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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markt2:
I had strange issues when my stock G2 (on T-Mobile in the US) would be stuck in "upload" mode, as indicated by the icon on the notification bar. It would happen several times per day, lasting anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. When this would happen I would not be able to use any data service at all. I tried killing apps, ending processes, uninstalling apps with internet permissions, etc. but all to no avail.

I recently unchecked "Backup my data" in Settings>Privacy and so far it seems the problem has not resurfaced. I think it was using a high priority method to sync with Google and preempting all other data usage. If you have a LOT of data on your phone that changes often, that could account for a lot of upload time and data usage. I will try retesting this theory in conjunction with eunkipark92's suggestion of using 3G Watchdog.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaganAng3l:
This is strange. My phone has gotten "stuck" in upload mode a lot here lately too. I can tell you for sure that it isn't a rom causing this problem because it has followed me through VirtuousFusion 1.0 and meXdroidMod V2 & V3. I think it's googles backup service preempting all other data as well. One thing to check is to see if google is backing up anything but contacts, books, and gmail. Setting mine to only those three caused it to only happen once every week or so to me (as opposed to everyday). Also a quick fix to make it stop is to put your phone in airplane mode for 10 seconds and switch it back to normal

Sent from my shiny metal G2 w/ meXdroid V3
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnowOokami:
Yup... I also figured out it was Google backup and location sharing. It kept uploading all day sucking battery, it also caused my phone to be unstable after +-70 hours. I unchecked both and my phone is running perfect again and no extensive data usage (my current uptime is 160 hours :D)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbells:
I searched the board and tried the postings I have found.

Is anyone else having problems getting the reading now icon / book icon working after rooting with 4.5.6? I tried opening the suggestions on the development postings - Open book from B&N library, go to B&N library, then press the home button to the Zeam launcher. The icon still does nothing. The book I am reading is on the SD card if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance for any solutions to this!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doncaruana:
Known issue with no real solution at this time. The best thing I know to do is run NookHome and then pop back to Zeam and it will work (for a time). What I have found is that after a while, the background home launcher will get shut down and you would have to do this trick again.

For the record, when it quits working, Nook Color Tools shows it's still running, but SystemPanel shows it isn't. Quick refresh and it works again.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fpga_guy:
Can you describe the problem in detail? I don't seem to have it. Rooted with 4.5.6.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doncaruana:
From a fresh reboot (just to make sure everything's clean), reading now icon doesn't do anything for me (if it does for you, let me know!). So I run NookHome to pull Home into the background, then hit the N key to go back to Zeam. Now the reading now icon works.

Do whatever, and then just let it go to sleep or something, say overnight (not sure about exact timing, but overnight should do it). Now the icon no longer does anything. If I go to manage applications in Nook Color Tools, it shows that the stock Home is still in the background. If I use SystemPanel though, it does not show it running. Do the NookHome trick again and now SystemPanel shows the stock Home is in the background again.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KWKSLVR:
Weird, mine works and that's how I rooted as well. It works in ADW Launcher EX and in Zeam Launcher. Are you guys sure you just aren't hitting the icon in the right spot? You know how these screens are. I have to clean mine on a regular basis to get some of those inputs on smaller icons to take. :confused:
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fpga_guy:
book works for me too!

I downloaded a free BN book (James Madison). When I hit the book icon either in the upper right corner or in the left part of the task bar, it takes me directly to the page I left off.

The icon works with either the ADW home page or Zeam home page. Coincidentally, I have ADW installed also.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doncaruana:
Okay...I'm confused...what has a book icon in the upper right corner? I know the stock home app has an icon in the upper left corner but I thought you were running ADW? The stock home app works fine.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fpga_guy:
I am confused.. I meant the upper left corner "book" icon. The book icon always works from the upper left corner (when it's there). I followed your suggestion and after the NC is in sleep mode overnight, the stock book icon with ADW in the lower task bar no longer works. Clicking the icon in the NC home app seems to rejuvenate (for lack of a better word) the ADW book icon.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doncaruana:
Yep. We're on the same page now :)

What are you running when the book icon is in the upper left? Only thing I know that does that is the stock home app.

