Hello,
I've tried some AOSP(maybe spelt it wrong) ROMs, and some sense ROMs, and in some I had a very, very bad WiFi signal issue. Currently I'm testing one out and it's always ar 1 dot or 2 max for 3 seconds, and then it disconnects, reconnects again. I'm barely 7m away from my router, maybe even less. I'm not sure how the signal was when I used Stock ROM, but I think I had 3-4dots all the time, now I'm loosing the connection a lot. I was searching for a good fast ROM(idc about sense really with this phone), but that issue is killing me really.
What would be the issue? A radio, kernel, ROM problem? Any tips?
I bought myself Arc S, it came loaded with .62 firmware. On my initial run, battery ran for about a day, later on for two or maybe even three days. Then I started to work in another country. As far as I remember, battery life was the same, even though the network was not (where I work now is 2G only, in my home country 3G). Then one day messed around with a Xperia S apps, did a stupid mistake and started to get force closes with launcher. I had to repair software.
Since the software reinstallation, my battery life degraded to less than a day without even touching it. Therefore I installed Battery Monitor Widget, to see, what is going on. I noticed, that battery drainage is about 70-110 ma in average, as far as I know, it should be much lower (under 30ma?). I have to say, that I tested this with .62, .42 firmware and it's all the same. When I turn phone to airplane mode, energy consumption lowers to under 5ma - which is normal i guess.
It began to bug me even more, as we bought small alarm clock with radio. I noticed, that when this alarm clock is on, despite from 2 other phones our room, my Arc S is the only phone, which makes this kind of searching-for-signal or calling speaker interference (noise coming out of speaker). My phone does that all the time, even in idle mode. This can be also heard when we have our TV on on. So, if I don't want to hear that, I have to unplug the alarm clock or put my phone into airplane, which sucks.
I asked a guy next building, if he has the same problems with Arc S, and he says that his phone can live up to 5 days with one charge (is connected to the same network provider), so I guess it is not network related?
I wonder, is there a possibility, my phone's radio is broken somehow? Or it was faulty, and firmware reinstall somehow broke it to the end? So that is draining battery all the time - looking for signal? Any way to fix this? Flashing different base bands did not help, tried that already...anybody knows a fix for this, apart from returning it to my provider - since I'm 4 months away from my country
Anybody heard for any similar problem with Arc S?
Thanks in advance! (if needed, I can also post battery usage screenshot, but I think it's not much of a help)
lyteo said:
Then I started to work in another country. As far as I remember, battery life was the same, even though the network was not (where I work now is 2G only, in my home country 3G)
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That seems like the issue here if I'm understanding you correctly. If you don't have 3G service where you currently are, and you did not turn off 3G, your phone will constantly try and find a 3G signal.
Airplane mode fixing the issue makes this seem even more likely. Try disabling 3G and see if it helps.
Problem is, that's what I did almost instantly when I came here, I set it to GSM only. One thing I noticed right now, when I check into About phone, under Mobile network type, my Arc S has: UNKNOWN, where my friends HTC says EDGE. Maybe here lies a problem? Why my phone can't detect network type?
Incredibly, I found the reason for my drainage and signal search. When I came into that country where I work now, my provider offered me to turn off data transfer (provider turns it off for me). Of course I did not want any unintended data transfer, so I turned it off by sending sms to service number. After I reinstalled software (that was my first reboot here), phone couldn't find network type for that reason, and was searching for it all the time. Yesterday I allowed data transfer by sms again, phone found EDGE network, can't hear any more noise on our alarm clock and battery drainage is about 4% per 8,5 hour. Excellent
I hope this helps anyone out there with drainage problems.
I think you can also turn off/disable data transfer/traffic with the Data traffic widget, if you want to avoid using data.
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hold up, i dont understand. so im pretty sure i have the same problem. get about 17 hours with berely using my phone on any rom/kernal/firmware. even with data turned off, betterbatterystats shows 'noor unknown signal' and 'no data conection'? i sued to able to get 3 or more days out of my phone??
