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[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
The battery life is only going to improve with the new models.

Especially in comparison to the Evo.

These dual cores are almost half the size and much more efficient at what they do.
[EVO 4G General] PaterickB:
I was under the impression that the last update for the EVO introduced a bug that causes the battery to drain faster than normal? At least I thought I read that somewhere and that htc/sprint was working on a patch which was going to be included in the next update.

I have noticed that sometimes when I take my phone of the charger the battery drops to 80% within an hour or two and when it does this the phone will barely last 12 hours. Other times the phone stays at close to 100% for hours, in which case it will last over 24 hours.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
1. Linux kernel: compare the batterylife of Windows, OSX, and Linux on the same laptop and you'll notice that Linux does the worse and usually by a lot.

2. Data polling: iOS apps pretty much all use push notifications for updates. The majority of Android apps still use data polling at set frequencies.

BTW: The 2X gets about the same life as the EVO, maybe a half hour more. The Atrix has a super huge stock battery and gets great life but still not as much as a iPhone 4. Don't know about the GS2.
[EVO 4G General] vbetts:
Also remember, while it is up to the OS to handle power and and what not look at the hardware too. The Evo has a big 4.3" LCD display, that alone takes up battery. Then look at 4g, then sensors, then speaker, then bluetooth, then look at the tiny battery. Software needs to improve, but hardware does too. Yeah, you can shrink the dye from 65nm to 45nm to 32nm to 22nm etc etc, but that's only going to do so much when other sensors still use the same amount of power, and battery technology isn't progressing as fast.
[EVO 4G General] mbaseball3:
Who's to blame? The end user! Let you android idal all day and it'll last 2! As already stated, android is built not to last all day. It's running like a v8 right now. In A few years it might get to the point of running like a Nissan leaf. One day maybe a prius....maybe.

Sent from the Evo
[EVO 4G General] vbetts:
But then what's the point of having a smart phone if you're just gonna let it sit idle? :D
[EVO 4G General] mbaseball3:
Exactly same point as getting a full feature phone and starting threads of why does my battery suck? :D

Sent from the Evo
[EVO 4G General] vbetts:
I know my battery sucks in my Evo, but I'm always around a charger and the battery life didn't bother me. :D
[EVO 4G General] notasimpleway:
I will agree that battery life is meh. However, it can be managed. The option to change the battery is huge. And if you know you are going to be in a poor service area or away from a charger, airplane mode on or mobile internet off. And has anyone read up on the iPhone 4 battery life on a CDMA network? GSM phones use less battery than CDMA ones. I am not familiar with whether or not the GSM iPhone switches to a 2G network when idle or whatever. Because that alone would save tons of battery that us CDMA users will never know. Meaning if we switch to 1x or 2G, it uses more power than 3G. So I just feel that it isn't fair to compare the iPhone or Attrix on a GSM network to CDMA Phones. I have more to say but I am nodding off to sleep. I'll save for later. ;)

Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.
[EVO 4G General] Mark_in_Tulsa:
I forget where I read it, but it's been documented here before.

But the major consumer on these phones is the screen. When the iphone has what a 3.5 inch, and we are rocking a 4.3 inch screen, we are at a huge disadvantage.
[EVO 4G General] xfullmetal17:
Make sure Latitude isn't running or signed in (and by extension, Google Maps). That alone nearly doubled my phone's battery life once I figured that out.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Not even a member!

Let's make sure you're doing this folks:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=712990

Really, seriously, works.
[EVO 4G General] zone23:
The user put your phone down and you will have great battery life.
[EVO 4G General] Plancy:
If I stop playing with my phone, I get long battery life.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
And if you turn it off I bet the battery takes years to fully discharge.

