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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] twelvebit:
I am having very similar problems. Spontaneous shutdowns (I have woken up a few times to find the phone crashed during the night while charging), and erratic battery problems -- the whole battery can drop from 30% to 0% in no time, and when I reboot it can report 2% the first time, and then 25% then second. I have gone to plug in and charge what seemed like a dead battery and had it jump to 44% in about 5 minutes.

This has all happened since I moved to Mimicry. I have not been able to track down the cause either. No known water damage or anything else.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Sometimes it's so hard to believe the things some of the issues you guys report. I've never had the ROM "crash" on me and the only times I've had it get so slow that it froze were when I had zram enabled. I rarely reboot my phone and I use it as a deskclock / alarm every single day (Never missed an alarm). Battery life for me is also very consistent, I regularly get 4-5 hours of screen on time during an entire day (16+ hours), with the phone able to go 2 full days with 2-3 hours screen on time & good reception.

Either it's a hardware issue or some of your apps are just not playing nicely w/ ICS. I assume everybody is reproducing these issues on a full wipe (why else would you be posting in here), so maybe it's the way I use my phone? I rarely use the camera and I don't have any non-stock camera apps installed. I use google play music, stock browser, stock messager, etc. That said, I am obviously a power user and use my phone for 4-5 hours of screen on time every single day.

EDIT:

Thought I'd go into detail to list the apps I do use regularly as they're well made & proven to run without issue for me:

Root Explorer, ES File Explorer, KeePassDroid, Kaloer Clock, ConnectBot, Android IRC, 4EXT, avast! Anti-Theft, PC Monitor, 3G Watchdog, Tasker, XDA, GTalk SMS, Dropbox, TiBu, Evernote, Pocket, Yelp, G+, IMDb, Flixster Movies, MortPlayer, Listen, Netflix, Trillian, SNesoid, Nesoid, Angry Birds, Flick Golf, Temple Run, Minecraft Pocket Edition.

Everything else is stock. I use Nova launcher (not the new betas) and for widgets I use: Beautiful Widgets, Smooth Calendar, QuickSSHd, GTasks, and BetterBatteryStats.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] revwillie:
My original G2 acted like that. I suspect that the phone got too hot or too moist in my pocket while doing yardwork last summer but I don't know for sure. I also accidentally let water into the inside of my aquapac case and the phone was sealed inside in direct sunlight for a little while. Can water vapor damage a phone? After trying _everything_ (seriously, you name it, I tried it) to get the phone to work normally, I bought a used G2 from an ebay seller with a good return policy. I'm so glad I did. I'm using the same EVO shift 1800mah batteries I bought for the old phone, but they work great. Some older batteries worked fine in the new phone, but they were 1.5 years old and I only wanted three new, good batteries. I noticed the new phone would spontaneously shut down when using one of the old batteries. I recently recycled all but the best three batteries that never give me problems. I migrated my backup of CM 7.2 stable from the old phone to the new phone and the battery problems . I just moved to M 1.4.0 and I'm not getting as good of battery life, but that could be due to my constant fiddling too explore ICS and possibly the fact that I was using a conservative governor and setCPU nighttime/screen off profiles on CM. I am deliberately avoiding governor tweaks for a while to make sure ICS is stable on my phone.

I've been following various ICS builds since January. I'm glad I finally took the plunge, but I've noticed a big difference in performance between GB and ICS. I'm eligible for upgrade next month and hoping to get something with JB preinstalled.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hackbob:
I have similar problem with reboots and random battery values, but I'm pretty sure it's a battery issue, it's now 2 years old and lately it started to "grow" due to heat exposure on the windscreen of the car (actually one time it popped out the rear cover).