I think there is an application, which might be keeping the phone alive.
dout it, still drains after a complete rom wipe
Hi, I just bought my Galaxy Nexus because I've never tried a real Google phone and I love it. It is blazing fast and smooth. It ha sonly two big problems.
My phone on Jelly Bean JR003R with latest Franco's Kernel nightly 283 has a very bad wifi range.
wifi speed is good but the signal is unreliable. In the same place sometimes shows 2 arrows on signal strenght and one second after no arrows.
Is this a Jelly Bean problem?
Phone has also a really bad incall audio (low and not clear).
Anyone experienced the same issues?
Is possible to improove them both?
Thanks
mcreego said:
Hi, I just bought my Galaxy Nexus because I've never tried a real Google phone and I love it. It is blazing fast and smooth. It ha sonly two big problems.
My phone on Jelly Bean JR003R with latest Franco's Kernel nightly 283 has a very bad wifi range.
wifi speed is good but the signal is unreliable. In the same place sometimes shows 2 arrows on signal strenght and one second after no arrows.
Is this a Jelly Bean problem?
Phone has also a really bad incall audio (low and not clear).
Anyone experienced the same issues?
Is possible to improove them both?
Thanks
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Use this to make in call volume louder http://www.sendspace.com/file/ascuxe and as for the wifi, as long as your connection is still fast never mind the signal bars, especially if your right next to your router
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Hi,
Have you guys noticed our phones tend to drain battery much much faster on 3G than WiFi? I have yet to measure the drains accurately yet but I think the difference is huge. I can drain the entire battery in 2-3 hours with data on and active data transfer.
For example, stream some music on TuneIn on wifi and then on data (3G/H+). On data, the phone gets really hot and sometimes even with an AC charger plugged in the battery can barely hold charge (with screen also on). On Wi-Fi the phone stays cool and battery consumption seems to be much less.
I feel like it's ok for data to use a bit more power but I feel like this much of a difference is not normal. I have WCDMA preferred in mobile options, and it is displaying H+ in the status bar. I am assuming it isn't using LTE or looking for an LTE signal... How can I make sure of this? Is the LTE a different radio/chip that can be turned off separately?
I'm on CM10.1.2 with Wind Kernel 2.5.
what do u think requires more power receiving a signal from 30 meters away or a cell phone tower
having said that if your rom is pulling more than usual from data connection you can try switching to cdma only mode, also i think the stronger signal you are getting the less power it uses but im not sure on that, i think if u are in a basement or something it will pull more power.
or try switching roms
it is not the "phone" unless your phone is defective
try a differant rom if that doesn't work try a differant baseband if that doesn't work phone is probly defective or partially defective
first thing is try a stock based rom
btw i think the only time wifi will take more power than 3g/4g data is if you are sending huge amounts of data over it or have it on constantly scanning for networks, or have a rom that makes wifi stay on fullspeed while sleeping
KronicSkillz said:
what do u think requires more power receiving a signal from 30 meters away or a cell phone tower
having said that if your rom is pulling more than usual from data connection you can try switching to cdma only mode, also i think the stronger signal you are getting the less power it uses but im not sure on that, i think if u are in a basement or something it will pull more power.
or try switching roms
it is not the "phone" unless your phone is defective
try a differant rom if that doesn't work try a differant baseband if that doesn't work phone is probly defective or partially defective
first thing is try a stock based rom
btw i think the only time wifi will take more power than 3g/4g data is if you are sending huge amounts of data over it or have it on constantly scanning for networks, or have a rom that makes wifi stay on fullspeed while sleeping
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I'm just trying to gauge if people are seeing the same thing as I am. I haven't switched basebands in a while. Any further informative comments are welcome.
Flyview said:
I'm just trying to gauge if people are seeing the same thing as I am. I haven't switched basebands in a while. Any further informative comments are welcome.
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i can guarentee you thats not normal
what have u tried? have u even tried reflashing cm 10.1.2?
KronicSkillz said:
i can guarentee you thats not normal
what have u tried? have u even tried reflashing cm 10.1.2?
