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[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] kelingdun:
update 2.12 rom works!

update. I flashed with 2.12 rom, then did a factory reset, then camera trick.

Now 16 hours after the charge, made a few phone calls and some light internet surfing, I still have 48% battery. This is a remarkable contrast from yesterday. Don't know if this is due to 2.12 or the camera trick, but the combination of the two definitely worked. Now I ca keep my Mango :)

Thanks all for the help
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MartyLK:
I also flashed 2.12 earlier today and have just now done a reset (in the "About" menu) and am going to see if it helps with the BL. Mine was down to about 45% after just probably 3 or 4 hours...in standby. Not being used at all.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Skyjouby:
Please can you explain what the "camera trick" is?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dxdy:
start camera, switch to video, exit from camera
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MartyLK:
Like this, but don't back out of the camera, tap the homescreen button. You want to leave the camera running in the background.

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Regarding flashing the 2.12 radio and then resetting it, something helped. I won't say flashing the 2.12 radio helped because I flashed it first and later I did the reset. My HD2 still drained faster than an old Chrysler sucking gas through a straw. But after the reset, it is still at about 85% since last evening about 8:30PM. It is currently 1:11PM the next day. So that gives me about 17 hours on this one charge. And no, I am not exaggerating. My previous post lists the time I flashed it to 2.12...actually before I made the post. And I just now took another look at it....about 5 minutes ago. It hasn't been used at all during that time period and, in fact, I haven't even set it up yet....no wifi, no syncing of any kind, not even signed into my account. After resetting it, I simply set it aside and did nothing with it. So lets see how it does after I begin using it again...syncing, turning on wireless and all.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] F4810:
My current is -318!!! And I only have 3G on. I tried the camera trich and it does nothing. Any other suggestions.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] mentjens:
Please can you explain how to change the radio without flashing new Mango?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MartyLK:
I'll help.

Put your HD2 in bootloader screen by powering off first, then press and hold the down-volume button and tap the power button. Hold the down-volume button till the red/green/white screen appears.

Then connect your HD2 to your PC and at the bottom is should say USB once Windows sees it.

Once you have the appropriate radio file downloaded and unzipped, open its folder and click the "LeoCustomRUU.exe" file. You may need to right-click and open it with "Run as Administrator".

Go through the checks and it will flash the radio. Once finished, disconnect your HD2 for your PC. It will reboot and your new radio is flashed.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MartyLK:
Regarding the battery usage of my HD2 after a reset, I can report that I'm now seeing above normal battery life. Earlier today, around 1PM, I set up my HD2 and established all my accounts...3 email accounts, FB, Twitter with default syncing...and enabled wifi. All of the usual stuff I normally use except the installation of all my previous apps.

Currently the battery is exactly 70%, according to the built-in battery saver menu in the settings. It has not been charged since yesterday about 8:30PM. That's approaching 24 hours since a charge.

EDIT - I took a picture of the current battery condition. It shows time since last charge and time left on charge plus the current charge level.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Skyjouby:
When you speak abour reset, it is the"Parameter/About/reset"? To gain this autonomy you still use the "camera trick"?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MartyLK:
I have been using the camera trick, but I don't really have faith in it that it is doing anything useful. Once I see how far this first charge will go, I will do more experimenting like not using the camera trick. Right now I want to leave my HD2 exactly like it is...not using it, just leaving it in standby...till the battery dies out.

It's actually not all that good for standby battery life. Being in standby, it should last much longer than the projected 54 hours on this one charge. My iPhone will last longer than a week in standby. My Inspire and other HD2 with Android lasts about the same as this, though.

And the reset I speak of is in the "Settings" > "About" screen. At the bottom of the screen is the "reset your phone" rectangular box.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] KrewsialNL:
Damn, that's nice :) I manage 1 day and 18 hours on a full charge, according to the battery saver app. As soon as I go to work I use the internet a little (Twitter/Facebook/IE). By the time I get to the office (40 minutes), it dropped a good 30%.

When i'm not using the phone, it's good, 1% per hour or so. As soon as I start using it a little, it goes down like an elevator on meth.

What I also noticed, is that when the signal is not very good, the battery will drain up to 6/7% per 30 minutes... i have no idea what that's about.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] kelingdun:
update: the camera trick is spradic.not working no more im back to 10 a day standby. i will give up and flash back to andr9d this wkend :(
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MartyLK:
And you have done a reset?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] antaed:
I think the battery drain is not that bad as it appears to be. The problem is rather an inaccurate battery level gauge. I always shut my phone down before the battery goes empty and it shows ~40% after reboot.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MartyLK:
Before I reset my HD2, the battery drain was real and was incredibly bad. After the reset, the battery is acting like a normal one but I am seeing inaccuracies in the level monitoring. But there was zero doubt about how fast the battery would drain beforehand.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] maxpg:
Maybe bluetooth is the problem

I didn't read the whole thread but I also have battery problems. It doesn't even last a whole day. But I found out when I disable Bluetooth (which I normally had always on as I have bluetooth headsets,...) it lasts again two whole days.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] JROppenheimer:
I did read the whole thread :) But I think I am experiencing similar problems due to Bluetooth. First the battery drain, second problems with BT itself.

