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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mastiff:
Always WiFi, never any other type of mail check. I have a mobile router in my car, and I'm in my home office 99 % of the work week, so I don't need anything else. I'm guessing that it's something with the Max Sense ROM. I tried downloading only the headers just now, and that only moved the slowdown fase to around 30 E-mails. So there is something weird here. I may have to try out one of the Cookie Home Tab ROMs even though I love the Max Sense way of doing things. :( I'll probably get back to the Max Sense, though. If I'm careful to download mail and delete it from the server with my computer I won't get over 10-15 mails.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mister B:
Mmm, is their any way you could forward priority mail to another account specifically used on your device thus limiting mail you recieve ! I realize this may not suit your use but thought worth mentioning since of your love with current ROM.

I count myself lucky my favourite ROM flavour & older 23699 build works 99.9% perfect in my daily use ... good luck ...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mastiff:
No, there isn't. :( I'll just have to live with it, thanks.
[Captivate General] eccezarathustra:
Ok, I have been flashing for a few months trying to optimize my phone. My last rom was serendipity 6.2, with sp 59 and jl2. I restored to stock (bc I wanted to try something else and hadn't done that in a few weeks) my battery life on serendipity was atrocious.. 6 hours with medium usage. (hardly any calls or messages, looking things up or reading xda briefly) . I spent today on stock, after about 20 hours of light usage I am at 60% left. Now I did flash with a full battery serendipity, wiped battery stats and cleared cache and after several charge cycles and a few days battery life was still awful. I was about to get a new battery. Now I don't mean to single out serendipity, I've had bad battery life on paragon, dilli, and a few others (this time it just got unbearably bad), but why should battery life be so bad on custom roms? Am I alone on this? I hesitate to flash again bc I'm loving having a phone that won't die if I touch it, but I miss the functionality of the device with a custom 2.2.1 on it. Advice or opinions please.
[Captivate General] Redine761:
I'm having the same problem. Everybody keeps saying they've got excellent battery life and what not with custom roms but mine doesn't seem so good. Wifi is off, I've wiped battery stats, I've used the rom for several days letting everything get situated before I begin thinking about if its good battery life or not. Maybe I'm just expecting too much or I watch my battery a lil bit too much, idk it just seems pretty bad. If I stay on the internet for 20 minutes I've already dropped about 3%
[Captivate General] zelendel:
The normal Batt live on this phone with normal use is between 12 to 16 hours
[Captivate General] eccezarathustra:
I'm thinking part of it may be psychological and part may be usage.

Psychological in the sense that I have an expectation of an improvement, practical in that with my stock rom I haven't reinstalled certain apps like xda and pulse where I spend a lot of time reading and thus using the screen.

That being said I was still experiencing drains of 8% or more per hour when the phone was idle, wifi and gps off.

There is a way to check the cpu's time in each state, but I can't remember where the file is. If someone can, please let me know. I'm curious if under the custom rom my phone wasn't properly scaling down.

I'll probably flash something new tomorrow morning unless I see something shiny and new in the dev forum.
[Captivate General] eccezarathustra:
So 6 hours seems a bit low then? Could it just be a cumulative effect of flashing rom on top of rom with restoring to stock?
[Captivate General] zelendel:
Yeah 6 hrs does seem a bit low. There are many things that can contribute to it. If you are bouncing between H and 3g on a custom rom will drain it like crazy, I had to disable H and stick with 3g and that helped. could also look at OS monitor to find what is running in the background.
[Captivate General] eccezarathustra:
Ok, I did notice that recently I was jumping between h and 3g. I was experimenting with some of the new modems. Should I try finding a better modem for my location?
[Captivate General] zelendel:
I would try others, as well as disable H in the hidden menus, and see how it fairs
[Captivate General] fractaline:
@ zelendel.... so by H i assume you mean data... i see alot of back and forth when data is on. i know when data is off i'm still using wcdma from the gsm status, but it doesn't show the 3g icon.

i need my data because i'm from the states but living in australia and alot of my comunications are thru email/facebook.

when i look at battery usage i see rarely more than 5% from cell....usually 90 something from display ( i fiddle with it alot).

