is it going to help? dont get me wrong i love everything about the phone its fast smooth and just love the ics and i am coming from iphone 4s the only thing that gets me is the battery life its not so great well its horrible.. so i was wondering will rooting make it better?
I say just be glad you got one early....
spencer88 said:
I say just be glad you got one early....
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lol you know whats funny the phone wont let me do *228 for some reason
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lol you know whats funny the phone wont let me do *228 for some reason
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A lot of 4g phones dont let you or error on it.
Plus, its a nexus phone, of course you should root it.
wheelerr said:
A lot of 4g phones dont let you or error on it.
Plus, its a nexus phone, of course you should root it.
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you think so? so what benefits would rooting get me ?
flameinthefire said:
lol you know whats funny the phone wont let me do *228 for some reason
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with the SIM cards in the LTE phones, you dont need to do *228.
Zepius said:
with the SIM cards in the LTE phones, you dont need to do *228.
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i see.. well also the reception bars always stay at 2 bars in my house my iphone has 5 and it has same verizon service
flameinthefire said:
i see.. well also the reception bars always stay at 2 bars in my house my iphone has 5 and it has same verizon service
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2 bars of LTE or 2 bars of 3g? those are 2 different signals being sent out.
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2 bars of LTE or 2 bars of 3g? those are 2 different signals being sent out.
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got you thanks
Using AdFree (an awesome ad blocker) and Titanium Backup (a great app to backup all apps and corresponding data) are reasons enough to make me root.
rooting really isnt going to help battery on a lte phone as much. But you still get all the other benefits.
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Rooting isn't going to magically make your phone use less battery, but there are some tweaks you can do with root to save some juice. Off the top of my head you could underclock the CPU or adjust the auto-brightness levels.
Having said that there are a lot of other (less dangerous) ways you can conserve the battery without needing root at all.
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Rooting isn't going to make LTE use less battery power.
just root it！！
Chrono_Tata said:
Rooting isn't going to magically make your phone use less battery, but there are some tweaks you can do with root to save some juice. Off the top of my head you could underclock the CPU or adjust the auto-brightness levels.
Having said that there are a lot of other (less dangerous) ways you can conserve the battery without needing root at all.
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what are those way?
well if you were like me who powered up the phone without charging cause the excitement, you need to root your phone so you could wipe the battery stat and start over. Root is the only way to do that.
lettcco said:
well if you were like me who powered up the phone without charging cause the excitement, you need to root your phone so you could wipe the battery stat and start over. Root is the only way to do that.
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well they did it for me because they wanted to activate the phone. is rooting safe? can i brick my phone?
Of course you should root it.
Using this phone without root is like driving a BMW only for dropping off the kids at school.
NewMossie said:
Of course you should root it.
Using this phone without root is like driving a BMW only for dropping off the kids at school.
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well i have the verizon version lte one is there a root for that? and what are the benefits of rooting?
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Trying to find a reasonable way to show that Rooting is worth to her.
Any ideas of how to?
And anyone have any issues after rooting?
Tell her it's on sale.
No problems rooting, but there are some who are blaming rooted kernels for sporadic loss of service, while others aren't experiencing that at all.
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Tell her it's on sale.
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THANKS sent your way for that line alone.
I forget how I talked my girl into letting me root her Evo. I think it was for Apps2SD and to open up more space for apps, obviously, that is no longer an issue. Unfortunately, she won't give up Sense. I had her try out cyanogen for a day and she made me flash her back to FreshROM.
It's funny though, I really couldn't find a true NEED to root this phone. It's pretty damn good stock. But that lasted about 10 minutes after root was achieved. Hate that bloatware!
If she don't need out don't do it. I rooted my dads evo bc he travels a lot and wanted wifi tether to his laptop. I didn't root my moms photon or sisters evo bc they don't really need
it.
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you can't take it back to the store for warranty service if they know it's rooted.. at least most of the stores.
jirafabo said:
THANKS sent your way for that line alone.
