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Hi all. I just got a Captivate after using Mattc on my HD2 and I used an Aria for a couple weeks as well. I used Mattc on the HD2 for a couple months and really liked it. I understood it was running from the SD and lived with the other issues like slow wake up and occasional goofiness.
So when I got my Captivate I was thinking, wow, I'll have one of(if not the) fastest Android phone on it's native hardware. Everything should rock. I should be blown away... Not.
HELP!
The brightness settings. WTF! Why did they implement like 10 ways the brightness screws with your day. On my HD2 w/Mattc I set the brightness in settings to where I wanted and it stayed. Forever. Also when it hits 10% it kicks the brightness all the way down. 10%? Com on maybe 5%. But what is worse is when it does kick it down I kick it back up but it dims again at every percent it goes down. ANNOYING. Please let me control my phone... Oh and don't get me started on the Browser brightness. Huh? Even with the browser brightness set at max it's still dimmer than my regular brightness setting. Noticably. I only keep my brightness at like 75-80% too.
Also what the hell is with the lame Calendar notification settings? Are there any?
My question is this. Is there any ROM out there that will strip all that Samsung ideology and give me a stock Android experience. Especially without the brightness issues. Why do I need to slide my notification bar to change brightness? All it does for me is just cause my brightness to vary accidentally when I don't want it to.
Why must I add on programs for my Calendar alerts to function normally? Why?
So again. Is there a ROM out there that will strip all the Samsung goofiness? If I can't get this phone to work like I want I'm going to sell it and look for a Telus HTC Desire to use on ATT. HTC phones are the best man. IMHO
Thanks.
juiceppc said:
The brightness settings. WTF! Why did they implement like 10 ways the brightness screws with your day. On my HD2 w/Mattc I set the brightness in settings to where I wanted and it stayed. Forever. Also when it hits 10% it kicks the brightness all the way down. 10%? Com on maybe 5%. But what is worse is when it does kick it down I kick it back up but it dims again at every percent it goes down. ANNOYING. Please let me control my phone... Oh and don't get me started on the Browser brightness. Huh? Even with the browser brightness set at max it's still dimmer than my regular brightness setting. Noticably. I only keep my brightness at like 75-80% too.
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Turn off auto brightness and pick a setting you like. Done.
Also what the hell is with the lame Calendar notification settings? Are there any?
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I don't know what lame is, but I use my Google calendar and I can set notifications. I get notified. Is there a specific problem you have?
My question is this. Is there any ROM out there that will strip all that Samsung ideology and give me a stock Android experience. Especially without the brightness issues. Why do I need to slide my notification bar to change brightness? All it does for me is just cause my brightness to vary accidentally when I don't want it to.
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There is no stock Android experience. Android is just the core - Samsung, HTC, etc, they all add specific things in order for their specific hardware to function. If you don't want what comes on your AT&T Captivate, then you can root and uninstall the apps you don't like, flash one of the many, many cooked ROMs available on this forum (just look around - they are everywhere, and all with great pictures and descriptions and huge threads full of information), tweak settings to your heart's content, or anything else you want to do.
Why must I add on programs for my Calendar alerts to function normally? Why?
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I don't have any add-ons and I get my alerts. What exactly isn't working for you?
Auto brightness has been off. First thing I do-
I do not get audible alerts when a Calendar reminder goes off-(and there is no where in settings to change/check this)
I had to install "Calendar Snooze" to play an audible alert for a Calendar reminder-
Phone is at 10% now fully dimmed. Nice... Considering how bad the battery life is for this phone(for me) I'll be spending a lot of time with the screen fully dimmed.
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Auto brightness has been off. First thing I do-
I do not get audible alerts when a Calendar reminder goes off-(and there is no where in settings to change/check this)
I had to install "Calendar Snooze" to play an audible alert for a Calendar reminder-
Phone is at 10% now fully dimmed. Nice... Considering how bad the battery life is for this phone(for me) I'll be spending a lot of time with the screen fully dimmed.
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Try reading a little and you will see you can set the brightness at where you want it by un-checking the automatic brightness setting..Then you can swipe along the status bar to raise and lower the brightness..It will stay where you had it set IF the automatic brightness is unchecked..Where you have the slider at will be the brightest it will swipe to..
