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[Streak 5 Android Development] lordofazeroth:
Can the sound manager (dsmanager? What was the apps name) for providing audio equalizer safely be uninstalled?
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
mugen

Finally, after a month my new battery arrived and is charging now.

It's a mugen 1800.

Should i do something in the settings and enable mugen-support, or can i leave the DS as it is, with the "normal" battery settings.

Joop.
[Streak 5 Android Development] nalpt:
Thanks, I'll try fring and post results.

EDIT: tried fring using dsc 2.3 and video call is right side up.
[Streak 5 Android Development] arjunsheth:
Hi would like the streak to run for a longer period with a single charge. I am running dsc 2.3 on it. Please advice. Thanks
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
Those should do.

Possible max is 4200, min is 3400, you should add interpolation to min and find out charger correction.

General rules apply:

Reduce background services, disable autosync, schedule data connection.

Yes, you can remove it.

com.bel.android.dspmanager
[Streak 5 Android Development] chdude3:
Am I doing something wrong with my battery life/stats?

I finally took the plunge and put DSC 2.3 on my Streak. (Best decision ever, this ROM is excellent!) I realized that I hadn't reset my battery stats, though, when yesterday after about 8 hours (with moderate usage), my phone was at 1% and shut down. I immediately booted it up again, and it was fine for another 9 hours, sitting at 1% the whole time (which included a few hours usage and about 6 hours of sitting on my bedside table overnight).

I charged it up fully this morning, and used the BatteryCalibration app to delete the Batterystats.bin file (couldn't be bothered rebooting to StreakMod). And now, 4h18m later, I'm already down to 14% with only light usage.

Do I need to just give it a few more charge/discharge cycles for things to settle up? Back on official Froyo, I could go 24 hours (8am to 8am) and still have 25% battery left.
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
First, GB is heavier on battery.

Battery level is actually calculated in baseband.

Wrong values could be on kernel (or rom) change when not on full charge.

Are you sure that usage is normal? I beleive everyone plays a lot with device on rom change :)

Double check background apps. PreloadNetworkSettings can be safely frozen.

And you can always use DSC Mugen app for corrrect battery readings based on pure voltage. See some posts back for values.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Urbanos:
Problem with SD Maid Pro unlocker. Since moving to dsc 2.2, it says my devicd is unsupported and I can't download it... something I can do to get around this?
[Streak 5 Android Development] chdude3:
Hi nop. First, thanks again for your great work with this ROM, I'm really enjoying it. And thanks for your reply, hopefully I can figure out what is going on here.

To answer your question - yes, I would consider my usage normal. I'm at work, and don't have a lot of time to play around with the phone during working hours (I did most playing on Sunday, when I flashed the ROM for the first time). Brightness is on minimum, GPS is off, Bluetooth is off, cellular data is off (I rarely use any of those features). CPU has spent about 50% of its time in 128MHz, and over 75% of its time in 576MHz or slower. Screen usage time is about an hour over the past 5 hours.

Despite having being unplugged since reaching 100% charge, the battery history is all over the place. It jumps up and down quite a bit (despite not being plugged in to charge at all). And I think it's unusual that after reaching 1% and shutting down last night, I was able to reboot and continue use for another couple hours and then sit overnight without it powering down again.

So now after 5h15m from the last full charge, it's down to 5%. Even if GB uses more battery than Froyo, I am very surprised that I could go 24h and still have 20% left, and yet now I am down to 5% after barely over 5 hours of reasonable usage.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Shawnki91:
Make sure you don't have Google maps running. As stated in the OP, Google Maps causes battery drain and must be 'force closed.' The maps issue was actually the main reason why I jumped ship from DSC for CM7!
[Streak 5 Android Development] chdude3:
Oh for sure. From the SimpleSU settings, I've got Maps frozen.

Well at almost exactly the 6h30min mark, my Streak powered down after having been at 1% for a little over an hour. I'd been using it on and off over that hour just to see how long it would last.