I forget how I talked my girl into letting me root her Evo. I think it was for Apps2SD and to open up more space for apps, obviously, that is no longer an issue. Unfortunately, she won't give up Sense. I had her try out cyanogen for a day and she made me flash her back to FreshROM.
It's funny though, I really couldn't find a true NEED to root this phone. It's pretty damn good stock. But that lasted about 10 minutes after root was achieved. Hate that bloatware!
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Sammy allowed you to uninstall the bloatware without rooting, I have already removed the sprint crap from my device.
Khilbron said:
Sammy allowed you to uninstall the bloatware without rooting, I have already removed the sprint crap from my device.
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Some...but not ALL of it. The rest needs root to be removed.
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Trying to find a reasonable way to show that Rooting is worth to her.
Any ideas of how to?
And anyone have any issues after rooting?
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Some apps are so useful, they are almost necessary.
Roam Control - allows you to roam in an area with weak sprint signal - so weak that it's either constantly switching between 3g and 1x (huge battery drain), or even weaker, when it switches between sprint and a roaming carrier (dropped phone calls plus battery drain.)
By forcing a Roam Only mode, with a push of a button, you start roaming, usually with a strong signal from the other carrier and there's neither battery drain nor dropped calls.
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Sammy allowed you to uninstall the bloatware without rooting, I have already removed the sprint crap from my device.
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No, Sammy allowed us to remove about 15% of the crapware. With root, I can remove the other 85%.
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My wife has had 2 rooted phones now, the first was the hero which got rooted and flashed (cyanogenmod) to gain performance (its a dog with the stock ROM) and get the latest version of android.
She recently upgraded to the Evo and the only way she would let me root her phone and go back to cyanogenmod was if i could replicate the sense calendar widget which she loved (full month view). I ended up finding an app called calwidet from egg n stone which shows an agenda style widget but clicking on it takes you straight to google calendar with the familiar month view she was used to. So far so good.
I have my wife's phone running a stock rom that's rooted only. For her it's just about running apps that either require or work better with superuser permission... like widgetlocker, adfree, etc. It's also useful for removing alot of the crap that comes preinstalled.
I like keeping her phone stock and stable. It's not like she has a crappy phone that I need to hack to make it work right...
battery is horrible, connection to internet/facebook app on fd19 sucks, reception sucks..but odin counts at like 4..
instead of buying the jig.. last time i bricked my phone they couldnt even access odin or nething it just kept staying in a boot. and i just told them my phone told me to update the firmware and i didnt feel like waiting for it to finish so i turned it off and it bricked.. and they were cool and gave me a new phone.. so my question is how can i brick my phone so they cant see the odin screen..or should i just buy the usb jig and flash back to stock?n and what even is the latest stock?
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battery is horrible, connection to internet/facebook app on fd19 sucks, reception sucks..but odin counts at like 4..
instead of buying the jig.. last time i bricked my phone they couldnt even access odin or nething it just kept staying in a boot. and i just told them my phone told me to update the firmware and i didnt feel like waiting for it to finish so i turned it off and it bricked.. and they were cool and gave me a new phone.. so my question is how can i brick my phone so they cant see the odin screen..or should i just buy the usb jig and flash back to stock?n and what even is the latest stock?
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From what I've heard Sprint doesn't care about rooted phones
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battery is horrible, connection to internet/facebook app on fd19 sucks, reception sucks..but odin counts at like 4..
instead of buying the jig.. last time i bricked my phone they couldnt even access odin or nething it just kept staying in a boot. and i just told them my phone told me to update the firmware and i didnt feel like waiting for it to finish so i turned it off and it bricked.. and they were cool and gave me a new phone.. so my question is how can i brick my phone so they cant see the odin screen..or should i just buy the usb jig and flash back to stock?n and what even is the latest stock?
