I've read the same thing a few times now. Anyone know if this actually happens? Would explain a couple things.
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Yes it does. It re-gathers the stats of the device. Battery life is all estimates so you are rebuilding those esitmations.
That shouldn't be done though. You should never let a lithium ion battery life drop that
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Not so much... I know this, in theory is bad for a battery, but in my many years of doing this I have yet to suffer any ill affects.
IM not saying kill it dead every single day, but once in a while does not hurt. Granted people will tell you that it will hurt th ebattery but... Then I ask...
By how much does it hurt the life of the battery? No has ever been able to answer that.
Are talking taking 1 day off the life of the battery, 1 week, 1 year? No one can aswer that so based upon my expierence with this devices I would say, at very best esitmate, the rate of increased failure would negligable.
In other words, until someone can give me a specifc loss of battery life then I call this fear mongering.
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You were saying you were getting 1/2% drainage per hour, is that correct Scott with your setup? Bring on 4.75 !
I forget.
Make sure you freeze or erase the att updating software. The sith at AT&T have a force load capability on this ota. According to some it eliminates the exynos exploit. Back your apps and Happy hunting!
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THis ROm does not have such a thing. As well, if you were running a custom ROM, and a lot of people dont realize this, the first check done by the OTA is a check of the partitions and the rom build via SHA5 or possible MD5. I am not sure which but i do the OTA has always stopped dead in its tracks before it even starts. So worse case scenario, you get an annoying notifgication.
But this ROM does not have it.