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[Vibrant General] oka1:
Extend battery life

Couple of things I have noticed with this phone

1. Get an app Task manager or similar type apps. There are a bunch of them in the store and here. This will allow you at one click to see what is on in programs and better manage that.

2. Go to the Development section here and read the Bionix 1.9 Thread. It explains how to recondition the battery. Even if your battery is new it is good information understanding how the phone views the battery.

3. If I am out of range or do not need, I stop the wifi and bluetooth. In the menu you can set the settings alot of ways, so you just have to experiment on this. (In home screen, hit lower left button and go to settings)

4. I use my email and phone ALL day (min 10hrs) and typically, I get 15-17 hr of use before it hits 10%

5. Finally, once you are comfortable with the phone, you can load a custom ROM from the Development section. The developers here are very through and Do squeeze the most out of the phone.

Good luck and you will love the phone as I do.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
1 - terrible advice - esp with JI6 having one built in (long press home).

2 - This is also in the General sticky

5 - try bionix 1.9.0 (or 1 if you want alt lock screens) and try JACs oc/uv - great battery life so far.
[Vibrant General] Allen K:
On average use I get close to 24 hours out of a charge using mostly WiFi and enabling no-sleep option, running Bionix 1.9.1 with stock kernel with JI6 modem. I'm also running LauncherPro Plus with facebook widget set to auto-refresh every 5 minutes, the most frequent setting for Google sync, and NoLED notification. I think that is very reasonable.

p.s. I do not use task manager since the operating system is supposed to manage the apps on its own.
[Vibrant General] megatherian:
I use an app from the market called Y5 (free) to automatically shut down wifi if I'm in an area without it and back on if I'm in an area with it.

Works well for me.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
My vibrant is less 23% after being off the charger for 4 hrs. One of those hours was me driving without using it.

Something is wrong. Dunno if it's the update, but something is lilling it FAST - wifi ang gps off the entire time...
[Vibrant General] Raistline:
I use the living hell out of my Vibrant, and usually it lasts for about 4-5 hours. This being during playing games with brightness maxed, or streaming music over 3G and/or Wi-fi.

If I have a day where I am not doing the above, and just using my phone for emial and the facebook and gmail synching, I easily get over 10 hours before I hit 20%.

All in all I am quite happy with it's battery life. I have just learned to leave my phone on the charger till full charge after streaming music drains it to <20%.

I really should put MP3's on it and test how much that drains the battery compared to streaming.

Either way, I get better performance on battery and memory management then my old (work supplied) BB Bold.
[Vibrant General] Superfrag:
My G2 definitely has more battery life than my Vibrant. That said, once you apply the above mentioned tweaks and especially with JAC's OC/UV kernel, and setcpu set at 200-1000 at conservative, the Vibrant battery life improves quite a bit. Still, its not as good as my G2. But not that bad either..
[Vibrant General] k4ylr:
Keep in mind that the G2 doesn't have to power a billboard sized SAMOLED screen either.

Other than that flash on of Sombionix's ROMs with either of the new kernels and then recondition.

I get pretty good battery life because I don't have 3G in my area so I keep it forced to edge and I don't use bluetooth ever and wifi stays off unless i need it.
[Vibrant General] Castle5665:
Ditto!

Fully charged on the way to work. On the charger less than 4 hours later with moderate use. No better after update. Was using a task killer with minimal improvement. Love the Vibrant but despise it's battery life.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
Something is wrong. I just went 26 hours down to 19% before charging
[Vibrant General] qreffie:
People, recondition the battery. It's easy.

Charge it to 100%, keep it plugged in and reboot to recovery, clear the battery stats, drain it all the way, then charge it back to 100% again.