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seriously dude? just go back to GB el29 for a while then, its solid
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dirtyglove said:
battery is horrible, connection to internet/facebook app on fd19 sucks, reception sucks..but odin counts at like 4..
instead of buying the jig.. last time i bricked my phone they couldnt even access odin or nething it just kept staying in a boot. and i just told them my phone told me to update the firmware and i didnt feel like waiting for it to finish so i turned it off and it bricked.. and they were cool and gave me a new phone.. so my question is how can i brick my phone so they cant see the odin screen..or should i just buy the usb jig and flash back to stock?n and what even is the latest stock?
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Use this to set counter to 0
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiZXUuY2hhaW5maXJlLnRyaWFuZ2xlYXdheSJd
Then try one of these.
Just flash this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
This will also return you to stock
http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showthread.php?4894-Stock-EL29-Tar-How-to-Return-to-stock-here
They don't care if it's rooted but having had a custom ROM on it they don't like. And it seems like they've been getting pickier the last 6 months or so. It's always hit or miss doing that. Just spend the couple bucks on a jig.
Why don't you try sfhub's FD24.....
The one with reset user data because I had the same issues as you're having and that's what worked best for me... My battery is insanely good now and any issues i had are gone... Can't hurt...give it a try
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ilostmypistons said:
Why don't you try sfhub's FD24.....
The one with reset user data because I had the same issues as you're having and that's what worked best for me... My battery is insanely good now and any issues i had are gone... Can't hurt...give it a try
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literally just did that..we shall see.. u using battery saver or nething or just fresh?
JSnively said:
Use this to set counter to 0
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiZXUuY2hhaW5maXJlLnRyaWFuZ2xlYXdheSJd
Then try one of these.
Just flash this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
This will also return you to stock
http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showthread.php?4894-Stock-EL29-Tar-How-to-Return-to-stock-here
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2nds rooted el29 and 3rd is stock non rooted correct?"
and i think im just gonna spend the 2 dollars on the app as long as i can keep on using it if its available in the playstore..
dirtyglove said:
literally just did that..we shall see.. u using battery saver or nething or just fresh?
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Using it straight up with fantastic results.... Got all my normal apps that I always have plus the wifi tether....
Just switch to vz nothing is going to magically give you better reception.
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bman55 said:
Just switch to vz nothing is going to magically give you better reception.
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verizon? 0___0
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Using it straight up with fantastic results.... Got all my normal apps that I always have plus the wifi tether....
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i will try this man, what are ur settings as far as brightness, sync etc??
i have the brightness all the way down and turned off the key sounds screen lock
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i will try this man, what are ur settings as far as brightness, sync etc??
i have the brightness all the way down and turned off the key sounds screen lock
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Brightness is set to auto... timeout is @ 2mins
I think starting fresh with the complete clean rom really helps allot
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2nds rooted el29 and 3rd is stock non rooted correct?"
and i think im just gonna spend the 2 dollars on the app as long as i can keep on using it if its available in the playstore..
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That is correct.
Yea, imo its not worth trading one of the best devices on the market.. if you're not getting very good battery life on a certain setup, just flash back to blazer4.1
As far as the reception goes, why would a different phone get you better reception in the same area? You would think that if your epic touch gets poor reception, all others would be in the same boat, no?
sj
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Yea, imo its not worth trading one of the best devices on the market.. if you're not getting very good battery life on a certain setup, just flash back to blazer4.1
As far as the reception goes, why would a different phone get you better reception in the same area? You would think that if your epic touch gets poor reception, all others would be in the same boat, no?
sj
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When I bought my wife her new phone the Photon the guy said it has 8 attenas or something like that and has the best reception out of all the phone. She does get better reception than me when we are camping.
to brick, try to odin any rom, but make sure u click the re-partition box near the upper left. It won't show any progress. After a minute or so, just unplug it. Voila! Blue Light Special (All you get when u try to turn it on is the blue LED. Nothing ever comes up on the screen)
And you wonder why insurance prices are going up.
Mods will shut down a thread that talks about cloning esn's and linking warez, but discussions on the best way to commit insurance fraud are perfectly acceptable... Wow..
Take responsibility for f'ing up your phone and fix it, rather than take the easy way out and make us all pay for it...
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neudof said:
And you wonder why insurance prices are going up.
