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Afternoon,
just got the HD7. How long do i need to charge it for? i'm dying to play with it
30 mins should be enough then leave it charging while you play with it.
Mine had a couple of hours battery life out of the box. It seemed to take longer than my HD2 to reach a full charge the first time.
Will101 said:
Mine had a couple of hours battery life out of the box. It seemed to take longer than my HD2 to reach a full charge the first time.
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I'll probably leave it charging for a couple of hours.
rafter_01 said:
Afternoon,
just got the HD7. How long do i need to charge it for? i'm dying to play with it
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I'm on the train home and sooooo want to play with it. People are giving me weird looks with 2 4.3" phones sitting in front of me....
I'll probably end up charging it for an hour once I get home. Still not sure about it though! Thank god for O2's 14 day rerun period! Hah
Rossimac said:
I'm on the train home and sooooo want to play with it. People are giving me weird looks with 2 4.3" phones sitting in front of me....
I'll probably end up charging it for an hour once I get home. Still not sure about it though! Thank god for O2's 14 day rerun period! Hah
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Treust me you wouldn't want to return it
becknise said:
Treust me you wouldn't want to return it
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I think you are right. I have played with the phone for about 15 minutes and I am happy thus far. The screen is lush, the response is amazing and the keyboard. Well......eat your heart out Iphone
When i first got my note i updated it to 2.3.6 straight away and properly conditioned the battery. I only ever let it run out to 0% and then fully charge it to 100%. I used to get 90-100hours out of the phone with wifi on (sleep when screen is off) and light useage.
3 weeks ago my girlfriend left my phone on top of our microwave when it was on and since then i have noticed that the battery drain is a lot faster. it now drains about 4-5% an hour with (just the wifi on and same sleep policy) and i have never got anywhere near the standby time i used to.
I have had samsung send me a new battery and that has made no really difference...
Does leaving your phone on top of the microwave damage the actual phone in anyway?
P.s. i have minimal apps on there and nothing syncing in background except the google services.
Is it worth sending it to samsung to get a replacement?
Microwaves don't leak out of the appliance for 2 reasons, they are metal enclosed which doesn't allow then to come out and if they did no government agency would allow them to be used at homes because of ether health risks.
You might want to check what is eating into the battery, is it going into deep sleep?
Probably best to wear some tin foil on your head. Just in case.
just don't know what to say to that lol !!!
nobnut said:
Probably best to wear some tin foil on your head. Just in case.
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I really sorry guys but I LMAO F--K !!!!
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AlRadcliffe1986 said:
When i first got my note i updated it to 2.3.6 straight away and properly conditioned the battery. I only ever let it run out to 0% and then fully charge it to 100%. I used to get 90-100hours out of the phone with wifi on (sleep when screen is off) and light useage.
3 weeks ago my girlfriend left my phone on top of our microwave when it was on and since then i have noticed that the battery drain is a lot faster. it now drains about 4-5% an hour with (just the wifi on and same sleep policy) and i have never got anywhere near the standby time i used to.
I have had samsung send me a new battery and that has made no really difference...
Does leaving your phone on top of the microwave damage the actual phone in anyway?
P.s. i have minimal apps on there and nothing syncing in background except the google services.
Is it worth sending it to samsung to get a replacement?
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I reckon, your phone got COOKED by microwave when your g/f left your phone on the microwave ....
I am just worried samsung might turn around and say.." You can't bring that cooked phone for a replacement buddy !!" and what will you do then ??
I had a friend who was studying his PhD in microwave area and because he was exposed to microwave so many times while he was doing research about this topic, he ended up COOKED his half of his liver and had to have a operation.
SO WHENEVER I USE MICROWAVE TO COOK ANY FOOD, I NEVER LOOK DIRECT TO THE WINDOWS OF THE MICROWAVE DOOR AT ALL.... AT THE SAME TIME, I WOULD NEVER LEAVE ANYTHING ON TOP OF MICROWAVE OVEN EITHER !!
JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WOULD ANYONE LEAVE ANYTHING SPECIALLY DELICATE ELECTRONIC DEVICE like your galaxy note on the microwave when it
was ON !!! IT REALLY MAKES ME WONDER WHY .....
I strongly suggest to have your phone checked for any internal damage caused by this microwave !!!
I would think your phone is probably fine. If you're suddenly using it more then you will see more battery drain. I also feel like some of the newer firmwares out are using battery more than the previous ones, but you trade off for much smoother operation of the phone. Also for some reason wi-fi seems to kill this phone much faster than just using 3G does.
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Microwaves don't leak out of the appliance for 2 reasons, they are metal enclosed which doesn't allow then to come out and if they did no government agency would allow them to be used at homes because of ether health risks.
You might want to check what is eating into the battery, is it going into deep sleep?
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The microwave might not have cooked the phone, but it is entirely possible that it emitted some sort of EMF which messed with the phone.
You ever read the FCC stickers on the back of most electronic devices?
There are plenty of reports of individuals getting sterilized from good ol' fashioned radio towers.
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National Enquirer?
guitarplayerone said:
There are plenty of reports of individuals getting sterilized from good ol' fashioned radio towers.
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Any outside of the National Enquirer?
It is just not physically possible! If it was, we'd have real problems with things like MRI scans!
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AlRadcliffe1986 said:
When i first got my note i updated it to 2.3.6 straight away and properly conditioned the battery. I only ever let it run out to 0% and then fully charge it to 100%. I used to get 90-100hours out of the phone with wifi on (sleep when screen is off) and light useage.
3 weeks ago my girlfriend left my phone on top of our microwave when it was on and since then i have noticed that the battery drain is a lot faster. it now drains about 4-5% an hour with (just the wifi on and same sleep policy) and i have never got anywhere near the standby time i used to.
I have had samsung send me a new battery and that has made no really difference...
Does leaving your phone on top of the microwave damage the actual phone in anyway?
P.s. i have minimal apps on there and nothing syncing in background except the google services.
Is it worth sending it to samsung to get a replacement?
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Forget the microwave issue. It is possible that a tiny component was fried, but the most likely result of that would be failure of some part of the system, not excessive battery drain.
It is much more likely that WiFi, or even the phone itself, is not going to sleep for some reason. I changed to the WiFi sleep when screen is off policy and my phone now gets twice the battery life.
My wifi sleep policy has always been set to sleep when screen off. How do I tell if the phone is going into deep sleep?
I know it sounds stupid guys and believe me I don't really think that microwaves leak out the unit, however I'm deadly serious that up until the evening of the incident I was literally loving my phones battery life and now if was to get anywhere near the battery life I used too, the phone would have to be off!
Even tonight it has lost 5%-7 an hour and I've just reset it to factory defaults and install shaman, unified remote, eBay, torrent-fu that's it.
Need to speak to tech support from Samsung !!
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My wifi sleep policy has always been set to sleep when screen off. How do I tell if the phone is going into deep sleep?
I know it sounds stupid guys and believe me I don't really think that microwaves leak out the unit, however I'm deadly serious that up until the evening of the incident I was literally loving my phones battery life and now if was to get anywhere near the battery life I used too, the phone would have to be off!
Even tonight it has lost 5%-7 an hour and I've just reset it to factory defaults and install shaman, unified remote, eBay, torrent-fu that's it.
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Your g/f left your phone on the microwave when it was ON. Now, you discovered that your phone is losing about 5-7% of battery an hour... I would take my phone to samsung and have your phone CHECKED if there is any damage internally... THAT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR YOU TO BE ASSURED !!!
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This is really good!
AlRadcliffe1986 said:
My wifi sleep policy has always been set to sleep when screen off. How do I tell if the phone is going into deep sleep?
