetooth worked again.

I cleared every cache known to man and once more returned to my CM backup, but once again my Bluetooth failed to work.

In the end, the only thing that seemed to fix the problem was wipe all the settings (again) and flash the latest CM nightlies (very nice btw!). After this, all was well.

I am attaching a logcat file if anybody is interested in the Bluetooth output. My totally uniformed suspicion is that it had something to do with the way MIUI uses the Bluetooth stack to get the radio working, but I'm sure somebody out there knows better than I do.
[Android Themes] ramoser:
Hello,

i have created a cool bootscreen with a burning apple and an danzing Andy :)

To use copy this to a SD-Card insert it in the ePad and type this in the Terminal

Have fun!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Big-O-Devil:
i am trying to change the color on my desk clock screen saver mode... i guess :confused::confused:if thats what its called... i know it can be done because i have seen it in blue and now in green... can someone tell me where to go. or what file is the color located at.....

thank you in advance.... :D:D:D:D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Big-O-Devil:
anybody.....:confused:
[Epic 4G General] faldore:
I see several ROMs but I don't know how to pick one.

Can someone who has used them all please give me an overview and the plusses and minuses?

Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] michel1971:
What phone do you have
[Epic 4G General] faldore:
I posted this in the Epic 4G Android Development forum. :-)
[Epic 4G General] richse:
My favorite rom setup right now us Andromeda 1.1.1a with the MixUp kernel (no voodoo). I think its a really fast setup with amazing battery life.
[Epic 4G General] thematrixkid17:
The ROM that the phone comes with is pretty good too
[Epic 4G General] bubby323:
It depends on your taste, i your looking for a more stock android, AOSP, experience, i would recommend checking out AOSP Magic.
[Epic 4G General] panthar:
It should be in the Epic 4g general forum :p
[Epic 4G General] Zerox20:
Personally I am really enjoying Epic Experience ROM. Battery Life is great.
[Epic 4G General] puppetmstr:
In my signature.
[Epic 4G General] romanmb:
What's the difference between the one WITH voodoo and the one without?
[Epic 4G General] Sleeth7:
Voodoo removes the bluish tint inherant to stock epic... but in my experience it only works when the screen brightness is at 100%
[Epic 4G General] richse:
Voodoo is a different color scheme that can get rid of the blue tint that bothers some people. It only works at 100% brightness so I don't really have a use for it. The I have never really noticed a blue tint with my epic. If you want to know more about voodoo there is a link in the MixUp kernel thread that has all the details.

I should also mention that I use Launcher Pro Plus instead of touchwiz and I replaced the tocuhwiz calendar with the stock AOSP calendar. For clock speed management I use the Overclock widget instead of setcpu.
[Epic 4G General] smoothone:
I second this! I've had the Nexus One with Froyo CM6 and the HTC EVO with Froyo CM6 and the stock rom that comes with the Epic is an excellent performer. All I did was root my stock rom and install clockwork recovery for backups. I then installed the SDX App remover which backs up and allows you to remove any app that the phone came preloaded with. I then removed the apps I didn't want. I also installed ADW Launcher which I prefer over TW and the Epic performs flawlessly! I flashed all sorts of different roms on my Nexus One and my Evo looking for a speedy, lag free bugless rom. The stock Epic rom with 2.1 performs on par with any of those other two phones I owned with their custom roms. My Epic is quick and bug free! Sure it might not have out of this world stats but I do not even notice that in real world usage. Touchwiz is not a huge makeover and resource hog like Sense UI. People complain about the Epics apps and they want to replace them with AOSP apps. TW apps ARE AOSP apps they are just slightly customized so that can be branded as TW apps. There theming is a little different and I actually like their custom touches which I think make them just that much more usable than AOSP apps. It will take a killer rom for me to stop enjoying my Epic the way I have it customized it with the stock rom.

