First, I'm not totally familiar with this phone as I have a VZW GNex & Unlocked SGSIII.
My wife's completely stock unmodified and OTA updated Note 2 on 4.1.2 is stuck in a bootloop at the Samsung GN2 logo. The only mode that works is Download. Recovery doesn't work, either. She told me she was having issues with it being very slow recently. When she went to plug it in to get the files off the internal SD, she said it rebooted, and now all it does is bootloop.
I'm assuming I'll have to ODIN back to stock. I have a feeling that she may lose her files on the internal SD card. I just have a few questions.
1. Is it possible to get access the internal SD via ADB, even if I can't get into recovery? (My guess is no)
2. ODIN will surely erase the internal SD, but is there a ODIN file for 4.1.2 that doesn't wipe, similar to Root66 for the original 4.1.1? (again, guess is no as Google finds nothing)
I'm (extremely slowly) downloading the 4.1.2 ODIN to return back to stock. Are there any other tips I should know before trying to revive?
Thanks.
EDIT: I'm going to crap myself. I just ODIN, prepared to lose everything, and upon a reboot, everything was back to normal, exactly as it was left! I'm completely shocked AND relieved, to say the least!
RyanThaDude said:
First, I'm not totally familiar with this phone as I have a VZW GNex & Unlocked SGSIII.
My wife's completely stock unmodified and OTA updated Note 2 on 4.1.2 is stuck in a bootloop at the Samsung GN2 logo. The only mode that works is Download. Recovery doesn't work, either. She told me she was having issues with it being very slow recently. When she went to plug it in to get the files off the internal SD, she said it rebooted, and now all it does is bootloop.
I'm assuming I'll have to ODIN back to stock. I have a feeling that she may lose her files on the internal SD card. I just have a few questions.
1. Is it possible to get access the internal SD via ADB, even if I can't get into recovery? (My guess is no)
2. ODIN will surely erase the internal SD, but is there a ODIN file for 4.1.2 that doesn't wipe, similar to Root66 for the original 4.1.1? (again, guess is no as Google finds nothing)
I'm (extremely slowly) downloading the 4.1.2 ODIN to return back to stock. Are there any other tips I should know before trying to revive?
Thanks.
EDIT: I'm going to crap myself. I just ODIN, prepared to lose everything, and upon a reboot, everything was back to normal, exactly as it was left! I'm completely shocked AND relieved, to say the least!
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Well I was going to give you what advice I could but looks like you have it under control. One thing that buggs me is why would her stock phone just go to crap like that, my wife's GS3 is bone stock and it has more problems than a alpha build lol!
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Okay so I was updating my i717 from UCLF5 team perfection to UCLF6 Collective AoCP ROM and think I bricked my phone. T_T
I forgot that I had encrypted both the phone and external SD Card. When I went into CWM Touch 5.8.3.4 I hung on the formatting /cache I then forced reboot back into CWM and went through a manually formatted stuff and wiped the caches. I then went to install the zip ROM and it said read-only bad.. I didn't know what to do so I tried to factory wipe again and no luck. So I then thought well Odin could work, but I couldn't download the hotfile without hotfile host bugging out with too many downloads.. So I final find a default stock official ROM that is a tar that Odin v1.85 can use, but it is taking forever and I don't know if it will complete, it is currently stuck at "SetupConnection.."
I can get the phone into CWM Touch 5.8.3.4 and can get into download mode, but cannot do ****. The external SD card does still have my titan backup of all system apps all user data and all user apps on it. I know the password for the encrypted SD card. However I cannot do anything because it keeps say read-only....
I also for some reason probably me not being patient enough 3 flash counters on the phone. Now if I take the phone back to ATT to exchange or somehow get it un-bricked will I be able to return the flash counter to 0 before turning the phone in...or will I have to cross my fingers and hope that they don't see it lol?
