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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cruise350:
Why would you go through all that hassle. You do know that every version of Meanrom creates a folder on your internal sdcard called Meanrom ICS that contains all the flash-able mods including the overclock zips. After the rom installs via OTA you can just reboot into recovery and navigate to the Meanrom ICS folder with TWRP and flash the mod you want.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] baknblack:
Mike, I thought you kept the more than 8 recent apps mod in 4.6. 8 is all I can see.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bog3nator:
i use intellidemand, or lionhart is a conservative gov.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gianmarco00:
:bag on head:

No, I didn't realize that. I thought you had to navigate through the zip and pull it out. That should save some time :)

Thanks! :good:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] engelsione:
How can this be possible?? I had 4.5 overclocked at 1.7 with Amazing battery life!!! I think way better than stock. I just flashed 4.6 and battery is draining fairly fast!!! Why does this happen? I had to recover back 4.5
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] AnonSVN:
How do you take screenshots? Power+Home does nothing.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Socrguru:
No need to be ashamed ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ElMadre:
Power and volume down, I believe. CORRECTION: That's not right. Power and home works for me.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Socrguru:
Power+Home works for me. What app are you trying to take a shot of? I've heard some people had issues with a few specific apps.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] travisw0204:
+1. I've noticed when I'm in an app or online, Power + Volume Down works but if I'm just surfing through Sense or the Gallery, Power + Home works there for me
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cherylbaker:
Awesome thanks
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
Power + home works for me just press power slightly before home and it should work :D

Power and vol down also works :p
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SquireSCA:
Performance is back up to the 8400 range in Antutu, I guess it had to settle in and let some background apps finish running or whatever...

What kind of battery life are you folks getting? Mine seems poorer than stock for some reason, and I don't overclock as there is no benefit to overclocking a phone....

And do you guys have "Force GPU for 2D rendering" enabled or disabled?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] KEYofR:
I don't remember it happening all the time though? Maybe in the stock rom it's configurable and I found and disabled it? I'll have to go spelunking. Thanks.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mann75:
I was scratching my head about your OC flashing, when I first read your post. Glad you got your answer, and you were able to drop the computer route and use the HTC super phone for everything. :D

Rooted EVO baby
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
Got 16 on mine right now on 4.6. Did you flash anything that might have broken it?

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] baknblack:
Blueberry theme, did that break it?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] KEYofR:
I count only single full second.

That's completely easy for me to do when handling the phone. Glancing blows, inserting in the car and desktop cradles, sure those are all short presses and no problem. Also since it requires a firmer press that also reduces the unintended activations a little compared to the half press. So I agree it's not nearly the problem the half press was. I can live with it.

But grabbing it out of the car and holding on to it, carrying it around, it's a $600 device which on top of that has consumed far more than $600 of my time dicking with it. I don't hold it so lightly I'll drop it if I stop thinking about it for a second and it's easy to activate the camera when I didn't want to. So it happens about as often as unintended volume changes. That can be several times a day depending on what I'm doing that day. If I'm out and about, it's happening many times a day. Sitting there on the table for 6 hours while I work, only picking it up a fee times in nice controlled setting, maybe once.

But it is less often than the half press so it's not nearly the problem that was. The half press, every other time I went to show my gf or someone something on it, they'd just look funny and when I turn the phone back around I see the damned search or something else had popped up.

I had to be constantly consciously actively careful to avoid touching that whole corner of the phone when car docking, desktop docking, and all other handling. Just holding it normally for reading or other apps, in either left or right hands would trigger it.

Yes the same could be said for the volume buttons and yes I'm always hitting the volume buttons when I don't want to also.

The difference is, if there is only the volume buttons, it's still annoying, but at least it's possible to train myself to tend to hold the phone lower and generally avoid the volume button area more often than not. That reduces the annoying accidental pop up and volume change somewhat.

But when there is also some other active button at the bottom too, I have nowhere to go!

