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All of a sudden, my battery is getting drained by the messaging app. I have no idea why this started happening. A few weeks ago I noticed my phone battery life was getting significantly worse. It used to last for days, and now was barely lasting one. I've had it 1.5 years roughly, so figured the battery just needed to be replaced.
I went out and bought a new battery, and all seemed fine, but then randomly one evening it was practically dead again and I hadn't even used it. I looked at the battery graph and saw an exponential decline. It literally went from 12% to dead in a matter of 15 minutes. I thought the people sold me bad/used battery and was about to take it back, but I noticed that the stock messaging app had used 30% of the battery. It had used more than the screen even.
I'm not totally sure how the battery meter works, so I decided to charge it last night and then see what happened the next day. This time it was fine. Lasted a full day and barely used any battery life. Then at lunch just now I was playing Bejewled for 30 minutes, then walked home. I got home and heard the low battery beep. Was practically dead suddenly. I checked the battery graph and sure enough, Messenger had consumed 40% of the battery even though I had only used it for 10 seconds. It used more than even 30 minutes of Bejeweled.
So now I'm convinced my battery was actually fine and Messenger has a bug.
Anyone out there experienced this or know of a fix?
That is definitely odd. Maybe try wiping the cache of the messaging app. I've seen similar and it was because a message didn't go through, but kept trying to send for hours and I hadn't noticed.
FYI, I'm lucky to get 3hrs on screen or more than a full day off a single charge. No idea how you are getting this phone to last for days.
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cnoevl21 said:
That is definitely odd. Maybe try wiping the cache of the messaging app. I've seen similar and it was because a message didn't go through, but kept trying to send for hours and I hadn't noticed.
FYI, I'm lucky to get 3hrs on screen or more than a full day off a single charge. No idea how you are getting this phone to last for days.
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Thanks for the input. I solved it by installing Chomp and/or turning off auto retrieve MMS. When I installed Chomp, I saw 3 MMS messages show up in Chomp that were never viewed in the Messenger app. I guess it had to do with a different SIM card that I swapped in while traveling, and somehow messed it up. I then uninstalled Chomp after deleting them and it seemed to work fine.
As far as battery life, I just have different usage habits. I leave it in 2g only mode and keep wifi, gps, data, and bluetooth off. When I'm out. I just turn stuff on every now and then to check, then turn it back off. The only data I use for the most part is email. I don't use an social networks or apps that use data, so unless I'm checking email or looking up some information while I'm out, my screen and all data is off.
Never understood how people use their phones so much. I can't imagine having more than maybe 20-30 minutes of screen on time per day on average.
Hello guys,
I need your help i'm getting huge battery drain now it's 3-5% 'sometimes more' each 15min even though i'm on the latest update -i hope this isn't the normal 360-
Today i took it off the charger it was 100% at exactly 6:05 and by 13:00 it was completely off , with very very light usage (got no calls,2 or 3 emails) little bit music controls (nearly 5min).
For those who wondering i'm using stock face with only one application which is the mini launcher.
Any ideas?
Thanks alot
First step I'd do is a reset of the watch.
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First step I'd do is a reset of the watch.
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Thanks for the reply dude, so this is abnormal right?
How much battery are you getting?
It's clear not normal, try reseting the watch, uninstalling the wear app an reinstalling it, letting the watch settle with a couple of discharge cycles, from 100% all the way down to 0% and when you recharge it, just recharge it till it's done ( I mean the hour it took to do so, dont left it on the charge all the night)
I've been getting better battery life doing this, at the beggining I was as bad as you are now.
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It's clear not normal, try reseting the watch, uninstalling the wear app an reinstalling it, letting the watch settle with a couple of discharge cycles, from 100% all the way down to 0% and when you recharge it, just recharge it till it's done ( I mean the hour it took to do so, dont left it on the charge all the night)
I've been getting better battery life doing this, at the beggining I was as bad as you are now.
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i'll do so , thanks alot, appreciate your help
To give you an idea with the newest update yesterday I took my watch off the charger at 6:30am and put it back on the charger 11:55pm and still had 26% left. So that's a little over 17hrs.
I had numerous texts, a few emails, voice responded to a few texts, controlled music for about 45mins and used it to track a 1.5mile walk which took a little over 30mins.
