atrix 2's battery life is well known to be long and at least it can last for a day and half with mediocre usage.. But in this 2-3 days, my phone feels hot and the battery drains so fast! I don't know what I did, my phone is rooted and using OTA stock 2.3.6 and some build.prop tweaks.. I already restored it to factory setting but still no luck
NEED HELP!!
Usually a rogue app
Yep...usually it's a rogue app that causes this.
First go into Setting-Battery & Data Manager and then click on the big battery and it should tell you what's using your juice (it's best to do this after you've been on battery only for a while).
If it shows nothing out of the ordinary, then uninstall the last few apps you installed (usually games are the culprit).
If none of that helps then you could try calibrating the battery, I use BatteryCalibration (available in the market)
And the last resort is to take the phone in for repairs/replacement
Good Luck
lilhaiti said:
Yep...usually it's a rogue app that causes this.
First go into Setting-Battery & Data Manager and then click on the big battery and it should tell you what's using your juice (it's best to do this after you've been on battery only for a while).
If it shows nothing out of the ordinary, then uninstall the last few apps you installed (usually games are the culprit).
If none of that helps then you could try calibrating the battery, I use BatteryCalibration (available in the market)
And the last resort is to take the phone in for repairs/replacement
Good Luck
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I agree with most of this, but you would probably want to try a factory reset before taking the phone in for a replacement. Just do a titanium backup of all your apps first so restoring is faster and easier.
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I agree with most of this, but you would probably want to try a factory reset before taking the phone in for a replacement. Just do a titanium backup of all your apps first so restoring is faster and easier.
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I would normally suggest that...but he said in the OP that he tried that all ready.
thanks for all the suggestions. I have did a factory reset before but still no luck. Maybe because of the rogue app you guys talked about, my battery data shows that Temple Run apps used 50% so I will try to uninstall it. Its a shame though, it is a nice game
it still the same i dont what else i need to do.. i think the cause of this problem is because there's something that keeps downloading.. when i check on Onavo, android os + others is always downloading. i can't restrict it to wi-fi only. Any idea?
Get rid of Onavo
i got rid of onavo but it is still the same.. did any of you occur the problem where the phone gets overheat?
Temple run was bad for me. Battery calibration fixed it. Make sure to fully kill and charge as recomended.
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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
Info that might help:
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.
G2X CM7
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?
G2X CM7
@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.
Mixalot213 said:
@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
Why is that all the ICS builds that I have tried burn through the battery VERY fast? Am I installing them right? I follow the directions to the letter.
have u let the roms settle? by this i mean going through at least 3 charge cycles without a reboot, before judging battery life? if u haven't done this then u can't really judge until u do
So theres a settling in period? I didnt know that.
yup, 3 full charge cyclss is the generally accepted rule. If u just flash and use, i guarantee ur gettin crap life. The rom needs to configure battery based an ur usage basically
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yup, 3 full charge cyclss is the generally accepted rule. If u just flash and use, i guarantee ur gettin crap life. The rom needs to configure battery based an ur usage basically
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So by 3 cycles is charge to 100% then drain to 0?
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yessir, that is correct
I had a problem installing SKY-ICS where when I clicked camera or gallery it would say "Media Scanner Running" and then close. This sucked because I couldn't use the camera and it would leave a service open Media Storage. That service would drain all my battery and heat up the phone until I did a force stop. I don't really believe you would need to do 3 full cycles, just check your battery usage under settings and see what is eating the most battery.
I had the same media scanner issue. Tried 4 different ICS Roms over a week with similar results. I was burning about 25% / hour, so I had plenty of opportunity to run through full cycles. Couldn't get MS to shut off. Finally bailed and went back to stock unrooted today. MS hasn't been over 2% since. I really like ICS, but like my battery more.
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yessir, that is correct
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Makes sense because on gb I didn't flash a rom for a month and it was amazing battery life lol
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soda0289 said:
I had a problem installing SKY-ICS where when I clicked camera or gallery it would say "Media Scanner Running" and then close. This sucked because I couldn't use the camera and it would leave a service open Media Storage. That service would drain all my battery and heat up the phone until I did a force stop. I don't really believe you would need to do 3 full cycles, just check your battery usage under settings and see what is eating the most battery.
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sorry this is wrong, ask any dev and they will all say the same thing. After a fresh install rom needs time to calibrate battery
Altarocks said:
I had the same media scanner issue. Tried 4 different ICS Roms over a week with similar results. I was burning about 25% / hour, so I had plenty of opportunity to run through full cycles. Couldn't get MS to shut off. Finally bailed and went back to stock unrooted today. MS hasn't been over 2% since. I really like ICS, but like my battery more.
