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[Thunderbolt Accessories] crazed_z06:
Having any trouble with the battery readings?
[Thunderbolt Accessories] mtmnook:
The metric system has never been my specialty. The "ridge" right below the camera...what I'm quantifying as the added bulk, measured exactly a half a centimeter. In order to avoid being unspecific, this is less than a quarter inch.

I don't like taking my battery door off, so extra batteries are seldom a better option than extended ones for a person like me. Obviously you and I have different preferences.

I simply prefer the added size to the inconvenience of removing and replacing the battery door.

There seem to be a lot of people in this thread that are quite satisfied with the results they are getting from the extended battery, so I stand by my original post.

I leave my 4G on all the time and I'm not having any trouble making it through the day whatsoever. I can see that there are ways I could have more trouble, but I have to be browsing pretty extensively to run into trouble. If I hotspot on the battery, performance is unremarkable.

For people having issues with the battery, my first couple of charges the battery indicator was pegged on 100%, but I haven't had an issue with it since. I want to believe this has something to do with the way Android and battery calibration work, but *shrug*

Sometimes when I do some heavy 4G browsing though, the battery seems to be very slow to let me know what I am draining it fast. I wonder if anyone using the standard capacity batter can confirm whether the same thing happens?

For instance, in a period of about 15 minutes of downloading large files over 4G, if I reboot the phone, the battery widget I use will show that the phone's battery has 10% less than before I rebooted.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] crazed_z06:
I returned my extended battery. I got tired of playing with it and couldnt get it to read an accurate charge. On top of that, it just makes the phone too comically huge. It really is ridiculous. After putting the stock battery back on, the device feels like a COMPLETELY different phone. Granted a person could deal with the extra heft/bulk of the extended battery, but it really isnt a practical solution for the majority of people IMO.. The only time I think it'd prove useful is for people who are out and about all day with no chance to get to a charger.

Also, as far as the stock battery reading is concerned. That is pretty spot on. After I swapped the stocker back in, it read the right charge level right away. It also showed the battery discharging correctly. I know because I lose about a 1% per minute when actually using the phone.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] Master™:
You needed to wipe your battery stats at full so you could get an accurate percentage ;)

//Unquote

Just got mine, honestly isn't THAT big, you guys make it sound like it makes the phone so huge, and the pictures of the extended battery don't do it justice lol. If I can find my other camera I will compare it to a dime or something, havent seen it compared to a real-life object yet.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] crazed_z06:
Hmm.. Im curious as to how to wipe the battery stats? Is there an app or setting somewhere that does this? The instructions on the box say to just let it charge fully before use..
[Thunderbolt Accessories] Master™:
You can wipe stats via CWM
[Thunderbolt Accessories] crazed_z06:
CWM = ClockworkMod?
[Thunderbolt Accessories] distortedloop:
What I'd really like to see is pics of a non-extended battery phone side by side to an extended battery phone. Everything else doesn't really give perspective.

I'm going to try to swing by Verizon and see one for myself. The reports on here are so varied and too passionate to be of much use.

CWM (clockwork recovery) as Master suggests or use adb or root explorer to delete the pertinent file:

rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
[Thunderbolt Accessories] corenojoe:
Extended battery is huge!! They need to design a new one that is slimmer cuz this thing won't cut it.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] tommyxv:
Anyone's extended battery cover creek or squeak when gripping it? I am noticing that mine creeks, like there is a little play on the sides.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] MYxdaUSERNAME:
^ yep...i try not to squeeze too tight when i hold it...
[Thunderbolt Accessories] kendive:
Here ya go. I don't own two TBolts:D, but this is the best I could do for now.

I have been carrying the Extended battery for a few days now with my cut out rubber case. I like the extended battery because it gives you a lip to hold on to under it... Great for playing Angry Birds. (I'm Hooked Can't Stop Playing This Game)

Also This (Bump Charging) Not Needed Anymore. I took out the extended battery from the TBolt this morning after being charged all night and then stuck the battery in the Seidio Wall Charger and it went Green right off the bat. (Fully Charged) With the DINC it would never do that I would have to top it off for at least 30min or more.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] distortedloop:
Thanks for the pics, but they were too late! LOL.

