Greetings.
I was planning on buy the phone up there in the title, but I have a few questions:
1. I've read statements saying that you both can and can't use P930's Rom's on it. Would it be possible or not?
2. In most screenshots I've seen, the 4G / LTE icon is chilling on the status bar. Is it an always on (even if you don't have it) kind of thing, or can you turn the radio off at will? My current service doesn't have LTE nor do I plan to get it in any nearby future.
Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Dark_Az_ said:
Greetings.
I was planning on buy the phone up there in the title, but I have a few questions:
1. I've read statements saying that you both can and can't use P930's Rom's on it. Would it be possible or not?
2. In most screenshots I've seen, the 4G / LTE icon is chilling on the status bar. Is it an always on (even if you don't have it) kind of thing, or can you turn the radio off at will? My current service doesn't have LTE nor do I plan to get it in any nearby future.
Thanks in advance to all who reply.
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I have the bell optimus 4g lte from bell but its technically a p930. I can tell you that this phone can be set to use lte if available, or fall back to 3g if necessary, or just use 3g, or use 2g as well I believe.
From my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have to port a p930 rom; I believe its as simple as dragging a few folders from one ROM to another to get it to work, so long as someone has made a port of cm to work off for your device which I think they have. If possible, push for the p930 though, and try to get one with GB, and not updated to stock ICS or you'll have to unbrick to load ROMs (at least on the p930) as it locks the bootloader.
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First off, thank you for the very quick reply.
Very good news that you can turn off the LTE, should allow for some battery saving. Sadly I live in Portugal, where it was already hard enough to find a shop with this version. The P930 is completely off the map in these lands.
If I do end up buying it, I'll spend a good week just soaking up info on it before I actually try any flashing shenanigans and even if I can't it's not that big a deal (coming from a Xperia Live With Walkman, 1.0Ghz single core with 512 ram. Even unoptimized this should feel like a Ferrari compared to it).
My only issues were the LTE radio, which will be turned off all the time, and the battery life itself (which I forgot to ask about). For somone who doesn't game, and will use the mobile for rare calls, most SMS's and emails, and the occasional 1h sessions of websurfing or video viewing, what battery duration would I get?
Dark_Az_ said:
First off, thank you for the very quick reply.
Very good news that you can turn off the LTE, should allow for some battery saving. Sadly I live in Portugal, where it was already hard enough to find a shop with this version. The P930 is completely off the map in these lands.
If I do end up buying it, I'll spend a good week just soaking up info on it before I actually try any flashing shenanigans and even if I can't it's not that big a deal (coming from a Xperia Live With Walkman, 1.0Ghz single core with 512 ram. Even unoptimized this should feel like a Ferrari compared to it).
My only issues were the LTE radio, which will be turned off all the time, and the battery life itself (which I forgot to ask about). For somone who doesn't game, and will use the mobile for rare calls, most SMS's and emails, and the occasional 1h sessions of websurfing or video viewing, what battery duration would I get?
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i have a telus version p935 and on the box it says p935 but i opened the phone to replace a digitizer before and every part in the phone that has a tag says p930, pretty sure it's just the box that says p935.
i may be wrong but i have never had a problem flashing any rom that says p930
i also used a digitizer that was made for p930 and it works flawlessly
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i have a telus version p935 and on the box it says p935 but i opened the phone to replace a digitizer before and every part in the phone that has a tag says p930, pretty sure it's just the box that says p935.
i may be wrong but i have never had a problem flashing any rom that says p930
i also used a digitizer that was made for p930 and it works flawlessly
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Oh.. Well there you go. :thumbup:
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Yep I believe 930 and 935 are nearly identicle if not 100% ....most ROMs will day for p93x meaning they work for either version. As far as battery life that will vary greatly depending on the ROM, settings, and kind of use. You should get a minimum of ten hours of medium use (roughly two hours of screen on time) Here's my usage for today. Keep in mind I use the device as WiFi only so airplane mode and WiFi have been on the whole time.
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All the P93x Versions are the same. You have to differentiate only with SU... I have a P936 myself and have had no problems with flashing P930 Cyanogenmod and all recommendations for P930 apply to the P936.
My recommendation is: Take a RC from CM 10.1 (currently no stable version exists) and flash the latest Wind Kernel (has to be for CM 10.1). I have around 26 hours of battery life (I turn on airplane mode when I go to sleep). I turned on airplane mode when it was fully charged. 6 hours later it was still at 100%. That is a big difference compared to CM 10.1 before the RCs. I haven't tested the battery life of the new RCs (3-4) but i heard they improved a lot. My Usage can be compared to yours: I surf the web like 2 hours a day, have push e-mail turned on (from 2 exchange servers) synchronize with my yahoo web mail account and gmail. I don't have any energy save app installed and i don't think it is necessary when you go with wind kernel.
Hope this helps!
Many thanks for the input bumbum.droid, that puts me much more at ease. I'll have a final search to see if I can still find a LG 4X HD anywhere and if not I'll go for this one.
Thanks everyone for the answers.
I've a p936 in PT the only thing you need to worry about is which baseband the ROM you are installing has.
You can get 4G/LTE from Vodafone in some locations, the battery will suffer a bit.
Also take into consideration most ROMs available are either from US region or Asia, and with those you will have bad reception, to fix that there is a thread around with all the basebands available, just flash the German one, since all 3g and 4g frequencies are the same within Europe you will be OK.
