I haven't installed this yet but I was hoping to get some feedback as to what improvements (or bugs, oye) people have actually seen. I have read some posts about much better GPS locking, but what about 3G radio issues, Hotspot functionality, the mic being disabled when using Bluetooth, battery performance, etc? Post the changes you've seen! FYI, here is the official list:
Optimized, HotSpot in 3G idle mode to help conserve battery power
Optimized, Applied Qualcomm patch for performance enhancement
Added, Media Hub
Modified, WiMAX exit delay
Modified, UI "Noisey" One to "Noisy One"
Fixed, 32GB mSD card is not recongized when formatted in device
Fixed, When playing video, the playback is paused if a headset is connected/disconnected
Fixed, Sorry popup when DRM file is selected in the Gallery
Fixed, Hotspot registration/deregistration
I'll let you know when I get it... if I get it.............
My GPS actually works. Wierd.
Last night I attempted to use Cardio Trainer without the "Use Wireless Networks" turned on and it never got a satellite lock. I rebooted the phone and it still had the same behavior.
Today, after I updated, I tested just for the fun of it and it got a satellite lock almost immediately with wireless networks turned off.
It appears that's the first thing I've noticed other than the hub that is better.
For me it has fixed my only known issue. I am new to Android so might not know about all that is happening but I only had one problem with the Epic. That is whenever I tried to send videos via MMS or Email it would lock the phone until the message was sent. I am very pleased to report that the problem no longer exists with the update. I never had a GPS problem or a back button problem or any other issues that I knew of. So I am very happy. Now bring on 2.2!
Just noticed something.
Before the update, it used to say "Flight Mode" instead of "Airplane Mode". Now it's saying "Airplane Mode" like my daughters' moments.
GPS is still fail for me, after ephemeris data expires.
hydralisk said:
I'll let you know when I get it... if I get it.............
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You know you can update manually even without root? Original info found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785028
-download this:http://www.droidbin.com/index.php/files/get/iv_p2mYBQH/cec94babb124.update-dg27-to-di07.zip
-rename to update keep zip extension
-put on root of sd card
-power off phone
-hold down volume down + camera button + power until recovery screen shows
-use volume buttons to highlight flash update.zip file
-press home key on front of phone to select
My TWS has dropped to 8% without the airplane mode toggle. It used to be around 50% without toggling airplane mode.
krazyflipj said:
You know you can update manually even without root? Original info found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785028
-download this:http://www.droidbin.com/index.php/files/get/iv_p2mYBQH/cec94babb124.update-dg27-to-di07.zip
-rename to update keep zip extension
-put on root of sd card
-power off phone
-hold down volume down + camera button + power until recovery screen shows
-use volume buttons to highlight flash update.zip file
-press home key on front of phone to select
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I didn't realize this worked for non-rooted users. Thanks for the info Just applied it and it works. Yay for no longer having to wait for Sprint
oh ya gps is definitely much better
I know I'm not the only one, but I noticed that I have 10-20mb more free memory according to ATK.
jaig said:
My TWS has dropped to 8% without the airplane mode toggle. It used to be around 50% without toggling airplane mode.
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I was hoping that the "Qualcomm patch" would take care of this issue. Looks like it did for you. I haven't applied the update yet, need to de-root and flash to stock first.
My upload still causes my phone to be choppy as hell ****ing epic is pissing me off.
J3ff said:
My upload still causes my phone to be choppy as hell ****ing epic is pissing me off.
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Sprint just confirmed this issue on the 13th. No way was that fix going to be in this update. Gonna be a while before they can pressure Samsung into fixing it.
Nothing for me.
Uploading on 3g still causes LOTS of locking up.
Upload is still 150k or less.
Gps will probably still suck after 24 hours
I'm pretty pissed about this phone to be honest.
Just (and I mean JUST) got a notification aboot the Epic software update, but my battery is too low to apply, irony, heh. Will report back with any findings soon.
I tried to use the update.zip method, but didnt work on my phone.
got an assert failed: apply_patch_check blahblahblah error message
E:Error in /sdcard/update.ip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
And when I try to look for update via Update Android, it shows system up to date
Updated but now cell standby is eating up my battery bad. Tried doing the Airplane toggle but still is hitting 55%+ when it used to be display eating it.
