I'm seeing significantly worse battery life with this update. Now I'm going by feel rather than fact. But I know it's not as good. I'm running stock and rooted. I may consider going back if this persists. Thoughts??
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Could have something to do with the Verizon Location Agent that apparently the OTA had in it, it's on this page, look it up.
yep, mines crap after the OTA. really annoying me.
Haven't spent enough time with it yet to notice. Perhaps price paid for boosted signal strength?
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Could have something to do with the Verizon Location Agent that apparently the OTA had in it, it's on this page, look it up.
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Yeah I saw that from jayoch's post as a matter of fact. I froze that app and still... I burned through 2 standard batteries today and I'm 25% into my extended! All three are 3.7s. Phone seems to run a lil hotter than it did. hmmm...
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yep, mines crap after the OTA. really annoying me.
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I saw your post on the Verizon Location Agent.Did you end up freezing it? I froze it and still my life sux! Before the update this thing got pretty good battery life. For an HTC...
nah man i'm not rooted..i'm seriously contemplating temp root, putting on titanium, backing everything up, then doing the HTC unlock tonight...it's really tempting lol
jayochs said:
nah man i'm not rooted..i'm seriously contemplating temp root, putting on titanium, backing everything up, then doing the HTC unlock tonight...it's really tempting lol
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Well I'm glad to hear you're not rooted because I thought there may have been something pertaining to that with the poor battery... I have a stock rooted backup of before the update. I may go back.. If it'll let me stay is the question...
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I had the reduced battery life until i upgraded and then froze the verizon location agent. Can't say I've noticed a difference since that though.
jayochs said:
nah man i'm not rooted..i'm seriously contemplating temp root, putting on titanium, backing everything up, then doing the HTC unlock tonight...it's really tempting lol
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Yep my battery life is way worse. It sucks cause I could last the whole day now it is about to die by 5 pm.
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FWIW, I ran the OTA, then returned to my heavily modified deodexed stock ROM and the kernel I was running before the OTA. All I wanted was the updated radio.
My battery life is just fine, and I don't have whatever that VZW spyware app was.
I ran the OTA and afterward flashed my previous kernel, and reflashed my previous custom rom (RezRom 1.5) and I've been unplugged since 5:00 AM this morning. It's now just after noon, and my standard battery is at 78%. To me battery life is looking good, but I know I don't have the Verizon Location Service running, cause it's not on my phone.
Stock with no root at all here on a fresh refurb with the 2750 extended 3.7v OEM and I'm seeing significantly WORSE battery life after the OTA. I know the Verizon location agent crap doesn't help but even with it force stopped thru the day its definetly not what it used to be. Thinking about rooting and romming lol anyone think I should or just wait for ota ICS since I've waited this long. (Have never flashed a single rom in my life) lol
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I just want to take this time and thank all the devs and people who have contributed to the release of the 2.3.4 build on xda. the wake up lag is gone, as well as the ui lag after first waking up the phone, and also it has the crt animation even with the lcd density issue, i just use launcher pro, so its all good. this is amazing!!! i don't know how my day could get any better!!
I really want to unlock my bootloader and install 2.3.4 but the whole voiding my warranty has me worried. I keep thinking what if something happens and I need a replacement. Oh man. Decision time.
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I just want to take this time and thank all the devs and people who have contributed to the release of the 2.3.4 build on xda. the wake up lag is gone, as well as the ui lag after first waking up the phone, and also it has the crt animation even with the lcd density issue, i just use launcher pro, so its all good. this is amazing!!! i don't know how my day could get any better!!
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hows your battery life?
startup time is much faster
shutdown time is heaps faster!
JohnnyDanger said:
I really want to unlock my bootloader and install 2.3.4 but the whole voiding my warranty has me worried. I keep thinking what if something happens and I need a replacement. Oh man. Decision time.
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Well, after I unlocked my bootloader, I had a nice little text in the top left of my screen that read "unlocked". But after having some problems (own problems, not because of unlocking) I flashed back to the .57 sbf, and the "unlock" text when away. Then after flashing the unlocker sbf, I didn't have to go to fastboot and do the oem unlock command. So, it's like the bootloader is unlocked (the fuse is physically blown) but the unlocked bootloader is not fully in place until flashing the unlocker sbf (whatever that does).