Set your alerts to something you can hear and turn up the volume..They work fine.
Battery life is not a issue provided you follow some advise..Bump charge it 1 time and then use it till it drains down to single digits before recharging...also make sure you back out of all programs and turn off wi-fi and gps and syncing when you don't need them. Loose any task killer program you have and run it stock..you will find your battery life is excellent..if not you may or may not have a bad battery..Lastly..if you are really dissatisfied with it..take it back..
Good Luck
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In regards to the brightness, turn off auto brightness and the 'power saving option.', that should solve your issue.
As far as removing the AT&T bloatware goes, try Unleash the beast.
If you want to run Froyo try flashing a rom, I used the latest version of Cognition.
Run far away from this phone if you still have the chance.
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Run far away from this phone if you still have the chance.
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Broad-brush damnations do nothing to help anyone.
Mac11700 said:
Try reading a little and you will see you can set the brightness at where you want it by un-checking the automatic brightness setting..Then you can swipe along the status bar to raise and lower the brightness..It will stay where you had it set IF the automatic brightness is unchecked..Where you have the slider at will be the brightest it will swipe to..
Set your alerts to something you can hear and turn up the volume..They work fine.
Battery life is not a issue provided you follow some advise..Bump charge it 1 time and then use it till it drains down to single digits before recharging...also make sure you back out of all programs and turn off wi-fi and gps and syncing when you don't need them. Loose any task killer program you have and run it stock..you will find your battery life is excellent..if not you may or may not have a bad battery..Lastly..if you are really dissatisfied with it..take it back..
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Thanks for the advice. Although I have done all of those things. I'm kind of coming to one real main pain point that I can't seem to solve. The screen dimming at 10%. Does anyone know how to disable that? Even if I kick the brightness back up after it dims at 10% it will redim at 9% and so on...
Bitter. But hopeful.
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Unfortunately, running away from this phone does seem to be good advise. It doesn't mater how slick it is in theory. Uber display and kickass hardware are useless if the basic functionality suffers due to glitches most of the other options don't seem to exibit.
I decided to play the "mod and wait" game with this thing, and I'm regretting it. Broad-brush damnations would have helped me. At this point, enough issues have came up about this hardware that a "broad-brush" sticky may be warranted. The alert issues found by the OP, may be related to his speaker begining to fail. I had a similar issue. Calander and alarm notifications began failing in some apps, but not others. The phone would still ring. Some apps could still use the speaker. Within a week, nothing could use the speaker, and I had to do the "push-on-it" fix.
It's a forum. Posts are opinions. I've been impressed occasionally by the raw performance of this phone. Yet, I've also spent hours, hours, researching problems, applying fixes, flashing, pushing on the speaker, etc. And I've spent hours "waiting" for the thing to do something simple like send an email when it did fine the day before. With as much time and effort as I've put into researching and working on this phone, I feel like I (and others) have not gotten enough stability out of it.
I propose a broad brush damnation for this phone: "slick but intermittent".
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Unfortunately, running away from this phone does seem to be good advise. It doesn't mater how slick it is in theory. Uber display and kickass hardware are useless if the basic functionality suffers due to glitches most of the other options don't seem to exibit.
I decided to play the "mod and wait" game with this thing, and I'm regretting it. Broad-brush damnations would have helped me. At this point, enough issues have came up about this hardware that a "broad-brush" sticky may be warranted. The alert issues found by the OP, may be related to his speaker begining to fail. I had a similar issue. Calander and alarm notifications began failing in some apps, but not others. The phone would still ring. Some apps could still use the speaker. Within a week, nothing could use the speaker, and I had to do the "push-on-it" fix.
It's a forum. Posts are opinions. I've been impressed occasionally by the raw performance of this phone. Yet, I've also spent hours, hours, researching problems, applying fixes, flashing, pushing on the speaker, etc. And I've spent hours "waiting" for the thing to do something simple like send an email when it did fine the day before. With as much time and effort as I've put into researching and working on this phone, I feel like I (and others) have not gotten enough stability out of it.
I propose a broad brush damnation for this phone: "slick but intermittent".
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haha. Thanks for the ,.. opinion. I'm starting to feel the same way about this phone. I had super high hopes. But I'm really going to stick with HTC. They just get it. IMHO.
