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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tak3r07:
Hello,

Since a few days or propably even more, i have some problems with battery life. The reason is the facebook for android app. I uave already turned off the automatic sync, so the app shouldnt start itself but here is the partial wakeup spareparts shows me after a day of very light use (i have sometimes closed the facebook process when i saw that my battery made jumps of 10% without touching it for an hour, hoping this would help):

Can somebody confirm this drainage or help me how to get rid of it?

Regards.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skyjedi:
Ive seen it befoe. Clear data, unistall, reboot, and reistall. That fixed it fo me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donsalari:
Go to settings->application->manage application->all->facebook and tap "force stop".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coedy:
I uninstalled Facebook for this exact reason.

Installed friendcaster and sync my pix and I get the exact same (if not better) user experience with far less battery wastage. Best thing I did for my handset (except root it :P) the only downside is having two apps to replace one. But hell, it works! :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tak3r07:
I'll try friendcaster and syncmypix now. Hopefully these apps wont drain as much as facebook did :-)

Thank you for your reply
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enr88:
unistall facebook for this reason.You can use friendcast
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skarookidoo:
I am going to try taking Facebook of off my wife's phone and putting Friendcaster on. We have identical phones, roms, and kernels, yet her phone eats up way more battery than mine on standby (10% an hour). I put Watchdog lite on both of our phones and it popped up with a notification on her phone that said Facebook was using quite a bit of CPU. I even force stopped Facebook and it seems her phone is still draining battery.

Thanks for the suggestions in this thread. :cool:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTechnician:
What you did ? was less battery drain with friendcaster ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imtiaz3:
facebook app on android is evil

old thread but I will contribute and confirm this was the case for me.

I didn't track the stats with any app, however recently the facebook app stopped syncing my contacts. After re-installing it one day, my battery life drained twice as fast even though it was idle for most of the day. I recently got rid of the facebook app completely and my battery life it miles better when idle, it is such a big difference and this facebook app is evil.

I have it periodically check for updates, however I have several other apps that check as well, but facebook itself seemed to be such a battery hog compared to other apps.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sun-drop:
sorry to bump an old thread ...but i can confirm this too.

my galaxy S2 is on XWLP3 ..and it's rock solid.

except for the fact last weekend i was on holiday away from my office desk (and it's usb charger cord) and i noticed that my phone was rapidly draining, from 100% at 9am in the morn ..to completely dead by midday :/

thought my s2's battery had started to die ..but then come tuesday, my mate popped over and asked if i had noticed the FB app chewing up ton's of cpu time lately.

and sure enough ... that was it. he too was seeing his s2's drain aay to nothing ..and this is a guy who usually could make his stock s2 run two whole days on a single charge :/

so i think unless you back out of the app ... and stop it. it will kill yr battery in no time flat at all :/
[General Questions and Answers] JKM_:
hi,

basically i need a device which can run a few IMP files (.xhtml with active X - offline ).

smarphones r a gud option but i dont want to do anything with itunes or apple

android seems to be the future but the problem is android cannot run Active X.

could anyone PLS help me out

Thanks
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
Some more info on available memory (RAM) which is really tight on this device. You can roughly save RAM in the following order:

> 2MB: Don't use the sliding panels homescreen. Unfortunately this is the nicest visible sign of WM6.1/6.5 - but if you just use the "Windows Standard" Homescreen there is more than 2MB gain in RAM!

> 1MB: De-activate the Camera driver, all SDA Business users (without camera anyway) should do that!

~ 500kB: De-activate the Date/Time save driver. If you don't mind setting the date/time by hand after battery removal or have the device connected to the PC anyway with AS.

I have not noticed a gain when de-activating the Carkit driver.

For clean conditions when testing, please always reboot the device after changing settings. I noticed that even unchanged settings will not produce identical values after reboot. Tests were done with clean reboot, full initialisation of the Homescreen and then starting Oxios Hibernate.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
Nobody seems to care about this old stuff anymore :-(

Mediafire has logged 19 downloads of the built ROM and 15 of the kitchen, but not a single "thanks" in the thread - if you use it, just say thanks for my motivation, please.

