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[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
Okay, I think I discovered Yahoo Mail as a major cause of battery drain on my Charge. First some background. At one point early on with the Charge I had great results of 20+ hours. That was shortly after setting up Humble and ImNuts Kernal, calibrating the battery, and installing basic apps.

As many of us do, I kept on tweaking from there. I tried various combinations of Imoseyon's kernal, EP1Q modem, and V6 supercharger and related scripts. At some point in the process I lost the battery life. I started getting 6-8 hours max! Of course at the same time I kept working on getting the "perfect" app setup. All this tweaking meant I couldn't tell what started the problem.

Anyway, I've since undone V6, gone back to PBJ kernal, and restored EE4's modem. I thought I noticed some improvement, but really it was no more than a couple hours more than before. Maybe 8-10 hours total.

So, I started thinking about how Data usage kills my battery at work. I get a very weak signal and it absolutely kills the battery. But still, I was able to get up to 20 hours before, even leaving data turned on. So, I wondered if anything was causing it to work extra hard to send/receive vs before.

Long story shortened (a little). I considered the Yahoo Mail app with it's "push only" setup. This is something I didn't have setup right away. I'd used the built in email. So, after disabling "Notifications" in my account and re-enabling the built-in mail notifications, I've recovered my battery life! Today I've been going 15 hours and I've still got 31%. And that was with fairly heavy use and leaving data on all day!

I stress that the Yahoo Mail setting is the only thing I've changed since last week. I've been very patient to make one change at a time so I could track this down properly.

So, anyone with primarily weak signals care to test this theory as well? I really feel this did it, but could use some confirmation considering all the previous variables. I'll do some further testing myself this week. Maybe a day with and a day without. It's difficult not to just jump to GummyCharged 2.0, but I really want to confirm this issue first.

Some confirmation can be found by googling the issue: "yahoo mail android battery drain". Hope this may help someone else.
[Verizon Droid Charge] galaxyuser88:
Yes I have notice this too. I live in a non 4g fringe 3 g area and my battery drains fast as well. Yes I have yahoo mail and have since uninstalled it and have the stock email app pull my mail from yahoo. Also any app like yahoo messenger also runs in the back ground and no matter how much u do a force off, it restart a few mins later. Here is a list of app that run in the background.

A. Yahoo mail

B. Yahoo messenger

C. Live holdem poker.

D. Maps

E. Gallery

F. Gmail

G. Stock email app

H. Music

I. Search

And of all the rest of the stock functions. I wish that most of these apps would only run when you launch them and when you close it, they would stay shut off untill needed. Freezing the apps work but you cant use them until u unfreeze them. I know that this is done for a reason, so that there would be no lag. So I guess these are some of the things we have to live with.

One of the big mistakes samsung did with the charge is not install enuff onboard memory. So when you have all these programs running it does cause a lag and massive battery drain on our phone. As far as the data connection, I can not complain about the phone cause this is a problem that BIG RED is causing an additional drain on the battery. The mighty no connection and searching for service LOL..

END RANT..
[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
Glad to see it's not just me. You'd think a "push" service would use less battery, but in the case of yahoo mail it seems the opposite.

I'm not as worried about ram usage as network usage though. With a custom rom it seems fairly responsive. It's the network use that I wish we had more fine control over at the system level. If I could just make some of the offending apps act less aggressively that would be great.

In fact, I wish the OS had a smart signal monitoring feature that could tell apps to throttle back until a strong signal was available.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Danzanzio:
I noticed this too. It was causing a huge drain! The only reason I got the yahoo mail app was because the stock mail app wouldn't let me sign in to my yahoo account. Does anybody know the reason for this? It worked less than a week ago...
[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
The stock mail app is working fine for me. Never had trouble logging in. Maybe try from a computer to see if it needs to verify your account or something?

