Ever since going to JB on my EVO 4G LTE, I've only had problems upon problems. Most noticeable is that my Google navigation never works anymore. It will work for about 5 seconds before freezing up. Secondly, my battery life is reduced by about 50% than what it was before JB. I used to go 2-3 days without having to recharge; now, my battery easily dies by the end of the day.
Is there a way to put ICS back on this phone?
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Ever since going to JB on my EVO 4G LTE, I've only had problems upon problems. Most noticeable is that my Google navigation never works anymore. It will work for about 5 seconds before freezing up. Secondly, my battery life is reduced by about 50% than what it was before JB. I used to go 2-3 days without having to recharge; now, my battery easily dies by the end of the day.
Is there a way to put ICS back on this phone?
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yea flash a ICS rom
Yeah, as stated, just nand back to your ICS ROM. I did the same. JB sucks, can't get wireless tether working, crappy battery life and tons of random reboots on the ROMs I tried. I'm happy with ICS.
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Semantics said:
Yeah, as stated, just nand back to your ICS ROM. I did the same. JB sucks, can't get wireless tether working, crappy battery life and tons of random reboots on the ROMs I tried. I'm happy with ICS.
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Is this method can work with hb 2.09 s-on rooted?
Thanks in advance.
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ive gone back to flex ics 2.28
i left the jb radio and just reflashed the ics rom.
jb has a few quirks i cant deal with(for right now)
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I've been debating whether or not to upgrade my firmware to the latest and I keep going back and forth.
Can we discuss the pros/cons of doing so?
All I really know is that NOT having the new firmware limits support for most ROMS and can cause some issues. I have also heard its hard (impossible?) to go back to the old one if it was necessary to do so?
Thanks!
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I've been debating whether or not to upgrade my firmware to the latest and I keep going back and forth.
Can we discuss the pros/cons of doing so?
All I really know is that NOT having the new firmware limits support for most ROMS and can cause some issues. I have also heard its hard (impossible?) to go back to the old one if it was necessary to do so?
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Pros:
ICS is awesome!
Smoother, faster, etc
Battery seems to charge sightly faster
Cons:
Bad battery life (horrible, worse than GB)
CPU overheats (sometimes to 110 degrees!)
Worse reception
Can't downgrade to old firmware till we get S-OFF
In other words, don't upgrade!
I personally have stayed off the firmware and I'm going to wait until ROMs are based off the official OTA or we get S-OFF.
There's a firmware patch anyway that lets you run recent ROMs on the old firmware, so that's a plus.
I've been running ICS ROMs for months with no issues and it's actual ICS.
Heard too many issues coming off the leak anyway.
It seems like the new firmware has the CPU running full tilt where the old firmware did a better job of governing. So the phone gets hot quick(for me screen on only) but stop using it and it cools off fast as well.
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It seems like the new firmware has the CPU running full tilt where the old firmware did a better job of governing. So the phone gets hot quick(for me screen on only) but stop using it and it cools off fast as well.
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I thought the CPU issues were with the kernel, not the firmware?
For me, the news has all been good except for one thing re: new firmware...
Cell Reception.
I can't keep a call connected unless I go outside. Data is great, and overall signal quality is good... until I get a phone call. Then I immediately lose at least 2 bars! How dumb is that!?!?
I can't wait to get S-Off so I can flash the old radio back on. I'm hoping that fixes it.
Pro : no more Blue Flicker
Cons : Reboot like a zillion time a day WTF ??? Bur I think it's just me
Glad I posted this before just going for it. Seems like its not worth it at this point in time. S-off is a long was away, right? I'll just stick it out with the old one.
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Glad I posted this before just going for it. Seems like its not worth it at this point in time. S-off is a long was away, right? I'll just stick it out with the old one.
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It would seem we're not as far off from it as we once were
but you're a lot better off without the new firmware IMO.
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I thought the CPU issues were with the kernel, not the firmware?
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You definitely got me on that one. I have no clue who the culprit is but it has only been like this since the ICS leak RUU.
I have better battery life.
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I have better battery life.
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GrayTheWolf said:
I have better battery life.
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I do too, but I think it's more due to the Devs like Nils and lllboredlll tweaking their ROMS for max battery conservation than the new firmware.
