yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nook Touch General] jago25_98:
this is a real bummer to me.

Before rooting battery life was about needing a charge after every novel.

Now the thing dies in less than a day. This is worse than an ipad. But an ipad i expect to charge whereas an ereader i expect to sit ready to take camping at a moments notice. Certainly it should at least be 10x better than a phone.

As it is i find myself using my phone for wifi internet where i was hoping the nook could step in more.

Advanced task killer i find unable to use - i can't see any process descriptions, only small icons. I've installed a ton of stuff.

What's an alternative task manage i can try?

I'll try uninstalling wapedia too. Thanks for the tips %kll get back with more info later
[Nook Touch General] :
I found (as mentioned above) some of the Google services are always running. I have deleted everything except gmail and the core gapps needed.

Check here to see what you can remove (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Barebones)
[Nook Touch General] cceerrtt:
Is your device registered? Someone on the forum was saying that unregistered nook lasts ~ one week, probably some b&n "check if registered" services are waking up the device.
[Nook Touch General] Gogolo2:
I did some tests on NST:

- Installed SetCpu: Setting: ondemand (under advanced: bias=1000) (conservative seems not working correct)

- Installed SystemPanel Full Version with history plot of battery and cpu activity.

Heavy CPU activity sucks down the battery very fast. If I play droidfish with best settings and pondering it looses 7% in a game. SystemPanel shows this very nicely. SetCpu does a nice job: In Idle it keeps the cpu mostly <500Mhz, battery drain is about 1% in a hour or even less. So it should run about 100h just reading.

I also deactivated some services and autostart apps with autorun manager. A question here: Can I deactivate autorun of AFfiledownloadService and WaveformDownloaderService? If so how? I do not see them in autorun manager.

Greetings

Gogolo
[Nook Touch General] crissi22:
Gogolo2

Your approach does work!!! Thank you. Battery drain in my case is about 2% per hour of reading. It's not yet perfect, but it's about 10 times better than I had before. Since I did not make any additional changes, I have to assume that Android OS' default setting is to use full CPU capacity. Strange.
[Nook Touch General] sokoow:
I don't know why would any other governor potentially work. The reason is simple - according to kernel sources for NST, ondemand isn't compiled at all ;) We're now working on a new kernel relase which will have a bit more battery juice, debug mode disabled and so on.

You can potentially increase battery lifetime using Autostarts. I've disabled whole lot of crap that was waking up every 5 mins like Palringo or Samba Filesharing. Since then it's brilliant, provided I don't use wifi too much.

Also, as per this post :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20069231&postcount=4

adding

adb shell

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system

echo "echo 300000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq" >> /system/bin/clrbootcount.sh

adb reboot

to your startup file helps a lot.

Greetings
[HTC Sensation] brademcee:
I am curious what IM app people are having success with on their Sensation. I have used Trillian in the past but even with C2DM active I am loosing about 9% of battery per hour. I never had this issue with other phones. This I am curious what IM apps you have been successfully using that do not eat battery life. It needs to support AIM and Facebook.

Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] mathrania:
Try Ebuddy.... i havent used it on Sensation as of yet... but on my DHD, it worked perfectly...and about draining battery... well the smartphones have oversmart batteries.... it used to drain everytime.. dont know if it was ebuddy or Whats App... but for sure it was HTC HUB and Friend's stream :D
[HTC Sensation] wallah:
I use the IM+ free and work great, dont have the battery problem, because you have the notification mode and when you go out of IM+ you have still the mesage....
[HTC Sensation] Humming Bird:
imo.im - Doesn't drain battery to me, and no silly account registrations.
[HTC Sensation] stratax:
Trillian!! have used it for computer for years, great on android as well.
[HTC Sensation] yasin12:
I say imo. Very stable and battery drain is minimal
[HTC Sensation] pakraider:
beejive is pricey, but it's great and uses push notifications to save juice.
[HTC Sensation] Silvina:
Hey, for those who uses trillian, any idea how to "reset" the groups? It seems that it is not following the groups i have within msn, and using its own contacts grouping system.
[HTC Sensation] yesi:
Use Trillian. It's IMHO best on Android.