I have a few apps installed such as wear mini, flopsy, keep, ifttt, level, pixtocam, watch app tracker, and UP.
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Hey guys, thanks a lot .. i thought to give you the update,
So after resetting the watch and re installing Android Wear app there was an incredible difference,now the battery is lasting the whole day - from 11:00pm till the next day 9:00 pm and i am still on 30% with medium usage-
Thanks for the tips.
For a real reset, follow these instructions:
http://tinmith.net/wayne/blog/2014/08/android-wear-total-reset.htm
Reset worked for me
I just wanted to say I also experienced this issue and it was solved by following these directions. I was getting around 20 hours of run time until the update last weekend. Then it suddenly fell to only about 7.5 hours of run time. I couldn't even make it through a day of work. I had tried restarting and even installed a Wear Task Manager and did a kill all and could still practically watch my percentage drop. I performed the full reset last night. Today I am currently at 80% after being on battery for 5 hours so I think everything is back to normal and I should easily see a full day of use again.
Thanks!
The short story of why this works:
Developers used to put their Wear apks in the assets folder, that stopped working with the new Android Wear revision. Now it is packaged in res/raw.
Old packages were cached and it was a disaster. My watch was drained 30% at every reboot and it would install old programs on the watch that I haven't had on there in quite some time.
I just bought the moto 360 and love it so far... I keep reading different post of how the batter life diminished from last update... Since I did not have the watch before the last update I can't compare them... So how long should the battery last with medium usage... I responded some text and received a few emails already today and it's down to 72% in 5hrs...does that sound about right?
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If you got the watch brand new, you need 6 days to break it in
I'm having a similar problem to OP.
I can't get much use out of my Moto 360 at all.
I just reset the device and uninstalled and reinstalled Android Wear on my phone. Took 10% just to reset and got through the initial setup. 90% after 3 minutes of use? How is that even possible?
I'm getting ready to return this thing. It's infuriating.
Attached is a picture of my use at work today. Ridiculous.
That's using a facer watchface and VERY few apps and not having Fit installed on my phone.
Have you done the reset where you clear watch data from Google play services?
I just bought my 360 last weekend and I noticed the battery got better each day after....the 1st 2 days I had to charge it late afternoon...yesterday I took it off the charger at 6am and at 11pm I still had 20% left...once you begin using the watch normally without tweaking it constantly the real life of the battery will show
was getting...
I originally got ok battery before "THE" update. Got great battery after the update, but now I'm back to just ok or even worse than before the original firmware . Does anyone know what was changed or who to contact?
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For a real reset, follow these instructions:
http://tinmith.net/wayne/blog/2014/08/android-wear-total-reset.htm
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I had a completely different issue, but after struggling with it for weeks, this finally solved it.
Thank you!!
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That's using a facer watchface and VERY few apps and not having Fit installed on my phone.
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That is 100% normal when using Facer. It's "watchfaces" are just apps that run 24/7...
Try another reset but this time no Facer :good:
(If you want custom faces use Moto's built in one that lets you make a custom face from a picture)
I've done the recommended clearing of the Play Services, resets, etc... My watch used to lose approx. 45% in 8hrs. Now... my watch is losing approx. 12% per hour. This just started happening approx. 1 week ago. I truly believe it has something to do with Play Services but no way of really knowing.
What's it like for you Sprint S6 owners?
I'm struggling here and my S5 was without a doubt wayyyy better... I'm starting to wonder if I have a defective battery to be honest. Averaging like 2 1/2-3 hrs SoT and 16 hrs total time on...
My girlfriend's S6 is going almost 3.5-4 hours SoT. I haven't checked her total time.
I believe she took an update when she first got the phone, she is on 5.0.2, OC9 build.
There is a software update available, but we are hesitant to take it, not knowing if:
1. It will make te batery life better or worse
2. will the tether without root continue to work
Have you taken the latest update?
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My girlfriend's S6 is going almost 3.5-4 hours SoT. I haven't checked her total time.
I believe she took an update when she first got the phone, she is on 5.0.2, OC9 build.
There is a software update available, but we are hesitant to take it, not knowing if:
1. It will make te batery life better or worse
2. will the tether without root continue to work
Have you taken the latest update?
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Read around. There's plenty info out there. Battery discussion only plz n thanks.
I'm on my first day with it, but its definitely a improvement from the GS4 as of late atleast. Im at about 2 Hours screentime and 38% battery, first not even full charge, Started at like 82%.