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this is an entirely different issue, but a known one,. fix is to wipe emmc and restore bit by bit
icenight89 said:
this is an entirely different issue, but a known one,. fix is to wipe emmc and restore bit by bit
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I tried. I slowly added apps back one by one, and never restored data. Formatted ext. SD, moved files from internal, etc. Thought I had it fixed once after changing email from push to an interval. Media server immediately stopped running, but started again a few minutes later.
I think I've devoted 2-1/2 days of the last 7 to wiping, flashing, and restoring. Finally had to cry uncle before I get fired. I'm sure someone here can make it work, but it's got me beaten. I'd feel a lot better if I at least knew what was making media scanner run.
Awesome battery life so far with sky ICS
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Altarocks said:
I tried. I slowly added apps back one by one, and never restored data. Formatted ext. SD, moved files from internal, etc. Thought I had it fixed once after changing email from push to an interval. Media server immediately stopped running, but started again a few minutes later.
I think I've devoted 2-1/2 days of the last 7 to wiping, flashing, and restoring. Finally had to cry uncle before I get fired. I'm sure someone here can make it work, but it's got me beaten. I'd feel a lot better if I at least knew what was making media scanner run.
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sounds like u didn't fully wipe emmc, just move files from it. Since u tried everything else, humour me. Backup both onto computer then thoroughy format emmc and external sd in cwm. Mount usb storage and copy over sky ics 4.1. Flash it. Download some apps from xda and market and monitor for a few hours.
icenight89 said:
sorry this is wrong, ask any dev and they will all say the same thing. After a fresh install rom needs time to calibrate battery
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I'm sorry I'm a noob this is my 4th post. I thought you only had to calibrate battery to get accurate battery statistics, like time remaining and percentage, not longer life.
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Should I wipe battery stats then go through the cycle?
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icenight89 said:
this is an entirely different issue, but a known one,. fix is to wipe emmc and restore bit by bit
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Thank you that was my exact problem.
Kenneth.Torres said:
Should I wipe battery stats then go through the cycle?
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wipe battery stats in cwm does nothing, its a myth bud. Just charge to 100% and drain to 10% or less before next charge, try yo do it without a reboot. Reboot after 3/or 4 and u should be golden
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Thank you that was my exact problem.
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read my post before this one, it should solve your problem, i hope lol
icenight89 said:
wipe battery stats in cwm does nothing, its a myth bud. Just charge to 100% and drain to 10% or less before next charge, try yo do it without a reboot. Reboot after 3/or 4 and u should be golden
read my post before this one, it should solve your problem, i hope lol
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Thanks man, also I've always wondered if undclocking to about 1.2 ghz would help save battery?
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yup, im running at 1188, but make sure u turn in force gpu rendering under settings > developer, that wil keep things smooth
Don't ever drain a lithium ion battery to 0%. Never go lower than 15%.
It damages the cells.
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I recently switched to VZW and got the SGS3 (100% stock so far)...great phone except for one issue. Twice now the battery has completely crashed....going from fully charged before bed to full draining and turning off the phone while I slept.
I assumed it was an app causing the problem. At first I thought it was the game X-Plane. However, last night it happened again and I had not played any game. The one app I used immediately before both battery crashed was RadarScope. I'm surprised it would somehow cause the battery to crash after using it though because before going to bed I always use the ICS task killer to close all unnecessary apps.
Please help me diagnose these extreme crashes. I don't see how it could be RadarScope because I close it before going to bed, but that's the best explanation I have so far.
No one has any idea? I thought it may have been a quirk with the stock kernel interacting with certain apps, but maybe it's simply a bug in RadarScope or one of my other apps.
TeeJay3800 said:
No one has any idea? I thought it may have been a quirk with the stock kernel interacting with certain apps, but maybe it's simply a bug in RadarScope or one of my other apps.
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Download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats and it'll tell you what you need to know.
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I've never had any major problems with my Infuse since I got it.
The battery is getting weaker but I bought a 2600Mah USB Backup Battery and that gives me another 7-8 hours for about 13-14 hours of use.
To make a long story short, I unlocked for use in Mexico City on TelCel and had some issues, so I returned the phone back to stock, unrooted.
Since that point however, while it would occasionally freeze before, its become a daily thing now and really bothersome because I can't even stop audio from playing via bluetooth. The touch screen becomes unresponsive and only a soft reboot or a hard reboot (removing the battery) returns the phone to a useful state.
It seems I have to do is every couple of hours now though, so I am posting here to get some suggestion on how to fix it.