Waiting for the battery replace to test again and see if the problem is still there.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] raimopeku:
Anyone else have problem installing titanium backup, everytime i try to install it from market, it just says not enough space. I have plenty of free space, and can install any other apps with no problems.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Deathmehr:
I don't have this problem, and I don't know what caused it but can't you flash titanium backup from a zip through recovery?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ilea94:
You have to delete com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup.apk in /data/app
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Some more details is required, but you may have to uninstall the app first and then retry it. Though I normally just flash the TitaniumBackup zip via recovery so it's a system app the first time I boot up the rom.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bogdan5844:
Does anyone have a delay in receiving the caller ID and photo when someone calls ? It shows only the number - as if it's an unknown number - until I answer. Sometimes it shows after 10-15 seconds.

I am using FB Contact Sync for photos, and have tried reducing the photo size, and also clearing data for People and Phone apps, to no avail.

Also, when entering the dialer/call log it takes ages to load.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
This is an issue with AOSP ICS on our device. The more contacts you have the worse it seems to affect people. For instance I don't have FB sync or any of that nonsense, with around 100 contacts and the dialer / people app loads within 2 seconds for me (not cached). I also don't have issues with the app matching names to numbers and my contacts are matched immediately when somebody call.

Try limiting the amount of contacts if you want to improve the performance. Or try a third party app I guess.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] armorized:
Ya full wipe of course. I have, ES File explorer, Rom Manager, handcent sms, Titanium Backup pro, drop box, google drive, facebook, facebook messenger, fast reboot, lock widget, batstat pro, gmail, google maps, google books, soundhound, google maps, youtube, xda app, adobe reader, supersu, chrome, tablet talk, pdanet, foxfi, beautiful widgets, xfinity tv player, zarchiver, avast, scramble w/ friends, dominos pizza, kindle, congress, ventriloid, terminal emulator, dictionary.com, earthquake alert, newegg, aion translator, google voice, pandora

First I used titanium to batch load the apps back on and had the issue, to make sure titanium wasnt messing anything up I manually downloading the apps i use and still after some use texting and talking on fb and even just sitting idle it would suddenly do a hot restart on its own. I used apex launcher and had some force closes as well as dolphin browser causing some fc's. I did not try using nova or trebuchet. zram was also disabled as well. I reinstalled fresh and right off the bat was havin problems with apex crashing xD. I slowed to the OC too to like 300-1000mhz. I got rid of dolphin as I think it was not playing nicely with me either.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] leclasheur22:
Hello

The roaming dont work perfecly for me.

Freeconfig detect roaming is not activated but my parameters is correct. Im am european desire z. Radio its last .19

Any idea ?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
Go Launcher works nicely in this Rom, never have any problems really.

+ It has cool woosh woosh animations.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] raimopeku:
Oh thank you! That worked, now i can restore my backups again :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] prairie-dad:
became unresponsive too often...switched ROMs... :(

VISION PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC1010000)

MICROP -0425

RADIO-26.13.04.19_M

eMMC-boot

Aug 20 2010 16:51:01

I only rooted the phone a few days ago, and have learned a HUGE amount from many good folks here; props to all.

Installed Mimicry 1.3.2, then up to 1.4 as soon as it came out. While everything seemed to work fine...phone and (low res) video included...I just had too, too many times when it would slow, and slow and sloooooooow...to the point of being hugely annoying.

So, this afternoon, I switched to the EliteMod ICS ROM...including the latest, Aug. 15, kernel...and voila, pretty darned good (so far) though I am not done tuning it yet.

Here's the question: I have put a new, 16 gig, class 10 SD card in the phone, partitioned with 2 gig for sd-ext and the rest fat-32, and am running with apps there instead of just doing "app2sd" in Android Assistant like I did with mimicry (and GB before that.) Is it possible that just changing the size and class (from 8 gig and class 4) of SD card, and moving to sd-ext from fat32 for app storage, is making _all_ the difference? If I were to go back to mimicry (with a bigger user base for sure...more eyeballs on what is done with/to it) would my lagging largely go away? Or should I just try it myself...?

