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Occasionaly I lose esge . Since that's what I'm using the most. And there is no icon next to the battery either. I can't open anything that needs internet. Then I try to switch to 3g and I use toggle settings. But nothing happens. No 3g no edge. I noticed that whenever that happens and I go to toggle setting to mark using 2g only . It doesn't stay green. I press it. I go to main menu. Go back and its not marked eventhough it shows green when I press it. After that my only fix is to restart the phone and then it all goes back to normal. Any ideas?
Happens to me, too. Usually after/while tethering. Haven't been able to reliably reproduce it, though.
O ic. The thing is that I have never used tethering..so I guess there is multiple problems..have you seen any other discusion regarding this issue?
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O ic. The thing is that I have never used tethering..so I guess there is multiple problems..have you seen any other discusion regarding this issue?
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i had that issue once .. i turned the phone off and on .. never came back for me
did you flash the radio??
i re flashed the radio and it seems to be working for me.. will keep you posted
you mean reflashing by applying the radio update that jf gave separately? i did it this morning. i hope it was right. if i want to reflash it. do i have to delete somethingor i can just go to home and power and apply the radio update again? do you think its going to help?
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you mean reflashing by applying the radio update that jf gave separately? i did it this morning. i hope it was right. if i want to reflash it. do i have to delete somethingor i can just go to home and power and apply the radio update again? do you think its going to help?
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yes that one, yeah just go in to recovery mode and update... it worked for me might just be a coincidence.. post if it worked for you
might be something with your location rather than the phone?
I have the same issue but i have pined it down to a certain time every day. I live in a 3G zone and i work in and Edge zone. It has never happened on 3G, but everyday that i am at work on Edge between 9am and 10am PST the icon disappears and all internet connections die.
If i restart the phone it comes right back with no more problems for that day, but the next day the same thing happens. Once and a while I'll go a day without it happening but i would say that happens maybe 2 or 3 times a month. Now some days i notice the moment it does it other times I'm not paying attention and realize I'm not connected anymore when i try to send a message.
I have let it go without restarting to see what happens and it was back on there before 11am PST so i would have to venture to say it has to do with that specific tower in that area. I could be wrong but i don't notice it on my day off at my house on 3G and i really haven't noticed it in any other area with Edge, but unless I'm at work i don't have as much time to stare at the phone all day
Hey there im brand new to this forum and android in general i just sitched from an iphone to the Lg G2x. I have to say the G2x is incredible but my battery life isn't i get on average 5 to 6 hrs of battery life (lose about 20% every hour) as others i have installed juice defender ultimate, setcpu, and watchdog. In addition to all these apps i uninstalled apps like T-mobile app pack and wifi calling because these apparently use up a lot of battery. So my question is if there any tips you guys can give me or setting for my phone or apps because maybe i have everything i need installed but with the wrong settings any help at all would be great thank you in advance
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As of now the juice defender app reports: 1.36x improvement
Well im assuming your running stock ROM and kernel...so the best and easiest thing i can tell you is just buy an extended battery ....they last alot longer, if you get the right one...
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Are you using the phone constantly?
Mixalot213 said:
Hey there im brand new to this forum and android in general i just sitched from an iphone to the Lg G2x. I have to say the G2x is incredible but my battery life isn't i get on average 5 to 6 hrs of battery life (lose about 20% every hour) as others i have installed juice defender ultimate, setcpu, and watchdog. In addition to all these apps i uninstalled apps like T-mobile app pack and wifi calling because these apparently use up a lot of battery. So my question is if there any tips you guys can give me or setting for my phone or apps because maybe i have everything i need installed but with the wrong settings any help at all would be great thank you in advance
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As of now the juice defender app reports: 1.36x improvement
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Download spare parts, go to battery history, and look at partial wake lock.
If you see a bar going across the screen or even most of the way, that's your culprit.
Also games like Words With Friends kills battery life with its polling service.
@Texan28
Well idk i tried to post pictures to display all that info but since im a new member i cant post links to pictures yet and well how much are they because ive heard there rather expensive
@ enoch861
No i would say average use most of the time just texting (usually is periodic not constant) , very little email checking and little or no facebook use but most of the time the phone is just sitting like for example right now Cell Stanby is at:49% and phone idle at 52% personally i think its to high but idk is that normal?
@Scyth3
Installed the app but no apps seem to be giving trouble all that have a status bar are very small
Once you've confirmed that you're not seeing any rogue app activity then uninstall watchdog. You don't need an app monitor or task killer running constantly on your phone.
