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[HTC Sensation] jabbermacy:
it's generally crap -- best battery has always been with stock kernel; I don't care what smoke everyone else will blow up your skirt. granted, with bricked (CM7 rom) I get decent battery life, but NOWHERE near these asinine 24+ hours 'still have 60%' bull**** claims. best bet, install NOTHING (heh) and try it, sure you get great life! next bet: let it work itself in for about two days. first day on ANY rom is a huge drain...

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desense -- check it; it's slower than CM7 but with stock kernel battery is GREAT. MOST of sense bells and whistles without MOST of the carp. It's second best ROM out IMHO (if you hate sense), hyperS is #1 by far... since it's CM7 base ;)

EDIT: I was _almost_ hooked on MIUI but it's got frankly terrible problems with battery drain, never figured out why using SAME apps... don't go there...

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Thank you sincerely for REAL WORLD battery usage! This is quite normal results! Cheers!
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
Hey guys. I've found a solution for the camera issue (HD recording), I just downloaded a new version direct from Cyanogen website (camera.apk, I can post a link if u want) and now it works perfect just like it should.

I now have a full-functioning ROM until CM9 is out. Love it !

EDIT : I'll post it anyway, here's the link : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BOVW01OO Just copy it on your device and install just like any other app. Will replace the stock from the ROM.
[HTC Sensation] szafran81:
I've got 16h of runtime since yesterdays charge.

And It was an overnight runtime - WiFi on (connected), BT on (idle), sound off, and nothing more - no calls, no SMS, nothing. And it was at less than 500MHz (SetCPU) for 7h during that time, and max ~1GHz rest of the time. Still think that's crap (and yes i know that the ROM is in devel mode - so what ? It only means that all the greatness that people write about batt usage is pure crap)
[HTC Sensation] Sdobron:
You're complaining about battery and you leave bt on without using it?
[HTC Sensation] szafran81:
So what ?

I'm comparing it to stock batt life - and writing it as it is.

And that's what I was doing on stock - exactly that - WiFi on, BT on, always.
[HTC Sensation] poopymt3g:
what is the direct CM link? I would like to take a look but dont see it on their site.
[HTC Sensation] misha:
Same behavior as camera.apk included in last CM7 build for this device:

1. set video to HD

2. record (I did about 15 sec) = success

3. stop and press record again...... FREEZE, RESTART........ same issue as before
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Add me to the group of people having GPS issues. It doesn't lock past 500 meters for me. I tried all of the GPS mods, haven't really helped.
[HTC Sensation] more.then.fiction:
+1 more

banging on fools from my HTC Troll
[HTC Sensation] :
Just wondering, is there a zip to fix small mms?
[HTC Sensation] Spr33y:
Did you guys try to method mentioned earlier in this thread about clearing the AGPS data using GPS Test from the Market?
[HTC Sensation] ags29:
I'm not trying to hurt my (luck?) here but what is it with everyone always having gps issues and me not having them at all? Are you guys doing a FULL COMPLETE WITHOUT-A-TRACE wipe of everything before installing these roms? I always do and never have 99% of the issues you all complain about.. I guess I'm part of the 1%. (My wallet isn't though.)
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Just tried it, seems to work. I'll report back tomorrow.
[HTC Sensation] ImHuge07:
I was having GPS problems and tried everything to try and fix it but it was still off. The other day I took my case off and the problems were fixed. I have a rubber case that first came out at the t mobile store and it completely throws my GPS off. Try your GPS without a case and see if it works.
[HTC Sensation] the-Mike_D:
I'd say your aftermarket case is your problem. The standard aluminum case has built in antenna leads to boost signal. Without a case it's much worse.
[HTC Sensation] Floris-k:
Does anyone know a good app to monitor the battery usage in combination with CM7? I use Battery Monitor Widget Pro, but it doesn't really works in the right way.

For example when I'm charging the battery shows 4206mV and 85%. After 85% it just charges with 100mA per 5 minutes and after an hour it's still 4206mV and at 100%.

When it's discharging due to usage of the phone it also shows weird numbers. It stays @ 100% for a long time and after a while it drops pretty fast.