I swung by Verizon and picked one up last night. It's big; bigger than I thought from prior pics of phones with it, yet oddly not as bad as I thought it would be either. It's no worse than adding the original JuicePack sled things to old iPhones which I had no issues with for long days away from the charger.

I'm going to run with it for a few days and see if that extra bulk gets in the way too much. It's a bit more awkward in the hand for me (thick palms, short fingers), especially for one handed operation.

Ideal for me would probably be the Seidio extended that's stock size, but it's way over-priced; not that that's stopped me in the past.

I'm still thinking my spare-battery-in-the-wallet's probably the best way to go for those with smaller hands.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] kendive:
No Problem... Always like to try to help.

I can't think of having a spare battery in my wallet???

I do have the Seidio 1600mAh battery. I will run it for a few days and update. I am still running the stock ROM, but have froze all the bloat apps. Waiting for a custom ROM to try next.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] distortedloop:
I've got a regular sized tri-fold wallet, but I don't carry a lot of credit cards (just my Amex, Visa, and ATM), don't carry a lot of pics in it (that's what Gallery on phone is for), and not a lot of cash, so there's plenty of room for these very thin batteries that the last few phones I've had (Nexus S, i9000, Thunderbolt) all have.

I had Seidio on my Nexus 1...never sure if it really gave me better life than the stock, but it didn't give worse. They've gotten a lot of bad reviews lately. :confused:
[Thunderbolt Accessories] tommyxv:
At least mine isn't defective then. LOL Thx
[Thunderbolt Accessories] ddgarcia05:
Damn. I want a case for this phone that supports the extended battery.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] kendive:
I hear ya... I like the case I cut out.

It keeps the phone thinner because if you have to put a case around the extended battery it will make it even thicker.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] bunklung:
I agree 100%. Anything that covers the extended battery cover will only make it that much bigger.

I posted some more pictures of my phone with a modified case, extended battery, and a holster:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12505349&postcount=10
[Thunderbolt Accessories] kendive:
Update on the Seidio 1600mAh Battery.

No good. I just sent it back for $44 it's a POS. The drain rate is just as fast as the 1400 mAh stock battery.

I am never going to buy another Seidio Battery again. I think they are lying on there mAh rating.

Maybe a Class Action should be started?:mad:
[Thunderbolt Accessories] DRLyman:
There was another person who tested the Seidio battery against the stock battery over on Android Central and they came up with the same results.

I stay away from that company. I know others like their products, but between the false claims on their batteries and their cheaply made cases, I don't see why.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] distortedloop:
It's ugly, it's very large, but it's impressive.

I was pretty vocal about it being a big ugly bump, and I still feel that way, but given the absolutely amazing longevity off the charger I got with it the past day and a half, I'm willing to put up with the hump.

I picked up the HTC extended battery on Monday evening. Fully charged it overnight in the phone and unplugged it ~31 hours ago (1d 7h 7m 34s).

Gave the phone what I consider for me fairly heavy use: 50 minutes of phone calls, several hours of podcast playing, a few rounds of Words, several web searches, a titanium backup, titanium freezing of some bloatware, Market updates of a dozen apps, streamed Sirius satellite for 1-2 hours, multiple RSS feed reads with Google Reader, a dozen pictures taken, logged my gym workout, read 20-25 emails, two dozen or more dictated text messages, scanned a bunch of barcodes, logged my food intake on the web, etc, etc..

Screen was on auto-brightness all day yesterday, but I bumped it up to forced full brightness today because I wanted to kill the battery so I could get a full cycle charge under its belt before leaving work today. Battery info reports just under 5 hours of display being on.

A pretty good workout in my opinion.

I'd gotten the under 15, 10 and 5% battery warnings, and managed to get the phone back on a charger just hit the 1%. I'm charging on a Nook Color's 1.9-amp charger and monitoring the charge. It's charging at about 1% per minute, and battery temp is pretty cool (95.7 F - up from 94.7 off the charger). I'm not sure how fast a charge I was getting on my 1-amp wall charger; probably about the same.

