yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
Best battery life... ever!

Btw, is there a way to remove the backup sync assistant. I always use titanium so I don't need it. If I try to uninstall it in titanium, I get this samsung.process.backup box FC continuously popping up until I restore the app.
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrep182:
I got the same thing every time I use titanium to remove it. But the FC should be gone after a reboot (at least it did from my experience)
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
the odin will flash the kernel and recovery which have root... its an all in one.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
The back up assistant calls on 2 different apk's and if you disable one, the other gets angry
[Verizon Droid Charge] JRmachiavelli:
Danalo thanks for all your contributions and efforts!

Unfortunately I'm having the worst luck on keeping this thing rooted. Brought this back to stock, installed debloat ee4 with root, and then loaded up CMR and installed the rom. The root works for only a few minutes til it breaks.

Any ideas on why this is going so horribly?
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
easy fix.... just download the Humble 1.25 ODIN and flash it using ODIN and it will automatically root your device permanently :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrep182:
But how come after I restart the phone, the app stopped getting angry? lol
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Because after the restart the system doesn't see the other apk and doesn't waste time looking or loading. When you delete while the phone is booted up it messes with programming functions
[Verizon Droid Charge] got_rice64:
Please update the OP, by taking out the parts where u mention that 1.25 isn't an ODIN not that you made a 1.25 ODIN available. was a bit confusing. flashing that right now. cheers

Also, after extracted, the filename is KS-2011-07-05.tar

Just wanted to verify that it's correct.
[Verizon Droid Charge] monkeyhihi:
My first post!

Awesome ROM, man! I only have one suggestion: On some other ROMs, (GummyCharged) for example, when you enter your email during the initial setup, it'll automatically re-download all of the paid and free apps that you had before, automatically adjust the background, and the like.

Would it be possible to implement this in your Humble ROM? I don't know how difficult it would be, but it's far less cumbersome than using Titanium Backup.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Cilraaz:
Well, I finally got around to calibrating my battery yesterday. Here's my battery stats so far.

Off charger for 10h 57m 30s with 55% battery remaining.

Usage:

67% Display

07% Android OS

05% Phone Idle

04% Android System

03% Cell Standby

02% Wi-Fi

02% Dolphin HD Browser

01% PodTrapper

01% sensorserver_yamaha

This includes my morning update of 19 podcasts (some a few hundred MB), 15 minute TweetDeck updates, and K-9 pushing mail for 8 accounts. I do have Timeriffic set to put my phone in airplane mode from 11:45pm to 6:50am, though, so that's nearly 7 of the 11 hours without radio.

So far, it doesn't seem too bad. It seems to be better life than I got while running GummyCharged. Today will show if my biggest complaint from the Charge will be fixed with this ROM. While using GummyCharged, I noticed that if the phone had trouble getting signal, it would lag and stutter. I have this problem primarily at work. So far, at home, I haven't seen any signs of lag. I'm using the phone today at work and will see how it goes.

So far, awesome work danalo. I'm loving this ROM.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Let me know how it works for ya at work. I hope it comes through for you :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] paul25rs:
This Rom has been working exceedingly well so far. I sent you a small donation.

For anyone that needs it, here is a wait free/ad free mirror that I put up to the Samsung USB drivers and Odin:

USB Drivers:

www.stickchop.com/charge/Samsung_Mobile_USB_Driver.exe

Odin:

http://www.stickchop.com/charge/Odin3_v1.3.exe

danalo, let me know if you need any other mirrors for your Rom as well. I'll happily mirror them for you.
[Verizon Droid Charge] triton302:
I might give this a try just for the battery life more than anything.

Anyone that went from Gummy to Humble notice a huge difference, for better or worse?
[Verizon Droid Charge] triton302:
Also... what's the best way to come from Gummy to Humble? I'm thinking flashing the Humble ODIN package will cause the least amount of issues, if any at all.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Cilraaz:
I went from Gummy to Humble by booting into CWM, deleting data, deleting cache, deleting dalvik cache, flashing Humble, and booting up normally. That's all. I even left Voodoo lagfix in place when doing it.