So anyways, if something did happen to your phone with in your warranty, do you think if you could still get into the RSD protocol support you could just flash the .57 sbf and it would maybe cover it up to Motorola or whoever checks the phone that the bootloader is unlocked? How do you think they actually check that? Or if they will actually go through the trouble to do whatever it is in order to check?
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I just want to take this time and thank all the devs and people who have contributed to the release of the 2.3.4 build on xda. the wake up lag is gone, as well as the ui lag after first waking up the phone, and also it has the crt animation even with the lcd density issue, i just use launcher pro, so its all good. this is amazing!!! i don't know how my day could get any better!!
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Yea, I'm really loving it too. It's so quick. Did you try setting the screen density in the build.prop file to 270 instead of 240? I did that and while things did fit on the stock launcher, it made everything bigger to where it almost looked distorted to me...I didn't like the way it looked so I set it back to 240 and just used the Gingerbread launcher.
I concur, it is pretty amazing. I love how I can use swype beta now. Loads better!
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you could always use the swype beta on any version as long as you were rooted and uninstalled the stock version
Amazing! I love how fast astrix is now! And the feeling that my bootloader is unlocked makes me feel so good!
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JohnnyDanger said:
I really want to unlock my bootloader and install 2.3.4 but the whole voiding my warranty has me worried.
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Oh come on! Your name is JohnnyDanger! You need to live up to that name
What isbthe battery life like? And Amy actual numbers in regards to gingerbread startup times in comparison to froyo startup times which are almost a minute long? And any pics of the new motoblur along w a list of GUI changes?
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maledyris said:
Oh come on! Your name is JohnnyDanger! You need to live up to that name
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lol ：D
btw, does signal improve on 2..3.4 ?
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hows your battery life?
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im sorry i can't really answer this, partly because I just flashed it at 12 am in the morning and put it onto the charger and now its morning where im at. but in the few minutes i used it, it didn't seem to drain that fast
The battery life seems to be worse than froyo. Can someone else confirm this?
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Yep battery life is worse than froyo drains too fast!!!
Can someone give me a heqds up where to get 2.3.4 at and how to get it. I have gingerblur right now.
The battery drainage issue has got to be a rouge app driving it down. My phone is at 70%. I took it off the charger last night after I flashed 2.3.4 and I had a ton of internet usage and a few calls today.
While I hate to say this, you should look at the "task manager" app that is included with the Atrix builds and actually use the Auto-End list function. Before I found out that I DoubleTwist was killing my battery and uninstalled it I was using this auto-end list to help take care of the other apps that were going stray.
Going back and paraphrasing what the CEO of Motorola Mobility said that all apps are not created equally and some are definately coded poorly and drive battery usage down. As much as we may hate to hear it, the guy is right.
Good luck,
NW
2.3.4 was nice but in all honesty the offical release will most likely be out in less than a month and it will not have as many as the issues that this one has
I agree, it is quite amazing. The battery life is rather short now. It is definitely out of whack because I cab power it down at 70% and when I turn it back on it is at 90%.
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battery life is almost half before flashed to 2.3.4
alphadg21 said:
I agree, it is quite amazing. The battery life is rather short now. It is definitely out of whack because I cab power it down at 70% and when I turn it back on it is at 90%.
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Did you/everyone else with battery issues try wiping the battery stats or using the Battery Calibrator app?
Not sure whats going on, it doesn't reboot and it only does it when on battery (Not plugged in) When I am using the phone, actually touching it going through menus it normally stays on but as soon as I let it sleep or anything it turns off... I have updated it and ruued it and tried different roms re-rooted.... out of ideas but currently have a phone that doesn't work as a phone as it just turns off all the time, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sound like what many are calling the "sleep of death".
Dumb question, only having these problems when rooted and non stock ROM? So if you root, and leave it stock everything else, does it die? If you fully return to stock does it die? If so, and if it was me, Is exchange it.
If it doesn't die on the above, then:
Some phones prefer the interactiveX governor over ondemand...you can change this using speedtweak.sh on just about every kernel but ziggy's kernels. You can also try using setCPU to do it if you aren't comfortable using the terminal.
Read the thread of the ROM you are running to get more info about the kernel that its running on. The kernel devs here are usually very helpful.