I have noticed that my battery "seems" to discharge when being used, just a little bit slower. Another thing I have observed is that when the phone is being charged by a "more than capable" charger, the battery will read a full charge after the level has been sitting at 100% for a while per battery indicator pro. Another thing I've noticed is that I can charge the battery (with a beefy charger) and use the phone (a online radio or pandora radio) at the same time and the battery will actually charge and run the phone. Even after it stops charging at 100%, it will stay there and not run down as long as I keep it on the charger. My test was running streaming radio with the screen off and charging. I have not tried anything more than that.
Receive signal from the tower seems a little better. There is one strange thing going on though. I can sit in a spot that I am getting full signal strength from the tower, yet sometimes signal goes completely to no bars for a few seconds then goes back to full. I don't have any theories with that one.
That's all I've found so far that seems different than before. I haven't tried much else, just normal everyday usage. I am running completely stock everything at the moment. I'm not going to install clockwork until it's completely working and all the bugs are ironed out. The same thing with any mods or roms or kernels. I'm gonna run stock until all the extra stuff gets most of the major bugs ironed out. The phone is running good for now so I ain't gonna fix it.
I'm downloading the update to apply manually myself ATM.. rather than waiting for Sprint to push it OTA to me.. heh....
I'll report back anything that I notice that may be better.. currently my phone has the TWS illness as well.. Juice Defender has helped but I shouldn't have to resort to an add-on app to get a day's use out of a brand new device..
Hopefully this will work well..
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hi
last night my phone was unable to launch sense. after uninstalling most of my programs -- none of them new in the last week--and several soft resets I resorted to a hard reset.
I reinstalled my most critical programs but this time I made sure that I put most of them on the device with only a select few (games, etc) to the card. I charged it all night and have used the phone slightly less then normal but in comparison it is 430pm and i have 76% battery left. I'm usually at 76% at 10am and recharging by 3pm.
the biggest difference is that i actually think my enable/disable data connection is working as intended. I have the wifi set to turn off after 30 sec of inactivity and now when I grab the phone and unlock it the wifi has to reconnect. Minor inconvenience in my book. I'm not sure why it didn't work like that before. the only other thing i haven't done is used the bluetooth today. I'll connect that later and report findings.
thanks
the more I think about it the less I believe it has anything to do with the wifi because i was out of town 3 days last week and didn't use wifi at all--(had it off completely) and I had the same bad battery performance.
If this is your first hard reset since new, then its not such a huge surprise. The first weeks we have a new phone, we are installing/removing/forgetting to remove/incorrectly removing/'uninstalling failed' apps, themes, tweaks left right and center.
Once you get to the first reset, we only reinstal the stuff we know works, and know we want, onto a nice fresh canvas, so any bugs and glitches that have built up are gone.
Plus you know more about running the phone, more aware of when data/wifi is on/off, closing apps, stuff like that, all small things, but which together can make a big difference overall.
samsamuel said:
If this is your first hard reset since new, then its not such a huge surprise. The first weeks we have a new phone, we are installing/removing/forgetting to remove/incorrectly removing/'uninstalling failed' apps, themes, tweaks left right and center.
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I think you got it...that pretty much sums it up. in a weird way, I'm glad I had the problem that forced a reset. although next time I'll remember to backup my opera bookmarks...lol
I have selected 30 seconds time-out as well and something (not sure what) kept trying to connect and actually connected and then 30 secs later disconnected... all that disconnecting ate my battery overnight for 25%.
I simply did this - disabled Tmobile Data and Tmobile Internet - and when I want to use it - I enable it for the time being and then disable it after. WORKS LIKE A CHARM!
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although next time I'll remember to backup my opera bookmarks...lol
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and thats why i use opera 9.7, because it uses my synced shortcuts from the PC/activesync(though they only seem to sync TO the phone, not from, sometimes, but i can live with that)
I never could get opera 10 to see them, even though they were there on the phone.
I had exactly the same experience to the letter, i wonder if it has anything to do with the amount of memory left on the internal memory as mine was running pretty slow when sense stopped working.
kupz said:
I had exactly the same experience to the letter, i wonder if it has anything to do with the amount of memory left on the internal memory as mine was running pretty slow when sense stopped working.