So far today I am using 5% per hour with yahoo's app disabled and very heavy usage of phone and screen. During one hour with little use it only used 2%. Very acceptable. I'll try turning yahoo on for the afternoon and see the difference.
[Verizon Droid Charge] galaxyuser88:
What i did is uninstall the yahoo mail app and load the stock email app, you can do all the same stuff with the stock email app as you can with yahoo mail. Also I found that the email app that comes preloaded with the gc 2.0 has issue with yahoo, and other email accounts ( Iam sure other people did not have this problem but i was one of few that did. So please dont flame me and say that iam the only one with this problem). What i did is pull the stock app off my tablet and installed this one on my phone, all problems are gone, i can receive and now repley, create and send my emails. I can now easily setup all of my email accounts, aol-yahoo-comcast, etc. If you can pull the stock email app that was preloaded on the phone before you modded or install any custom rom/themes. Also if you have yahoo messenger installed, get rid of it. I found that between the yahoo mail and messenger app my battery life was almost cut in half.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Danzanzio:
Ya I'm running gc 2.0 with the same problem. Any way you could post a link of the stock app?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
It's in gummytoolbox
[Verizon Droid Charge] bgorrell:
Update

So, I finished my testing:

Yahoo Mail app notifications turned off:

Used 35% battery in first 6 hours of day with heavy use of phone

Yahoo Mail app notifications turned on:

Used 55% battery in next 6 hours of day with very light use of phone

So, simply enabling the Yahoo Mail app notifications increased my battery use more than 50% per hour. This is even though I went from heavy usage before the change to practically no usage after the change.

Needless to say, I'll be leaving Yahoo Mail notifications off and let the built in e-mail app notify me. Which it does a very fine job of by the way. It's still "push" even.

So, I'm wondering how to find other offending apps. I'd have thought Spare Parts would tell me, but apparently Yahoo Mail was hiding its network usage behind some other title. Perhaps it's lumped under Dialer or one of the mysterious user ID's that show up (1043, I think?).

Anyone know of another network usage watchdog type app for our phones that might shed more light?
[Verizon Droid Charge] galaxyuser88:
I will try and have it posted by the end of the day or tomorrow. You can try to install the one under the gummytoolbox and see if that one works. I havent tried that one. let us know if it works.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Danzanzio:
Ya I tried and it didn't work for me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] galaxyuser88:
here is the email app i used, let me know if it works for you. i have about 25 email apps and hope i gave u the right one..
[Verizon Droid Charge] chargerchick:
I have tried and tried but cannot get Yahoo mail added to my email. I also tried to download your link but it says my phone does not support this. :confused:
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
I think you have to use this one to replace the one in /system/app since it's a preinstalled application.

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyCharged 2.0
[Verizon Droid Charge] galaxyuser88:
Go into your system/app folder and delete the stock email app that you have installed. Of course by deleting this you may/may not lose all of your accounts you have setup. Then download the link and install this one ( also make sure you rename the app to Email.apk ) i dont think you have too, but if you have a problem installing it, try it, you never know). Problem is since you allready have the email app installed, it will not let you install another one. I know this to work, for i have tried several different version that have been floating around these site, and they are all the same version, So i pulled the stock email app that i have on my Gtab and used that one on my Charge and it works great. push/pull-reply-create all works now, as well as being able to create all email accounts that i have without any issues. Just make sure once you have installed that you restart your phone for all to take into effect. Look at the app page on the phone and make sure you have the white envolope w/green @ symbol on it. If you do and you launch the app you should have a page loaded that has all the different email accounts that you can use to automatically setup. Just enter you username@email account and the password and then click next and if all setup correctly it will prompt you to pick a nickname and name to use for that account. Finished.. LOL
[Verizon Droid Charge] putney1477:
Not to sound dumb.....I like the stock email app as well and it does not work on my phone. I DL your file. now I place it on my sd card and flash it, is that how I install it?
[Verizon Droid Charge] galaxyuser88:
No you dont flash it. Once you delete the email app you have in your system folder. Then you just click on the email app to install it. Of course you will have to redo your settings, and then you should be good to go.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Khanusma:
Did you try to add it manually as an IMAP account? Enter your email address and password and then select manual setup or whatever that option is. Google the SSL IMAP yahoo settings for android and you should be able to get it. That is how I got mine working.
[Verizon Droid Charge] thunderclaps691:
Thanks it works, you safe my life.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chargerchick:
Thank you for this! I googled the settings and it worked! Now I can delete the Yahoo app! :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
i am very familiar with android devices and rooting and such ...I just got a vibrant off someone and can not get the cpu to even see the phone let alone get into dl mode ...yes i have drivers and yes i know how to get into dl mode it just aint working ...someone please help
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deziguy420:
how about a different usb cable ..i m sure u have tried all of the usb ports available so i wont even suggest that..i would also try other machine..btw does your phone charge when u plug it in...jz asking in case the usb on phone is busted or not...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawika:
Connecting to PC and Download mode are two separate issues entirely. Both have multiple things that could be the culprit.