I've just solved my rebooting Issue by doing this
1. Reboot into recovery -> Format all to EXT3 and wipe everything
2. Lock Bootloader
3. Flash the leak -> let it run till the end and will automatically reboot back into bootloader.
4. You'll notice the "TAMPERED" on top of the screen has been gone.
5. Flash the leak the 2nd Time and you'll be good.
I've been on it for 3 days without a reboot or slow down or heating issue. Now, I gotta say this leak is great in term of stability, battery life, signal (in Seattle,WA) and performance compared to Gingerbreak.
First, here's a poll on battery life. It seems most people got better or the same battery life with the update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23874951
I upgrade to the new firmware and at first thought I was getting horrible battery life, then it got better about 8 hours with 2 hours screen on time.
Then, I decided to go back down to the old firmware and radio because Andy told me he was getting better battery life on it. I went back down, a and honestly--I haven't noticed a real big difference in battery life with screen on. Both firmwares get about 2 hours on screen time. You can get awesome battery life on either ROM If you leave screen off, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of using the phone. The new firmware gets better battery life when the screen is off, I think.
The radios are hit or miss, I think. The 4g reception is always different day to day in my daily commutes. Sometimes I'll get a constant 4g signal. Other days it'll be spotty, while some days it just stay on 3g and then I have to put it in airplane mode to get 4g again. And then 5 minutes later it goes back to 3g. I haven't really noticed much of a difference in call quality, but don't really pay attention to that.
I may go back to the new RUU, honestly.
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Sorry for the silly question but how do I see what firmware version I'm on?
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Sorry for the silly question but how do I see what firmware version I'm on?
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At home screen.
Menu button> settings> scroll all the way down to about phone> software version> more button
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Is it the build number?
3.11.605.22?
I guess what confused me was something in this thread led me to believe that if you used the "patch" to install from GB, you would still be on the old firmware but running ICS. I'm currently on ClearnROM ICS Pro (ICS obviously)
The very first thing I did upon getting S-OFF was to get off that darned leaked firmware.
I sugesst waiting, personally.
there's so much more negatives than positive, at least was for me.
I run ICS on GB firmware and runs great. Sense 4, does as well. the patch works very well.
also before returning to GB frimware, I was running the leaked for a while and I personally didn't notice the new firmware to be much if any smoother.
all it did was overheat and destroy my batt life.
lesson learned for me.
no more messing around until we have an option to return to normal.
I am just lucky that I didn't brick my rez in the beta s-off(which the method works great BTW!, I hope to see it released ASAP!!) and was able to return to stock firmware, and enjoy my phone again.
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The very first thing I did upon getting S-OFF was to get off that darned leaked firmware.
I sugesst waiting, personally.
there's so much more negatives than positive, at least was for me.
I run ICS on GB firmware and runs great. Sense 4, does as well. the patch works very well.
also before returning to GB frimware, I was running the leaked for a while and I personally didn't notice the new firmware to be much if any smoother.
all it did was overheat and destroy my batt life.
lesson learned for me.
no more messing around until we have an option to return to normal.
I am just lucky that I didn't brick my rez in the beta s-off(which the method works great BTW!, I hope to see it released ASAP!!) and was able to return to stock firmware, and enjoy my phone again.
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Just so we all know, what all did it take for you to roll back to the GB firmware when you had S-Off?
I'm S-Off and RUU'd back to GB because the new firmware/radios had me down about battery life. Before the leak, I used to get ~10hrs total battery time with normal usage on stock battery. Once I went to ICS Leak, that was down around 6 so I figured I'd go back. After a few days being back on GB, I've found I still can't get my battery to last. I'm running Ineff. 1.4 and Incredikernal 6 currently, and When my screen is on (brightness set at 20%) for 10min I'll drop 15%. Anyone have words of advice? I'm seeing people with ridiculous battery life and wondering if I should run the GB RUU again. Thoughts? Also battery still burning upwards of 118 when screen is on for a little bit.
The latest ICS kernel was the biggest issue with battery life...
What settings do you have on the kernel?
I'm just letting it run, no Set CPU settings or anything. Should I not let it govern itself?
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I'm just letting it run, no Set CPU settings or anything. Should I not let it govern itself?
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I'd stick to the stock kernel if you're going that route.
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I'd stick to the stock kernel if you're going that route.
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The first thing I did with s-off was downgrade to the latest GB RUU from the ICS leak. Now I'm on eng hboot and CleanRom 4.3 Pro with the GB patch and stock kernel that's packaged with the ROM. This was all yesterday. Today I've got 41% battery left after 16 hours (extended bat.) and have used the phone considerably setting up the ROM and reloading all my apps, plus several phone calls, emails and texts. I don't have 4G in my area so that's turned off and I know that 4G is a significant drain but this is noticeably better than what I was getting. I'll have a better idea in a couple of days when everything settles in.
