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[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
I've also bought SplashTop... but for me, the REALLY annoys me is the resolution change in my Desktop... it messes with the size of all my windows (not to include position)... I don't mind it a little less responsible (in this area, it actually is very responsive), if it don't mess with my 1080p desktop...
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Lolento:
I used Wyse but I think Real VNC is better based on hours and hours of use.

Real VNC is much faster.

Can anybody tell me specifically why Wyse is better? Like what features?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
It's probably related to its interface and the circular mouse widget with accessible features.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Lolento:
I find the mouse widget thing made Wyse harder to use.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jrezin:
in a tablet, with no menu hardware key, I find it actually very smart. (Also, usually you can disable it too IIRC)
[Verizon Droid Charge] byrnsey88:
I have a monitor that I like to use in portrait. Is there a way to rotate the output from the charge's HDMI so it uses the screen fully?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] andre@77:
Salve a tutti.

Ho HD2 e ho numerosi problemi di segnale.

è normale visto che diversi si lamentano. si può ovviare in qualche modo?

Grazie
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vdl:
I have HD2 too but haven't any problem with GSM signal.
[Milestone XT720 General] sohrab.naushad:
I need some help please, my phone wont boot and is stuck at the M logo. I am using dexters ROM with its patch. I wanted to change the android font from the standard droidsans to the Ubuntu font. I downloaded the ttf's from the ubuntu website and started looking on how to go about it.

So after searching the internet, I saw most people were doing it using adb push to replace the fonts in the /system folder. First problem that I encountered was adb not working, but after updating my $PATH to add platform tools it started working. After that when I tried the push command it said the /system was read only. I followed these instructons to make the /system folder read/write.

adb shell

$ su

# mount

# # mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock7 /system

After this I did:

mv /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf /system/fonts/DroidSans_org.ttf

# exit

$ exit

I tried to adb push the fonts but they permission was denied. I them removed the original fonts and thats when the screen went black. I did adb reboot and now the phone wont go past the M logo. Went into normal recovery using the camera, media and power keys. Did a factory reset. Still stuck. I have no idea wtf I did, I just usually follow instructions and everything is fine dunno what happened this time. I dont know how to go back into open recovery and flash the rom again. Any help would be appretiated. Thanks!
[Milestone XT720 General] Mioze7Ae:
You should be able to get into openrecovery by pressing and holding the volume up key while powering on.
[Milestone XT720 General] sohrab.naushad:
Thank you! It worked now to get around to fixing this :) Thanks again
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orsidoc:
i have problems with gameloft games on the lates rom of rcmixs 2.0..i can play some of them such as assaassin creed or asphalt6 but i cant with hero of sparta and dungeon hunter..anyone knows why?
[HTC Inspire 4G] borisb:
When I had the ATT stock I got the lock in seconds. After flashing and putting different ROM its like 5-10 min.

Is there a difference in the gps.conf or anything else?
[HTC Inspire 4G] diablo009:
The one I am on (Android Revolution 5.1.8) and GingerBeast (2.1.2) I had before this, I generally got lock in seconds, and with an accuracy of 5-10m.
[HTC Inspire 4G] LGSilva:
I would say the GPS on sense based roms with the correct gps.conf file works just as good as the stock rom.

Right now I'm using Android Revolution 5.1.9 and I get almost instant lock (about 5 secs) and 5~7m error.
[HTC Inspire 4G] id10terrordfw:
Radio and RIL also play a very large part in it as well, I have had great luck leaving the gps.conf file as is and just flashing the updated stock radio/RIL combo. Locks in seconds unless obstructed.

This also includes CM7 Nightlies after 57ish.
[HTC Inspire 4G] kem52:
Running Leedroid and getting lock in seconds down to 10 foot accuracy! Best I've had in any configuration. Running latest stock radio.
[HTC Inspire 4G] dingokevin:
Running leedroid and my GPS is rock sold. While driving @70mph I get 10/10 in less then 10 seconds. New radio and ril.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Aridon:
Works fine for me on cm 7. I don't turn it off and on. With gingerbread its really not necessary in aosp type roms it only activates when needed the power drain is minimal.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nhshah7:
funny, i just flashed back to the stock rooted rom with sideloading (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1058042) because I've realized I had ZERO dropped calls or connection issues on the stock rom. i was using ar4g 3.7 anyways because I found it to be the most stable and quite quick. wish it had a custom kernel.

back to the point, I had issues getting GPS working on that too, even with matching ril and radio. hopefully I won't have any more issues with this rom :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] nobitacu:
For myself, it was much better when I was on stock rom, but since I love testing out new roms, I've learned to live with it... At least it'll still work most of the time.
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3ismeee:
I think stock GPS SUCKSSSSS!