Regarding battery, get used to charge your phone every day or every two days if you have low screen usage, personally the best battery I got was from LG liquid nitro v7 with wind kernel, and got me around 3h-4h of screen on time
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Can anyone share baseband files from V20 ROM P936?
I'm currently parted from my normal PC, when I get it back I can share them with you, it will take about 7 days though
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Well, ended up getting lucky and did found a LG 4X for about €20 more than the P936, which ended up as the better option.
Still, and once again, many thanks for all who took their time to answer.
Is the 4x Better? Just curious what's better screen and processor wise
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Main differences between the two are a slightly bigger screen (from 4.5 to 4.7, but same resolution), 16GB internal, Quad-Core 1.5Ghz A9 with Tegra 3, and a bit more battery life with 2150mHa.
Here's a comparison between them
The main difference between 4X and P936 is absence of LTE in first, and also simple IPS display instead of much more better AH-IPS in P936. The 2150 mAh battery doesn't really helps Quad-Core Tegra3 to last longer, but SoC is indeed somewhat faster in benches. But the screen difference is much more perceptible than benchmark scores
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I was one of the first on the EVO band wagon with Sprint..
After a long time, of promising me 4G and waiting for the Galaxy Nexus to come out for Sprint.. I'm not waiting any longer..
T-Mobile is giving away GSII 's this weekend.. and I'm making the switch..
Looking for some tips and tricks here..
I know the phone is much faster than my EVO..
What are some things I should know about this phone?
T-Mobiles service is lightning fast for a glorified 3G (HSPA)
My EVO is rooted and I'm running Cyanogen Rom..
I would like to Root my GSII and eventually within a few weeks put a ROM on it..
Now.. Is it all basically the same? Rom manager? Reboot into recovery ? RA,Clockwork?
Flash zips?
How is the battery life? I deal with pretty good Battery life with my EVO.. after much time with messing with Kernels and such..
How is the Camera? Pictures looked great from me playing with it...
Duel Core 1.5 CPU ?? Seems awesome.. Galaxy Nexus is only 1.2 or something..
Screen quality as well looks amazing!!
Anything else you guys can tell me about this phone, I would appreciate it ,..
THANKS
Yup, its probably the same but you need to use odin and download mode to root.
Battery life is 12 hours for me with medium usage, and with lil usage it can last up to 30~ hours.
Camera is fine. I personally find it better than any phone i had, just dont zoom when taking pictures.
1.5 ghz doesnt mean anything, Uk's GS2 is 1.2 ghz but atleast 20% faster than ours.
Hey dude, I was in the same boat as you. I had a HTC Evo running Cyanogen, too. I just got my SG2 last Friday and everything was pretty painless in terms of getting everything done. There were a few things that were confusing and frustrating, but it's really really easy to root and everything.
First thing you're going to want to do is follow this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332103
The first time you get into Odin and recovery and everything can be frustrating, so you're going to want to keep your battery cover off in the mean time until you can flash the recovery onto there and all that jazz.
Once you've got recovery installed and rooted, you can start flashing ROMs. The ROM I'm using is Juggernaut, which you can find here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322642. It's got the most features, in my opinion, and runs rock solid. One thing I like about it is that I can reboot into recovery while in the ROM, so I don't have to shut it off, do the key presses to get in there. Makes it way easier when flashing new themes, etc. etc. After putting on a custom ROM, I moved on to flashing a theme, which brings Gingerbread up to look like ICS. I used this theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341526.
In terms of battery life, I'm constantly texting with vibration on, using 3G/4G to listen to music and browse the web. I'm starting at about 8 or 8:30 am and get done with work at about 3 or 4, and by the time I get home I'm sitting at like 35 or 40% charge. This is on the Bullet kernel that comes with the Juggernaut ROM. In terms of the speed of the processor, it's fast. Really fast - better than the one we have in the EVO. The camera is awesome, too. I use a program called HDR Camera+ to do HDR pics, and it's awesome. Cost $3.99 int he market, but the stock camera takes awesome pictures, too. Videos on it are awesome. Here's one I took last night to show a friend the colour changing on my new gaming keyboard using the stock camera program to record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geiPjeNjfiU
Sure I'll answer! Hi, and welcome to the sgs2 T-Mobile section!
1: you should know the phone has a way better screen then the evo, hmm probably lacking devs, since there were probably many for the evo. No issues honestly. GPS calls etc. Perfect. Well close to.
2: yes, rom manager, clockwork, etc same flashable zip
3: battery life is something you don't have to worry about, the evo battery sucked, HTC+battery is a no go.
4: camera is ehh, better than the nexus, but not better than the original sgs2.
5: 1.5 vs 1.2 actually the nexus is faster than our phone, but you can't tell much.
6: I mean from the sgs 2 to the evo is a big jump, honestly you'll enjoy this phone!
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Yep.. i'm pretty excited..
Few more questions if you guys don't mind..
How does it score on "Quadrant" ?
Finally, since we're all using T-mobile here.. My fathers co-worker just got this phone as well .. and on a speedtest he is averaging anywhere from 4-10 down and 2-4 up
To me, that seems incredible.. Actually, it seems almost TOO FAST.. as if its just going to show those speeds on the initial speed test, then slow down. ??
