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Galaxy S Road SMS KB

OMG, I saw this video on that new app for the Galaxy S.
Is there a way to port it to the EVO?
Road SMS KB App on Galaxy S

saw it too, pretty sweet im def interested

Now thats an Interesting feature....

In for this.

That is brilliant.

That is sweet!!!

guessing its just goinna be an apk, direct install, but you never know..

that is sweet, we will have it before you know it. it will just be an apk I assume

Better yet, can we get it as a live wallpaper?

that app is cool. such a simple yet brilliant idea.

I like and wouldn't mind having it on our phone. BUT, when I text, I don't hold my phone in front of me. I usually have it down a bit lol. None the less I wouldn't mind seeing it on our phone

is ther ea keyboard like that in the market with just clear buttons, I would love to have that.

This is gonna drain battery like crazy, isn't it?

acrh2 said:
This is gonna drain battery like crazy, isn't it?
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Yes. Yes it is. My camera i by far the biggest drain on the battery (obviously only when it is used).

wrxlvr said:
Better yet, can we get it as a live wallpaper?
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You'd have to get a second battery just to get through the day.

Pretty [email protected] cool feature if you ask me.
Hopefully this will reduce the number of wrecks-while-texting, but then again I think to myself; "How many people will actually own this phone AND use this feature"

enragedpaza said:
I like and wouldn't mind having it on our phone. BUT, when I text, I don't hold my phone in front of me. I usually have it down a bit lol. None the less I wouldn't mind seeing it on our phone
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I think its meant to be used while driving so you can hold the phone up and still keep an eye on the road. Thats the only time that I'd ever use it. I dont text and drive often....but it sure would be helpful those times that I do it.
I'd be safer if I just called them though, LOL

martijua said:
I think its meant to be used while driving so you can hold the phone up and still keep an eye on the road. Thats the only time that I'd ever use it. I dont text and drive often....but it sure would be helpful those times that I do it.
I'd be safer if I just called them though, LOL
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Samsung clarified that it is for pedestrians. Could you imagine the **** storm if they were encouraging driving and texting in any way?

Awesome!
Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of some jerk that hit my car because he thought he could see the road in front of him using the Road SMS app lol

Unfortunately something tells me that what was once thought to be a good idea on Samsung's part, will eventually lead to lawsuits because of ignorant people

Very high battery draw/camera issues

So a few days ago I checked my phone at work, had been off the charger for 4 hours not used at all and it was dead. Battery draw was ~300ma the whole time. The next day I noticed my camera wasn't working. Ill get an error message(activity camera not responding). Sometimes ill attempt to open the app and nothing will happen. This was all on gingerbeast. So I wiped all data and reflashed GB. Camera still doesn't work and battery draw is insane. I've since tryed AR, virtuous and cm7. For the record I've wiped battery stats,tryed without SD and sim card. I've been unable to find the cause of the high draw,although I think its related to the camera. Tomorrow I'm going to try and unroot and return to fully stock. Sorry for the long post any help is appreciated.
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If your camera isn't working on any freshly installed ROMs, you probably have a hardware problem. As a last resort, try going back to the stock ROM. If your camera is still bad, then you'll need to do a warranty exchange with AT&T. The camera issues may very well be causing your high battery drain.

So HTC told me to send it to them within 30 days. And what do you know the next day my camera works fine! Should I still send It in or wait it out? Im also getting slight screen lifting in the corner so I might as well? I don't have a spare phone to use but I can buy some cheapo for a temp
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killerkali said:
So HTC told me to send it to them within 30 days. And what do you know the next day my camera works fine! Should I still send It in or wait it out? Im also getting slight screen lifting in the corner so I might as well? I don't have a spare phone to use but I can buy some cheapo for a temp
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Yes. That screen lifting will get worse before it gets better, so take care of it while you still can.

Scott_S said:
Yes. That screen lifting will get worse before it gets better, so take care of it while you still can.
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Mine doing that on both lower corners now...just something I notice. I like the HTC since way back....just hopes it doesn't turn into a problem with particles under the screen...I'm an engineer I try to mitigate...but yeah I sure notice this commonly listed problem..it aint really serious....yet...jsut make it to next upgrade

meiguoguizi said:
Mine doing that on both lower corners now...just something I notice. I like the HTC since way back....just hopes it doesn't turn into a problem with particles under the screen...I'm an engineer I try to mitigate...but yeah I sure notice this commonly listed problem..it aint really serious....yet...jsut make it to next upgrade
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I've replaced an iPhone screen/digitizer just to prove a point that "I am a technician"....OK did that been there.....some peeps get into into it....rather have an elegant design that inhibits such use of a user's free time.....and not everyone can perform this sort of repair...elegant solutions peeps in the tech dev world..me likey...I will help where I can....

