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[Gen8 General] MSGaldenzi:
The firmware made my wifi seems stronger, although the archos now seems to reset itself when its alseep for a long period of time. I have it here by my desk and I have not touched it for about 6 hours and have seen it reset twice on its own already...
[Gen8 General] ms07.guf:
I realy need a Temporary root to change buttons bar in advise bar.

Archangel do not work in any way with new FW.

Have you some suggestion for Temporary root?
[Gen8 General] Flix123:
Yes, install the SDE and chulri's root kernel (but don't delete android kernel), then you've temporary root.

But that's only for the SDE. So, I would delete the android kernel and always boot the SDE.
[Gen8 General] ms07.guf:
thanks ,but I have my A70 only since 3 months and I'm under Warranty yet !

If I will install SDE I will loose Archos Warranty and I prefer to avoid it.

I hope some develper will release an Archangel like application very soon.
[Gen8 General] Flix123:
I've the problem, that the battery life is very bad with the new firmware. When I watch a movie for 1 hour, I loose 5-10% more than with the firmware 2.1.08.

Can anyone confirm this or is there anyone having a solution for this?
[Gen8 General] tlphipps:
I experienced the same quick drain, but noticed once I got to around 20% battery life, it slowed WAY down. I'm not sure but I think overall the battery life is probably the same for movie watching but it seems to THINK it's draining faster.

NOTE: I only watched one full movie thusfar, so can't guarantee this would be normal.
[Gen8 General] Flix123:
The drain at 20% is normal, I had it with 2.1.08, too.

But I suspect, that the Google Voice search is involved in this drain. I just deleted Google Voice search, and now I test watching 1h video under the same conditions.
[Gen8 General] Flix123:
So, my test is finished.

I uninstalled Google voice search and made the same test: Full brightness, Energy Save Mode, Wlan off and the same video playing.

And after 1h, the Archos lost only 21% (in my last test it lost 30%!).

So, the voice search could be the reason for the battery drain with the new firmware!:)
[Gen8 General] MSGaldenzi:
Mine still keeps restarting itself...

Its also had a few instances where I get a white screen. I then sleep it, wake it, and still white... For a while. It did not do this before at all. Is there anything I can do to get the old firmware back? Any suggestions?
[Gen8 General] Flix123:
Yes, you've to install Angstrom and then the "old" firmware.

Here is a tutorial to do this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905053

The link for the 2.0.54 firmware is broken, so you've to download it here: http://update.archos.com/8/gen8/gen8_2.0.54/firmware_archos_android_gen8.aos

and here's the 2.1.08 firmware: http://update.archos.com/8/gen8/gen8_2.1.08/firmware_archos_android_gen8.aos
[Gen8 General] Protocold:
Mine bootloop too.... had to roll back to 2.1.08
[Gen8 General] MSGaldenzi:
I messed around with a few settings and if that does not help, then I will just downgrade to a "lesser" firmware. Thanks for posting that.
[Gen8 General] compyy:
It is working ok for me.
[Gen8 General] ianpogi:
is there other firmware beside urukdroid?
[Gen8 General] omendacat:
This new firmware cannot read battery status correctly, thus the battery drain more faster. I lost 2-3 hours in overdrive mode.
[Gen8 General] pbarrett:
Wake problem back

So I take back anything good I said about this update fixing the wakeup problem. It was gone for maybe a week, but now it's back like before.

(Never know when tapping power will display the screen or not. Most likely thing to wake it up is a long hold on the power button then release, then dismiss the power menu. Sometimes.)

Maybe it's related to sleeping it while running apps that try to manage the brightness level, like eBook readers.
[Gen8 General] Flix123:
With the 2.3.26, I had the sleep bug 1 time, but I downgraded to 2.1.08, because there's no battery drain.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
hello my friends :) untill we waiting new Roms., you can set up u phone for better performance:

1 app is: Opera 11 (with flash) -working faster than any stock browser, exellent scrolling, exellent loading speed, exellent flash sopport ! you will love it.

2 app is: Adw-Ex launcher: original launcher working good, but when u scroll between 4 screens u see little laggy. Adw-Ex gives exellent performance ! Im so happy to see than GTX :) working SUPER FAST with this launcher, and gives really good scrolling !!! you will love it.

