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I just installed pocket plus 3.1.2 on my Cingular 8125.
Works great, but has anyone noticed little grey bars across the very top of their screen?
They appear above the bar of the start menu, but not over the windows icon in the top left.
I uninstalled pocket plus and they disappear, reinstall it and they're there again.
It almost looks like the screen is mis-aligned or something.
Can anyone help?
thatd be a battery meter.. lol
That is the indicator to show the battery status.as the battery gets decreases ,so does that bar and now that you know and find it useful you can keep or uncheck the option by going to the settings by clicking the spb plus icon on the left side of today plugin then uncheck ` task bar battery indicator' or something like that option .
thanks guys, I feel so stupid........
appreciate your responses!
Jeff
Haha jeffreyapierce don't worry I thought the same thing when I installed it. As a matter of fact, I uninstalled it because of that bar and just realized like last month the bar is a battery meter and can be turned off.
Oh that's what that thing is. Been wondering that myself..... :roll:
At least I now know I can turn it off!!!!
I'll cough to not knowing that as well!
Thanks guys.
My unenlightenment went the other way. I once installed batti and could not find the bar. My battery was fully charged and my today plugin at the time was of the same color as the batti bar. I actually uninstalled and then reinstalled it trying to find the "bar" at the top of my screen. It wasn't until my battery drained a bit before I was able to see it. cough cough
got me too
when I first saw it I thought it was some kind of screen glitch. you are not alone.
I just find it amusing so many people didnt know what they were!
Ok, I really love my mogul. Had it for about a month now, everything runs great except if I see that f***ng blinking light one more time, I might actually lose my mind. My friends think I'm crazy for letting it bother me, but I ask how can it NOT bother you? Anyway, I've tried all of the below things and had mixed results. If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.
LED killer 2.0. This seemed to work ok for awhile. It runs too inconsistently for me though. Some days it's good for most of the day, some times when my phone comes out of sleep the phone taunts me with its green light.
LED 1, me 0
LED killer 3.0. This did really well actually. 2 big problems though. One is that is seemed to suck the ever-loving life out of my battery. Two is that I still get the green light of death when I get e-mails, txt messages, vm's,...etc. I know some people want to retain that functionality but not me. I even went into the notification section on the phone and UN-checked the box for blinking light notification for the above mentioned events. I guess that box doesn't do anything.
LED 2, me 0
PPC 6800 hacks (triangle powers software package). Oh my god, the light is off! This is amazing! All my dreams have finally been realized, life is beautiful....oh wait, how come my phone didn't vibrate when my buddy just called me? WTF? How is vibrate mode tied to the F-in blinking LED??? As my phone stays in vibrate mode pretty much all day long, this was a quick un-install and back to the forums....
LED 3, me 0
Hermled. I just found this one today. The only issue seemed to be that you had to select "OK" on a prompt when the phone was reset (soft). I can live with that. Too bad when I got my first new e-mail, that apparently let the LED overpower this oh so weak application and it's blinking its little heart out right now.
LED 4, me 0 and questioning my technical ability.
I also tried to sharpie over the LED itself but you can still see it flash. Also, the sharpie marker wore off.
Sorry for the long post, but as mentioned above, I will be forever grateful to anyone that can help me defeat the evil blinking green monster. I'm seriously about ready to take the phone apart and smash the LED to pieces. Although, I bet it would still after I did that as it appears to be indestructible
have you tried LED killer 3.1? That is what I use.
Yeah, it's what I'm using right now. Do you have crappy battery life with it though? My battery life is pretty bad with it on. Also, it doesn't kill the e-mail, txt notifications. I'm looking for complete destruction of the LED.
Thanks for your reply though.
nope don't have battery drain with it. Installed to device and no problems. Do you have under sounds and notifications, the check boxes for email, text etc flash light unchecked? That solved that problem for me.
Ever thought about taking an exacto to it?
Just a thought...
All this talk about the annoying blinking LED is actually making me annoyed with my blinking LED...I wasn't bother by it before, but I am now...dammit!
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Do you have under sounds and notifications, the check boxes for email, text etc flash light unchecked? That solved that problem for me.
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Really?? I have that un-checked. In fact, there's no event that has "flash light" checked. I had the same behavior with the old rom as well as the new one. I was hoping it was a bug that they would've fixed.
Crashless said:
Ever thought about taking an exacto to it?
Just a thought...