I think most people regret buying this phone. Or they will, when FroYo never arrives, the lag gets worse and worse, the phone dies on them, and the GPS never come close to working, the market decides not to intall your app, this, that, or the other thing force closes, etc. etc. etc.
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I think most people regret buying this phone. Or they will, when FroYo never arrives, the lag gets worse and worse, the phone dies on them, and the GPS never come close to working, the market decides not to intall your app, this, that, or the other thing force closes, etc. etc. etc.
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Umm froyo is already leaked and OTA is on its way.
Lag has never been an issue.
And GPS is a software fix... proven on these boards over and over.
SHEESH... I'd say go tell somewhere else.
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yeah, 5 million people are completely dissatisfied because one guy managed to not know how to operate his phone.....
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I think most people regret buying this phone. Or they will, when FroYo never arrives, the lag gets worse and worse, the phone dies on them, and the GPS never come close to working, the market decides not to intall your app, this, that, or the other thing force closes, etc. etc. etc.
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I think your wrong. I think quite a few people got defective phones and haven't bothered returning them,thinking that if they root it and flash a different rom that would magically fix a broken phone. This is XDA and folks here mostly do this..thus the reason for most of the complaints. Problem is..it won't change much of anything to reflash if the phone is defective..If it is broken to begin with..it will be broken no matter what you do to it.. If yours is defective..quite *****ing about it and get one that isn't..or a different phone entirely. The working ones are great..just like they are supposed to be.
I have 2 of them built in September..both work and neither is defective.This tells me many of those built prior have some issues..perhaps not all of them..but some of them certainly. This certainly doesn't make it right by anyones account..just saying if yours is defective..return it and get one that isn't.
I honestly don't understand people who have the option of doing this,not doing it.The folks at my AT&T store opened 7 different boxes and checked every one of them for any blue tint on the screen and having the 3 button recovery option..for my second one bought at the same time,so I do know there are many out there that ain't working properly..The OP of this thread..is unhappy with it..damn..loose it and be done with it if you are that unhappy..or take that one back and get them to open up the boxes and show you one that works properly...If it was bought mail order..then you should just return it as defective and get your money back..and buy where you can see it first..It's your choice...and your money.
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Anyone know of a reliable alarm app? The stock one works about 75% of the time but there has to be a more reliable one than that. My HTC S743 had an alarm called gentimer and it worked ALL the time. Ideas...Experiences...?
what do you mean it only works 75% of the time? 25% of the time it does nothing? are you sure it's configured correctly? broken alarm apps are a thing of the past... if yours isn't working, I would be talking to Tmo about a replacement.
the last time I experienced a faulty alarm clock (force closed instead of ringing at me, that's convenient) was back on CM5.x on my Dream... and since then I have never experienced a faulty alarm app on a custom rom or stock.
there are tons of alarm clock apps on the market, and it's pretty easy to tell from reviews which ones work and which ones don't.
yes, the other 25% of the time it just doesn't to anything. This has been going on since I got it and I've tried 2 other ROM's and the same thing is still an issue. I've only ever used the builtin HTC clock as an alarm and when it doesn't work I'll check it and everything is set but for some reason it just didn't go off. This will sometimes go days with out an issue then it will happen several times in a row. I doubt tmo will offer anything up for this.
My friends who have various models of droids have the same complaint but none of us have tried a third party app yet. Any you might recommend?
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yes, the other 25% of the time it just doesn't to anything. This has been going on since I got it and I've tried 2 other ROM's and the same thing is still an issue. I've only ever used the builtin HTC clock as an alarm and when it doesn't work I'll check it and everything is set but for some reason it just didn't go off. This will sometimes go days with out an issue then it will happen several times in a row. I doubt tmo will offer anything up for this.
My friends who have various models of droids have the same complaint but none of us have tried a third party app yet. Any you might recommend?
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that's unacceptable, IMO. I've been using my phone as an alarm clock for years now and if it didn't work and I was late to school/work because of it, I'd be calling the manufacturer and carrier and asking what's up. I wouldn't storm in acting like my life was destroyed, but that's a very basic function that should never fail unless the battery dies or something of the likes. like I said, the only time I had an issue was with CM 5.x on my dream, and that was a known issue.
during that time I couldn't use the stock alarm app, I used night clock. alarm clock plus is a pretty popular replacement as well. personally, I'm not a fan of installing extraneous apps, especially for things that I consider to be basic functions.
