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[Nexus S General] benjar:
I thought I'd share some hopefully helpful information with you guys after having to have 2 swap outs of my Nexus S after getting it on launch day.

I had done an awful lot of reading prior to getting my Nexus to make sure I was pretty clued up about any potential launch bugs which seem to plague a number of handsets these days.

The first thing I noticed with my first phone was the unusually fast battery drain and long charge times, I could hardly go through daylight hours without my phone needing charge (Battery indicator showing orange or red). The following night I left the phone with 55% charge and went to sleep. When I woke up the phone was off, strange I thought; turns out it had eaten the rest of the battery over night.

The final straw came when I reset the phone to default settings (thinking it was a rogue app causing the drain) and it still ate the battery within a day. At this point I knew something was up, especially as reviewers were commenting that the battery seemed considerably better than a lot of other Android handsets.

I decided to take it back to Best Buy to get a swap out, long story short the sales rep. tested the battery and told me that it was defective. He then said he would swap out just the handset and battery with another unit, great I thought!

My relief was soon disturbed when I realised something wasn't right with the screen on my new handset. Not only was the screen a pee yellow colour (compared with the cool temperature of the original) there was also significant banding within the grey area of the the pull down notification tray. These problems had also been mentioned on the Engadget review and even if they hadn't I'm pretty sure I still would have noticed it straight away regardless.

After another trip back to Best Buy and a reluctant second swap out on their part, I have what seems like a fully working handset with a good battery and decent AMOLED panel.

I don't know what's happening with Samsung's QC or whether they have large tolerances for their panels, but I would have thought that they would have been able to iron a lot of this out having already launched the Galaxy S series.

A slightly long post but I hope this at least saves some of you the hassle I've been through to get a decent handset. This isn't the first time it's happened either, I had problems with my launch day iPhone 4 with the mic not working.

One thing's for sure, I'm going to be far more vigilant when buying my next handset.
[Nexus S General] Darrien13:
also test ur buttons because they can be loose and the back button sometimes has problems
[Nexus S General] vapor311:
nothing new for samsung QA
[Nexus S General] brianbrain:
Unfortunately, having come from the epic, this seems par for the course for sammy..I'd high hopes Google would counter this, but I guess not. My first and only ns is wonderful, though I ordered online and it seems the majority of complaints are coming from those that ordered at the store..coincidence?
[Nexus S General] robstunner:
I had to return an iPhone 4 a few months ago because the screen was literally fused on crooked to the display. They all have their negatives and bad batches.
[Nexus S General] ZeroSX:
Sadly, Google != Apple, they don't produce their own hardware. Depending on Samsung, with their known ****ty QA is a risk I'm sure they weighed.
[Nexus S General] Poseidon20:
I ordered my NS online and have none off theses issues! Actually my battery life is AWESOME. 16 hours straight between charging. I love it!
[Nexus S General] rashad1:
HHmm, If a few are defective, then they ALL must be. Quick, we must warn the others!
[Nexus S General] robstunner:
I'm not following you? I was implying that all phones have bad batches. No need to get butt hurt if that offended you?
[Nexus S General] fshami:
3G supported band

Guys,

Some thing out of the topic, but i need to ask is that is there any sort of 3G band limitation in US version of NS? My friend in Canada told me that currently all devices are coming only with AWS support for 3G which is supported by limited number of Cellular Operators.

Any ideas?
[Nexus S General] robstunner:
Correct, it wont work on AT&T/Bell/Telus 3G (someone correct me if im wrong about the Canadian carriers)
[Nexus S General] SmartphonesTV:
Having the same battery problem, please help

I am also having the same battery problem. It seems like the battery drains 1% per minute. I need to keep it charging all the time or it will drain in about 90 minutes. And it takes 8-9 hours to charge it to 100%.

Problem is I can't just take it back to Best Buy since I live overseas and a friend brought it to me from the US. So now what do I do?

1. Is it the battery or the phone? If it is the battery then I can just replace the battery, but I can't find anywhere online to buy the same battery? Any ideas?