All-in-all pretty impressive.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] tommyxv:
As much as I rather have the nice thin and light Thunderbolt with the standard battery, I also have the bump back. The cpus, gpus, memory, radios, etc are getting faster and more power hungry, but there is no way to package an adequate size battery is the original form factor. Battery technologically is just not there. I would have given up the thin for a slightly thicker design for a better battery.

I put the standard battery back in today to do a test about a suspicion that I had. I unplugged at 1pm with a full charge. By 5:30pm my battery indicator was red with less than 15% remaining. In 4.5 hrs my battery was almost dead.

I did not make any calls, I did not use the web, I received a few text messages only. (yes, wifi and all other service were off) I received a text message at 4:32pm but did not touch my phone until 5:30pm to read it. The phone was on mute, with no vibrate alert, just the led flash for notification.

It appears to me, that having an un-acknowledged text, missed call, email, vm, etc, for some reason eats the battery.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] bawol:
I purchased the extended battery with a standard size case just for the extra juice. When using the extended battery with juice defender, I easily got through a day and thensome with moderate use.

However, I've swapped between the extended and regular and something is now draining my battery. I'm in the process of rooting to freeze anything that doesn't matter.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] justnada22:
This is a nice alternative. I've tested it on the Thunderbolt you get about one and half full charges out of it.

MicroUSB 1900 Mah Battery
[Thunderbolt Accessories] tommyxv:
Now if they could just make that into a case for the phone, that would be one hot product.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] mtmnook:
The thing is straight ugly.

The first week I had it, I was in a sprint store and had mine next to an evo and my heart sunk a little bit...to think that an evo could look thin to me, lol.

But yeah, the sheer utility of this thing...immense...I am never wanting for battery, and it's fantastic.

I hacked an argyle case to fit the phone...really just for the protection on the non-replaceable pieces of the chassis.

I agree with the sentiment that an additional covering over the battery door will just make the thing even bigger. The hacked cases actually do seem to reach a point of near-equilibrium.

Maybe we will see a factory produced bumper-type case for extended battery users?

That would seem to fit the bill.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] hammer4203:
I have to agree on something is chewing at the battery. I can shut off everything and still seem to discharge at an overwhelming rate. For the life of me I can't see what it is. I figure an update may address this and the video recording issue. But I may wind up getting the bigger battery to get by for now.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] jinvox:
If anything else, if users are having issued with the VZ issued Extended Battery, make sure you let the battery fully empty and then fully charge again for about 8 hours. You have to let the battery get a "workout".

Hopefully some battery performance can be improved once we get the 2.3 Gingerbread Upgrade in Q2. Coming from a Nexus S, the battery life was so much better in 2.3 and the way Gingerbread handled running apps was like day and night; much much better (no need of any task manager)
[Thunderbolt Accessories] distortedloop:
Perhaps you should turn off LED notification and re-test. I can't imagine the LED eating up that kind of juice, but it's the first thing I'd look at if you're sure nothing else was running sucking it up.

Have you installed Spare Parts and/or System Panel? Both give lots of good information on what's using up your battery.

See my recommendation above to use Spare Parts and/or System Panel.

Maybe a finalized CM7 will get us there sooner.

Agreed on Nexus S amazing battery life, and also about getting a full deep cycle on the battery a few times before complaining about it not giving enough juice. I know it's not probable, but I swear I'm getting more than double the amount of hours out of this thing than a single standard battery gives; maybe not a huge amount, but a bit.
[Thunderbolt Accessories] tommyxv:
I don't think its the LED either...I can try a new test with the suggested tools.
[Networking] jongiger:
Hi,

I've just bought myself a HTC Touch Pro 2 (Global unlocked). It was on Verizon. The model is RHOD500. It doesn't seem to connect to Telstra Next G network (in Australia), I flashed to an NRG Rom, but the problem remains. I believe the network runs on 850Mhz (but not sure). I've tried Radio upgrades but it creates an error and then doesn't boot past the Hard SPL screen. I've tried flashing with a Telstra stock Rom and it doesn't boot so I've gone back to my NRG Rom which boots but it wont connect with Next G (it does connect in other areas with 3G, which I believe is 2100MHz) and with normal GSM, it's just in the Next G only areas (which happen to be where I live).