By the way you can also install the custom TW 3.0 which lets you customize the app menu and dock!
[Epic 4G General] richse:
A rooted stock rom is fine to stick with provided you install superuser.apk and apply the fix to joeykrim's root method that allows superuser.apk to work. I made a post with the instructions in the forum. Otherwise you are running a rooted rom with no control over which apps get root access and that is just crazy. Also, there is no reason to stay with the stock kernel. The undervolted Mixup kernel will increase your battery life by at least a few hours. That alone is reason to use it over stock even if you don't want the other enhancements.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
I retired all the roms except backed snacks. My fav and current set up is thee boss rom v.3 with mixup kernel and blue minimalist theme. I also use the paid version of launcher pro. My phone is quick and snappy and full of eye candy
[Epic 4G General] UnicronAlpha99:
I had some issues with the Boss .02... some force closes (which permission fixing didn't fix). I had no issues with either the Epic Experience or BUB'S AOSP roms... both are extremely stable on my Epic with good battery life and fast performance. Currently I am running the latest Epic Experience ROM with no major issues.
[Epic 4G General] smoothone:
I have full root with superuser apk installed and have many apps that use superuser installed on my phone!
[Epic 4G General] smoothone:
And I did not use joeykrims method I used the simple (not one click method) on my macand it worked like a charm :)
[Epic 4G General] richse:
Then you have a working superuser.apk so you don't need to worry about that part of my post but the MixUp kernel is still way way better than the stock kernel on battery life and functionality.
[Epic 4G General] los1223:
My 2 cents:

I'm using Epic Experience right now and loving it. He's got a few options for those who want to customize things like the lock screen, kernel, LWP's and such. Plus lately he's been updating it like every 15 minutes! lol

The stock rom is actually really good too though. It was rock solid when I was using it. But I'm a ROM junkie so I had to go custom =P
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
If u like mostly stock with a couple under hoodods but mostly just stock and simple, noobs andromeda galaxy is nice. I use it and its great and best thing is it doesn't fromat /data so ur phone isn't wiped after installing it and no need to restore any settings apps etc. But epic experience, boss, and bubs roms are nice too. Looks like we are slowly but surely getting more dev support so can't wait to see what's in store in the future. And also noobs rom isn't getting many updates because he is working on bigger/better things (cm6 on epic!). So if u want a lot of theming and constant updating epic experience and boss are better for that. If u like aosp look and feel bub is doing some awesome work with that.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] markz68:
Ok, I rooted my Epic last night with the one-click method and then installed the ClockWork recovery mode.

Now I want to install a ROM and kernel. Do I have to do them in a certain order? I am thinking about the Epic Experience ROM and the Mixup Kernel.
[Epic 4G General] rsbenedict:
Where do you find this method?
[Epic 4G General] richse:
That method is included in noobnl's one click now and his thread also has a link to the original instructions.
[Epic 4G General] richse:
Yeah, you should install the Rom first and then flash whatever kernel you want over top of that. I would make nandroid backups between each step just in case something doesn't work perfectly. It will most likely go fine though, I haven't had any problems Rom+kernel variations.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
Epic experience is great

sent from my epic 4g with no 4g
[Epic 4G General] jojo08:
help needed

so i'm kind of new to this and there seems to be many different ways to root the phone. what is the best way to root the epic and then put on the mixup kernal? (i'm ok w/ stock rom for now) also, what is best way to get the wireless tether as well? thank you!
[Epic 4G General] JGeZau:
Do you have OSX 10.6.4? I am asking because my Mac does not want to recognize my phone, mass storage or adb. Did yours just recognized it or what did you do?
[Epic 4G General] markz68:
What is a nandroid backup? Is that the backup you run from the ClockWorkMod recovery mode? Or is it another thing I need to do?