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No I haven't, I kind of just assumed it had to be normal. The phone gets hot just like when you're talking on the phone for a while so I thought it made sense.
I have some preliminary numbers (didn't let the test run long). If you want to replicate this, get Android System Tuner, and set up a widget to show "Average mA since last measure". Turn brightness to minimum and set the display to not turn off, start streaming TuneIn radio, unplug the phone (to reset "last measure), and let the battery go down at least 5%.
-360mA - wifi on streaming music, screen low brightness (20%/hour)
-760mA - 3g on streaming music, screen low brightness (note that's 41.5%/hour!)
-400mA - 3g on streaming music, screen off (22%/hour)
These preliminary numbers would suggest WiFi uses almost nothing, since the screen seems to be about 360mA, whereas the difference between WiFi and data is 400mA!
Flyview said:
No I haven't, I kind of just assumed it had to be normal. The phone gets hot just like when you're talking on the phone for a while so I thought it made sense.
I have some preliminary numbers (didn't let the test run long). If you want to replicate this, get Android System Tuner, and set up a widget to show "Average mA since last measure". Turn brightness to minimum and set the display to not turn off, start streaming TuneIn radio, unplug the phone (to reset "last measure), and let the battery go down at least 5%.
-360mA - wifi on streaming music, screen low brightness (20%/hour)
-760mA - 3g on streaming music, screen low brightness (note that's 41.5%/hour!)
-400mA - 3g on streaming music, screen off (22%/hour)
These preliminary numbers would suggest WiFi uses almost nothing, since the screen seems to be about 360mA, whereas the difference between WiFi and data is 400mA!
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if it was me before i bothered with any of this i would have redownloaded and wipe/reflash rom, i just had my phone streaming music on 3g and it didn't even get warm
i don't mind helping you but please rule out the easy obvious steps first
KronicSkillz said:
if it was me before i bothered with any of this i would have redownloaded and wipe/reflash rom, i just had my phone streaming music on 3g and it didn't even get warm
i don't mind helping you but please rule out the easy obvious steps first
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I will try that tonight. I wanted a baseline too...
Could you please check what baseband you're running (I'm on V20e)? Does flashing CM10.1.2 change the baseband?
Flyview said:
I will try that tonight. I wanted a baseline too...
Could you please check what baseband you're running (I'm on V20e)? Does flashing CM10.1.2 change the baseband?
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ive never had to flash my own baseband everywhere i read people say only do it if you have issues and ive never had issues, the rom/kernel i'm using is in my sig
there is a baseband archive in the developement section if it comes down to trying differant basebands although i'm not the person to talk to about that as i've never done it, i'm sure if you end up doing that asking on that thread would be your best bet as you will probably get responses from people who have done it before.
here i'll even link it:
basebands
this is a last resort and be very careful when flashing these
KronicSkillz said:
if it was me before i bothered with any of this i would have redownloaded and wipe/reflash rom, i just had my phone streaming music on 3g and it didn't even get warm
i don't mind helping you but please rule out the easy obvious steps first
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Yeah I would have to second that, those mA are way too high. I am @ < 100 mA on H+ streaming off slacker now that is with stock, but when I was on cm10.1 I would have to say it was about the same. The ONLY time my phone gets warm is on GPS & charging, and my phone is over clocked to 1728 all the time.
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KronicSkillz said:
ive never had to flash my own baseband everywhere i read people say only do it if you have issues and ive never had issues, the rom/kernel i'm using is in my sig
there is a baseband archive in the developement section if it comes down to trying differant basebands although i'm not the person to talk to about that as i've never done it, i'm sure if you end up doing that asking on that thread would be your best bet as you will probably get responses from people who have done it before.
here i'll even link it:
basebands
this is a last resort and be very careful when flashing these
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Thanks. I've changed basebands before with packages from that thread. That's why I'm asking if flashing CM will override those.
What basebands are you guys on?
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Flyview said:
Thanks. I've changed basebands before with packages from that thread. That's why I'm asking if flashing CM will override those.
What basebands are you guys on?