I can't walk around holding the phone by a careful two-finger pinch right in the center! I actually _would_ rip out the physical button first, or more realistically just scratch the circuit trace going to it, if there wasn't a software fix.

If there were no better software fix, I bet you could just make a dummy pacifier app that does nothing but advertise itself as a camera app and a search app, and then assign both button events to that app. The buttons would still trigger the events, but then the app just would't actually do anything. Maybe locale plugins could already do that now without having make a special "fake" app? Anyways, luckily it's not necessary at least for the half press.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mcvoss:
Here's a dumb question.... If i clear recent apps by swiping.up when I'm in recent apps. Does that help battery life and/or memory, i guess the question is does that kill the app?

Thx
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
Quite likely. Most themes have their own SystemUI.apk which, if not specifically made for the latest version of MeanROM, will break the 16 recent app mod.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Socrguru:
That's an interesting question... can Tasker intercept a button press like that before the ROM itself does?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
What kind of case do you have? I use this one (this is the one sold in Sprint stores), and I've never had a problem. It makes pressing the power, volume, and camera buttons MUCH more deliberate. Also not sure I understand why you say you have nowhere to grab it. I've just learned to grab mine in the middle third of the left/right: there are no buttons there.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] AnonSVN:
DroidSheep does not take screenshots anymore. Weird. I was on ParanoidAndroid and it was working fine, socI don't know.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gianmarco00:
Mikey,

I don't think you addressed it when asked earlier, but do you think you'll be coming up with a higher overclock option to 1.89 like 4.4.2 had? I know you said some phones couldn't handle it, but for those of ours that can, it would be nice to have it available while also having the latest changes done.

Also, one other question for anyone that might know: In the default mail client that I use for my work exchange account, there's no way (that I know of) to go from one email to the next in my inbox. I have to read an email, go back to the inbox message list, then choose the next one. In Gmail, for example, I can just swipe left or right to bring me directly to the next message. Is there any workaround or hack for this? Unfortunately, because my work requires exchange security and it's been disabled in this ROM, I'm stuck using this mail client but it's annoying when I have 5+ new emails to keep going back to the list just to read through each one.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] nohart:
Pwr+VolDn

Takes a full second to register

Has an animation

Saves to a separate screenshots folder

Produces a notification "screenshot captured"

Pwr+Home

Triggers instantly

No animation other than the flash effect

Saves to the same Camera Shots folder as the camera.

No notification
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] shook187:
Is there a way we could arrange the other of the quick settings? It would be nice to have the Task Manager on top.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bobonit:
Only way I can take screen shots is Power and Home. When I hold Power and Volume Down, it just lowers my Volume.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SquireSCA:
Outof morbid curiosity, what would be the purpose of overclocking a phone to 1.8Ghz be?

Make your calls faster? ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
No, not until Zarboz updates his kernel. I think he must be busy with other stuff.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gianmarco00:
Had scores on Quadrant and Antutu that were significantly higher (6100-6200 now, was at 6600-6700 with 4.4.2) and the phone overall was even snappier and quicker than it is with the 1.728.

So, in other words, for better performance since I didn't have any worse battery performance or glitches that others reported at that speed. It's the same reason we overclock from the stock settings to 1.728 to begin with.

---------- Post added at 12:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:20 PM ----------

Ah, ok.

It's not as if 1.728 isn't great, but you know how greedy we can be with these monster phones :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] travisw0204:
I use the Power + Vol Down when either online or in apps. Other than that, I use Power + Home
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SquireSCA:
I dunno... more battery drain, more heat, for a synthetic benchmark score that has no real correlation to real world performance... I do it with PC's where you do get faster frame rates or cut video editing rendering times by 10+%, it's free performance, but I just never really understood the point on a phone where you are rarely doing anything that requires a lot of processing power. it looks good for a benchmark score, but if it doesn't actually make the phone faster and just drains my battery faster then it doesn't really benefit me...

