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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSopranos16:
Purpose: I'm starting this thread to discuss the effects of using Latitude on battery life. Specifically, is there anything we can do to minimize the extra battery drain it causes. I like using latitude with family and friends and want to continue using the service (I'm sure I'm not the only one). I really need to find a way to use it without giving up on around 70% of my standby battery life.

Background: Over the past 2 nights, I've left my phone unplugged when I went to sleep. On the first night I was signed OUT of latitude and lost about 7% of my battery. On the second night I was signed IN to latitude and lost about 23%. To me, this doesn't make any sense and given what latitude does, its way too high. I noticed that in BetterBatteryStats, NetworkLocationLocator has 2h31m of partial wakelock time (Count: 2482, 16%) when latitude is turned ON. With latitude OFF, it was near the bottom of the list with a negligible amount of activity. I believe this is the primary contributor of the significant increase in battery usage when I use latitude on my device. I'm not an expert on BetterBatteryStats, but over the course of a day, I expect latitude to update my location a few dozen times. So, why is it showing a count of wakelocks in the thousands?

Specific Questions:

What might be causing the huge increase in NetworkLocationLocator wakelocks and is there anyway to get that number under control when using latitude?

I use tasker on my phone and I have profiles set up for higher battery life vs higher performance. Is there anyway to have tasker control latitude? If I can get an activity that would sign me in and another to sign me out, I'm sure I can incorporate that into my various profiles. (if tasker can't do it by itself, could a script be written to do it? I know tasker can execute certain types of scripts I just have no idea how to write them)

Has anyone used the program Latify (or something similar)? I know its an alternative client to the latitude service and I was wondering if it had better battery life than Google's client. This would be my last resort as I like having latitude integrated into Maps, which I also use often.

For the record, I'm running stock rooted KI3 (2.3.5). But, I have noticed huge battery drain with latitude on every rom so far with my GS2.

Thanks in advance to any and all who can help contribute to this problem and a solution.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claimui:
Try this new app, from the developer of BetterBatteryStats: [APP] ALTitude, a Google Latitude updater with a low battery footprint

I think there are a lot of issues with Maps. Here is another thread where we think it causes wakelocks from Gtalk_async_conn: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1242519

Hopefully Google will fix these issues soon. But in the meantime, I think the solution is to freeze/kill Maps when you don't need it, and update Latitude through an alternative app.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] latifymobile:
Unfortunately, there's no way to control how Latitude will perform location updates, and it does stress the battery, even when you're not moving.

I would also advice to look into some third party apps to update your Latitude account.

As far as Latify is concerned (please note that I'm the developer of Latify), there are a lot of options in Latify that allow you to update your location. Not only the polling interval, but also WiFi / GPS usage, or a simple last known location republish without using the location manager can be configured). By hooking it up with Tasker, you can activate the polling profile that suits you best, allowing for accurate location updates while keeping battery life in mind. Many users have reported better battery life, and there's also a Battery Saving tips article at hemorrdroids.net that mentions Latitude/Latify

I'm usually signed out of latify from the Maps application, and only sign in to see my friends. I also see a battery life increase when not using Google Maps / Latitude, and using Latify to perform my location updates.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sparksltd:
I only use latitude when I need it. So if me and my wife go out for the day with a couple of friends and split up, we can turn it on and locate each other when we want!

Otherwise I don't see why it would need to be on all the time. Also its good when traveling with more than one vehicle so you can see the progress of the other vehicles.

Its going to use battery as its checking for your location.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] latifymobile:
@Sparksltd : That's true, but some people like to use Google Latitude in a different way, updating their location more frequently, to make use of the dashboard features of Google Latitude (time spent at home / work , overview of places visited.....).

In order for the dashboard to work properly, you need a lot more data to be pushed in Google Latitude. For those users, they need to keep Latitude up and running most of the time, where it does eat up a lot of battery, without any control on how these updates are occurring.

