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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] armedmetallica:
one that has smart dial - like DialerOne or exDialer ...T9 style... like you start dialing and it shows you contacts or numbers that match from your contacts list ...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
I just put my most frequently called contacts in my favorites and look from there or just type in the phone number if I remember it. Most of the time my call log has the numbers I want to dial anyway. I see no purpose in adding another dialer just further slowing down our already slow phone. I am not sure the convenience in what you are talking about is worth the added strain on the phone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
I have to agree with slickdaddy here, no need for adding that extra gunk. You can even place frequent contacts on your desktop! I guess you're just used to it, and I get that - but you should always be open to different ways of doing things. You might find you like them better!

Either way, I've never changed the stock dialer out. I never personally felt the need...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] ozqeee:
replace

i have question i think its too late to ask it

can i use android system replaced of wm6.5 ( i want to remove wm from rom of mobile and boot android without using a program of boot two system gen y dual boot as example ) and how i do that if it can do :confused:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] armedmetallica:
i've always (even in the winmo days) swapped the dialer out. my problem is i have 300+ contacts, and 4 are my always frequent dials, and any of the others are completely random. the quick dial/search thing was a biggie for me. i was surprised that the stock android dialer didn't have it.

anywhoo - i guess this is a decision i have to make - live with it this way, or jump back to froyo.

oh and there's the WAF - she definitely wants, needs, desires the dialer/searcher. hell she sees/saw nothing wrong w. the WinMo.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Please don't derail this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347321

Then use WinMo. No one is forcing you to use this... :confused:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] armedmetallica:
yeah right - like i can ever go back to winmo. android or bust! if no GB, then i go to Froyo. though as soon as i can get my hands on a cobalt galaxy note, i will move on. apparently our FAN account ONLY has white!

despite some of the minor glitches, i am still amazed that this project has gotten where it is. the froyo build is far better than the stock winmo that the phone was delivered with!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
This statement threw me, and still does. Either way, let's get back to support/development of our beloved Android port :cool:.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] agibby5:
I've been noticing very poor battery performance in this build. In FRX, I would only charge every 2 days. With this build, the phone dies once around noon and is dead when I wake in the morning... so I'm having to charge 2x per day. Anyone else noticing anything similar?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
I would agree the battery life is worse than FRX07.1 With FRX I was getting 12 hours or more on a single charge with moderate use. With moderate use on GBX0B I get maybe 5-8 hours. If I use it a lot maybe only 2-4 hours. Now granted my battery is getting older, and it may just be on its last leg, but I doubt it would decrease that much that quickly. I only switched to GBX0B in early February.

If I don't do much of anything on the phone call except for a SMS or phone call here or there it will last a good 15-18 hours or so without dying still.

I'm not sure what the difference is that might cause the shorten of battery life though.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
Even using apps and running the GPS I can pull 10-12 hours on mine, normal mild use gives me at least 16 (at which point I'm going to bed anyway and therefore have put it back on the charger regardless of remaining juice). I didn't run FRX to get a good comparison though.

It may also make a difference that I've got background sync turned off and I keep wifi off and data set to 2G when I'm not actively using data. Turning on wifi will drain it fast -- within a few hours.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
I can almost guarantee you, your battery saving techniques net you the extra battery life. I was running juice defender a little while before deciding a minimalist approach was best with apps with our phone. juice defender cutting on and off data and using 2G only in a lot of instances increased my battery life substantially to almost what you were getting (10-12 hours) with moderate use. It was doing autosync every 15-20 minutes instead of automatic push which is what I have most of my stuff set to. I only have Gmail, calendar, and contacts auto-synced though.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
Well, I say that but I don't always follow it. XD I keep wifi turned off at all times but I actually leave 3G on most of the time, and the last few days since I got AGPS working I've left location services enabled too. I have background sync turned off but I have a Twitter widget that polls every few (5? 10? I don't remember) minutes. Today I was on 3G all day, played some games, placed a few calls, and looked a few things up with the web browser, and my battery icon wasn't even down in the yellow before I plugged it in for the night.

It's background sync and wifi that are the real killers. Turn them off unless you absolutely can't have a smartphone without background sync. Bluetooth can be turned off too, especially if you're not using a headset.

So yeah, my habits probably stretch it even farther, maybe if I were being careful and turned data off entirely when I went to bed I could get away without charging it overnight and still have my alarm go off in the morning. (I'd probably have to charge it at my desk then...) But I would imagine most people should be able to get 12 hours on a healthy battery.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] JDog2pt0:
I'm going to have to try juice defender. Anyways, I was amazed when I shutdown using the .27 kernel....and the phone actually shut down. Wish 3.2 did that.....