You can start in the morning before work/school and finish at the end of the day. I've never had an issue with battery life on this phone. I can play 6 continuous hours of video/games on this thing and still have battery left.
[Vibrant General] Robertcrow:
Also the g2 has froyo witch uses less battery then 2.1
[Vibrant General] chronos7:
try juice defender it works great for me...
[Vibrant General] MisterJohnnyT:
Can't get past "Reinstall Packages"

I am trying to recalibrate my battery after the OTA destroyed it, but every time I select to reinstall packages so I can get to the battery section, it looks for Update.zip on my sdcard, and it wont let me get any further. All I can do is reboot the phone.... any suggestions?
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
Uninstall Media Hub and make sure Google isn't syncing too often or MySpace/FB..
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Google Syncs as things arrive on the service. You'd have to be getting chain spammed with mail for that to happen, and even with a busy Exchange Account set up the battery is not so negatively affected. Google is not the source of any battery drain. Phones have been using Exchange, Good, BES, etc. way too long for these types of issues to be occuring in this day and age. Google's protocol is similar to other push messaging systems.

Twitter/FB/MySpace should not be the source of any wierd battery drain because the lowest interval the Social Network settings allow is 1 hour and I typically set all applications to this for the sake of consistency. One round of Social networking sync does not use 10%+ of a 1500mAh battery, sorry.

As for Media hub... Maybe. I haven't looked into that, but I rather wait for Samsung to release a fix instead of hack around the phone and end up bricking in on an update like so many on this forum have done.

Keep in mine most people are using the same settings post JI6 that they used pre-JI6.
[Vibrant General] GODCYPH:
Use ROM Manager (market) to boot into clockwork recovery, then clear your battery stats.
[Vibrant General] thegendler:
where is said battery thread? hehe
[Vibrant General] nraudigy2:
My Vibrant is hardware locked. I can't get to recovery mode.
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
You are aware there is a fix for this now, right?
[Vibrant General] MisterJohnnyT:
Improved my battery life...

I uninstalled about 20 market apps that I don't really need, and I disabled MediaHub & Gtalk before bed... and I lost only about 9% battery life due to standby in 8 hours. So, either mediahub or some rogue app was to blame... I will experiment more today/tonight.

The really annoying thing, though, is that mediahub turns itself back on as soon as I go to use my phone again. I turn off mediahub, press HOME key, then press POWER once to turn off screen.... then, whether it is 5 minutes or 5 hours later, as soon as I go to use my Vibrant, MediaHub and Gtalk turn themselves back on again! ** F U ** sAMSUNG!:eek:
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
Agreed.

I disagree. Twitter, FB, and Myspace polls every.single.one of your contacts for updates - checking for changes. If you don't have many FB, twitter, and myspace contacts, that doesn't amount to much. But if you have 500 "friends" on FB, 150 twitter followers, and 350myspace friends - your phone is effectively checking 1000 profiles for updates every hour. That can definitely eat through your battery.

Lots of widgets also tends to use up more battery. If you've got your screen on frequently with a white background filled with social networking widgets, I can definitely see how you won't get great battery life. Not sure about media hub either - I removed that from my phone so I can't compare.
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
That's because they're services. read up in the thread on task-killers for more info.

Otherwise, just delete MediaHub from your device.
[Vibrant General] bdveteran18:
Not exactly sure but Media Hub probably wasn't the cause of your problem. Mine stays running all day and I don't really have battery issues. I'm sure it was a rogue app causing it. Also GTalk never really shuts down so there's no use disabling that. That definitely isn't causing it though.

As of late I have discovered "Audible" and "Tango" are serious battery drainers. Tango might not be anymore since it got an update, but Aubible if just sitting idle kills battery life. Whenever I notice a fluctuation in battery life I always do the process of elimination game.

Good luck

Sexy Vibrant featuring Sombionix 1.9.1, JAC's OC/UV, FFC installed
[Vibrant General] Tarzanman:
Since you aren't running stock, then you can't really say that, now can you?

The Media Hub services (the two DRM ones and the downloader) are 100% the causes of bad battery life on JI6.

