im just trying to see if it is possible to remove the live demo unit software so i can charge past 70%
i paid 30ish usd for the phone, it works i can play games etc, but i cant charge past 70%, ive used package disabler pro to disable retail mode but i cant seem to figure out if i can use a custom rom for it without having the phone bricked
shawnf026 said:
im just trying to see if it is possible to remove the live demo unit software so i can charge past 70%
i paid 30ish usd for the phone, it works i can play games etc, but i cant charge past 70%, ive used package disabler pro to disable retail mode but i cant seem to figure out if i can use a custom rom for it without having the phone bricked
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I don't think you will get much help on here with that, demo units are not for sale and if they are they are usually stolen from a shop.
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I have kept my tablet stock since I bought it a few months ago.
I do download and install quite a bit, mostly from Amazon and Slide Me.
Got the newest update and everything seemed fine and it worked well for a few days. Left it off the charger for 2 days and when I tried to power it up 0% left. How, since it was fully charged before that.
Anyways, I connect it and charge and it boots to main screen to unlock and a million force closes on every program. Cannot log in. Finally had to do a reset and reinstall everything.
I don't know if this is related but I did install an aquarium desktop from Amazon (free app of the day). Could that have caused the conflict and somehow drained battery even during shut down?
This just a thought... Could your charger have overcharged and damaged the battery? I know my D1 has a smart charger that shuts off when fully charged.
Does anyone know if gtabs have smart charge circuits built in?
My first question to you is:
WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU LEAVE IT STOCK!? lol
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wrichards2009 said:
My first question to you is:
WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU LEAVE IT STOCK!? lol
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LOL, Now thats a question for the ages!!!
I guess leaving it stock keeps me ready for the great new update coming down the road. Am I a Pollyanna?
It really seems to work fine, and as far as this problem, it doesn't seem any worse than some of the modding problems I keep reading about.
In a few more weeks I may just take the plunge. Still, what happened?
I use CM6, and after installing the Aquarium app a few days ago, I found that it didn't work. Not sure why, but when I selected that as the live wallpaper, I would have to FC it. So not sure if this helps, but at least I can tell you that it seems that app is inherently unstable on the gtab hardware, at least when running CM6.
Using aquarium live wallpaper from amazon on vegan 5.1.1 since they offered for free and absolute 0 issues here. My wife is using the Market free lite version on stock 3588 +gapps and 0 issues too...
So, a few weeks back my Mozart started presenting problems... In it's defence, i've had that device for approx. 2 years and if you see the state it is in right now, you'd be surprised it survived this long!
Now I love Windows Phone and my next device would have been Windows Phone 8 but alas, I need a stable phone with me always and thus can't rely on the Mozart in its current state. So I sold off my iPad 2 and went ahead and bought a HTC One X and initially loved it but grew to dislike it... mainly due to random crashes (probably a device manufacturing defect) but most importantly due to the poor battery life.
So I sold off the One X and purchased a iPhone 4S however after a few days of usage, some microphone issues emerged. I got it replaced and soon enough, the issues surfaced on the new device. Checked online and a huge number of users are apparently facing issues with iPhone 4s as well... so then returned that and got a iPhone 4...
But alas! Websites on Safari were a pain at times, cellular data would kill itself during a call though it didn't happen always, and some other stuff as well... So now i've sold it off and am in the market for a new phone.
Today i returned my cousin's HTC One X and got a Galaxy S3... have been testing it out and am loving it so far... Especially the battery! Charged it up to 67%... have had Exchange Sync (Push) turned on, two Gmail accounts on 15 minutes sync, Facebook and twitter push, and made at-least over a dozen calls some of them going over 10-15 minutes... and a game here or there plus an hour at the gym with continuous music playback and referring to a workout app... and in 3 hours time, it's battery has gone from 67% to 49%!!!
If it were my One X, it would have pretty much died by now or come close to it. Even the iPhone 4 didn't produce such good battery results for me - but close nonetheless.
So now i'm considering to the store tomorrow and purchasing a S3 for myself! Wanted to see if anyone here could provide any feedback on usage based on a couple of weeks or days of usage of the device? Battery life? any crashes? Anything else?