meiguoguizi said:
I've replaced an iPhone screen/digitizer just to prove a point that "I am a technician"....OK did that been there.....some peeps get into into it....rather have an elegant design that inhibits such use of a user's free time.....and not everyone can perform this sort of repair...elegant solutions peeps in the tech dev world..me likely...I will help where I can....
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From what I recall, the inspire is about 20 times harder to replace the screen/digitizer, because the thing it honestly slapped together.
@ OP Sad part is if you do wish to repair it your probably going to have to go through HTC as I had some lengthy conversations with ATT and had to threaten to cancel and report them to the BBB on face book before anyone actually wanted to help me. MY phone was to the point where the bottom right of the screen had lifted and I could press on the bottom center and here clicking noises.
Edit: Try downloading watch dog lite to see if any apps are causing the battery draw before you unroot, a little troubleshooting can go a long way .

Should I root&flash rom to my device?

Hi all, I am wondering if I should root & flash a custom rom for my device.
Right now my device is working pretty good, but the only thing that bothering me a lot is the battery life.
I can get only 4 hours of screen time, but I want more.
Does it possible to get more than 4 hours in a custom rom?
And does it worth to root my device anyway?
I'm afraid to get more virus because of that, or to not be secure because of the root .. Does it true ?
Please answer my questions, and tell me if it's really worth to root my device or not, and why .

LalyGirl said:
Hi all, I am wondering if I should root & flash a custom rom for my device.
Right now my device is working pretty good, but the only thing that bothering me a lot is the battery life.
I can get only 4 hours of screen time, but I want more.
Does it possible to get more than 4 hours in a custom rom?
And does it worth to root my device anyway?
I'm afraid to get more virus because of that, or to not be secure because of the root .. Does it true ?
Please answer my questions, and tell me if it's really worth to root my device or not, and why .
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It is possible to get more battery life if that's what you want, to me honestly its worth rooting, right now I'm using trickdroid which is stock and there are more roms out there in the development section but I ended up staying with this one personally,and I have even more battery than when I used to not have rooted it but really it depends on your decision, about the virus thing I haven't really heard about a lot of people having this problem but if your concerned about that you can download a anti virus app for it. I use trickdroid and I'm at 75 percent left in about 13 hrs 22 mins and so many seconds used on this phone so for me its worth the root and I'm a pretty heavy user I text and surf the web while listening to music and play a couple games here and there but over all the battery life is better than it not being rooted. But you should try it out yourself and see if you like it.... Hopefully my answer kinda helps you out
Sent from HTC one s

leohdz148 said:
It is possible to get more battery life if that's what you want, to me honestly its worth rooting, right now I'm using trickdroid which is stock and there are more roms out there in the development section but I ended up staying with this one personally,and I have even more battery than when I used to not have rooted it but really it depends on your decision, about the virus thing I haven't really heard about a lot of people having this problem but if your concerned about that you can download a anti virus app for it. I use trickdroid and I'm at 75 percent left in about 13 hrs 22 mins and so many seconds used on this phone so for me its worth the root and I'm a pretty heavy user I text and surf the web while listening to music and play a couple games here and there but over all the battery life is better than it not being rooted. But you should try it out yourself and see if you like it.... Hopefully my answer kinda helps you out
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Thanks, I like your answer And how many hours of screen time do you have now ?

LalyGirl said:
Thanks, I like your answer And how many hours of screen time do you have now ?
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I have about 9 hours of screen time almost 10 hours...its pretty good
Sent from HTC one s

leohdz148 said:
I have about 9 hours of screen time almost 10 hours...its pretty good
Sent from HTC one s
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WOWWW it's amazing!! I didn't know that the battery can be so powerful

leohdz148 said:
I have about 9 hours of screen time almost 10 hours...its pretty good
Sent from HTC one s
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Hi there is no virus My twitter account got hacked that's why some people said that I am sending a virus..

