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[Nexus One Android Development] jamesyb0i:
after .6 test 3 the battery has improved decently, still the display is hogging battery life more so than in the sense rom
[Nexus One Android Development] Nemphys:
Same thing here... Display totally kills the battery with CM5.0.5.3 and OC/UV kernel. Phone rarely lasts over a day with moderate to low usage...
[Nexus One Android Development] nDrg:
Without usage I can barely get a days use :s
[Nexus One Android Development] acantril:
I get the impression that its not the display. I can have 50% display usage, sleep my phone while playing a MP3 and then have more than 50% usage... suggesting that its either he display+something in one category , or there is a bug.
[Nexus One Android Development] cyanogen:
The stock ROM always showed display at the highest usage also. I'm not saying that there isn't an issue, but remember that those numbers are all relative.
[Nexus One Android Development] martin0285:
I'll say this: I charge nightly to prevent my battery "deep cycling"....That being said I un-plug at 8am and plug-in at about 11p-12a, I use my phone a TON.....usually when I plug in I have about 45-55%.....Not bad at all.....

I originally thought display being the main battery hog was a bad thing.....Then I thought about it a bit......

Would you rather the "system" use more batt? Cell Stand by?

Display (by all rights) should use most battery. More usage=Less time with a fully charged battery.....
[Nexus One Android Development] Weees:
Im using CM 5.0.5.3 and I switched Roms after using the stock for 3 months. As soon as I moved to CM I immediatly noticed the battery life was lower than before. I hope you find an issue to this problem ASAP.......I love your ROMs CM, but I love my battery life even more :P

Good luck with this !!
[Nexus One Android Development] antoniouslj:
"display" = gpu acceleration and actual amoled power
[Nexus One Android Development] acantril:
Something else i just noticed, very odd. I had 41% display and 23% spotify.... i had been playing for music for a while (offline only). When i quit the spotify app... the entry from the battery usage vanished and display took a spike to 65% ish... really odd. Almost display is showing usage for a group of things.
[Nexus One Android Development] Ensane:
What? How ? I get 6 hours maybe 7 if I'm lucky out of my battery.... even b4 my nexus was rooted ... how r u guys gettin 24
[Nexus One Android Development] acantril:
Ignore any figures people quote - battery life is always relative. One persons 'usual' usage is different than yours. A friend of mine brings his N1 to works and it sits on his desk syncing email - he gets 1 full day.

I bring mine, sync 2 accounts, play a lot of podcasts, have a RSS syncer going and use twitter and FB loads, i get a LOT less.

Dont worry to much, your usage figures are pretty normal depending on your usage patterns.
[Nexus One Android Development] bobtentpeg:
They say your mileage may vary for a reason
[Nexus One Android Development] Gr8gorilla:
Battery Life

My Battery life has always sucked. Maybe I should buy a new Battery?

If I take my phone off the charger at 7:30, and don't plug it in all day, then I will be at about 30% or less by the time I get home at around 5:30. Unless I don't use it. But I use my phone to play stream music pretty much all day. Or at least 4 hours. One day I forgot my USB cable and I was below 20% by 3:00.

It is still better than iSuck, I mean iPhone, and worse than a BlackBerry. I have electricity everywhere though, a car charger, and an extra battery is like 25$?

So what is the big deal? You have the equivalent of a desktop computer from like 2002 in your pocked running off of a batter the size of a credit card, how long do you really want the thing to last anyway?
[Nexus One Android Development] SiNJiN76:
I. noticed worse batt life when 'android System' is being the hog. I'd rather the display be up top. curiously, has anybody actually jotted down their exact phone usage? that is probably the only way to figure out the difference between HIGH usage to MODERATE/LOW usage between everyone.

Sent from my Nexus One using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Nexus One Android Development] dahui9:
I had wondered your opninion on this I know you're hard at work on developing, my main wonder was do we know what is causing the visual drain in your roms base vs others. I love the blistering fast speed but those numbers however relative, I seem to get 70% display hogging the battery and 6% everything else till its dead. which equates to a possible 3-4 days more battery if we figure it out.