3 app is: Spare part- working exellent with Adw-Ex, just make u animation fast on settings and you'll laugh for a long time because funtastic speed do not leave you alone :)

4 app is: addfree, just remove intrusive ads !

5 app is: cache cleaner NG, 1 in 3 days just run and clean garbage after u sellf :D ( on first scan I got 49mb of garbage !!!!)

p.s. Lets make our developer nice and friendly !!! peace to all
[T-Mobile LG G2x] cenwesi:
Thanks, since i am new to android i will follow this thread. :)

PS: could you tell me what the name of that addfree software is?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ScooterG:
Adfree.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
yes its: adfree android
[T-Mobile LG G2x] cenwesi:
Thanks. Found it actually :)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] a1yet:
a video explaining what ADWLauncher EX will do for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD5WD-HDagM

.

PS: i never personally used this launcher, just thought u might wanna see a video explaining what it does etc.

.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] almostinsane:
adfree is the only reason I root a phone.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mr.orange303:
Wow. Thanks man. Now we talking.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
happy to help ;)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gaww:
The free ADW launcher will get you most of the above speed and customization but does not have the advanced features.

As for adfree - it was not working initially on CM7 - drove me crazy until they got a work-around, and then adfree fixed their APP. Don't think I could stand Google Android without it.

On that subject, the XDA forum is getting bloated with ad and tracking cookies (on computer) stopped by my spam filter, so page loading is slower than molasses - anyone else notice this?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
no dude !!Adfree does NOT scan web page for anything. It does NOT work like a proxy. It does NOT filter anything.

Adfree uses something called a hostfile to remap DNS names of ad servers to an IP address that is inaccessible. The default is 127.0.0.1 which is the identity IP address... I.e. your phone. The only way it would slow you phone down is if you've installwd something with a webserver on your phone
[T-Mobile LG G2x] graffixnyc:
You can also download this host file from some of the windows support sites and it works perfectly on android tested it on my mytouch 4g, streak 7 and xoom. I think that ad free actually pulls this same file and uses it.

it goes in /system/etc

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

edit: it also gives a good explanation about host files and how they work
[T-Mobile LG G2x] alnova1:
I think the phone is fast as it is...So far...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ctraywick1:
Actually he said on the computer not the xda app.... he was talking about his computers popup blocker/antivirus stuff

* I'm just sayin......
[T-Mobile LG G2x] avetny:
oh got it :D:o
[T-Mobile LG G2x] baykakes:
Thank you for these suggestions... Cache cleaner definitely seems like a must have.... It definitely cleaned a ton of trash from my phone AND SD card!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] evil1art:
I like using the bloat freezer app! Stops all the tmobile crap from running
[LG Optimus 2x] Mr.Kakarot:
Hi, I been thinking about this phone but I want to be sure.... going by the specs, it looks like it will work on att hspa+ network... meaning it should work on rogers, telus, bell, mts...

However, bands and freq are my weakness... can someone confirm this before I pull the trigger?

thx
[LG Optimus 2x] tadman2010:
not sure if this helps but t-mobile are releasing th G-2 which is more or lease the same as X2
[General Topics] rfunderburk39:
I have a ROM that I am in the process of porting from Korea to a US model. All hardware works properly. One of the small bugs I still have is the phone number format. It appears to remain in the international format not in the US. I have corrected the region info in the build.prop & rummaged through most of the framework-res.apk and can not find how to get this resolved. More Locale 2 & several other locale apps on the market do not correct this either.

So for the US one would expect:

123-456-7890

123=area code

456=prefix

7890=user assigned #

Instead it shows

12-3456-7890

Phone dials the proper contact and for all purposes functions as it should. But if I post a ROM with this nuisance the complaints will be endless.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for all constructive & suggested advice.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] braam2000:
hi guys

does any 1 no how to use (Samsung-flasher-5.56-MultiLoader_V5.56) it looks like a program to reload software but not sure. my tab is beyond repair so ill try almost anything. :D
[Desire General] tartuffe13:
Hello, i went to flash my desire with CM7, all is very nice , speed ,sympathic

but before with sense , i can choose a different ringtones by contacts , now i can't found this options.

Anybody know s , how to ?