All this talk about the annoying blinking LED is actually making me annoyed with my blinking LED...I wasn't bother by it before, but I am now...dammit!
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Sorry Crashless! I didn't mean to bring others down with me
I'm about to take an exacto to it! I just don't want to mangle my brand new phone.
There's a registry hack that turns the LED off for everything but charge status but you lose vibration. It was worth it to me, blinking lights drive me bat**** and I am also not the type to mutilate a $550 phone with sharpies and knives. Do a search on the forums for Alled mgr I believe. If nothing else: Registry, LED. You'll find it.
I also removed all LED Killer iterations and went with the reg tweak. Sanity restored
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\AllLEDMgr
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i did the registry edit and it didnt work. i used CERegEditor and even did a soft reset and it was blinking when it came back on. dammit.
lobo did you quit the reg editor before doing a soft reset? Registry editing is weird in that you have to quit the application for the effect to take place or you have to wait a period of time, it's just easier to quit the application.
thanks for the reg edit tip! say goodbye to that annoying led!
led killer 3.1 worked for me, and i was having many of the same problems you were. stupid led light blinking all the time was driving me batty. i couldn't deal with it. it reminded me of homer's alarm that went off every 10seconds, unless something was wrong...retarded.
I did the registry edit:
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\AllLEDMgr
Change Index from 1 to 0and it worked fine on my Sprint Mogul 6800.
Could you have another program that is installed or
running that has notification alerts that are preventing
this from working...? (Wow that was a long sentence. )
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I would imagine that a well applied drop of jet black nail polish would subdue the led. It's not fancy and not a registry hack but since nail polish is thick, it will likely not shine through.
Just a suggestion...
Applying nail polish would also render all other notification LEDs (missed call, new messages, etc) useless. LED Killer only kills the green flashing LED, and all other LED notifications will still work as usual.
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LED Killer only kills the green flashing LED, and all other LED notifications will still work as usual.
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Ah. I see. So LED Killer can specifically target certain notification flashes or just the flashing green? I was suggesting this as an alternative for the guy whom was thinking about taking a xacto knife to his LED...
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have you tried LED killer 3.1? That is what I use.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH, THE DAMN LIGHT WAS KILLING ME.
jma306-any other time, would you have the app for the HTC p6500 bardcode scanner
xweaponx said:
Ah. I see. So LED Killer can specifically target certain notification flashes or just the flashing green? I was suggesting this as an alternative for the guy whom was thinking about taking a xacto knife to his LED...
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LED Killer 3.1 can only target the green flashing service LED. If you wanted to modify the mortscripting, you could make it kill the orange flashing notification LEDs too, but that's about it.
Anyone konw of a program to turn the charge orange Led and button button backlights off? I have to say when working in the dark with the phone charging that damn orange charge led is blinding.
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Is there a way to stop the HD waking up at midnight?
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Is there a way to stop the HD waking up at midnight?
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Same question .. ^^
It's a normal thing or not ? Don't know if the HD does that before installing/uninstalling TFDetacher ..
well mine doesn't do this so it has to be a recent software you installed.
I have seen several people mention it on here before but not so sure anyone had a solution?
Only thing I have installed on mine is G-Alarm?
it's g-alarm thing and i dont see why it is a big deal to a lot of ppl. it's only like for one mins and then it goes back off.. WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL PPL. i dont get it anyway sorry i am not helping but had to take this off my mind
its not our place here in the xda developers community to judge or criticize others needs or preferences, because we know not the circumstances by which they live their lives. our place is simply to lend a hand when we can so we an grow individually and as a community. getting something off ones chest is best accomplished with a baseball bat and a tree...
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Is there a way to stop the HD waking up at midnight?
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I gave it hot cocoa that didn't work... still woke up at midnight so I tried sleeping pills... same thing again dead on midnight it wakes up - the hot bath however definitely did the job; problem is that it hasn't woken up since
Sorry I couldn't resist!
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its not our place here in the xda developers community to judge or criticize others needs or preferences, because we know not the circumstances by which they live their lives. our place is simply to lend a hand when we can so we an grow individually and as a community. getting something off ones chest is best accomplished with a baseball bat and a tree...
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again it's only for one min. dont you think you're throwing it a little out of proportion.. anyway i am used to bashing my head against a wall but i couldnt do it this time because of all the blood!!. this has been discussed before at least two times to the best of my recollection with no positive results so i am guessing you're going to have to take it with you inside the mattress
Of course it's not a big deal, it's just a " strange" things ..