Turn off auto brightness and set screen brightness somewhere around 20-25%. Under Settings > Wireless & Networks > Wifi Settings > *Press Menu* > Advanced Settings change wifi sleep policy to never. Turn wifi off when you're not going to be connected to a wifi network. Set your email/Facebook/twitter/weather/etc apps to sync either manually or at least less frequently.
Your biggest battery killers are going to be your screen brightness and your cellular radio. Juice defender can help control some of the cell radio by keeping data turned off when you don't need it. Also consider if you have poor signal your phone might also be always switching from 4G to 2G then it'll use more battery.
Don't bother with disabling GPS. Your phone only uses it when an app needs it anyway.
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Also, I'm assuming you've rooted your phone since you said you've removed wifi calling and other T-Mobile stuff. In that case, open setcpu and create a couple of profiles. Create a Screen Off profile with max/min values of 312/216MHz. Also create an In Call profile with max/min values of 1000/216 and set the priority slider higher than the screen off profile. I do this because when the screen goes off during a phone call I still want my phone to have plenty of processor power available. And I don't set it lower than 1000 because I'm often doing other things with my phone while I'm on a call.
G2X CM7
Then there's something wrong with your phone or a rogue app. I text a lot also and use my phone moderately to heavily. But I still get a whole day of use from the phone. Its surprising.
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@phburks I Actually have those settings on my phone however the setcpu i dont because i cant set those numbers for some reason it only lets me set default for example it goes from 245MHz to 384MHz (on the sliding adjuster)
@enoch861 really is there any tests i can run to find out whats really wrong?
No sir. Not that I know of.
But I would try to do a reset of the phone first anand run it a couple of days without really installing anything. If you get better battery life then it could be due to an app that you had installed. At that point you can start reinstalling your Apps one at a time in order of importance.
Now of that doesn't fix it, it could be a hardware issue.
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@enoch861 really is there any tests i can run to find out whats really wrong?
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Mixalot213 said:
@phburks I Actually have those settings on my phone however the setcpu i dont because i cant set those numbers for some reason it only lets me set default for example it goes from 245MHz to 384MHz (on the sliding adjuster)
@enoch861 really is there any tests i can run to find out whats really wrong?
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In setcpu have you tried hitting Menu > Device Selection and then selecting the Tegra 2 option at the top? You might have it set up for the wrong device.
As for the battery life in general, 5-6 hours on light to moderate usage as you described is not normal for this phone. When I was on my stock rom unrooted I could still get at least 10-12 good hours and I use my phone a lot, mostly for texting and web browsing.
Are you in an area with weak cell signal?
Are there any other preinstalled apps from T-Mobile that are still installed?
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@enoch861 will the reset un-root and re-lock the phone?
@phburks
ok thnx i fixed the setcpu settings and no not really but idk if having in on a gsm carrier(Simple Mobile) makes a difference but yea thats why im trying to get this fixed because 5-6 hrs is really not enough i mean if i can at least get it to 10-12 hrs id be happy with that its great improvement and um well just google maps, news and weather, smarshare, talk, telenav, voicew search, youtube etc the only ones i made sure to get rid of was t-mobile app pack and wifi calling
It shouldn't unroot it.
what do you mean by relock?
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@enoch861 will the reset un-root and re-lock the phone?
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Mixalot213 said:
@enoch861 will the reset un-root and re-lock the phone?
@phburks
ok thnx i fixed the setcpu settings and no not really but idk if having in on a gsm carrier(Simple Mobile) makes a difference but yea thats why im trying to get this fixed because 5-6 hrs is really not enough i mean if i can at least get it to 10-12 hrs id be happy with that its great improvement and um well just google maps, news and weather, smarshare, talk, telenav, voicew search, youtube etc the only ones i made sure to get rid of was t-mobile app pack and wifi calling
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I'd get rid of telenav too.
As for a reset, do you have clockworkmod recovery installed? Just boot into that and do a full reset. You wont lose root but you WILL lose any apps you installed, personal settings, text messages.
G2X CM7
@enoch861
what i meant with relock is that its currently unlocked but if i do a factory restore will it alter that ?
@phburks
i actually dont but as long as my phone remains unlocked and rooted im willing to try resetting it after all ove heard good things about it helping with battery life but can you walk me through it?
No. It shouldn't.
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@enoch861
what i meant with relock is that its currently unlocked but if i do a factory restore will it alter that ?
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Mixalot213 said:
@enoch861
what i meant with relock is that its currently unlocked but if i do a factory restore will it alter that ?
@phburks
i actually dont but as long as my phone remains unlocked and rooted im willing to try resetting it after all ove heard good things about it helping with battery life but can you walk me through it?