I've noticed a decent increase in battery life so far and it seems to be smoother usability, too.

[edit: I've been watching my podcasts for the past hour or so (with sound via A2DP bluetooth). I'm now at 12h 39m 14s since unplugged. Battery Monitor Widget guesses that I have about 4 hours of battery left (though that's going to be VERY rough, since this is the first discharge since recalibrating the battery and deleting the app's history file). Battery is down to 27% with usages looking like this:

77% Display

04% Android System

03% Android OS

02% Media Server

02% Cell Standby

02% Phone Idle

01% sensorserver_yamaha]
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
I just did the same and my battery life is insanely good.
[Verizon Droid Charge] flintpez:
Any fix for the occasional issue with downloading/installing from Market?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Cilraaz:
Well, here are my final battery stats from my first charge of the standard 1600mAh battery. A few things to note. First, after calibrating the battery, I had 94% battery life after the initial boot. It seems I left it on the charger for too long while the phone was off. From what I understand (which may be completely wrong), the batteries will charge to 100% and then drain to 95% and hold steady at that level to avoid overcharging. Second, as stated previously, I have timeriffic enable airplane mode from 11:45pm to 6:50am. So this saved some battery. Third, my phone app replacements and activities: GO Launcher EX, Handcent SMS, morning podcast downloads (19 total, mostly video so pretty large), 15 minute TweetDeck checks, hourly weather updates, K-9 push email for 8 accounts, Google Reader updating 13 feeds, and I watch my podcasts almost daily. I would classify myself as a heavy or power user.

Finally, stopping at 5% battery life remaining, here's my usage:

14h 25m 18s off the charger

77% Display (20% brightness, time on: 1h 49m 15s)

04% Android System

03% Android OS

02% Cell Standby (time on: 7h 20m 7s, time without signal: 16%)

02% Media Server

02% Phone Idle (time on: 12h 36m 3s)

02% sensorserver_yamaha

The funny part is that this only adds up to 92%. I'm guessing the other 8% was broken down into sub-1% chunks and not reported. Frankly, I've never checked the battery stats this closely.

In any case, I just wanted to report my findings in case they were of use to anyone else. 100% love this ROM. I'm not sure if I even want to hit up the gingerbread leak because of it.

I had this issue and another. I'd noticed after allowing Market to update itself, and after restoring from Titanium Backup, that everything under My Apps showed either "Free" or "Purchased", rather than "Installed". During this time, I was also having problems with apps not wanting to download. I went into Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> All -> Market -> Clear data. Upon going back into Market, I had to re-accept the ToS, but all of my apps showed properly as "Installed" and I haven't yet (knock on wood) had a problem with downloading/installing new apps.
[Verizon Droid Charge] paul25rs:
It seems like that worked for me as well for the Market. Thanks.
[Verizon Droid Charge] monkeyhihi:
Also, I'm having some issues with the display saying it's taking most of the power. I charged my phone to 100% last night to calibrate it, and left it idling while I slept.

The battery is now at 53%, with 4G on.

Battery stats are:

Display: 53%

Cell Standby: 10%

Airport Mania: 10%

Phone idle: 5%

Android System: 4%

My question is, why is the power consumed by the display so high if I had the screen off all night? Shouldn't that percentage be much lower? If so, what can I do to remedy this situation?
[Verizon Droid Charge] triton302:
Do you have noLED installed? That can cause issues with idling and screen power consumption when you have a notification.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Never look at the froyo battery usage stats... its a known issue with all froyo builds across all devices... this has nothing to do with my rom. If you want to look for more accurate battery info look in spare parts app... it's alot better
[Verizon Droid Charge] monkeyhihi:
No, I don't...

