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[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
I haven't seen one - but probably b/c that would require wiping out that version of CWM. also, you need to Odin back to stock to use the pit file (which I'm not sure if there is a CWM for that).

@shoguniggy: try flashing in one of IMNUTS kernels. sometimes installing a new kernel can help...
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Is

this

what you are looking for?
[Verizon Droid Charge] khalilcr:
I posted a couple of pages ago an issue in which older downloads would pop up on the notification bar every time I downloaded something new.

It turns out that Dolphin HD is the problem; therefore, to resolve this issue all you need to do is clear the download list on the Dolphin browser.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Nice! I did a little digging on this in regards to the stock browser as well - and I was able to recreate the download notification after reboot issue shrike1978 pointed out. My guess is this has to do with the DLCrutch.apk that allows for downloading of file types that the stock browser would otherwise not allow, but I'm not certain. I'll take a more thorough crack at figuring out what's going on at some point.
[Verizon Droid Charge] romsRfun:
Today my signal isn't going all wonky om me. I'm guessing that Verizon was tinkering with their towers. I dunno... Weird.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dSlice:
Yeah, I'm getting horrible signal as lately too.
[Verizon Droid Charge] KarateExplosion6:
It's probably due to Verizon's network expansion, set to activate today (the 21st). They're adding 46 new markets and expanding coverage in 22 markets.

http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2012/06/pr2012-06-19o.html
[Verizon Droid Charge] khalilcr:
Thank you again, its not a major issue, but it becomes annoying since I have about 60 files downloaded, and it looks funny whenever all of those pop up at once on the notification bar.

Erasing the Dolphin HD download list resolves the issue when downloading a new file, but the reboot notification still happens every once in a while.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stebomurkn420:
Yuuup... I thought i had seen a thread for this just couldn't find it... Thank you very much DWITH...
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
Oops I did it again ...

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[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
Do you guys have any problem with your phones slowing down? Mine seems to become slow and laggy after 3 days or so. I'm running

Tweaked v2.1 full ROM w/PBJ (tonsit) EXT4 conversion

CWM upgraded from v2.0...

Any recommendation on fixing it? :confused:
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Snarky answer: reboot.

Less snarky answer: you can try installing Autokiller Memory Optimizer and setting it to Strict or Aggressive. That will extend it, but you'll probably still end up rebooting occasionally.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
Love your snarky answer. :D

Been rebooting it about every other day now to avoid any kind of embarrassment in front of snotty GN users. lol. I'll have to try the autokiller next. Thanks! :good:
[Verizon Droid Charge] o0BlacknesS0o:
Try using one of the imnuts pbj kernels...0524 is much snappier...0504 is not as snappy as 0524 but does seem to produce better battery according to some testing by jco

Droid Charge energized by TSM Tweaked 2.2 ext4 PBJ w/ Transparent ICS 4.0
[Verizon Droid Charge] miguel11691:
The phone now seems to be running real slow now... when I press the back button to exit an app it takes forever
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
Reboot....

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[Verizon Droid Charge] CrimsonKnight13:
Is there a live wallpaper chooser in this ROM or is totally removed?
[Verizon Droid Charge] o0BlacknesS0o:
You can reinstall it using tweaktools

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[Verizon Droid Charge] CrimsonKnight13:
Thank. :) What option is it under?

Edit: Figured it out after looking at the debloated apps.
[Verizon Droid Charge] nismology:
Dwitherell I want to personally thank you for renewing my interest in this phone. Tweaked 2.1 w/STOCK kernel combined with the solid ICS theme has got my phone running smoother and looking better than it has in a looooooooong time. I no longer feel the need to use a custom kernel and EXT4. It's just that good. Color me impressed. I've only been running this ROM for a couple of days now and haven't had the chance to mess with tweak tool yet, but so far so good.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
In retrospect, I'd been using Advanced Task Killer and that obviously didn't prevent the sluggishness to eventually creep up. I have the AMO installed now and will observe.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Shogun_Iggy:
What kind of battery life are you getting with the stock kernel and 2.1 from.....after literally hundreds of flashes and different rooms I am at the conclusion that fp1 stock/rooted/can has proven to be the best as far as performance/battery life....hands down. My signal is always strong and I experience no bugginess that you usually expect from custom kernels and rooms. I did however really like the 2.1 rom and thinking maybe my issues might have been with the kernels rather than roms...... I honestly just don't wanna flash again....but Iv said that many time before...lol.....
[Verizon Droid Charge] Endless2232:
possible 2.3 addition? ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
Hey I'm the only one who gets to tease...lol

