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[HTC Sensation] TheAddict94:
I see a lot of people leaving positive feedback, so I have the obligation to leave some negative.

First of all, before I go FULL CAPS RAGE let me mention that it's an excellent ROM, it's smooth and pretty. I like Jelly Bean and can't say anything about it.

But in my opinion it's just not built for older devices (or my device) and here's why:

In the week/two weeks I've been using this ROM I've been in a closed military base (I'm a soldier) and had no access to newer updates. Once in a while (sometimes once a day sometimes as far as 5 times a day with 80% battery life) the phone would turn itself off. Usually after I did something (so I doubt it's a loose battery), something like end a call, start a call or launched an app.

Additionally, the battery would die very quickly. It says Voice Calls wastes about 27% of battery life and the screen is 22%. It's pretty fine on just standby, but here's the thing, voice calls aren't supposed to lower battery life from 100% to 80% in two minutes. Sometimes, I would charge my battery fully, check back, tap on something, the phone would shut down and after the boot it would display ~20%. And once it's lower, charging takes forever, I mean like 1.5 days forever. It was 30% and I connected it, ran a whole course, did some army stuff, went to sleep and woke up 5 hours later just to find the battery charged to 76%.

Also, this is a minor problem, but kind of a bummer: Onavo Count keeps resetting every time I turn on Data. I don't have an unlimited plan so I turn it off (and to save battery life) and every time I turn it on it resets to zero usage. The native Data Usage statistics works just fine. Just something that kind of annoys me.

Another minor annoyance is the fact that the phone keeps forgetting the default homescreen after using usb storage. It's kind of annoying .

I don't know. Maybe it's just me. But this ROM is very unstable at the moment, at least on my phone. HTC Sensation 4G from T-Mobile with Golan Telecom as my carrier in Israel (the phone is imported).

I'm only providing feedback so you improve the ROM and make it better. It needs a lot of work in the battery department, just sayin'.

Cheers,

Alex.
[HTC Sensation] darkassain:
your running out of mem,

try going into settings>dev options>background process limit> set it to at most 4 process

and see if you still get those errors, ive been seeing that least this has postponed the running out mem errors
[HTC Sensation] slopppy:
Hi Addict,

You have to understand that this is a beta ROM ... things aren't perfect, but it is continually getting better. If you go weeks between having access to newer updates, then maybe this isn't a great time to be using a beta ROM?? In your specific case, waiting for things to get more stable might be ideal.

I've run a couple of builds that were very unstable and would randomly reboot multiple times a day, but the new builds are much better. Since flashing the newest build 36ish hours ago I've had no issues other than the one systemUI crash I mentioned a few posts back which is no big deal.

---------- Post added at 04:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:16 PM ----------

Thanks for the tip :)

It was set to "Standard" ... any idea how many is standard?
[HTC Sensation] takuhii:
I do believe there are some issues with how the data regarding the battery is read. i will loose a phenomenal amount of battery over night, but not all the time.

My phone will die, so I put it on charge, boot into the ROM and I magically have 54% battery full.

I have wiped battery stats, I have re-calibrated my battery a number of times, but still the data is a little hazy. Asides from that, this ROM is pretty good. Keep it up Bruce :)
[HTC Sensation] darkassain:
dont know spefically but if i were to guess as many as it can before reaching the low mem alert whereas this artificially stops it
[HTC Sensation] jan.ringas:
I think the "problem" is that in the state this ROM currently is (alpha in my opinion) there are constantly updates and improvements happening. Now if you can't update for one or even two weeks you simply can't follow the progress the ROM's making and therefore experience problems that might have been solved just shortly after their exploration.

So I personally would advise anyone who can't follow the progress of this (great!) ROM to not use it. I'm using it for around three weeks now and have since then installed every update right after it was published. I experienced most of the known bugs, but the majority of them were solved quite fast. I really like this ROM, as it gave me the feeling of using a new phone. Before using it I was tempted to switch to a Galaxy Nexus, but thanks to Bruce I'm now satisfied again with my Sensation.

Edit: too slow...
[HTC Sensation] TheUnreaL:
Why the LED should turn green on 90% instead of 100%? It doesn't make sense, it should notice the full charge of battery, 90% is not a full charge :\

Anyway, I've found some bug, can you confirm some of these?

