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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] dbc23:
I've searched for a conclusive description of the actual experience of using an unlocked euro version of this phone on AT&T in the US and have been completely unable to find one. Basically, I'm seriously considering buying it even with the lack of HSDPA, what I'm curious about is how much this truly impacts the performance of the phone in data functions. So in short I have a few questions.

From the looks of it EDGE will still function but HSDPA will not, is this correct or are there other impacts on the data service?

Given whatever limitations the data frequencies give the Rhodium how does this affect your overall experience with the phone on AT&T?

If anyone has used this version of the phone with AT&T would you recommend I purchase it or get something else? (waiting for a potential release of the TP2 on AT&T is basically not an option for me, I need a new phone)

Thanks for any responses
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] davidebeatrice:
im in NYC with my rhodium ITA so i tried to test for you with at&t

i tried to connect xdaforums.com page: 1min20sec to charge the page without images (3.11$)

i tried video calling but no chance.

my experience is limited but i think that if you use data connection to read email its ok...

if you need a fast data connection i think its better if you buy another phone (if you cant wait for the at&t rhodium release)

i hope that my test helps you...and sorry for my English...
[G1 Apps and Games] bug666:
Hello

I remember seeing somewhere on the web there was an android app that is basically a scheduler that you can set times for your phone to be on silent (if you have a weekly meeting) or loud depending on the time of day. It would come in handy for situations which require me to put my phone on silent.

what was the name of this app?

thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] turboyo:
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.alfray.timeriffic or locale?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vukasin:
i buy Xperia but language in Switzerland..how can i change language?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibeQuint:
flash it to a new rom that is the language that you need.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nmw407:
noob question but I'm just confused.

I'm running cyan's 3.6.8.1 pimped out recovery image on a Class 4 SDcard. I just bought a Class 6 card that I've already partitioned with EXT3.

My questions:

1. how do I move everything (apps, data, etc) from the Class 4 to the Class 6? I don't have adb but I do have both SDcards on card readers.

2. When I move it to the Class 6, will I have to redownload the apps from Market again or will it work smoothly?

Thanks
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nephron:
U need adb to work. That would be the easiest way. There is a tut right about your post about getting ADB to work and it doesnt take that long to set up. 15 min at most. Once you get it working

adb remount

adb pull /system/sd/app

then on your new sd card

adb push app /system/sd/

OR

You can just use Backup for Root users which is free or use Astro and backup all your apps and put the folder on your new sd card.

You will need to reflash your rom since the cache and settings are on your old sd card.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pistol4413:
Or you could get a copy of an ubuntu **** or burn ur own. Or hell use wubi to install ubuntu in windows like a program. I say that because ubuntu will see the ext partition. And it will be as easy as click and drag from there
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nmw407:
I ended up doing the adb method. Using adb file explorer made the whole process so much easier than I thought it would be.

thanks
[Touch CDMA General] sushichef:
So, I recently got a vogue and immediately put android cupcake on it. (great work devs btw :))

So here's the problem, I cant get through the day 7 am - 12 am with light to moderate use without needing to charge.

I would like to keep 3g/background data on during this time.

Has anyone had any success having their vogue-androids last this long?

Are there any advanced power managers that allow you to change the backlight quickly and easily or allow you to turn data off during certain times? (like data off for a 1/2 hour and then data on for 1/2 hour)

Thanks,

Kevin
[Touch CDMA General] craig0r:
There's an app called "Locale" which is apparently awesome, but I haven't tried it myself. It changes settings based on your GPS location, but I'm not too sure about time of day. You may want to check that out.

As for the battery lasting that long, I dunno... I don't think I'd fall into the "light usage" category. My battery typically lasts from about 7:30am till 9 or 10pm though... I'm not too sure, I usually plug it in when I get home from work around 6.
[Touch CDMA General] derekwilkinson:
That would need more battery, since it would need GPS.

