[Q] factory data reset - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

have a verizon s4 i545 me7 rooted with saferoot can in do a factory data reset also after rooting with saferoot battery seems to be draining faster then what it was before rooting any sugestions

Hotrod36 said:
have a verizon s4 i545 me7 rooted with saferoot can in do a factory data reset also after rooting with saferoot battery seems to be draining faster then what it was before rooting any sugestions
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Saferoot should have absolutely no impact on your battery. Its got to be a certain app or two that's bleeding the power down. We'd need more info.. Maybe screenshots of your battery stats..
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Hotrod36 said:
have a verizon s4 i545 me7 rooted with saferoot can in do a factory data reset also after rooting with saferoot battery seems to be draining faster then what it was before rooting any sugestions
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here are battery stats Is it safe to do a factory data reset

Hotrod36 said:
here are battery stats Is it safe to do a factory data reset
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I wouldn't think that would help, and it seems to me that you've got great battery life. 1 day on battery, still 76%?
The only case that I've run in to with bad battery life happens when you take the MJ7 to MK2 update. Google Services then eats battery.
However, you don't seem to have that, as it's all screen usage. Rooting is not going to make your display consume more battery.

Hotrod36 said:
here are battery stats Is it safe to do a factory data reset
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Try using a Wakelock Detector from play store as well as try Greenify to hibernate apps when you're not using them. Like K1mu said your stats actually don't look bad or off in any way.
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Mistertac said:
Try using a Wakelock Detector from play store as well as try Greenify to hibernate apps when you're not using them. Like K1mu said your stats actually don't look bad or off in any way.
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will try your suggestion thank you

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with temp root, is it possible to....

reset battery stats?
got 4000mah battery and want to get things in syc
was easy to reset on my evo 4g with full root
Not sure haven't temp rooted but i would think you can. There is a battery calibration app on the market that requires root to delete the batter stats. That app should work with temp root.
DarkManX4lf said:
Not sure haven't temp rooted but i would think you can. There is a battery calibration app on the market that requires root to delete the batter stats. That app should work with temp root.
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do u know the name?
ima try to random search now though thanks
The app is called battery calibration
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can you do that in stock recovery?
...I've never really hung out in there, not much reason to..but...that seems like a fairly innocuous and potentially useful option.