Which setting in Battery History in Spare Parts should I look at? Even so, I would've expected the battery to be at least at 70%, seeing as the "target" battery usage at idling should be at around 1-1.5%.
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrep182:
Monkey, you mentioned that you just started the calibration right? During my first cycle of charge after wiping batt stat, at idle my phone was eating up 10% per hour. However, during my 2nd cycle (drained all the way to 0 then recharge to 100%) It's only eating up about 4%-5%. So, I'd think that you need to give it a few cycles before the battery monitoring becomes more accurate
[Verizon Droid Charge] _killer_:
So, just flashed using odin.. Now my camera is force closing and my phone won't access any media from my device.. I had flashed 2.3.4 earlier today just testing things out and it worked fine.. Am I missing a step or something?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anaphora68:
Problem solved. I'm a moron. That is all.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mnpolock:
Okay ... I am a newbie when it comes to flashing phones and messing with ROMs but I just flashed Humble to my Charge and I just sent a donated ... This was smooth and it is fast and rooted and I am happy!! Thank you for your efforts!

Tony ~ MNpolock
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
see OP and download vending apk and copy it into your system/app folder which will overwrite the other one...
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
when you flash gingerbread you are flashing a new lte modem, a new cdma modem, and a new kernel.... all of which are not designed to work on an EE4 rom... My advice is to use the full factory tar to ED1 then accept ee4 update to get your basebands and modems back/// that is your issue
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
In addition to attempting to make a rom that is good with battery, I also want to make getting to that rom easy as well. Thanks for the kind words :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
Check this battery usage!
[Verizon Droid Charge] brian1972ct:
Try that again but running on 4G the whole time.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kxs783kms:
Can we get the stock animations in an update.zip package?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
Lol I know. I was in 4g all last weekend and the battery drain was crazy.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Outsider2011:
For those of you using this does your apps reload after odin or is it like starting from scratch?
[Verizon Droid Charge] twistedlim:
My apps did not reload, but that was OK and I would rather do it via TiBu anyway.
[Verizon Droid Charge] twistedlim:
Up and running. Seems very smooth and fast. I will calibrate the battery and see how she does.

Set the density to 240 which is better for me. Is there any way to change the transitions other than turning them off?

PS just FYI I forgot to disable lagfix until I was half way through the odin...ugg. It did not brick the phone though, everything installed OK although like you I would not recommend this path.

How could someone rank this thread a 1?
[Verizon Droid Charge] LowRentTechGuy:
My Verizon App

There is a fix for that. Found it here.

Android central forum >Droid Charge Hacking and Roms >[HOW TO] Fix my verizon mobile app error 305
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Crap. My battery life is still abysmal. I have no idea what the hell is causing this :mad:
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
used the one from Gummy. If that was your's I will give you credit sir. Thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Yes, I will theme so stuff later... I am interested to see how gingerbread works and looks... I will play with both sir. Thanks for trying humble
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
reset your battery stats in CWR. When you get all the way down to 2% reset them... let your phone charge all the way before using it then discharge all the way.

Turn your phone to cdma only then automatic if you are not in a 4g area yet

Turn off your 4g when not in use (this will eat battery like crazy)

Sorry you are having battery drain issues... I am not seeing that and I have been running for a solid week before I released. I am not in a 4g area yet so I suspect this might be some of your drain. I will heavily load my phone with apps and see if I can replicate your situation. Thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
And whoever rated my ROM a 1 might be getting a little ridiculous. Would rather have some constructive comments to learn from than a 1 star that makes me look bad.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Awesome. How exactly is themeing done? I love doing that kind of stuff and I'd be more than happy to help. Do you simply use the Android SDK? Point me to any websites with guides and knowledge bases and I'll help theme stuff ASAP.

I've themed Go Launcher using the Go Launcher theme template /JDK which is pretty easy. If themeing the Android OS is similar, I can definitely help.

I just followed the steps found in this post

and I'm hoping the fix works.

Sorry, I should post something like *MY BATTERY ISSUES ARE NOT ROM RELATED* so that I don't scare off any users :) I've had these issues since late last week when I updated GC and went haywire with custom themes. Before that, I was on rooted EE4 with the PBJT kernel (non OC) using GCv1.5 and had insanely good battery life. My battery dropped 1% over 6 hours while I slept! I had turned off mobile data and auto rotate, but the alarm clock app was still running. Yeah, 1% drop over 6 hours :D Now I get 1% drop over 6 minutes!