Not really solution here guys. lol:o
[EVO 4G General] zone23:
I bet the Microsoft Phones get great battery life because your in and out and back to doing nothing. LOL
[EVO 4G General] zone23:
I really don't see how there is a solution anything with a light bulb in it AKA dead short is going to kill a battery. As long as you are sitting with the display on your gonna kill the battery. The only solution is like I said turn off the display. I solved the problem by buying 3 batteries. Now I never have a problem.
[EVO 4G General] bjb_nyj101:
My friend gets nearly 24 hrs on his G2X with what he considers "medium" usage. Read some reviews of the phone, most people easily get through their day.

And as far as the Attic having a "huge" battery that allows it last all day, that'd great. So it might be OEM 's to blame for putting in small batteries. Why the hell did HTC put a 1350mah battery in the original Incredible (if I'm correct) its ridiculous. If Motorola can fit a large capacity battery in their phones, then HTC, Samsung, and LG should be expected to do the same.

Sent from my HTC Supersonic
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
I would say it's the OEMs but it's also Google but it's also Linux.

This here is why trying to find someone to blame is pointless. ;)

OEMs using battery hogging cores and such, Google because their code isn't known for being perfect with battery life and also seems to require more powerful phones to run properly in relation to other OS and Linux because it isn't known to be battery efficient either.
[EVO 4G General] bjb_nyj101:
I don't think it's pointless at all. For starters, if I, the person who started the thread, am curious about something, its pointless for me to try to find the answer to something? If that's true why question anything in life?

Furthermore, if we know who to blame, then people know who to complain to in order to get it fixed.

When the Evo 3D was found out to have a signed bootloader, many people were speculating as to whether it was Sprint or HTC demanding that it be locked down. People decided to complain to HTC, and lo and behold, HTC responded and have vowed to not lock their devices anymore.

End users have a lot more power than most people think. If enough people were to complain to HTC / Motorola / Google / whoever, rest assured that SOMETHING will be done. How big is that something? No one can say for sure. But it's a hell of a lot better than sitting idle and doing nothing.

Sent from my HTC Supersonic
[EVO 4G General] mchlbenner:
Hi I have friends with I phone that battery life is poor don't you have a charger keep it plugin and mobile phones don't have good battery life I have alot them the best I have is e71x nothing came close to it. If you want a powerful phone well its going to use the battery up get over it.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Well, the answer is "a collective effort" ;)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tw1nz:
Just got a internet samsung tv.

And now i ofc want the remote controller on my nexus s to remote it.

Are there any change to get it?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tw1nz:
Please move to q&a. sry for post.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luke949:
Is it okay to flash CWM through Rom Manager? I ask this because I formatted my SD Card and when I try to "Manage and Restore Backups", Rom Manager asks me to install CWM recovery; however, I am able to boot into CWM recovery using the three finger boot method or through the power menu button.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imnuts:
The "Flash CWM from RM" only downloads an update.zip file and puts it on your SDCard. ROM Manager doesn't work with CWM through the method we use it as it requires you to use the update.zip.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibsk8:
No.

sent from a sweet paper weight.
[Xperia Arc General] terawolf:
I've just flashed the 2.3.3 O2 system.img via fastboot and it said "1 bad blocks encountered". My phone starts normally but I wonder if it have any bad effect. Can I do anything?
[Xperia Arc General] sinchi:
same message when I flashed. The phone worked fine, except for bluetooth that refuses to be activated. It tries and tries but goes back to disabled.
[Xperia Arc General] Rycon33:
Guys you may want to try to flash first the corresponding ftf file using flashtool then fastboot the prerooted image. All the ftf files are on the other thread in dev section also. So If you want the o2 rom, flashtool the o2 ftf file then fastboot the o2 image file. Try and see if this solves the bad block.
[Android Apps and Games] caotiantupi:
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GPS

Auto-sync

Airplane mode

Auto-rotate

Flashlight

Brightness

Ringer mode

Keep bright

Battery indicator

APN

2G/3G

Free RAM

Volume control

Volume switch

Lock screen(2.2+)

USB storage

Screen timeout

Keep awake

Features:

1 Change name for any settings.

2 Save various custom settings model.

3 Custom widget theme (show indicator, dividing line, tag for widget as well as change their colors).

4 Special brightness settings to save battery.

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[Android Apps and Games] rzat:
gps switch not working for me

hi, since samsung repleaced theirs 4x1 power saving widget to 4x2, i was looking for a repleacement and found Powerful Switchman

Widget is even better than stock one (configuration, saving settings, customalization) but from some reason pressing GPS toggle doesnt do anything

Im on XXKI4 (2.3.5)

any ideas?
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] munishjoshi:
Dear All

I m using Samsung B6520 omnia pro 5 with windows 6.5 standard,i need a gud application to do free call to yahoo,gtalk & facebook contacts..i had tried fring,nimbuzz & talknout but dsnt works...

Fring is not available for windows mobile now,same as nimbuzz

talknaut have some voice clarity issues

Need help to get any application

thanks is advance

regards

Munish Joshi
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fgth90:
Hello,

I wonder if you know a software which can save PROPERLY contacts on my HD2 android.

I tried mybackup pro and titanium and it was a half success.

For numbers with 5 or 6 different numbers phone, all is not restore.

Moreover,

birthdays

are not restored.

One question more: do you know a tool for deleting double contacts?

Hope that someone will be able to help me.

Thanks in advance.

See you,

Franky
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] malybru:
Hi,

I use Outlook to back up my contacts and calendar.

If you are using a Sense ROM,the best thing is HTC Sync.

Otherwise there is a program called MyPhoneExplorer.

I don't know of anything that will remove double entries,but would be interested in something that does...

:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lidc1y5:
Gmail and Yahoo mail will allow you to find duplicates and merge them.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] redplate:
Forget those f****** ONLINE backup services and keep your contacts and data PRIVATE and safe, pls. Thanks.

To backup your contacts the tool MyBackup Pro 2.72 is for me the best backup softwares out there.

I sent you a pm.

Have fun with it :)

Greets

Red

Edit: oh you tried my backup pro alrdy.

I cant understand why it wasnt working for you. absolutly no problems here. it works perfect. Restoring all entries related to my contacts like notes or bitthdays was just simple.

Hf

Sent from my HTC HD2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fgth90:
Thanks

Thanks thanks thanks!

I worked on it this morning.

@Red

Thanks a lot

I've got the last version of mybackup pro, confirm that all is not restore but I use Lotus Notes and sync is not perfect.

@lidc1y5, malybru

Thanks for that.

I use MyPhoneExplorer to sync my HD2 and Lotus Notes.

It's free and working perfect for calendar, but all zones of contacts aren't syncing.

When I first flash my hd2 from WM to android, I write all missing infos on contacts (birthdays...) directly on my HD2.

Now I do not proceed to sync my contacts with Lotus, only calendar by MyPhoneExplorer and everything's fine.

I found the solution by Titanium Pro. Made a backup of Contacts 2.3.4 and [CONTACTS/APPELS] Liste des contacts 2.3.4 and all is restored (all numbers and birthdays)!

Anyway, thanks again.

See you

Franky
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rauschkugl:
if you don't want to use gmail why don't you just export them to your sd card?
[Wildfire General] Htc Pirate:
"There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders on HTC phones. I want you to know that we've listened. Today, I'm confirming we will no longer be locking the bootloaders on our devices. Thanks for your passion, support and patience," Peter Chou, CEO of HTC.

Sources: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HTC-Sensation/175735282481671

But still, they haven't made any statement in context to already released phones :(
[Wildfire General] Skye Menjou:
I doubt they will add support for released phones.
[Wildfire General] -Howard-:
Wildfire is EOL this wont apply to us but probably only there up and coming phones.
[Wildfire General] Les1976:
Thank you HTC, and well done. :)

But is that confirmed? lets hope that not some Facebook user in some prank pretending to be the HTC CEO.