Battery draining faster with ICS update

I just upgraded my SGS2 to ICS, since that the battery of my phone draining hell lot quicker than earlier. Earlier it use to go down by 1-2 % in the night (when m sleeping) but after update it go down by 11-12%
actually the battery performance should be better, right?
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Hi,
I have same feeling. After a week on Slim Ics I can say that with GB my battery life was better. By 10pm everyday I was having left about 40-45% with GB , but with ICS the best I can get is :confuse 30% , mostly about 25% left and I'm having same kind of usage. It's true that with ICS it seems smoother and more responsive .
momyc said:
.... It's true that with ICS it seems smoother and more responsive .
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A fair price to pay.
There are a lot of threads on thus subject if you have a search of the forums.
I had the same issue on upgrading from GB but after following advice and doing some investigation and troubleshooting of rogue apps I now have much better battery life on ics than I ever got on GB.
Read the forums and follow the advice, track down the culprits and you too will reap the benefits
gottagetalife said:
There are a lot of threads on thus subject if you have a search of the forums.
I had the same issue on upgrading from GB but after following advice and doing some investigation and troubleshooting of rogue apps I now have much better battery life on ics than I ever got on GB.
Read the forums and follow the advice, track down the culprits and you too will reap the benefits
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Throw us a friggin bone here...
gottagetalife said:
There are a lot of threads on thus subject if you have a search of the forums.
I had the same issue on upgrading from GB but after following advice and doing some investigation and troubleshooting of rogue apps I now have much better battery life on ics than I ever got on GB.
Read the forums and follow the advice, track down the culprits and you too will reap the benefits
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Can u plz post a link here of that thread?
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shantanuparadkar said:
Can u plz post a link here of that thread?
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There are LOTS of threads on the subject. Use the search box at the top of the page to look for "battery ics sgs2" or similar and you will turn up pages of information.
The sad thing is the best piece of advice I found was that no two people will have exactly the same solution. You need to identify what is eating your battery using a tool like "Better Battery Stats" or "Go Power Manager". You then need to decide how important the culprits are and remove them or look for updates.
Titanium Backup is useful as it allows you to freeze apps so you can see if they make a difference. It helps if you are rooted as I found several stock apps at the core of my issues. You can't freeze them unless you are rooted.
Siyah Kernel is also very useful, it seems to manage power better than stock. I also found that a factory reset, clearing user data and clearing all of my caches (including Dalvik) helped enormously. It is time consuming to re-install all of your apps from scratch but it does seem to make a huge difference. It looks like some apps retain data from GB that caused issues in ICS.
I found that exchange services were using a huge amount of juice before I cleared all data and caches. That seems to stop completely after the big clear out!
The main thing is no two people seem to have exactly the same problem. It is important therefore that you take a problem solving approach, change one thing at a time and wait long enough to see if it works.
There's your bone, go chew!
gottagetalife said:
There are LOTS of threads on the subject. Use the search box at the top of the page to look for "battery ics sgs2" or similar and you will turn up pages of information.
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Same old, same old.... These are the same tricks that work with EVERY ROM upgrade.... If u get a better battery life outta ICS than u did with GB, u really screwed up installing GB...
shantanuparadkar said:
I just upgraded my SGS2 to ICS, since that the battery of my phone draining hell lot quicker than earlier. Earlier it use to go down by 1-2 % in the night (when m sleeping) but after update it go down by 11-12%
actually the battery performance should be better, right?
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i usually get 2 days of battery life on ics 4.0.3....
First of all, you need to be clear whether you upgraded from stock GB to Stock ICS, or a Custom GB ROM to a Custom ICS ROM, since the Custom ROMs do offer better battery life over the stock version.
People here are giving great advice regarding the use of Titanium to freeze any apps that you are not using, e.g. Google+, Samsung bloatware, etc... - this will save the average RAM, hence the battery life. Also, do use Task Manager often (especially before going to sleep) to kill all the background apps.
I installed many Custom ROMs and now running Resurrection v2.1 and very happy with battery life. You must be realistic with expectations - read this http://blog.gsmarena.com/our-samsun...e-test-is-complete-check-out-how-it-did-test/
Overall, if you will do a clean install (format everything - internal/external/MMC and clear cache/Dalvik/battery stats) of Resurrection ICS v2.1 or Litening v3.2, then you should see even an increase in battery life!
Hope it helps and happy flashing ;]]
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There are LOTS of threads on the subject. Use the search box at the top of the page to look for "battery ics sgs2" or similar and you will turn up pages of information.
The sad thing is the best piece of advice I found was that no two people will have exactly the same solution. You need to identify what is eating your battery using a tool like "Better Battery Stats" or "Go Power Manager". You then need to decide how important the culprits are and remove them or look for updates.
Titanium Backup is useful as it allows you to freeze apps so you can see if they make a difference. It helps if you are rooted as I found several stock apps at the core of my issues. You can't freeze them unless you are rooted.
Siyah Kernel is also very useful, it seems to manage power better than stock. I also found that a factory reset, clearing user data and clearing all of my caches (including Dalvik) helped enormously. It is time consuming to re-install all of your apps from scratch but it does seem to make a huge difference. It looks like some apps retain data from GB that caused issues in ICS.
I found that exchange services were using a huge amount of juice before I cleared all data and caches. That seems to stop completely after the big clear out!
The main thing is no two people seem to have exactly the same problem. It is important therefore that you take a problem solving approach, change one thing at a time and wait long enough to see if it works.
There's your bone, go chew!
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I have better battery stats but I don't know how to use it, and my phone is not rooted, so some of the things I won't b able to do. Now tell me what's should I do? Which software is useful for unrooted phone
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shantanuparadkar said:
I have better battery stats but I don't know how to use it, and my phone is not rooted, so some of the things I won't b able to do. Now tell me what's should I do? Which software is useful for unrooted phone
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Why don't you root your device?
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Originally Posted by shantanuparadkar
I have better battery stats but I don't know how to use it, and my phone is not rooted, so some of the things I won't b able to do. Now tell me what's should I do? Which software is useful for unrooted phone
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Why don't you root your device?
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I don't want to, Coz it will void my guarantee. May b I'll do it after July after the guarantee period finishes
But till then suggest me something
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shantanuparadkar said:
I don't want to, Coz it will void my guarantee. May b I'll do it after July after the guarantee period finishes
But till then suggest me something
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All you would have to do is flash a stock firmware through odin and it's factory reset.
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kilometers4 said:
All you would have to do is flash a stock firmware through odin and it's factory reset.
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Sorry my knowledge about these things are zero. I am not getting what u want to say
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shantanuparadkar said:
Sorry my knowledge about these things are zero. I am not getting what u want to say
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All you would have to do to put your phone back to factory settings is to download a stock firmware from www.sammobile.com and flash it through odin. I believe the site has flash steps. There's many guides on how to use odin on Google.
Hope it helps
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But will it make my guarantee void?
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shantanuparadkar said:
But will it make my guarantee void?
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Your warranty would still be good
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kilometers4 said:
Your warranty would still be good
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Ok thanks. I'll do that
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Had a prob with phone, service centre done the hard formatting and reinstalling of the software, now the battery performance is way to better
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Battery improvement v20F / v20H vs other JB