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[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
ATK can cause problems...it works against the built in task killer. Autokiller just tweaks the built in low memory killer.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kynalvarus:
There seems to be something about the Droid Charge that just isn't quite right. No matter what I try (and I've tried all sorts of things from these and other forums!) it just won't stay long-term stable. No matter what I do, eventually the Android System process, running com.android.providers.security and com.android.providers.settings, takes up enough CPU (25%+) and enough memory to make the phone lag. Once it gets bad enough, the phone will either hot boot or freeze, requiring a reboot.

I believe that a great deal of the lag is coming from the memory manager, especially on phones where the users have installed more services than can stay in memory simultaneously (as I have.) I've experimented with a number of OOM kill thresholds using Auto Memory Manger, and so far 12,18,24,46,62,78 has served me best.

I've also been swimming against the "prevent hot boots" trend of upping the VM Heap Size limit above 64MB. In my experience, the hot boots are happening when the memory manager gets stuck badly enough that it has to kill the Android System process. This is annoying if it happens when I'm trying to use the phone, but it's actually a good thing in the long run, because after the hot boot the phone loses most of its lag, and Android System drops to more like 10% of CPU use. I've actually found that cranking the heap down has led to better performance and less lagginess. I've gotten it down to 32MB without any serious stability issues. 24MB and 28MB were both apparently too small, as the phone behaved erratically at these settings and many apps, including my Go Launcher EX, were crash-looping fairly quickly.

For reference, I'm now running Tweaked 2.1 with the imnuts 0524 PBJ Kernel, 48MB VM Heap, 1.2GHz, default voltages, smartassV2 scheduler, bfq IO scheduler, and the zipalign, CFS, and siyah tweaks from tweaktools. I've also been playing with renice levels.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mgavalakis:
Is anyone getting battery life like this? Right now I'm running about 6 hours on battery life.

There also seems to be inconsistency with my battery display. One second I could be at 25% then 3 minutes later I'm at 0%

I'm currently running tweaked 2.1 with PBJ 0524.

Just curious to know if it's me or if others are experiencing the same.

Thanks in advance.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Reilly1812:
Get a new battery. I'd go from 75 to zero in a flash.
[Verizon Droid Charge] o0BlacknesS0o:
Few things you should try before getting a new battery

1. If overclocking, stop...put frequencies back to 1000 max and 100 min...governor ondemand or smartassv2

2. Download Battery Calibration from the market

3. After following the app instructions and clearing the battery stats...use your phone normally, but let it completely die then plug in and don't touch until fully charged

See if that helps any

Droid Charge energized by TSM Tweaked 2.2 ext4 PBJ w/ Transparent ICS 4.0
[Verizon Droid Charge] Falcyn:
The calibration app thing is a complete and total myth that's been directly debunked by Google.

All that app does is delete the batterystats.bin file, which has no bearing whatsoever on your battery life or even the battery level shown to you.

It is the literal definition of "placebo effect" and anyone who says otherwise is either lying or misinformed.

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
[Verizon Droid Charge] o0BlacknesS0o:
Pretty sure there is absolutely nothing in my post that says it will increase your battery life.

Second, wiping the stats, and then letting your phone drain all the way down will give you a very accurate look at what is draining your battery

Third, how is the app a myth? You can download it in the market, it's real...and it does exactly what it says it does...deletes the battery stats

Fourth, it has been proven that fully charging, fully discharging, then fully charging again is not only good for your battery, it is highly recommended by anyone and everyone at least once a month

So, I'm thinking you should jump off your little soap box and make sure you actually read what is being posted before you try to tear it apart...Before anyone goes and spend money on a brand new battery, they should do some accurate researching about what is using power on their phone....could be a crazy app...could be low network signal, could be the kernel (which btw jco23 has found that the 0504 kernel is much more battery efficient than the other available kernels) etc...