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If by unlocking you mean the SIM being unlocked to work on other cell networks, then you have nothing to worry about. A factory reset wont mess with that
As for performing a factory reset, go into Settings > Privacy and choose Factory Data Reset. Make sure you back up any texts/MMS you want to keep. All personal files/photos on your sdcard will be preserved but you'll have to reinstall any apps you want.
Since you still have stock recovery you can also power off the phone and then hold Volume Down + Power for like 10 or more seconds till you see the Android unpacking icon, and it will reset that way.
It shouldn't mess with root.
G2X CM7
If your phone's rooted, which it seems to be, download the battery calibration app from the market. It's free, and helped my battery life immensely. Basically charge it up to 100%, use the app. It deletes the battery stats file so android can make a new one. Run it all the way down to empty, then charge it back up to 100% and you should be good to go.
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If your phone's rooted, which it seems to be, download the battery calibration app from the market. It's free, and helped my battery life immensely. Basically charge it up to 100%, use the app. It deletes the battery stats file so android can make a new one. Run it all the way down to empty, then charge it back up to 100% and you should be good to go.
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how exactly is a program that measures the battery helping the battery life?
OP, I am using Xboarders latest 2.3.3 rom and have had the phone on 9 hours and am at 70%. I use set cpu to slow down teh processor when the screen is off and I use juice defender to turn off data, wifi, etc when the screen is off.
@ enoch861 thanks thats a relief
@phburks thanks im gonna go ahead and try it by the way when i perform it is there anything i should be doing or avoid doing (For example removieng certain apps or anything like that ?)
@Danishswag Tried it already it didnt help
I have a nexus s 4g. Just got it about 5 days ago. Needless to say I've been flashing roms like crazy . I've finally settled on oxygen 2.2 for the time being, But I have noticed the past couple of days that my battery has been draining like crazy while its nothing use. About 3-4 % per hour. I downloaded better battery stats and noticed that I have partial wakelocks in wifi in the android system of about 26%. I'm on the stock kernel for oxygen, and haven't changed anything else. All my apps are the same as when I was on other roms. Has anyone else experienced this and if so is there a solution? Maybe flash another kernel? My wifi sleep policy is set to never...which has never caused me any problems before. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Here's a pic of what the battery looks like.
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Do you use any apps like widget locker? I use oxygen but with matrix kernel and i don't have this issue.
derekwilkinson said:
Do you use any apps like widget locker? I use oxygen but with matrix kernel and i don't have this issue.
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No I don't use widget locker. I use a handful of Widgets, but they are the same ones I've been using for a long time and never had any issues with them. I turned wifi off for a while and rechecked my battery stats and low and behold none of the quite frequent wakes that I had before. Ill try another kernel tonight and see if that helps. Which version of matrix are u using?
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So one or many of your apps is set to sync every 10 minutes. I bet it even has a setting to check for a wifi connection.
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So here's where I'm at now. I reflashed a different rom, and kerenl (deck 1.3), and only put gapps on there. After a few hours, I'm still getting wakelocks from wifi. Is my wifi radio busted? Or is this some flaw in one of the stock apps. I guess ill go through each one if the stock apps and see if there's a setting I'm missing.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16801364
[HACK] UPDATED **WIPE ALL** flashable zip
Well I have tried to reflash the radio, and checked all my core apps and can't find any reason for it. Does anyone have the zip that's in this thread above. I'm looking for the one that does the complete wipe that wipes boot and everything. I figured I'd try that to see if it helps. I guess my last chance after that would be to flash the newest update and try that radio to see if there is a difference. Thanks.
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Nevermind. I found the zip....
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Wifi sleep policy to never?
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Rem3Dy said:
Wifi sleep policy to never?
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Yeah. I always have it set to never. Though I did change the settings, and still no dice! I used the complete wipe to see if that makes a difference. Ill try it when I get home in the morning.
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So nobody has ever heard about this problem. Am I the only one that's having this issue?
Well I'm going to try the one click back to stock to see if that will help anything. Wish me luck!
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I just started having this problem too few days ago. I tried flashing different roms and kernels, nothing helped. But today I disabled sync with gmail and seems to be alright now.
00Droid00 said:
I just started having this problem too few days ago. I tried flashing different roms and kernels, nothing helped. But today I disabled sync with gmail and seems to be alright now.
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Ill give that a try and see if it works. I successfully one clicked back to stock (2.3.4) and made my way back to my current rom. Ill try the no Gmail sync when I get home on the morning. Thanks for the advice.