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Welcome to the forum...
I think it has something to do with it...combined with a multitude of other issues.
It should be mandatory for everyone to reset after their first 30 days--that's exactly where I'm at.
i guess my luck ran out...today has been less then optimal. about 30% left right now compared to 74% at this point yesterday. usage hasn't changed significantly and i didn't screw with any settings that i can think of.
i did notice that when i wake the phone the wifi is still running unlike yesterday.
i can't figure out why that's different.
Rugged96 said:
i did notice that when i wake the phone the wifi is still running unlike yesterday.
i can't figure out why that's different.
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I figured out what is different and why the wifi stayed on in standby. I changed the very first BsB Tweak for Power Saving Mode. I had the Power Save Mode "ON" all day today and as a result the wifi was on all day too--hence my horrible battery usage. I don't understand how that qualifies as power saving.
I have switched it to Power Save OFF and so far the wifi turns off when the phone is in standby.
fingers crossed for tomorrow....
People most of the time forget that the oscilations on power consumption have to do with the crap mobile networks we have to have our highly sophisticated smartphones on. They are so sophisticated that automatically look for a signal whenever there's none. That 'eats' battery like there's no end! Even when we are not using the HD2 - or have its screen turned off - it is looking for network just in case we switch it back on for a bit of surfing or to download something. In fact, it consumes even more battery when it is looking for a connection than when it is not. Keep that in mind, guys.
Just wanted to say here that my HD2 hasnt been near a mains charger (or any other kind) since 8am YESTERDAY (29th June 2010).
It is 10:14am on 30th June and i still have 56% left.
i thought things were going to improve...but, about half way through the day my wifi stopped shutting off in standby. so here I am with 30% left wondering what's going on.
I just noticed that my GPS icon is visible at the top of my notification bar. I haven't installed any new programs since flashing the firmware, so I am not sure what is making the GPS turn on right now. And I just rebooted my phone this morning. I haven't rebooted again to see if it comes back--I want to see how long it stays there. But it has been there for five minutes or so now. Is there a way to see what app has told the phone to make the GPS active?
By the way, does anyone else think the new firmware requires a longer, more deliberate swipe to wake up the phone after tapping the power button?
um... I have the new firmware, and the GPS icon is not persistent.
I run stock, and the GPS will kick in at times, no idea why. It's not persistent though.
floepie said:
I run stock, and the GPS will kick in at times, no idea why. It's not persistent though.
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If you have adb enabled, and can run adb logcat when the GPS kicks in and see what running process that might be accessing this?
Even I have the same problem.
Is it the plus sign inside a rhombus with signal strength to the right side of it??
My fascinate got updated 2 days ago and ever since the sign appears on my status bar.
Also, after the update I am not able to connect my phone to my Mac. Its not able to mount the disk.
Please help !!!
Thanks,
DJ
I like ka5 too.. the heptic feedback is still notworking right but ill keep this firmware until the official one comes..
This was happening to me on JL5. Turns out it was ShopSavvy barcode scanner (Big In Japan). I promptly uninstalled. Just a thought...
I know that this has been an issue addressed in the past, but has anyone found a solution for the Wifi toggle error that has appeared when using the Samsung Epic stock froyo OS EB05. When I try to turn on my Wifi, about 75% of the time it will stall for a few minutes and say "turning on" until it says "error". Then if I go into the main Froyo settings, I can turn on my Wifi successfully about 50% of the time the 2nd time around. Very frustrating....
I've not experienced the error... can you logcat the error and attach it??
Right before doing the wifi thing..
Adb shell
Su
logcat *:V |grep wifi & net & error > /sdcard/error.log
Then do ctrl-c to end it a few seconds after the error
Then attach error.log off the sdcard.. it might get kind of big though
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
I have the same experience. If I turn Wi-Fi off when leave home and turn it back on upon return it will not work and return error.
Another annoying bug is with mp3 playback. After a while it will not play mp3s in any player saying file are of wrong format also some of the notifications sounds also will not sound (Twitter). Amazon mp3 store will not play previews and mp3 that I bought. Pandora will hang in the "Loading" state. The only way to fix is to restart the phone.
