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Can I downgrade back to 1.26? My battery is at least 30% worse...

Hey guys,
Some of you might have seen my thread that with 1.28 my battery was worse. The advice it would get better after few charges. Now a few charges later my battery is even more worse.. I'm getting like a max of 2 hours screen time which was previously about 3.5 hours with same usage.
My screen is on 30% hardly use 3g no games and just a bit of browsing or Facebook. That's all.
Come on.. Two hours really sucks.
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Blackvibes said:
Hey guys,
Some of you might have seen my thread that with 1.28 my battery was worse. The advice it would get better after few charges. Now a few charges later my battery is even more worse.. I'm getting like a max of 2 hours screen time which was previously about 3.5 hours with same usage.
My screen is on 30% hardly use 3g no games and just a bit of browsing or Facebook. That's all.
Come on.. Two hours really sucks.
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You can by downloading a costum rom which is based on 1.26. But without rooting I don't think it's possible to do that.
Just a tip : try a factory reset and a hard-reset! That might fix it.

H-Cim said:
You can by downloading a costum rom which is based on 1.26. But without rooting I don't think it's possible to do that.
Just a tip : try a factory reset and a hard-reset! That might fix it.
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And restore from backup that I make or what? ;-)
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you probably have some apps doing something in the background constantly or something is broken. it can't be normal.

[Q] Battery Defect

How can i know if my battery is defect? i think so because i never had a better result than 10hours with my one x.. i tried everything! Flashed 100 Roms and 100 Kernels (Repacked and not) and cleaned my system 100times xD how can i test if its damaged? my htc is 2 weeks old!

you can run the HTC Battery Test

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you can run the HTC Battery Test
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Never heard about that xD PLease more info
EDIT: Found it!

Right now the stock rom and kernel will give you best battery results so stop flashing. The difference won't be large though..
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Totally agree stay stock ics
I made a post trust us stock ics rooted
I'm getting 16 hours or so all damn day on heavy use
Like I mentioned htc did something right being sealed unit they knew they better or loose sales fasttt!!!
Dim screen screen time out to 15 sec.
Adjust setcpu
Toggle data off when not used
This phone truly has iphone batt quality least I think so.. and I've owned every device under the sun.
Charge all night but charge with data toggled off
you can use painless power control app or widgetsoid
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Got my device back from HTC

and first thing i noticed was the speed of my device, it seems a lot snappier. homescreen, app drawer and everything, its still on 1.29.401.11 but is quicker, may need to use it more before i can make futher comments. but so far it seems if htc may know how to prevent lag on the one x

Nitin985 said:
and first thing i noticed was the speed of my device, it seems a lot snappier. homescreen, app drawer and everything, its still on 1.29.401.11 but is quicker, may need to use it more before i can make futher comments. but so far it seems if htc may know how to prevent lag on the one x
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Mine too, got mine back 2 days ago. It uses less battery too ...

Nitin985 said:
and first thing i noticed was the speed of my device, it seems a lot snappier. homescreen, app drawer and everything, its still on 1.29.401.11 but is quicker, may need to use it more before i can make futher comments. but so far it seems if htc may know how to prevent lag on the one x
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Did they replace the motherboard? There can be variances between processors and perhaps the old one was under spec. Some people have posted Quadrant and AnTuTu scores here that have been well below the average. You're using the same h/w and s/w as the rest of us so your results should be similar too. My phone feels 10x "snappier" after I hard reset it but that goes away quickly after I load my 93 apps back on and set up a dozen different syncs.

or simlpy because its still formatted new and you didnt fill it with your stuff yet

hamdir said:
or simlpy because its still formatted new and you didnt fill it with your stuff yet
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okay filled with loads of apps and stuff and ram has dropped by 200mb lol
but still much quicker than before, only a slight lag when opening the app drawer, no frame drops in the launcher

BarryH_GEG said:
Did they replace the motherboard? There can be variances between processors and perhaps the old one was under spec. Some people have posted Quadrant and AnTuTu scores here that have been well below the average. You're using the same h/w and s/w as the rest of us so your results should be similar too. My phone feels 10x "snappier" after I hard reset it but that goes away quickly after I load my 93 apps back on and set up a dozen different syncs.
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didnt tell me what they replaced, all i know is that the yellow spot has gone

Everything here is superb after changing mainboard. Faster and battery is lasting twice as long. Must have been something bry wrong with mine.