2. If it is the phone, is there anything I can do w/o having to send it back to the USA?

Thanks so much for your help!
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Standard-Battery-Moment-M900/dp/B0026LQL40/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top this battery works if you need to buy a new one
[Nexus S General] l1f35ux:
Calm down OP. You are just unlucky I suppose. Not only Samsung, I had to switch my ex droid2 three times. First, the microphone doesn't work. Second one, the power button then the third time physical keyboard was not responsive. Just my .02
[Nexus S General] mac208x:
Its called mass production people each headset will have a defect!!! Live with it or dont buy simple
[Nexus S General] GuestK00431:
Yep battery life on my phone seems crap compared to my iPhone 4 but its a good phone never the less.
[Nexus S General] j2l84u:
As of now, the nexus s i definitely eating up more battery than my n1. but i usually give it a week before i can say fore sure. are there extended batteries out for the NS?
[Nexus S General] SmartphonesTV:
Thanks but this seller won't ship outside the USA. I found a bunch of similar ones on eBay, but they are all 1440 milliamps and not 1500 milliamps.

Not sure if the one on Amazon is 1440 or 1500.
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
if you check the accessories thread someone says its a 1500
[Nexus S General] lf2k5:
Thx for that - thought I was going mad! Vol+ and Back seem dodgy - don't work every time. I'll be taking it back to the shop on Tuesday...
[Droid X General] tahoe916:
Hey all, been traveling around the world for a couple months and now that I'm back my poor DroidX needs some ROM lovin =)

I currently have RubiX 1.6, Android 2.2, System Version 2.3.15.

I've been reading and reading all the forums and I'm getting a little confused on what my upgrade path should be. Some have said I can just do the OTA update and it should work, others have said to do an SBF back to 2.2 Vanilla, then OTA, then root and ROM to rubiX 1.90 or whichever I would like.

I dont feel like the OTA would work with mine, but I would love to hear what xda thinks. Im on info overload right now, read too many posts by too many people that dont seem to know wtf they are talking about =)
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong...) But if you are running a custom rom, most devs recommend an sbf before updating just to reduce the chance of additional problems when trying to update.

I don't think you can pull the update with your current setup and have it install correctly as rubix has stripped out some bloatware I believe.

I would recommend using the full 2.3.15 sbf and a factory wipe. Be sure to create a nandroid backup before all this and backup any apps/data you would like to save as well
[Droid X General] ElephantGlue:
I'm runng rubix 1.9 on 2.3.15...
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Best bet would be to look at the thread for the most recent version (or version you are looking top update to) as the dev well usually include a path for updates... could be wrong, but I feel like this is somewhat common
[Droid X General] tahoe916:
Perfect, thanks, just need to search more!
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
No problem. Just make sure before performing an sbf for 2.3.15 version, that that is tryout actual version and your bootloader version is 30.03
[Desire HD Accessories] Owendavies:
Hi all,

This should be a quick answer...

How do I know what class my micro sd card is? Its a San Disk 8Gb. Can I assume the little 2 in a circle is the class? Would I be better getting a class 6 card?

Thanks.

Owen.
[Desire HD Accessories] Grantzxr:
corect the number in the circle is the class. I running a class 6 samsung and in all honesty no earth shattering diff in 99% of thing phone can do
[Desire HD Accessories] ghostofcain:
quick answer, yes it's (potentially) faster
[Desire HD Accessories] terzer:
However my Sandisk memory card doesn't have circle and number. Then how can l find out which class it is?
[Desire HD Accessories] ll_l_x_l_ll:
this is going to be hard for you to find out.. so let me try to be clear as possible and god help you with the steps.

first . you pull your memory card out...................

..................

read the number -_-
[Desire HD Accessories] peschi:
Hello terzer,

without number on the card only a transfer test can give you an answer.

When you have an adapter to use the card with your pc card reader, you

can stop the time to transfer e.g. 100 MB to the card. Devide the 100 MB

by the time and you have the writing transfer rate (e.g. for 10 s:

100 MB / 10 s = 10 MByte / s ), repeate this with reading the 100 MB

back and you have the reading transfer rate.

