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Factory Reset and firmware question

I just bought Galaxy Note 6 days ago, it came with 2.3.5. German firmware, so I updated to 2.3.6. via Kies with little problems but updated after all. The phone is so laggy and slow that I want to try factory reset first. WillI go back to 2.3.5. original firmware. I really don't want to go throught that Kies nightmare again. It took me 2 days, trying every hour to finish the update. I have no root, everything is stock at this point.
Thank you developers.

I think you should give new firmware some time. It should settle within 2-3 days of usage. According to me it takes some time for a new battery or firmware to give optimum results.
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When you do a factory reset it just wipes your user data and resets the settings just like if you were to open it out of the box new but whatever firmware you flashed to will still be the same because the previous 2.3.5 firmware was overwritten.

I have updated today and the response of my Galaxy Note is swift en everything but
laggy. Never heard that new software has to settle?
For what it is worth.

Aedriaen said:
I have updated today and the response of my Galaxy Note is swift en everything but
laggy. Never heard that new software has to settle?
For what it is worth.
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That is odd, I had this problem, but it was when I was rooting with Zergrush. There was an issue on flashing the zimage(second step) after the root had finished. So I rerooted again and the lag went away.
I would honestly do a factory reset. If you are rooted already, do a titanium backup of apps + data. Then later only restore missing apps with data.

[Q] Battery life on 9500 after OTA firmware upgrade

Hi,
I got S4 I9500 on 27th April and the battery was fine and was draining about 4-8 % during night and that seemed normal. Then I did an OTA firmware update to Android 4.2.2 XXUAMDE and since then the phone started draining around 15 % during nights and in comparison it drained a lot during standby. I decided to do a factory reset and now it seems fine. I read in several forum that OTA update messes up the battery life and we have to do a factory reset to fix that. Is there any way to avoid a factory restore every time I do an OTA update or is there any way to update it by connecting it to a PC like samsung KIES, does that prevent such issues ? I'm coming back to android after using apple for 2 years, so I'm kind of a noob
Thank you !

I have a 9505, my battery life reduced a lot too when I updated to ME2. Such a disappointment. I did a factory reset but it didn't fix my problem, though I had flashed back to stock firmware after playing with root.
Is there a out of the box rom without the update that I could try flashing?

[Q] Battery Drain - Dan&Ktoonsez CM Edition - M9 Stable

Hi
I am using this rom over the last few days and really like it. Users are reporting great battery life but I am seeing the opposite. My batty has dropped to 38% in about 2 hours from a full charge.
Can anyone suggest what could be the cause?
Thanks

Did you do a clean flash? When not do a full wipe and then flash it. And on the second thought i could be your kernel settings... Maybe you overlocked your device or the false cpu govenour?

It is hard to say what may be causing the drain. Only thing I can suggest is to do a full wipe (factory reset, wipe cache, wipe davlik and wipe system) and don't put anything on it (don't restore any apps or from TB) and see how it runs. If you don't experience any battery drain start off by installing your apps back on.
Unfortunately, it will be a slow process till you find the issue.

Or maybe it could be an app... I use Wakelock Detector for this (Can't provide link, sorry).

Thanks for the replies.
I did a full wipe before installing this ROM. I also tried factory resetting and installing the rom again. I haven't tweaked any kernel settings but left everything default.

best C636 rom for battery life?

I spent two days faffing with putting files into the dload folder and flashing before ota options appeared, and now I'm on 585. I've found the battery life to be pretty poor compared to 193 which is where I was before, and I've messed around with all the battery life increasing options.. Really not fussed with what version I'm on as long as I get a good battery life - used to get up to two days - now, after coming off the charger at 6 am, I'm lucky if it's got power left at 10 pm! Any thoughts as to which 636 rom might be best for battery life?
Thanks!

I'm using b585 as well and the battery life is really the worst among all the roms so far. The best battery life I think is still b211 but that would mean change back to marshmallow.

plain_white said:
I'm using b585 as well and the battery life is really the worst among all the roms so far. The best battery life I think is still b211 but that would mean change back to marshmallow.
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I can live with that!