I know it sounds stupid guys and believe me I don't really think that microwaves leak out the unit, however I'm deadly serious that up until the evening of the incident I was literally loving my phones battery life and now if was to get anywhere near the battery life I used too, the phone would have to be off!
Even tonight it has lost 5%-7 an hour and I've just reset it to factory defaults and install shaman, unified remote, eBay, torrent-fu that's it.
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Can you post the graph (full graph) from the battery info screen? That will show WiFi and screen activity & sleep.
It's funny reading all redneck replies about how no microwaves leak at all. Of course all microwave ovens leak, the power decreases rapidly with distance though so it's usually not harmful unless you say, leave something sensitive upon it or look into it from an inch distance all the time. Please be smart and get away from your micro while cooking stuff.
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Attached are my Battery stats
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Attached are my Battery stats
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OK, thanks.
That just look very, very wrong. The first part with the steep slope has the same 'profile' as the later shallow slope.
I think something is going very wrong, and it seems like a hardware problem. Personally I would try several different situations and try to find out what is making the difference, but that is because my profession involves that kind of diagnosis. You may just want to go for a repair.
My advice not to mention the microwave, otherwise they will just fix on that and claim it is your fault. I very much doubt that would cause it, although the timing (based on your statements) suggests it was an issue.
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Wait a minute....
If you manually turned off WiFi about half-way through, just before the graph goes flat, then it is WiFi not really turning off.
Here are some i just took.
It's just dropped 10% in and hour and a bit.
I think it's drops a lot fast will wifi enabled. I reckon I've fried my wifi because I only have 4apps installed none of them are using wifi and my wifi is set to sleep when screen off.
What happened just before it becomes almost flat? Did you reboot, perhaps? There is a vertical drop that I usually get when I reboot.
If so, then you may be right. Something is waking up the WiFi after a few hours, and from there it just does not go to sleep.
What happens if you manually turn WiFi on and off as required?
if i disable wifi it seems to drain the battery a lot slower. attached are ny batt stats from tonight. i have literally not touched the phone since 4:00 this afternoon.
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Any outside of the National Enquirer?
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2605.2005.00531.x/full
Yup. Looks like it doesn't it? You do realize that some folks on here have degrees in the things they talk about, right?
Hello! So my phone is new, just bought it on 22nd Dec! It's not rooted, and i havent done much to it other than downloading apps. Till now, the battery has been charged to full, drained to 0 and then charged to full again. So today, i tried rebooting my phone and bam: battery drain! O_O Is this normal? I've looked around some forums, but all of those are related to rooted phones so, yeah >o<!! It's running ICS also, btw.
Since the phone is new, i think its normal, but i don't know actually. Anything i can do about it? Or will it become normal after a few days?
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Hello! So my phone is new, just bought it on 22nd Dec! It's not rooted, and i havent done much to it other than downloading apps. Till now, the battery has been charged to full, drained to 0 and then charged to full again. So today, i tried rebooting my phone and bam: battery drain! O_O Is this normal? I've looked around some forums, but all of those are related to rooted phones so, yeah >o<!! It's running ICS also, btw.
Since the phone is new, i think its normal, but i don't know actually. Anything i can do about it? Or will it become normal after a few days?
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I have same "BAM" sometimes after reboot. :crying:
But don't drain to 0, its better to charge when its 20-10% left.
This is normal. After a few charge cycles, the measuring of battery will be accurate.
But if you do factory reset, or too many restarts, you'll notice this inaccuracy again.
And again, when the battery has 1%, it has about 3,2V, which is safe and does not damage the battery. Control mechanism for battery is good enough, there is no need to worry about damaging the battery by discharging.
whatisparadox said:
Hello! So my phone is new, just bought it on 22nd Dec! It's not rooted, and i havent done much to it other than downloading apps. Till now, the battery has been charged to full, drained to 0 and then charged to full again. So today, i tried rebooting my phone and bam: battery drain! O_O Is this normal? I've looked around some forums, but all of those are related to rooted phones so, yeah >o<!! It's running ICS also, btw.
