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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solicitous:
I am using the set up in my signature and I am getting horrible battery life. I might change roms (as you all know) because of this...it sucks. What can be the cause of this? I have had my evo for 10 months now so I am wondering if it could be my stock battery. It could be the kernel? Who knows...

Here is some information:

No wake lock problem

Wifi at home

3G outside

Calibrated it once since I flashed this rom

Battery decreases 3-4% overnight when sleeping

Moderate to Heavy user: texting all day, 2 hours of internet, XDA, constant emails, news, engadget, and youtube

I can see the battery life decreasing at a rate of maybe 7-10% per hour when I use it

Starting to decrease much more than it used to

***Picture: Subtract 7 hours from the 18 because it was sleeping overnight***

Any suggestions would be appreciated. You guys have provided plenty of insight for me and I thank you all for that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
Your battery life actually isn't that bad depending on how much you use your phone. Buy another battery on ebay and see if that helps. If you're looking to compare usage, I'd buy a stock battery instead of a cheap Chinese one, that way your tests will be accurate.

If your battery life just sucks and you want more juice, buy a few cheap batteries and an external charger and switch batteries when you get low. That's what I do, and it's great not having to turn radios off or do other tricks just to last through the day.

(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
You can try changing roms...I get 1day 5hrs roughly on CM7, stock battery. For how're you're using the phone, that seems about decent, in my opinion. As plainjane suggested, you can get some other batteries and swap them out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikocb:
Youre lucky! MY battery lasts like 6 hours with moderate use
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solicitous:
I'm actually thinking of CM 6
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
With that battery life? Perhaps, but never in my days of rooting have I run CM6. I'm pure CM7. Not biased by any means; I've tried some things, but CM7 is my preference, and if you want a screen shot I can provide.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solicitous:
Sure a screen shot would be good. Don't get me wrong, I like CM7 but I read CM6 with the snap kernel provides amazing battery life. To each his own I suppose.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Sure thing. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13722006&postcount=826

I don't have the newer one, as my phone is in the middle of doing some things, but that kind of battery life is attainable on CM7.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pandachaser:
I'm having problems too... I'm running on Myn warm 2.2 rls 5 and it's not charging anymore! :( Battery life also sucks ass too! It's getting worse by the days. I plugged my phone in to charge last night, and woke up to 26 % WTH!? I don't know if it's my battery or the rom. Help?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
It could be your charging port. Those things break way too easily. When it's charging, check it every few minutes to make sure the charging light is staying on. One of my Evos had a bad port and when it first started happening, I would catch the light turning off then back on.

It could also be your battery. If you have another one you can test, see if it's any better. Or you can take the battery to Sprint and have them test it. Replacement batteries are pretty cheap if you get them on ebay.

(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pandachaser:
Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I sure do hope it's the battery. I mean I do use it quite often to watch movies and what not so I'm not surprised if it's bad but I know it can be the port too because lately it's been acting crazy on me. Sometimes the light will be on, but it really doesn't end up charging. :(:(:(:confused: I don't know what it is. So if I take it into the sprint store to check the battery life and they won't say anything about my phone being rooted? Lol.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Even though it'd hardware, I'd unroot it, just in case they make a note of it for future services.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pandachaser:
Yeah, I thought so too. It's still slowly charging.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Have you wiped you battery stats after reaching 100% and then let it fully die to calibrate the battery?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solicitous:
Damn I forgot to do that. I charged my battery from 10%. I should calibrate again

Sent from my Evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Yea, whenever you switch roms, its best to do that, especial when doing sense <-> aosp.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Solicitous:
Thanks for the tip man

Sent from my Evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pandachaser:
No, I'm not sure how to do so.
[Blade General] opc100:
So something went wrong during an upgrade to gen2, and my phone now has no IMEI number. I found some guides on how to get it back, but they're all in broken English and aren't at all clear. I've done what they say as far as I understand, but my IMEI number is still 0, is there anything I can do to fix this?
[Blade General] mirko185:
I really don't know what's your problem, but if U need your IMEI number, it's really simply: unplug the battery and there it is..:) (not on battery but on mobile of course..)
[Blade General] opc100:
That's not it, my phone doesn't have one. As in, I go into about phone and it shows the IMEI as 000000000
[Blade General] k0zmic:
Look on Modaco under ZTE Blade ROM & Customization.
[Blade General] opc100:
I'd already been looking under there, I found nothing new. however, after a bit of fiddling around myself, I managed to sort out the problem. I'll write a guide of how to do it for anyone else who encounters this problems at some point.
[Blade General] k0zmic:
Glad to hear it's fixed.
[Blade General] gsm9l:
Is your guide ready? I'm wondering how to do this.
[Blade General] danielplayfaircal:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/343587-guide-de-bricking-a-zte-blade/