can't expect too much cause it's a powerhouse with a tiny battery........

for me the big Q at present is... can we top up the charge regularly or is it always best to let a full cycle run? if i knew it was fine to keep it topped i'd stay 50%+ most of the time i think................
[Captivate General] crystalhand:
It is not great to keep it topped off. The lithium battery will wear out faster and lose charging capacity over time. this process is sped up the more time the battery spends at a high charge
[Captivate General] Pierce533:
Visit the Samsung web site and read the battery specs for the Captivate. The stock battery is only rated for 5 hours and 50 minutes of active phone use (which means the display is active). In sleep mode (display and other features of the phone are shutdown) the battery is rated for up to 300 hours (12.5 days).

I have NEVER seen a stock Captivate last for over 3 days in sleep mode. As for active phone use (display is active) my experience with several of the custom ROMS (Cognition, Paragon, Andromeda, and now my favorite, Continuum) is that the battery life is either on par with the stock ROM, or exceeds it. The kernels on some of these custom ROMs are more efficient than that of the stock ROM due to the many tweaks and cleaning up of bloated apps and code by the developer.

I can't bring myself to keep a stock ROM now that I have used some excellent custom ROMs like those I name above.

As for flashing custom ROMs and seeing fast battery drain goes... I have had that experience with those I listed, but usually I was able to resolve the issue by ensuring my battery was at 100% (meaning showing that amount both on and off) and reflashing, or finding the cause of the high battery usage and going from there (e.g. I have had to reflash modems). Another thing I do, mainly out of habit from compiling code and deploying it in dev and test environments, is to make sure that I am working from a known good baseline ROM before flashing a custom ROM. In this case I always return to the stock ROM you can flash through Odin One Click. That way if you have battery problems after flashing a custom ROM you can have a good idea as to what is causing those problems. This is, of course, just a matter of personal preference. Some have repeatedly flashed one custom ROM over another with no issues. YMMV
[Captivate General] zelendel:
No what I mean is disable HSDPA I think is the term lol. Sense you go back and forth I would say to disable that and just use 3g only.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
If you don't know the code to get too the menu download sgstools it has the hidden menu keys.
[Captivate General] Redine761:
Sorry but where can I find the hidden menus?

EDIT: just saw the last post thanks
[Captivate General] SSJ_Gomike:
I am the opposite, I got horrible battery on stock. Could not even make it through my work day without it dying on my way home unless I charged it midday. Now I am running Serendipity 6.2 and unplug at 7:30am and it is now 8:30pm my time and I have 30% remaining....

I have also tried other customs roms with noticeable improvements in battery life over stock but for me Serendipity gives me the best performance and battery.

Sent from my Galaxy S Captivate with Serendipity
[Captivate General] assaace:
try apex5.1 room with tl3 modem comb

i used about 50 phone call, 2 hour websurfing, email sending, checking.

i still have 41% left, 1day 10hour 50 min.
[Captivate General] Redine761:
Could I have a faulty battery? I rooted and rommed cuz of my battery life being terrible but It still is bad
[Captivate General] devadvance:
I had the exact same issue as you. I tried Darky's 9.3 first, then Serendipity 6.2, then Cognition 4.2.1. Each had major battery drain, meaning 6-8 hours with moderate use, and even without any usage it would drain 25% over 3 hours.

Use One-Click to flash back to stock JF6, then immediate do a Master Clear from the One-Click program after it has finished booting. Obviously move everything to an external SD or the computer prior to all of this, and make sure the external SD and SIM are out when flashing.

My battery has lasted for 14 hours today, and I'm only down to 54%. This is with about 1hr 20min screen on, ~30min voice calls, and always connected via 3G/H with background sync on, weather widget, and moderate web browsing.

Current setup: Serendipity 6.2, Speedmod K13C, JK4 Modem
[Captivate General] eccezarathustra:
Trying again

I couldnt keep myself away from custom roms, how i missed tethering, the custom theming, non marketplace apps and so much more...

Im trying Dilli's 7.1.1, bump charging at the moment...

