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Poor Battery Life

I have the European version of the phone amd seem to suffer from poor batery life. The phone can barely be used 3 hours continously. I didn't fully charge the battery the first time so is this the cause? If yes how do I fix it? Also I have everything like Wi-fi etc off so that's not the cause.
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Abdulink said:
I have the European version of the phone amd seem to suffer from poor batery life. The phone can barely be used 3 hours continously. I didn't fully charge the battery the first time so is this the cause? If yes how do I fix it? Also I have everything like Wi-fi etc off so that's not the cause.
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if you're comfortable rooting/flashing custom roms onto your phone I'd suggest trying that. I get twice as much battery life out of my phone with the omega 28 rom

Give betterbatterystats a go..(free to xda members) and you'll be able to determine what programs etc are draining your battery.
Your screen time of 3 hours mind you is not too far off with what you can pull off with this device.. (4 hours tends to be a good number).. also taking into account the fact the device wasn't fully charged.
Sywped from my GT-I9300 running Omega v28 & siyah 1.7rc1

I`m on stock rom. I get more than 30 hours on one charge, internet, video, email normal use. Going through a whole day is absolutely no problem.
There must be a crappy app you`ve installed that is draining your battery. You will have to find out which one it is.

Are you playing games? They will drain your battery more quickly. Also, see if any apps are running in the background. After that, un-tick the location services in the settings menu. Change to a static wallpaper. Don't set very low sync times and turn your wifi off when you're not using it.
If you're on stock, you should have around 4 hours of screen time on.

I just want to confirm whether not charging the battery first has any effect on the battery life.

Abdulink said:
I just want to confirm whether not charging the battery first has any effect on the battery life.
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That shouldn't have any effect, no.
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habylab said:
That shouldn't have any effect, no.
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Then why does it say in the manual that you must charge the battery the first time?

Abdulink said:
Then why does it say in the manual that you must charge the battery the first time?
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Bcos there's a good chance the battery may have fully discharged between the time it's packaged and when it gets to the end user, which in some cases may take months or even over a year.

Abdulink said:
Then why does it say in the manual that you must charge the battery the first time?
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People actually read the manuals?
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I haven't installed any app except the stock apps so I don't get why my battery drains so fast.

Abdulink said:
I haven't installed any app except the stock apps so I don't get why my battery drains so fast.
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Time to do some work! Betterbatterystats...use it during a full regular cycle and you'll have the info you need
Sywped from my GT-I9300 running Omega v29 & siyah 1.7rc1

Just wanted to ask, what's tha average battery life for this phone?

Abdulink said:
Just wanted to ask, what's tha average battery life for this phone?
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I will put this in 3 situations:
>>> Wifi or 3g and screen on continuously and web browsing = 9h
>>> Intermitent use with internet on all the time but sleeping when screen off = 24h stand by + 6h screen on
>>> Just on stand by with screen off: 1)With internet on 2% drain \ hour 2)With all internet off = 0,5% drain \ hour ...
There is many variance acording to screen brightness and economy mode on and off, but everybody can get a good fast system and average screen bright with the above result !!!

get juice defender..it is awesome!!
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

Let me guess... your battery is consumed by cell standby or gpsd process?

Abdulink said:
I have the European version of the phone amd seem to suffer from poor batery life. The phone can barely be used 3 hours continously. I didn't fully charge the battery the first time so is this the cause? If yes how do I fix it? Also I have everything like Wi-fi etc off so that's not the cause.
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It depends on what are you comparing it with? Now if you never had a android phone before then your not going to like battery life on them
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battery issue.!

Guys i have the snapdragon version note 3..
I have big issue with the battery. I currently have 82% with only 23mins of screen time and wifi on.! I am using stock rom rooted. The phone is 3 days old..
Any fix?
Thnx in advance

I also had this issue. Run the phone down to 0% and then fully charge, then run to 0% again. This refreshed or calibrates the battery counter and my battery life went from 2 hours screen on to about 9 or 10
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patomo09 said:
Guys i have the snapdragon version note 3..
I have big issue with the battery. I currently have 82% with only 23mins of screen time and wifi on.! I am using stock rom rooted. The phone is 3 days old..
Any fix?
Thnx in advance
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Questions should go in Questions and not in General.
Also keep in mind that a Power-Off and then Power-On cycle is pretty battery intensive - 2-3 reboots can take well over 5% of your battery.