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I give up. I can't find out what causing this issue. I've turned all my syncing off, removed every app possible, removed all Google apps and I'm still getting these wakelocks from wifi. I'm going to my sprint store to see if I can swap my phone out, get a refurb or something. Glad nobody else is having this problem, cause it driving me freaking nuts!
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Zor Omega said:
I give up. I can't find out what causing this issue. I've turned all my syncing off, removed every app possible, removed all Google apps and I'm still getting these wakelocks from wifi. I'm going to my sprint store to see if I can swap my phone out, get a refurb or something. Glad nobody else is having this problem, cause it driving me freaking nuts!
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Is the wifi wakelock happening when at home on hour network? Could be your router.
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Rem3Dy said:
Is the wifi wakelock happening when at home on hour network? Could be your router.
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Yeah that's when it happening. I didn't think of my router because I've never had an issue before. What would make it do that? My security settings?
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Nope, sorry... I've never seen this issue
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Well I got a replacement from sprint. They were pretty cool about it. Good news :getting great battery life, mediocre news :wifi still doing its funky thing. It must be an app or some setting in the core apps, though while I'm still getting the wakes, my battery isn't draining hardly at all while on standby. I'm doing like 1 % per two hrs! One thing I did notice though is that I did not have this issue when I 1 clicked unroot back to 2.3.4? Weird but there it is.
Also my phone was doing it at the sprint store on their wifi, so I know it wasn't my router.
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I have this issue when im at work where i get crap att coverage where eventually from being low for so long and staying on wifi my phone signal goes to zero and a grey x shoes up above them.
This wouldnt be so bad but it wont reconnect with a reboot or airplane mode reset which means if i dont check my phone i get no calls or info.
Is this normal? Is there a fix?
Thanks
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tevil said:
I have this issue when im at work where i get crap att coverage where eventually from being low for so long and staying on wifi my phone signal goes to zero and a grey x shoes up above them.
This wouldnt be so bad but it wont reconnect with a reboot or airplane mode reset which means if i dont check my phone i get no calls or info.
Is this normal? Is there a fix?
Thanks
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This is an old issue. I'm not sure when the fix happened or what ATT radio would fix it for you but there is a simple (ish) solution. Basically, whats happening is that when your phone loses signal for an extended period of time it shuts off the radio and then cannot restart it. Using NoBars will stop your phone's radio from dying like that and will just periodically poll for signal.
That will fix the issue but just to satisfy my own curiosity, on your SDcard are there a bunch of files called Radio Dump and then a bunch of numbers?
Sorry posted on my phone and didnt notice the grammar errors
Yes i have the radio dump files but havent checked since installing the F1 radio.
I will try that app since this issue has followed me on multiple roms and radios
If there was a fix i havent gotten it
Thanks man
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Just installed nobars but realized its a battery saver like juice defender
I will keep my hopes up tho
This ONLY happns when at my desk at work where att has no dark hold on me
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you could try manually resetting your radio if that is actually the problem. just dial *#*#4636#*#* next time you're at your desk and go to phone information. if you scroll down it should say either turn off radio or turn on radio. try turning it on if it's already off, or resetting it by turning it off and then on again. I don't think this would be a permanent fix though. just a temporary solution when the problem arises.
tevil said:
Sorry posted on my phone and didnt notice the grammar errors
Yes i have the radio dump files but havent checked since installing the F1 radio.
I will try that app since this issue has followed me on multiple roms and radios
If there was a fix i havent gotten it
Thanks man
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Just installed nobars but realized its a battery saver like juice defender
I will keep my hopes up tho
This ONLY happns when at my desk at work where att has no dark hold on me
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Nobars will shut off your radio and stop it from dying. Trust me it works. My wife and I used it foe months waiting for the issue to be resolved. The radio dumps mean you're having the same issue.
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hoponpop said:
you could try manually resetting your radio if that is actually the problem. just dial *#*#4636#*#* next time you're at your desk and go to phone information. if you scroll down it should say either turn off radio or turn on radio. try turning it on if it's already off, or resetting it by turning it off and then on again. I don't think this would be a permanent fix though. just a temporary solution when the problem arises.
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I actually go into the carrier menu when i install a new radio anyway. Going in and out of airplane mode resets the radio but the problem is if I dont actually look at my phone (in my pocket) i wont know the radio shut off and can go through the day without getting any contact. I know its not the rom cause Im on stock. I know its not the radio cause I have tried about every one.
Its got to be a mix of crappy ATT service (which makes me wonder if resigning was worth this phone for free) and the nexus s hardware.
I am seeing if noBars will help. You would think this would be something google would fix ASAP tho as its happened since day one almost.
