So I installed the star field LWP on my Hero, and suddenly my battery couldnt have been lasting more than 4 hours on a full charge. As soon as I removed the LWP, all was fine again. Anyone else experience this? It seems to me that the phone seems to continue to process the LWP animation, even when the phone is locked, there is no display and when running other apps.
No, thats really odd. I use livewallpapers all the time and don't notice any difference
the biggest reason i dont use lwp (other than never seeing a truely magnificent one) was worries about battery.
anyone else notice that when pressing finger against screen to flip from screen to screen, the lwp sticks until resting on the desired screen? is it like that on the nexus?
idk, i prefer the weather wallpapers over lwps.
.... no task killing and always using 3G. I also have a couple of widgets updating (currency converter and engadget) and really make no special effort to save power. (screen always 100% during day time for example)
Using spare parts, I found phone was never sleeping. (forgot what post I read that advice in but thanks who ever it was )
I found the culprit was beautiful home (most likely due to the location and update settings I was using). As soon as I uninstalled beautiful widgets, phone would sleep.
I then reinstalled beautiful widgets, and set up beautiful home with the default settings. After that, everything is working perfectly and battery life has improved DRAMATICALLY.
I'm also using ADB launcher, but that in itsself didn't make any noticeable difference for me. F....ing LOVE it though.
I don't use any task killing apps, but do have activity/process managements set to aggressive in spare parts.
I always have 3G on, and don't use wifi any more. It seems to stop phone sleeping and whenever I change wifi sleep policy to "default", it always changes back to "never" some how i have 2Gb/month data on my plan so data usage isn't an issue
Loving the X10 more and more. Usually I'm bored of a phone within a month or two, but this thing is keeping me interested. Can't wait to see what SE has up their sleeve as an X10 replacement though........
Hi,
Had the same experience with Beautiful Widget. Mentioned it a while ago in the thread Easy Battery Fix.
It's a shame though... I really like this widget (also bought Weather & Toggle and tried Fancy Widget - Beautiful Widget is the best in my opinion).
So the battery life on my Vibrant was complete crap after upgrading to JI6...we're talking maybe 6 hours on standby, no use at all, 100%->dead.
I was getting ready to eBay my Vibrant and pick up on of these.
However, I ended up uninstalling a home screen widget I wasn't using anymore (Weather Channel). All of a sudden, my battery life is solid again.
I'm not sure if there's a bug in the Weather Channel widget that was not a problem until the JI6 update, but whatever it was, it fixed my issue.
So give it a shot if you're in the same boat.
qwewq11 said:
So the battery life on my Vibrant was complete crap after upgrading to JI6...we're talking maybe 6 hours on standby, no use at all, 100%->dead.
I was getting ready to eBay my Vibrant and pick up on of these.
However, I ended up uninstalling a home screen widget I wasn't using anymore (Weather Channel). All of a sudden, my battery life is solid again.
I'm not sure if there's a bug in the Weather Channel widget that was not a problem until the JI6 update, but whatever it was, it fixed my issue.
So give it a shot if you're in the same boat.
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Yay, awful coding!
Yep, I had WeatherBug installed on my computer, and I had to uninstall it due to terrible battery drain. In addition to the widget, they also run all the time in you notification bar as well. Terrible coding.
I wish I could get an HTC Sense Clock/Weather widget for this thing... HTC's widgets are almost a reason to pick their phones over anyone else's.
You could of saved $60 flashing the JI2 Modem.
I picked my Nexus S up this am as the store opened at 9am. I powered it on and away it went it had all of my apps dl in minutes.I had to go into work so I just let it charge on my car charger. Got to work and went to start Cardio trainer ( which is an app I use daily for about 3-5 hours per day) it immediately force closed. Force closes each time I try and use it. So i sent message to dev. The next thing I know I get a message saying that Beautiful Widgets geolocation is getting false reading from the GPS and it force closes. The GPS has been spotty. When first initiated it took over 10 minutes to get a lock. Turned it off and tried again and it took 7 minutes. The third time it was about 15 seconds and since then it alternates back and forth from almost instant to minutes again. What concerns me is that the accuracy just bounces back and forth from 32.6 ft to 16.3 ft and anywhere in between and really never stabilizes. This may be normal for this type GPS systems(I don't know) Also I have the old market and cannot find a link for the new market.Wasn't Gingerbread suppose to come with the new market? So far I am impressed with the smoothness of the system but not with the GPS. Also the lInpack scores are lower than on the Vibrant. Appears to be very solid. Anyone else have any of these problems?
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I picked my Nexus S up this am as the store opened at 9am. I powered it on and away it went it had all of my apps dl in minutes.I had to go into work so I just let it charge on my car charger. Got to work and went to start Cardio trainer ( which is an app I use daily for about 3-5 hours per day) it immediately force closed. Force closes each time I try and use it. So i sent message to dev. The next thing I know I get a message saying that Beautiful Widgets geolocation is getting false reading from the GPS and it force closes. The GPS has been spotty. When first initiated it took over 10 minutes to get a lock. Turned it off and tried again and it took 7 minutes. The third time it was about 15 seconds and since then it alternates back and forth from almost instant to minutes again. What concerns me is that the accuracy just bounces back and forth from 32.6 ft to 16.3 ft and anywhere in between and really never stabilizes. This may be normal for this type GPS systems(I don't know) Also I have the old market and cannot find a link for the new market.Wasn't Gingerbread suppose to come with the new market? So far I am impressed with the smoothness of the system but not with the GPS. Also the lInpack scores are lower than on the Vibrant. Appears to be very solid. Anyone else have any of these problems?