I use about 4-5 gigs a month, I use Slingplayer,Netflix,HBOGO, sportstracker live, and many other bandwidth dependent programs..
With those speeds all those I just listed would work flawlessly ....
Is it accurate? Are you guys happy with the speeds??
EDIT** Also, I assume I can get rid of the bloatware and other stuff Samsung puts on these phones with a rom?? Right?
EDIT #2.. lol
No ICS roms yet?
Will ICS come out for this phone?? I assume its more than powerful enough.. No leaked versions yet? I mean, the EVO already has one.. Very alpha stage, but still...
I just got the white tmobile version from the sprint version which I loved but both 3G/4G suck balls.....so I made the flip I use sprint for voice only 30bucks a month.....then I got the $30 5GB 100min on tmobile....my 4G speeds are very fast between 11-22mpbs !!! I barley got 3mpbs on sprint 4G........performance wise I knew the processor was different and went almost looking for a lesser experience ..but hpnestly I really dont notice any difference at all...Im happy with the setup I have and making my cell phone plans work for me and not get screwed by carriers
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THanks..
I just realized.. NO google wallet for this phone..
Husam2011 said:
Yup, its probably the same but you need to use odin and download mode to root.
Battery life is 12 hours for me with medium usage, and with lil usage it can last up to 30~ hours.
Camera is fine. I personally find it better than any phone i had, just dont zoom when taking pictures.
1.5 ghz doesnt mean anything, Uk's GS2 is 1.2 ghz but atleast 20% faster than ours.
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wrong
if you run exynos 1.2ghz and compare it to our 1.5, they should run around the same speeds
the amazing part is that wheny ou oc the exynos to 1.6, then it'd be faster than ours when we oc our snapdragon to 1.8
I also just jumped ship from sprint w/ an EVO. Now on T-Mobile w/ Galaxy S II. Loving it so far though i expected a larger development scene for the device, seems like the other GS II models have been getting a bit more love as far as custom rom development goes. Is they're any reason for this? Besides technical development setback's of course.
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Pretty much the galaxy nexus and ics development slowed down a lot of development...it hasnt stopped development, just slowed it down. There are still a lot of devs working on this device.
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Husam2011 said:
Yup, its probably the same but you need to use odin and download mode to root.
Battery life is 12 hours for me with medium usage, and with lil usage it can last up to 30~ hours.
Camera is fine. I personally find it better than any phone i had, just dont zoom when taking pictures.
1.5 ghz doesnt mean anything, Uk's GS2 is 1.2 ghz but atleast 20% faster than ours.
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The camera does zoom, use pinch to zoom in and out..
I have about 3 hours of screen on time and play games and what not and do about 14 hours
As for the exynos being "faster" this is just not true.. the processor is not faster nor does it compute any more or less. the only thing it has over us is the GPU is much better. However there is no game that is able to tax what we have so it doesn't matter..
As for quadrants I have gotten between 3000 and 4000 depending on the setup at the time. but I would prefer 2500 and a smooth device over a 4000 and jumpy menus..
And t Mo's 4G < or 3G what ever> is great, especially when you compare it to Sprints pathetic speeds. I get between 13 and 20 mbps down and over 2 mbps up.. not to far off of LTE.
Well said.
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I also switched over to Tmobile from Sprint last year and agree about sprints Wimax being pathetic compared to tmobiles hspa. I loved my evo but customer service and 4g for Sprint was garbage. And the sgs2 is by far the best phone out right now
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Hi there,
i just got my new Nexus and i'm a little upset about how it behaves.
before i had the galaxy note, testing it for about 1 week. i was very happy with the notes connectivity (GSM / HSPA+ / WiFi) and its really great screen.
however, it was just to big to operate it with one hand and didn't do it for me so i switched to the nexus. Now to the problems i'm faceing:
- GSM / HSPA+ seems to keep switching all the time for no reason? Didn't have that problem with the note tought.
- With the Galaxy Note i had a H+ inducator telling me i'm on HSPA+ and i had like HSPA+ nearly all the time. now i only (at best) get a H indicator. I checked if i'm owning the GSM & HSPA+ version and since the device name is "yakju" i'm quite sure i got it. Is the indicator missing because there simply is no indicator for HSPA+ on the nexus or is it missing because i'm not getting a HSPA+ connection? What could cause this?
- The connection quality of the nexsus seems very poor compared to the galaxy note. can anybody verify that or is it only me haveing troubles? Example: i allways had bad connection within my kitchen (Desire HD previously). I even replaced my SIM with no luck. With the Note ALL MY CONNECTION PROBLEMS were just gone! Cristal-clear calls, no interruptions (even thought the signal indicator was showing only 1-2 bars out of 4)
- The AMOLED Display of the nexsus is not nearly as sharp as the notes one. Also, when pulling the brightness level down to about 20% i get "smudge" on the screen
- when i use the ICS Live wallpaper my desktop starts lagging when i rotate between the views. is that normal? i had the official ICS live wallpaper on the desire HD, which had only one core, and it didn't lag at all (even with particles turned up to lot higher values then the default)
- Yesterday my Nexus just turned off (I'm not talking about the reboot bug, which i also haved faced like 5 times allready) and for like 1 hour i was unable to turn it on. I tried to remove the battery for like 5 minutes, putting it back in, plugging the charger in and trying to boot the device: no reaction, just nothing! After like 30 tries it suddenly just booted again, DOH!