On that note, are there useful apps (benchmarks, I guess is what I'm asking for) for _really_ comparing the performance of ROMs' performance...?...both in terms of speed and battery consumption?

thanks and regards to all,

p-d
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Chrome and Facebook are both notoriously bad apps for our device. FB has caused insane lag and symptoms similar to what you're describing - it's also mentioned in the OP as something to look into should you encounter lag or other issues. Dolphin has always been fine for me, though obviously flash heavy sites are terrible.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Try using the rom without all that sdcard nonsense. It's totally unnecessary unless you're using dataswap, and even still you should be sure you're not encountering any issues before you go that route.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] prairie-dad:
Sorry if I was unclear. I _was_ running Mimicry with no sd-ext; my SD card was an old, 8 gig, class 4; maybe 5 gig used and 2 free . And that is where the issues were...it's why I changed and simultaneously upgraded the SD, new partition scheme, etc.

Now the problems are gone, but was it the ROM that helped, the bigger, faster card, or SD ext?

Thanks and regards

P-d
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
To this point I use Friendcaster. It is a much better designed app.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] The Unnamed Time Lord:
Tell me, how "stable" is this version? I mean camera issues aside.

Do we still have text issues or has that been resolved?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Every ICS rom will have the corrupted text issue to some extent (with this one I maybe see it once a week if not less, and force quitting said app resolves it rather than a full reboot). In fact I think that particular problem of text corruption is not limited to just the Desire-Z/G2, so would seem to be a general ICS bug.

The camera is functional, while it may not have all the eye-candy features, it won't crash on you at least and will least take pictures.

Everything else for me has been smooth and stable, and for the most part lag-free. It's probably the smoothest ICS rom I've used aside from EliteMod ICS (which doesn't have as many features, but some people like it like that).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mcsmart:
Nope. At least there are a few Sense 4 roms which managed to get rid of the annoying text corruption thing (explanation).

- mcsmart
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Artsie:
Gps not working

I can't get gps working on this rom. In Aroma I checked that radio fix and gps didn't work so I came back here and did everything in the first page of this thread, but it still doesn't work (I did flash radio, radio ril gps updater and efs wipe from that other thread, but even now the gps icon doesn't even show up... with andromaudus 4 gps works fine without anything... And oh I came from andromaudus 4, did a full wipe and everything exept gps works greatly if that matters.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Full wipe and make sure the:.19 radio lib-RIL option is not selected. Sometimes it can cause issues for people. GPS works fine on this ROM.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BacchusFLT:
[BUG] SMS error

The issues relates to SMS tickets received from the local commuter traffic company in Stockholm, Sweden. (This is where it surfaces). Minicry 1.3.x and 1.4.0 has the same error.

Modus operandi:

1) Ticket ordered

2) Status shows the it's received

3) Opening the statusbar shows there is an entry

4) Selecting the entry opens a requested for a new SMS

- Please mind: This is

not

a Flash SMS (such are supposed to be visible only once and never stored) but a normal one.

# The message is not listed in the message log

# Backup to GMail works and the SMS shows in GMail (which saved me from getting fined at inspection and I couldn't show the original SMS!)

# I have another phone and ordering via it worked fine (X10 min using MiniCM7) and it's also equipped with Forward SMS to the Minicry equipped Desire Z, and such forwarded messages are also listed as received and fully visible.

-> The issue is isolated to the original SMS as received by the service.

For reference: I have done cashe clears and and log clears for messages and phone, but no full factory reset (but given that other messages work, that seems not to be relevant to problem resolution) so I am guilty of not testing everything before filing a complaint.

I can't dump you a copy of the SMS (as I can't open it on the phone, remember?) but I can provide a source of the message as it arrives in Gmail. Contains my phone number (excluding prefix +46 in case you want to text or call me ;)

Subject: SMS with 721508370

From: 721508370 <721508370@unknown.email>

To: [my mailadress - deleted to prevent mail harvesting]

