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[T-Mobile LG G2x] ctso:
Battery life on your phone is probably fine. The problem lies in the driver LG wrote to talk to the battery and figure out the max capacity, discharge rate, current capacity, etc. They did a piss poor job of writing it, and working on CM7, I can say that it is horribly inaccurate. I've gone from 50% to 70% by just rebooting, charged a whole 20% in 2 minutes, etc.

DO NOT TAKE ANY BATTERY READINGS SERIOUSLY. I understand this sucks, but when you look at your phone and it says you have 40% battery, don't assume that to be true.

We are working on improving the battery driver for CM7, and it is getting slightly better, but still needs tons of work.

On the note of GsmDataConnectionTracker, it exists in froyo and gingerbread and is not something LG stuck in as bloatware. They added some additional debugging which is what you are seeing in logcat.

Skimming through the code (very quickly, mind you) it looks like GsmDataConnectionTracker is not your problem. All it does is keep track of data sent/received, communicates this back to the radio interface, sets up GSM data connections should they die, and is responsible for also keeping track of whether or not you are currently connected to an APN (thus the reason for constant polling).
[T-Mobile LG G2x] chnky18:
I froze wifi calling in TB but the icon is still in notification bar..anyway to get rid of icon
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Zspy1985:
Would them coming out with Gingerbread fix the battery problem?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Amd4life:
my battery is quite terrible as of today for some reason

my cell standby has been at no less than 71% even after factory reset

it only last on the battery no more than 4-5 hrs max
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DooMMeeR:
which is bad WHY?

the perentage is just setting the single usage into relation to other usage but not to the over all usage

my phone has also about 75% Cell StandBy when all background services are off

but still it lasts >2days :) usage

it should be more worrying when other things like AndroidOS hump around at the top and suck on your battery :)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bskim23:
Sweet thanks for the heads up CS. Really helped to clear up my confusion in all this. Really looking forward to cm7 on my g2x!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] flak0:
so then it is safe to say GSMDataConnection Tracker is always polling on all Froyo and Gingerbread devices every second? Reason I ask ctso is that cell phone standby shows a huge amount being attributed to the battery loss. Or is it simply because lg left the debug on that it is somehow confusing the way android battery status module shows whats using the battery?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] katiepea:
Good to know, makes sense.. I've noticed some similar fluctuations occurring and figured as much
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lobsterhead:
I rooted my phone the day after I got it and then began using Juice Defender ("Balanced" profile), SetCPU (drops to 200-400MHz when the screen is off), and Bloat Freezer to freeze "WiFi Calling" and "My Account" among other apps. Before freezing certain apps, I noticed (in ATK) that there were 25+ instances going on.

I've had pretty good battery life, but "cell standby" is always at or above 50%. Also, alogcat shows a constant stream of "gsmdataconnectiontracker."

I installed "Battery Monitor Widget" since reading this thread to get a better idea of what the battery usage looks like for real.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DebauchedSloth:
It's not a battery problem, it's a battery driver problem. So yeah, if they fixed that driver and it was correctly reporting battery state and charge, an update to Gingerbread could fix the problem.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] twoeleven99:
yes. also noticed this the otherday when i went to sleep at 100% and woke up the battery was under 40%. as of right now my batt is under 20% ans cell standy has used 50% of the battery and phone idle has used 40% =/
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hanged_man:
Then do you think that we will get much better battery life once the driver is fixed?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Renegade_Rulez:
It should get a lot better. on my old motorola milestone I had the same problem, could not get 8 hours of battery life out of it and after the battery driver got fixed it had 70+% left after 16 hours without charging...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ctso:
Why would you freeze WiFi Calling? Enabling WiFi Calling is your best bet to save battery life, it kills off any communication with cell towers while it is active. WiFi is much cheaper on battery life than GSM.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] xl DIGITAL lx:
Never knew that, thanks for the tip.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] blitz911:
Don't wanna jinx myself but can't complain on battery life...in the beginning I got maybe 10 hours, but now I'm getting 17+ hours with 29% still left while using it like I normally do(calls, internet, text, games, pics)..I skipped the initial setup and haven't factory reset it..so far so good..
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Profondo_Rosso:
That's interesting. So the fact that I did a factory reset and the battery appears to be lasting a ton longer ...can it be possible doing a factory reset fixes the problem you see?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gaww:
I got that once on g2x and once on mt4g. Both times not on wifi. Last Night wifi and wifi calling on - only 5% (8hours).

