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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popfan:
I am currently using a KJ3 - luminance 1.0.1 with the Samurai 1.1 Kernel - EXT4 enabled.

I am trying to fix some problems with some games I have like CK Zombie. I get a lot of lag during the game. I fixed some of problems by switching from Ice Cream Launcher / TWlauncher to Go Launcher Ex. Now some of my games are running correctly with no lag, but I still get lag issues on CK Zombies.

Are there any launchers out there that don't cause this type of havok?

I have not tried any other launchers other than dxTOP which has the same issues as Twlauncher.

FYI - I did notice that my quadrant scores went from 2564 with ICS Launcher to 2251 with Go Launcher Ex.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bornjamerican:
This is the reason I stopped playing both CK and CK Zombies. I still haven't found a work around.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmtheiss:
If you're experiencing game lag, your launcher may not be the issue. I ran into similar problems playing Dungeon Defenders, and the only way I could get it to resolve itself was to switch to a kernel that supported overclocking and additional memory (Talon, to be exact). Once I OC'd to 1.2 GHz and pushed the memory up, the program ran without lag. YMMV, but it might be something to look into.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bornjamerican:
At the time, I was running Pinnacle 1.3 and OC to 1.3 using Tegrak and still had issues with lag.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beast534:
had the same problem, my solution was to turn off lagfix, it's much better. I am on the samurai kernel also.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popfan:
I finally got it to work. I am using luminance 1.0.1 with Samurai 1.1 EXT4 with Arc Launcher and added Supercharger V6(latest version - aggressive mode). Works fine this way.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dmx489371:
hi i have big problems with my hd2.i had installed the hyperdroid 2.1.0 and at first everythink works fine.but a month ago my phone crashes sometimes when i use googlemaps and other thinks.it freeze.now i installed the newest version and it works more badly.sometimes the phone does not start and it freeze before magldr shows the gogogo.

what i have done:

i've done an backup and installed the new version via sd card.so long it works i can start android.i was happy and try to load some apps then it crashed.

i have the newest magldr and the right 150 mb version for hyperdroid.

i hope someone can help me and sry i have not enough posts to post it in the hyperdroid post.

Greetz DmX

ps:sry for my english
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ahmed93:
latest version on sd ? .....try it on NAND

I dont know much about hd2 ...but try to reset everything ...latest hyperdroid on NAND ....and nothing on the sd
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YZ:
Try doing a task 29, then re installing magldr and cwm. From cwm wipe data/cache/dalvik cache, then install hyperdroid 5.3.0

It is on NAND, he meant that he installed the rom from sd card :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ahmed93:
o i c :p
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Truaim:
I've read about other programs useful for cooking, but as a newbie to Android/Rom dev'ing I'm curious as to which program would be best to begin Rom development for the Streak 5?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markdexter:
I too would like any info on developing roms. I recently traded my iphone 4 for my current dell streak. I absolutely love this phone.

If any dev out there could give any tips I would live to start playing round with roms. Makes for a great hobby especially with winter on the way.

I know theres alot to it, everyone has to start somewhere, it would be nice to start having more of s choice of roms for our device

Thanks in advance, thanks for starting this thread:-)

Sent from my Dell Streak
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Truaim:
I know that dsixda's Android Kitchen is compatible with the Streak 7, I wonder if one of the plugins will support the mini. If not, is there another feasible Kitchen prog to deodex?
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordmorphous:
That kitchen does work for the 5 inch Streak ROMS. Its what I used for Streakin' 354.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
I would try the EK02 modem here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1367695

The EK02 modem may cure LOS and could potentially cure other problems such as what's discussed in this thread.

If you changed from EG30 to EG12/EG31, you

cannot at this time

go to the EK02 modem because it is not a full modem, just a "patch" to the EG30 modem

Background: Previously I was experiencing absolutely horrid battery life with the Epic Touch, Sprint even replaced the device with a brand new replacement and it still occurred. (When I say horrid battery life I mean I would watch a 21 minute show on Netflix via wifi and go from 100% to 72%) A full battery, phone untouched, wouldn't last 6 hours.

Anyway, I know that others have had this issue as well, and from what I've seen they are running the EG30 modem. (As was I)

When I odined to EG12 my battery improve significantly. (Not perfect but much better)

[Discharging from 99%] with constant usage/screen on the phone used 11%.

That's about what I'd use in 10 minutes previously.

View attachment 760219

I don't claim this to be the end all be all fix for battery issues, but try it and report back.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ztzak7updejanc9 [thanks AbsolutZeroGI]

Open odin, place modem.bin in phone slot, boot into download mode and start the process.