Last night I drained my battery to 5% when i finally fell asleep... 6 hours later it was at 4%. Finally it drained and would not power on at all. Not even the backlights. Plugged it in for an hour and thought to take the sim card out so i would have a phone for the hours it would take to charge. When i plugged it back in the phone jumped from approximately 10% to 40% charged...

Oh well.
[Captivate General] Funzy32:
I have also been bouncing around flashing diff roms like crazy. I have to say though, I am using Continuum v4 with Hardcores speedmod Kernel K13D. I have been doing pretty good on this combo. Lasts for most the day with normal use.
[Android Apps and Games] daveyfong:
This is how I successfully installed and run Angry Birds Rio, from the Amazon App Store.

Register an Amazon account

Fill in a US address, just look for one on the web (may warn you of invalid format but not hard to get through)

Enable 1-click purchase

Add a credit card for payment, I used an AE number (a generated one... LOL)

Download the Amazon App Store APK file => amzn.to/getappstore

Connect to a free US VPN (passwords renew every 30 mins) => goo.gl/3yRU

Fill in the CAPTCHA and use the bottom 2 servers (for Android)

Launch Amazone App Store

GET the Angry Birds Rio

BOOM! :D

Sorry about the links but I do not have permission to post external links :p
[Android Apps and Games] drew071:
If u have it can't you just backup the apk and post on here?
[Android Apps and Games] daveyfong:
1st, posting warez violates forum rules

2nd, it seems to check your Amazon purchase record when you play the game, as reported by someone else in HTC forum that they can only grab likes 30 secs to play before timeout, LOL
[Android Apps and Games] undergrid:
At step 10 I get told that the app store isn't available in my region, were the address details you entered previously for the US or somewhere else?
[Android Apps and Games] anoneemooz:
I used my Philippine address. :o Hmm..that's weird.. so like when you click "get now with 1-click" it gives you that message?

I've downloaded a 3rd free app just now with no problems..What app are you trying to get? Angry Birds?

Edit: Amazon apparently is making use of my US billing address which I also happen to have even if I'm in the Philippines (upon checking the emails from them about my order) even if it's not the one associated to my one-click settings..so I guess you ought to try finding a random US address and associating it to your Amazon account. I deleted the address to see if I can still download stuff and apparently I still can but it still sees my US address as my billing address..
[Android Apps and Games] themethodman87:
workaround

Apparently Amazon checks the credit card information

"At this time, we are unable to offer the Amazon Appstore for Android and associated apps to our international customers.

To successfully purchase digital content from Amazon Appstore for Android, the 1-Click payment method listed on the Your Account page must be a credit or debit card issued by a U.S. Bank with a U.S. billing address."

So if you intend to "buy" only free apps you can do so by generating fake id and credit card information. It worked for me. I used this website : h_t_t_p://fakenamegenerator.com/gen-male-us-us.php (sorry i'm new, tells me i can't post links)
[Android Apps and Games] zeppelinrox:
Sounds like a giant pain in the ass for a freakin game

Anybody ever hear of torrents... geezus
[Android Apps and Games] nvleafs:
Made a new amazon account using information from this website and it works great.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] youre1m:
Works for me too. Nice. I'm uk based.
[Xoom General] omnia1994:
look here

http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/22/motorola-will-stop-building-xoom-tablets-after-june-report-claims/
[Xoom General] martonikaj:
I doubt they're planning to stop production all together, but it's not unreasonable to expect Motorola to slow production once they hit a certain level of inventory and sales are luke warm. The WiFi hasn't even gone on sale yet, so I'd expect them to gauge sales numbers and then adjust production accordingly.
[Xoom General] Lothaen:
that's fine - it just means my xoom will then become a collectors item? :D
[Xoom General] Blaisun:
if you look at the bottom of the article, there is an update as below..
[Xoom General] Lothaen:
that means it won't be a collectors item anytime soon :(
[Xoom General] cwizardtx:
Hey, look! It's at least thread number THREE on the same subject in the same page! Report this please.
[Xoom General] eatonjb:
of coerce, they plan to stop production.. its a pics of technology. they will start making a newer version, or perhaps there will be a Xoom 1.5 that is just a minor revision.
[Xoom General] Kcarpenter:
The Nexus 1 has been out of production for like a year now, and its still getting updates...so I don't expect it to effect us. :rolleyes:
[Xoom General] ClydeB1:
But seeing as that the report was false and Motorola is not stopping production (as originally stated by June), there are no worries.
[Xoom General] B Dizzle:
Wow another thread about this? Nothing to worry about here. Spreading the word on this will keep folks from buying and ultimately make the rumors true. Wonder if an apple fanboi was behind the report?
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
Meanwhile, in other totally unrelated news:

http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/54903-is-motorola-getting-ready-to-ditch-android
[Focus Accessories] vermelo:
Let's all fill up the request form for the power skin case. In the Smartphone drop down menu select other and in the box below type Samsung Focus.

http://www.power-skin.com/powerskin-form.html

This would be great if they make one for our phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aznneedlovetoo:
I'm currently using Cm7. I just rooted it tonight and I'm currently not being able to receive txts. I rooted using Revoked and clockwork recovery.

Did I root wrong? I tried wiping and reflashing different wrongs. I also tried downloading different Messaging apps such as: ChompSms and Handcent, still no luck. Please help
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] totalanonymity:
Did you update all radio/WiMAX/PRI/NV?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CPT_Muller:
I'm having the same issue. I was running the latest Calukin rom (which has sense) and all of the sudden it stopped, I uninstalled all my apps, nothing, I flashed to mikfroyo, nothing. Updated my prl and profile, nothing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianw7761:
I experienced a similar issue switching from one CM7 nightly to another, I forget which I was upgrading from/to. To resolve the issue, I restored the nandroid backup of the last working ROM I had, verified things were working again, and reflashed the latest nightly from there. Good luck, hope this helps...

Brian
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CPT_Muller:
not to thread hijack, but I was running a sense rom and it happened suddenly :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weztcoazt:
I'm haven the same issue wit my CM7 nightly build 29...any way on fixing that problem
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ajjmair:
i want to flash my omnia with rom 6.5.x...i used ussdl grandprix or direct exe file....my omnia connected but its alwas freeze on downloading eboot,,,,downloding image 0%...i tried on xp and windows 7 same problem i got...plzzzzzzzzzzz helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] martonikaj:
Alright lets devote a thread just to the TouchWiz 4.0 UX discussion, shal we? All hardware aside.

As far as I'm concerned from what I've seen, the TouchWiz 4.0 doesn't look nearly as bad as you would think from the get-go based on how terrible TouchWiz is on various Samsung phones.

1) Re-skinned back, home, multitasking buttons

2) Re-skinned application bar

3) Re-skinned settings menu

4) Added apps and resizable widgets (user removable)

5) The rest is stock, colors, positions, everything

I got this information from an AndroidCentral post, where they got to play around with a non-production unit that showcased the TouchWiz 4.0 UX on a 8.9 version. They later followed it up by stating that this was not the US production version, and posted pics of the non-working confirmed 10.1 and 8.9 versions.

First look, prototype hardware, apparently

Actual US versions, non-working units

Now ontop of all this, the US models being shown at CTIA aren't even being allowed to be turned on, even though they've shown 100% working models in press shoots and back at MWC (older version of the 10.1). I just watched the CTIA press conference, and they were

extremely

careful to state that TouchWiz 4.0 would be coming to "some Galaxy Tabs in some markets", of course coming nowhere to saying which Galaxy Tabs and which markets.

These two things lead me to believe that Samsung really isn't sure whether they're going to force TouchWiz 4.0 onto both tablets, just one tablet, or neither tablet in some markets (aka US, Europe, Asia get different UX). Maybe they're gauging reaction, and choosing later? They obviously have a lot of time to choose what to do. The TouchWiz 4.0 is undeniably almost finished, considering that it IS running just fine on prototype models on the CTIA show floor. So there is no reason to keep it from people for that reason when they show the "US" models to press.

On top of this, CNET reports that the UX won't come on the Galaxy Tab's out of the box, and will be a software update later, another wrench in this: CNET article.