1) Some times phone can't go to sleep at all. With BetterBatteryStats v1.10.2 I found a 100% awake phone due to "GpsLocationprovider" partial wakelock (something near 95%), I solved it by rebooting phone and it seems to be solved for now, but I don't notice an optimal deep sleep behavior even if this problem SEEMS (I repeat it, and it should never happen) to be solved for now.

2) When I use the 2G/3G switch from the Power Widgets, when I turn from 3G to 2G phone fail to hang 2G signal, and when I go to Setting I can't see the check on "Only 2G network" option, if I check it phone seems to hang 2G signal succesfully all the times, but only after the manual check of that option.

Hope you'll manage to solve it cuz this ROM is simply the best I've ever tried on this phone
[HTC Sensation] takuhii:
In hindsight, my friend, wouldn't it make more sense to put a non alpha/beta ROM on your phone if you are in "the field". Try the card wedge solution on the battery and see how the random reboots go ;)
[HTC Sensation] AllexRo:
Great ROM, especially for a Beta!

I'm having 2 issues with the 9/10 build:

1. camera starts with a strange orientation (90 deg rotated)- i disabled the HW overlays, still starts like this but, after taking 1 picture, it goes back to a normal orientation; just wanted to know if this also happens to others or i missed / did something wrong

2. swiftkey3 was really hard to configure (was constantly giving an FC when trying to set it up) - i managed to trick it somehow but it doesn't remain as default after phone restart :(
[HTC Sensation] takuhii:
I've noticed that the phone is looking for GPS quite a lot too. Not sure why, and it is very draining on the battery. plus turning GPS on and off is a little cumbersome...
[HTC Sensation] Ultramanoid:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but at present all wall chargers are treated as USB instead of AC, hence the long charging times, right ?

( I too, have to charge now for 10-12 hours every day and even so don't reach full charge these days no matter what... )
[HTC Sensation] Jiggs82:
For #1 flash the cam fix in op in I agree
[HTC Sensation] gsmyth:
The LED changes to green at 90% on AOSP, nothing new there.

Had the same GPS wake lock, try the older version of google maps (6.9) to see if that helps.

Havent had the 2g/3g issue.
[HTC Sensation] Kameeeleon:
I read that too but I'm currently charging at 650ma with screen on and haven't noticed it going slowly, so no.

Sent from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] gsmyth:
Sounds like somethings wrong, when charging I can see in the battery section in settings if it is on a AC wall charge or a USB charge. A full charge takes a little over 2 hrs.
[HTC Sensation] darkobas:
it installs in the wrong place.

uninstall it and restore it with titanium backup (in titaniumbackup have restore to default (not original) location option set)
[HTC Sensation] N10AP:
Not built for older devices? You real bro? What rubbish.

The desire C in the UK will get Jellybean AFAIK and that has an 800mhz processor I believe.

The problems you describe sound more like a battery fault. Sensations are sometimes prone to restarting / shutting down if the connections aren`t fully conducting or if the battery has an internal fault.

Clean your battery terminals.

Make sure the terminals are touching the connection on the phone correctly.

I assume you are using stock battery? My stock battery started failing on me after 5 months. Got a new one under warranty. Then changed to Anker battery.

But to say the Sensation isn`t up to running Jellybean is pure twaddle.

The ROM is in BETA - its your fault for relying on a beta ROM when you don`t have regular access to a PC for crucial updates, so I think some of your feedback is unfair. You are commenting on an obsolete build, therefore, compared to a newer build, you might as well be comparing apples to oranges. There are changes EVERY DAY in the git.

Just sayin.
[HTC Sensation] mzebrowski13:
Definitely there is something wrong with the battery, Tonight my phone turned into a zombie:D Taka a look at the screenshot.\
[HTC Sensation] bstylz911:
When someone sends me a 2+ page text....I never get everything.
[HTC Sensation] darkassain:
dang that is crazy ive only been able to get it as low as 4ma

ot even crazier is your temp, i wish i had those temps on my phone
[HTC Sensation] insestito:
One stupid question...