This reading now is my one bugaboo about 1.2. Still can't figure out how the icon works perfect in 1.1 (using AN 3.0.0 from GMPower) but not in any other rooted NC. When I look at the differences between AN2.2.25 (for 1.01) and AN3.0.0 (for 1.1) and MN x (any of them for 1.2), it's hard to justify why one works and not the other. There are no framework changes in the MN for 1.2 (thought to possibly be a difference for 1.1), yet it doesn't work again. I'm starting to think that it's actually something that B&N tinkered with.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fpga_guy:
Yepp.. only the stock home app shows the book icon.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doncaruana:
Kind of an interesting development here...

I actually installed ADW (just the free version) and, IIRC, at this point my HomeSwitcher disappeared, pretty sure it was not the Froyo version, but I went and downloaded HomeSwitcher for Froyo. ADW never shows up in my apps drawer (for Zeam or even itself), yet now the icon seems to stay working regardless, even though I’m only using Zeam.

So, recent changes are:

I've updated to Zeam 2.9.5

I installed ADW (free)

I lnstalled HomeSwitcher for Froyo (after the original HomeSwitcher disappeared).
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doncaruana:
Just a follow up on this...I uninstalled ADW and as soon as I did, the 'Home' app vanished from the active apps.

So I reinstalled it (but didn't run it). Book icon not working. Then I ran NookHome (to launch the stock Home app) and hit the N button to get back to Zeam.

And, for whatever reason, that seems to work! Home stays resident *all* the time now (11.4MB, no biggie). So, the reading now icon continues to work, even though I'm in Zeam!

The weird thing is that ADW still never shows up in the app drawer. I can run it via Home Switcher or via the market, but not via the app drawer.

Anyone else have a similar configuration that they want to see if this works the same for them?
[General Questions and Answers] burner4337:
hi, i want to know how to add windows 7 and also android but leaving the windows 6.5 on the phone and also is there a way to add the option where you can select from which OS to boot from when the phone turns on just like the simple selection menu when starting on a computer. Is the zune and marketplace and also the connectivity to the zune software where it did not detect the windows 7 phone been solved on windows.Also it would be nice to have everything installed on the nand instead of on the SDCARD.

Thanks :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mothmansound:
OK so I'm done with poor battery performance on my rooted stock rom evo.

I have tried elite 3: Bluetooth wouldn't work and some market apps wouldn't install and various other things were buggy. Liked the battery and feel though.

CM7 was OK but I use groups for my dialer too much so that was out.

So I'm looking for a good battery sense rom were things work. Netflicks, GPS, 4g... well all of it really.

I'm thankful for the developer's work but isn't there a rom that just works without all the little buggers at this point? I don't care about boot animations if I can't use the phone as its built.

Yeah I'm *****in but still.

Any thoughts?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chefdave12118:
Get ready for the flaming. Those are some big devs on xda.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mothmansound:
Yeah I know but still.

Flame away I guess. Ill keep plugging this thing in and wishing for the unreasonable.

I really liked elite3 a lot. But like I see in so many posts about every rom I had to go. Don't developers get that?

Its kinda like getting great looking motorcycle that's fun on the weekends but can't really rely on to go to work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mordbane:
Try Dr. Ryder's Eternal Prophency v5.9 or Calkulin's EVIO 2 v1.8 with the 150mV undervolt if your phone can handle it. Both are low on theming with above average battery life with everything working.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phatmanxxl:
Try anything gingersense or gingerbread, you notice a significant battery improvement. Only thing Netflix don't work with gingersense but im sure we'll see something pretty soon about that.

Also turn off your mobile data when your not using your phone, Or find an app that turns it off when while the phone sleeps. That'll help too.