Also, who made the XDAndroid bootup logo?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] pfc_m_drake:
It's interesting that you say that. One of the things I was going to report was that the battery meter seems to be not reporting accurately with the newest 3.2 kernel (which is what I'm running).

The reason I say that is because when I booted back to WinMo the other night, the battery indicator in WinMo told me that I had drained substantially farther than XDA just had.

Granted, the battery meter was never great to begin with, but it had been better 'lately'.

So, I'd say this is more of an observation rather than a bug report. I wonder if you (or others) are seeing the same thing and that the battery is being reported as 'more full' than it really is???
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
It took mine a couple weeks of use before it finally calibrated right, but it does seem pretty accurate now. For a while it was just dying without giving me a low-power warning, and now I'm getting them.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
Just be cautious of what you run in the background. Our phone does not have a lot of resources to begin with, and I found that some of the stuff I was running caused an issue with the phone UI showing up in a timely manner to call and to answer phones. After deleting all apps and widgets to a minimum of what I need and doing some of the speed improvements on that thread such as stopping some of my apps from running at startup, things work great without juice defender and other things. I'm not saying Juice Defender caused this issues, but since it always run changing settings whenever it wants, it could have something to do with issues on our builds.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
lol, you're going into the wayback machine in the project... This thread is the 'contest' for the boot animation, lugiber definitely submitted a lot of great ones - and one of his eventually did win.

His favorite of mine was the drunken droid, but he submitted many!

The battery meter has always been off. jonpry (very talented developer) wrote a completely different batt algo - that even changed how polling worked, how it was calculated in sleep, and even designed a way to do 'mini-wakes' in order to get accurate battery readings. It worked great - but only for RHOD so it never made it mainline.

ACL was working to reverse-engineer the algo's from WinMo, with the hopes that we could at least get more sensible meters, as the current way we calculate battery life is very broken (as everyone knows).

There's a battery calibration app, which I hear helps in short bursts - but in reality we need to fix the algo.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
http://pastebin.com/ju7YEsLK

Latest phone mishap, a call that wouldn't hang up. Will inspect later, just dropping this off for now.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] fortunz:
Would you mind installing xdaledregime from your androidapps folder (by moving it to the root folder instead of a sub folder) and turning on the top option, amber if awake, green if asleep)? Then turn off your device and see if the led turns green?

I have been having sleep trouble. I turned in all my logs, but no smoking gun was found. I tweaked things a little since then (minfrees), and after it has been in android for 12-48 hours, it will start sleeping now, but it's very inconsistent. If there are more cases like mine, maybe it will help diagnose the problem.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] mpannen:
I've been using this package for a few days with a 3.2.11 kernel on my rhod400 and I am absolutely amazed at how well it is working! I haven't tried android on my tp2 in over a year and I am amazed how far it has come.

I have no complaints about battery life, I have been able to go all day now with moderate use. One weird issue I have been having is with vibration always enabled I never get vibration with new emails and sms. hmm. Other than that way to go!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] numero9:
Might be a dumb question but I finally got myself a larger capacity micro SD for this Touch Pro 2. I restored everything from my previous build on it through Titanium Backup but it seems that it's all going to "Phone" which maxes out really quickly. I understand it all goes to the SD card but there seems to be a large list of programs I can't move to "SD Card" in Android and are taking up phone space. Any idea how to clear this up so it eats away at the capacity for the "SD Card" which is considerably bigger?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] fishingmedic:
You can make your data.img larger which then gives you more space, however keep in mind the more apps you have the more chances you have of creating issues. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824154
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] frostyguy:
Finally trying out the latest GBX0B, and upon start up, keeps restarting with the flying androids over and over again. Using RHOD400 and htc-msm-linux-20120227_213021-package.tar.bz2.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Is that the bundled kernel? Start with what's bundled.

Are you reusing a data.img? Please start fresh if so. ts-calibration is literally the only thing you can reuse from FRX.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] frostyguy:
Got it to work, i think it was because I turned on the wifi, everything is smooth and gravy now. Thanks again arrrghhh.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] JDog2pt0:
Trying out SetCPU. Have it set fairly default when the screen is on. 245min 691max (oc) w/ screen on. Using conservative govenor (slower scaling). However with the screen off, 128min 320max also using conservative govenor. We'll see how it goes in terms of SoD, waking speeds, overall speed, and battery life <- the main thing I'm looking to improve. I'll watch it over the week.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] jonners59:
The problems of a few weeks ago re the data connection not working though the system said it was, seems to have started to improve. Still get funnies, but they do not last as long and not on all start ups. Always thought these builds were alive! :eek: LoL

The drive down to Italy through various countries was very interesting. Unlike any of the previous builds this one switched networks with little problem. It took a little time, but it did and still does switch within 1hr max: Vodafone Maritime, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Italy. Well chuffed. :D

One observation: CoPilot Europe froze the phone after about 30 minutes or so, on 4 occasions, so I stopped using it.