And what do I use the Titanium Backup for? Is there a user guide for that?
[Epic 4G General] luvjones305:
hey guys im new i just bought my epic 4g today hooked up on metropcs

hey were can i get a new rom an kernel from for this device epic 4g but i cant get my sd card to show on my computer every time to put apk files in to sd card i need help on that too thanks
[Epic 4G General] KaiserLinux:
There is a guide in the Samsung Wiki. That guide is about the clearest explanation that I have seen even though there are still some confusing aspects to it. The dude that wrote it up makes a lot of assumptions about what knowledge you have about Linux, Phones,etc.. Regardless it is clear and well written and about the best guide to get your ROM's Kernels.

I come from the old school. A ROM is Read Only Memory and Kernel is a Kernel. So I despise the terminology being used but it is what it is.

To me there is HARDWARE->BOOT LOADER-> KERNEL IMAGE & INITIAL RAM DISK-> DRIVERS -> OS.

So the descriptions of firmware / roms / kernel is confusing. Hopefull someone can describe all of these in plain english cause that would be helpful. Either I got my **** working.

I did the:

1. Temporary Root.

2. Permanent Root.

3. Clockworkzip (which is still on the root of my sdcard and I don't know if I should keep it - since I dont know if this is a kernel a rom or if it is replaceable)

4. Titanium backup that makes 'UPDATE.ZIPS' ( but guess what??? some kernels are also UPDATE.zip and clockwork may load them) Confusing as hell? Hell yes.

I haven't even used a different rom unless clockwork is a rom. I wouldn't know because of all the conflicting info and I am tired of all the my **** is bigger than yours babbling. ( I think you have picked up by now that the forums are filled with ****heads that dont know what they are talking about and will cause you to brick your phone)

Be careful about whos instructions you listen to because you will be stuck with a 200 dollar paperweight. #EndOfRant.
[Epic 4G General] chino0131:
The best thing you can do is try them all to see which you prefer, or read through the threads to get some perspective. People's preferences and opinions vary from person to person, as do their experiences with different ROMS. What may be less than exceptional to one may be the greatest function in the world to another.

My personal preference is AOSP Magic with Mixup kernel. I've tried Epic experience, but prefer AOSP Magic due to the overall look. I didnt notice and everall difference in performance between EPIC Experience and AOSP Magic. I prefer the notification bar at the top, the semi transparent pull down, as well as vanilla lock and vanilla clock. I know you can add the vanilla lock to Epic Experience, but as I said I prefer the overall look of AOSP.
[Epic 4G General] specialk0324:
Three are my favs;

Aosp barebones with baked snack kernel.....very minimal with lightning speed...that's if the kernel will work for you....for me no probs but i heard others with complaints

Epic experience 1.23 (the newest one) with mixup ...it has speed and everything most people would want

And baked snack 1.3. It works for me and my phone doesn't **** up

Hope this helps in choosing....good luck

Edit; almost forgot. Kyle's boss rom is so sick. I'm just not using it because I'm waiting for his team to make something insane now that he got his epic (i think) i will surely run that and baked kernel
[Desire General] PianoSam:
Hi,

I am being asked by a family member for some help. I should know what to do but at my age memory has let me down a little so I wonder if anyone can give sensible advice?

They have a Desire and are trying to use the Market. When they run through (over WiFi or GPRS) the setup wizard it fails them. Always at the same point. When they enter their Gmail account id and password the wizard goes off to verify this. They have a Data enabled SIM and can watch YouTube, surf the web, send and receive pop3 mails.

The wizard then fails and reports back that there is a network error. The exact message is:

Can't establish a reliable data connection to the server

This could be a temporary problem or your SIM card may not be provisioned for data services. If it continues, call Customer Care.

I have a painful memory that I had the same problem in the past. I cannot remember exactly what I did to fix it now (-(

I have created the gmail account separately and have entered the credentials but still cannot connect...

Can anyone solve this issue please?

