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[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
definitely. maybe we should specify, but this only increases standby power consumption it seems. when actually using the phone, the battery still drops like a hammer! but considering i went 12 hours and lost 11% while i was sleeping, i'll take it!
[Nexus One General] Antiskunk:
I curious about the Roaming theory. Don't we already have an option to disable roaming?

I'd like to try this option but I need WCDMA only on just so I can use my phone for anything other than texting :p

I think some of you should check out the thread in my sig.
[Nexus One General] r34p3rex:
Trying it out now :D Charging up to 100%..
[Nexus One General] ram130:
This is an improvent. I lost like 10% in 4hrs with my alarm going off about 4 times for 1min(mainly cause I just don't wanna wake up:p)4 texts, 5 missed calls, 4min worth of call back and 18min display on time.......I took it off the charger around 8:49am and its now 1:12pm and Im at 89%.

I just know this will last me now.:D

Also I see an improvement in the signal..its more consistent.
[Nexus One General] aberrati0n:
This sounded pretty promising so I decided to try it out myself. Each day I get up at 6am, unplug my phone and (eventually) go to work. When I get there, I set my phone on my desk next to the window and don't really touch it until my shift is over.

I previously had mine set to "WCDMA preferred". By the time I got home from work (about 5pm) my battery would be between 85-90%.

Yesterday I decided to give "GSM Auto (PRL)" a try. When I got home, my battery level as at 62%. In case it was a fluke, today when I woke up, I restarted my phone and then did my normal thing. My phone was at 66% when I got home. Looks like it's back to "WCDMA Preferred" for me...

I'm on T-Mobile and work in SW Portland, OR in case anyone was curious.
[Nexus One General] blitz911:
I'm on tmobile USA, using a rooted Nexus One with Cyanogen 5.0.6..been using the GSM Auto(PRL) for a few days now. It's true that the battery still drains like crazy when in use, but in standby, uses very little..I'm not sure if it's all the GSM Auto(PRL) setting because I'm using the SetCPU where Standby is set to 245max/245min and regular setting is 998max/576min, all on demand..and it's been 20h 29m since unplugged and I have 37% left...
[Nexus One General] ram130:
Well back to WCDMA only for my house. I hate when it keeps switching between the two, makes listening music uneasy. I will set it back whenever I go outside.
[Nexus One General] wondercoolguy:
When I switched to GSM I noticed that my connections were alot more sparatic I would lose signal in both data and cell. More importantly the battery drainage actually stayed the same. Now that I've gone back I have full bars where ever I go. I will just let juice defener and power manager rule my phone.

***update**** thanks for the info though anything to help
[Nexus One General] nexus14:
Holy crap.

I just changed it to GSM AUTO (PRL) and ran the Speed Test app

I am in Chicago and I am getting:

460 kiloBYTES/s download

~40ish kiloBYTES/s upload

Before, I was only getting 200 download and 40 upload.

I actually don't remember what the original setting was??
[Nexus One General] hah2110:
I think this actually hurts my battery.
[Nexus One General] ram130:
details..:confused:
[Nexus One General] hah2110:
On any Kernel/ROM, I turn this on and battery usage isn't as good. It probably depends on area/coverage.
[Nexus One General] lgkahn:
this didnt work for me..cdma prl .. made it so the phone never went to 3g.. just edige or H.. but many places dont have H or edge an i would get no service
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
Cdma PRL is the wrong one. You need to either pick gsm auto (PRL) or leave it where it was on wcdma preferred. Cdma PRL is for a different type of phone altogether.
[Nexus One General] ext23:
sorry to bump but i've been reading a fair bit about getting my battery life up...

i'm on the softbank network in japan and got super excited when i saw that changing from WCDMA preferred to GSM auto can seriously boost battery life on my desire. alas, it would appear that softbank isn't even compatible with GSM auto for data...so i'm gonna set it to WCDMA only and hope that i see a slight improvement (i'll take whatever i can get at this stage).

having my phone set to WCDMA preferred, i routinely see cell standby reporting about 30% of battery usage on my phone. :/ should be less than this i believe.
[Nexus One General] ram130:
Well SoftBank network is 3G only. So WCDMA only is best for you since GSM auto(prl) searches for both 3G and 2G signals. Softbank no longer has a 2G network, so WCDMA only is perfect for you. You will still see some improvement in battery since your phone will only be looking for 3G when signal is lost or low rather than both. Have fun.

p.s: put it back to gsm auto prl or WCDMA preferred if you gonna travel or use another network.
[Nexus One General] stfwayne:
I have a problem someone on here please help me

Ive been reading the posts in this thread and I am wondering what setting do I have to choose to avoid my issue.