Many times when turning off BT, it won't turn on again. I will have to reboot the phone up tu 4 times (was maximum) until it works again. Since I am using Sennheiser MM100 - not working BT is more of a pain in the arse than battery drain (wich still is ....)

Compared to Android the battery life just s**ks. With Miui my phone would run for almost 16 hours, with bluetooth phones connected all the time, wifi, and heavy usage.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] camillo777:
I had a strange problem after ISV cleanup update.

When battery is too down, the phone switches off and when I switch it on it is like hard reset.

I have to reconfigure everything again.

Any idea?

Camillo
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Robbie P:
No idea why.

Suggest you do a backup, then a hard reset, then restore. Might work
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] phrixus:
I've never had the battery trick work on mango, and at present I'm not sure which radio I use since the phone is not here. However, I've noticed a peculiar behavior when it comes to the battery life and how you charge it.

When I come home from work I was normally plugging the phone into the comp by USB and left it to charge and sync, and in the morning when I took it off the cable and verified that it read 100% and about 1 day life or so. It would never last more than 6 hours or so.

When I charge it from the PSU directly from the power point and not via the comp, the life also says 1 day but now it actually lasts around there and I can use it to listen to music or chat on to and from all day without problems. This never fails. USB charging always seems to charge the battery less and using the power pack to charge from a power point always seems to charge properly. My USB ports have no power issues that I can see, other things charge fine from them. I even tried my powered USB hub but same thing there.

Does anyone else have this kind of behavior? Can someone test to see if they have the same result?

My rom is the auto-updatable Yuki WP7, 7720. I've spent 3 hours listening to music while working and had MSN running, and the battery says 70%, 18 hours left and 5 hours since last charge.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Qbab:
Radio

Would love to know what radio you are using. Keep us updated =)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] micfuna:
I had been having battery issues. I did a hard reset ( I saw this solution on some blog) and battery now working as expected. I get at least a full day of charge (previously I had to charge after 5 to 6 hours)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] sakuramomoko:
As my experience, you should shut down the battery save function, that may become a more battery save environment.

It is funny.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Garsmat72:
Before I hard-resetted my phone, the battery life was about 7hours or less, now it's back to more than a day. The only problem I see in this method is that now I have to re-install all the apps, I should have done a backup... Next time I'll try!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] adi_wazzup:
my radio is 2.12, data always on, 2 mail tiles, automatic update for both emails, Facebook always connected, I listen to music almost an hour each day, 10-20 minutes/day phone calls, 2-3 text messages, sometimes 10 minutes/day of chat via IM+

My battery takes me trough a whole day, If I take it out of the charger in the morning, at 11 pm I usually have 30-35% battery left.

I was using camera trick before, my battery didn't last more than 7 hours with both emails syncing manually, no Facebook, no music, same phone calls, same text messages. I've tried everything, but the real charge on my battery was about 60%, even if with wm6.5 i had 1,5 days of battery use with my phone. So I bought a new battery, just to have a backup and since I charged the new battery I didn't need to use the old one. The new battery charges every time at about 95% (verified with battery tool) and if I do a phone reset, it charges up to 99% (95% is what I leave it usually. I don't really need the other 4%)

I still use the camera trick, but now I'm really happy with my battery life. I don't have to worry that my battery will run out in the middle of the day.

I don't know why this big difference occurred, maybe is because I've charged the new battery for the first time with Wp7. Maybe someone has an ideea.

Lol. I didn't have battery tool installed before changing my battery and after I wrote this post I thought I should try to see what battery tool says about my old battery. Wp7 shows me I have 60% battery life ( without charging my battery, just took it out of a box), battery tool shows me this :)))

Battery voltage - 4189

Battery current - (-9)

Temp - 36,5

Full - 1230

ACR - 1789569692 ( ?????????????????????????????????????????????? what is this??????)

I've just put a charger into my phone , left it for 2 minutes, now if I unplug the cable my phone says "battery critically low"

this is just weird.

battery tool show me ACR_Reg - 0x4BE ( the letters change every 10 seconds). What does this mean?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] melando:
WP7 Camera shortcut

Does anyone know where the WP7 camera program is?

I would like to try adding a shortcut to startup to run automatically on boot - this approach works really well with storage (SD) unlock :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Robbie P:
under C on the apps list. Long press on it and select pin to start;)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] melando:
I meant where in the underlying file system (eg Windows directory)... Cannot immediately spot it there
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Robbie P:
Sorry I get you now. How did you do it with sd unlock?