Class 2 - 2 MB/s minimum writing

Class 4 - 4 MB/s minimum writing

Class 6 - 6 MB/s minimum writing

Class 10 - 10 MB/s minimum writing

Stop time after finished copy process - pc somtimes uses write cache

and displays multiple of real rate.

WBR peschi
[Desire HD Accessories] jambamkin:
There's a sd card speed tester on the market. I forget the exact name. Try that to find your class.

sent from my dhd
[Desire HD Accessories] tmh:
I test transfer speeds with "J Disk Benchmark". No idea if it's the best or anything, but it gets the job done and it's free :)
[Desire HD Accessories] tkolev:
It's "SD Card Speed Test". I guess someone with a huge imagination named it :D
[Desire HD Accessories] Owendavies:
Just ordered a new 16Gb Class 10 Transcend card from 7dayshop.com £16.45 delivered :)

Just have to wait an age for RM to deliver it, over Christmas.
[Desire HD Accessories] Aamir.Badat:
where did you get a class 6 from is it a 16gb class 6?
[Desire HD Accessories] panyan:
this will be far more accurate than the class rating on the card and you can really compare cards decisively :D
[Desire HD Accessories] erdinc:
Hmmm just used "J Disk Benchmark" to test my SD CARD it suposed to be a 16 GB class 4 . read speed 2,4 MB write speed 1,4 MB so its more a class 2 than a class 4 card !!
[Desire HD Accessories] Aamir.Badat:
My 8gb class 4 Samsung maxed out 6 Mbs transfer speed last night.
[Desire HD Accessories] erdinc:
Did you use J Disk Benchmark ? if so wich settings ?
[Desire HD Accessories] Aamir.Badat:
Nop just was moving 2 movies which were 1.3-1.5gb each and when checked how many Mbs were being transferred every sec it was showing 6.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] torpy:
Quick question, can you flash custom ROMS without clockwork recovery? Just by using the stock recovery? If so, what are the advantages/disadvantages of doing so?

How would I go about flashing using the stock recovery?

Thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Master™:
You can, but you would have to modify the meta-inf to install that way yourself
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
no advantage, just disadvantage, it takes longer.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bigel:
wrong section.. please delete Devs....

my bad
[Blade General] L0cke:
...if so, let's do it :)

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-miui-rom-for-android-miui-port-complete-guide/
[Blade General] El_Nino9:
what's MIUI mean lmfao
[Blade General] Ufufu:
Come on... You could have at least googled it.

That aside, I think that once we get a working AOSP build, then a MIUI build should be possible. Up to now, RIL has not been working on AOSP builds.
[Blade General] cyclothunder:
That would be awsome, but in english :)

addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-miui-rom-for-android-miui-port-complete-guide
[Blade General] linkinpark4175:
So what u gonna do about the battery drain? I've heard that miui drain battery much faster than the stock rom.
[Blade General] ephumuris:
None of it matters until we get kernel source for 2.2 we won't get anything near working. And FROYO isn't even out for blade yet.

Eph.
[Blade General] russellc1:
Couldn't we just take the launcher, dialer, browser, music player, fonts and lockscreen from the MIUI rom and add them to a standard rom?
[Blade General] Tom_G:
Why? Froyo and Gingerbread work fine with older kernels. As far as I know there are no kernel customisations needed for MIUI so it should be possible to run it without building a kernel from source, but the 2G VM split in the ZTE roms will cause problems.

I did try to boot MIUI once, it didn't work, but I didn't try very hard. It should be possible.

If source was available it would be a lot easier. The messed up RIL setup on the blade will probably make it very hard to get RIL working without source.
[Blade General] majnu:
amazing, don't we have a 2.2 kernel from the chineese which people at Modaco are already using?
[Blade General] majnu:
Great News everyone. It is being worked on

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-blade-modaco-com/327783/wip-miui-porting/
[Captivate General] nbs11:
While it is not exactly hard to find any of these parts individually, nor is it hard to find them put into a ROM, I though it would be useful for some if I had all these parts in one place. Take what you want and put it on your phone.