I did a factory reset earlier in the week and that has seemed to help a TON. 4 hours of SOT and thats with extremely poor signal around home.
Battery is barely acceptable for me. My phone is not rooted. I average between 12-14 hours off charge and average around 3 hrs screen on time give or take a few minutes. I'm a heavy user and use my phone pretty much all day. Saving grace is it charges really fast. Thinking of rooting but not sure there's anything I can do to help the battery life
i have the s6. yeah battery life is poopy but its expected. im struggling cuz idk if i shud switch to the s6 edge. yeah those side displays r cool but im told if that thing drops the wrong way even with a protective case then its bye bye screen. oh decisions decisions
Battery life Here is actually not bad, especially after the Samsung Push update from the Play store. Many tech blogs wrote about this possibly helping the battery life on the S6. I just finished 1 day and 5 hours with 30 percent left, so for me that not bad at all.
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Battery life Here is actually not bad, especially after the Samsung Push update from the Play store. Many tech blogs wrote about this possibly helping the battery life on the S6. I just finished 1 day and 5 hours with 30 percent left, so for me that not bad at all.
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What was your SoT though?
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What was your SoT though?
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Wasn't that high, just under 2hrs. But for me, that's normal..... And I'm totally cool with that. The battery life really ALmost pushed me to the Note 4, UT after all this, I'm here to stay
I am averaging 3 hours 50 mins SOT in my house on wifi all day. It seems to be getting better since the push update.
I've had great battery life with my regular s6 thus far. 30+ hours and 5.5 SOT average. Location off at home, bt off, wifi on, location history off, no samsung/google/sprint apps or features enabled (like s voice), auto brightness, black wallpaper, disabled samsung push, turned off LTE at home, only on CDMA, cant remember what else.
I've seen a lot of people on forums complain their battery for their s6 is bad, but I don't get it?
My battery sucks.. I have gps off, syncs to minimum, all notifications offs, and took the last Samsung update. Still battery life is not the best.
So far today gettings my best screen on time yet.
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I wouldn't say my battery life is fantastic, but its certainly better than it was on my S5 when it was either stock or on CM.
I'm in Houston, so I generally have very good signal, but I use it a lot throughout the day. Bluetooth music to and from work, games during the day when I have downtime, some maps usage when I do mobile calls. I take it off the charger around 9am and get home around 630pm with anywhere between 40-60% left. That's with GPS always on (highest location settings), 3 gmails and Facebook synced, screen always on auto, Bluetooth always on and paired to my Moto 360.
Battery FIX:
1. Turn off WIFI calling.
2. Turn off Location History.
The above two changes doubled my battery life. Went from maybe 3 hours Sot and dead in 7 hours, to 5.5 SoT yesterday and still running after 16 hours usage. MAJOR difference. Any my screen stays at or near full brightness.
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So far today gettings my best screen on time yet.
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Dude what are your settings to achieve those screen on times? That is nuts.
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Dude what are your settings to achieve those screen on times? That is nuts.
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Automatic Brightness - On
NFC - off
Wifi Calling - off
Wifi always scanning off
Switched to CDMA only. I did have it on LTE for a little bit when I went to the grocery store.
Everything else is on
I am still really surprised at the change in the battery life from when I first got it because I could only get 2 hours SOT for like the first week.
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Automatic Brightness - On
NFC - off
Wifi Calling - off
Wifi always scanning off
Switched to CDMA only. I did have it on LTE for a little bit when I went to the grocery store.
Everything else is on
I am still really surprised at the change in the battery life from when I first got it because I could only get 2 hours SOT for like the first week.
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I have dove way deeper into disabling things than just these items and today it looks like I'm going to get around 4 hrs of screen on time. But I've only had the phone for 6 days.
One quick question: In the time you've had it, have you factory reset the phone, rooted, or flashed firmware, or have you just stayed the course and let it settle in? It sounds like I may just need to let it settle before the awesome battery life starts happening.
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I have dove way deeper into disabling things than just these items and today it looks like I'm going to get around 4 hrs of screen on time. But I've only had the phone for 6 days.
One quick question: In the time you've had it, have you factory reset the phone, rooted, or flashed firmware, or have you just stayed the course and let it settle in? It sounds like I may just need to let it settle before the awesome battery life starts happening.