Thank

Ps: excuse for my english :o
[Desire General] csizi12:
You can change it in Contacts. Press Menu in it then Settings. Now here you can change the contact's ringtone.
[Desire General] tartuffe13:
Tes that's good. Thank you si much
[Epic 4G General] luisrodg:
Hello,

My phone is stock rom etc, i have done nothing to it except i rooted it so i could use wireless tether.

I received the notification for "MR4 EC05 system update" a few days ago, however, when i try to install, the phone reboots etc, and then it gives me like a red " ! " saying the update failed.

Why is this? Is it because im rooted? How could i get to install this? I no longer care for root or tethering.

Appreciate any help,

Thanks.
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
It's because you're rooted...

Use this thread with the EB13 File then when it boots you'll get the message for the EC05 update and it should work...
[Epic 4G General] luisrodg:
Thanks,

Which thread?
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
When you rooted it removed the Asphalt demo which is one of the apps that is needed to determine if you are "stock."

Flash back to completely stock, download the update and root again, or if you are familiar with odin, you can just flash EC05 pre-rooted and deodexed:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1021305
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
If you need a visual I made a how to use odin video. Check out the videos in my signature.
[Blade General] shad0wboss:
It came to my attention that from the 16th of April 2011, the future cyanogenmod 7 roms (much more stable and faster ones) are going to be for Gen2 devices only and there's a non revertable way to partition your device to Gen2 from Gen1 and you won't be able to use Rom manager to easily flash rom but a rather dangerous way of flashing roms through bootloader. I would request the devs here to port those upcomming roms to Gen1 if possible because i still believe that there are more people using Gen1 roms then Gen2.

So it is clear that Modaco devs are working for Gen2 only. If any dev is interested please make a move and port thisfor gen1.

All kind of comments are welcome !
[Blade General] mur76:
I have nightly build 41 working on gen1, go back to the forum, some guy has a cm7 unlocker for gen1
[Blade General] shad0wboss:
Indeed CM7 universal converter but you have to delete some stuff from the rom to fit into the 128 mb partition (gen1). As the OP of that thread mentioned that if you delete bootanimation.bin and Rom manager.apk, you can flash it.

But i wouldn't prefer flashing N41 just yet as it is still too buggy and worse of all, the accelerometer lags.
[Blade General] mur76:
This thread is out of date, now there is simple way of converting to Gen and back. Check the thread on modaco, method is called. TPT
[Blade General] I'm TheQuest:
Hi mur76

Here is the link you are talking about

Gen1 to Gen2 TPT upgrade, No Windows needed

Take Care

TheQuest :cool:
[HD2 Android Themes and Apps] marpo22:
Hi, I Android: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=933951

how do I change the keyboard?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daoist:
Maybe an obvious question, but if I plug the dock in to the charger and the tablet isn't docked, will the dock charge?

I can see a common use case would be to leave the dock on the charger and just use the tablet most of the time, and then if my tablet's battery runs low go grab the dock. Will that work?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T3rry1:
i cant say for sure, but i'd assume there would be the same connector in the dock for charging ti all at once, or just the dock.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rio911:
I saw in one of the video reviews that when they are all connected the tablet will be charged first, then the dock. Also another option is if your tablet is running low, you can connect it to the fully charged dock and that will charge the batteries on the tablet.

Hope this helps,

rio
[Thunderbolt General] chrisjm00:
I have the 2750 mah battery in my phone. Bamf 1.5 with the new radio. 4 hours off the charger and it is at 65 percent. Any idea? All syncing is off, screen at 40%, no Widgets other than fancy widget on. This is nuts. I can't figure out what's going on.
[Thunderbolt General] justinc101011:
Have you wiped battery stats?
[Thunderbolt General] sublimaze:
I have the same issue. One day my phone goes 20+ hrs on a charge, the next day it drains 40% in 3 hrs, with no significant change in usage. I've swapped kernels, wiped battery stats, kill nonessential apps & services, and I still can't find the culprit. But my extra battery is in en route, so I'm not too concerned
[Thunderbolt General] chrisjm00:
No. Haven't wiped battery stats yet. I heard bad things about wiping the stats on the TB.
[Thunderbolt General] Forgetfull:
I get the same thing every few days and it drives me crazy. You can instal a current widget and it'll show you what the draw is. Normall idle I'm at 38mA. But in these bouts of mystery drain it'll go up to 250-300mA for no reason. And this is with wifi/4G off too. But once I turn it on airplane mode the current goes back to normal until I take it off airplanel. So it's something to do with the regular cell radio...
[Thunderbolt General] chrisjm00:
Its ridiculous. Its stuff like this that kind of make me wish HTC held this back another few weeks.
[Thunderbolt General] komradefox:
yeah i have this issue also. today Google Voice had partial waked my phone to 50% battery. i don't get it.
[Thunderbolt General] Flat4subie:
I have seen the same thing, anyone also notice the battery cooking when the drain is going on. I usually reboot the phone thinking an app is hung just banging on the system, sometimes it works other times not so much.
[Thunderbolt General] pnd4pnd:
+1 i'm seeing this as well. when its happening the phone gets really hot. i hope this gets figured out.
[Thunderbolt General] Bxsteez:
I had this problem on the BAMF 1.5 ROM + kernel combination. I recently switched to Imoseyon lean kernel (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1021404) and now the battery life is amazing. I've been off the charger since about 12:33am (CST) and it is now 12:28pm (CST) and I'm at 52% with average use.