Did anybody notice an improvement in battery life in the latest stock JB ROMs?
Personally, I feel like the 1.5 - 2 days that I used to get with ICS are still far from what we get through JB.
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Did anybody notice an improvement in battery life in the latest stock JB ROMs?
Personally, I feel like the 1.5 - 2 days that I used to get with ICS are still far from what we get through JB.
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V20d was 12ish hours with all radios on, v20f (on my phone) is now 24-30 hours same setup. Now there are of course lots of power savers but I wanted to see battery on fully active L9.
How did you get V20H? I wasn't aware of an update beyond V20F and my phone is dying so quick because of the "cell standby" usage glitch.
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How did you get V20H? I wasn't aware of an update beyond V20F and my phone is dying so quick because of the "cell standby" usage glitch.
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20h is the version for p970/p765 etc...
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Don't hate me because of thread hijacking, but as you have 20H... did you lose root/can you root via jcase's method?
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Don't hate me because of thread hijacking, but as you have 20H... did you lost root/can you root via jcase's method?
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Hey, I upgraded via LG Mobile Support Tool, not OTA or PC Suite, because I soft bricked my phone when i tried to update OTA. And yes I lost root after this
teddybalan said:
Did anybody notice an improvement in battery life in the latest stock JB ROMs?
Personally, I feel like the 1.5 - 2 days that I used to get with ICS are still far from what we get through JB.
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20d was great for me. Went to bed with 60% plus every night. I'm a light user but wifi is on 100%.
20f, same amount of usage, down to 50% within 90 minutes of unplugging from charger.
teddybalan said:
Hey, I upgraded via LG Mobile Support Tool, not OTA or PC Suite, because I soft bricked my phone when i tried to update OTA. And yes I lost root after this
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An can you root using jcase's tool now?
RobbingHood said:
An can you root using jcase's tool now?
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I tried now - I get a no SU binaries installed error, so no, it didn't work for me
teddybalan said:
I tried now - I get a no SU binaries installed error, so no, it didn't work for me
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Hm, doesn't sound too promising...
Can anyone investigate/confirm this?
teddybalan said:
I tried now - I get a no SU binaries installed error, so no, it didn't work for me
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Did you uninstall SU and busybox before using the tool?
I wasn't able to do it either and got the binaries error until I deleted those 2.
I need some advice.
Few days ago i bought my P760 with 4.0.4 ICS.
I choose it because have read some opinions about "long battery life" and they were confirmed during my tests. Battery lasts for 2 days using 2h internet + 1h talks each day.
After updating from v10a to v20b battery last for about half of it.
I'm thinking with way choose to solve my problem - upgrade to v20h or downgrade do v10a. Anyone had some experience on both ROMs with battery?
20h has a very very long battery life on my device. So my advice: 20h
Could You explain what is "long battery life" in you meaning? How much do You use phone and how long it stays without chargeing?
I do too use the phone on a Constance internet web browsing and facebook during my work. With the new v20f i get about average of 5-6 hours on screen time. When i was on v10g i had 8hours on screen time. So there is a big different. I was thinking of downgrading back to 4.0.4 v10g soon. I thought the newest update would fix alot of thing,but i was wrong. From what the updates log decribe were only small adjustment. Also is it me or that i noticed the v20f does use more memory ram then ics?
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20h has a very very long battery life on my device. So my advice: 20h
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Agreed.
I had the battery problems on V20D. I fixed them with a factory reset.
Upgraded to V20H, battery life is still good.
I charge once every 4-7 days, use it for WiFi and music mostly.
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I was thinking of downgrading back to 4.0.4 v10g soon.
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I did that. It didn't help.
I had great battery life with 10g/20d. Upgraded to 20f and got crappy battery life. Went back down to 10g and bad battery life remained.
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I did that. It didn't help.
I had great battery life with 10g/20d. Upgraded to 20f and got crappy battery life. Went back down to 10g and bad battery life remained.
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Have You made hard reset aftter downgrading? It should helps.
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Have You made hard reset aftter downgrading? It should helps.
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I've done everything under the sun as far as I'm aware.
Nothing has helped or improved battery life.
See if this help out with the battery problem. What i did was use the phone until i drain all the battery life out of it. Then let it fully recharge with the phone off over night. I did this and it actually improved.
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[Q] battery calibration