I'm not sure, but maybe you need to delete your contacts in Astra (I'm taking no guarantee in this). They should reload.
[HTC Sensation] hyperozi:
imo is great, but which one you have decided to use?
[HTC Sensation] somemadcaaant:
Trillian best bar none.

-smc
[HTC Sensation] maxoveride:
Im+ for me
[HTC Sensation] Firefall!:
For me too. I only need MSN. Tried Mercury, but it didn't really convince me. IM+ looks way more professional. Stay away from that eBuddy bull**** - I gave it a chance, but first thing it does, asks you to register an account with them. Holy ****!
[HTC Sensation] jam3s:
Im+ for me too
[HTC Sensation] TommyVDK:
Also using IM+.
[HTC Sensation] CyberBlaster:
I use Trillian, and I don't have any battery drain issues. Actually today my battery went 5 hours at 100% battery lol, I thought it was broken until it finally start decreasing.
[HTC Sensation] galaxys:
Trillian also works very well for me!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] markp99:
Interesting to me, though maybe already known:

I could not find my GT10.1 wall charger the other day, so on a whim I tried my Fascinate's wall charger (with GT 10.1 cable). This wall charger seemed to charge the GT 10.1 with no issue.

$0.43 + $3.48 shipping on Amazon - pretty cheap way to get a back-up to stick in my backpack.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Captivate-Fascinate-Mesmerize-Continuum/dp/B004JQ05II/ref=pd_cp_e_4
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] MisterEdF:
As should any USB type charger. My iPhone charger and my Jawbone Icon headset charger worked as well but takes longer to charge due to the lower current rating.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] vansmack:
Agree with MisterEdF.

I have the same plug with my Nexus S and my Epic. Both WILL charge but it's slow as hell and there's definitely the Red X letting me know that it's not the 5v2a charger the tab would like to see. Can't see why the Fascinate charger would be any different...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] tghockey07:
I believe that is a .5a charger and our tabs come with a 2a. The most it really can do is slow the battery drain. It'll take at least 4x the amount of time to charge.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] markp99:
I dunno. Over a ~couple hour period the battery went from 24% to ~50%. Not as fast as the stock charger, but certainly not zero.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] MisterEdF:
It will slow the drain if you are using it but if you simply want to charge it over night it should be fine in a pinch.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] flashfox:
And so will the B&N Nook Color charger. Essentially, any one will work but the standard, lower capacity ones might take forever to charge. The Nook Color charger provides ~1.9A @ 5 Vdc in place of the more standard sub-1 Amp chargers.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] rapidsebuja:
Is there a possibility to add it to the other roms with no cynanogenmod?

eg srom-2.2.1Froyo-v8 or Andread 2.2.9 v2?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mmapcpro:
Of the following tasks, would you consider them high, medium, or light usage tasks?

Taking Pictures

Texting (sms)

Texting (mms)

Browsing internet

xda forums app

gmail

gps/google maps

tegra games

Playing videos

listening to music

Calls

How would you rank these in order of highest usage to lowest usage (battery-wise)?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xTristinx:
Hey I have a bell atrix which was rooted before an ota update. After the update it was still rooted but did not have root capabilities. I ran root checker and it said I did not have the su binary file. I still had busy box and superuser apk. I now flashed it to the telstra sbf. I tried rooting it and i still cannot achieve a root. All I get is busy box and the apk but no su binary file. I tried every rooting solution even manually rooting the device. It can't even attain a temporary root. If anyone could help me I would be very happy.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NFHimself:
Hi,

The binaries in /system/bin are reset with regard to ownership and permissions after the update. The su binary is still there but it is not 06755. Check if you have frozenfish in /osh/sbin/ and use that, or you can try using gingerbreak.