I have over 150000 records in Latitude, and it gives a very detailed overview of when I was at home, when I was out working, when I'm visiting friends.... It also allows you to see all your trips abroad, and the places you visited there. It's nice sometimes to replay that, or if you need some kind of "Where was I / what did I do on a particular day" functionality.

When I'm at work for example, I don't want Latitude to constantly update my exact same location every couple of minutes, but I would like a more intelligent way of updating it (ex: update it every hour based on my last known location, or update it every 2 hours until I'm in my my car, and than resort to GPS based location updates as I'm probably going to be on the move, and in my car I can charge my phone).

That's why people resort to third party apps, as it gives them more control over how location updates occur, and how it will affect their battery.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonycfc:
Hello there! I have a suggestion. Is your phone rooted? If it is then this option is for you.

Install Titanium Backup Pro from Market and Freeze the Latitude app(I think it is bundled together with Maps) when you don't use it. When you need it then you can unfreeze the app.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hirak99:
Checked, this still happens when I do not use Latitude. The same service causes the partial wake locks. I am using Maps 6.0.2. I think the issue was accentuated since Maps 6.0.0, probably wowing to better integration with latitude and the core application?

IMO this looks like very bad programming from google. I doubt if they will ever fix this completely.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xenous:
Well I have tried Backitude and it works fine for me. It has several options which you can configure like

- update interval (5 min - 60 min)

- Minimum change in distance (100 mts - 1000 mts)

- Real time tracking (Might cause huge battery drain)

I use update interval of 15 min and minimum change in distance of 250 mts. Set latitude to update manually and Backitude will do the rest for you. Enable Use wireless networks within location and security so that it uses your cellular network instead of GPS to track your approximate location.

This helps in reducing the partial wakelocks caused by google maps. Other similar apps are Latify and ALtitude.

Note : This app requests for google authentication token in order to access your account, you can create an application specific password by enabling two way account validation in your google account.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Webreaper:
I use Latify, and find it works pretty well. In particular, the scenario described above applies to me - I don't want regular location updates when I'm at work or home. So I use Tasker to control latify - I only send an update once-per-hour when at home or in the office, but as soon as I go outside or to another location it switches to my 'out and about' profile, and Latify sends updates every 5 minutes. That way, I get granular updates while I'm in more interesting locations. I also have it switch to 'SatNav' mode when I launch Google Maps/Nav or CoPilot, which then enables GPS for hi-def location, and publishes updates every 30 seconds.

Works really well - you should give it a shot.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itm:
I have Location reporting/location sharing/location history all switched off in Google Maps, but still see the NetworkLocationLocator top of the list in BetterBatteryStats (14 minutes/count 221 in the last 2hrs 45mins). Does anyone have any idea why this service is still consuming so much battery if I have the Latitude options switched off??

(the phone is an S3 but presumably the issue is the same?)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] esc247:
Hi,

I recently purchased a Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 and have literally tried out all the ROMs out there to try and find the best to help increase the tracking speed of the device. I have searched a lot for the answer but cannot seem to find a definitive one. All of them seem to have considerable lags with stylus input for taking notes.

I do not really care about palm detection, so finding a ROM which speeds up the tracking would be great help. I am not sure if tracking is related to the app that I use as well but I have also tried most of the notepad apps and have found that Antipaper Notes (Zoom function) is the best along with FreeNote (Tracks better, but cannot work on it like an actual notepad)

I just need a bit of help finding the best ROM to take notes on as that is my main use case for the Galaxy Tab.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] esc247:
Someone please help me :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Tivo7:
Task and phantom's new ROM has a pretty good touch response. heres the thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1284355
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] esc247:
Thanks for your reply.