- To connect to PC the issue could be

1) USB cord(as mentioned)

2) USB debugging setting

3) USB settings

- To get into Download mode it really depends on if the bootloader has been changed. There are two separate methods depending on the bootloader installed. The easiest/quickest fix would be to purchase a USB jig.

Good luck!:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chiauyih:
I install android hd revolution Rom it worked... but I install other Rom (full wipe) I get status 7 installation aborted error ... can someone help me?
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
To begin... make a backup 1st.... not responsible for damages while left in the parking garage.. enjoy the game!

This theme was made with permission of "thebowers". It's his creation. I brought it into GB land for the X2. I don't know if I did everything he did but I can tell you that I have made image edits galore for resizing purposes and to get all the new GB images not yet themed. I have also edited the crap out of a lot of xml's so things should work 100% smoothly out of the box. I have also incorporated some inverted apps which, I had nothing to do with. Credit there goes to thebowers, ecsnead and B-Boy. I themed the Phone and I started on the other 2 but, then, I saw someone else already did pretty much the same thing. So, I just used that. No need to waste time. That would be bouchigo. You can find him on rootzwiki. I also made a few apps myself because once I got going on 0.2.2, I got carried away.

Also, I changed the boot animation. It matches the theme oh so well. Credit there goes to Versatile1 because he made it.

Before we begin, I will list all the apps I have included. For ease of use, I highly recommend getting rid of any app on the list from your phones data folder first. For example, if you downloaded Facebook from the market, remove it from your data folder. Not saying you HAVE TO, just putting it out there if you run into issues, you know how to fix them.

Also for the market... this one you do HAVE to do... First, verify that you DO NOT have a vending app in \data\app!!!!! If you do this will not install!!! You will need to uninstall updates before flashing... Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>"ALL" tab>Market>Uninstall Updates

Will it break your phone if you don't do that? No, it just won't install a market... at all!

Lastly, I have taken the time to guide every .9.png file in the framework and in every app I touched. What this means to you.... If you want to make other changes, everything will decompile and recompile without error. Of course you need to add the dependencies if your editing systemui or settings but thats a blur thing. Not something I did.

Now.. onto the part anyone actually cares about..

The theme is located here.... No.. over there ----> ok its actually back there <------

If you see any issues or think of anything else to add let me know.

Here's whats included

framework

SystemUI

Calculator

Camera

Contacts

Dialer

Phone

Facebook (Inverted)

Gallery3D

Gmail (Inverted)

Google Quick Search (Inverted)

Keyboard (updated from 2.2 to be darker)

Settings (Inverted)

GTalk (Inverted)

Market (Inverted)

Google Voice (Inverted)

Some of these apps will be called dark or black in the app drawer. Example: Facebook = Dark Facebook

Screenshots:

http://www.4shared.com/all-images/k4K9F-uM/_online.html

A screen of something didn't come out.. don't know what it was but.. im sure it looked pretty good
[Motorola Droid X2] 3UR0TR45H:
Very cool! I especially like the 80085 in your calculator screen shot ;)
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
haha.. posted this in 3 forums... glad someone finally got it! :)
[Motorola Droid X2] 3UR0TR45H:
Yeah its exactly the thing I did in math class...every year...