I live on the Detroit River directly across from Windsor.

I recently wiped my phone and started fresh and my phone keeps ROAMING on ROGERS WIRELESS instead of T-Mobile.

What setting do I need to choose to avoid connecting to Rogers Wireless all together?
[Nexus One General] ram130:
You can disable roaming by going into Wireless and Mobile networks..good luck.
[Nexus One General] sl8125:
I tried to change the settings to gsm prl but once the phone reboots it goes back to wcdma preferred. Anybody having same problems?
[Nexus One General] flak0:
For those that didn't know. PRL stands for Preferred Roaming List. Setting to GSM(Auto PRL) tells the phone to check the file on your phone for the list. It stops it from searching for roaming partners as opposed to WCDMA Preferred as that always looking .
[Nexus One General] scmc75:
Between this (gsm prl) and using setcpu I can now go 24hrs plus between charges, using my phone normally.
[Nexus One General] sl8125:
How did you get the phone to stick with the setting once reboot? Every time I reboot it goes back to wcdma.
[Nexus One General] ram130:
What if it's on gsm only?

It happens on my Vibrant as well.
[Nexus One General] scmc75:
I don't back out of the screen until I see that gsm prl stays and it doesn't go back to wcdma.
[Nexus One General] scmc75:
from what I've read in this thread. Gsm will save your battery life. But you you won't get	hsdpa speed.
[Nexus One General] Matterhorn:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that when in edge mode and sending/receiving data, the phone can't receive calls, at least on T-mobile. 3G is supposed to be able to do both at the same time. If this is indeed true, it might be worth the extra battery drain if you use data a lot.
[Nexus One General] nexusdue:
It should be able to receive calls ... but it will drop the internet connection when you connect.
[Nexus One General] D200P13:
its the other way around. edge lets you do calls no problem but data (downloads) will slow down when in a call. it still takes forever anyway on edge to do anything. i remember i couldnt even listen to slacker radio on edge without it buffering during a song.
[Nexus One General] ram130:
Your slightly correct. It happens on all EDGE supporting gsm networks. When you have a high amount of data flowing, SOMETIMES you won't be able to recieve a call. It also depends on how heavy the data flow is and how optimize the network is for pausing data flow on cue for the phone to get the call. With 3G, regularless of how heavy your data is, it won't matter. With 3G, data and calls can flow at the same time where as with EDGE, only one at a time.
[Nexus One General] sl8125:
Nope it doesn't work for me. It keeps going back to wcdma.
[Nexus One General] scmc75:
I rebooted four times and half the time it stayed on gsm prl. It seems to be 50/50. I just went back and changed it back to GSM prl.
[Nexus One General] rogerperk:
I'm using Froyo 3.1 and my choises are WCMDA only, GSM only, and GSM/WCDMA auto. I assume the auto one is what I should use but I dropped 25% of my battery in a 3 hour period. I did the battery bump too. Hmmm... cursed??

Edit: FIgurerd out how to work it using the *#*# thing but I've used 6% of my battery in 2.5 hrs. without making any calls, just checking weather and such. Thats around 2.5% an hour which isn't anywhere near what you guys are getting. Could there be something running in WM that's eating up battery? It says the majority of consumption goes to Android System when I check. 68% of usage.

Edit: 10% drop in 3.5 hrs. Thats not right.
[Nexus One General] arashkhaan:
I did that but when I go to menu again I see no change after changing to GSM auto (PRL) and still the setting is GSM/CDMA auto (PRL) ???:confused:
[Nexus One General] scmc75:
Check my battery stats
[Nexus One General] cool007zqw:
Since the usage of phone is complicated, the test is rough.

But thx for the tip!
[Nexus One General] chichoCRZ:
Same here. I really do not see a different. I did notice though that when I'm in a 3G area my setting is set to "GSM auto (PRL)", but when I'm in an edge area, my setting is set to "GSM Only".