Well, this is not why I bought this phone for. SOT is only 25 minutes, and it is worse than my Xperia Z Ultra.
zllovesuki said:
Well, this is not why I bought this phone for. SOT is only 25 minutes, and it is worse than my Xperia Z Ultra.
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I dont get it.....???????
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caseyk621 said:
i dont get it.....???????
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battery sucks for some reasons, solutions please?
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battery sucks for some reasons, solutions please?
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Assuming you started from %100?
I found after some app updates that my play services cache was rather high and I had some unnusual battery drain. So I went to manage apps and cleared the cache on play services. Seemed to correct itself after that.
If you just got it then cycle it a couple times, it gets better after a week or so.
If you've had it awhile then a rogue app is causing it. BetterBatteryStats or gsam from play store will do better at helping figure it out.
5hrs 36mins SOT
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KitKat and Jelly Bean have both had battery drains related to location services. I'm keeping location turned off until the next release. I'm not happy about it, but it does seem to make a difference.
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KitKat and Jelly Bean have both had battery drains related to location services. I'm keeping location turned off until the next release. I'm not happy about it, but it does seem to make a difference.
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I don't have an issue with location services unless I have google now enabled then it is a battery hog.
I had a massive battery drain because of WiFi even when off. Go to WiFi settings advanced turn off scanning always on.
you need to use better battery stats. just research xda for it. and follow the posts directions. you will find out what exactly is eating your battery.
zllovesuki said:
Well, this is not why I bought this phone for. SOT is only 25 minutes, and it is worse than my Xperia Z Ultra.
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Battery drain has been a relatively common experience after the KitKat 4.4 update. I have a Droid Mini, not a Maxx, but I've been seeing a lot of reports for all three of last years Droid line (Mini, Ultra and Maxx). Troubleshooting battery life is typically done through looking at events called wakelocks. Wakelocks are created by apps on your phone to prevent it from going into "deep sleep"--basically, they allow the CPU to stay on when the screen on your phone seems off. BetterBatteryStats or WakelockDetector are two apps that can be used to gain a little more insight into what wakelocks you are experiencing and what might be causing them.
However, wakelocks are broken down into two categories--those run by the Android kernel itself (kernal wakelocks) and those created by apps running in the background (partial wakelocks). Unfortunately, the 4.4 update made it impossible to view the partial wakelocks directly without root permissions. If you did as I did and naively updated to 4.4 without root, you won't be able to root your phone (as of now) to see the partial wakelocks. Instead, the wakelocks will show up under the kernal wakelocks that can be viewed--but instead of an app by app breakdown, they are visible only in the aggregate, so figuring out which app in particular is causing your problem can be a real trick.
One way to do so is to look at the apps running in the background of under the "Apps">"Running" in settings and see which apps you have actually been using and are supposed to appear and which apps are not. Then select the apps that you didn't start and force close them in sequence, checking Wakelock Detector or BetterBatteryStats after each to see if they have fixed your issue at all. The best way IMHO to see if they had an immediate effect is to look for increases in the "Deep Sleep" stat--if the app had been keeping your phone awake, and you force closed it, the Deep Sleep time should go up after you shut off your phone.
All that being said, troubleshooting is a real *****. There is an abundance of non-app-related issues with 4.4, or so it would appear. I have seen posts attributing fixes to turning location services to "GPS only". Others recommend clearing the Google Play Services cache in the Apps menu, clearing the cache in phone more generally, and using every other more conventional battery conservation trick in the book. Still others reported the only fix as a factor reset. These things had little to no benefit to me--although I never had to resort to a factory reset since I found a fix this morning. For me, all it took was going into Wifi>Advanced>Wi-Fi frequency band and changing from "Auto" to the 2.4GHz setting. This seems to have nailed the persistent wakelock issue that had been showing up as "Android OS" under the stock battery life in the settings, which showed up as a kernel wakelock under "suspend_backoff" in BetterBatteryStats. Hope that something out of all of this can help you--I'm immensely frustrated with how poorly my phone performed for the last month after the KitKat upgrade. It appears, however, that the fix I just found has restored my battery life from the 3-6 hours I have been getting lately to 12-14 hours. I'll update in a couple days after I see how things go. Best of luck!