So I'm here to help as much as I can but don't know much to just dive into it. So I will keep testing away :D

-Charlie
[Nexus One Android Development] Ensane:
Yea I don't put my phone down I'm playing games while surfing the net and taking calls and texting... its a rate occasion when my battery isn't dead by lunch...

Wouldn't having your screen taking up the majority percentage of your battery usage be a good thing ... that's saying everything else is running efficient enuff and taking up less usage so naturally your battery usage percentage would be higher... right?
[Nexus One Android Development] Noel3903:
Very interesting...i have seen this same kinda of spike after killing certain apps... its like it has to move the % some where......also i get 2 days of battery life if i just use the phone for calls and text,but if i try im sure i could burn this baby up in 5 hours with straight gaming lol...:D but its really all relative because everyone is going to consider light to moderate usage differently;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Fausty:
I tried to search but could not find anything.

On my exchange email, I've got multiple folders and emails are sent to the different folders directly.

In HTC email program, I can look at other folders and see unread email there but I can't see unread emails (and get notifications) across all folders, except of course if I missed a configuration?
[Desire Themes and Apps] fredfox_uk:
That's the way it works. If you've got rules to move mails to Exchange folders you won't get new mail notifications. Same thin happens if you use Outlook as the email client, you won't get any notification for mails that got to folders.

What bugs me is that if you hit menu->folders then the unread count isn't shown there - unless I'm missing something :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] slayer3600:
I also am trying to figure this out. I basically want the ability to receive and be notified of all emails including all subfolders. Regarding Fed's comment, I agree that's how it's supposed to work, but in Outlook you can set a rule to display a notification. In my Outlook I set that as the top most rule for all incoming email so I get a notification no mater what rule runs. Even my BBerry allowed me to select folders that were also monitored and hence a notification and email were recieved. HTC however doesn't seem to have an option to do this. It actually sounds like you guys are getting a step further. If I select menu --> folders I see the folders, but not the email within the folders. Anyone know how to setup notifications and receive email for subfolders in exchange on the HTC?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Fausty:
I want to add that before I used Touchdown and touchdown can show emails from all selected folders.

Are follow-ups working for you (mine are auto-flagged in outlook)?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Fausty:
For info, I've asked the question to HTC. Good news, they replied.

Bad news...

There is no setting for notifications on new mails in servers specifiaclly, If you are using a Windows Mobile based phone you can set these folders to be synchronized and on new mails in these folders you should get a notification upon new mails. On our Android based devices there is sadly enough no way to do this.
[HD2 General] ~1337~:
Hey guys i just got my htc hd2 yesterday and im very pleased with my purchase :) sold my iphone and bought this baby.

Ive been doing some research and ive foud out that u can get games on this device. i searched abit more and i manged to download starcraft and put the folder into my hd2. When i boot it up it loads but it freezes on the front page. Is there any way to fix this? because i have seen inferior phones run starcraft fine.

If you can explain a cause as to why or how to properly install the game if there is, that would be great.

Cheers
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] krGemini:
Hi,

Can any body help me in defining gateway address on my imate jasjam. I want to browse internet on my device and without defining gateway address, i am unable to do so.

I've used "wifi profiles" software and defined manual ip, gateway and dns but it is not retreiving gateway settings. At my workplace, there is a dhcp server which is automatically assigning an ip address to my device.

Regards,

Kashif Mehmood
[Windows Mobile] Lechux:
A question,

how can I remove shortcuts that are not present in iniflashfiles? Everytime I cook a rom in Windows\Start Menu it got 3 icons:

- market place

- my phone

- task manager

In initflashfiles I set them to Windows\Start Menu\Tools and now I have duplicates icons. Is there any other file that puts icons in start menu?

Oh, and how can I add/remove/change icons in Settings?
[Windows Mobile] bikeandestroyx:
In the corresponding sys packages look for provxml files and remove them or create a blank one that overwrites the sys one. I don't have exact names for provxml files since I'm mobile but taskmanager one is listed in first post.