I definitely would run the stock kernel for your testing purposes with no CPU control. If you still have major issues I'd look towards an app or location service that's enabled.
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Thanks guys, I'll look into either going back stock or using incredicontrol. Any suggestions on proper tweaking w/incredicontrol?
im getting great battery life back on stock ruu gb with the new patched eng hboot 2.11.111 and set cpu (1020 high, 192 low on conservative) and i play MUSIC ALL DAY AT WORK 9 FULL HOURS OF DRE BEATS ON!. also my break and lunch im on facebook and on the phone with my gf. i get like 12 hours out of my regular battery. just my 2 cents. i had ics and its blow bigtime. i dont even want the ota really.
I've been working on my friend's rezound. He's been suffering wake lock issuses since applying the 2.01 OTA. Battery has gone from about 10hrs on full charge, to about 4hrs. I unlocked bootloader and tried updating to the ics firmware and trying an ics rom but still has the same issue. I performed the s-off wire trick and rolled everything back to stock firmware and rom and that didn't work. never messed with a custom kernel. Anyone have any ideas for a fix? Or are we just going to have to wait for an official update from verizon? I've read of people on the verizon forums complaining about wake lock as well.
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I've been working on my friend's rezound. He's been suffering wake lock issuses since applying the 2.01 OTA. Battery has gone from about 10hrs on full charge, to about 4hrs. I unlocked bootloader and tried updating to the ics firmware and trying an ics rom but still has the same issue. I performed the s-off wire trick and rolled everything back to stock firmware and rom and that didn't work. never messed with a custom kernel. Anyone have any ideas for a fix? Or are we just going to have to wait for an official update from verizon? I've read of people on the verizon forums complaining about wake lock as well.
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Remove the Verizon Location Agent app.
What apk is that? I'm on CleanROM 4.3 Pro.
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I had decent battery life using clean rom 4.3 pro on the ics firmware...did s-off and now my battery is horrible. Went back to gb ruu and battery is still horrible. I'm just gonna wait for the kernel source and hope someone fixes it
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I had decent battery life using clean rom 4.3 pro on the ics firmware...did s-off and now my battery is horrible. Went back to gb ruu and battery is still horrible. I'm just gonna wait for the kernel source and hope someone fixes it
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Yeah, me too, I'm just gonna wait it out and just keep a charger with me at all times.
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I had decent battery life using clean rom 4.3 pro on the ics firmware...did s-off and now my battery is horrible. Went back to gb ruu and battery is still horrible. I'm just gonna wait for the kernel source and hope someone fixes it
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Ive noticed worse battery life as well after going s-off. Thought i was going crazy.
There are definitely degrees of badness here.
GB on GB firmware/radios is the coolest.
GB on ICS firmware is warmer.
ICS on GB firmware is even warmer.
ICS on ICS firmware is the hottest I've seen.
I cannot run screen-on indefinitely on any ICS without overheating the battery.
I had the same problem it appear suddenly
Cell standby took near as half screen does
I did try many rom
Only full wipe helped including internal strong
Now I'm with inf1.4
Battery is the gr8est
On the wake lock issue, someone discovered the AOSP lockscreen was preventing the phone from sleeping correctly. I can't remember if it was a certain combination or just the lockscreen running a background process.
Since you've tried all kinds of stuff I don't know if that applies to you or not but if nothing else I was hoping it might spur a thought process or new ideas for research.
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GoldenCyn said:
Yeah, me too, I'm just gonna wait it out and just keep a charger with me at all times.
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I just ordered 4 thunderbolt extended life batteries from amazon. 3.50 each and 5 bucks shipping. Now I can carry 5 extended batteries with me at all times!
Seriously though I hope they get this kernel/ radios thing figured out...
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There are definitely degrees of badness here.
GB on GB firmware/radios is the coolest.
GB on ICS firmware is warmer.
ICS on GB firmware is even warmer.
ICS on ICS firmware is the hottest I've seen.
I cannot run screen-on indefinitely on any ICS without overheating the battery.
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Try nilsp's ics ROM.
People are fixing a lot of issues with a factory reset through h boot after getting s off. Flash a stock ruu then boot back into h boot and reset.