Anyways, what are the chances we could just install the apps individually? I'm really only interested in the blacked out gmail.
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
just open up the theme in 7zip and delete what you dont want.

No stone unturned... we had to do some smali edits on gmail to get it to work. looks good though. now i realize that is the screenshot that is missing.
[Motorola Droid X2] 3UR0TR45H:
I just extracted the apk and used root explorer to push it into system/app. Changed permissions, rebooted, and voila!
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
As long as it works and you like it, I dont care how you got it on your phone...lol

:)
[Motorola Droid X2] zetsumeikuro:
Good stuff man. I noticed a few small things that I thought I would share, nothing deal breaking or anything like that.

1.) I noticed when you're in the middle of unlocking the phone theres like a slight white bar in the unlock tab, this doesn't occur when you switch between silent and audible mode.

2.) When you're in a call and say if you're on speaker and drag down the notifications the call information is pretty hard to see maybe a lighter shade of black?

3.) Some of the press colors are still orange/blue.

4.) When downloading from a browser the status bar is blue opposed to red and you can't read what you're downloading (b on b issue).

Still one slick theme regardless! Thanks!
[Motorola Droid X2] jeremy46er:
Very nice work xkape. Appreciate the quick turnaround for 0.4.

I noticed there is something unthemed in the blacked out gmail. When in your inbox an you check an email and click on the "labels" button that interface is not blacked out, it is black type on a white bg. When you scroll on this screen the entire screen blacks out and you cannot read your labels. Not a deal breaker by any means but I am just throwing it out there.
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
Sounds like the colorchachehint is ok (thats what makes it black when you scroll) but the bg and text need to be switched. I'll take a look at that.
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
1) Should be an easy fix

2) Just saw that. I tested to see if it was in frame or phone and im pretty sure I just missed it in the framework. I'll find it.

3) Theres just so many of the damn things. Hard to get em all.

4) Never used the stock browser before. I use Dolphin HD. So, this one probably won't get fixed.

I'm adding one... in the phone when you are looking at a specific number in recent. if you click on it for "call details" that screen needs fixed. I think Im also going to darken the text of the unselected tabs. I thought the grey I chose was darker than that.

And by the way.. thank you both for pointing those out to me. I can't fix the theme and make it better if I don't know it needs to be.
[Motorola Droid X2] zetsumeikuro:
I use boat browser mini.
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
I did some investigationg into the ongoing black on black issue in the status bar. Each app sets that seperately. The only way to fix that would be to either a) make the whole things white again with black text or b) edit each app that points at a black color instead of a white one for text. I will edit it for phone app and for dolphin.
[Motorola Droid X2] Luke724:
Nice theme, I haven't found anything I don't like. The boot animation is sweet too.
[Motorola Droid X2] triton302:
I've never been a fan of just black and white themes, but this looks very tasteful. I'll give this a shot after flashing Eclipse .4 later!
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
triton, I never was either. In fact, I had never even used BNB. But, I came to feel that colorized themes just didnt work for me anymore. So I decided Id use BNB and edit up to the X2.

Although, I must admit, I am a sucker for those neon themes in Blue or Red.
[Motorola Droid X2] triton302:
Eh, the neon themes are ok, but I'm picky about what themes I have on my device. This one you made looks great though!
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
neon image i just made right quick.

I was thinking this could take the place of the buttons.. for example.
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
thanks triton!

I've got a list from peoples feedback of a few imperfections here and there. I'll be fixing those real soon as well.
[Motorola Droid X2] Luke724:
I ran into an issue with the app shortcuts on my home screen not moving to delete. They were frozen. I could add them to the homepage but couldn't delete. I flashed eclipse.4 and everything is working correctly now. I did install that speedy zip yesterday. Not sure if that was the issue or not. Would that be launcher issue or something in the theme zip?
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
let me finishing flashing an app right quick and ill let you know once I get booted back up and test my deleting abilities.