Ill add how to hide and move settings icons later.
[Windows Mobile] Lechux:
yes, but my file looks like this:

<wap-provisioningdoc>
<characteristic type="FileOperation">
<characteristic type="%CE11%" translation="install">
<characteristic type="MakeDir" />
<characteristic type="Menedżer zadań.lnk" translation="install">
<characteristic type="Copy">
<parm name="Source" value="%CE2%\taskmgr.lnk" translation="install" />
</characteristic>
</characteristic>
</characteristic>
</characteristic>
</wap-provisioningdoc>

There is nothing about start menu :p So I can just remove it without worrying about my shortcut in "Tools"?
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
It uses CE strings-%CE11% sends junk to the start menu.
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
great dude..but still more info needed about how to create folder and how to set up new folder icon..

buddy u got chance..thaks for this info..:p:p
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
changing folder icons is easy :) just edit the reg for your folders with new path to your custom pic.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Multimedia]
"Rank"=dword:35A4ECAB
"Icon"="[COLOR="Red"]\\Windows\\multimedia_folder_icon.png[/COLOR]"
"Group"=dword:00000001

after you have got all your folders set with the new pics, you can arrange them in the start menu like you want them and use a reg editor to export your reg then put in your kitchen and they will be like you want when you cook.
[Windows Mobile] jug6ernaut:
proxml's r the devil, mortscript ftw
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
hey bud... if you dont contributes with questions or how to use anything to change customize or rearrange icons in start menu or settings dont post that... will give you some chance to edit your post with info

BTW... Nice thread bud.. tehre are some other threads like this... why you dont look at them and try to get more info nad grow this... ATM i will make it Stickie cause is not a [Q] Thread is good info for new chefs to learn ;)

and this:

is not the only way you can add a folder in the start menu you can do it simply by the same regs to chenge icons ;) as TPC said ;)
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
ohhhhhhhhh love it man..:p:p;):eek::cool:
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
can anyonne tell me how can i import reg of particularv changes i have made..

like i install ucweb thne i change settings..but now i dont want to do this again and again..so i want to import reg,, and cook it,,

but where this reg must be located?:(:(
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
mmm it seems not the topic why you dont start a new thread with the "Q" maybe more ppl can see it i dont use that app so i dont know the answer.
[Windows Mobile] bikeandestroyx:
added a couple links for tools to backup/export registry!
[Windows Mobile] Lechux:
wow, I finally managed to do what I wanted :D

2 questions, tho:

1. How can I remove icon from settings? I have duplicates of DeviceInfo, so is there any option to hide icon? Or make a .rgu file that will remove that whole key.

2. Even if I cooked in all icons (in start menu everything is replaced), while I'm adding a shortcut to manila's quick links the old icons appears. It happens even after hard reset for example for icons of Albums or calculator. Most of them working just fine, but some comes with old icon.
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
hey..u says that all system icons r located in base dpi96..

huuumm..ok..but if i import new build then i have to replace icons same as the previous one??

or is there any way to cook them so as they must be in the ext folder??

so we do not have to replace icons in each and every sys build??:(:(
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
you can make your own pkg of custom icons, registry, anything and put it the ext folder and it will overwrite files with same name in sys or oem. so if you make a pkg and put it in your ext folder with the name z_mypakage then it would run very last because it starts with the letter z.
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
so... you were replacing in sys all the icons everytime you cook a new build? mannually??? its amazing how you made things hard than cook...

look...

if you want you can use PNG images with the same name as the default icons, and put them into a EXT pkg.. so when you cook.. that new Images will replace the sys images in base DPI.. understand.. or.. if you want to keep the old icons... you can set your images in a EXT pkg with diferent file names and change the registry entries to match the icon LNK with the PNG to use...

look at this...