It's maybe a feeling but i found that my battery drain faster after midnight
So, sometimes i do a soft reset at 00:01
I'll have to do some tests
This is the reason...
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Only thing I have installed on mine is G-Alarm?
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It's so that the notification queue can be rebuilt for the next day. It happens anyway in Windows Mobile but G-Alarm offers to extend the amount of time allowed for rebuilding as there's a known bug with the default setting that sometimes doesn't allow enough time for it to finish (15 seconds default and G-Alarm offers to alter it to 2 minutes iirc).
Its biiig problem with that midnight wake
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again it's only for one min. dont you think you're throwing it a little out of proportion.. anyway i am used to bashing my head against a wall but i couldnt do it this time because of all the blood!!. this has been discussed before at least two times to the best of my recollection with no positive results so i am guessing you're going to have to take it with you inside the mattress
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well it actually is BIG problem for me as it is not just for one minute.... somehow when it wakes at midnight it stays on and does not want go sleep again, overriding the settings which i set for keeping backlight for 1 min., and obviously as a result i get drained battery in the morning which is so frustrating as i do not have time to charge it again...so for me that is A BIIIG PROBLEM...
is it the only solution to take off g-alarm?? kind of like it and got so used that really do not want to part with it
Thanks for the few who mentioned it seems to be G-Alarm.
inspireme87 - think you need to chill out my friend........... No, its not a BIG problem for me, I thougt I was just asking a simple question/query
On a few occasions I notice it's got "stuck" and not gone back to sleep as mentioned above so I have to press the power button to make it sleep.
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Thanks for the few who mentioned it seems to be G-Alarm.
inspireme87 - think you need to chill out my friend........... No, its not a BIG problem for me, I thougt I was just asking a simple question/query
On a few occasions I notice it's got "stuck" and not gone back to sleep as mentioned above so I have to press the power button to make it sleep.
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well it's kind of a hard to press power button when you are actually asleep . i do not want to let the phone to dictate my sleep time if you know what i mean.
http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/manual/limitations#AlarmBug
2. Windows alarm bug
Windows Mobile has on some devices a strange behaviour: Although an alarm is successfully added to the WM notification queue (it's like a scheduler) it doesn't go off.
Searching the web gave me following information:
At midnight WM rebuilds the notification queue, therefore it wakes up for about 15 seconds. If the notification queue is too big or the device too slow WM goes to sleep again before it could finish building the queue for the next day.
If you force WM too stay awake for a longer time, it should successfully build the queue on at least more devices.
If you start G-Alarm and it complains about the Windows alarm bug, you've got the default WM settings (15 seconds WakeUpTime). If you press "Yes" G-Alarm changes it to 120 seconds which should be enough.
Here are the registry values G-Alarm changes:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeouts\ACResumingSuspendTimeout
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeouts\BattResumingSuspendTimeout
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well it's kind of a hard to press power button when you are actually asleep . i do not want to let the phone to dictate my sleep time if you know what i mean.
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I fully agree.
I was talking about things from my point of view/issues I have experienced. The times I have noticed it failing to go to sleep, I have still been awake so noticed the light still on in the room so luckily didn't find my battery was flat in the morning.
I will remove G-Alarm to make sure it's the problem and see what happens.
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well it actually is BIG problem for me as it is not just for one minute.... somehow when it wakes at midnight it stays on and does not want go sleep again, overriding the settings which i set for keeping backlight for 1 min., and obviously as a result i get drained battery in the morning which is so frustrating as i do not have time to charge it again...so for me that is A BIIIG PROBLEM...
is it the only solution to take off g-alarm?? kind of like it and got so used that really do not want to part with it
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I had the same problem... and I noticed that during the day a windows error occured, maybe from GAlarm? the problem is that several times I found my battery to 2 or 3% in the morning...
Thanks for the advice for Galarm (I didnt understood why the device was not shutting down by itself at midnight)
t0k0m0k0 said:
I had the same problem... and I noticed that during the day a windows error occured, maybe from GAlarm? the problem is that several times I found my battery to 2 or 3% in the morning...