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The Rezound was my phone for a few months until I got sick of all of the issues I was having with it and got a Note 2 so I gave my Rezound to my girlfriend to use as an iPod. Her and I have gone through just about every rom on XDA developers including Scott's Cleanrom, Scott's cleanrom DE, Ineffibles Deus, Sense 4 roms, the BAMF roms (Viper and Pikachu) and several AOSP roms and they all have the same problems.
Lackluster performance. Incredibly laggy. To the point where the HTC Incredible I had before the Rezound is actually smoother. Pulling down the notification bar results in extremely choppy performance. Scrolling through the homescreens, opening the app drawer, pinching and zooming in browsers, any and all games (Even temple run). Everything just runs terribly. And this is across every single rom (Ones I tried when I used it as a phone ones she's tried since I gave it to her). The Incredible should not be faster than a phone that came out at the end of 2011.
SystemUI crashes randomly. Again, across every rom seemly at random. I noticed this as well while I was using the phone. Several times a day.
In music players, the sound will skip. Very frequently.
Battery Life, with an extended battery is horrific. Just about 3 hours of screen on time at the lowest battery life. Keep in mind, she's using this as an iPod so data and radios are off. My Note 2, max brightness, GPS, wifi, data on gets 7 hours of screen on time. The battery is slightly larger (3100mah vs I beleive 2750mah? but considering mobile data is never on the battery life should be much higher no?).
Now, the point of this topic is I would like to see if there is anything I can do to maybe get this running better for her. She's coming from an iPod Touch 4G that was dropped and shattered so this is a significant downgrade in this condition. I've gone back to stock several times to no avail. Stock rom has the same issues so I'm afraid its a hardware issue because I know many of you are happy with the Rezound and I can't imagine any of you being happy with the experience I described. I should have gotten it replaced right before I gave it to her but didn't. Just wondering if there may be any software issue I'm missing.
Apologize for the wall of rant post.
Hboot version? Have you wiped and run an RUU to get back to stock? You should definitely be having a better experience than this
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hboot version is 2.21.2121
And yeah I've run a few RUUs on it which is why I'm afraid its a hardware issue.
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Hboot version? Have you wiped and run an RUU to get back to stock? You should definitely be having a better experience than this
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Agreed. I haven't had any of that experience on stock, GB Ineff, ViperRez or EclipticRez. Try EclipticRez, just came out with v7.
Maybe RUU again then do a clean install. Wipe wipe wipe... I dunno... really should work well. I love this phone.
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hboot version is 2.21.2121
And yeah I've run a few RUUs on it which is why I'm afraid its a hardware issue.
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Not under warranty anymore?
It's probably the battery.
You should try getting another new OEM battery... stay away from knockoffs, they use inferior cells that tend to hold about 50% to 75% of the charge of an OEM battery.
Try using a standard (non-extended) battery, and see how long it lasts compared to the supposed "extended" battery you're using now.
In fact, most reviewers were able to get 7 hours of wifi browsing in reviews, and 5.5 hours using 3G/4G
Listening to music should last at least 7 hours, if not more, on the stock battery,
I still think that the smoothest ROM on here is CM9. Bluetooth audio streaming works great so it makes a wonderful music device.
So, since this update is completely broken, I would like to know...
For those of us who DID get the FOTA and installed it...Once this update has been fixed and re-pushed, will we also get the new update, or am I stuck now with this broken 4.1.2 update?
What's Broken:
-App preferences do not stick (ALWAYS asks what gallery or launcher to use, etc.)
-Battery Life sucks now
-40% of texts now fail
-15% of calls are dropped
-Inaccurate battery readings (For example, will show 23%, plug it in, jumps right to 40%+)
I have tried to pull the battery, reset within menu, and reset via key press.
No idea but i think if anything we will be going to 4.2.1 or higher as the bugs were fixed with higher jelly bean roms honestly go back to ics using offline kdz flash by cmahendra
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alienngp said:
No idea but i think if anything we will be going to 4.2.1 or higher as the bugs were fixed with higher jelly bean roms honestly go back to ics using offline kdz flash by cmahendra
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That's the problem... The app doesn;t work on my PC, so I can't go back to ICS. Please see this post for my error: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41363270&postcount=165
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That's the problem... The app doesn;t work on my PC, so I can't go back to ICS. Please see this post for my error: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41363270&postcount=165
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are you rooted with cwm installed? you could just flash the ics backup. however, I haven't had any of those issues except battery life but I still get over a day with a full charge
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No idea but i think if anything we will be going to 4.2.1 or higher as the bugs were fixed with higher jelly bean roms honestly go back to ics using offline kdz flash by cmahendra
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are you rooted with cwm installed? you could just flash the ics backup. however, I haven't had any of those issues except battery life but I still get over a day with a full charge
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Nope, bone stock. And rooting this phone is a PITA (Pain in the ass). LOL. In order to root, apparently I still have to use the program that is giving me issues.