UPDATE
Forgot to ask another important question... Now forgive my ignorance, but I am kind of new to Android - although I did use XDA numerous times to flash my brother's X10 + Arc and Sis-in-law's HTC Chacha... when i purchased this phone today for my cousin, it was a packed box. On opening and starting it up, it asked for a PIN code to activate. Which i Imagine meant that it was carrier locked?
The shop owner disappeared for 10 minutes and returned back with the phone unlocked and ready to use. He said he got it unlocked by using a proper code and all... and to be on the safe side, as soon as i got home, i did a hard reset and it didn't lock out on me. However, I do notice "ClockworkMod" installed on the S3 and also the state of the device in settings is set to Modified. What does this mean? Any cause for concern?
Regards!
msalmank said:
So, a few weeks back my Mozart started presenting problems... In it's defence, i've had that device for approx. 2 years and if you see the state it is in right now, you'd be surprised it survived this long!
Now I love Windows Phone and my next device would have been Windows Phone 8 but alas, I need a stable phone with me always and thus can't rely on the Mozart in its current state. So I sold off my iPad 2 and went ahead and bought a HTC One X and initially loved it but grew to dislike it... mainly due to random crashes (probably a device manufacturing defect) but most importantly due to the poor battery life.
So I sold off the One X and purchased a iPhone 4S however after a few days of usage, some microphone issues emerged. I got it replaced and soon enough, the issues surfaced on the new device. Checked online and a huge number of users are apparently facing issues with iPhone 4s as well... so then returned that and got a iPhone 4...
But alas! Websites on Safari were a pain at times, cellular data would kill itself during a call though it didn't happen always, and some other stuff as well... So now i've sold it off and am in the market for a new phone.
Today i returned my cousin's HTC One X and got a Galaxy S3... have been testing it out and am loving it so far... Especially the battery! Charged it up to 67%... have had Exchange Sync (Push) turned on, two Gmail accounts on 15 minutes sync, Facebook and twitter push, and made at-least over a dozen calls some of them going over 10-15 minutes... and a game here or there plus an hour at the gym with continuous music playback and referring to a workout app... and in 3 hours time, it's battery has gone from 67% to 49%!!!
If it were my One X, it would have pretty much died by now or come close to it. Even the iPhone 4 didn't produce such good battery results for me - but close nonetheless.
So now i'm considering to the store tomorrow and purchasing a S3 for myself! Wanted to see if anyone here could provide any feedback on usage based on a couple of weeks or days of usage of the device? Battery life? any crashes? Anything else?
UPDATE
Forgot to ask another important question... Now forgive my ignorance, but I am kind of new to Android - although I did use XDA numerous times to flash my brother's X10 + Arc and Sis-in-law's HTC Chacha... when i purchased this phone today for my cousin, it was a packed box. On opening and starting it up, it asked for a PIN code to activate. Which i Imagine meant that it was carrier locked?
The shop owner disappeared for 10 minutes and returned back with the phone unlocked and ready to use. He said he got it unlocked by using a proper code and all... and to be on the safe side, as soon as i got home, i did a hard reset and it didn't lock out on me. However, I do notice "ClockworkMod" installed on the S3 and also the state of the device in settings is set to Modified. What does this mean? Any cause for concern?
Regards!
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The shop owner probably rooted your device in order to unlock the phone (rooting voids your warranty), do you see a superuser app in the app drawer?
If so, install Triangle Away from the playstore or Chainfires thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114 and reset the flashcounter. Than go back to the shop and let him reflash the rom to restore warranty.
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The shop owner probably rooted your device in order to unlock the phone (rooting voids your warranty), do you see a superuser app in the app drawer?
If so, install Triangle Away from the playstore or Chainfires thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114 and reset the flashcounter. Than go back to the shop and let him reflash the rom to restore warranty.
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If its just warranty... then not worried about that. As i purchased this one for my cousin without the warranty - Rs. 5000 cheaper (approx. $50).
But thanks though, this is good to know... 'coz I was planning on purchasing mine with the warranty!