Its been two years already since I got it so I am eligible for a new phone, but this one continues to work well besides this issue.
Thanks
djfourmoney said:
I've never had any major problems with my Infuse since I got it.
The battery is getting weaker but I bought a 2600Mah USB Backup Battery and that gives me another 7-8 hours for about 13-14 hours of use.
To make a long story short, I unlocked for use in Mexico City on TelCel and had some issues, so I returned the phone back to stock, unrooted.
Since that point however, while it would occasionally freeze before, its become a daily thing now and really bothersome because I can't even stop audio from playing via bluetooth. The touch screen becomes unresponsive and only a soft reboot or a hard reboot (removing the battery) returns the phone to a useful state.
It seems I have to do is every couple of hours now though, so I am posting here to get some suggestion on how to fix it.
Its been two years already since I got it so I am eligible for a new phone, but this one continues to work well besides this issue.
Thanks
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1. your microSD may be going bad
2. if you haven't done so, back up all your stuff and try a factory reset...this may erase all existing info and bring the phone back to day#1
qkster said:
1. your microSD may be going bad
2. if you haven't done so, back up all your stuff and try a factory reset...this may erase all existing info and bring the phone back to day#1
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I mentioned that in the post, I did it while in Mexico City. It worked fine until this week, late last week. The battery only gives me about 5 hours now with just 32% audio playback and about 10% web access.
I guess I'll order a Anker battery from Amazon.
I rooted the phone again last night but before I did that, the phone became unresponsive three times in an hour. Which microSD card are you talking about? I just bought a 32GB Class 6 card and that works fine, I play all my audio from it, no problems.
If you mean the internal microSD card, that could be possible. I assume I can crack open the phone and replace this easily?
I should mention it never does that while plugged into a power source, so maybe this is all battery related.
Possible Fix...
When I had to hard reboot the phone again this afternoon, a little forced closed window came up for TwLauncher.
After rebooting the phone I looking at Titanium Backup and cleared the cashe from TwLauncher and that seems to have solved the problem.
Somebody on here mentioned that after installing a ROM they had the same problem, was worth a try.
I will report back if the issue returns.
djfourmoney said:
When I had to hard reboot the phone again this afternoon, a little forced closed window came up for TwLauncher.
After rebooting the phone I looking at Titanium Backup and cleared the cashe from TwLauncher and that seems to have solved the problem.
Somebody on here mentioned that after installing a ROM they had the same problem, was worth a try.
I will report back if the issue returns.
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My personal beliefs are that TB is good for causing a lot of problems.I used to use it,even bought pro,but even not restoring data when restoring apps I seamed to develop odd quirks or problems on about any ROM. Since not using it have much fewer problems.I am sure many people love it and think it's great, just thought I would give my $0.02
if your battery holds a charge...that is, it's letting you run the phone for more than several hours, it's unlikely to be the battery.
lags are usually due to apps misbehaving, media scan, wakelocks and wifi bugs...there are some others.
a factory reset ...complete reset..complete stock..will let you know if you have hardware of software issues.
qkster said:
if your battery holds a charge...that is, it's letting you run the phone for more than several hours, it's unlikely to be the battery.
lags are usually due to apps misbehaving, media scan, wakelocks and wifi bugs...there are some others.
a factory reset ...complete reset..complete stock..will let you know if you have hardware of software issues.
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Thus far, that issue has not returned. Yes the battery holds a charge, but last only about 5-6 hours now, not 7-8 hours.
It seems it was a minor software issue. I did a factory reset, you keep missing that.
I did it in Mexico City (7 days ago).... Since that point and returning to the US, I have put my apps back on the phone. I had already updated to Gingerbread and it just reset to that.
I won't know more until I am out and about with my phone. I will be watching various auto racing events and don't plan on leaving the house this weekend.
Aussie V8's at COTA
NASCAR All Star Race @ Charlotte
World Challenge @ COTA
ELMS @ Imola
DTM @ Brands Hatch
WTCC @ Sazburg
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elbscorp said:
My personal beliefs are that TB is good for causing a lot of problems.I used to use it,even bought pro,but even not restoring data when restoring apps I seamed to develop odd quirks or problems on about any ROM. Since not using it have much fewer problems.I am sure many people love it and think it's great, just thought I would give my $0.02
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No problem, I've never had a problem with TB. I updated the rom to a rooted version of the AT&T Gingerbread release so I could even use it... lol
The phone was rooted for Froyo, I downloaded the AT&T Gingerbread from Samsung via Kies when it was released and it remained rooted.
But resetting it back to stock, TB didn't work until I put the rooted rom on the phone.