Dang I was just playing with this guz I'm kinda a GPS freak, and this Inspire, if one thing sucks, it's the GPS. Forver to get locks, and closest accuracy radius ever achieved is 7 meters....any suggestions? GPSFix, GPS Essentials doesn't seem to help. Ugh...guz me likes me my accurate GPS on my phone thingy....I was hoping that when I root it would improve but this feature probably doesn't get a whole lot of attention form the devs (?)

Edit: It is marginally better than the aged iPhone 3G I had, but I took it apart when it almost dead (I kilt it off by some wild ass idea I was going to refurb it) and there were signs of oxidation around the GPS antenna, which makes sense because my perception was that the performance degraded over time.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Kira.Lawliet:
Yeah I searched but i'm still not quite sure how to do it -_-

Well i'm on francodevoid + francokernel14.2.2 + zram and my old sdcard is partitioned on ext2. I'm planning to switch to a new card, and this time I want ext4, what should I do?

Partition the new card to ext4 then copy'paste all files from the old card to the new one? Is that right? Will it not affect the current state of my phone? TIA
[Xperia Arc General] cherryfish:
Hi everyone,

I've read in the update threads that battery life has improved for most since the update.

However, I feel that my battery is draining much quicker now. I re-did all the changes I made after the update (like removing Timescape widget + disconnecting from FB, switching off auto-sync etc). Didn't make much difference, though.

So, has anyone else experienced this? Also, has someone really checked if the camera bug is gone?

Regards,

cherryfish
[Xperia Arc General] vincent.hsy:
Yes, the camera bug is gone. Personally tested that.

As for overall battery life, there's not much difference for me. Maybe just slight improvement in idling current. (idling battery drain is still about 1% or less per hour though... almost same as before update)

But I already have really good battery life before update... so maybe that's why I don't see much difference.

Non-rooted. Unbranded. No task killers.
[Xperia Arc General] Mesho Arc:
that's weird, my arc's battery life is way better now, lt lasts 1 day 2 hours minimum.
[Xperia Arc General] superutp:
my gf's been complaining about the battery becoming pretty hopeless....I have repaired, factory reset and uninstalled most apps and no respite...used to give 1 n a half days easily on mod-light usuage...now barely lasts a day...

need to figure it out..ill look more into it when I have time..
[Xperia Arc General] mineralvann:
I have the same problem, looked good the first day now its ****, i can loose the last 20% in an hour while its just idling, today i was down to 9% after 12 hours, but i did use the speaker to listen to music for like 5 hours. Is there Anyone else that use the speaker alot that can tell me if it uses alot of juice?
[Xperia Arc General] jjbbb:
Hi, I have got similar situation with u.

I have used titanium to backup and restore the system data and apps.

Is it the problem between old ver 2.3.2 system data and new ver 2.3.3 that caused the battery drain problem?
[Xperia Arc General] joshlusignan:
Battery life has doubled for me. I noticed that a lot of Sonys apps are no longer running in the background after flashiing the o2 2.3.3 over my Rogers rom.
[Xperia Arc General] fender77:
Yep, battery life is way better over here too. I did a reset on it and set the phone up again pretty manually. Did sync my contacts etc. Works very well now.

Have 4 email accounts syncing, facebook and twitter syncing every hour and every 30 mins, do quite a bit web browsing on both 3g and wlan and have had w lan constantly on for quite a few hours now. Screen brightness set on 75%.

And now, after 15 hours and 33 min I have 66% battery left.
[Xperia Arc General] Mano1982:
Battery life is really great & i am loving it. Those who have problems, i doubt there must be an app (if not more) causing problem. My brother got the battery problem on his Arc (battery drain 100 to 10% in 10 hours with moderate usage).. He uninstalled Handcent & started using Go SMS Pro & battery life is again good :)

For me, I was on work today... Wifi always on, Facbook auto update every hour, weather every hour, 1 hour 30 minutes music listening with bluetooth headset, 50-60 sms, 5 min phone call, half hour browser, played a game in 15 min.. and after 15 hours battery is till 60%... I am very happy :)
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Waiting for the upgrade since camera makes battery die very soon.