Mods will shut down a thread that talks about cloning esn's and linking warez, but discussions on the best way to commit insurance fraud are perfectly acceptable... Wow..
Take responsibility for f'ing up your phone and fix it, rather than take the easy way out and make us all pay for it...
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you could also look at it as him informing us what NOT to do if you dont want to brick it. glass is also half full.
cnstarz said:
you could also look at it as him informing us what NOT to do if you dont want to brick it. glass is also have full.
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What is the "glass half full" side of someone asking for instructions to brick their phone so they can get it replaced?
FOR THE 2ND TIME....
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if the battery life doesnt get better im selling this crap. i love this everything about the phone but the battery life. its just plain crap. can you guess please help try and figure out the problem. i have flashed every kernel and rom and always bad battery life.thanks
Looks like user error to me. There are a lot of times that your phone is awake and the screen isn't even on. Your apps are what is killing your battery life.
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speedfreak228 said:
if the battery life doesnt get better im selling this crap. i love this everything about the phone but the battery life. its just plain crap. can you guess please help try and figure out the problem. i have flashed every kernel and rom and always bad battery life.thanks
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most people get between 4-5 hrs of screen ON time, this has nothing to do with ur gnex, it's related to an app u have, try to locate it and uninstall, or mail the developer about the issues u're getting with it.
you have bad signal and your apps are keeping the phone awake.
You can't seriously blame the phone for what is user error.
Your apps are what's causing the massive drain and unless you do away with the apps causing this drain, your battery life will always seem crap. I suggest you uninstall KTREweather and find a weather app/widget that's more reliable.
I take it it's this app you're using? https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rdHJlLmFuZHJvaWQud2VhdGhlciJd
Judging by its features, I'm not suprised it kills your battery. Live radar and storm tracking? Who needs that?
You have serious drain from awake apps, and looks like you're doing a lot of streaming radio/music? And your signal is absolutely terrible. All of these together will absolutely drain your battery.
use this free app called diagnosis to figure out which apps or processes are causing you trouble https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.diagnosis&hl=en
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You can't seriously blame the phone for what is user error.
Your apps are what's causing the massive drain and unless you do away with the apps causing this drain, your battery life will always seem crap. I suggest you uninstall KTREweather and find a weather app/widget that's more reliable.
I take it it's this app you're using? https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rdHJlLmFuZHJvaWQud2VhdGhlciJd
Judging by its features, I'm not suprised it kills your battery. Live radar and storm tracking? Who needs that?
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i only opened the app once today to check the radar. i work construction and didnt want to get rained on lol.
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You have serious drain from awake apps, and looks like you're doing a lot of streaming radio/music? And your signal is absolutely terrible. All of these together will absolutely drain your battery.
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ya i listened to music that is downloaded on my phone. i was using spotify
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use this free app called diagnosis to figure out which apps or processes are causing you trouble https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.diagnosis&hl=en
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ok thanks. any more suggestions? do you guys exit out of apps when you are finished with them?
speedfreak228 said:
i only opened the app once today to check the radar. i work construction and didnt want to get rained on lol.
ya i listened to music that is downloaded on my phone. i was using spotify
ok thanks. any more suggestions? do you guys exit out of apps when you are finished with them?
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generally, i dont let anything run on my phone that i dont want it to run. if you have root, there is a good app called autostarts that lets pick what app you want to start up when the phone boots. only when you actually open that app itll start up https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts&hl=en
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most people get between 4-5 hrs of screen ON time, this has nothing to do with ur gnex, it's related to an app u have, try to locate it and uninstall, or mail the developer about the issues u're getting with it.
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Nobody gets 4to5 hours screen time unless you're only on Wi-Fi
@op delete the weather app...
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ok thanks. any more suggestions? do you guys exit out of apps when you are finished with them?
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Tbh I let Android do all of the app management. I also only install apps that I'm going to use as well as keeping them running to a minimum in the background.
If you don't like the battery life buy a bigger battery.
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Nobody gets 4to5 hours screen time unless you're only on Wi-Fi
@op delete the weather app...