What rom are best, this or AOSP ICS ?
[HTC Sensation] darkassain:
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[HTC Sensation] NetSoerfer:
If this is a question you cannot answer yourself, go with CyanogenMod 9 (which is an AOSP ICS). This is too experimental.
[HTC Sensation] DarkPrinceByWWW:
You should change the read method to "some thc devices"! Also the battery temperature, it can't fall under the room temperature. Guys, turn you brain on and use your head not only to carry a hat :cowboy:
[HTC Sensation] scm_crash:
Anyone having trouble with USB transfers on 9/12? I've been trying to transfer large files over USB and it's a no-go. I went into the 4Ext recovery to transfer files which works fine... Just not working from within Android.
[HTC Sensation] Sirgeekalot:
i always have this issue when trying to copy files.. i either use 4Ext or an SD Adapter to transfer from my laptop..
[HTC Sensation] darkassain:
meh i know, i actually use the htc sensation one instead, is using that one give better results in jb?
[HTC Sensation] mzebrowski13:
I forgot to add that I am using Tamcore kernel. It seems that it is a bug in reading the battery temperature as in Faux kernel.

Thanks for a tip. I also have one for you. Keep smiling to the end of the day:)
[HTC Sensation] insestito:
that is: Scorpian added optimizations for MSM8660??

that optimizations are?? very noticeable?
[HTC Sensation] R2D2_NZ:
You are wrong.
[HTC Sensation] gsmyth:
Its a really smooth, fast ROM, but the best way to find out is to flash the latest build yourself and have a go. I flashed from VI to see what it was like and havent looked back.
[HTC Sensation] DonPhelippe:
+1. I was trying to copy a 400+ mb file on 12/9 build and the connection crapped itself after some time, on different computers and OSes (XP & 7). When I unlocked the phone all I got was that USB storage had turned off somehow. Perhaps there is a forgotten timer or something hat triggers this situation?
[HTC Sensation] Bastaerd:
Read this, especially the first part. Should give you some information about what those optimizations might be :)

Edit: http://www.bdti.com/InsideDSP/2007/11/14/Qualcomm
[HTC Sensation] takuhii:
I have the same problem, USB just craps out at random intervals, as though it's been shut off :/
[HTC Sensation] katiepea:
Read what?
[HTC Sensation] Bastaerd:
The block diagram + text underneath it.
[HTC Sensation] moot4prez:
There is none...?
[HTC Sensation] Ultramanoid:
Must be a really tiny diagram.
[HTC Sensation] Ultramanoid:
Well, something's definitely wrong as well with my device then ( although this didn't happen with CM9 a month ago ) because this is what it shows with all wall chargers, I've tried four, doesn't matter. Takes forever to charge leaving it alone, never mind if I'm using it at the same time -- usually as Wi-Fi hotspot only, screen off.
[HTC Sensation] darkobas:
mine charges fine. it doenst say usb
[HTC Sensation] cclaxx:
Bruce i notice some important commits made by intervirgilium, have you just tried these?:)
[HTC Sensation] Bastaerd:
Whoops, didn't have my morning coffee...

Link attached to original post and for those interested: http://www.bdti.com/InsideDSP/2007/11/14/Qualcomm
[HTC Sensation] moot4prez:
You may have a damaged or dirty port. Try cleaning it with some rubbing alcohol, along with the battery contacts. A catlog couldn't hurt either.
[HTC Sensation] gs111:
I've found USB transfers to be slow and unreliable on this ROM also. I know this isn't a solution, but I started using Airdroid to transfer files until the USB issue is corrected.
[HTC Sensation] takuhii:
I just boot into recovery and transfer files. Definitely a ROM issue as Recovery USB Mounting is rock solid :/
[HTC Sensation] huzaifah29:
Hey flashed this ROM a few days ago, and I have to say this is one of the best ROMs Ive ever used. One issue though, when I use youtube and try to raise the volume using the buttons, it force closes.. any idea how to fix this?

Thanks, and massive thanks to Bruce for the ROM!
[HTC Sensation] rojovilla:
This has been an issue since CM9, and not an isolated situation with CM10.
[HTC Sensation] xdviper:
Another question that I think is specific to me, sound works everywhere, power amp, Pandora and such, but YouTube is mute. The volume levels are high but still no sound from watching YouTube videos... any ideas?
[HTC Sensation] mikebeatrice:
Uninstall youtube and reinstall from market.
[HTC Sensation] :
This is kind of OT, but because it's a side-effect of playing with ROMs, I thought I'd mention it so that others might avoid confusion.