We don't have network-based GPS yet.
[Touch CDMA General] lotherius:
I have had the same problems with battery life on my vogue even with light usage. Also I don't believe CDMA has the same issues with 3g causing higher battery usage like gsm does. I have tried widgets to quickly toggle the backlight and gps function but only saw minimal improvement. Not sure if the increased battery usage is just a fact of android or if there remain porting/performance issues still to blame.
[Touch CDMA General] psvillars:
i've got my background data set to off and i keep gps and stuff off unless i need it and i've got my email set to update every hour and i found this actually gives me better battery life than when running windows so i just went and bought an extended battery off ebay and hopefully it'll get through a complete workday(10 hrs) where as right now i'm getting between 6 and 8 depending on how much I use it.
[Touch CDMA General] psvillars:
i've got my background data set to off and i keep gps and stuff off unless i need it and i've got my email set to update every hour and i found this actually gives me better battery life than when running windows so i just went and bought an extended battery off ebay and hopefully it'll get through a complete workday(10 hrs) where as right now i'm getting between 6 and 8 depending on how much I use it.

sorry double posted by accident and don't know how to delete :(
[Touch CDMA General] Cadillax:
My battery used to drain pretty rapidly.. 7am - 2pm... but now it lasts from about 7am - 6pm. I think theres a certain amount that the battery can condition itself. I've tried discharging and charging and I do believe that its helped.

Do you guys notice that battery readings are not accurate though? Apparently it has something to do with the temp. sensor in the battery not being correctly configured. For example, if my battery is at 20% and I plug it in the charge, it'll jump to 40% in a matter of 10 mins.
[Touch CDMA General] sushichef:
Oh, thats cool, how did you set up it to check every hour? is that an app? or?
[Touch CDMA General] psvillars:
well that's for my aol email gmail will not be affected i left auto-sync on and from what i could see it still auto-syncs without background data on you could uncheck that but then you'd have to manually update yourself
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
i too am having pretty bad battery life even when i don't use my phone. why would the battery drain so fast when its sleeping? would that togga app help at all with the latest cupcake build?
[Touch CDMA General] craig0r:
Togga has been replaced in Cupcake by Modem. They do the same thing, essentially. If you want to turn off your data connection, open Modem and click Disconnect.

Also, in your default.txt make sure the pm.sleep_mode setting is set to 0 for best power saving.

Lastly, update all your files to the latest. The newest rootfs.img is supposed to bring more power-saving functionality. I just installed it this morning, so I can't comment on it yet.
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
yeah i just updated all of my files, ill check my text though. :)
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
i checked my text and it is set to 0 already! not a good thing when it only takes 5 hours to drain 50% of my battery life. i hope this can be fixed in future builds, i may have to go back to winmo for the time being because i need my phone for work. :(

i really love android though!
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
Do you have "Use Background Data" unchecked under Settings > Data synchronization? This makes a huge difference. If you have unchecked already, I don't know what to tell you.
[Touch CDMA General] katmandu421:
with the previous rootfs (just before the new one today 2009-08-04) I've been getting 10 hours with moderate usage, backround data enabled, contacts and gmail auto syncing and locale set to turn my ringer off based on location (btw, I do beleive we have agps working now). Upgrading to the newest kernel and rootfs with more improvement to see if I can get a full day as I am awefully close now.

oh, and I also have a weather widget updating every hour, pretty good battery imo.

EDIT: Tip for battery life, I have my default screen brightness set pretty low, about 30%, as this is fine for most indoor conditions. I use an app called fastbright placed conveniently on my home screen to immediately turn my screen to 100% with the click of an icon when I am outdoors. I also use locale to turn the screen all the way down to 10% when the battery is less than 10%. Both are recommended apps.
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
I think I was getting much better battery life before introduction of rootfs, like on the order of 4-5 hours more (running hero themed ion). Anyone else have this experience, or is it just me?
[Touch CDMA General] katmandu421:
Actually yeah, I tried the latest initrd and rootfs today, but it seems like it's a bit lower than it usually is this time of day. I think the first implementation of rootfs was better than this latest over the non-rootfs versions, though. Maybe I just used it more. I kept all the same settings and usage for the day was typical.
[Touch CDMA General] awaisjaffery:
Best option is to buy the Extended Battery from DealExtreme for $8.. search for HTC Touch S1 .. the back cover doesn't fit properly but you can always get a one that fits from ebay..

this battery lasts me thru out the day even with heavy usage.. and for $8 u can't go wrong
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
Today I didn't touch my phone for the first 4-5 hours of my day after charging overnight, and was down to sixty-something percent. I know that on older initrds I was doing much better than this, at least 80% at noon with no usage.