What's wrong with that?
[Blade General] gsm9l:
Didn't found it thanks
[Blade General] soraxx:
hahaha lapsus
[Desire HD General] srikanth.naidu:
Found this over at gizmodo kinda a unique UI mix of andriod and WP 7 . Hopefully a dev could port this or make some thing like this :D

check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S6NMH4ry-4&feature=player_embedded#at=149
[Desire HD General] Vakas:
This actually looks pretty cool, wouldn't mind trying it out
[Desire HD General] radxcoresteven:
This is crazy! I'd love this.
[Desire HD General] seansu:
The problem with the Infobar is it has the higher 960x___ resolutions, similar issues we've had with porting over HTC Sense 3.0. But it's worth doing I think!
[Desire HD General] minju95:
I just heard of this in a podcast.

I'd really like to have this UI on my SGS and hope it will be possible :)
[Desire HD General] ponk2k:
Very cool, however the quirky music has kinda melted my brain
[Desire HD General] DubelBoom:
exept of android and welcome to XXX i didnt andestand any thing XD

but, it looks nice :D
[Desire HD General] enifeder:
Looks alright. A large windows 7 feel.
[Legend Android Development] alexhtclegend:
Firstly, BlaY0 has a great tutorial on how to do this properly, I suggest you do that to learn something.

Secondly, I cannot confirm that this is 100% safe. BlaY0's method should be 99% safe, I don't know about this as it is all automatic. BlaY0's method is tried and tested, this is not. I only used this method as I had a new SD card and I was in a hurry (exams coming up :( ) and I didn't have time to remind myself of BlaY0's method, and CWM only allows you to create up to 512mb partition. Also, I had a new computer, and I don't have time to set up ADB all over again.

Anyway, this is a method for people who don't want to use ADB to partition their SD card for A2EXT or DATA2EXT (a.k.a. apps2sd, etc etc), and are using Windows. If you're running linux, you could use something like gParted to partition it, not sure about OS X though. This method will allow a Windows user to create an EXT partition on their SD card alongside the FAT partition.

1) Download and install Minitool Partition Wizard, from here.

2) Open the program and delete all partitions from the SD card (which you will have inserted into the computer using an adapter or something). DO NOT DELETE THE PARTITIONS FROM THE HARD DISK! MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DELETING. Oh, and make sure the SD card is backed up :)

3) Create a FAT32 primary partition. You decide how big you want it, but I'd advise you leave 1024mb (1gb) for the EXT partition.

4) Create an EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 (you decide) primary partition. Use up the rest of the space on the SD card.

5) Click assign/OK/whatever and wait for it to complete

6) You now have your partitioned SD card ready for an A2SD ROM!

7) You need to assign a drive letter to the FAT32 partition. Not sure about the EXT partition. At first I forgot to do this and my card didn't show up in Windows, though Partition Magic can still see it.

Like I said, do yourself a favour and use BlaY0's method here, but if you're lazy or you don't have time or ADB doesn't work anymore, use this.
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
Nice one m8. You mentioned that CWM doesn't offer adding partitions bigger than 512 MB. Well, you're right but that's why I made a customized version of fake-flash that can do bigger... to 1 GB. It can even add second ext partition for some exotic types of data2ext. On top of that I added auto block alignment which is described in my guide (the manual one) so no more calculations and manual labour ;)

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Android Development] alexhtclegend:
Ah, I didn't know about your customized CWM, I think I'll just use that next time :)
[Legend Android Development] Dr.Romca:
I remember some version had the ext menu up to 4GB :)

Didn't know that, good to know, for those of us still using data2ext, this is important...
[Legend Android Development] bonesy:
Wish this was up earlier, spent an hour repartitioning my card using parted.Couldn't upgrade to EXT3 and ended up using CWM 3.0.2.8 to do it instead lol
[Legend Android Development] BlaY0:
What CWM is using under the hood for partitioning is actually parted.