Important note, you cannot go back to EG30 at this point as it hasn't been successfully pulled from a phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Well just a word of warning, currently if you flash EG12, you can't back to EG30 and some people are reporting problems receiving calls when the phone is in sleep mode when using EG12.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
I forgot to add that you can't go back at this point, I will add that to the OP.

As far as problems receiving calls? I have had NO ISSUE with that whatsoever and my phone has problems sleeping whether I have EG30 or EG12.

I think this "fix" is more of a remedy for a certain percentage of phones that are experiencing inexplicable excessive battery drain on the EG30 radio.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] davidc23:
seems like i didnt help. did i pull it out wrong or it isnt working ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Sorry, I thought I sent you an pm back. The method we have to pull the modem doesn't work properly on our CDMA phones.

No one has been successful on pulling the EG30 radio.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
I can't wait for Samsung to update the radios. I'm jealous of all the people getting 16-20 hours of battery life. My battery life is the same as my evo4g, maybe worse
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
I'm tempted to flash to eg12. I wonder if the missed calls were caused by that or the los bug
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
I can say that I have not had issues with missed calls.

I'm running LoSt kernel as well, of course.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
How long have you had the eg12 radio? How many hours are you getting?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Three days.

12 to 15.

Not perfect but significantly better than the 4 to 6 I was getting with eg30.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
I'll give it a shot tonight. Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
So this makes me wonder ... WTF is different from my EG30 bin, where I've gotten excellent battery life out of the box, and people like matty's? Is it possible that the hardware and/or software on the cell towers in matty's area is different from in my area, and the config in his area doesn't play nice with the stock radio firmware on this phone?

It's the only thing that makes any sense to me on these signal related battery issues. matty has even gone through two phones with the same issue. I'd think the chance of that is rather low, unless his region received a bad batch of phones.

I just don't get it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
hmm the eg12 was pulled from the rom/root hub thread in android development section. saying it borks some phones. i guess ill just wait on this. knowing my luck ill be the % that gets their phone borked
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Where are you reading that?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AsinX:
I think we should have a thread where people post what major city they're in, their battery life for a full charge, and their modem. Maybe gathering this data could help resolve if its a tower thing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
I don't think it has anything to do with the towers. I had my phone in airplane mode when I was playing with different settings [with EG30] and the issues still existed.

I would be interested in knowing if there are different hardware versions besides the D710.10.

I still think it's a modem/kernel combo issue.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265399
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
This thread has the folks who are reporting the issue that calls aren't coming through with EG12 when their phone is in sleep mode. If they connect their phone to USB power, they come through.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1312790&page=2

I'm not suggesting it will happen to everyone, just that these folks are reporting this experience for their setups.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
I see that.

Obviously I wouldn't recommend flashing this if you aren't having the issue.

But to be completely honest with you, if you're having the battery drain that I'm talking about [and I've seen others with this issue too], it's pretty useless.

I mean, 6 hours of battery life with the phone not being touched dude.

But yeah, no call issues here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Beejis:
Ensure those that are having call issues don't have there phones face down as the call will be silenced I believe if they have that setting enabled.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jermzz:
Are the people getting terrible battery life trying different batteries or anything? I havent seen any radio / kernel combo that someone doesn't have problems with. Im on the eg30 and I get stellar battery life.... 30+ hours. I think its a hardware issue.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schwab002:
30+ hours? I hope you don't take it for granted.

I was averaging about 8 hours, but I complained about another issue, my touch screen going haywire while using the wall charger, and a nice Sprint rep got a brand new ET4g to replace it.

Anyways, the new phone was getting similarly bad battery life and I had enough of that so I rooted, flashed the LOStKernal (another annoying problem), and the starburst rom. Now I'm getting about hours on the battery, but I'm still doing testing.

I'm still interested in this fix, but I'm not sure I want to switch to EG12 if I cannot go back to EG30...even though I'm not really sure what that means.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
It simply means if there is any negative side effects of going to EG12, there's no way you can flash to EG30.

Of course there is always Sprint if there is a problem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] phatmanxxl:
I would definitely call this inexplicable, its been doing this for the past week. Ill get a LOS then reboot, my battery drops 30-40%.

The accelerated drain was from streaming, listening to music at the park.

I wiped battery states and tried calibrating. It could be the battery itself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ericlikeseatin:
i have a very similar problem. i had LOS and rebooted to see my battery take a 40% hit:

with no LOS issues, i can squeeze 12 to 14 hours out of my battery but most of that is being used my android OS, not my screen display. i should look into individual processes but i'm stumped - i don't have any widgets in use besides a clock and a weather widget.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] digweed4me:
I wanna know this too, I think stock battery came with this phone is cheap like micro usb cable. Has anyone tried extended battery?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coldblooded79:
No los on this phone yet. Unrooted eg30 radio.