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Really? Do I need to find one of the few battery life screenshots I have to prove you wrong? 4-5hrs on stock battery, 6 on extended.
Why do people keep saying this ****? Get apps that don't eat your battery. Until then, don't try to claim someone else is wrong.
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Really? Do I need to find one of the few battery life screenshots I have to prove you wrong? 4-5hrs on stock battery, 6 on extended.
Why do people keep saying this ****? Get apps that don't eat your battery. Until then, don't try to claim someone else is wrong.
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And those people know what they are doing, and have things set up to achieve those results.
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Sdobron said:
Nobody gets 4to5 hours screen time unless you're only on Wi-Fi
@op delete the weather app...
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Wrooooong.
teach a man to fish, you feed him for life. teach a man to fastboot, and you create competency. and less threads on xda.
operator error
Sdobron said:
Nobody gets 4to5 hours screen time unless you're only on Wi-Fi
@op delete the weather app...
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Completely agree. I barely get two hours!
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Maybe its because its a CDMA nexus. This is my GSM on T-Mo, as you can see reception is worse then yours yet I'm still at 75% after 8 hours of use:
ungarisch said:
Maybe its because its a CDMA nexus. This is my GSM on T-Mo, as you can see reception is worse then yours yet I'm still at 75% after 9 hours of use:
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Try using your phone from time to time.
ungarisch said:
Maybe its because its a CDMA nexus. This is my GSM on T-Mo, as you can see reception is worse then yours yet I'm still at 75% after 8 hours of use:
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Lol you barely turned your phone on.
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well my phone keeps overheating, along locking up also. what is causing this? did it all day in the truck but i get home and fine im thinking?
Nabisco_12 said:
well my phone keeps overheating, along locking up also. what is causing this? did it all day in the truck but i get home and fine im thinking?
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Were you traveling through low signal areas? If so that's probably the culprit, your Epic is working extra hard to keep a signal... or maybe the areas you were traveling through were having problems (updating as they call it, lol) with the network...
YES LOL, So what should i do? i use it for work and really cant turn it off i need my updates or messages ASAP, but if im in a low service area should i turn off the data or the network? is there any way to limit it so it can b left on but search so much it overheats?? Thanks!
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YES LOL, So what should i do? i use it for work and really cant turn it off i need my updates or messages ASAP, but if im in a low service area should i turn off the data or the network? is there any way to limit it so it can b left on but search so much it overheats?? Thanks!
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You can switch to Verizon and get better service but that is pretty much all...
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Nabisco_12 said:
YES LOL, So what should i do? i use it for work and really cant turn it off i need my updates or messages ASAP, but if im in a low service area should i turn off the data or the network? is there any way to limit it so it can b left on but search so much it overheats?? Thanks!
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You could always try different modems... and if you're running cm7/9/10 or any variant of those you can try out the nexuz 4g modems... check out development to read about your options further... haven't had a dropped call since switching to the crespo4g modems... if it don't help, you can always switch back....
Does your epic sit in the sun while you're riding around?
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My phone does this too....when I'm in the movie theatre or in a classroom...Phone gets extremely hot and you can literally see the battery percentage drop....I just put it in airplane mode....sucks that this is the only way to stop this.
Edit: Actually starting using Miui 2.3.9 Gingerbread and it didn't overheat!!!!! Will be using this for awhile!!!!!
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I just got my Verizon Note 4 in the mail today and realized that no one has yet to find a way to root it. Right now I'm using my rooted Verizon Note 2. I'm wondering if I should even bother activating my Note 4 and start using it or should I just hold off and hope someone finds a way to root it in the near future.
What do you guys think?
It's nothing what we think, do what you feel you want. We aren't using the phone, you are, it's ultimately up to you on what you feel you want.
Can you use a phone without root? Can you live without it? Then use the note 4
Tripper511 said:
I just got my Verizon Note 4 in the mail today and realized that no one has yet to find a way to root it. Right now I'm using my rooted Verizon Note 2. I'm wondering if I should even bother activating my Note 4 and start using it or should I just hold off and hope someone finds a way to root it in the near future.