- even thought as far as i know ICS 4.0.4 has been rolled out allready, i still got no update pushed to my phone (still on 4.0.1 ITL41D). is that normal?
Could anybody please help me to find out if that's normal? I still could replace my Nexus if its broken.
P.s.: I'm on the T-mobile net, germany.
Upgrade to 4.0.4, this will solve your issues. If you don't want to wait for it to be pushed to your phone search on the forum for a 'how to'.
Its just you.... I don't have these problems.. my nexus just shut it self down twice...everything else is perfect... the connextiom issue is odd... because I seem to get full signal everywhere except in the bathroom
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first off, thanks for the answers so far.
manual update to 4.0.4 would need rooting, which voilates waranty.
so i have to wait till it comes over the air. (thought, i'm on 4.0.2 since about 2 hours now. no noticeable improovements.)
what i found out so far is that i'm currently on HSPA at best (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7893188&postcount=10 HSPA:11 indicator) which is shown by a H indicator at the notification bar.
however, i didn't see H+ indicator.
so: looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Nexus the Nexus does have HSPA+. Looking at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Nexus is sais it dosn't have!
Whats right? Is there a version without HSPA+?
What about the other problems i'm faceing:
- low GSM / HSDPA connectivity, continious switching between modes
- low performance when using the official ICS wallpaper (even thought benchmarks say everything's fine with the device itself, the wallpaper has a visible lag compared to "static" wallpapers)
would be great you guys could provide me bit more feedback if its just me so i can decide if i want to replace my nexus with a new one.
Hey,
Before carrying on I am fully rooted which may be why I don't have your Issues.
Signal wise I have noticed that the galaxy nexus' signal is slightly weaker compared to some of the other phones I have owned more noticeably poor and voice call quality is good. Perhaps a signal check in your area or call your service provider to see if they can run a signal diagnostic on your handset to see if anything faulty.
As for h+ I did a little Google of this and found another xda forum post. From what I can see there is no + symbol on the nexus and everyone gets just the H symbol.
As for your lag I agree certain ones will create slower scrolling however that's only crazy cpu intensive wallpapers. The ones he phone came with and nexus revamped etc create no Lagg for me.
Maybe your having a little more issues with your handset than I am, I know there has been a lot of issues but as people have said they are solved with the updates. Maybe look at rooting? Generally speaking it gets rid of all issues and you can always flash back to stock if needs be?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
Ow I'm using gsm nexus on vodafone in the UK
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jordanprudent said:
Signal wise I have noticed that the galaxy nexus' signal is slightly weaker compared to some of the other phones I have owned[...]
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jordanprudent said:
Perhaps a signal check in your area or call your service provider to see if they can run a signal diagnostic on your handset to see if anything faulty.
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did that already. about 20KM around me i got 100% GSM, UMTS, HSDPA and even LTE coverage. Also like i said before: the galaxy note was like 100% better in terms of signal strenght and voice quallity.
any infos about the signal switching issue i got or does anyone know how the nexus switching algorithm works? i read that it only turns on HSPA+ when loading much data and switchs back down to UMTS / HSDPA later on, to save energy.
does it behave like this for GSM / HSDPA / UMTS transitions as well?
in generell i got like -100dB signal with my nexus here at my place. with the note i had like -70 up to like -80dB (so yeah, its really like 100-150% worse in terms of signal strength)
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As for h+ I did a little Google of this and found another xda forum post. From what I can see there is no + symbol on the nexus and everyone gets just the H symbol.
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but does it show HSPA:11 or HSPA:13 within the settings --> info --> signal info? HSPA:11 (what i get) is not HSPA+ as far as i can tell.
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The ones he phone came with and nexus revamped etc create no Lagg for me.
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well "lag" might be miss leading. the scrolling is a lot "SLOWER". when i scroll with a static wall in the back i get nearly instand feedback. using the ICS wallpaper there is a feedback gap of about 2,5 - 5 ms AND the transitions are not that smooth (looks like way less FPS, but to realize that it would meen that the FPS drop down to below 24FPS or atleast down to 30FPS)
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Generally speaking it gets rid of all issues and you can always flash back to stock if needs be?
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hmm is it possible to flash back to stock? the only way i found to flash roms manually is always using the CWM bootloader, but how to get rid of the CWM if i want to go back to stock later on?
maybe i just didn't find it and there is a way to load the 4.0.4 rom using the official bootloader (which i would perfer)
Honestly the only way for you to attempt to solve any of these issues is to root. If you are not willing then there is not a whole lot of advice anyone can give.
You can easily flash back to 100% stock if you needed to. People do all the time for warranty replacement. Some unethically, but that's a different conversation. The point is you can.
You have to decide whether or not to unlock the bootloader and root. If not, your only option is to replace it. If your willing then its already been said what you should try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24190820
Hope you can get it worked out.
Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Galaxy Nexus.
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Honestly the only way for you to attempt to solve any of these issues is to root.
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yeh thats not the problem. i would root for sure if i know the problems i got are solved.
i'm just trying to figure out if its a hardware bug / manufacturing error and if it makes sense to replace it.
repleaceing means like waiting 1 week till the new one arrives + it dosn't mean that the new one will not have other bugs which i've seen here in the forums (AMOLED display bugs for example)
updated to 4.0.4.
poor connectivity remains. doh.
masiminder said:
updated to 4.0.4.
poor connectivity remains. doh.