Benchmarks to me were always for troubleshooting... to give me a ballpark score to see if my device is running ok. I noticed that my N7 was a little choppy, so I ran Antutu and saw that my I/O score was horrible, like 45... So I installed a different kernel(Motley) and it jumped to 450 where it should be. I guess I use them more as a diagnostic tool than anything...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cherylbaker:
Well I ran it but I lost live wallpaper and my lock screen. They had adb app that was suppose to put the lick screen back but it didn't work. What so you suggest.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mhmobile:
Watch your speling...

Ok, all of a sudden after a reboot, my phone starts gyrating and twisting out of control. Not sure what in the world I did so I traced my steps to the last change I made and found the problem in the opt file I just created.

PERFORMANCE_OR_BATTERY="PERFORMDANCE"

What a goofball. Only intended to set the read ahead to 3072, must have pasted my misspelled linefrom somewhere. Would have been easier to just change the values in the init.qcom.post.boot.sh...:p
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] schmeggy929:
hey it was only doing what you told it to do. performDANCE! :D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bobonit:
even in Apps, such as the Browser, Power + Home is the only thing that works for me. Power + VolDown only lowers the volume.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xanmanz31:
power+volume down you have to push n hold volume down for a second or so i use power and home personally
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] baknblack:
Yup, Reflash fixed it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JustinChase:
I rooted last night, and after several hours of reading, I picked this ROM to start with. So far, GREAT decision. I really like it so far!! I LOVE the chomping 'droid animation (I wish that was my wallpaper!)

However, I have experienced a small issue. When playing music off of my SD card (16GB Class10), about 2-3 seconds before the end of every track, I hear a very faint 'crackle/distortion/anomoly' that lasts about 1/2 second. It sounds similar to the noise you'd get when moving your mouse on a desktop machine using headphones and the onboard audio chip.

I only hear it on quiet tracks, and it's very faint. In fact, I didn't even notice until after about 4 hours of listening, but now that I've noticed it, it's kinda driving me crazy. I had the OG EVO with MANY different ROMS over the years, and the stock ROM on this phone for a couple weeks, and have never heard this before, so I suspect it's related to this ROM.

Any thoughts on how to track down the cause and eliminate it?

**EDIT: also, how can I download/use the mean android munching animation for use outside of the ROM? I want to include it in emails to people that make me mad! :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mathman85:
Just switched to 4.6 after using Rejuvinated Stock for a while, and I have to say that I am completely impressed. In all of my ROM flashing on the original EVO 4G, EVO View 4G, Nook Color, ASUS TF700T, and EVO 4G LTE, I've never had a ROM benchmark (and operate) so consistently. You've incorporated almost every feature I wanted (quick settings, 5M MMS, Google Now, half-press camera for search, long-press volume to skip tracks, etc.), and didn't incorporate any feature I didn't (specifically, remapping what is clearly a multitasking button to do anything other than multitasking). The only thing that I feel is missing is landscape rosie, but I think I can probably live without that (though I'd be excited to see it in an update).

Thank you for your well-thought-out ROM and the hard work you put into it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] netengineer:
Which is the latest version of MeanROM has the stock kernel it? I can't remeber and I am having glitches here and there on the Zarboz one. I am getting random lockups and it happens on texting, emails, ect. I also have Google Maps lock on my while driving and then after a while I get a notification that it has stopped responding. very strange.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] curiousGeorge:
Just wanted to let people know that the quality of the stock Voice Recorder app has plummeted in Sense 4.1. Bitrate is now FIXED at 48kbps in AAC (don't even bother with the AMR bull****) and sounds as muffled and watery as a monkey suffering a particularly viscous bout of diarrhea.

Make SURE to back up your Voice Recorder in Sense 4.0 and restore it after you upgrade to one of the latest ROMs. That way you'll get back your crystal clear 128kbps AAC recording (including 2-way call record in the stock voice recorder).

