Hey, read some stuff on another forum post about leaked ota's that may help battery life. How do I know if I have the latest OTA...I bought my phone in July and it came stock with 2.3.4. Thanks
You do not have this OTA, you have the same stock rom as I do. This leaked OTA is from the soak test currently bieng run by users registered for the beta through Motorola Mobility.
No OTA's have been pushed so you have the stock 5.5.959 build.
An update was found on Motorola's update servers for the Droid 3 and leaked out.
Motorola has recently started sending notifications to users for a SOAK test OTA, once this is pushed to those users.....it's usually a week or two before everyone gets the update (if it was deemed a success).
You can apply the leaked update which does help the battery tremendously but rumors are that you will not be able to accept the official update later.
You may want to just wait for a bit......unless you don't mind the possibility of being at the leak update level permanently.
Thanks guys, I think I'll take that advice and just wait for an official OTA. Battery life does indeed suck for my droid 3. A bit unimpressed with homescreen lag, app drawer lag, camera lag, audio lag when listening to music, etc. Got Launcher Pro which helps alot but still laggy at times...hoping this ota will help with that?
With the increasing number of system and market apps that start themselves up for no apparent reason, whether it be just a footprint for faster launching, or update/admo services that never turn off, and blur bieng a resource hog in general, the lag isnt something that will be fixable until we can get more support for the devices massive specs, or a stripped down rom with a viable recovery option. Every stock app on the phone goes through MotoBlur, and with root, its extremely easy to break one of these apps if you install the wrong apk. Please be careful out there, and have fun with your phone!
Well...guess I'm waiting for OTA and...cyanogen, or roms in general to fix all these issues then...
*tryin to be patient*
I've found some extra battery life after rooting and freezing all the blur I didn't want.
Also I just wanted to say I'm in the soak group and we have not yet had any OTA's to try. They just sent out emails the other day making the soak group official. We should see something soon. It's looking like the 890 OTA will be official, which is great because it certainly has some battery life improvement...from what I've read.
The 5.6.890 OTA is great, but it breaks sleep mode.
go to setting-about phone-system updates
click system updates and wait
if there is an update for your phone
there will be a pop-up and will ask if you want to
download and install
if there is no update then will say your phone is up to date
..
Head into ur settings and update or wait for it to pop up.
mixxxk said:
Head into ur settings and update or wait for it to pop up.
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Anyone know what it's for?
Well, it's from September 2, so who knows
Small update, only 47MB.
Text before update only mentioned security updates - nothing about Samsung Cloud or the Gallery app update that was delivered in Europe. Once it finishes updating and optimizing apps, I can see whether anything changed besides moving to a more recent security patch level.
I only noticed Google's monthly security fixes here. I didn't see or notice any other changes.
@evilvoice @stoobie-doo @mixxxk what's the build no.? Is it not N930PVPU2APHE update?
itskapil said:
@evilvoice @stoobie-doo @mixxxk what's the build no.? Is it not N930PVPU2APHE update?
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build number , for me, is MMB29M.G935AUCS4AP12
@mixxxk thanks!
The ATT's page also mentions it.. September patch and that's it.
Would have been nice if they had removed or allowed us to remove Milk Music, since, well, the service is dead as of 9/22...
Still rootable?
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It increments the BL to version 4.
I'm not sure if it was the update or not and I haven't installed anything else, but today the android system is EATING my battery. I had been getting around 7hrs of sot but today it's less then 2hrs sot and at 5%. It's showing android system had used like 24 or 25% of my battery and it is at number one for battery consumption.
I'm also suffering from a very hot slow phone that's eating the battery. What's going on???
Anyone have an Odin of this update?
Came here to say I'm having terrible battery life as well since the update. Weird thing is, I updated a couple days ago and the battery issues started today. I also have these disabled the settings from the link below fwiw
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-s7-edge/how-to/to-drastically-reduce-android-battery-t3445291
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Just came across this and my Oculus app did auto-update today. Just uninstalled and will see how things go
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS7/c...date_may_be_to_blame/?st=itp6m1i0&sh=9926b558
Can't uninstall Oculus apk! Is see the Gear VR Service but can't do anythibg.
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I am too in need of the September Odin files. Tried to downgrade back to July firmware files through Odin after OTA and got the "fused binary" error because of the new bootloader update. Now my EFS partition is damaged and I'm getting wifi password forgets and stability issues among other things.
These days, AT&T is more of an evil empire than Verizon. No WiFi Calling, no VoLTE, no enhanced features unless you use AT&T branded phones. No publishing ROM/firmware files. Locked bootloaders (Samsung is also responsible, I know). AT&T has become the least mod friendly carrier. If anyone gets the PI1 files, please do share.
Also wanted to mention, DO NOT TRY TO RE FLASH ANY PREVIOUS FIRMWARE FILES WITH ODIN after this OTA update. Not only will the update fail, but it may corrupt certain partitions like it has on mine. I am also suspecting the U firmware will no longer flash with the new bootloader update until files are released for that bootloader. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. I will try to do an "emergency software revovery" with smart switch later tonight, if anyone is interested in the results let me know.
Glad I flashed international firmware... no oculus bs here! And my android system is back to normal, around 12%.
My phone has been on (has not turned off or restarted) in 80+ days. Nothing much else to share. Still working great! The only issue I have noticed is that my battery is dying a lot faster than before. May be related to not restarting, but I'm not sure.
What about during OTA updates?
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What about during OTA updates?
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Hey! That is the downfall. I had not received an OTA update since I flashed to a UK version (for the fingerprint scanner).
I ended up restarting the phone after 100 days. Phone did a great job. Also, I recently flashed another custom firmware so that I could acquire the September 2018 update. The battery life on this phone is incredible (after the September update).
So years ago like Samsung s3 days there was maybe 2 updates a year one would be a complete change form gingerbread to whatever and maybe one to fix a problem with a known bug and that was it.
The worst thing that could happen is you would side load an apk and it would be a rogue app. You would delete it but it would be hidden deeper in the system folders and causing ads and battery drain.
So now in 2019 we now have almost monthly security updates. My question is who is trying to take over my phone? Why and how? Is this even a thing or is it just privacy protection laws going over the top ?
I've rolled back from Pie to oreo and I think I'm on August security patch. So I'm sitting here waiting for the takeover. And I think I could bet my bollocks to a barn dance that nothing is going to happen.
Thoughts????
See this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=79512148&postcount=8.
As the title says....
Still only Android 9, as expected (PKQ1.190321.001).
I have just received it too Trying and trying for the update for hours and finally it popped up on my phone a few moments ago!
Security patch is a shocker, I'm not seeing anything else different though but hopefully they don't introduce any bugs or problems
notification for update also displayed on our handset. it doesn't seem to come with much changes.,
marcelo