Oh and btw...i used to get some random fluctuations in battery levels when i first flashed tweaked...i wiped my battery stats, cache and dalvik and everything calm down and no longer did my battery jump down oddly

Droid Charge energized by TSM Tweaked 2.2 ext4 PBJ w/ Transparent ICS 4.0
[Verizon Droid Charge] Reilly1812:
FWIW - batteries, even the extended ones, are cheap enough to keep a charged spare, regardless of the reason.

Toubleshooting simplified. Swap the battery. No problem? Toss it. Problem persists? It's not the battery and bonus - you've got a spare. :rolleyes:
[Verizon Droid Charge] nismology:
Completely discharging Li-ion batteries is not the best idea, even just on a monthly basis. And in my experience, charging the battery completely clears out the batterystats file every time so there's no need to use an app to do it.

Kernels are by far the biggest potential battery drain other than partial wakelocks and the stock FP1 kernel has given me phenomenal battery life and I prefer the way FP1 handles multitasking and memory management versus the method implemented in the 0524 PBJT kernel. I also freeze all the services that I have no need for like anything DRM-related, SDM, syncmlsvc, etc.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Maybe you need to do some research yourself. Figuring out what is using battery is a good idea, but all you need to do that is Better Battery Stats (search XDA for a free version). If you read Dianne Hackborn's post that Falcyn linked above, she very clearly debunks your second point. As nimsology said, the stats are wiped by the OS every time you fully charge your battery (and you can prove this for yourself just by watching the filesystem). All they do is track the stats needed to display your battery use stats in settings. They have nothing to do with the calibration of your battery or the display of the percentages. The app is a myth in the same way that wiping your battery stats is...it does nothing useful whatsoever. It just deletes the same file that the phone deletes itself on a regular basis.

LiIon batteries work best when you just use them noramlly. Full charge/discharge cycles are actually bad for them in the long run. Keeping them cool is actually more important than anything else, which is why they have temp sensors and overheat protection circuits. The only time you should purposefully drain them is when you are storing them for long periods of time, and even then, you shouldn't fully drain them because fully discharging in storage will kill the battery completely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiIon#Prolonging_battery_pack_life
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
Thank you both.

When I first installed Autokiller Memory Optimizer (and uninstalled ATK), I set it to Extreme setting but it caused Go Launcher to repaint more often than I can endure. Now I've been using your setting (12,18,24,46,62,78) for nearly a day since the last time I rebooted, and it's been smooth and zippy! I'll try it for at least 3 days before attempting to reboot, which is probably going to be too tempting to do; good or bad, it's become an old habit of mine. lol
[Verizon Droid Charge] o0BlacknesS0o:
Apparently you guys are having trouble reading....AT NO POINT DO I SAY...DO THIS AND YOUR BATTERY WILL LAST LONGER...AT NO POINT DO I SAY THAT

Yes the battery stats gets deleted, but if you read what she says...she says that it gets deleted one gets around a full charge...with battery calibration he can choose exactly when he wants to wipe the stats...and thus begin watching his battery withdraw from the exact moment he wants to start

Again what's the myth part...the app does exactly what it says it does...it deletes the battery stats...also if you watch while the app is open you can see more charge go into battery even after it's full and the phone tells you to unplug

And lastly, i can't remember where the article is, but it was an article discussing batteries in smartphones, tablets, etc. The article found that it is more common than one might think that (especially) after modifications or flashing new roms that often times the device well begin to misread battery level info i.e. saying it has 35% then being dead 10 minutes later for no reason...one of the simplest ways to straighten this out is to fully drain the battery and then fully charge the battery.

AGAIN, IN NO WAY DID I TELL ANYONE THAT DOING THESE THINGS WILL MAKE YOUR BATTERY LIFE BETTER

and yes there are prolly 1000 apps he could download to get a more in depth look at his battery, but i haven't used any if them, so i have no need to suggest any of them...the built in works perfectly fine for me

Droid Charge energized by TSM Tweaked 2.2 ext4 PBJ w/ Transparent ICS 4.0
[Verizon Droid Charge] Reno Skyy:
Vibrate isn't working on the key board for me any one else with this problem?
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Yeah the themed keyboard one I put in there (thanks to imnuts and his Infinity rom) has always had that issue for whatever reason - never really bothered me so I just left it as-is.