I second that on eternal prophecy too, if you need to stay on froyo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alaman68:
Seriously man, just look at the star rating next to the ROM and start flashing and figure it out yourself. I'm sure you can read a list of what works and what doesn't on any ROM. If you didn't like ES3 or Cyanogen, you may be a bit picky and should probably download dsixda's htc kitchen and bless us with your perfection.

Done preaching, I have run SalvageMod 1.2.1 for a month straight without any problems and I demand more out of my phone than 99% of the people on XDA. If you don't like the AOSP dialer, download a different one from the market.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mothmansound:
Salamander. (Alaman I had to leave this auto correct cause it makes me laugh)

Anyway. Yes I'm picky so get over it. I checked the market and tried some things. Not to my liking.

Regardless I just had to post. I can see star ratings just fine. That's why I tried a couple of roms. I had an og Droid with cm6 and that was neat. Still like that phone too.

There is nothing wrong with me asking for what I'm looking for.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mothmansound:
To the folks with suggestion. Thanks. Ill let this thread build a little and then do some looking about. Thanks again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alaman68:
I was moody because I had to take a dump, feeling better now.:D

Calkulin's Evio 1.8 won't let you down if you want full function from 2.2 and sense

salamander is cool, I got alaman from a misspelling
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mothmansound:
You know something alaman. Why did you even bother? That's exactly the reason I haven't posted before because I do read. For a couple months now and tried some things.

If you want me to bless you how this... suck it hard baby.

I specifically posted my thoughts and what I'm looking for and didn't slight anyone. Simple criticism is all. I love design and neato stuff these guys do. I see potential in it and desire more. Why not? HTC built sense to make android better for whatever market they saw fit. Fine and dandy. I like to use my dang ol evo they way I want and would like to see these things happen.

If my post bothers you and you are complaisant with your phone then go on dude. Ya prick.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alaman68:
read above your last post:confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
I think Vaelpak would suit your needs, if you want better battery life try an SBC kernel if you haven't already.

(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestX0011:
Mikfroyo ..4.62

Kernel netarchy toastmod 4.3.4 more havs

Mikfroyo throttle tweak. Battery percent fix,

I get general great baylttey life abused amon ra to wipe everything, I can ft a days use out of it with a mix of usage. Gps, CNET, xda, internet, testing a lot, and a few phone calls. But usage varies and you may notbget the same life time. But its worth a shot to flash what I got.

Themikmik.com is where you get all you Mikfroyo needs
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
OP can you please change the title to " Yes. Another what rom question in the wrong forum."
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theinternot:
CM7 + LP + GO CONTACTS/DIALER = everything you asked for including dialing groups.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
It's in general, not development. Yes, Q&A would be better, but look at all the threads in General. Most of them are pointless.

Geez, I think you guys get off on a power trip with the "wrong forum" bs. Whatever it takes to feel better about yourself.

(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechniShawn:
I have been running Elite III since it was released and never experienced any issues. Apps have always installed. Bluetooth is flawless. I use bluetooth heavily as I connect to both my car stereo and my computer. Really haven't had any issues with it at all. I love it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josh995:
I re-rooted my phone and am using the latest stock rom. I'm getting really good battery life. I can go all day on a charge with normal use. I turn my 3G off when not using it. That's all.

Have you done the battery calibration? It's a pain in the ass but I would swear by it. It's a loooong one time process but worked great for me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mothmansound:
Thanks everyone very much. Ill try out some of the advice and report back what I figure out in case this thread might become useful.

Alaman glad your regular. I would have been grumpy too.

Sorry the wrong forum...gosh. I'll never ever ever do that again.

Proust
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MDGamer11:
Htc evo rom virus rom

if you want a rom thats amazing for the HTC Evo try Virus Roms there the best i think

my favorite as of now is VR Kingdom and its got 4G and Sense 3.0 with is amazing battery life is good to an extent depends on what your doing at the time but keep in mind the rom is huge like 350MB+ but you wont regret flashing:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[Nexus S General] keer-en:
Considering moving back to Android for native Gmail... (Not sure if I'll wait for the next Nexus model to come out or go for the current one...)