I use setcpu and have frozen most bloatwear.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lobsterhead:
I noticed that "WiFi Calling" was constantly running and figured I would freeze it since I didn't use it. I tried to freeze as many things as I could that I didn't use.

I didn't know that it was easier on the battery. In another post somebody mentioned that they believed "WiFi Calling" was draining their battery.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hanged_man:
did you notice any battery life improvement ? i'm also thinking of removing/freezing them as well
[T-Mobile LG G2x] aray213:
Wifi

I have noticed my battery usage on wifi is less then half of what it is on 4g
[T-Mobile LG G2x] flak0:
agreed however it seems CM7 will fix the broken battery driver issue.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] kampf:
See this image for some interesting battery drain issues I've noticed:

Battery usage was great yesterday during the daytime, but I noticed it started draining quicker later. After a charge, which I'm noticing the G2x emits a slight, high-frequency buzzing in a quiet room, the drain continued at a quick rate. I did notice that the phone was a bit laggy, even after running ATK.

Spontaneous reboot, and much lower battery drain thereafter.

What gives?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Minker17:
I've noticed that as well. Whenever it freezes and the battery has to be pulled, the battery drop drastically.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jsauce75:
If the driver us the issue wouldn't all phones be effected? I get four to ten hours max. Others get 20-30? How can this be if we're all running the same phone with the same bad driver?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lobsterhead:
To be honest, I did a poor job of "troubleshooting" my battery... I did a bunch of stuff at once rather than one at a time to figure out how much each thing affected it. As my phone is now, I'm getting over 12 hours of moderate use out of it before it's down to 0%. (I don't play any big games or anything.)

I didn't notice too much of a problem before messing around with it a lot though. I just did what worked for my G1 thinking the same strategy would carry over here.

I could be wrong, but my main strategy is to shut it down as much as possible when I'm not using it (SetCPU) and keep it as streamlined as possible when I am using it (JuiceDefender + Bloat Freeze). This is what I love about Android!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] smoothmoose:
Did you keep your GPS on all the time, or only when needed? I'm curious as I am getting significant drain with the GPS only and it seems to be having issues getting satillite sync outdoors. I'm using CM7 latest daily build, I wonder if that's the issue.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Scyth3:
Don't forget, if you're running CM7 and you have the "flashing" LED lights as an indicator of a missed call or similar -- it will drain your battery. That one specifically will prevent your battery from sleeping. If you change it to "dimmed" instead, that will let your CPU sleep.

Also, the biggest cause of unintended battery drains is usually abused partial wake locks. Use Spare Parts -> Battery History to locate misbehaving or poorly coded apps.
[XPERIA X8 General] speedi57:
hello all, I just see whether someone could compillation gnash our dear x8 or tell me the steps to follow,

I thank you in advance
[XPERIA X8 General] andrej456:
http://wiki.gnashdev.org/Building_for_Android
[XPERIA X8 General] speedi57:
I'm sorry but I cromprend anything = S
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gigpaimp:
Can anyone helps set up custom alerts for different notifications. I get 3 different types of pages to my phone and I want a different alert for each. I would also like a different for 2 different email accounts. I was able to do this with my old tp2. Please help.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gatorguy:
Good question. I am interested in this as well. Coming from a lowly Blackberry 8350i on Nextel, I had this feature of multiple notification sounds for different messages!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knave68:
You can set up separate alerts by going into the settings of each individual app. In messaging hit Menu>Settings scroll down and see option for notification sound. Same for Gmail.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gigpaimp:
Thanx. But how do I set up different alerts for text messages from different people. I get pages from work from different systems and I would like different alerts.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gigpaimp:
Thanx Porchguy