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I factory reset the phone after 3 days of owning it because my battery life was terrible. After I did that I was getting close to 3-3 1/2 hours SOT with the phone which was about what I was getting on my M8. Then all of a sudden it just started getting way better. It might of been that Samsung push update or maybe the battery just needed alot of time to break in. Also i'm not rooted and I haven't flashed any firmware.
I will buy this phone. But I am worry about battery. Could you please share your battery usages and screen times?
For the price I'm very pleased with my S4 Mini's battery life. On stock 4.4.2 I can get "upto" 5 and a half hours screen on time and around 2 days standby. Some days I get 4 hours screen on time with more phone calls and games use, but I still think that's very good. All depends on what's enabled and how you use your phone. I'm doing a battery test today will post screen shots at the end of my test.
The above results are my personal "best" and you may get a lot less out of your phone depending on how you set it up and what apps you use.
Another thread here with battery Stats http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2757956
Forgot to say I'm rooted and use some xposed modules and apps to save battery like "amplify" and "power nap". Also my phone model is i9195 international factory unlocked, and manufactured in March of this year.
My battery Stats at 50% use
Last 50% was using the phone a lot more heavier with 250 Google+ photo and video backups and around 300 backups of apps in titanium backup while still browsing the Internet YouTube and listen to some online music with tunein
Hello all,
I recently purchased a LG G4 Back In July , on Verizon, switching over from A Galaxy Note 3 (Tmobile). Honestly I really really like the phone, but I think the battery life is pitiful for a $700 dollar "Flagship" phone. I mean not once has it ever lasted the full day. I had to buy a spare battery kit, with 2 batteries, and days when im out from 6am to late at night, I go through 2 batteries, and have to put the 3rd one in. I mean , this is simply unacceptable for a phone like this.
Also, the camera is excellent WHEN it works. A lot of times, it doesn't take the picture right away, there is a delay, and many times it falls out of focus. This is certainly not the high quality camera they advertised.
I am hoping there is a way to fix these 2 issues, mainly the battery issue though because it is awful in my opinion. Is there any tweaks or fixes for these issues?
You've barely given any relevant information other than how unhappy you are with the device, so I would suggest that you elaborate on that.
You could inform us if you're a heavy/light user, if you keep NFC, LTE, Bluetooth, Syncing, Wi-Fi, on during the whole day or maybe if you are used to 100% brightness display. Maybe you should check in your settings what is draining your battery and provide us the info.
I'm having a pretty good experience with the phone so far. It surely lasts a whole day with 3:30 to 4h SoT. I don't even need/have a spare battery.
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This is certainly not the high quality camera they advertised.
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One person having an issue doesn't mean it's not a great camera. You'll find it's likely still the best flagship camera of any OEM.
Battery use is so dependent on which apps you run, which mods you have, how often the screen is on, what brightness, signal strength, wifi, bluetooth, etc etc etc...
I came from a galaxy s3 and reckon the battery on g4 is awesome. I use it solidly on internet for 2 hrs a day (to and from work), check messages etc through the day, usually internet at lunch. And then evening time check facebook etc over WiFi infront of telly.
I unplug at 6am and plug in around 11pm with around 3% left. I bought a 2nd battery and only needed to use it twice. It has to be how you're using it.
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13 hours on battery for me today and still 71% left. Light usage but it does illustrate that the battery life can be excellent.
itm said:
13 hours on battery for me today and still 71% left. Light usage but it does illustrate that the battery life can be excellent.
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of course, you can get excellent battery life on every smartphone - just put it in aeroplane mode..
I get MAX 3h of SOT time on my G4 - this is with fixed brightness at 65% (at all times) and only wifi and 3g enabled (NFC, bluetooth and everything else is turned off all the time)
to be fair I have yet to own a smartphone that lasts me more than 4h SOT..
the thing that annoys me the most is the broken knock code used to unlock the phone - it works 20% of the time at best
its a completely broken feature LG has not properly addressed since launch of the device (I am on V10e software)
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I recently purchased a LG G4 Back In July , on Verizon, switching over from A Galaxy Note 3 (Tmobile).
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There have been numerous firmware updates since. Have you ever performed a full factory reset after getting those updates ?
