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[myTouch 4G Accessories] Raeotrae:
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Thanks well, that goes along with my other theory that only single buttons will w work. They need to make some simple adapter or s something. Stock headphones blow and hurt my ears. Don't want to use bluetooth because that sucks the battery down big time.

I'm told through htc that a3.5mm to micro usb may be a work-around. Will post if that works and if there's diminished sound quality.
[myTouch 4G Accessories] BeEazy10:
WOW THANKS YOU SO MUCH! i purchase zagg in the earbuds thinking that the music control will work without flawlass with the stock player, but i was wrong...

But with Music PlayerPro Not music player pro(two different app) the music control works :D
[myTouch 4G Accessories] Raeotrae:
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That is what I've discovered; only single buttons will work. With power amp, long press erl skip the track. I haven't tried the skullcandy with single button with multi-function yet. However, I HIGHLY recommend the rf3 envi earbuds. Amazingly good sound with great bass and a patented technology that eliminates radiation from reaching your ears. Pretty cheap, too! Stol haven't tried the micro usb adapter yet
[myTouch 4G Accessories] Raeotrae:
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Okay, I'm posting this response as a service to all those infuriates out there struggling to find am explanation why we can't use headphones like everybody else. We find this out when its too later to do any refund and we convince ourselves that headphones are not a dealbreaker. Well, before I got the s4i's, I had pretty strong evidence that all headsets would not work impresa they only had one button (including those that boast several clicks do current things-although it won't on your phone). When the s4i came, the suspicion was confirmed. However, I was very disappointed by sound quality anyways, so not a big loss. I felt like I liked my headphones without controls for sound quality anyways. So, fellow mt4g users, jets what to do. The best headset with mic (you can still use the button to ffwd and pause) that I've found so far is the jbuds j4m. Very clear highs and mids, with decent bass. Very durable and look cool. Chord is a little long though. Better still is a bluetooth device made by cellular innovations found on amazon for about 30 bucks. Its a bluetooth with music controls that clips on your short or whatever and you can plug ANY of you favorite headphones into and listen to your tunes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forumlurker90:
This may be OS specific or the ROM(Perception 9.5) but after I receive text messages when my screen is locked and my phone is idle the LED lights will continue to stay on.

Any know a way around this?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curti.nogg:
Open "BLN control - free" and disable it.

Sent from my Captivate
[EVO 4G General] tracerit:
Just trying to get a feel if my battery is normal or not.

With continuous internet usage over wifi, it takes up 30%/hr on the STOCK battery.

With the Sprint OEM Extended battery (2600mah), it only takes up 10-12%/hr.

So I'm wondering if my stock battery just sucks or if the Sprint extended battery is actually more around 3500mah...

How much battery is used with continuous internet usage for you?
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
I was just browsing the forums here for an hour and 44 minutes - little g reader too - and the first hour recorded roughly 11 percent of battery loss with straight use, shown in juice plotter. Screen brightness at lowest and wifi.

That said if I was popping tabs left and right and jumping around in the browser it would be a bit different. I think I was on Deadspin for maybe 15 minutes though. Dolphin Mini.

SWYPED from my SUPASONIC
[EVO 4G General] quocamole:
I'm getting about 15% an hour on mikfroyo (undervolted htc 15). that's about what I used to get on older build roms (evio) and stock kernels.

View attachment 475476

pic shows 7% loss in half an hour but you get the trend

edit: stock battery. how's your wifi signal strength?
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
Well, guess I enabled wifi after 20 minutes or so. Between 20-25 percent in 2 hours 10 min didn't have a full charge. Just started using juice plotter to track how little battery gets used when phone idle. Cool little app! Always so late to the party.

SWYPED from my SUPASONIC
[EVO 4G General] tracerit:
wifi strength is excellent, i'm only 8 ft from the source (in my room). i keep the screen brightness at the lowest setting since i lay in bed and use the phone before i sleep for about 30 min.

i'm extremely surprised at the drainage of both yours with just the stock battery. maybe i should try and get an exchange through Sprint.
[EVO 4G General] quocamole:
some more info on your setup? maybe it's a software issue. try system panel to see what's running and how much it's been running. it also gives you cpu speed which should throttle back when there is no interaction with the device.
[EVO 4G General] tracerit:
i'm on Fresh 3.5.0.1 with the SBC kernel. I don't have any weird drainage issues over night, i sleep with it at 80% and wake up with it with about a <5% drop. I just have the usual apps running, nothing too crazy. All I use the phone for really is to browse the web.