Another thing is the fact that sometimes the percentage drops from 97% to 95% in 5 minutes, but the mV goes from 3948mV to 4020mV. (see attachment screenshot-1323251748503.jpg)

Did a large amount of cycles already with this rom and also deleted the battery stats a couple of times. Last time I deleted the battery stats was a week ago, so I did like 7 cycles in the meantime.

More people have this? Does anyone know a solution? I also tried other battery monitors, with all different results. Is it something related to the battery monitors or related to the rom/cm7?

edit: I kinda have the idea it's related to the rom, because the percentage in the statusbar isn't showing the right numbers imo and the slow charging after 85%. I have added another screenshot of the charging process. (screenshot-1323252652410.jpg )
[HTC Sensation] szafran81:
+1

Same weird things here. But I don't think it's the BMW's fault. The main battery icon shows the same thing as the BMW.
[HTC Sensation] khanley:
Batteries never charge 100%. 100% charge on a battery reduces its life span so when you charge it, it gets to certain level, discharges, charges to the level again and repeats
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
+1 I've alwalys had problems with GPS and now I did a full wipe (with Super.Wipe) last week and now it's perfect, it locks in less than 20 secs with 8 to 10 sats.

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Right, I've just tried, not better...

Forget it...

EDIT : I've just tried with the camera apk from HyperSensation (which functions under HyperSensation ROM) but it doesn't function under SelfKang. Does someone know what's causing this crash ?
[HTC Sensation] kmmxracer:
Try to run a logcat during the camera crash, and maybe ask the dev how they got it running on that rom
[HTC Sensation] DarkPrinceByWWW:
For people using faux kernel, switch the governor from "intellidemand" to whatever you want like "ondemand". Seems like this causes the camera app issues.

I have no problems with the camera after i have taken the media.xml from the hypersensation rom and switched the governor to "onemand". No crashes anymore ;)

For the media.xml, just see here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19222046#post19222046 starting on post # 1433...
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
All right, I have this file from HyperSensation. Now how can I copy it on my phone ? I can't find the original on it...

EDIT : Found, but I can't move the new one from the sd-card to system, how do u do that ?

EDIT 2 : Done, I must do that with ES File Explorer in root mode and mount the system so that I can write on it.

AND THE CAMERA SEEMS TO WORK ;-) Thank's for the tip !
[HTC Sensation] DarkPrinceByWWW:
Via adb. Restart your phone into the recovery mode and move it via adb ;)
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
Thank's I done it with ES File Manager. Now it works ! (See my last post)
[HTC Sensation] seadersn:
no wonder: it cuts down hd resolution from 1080p to 720p for hd profile. additionally it rises bitrate for 720p to 12000000, but max bitrate allowed in same xml for h264 stays unchanged @ 10000000 :D

you can edit these values in your xml and reboot, it's easier.
[HTC Sensation] DarkPrinceByWWW:
I know that it's just cut down the resolution, but 720p should really be more than enough since it's just a phone cam. And it is working so why not using 720p until cm9 arrives instead of not using the cam at all? ;-)
[HTC Sensation] seadersn:
i was full of hope @ native full hd recording working finally :(
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
I agree. The sensor is not good enough to see a difference between 720p and 1080p...
[HTC Sensation] seadersn:
me² :D just thought... :)
[HTC Sensation] ilbulgaro89:
any news about CyanogenMod?

I read that Sensation will be in CM tree with CM7.2, but we are stuck on CM7.1 alpha10 since more then 1 month... :(
[HTC Sensation] gobslotch:
I read that polar bears drown when ice melts. Makes me sad too.
[HTC Sensation] bxlegend:
If you bothered to read through the thread you would find plenty of news. CM9 has taken priority on all devices. An alpha is coming sometime this month but do not take that literally as the developers would hold off on release if they feel you can't use it as a daily driver.
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
I think I may have data and wifi issues...I didnt realize it until I tried out ARHD 3.6.8 and found that my web browsing experience has gotten insanely better! I can FEEL the speed of 4g!

Using Opera Mobile, my browsing speed is faster than my laptop. The odd thing is, is that the speed when tested via some app (speedtest) is the same as with CM7 but the actual performance is so much better with ARHD.

Could this be some sort of bug, or just differences in ROMs?