Update, after a real short period of time:
Somehow doing this appears to have broken my Touchless Control. I can't get Google to recognize the "Ok, Google Now" bit, which it had done in the past nearly flawlessly, nor will Google Search transcribe voice searches, period. Going into the Settings>Touchless Control shows Touchless Control to be unchecked, but tapping the button to enable Touchless Control doesn't do anything. The button dims slightly, as if the press is registered, but the box doesn't check and the Voice Search and continues not to work. Interestingly, putting the Wifi back on "Auto" as opposed to 2.4GHz doesn't seem to fix this; rebooting into Safe Mode makes it work fine though. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling my Touchless Control app, but I'm hoping this isn't a persistent issue for me. Ugh. In any case, I'll take battery life over Touchless Control for the time being.
EDIT: Voice input doesn't work anywhere on my phone--I can't press the microphone button on the keyboard and speak, for example, to dictate a text message. Potentially this is unrelated to the battery life issue, but I'm going to do some more digging and see what I can find.
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Update, after a real short period of time:
Somehow doing this appears to have broken my Touchless Control. I can't get Google to recognize the "Ok, Google Now" bit, which it had done in the past nearly flawlessly, nor will Google Search transcribe voice searches, period. Going into the Settings>Touchless Control shows Touchless Control to be unchecked, but tapping the button to enable Touchless Control doesn't do anything. The button dims slightly, as if the press is registered, but the box doesn't check and the Voice Search and continues not to work. Interestingly, putting the Wifi back on "Auto" as opposed to 2.4GHz doesn't seem to fix this; rebooting into Safe Mode makes it work fine though. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling my Touchless Control app, but I'm hoping this isn't a persistent issue for me. Ugh. In any case, I'll take battery life over Touchless Control for the time being.
EDIT: Voice input doesn't work anywhere on my phone--I can't press the microphone button on the keyboard and speak, for example, to dictate a text message. Potentially this is unrelated to the battery life issue, but I'm going to do some more digging and see what I can find.
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What do you have checked under settings, language and input?
Do you have any third party keyboards installed?
Have you done or considered doing a factory data reset?
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jfriend33 said:
What do you have checked under settings, language and input?
Do you have any third party keyboards installed?
Have you done or considered doing a factory data reset?
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No third party keyboards whatsoever. Up until now I had been really happy with Google's stock keyboard. Under Settings>Language and Input I have Google (English) checked, as well as Google Pinyin Input, and Google voice typing, which is set to English (US).
Been thinking about doing a factory data reset but would like to avoid it if possible because I've been horribly disorganized about curating my contacts across a variety of Google accounts--I know that if I had to, I have all my information backed up, but it'd be a big pain getting it sorted again afterward. I've heard others say that an FDR has fixed the battery all on its own. I don't know if I mentioned, but booting into safe mode restores the voice input functionality.
Got a Droid Mini now myself for a few days, it's at 4.4 and obviously unrooted and there apparently is no hope for the Chinese unlock nowadays either, sadly, so that means doing whatever possible to ensure the best battery life on mine as well. I hadn't considered forcing the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi operation so I set it that way just now and then immediately attempted to use touchless control and it's working fine for mine with only that one change from Auto to 2.4 made.
I was using GSam Battery Monitor to get some idea of what's going on with this device but recently decided to just give the Snapdragon BatteryGuru a shot and see what happens (got another 1.5 days of monitoring before it does whatever it's supposed to do).
On complete idle it does lose about 1.2% per hour (with Wi-Fi off) but I might redo that test now with the 2.4 GHz manual setting and see if anything is changed.
It's not anywhere near the battery life of the Droid MAXX I had and sold, obviously, but so far it's doing ok. I ordered an Incipio Ghost 100 Qi-charging base a few days ago, hopefully it'll be here by the weekend so I can stop wearing and tearing the microUSB port.
Will see what happens...
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Got a Droid Mini now myself for a few days, it's at 4.4 and obviously unrooted and there apparently is no hope for the Chinese unlock nowadays either, sadly, so that means doing whatever possible to ensure the best battery life on mine as well. I hadn't considered forcing the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi operation so I set it that way just now and then immediately attempted to use touchless control and it's working fine for mine with only that one change from Auto to 2.4 made.