I noticed that my battery life was cut by ~60+% after I updated to JI6. The phone would die in less than 1 day just idling.

Uninstalling those services (via rooting and Titanium) has restored my battery life to previous levels.
[Vibrant General] dan0zone:
Interesting..

So now please provide us with a logcat that shows these apps causing battery issues .. and not what you noticed...

I'm also looking into the media hub thing, there are threads in the other galaxy s forums that point to media hub, but its not definite yet...

With the spareparts app, under battery history, and partial wake usage, I don't see media hub or any of the apps you mentioned.. But it can be the same thing that was the issue with the amazon mp3 app, where, it kept reopening in the background checking for unfinished downloads , till amazon fixed it..
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
Oh lordy me, and here I was thinking that the new radio was causing most of the battery drain. It's 100% the DRM and downloader? Oh well sure then.

Everyone hear that?

hey guys, the radio in JI6 is just fine - it's not causing any of the battery drain we're seeing
[Vibrant General] Tarzanman:
I have already pointed you the right direction. I fixed my issue, and if you want to learn how to apply the same fix then you can do your own digging around on the forum to make sure you safely follow the same steps that I did.

I'm hardly inclined to take the time and effort to try to prove anything to a skeptic since your battery problem is no skin off my back. I have already pointed you in the right direction, good luck.
[Vibrant General] j56bp:
Drm. Is the #1 sucker. .LOL

Use titanium to freeze it!

Vibrant + xda app
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
So now please provide us with a logcat that shows these apps causing battery issues .. and not what you noticed...

I'm also looking into the media hub thing, there are threads in the other galaxy s forums that point to media hub, but its not definite yet...

Well, it was definitely definite with the Epic, and I noticed a difference on standby times.

It's a rather quick fix if you'd like to try it yourself. You can just freeze or delete them through Titanium and restore if you think it's bogus.
[G2 and Desire Z General] spovat:
Hey guys, just looking for some information on policies regarding price matching/returning a phone for the g2.

I purchased from radio shack about 10 days ago with a new contract. To my disappointment, I found that costco is offering it for much less. If I return the phone to Radio Shack, will I be eligible to get the new contract price at costco? Will Radio Shack or Costco require me to terminate my new contract in order to switch over to costco within the remorse period? I talked to a sales rep at costco and he wasn't exactly sure. I will be going to RS later today but just thought I would get some advice from people before doing so. It turns out RS doesn't price match which gives me even more reason not to do business with them in the future. I'm shocked that they don't see it as necessary to their business to price match in order to keep customers like me who will often find better deals. They have hundreds to lose without price match, less than 100 to lose otherwise...Thanks in advance.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Adam5400:
T-Mobile told me that even if they (or wherever you bought it) allow you to return it (Within your remorse period or whatever) it will probably not give you your upgrade back. However if you created a new contract all together I'm not sure. They did also tell me to be careful about indirect dealers as their contracts can be more stringent than t-mobile's are.
[G2 and Desire Z General] pseudoswede:
When I returned my G2s under the buyer's remorse period, the Retentions agent made sure the upgrade eligibility on both lines was reset. She then confirmed we haven't done a handset upgrade through T-Mobile in over 4 years now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tiynakiz:
you have 14 days to cancel you contract and return your phone. you should not have any problems in doing that.

i got mine at costco, and was thinking about returning it, and geting it from T-mobile store (don't ask why :) ), they told me that could be done with no problem.
[G2 and Desire Z General] spovat:
I know I can return it after 14 days. My question is, if I purchased and returned from one store then decided to purchase the phone from another company, will I have to sign up for a new contract all together? Or does t-mobile hold on to the new contract I created and still give me the new contract price?
[G2 and Desire Z General] tiynakiz:
when you return it, cancel everything. so then you go to costco as a brand new customer and get the phone for $150 - mail in rebate, + bluetooth and other crap.
[G2 and Desire Z General] pseudoswede:
You shouldn't have to. When you returned your phone, everything (upgrade eligibility and rate plan) should be reset to what you had previously before you upgraded.