My phone is not rooted, full stock. All updates were done OTA.
Both issues are started after EB13 upgrade.
Have you tried leaving the pulldown open while the wifi activates?
I had a similar problem on Nebula such that I would pull down the menu, hit the button and close it immediately. I noticed that a couple times it hadn't stalled I had been distracted when turning it on and hadn't closed the menu.
I started leaving it down until it acquired and haven't had the problem since. Sounds silly and it could just be happenstance but it couldn't hurt to try it.
It does not matter which method is used (Pull down, widget or directly through settings menu). Results are the same.
Yes, I agree. It doesn't matter which method that I activate wifi, it still hangs and says there is a connection error. I've used the widget, through the android settings menu and by the dropdown. No luck. I'm shocked that Sprint would not post a fix for this if enough people are having this issue. Maybe its a Samsung issue. It never happened with Android 2.1.
I too have the same error, I'm running bonsai 4.01
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Logcat dump us so we can see what's happening with the OS and it's systems when this happens.
Put it over at pastebin.com
stud_muffler said:
It does not matter which method is used (Pull down, widget or directly through settings menu). Results are the same.
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Do you have ultimate juicedefender running by chance?
I had the same problem for a while, but only when I was experimenting with battery saver tools like SuperPower and UltimateJuice, even when it was the tool that was trying to turn on the WiFi. Once I stopped using those tools I have not seen the issue at all and I can manually toggle the WiFi as often as I like.
P.S. I stopped using SP and UJ because with Bonsai I get fairly good battery life and I don't really need them anymore.
i've had this problem with stock eb13 and ec05, and with syndicate rom. only way to fix it for me is to reboot
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I had the same problem for a while, but only when I was experimenting with battery saver tools like SuperPower and UltimateJuice, even when it was the tool that was trying to turn on the WiFi. Once I stopped using those tools I have not seen the issue at all and I can manually toggle the WiFi as often as I like.
P.S. I stopped using SP and UJ because with Bonsai I get fairly good battery life and I don't really need them anymore.
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i have the problem with no battery saving tools.
only way anyone can get to the bottom of it is someone with the problem is gonna have to provide some data.. might be too much info for a pastebin.. but if its not then put it up... if it is then attach the file here...
This happens all the time on stock EC05. It doesnt matter how I turn it on, or what steps I take, and sorry can't get a log for anyone.
Typed by Z using the Gingerbread keyboard.
No JD for me and no root, so I can't run the log, unless there is some other way of obtaining it.
Today I noticed that my phone spent 12% of battery overnight (in airplane mode), and its the first time it happens... I saw also that some of my applications are forgetting their settings, for example Noom tells me to configure my workout plan again and again...
I decided to root my SGS, but I can't enter download mode I press the magic keys and the phone starts normally. Now I have to buy a JIG at ebay
Next, 3G Watchdog somehow lost the stored usage info and now I can't see if I overuse my data plan
And to finish I played a game and it froze I had to reboot the phone
So i'm going to bed but today has been a bad samsung galaxy day for me
i assume its most probably caused by an installed app that continuously seeks to connect to the net (but i can't confirm this unless you tell me that you install non-market apps)
further, can you at least give more of your phone's details like
the ROM you are using, or just simply pasting here what dialing *#1234# gives you.
the battery drain has been an issue bothering some people who upgraded to a buggy gingerbread version, but if you are on froyo that is unlikely the cause (we still need to confirm though)
when turning my wifi off it seems it goes into some weird loop of turning on and off constantly by itself, it doesn't seem to be trying to connect just flipping the wifi switch on and off none stop.
noticed it because i had a huge battery daring overnight and while trying to fix it i saw the switch going off and on all the time.
when turning it back on it seems to connect normally .
did a network setting rest but it did nothing ...
I'm guessing a factory rest will fix the problem but I'm hoping to avoid such a overkill solution :crying:
does anyone else had this problem and can help me fix it?
thanx!
avivzamir said:
when turning my wifi off it seems it goes into some weird loop of turning on and off constantly by itself, it doesn't seem to be trying to connect just flipping the wifi switch on and off none stop.
noticed it because i had a huge battery daring overnight and while trying to fix it i saw the switch going off and on all the time.
when turning it back on it seems to connect normally .
did a network setting rest but it did nothing ...