@Mickey: Would it be possible to mod the camera to respect the user's brightness setting? The current version is useless for recording lectures (distraction to students behind me) or PowerPoint presentations (not allowed in the dark room).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kusanagi-sama:
That's because you didn't comment those two out in the config file (obviously not reading the first couple of posts on that thread). You also didn't select the HTC lock screen when first running ROM Cleaner when it asked if you want HTC or AOSP lock screen. Commenting something out means putting a # at the beginning of a line.

Here's my config file:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] nohart:
MeanRom comes with the stock kernel. If you want a different kernel it is in the MeanRom folder that you get once the rom is installed. Just flash in recovery the oc kernel otherwise leave this rom alone and it will be stock kernel.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ryanalan82:
On the opposite side. Out of curiosity why wouldn't ur want you're phone to preform tasks faster? Can't wait till we can o/c this to 2.1. Even 5 yrs from now when we have phones that are probably 10 times faster than this, I'll still o/c to push the limit.

my reason for speed is to have emulators run better.

Swyped from my eVo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evomike77:
You have to let a Rom settle for a day or so before you can gauge battery stats, they always act wonky right after a flash

LtEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ryanalan82:
Edit: nohart answered, I didn't see his reply at first.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xanmanz31:
Geeze mikey I'm very unhappy that I've actively tried to drain my battery and can't seem to make it happen. How dare you build such a stable rom.

Totally having a great experience with your work man keep it up

Sent from my Mean Ass LTEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kusanagi-sama:
Why is WiFi not on continuously instead of in tiny spurts like that?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xanmanz31:
juice defender kills it every time my screen blacks out. i feel like nothing should be on except cell signal when im not actively using the phone.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kusanagi-sama:
WiFi uses much less power than 1x/3G/4G, so when WiFi is killed, it turns on mobile data, thus using more power. Try this, don't let juice defender kill the WiFi, and you'll get a longer battery life.

I'm currently at 18 hours and 11 minutes with 27% battery left. I turn WiFi off when I leave home (no point in having WiFi on when there isn't a connection to a WiFi router -- that's wasted power). Notice how slowly the battery goes down when WiFi is on (and phone is sleeping)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evomike77:
Juice defender actually uses more battery on ics, I used it for a while. Now that I don't, battery lasts about 20% longer

LtEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xanmanz31:
so even though JD is set to turn off all connections including 1x/3g/4g in sleep mode they still come on?

i will agree that when i have wifi i use it because its generally faster but it does use less power. but i figured if all radios were off it would only improve instead of leaving wifi on all the time.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gianmarco00:
I don't use any task killers. I never turn off GPS, WiFi, or Bluetooth.

I can show you a screenshot of 100% battery after four hours on sleep.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xanmanz31:
its not a task killer its a connections manager. task killer kills apps JD doesnt kill any apps it just determines when you want to allow connections with data or bluetooth. you can also adjust screen brightness and cpu i use set cpu for oc. id be willing to bet your battery life would be even better if you turned those off when you werent using them.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kusanagi-sama:
Leave WiFi on all the time only when you are in the presence of a router you can connect to. In fact, the poster before you said JD uses more power on ICS, so its probably best to not even let it run. I don't use any sort of app killer (I used to use Advance Task Manager Pro), and I get excellent battery life. I've never been able to experience greater than 18 hour daily battery life on a smartphone before this one.

My Motorola Photon 4G would get a max of 14-16 hours daily, and maybe 36-38 hours on the weekend. This phone could easily go to 11PM with the 27% currently left on the battery, which would be about 23 hours. I've seen 55 hours on weekend battery life, with WiFi on constantly (though I don't use the phone much during the weekend)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xanmanz31:
ill give it a shot and disable it for a day or so to see if it helps. i can always cut it back on and i feel like task killers are a waste anyways i feel like i can do that myself.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evomike77:
Ics sleeps so well there in no need to run an app to help it regulate battery, or connections