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Android Development] QkSi1ver:
Tried it but it didnt work not sure what the problem is...

formatted my SD to FAT 32 and reserved 1G for EXT3 both as primary partition in the Mini Partition Tool

Plugged it in my phone,

Ran ADB shell

# a2sd --enabled, rebooted

on reboot nothing seemed to have changed... went back to ADB shell

tried a2sd --free it says A2Sd is not active ...

a2sd -- enabled again and it says it is enabled but not active

so im guessing it cant read or recognize the EXT3?!

Any clues... i didnt want to move my Dalvik to SD ... should I try EXT4 or even EXT2?
[Legend Android Development] alexhtclegend:
Take me through what you did, step by step. You say you reserved 1G for EXT3, but did you actually format it as another partition?
[Legend Android Development] Dr.Romca:
It has been mentioned here like a gazilion times, boot up your device with logcat and see the first few lines...there is your answer!

Google how to wait for the device with logcat ;)
[Legend Android Development] QkSi1ver:
1) Downloaded and installed Minitool Partition Wizard from your link. I got the free home edition

2) backed up my SD card :) and Open the program and delete my SD card partition ( which is in a card reader)

3) Created a FAT32 primary partition of 69xx MB and left the rest 1024 MB for the other unallocated space

4) Right click on the Unallocated Space to create an EXT3 as primary partition with the default cluster size.

5) At this point, it showed 2 partition on my SD, one with the drive letter for windows FAT32, and the 2nd one Ext 3 with 1GB and Primary. Clicked OK and Apply and wait for it to complete.

6) once complete , put it in phone, plugged usb and ran adb shell

7) ran a2sd --enable, it said reboot phone.. i made a mistake to reboot by adb the first time but then did the whole process again a 2nd time using reboot from the phone....

Tried logcat using this command "adb -d logcat>mylogfile.txt"

couldnt find the file anywhere :(... if i dont redirect to the txt , it goes too fast to read and there's soo much debug messages what do i need to look for?

I thought it would save me time to get it done through windows... but its taking me as much time it w0uld probably get me with the manual way...

i'll give it a try tomorrow...

8) rebooted fine, and i was still low on space.. so went back in adb sheel to check a2sd --free but this is where it says not active..
[Legend Android Development] alexhtclegend:
Tbh I'm really not sure. One thing I forgot to mention in the guide is that you should assign a drive letter to the FAT32 partition or it won't show up in Windows. I didn't assign one to my EXT4 partition though, and DATA2SD is working great for me. Try deleting all partitions from the SD card and start again. It'll only take 10 minutes, and if it still doesn't work just use the manual way.

Sorry.
[Legend Android Development] QkSi1ver:
Yeah i assigned a drive letter to FAT32...

Also the FAT32 , was my first block allocated partition, the 2nd partition was EXT3... i will redo the whole process and recreate EXT4 instead.

"DATA2SD is working great for me" ... you mean "A2SD working great for me" ... right? unless i'm missing something else that i needed to run..

ps: I recalled, after it was not working, i took out the sd and put it back in the reader to open MiniTool, it showed EXT2 instead of EXT3 ( which i was sure i chose )... and what's weird is it was reporting used space like 41MB... so obvisouly, the ROM wrote something on it...

Formatting it again to EXT3, didnt delete the 41 Used space, but it did convert it back to EXT3 ...probably nothing but mentioning as well
[Legend Android Development] alexhtclegend:
I suggest you start over, something seems to have gone wrong.

A2SD is where the apps are stored on the EXT partition.

DC2SD is where the dalvik cache is also stored on the EXT partition.

DATA2SD is where the entire /data partition on the phone is stored on the EXT partition of the memory card.

Partitioning the SD card with a FAT32 partition and EXT partition is done first, then you decide which one is for you. DATA2SD does have one or two issues, such as the risk of corruption - you'd then have to completely reinstall the ROM. A2SD and DC2SD are fine but I still found myself running out of internal memory.
[Legend Android Development] QkSi1ver:
i gave up and used ROM Manager to create my partition ...i couldnt set it to 1G because 512MB is maximum but it was painless to create.

it asked me to create a swap partition... i've read somewhere that swap partition is useless or barely used in newer android os? do you guys have any swap partition if so how big are they?