Does anybody know the best way to go about fixing this phone? I don't really know how to use Odin well and since CWM seems to be hanging on reformatting /cache it won't ever finish getting the phone to factory by itself. I have also tried to fix the permissions but doesn't work. Also tried to mount into USB while plugged in and it didn't want to do that either.
I did notice that a couple times it did boot into the UCLF5 ROM that was previously on the phone but it was back to stock ICS theme with no apps but settings and couldn't use the USB mass storage it just kept cycling itself and not connecting.
Okay so I did infact get it on the third try to flash 2.3.6 android factory default back onto the phone and in the process lost CWM recovery and when I went back into the market place to reinstall ROM manager after I put the ROM I want onto the internal it won't connect to Google Play even after getting onto wifi...weird and even said there wasn't an update after trying to update through att to ICS stock...
Your not still rooted right? An official update won't install if you are
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Okay so I did infact get it on the third try to flash 2.3.6 android factory default back onto the phone and in the process lost CWM recovery and when I went back into the market place to reinstall ROM manager after I put the ROM I want onto the internal it won't connect to Google Play even after getting onto wifi...weird and even said there wasn't an update after trying to update through att to ICS stock...
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>ok so you got up with GB correct?
>Why not just put CWM back on the touch CWM is very simple to use odin one file in the pda slot and click then put the ROM you wanted to install in your OP. Links are in my signature
>then you can put the AOCP, that you said originally
BTW if you are trying to put the Off ICS use kies while putting your phone in download mode, not sure what you are doing with/thru ATT
There are several thread around for this method.
Hi everyone,
So, I think ive damaged my internal memory...But let me give u some info first.
UK SGS3 i9300 on vodafone. I rooted it a while ago and have had several roms. I know the basics of android hacking since I've hacked several as well as my previous 2 contract phones. I was on paranoidandroid 2.22 or w.e. version it was, however I wanted to go back to a sammy rom, and decided to clear my internal sdcard n ext sdcard (more or less - leave my music folder on there foe example) at the same time. I only mention this because my lead has been a little touchy recently and during the process it disconnected a fair few times till i got the cable sat right. I didnt have easy ums or anything - it was mtp. I completed this and loaded my rom onto the extsdcard.
I then went into the cwm touch recovery 6.xx or w.e. selected factory reset, wipe cache n dalvik, then installed it. It just got stuck at the boot logo for a while, then kept boot looping. I then tried wiping a few times, and a couple of different roms, and during this time I noticed that when I click wipe data it rebooted recovery. I then downloads the appropriate stock firmware to flash via odin. I flashed it and it was still stuck on the boot logo. I then realized I couldnt get into recovery, so I flash cf-root via odin, I got the 5.xxx recovery that comes with it. I tried to wipe all again, and it just didnt seem to work, I was stuck in a bootloop. I then posted this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1948255
So yeah with adb, I got it to boot, but i had the wrong size internal memory capacity. Then tonight I flashed twrp (a recovery if u dont know) (latest version) via goomanager and then selected in goo manager ti reboot recovery. Now my phone just goes from the sgs3 logo to the twrp logo and back, even if I boot normally, it does that, and same for trying to boot recovery. I can still get into download mode, but thats it.
I have since tried flashing the stock firmware again to no avail, I'm going to flashing cf root to get recovery... but we'll see what happens...
so what can i do?!?!
Have you tried flashing complete stock firmware through Odin? Then start from there?
You say internal memory is wrong? Might have to flash .pit aswell with re-partition?
Carl.Brand.87 said:
Have you tried flashing complete stock firmware through Odin? Then start from there?
You say internal memory is wrong? Might have to flash .pit aswell with re-partition?
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yes I have, several times, if u read it all... Where can i get teh CORRECT pit file? I've tried one, but it didnt help.
I've just flashed cf root (after a pass on stock firmware) and its booted the ultima rom again... and still got 12.1gb internal... so my phone boots again, but the internal is still wrong! help!
You know that some of the 16gb is taken for the system files right? My phone only reports like 11.6gb in total to use.