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ILMF said:
Sound like what many are calling the "sleep of death".
Dumb question, only having these problems when rooted and non stock ROM? So if you root, and leave it stock everything else, does it die? If you fully return to stock does it die? If so, and if it was me, Is exchange it.
If it doesn't die on the above, then:
Some phones prefer the interactiveX governor over ondemand...you can change this using speedtweak.sh on just about every kernel but ziggy's kernels. You can also try using setCPU to do it if you aren't comfortable using the terminal.
Read the thread of the ROM you are running to get more info about the kernel that its running on. The kernel devs here are usually very helpful.
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I think its the opposite...I was having the same problem and a switch interactivex to ondemandx and never had a problem after that..
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Thanks for the response, and well no it always does it even on completely stock no root. The weird part is it doesn't turn off while plugged in at all... Could this be a battery issue? I have tried almost every rom on here and same thing once unplugged it will work while I'm actively using it. Then shut off as soon as I stop...
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Thanks for the response, and well no it always does it even on completely stock no root. The weird part is it doesn't turn off while plugged in at all... Could this be a battery issue? I have tried almost every rom on here and same thing once unplugged it will work while I'm actively using it. Then shut off as soon as I stop...
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Return your phone, it meats criteria, trying to figure it out is just going to give you a headache, your not a tech, don't try and be one. Turn it in, get a free replacement, flash away and be happy with your phone!
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Return your phone, it meats criteria, trying to figure it out is just going to give you a headache, your not a tech, don't try and be one. Turn it in, get a free replacement, flash away and be happy with your phone!
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It was a gifted phone purchased outright, I have no warranty through Verizon or anything, I have every intention of figuring it out.
It seems almost as if the issue is in the batter somewhere... It stays on and functions perfectly on the charger.. but once only on battery power it turns off..
sporty377 said:
I think its the opposite...I was having the same problem and a switch interactivex to ondemandx and never had a problem after that..
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+1 You are right, got it backwards. Running a rom that I don't have to tweak finally so I'm a bit rusty.
To OP, if it does it on stock, then you might be able to get them to trade you. Unfortunately, many bolts are just bad. Good luck.
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So no thoughts on the battery thing then? These batteries do have some sort of "brain" in them right? Is there someway that could have become corrupt?
I was thinking this because it works so well on the charger, this has become a project phone for me at this point as I have acquired a G2X and get cheaper service and have 4G in my area on it anyways. So I am willing to try whatever, basically this is a very non stock phone, but atm has been RUUed to stock, and still has these issues, I have RUUed it a few times by this point.
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So no thoughts on the battery thing then? These batteries do have some sort of "brain" in them right? Is there someway that could have become corrupt?
I was thinking this because it works so well on the charger, this has become a project phone for me at this point as I have acquired a G2X and get cheaper service and have 4G in my area on it anyways. So I am willing to try whatever, basically this is a very non stock phone, but atm has been RUUed to stock, and still has these issues, I have RUUed it a few times by this point.
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Wipe your batt stats and find out
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do you use setcpu ?
I had the same problem , so I used setcpu profiles and limitedthe CPU speed while on sleep to 3xx-4xx.
It worked for me. When it goes to 184mhz that's was my problem.
yes, wipe your batt stats.
even if it was a gift, it still has a warranty through verizon and htc that you can use. If you think the battery is bad, why not buy a cheap replacement battery on ebay/amazon?
nrfitchett4 said:
even if it was a gift, it still has a warranty through verizon and htc that you can use. If you think the battery is bad, why not buy a cheap replacement battery on ebay/amazon?
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Well I was hoping someone else had the same issue, I am going to try and go to a vzw store today and see if I can get someone to let me use a battery for a bit to test that theory. I will post back when I find out more.
As for wiping of the battery stats for some reason clockwork just errors when I try to wipe bat stats..
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So no thoughts on the battery thing then? These batteries do have some sort of "brain" in them right? Is there someway that could have become corrupt?
I was thinking this because it works so well on the charger, this has become a project phone for me at this point as I have acquired a G2X and get cheaper service and have 4G in my area on it anyways. So I am willing to try whatever, basically this is a very non stock phone, but atm has been RUUed to stock, and still has these issues, I have RUUed it a few times by this point.