Matt
[HTC Sensation] emanon:
Haha very funny, do you know how much polar bears weight, enough to break the ice. Hehehe…
[HTC Sensation] M@rshy:
I don't think they took off the aluminum case, just purchased the silicone case(That goes over the case of the phone).
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
GPS seems to fine after using GPS Status to clear the AGPS data. Thanks for the tip.
[HTC Sensation] Cyberdan3:
My phone was slow this morning when I was downloading the 10 cent apps and decided to restart it. When it restarted, it is now in a boot loop at the Cyanogen splash screen. It keeps showing the android guy pop up and then gets to varying stages of the splash screen before him popping in all over again.

Is there a known fix for this, or do I have to wipe and just start fresh again??
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
I experienced quite the same today. I couldn't find a fix for this, just restored a backup with CWM...

So if someone has a solution, I'm interested too ;-)
[HTC Sensation] Cyberdan3:
I had to do a wipe/factory reset and all appears well now, except I lost all my data.... Hopefully the "fix" will be an ICS CM9 ROM soon ;)
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
Nandroid backup+Titanium Backup are your friends on this ;-)

For ICS, I hope so too, if you want to give a try, there is a pretty stable ICS ROM from Trip'n'Raver, now the wifi's working and u can install .apk from the SD Card without problems. Camera and Bluetooth are not working though, but I haven't experienced so much reboots for an alpha.

KMobs seems to be pretty confident with his CM9 Alpha, so maybe we could have a "stable" CM9 till Chrismas. Just crossing fingers ;-)
[HTC Sensation] marcjw:
Tmo wifi calling down

Couldn't get my wifi calling working today so I detoured over to the tmo support forums and found that there's moaning, groaning, and whining by lots of people that their wifi calling stopped working today as well.

So it looks to be a Tmo issue, not a phone problem. Just a heads up...
[HTC Sensation] pterion:
I have the same annoying bug. Any updates on this.
[HTC Sensation] Phateless:
Only bug I have is the browser issues. Other than that this rom is perfectly stable.

Thanks Kmobs!
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Really excited for CM9 now with OnLive being released for Android. Since ICS has native MHL/HDMI support, we can effectively turn our phones into full fledged gaming consoles.
[HTC Sensation] pterion:
Toggle Sound via power widget does not work

As you all surely know, one can add a sound toggle button to the very practical power widget shown when the status bar is pulled down. Unfortunately, the sound widget does not work. Clicking on it does not change it's status and it remains always on.

Does any one has this problem too? Any ideas how to solve it?
[HTC Sensation] Glotzeulor:
Same for me. You can turn sound on with the widget but not off again. Never realized that, because i use a lockscreen slider for sound.

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[HTC Sensation] Sdobron:
Use a power widget is a decent workaround, no other fixes that I know of.
[HTC Sensation] robkoehler:
go into cyanogenmod settings - interface - notification buttons - and at the bottom you have to configure which options you want to toggle through (sound, sound+vibrate, no sound+vibrate, silent)

edit - while you're there, turn some more of them on or off and reconfigure the order :-)

2nd edit - the choices used to be a combo box, ie there was a default setting. it seems, for now, with the check boxes, that there is no default
[HTC Sensation] pterion:
wow! thanks a lot for the advice!

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Any ideas how to solve the problem with voice calling via Skype, Google Talk voice, Sipdroid etc? As soon as one starts the actual conversation with earphones plugged in the sound from the right earphone ceases and one can hear only through one ear.

This is very annoying and for the only barrier to use CM7 alpha 10 as a daily driver as I use VoIP etc. quite a lot.

Could anyone please confirm that behaviour and maybe even suggest a solution or at least a workaround?
[HTC Sensation] chorca:
Issues with light/proximity sensor

This ROM has been working awesome for me for quite a long time, props!

I have an odd issue, it seemed to happen randomly, but one day the light sensor just stopped working. It would happen once in awhile before that, but a reboot would usually fix it. Now, it's just stopped working completely. Automatic brightness no longer works.

About the same time, I also noticed that the proximity sensor stopped working as well. Now i need to manually turn the phone off when I get on a call, so I don't hit the buttons on the screen.