Since the phone is new, i think its normal, but i don't know actually. Anything i can do about it? Or will it become normal after a few days?
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Which country are you from/Where did you buy your Xperia V and through which network?
nightwing369 said:
Which country are you from/Where did you buy your Xperia V and through which network?
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I bought it in Singapore, under Singtel. If that helps o.o
peetr_ said:
This is normal. After a few charge cycles, the measuring of battery will be accurate.
But if you do factory reset, or too many restarts, you'll notice this inaccuracy again.
And again, when the battery has 1%, it has about 3,2V, which is safe and does not damage the battery. Control mechanism for battery is good enough, there is no need to worry about damaging the battery by discharging.
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I hope it's really normal then, since another problem I found is that the phone sorts of heats up throughout the night and sometimes I can't unlock it. And other times, after locking it, if sort of can't be unlocked anymore until I pull the battery.
This is my first Xperia phone, got to say I'm kinda disappointed.
So i posted this during christmas right? It's like the 4th now, and the problem still persists.Over ONE WEEK. ROAR. This morning, the phone heated up for no reason (again; don't know how many times it happened now ,_,) and i couldn't unlock it and i pull the battery and bam! Over the course of the week, it's obviously been happening again and again. I'm getting so frustrated with this phone, but i don't want to go without a phone by sending it to repair, not to mention the center is so FAR away from me.
Just hope for the problem to be solved, or go away soon.
Does anyone else experience this too?
(PS: I've charged my phone quite an amount of times, since i'm a heavy user and it's a NEW phone, so yeah, i get busy playing with it, to the extent i almost charge it everyday. Is that bad?)
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Does anyone else experience this too?
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Yes, going through the sleep of death on my xperia v. It started when I switch on the location-based wifi service, and stopped when I disable that service.
I also turned off google location reporting which sort of saved my battery life.
hernit said:
Yes, going through the sleep of death on my xperia v. It started when I switch on the location-based wifi service, and stopped when I disable that service.
I also turned off google location reporting which sort of saved my battery life.
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thanks bro! will try out and see what happens in a few days. :fingers-crossed:
Spoke too soon, just got another sleep of death
hernit said:
Spoke too soon, just got another sleep of death
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i was safe for last night, but seeing as to how you still got the sleep of death, i guess i'm not that safe. i just hope sony will come out with some solutions sooooooon. :crying:
Repair with SUS, it has been discussed in another thread somewhere. :good:
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Repair with SUS, it has been discussed in another thread somewhere. :good:
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yeah, i know the thread you're talking about. i've done that way, way earlier, like the day after i experienced it for the first few times, and it didn't work still,
Seriously, I'm on JB Singapore firmware and still I'm getting SoD, when will sony come up with a solution?
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Seriously, I'm on JB Singapore firmware and still I'm getting SoD, when will sony come up with a solution?
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This is the second time youre posting this. And youre completely out of topic.
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This is the second time youre posting this. And youre completely out of topic.
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I know, cause it gives me weird SoDs and battery drains, mainly SoDs,
Off topic
and you're from Sri Lanka, how rude of you to talk to another Sri Lankan like this,
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I know, cause it gives me weird SoDs and battery drains, mainly SoDs,
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and you're from Sri Lanka, how rude of you to talk to another Sri Lankan like this,
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Haha I never knew. But it would be frowned upon by others if you do this. So stick to one thread
okay so i know i'm the OP and i haven't been on in AGES but i'm here to update on the situation.
i guess the problem is.... perhaps solved? i don't know what i did or if i did anything but the problem seemed to have went away by itself.
the only 'problem' now is that the battery level is still fluctuating whenever i restart the phone :insert facepalm:
and contacting SONY didn't really help, they just told me to go down to their service center -_- i would go down, but i don't want to do a 1-for-1 now. i mean, the problem is... sorta solved, somehow, now.