Of course I've rebooted, and it's still going fine. Given that things were fine with Froyo very recently, I can't imagine the battery has suddenly crapped out. Don't really want to invest in a new battery either, given that I anticipate upgrading at some point this year.

I did come across vankooten's post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37848305&postcount=5945

My battery history follows a similar pattern of ups and downs, although some of mine are more extreme than even he showed. I have one jump from 8% up to about 29% for a while, then back down to about 8% before it drained to 1% and has since flatlined there.

What mV readings should I be getting (on a stock Dell battery) from full to empty?

EDIT - Something you wrote just twigged in my head, nop. You said that the battery life is calculated in the baseband. My issues started once I first went to 'official' 407 from Olleh, with the 406 baseband. Would it be worthwhile for me to flash my baseband to something else - either back to my previous Rogers version, or something like 366 which seems popular? Is it possible that the 406 baseband is causing these issues for me?
[Streak 5 Android Development] Loco007:
I used to have exactly the same issue, tried everything, calibrating battery with many different apps, deleting battery stats file directly in recovery, different roms, different basebands and in the end i ended up buying the Mugen 1800 battery and its working perfectly so all i can say is if its the original battery it maybe time to replace it and i easily get a over 24hours of usage now on one charge, highly recommend the Mugen batt.

As soon as i put it in and charged to 100% my phone was all of a sudden back to normal battery lndicator levels.
[Streak 5 Android Development] chdude3:
Aww crap. That's exactly what I didn't want to hear. I still think it may be related to my recent fiddling with ROMS... the battery was just fine before I jumped to Olleh 407 and then DSC 2.3. It could be coincidence, but at this point I'm going to assume that it's not and see if I can't get it working again nicely somehow.

Thanks for the response though, the information is much appreciated.
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
4100 / 3650 / 70 / 256

should do for stock.

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Also, i think that battery life routine is actually the same between basebands.
[Streak 5 Android Development] chdude3:
How do people feel about the cheap eBay batteries? I see you can get (according to the description, at least) 3 x 1800mAh batteries for about US$12. In my mind, as long as ONE of them works, that's a decent price. I'm scared of getting what I pay for, but then again I don't want to pay a lot when I'm planning on upgrading this year.
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
this is with my new mugen 1800 after a few days use.

I think its a good investment because I still use my Dell for these kind of things.

I really would hate it to put it aside.
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
Looks like good backup for me.
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
you already have two Dell's :)
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
You got me wrong, I meant good battery backup, time from last charge :)
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
it sure is.

I thought to show it because of all the messages lately about battery life.
[Streak 5 Android Development] chdude3:
Thanks for the info, vankooten. Looks like maybe I DO need a new battery. Yesterday, I opened up the YouTube app to show a friend a video. Absolute maximum usage of 5 minutes. By the end of the day, with lighter usage than I've previously been doing, I was down to 45% battery. But the battery stats showed that my 5 minutes of YouTube accounted for 29% of the battery usage.

Just doesn't make sense.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Urbanos:
quick question regarding exFAT and 64GB microSD cards

hey guys, i read through a bunch of posts - I can't remember if the DSC rom has exfat support built in? any issues or concerns of me buying and installing a 64GB micro SDXC card from kinstong or lexar or whoever?

thanks
[Streak 5 Android Development] djmax81:
No kernel do not support ...32 gb class 10 ultra... think out of question for 64gb sandisk ...I tested ...n ds5 do not read it on balance way...coz voltage n drivers .in.kernel ..2.6 ..it need atlest 3 + source. ..:)
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
No exFAT support and big SD needs testing. Needs support from both hardware and software.

I remember Dude_Virus post about Streak with 2x 64GB cards. Worked for some guy.

Also, there was problems formatting disks bigger than 32GB to FAT32 (at least in older OSes, if I remember correctly, filesystem limits itself are much higher).