Alarm Tones

http://www.mediafire.com/?54qvpyp0qp1237c

Notification Tones

http://www.mediafire.com/?25p3y5ychi29qo0

Ringtones

http://www.mediafire.com/?2cy3rqjac2whb3q

Applications

http://www.mediafire.com/?jw35vjszhgfvpeb

Keyboard

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=845162

Boot Animation

http://www.mediafire.com/?9m98z48g9uxca5r

Fonts

http://www.mediafire.com/?2p7rhctpt8mdltd

UI Sound Effects

http://www.mediafire.com/?s4bnwpt0vw12be1

Wallpapers

http://www.mediafire.com/?nbwzyrnse8bpl9d
[EVO 4G General] bigel:
My wife and I both brought each other EVO's for Christmas......

Im upgrading from Hero and I got her to finally leave her BELOVED Blackberry's....lol

can't wait to things running... and besides rooting

what do u suggest I do next ??

what's a EVO Must? lol
[EVO 4G General] Ruki_Uki:
Screen protector and an Otterbox case lol :)

Sent from my EVO's 4G :) You?........I thought so
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
Extended battery
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
tell her to buy you a brand new car so you can plug in your brand new phone in and listen to music :x
[EVO 4G General] martonikaj:
I suggest you RESEARCH a lot. Find out what you want to do, ask questions, get answers, and go nuts.

I recommend the ROM Wiki in the android development forum, check em out and see which you like when you're ready to start flashing customs.
[EVO 4G General] nabbed:
Nice screen protector that comes with the CM Barely There case.

All smartphone enthusiasts commented on the niceness and the low profile of that case when they saw it.
[EVO 4G General] squick:
First root, then flash Myn's Warm rom rls4. I'm kind of a noob. Tried every rom out there and if you want your 4g working and everything Myn's the best and fastest. Also for awesome battery life flash Calk's kernel. I'll give you these links. Both me and the wife are set up like this. The rest is up to you. Bookmark this website and refer to it like a bible. Also a great theme to use is Riptide's colorNclear. We have some of his addons as well, the speedo batt is really cool. The updated launcher pro is a great launcher. It has so many options. Well enough, her are the links.

Myn's Warm

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=793471&highlight=Myn

Calk's kernel- I use 131- scroll down to second post- look for "SBC for Netarchy's CFS More Aggressive 4.2.1 (also known as 131)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=876590&highlight=calkulin's

And last Riptide's theme I use V9 the one on post #2 with slayers transitions, allows you to add all the cool naddons. Oh, I also have the blue dialer. He has several colors available.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=727117

Now one thing I found out if you dont already know is

1. flash rom then reboot

2. flash kernel then reboot

3. flash Riptides theme then reboot

4 then if you want the addons you can go ahead all at once without rebooting in between each one.

If you try to flash the rom, theme, and kernel without rebooting it will stick in a bootloop. If you have any questions about any of this fell free to hit me up squick55@gmail.com

Have fun!!!
[EVO 4G General] krazyflipj:
If you don't have 4G/don't care for it and or HDMI, I suggest checking out CM6.1.1 Rom and read alot (Especially OP)
[EVO 4G General] potna:
I recommend not flashing at least get a feel for Android, sense and the evo before moving on to other roms. I do appreciate the roms and what not but be prepared to deal with non stop issues with custom roms. If you don't mind tinkering with your phone everydAY to get it to work right then maybe custom roms could be your thing. I use my phone all day everyday but its because I use it, not because I'm trying to get things to work " better". I have been down this road briefly with the evo, but on my tilt 2, I was a Rom flashing fool.

I would recommend rooting but staying stock over all. a while back rooting the evo was simple via unrevoked, I don't think that method works anymore. Why root? Well WiFi teather is the main thing I rooted for. You can run apps like adfree, and of course you can flash roms. Oh and if you root you can put a custom recovery that let's you do usefully things like nandroid backup and restore. With this you can a complete image backup of your phone settings, apps and data.
[EVO 4G General] supdawg:
In general, yes some roms require a lot of tinkering.