Anyway I have migrated the kitchen to OSBuilder which has more tweaking options regarding Kernel parameters and also gives more other control over the build.

Is anyone interested in getting the relevant OS Builder package?

You need to install OSBuilder first and can then start cooking right away after you have the package that I could publish.

In the process of dealing with the very limited amount of RAM especially for the Typhoon I had to reverse on 2 things I did in the past for the sake of squeezing ROM and RAM space. Both have adverse effects to what is initially intended. I had published and discussed this in detail in this thread. So you must avoid the following:

Cutting down the Paging Pool to the bear minimum (so the device still boots). This gets you free RAM, true - but it will cut you off the space in RAM where the code of the programs goes! So a small paging pool will actually prevent that you can run many programs, despite of the free RAM. So it is advisable NOT to cut the paging pool below 4 MB in my experience.

Using UPX to squeeze ROM space. While it works to get more data stuffed to the ROM, the resulting executable will no more be able to utilize the paging pool for its execution. The whole code goes to the free RAM and not just the currently used part in the paging pool. So by saving ROM space (or filesystem space in general) with UPX you are wasting actually RAM a lot!

Because of 2.) above I have reverted to all original packages - so no UPX anywhere in the ROM build or any related package. I had to remove a few things from the default package selection, but nothing that cannot be installed later anyway. Due to non working A2DP I have also removed that again completely.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
Another find related to fixing the problem that System Volume gets reset when changing the profiles, see here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1407883
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
Kitchen Updated to OS Builder, new example builds included

To those who want to get the fastest and most advanced kitchen and builds available for Typhoon. You can pick from Mediafire:

a 7Z with 4 builds to flash the device with, 2 sorts with either English or German as default language (you can change in the regional settings anyway).

a 7Z with the OS Builder Kitchen setup. Install OS Builder first (See post 3 pointing to the OSB thread), unpack the kitchen to any folder convenient, then double-click on the .osb file to fire up the kitchen.

Cooking is pretty much self-explanatory - in the end you get a OS.BIN file that can be uploaded to the device via MTTY.exe. All tools are included in the kitchen 7Z and can either be used directly from the folder or via the Tools Menu in OSB.

I have added two folders to the kitchen. One for most of the packages in their original distribution files; so if these are not in your build, just in stall them manually. The other to trace the provxml execution - which is something you may never need to do.

For the packages to select, the OSB allows to group packages to switch-groups. One of the important switch groups is the one for .NetCF. This package is the most storage hungry and so there are several ways how to deal with this in the context of the 27MB limit of the ROM:

Include the whole package to ROM: this puts all to the imgfs which is compressed with LZX - and so the total cost is ~2.9MB

Exclude the whole package and gain ROM space for any other stuff to include. You should then also exclude all .NetCF dependant tools or install .NetCF later from a CAB to get them working again. As there is one basic program (the calculator) which depends on .NetCF I have replaced this with the old WM2k3 calc.exe in case you select this package - saving another 120k. So in total you gain 3 MB in the ROM. Mind however that a later installation will eat ~1.2 MB on the FATFS in the device (Program Storage) and another 5 MB on either SD card or again on FATFS - depending on what you choose to install it to.

Include only the files that go to the device mandatory anyway, but not on FATFS when installed later but on the IMGFS, hence compressed and eating only 750k in ROM. The rest of files (the 5MB *.GAC) go then to either FATFS on the device or to the SD card. You can select this in the kitchen when building the ROM. Later you must copy these *.gac files manually to the right place. The package with these files is in the _packages folder of the kitchen.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
I have done the final works on that kitchen and will not further do anything to it. You find the updated kitchen in the mediafire share of the first post. Download the file "Typhoon-OSB-kitchen-20120306.7z" there. Recent fixes are:

MMS dialogs use a smaller resource file for 176x220

Kernelflags are set to ...02 now to keep the MMS dialogs readable when you change the folders

CallerLoc is replaced by a dedicated tool (with understandable dialogs) CallVibrate

Sliding Panel background is fixed (was offset on the top-bar)

Some more tools added and instructions how to get back to WM2003 if needed

Mind that the created builds fit for any Typhoon/Feeler/Amadeus as you can switch/reboot the keyboard drivers.