Same issue here. Im forced to run ondemand at 1500 max to save some juice until samsung fix their crap
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patomo09 said:
Guys i have the snapdragon version note 3..
I have big issue with the battery. I currently have 82% with only 23mins of screen time and wifi on.! I am using stock rom rooted. The phone is 3 days old..
Any fix?
Thnx in advance
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Go to settings-WiFi-advanced and untick scanning always available.
Drew
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For me it's always unticked, also all google locations, nfc, bluetooth, GPS, data sync, all motion sensors and whatever else disabled. No bad apps, all greenified, no bad wake up logs.
Everything is normal. I almost never play games and use it just for browsing.
2 possible battery drainers:
Bad firmware or Google Play Services. I don't know what's causing it but since MJ7 everything sucks.
I'm currently doing full discharge (since I always plug it when it's around 10-20% left). It's now at 1% and I'm playing games like mad and it's 15 minutes already and still hasn't turned off. Possibly bad battery calibration?

Put cool tool on your phone.
tick show most CPU intensive process
Kill most CPU intensive process.
????
Profit

Battery drains very quickly

Hi all
I noticed that the battery runs out quickly.
It holds only 12 hours in normal use.
While I was at 48 hours with my Huawei mate 8
Is there a solution to this problem?
I have attached the phone version if it can help.

Wait bro, your firmware version is outdated, latest Lollipop firmware is 2.20.40.184, but yours is still running 2.20.40.90, update your firmware first then compare your battery stats from your previous firmware version.
How long is your SoT(Screen on Time)? Well, on a daily usage my Zenfone 2 lasts for up to 6hrs SoT(with wifi browsing, some gaming, 2g/3g texting including standby for almost 12hrs as well) so i think your experiencing average for this kind of handset.
Also note that you've posted on a wrong section, this thread should be posted on the "Q&A, Help, Troubleshooting section".

This phone generally has **** battery life for majority of people, there are every few people who see any decent battery life (like above). There are no solutions for good battery life for this phone.

Flynhx said:
Wait bro, your firmware version is outdated, latest Lollipop firmware is 2.20.40.184, but yours is still running 2.20.40.90, update your firmware first then compare your battery stats from your previous firmware version.
How long is your SoT(Screen on Time)? Well, on a daily usage my Zenfone 2 lasts for up to 6hrs SoT(with wifi browsing, some gaming, 2g/3g texting including standby for almost 12hrs as well) so i think your experiencing average for this kind of handset.
Also note that you've posted on a wrong section, this thread should be posted on the "Q&A, Help, Troubleshooting section".
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Thank you for this response
I upgraded to 2.20.40.184 and my battery is draining as fast as before
You know I loved this phone but if they could make better battery life it gonna be superb

arkamaxxx said:
Thank you for this response
I upgraded to 2.20.40.184 and my battery is draining as fast as before
You know I loved this phone but if they could make better battery life it gonna be superb
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Load up 6.0.1 beta or waiting for the official one.
You might also want to check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/best-sot-screen-time-asus-zenfone-2-t3193608

non33 said:
Load up 6.0.1 beta or waiting for the official one.
You might also want to check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/best-sot-screen-time-asus-zenfone-2-t3193608
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I wouldn't recommend somebody (even less a new XDA user) to flash a beta firmware. Only the user itself should decide if he /she really wants to try beta software.
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arkamaxxx said:
Hi all
I noticed that the battery runs out quickly.
It holds only 12 hours in normal use.
While I was at 48 hours with my Huawei mate 8
Is there a solution to this problem?
I have attached the phone version if it can help.
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Comparing this phone's battery to a Huawei battery is like comparing a Prius to a Tesla. I can go 3 days on my Huawei Ascend Mate 2 but it's a 4000mAh battery and a Snapdragon chip compared to a 3000mAh battery and an Intel chip. The ZF2 battery will never get better unfortunately