If the answer is no, then this is one potential reason for poor battery life. What you could try is to clear the system cache in recovery. Note, i said system cache not apps cache. Idea here is when updates come in there could be conflicts and it causes the system to work harder. clearing system cache might help, if it does not then the only option is a factory reset and then a manual install.
not restore. You install apps in batches, monitor, then install more and so on. You can restore contacts etc. but apps themselves will have to be reinstalled. Sometimes apps go rogue and have to be reinstalled. Its hard to tell which app is causing the issue. Otherwise you could just reinstall whatever app that seems to be taking up more than it should be.
Honestly I really really like the phone, but I think the battery life is pitiful for a $700 dollar "Flagship" phone. I mean not once has it ever lasted the full day. I had to buy a spare battery kit, with 2 batteries, and days when im out from 6am to late at night, I go through 2 batteries, and have to put the 3rd one in. I mean , this is simply unacceptable for a phone like this.
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What are you doing on your phone ? mention apps.
How do you access the net. How good is your signal. What are you doing when you access the net.
Also, the camera is excellent WHEN it works. A lot of times, it doesn't take the picture right away, there is a delay, and many times it falls out of focus. This is certainly not the high quality camera they advertised.
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What types of shots are these. It can happen with portraits some times. It will focus on the background behind the person instead of the person and the face becomes softer and the background very sharp.
For this set focus little above the chest instead of the face. If they are wearing dark clothing this will cause other issues so focus on something else at equal distance that isn't dark.
Always check the shot at the pixel level soon after you took it. Rather than at the end of the day.
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of course, you can get excellent battery life on every smartphone - just put it in aeroplane mode..
I get MAX 3h of SOT time on my G4 - this is with fixed brightness at 65% (at all times) and only wifi and 3g enabled (NFC, bluetooth and everything else is turned off all the time)
to be fair I have yet to own a smartphone that lasts me more than 4h SOT..
the thing that annoys me the most is the broken knock code used to unlock the phone - it works 20% of the time at best
its a completely broken feature LG has not properly addressed since launch of the device (I am on V10e software)
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Just to clarify: I had everything turned on for those 13 hours - wifi/data/bluetooth/GPS. I also made 2 phone calls and did a bit of Chromecasting using the BT Sport app for a couple of hours. Or to put it another way, I didn't take any measures at all to preserve battery life.
I used to complain just like you're doing OP ( @dredmentia ) and fixed it all with a Zerolemon battery .
Is the phone bulky/no leather back/not easy to handle... , it sure is but if battery life is crucial then it gotta get fixed.
End my day anywhere between 7 to 13 hours of sot depending on WiFi or 4g and high CPU freqs, tried light usage and hit 3 days with 12 hours sot. Snap/insta/twit/fb/periscope/... Nothing kills this battery in a day.
When and if we get a kernel I'll move back to factory battery at least then I know I'm in control of how CPU works coz while optimizing the phone for wakelocks that's the only thing I have no control over...
As for now I'm just trying to burn thru this battery every day so I can charge it every night...
Last phone was a Z3 Sony and that really grabbed my attention with its battery life in stock form, almost too perfect, Almost.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01181ODJI/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza
This is what your talking about? Looks like a pretty nice battery.
LG G4 Battery Case, ZeroLemon LG G4 8500mAh TriCell Extended Battery + Soft TPU Full Edge Protection Case (Compatible with all LG G4 variants) (4897010519648)
It works with the USB charger that came with the phone ?
Did someone seriously just ask me if I kept the brightness on the screen at 100%???? Obviously im not doing that, im not some idiot. I know the screen eats up most of the battery. I keep the brightness extremely low way under 50%, or on auto., The battery still last a short amount of time. Its not acceptable
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Did someone seriously just ask me if I kept the brightness on the screen at 100%???? Obviously im not doing that, im not some idiot. I know the screen eats up most of the battery. I keep the brightness extremely low way under 50%, or on auto., The battery still last a short amount of time. Its not acceptable
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Then maybe something is wrong with the phone. I got also 4-5hr SoT.
It can't be just 2hr.
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Did someone seriously just ask me if I kept the brightness on the screen at 100%???? Obviously im not doing that, im not some idiot. I know the screen eats up most of the battery. I keep the brightness extremely low way under 50%, or on auto., The battery still last a short amount of time. Its not acceptable
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Did you not see my earlier post ?
Answer everything asked in full.