That exactly what I was looking for. I am going to buy it.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PorscheGuy:
Awesome! Glad I could help...
[Atrix 4G General] frankiedizzle87:
I think sommthing big is coming. It's been a week since anything big even roms! Im confident in this community and yesterday there was an unlocked boitloader topic that was removes because it gave to.much info. How often does that happen. I didn't get t read through all of it because once I was done with page one it said it no longer existed. Im super excited let's rejoice
[Atrix 4G General] lesonal:
jizzing my pants!!
[Atrix 4G General] frankiedizzle87:
I been jizzed changed and rejizzed again. I think the reason with the holding back of info is for the bounty. Hopefully im right and that's why and im.not wrong and notta damn thing going on
[Atrix 4G General] sgtmedeiros:
This is weird.. -_-
[Atrix 4G General] briggie108:
One of the reasons it has been quite is because there is an update soon. Kind of pointless to make a rom (or new version of an existing one), and have to redo it again to make it work with the new update.

Also that topic was deleted because the op was posting an IM convo that the developer didn't want being made public. It didn't really prove anything conclusive.
[Atrix 4G General] agrabren:
It also doesn't help that devs have to make a bunch of worthless posts like this one so we can reply our post in the dev area.

I have info for 2 different threads in there, but since I'm too new, I can't respond. Eventually, I'll get the minimum junk post quota done, and can tell them what the nvflash method described will and will not do. Till then, I'll just keep playing around silently...
[Atrix 4G General] frankiedizzle87:
Your right but even after the Op deleted the convo the whole.thread was removed. Im just saying a hint of optimistic outlooking
[Atrix 4G General] briggie108:
Haha, I am in the same boat as well.
[Atrix 4G General] briggie108:
There is nothing wrong with optimism, I agree; however, until there is an actual way we have to be careful because they don't want moto finding out and then quickly fixing it.
[Atrix 4G General] agrabren:
The real risk is moto blocking methods we use to gain root, or to back flash to an older SBF...
[Atrix 4G General] drock212:
Have you tried talking to the devs on irc? They're still hard at work just not posting on the dev section because it all gets jumbled and messy

thats just my 2 cents

sent from XDA mobile
[Atrix 4G General] s1mpd1ddy:
atrix pwns
[Atrix 4G General] drock212:
Indeed, indeed

thats just my 2 cents

sent from XDA mobile
[Atrix 4G General] DarkRyoushii:
drock212 is correct, the devs are hating the dev subforum at the moment because of all the useless posts and information. If you jump on IRC and STAY QUIET UNLESS YOU HAVE SOMETHING USEFUL TO SAY you learn a lot about whats going on, as well as learn some new things about how your phone works. That's what I've been doing for the past few weeks and it's helped a lot.

- DarkRyoushii
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kidserious:
I use odin all the time on my fascinate and am very familiar with it, Lol. But, I was wondering what, if any, are the differences between Odin and Heimdall? Is one better or more effective than the other? Thanks in advance for any info pertaining to this. And Btw, it was really difficult to not post this in the development section. Lol! J/K. :)
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHoLyx:
They both do the same thing, Odin was the first on the market been around and most ppl (like me) started out with Odin. Heimdall also has a Linux and Apple version, so for those people who have problems with Odin or use other platforms, it is a good Alternative. My recommendation is to get familiar with both for this reason
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webarnes:
I ran out of space on my N1 (CM7), used Froyo A2SD, got annoyed and switched to S2E. It didn't free up any space (still around 25MB free on /data), but I was able to continue adding apps so I didn't mind. Recently, I just went down below 20MB free space and Android is complaining.

I suspect that when I installed S2E it didn't delete the apps from /data/app. It just copied them to the SD card and mounted it SD card on /data/app.

Am I right? Can I free up that space without removing S2E or factory resetting my phone?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
A2sd only move party of the apps, data will still remain inside the phone. User dark tremor a2sd, it move everything to the ext section of the sd card, you can also move dalvik cache which free up a huge amount of space
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
S2E also moves dalvik.

Have you used out to move dalvik to SD? Do you have an ext partition on your SD (assuming it needs one)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
S2E definitely needs EXT partition on your SD card. If you never added it - S2E didn't have any effect.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webarnes:
I could move dalvik-cache, but I was under the impression that dalvik gets more write hits than /data/app and my Class-4 SD card will be more of a problem.