I find that System Panel doesn't reallly help too much when i had a weird drainage issue a few months back, a hard data reset fixed that.
[EVO 4G General] nabbed:
That pic shows 14% loss in about 30 minutes.

Which is normal - about 0.5% a minute.
[EVO 4G General] nabbed:
That would be normal usage with 3G. Not sure about wifi.
[EVO 4G General] aph:
Wherever answers are in this thread should be in mA since percentages are meaningless on the Evo.

Spoken from my EVO 4G using Ultra Keyboard and Tapatalk Pro
[EVO 4G General] quocamole:
look at 90%-83% when screen is constantly on for 30 min. 100-90% always drops fast.
[EVO 4G General] quocamole:
I wouldn't say meaningless. i.e. 10% drain from a 1500 mAh battery is 150 mA no matter how you slice it.
[EVO 4G General] aph:
No it's not. It wouldn't be even on most Li-ion batteries in the first place, but even more so on the Evo. The firmware is programmed to oscillate between ~ 500mA and -500mA depending on voltage, all while keeping the status you see at 100%. Download Battery Monitor Widget to see this in action.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LINKSLOVESANDROID:
Ive noticed serious battery drain since I first bought this fascinate from telus. On 2.1it lasted around 11 hours. Since upgrading to 2.2 leak, id say 8 hoirs max with only approx 1 hour of uusage and the rest on standby. I turned of sync, auto brightnrss and turned brightndss as.low as possible. I make sure no apps r running in the background. Yet it still dies superfast. Is this a issue with my battery thr phone itself or firmware or kernal. Its been a week of trying to find the problem so any help would b greatly appreciated. At tgis time im running 2.2 leak with all the files it came with and no root. Thx in advNce
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LINKSLOVESANDROID:
And hour and 12 minutes with about 30 min of internwt surfing and im down to 80 percent WTF
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefunkbot:
sounds about average for a fascinate....
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 08cherd4:
I'm on telus as well and also have terrible battery life, I've found no fix other than completely turning off Data using the toggle when holding the power button. Flashing a new rom might fix this but I've been to scared to since I bricked a phone trying it the first time. Hopefully when/if ever we get a 2.3 update it fixes this
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jebrun:
Does anyone know where one can get an extended battery for this? I picked one up but it's for the friggin Verizon US version, and the battery cover isn't compatible, even though the battery fits(camera doesn't align, speaker's not even close).

Seriously, the American counterpart's accessories have been my biggest frustration with this phone, next to battery life...
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnrC:
Thought I'd give this a bump. The battery life on this Telus Fascinate 4G is truly disappointing and jumping through hoops trying to find and kill apps and services with and without utilities is wasting far too much of my time.

Anybody get a good handle on this?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MorbidMonk:
Bump for same problem.

Samsung Fascinate SCH-i500 Verizon

Running unmodified and unrooted. The phone itself works perfect. No problems other than the phone seriously eats battery. Yes the battery is still good and nothing wrong with it. Plugged in it charges super slowly. And the screen itself takes more than it provides. So i did the following.

A. Changed battery to a known working one.

B. Check with car charger and a home charger. As well as official samsung charger.

C. Gave a ROM a try. Running Dirty Unicorn. Lowered cpu to 800 max and 100 min.

D. Turned display to 50% Brightness.

My only try now is to try a different kernel or something. Im also thinking that the display itself is the culprit somehow eating to much voltage.

Or the gpu. The phones operating temps are good.

I have another post here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2430393 relating to where i have a USB problem and need help figuring it out. There has not been any replies. So i am taking upon myself to learn more. Ive worked with 3 Droid Milestones. Hopefully these two i500s will not be to hard. I need help on this new i500 to see if its not the motherboard. The charging port is on the motherboard and if this replacement eats batteries , then the point would be mute to use it for a working USB. A conundrum.