I was getting some serious battery drainage on stock rom - I upgraded to the CM13 ROM with Android 6.0.1 - Set it on Root and installed Greenify + Xposed Framework - Smart Booster - Battery Doctor - Configured them all and keep my brightness on low when in doors and automatic when outside. My battery seems to be holding much better now. I haven't used that Stock rom Beta release of 6.0.1 yet so I'm not sure if that'll help. Good luck!
P.S - I only installed the mini version of GApps.

arkamaxxx said:
Thank you for this response
I upgraded to 2.20.40.184 and my battery is draining as fast as before
You know I loved this phone but if they could make better battery life it gonna be superb
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Check for the running apps and disable those that are not of use to you.. There are apps that run in the background, just run those that you think you will be using always.

herbertkikoy said:
Check for the running apps and disable those that are not of use to you.. There are apps that run in the background, just run those that you think you will be using always.
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Disable touch gestures, the ones that let's you double tap to wake it up, I disabled mine and during the night, with wifi on, it only used 1% battery.
Also, disabling LED notifications would help.
To replace the double tap to lock screen I use Greenify's widget, need to find a way to let me wake it up by volume buttons too.
Any other battery saving tips would be great.

napalmique said:
Disable touch gestures, the ones that let's you double tap to wake it up, I disabled mine and during the night, with wifi on, it only used 1% battery.
Also, disabling LED notifications would help.
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You mean 1% for the whole night? That's great!

BobboVilla said:
You mean 1% for the whole night? That's great!
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Turns out it was 2 AM when I removed the charger, so it was about 4 hours and a half.

napalmique said:
Turns out it was 2 AM when I removed the charger, so it was about 4 hours and a half.
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But still, that's very good. I probably won't get this low because I have crappy reception at home, but I'll check it anyway.

zenfone 2 is best for performance lag free most of the time .....but battery life sucks.... and about that ferrari and prius thing... my friends sony xperia z series especialy z ultra has awesome battery life it is also quad core processor phone ...it is also a beast phone ...but there stamina mode saves a lot of battery ... 8 to 10 hr SOT is normal for z ultra..... so clearly power managment is very poor for zenfone 2. i am using marshmellow cm 13 .. greenify... .. overnight drop is 3 to 4 %... but as soon as i start using it battery starts to drain quickly..... i have searched whole xda forum.. but everybody is talking about wakelocks, thats fine but during actual use also it is consuming a lot of battery....i am tired of searching

System service drain

I was convinced on the forums that my system service drain was regular until I took a look at my buddy's phone , he has a le s3 with 2 sim cards and his system service doesn't normally go past 80 mAh on a full charge . Something has to be wrong

This is a screenshot of my sot when I first got the phone

8 hours of SOT is really good. You can try installing Wakelock Detector to get a different perspective. Also, anything that uses accessibility services may harm battery life. Another thing you can do is go to settings-permissions-autolaunch and disable autolaunching of apps that don't need to be running all the time. You can see what apps are currently running in settings - app management. One last thing is that your signal strength isn't that great, so it may just be how it's supposed to be.

kris597 said:
This is a screenshot of my sot when I first got the phone
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I'm in the same boat as you, only I'm running OmniRom. But yeah, had 8h sot, can barely make 6 now, android system is my second biggest drain, with 2+ hours of cpu usage.