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I have exact same issue. I have three batteries and it does with all three. Mine too does not do it while plugged in. Tried different ROMS and Kernels and Radios to no avail. Didnt do it b4 I rooted. Started doing it when I switched to Gingerbread ROM. I am going to try going back to a Froyo and see if that helps. That is what I would suggest. I am probably going to try and put back to stock and Return. Luckily I bought at BestBuy and have warranty through them.
Anyone else get an OTA yesterday ?
Just wondering what it did.
I cant see anything different.
1.36.531.6 is the software number.
Still Android 2.3.4 .
It's been out for a while now the only difference I noticed is that my phone doesn't overheat anymore
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Same here. Phone doesn't get as hot as before.
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Aren't you guys worried this will make it harder to root later?
Adamp24 said:
Aren't you guys worried this will make it harder to root later?
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Hell no you can root after installing the update or downgrade back. You only have to worry if an update upgrades your hboot, then you might have a problem.
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Ya that's what I mean. Well did it upgrade anyone's hboot?
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Ya that's what I mean. Well did it upgrade anyone's hboot?
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I wouldn't think it would do anything with the hboot since most of us have an unlocked bootloader. Even if it does re-lock the bootloader then we can always unlock it again.
Its an old update and this update I noticed that my phone isn't overheating anymore.
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I installed this update the day I got my phone so I don't really have a before and after comparison, but my phone still gets much hotter than I'd like.
The phone (as reported by battery indicator) idles at 4.2 volts at 28ish celcius. If I actually use it (using the browser, playing angry birds, really anything where the screen stays on), it heats up to maybe 42c and voltage drops to about 3.8. I don't have a graph to tell me what the actual temp/voltage is when I'm playing a game or whatever though, that's just what I see immediately after exiting an app that heats up the phone. Seems kind of backwards that it would idle at what's seemingly it's maximum voltage though but I don't know anything about phones. Also, keeping the screen on at low voltage seems to eat up about as much battery as being on a phone call.
What kind of temps are you guys seeing?
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What kind of temps are you guys seeing?
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I have 33.8 just coming out of the pocket and turning the screen on.
Battery life has improved noticeably .
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Battery life has improved noticeably .
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What is the build number?
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What is the build number?
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Anyone else get an OTA yesterday ?
Just wondering what it did.
I cant see anything different.
1.36.531.6 is the software number.
Still Android 2.3.4 .
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From the 1st post.
I was still at 50 percent at 4:00 PM today.
Really nice.
^^^ Same. battery improved a lot. seems faster n smoother. doesnt heat up like the first one i recieved.
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Anyone else get an OTA yesterday ?
Just wondering what it did.
I cant see anything different.
1.36.531.6 is the software number.
Still Android 2.3.4 .
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The ROM number is the same as the ROM Xboarder has been using for his ROM's.
So unless there are some patches (or a different radio, kernel, or something), I would not expect any difference in performance unless you were on a different one.
Maybe give all the software component numbers to see if any of them are new with this OTA.
Will installing .6 wipe my .5 changes?
Will the home panel app and widgets created in .5 disappear after the .6 upgrade?
How about installed skins?
Thanks for helping an android noob.
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Will the home panel app and widgets created in .5 disappear after the .6 upgrade?
How about installed skins?
Thanks for helping an android noob.
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Everything should be the same. If your currently rooted them you will have to re-root.
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I also notice that my speed test bump from 5-8mbps to 10-18mps. unlike my previous(defect) one which only goes 5-8mbps.
same updated software 1.36.531.6
WiFi Tether & Root
Has anyone lost the ability to WiFi tether with the update to .6? Also I'm reading that I will have to re-root?
I have a Telus Amaze and just checked the software info. I am on 1.41.661.3. I have no idea what the difference is. I CAN tell you that I have had no overheating at all and that with my regular use (which is typically light to moderate) I am getting 34ish hours on a charge. I am unrooted and have received no updates from Telus.
Just after writing this post I checked and am currently at 37 hours with 27% battery left.
I have been wandering around XDA now for about the last 3 months looking for my problem and no one seems to have the same issue...
When my battery gets down to 20%, it immediately jumps to 15%.