Attached: Image "about" in settings system, "camera" in start menu root, "beam" in settings root, and "settings" folder icon too... all made by me but same name as default in sys

So they dont need to change the regs ;)

but if I want to change the icons with "my own named icon" or " new app icon " or "folder in start menu"

the change in the reg lines must be:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Multimedia]
"Group"=dword:1
"Icon"="\\Windows\\multimedia_folder_icon.png"
"Rank"=dword:35A4ECAB

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Office Mobile 2010]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\Office2010.png"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Office Mobile 2010\Word Mobile 2010.lnk]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\word.png"

Multimedia folder

Office 2010 folder

Word app inside Office 2010 folder
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
Check out this thread:

http://www.mobilitydigest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2671

Granted, UCWEB doesn't have much to do with the thread, but I put together some dotfred shortcuts that automatically export some useful reg keys, including the start menu registry keys and everything for UCWEB. Just make sure the paths and names in the shortcuts are correct, and you don't even have to open a regeditor to dump the info.
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
ok..thanx a lot mr..........:D:D:D:eek::eek::cool::cool:
[Windows Mobile] GuestK0041:
Thanks, good tutorial. Cooking now...
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
oh sir..i will not forget u..thanx a lot..

xda is great..everyone share even a little beat information....
[Windows Mobile] twisted:
hi,

to arrange the icons/folders in the start menu, add this line in your registry:

"ItemPosition"=dword:000000xx

sample:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Today]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\Start_Icon_Today.png"
[B][color=blue]"ItemPosition"=dword:00000000[/color][/B]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Softreset.lnk]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\app_Reset.png"
[B][color=blue]"ItemPosition"=dword:00000001[/color][/B]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Total Commander.lnk]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\app_TotalCommander.png"
[B][color=blue]"ItemPosition"=dword:00000002[/color][/B]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Accessories]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\start_icon_accessories.png"
"Group"=dword:00000001
[B][color=blue]"ItemPosition"=dword:00000003[/color][/B]
...

regards,

mike :D
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
ohhhhhh great..xda iis growing..
[Windows Mobile] Livven:
You can also put the settings items in other folders (for example to move the items from the Personal folder to the root). Go to HKML\ControlPanel and look for the key to move, for example "Buttons". Now, change the "Group" value in there to:

0: Personal folder

1: System folder

2: Connections folder

4294967295 (or FFFFFFFF in hex): root

You also have to move the icon entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Settings to the folder where you moved the icon, else you'll see the ugly default icon.
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
any reg u want to cook must be proccesed at the last..

so u have to put it in a folder with starting zzzz...

like

ext/shared/enhancements/zzzztweaks
[Windows Mobile] Alex-V:
thanks i will check it.... :)
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
Here's the problem with the widgets: if you use the stock sys files, the widgets are not installed like normal files (using initflashfiles or provxml's). They are installed with widgetinstaller.exe (or something like that), and you can't directly edit the install directories. Long story short, make a cab or use a zip file to install them.
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
i use a .mscr to move my widget shortcuts to their own folder, then i make reg for the custom icons i use.

Move( "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\MSN Money.lnk", "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Connections\Widgets" )
Move( "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\MSN Weather.lnk", "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Connections\Widgets" )

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Connections\Widgets\MSN Weather.lnk]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\HTC_weather_widget.png"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\Connections\Widgets\MSN Money.lnk]
"Icon"="\\Windows\\HTC_money_widget.png"

works every time for me :D i noticed you have a space in your .png name that could be it...just copy and past my reg to your kitchen and edit the shortcut path and png name to yours and it will work.
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
Here is a package I use for the widgets. Leave out the widget packages in sys for weather and money, but the one with all the riahost crap is still needed. You need mortscript cooked in for this to work. It installs the shortcuts with a mortscript as well-edit unzipwidgets.mscr to set the path however you wish. I also have the free streams-t light widget included. There are some tips for saving settings of the three widgets in the .reg file. This package is modified from what I use (different paths for the shortcuts + I now have the paid-for streaming widget), but I'm pretty sure I removed all the bugs. Set the icons however you wish; the reg entries are in there.