I have been on "In Paris V2" for quite some time now. It has a much better response time than the stock ROM but is still very difficult to use. I was wondering if anyone had better experience with any other ROM, or if it is the notes app which is the main cause for the slow tracking?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Tivo7:
I have used every ROM on this forum for 7510 and I have to say, I like task's work the best (with the exception of his V7, but V7.1 fixes the issues i had with v7)

What problems are you having with In Paris V2?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] esc247:
The only issue that I have is tracking with a stylus. Everything else is peachy! I want to be able to write notes on it with a stylus. And when trying to do so it seems that everytime I write an I or L in any case it completely fails to recognise it! :S and if i'm trying to write something quickly ten that's a whole new ball game!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Tivo7:
Well, truth be told, you're going to have that problem no matter what ROM you use. Are you doing handwriting to text? Or saving the handwriting as is?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] esc247:
saving the handwriting as is. Oh well i guess i'll have to wait for ICS and see if that improves things or even for 3.2.

Cheers anyways!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Tivo7:
If you're saving handwriting as is, how is it "not recognizing" letters? It's not reading your pen strokes?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] esc247:
yeah it isnt recognising the strokes.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] tommydorsey:
Just a thought, I have no idea if it would make a difference - google "stylus-r-us" and take a look at the website. They're expensive, but there IS a money-back guarantee. Might be worth a phone call to talk to them. Good luck.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] tmaurice:
I read somewhere in these forums that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 only has something like 600 <pressure> points whereas the ipad2 and Asus Eee Pad have 1200. No matter what stylus you use, handwriting is never going to be the strong point on this tablet unless Samsung addresses this issue. I've tried every Rom, writing app and stylus - some work better than others - but handwriting is still pretty much uselss because there simply isn't enough points available. It's a disappointment with the Galaxy Tab for sure, but I've been using the Logitech bluetooth keyboard (and case) and that's been working out well. But still miss the legible handwriting......
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] esc247:
Thanks for your reply guys! this is a real disappointment! and to make things worse, I bought the damn thing from the US or I woud've returned it for an iPad! Shizz guess im stuck with it now till the iPad 3 (or something better) comes out.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] DaCanes:
Thanks, I reached the same conclusions. planning on buying a zagg bluetooth keyboard.
[Thunderbolt General] silvrhand:
I think I'm finally giving up on getting my thunderbolt running the way it should, what's the best way to root the thunderbolt at this time?

Software Version: 1.70.605.0
[Thunderbolt General] amahabir:
I just rooted my first Thunderbolt 2 days ago easily. Just google randomtek thunderbolt root.
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
Do yourself a favor and use the Revolutionary method. If not that, do the ADB method. If bricking your device and having no support for it interest you, find one of the one-click methods. Those do a very good job bricking devices or leaving the user totally screwed.
[Thunderbolt General] eraursls1984:
I like the old adb method because its easier to go back to stock for replacements, and revolutionary took almost as long because I had to keep entering my info to get a key that worked.
[Thunderbolt General] ghstrdr1985:
Revolutionary worked flawlessy for me (once I figured out what the hell I was doing:rolleyes:)
[Thunderbolt General] jbh00jh:
Revolutionary is the easiest.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
[Thunderbolt General] thoward93:
I did mine one of the one click methods and here I am 5 months later not bricked
[Thunderbolt General] eraursls1984:
They do work for some people but they have a very high rate of failure compared to other methods. I would recommend the adb method or revolutionary, I personally like adb because I have to revert to stock on a weekly basis.
[Thunderbolt General] flip218:
Agreed! Worked great!
[Thunderbolt General] amahabir:
Could someone please school me on this...but isn't the oneclick method pretty much the same as adb. only difference is that adb you have to manually type the commands and push the files to the phone. thanks.
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
The problem is without taking apart the script and finding out exactly what it's doing and what files it's supposed to be using, you can't tell if it works. Most of the one-click scripts came out before RUU 1.70. Forget it if you're devices is updated to RUU 2.11 GB. More of them will **** your device up than root it if you're on that update. We have a stickied thread on this subject in development by a guy who invented the ADB root method for the Tbolt. Every one-click script is based off of that, however his guide and files have changed over time to work with all the OTA's. The one-clicks don't keep up with it, and there's no way to know until you take the script apart. I've helped too many people try to recover from these stupid, lazy-ass one-click cop-outs on doing it right to help one more fool who's read what I've written and done the opposite.