What do you guys think?
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I came from the note 2 as well and was also disappointed to hear that root has not been achieved yet. To cope I installed nova launcher and tried to tone down touch wiz as much as possible, which has helped tremendously in my opinion. Even without root this phone is ridiculously fast and has insane battery life compared to the note 2. I can go nearly a week with 7 hours of screen on time without charging it using the stock battery. This phone is amazing even without root access, but when it does finally get rooted it will destroy everything else on the market.
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I can go nearly a week with 7 hours of screen on time without charging it using the stock battery. t.
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What?? A week? What do you leave it in ultra power saving mode all the time?
Shoot, in ultra-powersaving mode you could probably make it almost 2 weeks!
As was said, do what you feel is best. I can live without root, but I don't like it personally. However, it is STILL even WITHOUT root, better than my Note 3, which I still have. I love my Note 4. Admittedly though, I've got it up for sale to see if I can get any biters to try and mitigate the cost of a developer edition. Either way, I can't wait for that root.
Ragnell said:
It's nothing what we think, do what you feel you want. We aren't using the phone, you are, it's ultimately up to you on what you feel you want.
Can you use a phone without root? Can you live without it? Then use the note 4
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Well I guess my main concern is whether I'm going to get hit with an OTA update without realizing it then find out I can't root anymore. As of now, if I start using the phone with stock kit kat 4.4.4 I should be okay right? I guess worse case scenario I'd just have to reinstall all my apps when the Note 4 root comes out.
So maybe my safest bet is to start using the Note 4 but make sure I keep it at kit kat 4.4.4 the whole time?
Tripper511 said:
Well I guess my main concern is whether I'm going to get hit with an OTA update without realizing it then find out I can't root anymore. As of now, if I start using the phone with stock kit kat 4.4.4 I should be okay right? I guess worse case scenario I'd just have to reinstall all my apps when the Note 4 root comes out.
So maybe my safest bet is to start using the Note 4 but make sure I keep it at kit kat 4.4.4 the whole time?
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There are ways to prevent OTAs without root so youll be safe
I'll say sell it ,buy the DE and call it a year
Only geeks can't live without root LOL pretty much you can do most of the things without root besides adaway
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The n4 is the best un-rooted device I have ever owned. With Nova and turned off bloat, this phone is awesome. I haven't regretted buying this phone and it will last me a long time. Good luck
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phibo said:
I'll say sell it ,buy the DE and call it a year
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Seconded, I just got my DE
Since Samsung went with a non removable battery and no SD slot with the S6. This could possibly be the last phone with an removable battery and SD slot.
Don't activate it send it back and get a nexus 6 if you want a unlocked bootloader and roms
patt2k said:
Only geeks can't live without root LOL pretty much you can do most of the things without root besides adaway
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Yeah that's true. I won't necessarily need to control my cpu speed with setcpu since the Note 4 has 2 power saving modes. There are some older versions of apps I'd like to restore with Titanium backup, and some I'd like to delete with the same program but I guess I can wait until root comes out to do that. I'm gonna miss not having the Freedom app but I'll live.
I do want to install the older version of google maps, the one that had the navigation icon, can I still do that without root?
Rootuser3.0 said:
Don't activate it send it back and get a nexus 6 if you want a unlocked bootloader and roms
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I looked into the nexus 6. The note 4 still seems like a better phone and the Nexus 6 isn't available for Verizon yet.
Of course if I got the DE version of the Note 4 I'd be set but I really don't feel like dropping $700 on the phone. I just spend $300 to get this with my upgrade.
You know the answer, how important is root to you? If I had known root likely wasn't coming unlike my other notes, I might have waited. It's worth the extra for the de. The camera is amazing, everything works fine, but it's hampered by stock twiz and only you know what that's worth to you.
Root would be amazing. Yes. But this phone is still a beast even without it. Yes I'd love to gain root. Until then I gladly use mine without root.