After returning my G2s, the rep confirmed my upgrade eligibility was reset back to 2006 and my rate plan I was on previously expired in 2008.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Adam5400:
You have to specifically speak to loyalty to get that done though, regular reps cannot reset you upgrade like that (They can only make a note on your account). I.E. If you return it, you will have to speak to loyalty to get your upgrade through an indirect dealer, however you can speak to a regular rep and you can then order from T-Mobile. The rep didn't tell me it was impossible to get your upgrade back and then use it through an indirect dealer, just that they were having some trouble with that.
[G2 and Desire Z General] IMPEREAL:
There is actually no way to reset upgrade contract eligibility. Even retention can only note the account. Due to system limitations once an upgrade is processed there is no way to make the system say eligible. The price will have to be overridden by care or retention. Retail stores will not be able to match the full discount again without talking a loss until 22 months have passed again. It sux for everyone but its the only way for now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] elreason4:
30 days or so to reset eligibility for 3rd party providers

I had returned a vibrant to a t-mobile store, after failing to obtain an extension on the buyers remorse (gps, retarded file system requiring lag fix, lack of HSPA+, etc)....At the time I was told that my eligibility was correctly reset, etc but online it was clear that my eligibility was not reset...Loyalty told me that it takes at least a month for the eligibility to be available to third party suppliers, and that only customer service (or a store talking to customer service) could override the price before that time....This created a mess with third party sources....Thanks T-mobile....These onerous business practices and policies of T-mobile do not foster customer trust or goodwill, in fact quite the opposite...

I will be keeping the G2, and pray that full root is achieved soon....temp-root is ok for wireless tethering, etc; but not for optimized ROMS....(I can't believe how much smoother the unit seems to run when comparised to galaxy s)
[G2 and Desire Z General] bigstunta101:
yea u will have to cancel it. but what i was thinking about was, what if you went ahead and opened the new account with costco while ur radio shack created account was still open, then instead of clicking new contract, you click, use existing number (which would automatically force close or cancel your radio shack account) then go return your radio shack phone so you dont get billed for it and keep your number. lol i wonder if that would work hmmmmm.... :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
[G2 and Desire Z General] milniko:
Thanks T-mobile for your arrogance ....

Thanks T-mobile for your arrogance .... I want to say, this happening to me too.

I will never forget, how you treat me, and never trust T-Mobile in future
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novagol:
as the title of the topic says i can't get KIES to install in order to upgrade to the latest froyo 2.2. i've searched the forums here at xda and so far haven't found a topic that would relate to the problem i'm having:

when i run the setup for KIES i get the error which is visible in the picture below. i have done some googling and as far as i can understand it the 2057.mst file is some localized language file where the KIES installer gets stuck and doesn't proceed. the funny thing is that the 2057.mst file is in the setup folder as i have circled it in the image below...

i've searched the internet for many hours now and i can't find the solution to the problem, which is mainly the inability to install froyo... i have used odin for previous flashes, however as i understand it the KIES flasher and the froyo firmware it applies isn't the same as the process in odin, therefore i'm desperate to get this thing working... if anyone has any advice or experience with the simillar problem any kind of help would be greatly appreciated
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rcml01:
Can someone help me , I have CM6 nightly running build #95 every time i try to open the camera it force closes on me every time. can some one tell me how to fix this . thanks.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pwn3d:
I just run CM6 stable and its fine
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danaff37:
Go to manage applications and clear data for the camera app
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rootsquared:
Where do you get the nightly builds? I have been trying the cm6 rom but I lose my data access right away.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danaff37:
Try airplane mode off then on and see if your data works.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] antoniomistretta:
Download:

http://antoniomistretta.forumcommunity.net/?t=41324592
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kds23:
hello whats the difference between the two? and will the i9000 will let me save to mp4?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] }{Alienz}{:
i9000 is supposed to be the better of the 2 and as for your question about mp4, I do not believe it will let you, sorry.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmdearras:
Has anyone tried changing the .ISO file that mounts when you are tethered for a different one? I'm wondering if you can load a bootable diagnostic cd and boot a pc via the dinc.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mad Llama:
The ISO only launches in Windows. It requires the Incs drivers to be loaded. So no booting anything.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrlanrat:
I wrote an article on that.