I'm not new to this, I've tried several ROMs and several kernels. I got the firmware patch hoping that the issues would go away. I've had random battery ups and downs.. sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but never consistent and acceptable. When I say "good" I'm referring to about 6 hours of very light use.
If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.
Currently running CleanROM DE with Firmware patch.
sanders858 said:
I have been wandering around XDA now for about the last 3 months looking for my problem and no one seems to have the same issue...
When my battery gets down to 20%, it immediately jumps to 15%.
I'm not new to this, I've tried several ROMs and several kernels. I got the firmware patch hoping that the issues would go away. I've had random battery ups and downs.. sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but never consistent and acceptable. When I say "good" I'm referring to about 6 hours of very light use.
If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.
Currently running CleanROM DE with Firmware patch.
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When I had had my first rezound I had the same problem it seemed to drop my battery from 30% to 20% percent in like 2 minutes I just sent mine in and got a replacement!
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Bad battery? Check your battery, is it a 3.8v or 3.7v?
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happens all the time to me, funny because we just brought it up in rezrom thread today.
i always go from 25% to 14% within a single second..it's a perfect vertical drop in my stats. it's pretty bad, and it started happening ever since i installed the leaked firmware. others have said they've had it since buying it stock,though.
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Bad battery? Check your battery, is it a 3.8v or 3.7v?
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I have a 3.7... But this is my second battery, the first one was a 3.8...
It did not do it when I bought it stock, or even when I started rooting it. It started after about the 3rd ROM I put on it, and I've never been able to get rid of it. It does get hot, but its not really out of the norm.. (most dual core phones with 4g are going to get warm, 4g takes an extreme amount of energy to use)
I can't believe this hasn't been brought up earlier... I was only hesitant to bring it up in development because I didn't want to be accused of not using the search button.
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I have a 3.7... But this is my second battery, the first one was a 3.8...
It did not do it when I bought it stock, or even when I started rooting it. It started after about the 3rd ROM I put on it, and I've never been able to get rid of it. It does get hot, but its not really out of the norm.. (most dual core phones with 4g are going to get warm, 4g takes an extreme amount of energy to use)
I can't believe this hasn't been brought up earlier... I was only hesitant to bring it up in development because I didn't want to be accused of not using the search button.
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It has been brought up, but people said that it's a bad battery. I'm not convinced it's battery, I think there's something more going on. It happened to me, stock, out of the box, and with multiple batteries.
Here's a thread I posted about this a few months ago-- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514134
Run the battery down until the device powers down on its own, this will not hurt the device or battery. Keep the phone off and let the battery charge up fully. Do this a few times....
I have not had this issue myself with the rezound. On previous devices I did the above and it seemed to work out the issues
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It has been brought up, but people said that it's a bad battery. I'm not convinced it's battery, I think there's something more going on. It happened to me, stock, out of the box, and with multiple batteries.
Here's a thread I posted about this a few months ago-- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514134
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Just read your post... you're right... not much help there. And I agree, I can't see a brand new battery that's never been used or re-calibrated showing the same "symtoms" as the old battery. It has got to be something not hardware related. All my brothers have Rezounds and I actually let one of them use my battery and it didn't do it in their phone, so a bad battery is out of the question I think.
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All my brothers have Rezounds and I actually let one of them use my battery and it didn't do it in their phone, so a bad battery is out of the question I think.
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What is different about those rezounds from yours? Unlocked, rooted, stock, pure stock, launcher, apk/apps? All of these or one could have a factor.....
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jayochs said:
happens all the time to me, funny because we just brought it up in rezrom thread today.
i always go from 25% to 14% within a single second..it's a perfect vertical drop in my stats. it's pretty bad, and it started happening ever since i installed the leaked firmware. others have said they've had it since buying it stock,though.
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That's almost exactly what mine is doing, just with different numbers. What are you running?
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What is different about those rezounds from yours? Unlocked, rooted, stock, pure stock, launcher, apk/apps? All of these or have a factor.....
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The one I swapped with has the same exact ROM as I do as well as the same kernel. The only difference may be his recovery. I think he has one version newer Amon Ra than I do... but I've been using the same recovery since the beginning, and it started doing this well after flashing that recovery.
cdexsw said:
Run the battery down until the device powers down on its own, this will not hurt the device or battery. Keep the phone off and let the battery charge up fully. Do this a few times....