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Do you use a cellphone case?
Because with the case I use, I don't get any signal here at all ... without the case I get better signal than I ever had before in my flat.
Also you could try flashing another radio.
Maybe its a tower issue.
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just one small insight for the op: rooting violates warranty? LOL. You don't know what you're talking about. Nope, even with locked bootloaders it's possible to root some ics versions (up to 4.0.3). Hell, you can unlock and relock the bootloader (which allows for custom roms) by using fastboot, which doesn't phone home in any way. You don't loose your warranty on a nexus phone, unless you manage to **** up the only way available to fully recover it (usb, volume rocker, power button) which is through fastboot.
change radios. your NOTE was not running ICS, and it's a SAMSUNG phone, which surely has tweaked UI/interface/radio etc. It could even be showing full strenght when it's not at full strenght, for all we know.. -70dBm NOTE, -100dBm Nexus - and you say it's 100%/150% difference? are you sure?
return the phone if you feel it's not working for you and your area of residence.
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just one small insight for the op: rooting violates warranty? LOL. You don't know what you're talking about. Nope, even with locked bootloaders it's possible to root some ics versions (up to 4.0.3). Hell, you can unlock and relock the bootloader (which allows for custom roms) by using fastboot, which doesn't phone home in any way. You don't loose your warranty on a nexus phone, unless you manage to **** up the only way available to fully recover it (usb, volume rocker, power button) which is through fastboot.
change radios.
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yeah i found out about the fastboot method and used it. i was not aware of that option.
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your NOTE was not running ICS, and it's a SAMSUNG phone, which surely has tweaked UI/interface/radio etc. It could even be showing full strenght when it's not at full strenght, for all we know.. -70dBm NOTE, -100dBm Nexus - and you say it's 100%/150% difference? are you sure?
return the phone if you feel it's not working for you and your area of residence.
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thats right, but the nexus is also manufactured by samsung so they provide the drivers, don't they?
about the dB: i forgot, we're talking about dBm here so 3dB should be like 100% drop / gain.
so no, i'm not sure anymore. but as far as i remember when i check the note it had about 80dB while the nexus is around 95-105dB.
anyway, are there any better radios for the nexus t-mobile germany ATM?
i would love to try them out.
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Do you use a cellphone case?
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i dont have any cellphone case except a display protection. i never dropped a phone in the past 5 years so i see no point in cases.
well, searching the web for the last 4 hours i decided to send my nexus back and buy another phone.
it seems there are alot of people out there haveing poor signal. updateing to other roms or radios didnt fix their problems.
one guy even sais he had 3 galaxy nexus and very poor signal (-107dBm) compared to his razzor maxx (-80dBm) with all of the nexus'.
seems to be a hardware problem. since my desire HD sucked in terms of radio too and i really dont need a phone that's unable to call i'll send it back.
after all i know its not me (galaxy note worked like a charm - so no provider and location issue) and its not the rom / radio. after searching the web i'm very sure its not "only my device".
maybe the guys saying they got no problems got a (rare?) working manufacturing batch or are on LTE (which i'm not).
the nexus signal just seems to be poor. and i think no update's gonna change that.
so i send it back and will grap the galaxy SIII when it's released within the next weeks. till then i'll use my nokia e65, which is like 100 years old but atleast has signal.
masiminder said:
well, searching the web for the last 4 hours i decided to send my nexus back and buy another phone.
it seems there are alot of people out there haveing poor signal. updateing to other roms or radios didnt fix their problems.
one guy even sais he had 3 galaxy nexus and very poor signal (-107dBm) compared to his razzor maxx (-80dBm) with all of the nexus'.
seems to be a hardware problem. since my desire HD sucked in terms of radio too and i really dont need a phone that's unable to call i'll send it back.
after all i know its not me (galaxy note worked like a charm - so no provider and location issue) and its not the rom / radio. after searching the web i'm very sure its not "only my device".
maybe the guys saying they got no problems got a (rare?) working manufacturing batch or are on LTE (which i'm not).
the nexus signal just seems to be poor. and i think no update's gonna change that.
so i send it back and will grap the galaxy SIII when it's released within the next weeks. till then i'll use my nokia e65, which is like 100 years old but atleast has signal.
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I am on T-Mobile Germany and as said, better signal than any other phone I ever had. (iPhone, Nokia, Motorola)
UGLA4 gave me the best result so far
I want to pick up a nitro, I'm wondering if there is a stable ics 4.0 rom for it yet. i see the akop rom but it says it has issues with video and the video camera. are there any other roms that run pretty close if not perfectly. thanks for the input
There's cm9 nightly.
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do the p930 roms work on the lg nitro?
The P930 IS the Nitro HD AND the Optimus LTE
Same phone, same hardware.
oh sorry i thought one was the international version, fantastic. nitro on the way! have you guys been able to pull off acceptable battery life? its incredible the size of the battery in this thing and how poor the bl is
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oh sorry i thought one was the international version, fantastic. nitro on the way! have you guys been able to pull off acceptable battery life? its incredible the size of the battery in this thing and how poor the bl is
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Some say battery life is bad. in stock rom, heck yeah, but then it gets better. i just went with an extended 3800 mAh battery and its doing me great on stock rom. just ran 14 hours on it (under heavy usage)
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oh sorry i thought one was the international version, fantastic. nitro on the way! have you guys been able to pull off acceptable battery life? its incredible the size of the battery in this thing and how poor the bl is
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International version is p936 for which there is a .kdz rom usable on the p930 (all variants) but that will unfortunately prevent the possibility to root
Battery life isn't that bad for me, but I've rooted the phone and disabled, with no bloat free, all the at&t packages + few others.