Yeah I had one with yellow dots and did an exchange and mine is noticeably quicker and has less heating.

Sckank said:
Everything here is superb after changing mainboard. Faster and battery is lasting twice as long. Must have been something bry wrong with mine.
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Must agree, battery lasts around 14 hours with heavy use
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@Op, I'm happy for you, congrats!

jonshipman said:
Yeah I had one with yellow dots and did an exchange and mine is noticeably quicker and has less heating.
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It semms HTC have new parts for the one x
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Nitin985 said:
Must agree, battery lasts around 14 hours with heavy use
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Can you enlighten the term heavy use? how much usage of screen and so on
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did you unlock the bootloader before sent it to HTC? If so, did they charge you?
Nitin985 said:
and first thing i noticed was the speed of my device, it seems a lot snappier. homescreen, app drawer and everything, its still on 1.29.401.11 but is quicker, may need to use it more before i can make futher comments. but so far it seems if htc may know how to prevent lag on the one x
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h40st3r said:
did you unlock the bootloader before sent it to HTC? If so, did they charge you?
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Mine were unlocked, no charge.

did you unlock the bootloader before sent it to HTC? If so, did they charge you?
Originally Posted by Nitin985
and first thing i noticed was the speed of my device, it seems a lot snappier. homescreen, app drawer and everything, its still on 1.29.401.11 but is quicker, may need to use it more before i can make futher comments. but so far it seems if htc may know how to prevent lag on the one x
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Na it was still locked
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and313 said:
Can you enlighten the term heavy use? how much usage of screen and so on
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Around 1hr of gaming(most thd), 30 mins of YouTube(hd), whatsapp for about 30 mins, screen on was like 3-5hrs network and WiFi on at all times
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how much hours do you think yours would last on idle screen on to 30% brightness?
mine goes down from 100% to 0% in less than 2 hours for simple IM or texting at 30% brightness and takes over 6 hours to charge. insane.
Nitin985 said:
Around 1hr of gaming(most thd), 30 mins of YouTube(hd), whatsapp for about 30 mins, screen on was like 3-5hrs network and WiFi on at all times
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wildlaurel said:
how much hours do you think yours would last on idle screen on to 30% brightness?
mine goes down from 100% to 0% in less than 2 hours for simple IM or texting at 30% brightness and takes over 6 hours to charge. insane.
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Your phone is almost certainly faulty. With screen at 100% brightness, idle and in flight mode, you should get around 6 hours.
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wildlaurel said:
how much hours do you think yours would last on idle screen on to 30% brightness?
mine goes down from 100% to 0% in less than 2 hours for simple IM or texting at 30% brightness and takes over 6 hours to charge. insane.
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Yours is definetly faulty, get a replacement or a repair mate
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Nitin985 said:
Yours is definetly faulty, get a replacement or a repair mate
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Some questions for wildlaurel first...
- Are you running a stock ROM?
- What apps do you have loaded? Battery monitors, task killers, CPU analyzers?
- What apps in "Settings>Power>Battery use" show to be draining your battery so quickly?
- If you do a hard reset, do you get the same results before you load your apps and personalized settings?
Everything that happens isn't a h/w fault or defect guys. Batteries get drained by rogue apps all the time.