I'm guessing a factory rest will fix the problem but I'm hoping to avoid such a overkill solution :crying:
does anyone else had this problem and can help me fix it?
thanx!
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This was on a new custom rom ?
Or did it just happend on a rom that have worked perfect for days?
And have you seen which app or system app been casuing the drain?
LyLu said:
This was on a new custom rom ?
Or did it just happend on a rom that have worked perfect for days?
And have you seen which app or system app been casuing the drain?
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original samsung rom.
just happened (i have the device for a a while everything was fine) its the android system that drains the battery in the battery status.
when i leave the wifi on it stops and works fine ...
Have you turned off ''Keep Wifi During Sleep''? I know this can drain battery.
It's not so easy to troubleshoot on an orginal none rooted phone.
You can try clearing dalvik and cache.
Turn it off and then on holding power and vol down button, then clear cach/dalvik and restart.
Try uninstall update beaming service for samsung then restart
If still persistent try uninstall update microsoft onedrive and skype then restart, just in case
I found it after factory reset (forgot internal data backup :crying and update all apps, this problem occuring after the last 3 updates (beaming, onedrive, & skype) which more suspect beaming service update make that problem
Your not alone
You're not the only one who suffer from this exact problem, on Friday or Saturday the same problem started occurring with my phone too, WiFi turns on and off in a loop and huge battery drain!
I saw an increase of 6% of battery drain per hour, so I ended up on 9% total drain every hour. :crying:
I have original Samsung Rom and phone worked prefect until now, no settings or apps installed before this happened either.
What rom version are you guys on?
I'm having the same issue. However, I'm on PhoenixX Rom. Major battery killer and has only just started happening within the past few days.
Since my phone has been unplugged, 3 hours ago, looking at BetterBatteryStats, It is showing com.google.android.gms as having quite a LOT of wakeups. 40 per hour (everything else is about 2). Don't know if this is normal as I don't remember it before the Wifi issue.
Looking into what the wake ups are caused from, Location and heartbeat were the major culprits. So i have turned of WIFI scanning when not on and also the body sensors for Google Play. We shall see.
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What rom version are you guys on?
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See attachment.
Easy fix. Just disable Wi-Fi scanning.
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Easy fix. Just disable Wi-Fi scanning.
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its not a fix at all . it dosnt scan for wifi , just turning it on and off non stop.
like pressing the light switch agin and agin
I had this after installing "GoodLock" software from Samsung! Uninstalled and everything is ok
same here, just noticed I wasnt on Wifi and the switch is just flicking on and off by itself. Standard S7 with all the updates installed
Been struggling with the same for some days (4 - 5) I haven't been able to get exactly whats triggering this. I'm on stock rom with root. I've reinstalled firmware clean again and re downloaded my apps but it is still happening randomly. Some times after a few attempts to switch wifi on (even when it is toggling by itself) it manages to keep on. Sometimes restarting makes it work again. One thing I'm almost certain its that this usually happens after I turn wifi OFF and then try to turn it back on.
It's been crazy and the phone starts to overheat after a while off this on-off loop.
Any ideas?
its very wierd it started to all of us in the past few days-weeks . seems like samsung has a bug they need to hurry up and fix.
AT&T just pushed out the October Security update for the S7 family, I'm guessing something that came along with it is creating the problem.
mine did a software update last week and I've been away in airplane mode so it could have started then. I've just disabled scanning and that seems to have got round the issue and I'm now connected to WifI
I'm not sure whether it is a Samsung Issue or a Third party one... It is true that something recently affected all of us, but as far as I know, it could be a third party app that wasn't well developed for our phone.
I've noticed the same problem on my phone and it's also only started up in the last few days. On stock Sammy rom, unrooted. Will be monitoring this thread to see if the experts here can narrow down the culprit.
I had the same issue and I was able to stop the toggle by turning off the wifi scanning in Location - Improve Accuracy - WiFi scanning. It's a fix for now. I think it may be an app that may have been updates that is persistently looking for location updates.