I usually (with normal use and letting the phone on 24/7) get 3 days with 2 charges.. so a day and half per charge or so.
When I use it more intensely I detach it from charger in the morning and reattach it before going to sleep which is acceptable for me because it doesn't die on me during the day.
got it!! the latest cm9 nightly installed, so far so good,the screen is a little narrower than id like, but it does make it nice to hold. so heres the first day with battery, lets see how it goes. thanks for the help guys i think this may be something to hold me over till the htc one x gets a little cheaper.
8mile lol true. Battery life is not that bad on the nitro. And if it was then an extended battery would work even bettrt
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If you bought this phone, you've made a huge mistake. I just got HTC One X and despite the fact that it only has 16gb storage (10gb available), no SD card slot and no removable battery, it punches Nitro in the face to the ground and then finishes it by kicking in the nuts.
I've been using this phone for two days so far, have restored all apps/settings as on Nitro and used it exactly the same way (slacker radio + sporty pal for at least 2 hours), it lasts me 10 hours without recharge, while Nitro would die in 3 hours with just these two apps running!!!
Besides some minor software glitches (over aggressive memory management and crackling sounds when switching apps) I can't find anything bad about this phone...and I'm a very picky person when it comes to quality...
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Just got my one x. Incredible phone.
i would say nitro probably has the best screen so far in all android phones.
definitely
How is the build quality of this phone? Anyone encounter any hardware problems?
I currently have a Galaxy s2(Sprint). I've never owned an LG device and the galaxy forums rarely have anything good to say about LG. I'm not here to start a fight or bash phone manufacturers.
With the announcement of the Optimus Lte2 and Eclipse Lte specs, I am rather intrigued. Thanks in advance.
build quality is excellent. My favorite out of all the LTE devices at&t has. Nice grippy back Vivid is too heavy, skyrocket feels too plasticky to me. Nice medium on the nitro.
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I second that. I think LG has some very good build quality. The reason people are so hostile toward LG on this site is not clear to me, but it's certainly true that LG does not have particularly good dev support.
On the plus side, none of their devices are NAND locked as far as I know, which is nice after coming from an HTC phone.
I generally like to try a lot of phones. And finally sold my 4s for 550 and bought a new nitro in box for 250. Best decision ever.
Spent 2 usd unlocking it and 20 bucks for the extended battery. Rooting it was a pain but finally succeeded. Now happily enjoying cm9. Love this phone as much as I loved my galaxy nexus. This phone is totally underrated for reasons unknown to me. Its quick, great screen and nice build quality. No issues with any of the radios (my infuse used to struggle to get a GPS lock). I finally feel like I am not going to switch phones for a while as this has everything m looking for.
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i would say nitro probably has the best screen so far in all android phones.
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I am currently switching back and forth from ATT one X to my nitro (I'm a phone geek). The one x screen rapes the nitro screen. You'd have to use one to understand. That said, the one x screen is too big for my taste.
http://www.amazon.com/Unlocked-Smar...UCKW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336983044&sr=8-1
Wanted to get the Nitro for my mother. Since it's unlocked, will it work with T mobile's network?
@sewhuy,
Afaik, nobody here has reported yea or nay on the Nitro working on Tmobile's data. You'd definitely get phone service and at least GSM 2G/Edge, but you may not get your full HSPA+. I did hear that Tmobile was enabling the 1900 band, though, in some markets, so it's possible you might be able to use it just fine.
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@sewhuy,
Afaik, nobody here has reported yea or nay on the Nitro working on Tmobile's data. You'd definitely get phone service and at least GSM 2G/Edge, but you may not get your full HSPA+. I did hear that Tmobile was enabling the 1900 band, though, in some markets, so it's possible you might be able to use it just fine.
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Cool, as long as she's able to make phone calls. She's been using my old iphone 3gs for the past several years and now her screen has become unresponsive. She mainly uses the phone to check weather and take pictures of her grand children. Since the device has a good display, I am sure she will enjoy the Nitro. I'm just glad she's not one of those high maintainance facebooking grandmothers. Thanks for the input
Hey all.
I've been an AT&T Hox owner since day one and I've really enjoyed this device. Battery life is insanely good, consistently getting over 24 hours usage and 5 hours on screen time. I am uprooted and on the stock rom.
I've been thinking about getting the int Hox because it seems to be getting a lot of updates and has a lot of developer support. HTC and AT&T aren't saying anything about the customs issue which is undoubtedly affecting sales. Rumors even have it that AT&T may stop selling the phone altogether. If that's true then I pretty much have a dead phone, especially since this variant is NOT the One XL int model.
I am not willing to give up the amazing battery life at the cost of benchmark scores. My phone is a tool and I need it to last a long time. What are typical battery stats of the int Hox out of the box? I also don't want to root and flash all kinds of roms until I get good battery life. Thanks for the help.
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There are plenty of threads regarding battery life. I'll be getting my International ONE X by Friday, I'll give you stats then. I'll be using it on Red Pocket (AT&T MVNO)
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What are typical battery stats of the int Hox out of the box?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1579392
I'm doing the same. I should have ordered the international One X in the first place.