Strange, but I'm not sure if it should be changing on it's own depending on what coverage your in.
[Droid Incredible General] sccafun:
How do you access the hard disk/storage card from the device? I can't figure it out for the life of me. :confused:

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] th3drow:
you need to download an app from the market, i use ASTRO
[Droid Incredible General] sccafun:
Cool...thanks...I appreciate it.

Anyone have any other suggestions?
[Droid Incredible General] Humpa:
Astro is normally the file manager of choice for Android users (non-rooted, at least).

OI file manager is another popular one, and it even adds an option in your email app so that you can attach any file.

I have both, I recommend you do the same.
[Droid Incredible General] Captchunk:
I use Astro as well, but I have used Linda Manager in the past and that was pretty decent, but it's been a while since I used it.
[Droid Incredible General] sccafun:
Thanks for the feedback everyone, I hope this helps other new Android users. :-)
[Droid Incredible General] AwsmAdm:
What about for the internal memory?
[Droid Incredible General] deekjx:
internal is located in /emmc

the sdcard is /sdcard

Sent from my ADR6300 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Droid Incredible General] qwho:
Thanks I had no idea, it looks like a folder in my file browser so I couldn't be sure that was it.
[Droid Incredible General] invisiblek:
astro is nice because it has a built in ftp client that supports sftp. that's my favorite part of it. just installed oi for email. pretty excited about being able attach any files now instead of only pictures

EDIT: forgot to say thanks :) thanks!!
[Droid Incredible General] Humpa:
And EStrongs is good if you want to do network shares (and supports samba).

It has ftp too. Not sure about secure ftp though, I havent installed Estrongs on my Incredible and never thought to try secure ftp on my Droid.
[Droid Incredible General] AwsmAdm:
I was in the same boat. Thanks a bunch.
[Droid Incredible General] nbellamy:
Me too Thanks
[Droid Incredible General] sccafun:
Using Astro, I cannot copy/paste/move ringtones into the media/ringtones folder on the phone's hard disk....has anyone noticed this? Is there another program that will allow you to do this?
[Droid Incredible General] Humpa:
On the sdcard or the emmc folder?

I have no problem with either. I just used Astro and went into the emmc folder and created a "ringtones" folder and copied and pasted one of my ringtones into it.

Where exactly are you copying from and pasting to? If you put the ringtones into a folder on the emmc or sdcard the phone will see them.

Ringtones go in a folder called "ringtones", notifications in "notifications" and alarms in "alarms". That's all you need to do to get them to show in the list of available sounds.
[Droid Incredible General] sccafun:
Thanks for responding….my ringtones are on my SD card…I'm was trying to copy/paste or move the ringtones from there into the system/media/audio/ringtones directory.

Ah-ha, I see… you can't move the files directly from your SD card to the system directory, you have to place the ringtones in the emmc directory first….well, that's different…I'm used to Win Mo….love Total Commander…..

Ok, really..I'm not a dunce…I was able to move the files from my sd card to the emmc folder, but I cannot move to the ringtones directory from the path listed above…. :-?
[Droid Incredible General] Humpa:
There is no reason or need to put them on the "system". I suspect we need to root to do that. But the phone will use your ringtones whether they are in the system folder, the sdcard, or the emmc. It is the name of the folder that matters. Just name them like I mentioned and they'll show up in all the right places. :D
[Droid Incredible General] sccafun:
On my Incredible, I can only select the default ringtones from the system/media/audio/ringtones directory. The device will not recognize ringtones from anywhere else when trying to assign ringtones for my contacts, or for the device in general.... so as is, I can only select the default ringtones, or buy new ones....ha,ha...yeah, right....I'll send the device back first....
[Droid Incredible General] Humpa:
Either you are doing something wrong or your phone is broken. Or maybe you are using a bad/incompatible file for a ringtone?

Do this for me.

Create a folder on your sdcard called "ringtones". Put it on the root of your sdcard and name it EXACTLY like that (without the quotes, of course). Place your mp3 ringtone in there. It will then show up as an option for your phone's main ringtone. Use a known good ringtone if you are having issues.

Now, that ringtone will not show up for notifications or alarms. You have to also create a folder called "alarms" and "notifications" and put the ringtones in there as well.