As an aside regarding the recent battery discussions - shall we all agree to disagree and move on? Or at least move the discussion on to another thread? Feels poised to go south in a hurry is all, and the thread here is already a bit cumbersome.
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
Agreed ...let's move on...

Let's talk about me..

The fact that I can't find anything to complain about....

Makes me unhappy ....:p

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[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
PS ... and you know who I blame....

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[Verizon Droid Charge] bvsbutthd101:
I'm re-flashing this ROM because my phone is starting to slow down. Instead of running RFS, I'm flashing the full rom with PBJ and EXT4 conversion. Now I've flashed it already and it's been on the Tweaked 2 boot animation for about 7-8 mins. I know it has to convert to EXT4 format. How long should it take?
[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
---------- Post added at 01:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:56 PM ----------

about 10 minutes or so.... mine held up for about 45 minutes before I pulled the battery - then after re-booting, everything was fine...
[Verizon Droid Charge] bvsbutthd101:
I'd say it's been about 10 mins so far. Maybe longer. Still sitting here on the boot screen.
[Verizon Droid Charge] hiien:
Has anyone had random data dropouts post-2.1 update? I can't tell if it's the apps or if it's my phone, but my phone has recently been doing this annoying thing where if I'm using an app that needs the network my LTE will cut out completely for 15 seconds and cut back in for another 15 seconds, it's a HUGE pain when navigating with gmaps or streaming music.
[Verizon Droid Charge] BattsNotIncld:
Considering Verizon just rolled out a bunch of new LTE markets, and are probably preparing for the surge of new SIII LTE users, I'm pretty sure it is Verizon tinkering with their networks causing the data issues.

I've never had a problem with data drops, but recently have been having sporadic issues.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bvsbutthd101:
It working now, just pulled the battery and it booted up right away.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
nice... not sure why it hangs like that....
[Verizon Droid Charge] romsRfun:
It happened to me a while ago. It was awful for a couple of days. The following day the data wasn't dropping at all.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Reilly1812:
Same problem. Verizon, not phone. Today working as it should. Stock/rooted/debloated.
[Verizon Droid Charge] davidmcw:
I've noticed that my phone appears to be stuck on the boot screen but hitting the power button blanks screen and a second power button press brings up the lock screen. Very strange.

Runnin' Tw3@k3d 2.1 and PBJ.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
That is strange - is this only on first boot (after flashing) - or is it always?

Also...

Themes are down on tweaktools for a wee bit.

OP updated.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dSlice:
Thank you on here as well! Lol :-D
[Verizon Droid Charge] stebomurkn420:
To flash or not to flash is the question... Ill have to return to stock by wednesday again if I do... Lol.. But I wanna check out the new build... Im already on the complete stock image... :/ decisions decisions...
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
What you were working on a new build ...

I had no idea ....

Thanks bro....

CUJO....

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[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
LOL - well the update is pretty minor really - check the changelog. What isn't shown there is the fact that I took a ton of time to update all the tweaktools themes to 2.2 already, which are uploading (and may be done) shortly as well. I even went through and (hopefully) fixed/edited some things in the solid/transparent ics themes, the coredroid theme, and the tw4 theme.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ijustdontcare:
Just wanted to say thanks, to the charge hero!

Bought ya a sandwich! Keep up the good work!:cool:
[Verizon Droid Charge] stebomurkn420:
Dwitherell I wish you were rocking a nexus!!!!! Lol.. Ur the ****.. Thanks again for everything... I wish I wasnt such a broke bum or I would definitely buy you a sammich... Lol
[Verizon Droid Charge] davidmcw:
All the time, about 3 of 4 times.

Runnin' Tw3@k3d 2.1 and PBJ.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Thanks! And assuming this question was posed by you - yes, I hear such a theme is in the works... :) If it wasn't posed by you, then that made no sense.