I have tried and I have found that 7.1 to 8.1 do not have the best battery life.
I personally have been aopk 6.01 and been getting great battery life.
I did do a stress test I did gaming and blasting next radio 21 minutes use only 6% of battery.
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dweekie said:
8 hours of SOT is really good. You can try installing Wakelock Detector to get a different perspective. Also, anything that uses accessibility services may harm battery life. Another thing you can do is go to settings-permissions-autolaunch and disable autolaunching of apps that don't need to be running all the time. You can see what apps are currently running in settings - app management. One last thing is that your signal strength isn't that great, so it may just be how it's supposed to be.
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I've tried everything , disabled all apps in auto launch , tried it with airplane mode on , enabled background resource control . Never go past 7 hours max screen on time . My screen brightness is usually very low throughout the day

What are all of these services ? My buddy has none of these

You are running stock I take it.
Different ROMs are going different services like you show.
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You are running stock I take it.
Different ROMs are going different services like you show.
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How do I get rid of these services without root ? And these services also don't show up on my buddy's phone . Is it a le pro 3 thing ?

kris597 said:
How do I get rid of these services without root ? And these services also don't show up on my buddy's phone . Is it a le pro 3 thing ?
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You can't
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Turned on battery assistance at about 80% , battery life drastically improved

This is now ridiculous

All eui is in the rom.
I have no problem with custom roms. (Omni,Aicp,Lineageos etc.)

kris597 said:
Turned on battery assistance at about 80% , battery life drastically improved
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I don't see the big deal you have 3 hours 57 minutes on screen time and 50% battery left you will get almost 8 hour screen time on that is well above average!
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Went through a hard 12 hour process , finally unlocked bootloader , installed twrp and running lineage . Going to be testing battery life

I have the same problem with Eui rom. As long as the display is turned on, the system service will exploit the battery. Nobody knows that?
There are no such problems in custom roms.(Aicp,omni vs )

lazye53 said:
I have the same problem with Eui rom. As long as the display is turned on, the system service will exploit the battery. Nobody knows that?
There are no such problems in custom roms.(Aicp,omni vs )
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I flashed lineage and I'm experiencing even worse battery , I can't be bothered to flash a new Tom and reinstall all my apps

kris597 said:
I flashed lineage and I'm experiencing even worse battery , I can't be bothered to flash a new Tom and reinstall all my apps
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Flash Magisk and try Greenify4Magisk. It's gotta be some third-party app you're running, or you have a bad cellular connection. Are you getting full signal on your phone? Do you have LTE running as well?

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Flash Magisk and try Greenify4Magisk. It's gotta be some third-party app you're running, or you have a bad cellular connection. Are you getting full signal on your phone? Do you have LTE running as well?
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I haven't installed many apps , just the basics like Snapchat WhatsApp Twitter and Instagram . I tried to flash magisk but that would mean uninstalling super su . I normally get around 3-4 bars but I don't use cellular data . I have Greenify but it doesn't seem to be doing much

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[app] [rom] battery life extending and low draining roms

To avoid early batterie break it's everywhere recommended to charge not up to 100% and also not discharge low to 0%.
1. I've used some years battery charging limit:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slash.batterychargelimit
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/root-battery-charge-limit-t3557002
But I can't get it work on mi9
2. Now I'm using ACCA
https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA
It's working with power supply but it don't work with wireless charging. Is there someone who knows a solution ?
Please post here all apps which are able to start stop charging at adjustable levels.
3. Thread is also open now for tips and tricks for low draining ROMs and mods like lkt, fde.ai,kernel optimization.
Here you'll find the statement for my actually installed ROM:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80213469&postcount=13

I use Battery Charge Limit, It works fine (stopping at 75% both in wired and wireless charging). Version 1.1.1

awechris said:
I use Battery Charge Limit, It works fine (stopping at 75% both in wired and wireless charging). Version 1.1.1
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Does it require root?

awechris said:
I use Battery Charge Limit, It works fine (stopping at 75% both in wired and wireless charging). Version 1.1.1
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Which firmware you've installed ?