Do i try a different kernel or somthing else. Whats my next step.. Please help.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hhp_211:
what else do you have running?

what is the battery life overall usage? and screen usage hours?

screen is always gonna be the highest consumer of your battery

50% still pretty high unless you are out in sunlight, I keep mine between 0 and 30 % unless in sunlight

you can try running the greenify app from playstore.

what king of life are you expecting to get? anywhere between 6hrs to 24 hours total phone battery life is about average depending on how heavy user or how much in standby mode.

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[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MorbidMonk:
Its been on the charger since i posted. its only at 56%

3h 25m left

Screen 55%

Cell Standby 9%

SystemUI 7%

com.maxmpz.audioplayer 7%

Android System 7%

Its defiantly got something wrong as even though it says 56% if I unplug it, it will die in about 10 min. Even with a fully charged battery it does the same. Yes i also waited until 100% and wiped batt stats and at 3% left wiped stats. Screen is in standby
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hhp_211:
I would recommend going here

[APP][2.1+][16 Apr. - V1.13.4] BetterBatteryStats

you can get better logs and information, plus if something is not easily visible to what is causing problems you can post up a log file for them to look at.

enjoy

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[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MorbidMonk:
I had installed the program and it didn't really show anything abnormal. Although after installing the Bat Meter, when i shutdown it killed the phone till i ODIN. So tried on the other phone as well. Same thing. Install it and compared notes. Reboot phone and had to ODIN. So maybe bad app? Well whatever. I didn't see anything unusual. Although I did notice something strange about the phone that's bad with charging. I already eliminated the battery as the problem as well as charger. But the phone that is eating battery faster than it can charge, it gets warmer at idle than the other phone. It charged just super super tiny faster than the battery eats using just idle display on lock-screen. As well this phone also with a fully charged battery will read 100% But after about 21 minutes of poweramp at 33% volume on headphones will read about 52%. Then sitting rest at idle no display from 52% down to about 14% popup around another 5 min. Then completely dead in about 3 minutes. And the phone is pretty warm. Today it was ambient temp of around 87* outside and sitting in shade and it was hot enough that it wasn't comfortable on my cheek for more than 20 seconds. Half the time the temps are normal. Now remember I'm not running overclock and actually under clocked to 800. Ive tried 3 different roms with diff kernels and same. Could it possibly be a bad heat-sink? And the extra heat is killing battery?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zereoue:
[Q] Battery Drain

I recently was given a Fascinate and am having similar problems. I was told the phone had a bad battery, so I ordered a replacement. Once I got the new battery in, I flashed the phone with the Carbon ROM [the phone was unlocked, but running the OTA 2.3.5 I believe]. Everything seemed to be working fine the first week or two, but now there appears to be a serious battery drain or leak after I power the phone down. I can charge the phone to 100%, power it on and use it for a period of time, then power it down with 90% or more battery life, but when I turn the phone back on, the battery will either be really low, or completely dead, where the phone won't respond at all until I plug the charger back in.

I reflashed the phone with an AOKP ROM to see if that'd make a difference, but it didn't. I tried using the first battery and the drain/leak still persists. The commonality between the two roms is the Devil kernel, so I'm going to flash a different ROM with a different kernel to see if that makes a difference. I also installed the app mentioned above to log the battery stats/usage to see if anything stands out there.

Has anyone experienced something similiar - the Fascinate consuming battery life while powered off?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hhp_211:
Yeah the power off leak does seem to exist.

Can't remember the cause though.

I've not tried to really confirm,, but try popping the battery out then back in after you have powered off,,, then check after it has sat overnight to see if drain still exist..

Mine i just always leave on a charger overnight.

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[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zereoue:
[Q]

Thanks for the reply. I'll try that. I've left the phone on today, just put it to sleep during periods of inactivity, and the battery is currently at 75% with occasional mild use after 8+ hours "on".