Also, did you move Dalvik cache to sd? isnt it slower on SD? i mean shouldnt dalvik cache be on RAM whihc i assume is faster than any external sd?

thanks for your insight
[Legend Android Development] alexhtclegend:
I used the full DATA2SD, which includes Dalvik2SD.
[Legend Android Development] xxxjistxxx:
ok so sorry for a double post but im having an issue partitioning.

32 gb card san disk brand new

primary Fat32 10gb

primary Ext2 rest of space

once mini tool is done it sats successful but shows the sd card as Bad disk?!?

is there somthing im doin wrong? is used this guide here http://xdaforums.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning

all help deeply appriciated

Acer Iconia Tab A110 rooted, Cwm, 4.1.2
[Legend Android Development] ranger4740:
Can you actually have a 22gb ext partition? This might be something to look into to see if you can do it.

Edit: this got me interested so I searched myself, yes you can but apparently it depends on the chosen block size and hardware limitations, so u may have an issue with either.
[Legend Android Development] leafwarbler:
Hahah! Thanks for you detail guide. It is so helpful for me!
[General Questions and Answers] androidfeen809:
I tried finding it in the market but its not there
[HD2 General] thatrunks:
Hi all,

Im kind of new here (although I have read some threads following the development of Android HD2 Roms).

A friend of mine has a HTC HD2 which he wants to sell. He asks € 150,-- for it. I dont want to spent to much money and think that price is fine. (is it?)

Is there any other phone which has a good price and has the Android OS + is updated (I mean by that is there frequent development on the phone and such?)

I have a Nokia N97 Mini now and im not pleased with it. It hangs a lot. Touchscreen has been replaced once (because it became unresponsive (and that after 5 months)). They also said I will see them again... soon. And yeah well its Symbian. Its not fast and sometimes I will have to remove the battery to restart it because it doesnt respond. And if I use mobile sites well it sometimes just says Web Time-out for no reason and locks up...

Im the person who always close all apps on the phone, charge it occasionally.

And too be honest in the last few month I have installed so many Android phones that I im very impressed by the phones. (and by that I mean the Android OS ;))

I will use the phone to call (:P) use my bluetooth parrot car kit and of course because of the Android OS.

So what do you think. Should (is it worth it?) I buy it for this price and flash it with an Android HD2 Rom?

(Im Dutch so if some sentences arent correct, well I tried :) also my apostrophe doesnt work for some reason)
[HD2 General] ld006:
the HD2 is a perfect phone for an android beginner or if you don't want to spend too much money on a phone, plus with all the dev support you'll never be bored. I say go ahead and buy it, it will blow the socks off your nokia n97 mini
[HD2 General] Mister B:
for $150 it is a cheap Android device with a 4.3" screen.

Might take a little time to find best Android ROM for your requirements but with a bit of effort setting it up you should be very happy.

Only downside is battery is very poor on Android although with constant development things should improve.

If the HD2 is in great condition go for it, compared to n97mini it is amzing on any platform you load on it WM6.5/Android/WP7.
[HD2 General] detovenaar:
indeed its a good deal i think. the only bad thing is the battery. You will have to plug it every end of the day.

Dutch: ik zou zeggen: gewoon doen. Je hoeft je in ieder geval niet te vervelen met het toestel als je doelt op ondersteuning op xda.

De hd2 is nog steeds1 van de meest ondersteunende toestellen op xda, mede omdat het toestel bijna alles aan kan qwa besturingsystemen.

Mocht je overgaan tot de aanschaf van de hd2 zal je geen spijt krijgen.

Gr De tovenaar

Sent from my HTC HD2
[HD2 General] michie:
My battery lasts 3 days, running the nexus 2.7 nand rom.

It depends entirely how the owner uses his device ;)
[HD2 General] newg:
I agree, great rom for battery life. I use this with juicedefender, autokiller memory, and setcpu, and I get a full day of heavy use (live wallpaper, music, heavy facebook use, and plenty of hexdefense/robot unicorn/turbo grannies gaming)
[HD2 General] digiholic:
Great price if it's in good shape. Many Android ROMs run very smooth on it and you won't need to worry about closing out every app. Mine has tons of apps running in the background and still silky smooth.