Now trying to downgrade using the info and file found on here: http://consumer.huawei.com/sg/support/mobile-phones/mate8-sg-sup.htm
I have put the rollback update.app file in and flashed it from powered off, leaving my phone now saying it is on NXT-L29C636B500 as expected, but then when copying over and trying to flash NXT-L29C636B211 - or any other emui 4 rom - the update fails and the build number now shows as NXT-L29C900B500. I wonder if there is there a stable rollback rom from B585?
EDIT: I'm currently installing B330 - so it seems you can't just flash any old thing.. maybe I can go back to 211 from this?
EDIT: BALLS. Seems that downgrading to B330 ends up with an eRecovery screen where it tries to download a new recovery.. hmm - what to do next.
EDIT: Factory reset and back on B330! Now trying the rollback from there to 211
EDIT: Oh. I think that kills it. Now not booting at all and none of the button combinations do anything.. Don't use the rollback when you are on B330 guys

There is a glimmer of hope..

I had a very similar problem... It seems that Rollback patch only works if you install it from Nougat...
If you try to install from any other version, It'll brick your phone.
So, once you install a downgraded version, you cannot downgrade it more.. until you reach Nougat again.
I bricked my phone, and I tried a lot of things to unbrick it, flashed many roms (FYI: I even not had the bootloader unlocked, on fastboot FRP locked and Phone Locked).
And the unique thing that worked for me is there:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/help/how-to-unbrick-l29-al10-stuck-fastboot-t3599775
When you unbrick your phone with the "Factory Firmware", I recommend you to flash using the B330 build.
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Don Kronos said:
I had a very similar problem... It seems that Rollback patch only works if you install it from Nougat...
If you try to install from any other version, It'll brick your phone.
So, once you install a downgraded version, you cannot downgrade it more.. until you reach Nougat again.
I bricked my phone, and I tried a lot of things to unbrick it, flashed many roms (FYI: I even not had the bootloader unlocked, on fastboot FRP locked and Phone Locked).
And the unique thing that worked for me is there:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/help/how-to-unbrick-l29-al10-stuck-fastboot-t3599775
When you unbrick your phone with the "Factory Firmware", I recommend you to flash using the B330 build.
I made my account just for helping you.
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Wow. Thanks! I'll try this tomorrow when I have all the tools on my work pc!

Don Kronos said:
I had a very similar problem... It seems that Rollback patch only works if you install it from Nougat...
If you try to install from any other version, It'll brick your phone.
So, once you install a downgraded version, you cannot downgrade it more.. until you reach Nougat again.
I bricked my phone, and I tried a lot of things to unbrick it, flashed many roms (FYI: I even not had the bootloader unlocked, on fastboot FRP locked and Phone Locked).
And the unique thing that worked for me is there:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/help/how-to-unbrick-l29-al10-stuck-fastboot-t3599775
When you unbrick your phone with the "Factory Firmware", I recommend you to flash using the B330 build.
I made my account just for helping you.
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After first trying several other things like the Knife tool, or just flashing over extracted Nougat images, I used the DC Phoenix tool v39 using B585.
It failed.
Then I tried it using B330.
That failed too...
Then I tried v35 using B330. It mostly worked, and I started getting excited.. but on rebooting, it tried and failed to download the eRecovery.
At that point I then put in the SD card with B330 in the dload folder, held in all the buttons and the updater appeared.
It seemed to get stuck at 5% but carried on,
It seemed to get stuck at 19%.. but carried on,
It got all the way to 99%..
And failed.
But then it rebooted - the animated logo popped up and it booted through into B330!!! :laugh: Thank you so much!!

Phew. Now not really wanting to go through all that again, but at the same time not wanting to be on EMUI 4.1 or 5 for the sake of a better battery life!
Post #3 in https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/help/how-to-unbrick-l29-al10-stuck-fastboot-t3599775 indicates that the NXT-AL10_M00A102_Factory_firmware_Global_Nonspecific_A ndroid_6.0_EMUI_4.0_DC_UNL.dgtks linked to the post will set the phone back to an android 4.3 base? Would it be possible do we think, to flash that through DC, and then be able to put an EMUI 4 rom like B211 on it?
Or should I do the sensible thing and leave it well alone now!