I went from a HTC Desire because of the crappy battery life I was getting to an iPhone 4 and have been more than happy with the huge improvement on battery life. Has any one went from an iPhone 4 to the Nexus S? If so please comment on battery life.

For some background info on my iPhone 4 I listen to 2-3 hours of music, send a bunch of texts, a few emails and some light browsing/app use as well as leave 3G, GPS and WiFi on 24/7 with screen on auto brightness and charge my phone over night - it usually has plenty of juice by the time I am going to bed (any thing from 20-50% depending on how much I hammer it).

On my HTC Desire I was having to topup the charge every day in work. Does the Nexus S do any better?
[Nexus S General] Si_NZ:
I find the battery life influenced most heavily by the amount of time the phone spends on 3G data. If you are connected to WIFI, it can last significantly longer. I'll describe my usage before the last recharge, which lasted 46 hours with 4% battery left.

I started with 100% charge at night, turned on airplane mode during sleep. I had both 3G and WIFI turned on the second day, however, connected to WIFI. Didn't use the phone much the second day, except I listened to Music for an hour and watched a video for half an hour. Of course I do check emails from time to time. The third day, just a bit over 24 hours since last recharge, still had about 70%. Listened to music for an hour in the morning, watched videos for about one and half hours through out the day in total. I checked email from time to time using WIFI and sent a few texts. By night, I had about 7% left, with a bit browsing, it dropped to 4% before I plugged it in. Skype has always been on while connected.

My experience overall, the phone can easily last a work day without problem, provided you don't use 3G data a lot. You can drain about 15~20% just by browsing for an hour on 3G.
[Nexus S General] whisky_:
I charged my phone over night and in the morning took it to uni with me. It only lasted me 9 hours with a bit of Angry Birds in between and somewhat constant messaging on Facebook with WiFi. I'm really disappointed although my phone is new (5 days old) and someone on the forums said it took their phone 2 weeks to start giving decent battery life.
[Nexus S General] Shwally:
I usually get around the same battery life on both. I currently have a nexus s and an iPhone 4 that I change between. If you use auto brightness and stay on wifi whenever possible you will get decent battery life from the nexus.
[Nexus S General] pp1713:
I get pretty good battery life with the nexus s. Emails, some calls, some angry birds. Most of the time on wifi though. It usually could go for a day and a half before getting to around 20%.
[Nexus S General] tangcla:
A bit of a thread dig - how do you guys find it now?

I've just gone from an iPhone 4 to the Nexus S (i9020, AMOLED) and I am finding the battery life shocking in comparison.

I used to be able to get through a day quite comfortably with heavy usage on the iPhone4, but now, I have to lessen my usage and even then, it struggles.

I use 3G data quite heavily for push-mail and reading forums, and I'm not sure if it's just the fact that there are a large number of white screen pages, or whether it's just poorer hardware/software management.
[Nexus S General] warper:
I had both iPhone and Nexus s, on the Nexus S, I have a spare battery that's good enough for any daily usages. On the iPhone I use a spare charge battery that's loosely connected and quite inconvenient.

I don't throttle down neither phoned and I use 3G/WiFi all day. The Nexus does last longer.
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
Thought I throw thus out there my coworker with a Verizon iPhone is constantly charging his
[Nexus S General] jgalan14:
If battery life worries you so much just stay with the iPhone I have an iPhone 4 and nexus s, and I use my iPhone more then my nexus sometimes and battery life is not impressive at all I get to 20% on my nexus with text SMS mostly and some calls and I get to like 35% on the iPhone 4 with a lot tweeting, Facebook , SMS , browsing , YouTube , etc .... I love android but damn battery life is disappointing and probably is because of the multitasking is more in depth then iPhone 4 but the multitasking on iPhone gets the job done, it could take like 10 seconds to to see my notifications updated on Facebook for android while it takes 1-3 seconds on iPhone , I probably jump full ship to iPhone but I hate notifications on iPhone I can't wait for iOS 5 , apple best moved was to copy android and windows 7 lol. I like to take a lot videos and pics and iPhone does the better as well... I guess if gmail is the only reason you moving to android back just stick with iPhone 4