Thanks for the advice for Galarm (I didnt understood why the device was not shutting down by itself at midnight)
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i did found solution, though u need registry editor in order to make it work... change the value of the string in HKCU\Software\ageye\G-Alarm\MidnightWakeUp from True to False. from now on you will not be bothered by waking of your toy and alarm will be working as normal... at least my does.
marasp said:
i did found solution, though u need registry editor in order to make it work... change the value of the string in HKCU\Software\ageye\G-Alarm\MidnightWakeUp from True to False. from now on you will not be bothered by waking of your toy and alarm will be working as normal... at least my does.
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Thanks for the tip I will give it a try
Mind you most mornings now I am finding G-Alarm seems to hang/crash my phone? The first alarm goes off as expected, i press the snooze button then sometimes it will go off again and then hang.
The G-Alarm screen remains on phone, with the screen lit, and nothing responds, not even holding in the power button. I have to remove the battery.
So might just scrap it as it seems a bit "buggy".
I have same trouble and there is no G-Alarm app on my HD so I think I have problems with another app...
So I was thinking and one of the issues that many reviews about the i9000 point out is the lack of a notification light that flashes whenever there are notifications. This is an issue that I've noticed before I bought the phone but now, after I've bought it, it bothers me more than I think it would. This got me thinking.
The i9000 has two soft keys on the bottom and both of them have a light beneath. Wouldn't it be possible to develop an application (maybe that ran in the background as a service) that would flash those lights whenever there is a notification? If this is too low level for an app, would it be possible to do by using a customized firmware?
Sorry if this has been answered before but I couldn't find anything about it.
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That is a very good idea using the existing lights. I've been using NoLED and I've found that it crashes the device with some notifications. I've since uninstalled it just to verify. As I've stated in another tread, I feel it's important to have a status indicator of some sort just to know that your phone is actually on, or you're getting signal. Something standard of course on most devices. Yesterday my device crashed (I believe NoLED was the reason.) and I went around for almost an hour not even knowing the device was off. As I type this it's sitting on my desk now. Is it on or off? Pretty frustrating.
Roy Ngan said:
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Roy
Considering this actually uses the screen, I might give it a shot developing something using the soft-key lights instead. I'm thinking this might save some battery, is easier to fiddle with and I guess it'd just feel more natural than a random light on the screen.
I may work on something as well. The menu button light slowly "pulsing" to indicate the status that the device is still on, and the back button light slowly pulsing to indicate a message of any type. (Email, text, etc.) If there's a message the menu light will stop pulsing, that way it will save a bit of battery by not having them both pulsing. (We'll know it's on due to the message indicator.
AFAIK, some devs tried using the soft lights. There was some issue with getting it to work. Check out this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426&highlight=notification
Oh I see someone had the same idea thanks for the link!
Great idea! Just curious about battery consumption. Any ideas?
I don't wish to entirely disable the front buttons, I only want them to stop responding when the phone is locked (I want them to function when the phone is unlocked). Don't misunderstand: I am not looking to simply disable the light. I want the buttons to be completely 'dead' when the phone is locked up. It's actually my bf's phone, and the buttons get accidentally pressed a lot when it's in his pocket. The phone will drain 60% in just 5 hours with no screen time, just locked and in his pocket (at work). I'm tweaking the phone to last longer, but I feel that having the buttons able to be pressed even while locked can't be good for the battery. :/ Someone correct me if I'm wrong with that (but even if I am, it's still annoying... what is the purpose of the buttons being 'live' while the screen is off???). The phone is a i9505, rooted on CM12.1 with Xposed, so modules could be suggested if any such fix exists. I have the home button disabled from waking the screen, but there doesn't seem to be an option anywhere about the back and menu buttons. I know the battery on my own phone, a Huawei, is much larger, but I only experience about 6% battery loss when the screen is off for 7-9 hours, so losing 60% seems excessive to me. I've checked battery stats on the Samsung, nothing seems abnormal. Is it even possible to fix what I'm asking? Thanks to anyone who helps!