You could try download SH camera app and try to find that one instead.

Good idea, get everything done on startup, including camera trick. Nice
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] melando:
I found a storage unlock .lnk sitting conveniently in the main windows folder so just copied to startup

Does the camera trick work just as well with that alternative camera app?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Robbie P:
AFAIK the camera trick stops the camera from constantly using power trying to focus even when camera is off (at least thats how it appears). This is a bug in software radios up to version 5.62(I am on 5.71 now, so can't test;))

So any app which stops this process, should work.

Try it

Edit; maybe that is why restore did not work for me, because I changed the radio on last flash. mmm
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] anoschka666:
battery

yesterday my drain were high as yoou all say. idk what i did but today i take it from the charder and left it in my pocket and did not toutch it. now its 12h ago and my battery is still FULL! o.O idk why...

ps: data and 3g were on the whole time!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] sarathvenmony:
battery drain is an issue...aftr all the tricks
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Bruno87:
And this don't erase nothing from the phone? The phone keeps like before doing this?

Can you tell me want radio I have to install (complete name to more easy donwload) please?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Bruno87:
About charger the battery

I installed radio 2.12 and I won a few hours more on my battery life (6-7 hours more)

Still not enough :( my record of battery last was 17hrs

Another thing I realized, when the green led turn on the battery is not full charge, 91% to be exact. So I removed the cable and plug it again and the phone charged too 100%, but if I remove the cable again and plug it another time the battery is still at 91%.It's a strange bug...

(sorry for bad English, but thanks to xda I'm improve it :laugh:) )
[HD7 General] Shkelqiim:
anybody here know any reg tweak on how to make ringtones last longer ?... there gotta be a way to make ringtones last longer.
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Here are some minor modifications that I've made to the pulldown toggles for Eclipse 1.0 on my Droid X2. Just thought that I would share what I have. Just flash these in recovery.

Mod 1. Removed the screen rotation toggle.

I have no use for the rotation button and it annoyed me enough that I removed it.

Download: Eclipse_1.0_toggle_mod_no_rotation.zip

Mod 2. Removed the pulldown toggles completely. (If you're like that. I'm not. ;) )

Download: Eclipse_1.0_no_pulldown_toggles

11/3/2011 - the mods for listed for 1.2-rc3 are confirmed to work well with the office 1.2 release.

If this helps out please click the thanks button to thank me.
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
Awesome! I'm going to flash the first one in a few minutes. I don't need a rotation toggle either. I never use bluetooth either, but can't really think of anything I'd prefer to see in its place. Airplane mode, maybe.
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
Well, I finally got around to flashing this and it worked great. At least, it did til I flashed my custom theme from UOT, which reverted it back to the stock. Bummer, but I'd rather have my look.
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
lol I did the same thing last night. I made a theme on the UOT kitchen and the result was the same. I forgot to use the SystemUI.apk file from the zip to upload to the UOT kitchen.

So, if you use the SystemUI.apk from the zip file when you upload to UOT your theme will then have the toggles you want.

Another way would to use apkmanager to decompile your themed SystemUI.apk edit the xml file then recompile it. If you want to know how to do that let me know.
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
Yikes, that sounds a little complicated lol. I think I'll just whip up another theme in UOT.

EDIT: rebuilt my theme, using the file from this zip. Works like a charm.
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Airplane Mode for Eclipse 1.2rc3

Finally had some time to myself tonight and started playing around with Eclipse 1.2-rc3. I made a few mods to the toggles.

I replaced the rotation toggle with airplane mode and changed the icons.

Eclipse_1.2_rc3_toggles_airplane_mode.zip

I missed the sound on/off toggle and luckily nitro still had the code in the SystemUI for that so I added it to the panel and removed the others that I don't use.

Eclipse_1.2_rc3_toggles_wifi_bt_gps_snd.zip

Here's the same as above with the flashlight added back in.

Eclipse_1.2_rc3_toggles_wifi_bt_gps_snd_flash.zip

I hope rc3 is the final. I'd hate to have to do these over again.
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
How hard would it be to reverse the status bar on the ring/silent toggle? I'd much prefer the "on" position to be when my phone is set to silent. Since my phone is set to ring 90% of the time, it makes more sense to me to toggle silent on...
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
My phone is set to vibrate 90% of the time but I'm having fun fooling around with this so I could give it a try.

That shouldn't be too difficult. Which toggles would you want with it? I could put them in whatever order you want too.
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
Awesome! My "dream" toggle setup would be (left to right): wifi, airplane, GPS, ringer.

I'm a simple guy lol
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Which icons do you want ? The ones from Eclipse or the ones pictured in the airplane mod?
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Here's what I just put together. The on/off for the ringer are reversed per your suggestion in the other post.