But some (like myns rls4) is out of the box stock experience perfection IMO. Since his ROMs are based on the stock OTA's and kernels, they share a lot of the good stuff of the OTA roms, without the bloat, and with added asthetic effects as well.
[EVO 4G General] bigel:
Thanx for all the info and tips... I'm ready for root ... think I'm gonna use the one from unRevoked .. thanx again
[EVO 4G General] semperlux:
No screen protector. Believe it or not, it doesn't need it but get the otter box case--worth the money. My Evo gets beat up a lot and and my three-year-old son plays Angry Birds and bangs it around. Tests have been done on the Evo without a screen protector and it's surprisingly resistant to scratches.

I suggest you DON'T root it for a while and see what you can do with your phone, you'd be surprised. Unless of course, there's a specific ROM you'd like to try.

I rooted my phone because I didn't like the look of SenseUI and wanted to try CyanogenMod 6. Otherwise, I wouldn't have rooted my phone and just left it stock.
[EVO 4G General] cbrewington75:
must root, just wait til there a 1 click ,everything else is role of the dice. Warning you will become a flashaholic, so many great roms and kernals.

have fun
[EVO 4G General] cbrewington75:
Do not use unrevoked
[EVO 4G General] dtr145r:
why?

i never ever had a problem with unrevoked....
[EVO 4G General] 00_MACKIE_00:
Unrevoked does not work on newest hboot. I would not even attempt to root and nand unlock until unrevoked has the tool to do it. I see alot of people bricking their Evo's, killing 4G keys so that it never works again, and alot of other problems.
[EVO 4G General] squick:
You should ask in the Q&A section how to root your setup. Write down the hardware#. Its in menu, settings, about phone, hardware info. Also in software write down PRI version, software# and possibly Baseband. Now power down. Once off, hold volume down and press and hold the power button until the screen comes completely back up. Now you're in Hboot. Write down the hboot version. Now ask a question about how to root your phone and include all this info. You should be able to get the right answer.
[EVO 4G General] doctor ladd:
Woah someone mentioned Otterbox cases. The cases they offer for the evo are terrible! Steer clear especially of the Defender. I have the defender and commuter both are junk.

Check out tridentcase.com their cyclops case is my favorite so far.
[EVO 4G General] EndlessDissent:
Seriously? No. Don't do that. Well, do everything up until the part about making a new thread to ask how to root. That will just piss people off. There are already threads with step by step guides for rooting whatever hardware you have.

Instead, make note of your hboot version and take a trip to the Android Development and Hacking section of the Evo forums and look for a thread with "[ROOT]" in the title, and make sure the hboot version in the title matches yours. All the new root guides will specify which hboot they root. Everything you need to know should be in the guide.
[EVO 4G General] potna:
Oh another small thing, you never hear any complain about the stickiness of the screen . I didnt like it so I got a Matt finished screen protector. I found them on eBay @ 3 for $5. They do take a bit of quality away from the colors but I would say it only hurts the quality by 5%. In return your finger will slide across the screen so much easier. It was worth it for me.
[EVO 4G General] EndlessDissent:
I always assumed the stickiness was just a normal touchscreen thing. The main factors are dirt and moisture. If my fingers are clean and dry, I don't really have a problem with stickiness.

Also, my sister has a matte screen protector on her Evo, and I hate it. I think the screen looks terrible with all the light being deflected and refracted and whatnot, creating a weird rainbow pixelation effect. Plus, I like the way the bare glass feels to touch (when it's not sticky) over the plastic, slightly rough texture of the screen protector.
[EVO 4G General] postwick:
exactly. it's your finger that's sticky, not the screen.

lol
[EVO 4G General] dtr145r:
unrevoked just came out with the new hboot version it was in beta. im pretty sure unrevoked 3.4 will be out today :)
[EVO 4G General] joe85:
Seriously, do not get a screen protector. My girlfriend and I both have had EVOs for several months with no screen protectors and have ZERO scratches. We do have scratches on the camera lens on the back which must not have the same type of glass. My phones always get scratched, but this phone is the exception and has none on the front what-so-ever.