There is nothing yet on there press page http://www.htc.com/uk/press/2011.html
[Wildfire General] kevin2516:
It's real :P, but sadly it won't happen to already released phones :p
[Wildfire General] bx19:
That's really a great injustice to the already released devices. (if it is so)
[Wildfire General] Les1976:
@ bharatgaddameedi, i just read your "Rooting Android: The War Between Carriers and Consumers" article.

Very interesting...

I'm no expert, so let me ask the question, is Android not built on Linux? If so do Linux not have terms which state that while there software systems can be modified and used for profit it must remain completely open at all times.

If that is the case would manufacturers who use Linux derived operating systems not be in violation of those terms by locking the OS?
[Wildfire General] bx19:
Sorry that was not my article actually. I just found it on searching and liked it very much. So im trying to share it. And it was based on an opinion piece.

Anyway i will try to search for ur things.
[Wildfire General] Les1976:
Alright thanks :)
[Wildfire General] Htc Pirate:
Lesa, this news is confirmed...Infact it's all over the internet by now :)

Few more links:

http://htcsource.com/2011/05/official-htc-will-no-longer-be-locking-bootloaders-on-their-devices/

http://www.thunderboltforums.com/fo...iscussion/2750-htc-unlocking-bootloaders.html
[Wildfire General] Les1976:
Ok, great. thanks :)
[Wildfire General] lokeshramesh:
Now this petition has spread to famous magazines like pc world check it out.:)
[Wildfire General] Les1976:
Nice, Link?

Whoop.... never mind, http://www.pcworld.com/article/228823/htc_ends_locked_bootloader_policy.html
[Wildfire General] waw1410:
**** u htc . i really hate this ****ing stupid company and thier ****ing policy.

they said that will not open the bootloader for old devices like wildfire and so on

ohhh my godness!!!!
[Wildfire General] lokeshramesh:
Another good news-

Alpharev soon releasing a method for wildfire with hboot 1.01 check out the Rom Development forum here.:)
[Wildfire General] ErwinP:
Normaly alpharev only works on rooted devices, which in our case is the problem in the first place. I know that HCDRjacob said something else, but I wouldn't put to much hope on it..

Erwin
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riahc3:
Hey

I'm looking for some recommendations on a good weather widget for Cyanogenmod devices.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordSoth:
Try Goweather
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marse.online:
Beautiful Widgets,Fancy Widgets,GoWeather
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crni6:
Palmary Weather Pro ...the best weather widget I ever see ...except HTC weather widger of corse. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperDeform:
hands down sense widget
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j4velin:
i like Aix Weather Widget
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claus1953:
Go Weather and 9s weather
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alessa:
genie widget!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewAD3:
I agree. Nothing can replace it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rintenfinten:
This is even better then aix weather, which isn't developed any longer. It has long term prediction and additional weather information like wind, pressure, cloudiness:

Free version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...net.rainwidget

Donate version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...nwidget.donate
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riahc3:
3 years later...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony the noob :D:
You should try the "weather sky live wallpaper" from the playstore. I wish someone would make the HRC sense 2 one with analog clock
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzaj:
I'm in New Zealand and i use telecom XT network (umts 850mhz) so obviously the at&t version will work fine. I also perhaps have the opportunity of buying the umts quadband version (850,900,1900,2100) which would probably not have the same restrictions as the at&t 4G.

However, from lurking here i can see that there seems to be more dev happening on the 4G, is this correct or would i be better off with the vanilla quadband 3g version? (im not 100% sure where the local stores source these vanilla phones from)

One day i might change to another provider in which case i would need 900 umts but if there is more chance of getting more bang for my buck with the 4g i will go that way.

Yeah it would be easier just to buy a galaxy 2 but its big and cheap feeling and i just dont trust samsung build quality or gps as much as the Moto.

thanks in advance.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjjensen23:
the 4G is a marketing term from AT&T. its just 14mb HSPDA+

Whether a local version vs AT&T version is worth it, that is up to you
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzaj:
Yep i understand that the 4g is just a marketing buzzword. What i'm asking is to me it looks like the vanilla phone appears to be identical hardware just with an extra 3g band? Also which model is likely to have the better dev support and moto support if they do decide to unlock the bootloader for certain ops?