Anyway, that's for external card - and for internal I don't see any point to make it that big.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Urbanos:
Thanks, yes I know of the fat32 limitation, its 32GB, and max 4GB file sizes.

64GB cards can format in fat 32 as 32GB, no sense in that really....but I saw on another forum that there are exfat addona for roms that will allow ext sd cards to format the full 64GB... I was looking at the xperia Z as my phone of choice replacement to the venerable streak.
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
or i received a miracle battery, or still something isn't working properly on the phone.

i use the mugen power settings as proposed by n0p.
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
You can try raising up limit to 4150 from 4100 for example.
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
new item, memory.

is this true, about the free ram on the left top of the screen?
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
@n0p,

could it be that, due to the small amount of memory, that when a program like sygic or tomtom has start up my dell starts freezing or even reboot?
[Streak 5 Android Development] lordofazeroth:
is it possible to delete all unnecessary Apps from system/apps in the next release?

for example: Google Search or HTML Viewer

€dit:

Is there something in the kernel for changing from GSM to WCDMA?

For example if the Connection on GSM is below xx then switch to WCDMA if better signal?

It happenes quite frequently, I have a weak connection on GSM and a better connection on WCDMA (counted the bars on the top of the screen) but S5 does not switch.

Furthermore: Sometimes I don't have a connection on GSM and WCDMA. I have to activate and deactivate plane mode, after that there is a good connection (3 out of 4 bars).
[Streak 5 Android Development] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
What you define as "unnecessary" other people might define as "essential". For example, I would not want to see the HTML Viewer or the Google Search Box removed. I'm tempted to ask why you would, but why isn't important. In your position, rather than asking the developer to make changes to the ROM to suit you, why not change the ROM to suit yourself? For example, before I installed DSC, I modified it to suit my whims rather than asking _n0p_ to make the changes.

Integrated the DSC updates to 2.0 into the base ROM

Replaced the Google apps in ROM with the versions provided in the Google apps zip by TheManii

Replaced the SimpleSU app and su binary with Superuser and its su binary

Replaced the music app with Google Music

Replaced Zeam with HoloLauncher

Added the CM7 File Manager app but didn't bother checking for an updated version first :)

From dsc_firstboot.zip I did the following:

Removed DSP Manager, Superdim, System Panel, ClockSync and Ghost Commander

Replaced the Streak FM Radio with a copy of Spirit.

Replaced AnTuTu CPU Master free with the version of SetCPU available on XDA

I could go into detail as to why I made the changes I did, but that's not necessary. All that need be said is that these changes are a matter of personal preference, just like the changes you requested. Neither set of changes should be forced upon users.
[Streak 5 Android Development] lordofazeroth:
yeah, ok, got it :angel:

€dit:

Is there something in the kernel for changing from GSM to WCDMA?

For example if the Connection on GSM is below xx then switch to WCDMA if better signal?

It happenes quite frequently, I have a weak connection on GSM and a better connection on WCDMA (counted the bars on the top of the screen) but S5 does not switch.

Furthermore: Sometimes I don't have a connection on GSM and WCDMA. I have to activate and deactivate plane mode, after that there is a good connection (3 out of 4 bars).
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
Radio is completely controlled by ehh, umm radio :)

Baseband does that, but some values are set via rpc interface from kernel.

I've got only GSM/EDGE, so no place for play.

AFAIK gsm/3g/cdma *provider* can automatically control *client* signal strength/speed (yep i'm sane) to equally distribute signal to all clients. QoS like, but can drive clients too.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Dude_Virus:
64 GB class 10 external works fine. One of my colleague is using that card on a streak and i had installed DSC 2.2 on it.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Fortigurn:
I have now been using DSC v2.2 for around two weeks. I originally transferred from the stock ROM (which was annoyingly slow and leaked memory like a sieve), to Gingerstreak, which was a huge improvement.