I have not had this issue myself with the rezound. On previous devices I did the above and it seemed to work out the issues
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I've done that with other ROMs in the past for this same issue, but not with this new ROM and firmware. I'll be sure to give that a try tomorrow when it dies... it just got a full charge. Thanks for reminding me of that little trick.
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The one I swapped with has the same exact ROM as I do as well as the same kernel. The only difference may be his recovery. I think he has one version newer Amon Ra than I do... but I've been using the same recovery since the beginning, and it started doing this well after flashing that recovery.
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are you using 4g/3g when this occurs?, WiFi, which band?, powersave mode?, basically all the settings.....
Does it do this at 100% stock, not even signing in to your google account or updating apps.
Have you tried a different sdcard? Be surprised how this little piece if plastic can crush a system.
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What is different about those rezounds from yours? Unlocked, rooted, stock, pure stock, launcher, apk/apps? All of these or one could have a factor.....
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It happened to me stock, out of the box. It happened to me stock rooted debloated, happened to me unlocked s-on, happened to me s-off. Happened to me on GB firmware. Happened to me ICS firmware. It's obviously a problem bigger an an apk or an app.
cdexsw said:
are you using 4g/3g when this occurs?, WiFi, which band?, powersave mode?, basically all the settings.....
Does it do this at 100% stock, not even signing in to your google account or updating apps.
Have you tried a different sdcard? Be surprised how this little piece if plastic can crush a system.
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using primarily 4g, no wifi (N when I do), no powersave mode. Thinking back, it started with the first ROM that had powersave mode. Since then I've always disabled that feature hoping it would go away, all with no luck.
It never did it when it was stock, I certainly don't want to revert it back to check now. Haven't checked when initially setting up after a flash, so I don't know if Google affects it at all.
Haven't tried a different SD card. Though I may take it out and see how it behaves after I do a dead charge on it.
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using primarily 4g, no wifi (N when I do), no powersave mode. Thinking back, it started with the first ROM that had powersave mode. Since then I've always disabled that feature hoping it would go away, all with no luck.
It never did it when it was stock, I certainly don't want to revert it back to check now. Haven't checked when initially setting up after a flash, so I don't know if Google affects it at all.
Haven't tried a different SD card. Though I may take it out and see how it behaves after I do a dead charge on it.
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It's not your SD card. Your SD card has nothing to do with your battery jumping, I promise you. If I had to guess, I'd say it's something with the kernel, but what do I know. It should be more wide-spread if it's the kernel.
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It happened to me stock, out of the box. It happened to me stock rooted debloated, happened to me unlocked s-on, happened to me s-off. Happened to me on GB firmware. Happened to me ICS firmware. It's obviously a problem bigger an an apk or an app.
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I agree. That makes me wonder if it has anything to do with the SIM card.
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I agree. That makes me wonder if it has anything to do with the SIM card.
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Hmm. I have an extra, unused SIM in its package here, I'll pop it in tomorrow and run my battery down, see if it happens. Not sure why it'd be the SIM though.. got a theory?
Simcards do go bad, as do sdcards.
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cdexsw said:
Simcards do go bad, as do sdcards.
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For sure, but why would that cause either inaccurate battery readings, or massive power drain? It's actually not really clear which one it is, of those options, but it'd have to be absolutely enormous power drain to go from 25%-14% in a short period. So how would a SIM or SD card cause inaccurate battery readings? I ask because I have no idea, not being snarky.
Any experiencing any bugs?
Just saw this...
http://phandroid.com/2013/11/18/android-4-3-update-for-galaxy-devices-gets-pulled/
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Chuckleb0ne said:
Any experiencing any bugs?
Just saw this...
http://phandroid.com/2013/11/18/android-4-3-update-for-galaxy-devices-gets-pulled/
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Would be nice if they made some way for us to roll back to MI1... I've noticed less stable wifi, as well as she chews through battery at almost double the rate of 4.2.2. Should have waited to update, newer isn't always better. I think my 4G is more powerful now though.
That's for AT&T version. Not sure how much is different compared to verizon version.
tu3218 said:
That's for AT&T version. Not sure how much is different compared to verizon version.
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Comments from phandroid suggest verizon s4 have problems too. Battery life had greatly reduced on mine.
tsangwc said:
Comments from phandroid suggest verizon s4 have problems too. Battery life had greatly reduced on mine.