I have flashed various Odin packages and the battery issue hung around. I'm hoping this latest fix actually cures the problem. I've reset battery stats in CWR, but never when the battery was at 1-5%. My battery hardly ever gets that low since I have two regular batteries and the extended battery, so I never had the chance to try the method you posted. I'm hoping this new method works.

Also, I shouldn't have to turn 4G off if I'm in a non-4G area. I didn't have to do that when my battery life was great.

Crap, battery just dropped from 100%-99% after 10.5 minutes of use after following these instructions .

I swear, this will never get fixed.

EDIT: 98% already. FML.
[Verizon Droid Charge] twistedlim:
That is really odd. Especially since you have flashed stuff over odin. Not to sound trite but did you wipe your delvik cache as well as wiping the cache and data?

Are you running an alternate launcher? If so did you remove all the widgets from the old launcher (they will run) and then freeze the non used launcher in TiBu?

Maybe try another email app. K9 will allow you to fetch only every hour instead of pushing whenever availble.

Maybe your battery is just bad, have you tried another?

Those are about all the issues I can think of.

100-99% after 10 minutes of use is not all that bad. Remember you are just calibrating the battery stats now and will not reap the benifits until you run your battery all the way down and then charge it fully.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mbaran:
Yeah that's actually almost 17 hours if each % lasts 10 minutes.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Kamar234:
This is great. Is there a way to use the stock screen transitions?
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
If you go into options, settings, change your animations to some or none and it should revert back to stock
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Thanks for the input. Yeah, I've wiped dalvik, cache and data to hell and back.

Yes, I use Go Launcher. Yes, I cleared the stock launchers widgets/icons before switching over to Go Launcher. The launcher isn't the problem considering the fact that I had great battery life before, and I was using GoLauncher then.

It's not the email app :(

I have three batteries. Two normal batteries and one extended. The two normal batteries were getting fantastic battery life until the gremlin appeared.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Mykd99:
FC's for me when I select Settings > Accounts & Sync > Backup Assistant. Don't care b/c I don't use this but just wanted to let you know. I am going to delete this .apk with RootExplorer anyway.

Also, No-frills CPU and Voltage control, I've never used these apps before, but they appear to not be configured, I thought that was the purpose of this ROM?
[Verizon Droid Charge] twistedlim:
"No animations" will take it to stock, "some animations" will not. Of course that is "stock/no animations"
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
I left it stock so you can change to your needs. Not everyone wants oc
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Should have been more specific. Thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] avid.aria:
Has anyone tried this with Voodoo on, am I gonna get into trouble ?
[Verizon Droid Charge] brian1972ct:
Bluetooth is my biggest drain.

Running 40%

Screen on 8.3%

Phone on 13.6%

Bluetooth 100%

19% Battery level, Time since boot (unplugged) 9 hours 38 minutes.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jorge3687:
The flash player does not work!!!! whyyy help!!!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Xerrus:
Seconded!! I appreciate your unique animations, but it's a little too hectic for me, stock animations would be grand!

Other than that you've done an excellent job with your ROM. Best battery life thus far on my Charge which brings me a welcome sigh of relief! Perhaps in the future consider the AOSP launcher or even ADW launcher as the default? LP and the Z launcher I'm not feeling.

I love that you gave the options to put the puzzle lock back on. I actually that it was unique and dig it. Thanks for the flexibility!
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
have you installed the flash player from the market?
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
I threw in zeam because its light weight and easy on the battery so I will probably keep that one in there... I am going to add the aosp launcher back in though. I appreciate your feedback and I want everyone to know that I am taking notes and will accomodate as many people as possible... sadly, not all can be taken care of :(
[Verizon Droid Charge] kxs783kms:
Thanks for your reply. Even if you don't do the stock animations as an add-on, I'm still loving the rom.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Xerrus:
You're doing great! You have an excellent thing going and my comment was in no way meant to be negative! Just ideas! I love the current product you have going :-)
[Verizon Droid Charge] triton302:
I haven't flashed this ROM yet, but just by the support you're giving the users, this is a fantastic thing you have going on. I work in customer service for a living and I know how difficult it is to please everyone. The best thing about Android is the ability to customize it... so when people flash your ROM and want to tweak a couple of things to suit them better, they're still using YOUR ROM that YOU created, so take pride in knowing that your work pleases others, even if they make a couple of minor changes! It's like modding a car you buy from the dealership... it's still the same car you bought but with a couple of things to make the experience of owning and driving it your own.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dapperdanman55:
My flash player does not work aswell. Im going to try and reinstall the rom but I had adobe flash player and it still didnt work. No youtube or any videos...