Unfortunately Gingerstreak was plagued with random reboots, sometimes getting stuck in a reboot loop which would require me to remove the battery. I could hardly go two hours without a reboot, which made the phone increasingly unusable. Gingerstreak also had a very long boot time, which was even more irritating given the number of times the phone rebooted.

I have found DSC v2.2 to be an outstanding ROM. Brief thoughts follow.

Pros

1. Clean interface.

2. Feature packed.

3. Fast and smooth.

4. Reliable; it just works, no more random reboots.

5. The weather improved, and my company gave me a raise.

Cons

1. Boot time makes Gingerstreak look fast; two and a half minute boot time is arguably excessive (fortunately I hardly ever reboot).

Thanks to all the contributors to this great ROM.
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
when you upgrade to dsc 2.3 you will find a very short boot time.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Assuming the Dalvik cache isn't cleared in StreakMod or ClockworkMod, about fifteen seconds, possibly no more than thirty to boot on DSC 2.3.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Fortigurn:
Sounds excellent, I will give 2.3 a go.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Urbanos:
sorry to be critical, but when you say 'works fine' does that mean it was formatted exfat and is usable as a 64GB card and not say 2x 32GB partitions in fat32?
[Streak 5 Android Development] Dude_Virus:
If u r referring to internal sd then i have not done it but yes for the external sd u just need to insert the 64gb card and the streak detects it and it works. As far as the internal sd card is concerned that was done by one of the employees of the dell servie centre. And he had swapped the internal sd with a 64gb class 10 and had made 2 partitions 1 8gb or 10gb as far as i remember for just the apps and the rest remaining. For the ext sd he just had a single partition. And when connecting to the pc it showed both the sd cards as mass storage. I am sorry i dont remember abt the partition type for internal sd.
[Streak 5 Android Development] lordofazeroth:
Maybe thats my problem:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39876787#post39876787

the net list was empty. I added my provider and now the Streak apparently has a better connection on GSM. WCDMA unkown.

Does anybody know if this net list does something to do with it or was it just coincidence?
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
lordofazeroth, what exactly are you trying to solve?

If bad reception - have you tried simply cleaning antennas contacts first?
[Streak 5 Android Development] lordofazeroth:
I often had (lets hope it stays at "had") a strange connectivity.

The signal was 2/4 bars on GSM/EDGE and I turned on flight mode and off. Then there was no signal.

After searching for operators manually there was a signal.

The same with switching from GMS to WCDMA and vice versa. No signal before manual search.

Now the manual search is not needed anymore and I have better connectivity, even in the cellar.

where are the antennas?

because the double sided tape was getting bad I used super glue to glue the black plastic. I don't want to unscrew it anymore.

Or does this behaviour point to bad antenna contacty?
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
Oh, superglue :) I'm sure double sided tape is sold in any DIY store.

I quite got used to replacing it :)

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I beleive GSM antenna is that plastic cover with metal strip you need to remove before getting to motherboard.

But your case is something with operator interoperability, not hw.
[Streak 5 Android Development] lordofazeroth:
operator interoperability...

Is this caused by baseband?
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
Might be. I can't tell for sure as i don't experience the problem.
[Streak 5 Android Development] SHAUN231:
was wondering was it possible to give this som on screen soft buttons... could you edit the attached zip to work on this rom...was hoping cause my home n menu bottons dont work
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
Button Savior app will help you.

Solution for my not working home button was rubbing the sensor panel, but eventually buttons stopped working at all, until I replaced the panel.

Replacing buttons will require almost full device disassembly.
[Streak 5 Android Development] SuperKeeper:
DSC looks like it's a really popular ROM. Unfortunately, I'll be going back to PCM7.

This isn't the ROM for me, it's lacking in a few features that just make my life so much easier such as in built screenshot, CyanogenMod features, T-Mobile Theme Chooser. The lock screen doesn't rotate, just feels a bit clunky and unrefined.