Comments on battery life. I use my phone to its fullest. Don't see the point of building my life round it. So I hammer it, as it were. I always carry a spare battery with me and almost get a whole day using the two. I have 4 x gmail accounts constantly sync'd with all the trimmings. Otherwise just Go Launcher, Facebook and dropbox running. I never use widgets (tip from arrrghh), I use 3G watchdog (great app), Back light (shortcut on the desktop), Addaway, addfree, Titanium BU, Timezone fix, SD Booster and Battery Cal.... so it gets a hard time. Yes, I'd like more life, but considering its an old phone and it is not designed for this build, I think that's damned good. :)

Bar that, lovin the build more and more. Thanks guys
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
Get rid of the Facebook app if at all possible. It's a terrible piece of software and is going to be the single biggest performance hog you have installed. Use Facebook in the browser and you'll have a better experience most likely.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
I have found friendcaster to be a pretty good app with no system resource hogging, if you can't stand the browser version like I can't.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] jonners59:
Thanks guys. Shall add that to my list of downloads when back in blighty... Is there one for LinkedIn too?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
There is a linkedin app, but I have never used it. I don't know what kind of resource hog it is. Only way to find out is to try it out and see if you starting having issues. Main issue you will have is sending and receiving calls mainly if you have too much stuff loaded up and running.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] jonners59:
Yes, have the app already. Just don't know if it is a hog or not and if a better alternative is out there. Would be nice to have one consolidated app like nimble.com, but that does not work on Android :(

Noticed yesterday a small problem, not an issue though. After using GPS, I always shut it down in Settings/Location, but it still shows in the notification panel as active. There is nothing otherwise that indicates it is still on, however.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] drewtarvin:
Evernote in GBX0B?

I'm trying to upgrade from FroYo to GB and everything is working well so far except Evernote. When I launch the application I get an error that says "Evernote requires SD card. Please insert an SD card before using Evernote."

I never had this error on FroYo. Any thoughts?

I'm on GBX0B on a rhod400 TP2 with 3.2.11 kernel (same error on other kernels). I'm running Android from the SD card, but that's also how I did FroYo.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Congrats on your first post! I used Evernote before, but perhaps I never actually gave it a shot in GB...

Can you provide a log? GetLogs is the best way ;).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] drewtarvin:
Thanks! Been lurking for a long time, never really had too many issues before (at least that couldn't be solved from digging through the forums).

I'm still new so I can't post the url directly (just add http): pastebin.com/Sg9u6xUu

Interesting note: I tried downloading GetLogs directly on my phone but got a missing SD card error. I rebooted my phone to Windows and manually copied the file to the Android app folder and it worked.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Hrm... Perhaps you should do this. First, backup everything on the SD card. Try a full format of the card using the HP Tool. Then put all the stuffs back on, try again.

If that doesn't work, perhaps there's some old stuff on the card from Evernote that you can try deleting/moving? I see some errors that look like the software just doesn't have rights.

04-09 14:27:18.544 E/com.evernote.provider.EvernoteProvider( 1597): Exception while deleting linked thumbnails dir
04-09 14:27:18.544 E/com.evernote.provider.EvernoteProvider( 1597): java.io.FileNotFoundException

and

04-09 14:27:18.534 E/com.evernote.provider.EvernoteProvider( 1597): Exception while deleting thumbnails dir
04-09 14:27:18.534 E/com.evernote.provider.EvernoteProvider( 1597): java.io.FileNotFoundException

Let me know how that goes.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] drewtarvin:
I reformatted the SD card using HP tool and started from a new download of GBX0B and kernel 3-2-11 and that seems to have fixed it. Evernote has loaded and is working correctly.

Thanks for the help!

PS Does anyone have any tips on streamlining Android so it runs faster on the older phones? I'm thinking things like disabling animation, anything else?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
There's a thread for speedup tips stickied in this section, but here's a link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1218458

Turning off background data, minimizing the number of widgets you have, and switching out the launcher (I use Zeam) all help. V6 is less helpful because this build already uses V6's aggressive settings by default.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
V6 actually still is helpful IMHO. It has some Out Of Memory grouping tweaks, as well as many other things other than simply the LowMemoryKiller setting that we apply now ;).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
I said "less helpful", not "unhelpful" ;) But yes, listen to arrrghhh.