So, what do you guys think? I'm really curious and of course we'll find more as we go on towards June 8th.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] StuMcBill:
6) Re-sizable widgets (which Samsung claim should work with stock Android widgets too)

Shown in the video here : http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/22/samsung-galaxy-tab-8-9-and-new-galaxy-tab-10-1-thinner-than-the/

1:10 onwards.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] martonikaj:
Yea. Widgets covered in 4) . I can modify the post if you'd like.

Sent from my CM7-powered T-Mobile G2
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] StuMcBill:
Oops - looks like my eyes are painted on today!

Sorry about that! :p
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Bandage:
I'd also be curious to see what file system they've adapted as well. Main reason for lag in Samsung devices to date has been the RFS system, which is beyond antiquated. I'd be totally ok with TouchWiz, if the base wasn't RFS. Have you run stock with EXT4? Not nearly as laggy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bitmappp:
i created a dialer in photoshop,i have it in layers.

since i don't have knowledge in actualizing .apk file, i'll stop here.

just send me a message if your interested.

hope you guys like it
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MikeyMike01:
All you need is APK Manager, and DialerTabActivity.apk.
[General Questions and Answers] goete:
Please Help how to disassembly MDA Compact V.......:(...Thank you....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geordie Boyo:
I came across a boot animation the other day, which was the google splash screen i have attached but it had some cogs going round for the animation.

I cannot remember where on the forum I seen it, and have trawled through a load of places where I think I may have come across it, but still no luck!

if anyone has it, or seen the post please can you let me know.

Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cjward23:
I've been looking for it to and here it is http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12172944&postcount=636
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geordie Boyo:
Cheers for that been looking for it for a while!
[Wildfire General] ej2095:
Might be worth Compiling a list if possible of places that offer the xtc clip service say country by country??

Thinking a shared Google Doc would suffice??

Any takers on this?

unable to start my self as no sod round here does it.
[Wildfire General] Lloir:
http://forums.phone-tools.cn/showth...r-S-OFF-services-post-here-your-details/page1

this might help out :)
[Wildfire General] RemcoManuel:
Seems focused on UK? Possibly XDA reaches wider audience?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] agnivarsh:
Has anybody succeeded in doing a backup/restore of the WP7 partition from a 2 partition (1 WP7 and 1 android) microSD card? What tools have you tried?

Would DD work? Trueimage? Ghost? Mac Disk Utility?

I want to setup my fresh WP7 partition the way I like it and then image it so I can restore to it if the current microSD starts having problems.

Greatly appreciate any help!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] washpota:
I did this in windows.

- Free up some space in your comp hard drive

- Go to Disk Management and shrink drive. (Free space should be equal to or greater than the SD card size)

- Install easeus partition manager

- Mount the SD card

- Right click on the partition on the SD card and choose copy.

- Choose the free space in the Comp's HDD.

- Repeat for all partitions that has to be copied.

Do the reverse when you want to copy back.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Neo84:
Does the reverse way also work with resizing the partition? On a larger SD card?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] agnivarsh:
Thanks for the response! So the only way to copy would be to another partition? Is there a way to copy to an image file instead? And, have you successfully imaged it back onto the SD card?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] agnivarsh:
I was able to successfully do this using DiskImage - a free download that I found here. I was able to save the entire SDCARD (not a single partition but the entire card) to an image file and then write to back onto another sdcard of the same size. It worked! I haven't tested this thoroughly so don't blame me if it doesn't work for you. If it does - please post here so others can benefit from your experience.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] colossus_r:
Yes its working...i have doen this 3-4 times...

I did that and i transfered my wp7 partition from a 8gb sd to another 16gb sd card...

Copy the partition to usb hd and then copy back to the new sd...

It works fine....And i have a backup of the partition in my USB sd.

My recomendation is not to mess with your computers hard drive...

Do this with an external usb hd..

Another free tool to use is the MiniTool Partition wizard from here

http://www.minitool-partitionrecovery.com/

colossus
[Xoom General] omnia1994:
isit true?? i m going to buy this device but i m gonna rethink about it if it's card slot cannot be loaded
[Xoom General] martonikaj:
yes, it doesn't work until the software is updated.
[Xoom General] omnia1994:
is this motorola's software issue or honeycomb?