So.... Basically, if you want a root method with support, you're going to use ADB or Revolutionary. Pretty simple.
[Thunderbolt General] amahabir:
Ahhhh, I see. the next one i root, i will definitely use adb then...thanks man.

I now feel like i've dodged a bootloop bullet.
[Thunderbolt General] hallstevenson:
It won't brick it later ! It's during the process that the risk of bricking it is higher. If it works, all is well.
[Thunderbolt General] swieder711:
I used revolution for the 1st time this week on a restored stock Tbolt. It worked great for me and was much faster than ADB.

The only thing I dont like is the new blue text on black screen that gets loaded for CWM. I find this hard to read compared to white text on a black screen.
[Thunderbolt General] hallstevenson:
You can replace the recovery console that they link to. I have to agree with you too, blue text on black background is not the easiest thing to read.
[Thunderbolt General] Stratejaket:
I did my first root a few days ago with revolutionary.io. I've been reading on rooting my bolt for quite awhile. I decided to wait until the GB OTA then work on the root process. I was one of the few who received the OTA and was extremely unimpressed!

I was amazed at how easy it was to gain s-off. I was nervous at first taking the plunge. Now that it's done I've flashed 2 different roms. Currently using synergy 262 and thoroughly enjoying it.

I have a biased opinion since I've never tried "one-click" or ADB. However, revolutionary works, easy to understand, and it's also easy to revert to stock it needed.
[Thunderbolt General] EmmVeePee:
Went with synergy yesterday... love it so far
[Thunderbolt General] silvrhand:
Thanks everyone I was able to get root with revolution, but then had to make the connection to download rom manager or how to load from the new bootloader.

Running BAMF right now, meh it's ok but was expecting more from what I felt people were so hyped up about.
[Thunderbolt General] acawn:
i rooted my phone but now i can't install roms. and there's a verizon update that keeps auto-updating on my phone and that **** ****s it up
[Thunderbolt General] andydumi:
Will Revolutionary work with the new GB OTA installed? If not, what will? I am fed up with these uninstallable apps eating my battery.
[Thunderbolt General] silvrhand:
Did you install su after you ran revolution? That was a piece of the puzzle that I kind of missed.
[Thunderbolt General] allo_87:
+1 Revolutionary

Just got my insurance replacement today... Once I pulled my head out of my butt and realized I didn't have USB debugging enabled it was the closest to one-click I've done since leaving IOS.

FYI: ADB knowledge does come in real handy when you mess up your phone
[Thunderbolt General] Blitz.:
also used Revolutionary method first time rooting one week ago, phone runs awesome, have tried cyanogenmod but im running bamf forever now im happy with it no problems or bugs so far, its was very easy.
[Thunderbolt General] Runn3rLogic:
Do yourself a HUGE favor and use the Revolutionary tool. ADB will work, but if you dont know what you're doing, it can leave you bricked and out of luck.
[Thunderbolt General] PhillyCheez:
revolutionary method is the easiest and safest rooting tool i've ever used. They nailed it.
[Thunderbolt General] jaxenroth:
Try synergy or gingeritis 3d. Those are my personal 2 favs I switch back and forth from. Nothing against team bamf, I just prefer those roms. Tried cm7, but I'm a sense guy. I also prefer the rev method for root/unroot. Good luck.

Sent from my phone.
[Thunderbolt General] acawn:
yessir. superuser was installed after i rooted it. it just wont install the roms.
[Thunderbolt General] subsoniic:
Used revolutionary on my gfs phone, painless, quick and easy...did it over a NetBook while thether off my bolt haha....

Rooted S-OFF

Radio-MR3 (802w)

Ging3R3DTh3oRY 6.2

V6 supercharge script

Extreme undervolted

O.C @ 1.5 ghz gov. Lag free

Ziggys infected kernel

Bolted to the max =)
[Thunderbolt General] allo_87:
Edited to reflect the reality that ADB is super simple to utilize.