This works 100% for me and my Incredible (it was the same on the Droid and Devour as well - those are the only Android devices I have so far).
[Droid Incredible General] sccafun:
Ok, renaming the folder to "Ringtones" worked. Like I said, I'm not a dunce or new to PPC/smartphones...however, I am new to Android....with WM you don't have to jump through these hoops just to get the device to recognize the sound files, or to move files from one directory to another. Thanks for your help again, I hope this helps other new Droid users! :-)
[HD2 General] EgomaniacIII:
Okay so I just have a few general questions. I have searched around. Spent a lot of the past few days looking around. But just some general questions.

1) Is there anyway to make the start menu anything sort of organized? I just don't know what to do with that thing. It's getting very full, lol.

2) I have read plenty of stuff on different keyboards. I know there's the swype keyboard and a few others I guess.

a) But is there anyone who's made a keyboard, or anything, to just have the regular keyboard without the arrows, lol?

b) Is there any better way to get to specific parts of text without the arrows? Like the iPhone Magnifying glass or something?

3) People all the time say that they can pretty much find an app for anything. Well I'm not a business professional. I have O-Market installed. But are there any other places to look for just some cool apps and time killers?

Edit (4) Umm, is there anything to be done for messaging. I've done some reg tweaks and stuff, but what bothers me is when I click on a new message in the messaging tab (the one where you can scroll through your 25 most recent messages) and I HATE how I've either got to start typing and then get interrupted when it selects the message I clicked on, or I have to wait for it to select the message and then start typing...

Any way to make it NOT select the message, lol? I already know what message I'm responding too dang it, lol.

Hopefully I can get some answers, or links to answers for these. Thanks a lot guys :D.
[HD2 General] rickyoon.vegas:
4) You can flash your ROM to Energy ROM and it'll eliminate that problem.

I keep going back to Energy after experimental flashing with other ROM, but I go back to Energy for that reason alone.

1) Start Menu is something I don't really use, ever.

Cookie's Home Tab allows you to have more than 1 apps panel, up to 5 panels, I think.

I have 3 4x4 panel tabs I can just access from home screen, nearly every program/contacts I use are on it.
[HD2 General] EgomaniacIII:
Awesome. If I could get any responses to the other questions that would be great :).

But thank you very much. I was looking at Energy, I will probably flash to that. I have CHT right now, so I might have to think about some more tab pages.

Do all roms do that with messaging?
[General Questions and Answers] mrbrownbunny:
Today I was fooling around with my contacts, adding pictures to them and linking them with Facebook on my HTC HD2 just to see what amount of Device Memory it uses. I lost about 4MB in total from doing about 5 contacts but after I finished and removed the pics and links I didn't regain the memory.

Does anyone know how I can reclaim it? Coz as I think you'll agree I look at my device memory as Gold Dust.

Also does anyone know the best way to clean up the device memory?

Thanx :)
[General Questions and Answers] Staxxthedan:
Try restarting it.:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] memo1975:
Please help me Filehosting during my ROM update for Windows has everything Alpaor button does not work there is only a final red signal Anma do I connect the cable will run for a sec and then finish shaking Kolea signal Please help me:confused:
[HD2 General] xavierdemon:
Haven't seen this posted so here you go :)

http://www.htc.com/uk/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=297&act=sd&cat=all

This update for HTC HD2 enhances the native Car Kit Mode functionality. This update includes the ability to allow the phone to stay natively in Portrait mode so you are given the option of flipping to a horizontal view or staying vertical. Also included are call history view expanded, allowing the dialer to dial “+” in the recent call menu, and providing more flexibility in completing messages while using Bluetooth.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
After many many tweaking and cooking ROMs for WinMo I want to do same with Android. The reason I cooked for WinMo was speed, but since it is not an issue with mine Desire(but it can be better ;) I want to customize ROM a little bit, so remove some stuff and later maybe add few apps. If this want be a problem I will try to tweak too.

However in WinMo I have always have served kitchen, I just tweaked removed and add few things and job done but here there are no kitchens..yet(I hope somebody will sooner or later post it:)

So is there anybody who can help to set up kitchen so that I can cook few roms for me and this community?

So if I understanded correctly I need following to start cooking

android sdk

java jdk

signing tool

stock ROM

I have downloaded them all, extracted SDK in D:\HTC Desire\Android SDK, installed Java JDK in C:\Program Files (x86)\Java and I don't know what to do next?

