If you don't flash a rom at 100% battery, does that hurt your battery?
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No, but battery life may not be the greatest for a couple of days. I like to flash at full, but if not, i don't sweat it. You want to make sure you have at least 50% though, in the event something goes wrong and you need to reflash.
Yes, the last thing you want is your phone to die during flashing process. That would suck.
I've flashed lots of times and I don't think I've ever had a full battery.
Never noticed any adverse effects.
I try to follow the OP to the T and I've had a lot of success flashing new stuff.
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DarthDerron said:
Yes, the last thing you want is your phone to die during flashing process. That would suck.
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You can recharge while flashing with twrp
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I've also flashed many times without full battery. Just make sure you have enough to get you through the process, though. I think I've flashed with as low as 25% before. I was sweating it a bit, though, I'll admit
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I've also flashed many times without full battery. Just make sure you have enough to get you through the process, though. I think I've flashed with as low as 25% before. I was sweating it a bit, though, I'll admit
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Pfff that's nothing, I've done it at 15%
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I did a bunch of flashing on my s3 and when I got done I was down to 8%...
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My wife is going to be pissed if this does not get resolved.
I wanted to backup her phone. I already flashed Mr X's telus stock rom a week or so ago. I realized I hadn't done a nandroid backup so I though i'd install rom manager to quickly backup that rom. When I selected it it said clockworkmod recovery wasn't installed so I started the process to flash it (i thought it was strange). It went slow and I thought that I'd flash it again for good measure.
I selected the backup option expecting it to reboot into recovery and back up but nothing happens. I tried to pull the battery and boot into recovery but nothing but black, same with a regular pull and try to boot. I get the boot screen for a second and nothing but black. It will go into download mode.
My guess is it did not flash cwm successfully and this is the cause of problems. How can I fix this without having to wipe even if I can get recovery flashed properly? Can I flash cwm onto it from my pc and possiblly have it boot properly?? I would like to not have to set her phone up again and wipe her sms and things.
Thanks
Flash CWM from ODIN.
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hompsar said:
Flash CWM from ODIN.
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hompsar said:
Flash CWM from ODIN.
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+1 if it doesn't boot up after that might try flashing darkside cachewipe. If that don't work she's gonna be mad at you for flashing rom again and wiping her stuff, might try a dirty flash to save her data.
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Thank you all for the quick advice. I flashed CWM and it rebooted right into my wife's glorious setup! I had the prompt to assign Apex launcher as default but that was it at a glance.
XDA rox.
jets76 said:
Thank you all for the quick advice. I flashed CWM and it rebooted right into my wife's glorious setup! I had the prompt to assign Apex launcher as default but that was it at a glance.
XDA rox.
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Not that i had anything to do with helping you but glad your still alive. I know from experience messing with the wife's phone can result in couch time.
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Not that i had anything to do with helping you but glad your still alive. I know from experience messing with the wife's phone can result in couch time.
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Or just a cold shoulder and no dinner for a week!!
That's the truth! I found it ironic that this happened because I wanted to back it up lol
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Also don't forget how we have to tip toe around our wives when it comes to flashing! "Why are you messing with your phone again?! " Geez
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^^I have found this to be the issue with anything that does not revolve around my wife or child.. It used to be the phone she complained about, until I got a car.. then I started getting complaints about "I really don't see the purpose of brighter lights" or something of that nature.
My wife doesn't let me touch her phone anymore....
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Mine complains, but also won't take my advice on what phone to get. The truth she'll never admit: her G2 running ILWT CM7 is the best any phone has treated her yet, and if she'd just try to learn what a problem means when I've occurs, she could solve it in 10 secs.