Is battery calibration a thing? Does it actually work? because http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443108 says no. But, some other people say yes.
A lot of people who don't know what they are talking about claim that you must reset your battery stats when flashing new roms, etc, but this is not true. All resetting the stats does, is just that: resets the stats on the settings>battery page. It does not affect battery performance on android.
Your link is a quote from a dev at Google.
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cadarn07 said:
A lot of people who don't know what they are talking about claim that you must reset your battery stats when flashing new roms, etc, but this is not true. All resetting the stats does, is just that: resets the stats on the settings>battery page. It does not affect battery performance on android.
Your link is a quote from a dev at Google.
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The link is a quote from the developer at Google that wrote the software that manages the battery stats file.
She says that clearing it does nothing. That's pretty authoritative.
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The link is a quote from the developer at Google that wrote the software that manages the battery stats file.
She says that clearing it does nothing. That's pretty authoritative.
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Yeah, that's what I said (unless you meant to reply to the OP?).
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Yeah, that's what I said (unless you meant to quote the OP?).
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Sorry - what I mean is that I agree with you and why. Clearly, what you said is true: battery calibration is a waste of time.
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Sorry - what I mean is that I agree with you and why. Clearly, what you said is true: battery calibration is a waste of time.
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Oh gotcha. Yeah it really became a trend around here for awhile. Hopefully the recommendations to reset battery stats is dying off.
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Towelroot then more battery drain?