Have fun and give some feedback if you created your own builds.

Candy-bar forever :D
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
SDHC on Typhoon (and Hurricane)

Hard to believe - but it is there: SDHC support on the Typhoon :-)

No magic actually but just good luck that the Tornado driver (which is actually one form the StartTrk) for SDHC works as well on the Typhoon and Hurricane (which share the same drivers in their original builds).

You need to re-cook to get this. Related modules are attached, including the advice what to do (just 3 modules and related .rgu entries).

I have not done much testing yet, but some obvious checks have worked well.

So if there is anyone out there still owning these oldtimers: time to get them off the drawer and put some fresh fuel in - Typhoon and Hurricane make perfect music players.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
Latest updated (the real final one).

Uploaded a new complete Kitchen including SDHC support and new USBFN bundled with WM5torage only (see first post). I do not recommend to use WM5torge with Typhoon - it is too slow anyway, you better get the card out and fill it external from the device with an USB reader.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
now the real final one :)

20121003 Update (since no new posts allowed anymore):

Just to let you know: The SDHC lets the device also read FAT32 formatted SDXC cards (e.g.64 GB). It even reads more than one partition (I have 2 on my Android) and mounts both of them (32k Cluster size used).

Not sure how well the performance will be when managing data there - but reading a large music collection should be ok :)

So after I sold all my Typhoon devices (except a few you just cannot sell due to their physical state) - the latest small update to the kitchen.

What I have changed (diff from 20120408):

cleaned up some resource files (saving quite some space)

added icons to those which had none

made provxml tracing the same for all

added some small games (these eat the saved space from above)

added an option panel to setup the volume of VoiceTag (from my other kitchen)

made D3Demo an extra package

added the very latest NetCF 3.5 as modules in an own package

added a few more color schemes and backgrounds

patched the keyboard driver to not require a dedicated subdirectory "Keys" in \windows

patched the nk.exe to identify itself as "TYPH100" to allow better skin selection for remote access tools

renamed mtty to the correct name (was mmty.exe)

fixed the welcome.exe for the German Mui to correctly delete the welcome.lnk from autostart at first boot.

removed the _cabs folder form the kitchen. Get it from an older kitchen
[HTC Typhoon] utp:
Hi all, just got my O2ZPhone II (Feeler) out of the pile of goodies, would like to use it for my second phone.

The OS on it is still wm2003, trying to go for this WM65 ROM, I found that the SPL is on 1.01.0139 on this phone, which I try to go for the 109 with no luck, and mtty report error in bootloader too...

Anyone any idea on how should I get this WM65 ROM flashed to this great phone?

Thanks.
[HTC Typhoon] tobbbie:
If the phone is still original, then you have to go all steps which you find in either the kitchen-tools menu or the tools folder directly:

application unlock old OS (SDA Application unlock)

apply Super CID to the phone (lokiwiz.bat, "C")

load new SPL to the phone

create new ROM (get OS Builder from the referenced thread)

upload with mtty.exe

Steps 1-3 need to be done only once per device.

I would not use the old os.bin I had uploaded as the latest kitchen can produce better ones and you have the choice what to put in or out. The default settings deliver a running build (you may want to remove the "German default" though).
[HTC Typhoon] utp:
thanks tobbbie, for some reason I downloaded the wm61 one, and yes with your great instructions I was able to flash that to the device and now happy using it!