On battery calibration. I strongly recommend doing this if when you restart your phone you lose drastic percentages. I was losing 11% with a restart indicating that it wasn't reporting accurate battery status. I used the battery calibration tool which is on the market. Now here is the kicker that i learned from Droid Incredible days, you have to fully charge the battery. That does not mean wait till your phone reports 100% that means turn off the device and charge until the notification led turns green and start up the phone and let it charge to the light goes green again then calibrate. Then disconnect and use til completely dead without plugging it in AT ALL!! This has worked for me.

Hope this helps everyone.
[Thunderbolt General] pnd4pnd:
i really hope this thread doesnt die since this is a real problem apparently quite a few people have....
[Thunderbolt General] ddgarcia05:
I didn't read all the post but after flashing a radio you have to wait a couple days yoga week before the battery can recalibrate.
[Thunderbolt General] Ovrclck:
Battery monitor is showing 1350mAh

Wondering if I have a bad battery or maybe that's how it's read? Shouldn't it read 1400 instead of 1350?
[Thunderbolt General] evilkokonut:
I have this problem too... Its because something is not letting the kernal throttle down. Check setcpu and you will see it stuck on the Max speed. The smartass gov is most suspect because it doesn't use profiles
[Thunderbolt General] Dxun:
It's just the way it is for now. For the last 2 days I've been getting horrible battery life. All of a sudden things changed today. Battery drain is between 30 & 38 every 60 seconds. 2 days straight of 250-300 drove me frigging crazy.

Thunderbolt - BAMF Remix 1.5
[Thunderbolt General] SteveDusa:
Yeah I have these random cases too. However a reboot fixes the issue. Besides faster than normal battery drain, you should notice higher battery temperature.

I believe it's an application issue, something that we can't tell yet.

Honestly I have high hopes for the TBolt down the road. When Evo first came out, we were experiencing similar problems too. Given time the devs were able to get them solved. This is why I prefer HTC and XDA.
[Thunderbolt General] chrisjm00:
I got great life today. Yesterday was terrible. I'm still getting the large drop in percentages on reboot, but battery life is draining slowly. Something I was wondering is if we lose 15 percent on a drop, does that mean the battery is actually 15 percent lower when I restart? So if my battery is at 60 percent in my task bar, is it actually 45 percent? And if that is the case, what happens when it drops down to 10 percent on my taskbar? In theory that would mean the battery had 0% life. Now the strange part of that is I'm still losing battery from 10% down to 0%, once it hits 0 it shuts off, however, if I restart the phone at 8 percent it won't reboot. So why will the phone stay running at 8% battery, but it will not boot back up after the restart. Its been a long day so sorry if I'm rambling or not making sense. But you know what I'm getting at.
[Thunderbolt General] RogerPodacter:
Just the way it is, the thunderbolt technically has a 1350 mAh stock battery.
[Thunderbolt General] Chaztera:
I saw a thread on another site that says, if you recalibrate your battery once a month it will help... Full charge... Unplug.. reboot...3 times only has helped mine.... Now I Only loose 2-3% of battery per hr...
[Thunderbolt General] Ovrclck:
oh ok. Thanks
[Thunderbolt General] lect1984:
even though all syncing is off, you may have a rogue program that will constantly try to access data. check your 3G/4G icon for activity, and install something like System Panel Lite to monitor live CPU usage and network activity. I noticed that when my phone is leaking power like crazy, that my network activity is through the roof. Otherwise, I lose 1-2% per hour on idle (typically 3-4% per hour average). This is running BAMF 1.5, leankernel v1.11, on stock battery. I can make it through one day without charging, but i'll be running on fumes by the time I go to sleep.
[Thunderbolt General] paulmike3:
On Sunday I was having horrible battery drain. Used System Panel (paid) and Android System info to narrow it down to "System", but since that's a protected process, I couldn't narrow it down any further.