I was using GSam Battery Monitor to get some idea of what's going on with this device but recently decided to just give the Snapdragon BatteryGuru a shot and see what happens (got another 1.5 days of monitoring before it does whatever it's supposed to do).
On complete idle it does lose about 1.2% per hour (with Wi-Fi off) but I might redo that test now with the 2.4 GHz manual setting and see if anything is changed.
It's not anywhere near the battery life of the Droid MAXX I had and sold, obviously, but so far it's doing ok. I ordered an Incipio Ghost 100 Qi-charging base a few days ago, hopefully it'll be here by the weekend so I can stop wearing and tearing the microUSB port.
Will see what happens...
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Glad to know that the Wi-Fi settings aren't the likely culprit of my ****ed voice input. I tried the Snapdragon BatteryGuru for a while--for me the effect was negligible over a period of about two weeks. What was the wakelock keeping your phone up?
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Glad to know that the Wi-Fi settings aren't the likely culprit of my ****ed voice input. I tried the Snapdragon BatteryGuru for a while--for me the effect was negligible over a period of about two weeks. What was the wakelock keeping your phone up?
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I have no idea, haven't bothered to look at the wakelocks presently. I got used to using TricksterMod to monitor everything but of course I can't do anything with it because of no root access.
Really wish a miracle would come along at some point, we could use a working root definitely.
Hell, we could use 4.4.2 AND a working root to be honest, hopefully whenever 4.4.2 comes along it'll fix a lot of crap in 4.4 that Motorola and Verizon just broke for whatever reason. Bleh.
Come on, Motorola, make it happen.
<and offer the option for us end users to purchase an unlock code direct from you, too...>
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I have no idea, haven't bothered to look at the wakelocks presently. I got used to using TricksterMod to monitor everything but of course I can't do anything with it because of no root access.
Really wish a miracle would come along at some point, we could use a working root definitely.
Hell, we could use 4.4.2 AND a working root to be honest, hopefully whenever 4.4.2 comes along it'll fix a lot of crap in 4.4 that Motorola and Verizon just broke for whatever reason. Bleh.
Come on, Motorola, make it happen.
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Yeah, I'm with you there. I'm hoping we get 4.4.2 by mid/end of the summer, and in the meantime sitting here kicking myself for not jumping on top of buying an unlock code while they were available. $40 would have been cheap compared to putting up with this broken ****. I've been hugely disappointed in Motorola for failing to address the bugs in 4.4 in any sort of official capacity for the Droid lineup. It's funny--I didn't really care about having root so long as my phone was working. But trying to fix everything that has gone wrong has gotten my just drooling for root. Hopefully we get it eventually, and I know that the next phone I buy will DEFINITELY have an unlocked bootloader. Ugh.
I swore I'd never purchase another Motorola product and I suppose technically I haven't meaning I will never directly buy one from Motorola or from a carrier with their products (not even Google) - I got this Droid Mini for a decent price from someone off craigslist after selling the Droid MAXX for a very nice profit indeed so, in the long run I got the Droid MAXX free of charge to begin with, made profit from that then bought the Mini which is basically the same device in a smaller package more or less and still no money has gone directly to Motorola (or Verizon for that matter since I use T-Mobile just fine).
Gave up on Motorola when they pooched all of us Atrix and Photon owners so to hell with Motorola for that fiasco. Now it seems like they're doing it again by being slow and stupid for whatever reason.
I cannot for the life of me understand why it takes these companies so damned long to release a fix or update for a device - consider that the Moto X, the Droid Ultra, the Droid MAXX, and the Droid Mini all have the same X8 custom chipset and are basically the same devices in almost every respect and yet it still just doesn't get done like it should.
It's pathetic but I'm ranting now... my intolerance for stupid people (and companies) is well known so, Motorola, I can see not much has changed and so neither will my opinion.
I like the Droid Mini, it's a nice device, works fine given the limitations (no root yet, no 4.4.2) and the rather meager 2000 mAh battery. I could sell this I suppose, get me another Atrix HD (and still be mostly locked down I guess) but then slap that RAZR MAXX battery in it and get near-Droid MAXX battery life once again.