I'm wondering if optimizing memory with the new rootfs stuff has been a trade-off to poorer battery life. Since I'm using mssmison's hero themed ion which is screaming fast, I haven't noticed a difference with the root stuff and think I'm going to try switching back.

I'm switching back to the 7-30-09 initrd.gz, because that's the last one I know my battery was doing much better with and will post back after running it tomorrow.
[Touch CDMA General] TheKartus:
My issue with battery life is that my phone doesn't seem to know how much battery it has left. It will be on 60 percent, I'll plug it in and 5 minutes later its fully charged.

Or after it comes off the charger overnight, it will go down to 60-50 almost immediately but stay there all day while at work with light usage. I also hate that it doesn't know when its full, I hate to overcharge the batter. So many opinions on if it damages it or not.
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
ok, so un-installed google voice, which was coming up a lot in Taskiller task bar; battery life improved significantly. I'm back to being happy with the new initrd/rootfs.
[Touch CDMA General] clockworx:
Do you have any confirmation that we have aGPS anywhere (like notes from a developer or a changelog)? I've been googling trying to find an answer, and only find lots of conflicting info.

I tried to use Google Maps to find "My Location", with Location settings having "GPS" disabled and "Wireless Networks",enabled. I figured if aGPS worked I'd be able to get at least an approximate fix with these settings, but "My Location" doesn't seem to work at all until I turn on GPS. I'm not 100% sure if this is an accurate test for aGPS, either...
[Touch CDMA General] atx1980:
battery

You can get an extended battery on ebay for about $12 shipped that should last 3 times as long.
[Touch CDMA General] katmandu421:
I do not have any supporting documentation. I do remember one of the main developers stating that we were using aGPS (that's why we get a lock in under 10 seconds from a cold start) but that aGPS cannot be used "standalone". You are either using both of them, or neither of them is what I understood. Srwalter could probably shed some light since he did the GPS.
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
we do not have aGPS. aGPS does not work by itself - if we had it disabling GPS and leaving wireless location on would do nothing. aGPS is when the cell towers communicate satellite location to your phone so that your phone gets a lock quicker. You can still get a fast sat lock if you just have great conditions - great sky view, you're lucky, etc. wireless location is when the cell towers are used to triangulate your location; some carriers allow this, others have it locked out - sprint who I am with, for example, you can't use that feature. wireless location is also not enabled in our android builds either.
[Touch CDMA General] clockworx:
Does this imply that (at least for Sprint Users), that the Google "location service" is useless? The consent prompt that you get on first boot (I think it's on all builds, but it could be just Hero) states that the Location Service is to allow google to tell apps your approximate location without using the GPS.
[Touch CDMA General] fujie:
Battery Life on Vogue 3G from Bell

Hello everyone,

I just put android on my HTC Touch 3G from Bell. Everything works great. At first my default.txt pm.sleep_mode value was set to 0, I had a problem with not being able to recover the phone from sleep mode because none of the buttons worked once my screen went blank. I changed the sleep value to 3 and I can now recover my phone from sleep mode, but I noticed the battery life is decreasing pretty rapidly. I charged it full the night before, got to work around 9am and it said it was down to 65%. I would change the sleep value back to 0 for better power savings, but in this mode I cannot recover my phone. Has anyone else had this problem too?

Thanks,

Jeff
[Touch CDMA General] TheKartus:
A couple questions. What build of Android are you using, an Ion build?

Are you using the remapped buttons? Or are you still using the volume slider for menu and back?

Also as a sidenote, I have noticed that Android sometimes doesn't know really how much battery it has. It may go down to 65 real fast, but stay there all day.
[Touch CDMA General] prairiefire:
Also, do you have data syncronization running? that's a huge battery killer.
[Touch CDMA General] fujie:
Hello,

I am using the latest android bundle (android-1.5-2009-08-08.zip) from http://code.google.com/p/vogue-android/

I am using default button configurations, and no data sync (I used ppp.nostart=1 to disable data for now).
[Touch CDMA General] TheKartus:
I am not sure if the latest bundle is using the new button maps. Is your menu button the volume slider or the power button?