Ahh, So i'm not alone ;)

http://lanrat.com/android/incredible-iso

Unfortunately you cannot boot off the iso, but it does mount in Linux to (Have not tested OSX)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmdearras:
Thanks! Good info.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NickkxNekro:
Mounts in osx as well :p
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dajax:
The CD in Incredible keeps me from booting up my computer.

Every restart i have to unplug my droid.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrlanrat:
I'm guessing it is actually the Incredible acting as USB mass storage and not a CD-ROM. Give the guide I linked to earlier a try and see if you can get your computer to boot of a small Linux distro or something.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NickkxNekro:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b3g3da0/n/RemoveCDISO.zip

Update script that should delete that for you. Built it earlier as a patch for my rom, but ended up including it in the newest version.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
Dial ##7764726##

Then password = 000000

Then choose Feature Settings

Then CD ROM set to disable.

Then Menu key

Then Commit Modifications.

You probably get an error nothing changed.

This is the best way to do it instead of removing the CDROM.ISO file.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gavincol78:
Today I got an email back from HTC about Android 2.2 rolling out to Hero's and here is there response

> Dear Gavin,

>

> Thank you for your email in regards to HTC Hero.

>

> Currently, we don't have official information whether 2.2 Android for HTC Hero > will be released.

>

> Best regards,

Unless someone can confirm if HTC has said that they will NOT release it I will take it that it may be a future possibility.

Even though I have rooted my Hero I don't want to play around with different ROMs like I did with my Magic as my current stock Android 2.1 update1 is good for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] alexluckett:
Can't find the website, but I'm sure I read somewhere that HTC said they definitely will not release 2.2 for the Hero.

http://www.product-reviews.net/2010...ate-to-htc-hero-legend-and-droid-eris-phones/ - closest I've found.

I highly doubt they will release 2.2 for the Hero officially, it's an old phone now.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] henro:
Since no-one told me I won't be rich I am assuming that someday I will be filthy rich!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pulser_g2:
I am reliably informed that there won't be any more updates for the hero. 2010 devices were due to get froyo, but hero won't get any more updates really, according to the information I've heard.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] stanleyxu2005:
The hardware limitation of Hero cannot bring high performance. Software upgrading might make cell phone even slower.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] xchang168:
my xv6875 is verzion version.

i fllash the 2.35WV RADIO in it.

at first time,it is ok.

but,after i do a hart reset,the GSM can register network. only searching network .

use all rom,as Sprint Verzion,it also can not work well.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] cajunflavoredbob:
What? Try rephrasing this or putting it more clearly. I'm not sure what you're problem is. I can't tell if you're having radio, or ROM issues.
[HTC Aria General] kaschenberg:
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_gratia_..._euro_alter_ego_of_the_htc_aria-news-2005.php

This says it all folks!

When this phone gets out we'll be able to port it over in no time. Should be in November some time.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] paty:
I want to change the button icon on the lockscreen page. Can somebody tell me which file content the Lockscreen icon? How can we change it?

thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] antoniomistretta:
Find:

htc_LS_LockSlider

htc_LS_LockSlider_Dwn

htc_LS_LockSliderLong

htc_LS_LockSliderLonghtc_LS_LockSliderLong_Dwn
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] paty:
Got it. Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] lapis21:
Icons for lockscreen, maybe you enjoy something, enjoy it ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kdennis:
Thank you very much! That's exactly what I was looking for!