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I'm doing the same. I should have ordered the international One X in the first place.
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I'm not willing to give up the good battery life though. On the int Hox it seems to vary greatly from device to device. But even on HSPA+ its not as good as the LTE model.
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I'm doing the same. I should have ordered the international One X in the first place.
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The international One X would not have LTE if used on AT&T, right?
And it would have significantly worse battery life b/c it uses Tegra 3?
Would the custom ROMs available on the international One X make the battery life equivalent to the at&t model which uses the S4?
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The international One X would not have LTE if used on AT&T, right?
And it would have significantly worse battery life b/c it uses Tegra 3?
Would the custom ROMs available on the international One X make the battery life equivalent to the at&t model which uses the S4?
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No on the LTE, but I have no idea when LTE is coming here anyway
Battery life is important, but I am not away from chargers long enough to worry about it.
I like the 32 GB of storage vs 16 and the unlocked bootloader and the development that is in place here.
I'm the other way around, I had the Tegra3 HOX 2 weeks ago because I didn't want to wait anymore, but I was waiting for the S4 version to come
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There are plenty of threads regarding battery life. I'll be getting my International ONE X by Friday, I'll give you stats then. I'll be using it on Red Pocket (AT&T MVNO)
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I have what you're going to get. battery life is awesome, and everything is good. I just dont like the 2GB data cap on redpocket, but will be switching to straight talk unlimited everything for $45. dont go with redpocket, go with straight talk
I've had my HOX international for a couple weeks but didn't stay stock long enough to tell you how your battery life would be. On ARHD 6.0.0 with faux123 002b3 kernel, I am typically seeing 15-18 hours with around 2.5hrs screen time, 2-3hrs playing MP3, 15 min fetch email on 3 accounts, 100 text, 20 min talk, and a little browsing. Meets my needs just fine and the 26gb available vs 9gb on the HOXL really makes the HOX the more prudent device to own. It's just going to get better as software updates and development continues.
The only negatives for the International version are the battery life and no LTE. For me, I don't care about the LTE, and hopefully the rom dev's can do some improvements to the battery life (especially when using the camera).
The advantages of the International version are the 32gb, the speed and it's not limited by US carriers.
However, honestly I don't think either is that much better to switch from one to the other. There are positives and negatives of both and the negatives can circumvented other ways (power packs, cloud storage, portable wifi storage (whatever that thing is called), etc.).
I do have a great idea for the power problem... make a holster that has a usb input outside with the pushpin connectors (whatever they're called) inside. You plug a power pack into the holster and put it in your pocket... then every time you holster it, it'll charge the phone. Another option would be a slightly bigger holster that has its own power pack. You'd have to do some slightly tricky curve around the bottom for the pushpins because you wouldn't want the phone screen facing out, but it looks doable.
Wow im in the same boat as you guys pretty much lol, i just ordered the international version because i was tired of the almost no dev support on the phone (one xl), plus the 16gb storage with only like 8gb usable was getting to me ...
im a bit nervous for battery life thats it, because the one xl did have amazing battery life. best ive ever seen on a phone and the reports on this tegra 3 seem conflicting.
oh well, hoping for the best!
You can always carry a 10000mah external power pack for $50.
You can't add 16gb or turn a dual-core into a quad-core.
I had the AT&T HOX and was pretty unhappy with it. The SMS bug was annoying and there were a few other things.
Since picking up the International version, I have been much happier. I don't know what it is, but it just seems better. As to battery life: I have been pleasantly surprised. My experience is that the Int version does better when idling. So, all that time it's in your pocket, it's using no juice. That's kind of nice. It means when you pull it out of your pocket, there are no surprises. It pretty much has as much juice as it had when you put it away.
With a few hours of screen time, I'm still getting around 14 hours off the charger.
My battery life is awesome. I get a full day with good usage on my part.
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Z51 said:
I have what you're going to get. battery life is awesome, and everything is good. I just dont like the 2GB data cap on redpocket, but will be switching to straight talk unlimited everything for $45. dont go with redpocket, go with straight talk
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Straight talk throttles at 2GB. Good luck getting "unlimited".
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As to battery life: I have been pleasantly surprised. My experience is that the Int version does better when idling. So, all that time it's in your pocket, it's using no juice.
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It depends on what you're running. I ran it a day with really no apps on stock and the battery seemed great. After moving to a custom rom and installing all the apps, not so much. I run a number of apps that do polling or transferring of data, which I assume is why there are always a big discrepancy in battery reports. For instance, i run touchdown which is constantly polling my work email (and I get a lot of work email), dropbox which syncs my pictures, an IM client or two (depending on what i'm doing at the time work/etc), etc. Of course, I could not run those apps and get better battery life, but then, I could also go back to using a blackberry if I want to do nothing with my phone. From what I see on the forums, this phone does seem to do better with media and 'on demand' functionality, I think its just people who run a lot of background processes that experience the battery issue. Don't get me wrong, it's not an issue with this phone in particular, but rather battery technology. I've just changed my habits from carrying a couple extra batteries to a portable battery charger. Though, the batteries were a little easier to deal with, but whatever.
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Straight talk throttles at 2GB. Good luck getting "unlimited".