Cheers!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xTristinx:
Sorry im kinda new but whats the frozenfish file name
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xTristinx:
OMG i used gingerbreak and it worked. Thank you sooooo much. Been trying all weekend :D
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aup808:
I am sorry if this is a noobish question or there is an easy answer, but I was looking at customizing my phone a bit and I saw the part about making your own splash screens (which is awesome), but I was wondering how to make custom boot animations - what tools I would need, type of files, etc. I thought there would have been a thread somewhere in the Themes & Apps section but I could not find it, and doing Google search leads me to just people posting their own custom animations.

Is there a thread someone can direct me to that has this sort of information? Any help would be appreciated - thanks!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aup808:
Bump - does anybody know? Also, the boot noise for the BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 does not work, another reason why I want a new one, ha. :p
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greenjeans:
Have you opened one of the bootanimation.zips? What file types are in there?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aup808:
A PNG image and a series of JPG images that make the animation, but I was wondering if there was a program that took an animation to make it into a series of JPGs, or if there were certain requirements/specifics in terms of how to make a boot animation.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
+1 on this whole post, I attemted last night to make my first animation, and if it is just the tedious task of re-saving the same picture over and over again with just minor changes on each one to create the animation, than ok, so be it.

It just seems that with some of the very cool animations there are, for example the boot animation to the new BAMF 3.0 has moving clouds in the background, that seems like it would be pretty hard to do manually moving the clouds a little bit for each frame.

It would seem pretty obvious to anyone that extracted the bootanimation.zip how the animation works, just more speaking on the creation of each of those frames.

Would be nice if someone with experience with this chimed on and offered some help.

Thank's in advance.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolute_Zero:
Does seem pretty tedious manually moving and saving them as you said but I'm guessing that's what they do.

Probably wouldn't take that long if you had everything on layers in photoshop and you could just move layers themselves.

Alternatively, if you already have a video, I'm sure there's a way to convert that to a series of png's as well.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThunderStick:
Ok I'm on the phone so giving a tutorial is out of the question. All you really need is patience and a goal.

First download Gimp for editing. Forget PhotoShop all together unless your rich.

Download the following scripts or plugins.

Background overlay

Save all layers

GAP (video editor for Gimp)

Google the hell out of what you want. Chances are someone allready has done what you want.

Read, read, read (time to not be lazy, what ever your doing you can find some direction at least with some good internet research)

Google "editing Android boot animations".

Create images (JPG or PNG) in the same aspect ratio of 480x800.

JPG images will be significantly smaller in file size

PNG images will have a much better quality

Sent from my thunderstick
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThunderStick:
Use GAP to convert an existing video to images frame for frame.

Very useful if you find a good video.

Sent from my thunderstick
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aup808:
I actually do have Photoshop, do you know how I can use that instead of Gimp/GAP? Also, I am sort of confused at how you take an existing video and turn it into something you can use as a boot animation... I found this link (http://www.machackpc.com/how-to-changecreate-your-boot-animation-for-droid/) but I am sort of confused by it and wish I could find someplace with simpler instructions.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EFoxwell:
I just use others. I used the Call of Android animation and the mw2 style on my incredible, and I just edited the files to use the same ones on my thunderbolt.

Message delivered via my BAMF Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] happimeal:
Ok, did a little research last night and today and tried a bunch of different programs for converting animations to a series of .png files and finally settled on one. I tried some free one's some trials and this is probably the best one I found so far.

Xilisoft Ultimate video converter. I was able to load an .avi, (or many other supported formats.) Program made it very easy using the "clip" feature to select out a section of the video I wanted, then converted that "clip" to a series of .png files. I was able to easily select the length of times between the extracted images "less time will obviously give you a smoother animation but require more pictures", also I could manually input the size of the outputted files (to match our phone's resolution).

I have only played with it a little bit but so far seems to be pretty good.