Battery life is a lot better than the one x..... the s3 should easily be able to get you through a day of heavy use and have juice to spare.
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3 days ago I've ordered a brand new Galaxy S2 (Samsung CPU version) Right after ordering the S2 I've got brand new 3G SIM CARD subscription.
Placed the SIM inside of S2 and turned on the device after a full charge. Few hours later after it was charged the device got into "black screen" and rebooted it self.
I hoped its a one time thing but then later the same day and the next day it happened again. I've decided to reload a fresh ROM and hopefully it gets solved but even with the new ROM I had the same crash and self reboot two or three times during past 2 days.
Last night I've decided to try and pull off the battery for 2 hours and plug it back. Since then it didn't happened again for 20 hours approx.
However during my research I have found the following forum thread: http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2-international/342229-s2-keeps-rebooting.html it says about many people that had same problem some people had it right after they got S2 same as I did and some people had it after few weeks or year...Some people had it even after Samsung has replaced their main board/device.
The question here is following: What If it will happen to me again?
I don't want bring it to store and stay without a device for 2 weeks until they fix it. I dont think I want 2-3 days old product from Samsung to be fixed. I didn't paid for such expensive device to not use it after I paid for it a full amount. (The computer vendor store where I bought it, they have a paper on the wall says that mobile phones cannot be returned if turned on or opened and that lab service takes 14 business days if something needs be repaired, they can either repair or give refurb/used replacement after this 14 days.
Also, If it will happen again on my device, How can I have full trust back in S2 after I had this issue and was reading all this information at the forum?
Looking to hear your thoughts
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Oh man! This is really bad. living without a phone for two weeks is better than living with a phone that hangs and reboots everyday.
Don't decide now, use it for more few days and try many rom and kernels that you can and atleast try everyone of them for one battery cycle or two. And if after this it happened again I think you know what to do!
That rule doesnt apply to faulty stuff.Take it back for a refund-or at very least gwt it swapped for a new one and let the vendor piss about with Samsung
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When I play any game with graphics (eg Bard's Tale, Cytus, Ski Safari etc) and my phone is not plugged, after some time the phone will just shut off with no warning, and when I try to turn it back on it says the battery is dead but if I go into recovery or download mode a few times (or just plug it in) then boot again it will display the correct battery life. This is on multiple roms and android versions (I even flashed stock firmware), and I have cleared everything (including system) multiple times and nothing has changed. Also since this started my phone has been defaulting to the wrong time zone (UTC instead of UTC -5) when I set it to default from the carrier. Everything else works fine (even simple games such as Dungeon Raid) I'm just wondering if this is just a battery problem or if my phone is dying. I bought it used last year around August I think.
So have you tried a different battery???
Oh sorry I forgot to mention I do not have access to another battery, I was going to go in to a shop and ask them their advice or if they had a tester battery or something, I just wanted to get some advice before I go and get a new battery and find it doesn't solve the problem.
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FormaldehydeSon said:
Oh sorry I forgot to mention I do not have access to another battery, I was going to go in to a shop and ask them their advice or if they had a tester battery or something, I just wanted to get some advice before I go and get a new battery and find it doesn't solve the problem.
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so the new battery solved the problem??? please answer me because i have the same issues
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my bro in law had this problem, tried my battery and it worked fine, then looking at his it was swollen.
I am not technically inept, but am extremely nooby when it comes to anything android and I have not been able to find the answer via the internet so far so hoping someone can help.
I bought a P20 Lite from work as it was ex display and extremely cheap. It is locked into retail mode. In Settings>Apps>Retail Demo I can see 'Disable' lit up but when I tap on it, and then 'Deactivate and Uninstall' and Ok it I immediately get a notification from pull down from Package Installer that uninstalling Retail Demo was unsuccessful.
That is about as far as my android head will take me so Im stumped. Have seen lots of youtube videos but they relate to different models and I suspect each phone will be very different.
I don't want to try anything random as I cocked up a Samsung last year when I removed part of the demo without doing other steps first.
Really hoping someone can help as I want to get the phone to factory new status to give to my dad for Christmas.