[edit 11-29-13]

After almost two weeks of use, I can confirm that if I power the phone down and do nothing else, the battery will continue to drain to 0%. If I power the phone down then remove and replace the battery, it's fine. It's an extra step, but it works. Thanks again.
[Nexus S General] carlitos66:
Did you guys notice the opening under the volume button on Platinum case sold by Best buy? (yes, it is Seidio case made for Best Buy)

Was it cut there for sd card slot? Does it means that Google and Samsung ordered cases with opening for SD card and then decided not to put it there?

Isn't that weird?
[Nexus S General] slowz3r:
picture pleasE?
[Nexus S General] tfreshman:
It's used to remove the case using a coin.
[Nexus S General] ztm.000:
Pics plzzzz
[Nexus S General] nxt:
You guys are funny. No it's not for a microSD card slot.

It's technically to pry open the case, but DON'T DO THAT!!!!

All you have to do to remove the case, is actually hold the top layer of the case on the inside (put your finger on the screen against the side of the case) and just push away from the phone and lift. If you try to PRY open the case from that "slot" with your finger, coin, screwdriver, you risk breaking the case.

Pictures are here on my Platinum case post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=875231
[Epic 4G General] 1greek4u:
So I was randomly wondering:

When I back up a rom with CWM/RomManager, does this make a backup useless if I flash to a different version of android?

For example, say right now I'm running a DI18 based ROM and make a backup. I decide to flash to DK28... does this make the backup I made useless (which I'm assuming it does)? If I decided to restore a backup I made of a DI18 rom, would I have to ODIN back to DI18 from DK28 in order to do the restore?

Or do these backups revert EVERYTHING back to the way it was, build, modem, radio and all?

Thanks
[Epic 4G General] Koadic:
Restoring from CWM doesnt restore the kernel, so you would have to reflash the appropriate one if you are changing from one build to another (going from a DK28 rom back to a DI18 rom), but not if you are just switching roms of the same build (going from one DK28 rom to a different DK28 rom). Also, there is currently no way for CWM to flash the modem, so if your changing from DK28 to DI18, you will need to Odin the DI18 modem seperately, or just Odin back to the full DI18 and then restore your CWM backup.
[Epic 4G General] 1greek4u:
This is what I assumed logic dictates. Thanks for clearing this up.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j1000:
I'm running psfreedom on my incredible but is there a new update out that uses hermes v4 for firmware spoofing.

Thanks in advance.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j1000:
Any suggestions.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradatz:
There's a custom payload feature on psfreedom.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradatz:
BTW spoofing is pointless
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j1000:
does the custom payload on psfreedom work on games that require 3.42 or higher I new at this but if you look at the plam pre psfreedom wiki they have an option for hermes v4 and the incredible doesn't have that listed I think it has to do with and option during booting. I'm not interested in online play just playing backups that require 3.42 upgrade. Any help is appreciated.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradatz:
NO. It does nothing except makes your ps3 believe its running 3.55 so that it won't update. Unless you have idiot friends that would update your firmware there is no use for it. No online play or anything like that. Hold on tight though looks like they make have a fully hacked ps3 soon. Meaning any updates Sony could push would be pointless. Right now sony is still winning this battle. (Ok they are really getting slaughtered but the available hacks aren't for everybody)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j1000:
can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong all but two games don't start they just go back to xmb screen. is it because the psfreedom port to the incredible doesn't support hermes v4 or am i doing something wrong. If i try patched mode I get eboot.bin error.

Please help i read but not figured it out. Thanks
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j1000:
Slim ps3 fw 3.41 using psfreedom for incredible and openbm v1.17.1
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradatz:
Try Multiman. Much better. But its supposed to go back to xmb. Once back to xmb it should show up as the disk thats in the Ps3. Lets say your have MAG in your ps3 and Tiger Woods saved to your hard drive. When booting jailbreak mode MAG should be under games. After loading Tiger Woods it will go back to XMB and Tiger Woods will now show up where MAG was. Also make sure you have a ps3 game in the ps3. You cannot do it without.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j1000:
My problem is two games when I load them work just fine but the rest once I launch them in opembm then select the game in the xbm it goes to black screen then after a few seconds back to the xbm. whatever game I'm starting that disc shows in the xbm and it just doesn't start.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradatz:
http://www.ps3news.com/subdomain.php?pagename=ps3-jailbreak

Check on that list to see if they work. I know NFS and Gran Turismo won't work. I'm sure there are others.
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
I have a bone stock phone that is not rooted. It started about a week ago. I turn off my phone at night and charge it. Now when I turn off my phone and plug in the wall charger it turns the phone back on. Now no matter what when I charge the phone it turns on. I have tried to turn it off with the phone whit the charger in and with it out. Now it seems the battery doesn't last as long.