So I just rooted my device with towelroot so I don't trip the knox counter.
All went well with the root process.
Let the phone reboot like it needed
Used the APK from chainfires zip to install supersu on the phone.
When I installed that I allowed it to update su and then disabled knox.
rebooted the phone and verified all was able to power up again okay.
Since doing that I notice that the phone is staying pretty warm without any use and screen off and is being held awake by the kernel. (according to gsam battery monitor)
Has anyone else noticed wake-lock or battery drain issues after rooting the phone with this method?
So far, so good for me. It's pretty much the same
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Freeze any tmobile app that you don't really use or system app with titanium backup
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Nyc1231 said:
Freeze any tmobile app that you don't really use or system app with titanium backup
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Okay I will give that a try.
Worst case scenario I will try and master reset it.
Just happy to have full sd card access again and native tethering working in stock software. Plus ad blocking.
TheArtiszan said:
Okay I will give that a try.
Worst case scenario I will try and master reset it.
Just happy to have full sd card access again and native tethering working in stock software. Plus ad blocking.
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i have exactly the same problem. i will unroot and factory reset it.
I don't think you will actually need to unroot it. About how long are you getting with your battery now?
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I don't think you will actually need to unroot it. About how long are you getting with your battery now?
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i plug it out when i wake up at 07:00 in the morning and when i get back from work almost at 18:00 o clock its almost done. only %10 battery remaining. it drains very fast! before towelroot my battary lasts almost 1.5 days
I'm not even rooted and time to time my phone would get hot without me using it.. It's weird. Known issue or could this be a hardware issue?
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I'm not even rooted and time to time my phone would get hot without me using it.. It's weird. Known issue or could this be a hardware issue?
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That sounds more like there is a app going rogue or something. While there is a possibility it could be hardware, my bet it is more a software issue. When that happens to me I try to master reset and test without the applications for a little like I might with this if the battery issue don't clear up.
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That sounds more like there is a app going rogue or something. While there is a possibility it could be hardware, my bet it is more a software issue. When that happens to me I try to master reset and test without the applications for a little like I might with this if the battery issue don't clear up.
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I actually did a master reset the second day I got my phone because the first time I messed something up with restoring some stuff from my iPhone using Smart Switch (don't know exact name) and my phone was getting hot even before and after the master reset.
Just want to clarify factory reset is the same as master reset right?
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Yes
Same issue here - applied Towelroot on an HTC One M8 (Verizon), root did not work, but battery drains considerably faster now (would estimate about 30% faster drain than before).
There is definitely something going on with the towelroot apk, I have not installed anything else.
master reset works like charm. battery got back to normal
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master reset works like charm. battery got back to normal
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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Something's running rogue and keeping your CPU running high, which probably accounts for the heat. A hot phone wastes more energy, so you're getting hit twice. Did you try installing wakelock detector to hunt down the issue?
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So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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lol i guess so. Back up with kies that will help restoring apps and data.
Haven't noticed any lag because of towel root. However installing xposed and xprivacy gave me unbearable lag. I had to Uninstall them and the phone went back to being smooth.
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indianl said:
So I have to completely setup my phone again? I guess that's the price for being brave and trying new things
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Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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tcourb said:
lol i guess so. Back up with kies that will help restoring apps and data.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
diablo009 said:
Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
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Thanks for the info friend. I already factory resetted and solved the battery drain issue.
diablo009 said:
Resetting to factory settings after towel root RETAINS root.
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Or, since you are rooted, use an app lie Tibu to backup apps and data, and restore it after reset. Root survives factory reset.
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I am not rooted - towelroot doesn't seem to work on the HTC One M8 (Verizon).
I did a factory reset, but the battery still drains like a jug of beer on a summer day... down to 15% after 6 hours
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Christopher3712 said:
Something's running rogue and keeping your CPU running high, which probably accounts for the heat. A hot phone wastes more energy, so you're getting hit twice. Did you try installing wakelock detector to hunt down the issue?
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Looked at wakelock detector, but that only runs on rooted KitKat phones. As mentioned before, Towelroot did not work on my HTC One M8...

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