Haven't had my Streak turned on in a while. Was going to sell it but changed my mind -- for now. When I turned it on today I see that there is a Dell Mobile upgrade. Wondering "when was this released?" [still downloading] and HOPING it clears up the problem I was having with my extended battery not showing the actual time remaining.
Probably the 2.2.2 update that was pushed out a couple weeks ago.
I just got around to installing it a couple days ago. If you want to dump the annoying ooVoo program that launches at boot, you'll need to root it.
I used gingerbreak which was painless. After you root, then you can use an uninstaller to dump it, along with whatever bloat you want off the phone.
I have actually rooted my Streak and then set it aside without changing to another rom .. I will take a look today.. Has anyone found a rom that will show the actually charge left using the extended battery?
Have you tried resetting the battery stats through either streak mod or cwm recoveries?
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Hi I have bought vibrant from ebay and using it for about week now
and it has serious battery problem
first of all
right now i am using official updated 2.2
but even before updating there was battery problem so it;s not 2.2 for sure
so i downloaded app called battery minder which gives me % and how many minutes left on my phone
so here is the problem comes when i fully charge my phone
no wifi, no blue tooth, no gps, data turned on it shows i have about like 6 hrs
and when i turn my wifi on and when it;s connected it says i have 18 hrs or something
and when i just turn my bluetooth on without wifi it gives me like 1 more hr from 6 hr so about 7 or 8
and when i make my phone to airplane mode it gives me 22 hrs or something
and the minutes showing on there it;s pretty accruate
so is there way to fix it? and even if there is way to fix it airplane mode and 22hrs i think that's way too little
or is that supposed to be
i don;t know how other ppls battery is so that's why i am posting here
please please help me
i love the phone but battery is just not right
and my point of view right now i do not think it;s the battery because when i turn my bluetooth on it gives me more hrs...
so please help me
i think longest i used in one day is like 8-9 hrs
when i didn;t really do anything with my phone...
maybe i played with it for like 1 hr maximum...
that's maximum usually 6 hrs or 5...
please please help
oh and i tried pulling my battery out and everything...
factory reset...
one last question if it is the battery if i change my battery get it from ebay or something which one should i get if i get those cheap ebay batteries will it damage my phone?
please help thank you so much
If you don't use battery minder how long does the phone last with a full charge. Sorry but I can understand everything you said with the run on sentences.
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In other words don't go by what that app is telling you. Also root tour phone and try a custom rom. They all have great battery life from my experiences.
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before i updated my phone to 2.2 i had rooted phone with lag fix and i had horrible battery life that time too
even though i didn;t not had battery minder
it was draining really fast
You need to charge your phone completely will oyster off. After about 2 hours after its at 100% boot into cwm or recovery and flash a new rom like Bionix-V. It almost sounds like whoever you bought the phone from fiddled with it and so the battery stats are messed up.
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Typo. I meant charge it while it is off.
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to flash new rom don;t i have to root my phone?
is there way to do this thing without any rooting
because one click root does not work on official 2.2...
and i am kind of noob only been using the phone for week now
thank you so much
Nope, you need to root to flash. I'm pretty sure there is some way to root the 2.2 update, but I don't know for sure since the last time I rooted was two months ago on vanilla 2.1 I'd search the forums and if not, Google is also useful.
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i tried google doesn;t really help even if i found it i am too noob to do things....
if i factory reset my phone will i go back to 2.1 or still stay on 2.2?
... is there anyway you can help easily... i am so worried...
i don't want to return the phone...
I know i am asking too much
if you have time is it possible for you to help me by msn or something
step by step?.....
will that take long time?
i wish i can be good at these things...
thanks anyway
maybe because y your app automatickly assume how long your battery life will last with given program widget ,but i dont think its possible for it lol i would wipe batt stats see what happend
is there easy way to wipe my batt stats?
ether in clockwork recovery or download sgs tools from market but using this make sure u know what you doin you mite brick your phone ! but should be simple if you read what you doin dont just cklick cause if u come back with bricked phone after i said that i will quit xda
can you tell me steps to using that?
so for that i don't need to do rooting?
im sorry il be back once i come back from school uc can goole sgs tools and read up on it or wait until someone else explain to you or waiit until i come back im sorry cant help atm but ill back hung in there
kk i will wait until you comeback i need to go to school in like 30 min anyway
hey you told me that you are going to help me
can you help me please?
I cannot watch YouTube anymore without it freezing. The audio still plays but the video stops. I have my Streak on AT&T's 2.2. This happens on all roms I have had, not just this one...
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Time to ask for replacement like I did
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Time to ask for replacement like I did
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I had hoped it was easier than that but I guess I'll have to call Dell...
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I had hoped it was easier than that but I guess I'll have to call Dell...