Without camera usage battery performance is really good.
[Xperia Arc General] mineralvann:
i did not transfer any userdata when i updated so taht cant be the problem, and i have the same apps as on 2.3.2 but i do suspect widgetlocker is eating up battery. I have also read that the wather app snowstorm that i have installed is a big batterydrainer but none of those shows up in my battery usage.

I see that the music player dubletwist is the biggest sinner except the screen but im assuming thats because i used the arc speaker for music at work.

But as you can see from the pictures i have drained the battery twice today, though the second charge was only up to something like 80%. And ive hardly used it after that(3-4 minute long calls and maybe 20 minutes of music using in-ear headphones and 30 min browsing). Something is wrong somewhere

http://i54.tinypic.com/4imrnl.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/2nuowj.jpg
[Xperia Arc General] Super Chimp:
My battery life has definitely improved it now must be about the best I have had on any Android device I have owned.
[Xperia Arc General] bill.d:
My battery life has gone from an average of 15 hours to an average of 31 hours with more usage. Im very pleased with the update best smart phone battery life ive ever had now:-D
[Xperia Arc General] cherryfish:
I really don't know, but after a couple of reboots it seems better now... might be the reason.

Edit: I just installed Battery Monitor Widget and it says I it drains ~200-350mA atm. Wifi and 3G all off.
[Xperia Arc General] wingy1:
For me I defintely think the battery life is worse. I only ever use my phone on non-3g, all other connections off and got a nice 2 days easy out of it.

Since the update I would say I get just over a day (not sure if that is still good in other people's eyes) One of the killers seems to be the gallery which I presume is because of the new facebook update which pulls in your facebook pictures onto the phone....

Anyone find as well when you play games the phone gets really really hot i.e shadow guardians HD makes my phone just burn.
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
Easily upgraded today.

So far with using camera alot batt live is fine

and droping very slow on idle. Great!
[Xperia Arc General] Dazza2910:
Upgraded mine on Saturday and it's defo better on the battery. Wasn't using it at work and it was hardly using any power. Then started messing about with wifi and gps, etc, and it's still got plenty.

Haven't noticed many other differences though!!

Dazza
[Xperia Arc General] Retrosid:
I have to charge my phone 2 days and battery is now at 54%.

I never had such battery life before even with bloatware apps removed with that usage.

Imagine if i remove them now! (Though i wont since i cant root with gingerbreak anymore, hopefully someone will implement it on the next gingerbreak's update)
[Xperia Arc General] augie7107:
Agree with everyone else here.

Battery life has improved with upgrade.
[Xperia Arc General] mikesarc:
Battery life much better for me 50%
[Xperia Arc General] sennyqtek:
I have already heard a lot of good things about the update... I just hope I can update soon in Belgium... No update available yet OTA on my phone, SEUS nor PCC. I remain hopefull though :-d

I must say I do have a good quality battery already... It took a few days but now I easily get through the day. But it drains a lot at night if I don't plug it in. Also when I use the standard camera app it drains.

Still, I love this phone!
[Xperia Arc General] cherryfish:
I'm kinda back to my battery life before the update. Can't see any improvement, though. :( But I'm glad you guys do. ^^
[Xperia Arc General] LahiruRD:
To me, it's kinda worst than 2.3.2, At the moment, 27 hours since last charged & have 53% left with moderate use ( took 5-6 photos with flash, Internet navigating using 3G+, sending few SMS, playing a game for few minutes (10-15 mins) & calls).

39% of the screen (1 hour)

21% GSM

20% idle status

7% maps (41mins)

6% calls (7 mins)

2% FB

2% RockPlayer

2% Android system

2% K-9 Mail (7 mins)

I have 3G on all the day, Fancy Widget updates every 2 hours, K-9 Mail updates every 2 hours, News & weather (don't know exactly the name in english) updates every 6 hours, are my every day applications.

On 2.3.2, I was able to achieve at least 12 hours before it drops to 99% from 100% of the battery on a simple charge (in EDGE). But now on 2.3.3, in around 3 hours in EDGE & it drops to 99%....

On 2.3.2, my phone was rooted & removed some softwares of SE (I had Timescape installed, removed only SE games, applications like Canal+, postcard, Pagejaunes, Playnow, LiveWare manager, etc), on 2.3.3, I have all those applications & non rooted Arc........
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
In my case it's great so far.

Before with heavy usage I could get 12 - 15 hours.