Reboots, all radio modes, wifi, etc made no difference. Swapped batteries with my spare - no change. I did notice that my upload arrow was turning on every few seconds, for a few seconds. I was also getting sporadic network connectivity, even though it showed connected most of the time.

I reseated my SIM a few times, and the issue disappeared, and hasn't returned.

I'm convinced that someone was monkeying around in my local towers. Nothing on my device changed, so it was definitely external factors causing this. :(
[Thunderbolt General] RogerPodacter:
how severe was this battery drain? since you used system panel to narrow it down to "system", that basically doesnt help much beyond that point. system means thats the main android core system causing the issue, which might mean you cant do anything about it.

so if its insane drain like 20% an hour, or 5% an hour, is worth figuring out. perhaps a different ROM, or factory reset start over would help. i really dunno...
[Thunderbolt General] paulmike3:
Sorry, tried to add that to my post, but had to wait 15 mins or something since I'm new(er) here, and went to lunch.

Severe as in 45-50% drain an hour. I've seen bad drain from using it alot, but my CPU was pegged at 100% as soon as it was on. "system" was using 95-100% of the CPU, the rest being the monitoring tool I had open. As other have mentioned, the battery was getting wicked hot from the CPU cooking.

Background - I'm stock everything. Didn't install any recently (when it happened). I was on the brink of doing a factory reset, when it cleared up.

I looked at some logs via Android System Info, but didn't see any glaring errors.
[Thunderbolt General] Forgetfull:
Did you try toggling airplane mode? I've had the exact same symptoms as you and airplane mode has worked a few times.
[Thunderbolt General] paulmike3:
Yes, I tried anything and everything related to the radios at least several times each. Here's a rundown, not necessarily in order. The whole ordeal lasted from about 3PM to 10PM on Sunday, the entire time, the CPU was pegged at 100%.

I waited several minutes in between each step below, to attempt to let the changes catch up. In between, I used the ping tool in the Phone Info screen to determine if data was up or down. About half the time, the pings would fail and I'd get unreachable errors.

Troubleshooting:

- rebooted via battery pull

- rebooted via restart option

- shutdown and powered up Fast Boot

- shutdown and powered up without Fast Boot

- switched to 3G (via LTEOnOff)

- switched to 4G (via LTEOnOff)

- switched to wifi

- enabled airplane mode

- disabled airplane mode

- disabled sync

- disabled background data

- disabled mobile data

- disabled roaming

- disabled GPS

- removed SIM and powered up, repeated above

- put SIM back in, repeated above

- reseated SIM, and the CPU calmed down, but issue returned about 45 mins later

- reseated SIM, and repeated above steps

- reseated SIM once more, and device has been fine ever since

Can you think of anything else I could have tried? lol :)
[Thunderbolt General] Forgetfull:
That's screwy, what rom/kernel/radio are you running?
[Thunderbolt General] sublimaze:
when all else fails... reflash everything (rom/kernel) and start from clean slate
[Thunderbolt General] paulmike3:
Bone stock.
[Thunderbolt General] sublimaze:
holy crap. that's jacked up. you definitely shouldn't be having such issues on stock rom. are you still in your evaluation/return period?
[Thunderbolt General] Qzic:
I'm having the same problem as paulmike3. It hasn't been going on as long, but it also hasn't resolved itself.

I'm getting a battery drain of about 30% per hour. Using current widget, the current draw has never dropped below 250mA. The draw runs pretty steady at 250mA with spikes to 310 or so every 10 min, puls the higher use when I actually turn the phone on.

I installed SystemPanel and the top CPU using app after letting the phone run for 2 hours was System Process using 9m 20s of CPU time. Over those same 2 hours, the battery went from 99% to 33%.

Stock ROM, rooted.