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That is the same issue that I brought up with them, told me do hard factory resets and that will fix the problem, replied that i have tried doing that several times, then they set me up for replacement, received the replacement the following day, it was pretty quick! The replacement came from Texas, took just 1 day to get here to Louisiana.
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That is the same issue that I brought up with them, told me do hard factory resets and that will fix the problem, replied that i have tried doing that several times, then they set me up for replacement, received the replacement the following day, it was pretty quick! The replacement came from Texas, took just 1 day to get here to Louisiana.
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I have done resets also but for other issues and youtube still does the same. I hate doing that after i finally get it the way I want it!
I'm in TX. Dell is based in Round Rock, about 4 hours from me so I would think it would get here fast also. I'm married to a Cajun, last name is Hebert...
Resorted to asking for replacement after everything I tried failed, I also got issues with video capture, camera would freeze, streak shuts down, reboots and get stuck on dell logo. Now my Streak is doing perfectly well, will stay with 340 for a while although DJ Steve's ROM are really good, started using 1.6.0 up to 1.8.1. Hope your next streak would be awesome!
Hey guys,
Hoping someone can help out here, although I'm guessing I will need to do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
My phone has been prompting for the last 36 hours or so to do the OTA update which I had been putting off due to wanting to retain root (done with SuperOneClick) and not having time to follow the instructions for that. I had wireless turned off last night, and this morning when I turned it back on it downloaded the update without asking, but still asked before attempting to install. It's been asking me every hour since and I've said 'Later' every time.
Anyway, I stepped away from my desk for half an hour at work this afternoon and came back to find my device boot-looping. I don't expect anyone at work would have touched it, I just don't know what led up to this behaviour. I get the Motorola animation, then the AT&T "Rethink Possible" animation, and then the screen goes blank and the LED blinks red about 120 times at about 3 times the speed of a normal notification and then it starts over again.
The only reason I'm concerned about doing the SBF flash is that this is a SIM-Unlocked device on Telstra network in Australia and I really don't want to loose wifi functionality. Other than that I'm quite comfortable doing so. The phone had only been rooted, I hadn't done the deodex ROM or any mods.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Hey guys,
Hoping someone can help out here, although I'm guessing I will need to do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
My phone has been prompting for the last 36 hours or so to do the OTA update which I had been putting off due to wanting to retain root (done with SuperOneClick) and not having time to follow the instructions for that. I had wireless turned off last night, and this morning when I turned it back on it downloaded the update without asking, but still asked before attempting to install. It's been asking me every hour since and I've said 'Later' every time.
Anyway, I stepped away from my desk for half an hour at work this afternoon and came back to find my device boot-looping. I don't expect anyone at work would have touched it, I just don't know what led up to this behaviour. I get the Motorola animation, then the AT&T "Rethink Possible" animation, and then the screen goes blank and the LED blinks red about 120 times at about 3 times the speed of a normal notification and then it starts over again.
The only reason I'm concerned about doing the SBF flash is that this is a SIM-Unlocked device on Telstra network in Australia and I really don't want to loose wifi functionality. Other than that I'm quite comfortable doing so. The phone had only been rooted, I hadn't done the deodex ROM or any mods.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Seems like if it did try to install it failed somewhere not allowing for full boot... have you tried pulling the battery also try and find out if it is running 1.5.7 also try booting in recovery and factory reseting. And also don't you only lose wifi when flashing 1.5.2? I might bw wrong about that though
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Seems like if it did try to install it failed somewhere not allowing for full boot... have you tried pulling the battery also try and find out if it is running 1.5.7 also try booting in recovery and factory reseting. And also don't you only lose wifi when flashing 1.5.2? I might bw wrong about that though
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Sorry, I should have specified... yes, I have pulled battery - issue persists. I hadn't gone as far as a factory reset, but it's definitely less dramatic than a reflashing, so trying that now...
OK, factory reset seems to have done the trick - it was still on 1.2.6, I'll do the update to 1.5.7 with the v2 Root Process now and see how I go.
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OK, factory reset seems to have done the trick - it was still on 1.2.6, I'll do the update to 1.5.7 with the v2 Root Process now and see how I go.
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Congrats friend! Glad to hear you're out of that boot loop.
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I uninstalled the stock calendar app in the past and now I want it back. So i decided to do a hard reset on the phone.
However, after hard reset, I can go into the android setup, then it would prompt that "setup wizard" has stopped working unexpectedly, and the setup is force closed.
the homescreen is blank. there is nothing I can do with this phone right now. screen touch works. capacitive buttons work. USB connection works.
One thing I noticed is that the hard reset takes a very short time. I think the streak is just rebooted in the process. Takes less than a minute. The last time I did a hard reset was when I just bought it, and it took much longer than 1 minute.