I used to use DarkTremor until it got buggy with certain GB ROMs. So I got rid of it and just used the builtin A2SD. Then I got S2E.

I have a 512MB EXT partition.

S2E did seem to work: the apps are on the SD card; I was able to install more apps; if I try using the builtin A2SD, it doesn't affect free space on /data.

It just never reduced the space used in /data.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
In that case, you might use Terminal Emulator or ADB shell to check if the apps are indeed duplicated and exist both on the phone and on EXT. Use "ls -l" to see if the apps you see in /data/app/ are real apps or symlinks.

And Dalvik2SD is perfectly fine with my Class 2 SD card.
[General Questions and Answers] rmlineback:
Can anyone give me an idea how long after i calibrate my battery (charge fully, wipe stats, charge fully while off) will I see a difference, cause it seems to have gotten worse, I didn't see an answer anywhere.
[General Questions and Answers] wujiku:
well.. i have done this recently and i think you have to take the rom into consideration. maybe that rom takes more battery. i have an extended battery and i have had this happen to me.
[Vibrant General] dcaples002:
I have two vibrants and I want to trade one of them in for another phone. What good phones am a able to trade in for?
[Vibrant General] allthrottle:
If you get lucky, a mytouch 4g or g2. I was recently attempting to trade mine and had the most difficult time finding anyone with an equivalent phone without requiring me to throw in cash. Everyone turned me down when they found out it wasnt "the 4g vibrant" .... I'd respond that there isnt a 4g vibrant. Etc... it was such a pain, but I ended up getting an hd2 plus cash for the vibrant.

Btw, completely happy with the hd2. I wouldnt say its better or worse, both have their downsides, but im not regretting this phone. I still have my wife's vibrant, so I'm not missing out on anything.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
A nexus one would be good deal too.
[Vibrant General] xsteven77x:
G2 for sure. I went from vibrant to g2 and if your into the xda scene, its a night and day difference. 90% less brats on the g2 forums also and no dev's dropping left and right like I know they were a couple months ago when I was here.
[Vibrant General] cashyftw:
I traded mines for an hd2+120 couldn't be happier, but I installed an ffc on my vibrant so I just said it was a 4g.
[Vibrant General] mafaesto:
Where are you guys finding these trade offers, because I for one am getting tired of the vibrant and the community as well. :/
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
Craigslist
[Vibrant General] TheSneakerWhore:
This.
[Vibrant General] |Melvin|:
im also trying to trade man...im looking for a mytouch 4g but i have to put some money on the way though.. i wouldnt get a G2 because of the processor
[Vibrant General] XPLANE9:
If you enjoy crappy digitilizers and broken power buttons.
[Vibrant General] Shortbus-Driver:
A walkie talkie
[Vibrant General] dcaples002:
Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm not sick of my Vibrant I just believe that change is good and I have two Vibrants so if I miss it I can still use. I'm just lost about what phone to get....
[Defy General] yuwei:
I bought a kingston 8g class10, unfortunately it creates lot of read errors when running some games (never happens when daily use, I don't know why). The card has no problem when connecting to my laptop. (it is the same problem as vick33's mentioned in another post)

I changed to my old transcend 8g class 6, the phone cannot boot at all!

Has anyone else tried other cards >= 8g, so I can buy a new one? Or confirming this?
[Defy General] kobaya74:
Actually, I myself have Transcend 8gb microsdhc class6 on my defy, and it works great. Try formatting card with some format tool, not with windows tools (I use HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and it is more successful than plain windows format). Remeber to format card in fat32. Other thing, since you already had bad expirence with kingston too, is that u need to send your Defy on reapir.
[Defy General] yuwei:
thanks, after the hp tool it works now... there are so many compatibility problems with this phone...
[Defy General] kobaya74:
Actualy, it is more windows compatibility problem than phone. U see, there was always sdcard or usbflush problems when they are formated in windows and other operating systems try to read them, cos many of them are linux based. Same thing u get when format card or flush in OSX, after that it can become unreadable in windows (happened to my friend). So from now on dont trust M$ nor Apple, format in linux or using hp format tool. Gl.
[Defy General] vick33:
It seems like yuwei we get every irritating errors possible with the defy:-) Motorola should hire us as testers... Othirwise class 10 cards are mostly problematic with every phone. I changed my class 6 Adata card to a class 4 and now it is stable without any errors.
[Defy General] MazaMoto:
Just to add, after formatting in windows, reformat it again from the Defy itself & try if it still gives any such random issues. just a thought.. :)
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] chasx003:
I'm new to android, I was curious if there is an app that would allow me to share my atrix's wifi connection to a pc without a wifi card? I'm not wanting to tether, but share my home internet with a pc. Thanks.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] chasx003:
Answered my own question, can be done through pdanet
[KIN One and Two General] GrandSportX:
Not sure if this will help much but I found a few links today on Kin Two tear downs (sorry I can't post links yet):

ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kin-Two-Teardown/2902/1

chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/resources/recent-teardowns/2010/05/teardown-of-the-kin-two-cdma-phone-from-microsoft-and-sharp/

Maybe there is a way via hardware to read/write to memory? Just a thought.
[KIN One and Two General] johnkussack:
Posted already (twice, now three times).

Please read the forum first.
[Thunderbolt General] davidbudd1:
My wife and I both have Thunderbolts. I have not had this problem with mine so I am curious as to if anyone else has had a problem or if maybe she just has a bad tbolt. When she is on a call just out of nowhere the person on the other end can not hear her. This has happened when she has talked to multiple people and she has had good reception when it happens. This happened stock and on BAMF so I dont think it is a ROM problem. Anyone else having a similar thing happen, or do you think she has a bad tbolt?
[Thunderbolt General] akanatrix:
I have not heard of this being a widespread issue, and I keep up with a lot of the Android forums. Sounds like a dud phone to me.
[Thunderbolt General] davidbudd1:
That's what I was thinking as well. Looks like its back to stock then Verizon for that bolt
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
davidbudd1, PLEASE let me/us know if swapping out the TB and/or the SIM fixed the issue for you! Here is a thread on Android Central that we've been trying to do some testing about this issue:

http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-thunderbolt/71734-can-you-hear-me-now.html
[Thunderbolt General] davidbudd1:
I'll keep you posted on what they tryband if it fixes it. I don't have a problem with this on mine, only my wife's phone. My buddy has a tbolt also and his doesn't have this problem. So to me it sounds like a bad phone.
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
Thank you SO much, I really appreciate it!
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
Hey man, any updates on this? I just went to VZW to get my phone swapped out and of course they said NO again because they couldn't reproduce the issue with 2 quick test calls. :mad:
[Thunderbolt General] davidbudd1:
Well I took her phone back to stock, and now she has been using since and it hasn't happened.again since. So I'm wondering if something didn't quite flash right.
[Thunderbolt General] jab818:
And the VZW guys are better at this than XDA members? :)

I had that happen with mine the first time I tried to root it. ADB crashed on me in the middle of the process. I rebooted and started again and it appeared to finish, but I was experiencing that issue. I rolled everything back to stock and reran the root from scratch, I've had no problems since.
[Thunderbolt General] glantern620:
I have this problem as well. Althought it doesn't happpen often.
[Thunderbolt General] davidbudd1:
I was going to reroot it on my day off and see what happens
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
OMG of course not!!! But unfortunately us XDA members don't have access to VZW's back-end systems. :sad: Haha, you think that could be our next project?! :smile:
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
Hmmm, I wonder if I should try that? I have the stock RUU sitting on the root of my SD card (with a bak extension of course) in case the store could swap my phone tonight.
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
Oh, I thought you said that it happened on stock also?
[Thunderbolt General] snowbdr89:
i have the same problem on my tbolt, people say they can hardly hear me
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
OK, I remember having an issue when I originally rooted also, so I used the shipped RUU to go back to out-of-the-box stock and then reran the root process, etc, and then restored my nandroid backup. I'll make some test calls this afternoon and then report back!
[Thunderbolt General] snowbdr89:
so if i download the the ruu it came with and flash it will it unroot an turn it back to stock?
[Thunderbolt General] PorscheGuy:
Yes. Here is the link to the thread and download: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=975888