I mean, I use V6 too. Bulletproof launcher is nice, especially when running Zeam.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] eurohunter:
I have tried Zeam, but it is not as smooth as you guys are describing it here. ADW on the other hand has given me the best launcher experience. I even removed the home and drawer icon labels (surprisingly I can tell right away which app is which without the labels), and that made scrolling even faster.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
I prefer ADW myself ;).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] jonners59:
Go Launcher for me. Has loads of other useful tools to add if wanted including a desktop migration app. The desktop app management and folder management are great and the inbuilt backup works a treat - though like all the others I have tired the widgets do not restore, but I don't use those. Didn't get much from any of the other launchers myself....:)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Hence why Android is so beautiful... freedom of choice!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] jonners59:
Absadidley do. LoL FAB:)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
I am thinking about running a partition build with my rhodium to prevent the issues I am having continuously with corrupted data.img and having to run fix_permissions all the time. Can someone point me in the right direction or right thread to show me how to do this. I have searched an searched but could not find anything on it recent.

Can I use the build as it is in this thread just separating the appropriate files in the right partitions, or would I need to modify files in order to get it to work?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Our rootfs is setup to handle partitions, however express directions were never really written unfortunately... it was deemed way too difficult to support.

I'll try to give you the skinny at least. Partition the card, 4 parts.

1 - FAT32, "rest of card". Kind of have to plan out how you're going to partition it before you dive in ;).

2 - ext2 - this is the rootfs partition, which really isn't necessary... but unfortunately you have to at least have this here, so make it ~1mb.

3 - ext2 - system partition. Give it 150mb.

4 - ext2 - data partition. I'd say 512mb, 1gig if you can spare it. I think there's issues if you go over 2gb...? Not positive where this threshold lies... If you're fine with a 256mb data.img, then 512 will be more than enough ;).

The next part is definitely the trickiest. You have to now get the system files (and whatever is in your data.img) to the last 2 partitions. I loop mount the partitions, then use tar to get the data from the loop'd file to the partition. Reason for tar is to preserve permissions, but in theory cp -p would work. Just never tried :p.

cd /dir1; tar cf - . | (cd /dir2; tar xf -)

Hope that helps and doesn't just confuse you further... Again, this is an unsupported configuration and I don't encourage you or anyone else to setup your phone in this manner. It's quite a bit of work, and relatively low payout IMHO. I would run for months on end without having to redo the data.img tho, are you having a lot of sudden power off problems...?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] sifting cinders:
I too USED to get corrupt data.IMG, occurring every three days or so, and was wondering why no one else seemed to be talking about this... Long story short, get a different microSD card, that's what's doing it. I've never had that issue since I changed cards...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
Yeah sometimes it doesn't power down before battery dies on it. Also getting a lot of kernel panics recently with endless boot animation where I have to pull the battery. Also if I mess with Kexec at all it tends to corrupt things. Kexec used to work very well GBX0B, but now it never works just freezes on shutdown, and I have to pull the battery.

I did just get a new 32GB Class 10 MicroSD, so maybe something is going on with it. My older 8GB one seemed to never give me this issue. Thought I would give partitions a try to see if it made things better.

Just biding my time till the Galaxy S3 comes out! :-) Finally going to jump ship to greener pastures then. Probably keep the Rhod400 though to take out of the country for World Phone capabilities though.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
I found your issue. Not only can our phones not really use the throughput capabilities (it's really for shooting HD video...) of a C10 card, but many have issues with 'em. Seems C4 or slower is best. I have a C4 8GB card that has always worked great.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] slickdaddy96:
One quick question. I have the partitions set-up, but does the rootfs.img file go in whole to the ROOTFS partition or do I pull everything out of that image file and dump in on that partition?

Also the loop mount procedure for System.ex2 and Data.img that you posted above, do you just do that in the terminal in ubuntu? You said it was tricky, but I am not sure you have given me all the info on how to do the loop mount (like what to use it in ie. terminal in ubuntu, adb, etc...) Also once you do this loop mount once does it have to be done every time you start up android, or is this a one time thing? Does the data.img file and system.ext2 have to be kept in the GBX0B directory still for every boot or once you do this loop mount it is on the other partitions permanently and Haret does all the rest of the work?

I feel confident I can do this, but I just need a little more detailed info on the last part if you don't mind telling me. If this isn't the place to ask, I can take it to Private Message or IRC.