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset=utf-8

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:04:18 +0200

References: <d141agrultvhh05kbsg5eum4.721508370@backup2gmail.cpedia.net>

X-backup2gmail-sms-id: 24

X-backup2gmail-sms-address: 721508370

X-backup2gmail-sms-type: 1

X-backup2gmail-sms-date: 1345701858752

X-backup2gmail-sms-thread: 66

X-backup2gmail-sms-read: 0

X-backup2gmail-sms-status: -1

X-backup2gmail-sms-protocol: 57

X-backup2gmail-sms-service_center: +46705008999

X-backup2gmail-sms-backup_time: 23 Aug 2012 06:06:57 GMT

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nakaori:
that did the deal. thanks :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] twelvebit:
I think it's likely a coincidence, I'm not blaming the rom. I went back to CM7 to see if things were more stable, and it was all kinds of laggy (and depressing). My phone is feeling long in the tooth, it may be that my battery is damaged or on the way out, I'm just describing the problems I've recently encountered in the name of scientific inquiry.

The sudden battery drop thing is new, I wasn't getting it on Andromadus b4, which I ran for quite a while. It almost never froze or rebooted, but it did lag a lot -- if anything Mimicry is smoother.

It's also worth noting that I am a total noob and have pretty much no idea what I'm doing. I just wiped all and installed via 4ext recovery control, and the rom itself reinstalled most of my apps from the store. I grabbed a few missing things from my titanium backups, that's it. It's running as stock otherwise.

I hope this doesn't seem like complaining -- your rom is awesome, it's the only thing keeping me from upgrading to a new phone. I am very grateful for your work.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bogdan5844:
Seems that my battery woes have solved. Constantly getting 16-18hrs with heavy usage, I think I could pass two days with low to medium use.

I did basically nothing, not even a batterystats wipe. Just use the phone regularly for a week or so, to let it settle in.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] H4rry:
Perfection...

blk_jack

v1.4.0 did a full wipe and reinstall. WOW, just wow. Fast, smooth and contacts/ phone lag is gone. So cool. Thanks you man. Just great. Thank you, thank you.

I have only one problem and that is the process system not responding error. This has been ongoing for a while now thru different revisions. BUT I think I may have found a way to sort it. While I have been doing a full wipe for ROM install I haven't wiped the sd card (lazy??).

I install all apps I want from the market singly. If this error happens (and it typically occurs immediately after the install) I then uninstall, open a file explorer and delete the folder on the sd card where the app placed data. Reinstall and no problems.

I have no idea why this worked but so far it has, fingers crossed.

So ROM perfect, my sd card maybe not so :)

Thanks man. Great work.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bogdan5844:
Might I inquire about the number of contacts you have?

I am rocking at about 175 and I constantly get lags when receiving a call or entering the call log.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
183 here and no lag with calls send/receive nor in viewing call log or contacts.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] revwillie:
my phone seems to run a little faster after I went into recovery and re-ran aroma to tweak install options. It went through some kind of 'optimizing apps' procedure before terminating. Is that a fix permissions thing?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
No, that happens when you wipe the cache and dalvik cache. Aroma does it, but you can do it from the recovery as well.

---

Alright guys. Since I play a lot of Temple Run ( compete with the gf and her damn dual core Xperia Sola ), I was trying to get the closest settings to make it smooth.

And it resulted in making my phone a helluva lot smoother.

-Took off all battery monitoring apps and installed BBS.

-Removed the FB app ( did this a while ago; use FB only at my PC, or with the browser )

-Dropbox isn't synced

-Google Backup isn't enabled

-Under Performance

-Processor - Defaults 368-1209 Smartassv2

-Memory Mgt - zRam disabled, Purging and KSM checked

-Surface Dithering and 16bit unchecked

-Typically 654MB of internal storage used ( with ~600 odd free )

-Twitter geolocation disabled ( Turns out since I get push notifications from twitter, the app was always running in the background and forcing maps to run as well )

I see to it that before I play TR, I close all the apps, and then start the game. If it's still choppy, I go to the main menu, force kill the app, remove it from the recent apps list, and start it again, and it's all smooth. I need it for my high score runs :P

Also, I typically have very little issues with the dialer/contacts ( takes 6 seconds or so if not cached ) even though I have 600+ contacts synced from Google/Whatsapp/Skype only. Even picking up calls isn't that bad actually. Takes a second or two to load the contact. Must also mention that TR has no issues resuming after picking up a call. Hell, it doesn't even cause issues when the call comes in. So 1.4.0 is simply beastly with these tweaks.