Thanks for any help and I tried to search but, it's not working.
[Epic 4G General] iwantAdollar:
Weird, when I charge my phone while its off all it shows is a battery that fills up as the battery charges. I would take it to sprint.
[Epic 4G General] schizopunk:
I've had this same "issue". Its most likely your charging cable. For some reason if you only use a cable that charges your phone but can't do data it will refuse to stay off while charging.

For instance if you were to use a wall charger that was a micro-usb but not a data cable, like a LG Rumor charger, you won't be able to charge the phone when its off.

If you use the cable that came with your phone, it should work.

Hope this helps.
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
I'm using the charger and cable that came with the phone. You think maybe my cable is going or is bad
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
I tried 3 different chargers and I get the same thing. I went to the sprint store and I was told that sometime apps can cause problems like that so they told me to delete some apps that I installed about the time my phone started to have this problem. I tried that and I still have the problem. Thans for any help.
[Vibrant General] vamp6x6x6x:
I for one am very disappointed with samsung for droping the ball with the vibrant...and I found this amazing sounding rom(Nero v3 TouchWiz Edition) that I am thinking about flashing to.

My question is will I be able to keep all my data and apps and whatnot...and if I get ROM Manager (Premium) will I be able to recieve updates for Nero v3 TouchWiz Edition via OTA? And last but not least: When I receive the update will I have to re install all my apps and stuff everytime?
[Vibrant General] timmonss:
Get titanium backup premium and rom manager. Make sure you back up all your apps and youre golden. When you flash a rom your sd card isnt effected you can restore all your apps and data. Google also has a record of the apps you downloaded. Titanium is just easier and can reload data. I think youll find flashibf roms great. I have been doing it a month and am not looking back. Good luck. Be sure to check out the vibrant bible on the vibrant development section. Loads of help.
[Vibrant General] Gigamaster89:
You won't get OTA updates for a custom rom, but if you flash back to stock, you will.
[Vibrant General] vamp6x6x6x:
Ty, I was going to wait and give samsung a chance to do something but screw it they had their chance they didnt keep up their end of the deal at all,, so now I am going to officially make my phone my own.
[Vibrant General] vamp6x6x6x:
I mean like "Receive notifications for when your ROM is updated!" on like Rom manager or something not the stock rom :)
[Vibrant General] timmonss:
You wont get ota via rom manager unless the dev supports ota on rom manager. i think the only dev using ota or updates on rom manager is sonofskywalker. team whiskey in my opinion has the best roms.
[G Tablet General] kagedmaniak:
Currently running TnT Lite v3.1.2 - when I download additional keyboards [thumb keyboard, smart keyboard pro, etc] it wont let me enable them. I go to settings and try to check the keyboard, and click ok on the warning, but the box isn't checked. Have tried rebooting to no avail. Any help would be appreciated :).

Thanks!
[G Tablet General] tristanwolf1134:
http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-856476.html

Check out that forum post, should help you out.
[G Tablet General] kagedmaniak:
Thanks! Worked perfectly
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpsalas:
hey well.. i was on 7.5 and powerd off completly...when i started the phone it just hang on the loading screen the google X one...and vibrated every 2-3min..so i tried to flash STOCK rom useing oding and it hang on..the Glowing S so i when in clockwork recovery and installed 7.5again and im still stuck on the glowing google X?.... o-o any help? I GOT DOWNLOAD MODE AND RECOERY e2 i also can go in clockwork since i got the update.zip on my phone for it FULLY WORKING! any help?