Also I have one other program I have been playing with to help with this. Jasc animation studio, which works with paint shop pro, has a pretty cool feature, which lets you copy into the clipboard all of your extracted image .png's, then "paste" them into animation studio as a new animation, you can then watch them from there, or load any indivual frame into paint shop pro. You can also save the clips as an animated gif. Very easy to make changes to individual frames and see the result's without having to flash to your phone.

Hope this helps.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aup808:
Wow! Awesome, thanks, this is perfect and in great detail - what about sound? If the video has sound, will I try hope it gets synced with the series of .png images? And what else would I need for the bootanimation.zip folder? Will I need a .txt like when I change the splash screens?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kach111:
Can someone confirm is bing local scout, audio, vision bing maps turn by turn working on omnia 7???
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DagsJT:
Yep, fine here.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kach111:
Ok thank you,i will then reinstall mango because that is not working on my omnia 7://.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EDDS:
working fine on my omnia 7 too.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uronfire:
wait a bit n it works:)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kach111:
Now i'm REinstalling mago,i hope it will work this time:)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mezo9090:
they are location specific btw .. they might not be yet there in your country ... just to let you know :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kach111:
Still no bing vision,local scout,turn by turn:/I'm from croatia.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessiethe3rd:
Here in Canada = no Bing Vision, no Local Scout... it's irritating.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jotapm:
Bing Vision and Bing Audio working fine here.

I'm from Brazil but my live ID is US.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yhd4711499:
My bing local scout, audio, vision bing maps turn by turn worked when I launch mango the first time. Then after several hours,it just disappeared. Quite weird.

I found the answer: I changed the system local to china.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kach111:
So you need to only change system local to china,and you will get bing vision,scout ....??Can somebody confirm tihs?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DagsJT:
Bing services are fine in the UK if you want to try that locale.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yhd4711499:
Sorry for my wrong expression.

I mean I cant find the bing audio/scout/... after i set system locale from US to China.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yhd4711499:
I tried change system locale from china to US. Not work.

But then I changed browser/search language to US, bing audio/.. come back.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 64GUNSHIP:
Does anyone have Bing Music?

I changed my locale from Canada to US and got the improved vision & the local scout, but there's still no sign of Music on my end.
[Android] jonas2295:
heyy,

i am playing with cyanogen mod..

how can i make the rom to install apps on first boot ?

put it to the other apps ?

Thanks in advance :D
[Android] lemonoid:
Correct me if I'm wrong, I probably am because I have just begun with this, put the app's .apk in the system/app folder before repackaging. I'd be pleased if I'm right since I haven't been doing this long at all. Just got all my resources set up finally

sent with FR$H lemunz
[Android] jonas2295:
Yes thought this too but I was not really sure :-)
[Android] lemonoid:
sweet. :) I AM learning.
[Android] jonas2295:
Me too :-)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dubez:
I'm running MikG 2.2, do I have to reflash the rom in order to partition the sdcard and it be effective?

Sent from my MikG 2.2 powered Evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] triscuit1983:
Best bet is to start fresh and partition your card for ext3 and then flash the ROM. I use Amon-RA to partition. I still use CM7 with an ext4 partition, but I put my wife on Mik ...(whatever the newest is, cause I'm a flash junkie) and I had to go back to square 1 with un-partitioning and re-partitioning to get a2sd to work properly.
[General Questions and Answers] simeezee:
Hi guys,

I take a lot of pictures with my camera. It takes forever for me to review the picture I took in the android gallery.

Shall I get a new camera app with its own gallery or maybe I should get a different gallery app?

Thanks for the help.
[General Questions and Answers] WiredPirate:
You should definitely give QuickPic a try. It is my favorite gallery app, much better than stock imo!:D
[General Questions and Answers] simeezee:
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and it's indeed much faster than the stock gallery.