If it is the power button, then the new keymaps have issues waking the phone sometimes. You need to hold down the middle dpad button for a while before it loads. A good few seconds and then it should come on.
[Touch CDMA General] fujie:
Hello, thank you for responding. Yes, my Menu button is the volume slider. I tried holding the middle Dpad button down to wake the phone, but no luck
[Touch CDMA General] TheKartus:
Weird. I had a similar situation when I first started using Android where it wouldn't load. I would suggest formatting your SD card and redownloading all of the new files. Including the new zimage from the button remapping thread.
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
as I understand it, with Sprint, yep pretty much. however, I don't know for sure if the locking of this ability is on the tower side or the phone side, I highly suspect the tower side, we'll only know for sure when/if ever we get location services working on Android (or when someone smart with the answer decides to post :D).

Back on topic, I was wrong about google voice previously, I don't think it was killing my battery. It is something in the new initrd/rootfs combo that I think has to do with when the phone goes out of service. It's killing me at work in the hospital where my service is patchy, however if I stay with good service all day at home, I'm golden.
[Touch CDMA General] fujie:
I just wanted to let people know that I have fixed this problem. I upgraded the firmware on my HTC Touch and Android now works beautifully.
[Touch CDMA General] BlkCat:
Hmm. Well I can use mine for about 8 hours of heavy internet use (tons of chatting with the meebo app, some GPS, checking the BBC website, looking things up for customers at work, ect). After that I have about 15% battery life left.

Far better than I'd ever get out of WinMo for some reason.
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
CHANGELOG

v1.1 - Added "Ultra" compression switch. Added a few more commands.

v1.2 -Now includes batch file that signs the theme also. So if you need to add anything else to the theme, like an xml file, add it to themenew.zip BEFORE you run the batch file. I also included a batch file that change the Ticker, Date and Clock font colors to white, then signs it. Of course, you can make it change it to any color, you just need to edit the batch.

v1.3 - Now compatible with CM 4.1.5+ themes.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gmjbnzted5m

Then follow these steps...

Download and extract "themeporter.zip" to C:\themeporter(IMPORTANT that it's extracted there).

1) Copy old theme to c:\themeporter and rename it to "themeold.zip".

2) Copy new theme template to c:\themeporter and rename it to "themenew.zip".

3) Run Port.bat

note: If you want to see for yourself that this works, don't copy and paste "themenew.zip" into the themeporter directory. This batch will automatically create one if there isn't one there. You will then be able to see exactly which files are being ported over.

BIG NOTE: This only ports over.png's. You will still have to manually copy over and xml's, jar's or whatever over to "themenew.zip".
[Android Themes] big nu:
WOW

Man if this works.... WOW!!
[Android Themes] daveid:
The other issue is any modified xml's for color changes...
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
Yea, this will only be used just for png's.
[Android Themes] beagz:
Is this geared toward theme creators or users? If creators you could modify it so that if they store only modified files in a tiered folder structure it could just dump them into the new template.

If end users then you will be limited on your current track since you have to unpack/repack with entire files instead of it being selective.
[Android Themes] mianosm:
Take a look into the bash scripts available here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=530081

Port the bash > batch, and you'll have a very nice theme porting experience in the windows environment.

I've been using it for the past month, and it's a champ.
[Android Themes] sir*mez:
cant wait to see this finished. with 6 themes to update this will be helpful!!!
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
So far so good...it's maybe about 60% complete. Hopefully I'll have something whipped up by tomorrow.
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
ThemePorter v1.0 is up. Check it out!
[Android Themes] beagz:
Looks good. So now all that is needed is the manual updates for HTC Music, XML edits and colorchanger.

Nice timesaver!