I noticed this morning that I'd lost all of my cached music in Google Play Music, so I tried to save my primary playlist offline. I kept getting the error that my music couldn't be downloaded, and I should check my Internet connection. My WiFi was otherwise working just fine, so I was about to lose my mind that my WiFi was also being weird. But then I went to play a single song, and it told me that I had too many devices authorized under my account. When I checked the list, my Sensation showed up 7 times, presumably because different ROMs made it look like different devices. I deleted all 7, plus the leftover authorization of my old Vibrant, and now my music is downloading just fine.
[HTC Sensation] gsmyth:
Flashed the latest ROM yesterday and everything is working well, just the Google sound search widget has disappeared , think I seen someone mention it a few pages back, does anyone know where it went? Not crucial but it did work well and was good to have.
[HTC Sensation] mikebeatrice:
I still have sound search... seems to work. I'm using the 7-26 gapps.
[HTC Sensation] Xpire:
Just flashed latest coming from CM9. Great stuff!

I've had an issue for a while now, ever since I started on CM9. My GPS symbol in the notification bar is always flashing when it shouldn't be, however in the battery info it doesn't appear to be draining any additional battery. Does anyone else have this issue?
[HTC Sensation] Catnap:
Pretty decent battery life:

1.2Ghz max, 192 min, ondemand.
[HTC Sensation] Ultramanoid:
I can relate. In my case it's the Market / Play Store. I use the same Google account with different SIM cards from different carriers in different countries ( where paid apps are / are not allowed ), on several devices and with alternating roms on each device.

Market just goes bananas every other hour, can't keep up with me at all.

Edit : Which means that, like you wanted to do with music, I make sure I have a backup of apks offline and always up to date.
[HTC Sensation] rojovilla:
Just looked at mine after reading your post and it says the same thing (on two different chargers as well)...WEIRD. I wonder if it has something to do with the type of microUSB port indicating it's a USB connection in lieu of a dedicated AC wall charger?
[HTC Sensation] adame09:
Mines fine it says ac I'm on the latest build by the way
[HTC Sensation] kypeth:
when I first receive a call, my ringtone has a good amount of choppiness, penis pun not intended. Please let me know if anyone else has experienced this issue, or what I can do to elaborate on the technical issues related.
[HTC Sensation] goggi10:
few question

First thanks for good rom I do like it. But i need some info what app do u use for sync facebook and contacts like in htc sens rom. and what gallery app do u use to hide albums which u dont need. Thanks
[HTC Sensation] BuXuRa:
1) haxsync

2) quickpic
[HTC Sensation] henjor:
Running with latest ROM, super smooth, battery life perfect and my wife gives me lot more often :p keep up good work! will wait next upgrade, thanks a lot!!
[HTC Sensation] slacker1979:
That's from flashing the gapps not the ROM. If you flash over your existing ROM without flashing gapps it won't show as a different device. I had this issue with changing sense ROMs multiple times .
[HTC Sensation] :
Thanks for the clarification :good:
[HTC Sensation] Ultramanoid:
For those with constant Firefox FCs ( I had them too ), it seems replacing it with the Firefox Beta version fixes that, at least it did for me.
[HTC Sensation] Skipjacks:
Well...bad news for people who've experienced the data blinking on and off problem.......

The blinking data issue doesn't fix itself permanently.

I had the problem for 3 days last week. It suddenly fixed itself after I deleted the extra APN's.

Well the extra APN's clearly had nothing to do with it because they are still deleted and the blinking data issue is suddenly back.

This has got to be an AOSP issue with how the rom communicates with the network. Or the T Mobile Network is just completely f'ed and totally unreliable. The only thing I did between the time my data was working again and today was that I flashed the 9/12 build last night. But I tested data after the flash and it worked fine.

Now this afternoon data is all blinky again out of nowhere. I don't believe it's the APN's. And since I know it's capable of working fine it's not 100% the ROM (otherwise it would never work) and it's not 100% the network or I wouldn't be able to easily connect using Sense ROMs during the data blinking outages. It's got to be a combination of the 2, where the networks don't want to authorize the AOSP roms....but only sometimes. It truly makes no sense as all.

I just flashed back to my 9/7 Nandroid backup where everything was working perfectly so I know for a fact that the settings are correct....and low and behold the flashing data problem still persists on the backup. So it can't be a problem with the ROM. It can't be. Or it would NEVER work, right?

This problem just starts and stops out of nowhere. I have literally tried every possible fix you could ever dream up. Nothing works. It has to be something with how AOSP communicates with the network. The confusing part is what the hell could possibley change in the network day to day that would alter how the town communicates with the phone?

What could Sense be doing differently than AOSP?