T-Mobile/LG would not leave us stuck with bugs. It is obvious they will push a newer OTA to fix these issues.
I was not aware that we are having this many issues since I am running CM 10.1 . I feel for ya man. Hang in there. Hopefully it won't be long.
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T-Mobile/LG would not leave us stuck with bugs. It is obvious they will push a newer OTA to fix these issues.
I was not aware that we are having this many issues since I am running CM 10.1 . I feel for ya man. Hang in there. Hopefully it won't be long.
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FINALLY!!! I got things working properly... I ended up going back to ICS 10G. Can't find the 10E, so I'm still without root for the moment. However, all app preferences stick now. So it certainly was the JB build that I had.
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are you rooted with cwm installed? you could just flash the ics backup. however, I haven't had any of those issues except battery life but I still get over a day with a full charge
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Ditto, none of the issues mentioned, my defaults stick. other than shorter battery, but its expected.. Still get a days use 3-4 hrs screen time.. I'm rooted, cwm recovery, bootloader unlocked, otherwise clean stock, tmo addons disabled.
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Ditto, none of the issues mentioned, my defaults stick. other than shorter battery, but its expected.. Still get a days use 3-4 hrs screen time.. I'm rooted, cwm recovery, bootloader unlocked, otherwise clean stock, tmo addons disabled.
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The only thing I can think of is I either had a bad download, or disabled something that was helping to hold the defaults. Day 2 back on ICS and all is still good.
I have no issues with battery life and my defaults stick
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Hi Everyone,
I am still hanging on to my Rezound even though it sux. I am not sure what is going on but every ROM I flash i am getting crappy battery life. I have an extended battery and it only lasts about 5-7 hours. Sometimes only 3-4 hours!
I have tried my battery in another Rezound and it works fine. I have followed the steps to flash my ROM cleanly. I have also not downloaded any apps, I have only been using what comes with the ROMS. Lastly, I have made sure wifi and BT are off, and even dimming my screen.
What else can I do besides smash my Rezound with a mallet. I hate this phone right now. Should I flash a new radio, were is the best place to get them from?
I have used alot of Neo's ROMs and curretnly running Nils Business Sense. I really like using stable ROMs with the camera working!
Thanks...
Spyke562 said:
Hi Everyone,
I am still hanging on to my Rezound even though it sux. I am not sure what is going on but every ROM I flash i am getting crappy battery life. I have an extended battery and it only lasts about 5-7 hours. Sometimes only 3-4 hours!
I have tried my battery in another Rezound and it works fine. I have followed the steps to flash my ROM cleanly. I have also not downloaded any apps, I have only been using what comes with the ROMS. Lastly, I have made sure wifi and BT are off, and even dimming my screen.
What else can I do besides smash my Rezound with a mallet. I hate this phone right now. Should I flash a new radio, were is the best place to get them from?
I have used alot of Neo's ROMs and curretnly running Nils Business Sense. I really like using stable ROMs with the camera working!
Thanks...
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1.) have you tried my downgrade/upgrade guide in the q&a section....doing every single one has helped my developer rez from overheating and battery drain 2.) does the rez actually get pretty hot
REV3NT3CH said:
1.) have you tried my downgrade/upgrade guide in the q&a section....doing every single one has helped my developer rez from overheating and battery drain 2.) does the rez actually get pretty hot
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Thanks for the information. I will follow that guide and see how my Rez works afterwards. I think I may have a custom hboot so I will need to look into this before I start.
My phone does get hot but not very often. Most of the time I just noticed the crappy battery life (with extended battery).
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REV3NT3CH said:
1.) have you tried my downgrade/upgrade guide in the q&a section....doing every single one has helped my developer rez from overheating and battery drain 2.) does the rez actually get pretty hot
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So my hboot is:
tampered
locked
S-OFF
hboot 2.227.0000
radio 2.22.10.0001r/2.22.10.003r
you suggest I follow steps 2a and 2b?
or 2b just to update everything?
Your gonna wanna do all steps...not just in part 2...part 1 as well...that's what I did
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