How about the delay for review after I take a picture. Any better app for that?
[General Questions and Answers] FearedSkills:
Give ZOOM Camera FX a try. You can search the market for a slew of different camera apps but in my opinion that one is the best so far. Just be careful because a lot of camera apps will actually change your pictures MP.
[HTC EVO 3D] steal25:
Well it seems some files are gonna need to be pushed over ADB and i have been trying to figure out how to get it working on the 3D. I am very familiar with Adb had it running on my 4G. at first I was getting "device not found" so then I hooked up htc sync and now I get "operation not permitted". Maybe if someone know what driver needs to be installed it can get posted here, cuz everyones gonna need it.
[HTC EVO 3D] aronslusa:
adb devices shows that mines attached.

I'm sure you have debug mode enabled... did you see if there was an update for the android sdk tools?

When I went to root my NS4G I had to update everything, and then it changed my android sdk\tools into android sdk\platform-tools.

Couldn't get crap until I realized that one.
[HTC EVO 3D] steal25:
thanks for your reply!

android debug enabled, I've updated everything, im pretty sure.

adb devices shows my device but adb remount still says "operation not permitted"
[HTC EVO 3D] AyyRayy:
That was for manual pushing. Shinzul is packaging all the pushing and chmod commands into a packaged app for temp root. This should be fairly simple for all users.

Can s-off come out and play? You run but you can't hide
[HTC EVO 3D] steal25:
sounds good! but is it still possible to get ADB going on a non rooted 3D? Like i mentioned my phone is recognized but its not mounting.
[HTC EVO 3D] dagnasty:
Download the attached zip, extract it to a folder.. Go into device manager and find your phone. Right click and choose update driver (or something similar). Choose browse my computer for drivers. Click let me pick my driver from a list. Click all devices. Click have disk. Browse to the folder you extracted earlier and select 'android_winusb.inf'. Choose 'Android ADB Interface'. You should now be able to use ADB with your 3D, albeit very limited due to no root access
[HTC EVO 3D] steal25:
So, FAIL on my part. I guess i did have it set up properly.I kept trying to run "adb remount" and thats when I was getting the error(need root). Didn't even think to try other commands :o but thanks everyone who helped out, got it figured out.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2Quik:
I wanted to test out some 19000 roms. so i installed the 19000 reoriented kernel and loaded Juwe's Smart Edition V.5 Rom and Darky's Extreme Edition v10.1 Rom. I noticed that they are very lagy, is this normal because i have a captivate trying to run a 19000 rom? Has anyone else tried the 19000 roms on there captivate? Have you had the lagging?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xThe Enforcer:
Personally I stay away from the 19000 ROMs because they're obviously created for I9000 phones.

Go with anything Team Phoenix makes and you'll be happy!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Nearly every rom on the forum is based on a i9000 build including team phoenix
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xThe Enforcer:
Yeah, but don't they edit them for our Captivates?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
True , there will be references to options or phone does not possess
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tx12345:
Haven't had any major problems running I9000 roms. Little things like the SGS camera app being built for a front-facing camera phone but nothing major. Cappy's are essentially the same anyway just in a different package...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
None the less he use I9000 roms that have been modified for Captivate not pure i9000 roms. The biggest difference between I9000 roms and I897 is I897 have the audio chip support (i9000 dont) but I9000 have Hsupa support. Well thats what Ive noticed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystalhand:
But a 1900 rom would not load and would probably brick our phones without being modded for captivates. so thats as close as captivates can get to an 1900
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
that statement is not entirely true. You can have an unmodded I9000 ROM running on captivate, but screen orientation will go places, home will act as back button etc But pure I9000 roms cannot brick your phone
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Exactly, all you need to add on top of a i9000 rom is a reoriented kernel if you want the buttons and orientation to be proper.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
And if you bring Gingerbread into the picture, your talking about new bootloaders.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FreshFreddie53:
Help!

This is the second time my SGS2 keeps turning itself on after I've switched it off.. Last time I removed the battery and then lost all my settings/widgets on the homescreen - pain in the a*** to set it up again! Obviously I don't want to have to do it a third time! :mad:

Anyone else having the same problem? Any ideas on how to permanently fix this issue?

Any thoughts are greatfully received.

Jamie