Wow - yeah that's not right. I would try to reflash the ROM perhaps - I would probably try just the /system version first.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ldeveraux:
I'm having this issue too, I flashed the 2.2 CWR over the top of already installed 2.1. I deleted cache, etc but this is still happening. Maybe it just takes a long time to boot?
[Verizon Droid Charge] coulter6:
I just tried updating 2.2 in Tweaktools and got an error message:

"Error downloading file: md5 mismatch ! !

Please verify data connection, that there is at least free space on sdcard and then restart Tweaktooks"

I tried downloading twice

- Data connection via Verizon 4G - good connection

- Using the default Blue/black theme

- over 16GB available on my SD card.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
md5 mismatch means a bad download. I updated this morning just fine, but I can't say that there isn't something going on right now.

Here's something for you to try. Delete the contents of the TweakTools directory on your SD card and try again. A corrupted download may be hanging you up.
[Verizon Droid Charge] rmanaka:
Same here

The same thing happened to me last night...three attempts (I was on TW 2.1 despite what my sig is saying!)

I downloaded the CWM zip file and applied the update using the Recovery option...cleared cache and dalvik, mounted system and then applied zip file. (Oh, I also UNFROZE all of my frozen modules using TiBu Pro. before updating.

After a LONG initial boot all has been fine.

Very snappy, very smooth.

Thank you dw!
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
LOL - well Im not sure as to the md5 mismatch, but I forgot to upload that... my bad. I just did, and I tested it and all seems to work fine now. Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing that out!

Let me know if there are any other issues with this.

EDIT: For those with issues involving the posted CWM zips (or the ODIN files really) - make sure to state WHICH one you DLed. I tested all of them, but I suppose the upload could have corrupted something.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Farabomb:
Tweaktools download is still borked.

I'll give it one more shot then I'll grab the CWM.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Huh - I just did it again in fact and without issue - could you define "borked" for me? I'm trying to figure out where exactly this is failing.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Farabomb:
It goes quickly but I keep seeing 404, file not found errors then at the end md5 mismatch and thanks for using tweaktools.

Waiting for it to reboot from the cwm but I may flash back and see if I can get more info for you.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Ok sounds good - thanks!

Out of curiosity - have you messed w/ busybox at all? I know the downloads can get a bit wonky on newer iterations of it (like 1.20+).
[Verizon Droid Charge] Farabomb:
After the CWM it couldn't find the SD card so tweaktools was going nuts. Went into CWM to restore backup and got error formatting system and now I'm porked.

Luckily I have the netbook here at work so off to do a clean odin and have a clean install.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Holy crap - sorry for all the troubles. Could you navigate to it by some other means (root explorer, etc)? I swear - I really do test this stuff out for a week or two before posting (as have a few others) and I have yet to see any issue like this - glad you have a means to clean install on hand!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Farabomb:
It's all good man, it's been acting a bit funky as of late so it's not the end of the world. I learned a long time ago if you're playing around with tech you really can't get pissed when things go screwy.

As far as testing goes I will have a SIII soon so I can test whatever you want on the extra charge I'll have. I still have to support the woman's phone so I won't be going anywhere.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jeremyumo:
Home button working

Can anyone tell me how to get my Home Button to work normally? I love this ROM, just need to do some tweaking to my Tweaked....
[Verizon Droid Charge] usererror404:
Sweet babypunching Christ, Dwit, you are awesome. Flashed, installed, no problems. Sammiches inbound on payday.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
TweakTools update works fine for me.

Sent from my handheld computer using electromagnetic radiation.
[Verizon Droid Charge] romsRfun:
Look back a few pages. Need a clean install. Need light blue CWM. Just follow dwitherell's op and you'll be fine. I'm seeing that following directions is a major piece to make this rom work without a problem.

Doing your own thing will definitely cause problems. :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] romsRfun:
We believe you! :cool:
[Verizon Droid Charge] BattsNotIncld:
I'm also having issues updating through tweaktools. I took a screenshot of what's happening:
[Verizon Droid Charge] o0BlacknesS0o:
Light blue cwm not required...i only use orange and have had no problem with home button

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