Thanks
[Android Themes] crotalusfreak:
SICK!!!!! I love this man with this and colorchanger.jar porting is a breeze for cyanogen builds thanks a million!!:D
[Android Themes] xidominicanoix:
Tried porting over Kspec Oreo Theme to Cyanogen 3.9.4

Kept getting a E:\Wrong Digest error with Phone.apk

I tried resigning it and same error

Beats me :(
[Android Themes] RainCrow:
Did you have the bat running in C:\themeporter\? Worked for me with Cyan's 3.9.4

Btw ultra Spikey, I have noooo idea why this thread is not insanely bigger cuz this thing is freakin awesome and helps a ish ton for me. Thats why it went unnoticed by me until now. Thanks man! : D
[Android Themes] david1171:
well i did a test that i was thinking about last night. Is it possible to port a theme over to a new CM before the new rom finishes flashing and booting up? the answer............ YES!!! i started the download for the rom and theme template at the same time and with this and colorChange.jar by Oshaka i was able to port my theme before my phone had fully booted up the rom. Also it only took 2 minutes to download the rom so that didn't affect timing too much. Great job ultra spikey, this is amazing
[Android Themes] xidominicanoix:
Yup had it in the right place and everything .. it zipped everything up into "themenew.zip" but just hit that error when trying to flash it

EDIT: just tried it again ... didnt get the error!! lol ... i had to resign the update.zip (duh) ... rebooting now :D
[Android Themes] drpfenderson:
Just FYI, for some reason (on my Linux box), when rezipping the files, it does not keep the same letter case.

Phone.apk becomes

phone.apk

This caused some problems...but all I had to do was go in an manually rename. Other than that - awesome work!

EDIT: Actually, just realized that the battery progress icon does not work at all. When I manually change the files - it is fine. But when I run your tool - it is not. My guess is the case-sensitive thing.
[Android Themes] RainCrow:
Good catch eriss. I just noticed that as well and came in here to post that I am seeing the same issue.
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
hmm I didnt realize it was case sensitive. It's not on any of my themes at least. I will fix and to match later today.
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
I fixed the case-sensitive issue in 1.2.
[Android Themes] mianosm:
If you are looking for increased ease you might think about rolling into/incorporating the color changer jar. : )

I have my updating/porting down to about 3 commands:

490 wget http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/experimental/template-cm-3.9.6-signed.zip
491 unzip template-cm-3.9.6-signed.zip -d ./theme.new/
492 ./update.theme theme.aero/ theme.new/
493 ./create.new theme.new/

I've incorporated the colorChanger.jar into my own script, and it has dramatically reduced the time/effort in making updates/ports...
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
That's not a bad idea...I just might have to do that
[Android Themes] RainCrow:
Just used this to port my theme to cyanogens new build and the capitalization fix worked great for me. Thanks Spikey : )
[Android Themes] drpfenderson:
That would be amazing....and I wouldn't have to bug mianosm for his custom script. ;)
[Android Themes] ultra spikey:
I actually did this a while ago, just never uploaded it...its on the first page now...

"Now includes batch file that signs the theme also. So if you need to add anything else to the theme, like an xml file, add it to themenew.zip BEFORE you run the batch file. I also included a batch file that change the Ticker, Date and Clock font colors to white, then signs it. Of course, you can make it change it to any color, you just need to edit the batch."
[Android Themes] jlacy76:
Ran it, but getting this error in recovery.

Copying files...

E: failure at line 1:

copy_dir Package:app

System:app

Installation aborted.
[Android Themes] Ohsaka:
Testing this out now on an old theme that hasnt been updated in awhile...

The ThemePorter_v1.2WhiteSign.bat needs an ECHO on line 3...

ECHO \\\\\\\\\\ THEME PORTER v1.2 //////////
With Color Changer and Auto-Sign
ECHO By Ultra Spikey
[Android Themes] jlacy76:
I'm showing:

@ECHO OFF

ECHO \\\\\\\\\\ THEME PORTER v1.2 //////////

With Color Changer and Auto-Sign

ECHO By Ultra Spikey

pause

REM STEP 1 - Extract ONLY .apk's from "themeold.zip" to C:\themeporter

7za x themeold.zip -oC:\themeporter *.apk -r

cd c:\themeporter