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After you did the factory reset how did you put your apps back?
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After you did the factory reset how did you put your apps back?
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Exactly...you had to use TB or another restore. If you used TB on froyo and restored on GB or vice versa, you may run into issues.
and ...sigh... I did not miss the fact that you stated that you had reset the phone. I just had doubts that you understood what I was trying to say...from inside the phone..under settings/privacy..there is a reset option. make sure everything you wanted is already backed up. reset it..then put it into download mode and use one of the odin or heimdall package and flash it back to complete stock...run it stock and dont back up anything. download only apps from the play store or side load the apps if you had the apk's.
check the battery use to see if you have wake locks or android OS or android system eating up for battery..then you will know
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After you did the factory reset how did you put your apps back?
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Well like this, I will not go into the details but somebody else put Swipe Lock on the phone and of course I didn't know what he put into the phone. I was trying to resolve data issue on TelCel.
I had to do a hard reset outside of the operating system. Since the ROM was already upgraded to Gingerbread but unrooted, it went back to its unrooted state meaning I couldn't use TB.
So I re-downloaded apps from my memory. All of them are free so it wasn't an issue, just time consuming.
qkster said:
Exactly...you had to use TB or another restore. If you used TB on froyo and restored on GB or vice versa, you may run into issues.
and ...sigh... I did not miss the fact that you stated that you had reset the phone. I just had doubts that you understood what I was trying to say...from inside the phone..under settings/privacy..there is a reset option. make sure everything you wanted is already backed up. reset it..then put it into download mode and use one of the odin or heimdall package and flash it back to complete stock...run it stock and dont back up anything. download only apps from the play store or side load the apps if you had the apk's.
check the battery use to see if you have wake locks or android OS or android system eating up for battery..then you will know
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See above.
I used download mode to get out of Swipe Lock. I never used Swipe Lock, a-hole wanted to charge me 120 pesos ($7) to wipe it and put it back to stock, I wasn't going to do it, I know enough about Android phones to do it myself.
Oh well, lesson learned, I believe wiping the cashe from TwLauncher has solved the problem.
I did re-install all the apps from the store. I wasn't able to use TB until Thurs night (5/16). I noticed the errors Friday afternoon, wipe the cashe and no issues since.
Hey all
I have a Sprint Galaxy S 6 that I just updated with an update that claimed to be to improve "battery drain".
It is losing 13% in a half hour without using the phone.
I have no apps running.
I go to settings and it seems that Google Play services is always the one that uses most of the battery.
I never got great battery life but this update seemed to make it worse.
Am I missing something big???
Any advise would be appreciated.
Mike in St. Louis
mikeinstlouis said:
Hey all
I have a Sprint Galaxy S 6 that I just updated with an update that claimed to be to improve "battery drain".
It is losing 13% in a half hour without using the phone.
I have no apps running.
I go to settings and it seems that Google Play services is always the one that uses most of the battery.
I never got great battery life but this update seemed to make it worse.
Am I missing something big???
Any advise would be appreciated.
Mike in St. Louis
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Probably your phone won't go into deepsleep. This is caused by wakelocks and alarms. You can fix this by rooting your phone and install powernap or factory resetting your phone & start all over again.
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_SDroid said:
Probably your phone won't go into deepsleep. This is caused by wakelocks and alarms. You can fix this by rooting your phone and install powernap or factory resetting your phone & start all over again.
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I would rather not root my phone... I did it with my last three phones and was more trouble than it was worth for me. The phone has all of the features that I like and I don't have a need to flash ROMS.
Any other suggestions?
mikeinstlouis said:
I would rather not root my phone... I did it with my last three phones and was more trouble than it was worth for me. The phone has all of the features that I like and I don't have a need to flash ROMS.
Any other suggestions?
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In that case factory reset your phone, this will delete all of your apps and data so also the wakelocks and alarms. From then your phone will go into deepsleep and you won't lose so much juice when you don't use the phone
Hi, I'm also having battery life issues. I've factory formatted from recovery menu, but I still get battery issues. I charge my phone about 3 times a day and I don't have any significant drain according to the battery usage settings.
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Plain Water said:
Hi, I'm also having battery life issues. I've factory formatted from recovery menu, but I still get battery issues. I charge my phone about 3 times a day and I don't have any significant drain according to the battery usage settings.
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The same here. I have everything okay according to battery stats. But I lose like 5-8% an hour when screen doesn't work. Don't know what to do.
I basically surf the net and use WhatsApp. By early afternoon, I'm down to 60% battery. I unplug my charger at 6am everyday.
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I'm curious if you have cell satndby being used constantly, as that is my problem.
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