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It sounds like a GPS problem with your device, Just get it swapped mate
JD
I've only had FCs using the new google maps so far.
Random FC for me in maps, market and gallery :-/
ive yet to experience a FC
Cardio trainer is not working for me either, I am wondering if the dev's need to update it for 2.3, I also can't get vlingo to work.
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It sounds like a GPS problem with your device, Just get it swapped mate
JD
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I don't think it's a gps thing, I can't even get into cardio without it FC, my GPS locks without a problem.
phone randomly goes to boot animation screen
Ok, so it appears something is wrong with my phone. Every once in a while, i'll look down on my phone or in the middle of doing something, and it will go to the boot animation screen. Most of the time, the boot animation screen is dimmer than on normal start up. It will eventually go back to the ui, which I will then have to restart my phone because it won't connect to wifi or 3g.
Anyone else had this problem? Think it's worthy of getting a replacement from bestbuy or a glitch that should be fixed with an ota?
I haven't seen anything like this yet, though I suppose I don't keep my eye on my phone constantly, so I suppose it could have happened while I wasn't looking. No WiFi or 3G problems, either.
Sounds like you've got a serious issue there if you're seeing it a lot, though. I would get it replaced. Unless you're running a third-party ROM or some other non-stock mod, in which case dump it first and see if the problem is being caused by that.
Yea I had this happen twice. At gym was changing a track with Bluetooth headphones and went to dimmer bootscreen had to pull battery. And another time I had to reapply all my Widgets on my homescreen. I'm on CM7 rom
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Are you using a custom ROM/kernel/SetCPU? Those problems sound like the ones the D1 has when it's clocked past a stable speed.
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Ok, so it appears something is wrong with my phone. Every once in a while, i'll look down on my phone or in the middle of doing something, and it will go to the boot animation screen. Most of the time, the boot animation screen is dimmer than on normal start up. It will eventually go back to the ui, which I will then have to restart my phone because it won't connect to wifi or 3g.
Anyone else had this problem? Think it's worthy of getting a replacement from bestbuy or a glitch that should be fixed with an ota?
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I'd look at the software you've added since the phone was purchased as the first primary suspect. Weird widgets, background services, live wallpapers, background syncing app, something like that...
You'd want to wipe/reset the phone before a return anyways, so why not do a factory wipe/reset from the settings/privacy menu, then start off with a fresh phone (software wise)? Be conservative in what apps you install at first, and check for stability; then slowly add back the stuff you'd have one by one and see which app from the Market causes the glitch.
I think that's a bit more fair to Samsung, Best Buy, and whoever ends up with the device as a refurb, than returning what is probably not bad hardware to the store.
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Yea I had this happen twice. At gym was changing a track with Bluetooth headphones and went to dimmer bootscreen had to pull battery. And another time I had to reapply all my Widgets on my homescreen. I'm on CM7 rom
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Hmmm...and you don't think the fact that you're using ALPHA level firmware that is known to have some bugs in it, might be your problem?
I'd expect that kind of thing with CM as long as it's alpha, and even beta. I wouldn't be surprised with it even on the RC versions. It's experimental until Team Douche releases an actual ready-for-prime-time version.
Are you using a custom ROM/kernel/SetCPU?
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Nope, I'm not even rooted. I am however running ADW ex launcher. As far as widgets, the only widget i have running is the weather/news that came stock on the phone. As far as apps, I really don't have anything crazy downloaded or running.
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Nope, I'm not even rooted. I am however running ADW ex launcher. As far as widgets, the only widget i have running is the weather/news that came stock on the phone. As far as apps, I really don't have anything crazy downloaded or running.
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I've been running ADW.Launcher without problems up to now. I just upgraded to ADWLauncher EX last night; I'll post here again if I start seeing this issue.
this is similar to the other topic.
Random Reboots, we call it on the SGS (samsung galaxy s) side
hoping for the best, it is not the same deadly problem we found on some of the 16GB SGS phones, that eventually lead to the corruption / destruction of the internal SD
but those were the signs.
so i'm really hoping that is not the same problem, else i'll really be pissed with Samsung to produce yet another crappy phone with cheap internal parts.
it should not be, as i saw pictures of the innards of the SNS (samsung nexus s) and it was clearly showing SandDisk for the 16GB internal SD
Random Reboots
A couple of times I've had the Nexus S reboot, once when I was in the middle of a call and once again as I was messing around with the settings.
I'm running 2.3.1, th latest build GRH78, does anyone have an idea as to why the random reboots are occurring?
Thanks in advance for your help
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reception bar is stable but on active call it gets disconnected and i have to turn the phone off and on right away thia happens pretty often. I called samsung and they have no solution but to tell to go get it exchanged. This is already a second device.
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Same thing happens to me.. now 4 times its happened to me
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Everyday on my battery usage, 2nd biggest user is the system clock, it's been kept awake for over 7 hours, I have no alarms set, I don't even have the clock widget.
Anyone ever seen this? Is it normal, or am I missing something?
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Everyday on my battery usage, 2nd biggest user is the system clock, it's been kept awake for over 7 hours, I have no alarms set, I don't even have the clock widget.
Anyone ever seen this? Is it normal, or am I missing something?
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I had the same issue. As far as I know, it's a bug in Google Clock. If I recall correctly, there was an Android Police article about it on G+. Haven't noticed it as of lately though so I assumed it was fixed and another version. Make sure it's updated in the Play Store. If it is and you're still having the issue, I just made sure to force close the app every morning after my alarm went off. Issue was gone.