LalyGirl said:
WOWWW it's amazing!! I didn't know that the battery can be so powerful
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You should try it out for yourself and see if it fits your needs, I get pretty good battery life using this phone on a regularly day, it would usually last me about 4 or 5 hours of hevy use on non root but since I rooted it actually lasts me at least 8 to 9 hours of heavy use and the removal of all the bloat really saves you some battery and really that's what I wanted from the start was all the HTC and T-Mobile apps gone from it but I got more than what I wanted now I'm happy with this custom rom and don't really plan on changing anytime soon unless something better comes out.
Hopefully this helped you out a little
Sent from HTC one s

torxx said:
Hi there is no virus My twitter account got hacked that's why some people said that I am sending a virus..
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I never would think that you would send a virus you do some awesome work on this phone, great Rom btw I love it. Hopefully you get your Twitter acc fixed so no one can hack you happened to me too but so I know what its like...ill go follow you on Twitter now that I think about it I haven't used in a while, yea just keep up the work man ill make a donation to you soon for all of your hardwork
Sent from HTC one s

LalyGirl said:
Hi all, I am wondering if I should root & flash a custom rom for my device.
Right now my device is working pretty good, but the only thing that bothering me a lot is the battery life.
I can get only 4 hours of screen time, but I want more.
Does it possible to get more than 4 hours in a custom rom?
And does it worth to root my device anyway?
I'm afraid to get more virus because of that, or to not be secure because of the root .. Does it true ?
Please answer my questions, and tell me if it's really worth to root my device or not, and why .
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There was actually no point me giving u all that information on rooting u just never do it u waste so much of people's time stop spamming the forums because u ask questions and then never do it the number of times Uve asked In diff peoples threads about battery life u get the answer but feel u need to make a thread to ask for information again no one should actually help u now
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium

k1llacanon said:
There was actually no point me giving u all that information on rooting u just never do it u waste so much of people's time stop spamming the forums because u ask questions and then never do it the number of times Uve asked In diff peoples threads about battery life u get the answer but feel u need to make a thread to ask for information again no one should actually help u now
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And if I will tell you that I flash a rom to my device now !?

After posting millions of things asking sane thing and started 3 threads well done
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k1llacanon said:
After posting millions of things asking sane thing and started 3 threads well done
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium
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Yeah, I'm a person that need to be sure before that I'm doing something, so it's important for me to get more comments and answers.
If you don't like it, then I don't care.

leohdz148 said:
I have about 9 hours of screen time almost 10 hours...its pretty good
Sent from HTC one s
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Proof? I seriously doubt your claim... I can barely get 2 hours on Trickdroid.

ShensMobile said:
Proof? I seriously doubt your claim... I can barely get 2 hours on Trickdroid.
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barely get 2 hours ?? On the stock I could about 2-4 hours.

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Please post all questions in the Q&A section​

[Q] Idle Battery kinda tanked?

So I got my M8 on April 2nd, and I was seeing some truly spectacular battery life. Recently though, not so much.. Or maybe I am just being demanding.
I thought originally my phone dropped maybe 4% overnight, now I drops from 100 to 83 or even 78 sometimes. And in general It just doesn't seem to last long. Looking into badassbatterymonitor I see that kernel is using like 40% battery almost constantly, but I don't know how to fully diagnose from here. It just lists processes. Has anyone else had this? Am I just thinking its quicker?
I like to keep my phone pretty lean, its got only email syncing, no social media. And even that I sync every 2 hours. Brightness on auto, and I typically get 2:50 screen on time.

Why would you post a question, including the [Q] - in General? There is a specific section called Q & A.
C'mon, dude.
Sent from my HTC6525LVW

Ah crap... I thought I was there. Uh, can this be moved...

mikerulez121 said:
Ah crap... I thought I was there. Uh, can this be moved...
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All good, brother, it happens to the best of us. Just message a mod (they're usually the people in the very top stickied threads) and PM them.
But yeah, my battery hasn't been the best in standby either. Of course, I haven't stopped messing or flashing stuff to my phone since I bought it
Sent from my HTC6525LVW

mikerulez121 said:
So I got my M8 on April 2nd, and I was seeing some truly spectacular battery life. Recently though, not so much.. Or maybe I am just being demanding.
I thought originally my phone dropped maybe 4% overnight, now I drops from 100 to 83 or even 78 sometimes. And in general It just doesn't seem to last long. Looking into badassbatterymonitor I see that kernel is using like 40% battery almost constantly, but I don't know how to fully diagnose from here. It just lists processes. Has anyone else had this? Am I just thinking its quicker?
I like to keep my phone pretty lean, its got only email syncing, no social media. And even that I sync every 2 hours. Brightness on auto, and I typically get 2:50 screen on time.
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Take a look at a thread I just posted. Maybe it will help you out too. Best of luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52117236

javaguy110 said:
Take a look at a thread I just posted. Maybe it will help you out too. Best of luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52117236
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Hmm, yea I will try that and see. Thanks!

really bad battery performance

Hi,
I bought my Nexus a week ago. During the first day the battery life seemed to be ok but since 2 oder 3 days it is really bad.
I didn´t really use the phone today (checked some emails and used for 2 or 3 really short calls) and the battery is emtpy after 11 hours...
Phone is rooted stock rom (CF) 4.4.2 since the first day. Any ideas?