(Will try the kitchen during the weekend)

Great thanks!
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] helowrenchturn2:
I've seen roms that have more settings available in quick settings. Is this possible with sense? Thx
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] helowrenchturn2:
Bump
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nitsuj17:
yes, most roms have extra quick settings in them...in our tsm rom we just have the extra 3 that are available in sense but not enabled by default

i believe in one of newtoroot's roms he ported in ihtfp's new quick settings from skyraider athena on the tbolt..so that probably has the most available for any sense rom on our phone
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] JWhetstone02:
The ROM Incredible Sensation, and it does use the new ihtfp's quick settings menu.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] andybones:
for those interested, and have the know-how.

http://teambamf.net/showthread.php/1114-DEV-ONLY-MOD-WIP-SkyRaider-Quick-Settings
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xInfamousx:
Ok so i have an 8 gig memory card. And from what I understand, when you partition your SD card it deletes everything, upgrades your ext2 to ext3, and allows for more internal memory on the phone, and puts all of your apps on your SD card (if the rom you wanna use allows it).

But what are the swap values and such? I get confused at the part where it asks to set the values. If its any help I want to use either synergy or evolvedandroid running freedom kernel.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blizzard1017:
Set the swap to 0.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xInfamousx:
That wont effect anything with the kernels though? What should the other values be
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Back up the contents of your SD card to your computer or external drive because this procedure will erase EVERYTHING on it. Using amonRA v2.3, select 'partition sdcard'. When prompted, enter 0 for the SWAP size, 1024 for the ext2 size and the rest for FAT. When the process is complete, select 'upgrade ext2 to ext3'. After the process is complete, go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING on the list. Afterwards and while still in recovery, connect your device to your computer and then select the USB-MS option. This will allow your computer to see the SD card. Copy over a freshly downloaded copy of the rom you want to flash and then flash it. Be patient during the initial boot process. After you've booted to your homescreen, it is recommended that you install your apps from the market initially,especially if you're going to be using a rom like Synergy. Your apps should be stored on the ext3 partition upon installation.

posted via my EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xInfamousx:
Alrighty. Ill try it out. And when I flash a new rom, as long as it supports apps to SD, will all my apps with their data be re-uploaded onto the newly flashed rom?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Automatically? Maybe, but that depends on the rom and if you have your apps autosynced with Google's servers. I'll give you an example: When I flash an AOSP rom like SalvageMod (my favorite) or OMGB, my apps are autorestored but not to the ext3 partition, but when I reflash the Synergy rom, they do, but not all the time. What I suggest is you do the following: as soon as you have your device exactly how you want it, boot into recovery and create a nandroid backup consisting of your boot, data, system & sdext. When you're done, create another nandroid backup of only your data & sdext. The first backup is something you should do everytime you make significant changes to your device. The second backup is for restoring your data, homescreens and apps when you want to just reflash your current rom or flash a 'very similar' rom. NOTE: if you are NOT going to partition your card with an ext3 partition then substitute the sdext with android.secure when you create your nandroid backup. Android.secure is where your paid apps are stored.

posted via my EVO 4G
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lordareon:
Hello ive brought the motorola atrix and i think its great but im afraid it has some flaws. Using a live wallpaper with golauncher gets everything laggy, the browser speed is awful. In somethings its lightning fast in others its even slower than other weaker phones. Im using the at&t atrix with the latest OTA update. Ah i forgot mention the touchscreen bug in games so called raindrop protection. I want to know if other roms like cyanogen mod would fix this issues. Because i cant believe they say that tegra 2 is better than an ipod touch 4g and in browser its slower. And will atrix ever recieve ice cream sandwich? Official or not? And i would be able to use webtop on cyanogenmod? Thanks!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnetox:
I'll try and answer some of these questions.

1) You should try using a custom kernel first of all, you should notice a huge difference in speed

2) Try using dolphin browser hd or opera browser and im sure your browsing experience will be much better

3) The atrix will receive ice cream sandwich for sure. Motorola is bound to release it for the atrix if it comes out before next july (which it will) as per the google handset agreement. The only way the atrix could not get ICS is if the hardware didn't allow for it. But the hardware on the atrix is better than the nexus S, and since that is getting ICS we are guaranteed our update.

