[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] kornyone:
CM9 Rocks, no?

Hello all,

I have read up on the thread since I last posted. I began a new job this week, and I have had to shift focus to work since we released the alpha. I plan to shift back here soon.

What's great about the current situation (for both myself and the Doubleshot community) is TeamDS represents the CM efforts going forward. That means tbalden is involved in fixing things when I am not around, and vice versa (things flow so much better with a team and community!). He has full ability to merge commits to our common repos, and push updates here on the forums. We also have as decent communication two people could have with a seven hour time difference (plus the new job thing, and I move next week).

I understand the battery usage is of highest concern right now for everyone. I will shift my focus to troubleshooting this as soon as I can, if tbalden doesn't beat me to it :)

I never used any other Doubleshot roms besides the base Sense rom for a day, CM7 builds (many test) and CM9 builds (many test). Battery life has never been great on this phone, and with CM7 there were few kernel hacks but a lot of frameworks hacks. In CM9, the kernel is hacked to hell, but we are using public CM9 repos (with the goal of mainlining this device). I would believe the kernel is the common element here for battery drain, but tbalden used almost the exactly the same kernel (you can see in the github commits where I stopped committing back in January -- that's when I handed it off to him). His Pyro Ice roms apparently didn't drain battery as bad, from what we have discussed.

For me, this means I probably won't dive right into porting to v3 kernel immediately. I will focus on determining if this is a kernel/userspace issue (diagnose the battery consumption) and go from there. I have a feeling it's one of a few things: graphics blobs going berzerk (we are using blobs from pyramid Sense ICS and doubleshot CM7), liblights failing (that's definitely an issue, and it could have larger impacts than what's on the surface), the new CPU overclocking governors and methods I committed to the kernel need tweaking, etc....

I know tbalden is using this as his daily, with a SIM, and is noting the battery consumption. I do not have a TMobile SIM active (my wife does), I have a Toro LTE (Galaxy Nexus) that's my daily. As such, I cannot speak much to the SMS/MMS issues, other than basic testing worked in my QA test.

Thanks for all the positive feedback. I hope we get the battery issue fixed before people lose interest in this device/CM9, as it has a LOT of potential. Since I don't use the phone like a daily consumer would (it's off when I am not hacking/testing), I don't have a good way to gauge the consumption without putting some extra time into it.

I am thrilled the github repos are now public. It seems a fair number of intelligent people ended up with this device, as many have found workarounds for numerous issues. Feel free to let us know anything you isolate that can fix the battery issue or anything else -- we will make sure it's contributed if it's a local doubleshot vendor/device/kernel hack.

Thanks!

(buzzing on positive vibes)