So my wife finally let me have my watch last night after 3 weeks of hiding it from me lol.
So far I really like it but only time will tell.
The possible issues I am seeing makes me question it.
1.) The heart rate monitor. No matter what I do, its asks me to tighten my band and try again. Am I missing something?
2.) The battery life seems a little odd. I wore it for about 2 hours last night before going to bet, messing around with it, then wore it to bed last night. Woke up, and the battery life still said 100%. Seems a little odd to me.
Has anyone else seen what I have mentioned above?
Thanks!
-Curbow
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So my wife finally let me have my watch last night after 3 weeks of hiding it from me lol.
So far I really like it but only time will tell.
The possible issues I am seeing makes me question it.
1.) The heart rate monitor. No matter what I do, its asks me to tighten my band and try again. Am I missing something?
2.) The battery life seems a little odd. I wore it for about 2 hours last night before going to bet, messing around with it, then wore it to bed last night. Woke up, and the battery life still said 100%. Seems a little odd to me.
Has anyone else seen what I have mentioned above?
Thanks!
-Curbow
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Are you really hairy? The sensor needs to see your skin (it measures heart rate by detecting slight color changes in the skin as the heart pumps blood through it), so if you have a wad of fur blocking the sensor, it won't work. You might need to shave your wrist... LOL.
As for the battery, sometimes the battery meter isn't yet calibrated properly, so keep using the watch until it dies and then recharge it back to full in one charge and it should start reading normally.
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Are you really hairy? The sensor needs to see your skin (it measures heart rate by detecting slight color changes in the skin as the heart pumps blood through it), so if you have a wad of fur blocking the sensor, it won't work. You might need to shave your wrist... LOL.
As for the battery, sometimes the battery meter isn't yet calibrated properly, so keep using the watch until it dies and then recharge it back to full in one charge and it should start reading normally.
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Thanks for the tip on the battery.
I'm not really a hairy at all. I have noticed that the light where the sensor is don't seem to light up at all. I have took it off, attempted to just press my finger on the sensor and all..... I'm not sure what is up with it.
This is all i can get it to do...
lol, i guess my arm does look kinda harry but trust me, thats not the issue.
Curbow said:
This is all i can get it to do...
lol, i guess my arm does look kinda harry but trust me, thats not the issue.
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LOL, that looks like my arm, just regular-guy level hairy. I think you might have a defective watch.... I had to exchange mine as well because I found a dead pixel on the first one. Good luck!
looks like its fixed. Just had to uninstall the fit app from my phone..... odd, but it works now.
Anyone notice this yet? T-Mobile 47D build
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Anyone notice this yet? T-Mobile 47D build
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I saw it. kinda cool i guess..
Got it. turned it on. I saw some folks crying about the potential of being pickpocketed but I really don't live in that fear and have
Cerberus
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I'm curious as to how it will interface with wear. If when they go out of range or (preferably) the victim is able to make a small gesture the phone locks and can't be unlocked until the wearable is reunited AND the password are re-entered. To me that seems like the ideal.
Then again I would love for smart lock to do a better job of using relative signal strength of estimating how far away the wearable and would automatically lock them outside that zone of control.
Ultimately, I think these two things are sort of right there and just need to be brought together.
Got it on my 5.1 Nexus 6.
Not working that reliably at the moment.
When set on the table and the screen turns off, it doesn't lock automatically...
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Got it. turned it on. I saw some folks crying about the potential of being pickpocketed but I really don't live in that fear and have
Cerberus
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Biggest issue for me would be with Double Tap to wake, pocket dialling.
Anyone using it notice any extra battery drain? I'm not using it as of yet but it sounds interesting but I don't think I can take anymore battery drain
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Anyone using it notice any extra battery drain? I'm not using it as of yet but it sounds interesting but I don't think I can take anymore battery drain
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I haven't noticed any at all although you'd think it would have to use some.... I guess everything is a compromise in some sort of way.