:p

ADB is the way to go at least the first couple times IMO... That way you get a feel for how to rebound if you do mess something up pretty bad
[Streak 5 General] trichard:
For example

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dell_Streak

I use the recovery apps to resotre official ROM .... it always reboot halfway .... and enter into emergency mode....

Any help ???

Now I can only use other 3rd party recovery such as Recovery-v0.3.2.8-beta ...and restore Zip files format.....
[Streak 5 General] (InsertNameHere):
Have you tried flashing the recovery.img and the corressponding rom image?

You can get these from the wiki

If all else fails, and you cannot recover using fastboot etc, then try QDLTool again from the wiki
[Streak 5 General] trichard:
Yes I did ......:(

Ok will try .............
[Streak 5 General] cdzo72:
Yes you did WHAT?

Normally installing stock ROM will cure most things unless you have internal issues.

Flash stock recovery.img for the stock ROM you want to get back to... I would suggest 360. You should already have downloaded the stock ROM update.pkg file that corresponds to the stock recovery.img you flashed in fastboot. Make sure you don't have any other files on the root of your SD that conflict with you update.pkg and MOST importantly, make sure it's named "update.pkg"

Boot into recovery and choose option 2 to update. IF it gets stuck (now this first boot after installing stock ROM may take 20 minutes or so), then pull the battery, boot into recovery, and choose to do a factory reset again
[Streak 5 General] aaivazi:
Hi guys

I'm hoping somebody could please help me with my somewhat-bricked device..bricked in the sense that I don't know what to do with it. (i'm a noob to this). I've tried installing a custom rom and completely screwed up my dell streak 5.

So the phone doesn't boot anymore and just takes me to the option to install update.pkg off the sd card. I added the file along with recovery.img to the sd card.

360	17397	00	May 31, 2011	PKG Recovery Hash	Latest Retail rom

My problem is that I cannot for whatever reason get Flashboot to work in order to flash the recovery.img first. under device manager you see android phone/android adb interface but still can't manage the connection to use cmd prompt/fastboot.

Is there any other way of getting the recovery.img to work without fastboot/thru the sd card. I have no idea what i'm doing anymore. I've tried installing the update.pkg but after installation it just stays on the dell logo loading screen forever.

PLEASE help if you can.
[Streak 5 General] (InsertNameHere):
Try QDLTool
[Streak 5 General] trichard:
Hi

Yes I did all these step .... take the recovery img and flash using fastboot ... and restore the full ROM image .... still half way .... reboot ... and into recover mode.... and then next rstore will have error ........
[Streak 5 General] trichard:
How to use Fast boot to restore complete image ROM ?

Command line is ?
[Streak 5 General] cdzo72:
once in fastboot your command line is

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (will take just about 3 or 4 seconds then type)

fastboot reboot (it will begin to reboot and you should press the volume up and down keys to get into recovery, you should already have the package on your sd card, choose option 2 to update... if it hangs, you don't have to flash recovery again, just boot into recovery and try a factory reset, if it hangs, well flash the ROM again
[Streak 5 General] trichard:
No problem to get the recovery.img flash in FastBoot ...

It is getting the 150MB .pkg to install ....

Can FastBoot flash .pkg ?
[Streak 5 General] fbfortes:
Camera key don´t work

hey buddy, when I enter the recovey mode, and will install a new rom or another option, the camera button does not work. What can I do?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-FACE:
Hey guys,

my gmail app is not autosyncing! It is set up to sync, but when I have new email I do not receive it, unless i go to Accounts & sync and click the sync button, or if i click the refresh button in gmail app.

Where the problem could be? Any suggestions?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mericon:
Hey,

i searched a app to record my calls, but i only can record when the speaker is on (not 2 way recording).

So i read and found out that every device can have true 2 way call recording but the device kernel has to be patched.

So please can any developer patch the arc´s kernel for 2 way recording?

i hop this is possible :)

thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuhenyo:
I kinda like them always together and then just separate them whenever I want to use the Tablet alone.

Will there be any detrimental effects like the Total battery life will lessen after a long time?