Android reserves about 4gb that's why you only have 12gb free there is no problem there.
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yes I have, several times, if u read it all... Where can i get teh CORRECT pit file? I've tried one, but it didnt help.
I've just flashed cf root (after a pass on stock firmware) and its booted the ultima rom again... and still got 12.1gb internal... so my phone boots again, but the internal is still wrong! help!
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That's normal, the 12.1GB is COMPLETELY normal.
Other memory is reserved by the system.
This is usual and it should work that way, stop messing with it.
32GB models should have about 25GB~.
idiot here
Skander1998 said:
That's normal, the 12.1GB is COMPLETELY normal.
Other memory is reserved by the system.
This is usual and it should work that way, stop messing with it.
32GB models should have about 25GB~.
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oooookk, TT used to show 16gb tho.... i remember i like the fact it read 16gb sd & 16gb extsd. nvm, im just wrong. thanks. I'll use it as it for now, still not 100% convinced but ya know... never had this sort of trouble with my HTC's :/
I'd just like to thank fellow-idiot for this thread, had similar situation (semibricked device, flashed something I should not have been flashing), and now my Internal is 11.3, and I seem to remember it was 14.7, just like my external - but I may be wrong. Changing ROMs, formating Internal, changing recoveries (now on Teamwin Recovery) doesn't seem to change a thing about it. Oh well, not that I'm gonna need it, just wondering where it went (never said hallo either... no manners, today's internal memories..)
11.3 is what it should be
So I really jacked my phone up today. It all started when I updated to the newest CM10.1 nightly (which I do routinely). After the update my phone basically would not mount the internal hdd, as quite a few people have since found out with the cm-10.1-20130121-NIGHTLY-i9100.zip. Long story short, I read from a couple users that using the sisyah kernel did not cause these issues. Well, like an idiot I went ahead and tried flashing it with odin (rather than just go back to a restore point I had), only to have it fail and cause my phone to show a phone + ! + Computer symbol. I've since managed to get in to download mode and flash CWM 5.5.04. Unfortunately, that's about all I've gotten to work. I'm assuming I have nothing on my phone anymore, in CWM I can't access my internal hdd or ext hdd to load CM10.1 back on. I can see the Samsung logo if I just try and boot the phone but it just stays there. Other than that I can reach the recovery and download screens. I'm at a total lost and would appreciate any help I can get, Thank you
flash your back up with recovery or a stock rom with odin to restore your phone.
Cosmic Blue said:
flash your back up with recovery or a stock rom with odin to restore your phone.
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Unfortunately, I can't access anything from my phone. Neither my internal SD or ext. HD are recognized by both the phone and computer. I have the CM10.1 that I want back on there but it's a zip not tar.
What are you talking about.He told you to flash a stock rom using Odin.The objective is to get the phone working-then you can root and restore backups.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
theunderling said:
What are you talking about.He told you to flash a stock rom using Odin.The objective is to get the phone working-then you can root and restore backups.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
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Just in case you can't read, he first stated "flash your back up with recovery". I was simply telling him that was not possible. I'm in the process of going back to stock, but the download takes forever. For your information, I've never owned a single apple product or even an android phone that hadn't been modded.
...........or a stock rom with Odin which has nothing to do with crap about "cant see my sd card".
And its you that needs to read, not me.
And I take it you love my new signature.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
I'm familiar with rooting and ROMs and have been flashing HyperDrive on my S4 as updates came out. I have a Verizon S4 on NC5. Last night I messed up my phone big time. I was going to install the new version of Hyperdrive and put all the necessary files on my sd card. While in Safestrap when I went to wipe the phone I accidentally checked to wipe the sd card also. So now the phone was wiped and there was nothing to flash. I panicked and shut down the phone, took out the SD to connect to my PC and put the necessary files back on. When I turned the phone back on it doesn't go to safestap it just hangs at the samsung galaxy s4 logo.