Edit: oh, yeah, I removed all the language files except English from the widget directory. I also recommend adding this to your boot rgu if you use the widgets:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt]
"DirsToExclude"=multi_sz:
[COLOR="Red"]"\\Program Files\\Widgets\\",[/COLOR]

You also need to increase this by 1:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt]
"NumDirsToExclude"=dword:

The widgets each have their own PIE caches, and generate a crap-load of junk files. You don't want that written to replstorvol.
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
hey farmer ted is there a reason why you dont just exclude all of Program Files? just curious because thats what i do lol.
[Windows Mobile] Farmer Ted:
Well, I just exclude the junk directories. I know that you get better file system scores if you basically exclude every file on your rom (except \my documents), but something tells me that you're better off using the file replication for important (or non-junk) files. I figure there's a reason that the stock boot.rgu's just sort of call out all of the temp/junk folders, so that is what I target. So, I don't exclude \windows, either. I also set the replstorcachesize to 800. It's funny, the file system index drops dramatically when you change it from the stock 0 to 800 (or pretty much anything else), but I would swear that the device feels better that way. I just have a hunch that MS includes file system replication for a reason, and I like to use it (one of the reasons I don't use extendir, although I'm really interested in it). This is the analogy I use: you can take the wheels off of a Ferrari, and it will be fast as hell in wind tunnel tests, but that won't translate to the road. I just have a feeling that the common tweaks used to improve file system indexes are sort of like that. You get faster test scores, but it may not translate to real use. Or, I could just not know what the hell I'm talking about, lol.

Anyway, this is my full dirstoexclude. I've moved the messaging folder and PIE cache to application data, as well as a few other junk directories for apps that I use. I normally have ~500 files recorded in replstor, so the cache size seems reasonable, although I could lower it. Adding the widget folder made a huge difference in sk benchmarking of the file system (jumped from maybe 1700 to 2200). I actually don't have much else in \program files, anyway (2 folders and 3 other files, lol). All my apps are in rom. The filestobedeleted folders are pretty useful. The one in \windows has something like 150 dead references in replstor after bootup if it isn't excluded. I'm not sure what they were from, but it could have been from the widgets using the normal installation.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt]
"DirsToExclude"=multi_sz: "\\mxip_initdb.vol",
"\\mxip_system.vol",
"\\mxip_notify.vol",
"\\mxip_lang.vol",
"\\cemail.vol",
"\\pim.vol",
"\\Documents and Settings\\default\\user.hv",
"\\Documents and Settings\\system.hv"
"\\Application Data\\",
"\\Windows\\Activesync\\",
"\\Program Files\\Widgets\\",
"\\mxip_swmgmt.vol",
"\\mxip_initdb.vol",
"\\Windows\\cache\\",
"\\Windows\\AppMgr\\",
"\\Windows\\Favorites\\",
"\\Windows\\Temp\\",
"\\Windows\\WILDdata\\",
"\\Windows\\WLSData\\",
"\\My Documents\\FilesToBeDeleted\\",
"\\Windows\\System\\FilesToBeDeleted\\",
"\\Windows\\FilesToBeDeleted\\",
"\\Temp\\",
"\\Windows\\System\\PushRouter\\clientqueues.vol"

Oh, yeah, I learned the hard way that if you have 48 or more entries, the frickin' rom won't boot. Took me like 5 flashes to figure out what a dumbass I was.
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
this is really annoying... i want to change all the icons on the start menu... so i made a EXT pkgs with all the entries for new icons... some change some other not...

I believe that i set wrong the file regs but nop... it seems that the provxml for strat menu icons... runs at first boot...and overwrites all the changes...

so Kane159 helps me to make a provxml (attached)

renamed as ZZZZZZ to run after all the provxml.... TADAAAAAA!!! it wont works... :(

maybe is wrong... maybe i need something else? maybe i can becomes crazy with this thing and the only way to make it is transform the provxml to reg and import it into a cab... and run the cab in the UC. or or.... i dont know.

any help?

thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
have u include this in ext/shared folder????

coz ur files seem to be ok..

and i had make such file and it work all the time buddy..

ok dont write zzz so much that it will proccessed even after your reg tweaks..

make like ext/shared/z or zzicon......

i hope this will help you..
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
yes the EXT pkg i include it was named....

Z_Square_Icons
[Windows Mobile] saurabh88:
all the icons name u have checked?????r they same???

sorry but sometime this can happens......
[Windows Mobile] twopumpchump:
try changing the name of it to mxipupdate_zzzicons_100.provxml and see if that works. also i noticed you have spaces in the names of your icon pics, not sure if that matters but i have all of mine like this starticon_mypic.png instead of starticon mypic.png.