When I was chatting with blk_jack the other day on IRC, he mentioned that hot reboots help the memory a lot especially when it comes to apps that have memory leaks. So I do that once in a while too. Doesn't hurt battery recording on BBS so I'm quite okay with that. Also, I brought back my 5 homescreen setup on Nova instead of the 3 I was using for over a month or two now, to help memory usage.

Just thought this might help as a general user.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
How long after you did all this did you post? I find that right after flashing, the ROM is at its quickest. Like DNA accumulating mutations, the ROM slows down a bit normally after 3-5 days. Right now 1.4 is the best version so far because I havent had a need to reboot the phone in more than a week. Besides the Contacts and Phone acting sluggish, everything checks out fine. And Friendcaster is a good FB replacement, btw. (also I read somewhere that FB is making its employees eat its own dog food by making them use the Android app. So hopefully a better version is around the corner soon!)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Here's another tip: Make sure all your apps are closed & launch Temple Run. Go BACK home and longpress kill the launcher. It'll go back to Temple Run w/o reloading your launcher ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
It's been a little over a week or two. I'll have to check twitter for when I started getting runs of over 500k ( yes, I suck at the game ).

Anyway, what blk_jack helped me out with, has made my phone incredibly consistent in terms of responsiveness and what not. Also, I forgot to mention, check the sdcard for errors. My gf put a defective memory card in her Xperia Sola, and it definitely made her phone sluggish. Especially response to the power button, wake and all.

This would work too.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] H4rry:
Sorry for the delay. I have 129 contacts. Dropped the G+ circles as it was spiralling out of control. For about 15 of my contacts I have HD contact photos. Phone opens is around a second or two, contacts in 2 to 4 seconds.

Also Aumkar's tips are really good. Get rid of FB and follow his other tips. Makes a big difference. I have Dropbox syncing and Google Back Up enabled but other than that I have the same settings.

I don't use FB or Twitter on my phone. The only app that I use that kills the phone is BeyondPod. Really slows the phone down. I love this app, but this has been an issue even in stock. I just wish the app was lighter.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sheikmans:
After using previous versions of your rom I switched to Sense 4A. Although those roms are very eyecandy, they are slow and switched back to the latest version of your rom last night. What a speed, great customizations and everything just works perfectly! This is without any doubt the most stable and fasted rom I've tried on my lovely old Desire Z.

Thank you for your hard work, I really appreciate what you are doing for my phone!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Thanks! There's more stuff coming as I start porting features over to JB and backporting those improvements into ICS.

Testing for 1.4.1 will be starting this week. So far it has: Updated translations - 7 new languages!, fixed text corruption bug, revamped Notification Shortcuts -- proper spacing, justification & alignment, Colorized Notification Shortcut Icons - set the color for stock, user provided and default application icons (theme lovers rejoice!) and the better late than never adjustable StatusBar background transparency - Apply transparencies to the entire StatusBar, on the fly, with or without themes.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Jalaluddin:
thx for this amazing and stable rom =D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mcsmart:
battery stats show high phone activity

Has anyone else experienced issues with the phone being active too much (see attached screenshot)? The battery stats show me a lot of strange activity, even though the phone is in airplane mode. I even tried to wipe all of my data and reflashed the rom without restoring apps. And even without any apps installed I was experiencing this issue. It could be just cosmetic though, because it does not seem to affect battery life too much (although I do not get two days of juice any more). Is this a known issue?

I have also checked the stats in BBS, but they do not really show anything suspicious.

- mcsmart
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] revwillie:
I started to put this into the bug tracker but I am not sure if it is a cm7 specific feature you can adapt or not. My haptic feedback is very weak and cm7.2 had a useful way to customize the pulses. Is that code portable to mimicry directly or do we have to wait for cm9/cm10 to port it first?