Extract ROM, where(?), extract system.img which is in rom.zip if yes how and where?

Thanks for your help
[Desire Android Development] eViL D::
Benko, you can extract the ROM anywhere you want. But, you don't want images. You should look at Pauls rootedupdate.zip as a starting point. Unzip that.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Ok extracted that rootedupdate.zip and found a lot of apks and obexes so after I delete those files that I dont want how to put that all back together to file that is flashable?
[Desire Android Development] cezarL:
You'll have to resign the zip after removing stuff, otherwise it will give verification errors when trying to flash.

You need to remove the current certificates from the file, there are three files in the META-INF folder - delete those, but keep the update script (the COM folder inside), it's needed for flashing.

I use this little thingy for signatures: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Generating_Keys

Hope this helps!

PS-beware of any dependencies between the various apk's and any framework modding that might be needed, otherwise you'll get more fc's than you can carry; I know I did :)

PS2- if you want a served kitchen, you'll find one over at Modaco, for a CyanogenMod port (a link is posted in a thread here) - see if that suits you're needs.

PS3- check out the Chef Central sticky here, too - it should be easier to get quicker/more accurate info from the seasoned cooks there
[Desire Android Development] eViL D::
Rezip the folders: meta, system & boot.img.

Then resign them. You can then transfer it to sd and try to flash. If it doesn't boot, then you have to troubleshoot.
[Desire Android Development] kevin612:
May I know that how to change layout of the home screen?

e.g. HTC sense has news/mail widget where first installed and booted.

Where can I change these settings?

Also , I want to know if I made my own rom, and updated to my desire.

If it doesn't boot or anything, can I updated the rootedupdate.zip from Paul to get the desire back working?

Thanks
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Ok zipped those folders(META-INF, system, boot.img) in rootedupdate.zip, used autosign.bat to manually sign that .zip and now it should be flashable?

@Kevin-yes if it is not bootable you can flash Pauls rom again ;)
[Desire Android Development] eViL D::
Hopefully. After a few hundred times you'll get the hang of it. ;P

If it boot loops, it won't boot. Try again. Always remember what you're adding and subtracting. Maybe start out with only a couple things.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
OK Since I returned my device to my store because of warranty can you try that ROM, I will upload it for you :)?
[Desire Android Development] eViL D::
Sure, why did you return it?
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Uploading it now :)

Some very very bad battery leaking...80% in one night and sync was off!

Thank you so much eViL D: and everybody else for help :)
[Desire Android Development] mklass:
Ok I also want to create my own rom but I don't know how to sign it..

Any help would be most appreciated.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
ROM Link here

http://www.mediafire.com/?zt4ymz42jzj

I hope it works;)

So for now I even don't need Android SDK?
[Desire Android Development] kevin612:
I downloaded the rom kitchen from Chef Central...Does the rom need to be sign after I built them out in Linux?

Also there are some folders I not understand yet....

Inside system folder - customize, etc, framework, usr and xbin I dont understand yet.

Cause looking at eVil D:'s rom and paul's rom is very different in those. And even paul's rom doesnt have customize folder.

Would like to understand all and see if I can make a rom out.

Thanks
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Anybody tried my ROM :)?
[Desire Android Development] eViL D::
Got corrupted DL. Will have to try again.
[Desire Android Development] deeren:
the kitchen signs the rom automatically. run the menu from terminal ( using linux) and u will see all the what the kitchen is doing.

do not try to compare custom roms ... they are different. some have extrafiles & folders depending on their customisations.

best thing is to compare with an original rom for the desire. and u see what has been added to get X and Y. involves a lot of trials and errors.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
I will try downloading too, if it wont work I will reupload it :)

I know that this can sound wierd but can anybody of you upload his kitchen? ;)

Thank you all for help!

EDIT: File is corrupted, uploading again!
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Reuploaded and tested, RAR file is ok

http://www.mediafire.com/?w5wommomzmk

Please somebody try ROM :)

Thanks
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Anybody tried ROM :)?

P.S anybody has link to CyanogenMod port, anybody uses that kitchen?
[Desire Android Development] eViL D::
I was DL'ing yesterday, but said 8 hours. I will try again.
[Desire Android Development] benko286:
Just downloaded it @250kb/s :)

So try now ;)
[Desire Android Development] eViL D::
Downloading again.