[Q] HTC One X vs SGS3 Quadrant Score

I recently got my AT&T SGS3. I'm so disapointed by the service, but that's another topic.
My wife has an HTC One X. I installed Quadrant on both devices: the One X had a score of 5600-ish and my SGS3 had one of 4600--ish. What gives?!
My SGS3 is rooted, I'm running Launcher Pro, and have installed Google Now. Other than that, I'm running (way) more apps: FB, Twitter, etc. She runs pretty bare-bones. Could this be impacting the score?

aagha said:
I recently got my AT&T SGS3. I'm so disapointed by the service, but that's another topic.
My wife has an HTC One X. I installed Quadrant on both devices: the One X had a score of 5600-ish and my SGS3 had one of 4600--ish. What gives?!
My SGS3 is rooted, I'm running Launcher Pro, and have installed Google Now. Other than that, I'm running (way) more apps: FB, Twitter, etc. She runs pretty bare-bones. Could this be impacting the score?
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clear running apps from both phones and run again. My One X and SGS III are within a few points of each other. However, don't get hung up on quadrant scores. They're pretty meaningless. The only thing that matters is how you feel like the phone is operating.

gunnyman said:
clear running apps from both phones and run again. My One X and SGS III are within a few points of each other. However, don't get hung up on quadrant scores. They're pretty meaningless. The only thing that matters is how you feel like the phone is operating.
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I did a couple of things: Killed LauncherPro and ran the stock TouchWiz. Also made sure I killed all apps. The score is significantly lower now. See attached.
The reason for running the benchmark was because I was complaining about the (1 day) battery life on my phone, and my wife says she goes two to three days without charging. So I was going to show her how much better my phone was. Imagine my dissapointment when not only did I demonstrate to her that my phone is much slower, but that her battery life is much much better.
The reality is, the phone is feeling sluggish, and I can't figure out why. Her screen seems to be better, battery life better, service (w/ Sprint vs. my AT&T) better, and performance better.
@gunnyman: Since you have both phones, I'd love to hear how you compare the two. At this point, I'm thinking of ditching my SGS3 and just getting the same phone she has.

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That score tells me there's probably something wrong with your phone, or some app has a rogue process that is killing both performance and battery life.
Comparing the One X to the SGS III is very difficult. both have their plusses and minuses.
The screen on the One X is hands down the nicest one available today.
However, AT&T/HTC have locked it down to the point where even an iPhone is easier to hack.
Also the lack of removable storage was a dealbreaker for me.

gunnyman said:
That score tells me there's probably something wrong with your phone, or some app has a rogue process that is killing both performance and battery life.
Comparing the One X to the SGS III is very difficult. both have their plusses and minuses.
The screen on the One X is hands down the nicest one available today.
However, AT&T/HTC have locked it down to the point where even an iPhone is easier to hack.
Also the lack of removable storage was a dealbreaker for me.
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How is the battery life on your two phones?
Also, any suggestions on how to track down the issue re something being wrong or a rogue process?

Well I sold the One X last week but Battery life is only SLIGHTLY better on it than on the sgs III I get through the day and have about 20-30% battery left before I put it on the charger. I'm a very heavy user. I see about 4 hrs of screen time.
When comparing battery life that's what matters. On your wife's phone how much screen on time does she have before she has to charge it up?
My wife has an HTC inspire which she has to charge every two days. However she uses her phone much less than I use mine.
As for tracking down what's happening with the phone, get better battery stats from the play store. It will track wake locks, which prevent the phone from going into deep sleep.
Install the program and check it at the end of the day and you'll get a very good idea about what is using the battery.

gunnyman said:
Well I sold the One X last week but Battery life is only SLIGHTLY better on it than on the sgs III I get through the day and have about 20-30% battery left before I put it on the charger. I'm a very heavy user. I see about 4 hrs of screen time.
When comparing battery life that's what matters. On your wife's phone how much screen on time does she have before she has to charge it up?
My wife has an HTC inspire which she has to charge every two days. However she uses her phone much less than I use mine.
As for tracking down what's happening with the phone, get better battery stats from the play store. It will track wake locks, which prevent the phone from going into deep sleep.
Install the program and check it at the end of the day and you'll get a very good idea about what is using the battery.
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I'll give Better Battery Stats a shot. Thank you.

No problem. Good luck.