Need much more information to get an idea what you do with your phone and how its setup. What features are running and stuff like that.
Rooted?
And do yourself a favor and get Gsam from play store, as well as gsam root companion after, if you're rooted. It has much more detailed information. The stock battery usage screen says very little to help find an issue.
Also, read through some of the following thread...start on last page and go back a bit. Tonnes of good info and tips there. A better place to discuss issues as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509132
Good luck!!
Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....

topaza said:
Hi,
I bought my Nexus a week ago. During the first day the battery life seemed to be ok but since 2 oder 3 days it is really bad.
I didn´t really use the phone today (checked some emails and used for 2 or 3 really short calls) and the battery is emtpy after 11 hours...
Phone is rooted stock rom (CF) 4.4.2 since the first day. Any ideas?
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Same story of mine, you are lucky enough that your phone battery empty after 11 hours in my case it was around 8 hrs its gone.
Nexus 5 not smart enough regarding its battery backup. It is very normal problem in smartphones but N5 performance is worst among them.
Go through this , may it will help you out as we both are in the same ship.
http://www.ibtimes.com/google-nexus...ips-tricks-lg-android-kitkat-flagship-1543865
Thanks

joannn said:
Same story of mine, you are lucky enough that your phone battery empty after 11 hours in my case it was around 8 hrs its gone.
Nexus 5 not smart enough regarding its battery backup. It is very normal problem in smartphones but N5 performance is worst among them.
Go through this , may it will help you out as we both are in the same ship.
http://www.ibtimes.com/google-nexus...ips-tricks-lg-android-kitkat-flagship-1543865
Thanks
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All battery issues can be solved. Just takes a bit of work sometimes.
See my post above.

Download a battery management app it will help
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joannn said:
Same story of mine, you are lucky enough that your phone battery empty after 11 hours in my case it was around 8 hrs its gone.
Nexus 5 not smart enough regarding its battery backup. It is very normal problem in smartphones but N5 performance is worst among them.
Go through this , may it will help you out as we both are in the same ship.
http://www.ibtimes.com/google-nexus...ips-tricks-lg-android-kitkat-flagship-1543865
Thanks
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Sorry but that is not true. It's been proven time and again that the N5 is one of the more battery efficient phones to date. Just because you're having issues with it doesn't mean we all are, there are many things for you to try but complaining won't help.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3

bblzd said:
Sorry but that is not true. It's been proven time and again that the N5 is one of the more battery efficient phones to date. Just because you're having issues with it doesn't mean we all are, there are many things for you to try but complaining won't help.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3
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Some people just don't seem to want to spend the time troubleshooting, unfortunately.
And they just live with it, unhappily.

kj2112 said:
Some people just don't seem to want to spend the time troubleshooting, unfortunately.
And they just live with it, unhappily.
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thats because most people are clueless(even though there is lots of info available).

simms22 said:
thats because most people are clueless(even though there is lots of info available).
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Yup. And many feel things should just work, without any tweaking or fixing.....so they just leave things as is and are resentful.
But what can ya do. Lol

kj2112 said:
..so they just leave things as is and are resentful.
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i see this too often, but not as much on xda, more here in real life.

OP...there are threads about the possible battery issues with the N5 and how they can be fixed all over the N5 forum. Perhaps you could've checked those out first before opening a thread. However, I do agree with the assessment that it takes a bit more investigating on your part to figure out why you're having battery drain issues.
The picture you posted is just a microcosm of what things could also be draining your battery. Do you have apps running in the background? Are your apps syncing too frequently? Are Google apps running or syncing too often?
What fixed my drain issues was going into my Accounts settings and ticking only the Google apps I used on a regular basis (Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts) and unticking the others.

Seems just another post a question, then don't bother to return to see responses....or at least not comment on any of it...kinda thread. Lol
You can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink.

Hi, I didn't have any more issues so far. Right after creating this thread the issue disappeared without any changes except installing the battery app mentioned in the first reply (and maybe a reboot).
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