My wife doesnt like me wiping her data at all when im flashing a rom...even if her rom is full of bugs and needs a serious update lol stubborn
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I havent received the ota yet. dont feel like manually doing it. im sure lots of people have had it for a few days now, wondering if some of you want to report how your battery has been? been hearing its just a huge drain. thanks
Well it depends sometimes it seem ok but not as good as GB in my opion
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UPDATE!!! I just installed agats kernel last night at 9p.m and today at 10:00 am my battery life has move than doubled from what it was. The onething I noticed that the Android percentage dropped from 63% to 39% when I reviewed what was using my battery. Anyone else seen this? Agats 2.2 kernel is the one I installed.
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I havent received the ota yet. dont feel like manually doing it. im sure lots of people have had it for a few days now, wondering if some of you want to report how your battery has been? been hearing its just a huge drain. thanks
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I thought it was bad at first but yesterday I got 12 hours and today so far its at 11 hours and 30 min's and is still at 57%. Its only gonna get better cause the OS is still the highest thing draining my battery so its still pulling the stats. I think its good battery life.
Same as flashing any ROM. It takes a couple of days for the battery to settle into the ROM. The first couple of charge cycles are probably gonna be garbage. After a few days you should be fine. Don't worry about all the whiners.
I think people been exaggerating the battery drain.. It hasn't been bad.. Just gotta give stuff time to settle in and stop tweaking stuff and always changing up something... I been having great battery with heavy usage
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Personally, I have not had any issues. In fact, my battery life has significantly improved. I am still trying to pin down if it is app or ROM related.
So..... I should go from el29 to ff18?....
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moparfreak426 said:
So..... I should go from el29 to ff18?....
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moparfreak426 said:
So..... I should go from el29 to ff18?....
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Yeah man. Its great.sure stock is a little glithy and I had **** drain for like 4 days but I just flashed the goodness..dam its nice
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Yeah man. Its great.sure stock is a little glithy and I had **** drain for like 4 days but I just flashed the goodness..dam its nice
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What do you mean stock is blotchy but just flashed the goodness? Is ff18 not the latest stock? And is there a good one click to get ff18? I still haven't experienced ics yet. Had a motorola electrify with locked up tight bootloader and was cut of ex gf's plan, got a sprint Samsung galaxy s 2 and flagged it to page plus, now I know the did razr has problems not working on page plus after ics being put on it.... Should I expect same from my Sammy? And looking forward to jellybean
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battery life getting better
evoRomz said:
I havent received the ota yet. dont feel like manually doing it. im sure lots of people have had it for a few days now, wondering if some of you want to report how your battery has been? been hearing its just a huge drain. thanks
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It's improving as time goes on.
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What do you mean stock is blotchy but just flashed the goodness? Is ff18 not the latest stock? And is there a good one click to get ff18? I still haven't experienced ics yet. Had a motorola electrify with locked up tight bootloader and was cut of ex gf's plan, got a sprint Samsung galaxy s 2 and flagged it to page plus, now I know the did razr has problems not working on page plus after ics being put on it.... Should I expect same from my Sammy? And looking forward to jellybean
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English, learn to speak it.
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What do you mean stock is glitchy but just flashed the goodness? Is ff18 not the latest stock? And is there a good one click to get ff18? I still haven't experienced ics yet. Had a motorola electrify with locked up tight bootloader and was cut of ex girlfriend's plan, got a sprint Samsung galaxy s 2 and flashed it to page plus, now I know the droid razr has problems not working on page plus after ics being put on it.... Should I expect same from my Sammy? And looking forward to jellybean
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Always in a hurry, dang Swype.... Anyway here is corrected. So can I successfully one click ff18 to my phone now? Without any bad consequences such as losing my ability to have working mms and data being flashed to page plus?
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So im getting ready to send my phone In to samsung to fix and I flashed back entirely to stock and I am not rooted. Since I been on custom roms I havent noticed the cell stand by mis reading in the battery stats. My question is does that really have an affect on battery life is the cell standby fix just just for it to appear correct. I ask because im going to stay unrooted for a few days and im wondering if the bug will have an effect on my battery. Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
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Purely cosmetic. It wont give you an accurate reading is all. Wont affect how much battery it needs.