Pretty sure my theme would not interfere with deleting home screen shortcuts but I have been wrong before.

I was able to delete apps off the homescreen. Now I gotta put them back...lol
[Motorola Droid X2] xerotix:
I like, i like it alot...
[Motorola Droid X2] Luke724:
Thanks for checking. I was running the BNB for eclipse 0.4 for a day or so. It was strange, I could add the app shortcut but they wouldn't move anywhere on the screen(just vibrate). It happened late last night, tried rebooting numerous times but kept having the same problem until I restored eclipse 0.4. I like using this theme. Thanks again for your hard work.
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
xerotix.. thanks!!

Luke... I use Go Launcer Ex. Maybe the stock launcher just sucks? I dunno. Try ADW maybe too. Nitro included that in his ROM.
[Motorola Droid X2] xheavymetaldadx:
So I get a force close on contact storage (com.motorola.contacts) after selecting dialer or contacts, any ideas? Love the theme though ;-)
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
Should only fc if adding a new contact or editing one. Ive been going for about 20 hours trying to invert it without breaking it. Still at right now as a matter of fact. It shall happen!
[Motorola Droid X2] xheavymetaldadx:
Lol get it done bro ;-)
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
Got it.. done.. finally.. stupid eh.. you know

Now I can work on the other items and getting it up to 0.5. Need to make myself a bunch of battery images..lol
[Motorola Droid X2] xheavymetaldadx:
Good to hear bro lol
[Motorola Droid X2] xkape:
Theme is done. Will post tomorrow sometime.. busy day with daughters 7th bday party.

Also, I think I may have fixed the audio skipping issue by sticking the Elliot Stocker Music app from my D1 on my phone. Worked for me anyway. I included it in the theme.
[Verizon Droid Charge] filthy1:
can someone please help me I have edited the files I want edited and have used draw9 to set my patches but when I run xultimate 9 patch compiler I get this error >>>C:\Documents and Settings\H\Local Settings\Application Data\7z.exe is not a valid Win 32 application and I don't know how to fix it...any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
[Verizon Droid Charge] filthy1:
no one????
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
Install 7Zip.

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyCharged 2.0
[Verizon Droid Charge] kejar31:
To modify .9 png's you will need to install apktool or apkmanager and decompile the apk's then modify the images paying attention to the way the markery on the outer edges effect the stretching of the png's.....

then once you modify the images recompile the apk then pull those images and add them to the apk you started with...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bballing1210:
I'm on the latest .26 MIUI rom with the most updated and latest radios. The one issue I have with my setup is the fact that phone calls take up the most battery. With 33% left on my phone, voice calls have taken up 50% of the battery, which means that almost 33% of the battery has been depleted because of 30 minutes of talking on the phone. Is there any fix out there that might be able to increase the longevity of the battery on voice calls? I think the battery is fine because I get 1.5 days off of it on light/moderate use (surfing the web, Facebook and Twitter, etc).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Calls typically drain the battery pretty hard, though that is a bit high...try scaling down your cpu or using the vipermod to undervolt to save some battery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bballing1210:
I have SetCPU running a basic 998/245 profile for under 100%. However, the battery drain is pretty constant with calls. When I tried ViperMod, my Evo froze a lot. I'm running Tiamat 3.3.7 SBC btw.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Yea..998, you're overclocked...so you're gona use more power at that frequency regardless. :p Though you have a good kernel at least.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunsparc:
Data connections only activate the EVDO radio sparingly, same for Wifi. It's only when data is actually passing is the radio actively pinging.

When a call is in progress, the 1x radio is basically on full blast.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bballing1210:
Oh, good to know. So there's no fix for this issue at all? It seems like it basically uses up a percent a minute, which is not very long talk-time at all...
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...nificant-4g-plan/&category=classic&postPage=1

Thoughts?
[EVO 4G General] big gulps huh?:
They are moving to LTE. Which is probably why they stopped or really slowed Wimax expansion.