Nah, I think I'll keep the Mini unless someone makes me another offer I can't refuse. I see them listed on craigslist for rather low prices - exactly why I got this one a few days ago - and I honestly think there are a lot of people that just don't realize this is basically a "Moto X Jr" model that does effectively the same things including Active Display and "OK Google Now" touchless control.
You'd think most consumers were stupid or something for not noticing just what a fine device this Mini actually is. </sarcasm>
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I was using GSam Battery Monitor to get some idea of what's going on with this device but recently decided to just give the Snapdragon BatteryGuru a shot and see what happens (got another 1.5 days of monitoring before it does whatever it's supposed to do).
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I tried that a week or so ago. I didn't let it control WiFi for me, but otherwise let it do its thing. (I also wouldn't let it turn off GMail syncing unless the phone was on - having GMail come to me close to push is one of the reasons I carry the thing with me.) It didn't make a damned bit of difference for me; it's off the phone now.
I've done the 2.4 GHz only thing. We'll see if it helps.
My ultra was doing the same thing. I back up my phone and factory reset it. For the first couple days I was killing the battery quickly from setting up my phone again and with in a week or so my battery life seemed to come back as it was in 4.2.
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It's been a long time since I had a samsung device but one of my favorite features of my s2 was the smart alarm feature, where gentle sounds would start playing a little before the alarm went off. I can't seem to find this feature anymore on the s6
this is normal.. in every new model or the flagship of brand they will do some good nearly things but a lot of perfect things they took away... sometimes i would meet the developers and kick their stupid asses... its the same in android.. they come with some better functions and another thong they took away.. im sick of it...
BTW: I'm looking for this alarm too and earlier i was using "sleep as android" so if we cant find any other, try this...
There are a few silly issues I'm having with the phone and I just want to find out if anything can be done, for my sanitys sake.
I hate the way the screen lights up when I plug my headphones in.
I hate the fact that the countdown timer will vibrate only in vibrate mode (unlike my M7 which made a noise) but when not in vibrate mode it was only make a noise. I guess it makes sense if you think about it, but to me, its nonsense. I want it to vibrate AND make a sound in either mode, hell I'd even take sound+vibrate in ringer on mode at this point. So I can be listening to music and the timer goes off (in vibrate mode) and if I don't feel the vibration in my pocket, tough. Hard to explain, but I have to call back to the HTC M7, it didn't do this, it worked.
I hate the way that the alarm clock has increasing volume only once. If you snooze the phone, the next time the alarm goes off, it goes off full blast, no increasing volume.
I've been using XtreStoLite Deo-Mod Edition 2.4 rom with a week or so now and it's great. But I have noticed some issues which really worry me. I got this phone because it's fast. But when I press the power button there is a definate delay until the screen lights up and Facebook messenger for reasons unknown makes the phone unusable, it lags so bad and even the soft keys don't work. Never did this on other phones and my partners non-rooted S6 is fine.
It does make me wonder, is all this rooting and custom ROM worth it. So far, I've got odd lag and an app which nearly breaks the phone. If I could adblock and restore apps without rooting, I think I would unroot.
Then sell it and be happy
What is your question exactly then?
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Then sell it and be happy
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Can we automate it so your response is posted for every thread talking about issues with this phone?
My Question is, are any of my issues "fixable". I know xposed could do a lot of things for the M7. Is there something I've missed which can help me with my issues?
X82X said:
Can we automate it so your response is posted for every thread talking about issues with this phone?
My Question is, are any of my issues "fixable". I know xposed could do a lot of things for the M7. Is there something I've missed which can help me with my issues?
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Chill i was making a joke
Have you tried full wipe? Or completely unroot to stock? Then back?
I have.
My Mrs has a unrooted stock S6 which I use for comparison.
The lag issues and issue with Messenger are only my phone, the isues I have with the screen lighting up with headphones plugged in and the alarm clock, we both share those.
I know the lag and messenger issue could be fixed by going back to stock, but this is the problem with custom roms and rooting. You get given nice features and you risk losing them all when going back to stock. I can live without messenger and the wake up lag I can just put up with, but it isn't right. I guess in truth I expected too much from this phone, I wanted it to be blazing fast and it just doesn't feel it.
There isn't a great range of roms either, my M7 had literally dozens of roms to try but I find with the S6, there are like only a handful.