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Does it require root?
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Yes

Hy
i am using dark mode and battry saver aswell but still battry drains fast how can I Extend Mi 9 battry life..?

nadirshaheen said:
Hy
i am using dark mode and battry saver aswell but still battry drains fast how can I Extend Mi 9 battry life..?
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Hi
Here in this thread we're discussing how to extend battery life with charging settings not for the daily usage time.
But if your rooted like my mi9 transparent with revolution os you can freeze some miui apps and and other bloadware and you can make fine adjustings in build.prop
I didn't like battery saver apps. Only one for me is good : leandroid apk
In the moment I've got only 3% discharge over night. And SOT around 7 hours (not completely tested in case of only 3 days usage of revolution mod)
My free RAM is around 5.3 GB
I'm using automatic brightness mod v4
Have a look here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/Mi-9/development/recovery-comparison-t3939597

nadirshaheen said:
Hy
i am using dark mode and battry saver aswell but still battry drains fast how can I Extend Mi 9 battry life..?
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Use auto brightness but you may have to push it up at times to get it to a level of your liking or I do.
I use mine hard and get great life. But it depends on which ROM you have and what update you have installed as they had issues with a few as I did myself.
I have EU global stable 10.2.28.0
I get 17hrs with 9hrs being SOT before I charge normally.
I can get over 11hrs straight SOT.
I've gotten 31hrs with 6hrs 23min SOT.
I consider that excellent especially for how I use mine doing a lot of videos and watch a lot of YouTube as well as movies with it

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Use auto brightness but you may have to push it up at times to get it to a level of your liking or I do.
I use mine hard and get great life. But it depends on which ROM you have and what update you have installed as they had issues with a few as I did myself.
I have EU global stable 10.2.28.0
I get 17hrs with 9hrs being SOT before I charge normally.
I can get over 11hrs straight SOT.
I've gotten 31hrs with 6hrs 23min SOT.
I consider that excellent especially for how I use mine doing a lot of videos and watch a lot of YouTube as well as movies with it
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Friend, in EU custom ROM, mobile connection shows LTE or 4G?
Any issues from global stock? Tks!

hpto said:
Friend, in EU custom ROM, mobile connection shows LTE or 4G?
Any issues from global stock? Tks!
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I have stock, I have not changed what the factory provided. Just going off there updates but I was about to and I will in the future. But it automatically kills your warranty so I didn't do it yet not that it really matters.
But I have WiFi connected at the house along with LTE not 4g which they are pretty much the same.
But it says LTE.

It's the first time I ever heard I shouldn't charge my phone to 100%. Can someone direct me to an explanation for this? (I knew already about not letting it go to 0%)

omgomg said:
It's the first time I ever heard I shouldn't charge my phone to 100%. Can someone direct me to an explanation for this? (I knew already about not letting it go to 0%)
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https://www.androidauthority.com/maximize-battery-life-882395/

ROM with adjustable charging percentage
Hi guys
I'm now on Syberia 2.8 with evira kernel and lkt and its nearly perfect for me.
The best is that already a charging controller is implemented and the battery is also low stressed in case of a good power management. Over night around 2% discharge and SOT around 7 hours (mixed usage in dark and sun with velis autobrightness)
Only AI button and directly unlock by fingerprint isn't implemented at the moment.
But there is a flip to mute ringtone, call recording, long screenshot, full gesture control with back on swipe from right and or left side..... And much more....

redmyth79 said:
I have stock, I have not changed what the factory provided. Just going off there updates but I was about to and I will in the future. But it automatically kills your warranty so I didn't do it yet not that it really matters.
But I have WiFi connected at the house along with LTE not 4g which they are pretty much the same.
But it says LTE.
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Actually not,unlocking the bootloader or even rooting does not kill the warranty according to Xiaomi's policy . One of the few companies that allow it.

crs951 said:
Actually not,unlocking the bootloader or even rooting does not kill the warranty according to Xiaomi's policy . One of the few companies that allow it.
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Not anymore, better read up on there policies. Also when you do that you loose your updates. You will no longer be eligible for factory updates but I know that really shouldn't matter because you can do it yourself at that point.

crs951 said:
Actually not,unlocking the bootloader or even rooting does not kill the warranty according to Xiaomi's policy . One of the few companies that allow it.
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redmyth79 said:
Not anymore, better read up on there policies. Also when you do that you loose your updates. You will no longer be eligible for factory updates but I know that really shouldn't matter because you can do it yourself at that point.
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Please discuss rooting, warranty.... in new threads....