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I actually go into the carrier menu when i install a new radio anyway. Going in and out of airplane mode resets the radio but the problem is if I dont actually look at my phone (in my pocket) i wont know the radio shut off and can go through the day without getting any contact. I know its not the rom cause Im on stock. I know its not the radio cause I have tried about every one.
Its got to be a mix of crappy ATT service (which makes me wonder if resigning was worth this phone for free) and the nexus s hardware.
I am seeing if noBars will help. You would think this would be something google would fix ASAP tho as its happened since day one almost.
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It is odd since this was a massive issue from day one of the Nexus S but that was before any of the other variants and it was fixed before any of the other variants launched. Since that fix, I've not heard of anyone having the issue any more with any variant. Part of the issue for my wife and I was that we lived in an area where there was really no good cell coverage from any company, so we stayed with T-Mo in spite of that knowing that we were moving soon to an area with great T-mo coverage, but being out of service so much resulted in similar issues as you've had: we would be constantly restarting our phones to see if there was anything we were missing. I do believe this will work for you, and I hope you find a permanent solution soon.
Thanks for the tip but i guess i am the lucky guy who still has the issue lol
Maybe hardware related? I will see what ice cs brings me
For today nobars helped but i did notice some batt drain from it but very minimal so its a keeper for now
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i recently flashed cm9 onto my sgs4g and now when i set my phone to vibrate mode it changes itself into silent or ringer, and im also having the problem that its now showing 3g instead of 4g like it should, before i flashed cm9 it showed 4g, so could it be the area im in doesnt support 4g or could it be something else? or would going into recovery mode and selecting "fix permissions" fix the problems im having? any help would be greatful.
and big thanks to the developers who made cm9 possible on the sgs4g, its outstanding and cant wait to see what comes next, and big thanks to all the others that help out.
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i recently flashed cm9 onto my sgs4g and now when i set my phone to vibrate mode it changes itself into silent or ringer, and im also having the problem that its now showing 3g instead of 4g like it should, before i flashed cm9 it showed 4g, so could it be the area im in doesnt support 4g or could it be something else? or would going into recovery mode and selecting "fix permissions" fix the problems im having? any help would be greatful.
and big thanks to the developers who made cm9 possible on the sgs4g, its outstanding and cant wait to see what comes next, and big thanks to all the others that help out.
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1. I dunno, maybe its a bad flash? Did you wipe your data/cache and factory reset before flashing?
2. Thats not a bug t mobile doesn't actually have 4g the rom will show and H instead of 4g. You should be getting the same data speeds as before
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pisherthefisher said:
1. I dunno, maybe its a bad flash? Did you wipe your data/cache and factory reset before flashing?
2. Thats not a bug t mobile doesn't actually have 4g the rom will show and H instead of 4g. You should be getting the same data speeds as before
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i did everything needed 2 flash the rom, i have 2 manualy set it 2 vibrate then use the vol up/down 2 get it into vibrate mode, not understanding why i have 2 do that every time i reboot my phone or every few hrs due 2 it changing on its own.
as for the 4g, when i am at home it shows 3g, but if i leave and go 2 were theres more towers it shows no 3g/H or anything
Jenovah said:
i recently flashed cm9 onto my sgs4g and now when i set my phone to vibrate mode it changes itself into silent or ringer, and im also having the problem that its now showing 3g instead of 4g like it should, before i flashed cm9 it showed 4g, so could it be the area im in doesnt support 4g or could it be something else? or would going into recovery mode and selecting "fix permissions" fix the problems im having? any help would be greatful.
and big thanks to the developers who made cm9 possible on the sgs4g, its outstanding and cant wait to see what comes next, and big thanks to all the others that help out.
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Ok...
1. On stock roms it stays at 4g constantly (But it goes to 3g sometimes without notification) CM9 shows you whats actually happening.
2. The vibration thing I had the same problem, i'm currently on aokp but if I get a chance ill look at it ( I don't remember atm) I will pm you the answer.
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1. On stock roms it stays at 4g constantly (But it goes to 3g sometimes without notification) CM9 shows you whats actually happening.
2. The vibration thing I had the same problem, i'm currently on aokp but if I get a chance ill look at it ( I don't remember atm) I will pm you the answer.
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ok thank you digital, i wasnt sure why it kept saying 3g (after letting it sit in certain spots it started showing H), as for the vibrate thing ill keep messing with it
no problem! Now for the vibrate thing I have figured it out, when you go to set it when you're cycling through the settings 2 of them will vibrate I didn't really pay attention but one will vibrate and work the other one will vibrate once and then remain silent.
straight from the dope house!
sweet, thanks again digital! didnt know there was 2 modes 4 the vibrate