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I honestly don't use the web that much. At work I'm on WiFi and also at home. Only place my data gets used is my gfs house, and even then I'm too busy to use the phone because of sexy Time purposes lol
I'd rather be throttled then cutoff like I would be with red pocket
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I have bought the nitro HD one week ago, it work fine but now its battery run out extremely fast: after one night, it lost 15%. When i play game (dead space) for 30 minute, it lost 40% battery, no background apps, screen 40% brightness, i restored to stock rom which only lost 1% after one night but nothing change
i want to buy this phone... i suppose that the battery drain is by.. LTE connecction..!
TRy to get a 3g or 2g connection..!
or try to test.. with airplane mode.. and test again...!
and tell us how do you feel the phone nowadays
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I have bought the nitro HD one week ago, it work fine but now its battery run out extremely fast: after one night, it lost 15%. When i play game (dead space) for 30 minute, it lost 40% battery, no background apps, screen 40% brightness, i restored to stock rom which only lost 1% after one night but nothing change
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Exactly which ROM are you using?
zikario507 said:
i want to buy this phone... i suppose that the battery drain is by.. LTE connecction..!
TRy to get a 3g or 2g connection..!
or try to test.. with airplane mode.. and test again...!
and tell us how do you feel the phone nowadays
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I always turn off 3G whenever i don't need it.
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Exactly which ROM are you using?
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I use a stock cook room for my language, i also tried CM9 but it drain battery like hell.
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I always turn off 3G whenever i don't need it.
I use a stock cook room for my language, i also tried CM9 but it drain battery like hell.
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Stay on one ROM for a couple of weeks, you'll find that battery life improves significantly after the first couple couple of weeks.
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I will follow your recommendation, but my major issue is that sometimes the phone refuse to sleep. Would your care to explain the reason behind the several weeks run in?
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I will follow your recommendation, but my major issue is that sometimes the phone refuse to sleep. Would your care to explain the reason behind the several weeks run in?
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It takes a few weeks because the stuff that measures the battery takes a while to fully calibrate itself with the battery. If you want proof you can look at some of the earlier posts in xda (around February ish). They can get thru a whole day with 50% left. As can I.
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It takes a few weeks because the stuff that measures the battery takes a while to fully calibrate itself with the battery. If you want proof you can look at some of the earlier posts in xda (around February ish). They can get thru a whole day with 50% left. As can I.
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give me some recomendations to improve the battery life of lg nitro hd
is the phone turn to 2g?
zikario507 said:
give me some recomendations to improve the battery life of lg nitro hd
is the phone turn to 2g?
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FWIW, i just recently installed juice defender on my non-rooted, ICS 4.0.4 Nitro HD, and my battery life has been phenomenal. I can make it through a whole day with roughly 50% left. moderate to heavy use.
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FWIW, i just recently installed juice defender on my non-rooted, ICS 4.0.4 Nitro HD, and my battery life has been phenomenal. I can make it through a whole day with roughly 50% left. moderate to heavy use.
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whats the meaning of FWIW¿?
is the lg nitro hd to turn to 2g edge network?? some secret code?
FWIW = for what it's worth.
no idea how to turn nitro hd onto the 2g network in ics, but the access code used to work. *#*#4636#*#* ->Phone information...but that option no longer exists in ICS
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FWIW = for what it's worth.
no idea how to turn nitro hd onto the 2g network in ics, but the access code used to work. *#*#4636#*#* ->Phone information...but that option no longer exists in ICS
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because the lte and 3g signal in my country is sometimes bad.. so when i want to call voice.. i prefer 2g netwrok and when i want to web surfing.. i prefer lte or 3g..
could you help me
zikario507 said:
whats the meaning of FWIW¿?
is the lg nitro hd to turn to 2g edge network?? some secret code?
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You need root. Download the LGPhone.zip from the other thread a guy made. You replace a file with one he gives you and it enables you to change from 4g to 2g 3g... to bad i havnt been able to root my phone to do this >_<
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You need root. Download the LGPhone.zip from the other thread a guy made. You replace a file with one he gives you and it enables you to change from 4g to 2g 3g... to bad i havnt been able to root my phone to do this >_<
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i ll try this thanks you D:
how?
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FWIW = for what it's worth.
no idea how to turn nitro hd onto the 2g network in ics, but the access code used to work. *#*#4636#*#* ->Phone information...but that option no longer exists in ICS
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i have stock froyo and have access to phone info through *#*#4636#*#* ->Phone information. what next?
I don't know why but after someday, my Nitro HD battery seem to be much better. Maybe the battery need sometime to settle down
Lg nitro hd standby time
I was forced to to update my rooted nitro when I got the boot loop problem. I was using android 2.3.5 and when I update it installed android 4.0.4
Thank god I was able to recover my phone since I was unable to put it in safe mode or complete a factory reset.
The tool LG tool I used installed 4.0.4 without (CIQ) carrier IQ which the at&t 2.3.5 had.
The only time I got good standby time with 2.3.5 was with other battery apps, I managed to get 64.5 hrs standby.
Now since updating on my first day testing the new 4.0.4 I got 45.5 standby with 15% left.
Second test I have got 85 hrs and 36 min with 95% deep sleep with 23% battery left.
I have heard people complain that ics battery time is worse than before, but I think its much better.
I don't even think a battery app can give me better standby time than what I got now.
I turn everything off except for airplane mode/volume.