I was up all night reading and trying everything I could think of. I tried to use Odin 3.09 using the .tar for no wipe and the .tar with .pit for full wipe and Odin fails every time. I checked the md5s. I tried downloading Odin from another source and it still just says it fails every time.
I'm not due for an upgrade till late this year. I'm desperate. Please someone help.
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I'm familiar with rooting and ROMs and have been flashing HyperDrive on my S4 as updates came out. I have a Verizon S4 on NC5. Last night I messed up my phone big time. I was going to install the new version of Hyperdrive and put all the necessary files on my sd card. While in Safestrap when I went to wipe the phone I accidentally checked to wipe the sd card also. So now the phone was wiped and there was nothing to flash. I panicked and shut down the phone, took out the SD to connect to my PC and put the necessary files back on. When I turned the phone back on it doesn't go to safestap it just hangs at the samsung galaxy s4 logo.
I was up all night reading and trying everything I could think of. I tried to use Odin 3.09 using the .tar for no wipe and the .tar with .pit for full wipe and Odin fails every time. I checked the md5s. I tried downloading Odin from another source and it still just says it fails every time.
I'm not due for an upgrade till late this year. I'm desperate. Please someone help.
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Did you make sure Odin found the S4?
delsoul6 said:
I'm familiar with rooting and ROMs and have been flashing HyperDrive on my S4 as updates came out. I have a Verizon S4 on NC5. Last night I messed up my phone big time. I was going to install the new version of Hyperdrive and put all the necessary files on my sd card. While in Safestrap when I went to wipe the phone I accidentally checked to wipe the sd card also. So now the phone was wiped and there was nothing to flash. I panicked and shut down the phone, took out the SD to connect to my PC and put the necessary files back on. When I turned the phone back on it doesn't go to safestap it just hangs at the samsung galaxy s4 logo.
I was up all night reading and trying everything I could think of. I tried to use Odin 3.09 using the .tar for no wipe and the .tar with .pit for full wipe and Odin fails every time. I checked the md5s. I tried downloading Odin from another source and it still just says it fails every time.
I'm not due for an upgrade till late this year. I'm desperate. Please someone help.
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You're trying to flash a version that's too old. There's a check in place called rollback protection that prevents you from using older versions of software. I'd try flashing NC5 or NK1 via tar. Let me know if you need more help.
FIXED!
Thanks guys. I really appreciate your input. I was so desperate a actually went to a Verizon store in the morning even though I had no faith they would do anything. I just told them it wouldn't boot after I wiped it and they said we don't fix phones we only give replacements. Thanks for nothing. I saw some people posting that Odin failed on one computer and worked on another so I figured I'd try on my work computer. I downloaded an NK1 .tar file from SamMobile this time instead of the xda thread. It worked the first time. No problems at all. I have no idea why it worked but I'm just thankful it did. My phone is running like new.
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Thanks guys. I really appreciate your input. I was so desperate a actually went to a Verizon store in the morning even though I had no faith they would do anything. I just told them it wouldn't boot after I wiped it and they said we don't fix phones we only give replacements. Thanks for nothing. I saw some people posting that Odin failed on one computer and worked on another so I figured I'd try on my work computer. I downloaded an NK1 .tar file from SamMobile this time instead of the xda thread. It worked the first time. No problems at all. I have no idea why it worked but I'm just thankful it did. My phone is running like new.
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Glad to see the issue was resolved :good:
It's pretty difficult to permanently brick these devices, just takes a little patience and the know-how.
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Glad to see the issue was resolved :good:
It's pretty difficult to permanently brick these devices, just takes a little patience and the know-how.
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Agreed! This is the only thing I really like Samsung for is Odin! Now if LG or Moto could put in a form of Odin it would make them way more appealing!
I've been running rooted with Alliance Rom build 32 for about a year with zero problems. The phone battery ran low last night and the phone turned off. When I turn it on it stops at the first logo. I can't get into Philz
recovery. It will go into downloader mode. I tried using Odin to revert to the stock MJ9 I started from when I used Casual. It flashed successfully (stock pit and MJ9) but still gets stuck at the the first logo and won't go into recovery.