4) Webtop on cm is being worked on
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lordareon:
Thanks for the reply, ive been using dolphin and it is faster indeed. But yet not even close to ipod one. About the custom kernel can you point me to some instructions how to install it? Which relation it has with a custom rom? Thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pukemon:
iphone and windows phone have hw acceleration. makes for better browsing and smoother everything. helps tremendously with battery too. hardware acceleration is something android is severely missing. let's hope ics brings it. it would breathe new life into even older phones.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lordareon:
Did the guys at google said sonething about it? I was hoping a stretch to fit feature so games with lower resolution would fit nicely and work too in bigger phones like atrix. I miss order & chaos so much :/

Sent from my Atrix 4G
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wintermute000:
Opera is lightning. It has hw acceleration
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iRobby:
I came from an iphone 4 and I love the ATRIX, :p

Then again I had many tweaks running lol but anywho try a custom rom, its like owning a whole mother phone now
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lordareon:
I came from a Trash Zte Racer and an ipod touch 4g, and atrix is like the sum of their good parts. but in comparison to ipod touch i miss the game compability, display detail and speed =/ i dont think android is ugly nor "not usser friendly". its very intuitive too. ill try opera mobile. to see what it says, i just hope ICS brigs all those cool features plus the Android 3.0 and 3.1 features. I hope it be as tasty as a Real Ice Cream Sandwich. I was thinking abou custom rom. but nobody told me the diference of a custom kernel and a custom rom. and i'd like some features of atrix like the webtop, so ill wait a bit more till the cyanogen is stabilished to move to it.
[HTC EVO 3D] Ruki_Uki:
I have SetCPU and have installed it on all the ROMs I've flashed on my EVO3D. And every time, just about every 1-2 minutes on the bottom of my screen a grey bar comes across saying, SetCPU has been granted Superuser permission. I've uninstalled it, and reinstalled it and it keeps popping up. Anyone else have this problem? I've just bought it when we got S-OFF and I rooted and got S-OFF the day Revolutionary went up.

Sent from my double barrel Shooter. BANG!
[HTC EVO 3D] turbocharger:
i have exactly same issue....it's annoying...anybody know how to stop popping up? i'm using cleanrom 1.3...thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] SayWhat10:
yeh this didnt happen on my evo 4G root

but it happened to me when i rooted on the 3d

like every 10min or so it would pop up, VERY ANNOYING

anyhoo, to stop that from popping up, go to superuser app, and uncheck notificationi!!

to be exact:

go to settings, hit do not show notifications

dont worry, when ever you give permission to a new app, the screen will pop up once that initial time only,and never again!!!
[HTC EVO 3D] townsenk:
Most of the custom Roms are using the 4-in-1 Power boot/Menu

As I recall it's a fairly complicated hack of the android.policy.jar

Can someone with more skills that I take a look at it and either fix or remove the "Hot Reboot" option? I've accidentally pressed it way to many times and locked up the OS.

I don't believe that option has ever worked on the Evo 3d.

I'm up for just removing it. (Seems like the easiest method)

I love the mod otherwise.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laccio:
hi guys....

i have one samsung galaxy tab 10.1 p7500 3g

i have android version 3.0.1

i would update to 3,1...but when i check for update it says no update available...

how can i update my tab?

with odin and downloading firmware 3,1 from samfir******* ?

sorry but it is my first android machine and i'm really not expert....

thanks in advance....

laccio
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rezadue:
I have downloaded a number of movies in AVI format and have been watching them with no issues using MOBO player for the last while. As of today though, every video file has the same problem. After approximately 60 seconds, MOBO stops playning the file. Every video file, and in all places. I am figuring it might be some codec issue, but am not sure what.

I have tried un installing and reinstalling MOBO, dowloading another program or two, but the result is always the same.

Can anyone help point me in the right direction in fixing this issue?

Thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] beseenwithgreen:
Hello, I have my camera settings on 5M but when I take pictures the file size is only 800-900kb Do certain settings change with different roms or is that right? I thought 5M shots shoulf be clower to 1.5mb a pic?? Thanks.