General consensus is that quadrant scores and benchmark scores mean nothing. If you want to compare try launching apps on both phones or just switching phones for a few days.

crash822 said:
General consensus is that quadrant scores and benchmark scores mean nothing. If you want to compare try launching apps on both phones or just switching phones for a few days.
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Understood. But I am curious as to why my own Quadrant scores are going from the mid-4000's to 3200...

aagha said:
Understood. But I am curious as to why my own Quadrant scores are going from the mid-4000's to 3200...
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I wouldn't worry, there's little things you can change that wouldn't effect real world performance but would buff quadrant by 1000 points... If your going to test try Antutu, it is the most accurate Imo but I still wouldn't worry to much what it says. I've seen my gsiii score anywhere from 4000 to 9500 in Antutu depending on apps open, current rom/kernel, run time, battery temp etc.
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Out of curiosity, I just installed and ran Quadrant on my i747M (Telus) running the leaked Bell Jelly Bean firmware. Before running the benchmark, I went into the Task Manager and killed all running apps and freed memory. My score was 5906.
If you're running Samsung firmware, make sure you don't have the Power Saving toggle turned on.

One my One X I generally get way better battery life than with my S3. Never bothered to run any quadrant scores, but I'm sure the general consensus is that the One X has a little better battery life.
I also play with the S3 more than the One X so that may explain my battery difference.
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Well one major thing I seen is that your lte isn't there which means your going to be considerably slow reboot that's what I had to do last night as I was getting spoty lte service last night. Can also boot into stock recovery and clear your cache out also
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I got this. But I didn't close any apps. Had the music player going too.
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I had the one x its lags ibplaces the s3 doesnt. I loved the build quality but yeah no ways its faster than a s3
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05GT said:
One my One X I generally get way better battery life than with my S3. Never bothered to run any quadrant scores, but I'm sure the general consensus is that the One X has a little better battery life.
I also play with the S3 more than the One X so that may explain my battery difference.
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The HOX has worse battery life. I just took mine back for an S3 and the S3 is getting two-thirds longer life with identical usage. I also had a locked One X, so I couldn't even try some of the tweaks resulting in better life. I'm running auto-brightness and wifi is always on now with my S3, and previously with the One X I had wifi off whenever the screen was off and the screen was turned down to 30% brightness.
The difference was more than I expected, and considering the spare batteries I've got in the mail - an option the One X doesn't have - I'm very pleased with my switch. I'm sure the extra playing on your S3 is the difference.

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Seems like you tried too many things to make an already perfect phone into too perfect and somewhere in the path something really got weird and that could be one of the reason you are seeing those differences between HOX and Galaxy S3. Also, you said your wife's HOX lasts almost 2 days on single charge. Now the question is, did you try to mimic your wife usage of HOX on your GS3? That way at least you'll get a better idea, what she's doing with her phone that it lasts for 2 days or vice-versa. Please don't take my opinion in any other way. If you are talking about quadrant score, I have attached mine below. It's running stock UCALH9 with stock launcher and most of the bloatware disabled. The only thing different is that I'm rooted. Other than that it's bone stock.
Edit: Forgot to mention that my phone lasts all day with 4 hours of screen time.

CM10 seems to produce lower scores than Touchwiz roms.
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Battery life is killing me

Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!

Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
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You will find your phones battery life will improve, mine wasn't that good for the first few days.
When ever i get a new phone i always charge it over night & then when its off charge leave it till it bleeps to be put back on charge, do that for the first few times as i find it gives the best life.
Mine is very good now
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Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
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can u say how long your on screen time or general battery life is? but at the first few times/days/weeks it's really bad but after few charge cycles it will bet better because the battery has to improve itself with the information the phone gives, you know? wait and charge and after a week or so it will be really better...

Or if you just disable google now you will be good. If you disable google maps aswell your battery life will be perfect. Something is wrong with those two
That issue is just with jelly bean
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tadas_max said:
Or if you just disable google now you will be good. If you disable google maps aswell your battery life will be perfect. Something is wrong with those two
That issue is just with jelly bean
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yup that's also right ^^

one sitvokin
It says 4H 56M on the battery but when I fully charge it and use it for 3 houres (games, music and wifi surf) and almost the whole battery is gone so I have to charge it again
And how do I disable those google things?

Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
It says 4H 56M on the battery but when I fully charge it and use it for 3 houres (games, music and wifi surf) and almost the whole battery is gone so I have to charge it again
And how do I disable those google things?
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if you play more then 1 hour or so then that's not so bad because if you play a game or two only from full charge you can reache 2- 2,5 hours...with games like THD games or other which make a lil bit more heat or so ....and if you play only games like solitaire for this time or so ...then that's really not normal...you know that in the hox are 4 cores and 8 gpu cores, and therefore the battery isn't like in a phone with 2,500 or more mAh because our has only 1,800 mAh ...if yo uwant to disable it press long home button and then you can press the menu button and there will be settings in that you can disable google now and for the other google things just go in settings then apps and then all apps and there you can click on any app ! but don't deactivate system apps! and if you click on them there will be a button deactivate and yes press it and it is disabled

I usually play Dead Space but not for more than 20 minutes because the phone heats up like hell -.- And I disabled google now hope the battery will be a little bit better, but any more ideas how I can get better battery life please

With my HOX, I found having brightness at 60% or less made the biggest impact. Also, disabling wifi when not needed made a huge difference. Decrease the time between auto syncs, and also check for wakelocks. Might have an app waking the phone a lot.
But I do understand where you are coming from. The battery life was killing me also, so I bought a Note 2 as a primary phone and now use the HOX as a music player for which it is outstanding haha

the first time the battery is always bad ._. just wait some days or so and it will be better...and look with betterbatterystats which wakelocks you have then you can see which apps might make the battery life also more worse...

Thank you very much I will try them, the battery seems to be a little bit better when I turned Google Now off

i have the AT&T HTC ONE XL (L For LTE)
has the Dual Core Snapdragon and i say the battery is better lasting than ones with out the Dual Core CPUs

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i have the AT&T HTC ONE XL (L For LTE)
has the Dual Core Snapdragon and i say the battery is better lasting than ones with out the Dual Core CPUs
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Pretty obvious, isn't it? Plus the Snapdragon S4 Krait has a better manufacturing process (I think 32nm) compared to Tegra 3's 40nm process, so it's more efficient and less power hungry.
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To sum up. You want good battery go back to keypad £20 Nokia or Alcatel phones.
Smartphones will be pants for years to come
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With normal usage... Talk, wifi, handset Bluetooth... I only put my hox to charge wen it gow out of power. And my batery goes between 2 and 3 days. without gaming just regular usage...
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arknailed7754 said:
To sum up. You want good battery go back to keypad £20 Nokia or Alcatel phones.
Smartphones will be pants for years to come
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Not true. Look at the RAZR Maxx. If Motorola can put such a huge battery in a thin phone, there's no reason other manufacturers can't. Also, it was definitely possible to put a bugger battery in the One X, but HTC just didn't do it. They instead released One X+ sometime later and claimed better battery life as a 'feature'. That's just wrong, and very similar Motorola releasing the RAZR, and then the RAZR Maxx soon after. The phone should have had that battery since the start. The only reason I can find with Motorola is that the RAZR is slightly thinner for those who want it that way. But the One X and One X+ have 0 design difference.
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My point was in comparison to old phones.it'll be a long time before we get as good batrery life as on old phones. Reason being smArt phones just do to much nowadays..many forgetting it's actual purpose
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Just don't forget that the T3 is a pretty "old" chip, it needs a lot of power.
Nevertheless, I think the One X isn't that bad regarding battery life. It will drain quickly if you start gaming, but you should expect that. It's no gaming device, it's still a smartphone. Of course you can play your games every now and then but if you expect you can game with that thing for hours without getting it to heat up or charge it in the meantime, you put your money on the wrong device

Hi guys.
I cannot disable Google Now. In my Settings there is nothing like that?
Stock ICS ROM.
Help pls. Thnx a lot.

xsardax said:
Hi guys.
I cannot disable Google Now. In my Settings there is nothing like that?
Stock ICS ROM.
Help pls. Thnx a lot.
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There's no Google Now in ICS.
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