Now easily over 24.
[Xperia Arc General] cherryfish:
What I think was one of the reasons I had such an awful battery life right after the update, was the display brightness. Usually I have it below 50%. However, after the update I caught it a few times being at 100%, which obviously would drain the battery. I am not sure if it was my fault or if Auto Brightness messed around, but it hasn't happened in a while now.
[Xperia Arc General] Mercano:
I just updated to 2.3.3. this morning. I haven't really had the time to really test it, but is the auto brightness working? I think it is not.. :(
[Xperia Arc General] cherryfish:
A few people said that after the update, but afaik everyone later noted that it just was very subtle.
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
It definitely works.
[Xperia Arc General] mikesarc:
Of your getting that kind of time that's great! Before up date if I got 15 hours with little 3 g use
[Xperia Arc General] mikesarc:
Un update your maps
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
In my case easily 36hrs with alot of usage!
[Xperia Arc General] bashar.enjarini:
im on battery for 1d 6h 18m and 4s at the time of writing this post.. and still in the battery more than 25% left

WiFi and data always on

no root or roving any stock apps

Facebook app update every 30 min

weather app update every 1h

Timescape update automatically (Facebok account)

Mobile Documents for emails update each 10 minutes

frequently checking my facebook page and app

surfuing like 2 hours using skyfire

music like 1 hour or even more

airplane mode on during the night 8 hours

brightness set at about 70% (auto)

network settings set as the default 2G/3G

that means the battery has been surly improved a lot in the 2.3.3 update.. so stop complaining,, either u have a defect battery or a defect phone...
[Xperia Arc General] clome:
i dont know how some of you guys do it but

i use 3g, wifi off no sync at all but i have background data on with whatsapp and weather app. Overnight it loses 1% per hour, with wifi on it goes to like 3% an hour draining
[Xperia Arc General] doministry:
But on Android 2.3.3? Your Arc behaves like 2.3.2.
[Xperia Arc General] piercewei:
I have to say I hasnt noticed remarkable battery improvement by this update, because my battery life was awesome already at 2.3.2.
[Xperia Arc General] robiceli:
Battery life has improved a lot for me since I updated to 2.3.3. I mainly use my phone for phone calls, lots of texts, music playback, browsing the market and little web surfing as well. Since my last charge, I used PlayerPro for 8 hours and 14 minutes, and voice calls for 2 hours and 3 minutes and now I have 3% left. My phone will shut down at 0% and if I let it on standby, it will hold for another 2-3 hours. So I must say this is pretty darn good. Before the update, with 2.3.2 I've got about 1-2 days with about the same usage. I just uploaded a pic with the usage of my Arc so you can see.

EDIT: sorry for the big* photo..
[Xperia Arc General] clome:
robceli: im jealous..wot brightness lvl you setting your screen on? only 11%..

yes im on 2.3.3
[Xperia Arc General] robiceli:
Screen brightness is on 40. After the 2.3.3 update, screen was at 80% but that seemed to be too bright so I changed it to 40. I'm not sure if the auto-brightness still works though cause I couldn't see any auto screen brightness change when I last checked in direct sunlight...anyway screen is readable even in extreme light conditions so I'm quite satisfied.
[Xperia Arc General] ucubz:
How do you manage to get only 11% battery drain on display? Mine always have about ~80% battery usage from display itself. Never had more than 12 hours on battery. I'm running 2.3.3 rooted generic global.
[Xperia Arc General] robiceli:
It's 11% maybe because I use other features more like listening to music and phone calls (doing this while screen is off). The other reason for this can also be because I have manually lowered the screen brightness to 40 (the slider is almost at medium).

Try decreasing the screen brightness of your Arc, you should get better battery life. My Arc is not rooted but is also using generic global 2.3.3.
[Xperia Arc General] robiceli:
Yes, that is correct. I enable data only when I'm needing it.
[Xperia Arc General] bill.d:
try setting your phone to 2g you can still get all yr updates and push emails but its alot less battery intensive .

i only use 3g now when i want to surf the net and there is no wifi available as the 3g connection absolutley kills my battery especially in weak signal areas. where as using 2g and wifi i get 30+ hours usage out of my arc most of the time :)
[Xperia Arc General] cpedersen:
How do you toggle 2g? I can only switch data completely off, not to 2g.
[Xperia Arc General] bashar.enjarini:
from setting :: wireless and networks :: mobile networks :: networks mode and choose GSM
[Xperia Arc General] lukesjeans:
i noticed on rogers branded there is not an option for this! what i do to change is the following:

1. add this number to contacts: *#*#4636#*#*

2. Name it Phone Info.

3. save it.