Keep up the great work though!
[Streak 5 Android Development] chriscullen42:
Yes, this ROM is great for sure!!

DSC is a great ROM. Not least because I have found it to be the most stable one I've used, even compared to the Dell offerings. I have used this ROM with the 369 ROM's basebands etc but today I've switched over to 407 to see if the stability improves even further. I do get the odd reboot from the device, though I suspect it may be due to all the mucking around I've been up to installing different apps and then removing them again! Still, overall the features of the ROM are excellent - I love the notice bar with all the toggles so handy to get to. I also install the ICS theme too which makes the whole thing look a lot nicer than the standard GB IMO.

Anyway, it seems to me we've arrived at a short break in the development of this ROM while ICS/JB is being rolled out on the device - something I am greatly looking forward to.

So, I whole heartedly appreciate the effort, time and quality of workmanship that _n0p_ puts into this ROM - it has given my streak at least another 12 months of use.

Oh, and if you are bored and looking for something to add to the ROM, screen capture would be cool! ;)
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
n0p,

is it possible to add some lines in the lmk script that it is not only freeing memory every 30 minutes, but that it also frees memory when the amount of free ram gets under lets say 80Mb?
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
To be honest, i decided to take a little rest :)

As for ICS/JB - working camera definitely not possible without kernel upgrade.

hunderteins did a lot of work on 3.4 kernel already, but i know if i'll be able to continue. I'm going to try at least :)

I don't think fully working 4.x for Streak is actually worth waiting for, but kibuuka alredy did an almost fully functional ICS port - without camera and data (for some providers) - let's don't forget that.

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vankooten, that's exactly what lowmemorykiller should do. I just hangs sometimes, stopping it's work, so that's what reload is for.
[Streak 5 Android Development] chriscullen42:
Yeah, from what I'd read I figured ICS was going to be tricky to say the least. My Dell Streak seems to be about as good as it is likely to get for the moment. I notice that it often uses lots of memory but using the go task manager ex widget seems to keep it under control most of the time.

It'll be interesting to see how a complete reset to the 407 rom helps with that and the general stability.

I certainly think you deserve your rest. My birthday is in August so I'll be looking at the alternatives around then to see if I want to jump ship. At the moment the note from Samsung seems to be a possible but I quite fancy looking at windows phone to see how that is coming along but I'll probably die from the lack of choice!
[Streak 5 Android Development] Rocker19943:
NOP, I wonder if I can install mugen power app on an another device? will it work?
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
If you refer to DSC Mugen app then no, it won't - as it just an user interface for setting kernel battery parameters and those parameters exist only in Phoenix kernel and it's derivatives.
[Streak 5 Android Development] Shawnki91:
BAD NEWS!

I had DSC 2.3 installed on my device. I plugged it in to the charger last night and when I woke up this morning the device would not power on. I have tried removing the battery, tried a number of button combinations, etc. I cannot get the device to boot--no logo, no capacitive buttons, nothing. Any suggestions on what to do?
[Streak 5 Android Development] _n0p_:
You can check the download mode first -

Remove battery, plug Streak to PC holding volume up button.

If device is detected - you can restore it with StreakFlash/QDL tool.

If not - most probably it's dead.
[Streak 5 Android Development] mokokawi:
Do what n0p said....I had the same thing.....and I did that and it worked....hold volume up only,plug in,and run qdl
[Streak 5 Android Development] Shawnki91:
It looks like this one may be a goner. I can use it for parts I suppose. Thank you for the reply!
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
when i upload a picture on facebook then a notification shows up thats shows how far the upload is.

when the upload is done then a checkmark appears in the upper left part of the screen.

how can i get rid of this checkmark?
[Streak 5 Android Development] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Pull down your notifications. There should be a clear button just beneath the toggles that when pressed will clear the checkmark.
[Streak 5 Android Development] vankooten:
thank you.