Is the atrix 4g only sold on AT&T or are other operators also selling htis elsewhere in the world?

I'm just wanting to make sure i buy the model with the best support moving forward as it has to be a keeper for a while. I've flashed the absolute hell out of my milestone and sadly realise that due to the ram its never going to amount to much more.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Plancy:
Any way of checking PRI in CM7 I've googled and searched but have not found the answer.
[LG Optimus 2x] j.blaze:
Hi guys,

It's very annoying to see that android isn't able (by default) to use the lockscreen and the lock pattern. The only one I saw so far is HTC. You can use the lockscreen and the pattern together. On the LG the lockscreen is gone if I select a lock pattern. Is this a line in a .xml file or something? Does anybody know that? If so, is anybody able to mod that?
[LG Optimus 2x] Kag:
You can use lockscreen apps.

You should post such stuff in general.
[LG Optimus 2x] nuggeo:
What is the point of having two lockscreens?

What are the downsides of only a pattern lockscreen?
[LG Optimus 2x] j.blaze:
I want to keep it as stock as possible. On other thing is, that I don't like only pattern. It doesn't show the same info as the normal one like music. I like the app widgetlocker. But sometimes it seems to lock a little bit later and the app is one of the biggest battery drainer I ever had. Anyway, I don't want to use any kind of third party apps!
[LG Optimus 2x] Harsh:
use gesture unlock. cmsettings. lockscreen, and you can keep lockscreen or you can remove it.gesture unlock is far the best.

and hope you are on cm7
[LG Optimus 2x] Kag:
Stock has no double lockscreens.

You can use CM7 to show lockscreen music controls. It is in the CM settings.

HTC has 2 cause it has its sense interface.

There are some music apps which can do separate lockscreen controls as well.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] b1ackplague:
First of all I'm sorry if you regard my thread as just filling up the general forum. But I wanted to counter my experience thus far with the TF to those that are bashing it.

I sold my ipad 1 to buy the TF

This OS is definitely in beta; however I'm impressed with how fluid everything is including menus and screen transitions and the Widgets that are available. I've had almost no issues other than some light bleed and a backlight bug.

Thumb keyboard is so awesome on here and I enjoy it much better than my ipad.

Gaming on this is a treat; there is something truly amazing about pulling a portable N64 or PSX out of my bag and gaming with a WiiMote. Not to mention FF1 with a gba emulator. This doesn't account for the android games available in the market either including monster madness and Riptide GP that I'm loving right now. Oh and the flashed based kongregate arcade with its 400+ flash games.

Browsing the web is beautiful; putting this beast in portrait and viewing a webpage is amazing. Browsing for something to buy on amazon or Google shopping is awesome when I can view such a long list of the products. Flash is something that I have unknowingly been missing and is now rediscovered with my Transformer.

I have experienced a few force closes and 1 or 2 restarts but my device is rooted and running a custom rom and kernel and clocked at 1.4ghz.

Right now I'm on graveyard shift at work; the work computer goes into a deep freeze at midnight so I can't use it and we have no wifi. Solution? Tether my TF to my Droid X and watch Hulu or megavideo which are both silky smooth and beautiful on this screen.

Ipads are good devices but this thing is an outstanding device.

I'm a happy owner.

Sent from my TF Decepticon
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Schroder08:
I've been patiently waiting until paychecks come in to be able to pick one of these lovelies up, teasing myself by reading here and there in the forums but I didn't realize I could connect a Wiimote as a controller for the emulators. I'm going to have to track down that thread soon, thanks for mentioning this possibility! Tuesday can't get here soon enough, hoping my local Fry's will still have one when I'm ready. Wooooo!