(Reminder, this isn't a CM10 problem. It' spersistant on all AOSP builds. Though it could be CM10 breaking something that other AOSP roms don't fix on install)

The problem isn't kernel related as I've gotten the error on stock, Tamcore, and Dragon.

And every once in a whil eif I let it blink on and off it will stick 'on'. Maybe once in a few hundred blinks it'll do it.
[HTC Sensation] WarpigtheKiller:
Which Kernel is the best for this Rom?
[HTC Sensation] beekiller1:
I say dragun
[HTC Sensation] WarpigtheKiller:
Link to the Thread?
[HTC Sensation] dLeTe:
I'm not trying to discredit you or infer that you haven't exhausted your options. I have also experienced the data issue but only with the most recent CM10 builds. I was on CM9, and though users had issues, i never experienced it. (I'm with T-Mobile US - California).

No issues with data on CM10 until 9/10 build for me. Searched and tried the following:

Deleted APNs except T-Mobile US. Wiped cache/dalvik and restarted numerous times. Tried airplane mode and turned data off and on. No resolution whatsoever. I've done everything except a full wipe. (To be honest, I haven't done a full wipe since I moved to CM10 and have not experienced many issues).

Only one thing worked for me. I switched to 2G only and waited to see if it connected. It did and i turned it off to go back to 3G and i have not had data issue once since that while on 9/10. Flashed 9/12 and had the data issue return but immediately did the 2G to 3G switch and has been working since.

I've restarted, wiped my caches, etc since then as well and my data has always been active.

It might be ROM but it might even be more specific to phone/user/location. I've been using CM10 since the first build and haven't had issue until recently.

Just my two cents. Not trying to discredit you at all but wanted to share my experiences. Apologies if it comes off rudely.
[HTC Sensation] beekiller1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31359676

Don't forget to thank
[HTC Sensation] Yogimax:
Simple answer - step outside and let your phone get a GPS fix. The icon will now disappear! ;)
[HTC Sensation] Skipjacks:
The weird part is that if the problem is triggered in CM10 and you flash back to CM9 you will still have the problem, even if you never had it in CM9 before.

That's how I'm sure it's not CM10 by itself because it's very unlikely that CM10 can break the phone to the point where other ROMs won't work either.

Update: I just had an incoming 20 minute phone call and now the data works perfectly again.....for now....

One flukey thing I noticed this time around that I didn't before....

When the data was blinking and I tried to turn data off using the notification toggles....the toggle stayed on even though the data stopped blinking. And when I went to the full data menu in the system settings, the check box that indicates data is on wasn't always matching what the toggle switch was saying.

So maybe it's not a network issue at all. Maybe it's a weird issue with the toggles where one switch is telling the phone to turn data on and another switch is telling the phone to turn data off.

I posted a logcat of this issue forever ago tha tmight have the information needed to confirm or deny this. I can't search for the post right nwo but I've got the log cat saved on my computer at home tha tI can repost later tonight.

That is the kind of issue that could be intermittent where the toggle switches work sometimes and not others. But it doens't explain at all why a restore of a known working nandroid doesn't fix it. Or why the break occuring on CM10 will show up when flashing a fresh copy of CM9 after a wipe.

This rambling is jus tme thinking out loud in case something I say sparks an idea in someone who's smarter than I am with this stuff.

Bruce's ROm is so f'ing awesome I refuse to abandon it just because it's throwing a temper tanrum sometimes! I will find a sollution to this!!!!
[HTC Sensation] :
I'm biting the bullet and installing HyperNonSense on my primary phone now, and I've installed CMX 9/12 on my cracked/mangled Sensation as a test platform. I'm going to try very hard to get my development environment up and working as soon as possible, and then I'll see if I can do anything. Dragunkorr has already offered his help in getting me going, and Bruce has been great, too. We'll just see how well my unrelated programming skills translate to this stuff, and that I have enough time to get something done. Here's hoping...
[HTC Sensation] Skipjacks:
Regarding the data blinking problem...

The one thing I've done today is use my bluetooth in my car. The data blinking showed up after that.

Is there any chance these two things could possibly be related? I will not be able to test thing again for the rest of the weekend as I just lent my bluetooth to a co-worker taking a road trip for the weekend.
[HTC Sensation] guags99:
Thanks...Done. I was hoping to hear if I was the only one, but since that seems to be the case I need to grab some logs.