SD card is removed. I haven't made any modifications to the phone for the past six months except adding a few well known apps from the store.
Any advice on how to get back to where I can load recovery and proceed to reinstall would be greatly appreciated.
PS.
I would have bought a new phone last year but it seems all the ones I like are bootloader locked. I can live without the stylus (would love a new note though...). Any recommendation on a replacement for the Note 2 would be much appreciated.
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I've been running rooted with Alliance Rom build 32 for about a year with zero problems. The phone battery ran low last night and the phone turned off. When I turn it on it stops at the first logo. I can't get into Philz
recovery. It will go into downloader mode. I tried using Odin to revert to the stock MJ9 I started from when I used Casual. It flashed successfully (stock pit and MJ9) but still gets stuck at the the first logo and won't go into recovery.
SD card is removed. I haven't made any modifications to the phone for the past six months except adding a few well known apps from the store.
Any advice on how to get back to where I can load recovery and proceed to reinstall would be greatly appreciated.
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I would have bought a new phone last year but it seems all the ones I like are bootloader locked. I can live without the stylus (would love a new note though...). Any recommendation on a replacement for the Note 2 would be much appreciated.
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If you're looking for a newer phone that lets you unlock the bootloader, you might want to check out last year's Nexus 6 or the newer Moto X Pure Edition. The Nexus 6P from Huawei also looks nice and I'm keeping an eye on it as my next potential phone. The Nexus 5x from LG should also have a boo that can be unlocked.
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Hopefully, you didn't flash the stock Verizon MJ9 4.3 firmware back onto your phone. If so, then you have locked your bootloader with no way to unlock it.
I'm thinking that you're probably getting confused with needing to flash Beanstown106’s modified MJ9 firmware (which doesn't return the phone to stock or contain the 4.3 bootloader). See one of my previous posts ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=58541771 ), which discusses a similar issue and has a link on how to flash the stock recovery back onto the phone if you'd like to try that rather than restoring the phone back to stock 4.1.2.
You could also just Odin restore the phone back to Verizon factory stock 4.1.2 and run Casual again to start fresh. See Droidstyle's restore guide here: ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181 ) to get instructions on how to flash back to 4.1.2.
Once back on 4.1.2, you need to go into the stock recovery and wipe cache /factory reset to make sure everything is wiped off the device for a fresh start. (Odin doesn't wipe everything in it's flashing process).
If you restore back to stock 4.1.2, then be careful not to let your phone take an OTA because if it gets updated to 4.3+, then you won't be able to unlock the bootloader any longer.
I usually remove my Sim card when restoring to stock 4.1.2... just to ensure I don't accidentally take an OTA update before I get it rooted again. (You can skip the initial phone Setup screen with the method in this YouTube video - https://youtu.be/qekEpn1Bufc ). It says it's for the S3 but works on the Note II as well. Once you get back into the phone and enable USB debugging in Developer options, you should be able to run Casual again. The phone doesn't have to be activated or on wifi to do this.
Once Casual is successful, it's safe to put the Sim card back in because I don't believe an OTA can install successfully with a custom recovery installed.
Good luck.
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Hopefully, you didn't flash the stock Verizon MJ9 4.3 firmware back onto your phone. If so, then you have locked your bootloader with no way to unlock it.
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All the ROM's and tools are from threads here so pretty sure I'm using Bean's modified MJ9. I was on Beans 4.3 for over a year before I went to the Alliance ROM.
You could also just Odin restore the phone back to Verizon factory stock 4.1.2 and run Casual again to start fresh. See Droidstyle's restore guide here: ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181 ) to get instructions on how to flash back to 4.1.2.
Once back on 4.1.2, you need to go into the stock recovery and wipe cache /factory reset to make sure everything is wiped off the device for a fresh start. (Odin doesn't wipe everything in it's flashing process).