This is after a day of work with crappy 3g, pretty impressive to me

LtEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] xanmanz31:
i get a lot of free time so im constantly whipping my phone out im a manger at Target mobile so im either playing on my phone or showing it to customers. long periods of sleep arent really my issue. does your phone just sit while youre at work? from what i can tell you get great battrey life but if yours is constantly sleeping where im constantly whipping it out would make a significant diff. i will say i notice a pretty fast decrease in battery from about 100% to 70% after that though it seems to be prety slow.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evomike77:
I am constantly on taptalk and texting that screenie is with 2 hrs of screen on time

LtEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cmdauria:
Just a quick question...I am on version 4.6. I did a fresh install! My bluetooth seems a little weird. I have been using the same bluetooth headset for the past year. I have always been able to walk at least 15' away from my phone and the music does not cut out. Today, if I walked like 3' away it would start cutting out.

No big deal, I just wasn't sure if it was a problem for anybody else.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
So... I'm hearing that I should leave wifi and bluetooth on all the time to get better battery life? What if I'm in an area with wifi that I cannot connect to... Doesn't it use more juice searching for a connection? Not trying to be smart, just trying to understand. I don't use task killers or juice defender

---------- Post added at 05:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:57 PM ----------

So... I'm hearing that I should leave wifi and bluetooth on all the time to get better battery life? What if I'm in an area with wifi that I cannot connect to... Doesn't it use more juice searching for a connection? Not trying to be smart, just trying to understand. I don't use task killers or juice defender,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] midmadn:
I've loved MR for a long time. Really bummed out now though because 4.6 causes my Navigon to get killed and have to re-load again like crappy HTC designed it.

I was so happy when multi tasking got fixed so it would stay running.

Mikey - is there a file I can edit to include it in the list with the browsers that don't get killed?

I use Nav all day long every day at work.

Thanks, Jack
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] theultimatev:
Was this on 4.5 or 4.6. I can't decide which to download and use...I'm jumping from paranoid for battery life and camera so I need really great battery life to pull me from AOSP lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kf2m:
I think xanman is getting at he turns off all data radios (BT,3G/LTE,WiFi) except for the cell itself. Used to do that with my Instinct, and would go for days without a charge. Mind you this was before Sprint came out with their unlimited plans so data was metered.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kusanagi-sama:
You obviously didn't read my other post. Leave WiFi on all the time only when you can connect to a router. If there are no available routers to connect to, then turn it off. I never use bluetooth, so that's always off.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
Okay, thanks for the clarification...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evomike77:
4.51 oced at 1.7

LtEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
I tried all the sound recorders all the way back to the 1.13 base. They're all 48k. I even edited the sample rate in the smali in the SetSampleRate call and changed it from 48k to 128k. It still recorded 48k. Which one are you using and where did you get it?

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] theultimatev:
So is 4.5.1 better than 4.6 for battery? and just overall? it seems to be from what I've read...thanks for humoring me
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] netengineer:
Really, I thought it had a different kernel built in. Glad you pointed it out. I flashed it again and it had stock, I realized I did flash the OC. Lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evomike77:
Idk 4.51 runs so awesome I don't want to update, this is the best balance of performance and battery I have ever had over all my evos and I've had all three...lol

LtEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gianmarco00:
I understand that. Sure, my battery life could be better if I turned them all off. But when I'm dropping from 100% to 100% after 4 hours (and down to only 98% after 8 hours), how much better do I really need to make it? I can still received all emails and updates when I sleep and not have to worry about toggling things on or off.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
I'm still on 4.4.2 I get over 24hrs with moderate use almost 3 hours of screen on OC'ed at 1.9 :D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] RHall1340:
I installed 4.6 and it worked fine so I tried the 1.7OC.. I started getting graphics glitches and when (if) it booted a lot of the apps were crashing. Would a clean install do any good here or if the OC doesn't work is there pretty much nothing I can do? The 1.7 OC worked in old versions of MR for me.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] obperryo:
You can try go into TWRP, advanced and fix permissions.