If you anybody else likes this I'll go ahead and post it. Just let me know.

EDIT: here's the link to the zip

Eclipse_1.2_rc3_toggles_wifi_ap_gps_ring.zip
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
Awesome! Thanks! I, honestly, prefer the Eclipse style icons, but I don't mind those at all. Plus, beggars can't be choosers lol. I'll HAPPILY run those.
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
No problem. There wasn't an icon for the airplane mode in eclipse so I had to tweak one I had made for the 2.3.4 stock toggles.

If you want to to try this one out it is the same as above but with the Eclipse Icons. I didn't try this one out because I just flashed back to stock to work on something there. Give it a try. You can always flash one of the other zips if things don't go right.

Eclipse_1.2_rc3_toggles_wifi_ap_gps_ring_v2.zip

The link to the other version that has the modified icons is in the post above.
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
Alright. I'm won't have time to check out RC3 til tomorrow, but I'll report back
[Motorola Droid X2] Zues532:
Thank you so much for these mods. I had found a few 2.3.4 notification modifications before, but yours look much better.

My only gripe with Eclipse was that pull down toggles were stock, and you've fixed that for me. :)
[Motorola Droid X2] stick1300:
Well, I'm a bum and got caught up with life, so I haven't gotten around to flashing these yet. BUT, I'm going to flash official 1.2 later this evening and was wondering if these zips should still work. Worse case scenario: I try, they don't work, and I nandroid back.
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Thanks for doing this. I didn't know the official 1.2 was out. Downloading it now.
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
Will these work on the final 1.2 release?

Edit: Yep, they work. Thanks again!
[Motorola Droid X2] EvilTim:
These are real neat. Good job! Installed on eclipse 1.2 final, works great.
[Motorola Droid X2] prophecyny7:
Thank you for providing this, don't like the icons on stock at all, plus you added flashlight which is a definite plus.
[Motorola Droid X2] SlimMan:
Gonna check these out, Thanks!

Slim!
[Motorola Droid X2] gator79:
Is there any way tomake a pull down with wifi/GPS/phone viberate/and a music play toggle that would be awsome
[Motorola Droid X2] prophecyny7:
Just dropping by to say that the Pull Down Toggles work with RC 1.3 of Eclipse. Just in case anyone was wondering
[Motorola Droid X2] Moon Shadow - NM:
@hedwig34: Partially because I'm lazy, and partially because I'm not able to get involved in learning something brand spanking new right now...

I was wondering it if would be possible to ask for the toggle overload for both Eclipse 1.3 and Stock 2.3.4 with the following toggles:

WIFI || BLUETOOTH || GPS || FLASHLIGHT || SYNC || AIRPLANE || ROTATION

Same format/icons as the overload toggles. Thanks in advance...

Ciao!
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Eclipse 1.3 ! Totally missed that one. So the one day I don't check nitro's twitter. Well I'm downloading it now.

So in order to get airplane mode I had to sacrifice one of the other options. That option was rotation. Can you live without rotation? I don't have the time to rework it right now.
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Sorry. Music play is not possible with these mods. At least I haven't come across a way to do it. Has anybody else seen one that has music play? I do like the idea though.
[Motorola Droid X2] Ihatepullups:
Hey, could you explain how you made these? That way I can make one for myself instead of begging to make one for my specific set-up. If you don't mind sharing, that is.
[Motorola Droid X2] hedwig34:
Don't mind sharing at all. But it depends on what you want to change.

Do you want to know how to change icons. The order of the toggles, which ones are there?

The short version:

1. Get a copy of /system/app/SystemUI.apk onto your computer.

2. Decompile SystemUI.apk (I've been using apkmanager)

Download it and other good stuff here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1261198

3. In the ApkManager folder open the file called \projects\SystemUI.apk\res\layout\status_bar_expanded.xml

Look for the section beginning with <com.android.systemui.statusbar.quickpanel.QuickSettingsView

In that section you will see a bunch of blocks starting with <FrameLayout. Each section represents one of the toggles. You'll see stuff like com.android.systemui.statusbar.quickpanel.BluetoothSettingButton in there. That on is obviously the bluetooth button.

You can rearrange the order of those however you like. Or just take one of the FrameLayout sections out. That will remove the toggle.

4. If you want to change icons look in projects\SystemUI.apk\res\drawable-hdpi\

All of the images you want to look at start with "quickpanel_icon". Change what you want there.

5. Recompile using apkmanager and sign the apk.

6. Get the SystemUI.apk back on your phone. Use an update zip. adb etc.

So this probably raises more questions but I need to get to sleep but didn't want to leave you hanging. Just post more questions on this if you have them.

You can check out the thread for the stock toggles. I explained some of this over in that thread too. Much of the details on the xml files is the same.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1290292&page=4