Haven't wiped yet, but I'm about to just to see if it's a config file somewhere. Should I find some logs related to this before i do? Anyone else having this issue? Searched through the thread, but XDA's thread search leaves something to be desired (namely handling quotes)

EDIT: Upon further checking in the logs, when I run GPS Status (which also displays the light sensor's value in lux) I get an error in logcat:

E/Sensors ( 281): Couldn't open /dev/lightsensor (No such file or directory)
E/Sensors ( 281): LIGHTSENSOR_IOCTL_ENABLE failed (Bad file number)
E/SensorService( 281): Error activating sensor 8 (Bad file number)

Going to do some more searching, but this is odd, that the light sensor device doesn't exist. Maybe some boot-time logs would help.
[HTC Sensation] Phateless:
Have you checked cm settings under display? There are some options for light sensor and automatic brightness in there.
[HTC Sensation] chorca:
Yeah, I checked out those settings, toyed with them a little but didn't get any difference. It seems from the logs that the whole device is missing from /dev, which I don't think is good..
[HTC Sensation] Phateless:
Weird... time for a fastboot wipe and start over.
[HTC Sensation] Phateless:
Has anyone else noticed Maps running REALLY laggy? I don't know why...
[HTC Sensation] emanon:
What version of maps you running? I'm running Google Maps 6.01 and it is running fine.

\Regards,
[HTC Sensation] Phateless:
Always the newest version. It's been doing this as long as I've been on these alphas, since number 1.
[HTC Sensation] sinisin:
No but Maps never stops running on mine once I open it. Only way to stop it is manage apps and force close. I unistalled it due to this. Murdered my battery.
[HTC Sensation] emanon:
I've been running the same alpha and I don't have any issues. I do use agps patch 3.1 google build to get a rapid lock. I also use copilot live for navigation without any problems. It may not be the maps in your case it might be the gps issues.
[HTC Sensation] Spr33y:
Did you try re-installing? I find that when certain apps are using a lot of battery, re-installing the app usually fixes it for me.

PS Maps is always "running" in Android. But even so, it doesn't (shouldn't) use battery while in the background.
[HTC Sensation] xguntherc:
I still have occasional audio issues when making phone calls and have to hurry n hang up n call again. Otherwise this has been good for the most part.

Can't wait for CM9 alpha 1 lol
[HTC Sensation] Phateless:
Could be Latitude. Try closing Latitude from within Maps and see if that solves it.

Never had the need to use any of this. My GPS is rock-solid with all stock CM7. Navigation works flawlessly, it's only in Maps browsing that it lags forever when zooming, etc.

I have this too. First dial sounds electronic and distorted?

I did a full wipe today so hopefully this addresses all these issues.
[HTC Sensation] heinzelrumpel:
Some apps not installable

Hi,

I am experiencing strange things when trying to install some apps from the market. When I use the web version of the market and I get my list on which device I would like to install, the sensation is greyed out. My desire and p990 is not. When using the market on my Sensation, those apps aren't even there, resp. are not shown when searching for them, e.g Wikitude World Browser. Other people using the Sensation are able to install those apps. I am using a german provider called O2.

Market Version is 3.3.1

Could this be a ROM bug?

Regards, Heinzelrumpel
[HTC Sensation] Glotzeulor:
I've got the same provider and can install wikitude without problems. So it is not a rom Issue.

But i can not play Backstab HD. It works fine on a Sense rom, but on CM it says my device is not supported. Suggestions?

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[HTC Sensation] EWitsJan:
This has been happening to me on any rom I put on my phone. It didn't do this before I rooted my phone. I think something got screwed up when I rooted it. Does anyone else have this problem? It seems when I leave my phone alone for 10 minutes it does it but If I'm using it, it doesn't do it.
[HTC Sensation] Spr33y:
Curious if anyone has installed the new firmware that was apart of T-Mobile's OTA update found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1385439
[HTC Sensation] civicvx94:
It's a cm7 issue..

Change these lines in /system/build.prop to the following and you'll be fine.

ro.product.model=Nexus S

ro.product.brand=Google

ro.product.name=sudo

ro.product.device=crespo

Also, make sure you didn't change your lcd density or it can give you issues to.
[HTC Sensation] emanon:
yeah I did and it worked no problem. touchscreen is little responsive.