If you are a heavy user just buy an extra battery or extra chargers.
[HD2 General] vensterbank:
To start flashin, try this dutch site www.intersyte.EU its a dutch site that focusses on hd2 flashin. The site is still in its early stages, but its quite usefull.
[HD2 General] thatrunks:
Great guys :) thanks for all the info!

I will get the phone next week and I ve already read the instructions on how to flash it to Android. OK the battery life of the N97 Mini is (that is if I dont call that much) 2 days. But if I call all the time its half a day. And those 2 days is without an active Exchange push mail, only manual because if I setup the push mail the battery will be dead in a couple of hours. I take it thats about the same as the HD2? Im frequently on the road for work so I have a micro-usb car charger of the N97 Mini and of course a normal adapter for at home (because the one im buying is just the phone nothing more)

Dutch: precies dat is eigenlijk waar ik me zorgen om maakte. De ondersteuning, maar als ik het zo lees dan zit dat wel goed. :) Ik had vroeger een HTC Tytn II en nu een Nokia N97 Mini dus van waar die overstap komt weet ik eigenlijk ook niet. Ik had verwacht dat ik langer met mijn batterij zou doen als ik een Nokia zou nemen maar niet is minder waar...

Just one thing does the HD2 support Micro-SDHC ? And if so what size should I get (and if it matters what brand?)? Is there any maximum supported size on the Android Roms? I recall that it was 32 GB on WM 6.5.
[HD2 General] ld006:
yeah, pretty much the same battery, a rom without htc sense should last you longer though.

yeah, the hd2 supports microSDHC, in fact it comes by default with a 16gb one, it can go up to 32gb, same as on WM 6.5
[HD2 General] digitaleagle.net:
I just did the same thing

I am in the same boat. I found an HD2 on craigslist for $80, and I bought it because I had read about people flashing Android on them.

I had been watching ebay to buy one, and all the ones I saw were selling for at least $200. So, I felt like I got a great price.

So far, I have been very happy with it. I am upgrading from an HTC G1, and it is a world of difference. The screen is huge and the device is thin. It doesn't have the fold out keyboard, but I didn't use the one on my G1 much anyway. One thing I am getting used to is not having a track ball. I didn't use it much, but I must have used it more than I thought.

The flashing was more challenging than I thought. You have to have access to Windows and download the WMDC program from Microsoft. Be prepared to do a lot of reading. I tried the Kingdom ROM because it included Sense 3.0. I think that is making it somewhat buggy, but i am still learning.

One thing I learned was that there are two different HD2 variants. There is a European one with 512MB Ram, and a TMOUS one with 1042MB. As you choose your ROM keep that in mind.

Hope that helps, and I wish you luck in your endeavor. If you are interested in links and such, here is my first blog post on it (not the best, but it has some links):

I am in the same boat. I found an HD2 on craigslist for $80, and I bought it because I had read about people flashing Android on them.

I had been watching ebay to buy one, and all the ones I saw were selling for at least $200. So, I felt like I got a great price.

So far, I have been very happy with it. I am upgrading from an HTC G1, and it is a world of difference. The screen is huge and the device is thin. It doesn't have the fold out keyboard, but I didn't use the one on my G1 much anyway. One thing I am getting used to is not having a track ball. I didn't use it much, but I must have used it more than I thought.

The flashing was more challenging than I thought. You have to have access to Windows and download the WMDC program from Microsoft. Be prepared to do a lot of reading. I tried the Kingdom ROM because it included Sense 3.0. I think that is making it somewhat buggy, but i am still learning.

One thing I learned was that there are two different HD2 variants. There is a European one with 512MB Ram, and a TMOUS one with 1042MB. As you choose your ROM keep that in mind.

Hope that helps, and I wish you luck in your endeavor.
[HD2 General] thatrunks:
HD2

Well yesterday I finally got the HD2 (for € 125,-)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=933951

I used this Rom. I followed the clean installation and it worked perfectly. The only thing I can't seemed to find an answer to is if I change the SD card? Android is installed on the NAND but I have order a 16 GB SD card and now there is a 2 GB installed. Can I just switch these?