If you restore back to stock 4.1.2, then be careful not to let your phone take an OTA because if it gets updated to 4.3+, then you won't be able to unlock the bootloader any longer.
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4.1.2 sounds like a better idea - I have that also.
Thanks your advice here is just what I was looking for in my effort to get this phone running again.
Update: I can still go into Download mode but cannot get a computer to recognize the phone now.
Not one of three computers, numerous cables including one out of the Galaxy Note 2 box and all the tricks I could find like pulling the battery while connected helped.
The first day of this problem (stuck at first logo) I was able to connect to the phone with Odin. I flashed the following:
1. sch-i605-16gb.pit
2. CI605_I605VRLJB_I605VRALJB_CL414933_HWID04_HW_Rev0406_low_ship_user.tar
Would something like http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-how-to-make-usb-jig-reset-binary-t1604707 help?
Should I look into the JTag guys on ebay?
Thanks,
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Update: I can still go into Download mode but cannot get a computer to recognize the phone now.
Not one of three computers, numerous cables including one out of the Galaxy Note 2 box and all the tricks I could find like pulling the battery while connected helped.
The first day of this problem (stuck at first logo) I was able to connect to the phone with Odin. I flashed the following:
1. sch-i605-16gb.pit
2. CI605_I605VRLJB_I605VRALJB_CL414933_HWID04_HW_Rev0406_low_ship_user.tar
Would something like http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-how-to-make-usb-jig-reset-binary-t1604707 help?
Should I look into the JTag guys on ebay?
Thanks,
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I don't know if a USB jig would help the computer recognize the phone again.
Since you tried 3 different computers and still couldn't get it recognized... I'm wondering if something got fubared when you Odin flashed the VRLJB stock Rom. So when you go to Device Manager in the computer, the computer doesn't even show anything connected at all?
I don't know that it would be worth the time, but (on the computer that last worked for your phone), you could try uninstalling the Samsung Drivers, and then use a program like DevManView to totally uninstall all Android related drivers. Restart the computer afterwards and then reinstall the Samsung USB Drivers (from here: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SCH-I605) . Then connect your phone back to the computer in Download Mode to see if it will reinstall the drivers and recognize it.
If the computer still doesn't recognize the phone after all that, then I'm out of ideas.
I'll try the devmanview driver cleanup (love nirsoft utils!) and install the driver in your link on the orginal pc which I use for flashing ROMs. If that doesn't work I'm going to look into sending it out to a JTag guy although they claim if you can get into download mode after they perform their magic that they were successful.
Went with the LG G4 which I'm very happy with. As far as getting the Note 2 running again I've been thinking l might buy a used Verizon Galaxy Note 2 motherboard on ebay rather than sinking a lot of time into trying to... should I say "unbrick" it.
If you ran casual first, it will not connect to the samsung driver, until you uninstall the USB services from the device manager, and then run find new hardware.
But maybe this will not help considering you already tried 3 machines?
I may have had the Samsung driver on all 3 machines. Good suggestion - I'll post back if it works.
Related question. I see you are running CM 12.1 - do you have standby battery drain issues? My 4.4.2 Alliance 32 would drain the battery down to 0 if I didn't plug it in at night even though I might still have 1/3 charge.
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I may have had the Samsung driver on all 3 machines. Good suggestion - I'll post back if it works.
Related question. I see you are running CM 12.1 - do you have standby battery drain issues? My 4.4.2 Alliance 32 would drain the battery down to 0 if I didn't plug it in at night even though I might still have 1/3 charge.
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Right, it was in the Adam Antler video, for casual. Once you use the casual on USB, the samsung driver will not work until you uninstall and reinstall USB system.
I can get almost 3 days out of a phone battery with little or no use. The one I am using could make it a day and 1/2, but I charge that one every night because I do not need and down time just in case.
I am using the nightly build, 12.1-20151222 12/22/15, I am not sure how the other builds are, or even the stable build for that matter?