Best rom ive tried so far though, thx
[Verizon Droid Charge] chiahead52:
I had to install flash but its been good after that...just tried you tube right now and no issues
[Verizon Droid Charge] flintpez:
If you find the animations to be too crazy for you, you can turn them off in Spare Parts.
[Verizon Droid Charge] deadpenguins:
I am currently getting this error when selecting "choose zip from sdcard" in CWM:

E:Can't mount /sdcard

When trying to manually mount it in the advanced options, i get the error:

Error mounting /sdcard!

I have just reverted back to stock EE4 (from GC 1.8.5) after disabling lagfix, then reflashed CWM with odin, rebooted into CWM, and am having this issue. I also wiped cache/Dalvik before flashing EE4 and before trying to flash humble. I have only done this procedure once before but was very careful to follow the correct steps. Can someone tell me how to work around this problem? Thanks!

EDIT 1: I have tried putting the sdcard in the computer on its own, works fine. Is there a specific version of CWM i need? I have CWM Voodoo Lagfix Recovery v4.0.0.1

I also have an sd_patch from kejar but it doesn't seem to apply for this scenario. I'm starting to get nervous :[

EDIT 2: I am back to stock EE4, seems to work fine and my sd card is now being recognized. I'm going to leave it until someone can give me an idea of what's happening.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Dartagnan_007:
Have you tried the SD card fix for write only at the following link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1118111

You may have to go to it from your phone and download it to get it on the card.

Sorry reread your post and if you can not run zip from SD card then you can not install this fix.
[Verizon Droid Charge] deadpenguins:
Yea I can't access my sd card so that's no good. I have never flashed anything more than CWM with Odin but is it unwise to attempt to flash The Odin Humble through Odin? I just don't want to dig myself into a deeper hole. Googling this issue yields many people saying it's a bad sd card, but I already know that's not my case.
[Verizon Droid Charge] rmanaka:
Hmm... I copied CarCradle.apk into /system/app and rebooted but it doesn't show up in applications! I tried changing permissions but it didn't help... I also think the apk existed in the folder before I copied it... Does it have any dependencies or is it working for anyone else?
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
I'm overclocked to 1.3 ghz and getting much better battery than stock. This is seriously amazing!

Oh, and this is with 4g enabled in a 4g area
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
And check out my quadrant!
[Verizon Droid Charge] dapperdanman55:
Which flash are u guys adding. Adobe? someone link the one to play youtube plz. its annoying not having it :(

And I noticed you added a market DL, what was the issue with it? I dont think I had any problems with it
[Verizon Droid Charge] Xerrus:
Just go to the market and type in "Adobe" it'll be the first or second app. I think the current adobe flash is like version 10.3 or something, look for the app and install just like any other app from the market. You should be fine afterwards

sent from my Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] triton302:
Elucid... which method of flashing did you do to get Humble on your DC?
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
Cwm. I did a full wipe and battery calibration.
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
I just downloaded normal adobe flash and youtube from the market.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dapperdanman55:
Just reinstalled humble 1.25 ROM and first thing I do is download adobe 10.3. Try and play a youtube vid. Makes me force close... WHY?!?!?!?
[Verizon Droid Charge] chiahead52:
not sure cause mine is working fine
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
Weird, mine is working great. Did you wipe?
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Im not getting this error on a fresh wipe... must be something not jiving with 1.2
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Try wiping cache first... if no go wipe data... no error on my end... just released 1.3 btw ;-)
[Verizon Droid Charge] dapperdanman55:
Yeah I wiped before I did it. I click the video and it turns yellow. Then it automatically changes to fullscreen and crashes.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Played about 10 different vids on you tube with no issues on humble 1.3

Flash 1.3 and see if that does it. Thanks