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i'm honestly not sure if rom flashing changes baseband my gut instinct would be sometimes yes sometimes no but i'm honestly not sure, i dont even look at baseband unless i'm having problems with my radio signal and i never have.
ur problem is probly caused by you changing yours.
my baseband is: apq8060/mdm9200
have u tried what i suggested and flash a stock based rom to see if that fixes the error, then if you want to go back to cm10.1 u should be able to as long as you dont mess with basebands again
it's possible this doesn't fix the error if the stock rom doesn't flash a baseband, i'm honestly not sure if it will but it might
be careful that you don't flash one that reflashes a locked bootloader, most of the stock based roms on the developement forums have it disabled
KronicSkillz said:
i'm honestly not sure if rom flashing changes baseband my gut instinct would be sometimes yes sometimes no but i'm honestly not sure, i dont even look at baseband unless i'm having problems with my radio signal and i never have.
ur problem is probly caused by you changing yours.
my baseband is: apq8060/mdm9200
have u tried what i suggested and flash a stock based rom to see if that fixes the error, then if you want to go back to cm10.1 u should be able to as long as you dont mess with basebands again
it's possible this doesn't fix the error if the stock rom doesn't flash a baseband, i'm honestly not sure if it will but it might
be careful that you don't flash one that reflashes a locked bootloader, most of the stock based roms on the developement forums have it disabled
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Thanks, that's what I'll be trying today. I was on V20e (newest Bell one from that thread). Yesterday I tried V20c, V10j. All are pretty much the same in terms of power usage as I tested them yesterday. I will try a stock-ish ICS today and test there.
BTW, I tried the streaming test on a Nexus 4.
-550mA screen on lowest brightness streaming 3G (compared to -760mA for mine)
-360mA screen off streaming 3G (compared to -500mA for mine)
So the differences aren't THAT drastic, but still.
So here's some updates:
I flashed V20f mod V2 by HoNo (a stripped down and CWM flashable V20f stock image from Bell).
At first, I thought everything was fixed, as I was seeing battery use at about 500mA with screen on lowest brightness, streaming over 3G. However, I think this was due to the battery being low and the battery % dropping slower when it's under 15% (Android Tuner free uses battery % and battery capacity to estimate current draw).
I charged the phone overnight, then I flashed my CWM backup of CM10.1.2. The good thing is it kept the V20f baseband (and firmware) from flashing the V20f rom. That confirms that CM10.1.2 and CWM backups don't save/flash baseband.img and firmware.img. However, again, I was seeing 700+mA draw. There might be better idle usage with the new baseband, but it might be placebo.
I went back to a CWM restore of the V20f rom and tested again on the ICS-based stock-ish rom. Battery consumption is still high (700+mA streaming on data and screen on lowest brightness).
Could one of you guys please try running the same test I am? Here's how:
0) Ensure your battery is in the range of 50-90%
1) Download Android Tuner Free (AT)
2) Download TuneIn
3) Add a AT widget (1x1 text option) to a homescreen
4) Tap the widget, go to settings, widgets, widget content, central value, choose "avg mA since last measure"
5) Go back to AT settings, battery, calibration, battery capacity, enter 1830.
6) Start to stream music from a radiostation on TuneIn
7) Set screen timeout to 5 or 10min
8) Set brightness to minimum
9) Plug phone in
10) Unplug phone (this resets the "avg mA since last measure")
11) Watch the central value as your battery drops for 10-20minutes. Since drain is an estimate based on % dropping it will jump around a bit but level off the more time you let it run.
12) Don't do other stuff on the phone so you aren't using the CPU more than for this test
Hi everyone,
I search in the forum, but I didn't find a topic with my specific problem so I will expose it to you :
I've a ARC S, and regularly I loose the signal for some hours (particularly when I'm not on my phone, like during the night). So i've the feeling that my phone search the signal and my batery is drained...
I tried a full reset of my phone (with the original ROM) and a custom rom (Ultimate HD v5) with a custom kernel (LUPUS) on ICS.
I thought that I resolved the problem... BUT NOT :'(
Somebody has an Idea?
Thanks a lot