Bearded_1 said:
Phew. Now not really wanting to go through all that again, but at the same time not wanting to be on EMUI 4.1 or 5 for the sake of a better battery life!
Post #3 in https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/help/how-to-unbrick-l29-al10-stuck-fastboot-t3599775 indicates that the NXT-AL10_M00A102_Factory_firmware_Global_Nonspecific_A ndroid_6.0_EMUI_4.0_DC_UNL.dgtks linked to the post will set the phone back to an android 4.3 base? Would it be possible do we think, to flash that through DC, and then be able to put an EMUI 4 rom like B211 on it?
Or should I do the sensible thing and leave it well alone now!
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You're supposed to do it first, with DC phoenix install first the NXT-AL10_M00A102_Factory_firmware_Global_Nonspecific_A ndroid_6.0_EMUI_4.0_DC_UNL.dgtks, it will rebuild all partitions and basic configurations that were lost and tried to recover flashing with other stock roms, and finally unbrick the phone..
And you start with android 4.3, but it is apparently of internal use by Huawei technicians. It has apps for testing many things like sound, processor, memory, storage, display, etc. And after that, you can now flash any stock rom without any problems...
FOR THE RECORD, my phone is almost 2 years old and since the upgrades of EMUI 4.1, it had a very high battery consumption. When I upgraded to EMUI 5, the thing was worse, in 5 or 6 hours of inactivity, the battery drained from 100% to 0%. As the problems started after the updates, I did not think it was related to a hardware problem.
But now that I unbricked my phone, and installed EMUI 4.1; my phone lasted only 4 hours ... from 100% to 70% in four hours and the battery was sometimes drained from 70% to 0% in seconds. So, I replaced the battery, when I opened the phone I realized that the battery was badly damaged. Now my phone (in EMUI 4.1 B330) lasts two days of inactivity and up to six hours of screen, like when I bought it.

Don Kronos said:
You're supposed to do it first, with DC phoenix install first the NXT-AL10_M00A102_Factory_firmware_Global_Nonspecific_A ndroid_6.0_EMUI_4.0_DC_UNL.dgtks, it will rebuild all partitions and basic configurations that were lost and tried to recover flashing with other stock roms, and finally unbrick the phone..
And you start with android 4.3, but it is apparently of internal use by Huawei technicians. It has apps for testing many things like sound, processor, memory, storage, display, etc. And after that, you can now flash any stock rom without any problems...
FOR THE RECORD, my phone is almost 2 years old and since the upgrades of EMUI 4.1, it had a very high battery consumption. When I upgraded to EMUI 5, the thing was worse, in 5 or 6 hours of inactivity, the battery drained from 100% to 0%. As the problems started after the updates, I did not think it was related to a hardware problem.
But now that I unbricked my phone, and installed EMUI 4.1; my phone lasted only 4 hours ... from 100% to 70% in four hours and the battery was sometimes drained from 70% to 0% in seconds. So, I replaced the battery, when I opened the phone I realized that the battery was badly damaged. Now my phone (in EMUI 4.1 B330) lasts two days of inactivity and up to six hours of screen, like when I bought it.
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Huh. I've only had mine since Christmas - still, something to consider for the future. I have all the tools if it comes to that. Thanks for the advice!

Hello again
I was just looking around and came across this poster.
They claim to that B585 could give really good battery life.
This is person only loses about 20% battery in over two hours of heavy usage. @•XPLOITZ•
What's interesting is that unlike some other nougat users, he doesn't have test keys present anyway in the about phone menu.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72852397&postcount=2402

moto g5 plus is draining battery fast

Hi all,
I unlocked my bootloader and flashed twrp on my G5 plus. Before I unlocked my bootloader I had amazing battery life. 8 hours and 15 minutes of sot at the most. Now I'm getting terrible battery life. I can't even last half a day. Does the phone understand how you use it and optimize the Snapdragon 625 or is it something else.
Edit: It also drains battery on standby

You have an app that is not allowing the phone to sleep... Install GSAM or other similar battery usage monitoring app and see what the offender is.

What about the general battery drain. Before I flashed twrp and unlocked my bootloader I used to be able to make it from 6 a.m to 8 p.m. Today is my first day using my phone after unlocking my bootloader and flashing TWRP. After I set up my phone again (the bootloader erased all my data) I set up my phone and charged it over night. By this time of the day I should be at around 70% but I am at 49%. How do I fix this battery drain issue.

It drains 1% every minute to minute and a half.