\Regards,
[HTC Sensation] RaDeN305:
I did too. I haven't noticed any difference.
[HTC Sensation] t0ny0:
I did too, and actually now its giving me awesome battery life after a few charges... Happy happy
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
I have had this boot-loop bug one more time this evening. I wasn't doing anything and suddenly my phone rebooted and now it's blocked between the boot image (CM7) and the launcher, everytime it goes until the loader, after a few seconds, it reboots...

Does someone know what causes this crash ?

How much ?

I have about two days (48 hours) with light use (about 2 or 3 hours surfing, wifi-off the rest, 30 min calls and a few text-messages) with faux-kernel, on demand.
[HTC Sensation] Marioag_0412:
I flashed it a couple of days ago on my Tmous alpha 10 sensation and I had no problems. I haven't seen much of a change besides the wifi signal being quite a bit stronger at times when it wasn't before. Also the screen *might* be more responsive as reported in the thread, but it could just be a placebo effect. Like I said I found no problems so I don't see a reason not to flash it as the OP seems to know what he's doing. I suggest clearing cache/dalvik after flashing just in case, and maybe nandroid if you are super paranoid, but even for just the slight improvement of the wifi I think its worth it. Hope this helps.

Edit: also the battery seems to drain at a slightly slower rate when the screen is on. Might also be my imagination but its definitely not worse. Sleeping drain seems to be unaffected though. Will post if anything changes.
[HTC Sensation] knuhkles:
I also installed it power button seems a little better... it seems the radio might have been changed but wifi calling seems a little better... but who really knows it could just be my mind messing with me

Sent from my Sensation 4g running amazingly awesome cm7
[HTC Sensation] grivad:
Ditto. I installed it when it was released and I've noticed significantly improved battery life.
[HTC Sensation] jjdeveau:
Only the camera does not support ffc. Meaning you cant open the camera and use the ffc to take a pic of yourself.

Skype, google chat, and other apps still support it just fine..
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
My cf bench and quadrant are faster with cm7 and fauxs kernal for cm7.
[HTC Sensation] poopymt3g:
Its just as fast in CF bench as ARHD havent tried quadrant...
[HTC Sensation] dr.m0x:
Thanks for the apk.

It's easier to just installs the apk as a regular app. replaces the stock camera while still making it easy to revert.

Sent from my Cyanogenmod loaded Htc Sensation 4g.
[HTC Sensation] offenberg:
Ok. I've tested this for about 12 hours now, and I can tell you guys that I'm starting to really love my HTC sensation. My phone is complete.
[HTC Sensation] awake00:
Anyone's wifi dropping? Changed from wpa2 to wpa. Restarted phone and router. Doesn't seem to happen every two minutes anymore. But still happening.
[HTC Sensation] kedlun:
a couple more of us posted something about this around page 20. There's a workaround if you install CPU Master, open it (and give it SU), and then you can get into the menu. But it doesn't really do anything except give you access to the governors since the CPU speed adjustment is borked.
[HTC Sensation] fejker:
Um, yes it does? Open the camera app, there are these gray icons at the right side of the screen to adjust settings - the bottom one has a choice of Back and Front, guess what the Front does. :)
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
Ive noticed that the more time that passes and the more I open/close things (use it) the faster cm7 gets. Web browsing is getting much better and the lockscreen launch app function is getting better (was very stuttery). Seems like cm7 needs to settle a little.

Matt
[HTC Sensation] offenberg:
I'm not using wifi much, but other users have reported the same issue.
[HTC Sensation] awake00:
I've read the whole thread and see some people were having wifi issues but it seems like it's not a huge issue. I just want to if I should try flashing again. Tmous btw
[HTC Sensation] jmcdonald58:
Mine phone is working good I am really impressed with this being 1st run CM is bad ass
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
After rebooting, messing around, and letting time pass, my phone is also doing good. I was going to flash back to ARHD, but now think I will stick with cm7!!!

I cant wait to see how much better it gets!

Matt
[HTC Sensation] jjdeveau:
Its actually sad that people are incapable of just reading before they post something like this.

If you had read my op then you would know that I am talking about the miui camera apk that I uploaded not the one included in cm7.
[HTC Sensation] mytouch990:
I have run for one day the sound just disappear I don't know why can anyone help. I know first build alway has a problems
[HTC Sensation] offenberg:
I'm not sure. Maybe try and wipe cache. If you did full wipe, it shouldn't be necessary to reflash.