Sent from my Eptouch 4g
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jermzz:
Rooted? If so try this. I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it. With as much as you're using your phone, there's no way after 5 hours you've used that much power, reboot or not. Once you start getting lower the battery will start raising back up, and or stay at a certain percentage for a long time.

1. download the battery calibration app from market

2. charge to 100% (note: almost ALWAYS the first charge to 100% isnt accurate, pull plug, and re-plug and I bet the red light comes back on for 20 min. repeat til full)

3. pull battery and boot into CWM

4. clear battery memory

5. plug phone back in and reboot

6. run calibration app and calibrate battery while plugged in at 100%

7. Unplug and use normally.

I did this and even when I get LOS, or just a random reboot my battery stays accurate.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ms79723:
really? I downloaded this one file when my phone crashed to all kinds of hell and I flashed that through Odin. It was called Stock-EG30. SO it wasn't Stock EG-30? I'm not all that familiar with Odin so I really don't even know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Do this! Twice like mentioned. I have been recommending the app by ne'ma for months now. I have never had those crazy battery fluctuations ...on my OG Epic either. I just put the app on my Nexus now that there's a kernel that allows charging to 100%
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ericlikeseatin:
@jermzz: excellent tip, I will try this when I get home tonight. Of course, getting home might require using the GPS on the phone which depends on this battery lasting for a few more hours ;-)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] coldblooded79:
While my phone is not rooted, I have in fact experienced the Android Os bug. Yesterday I removed my calendar widget from a homescreen and uninstalled battery monitor widget. My battery life improved dramatically from yesterday. Those were the only two variables that I am aware that I changed.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
does anyone know if the Android os bug and battery drain happen on the other gs II variants?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schwab002:
To the people who have changed their modem to EG12 and have noticed improved battery life: About how much of you battery was consumed by android OS before and after the modem change?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Android OS is still pretty high but nothing compared to what it used to be.

I think the Android OS issue is something inherently wrong with the stock ROM [which every custom rom in the dev section is currently based on] and therefore will be solved with AOSP.

But it's hard to say. It could also be related to the modem/firmware issues that we know exist.

Like I said, this isn't a perfect fix, but I can actually use my phone now, instead of before where I needed a charger every where I go.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
All this still doesn't make sense to me. I watched my battery all day yesterday, and I got a bit over 14 hours on a charge with moderate use. 3 hours of screen on time, 2 hours of bluetooth streaming an audiobook in my car (with the screen off obviously) , and other normal daily use stuff. I put the phone back on the charger at 10% left. Display was at 49% of battery at about 40% brightness, and my Android OS was around 12%.

I guess certain phones were loaded with bunk firmware. What else could it be?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Something I've learned long ago about computers:

For being "logical machines", they're not very logical. ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jermzz:
The percentage of AOS at any given time on your phone is directly related to how much screen-on time you have. Most people's AOS percentage doesn't change, and just because you have a high AOS percentage doesn't mean you have the AOS bug. if you have less then an hour of on screen time on your charge, then your AOS is going to be, by default, the highest percentage on your list; because its the biggest power suck compared to the screen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
Ahh I'm counting the day when an aosp ROM or Android update will take my ****ty battery life away. So jealous of the 16+ hour users
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schwab002:
Same here. Although I got 15 hours yesterday on the starburst rom, but I was meager with my use.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graffixnyc:
because they are only as logical as the people who program them :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] simbapenn:
I don't contribute much here, but I'd like to help. I've got a unique (possibly not) situation in that my wife and I both have this phone. I use mine all day, and the battery is great. I can even go through most of the next day without charging. She does almost nothing and the battery doesn't make it even close to the end of the day.

It's not where she is vs. where I am during the day b/c when we're together it still happens. So I don't think it's a tower thing. I've updated the PRL and Profile on both to whatever's current. Settings during the day are similar (no wifi, no bluetooth, yes gps.) and managed through Timeriffic. Same baseband, kernel, etc. in settings menu. Neither are rooted.

I did just notice that her MSID has the wrong phone number, but I can't imagine that's the problem.

Oh, and I bought mine at the store where they set it up. I set hers up at home after getting it through the Sprint website. I remember something weird happening. A menu came up at some point asking if I wanted to load a custom rom. Very odd. Then it had a really poor signal from the get go. I couldn't even make a call, even though my phone was there and was being its stellar self. Had to even get on the horn with tech support. Eventually it picked up the network and I thought all was well.

Okay, so now I'm lost. Should we swap batteries for a day? Figure I owe the community a bit after leeching so many Hero roms. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
I've kinda been wondering if it's a battery problem. You should test it out. I'm in the same boat as your wife, my phone last maybe 12 hours on a good day, but mostly 8-10 hours
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] simbapenn:
Pulled them and swapped them. I think. They were the same, then I dropped them, so I can't be sure other than what I think the charge was on each.