I'm planning to revert back to stock. How do I relock my bootloader and remove twrp. Can someone please provide instructions and the links for the files to be download

Unlocking, installing TWRP, and rooting are NOT the cause of your battery drain... you should determine that first.
"Relocking" and returning to pure stock can be easy, or difficult, depending on your software version. If you were on the latest stock version then you will have to wait, because to relock the bootloader you must have a complete, digitally signed, factory firmware image that is flashed via fastboot... the process is well documented, but you cannot downgrade to do it, you must flash the same or a newer version than what is installed in your device currently.
See the problem yet? Yup, exactly... we don't have a full factory image of the latest version. We might get one tomorrow, might get one in 3 months, a year, or never, we don't know as all of them are leaks because Moto does not officially support that level of user self-repair on non-developer models.
So we go back to what I said at the beginning... Unlocking, installing TWRP, and rooting are NOT the cause of your battery drain... Work on that first, what have you tried?
Have you installed GSAM and looked at the monitors to see exactly WHAT is draining battery? Have you wiped the cache partition(s) in TWRP? Have you done a full factory reset?
You have decided to root... unfortunately this is not a Nexus device, you can't just stick your toe in and if the water is too cold you have can pull it out and forget going in the pool, for better or worse, now you have to jump in and just get used to it.

I got gsam and I fully recharged my battery with the included wall adapter. I'm getting slightly better battery life but I'll see what app is the culprit after a full days use tommorow

I was at 92% and now I'm suddenly at 89%. Did it really drain 3% or is my battery not calibrated

DarthMaul14 said:
I was at 92% and now I'm suddenly at 89%. Did it really drain 3% or is my battery not calibrated
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Let it go to at least 70% or lower, then post a screenshot of GSAM
Did you do the cache wipes?
And "battery calibration" isn't a thing anymore, it's automatic every charge cycle.

I'm not rooted so I have to enable the extra stats thing through adb when I get home. Is it clearing the cache?

Sorry I'm kind to new to this but what are cache wipes

DarthMaul14 said:
I'm not rooted so I have to enable the extra stats thing through adb when I get home. Is it clearing the cache?
Sorry I'm kind to new to this but what are cache wipes
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Wait... You are not rooted, all you did was unlock and flash TWRP and nothing else?
Ok, power off and start TWRP, go to Wipes and Advanced, tick Cache and Dalvik Cache (verify nothing else is selected), and swipe to confirm and perform the action. Press Home - Reboot - System and let it reboot, if prompted about no SuperSU or Root, DON'T DO IT! Skip, ignore, not now, or whatever so it doesn't do anything but reboot. It will take more time than a normal reboot, so he patient. This does not harm your data or files in any way.

Ok I tried it. It surprisingly took under a minute.

I'll see if that makes a difference. Thanks

I tried to root but it didn't work. I first tried super su. I flashed it by twrp and it was successful. But when I went to twrp and I opened super su I could see the root check app in the background but super su kept on telling me that the super su binary wasn't installed. So I had root access but I had no control over it. Even cpu z told me that I was rooted. So I decided to uninstall super su and I re flashed it but the same thing happened again. One of my friends the told me to try out Magisk(apparently you could hide you have root access from apps). I tried to flash Magisk for the first time but it give me two errors while flashing it. When I opened the app it asked me to get the Magisk manager but for some reason they removed the Magisk manager from the play store. I did the same thing again but this time I got the apk for Magisk Manager 14.0 from apk mirror and it didn't work for me. So I uninstalled Magisk. So then I went to Snapchat and it didn't let me login because apparently Snapchat doesn't let rooted users use it. So then I decided to do a factory reset yesterday. (Before all this my battery life was normal about my usual 7 hours of sot). Then yesterday evening I noticed that it was draining a lot of battery. So someone said there was a fix only for the standby mode using minimal adb which basically forces the device to doze. So I have force dozed enabled and my standby battery life is really good. I slept with 62% and I woke up this morning with 62%(so that made a huge difference). I just cleared the dalvik cache and normal cache towards twrp and it seems like it's really helping. I'll change it fully again and hopefully things get better.

Clearing the cache and dalvik cache didn't help me

Did you try just installing the SuperSU app from the Play Store?

Is this really real?
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Is this really real?
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What are you asking about?

Yes it is. I'm giving an overview of what I did in case if I did something wrong while flashing super su. I found what's draining the battery. It's the cell standby