Just to show you after 16 hours (heavy use)

My nexus s die Just at 7 o clock been charging for an hour and not even 50% left
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
Auto brightness kills the battery faster . I easily get a full day with constant usage. When I hammer it, I get about 9 hours. Battery life could definitely be better but android does a lot more multitasking than the Iphone which is why the battery on these phones last so short, lot of crap in the background constantly.
[Nexus S General] tangcla:
If you want different notifications, jailbreak your iPhone and install MobileNotifier. It's a great notification system and very non-intrusive. Otherwise there's NotifiedPro which is quite good as well.
[Nexus S General] jgalan14:
Yeah I was thinking about that I wasn't 100% sure of jailbreaking tho , my 3GS would take forever to load Cydia and I didn't want to do the same to the iP4 (still a jailbreak virgin till now lol)
[Nexus S General] tangcla:
Jailbreak on iPhone is easier than rootin an Android device :p

IN other news - really quite fed up with the battery life with the Nexus S. Finished charging at 2pm, by 6:30pm it's already down to 60%.
[Nexus S General] Award Tour:
The iPhone 4 pretty much crushes all Android phones by a lot when it comes to battery life. Best off getting a second battery and wall charger.
[Nexus S General] meetagrawal:
I'm not sure what "more multitasking" really is.

What benefits does it offer? On my old iPhone, my chat client, pandora, gps, or whatever app needed to be running while I switched over to something else kept running.
[Nexus S General] malikadnanm:
Turn push email on the iPhone to 15min and you'll see that the battery is similar to nexus s which is pushing email to ur phone in real time.
[Nexus S General] draugaz:
It is not multitasking as such, it is mainly the screen size (3.5" vs 4" is significant) and poorly written applications.

Actually it is not so simple.

A lot depends on the screen technology of your nexus and the apps you are using. For example, samoled + black text on white bacground could easily mean two-three times more battery drain than exactly the same app on the LCD screen.

Another common culprit are many seemingly "innocent" tools/widget which make phone to wake up. For example, the data traffic counter on my phone was responsible for quite signifficant battery drain, but never appeared on the battery statistics since it woke up frequently and triggered the drain in other components.
[Nexus S General] meetagrawal:
I had set up Google Sync on my old iPhone and each email was pushed to me in real time. Battery life still doesn't even compare.
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
Not all apps stay running in the background on the iphone, they freeze when you switch. As far as I know only a few native apps and some dedicated don't freeze on the iphone like pandora, everything else just freezes in time until you come back to it. Most people have a ton of crap running in the background constantly and don't even know it. Most apps are preset to refresh as fast as possible as well. And as others have mentioned screen size and technology plays a major role as well in battery drain.
[Nexus S General] jonnythan:
The IP4 will have slightly longer battery life.

But, with the NS, you can keep a small light spare in your pocket and swap out, doubling your battery life. With the IP4 you either need a charger or plug it into a bulky external battery pack for a length of time.
[Nexus S General] jgalan14:
Slightly better? You mean better overall
[Nexus S General] jonnythan:
Eh? I said slightly longer. I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make.
[Nexus S General] meetagrawal:
So what benefits does Android offer by essentially running everything it can? The only apps people need to continuously run are streaming or local music play, chat clients, navigation, what else? Apple provides APIs for apps of that nature and they run perfectly in the background when switching.

Why do you care if the game you were playing, or facebook is frozen when you're currently using another app? It's right where you left it when you switch back, and yet by not having it run in the background, would you not save battery life?
[Nexus S General] malikadnanm:
I have both and the battery is similar, maybe ill get an hour or less more out of the iPhone but that's it. That's only if I'm using stock android with no flashed kernels. They seem to make battery life a lot worse.