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I don't wish to entirely disable the front buttons, I only want them to stop responding when the phone is locked (I want them to function when the phone is unlocked). Don't misunderstand: I am not looking to simply disable the light. I want the buttons to be completely 'dead' when the phone is locked up. It's actually my bf's phone, and the buttons get accidentally pressed a lot when it's in his pocket. The phone will drain 60% in just 5 hours with no screen time, just locked and in his pocket (at work). I'm tweaking the phone to last longer, but I feel that having the buttons able to be pressed even while locked can't be good for the battery. :/ Someone correct me if I'm wrong with that (but even if I am, it's still annoying... what is the purpose of the buttons being 'live' while the screen is off???). The phone is a i9505, rooted on CM12.1 with Xposed, so modules could be suggested if any such fix exists. I have the home button disabled from waking the screen, but there doesn't seem to be an option anywhere about the back and menu buttons. I know the battery on my own phone, a Huawei, is much larger, but I only experience about 6% battery loss when the screen is off for 7-9 hours, so losing 60% seems excessive to me. I've checked battery stats on the Samsung, nothing seems abnormal. Is it even possible to fix what I'm asking? Thanks to anyone who helps!
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The keys are never on by default when the screen is off. So you either applied a setting to enable it or you have some mod applied.
Lennyz1988 said:
The keys are never on by default when the screen is off. So you either applied a setting to enable it or you have some mod applied.
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I wouldn't have enabled a setting for this purposely, as it's quite annoying. I may also be wrong, but if I remember correctly, this was existent even on stock non-rooted. I have CM12.1 on it, Xposed modules are: Always Correct, APM+, BootManager, Secure Settings, Xposed Additions, YouTube AdAway, and YouTube Background Playback.
If there is a setting for this, let's say he or I accidentally enabled it, so would you know any suggestions of how to find such a setting, so it can be switched back? I appreciate you taking the time to answer.
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I wouldn't have enabled a setting for this purposely, as it's quite annoying. I may also be wrong, but if I remember correctly, this was existent even on stock non-rooted. I have CM12.1 on it, Xposed modules are: Always Correct, APM+, BootManager, Secure Settings, Xposed Additions, YouTube AdAway, and YouTube Background Playback.
If there is a setting for this, let's say he or I accidentally enabled it, so would you know any suggestions of how to find such a setting, so it can be switched back? I appreciate you taking the time to answer.
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When the screen is off then menu and back don't work. Do you have ambient display enabled by any chance? Disable it.
Did you try a different battery? Maybe his battery needs to be replaced.
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When the screen is off then menu and back don't work. Do you have ambient display enabled by any chance? Disable it.
Did you try a different battery? Maybe his battery needs to be replaced.
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Oh no, you're right about that. Back and menu doesn't actually do anything when touched while locked, but they do light up and respond in that sense (interestingly, they do also wake the screen while it's locked in TWRP, though perhaps that's irrelevant). Ambient display isn't enabled. We haven't tried a different battery, he just got the phone about a month ago. Then again, I also haven't the health of the battery. Maybe it came with a bad one.
When the screen is off, the back and menu buttons should not work. Not even the lights.
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Oh no, you're right about that. Back and menu doesn't actually do anything when touched while locked, but they do light up and respond in that sense (interestingly, they do also wake the screen while it's locked in TWRP, though perhaps that's irrelevant). Ambient display isn't enabled. We haven't tried a different battery, he just got the phone about a month ago. Then again, I also haven't the health of the battery. Maybe it came with a bad one.
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I understand you now. Yes when they the phone is locked and the screen is on, they will light up. That's normal and does not give any battery drain. Post some battery screenshots and post screens of the app betterbatterystats.
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I understand you now. Yes when they the phone is locked and the screen is on, they will light up. That's normal and does not give any battery drain. Post some battery screenshots and post screens of the app betterbatterystats.
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Ah got it. Good to know it's not impacting his battery, but that also leaves it open as to what IS (though, the buttons lighting up while it's locked still makes me scratch my head at what Samsung was thinking). Currently going to sleep at the moment, so I'll have to take a look at it tomorrow. I know Opera Max, a VPN data compression app, was chewing up battery (did this on my phone too, but eventually it settled down with the ROM), but I froze it for the moment so it won't run until I figure out what else is causing the problem. Battery life was poor even before the installation.
Other than that, battery stats have been normal, with the display taking the majority followed by Opera browser and the Android system, with some others. Nothing outrageous.
But since you mentioned about the battery, I did start noticing more things about the phone today. Perhaps it runs so hot because of it, and I also saw that when he unplugs it from the wall charger, it will immediately drop from 100% to 90-some% (varies). Might be the calibration, but with everything else, I ended up ordering an Anker replacement from Amazon to test.
The S4 heating is normal.
Also, it's not healthy for the battery to spend extended periods of time at 100%. That is why it drops faster from 100%.