4. Long hold on it and select edit before calling.

5. This brings up your phone info (testing).

6. hit phone info and scroll to WCDMA perferred

6. hit it and select GSM only or what ever youd like!

Hope this helps!
[Xperia Arc General] clome:
I have tried turning data off overnight while i sleep and it does help.

8hr sleep drained 2% battery but the funny thing is as soon as i turn data back on within 30mins it would drain another 2-4%
[Xperia Arc General] thierryb:
You have to know that the Arc switch slowly from 100 to 99% but use battery. Saying differently, much more battery is used between 100 and 98, than from 98 to 96.

You can use battery monitor widget to see it.
[Xperia Arc General] Kyraa:
Today I was quite amazed by my phone. When I left my home for work at about 8:30 it was fully charged. Through the day I listened to music for about 45-50 min and turned 3G on for a few times to check e-mails, facebook and when my bus home would be arriving. When I came back home I still had 90 % battery left. Guess they should've called the arc the "Xperia long life" or the "Xperia never runs out of juice". Just Incredible...
[Xperia Arc General] bartbla:
It seems like the battery keeps getting better.

2 days and 4 hours and still 45% left... pretty good if you ask me
[Xperia Arc General] flakinarist:
Arc "uptime" is now 3d 12h 7min and still 13% left.

I like it :)
[Xperia Arc General] SirRobin78:
Is it possible to recalibrate the battery after updating to 2.3.3? I´ve the problem that my arc is going down from 10% to 1% battery and shut off.
[Xperia Arc General] sennyqtek:
Same here... Seems it gets better by the day.. I would be happy to make it through 1 day doing what i want but I easily get 2-3 days . And I'm still on 2.3.2
[Xperia Arc General] cherryfish:
Yeah, that's my impression, too.

It was like that when I first started it, which I thought was normal.

However, I got the same behaviour after the update. Doesn't really make sense. Does it?
[Xperia Arc General] eximperial:
The update does fixes bug and the battery life definitely escalated...

Xperia Arc running 2.3.3
[Xperia Arc General] clome:
i flashed the global generic f/w and it's much better for idling battery consumption

previously i had unbranded hk 2.3.3 with 3g on and data on overnight it would drain about 1% per hour.

currently i have rooted global generic 2.3.3 with 3g/data on it would drain about maybe half a % an hour. i now sleep with full charge and wakeup with about 97-96%.

IF i switch to 2g and data off my phone remains at 100% when i wake up.
[Xperia Arc General] xtacy!:
Whaaa??? How is that even possible? No battery drainage at all?
[Xperia Arc General] ShaunD103:
I've found that if my data is off my phone drains at about 1% per hour so If I'm feeling in a not so lazy mood and use my data on demand only then my phone can easily get 4 days and thats with a lot of text useage and about hald an hour of calls a night.

Before the 2.3.3 update I was only getting about 12 hours even with data off. After the update if I have the data on I tend to get just short of 48 hours.
[Xperia Arc General] abhisheak.bansal:
2.3.3 rocks
[Xperia Arc General] pranz:
Updated to 2.3.3..battery drops from 100% to 95% in 4 hrs that to when the phone is in idle state...its very irritating!...HELP!
[Xperia Arc General] sennyqtek:
Do you have wifi, bluetooth or data on? This could be a reason for that I think...
[Xperia Arc General] bartbla:
That's pretty normal if you ask me.... sometimes is takes 2 to 3 hours to drop to 98% sometimes is takes just 30 minutes..

The level indicator is not that accurate (like every other phone)
[Xperia Arc General] pranz:
I was on wifi for 2 mins and battery percentage dropped from 100% to 98% ...wasn the same with 2.3.2..wonder whyz this happening...
[Xperia Arc General] sneakingimperator:
help me ! i have 2.3.3 with wifi 3g and bluethott off...

brightness is 70% , but battery life is only one day :(
[Xperia Arc General] sennyqtek:
How long was your screen active? And what else did you do during this period?
[Xperia Arc General] kristofke:
hmm, updated to 2.3.3 and I haven't seen a noticable difference in battery-life, I am however going to root my phone tomorrow. So maybe I can tell a difference if I finally remove the bloatware :)