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Searching on google is fun, and easy,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27894085&postcount=6
I flashed this on jb with twrp so.. It should work with anything.
Edit. I think I totally misread, no no effect, flash that when you're back.
Thanks for the responses, really appreciate it. I figured it was cosmetic but just wanted to make sure. Thanks
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May be kinda early, but what rom from your experience has the best battery life
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Stock
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Stock
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STOCK.
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ardcifliku said:
STOCK.
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Stock with bloat..? Or no bloat orrrr whaattt
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twolfekc said:
May be kinda early, but what rom from your experience has the best battery life
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Honestly on stock I was losing 2-3% an hour on standby from the get go (even had google now and motion disabled) Flashed the Jedi 4 pre rom 3 days ago and now steadily lose 0.5 to 1.0% an hour on standby. Could just be me, but I'm getting much better battery life than stock now!
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Stock with bloat..? Or no bloat orrrr whaattt
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4 now I'm on stock not rooted. And im getting almost 2 days (not heavy using)
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Honestly on stock I was losing 2-3% an hour on standby from the get go (even had google now and motion disabled) Flashed the Jedi 4 pre rom 3 days ago and now steadily lose 0.5 to 1.0% an hour on standby. Could just be me, but I'm getting much better battery life than stock now!
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Quick question. What link did you use to root your phone. The one from chainfire or the other one from mskip.
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Stock with bloat... but I froze it. Then again, bloat has nothing to do with battery life, I just didn't like the icons in my app drawer, lol. I uninstalled the games that came with to free up additional space.
I have yet to see a single ROM that comes close to stock screen times or battery use screenshots. To be honest, I don't see the need for ROMs currently. Most people could do more with a launcher.
Yeah I feel ya. Kept going back to rooted stock, always seems to be better for some reason!! Anybody know why
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Yeah I feel ya. Kept going back to rooted stock, always seems to be better for some reason!! Anybody know why
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I think it's because Samsung bolts down a lot of their code, and it's very difficult to get everything working well once you start tinkering with it. From what I read, a lot of ROMs would fix one thing, and break another in the process.
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Quick question. What link did you use to root your phone. The one from chainfire or the other one from mskip.
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I used this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1955423
Any time I attempt to take a picture and all settings on auto including flash; the phone just completely shuts off as I take the pic. Happens only when flash turns on for the pic.
Any one else experience this, might only happen if battery level is under 50%.. Never happened with ics, only after my stock JB update
Only happens when picture is of something close up...very strange.
Tis an isolated incident my lad. Maybe is time for ye to ROOT!!!
If you ever get a clock with the wrong time on occasion it might be the RTC battery. If the flashlight kills it also it could be a flex cable coming loose.
If you hard reboot by holding power and the LED flashes it is a bad capacitor on the board.
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96shox said:
Any time I attempt to take a picture of something close up, and all settings on auto including flash; the phone just completely shuts off as I take the pic. Happens only when flash turns on for the pic.
Any one else experience this, might only happen if battery level is under 50%.. Never happened with ics, only after my stock JB update
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Happens alot to people with low battery
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richardlibeau said:
Happens alot to people with low battery
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30 to 40% is considered low..?
96shox said:
30 to 40% is considered low..?
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No usually under 20% . You can try another gallery apk from another rom and sometimes that fixes it too.
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96shox said:
30 to 40% is considered low..?
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Mine normally does it anytime under %50 kinda sucls
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Yeah I've had this issue on all of the jelly bean roms.. Twiz and aosp based. Only happens to me when I'm under 30% battery or so. It is annoying..
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PJcastaldo said:
Yeah I've had this issue on all of the jelly bean roms.. Twiz and aosp based. Only happens to me when I'm under 30% battery or so. It is annoying..
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That sucks, i hope they fix it... Because coupled with the fact that jb also destroyed my battery life, this is just ridiculous. Be better off with no up date