Ok I'm looking into buying this phone . I'm seeing threads (here and another site) about the boot loop. Is this phone going to wind up being the G4?
Other question is about battery life. What kind of screen & standby time is typical?
It's only the G4
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Hey Guys,
Since a while i have a htc touch pro. Since WinMo suks ass i decided to dual-boot it on xdandroid. So far i'm pretty satisfied with the result but i have one major problem. Off course there are plenty of threads about sucking battery life and even more sucking battery indication but i seem to have a new problem, for nobody else posted this problem anywhere else. My phone (when booted in Haret) doesn't charge for more than 83%, and besides, i have the feeling that even when it says that it has been charged to 83%, it has not even been charged for the half becouse my battery life is really not that good. So that's my first problem. And since it would be to easy if i had only this single problem i would like to ask you why it takes so long under xdandroid to find gps signal. Under WinMo it would take max. about 20 sec. to find a signal but under xdandroid it can easely take about 5 min..
Thanks for any help.
I've got FRX06 Bundle with some custom **** attached
I have the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II phone, and it is absolutely brilliant. Speeds are excellent - no lag. Screen is absolutely AMAZING. Camera is the best I've ever touched.
BUT, the thing that bugs me is the battery life. One of the selling points of the Galaxy S II to me was the "Amazing Battery Life" which has been praised. I have only owned this phone for two days (charged only one and a half times), but I have not seen this "excellent" battery life AT ALL.
Any tips or suggestions? I have read that the battery in this device "improves" after some time (a few charge cycles). Is this true?
Thank you
hey congratulations on your new samsung. I got mine when it first came out and had the same problems with batteries. My best suggestion is to familiarize yourself with custom roms and learn everything you need to know about flashing and rooting, and when you're ready look into installing a custom rom. Cognition v1.5.1 is a really good choice because of the fact that it removes a lot of the bloatware that automatically runs when you turn the phone on (which drains the battery quite a bit). Also some other ways of dealing with the battery life is to reduce the brightness as much as you can handle (the highest setting of brightness on any phone is never a good idea for battery life).
if you search around these forums you will probably find better help from people who know more about this stuff than me. However, as someone who went from never touching android in my life to learning it all with this phone I can say your best bet is to learn how to flash and mess around with the firmware. That coupled with basic battery tips will help a lot.
also one final thought. If you download battery calibrator from the market, charge your phone to 100% then take the plug out and run it, let it drain down to 0% then start the charge over that is the quickest way to fix the battery issues. (this would only need to be done once, or every time you flash a new firmware if you choose to pursue that).
hope I helped!
I recently bought an open box S3 from Rogers and the first few days it worked fine and the battery life seemed pretty awesome. Today however the battery seems to be discharging very very quickly even while on stand by. Unfortunately I do not have a screen shot because I jsut did a factory reset to see if it solves the problem and currently monitoring it. But prior to doing the reset it was on battery for about 3-3.5 hrs and dischaged 40% of the battery in that time frame. I made 2 brief (1min) phone calls, a few tex tmessages, roughly 10mins of facebook on my way to work in that time frame, and a few internet searches. My biggest concern is that even while on standby it seems to be discharging quit a bit (roughly 10%/hr). This wasn't the case when I frist recieved the phone as it discharged maybe 4-5% an hour on stand by. What should be looking at in terms of battery discharge on stand by an hour so I know what to look for this time after the reset?
You mention ROGERS .
That leads me to believe you are yet another in the wrong forum as per the sticky top of the page .
This is the International I9300 phone forum .
If you have a different phone advice / firmware mods from here may brick your phone.
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Hi,
I bought a LG G2 Mini second hand that has been used for about 7 months...sometimes it takes 2-3 hours to get full charge and other times it takes 5-7 hours with the same charger and conection (the charger that came with the device and the wall conection), it doesnt even say that its on a slow charge
It happens sometimes also that the battery gets drained for no reason, leaving it iddle with only wifi and 2g it can las betwin 20 hours and 240 (the last one was only once, generaly what i feel happy to get is 120). When i see what is using the battery it says wifi, screen and a very little of system
Thanks
Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum for more relevant answers.
For more questions or to have full access please register an account on XDA forum.
Stand by
Good luck
First of all Wi-Fi drains battery, this is a common knowledge. Secondly since it second hand also the charger can be" not-original. Those tend to mess up the battery good. Decreasing it's life.
I recommend using : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats&hl=en
If it is software related this will make you understand what is causing the drain, may be a wake-lock..
If it is hardware related first identify if the charger is original. If it is not change it, if it is your battery is probably fulfilled its life for some reason. You may need to buy another original battery. If you want a long battery life you have to use original parts...
sup guys
in the first place id like to say a big thankyou to all the people who spend so much time in developing for this amazing phone !
with the help of rudi666 i was able to set up my h960a until it is almost perfect for my needs.
it took me 4 weeks and 3 complete wipes to finally setup a killer custom phone. though its sad that this phone doesnt get more attention. its the best phone ive ever had, very fast, reliable, great screen and cam, killer sound, no bugs at all. with root and 200gb micro SD almost infinite possibillities !
since getting a bigger battery is obligatory for everyday work with this phone, i imported 2 ZL 9000ah from usa, cost me a lot of money (customs robbery) but now i have finally an amazing phone. rootet, flashed twrp, learned a lot about flashing, related commands and all this programming stuff i had no clue about in the first place.
but there is just one issue, the community seems unable to solve:
the insane hardcoded battery-capacity of 3000mah. even after 2 weeks of only getting into just this one problem, i found no way to solve this. no matter what i do, i cant bring the phone to read the 9000mah correctly.
instead, it behaves like many unsers mentioned:
round 1
100% goes down to 0%,
shuts off.
turning the phone on manually again, starts again with 65%.
getting down to 0 again.
turning on manually again, starting with about 8% again.
turning to 0% and now its finished. start to recharge using the LG charger with 2amps.
charging for the first time, phone shows 100% after ~1,5h.
in the first place i thought: oh, that was quick. plug off charger, started to use the phone,
and the battery-information went from 100 to 0 in no time. i was confused until i got deeper into it and finally learned that, unlike my samsung S3 i used with Cyanogen, the V10 is hardcoded with the stock-battery capacity of 3000mah.
with my samsung S3 i had Anker 7000? mah and NO probs at all, everything worked fine.
what i didnt know was, that even when the phone is charging and shows 100% after about 1,5h, it needs another 5-7 hours to charge completely to a "real" 100%.
so i tried EVERYTHING my humble capabilities allowed me to. no success.
i thought that many users have the same problem, and are tired of restarting the phone after just 1/3rd of battery power drained, all the information there is should be collected in one dedicated thread. i only could find spare spreaded information about this issue on XDA.
if anyone knows of a way to set the kernel-capacity manually oder any other solution, i would be really gratefull !
thanks/greetings from berlin germany
hello ? anybody dere ?
echooooOOOOOOOooooooo hello.
after a while of using and about 5x recharging from 10/20% to 100%
AccuBattery Pro shows the estimated capacity at 89XX mah, whats really close to the ZL 9000mah.
and ive noticed that the phone now endures up to 5 days normal usage in ONE session, so no restarting is necessary !
it seems, the phone learned the new bat capacity after a while and the hardcoded 3000mah dont seem to matter anymore.
so, problem solved.
cpuZ and other apps reading the kernel-info still show 3000mah but who cares. i got 5 days in one session.
so i guess this could help some people who also be confused about this issue.
i think ZL should put this information onto their site to inform people who got the same problem as i had.
ECHHOOOOOOOOO....