All the best,

Sam
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
Try skipping the setup wizard, connect to WiFi then add email accounts manually via Settings>Accounts & Sync

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] iain2510:
May not help but others have suggested signing out of and back into the gtalk service - seems to help many with market problems.
[Android Apps and Games] infazz:
Hi,

Here's a small game i developed in Air for android.

:)
[Android Apps and Games] andreimoto:
eye catchie.... nice one ;)
[Android Apps and Games] infazz:
thank you! :)
[Android Apps and Games] infazz:
Your welcome! :)
[Android Apps and Games] impreZzA:
looks really nice, I will give it a try!

So far thank u very much :)
[Android Apps and Games] wallla:
I get an INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK error on installation.

Disappointing, as I'm using Android 2.1 on my Milestone.

And there are so many more that don't have 2.2, yet.
[Android Apps and Games] iamloco:
nice app :)

anyone can post the zxp extension file

I've missed the pre-release and that would help me port my current app to Air before the official release
[Droid X General] megaman81:
I initially installed 2.2 leaked version. Now how do I officially move to ota version? There's just too much info out there and its confusing. I don't want to brick my phone so I an just scared. Also, I didn't see a how to for this when I searched.

Thanks in advanced.
[Droid X General] DX420:
I'm new to android but as I understand you have to flash back to 2.1 and and be sure you haven't installed themes or deleted factory apps then you can install the OTA froyo
[Droid X General] gunkle:
if you are running the 2.3.15 leak than you have the same system as the ota. the only thing you dont have is the kernel (which is said to not have any significant changes), a changed bootloader with no improvments other than to try and lock the phone down more, and an updated baseband which is a minimal update and you dont need if you don't have any signal issues. That being said heres your answer

You need to use rsd lite and the 2.1 .sbf file to restore your phone to stock 2.1 then you can update. If you made a backup of you 2.1 system you can restore it AFTER using the 2.1 .sbf file. or you can re enter your stuff again.

after you have 2.1 with stock (i beleive rooted is fine but not sure) you can then got to settings, about phone, check for updates and download the update and install it.

At this time i don't think there is an easier way or direct way to go from leak to ota. I would suggest you use titanium backup or some other backup to backup all your apps and data so you can restore them once your on OTA 2.2 and rooted. remember not to restore any system files or apps (example: text messages or accounts) it will cause constant sync icon in notification and only way to remove is to wipe and start over.
[Droid X General] megaman81:
Im on the original leaked 2.3.9. Can I just flash the 2.3.15 leaked update.zip and be done with it? Or will I still have to flash 2.1 and update?

I havent removed any bloatware or any thing else. Just 2.3.9 stock rooted.

Thanks guys for the directions.
[Droid X General] gunkle:
install the 2.3.15 leak and your good to go.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forest4us:
Hi all.When using KIES and my phone as a modem,KIES try to hold of my laptop,preventing use of any USB device(like external HDD),even a mouse freezes sometimes.:cool:

Laptop running Windows 7 64 bit(compatible with 32bit software)

Any thoughts?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tarzanman:
I had a similar problem with Kies. When I installed it, it disabled my USB wireless adapter, which kicked me off of the internet.

I am running Windows XP SP3.

The software is very buggy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
If you can live without KIES, I recommend you uninstall or disable it. It brings nothing but issues
[S740, S743 General] bugmetnotter:
what im looking for is a really simple app that would count the minutes for my outgoing calls per month. (or until id reset the statistics manually)

important is that it should count every call that is <60sec as one minute too, instead of adding up seconds from several calls. thats it

sadly, all the apps linked on the forums didnt work for my phone or were not what ive been looking for
[S740, S743 General] riessiiee:
Yeah me too!!!!!
[S740, S743 General] sasiskas:
maybe this...http://www.smartphone-freeware.com/download-call-timer-reset.html(wrong software...don't bother downloading it)
[S740, S743 General] postih:
does it really work? I removed Call Timers half year ago, because it didnt count corectly
[S740, S743 General] sasiskas:
I have no idea...I have never tried it..