Thank you.
Was the Streak rooted? Do you know what ROM/baseband you were on?
If you don't have Nandroid backup, my recommendation is total rebuild:
http://streakdroid.com/?page_id=92
If you have 64 bit OS make sure you follow those instructions first.
Good luck.
Yes. This is how I solved the problem this morning by flashing streak droid. I found an article and the author had the exact same problem. will try to flash 354 rom tomorrow.
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Was the Streak rooted? Do you know what ROM/baseband you were on?
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It was on 347. Not sure about the base band. It's one of the $99 streaks.
Yes it's rooted.
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Hi everyone,
I have a Dell Venue phone and unfortunately there is a problem with it. The thing is after I charge it up it starts restarting itself and just keep restarting and stops at Dell logo. Nothing else comes up. I want to change the current android 2.2 to a different one maybe that would resolve the problem or is it just the battery? A hard reset helps for a few hours. Anyone? please! I hope I can fix this problem somehow and I am not going to lose my money and the phone.
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Hi everyone,
I have a Dell Venue phone and unfortunately there is a problem with it. The thing is after I charge it up it starts restarting itself and just keep restarting and stops at Dell logo. Nothing else comes up. I want to change the current android 2.2 to a different one maybe that would resolve the problem or is it just the battery? A hard reset helps for a few hours. Anyone? please! I hope I can fix this problem somehow and I am not going to lose my money and the phone.
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I just talked to a dell representative yesterday and they told me the New OS upgrade to 3.0 has just been release, but we have to wait for the service provider to push it out over the air.
My venue doesn't have any of your issues, sounds like you might have installed an app that's messing up your phone.
You can do a system recover by holding down both volume buttons at the same time and turning the phone on until the screen loads, obviously do this from the off position.
Now that I think about it, it might be better to wait until you get an OS on an SD you can install.
I do not have a contract with a service provider (unlocked phone; prepaid T-mobile)....How am I going to get the update (Dell Venue; Android 2.2)?
Venueguy
I guess that might be where you would have to root it and then install the rooted version, but I don't know about that type of thing. It's just my guess.
I called a Dell service rep. Apparently they are releasing Android 2.2.2 and they are having big issues. The rep asked me to NOT upgrade when I get a message from the service provider (even if prepaid only I should get that) but check back with Dell whether the upgrade is ok. They expect a stable upgrade by end of August.
Venueguy
Thanks everyone. I tried the hard reset that is the only one thing which solves the problem for a few minutes but only for a few minutes. It was alright when I pruchased it but its started causing trouble a few weeks earlier. I do not know what the problem is. Is that true a new update coming out? Maybe that would make it OK. Dell UK is not selling the venue just the venue pro. I hope the update will help me. Or maybe I ask Lloyds about my phone insurance. I am falling in love with my BB torch white!
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I called a Dell service rep. Apparently they are releasing Android 2.2.2 and they are having big issues. The rep asked me to NOT upgrade when I get a message from the service provider (even if prepaid only I should get that) but check back with Dell whether the upgrade is ok. They expect a stable upgrade by end of August.
Venueguy
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where are you located, because the dell mobile technician here told me it was 3.0 they are releasing over the air.
Dude, try to do a factory reset. Clear all the apps off your SD card first as I read that having apps on the card might prevent the phone from rebooting. Try the recovery option in manual.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/venue/en/index.htm
In the US. But if you are right that would be great!
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where are you located, because the dell mobile technician here told me it was 3.0 they are releasing over the air.
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so your OS is 3.0 now ?
They are releasing 3.0. Its supposed to be over the air,but just taked to att who talked to dell and they said a couple of more months
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Version 3.0 - a version of the OS build. For Hong Kong - 3.02 for the Korean Olleh - 3.19, for AT&T - 3.21, but they all Android 2.2 or 2.2.2
Much doubt, that Dell will sharpen tablet's HoneyComb for our apparatus, at best it will be 2.3.3
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Yeah, u r right... Android 3.0 is ment only for tablets..... Venue screen is too small for this....
I've called dell on several occasions to ask about updating. I get a different answer everytime. Once it was gingerbread at the end of august, next it was honeycomb at the end of sept. and the latest was, not too sure, but there will be an update, oh and ice cream sandwich will be coming out by december and should work on the venue..... not sure what dell is up to really and dell doesn't seem to know what dell is up to????
Yeah lol.... I asked about update at Dell service center in Hyderabad and they answered that they didn't received any info about update....
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I saw some one running android 2.2.2 under Dell venue. Is there any os other than stock os...?
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I am running mine rooted but theres not much out there, I had more luck with the Streak 5. It shipped 2.2, I really would like to see 3.2 at least. I mean at this point its kinda sad that im still running Froyo.
Im on AT&T in California....