One thing I noticed. On the sticker under the battery there's the MAC DEC and HEX numbers. Between the latter two on the right mine says 11.08 and hers 11.09. Different manufacturing dates? Any with drain have 11.08? That'd eliminate that as a culprit.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Amd4life:
I'm running, the newer eg12, and acs, and caulkin and I only get about 6hrs max. I run full screen brightness though
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
The one I'm testing says 11.08 and has decent battery life, usually 28-35hrs with light to medium usage.

Have you tried resetting hers to stock or comparing in detail what software you each have installed?

I've found certain apps will prevent the the phone from going to deep sleep (by holding a partial wakelock) and that can drastically change the power used when the phone's screen is off (which affects light-medium users disproportionately)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] simbapenn:
Mine is 11.08 too, and it gets battery life like yours, however Amd4life above has an 11.08 and it's a stinker, so it's probably not that, unfortunately. We going to walk around today with swapped batteries. If that doesn't change things, I'll reset hers to stock. She doesn't have any apps I don't have though. If anything, I have way more than she does.

---------- Post added at 10:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:52 AM ----------

Checked the running apps, and the only difference is she has "Smart Device Manager" running, which has RadioSignalService attached, and I do not. Otherwise, I have a bunch of things running extra. I'm going to leave that one app running for the day.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] simbapenn:
Those of you waiting for my fairly unscientific observation, here it is. Her phone was around 90% at the end of the day, and mine around 65% with similar usage patterns. Maybe a bit more on mine, but I don't think enough to justify that disparity. Given that the opposite was true before the battery swap, and given that nothing else changed, at least in our case, it looks like the battery itself is the culprit.

Ordered a generic battery on Amazon to replace the dud. I'll report back on how that works out. Meanwhile, the wife will continue on with my good battery. If she does have another bad battery day, I'll rescind this conclusion. For now, it looks like there could be some bad batteries floating around.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] snake4812:
Please let me know what happens with the new battery- I will probably do the same
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] biggggant:
I have noticed poor battery life and I think it's battery related. my original battery would get warm while my phone was being used or charged.. battery indicator pro would show 42c or warmer temps. I went to my sprint store and they gave me 2 batteries and one of them does the same thing while the other is atleast 3 degrees cooler.... I haven't had alot of time to compare but I know in the past with the my eve and evo3d that the batteries that got warmer always had issues
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] crypt0kiddie:
I think I'm misreading this. Am I suppose to be pulling the battery OR the USB cord?

Can someone check these steps for me and tell me what I'm misunderstanding about step 3 there!

Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
going to buy another battery after work. ill post if i see a difference
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] clamknuckle:
It's saying pull the battery so you can boot back into CWM to clear stats.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] simbapenn:
So just to update, the 3rd party battery I got was even worse than the bad OEM battery. Not sure where to go from here, other than buying a new OEM battery. It was the Hyperion one, in case anyone was wondering.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] alwaysbelieve1:
I agree.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] squiggie:
Not a good idea to flash another modem. Maintenance Release (EK02) will not work without stock modem (EG30).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
EK02 isn't a full modem, essentially just a patch, which is why.

And this thread was posted in October. :p

Updated OP.
[Motorola Droid 3] jarzy00:
Does anyone use the task manager that comes default on droid 3? Anyone just use advanced task killer? Just wondering because the one that comes default has an auto kill list and wondering if thats safe to use with all the roms that get rid of some bloatware and all the changes that modify our phones. just want some of your thoughts/opinions. Thank you
[Motorola Droid 3] straylight:
Doh delete me..
[Motorola Droid 3] jarzy00:
Huh?
[Motorola Droid 3] jarzy00:
This is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. A BUILT IN task manager on our phone? New roms and modifications --> more development in the future--> can lead to problems. Just want peoples thoughts and opinions on what they use, if this is safe etc. If you dont like this post or think its stupid then you dont reply its that simple.
[Motorola Droid 3] willdo7474:
It is a good question. I was under the impression that all task killers were bad. From reading other forums I came to the conclusion that android should be left alone to manage tasks on its own, and killing tasks would just cause android to restart them, which would end up causing more cpu and lead to worse battery life.

I have never tested it myself, though.
[Motorola Droid 3] jarzy00:
Thats interesting willdo. I never thought of it like that. I appreciate your response
[Motorola Droid 3] Androidsims:
Android manages RAM on its own efficiently since 2.2. Task killers actually cause more battery loss and cpu strain as stated above.
[Motorola Droid 3] jarzy00:
So i take it you dont use any task killers? Lol
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
If you want to improve it all you got to do if you are rooted is to download Autokiller and set a higher preset. I like Strict.