Thanks

Jon
[LG Optimus 2x] gagg3:
Hey,

I just got my LG and I dont like the LG setup of software and firmware..

Is there any known ported roms that works fine wich is 2.3 and vanilla?

I.E the nexus S rom...

Would appriciate the help!

/ Christian
[LG Optimus 2x] Moonie17:
I very much doubt there will be any custom ROMs available for this device just now..... but there are active members in this forum who are going to be porting CM7 and Paul @ Modaco also is going to dev for this phone.
[LG Optimus 2x] Novek:
Paul already has got a insecure boot image loaded on the 2X :)

Getting my sample hopefully tomorrow...
[LG Optimus 2x] Hojou:
Nice! Did he post about it anywhere?
[LG Optimus 2x] gensplejs:
Nah. Only a tweet saying he had done it.

I think he is pretty busy these days. (Sick kid in the hospital)

So i would except a few days to pass before he really gets going.
[LG Optimus 2x] FISKER_Q:
Didnt he say he wasn't using a retail model?
[LG Optimus 2x] paulobrien:
Retail except the box. ;)

P
[LG Optimus 2x] FISKER_Q:
Ah like that, ok then :)

Looking forward to it then, and i hope your kid and wife is ok :)
[LG Optimus 2x] Tayutama:
Just say if you need someone to test that recovery you got working.. btw how the hell did you even get into recovery? adb reboot recovery doesn't work :(
[LG Optimus 2x] paulle:
lg x2 no locked bootloader?

the lgx2 has no locked bootloader ?
[LG Optimus 2x] gensplejs:
Deleted .
[LG Optimus 2x] span_01:
It's locked but not signed or encrypted.
[LG Optimus 2x] gensplejs:
and paul has unlocked it.
[LG Optimus 2x] span_01:
Yep, so nice! Him and Doc are already running beta roms on their phones :D
[LG Optimus 2x] Noonski:
This is the part where some users will think I'm being rude.

ChitChat about Rom's does not warrant a Thread in Dev Section.

Clean out time, guys.

Please spread the word and report wrong threads in Dev section.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackHoleSlam:
Is it possible to make a stock samsung widget for the music app I love the app but it would easier to access my playlist ifi had access to it with a widget.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackHoleSlam:
Bump
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skippy012:
There is a samsung galaxy s music widget that's free in the market. Also pure music widget works with the stock music player. I believe its about $1.00.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackHoleSlam:
Thanks
[Captivate General] smitty5569:
EDIT: Well that was weird after several tries it just randomly worked. :confused: Can a mod remove this please.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xlectik67:
I've heard that the IRC channel has alot of roms that we don't see in the development section. I found a link to the IRC and looked around but could only find a link in the topic for CM7. I was wondering if there was a list or something that shows all the roms that everyones talking about in the IRC, or is it more like you have to request them and someone provides a link?

Im sorry im extremely new to IRC and would like to idle in IRC to keep up to date on whats going on in Shift rom development.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riggsandroid:
there aren't necessarily more roms in the IRC, but betas are posted more frequently. come in, chat and find some roms, ask some questions.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesusice:
With so many Shift owners just idling around it's a good place for devs to find guinea pigs. Hang out and you never know when someone might post a beta to try. I got to try out GB Sense this morning =)

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahager88:
I heard I missed a MIUI party the other day. :P

Sent from my HTC Speedy (Gonzalez)
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alher591:
Anyway I can try out gingerbread sense???;)
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riggsandroid:
come to the chat - there is a link somwhere - i really don't have it, so come and ask around.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mecheng:
Has anyone found an EQ app that works with pandora?. Running stock mt4g btw.....
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kainepaine:
MixZing Media Player may not work with Pandora (should still give it a try), but one of the best Equalizer apps and music players for stock.

Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mixzing.basic
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jggimi:
DSP Manager works fine with Pandora for me.

HTC Glacier CM7 #something
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mecheng:
I did like the DSP manager in CM6 roms for the G1. Can this APK be installed successfully on a non-rooted MT4G using visionary temproot? If so, can someone please upload the latest build of dsp manager?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mjkute:
i upgraded rom for my phone, now my phone dosen't receive internal sd card. I check it in setting, it displays "unavailable. I upgrade a lot of rom but nothing happened. Now, my phone has no internal sd card

Help me to fix it

thanks so much
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mjkute:
nobody helps me :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cioly:
Did you unlagfix it before flashing?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cioly:
Try reflash with odin using repartition and pit 512.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mjkute:
i used to try it, but.....

do you have other idea? i flashed a lot of rom and pit but the phone still display unavailable:(

i can't install any application from market
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
Clean stock rom flash with pit and repartition step one .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cioly:
did you had any lagfix before the upgrade? did you tried to flash with repartition?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amin12345:
i have the same problem :( any luck with this?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] whobeit:
It sounds like you have corrupted your card by flashing incorrectly too many times.

AS A LAST RESORT ONLY:

Link the phone to the pc and format the internal sd with "panasonic sd formatter" its free, just google it, don't use windows formatter. The phone will then say that the sd card is corrupt, now go into recovery and factory reset the phone - make sure you can do this before doing anything!

Once you have it working again do yourself a favour and don't enable any lagfixes ever again.
[Desire HD Android Development] andreasy:
One aspect I haven't touched yet is rooting and custom ROMs because I installed the 2.2.1 update. I was planning to live with it but my Radio signal is so weak that I almost miss all my calls.

Now, I have read the article on how to downgrade but I want to ask a few questions:

1) Is there a radio version that could improve my signal or more or less all wil be similar?

2) Can I install other radio without root or do I still need to downgrade in order to get root access?

3) If I install custom ROM 2.3 Gingerbread will I get improved signal or it has nothing to do with signal?
[Desire HD Android Development] kendong2:
most importantly you need to read this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=837781

as for your questions:

1. newer radio versions tend to increase performance, signal and battery life.

2. you need root (and radio s-off at least)

3. the rom doesn't have anything to do with the radio signal.
[Desire HD Android Development] andreasy:
Thanks, so radio versions are mostly count by age. right?

In my Software info, I see:

Baseband version: 12.28e.60.140fU_26.04.02.17_M2

Is this the latest version?

Where do I find newer releases?
[Desire HD Android Development] panart:
You can find all radio HERE

The radio you have is not the latest.

The latest is 26.06.04.14_M
[Desire HD Android Development] vatvedt:
Even though newer radios are better for the most part, some have experienced that older radios might work better for them with their carrier.
[Desire HD Android Development] kendong2:
should be noted that this radio version comes from the test leak. call me paranoid, but that's not going on my phone. latest official is afaik 26.06.03.24_M2.

OP: please have the thread moved by a mod, thx.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] justandroiduser:
Since the official 2.2 froyo has released,im vry confused about whether to get back official froyo or not...can someone give me some suggestion and tell me why is that better..LOL..or can list out the PROs and Cons,it helps a lot..THANK YOU VERY MUCH...LOL..because i did really don't know the advantage of using a ROM..
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] w4tchout:
The official release is the same as the leaked APAC release from 2 months ago. To answer your question: there's no point going back to the official firmware. Better yet: the latest CM7 release has supposedly a newer and better kernel than the kernel officially released yesterday
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] justandroiduser:
LOL...really thanks for u advice..actually i dunno wat is kernel..i tot it never chg..but i felt rooted phone are better cause they can overclock and use other special apps..but is there any benefit if switch back official 2.2?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] surferbuco:
Official Froyo can not record videos with aac audio codec, I realy don't know why!?

Very bad audio in recorded video...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zeppelinrox:
Hey noobs.

Try this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=994061

how many Official 2.2 threads do we need?