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hmm interesting. I actually just got my S4 coming from my S3. Battery life is a decent bit better than my S3. But I haven't had any issues with it so far.
My Verizon S4 4.3 has been running fine. No problems with WiFi or battery life. Maybe Verizon did something right when they agreed to have 4.3 released.
My battery life sucks since the update. Another thing I noticed is my data use has been a lot higher and I haven't done anything different. I got a text last week that I'm at 90% of my usage...I have never even gone over 75% before.
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jwendt79 said:
My battery life sucks since the update. Another thing I noticed is my data use has been a lot higher and I haven't done anything different. I got a text last week that I'm at 90% of my usage...I have never even gone over 75% before.
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I can agree with the data increase, im usually pushing my data limit but never this bad. I went an entire gig over and havent changed my habits any.
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I got my phone about 2 weeks ago from a Craigslist trade. With the stock 4.3 and it seems great to me!
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I got the OTA for 4.3 today, so it appears not pulled over the weekend for our phones.
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My battery life sucks since the update. Another thing I noticed is my data use has been a lot higher and I haven't done anything different. I got a text last week that I'm at 90% of my usage...I have never even gone over 75% before.
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I have noticed an increase in data usage since the upgrade also
I haven't noticed any specific issues, but I am with everyone else on the data usage. I have used a surprising amount of mine. I do wish that exterior development was a little more supported by the companies :/
Via Betterbatstats app I am draining at 3.1% after 4.3 update,
Not really that bad for me.
HK91_G3 said:
Would be nice if they made some way for us to roll back to MI1... I've noticed less stable wifi, as well as she chews through battery at almost double the rate of 4.2.2. Should have waited to update, newer isn't always better. I think my 4G is more powerful now though.
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I'm noticing a lot of wi-fi issues on my work connection which has a weak signal. I've gone from being able to connect (with frequent drop-outs) to not being able to get a stable connection at all. Really wishing I wouldn't have taken the update.
I saw a website last night on the pulling of the 4.3 update. It seems almost every carrier is affected by these bugs. There is a list of issues that the site posted...blank black screen...WiFi issues...music player launching...Verizon car charger not working. The ones I've noticed are battery life...Verizon car charger...phone going between eG and 4G a lot more often. Here is the site I found this all from.
http://www.androidpit.com/android-4-3-update-s4-problems
I've also notice a issue where my Samsung charger while charging my phone said to use the OEM charger for better charging performance..I think the update has a bug that is causing the charging port to report false indications or not work at all (Verizon car charger). Dunno but it looks like were stuck with it until VZW or Samsung pushes a update with fixes.
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I'm rooted on MI1 and froze OTA updates, so am happy not to be a test bed. Wife's S4, unrooted, had the 4.3 update pushed onto her phone over the weekend but I haven't heard any complaints from her...so far.
I'm happy to let the dust settle before taking the update plunge!
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I saw a website last night on the pulling of the 4.3 update. It seems almost every carrier is affected by these bugs. There is a list of issues that the site posted...blank black screen...WiFi issues...music player launching...Verizon car charger not working. The ones I've noticed are battery life...Verizon car charger...phone going between eG and 4G a lot more often. ......
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Huh, here I thought it was due to my tinkering. But since 4.3, I've had the battery drainage and charger issue along with terrible performance. Even before this disaster, I was getting tired of the weak vibration and ringtone, and slow performance. Its loaded with so much crap that it can barley do its core functions. I'm so turned off that I've been actively looking for alternative. Hell, blackberry is starting to look good.
I can go about a day and a half to two days of if I'm not using my phone much... I haven't noticed that that's any difference from pre mj7
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Horror Business said:
I'm noticing a lot of wi-fi issues on my work connection which has a weak signal. I've gone from being able to connect (with frequent drop-outs) to not being able to get a stable connection at all. Really wishing I wouldn't have taken the update.
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I've noticed that it won't find my GPS location any more after turning off use wireless networks and GPS flashes in and out all the time, along with black screens, apps crashing all the time, bad battery life, horrible performance, phone freezes and won't be able to do anything.
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All I know is the lag on mine is almost unbearable. My stock s3 was significantly better.