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[Desire General] craftyCS:
Cracked Screen... ME TOO!

I too have had the unfortunate displeasure of seeing my brand new desire drop to the ground on my tiled floor bathroom and land in just the right position fo the screen to crack. Have insurance but as I had just that day switched to a new phone and contract with orange hadn't switched the IEMI number over with my insurer. Long story but didn't realise I had to switch as I have never claimed AS THE INSURANCE COMES WITH MY BANK ACCOUNT NEEDLESS TO SAY INSURANCE DOESNT COVER IT FOR 15 DAYS AFTER YOU REGISTER THE EMEI NUMBER OF THE NEW PHONE... so beware folks honest isn't always the best policy and sometimes having insurance with your phone provider can be a better option!..

No new screens available from any UK repAIRER YET SO WILL HAVE TO WAIT IT OUT WITH A HALf visible (but still working) screen.
[Desire General] Oby One:
I just joined your club.

I dropped my desire just 15 minutes ago onto some concrete stuff.

The glass screen is totally obliterated.....but the phone still works.

So 2 questions.

- Can I but just the glass part and replace it ? the underneath screen is ok

- How much can it cost ? ( if it's possible in europe...if not in canada or usa)
[Desire General] .:george:.:
Both display and digitizer can be currently found on the internet, they're not cheap though...

http://www.dealsniper.com/en/home/2563-htc-desire-glass-touch-screen-digitizer-replacement-7.html

http://www.iphone-spares.com/htc-parts/desire-lcd-screen-google-g7

They say LCD, I'd say it's a mistake, not sure though.
[Desire General] Oby One:
Are you kidding?

If it's just 60$ then it's very very cheap......

I will try to buy it.

Ps:

read this : http://tjworld.net/blog/htc-desire-tear-down

it's a photo tear-down and re-assembly guide on how to replace the broken glass digitiser
[Desire General] mayurh:
howzit guys

i see on the net that theres a new desire coming out and its got a lcd screen coz of the bad visibility in sunlight of our amoled screens

where can we get these lcd screens - mayb its better to fit a lcd onetime instead of amoled again
[Desire General] markoslo:
I also have a broken display.

And last week I ordered a new one on ebay. I got it today, but when I installed it, it wasn't working. Only a faded green light on the right side of the screen.

The phone booted ok (vibration at the beginning and the sound when it's booted - pin request).

Then I took the new screen out and began an close inspection. I was amazed that I found a freaking hole in the display (the original does not have one, obviously).

shrani.si/f/e/rz/25HpVJoS/p3300153.jpg

shrani.si/f/3V/tE/4hMdL00g/p3300154.jpg

shrani.si/f/1X/35/FLeujkL/p3300159.jpg

(there is an tireless w810i behind the screen with led on, u can clearly see the light shining through the display)

I'm going to send the pictures to the seller, and see what he says about it..

Anyone had similar experience? Or any explanation about the holes? (there actually two, second one is right on the edge, can't take a photo of that one..)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kenc3dan:
Would it be possible for someone to throw the switch in the Java that disabled Bluetooth voice dialing? Google has a comment saying that it doesn't deliver acceptable quality results, versus the phones built-in mic, but I wonder how that's true when the Devour (Android 1.6) and the Milestone both have great BTVD using Nuance voice suite. I'd gladly pay $100 to anyone who can get a decent Bluetooth initiated voice dialing and voice prompt solution working onthe Droid or Incredible. I'd love to ditch my Devour but these superphones just can't make a call safely in a car like my old Motorola E815 could.
[Nexus One General] ikon8:
I noticed it yesterday at about 6pm and it's now about 12pm noon the next day and I've had "no service" this whole time. I've read a few reports around the web of outage in california but it seems hard to believe it would last this long with a big fuss on the internet. My phone was working perfectly fine before and I didn't make any changes to it recently either.

Perhaps my sim card went bad? It's not telling me anything about a bad sim though, and I can still use data over wifi.
[Nexus One General] ikon8:
Turns out I had a bad sim card, Tmo replaced it free and now my phone is working fine.

On a side note, the Tmo guy was asking me questions about Cyanogen rom for about 10 minutes, but he says he's too scared to try it himself.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] wookie01:
hi! i'm a recent buyer of rhodium... a question: it's possible to send the same message directly to a group of contacts? i don't think so... hi!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Blesseld:
Click "To:" and you can add a person in.... i believe you can only add one person at a time, but you can send to multiples.

If someone knows how to drop multiple people in the "To:" field at once, I would like to know.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] crazyhoratio:
On the sprint 6.5 stock ROM, if you open "All People" (under "People") along the bottom are 5 categories : All, Favorites, Groups, Updates and Events, and Call History. If you select "groups", you can permanently assign many groups. Once a group is created it is saved and you can select it and easily send a text to any or all of the people in that group (there is a checkbox next to each contact). Hope this helps!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] SteelLife:
Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Nexus One General] ChillRays:
I really like this guide and I'm going to use it when I get my n1. I like all (and will try) of the steps except #5.. the trackball notifications is just too sweet to ever turn off imo. Thanks for the guide.
[Nexus One General] crachel:
I'm really surprised to hear that your LED light in the trackball destroyed your battery life
[Nexus One General] cymru:
I don't bother killing apps anymore. Since they're not in focus their not using the CPU so whats the point. (right?)

I dont have rubbish notifications on either, nor bluetooth/GPS unless needed. Ive got auto brightness on too.... might try juicedefender in future actually, it does sound good.

So what did you triple your battery life from anyway... 12 hours?
[Nexus One General] c0wb0ycliche:
only about 6-8 hours.

I was too but I duplicated that scenario a few times to make sure. Also, it might matter that I am running trackball succession and color hacks.
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
Trackball succession is killing your battery, not the trackball light.
[Nexus One General] cymru:
Oh....

Mines gets over 48 hours no problems anyway.
[Nexus One General] ChillRays:
Geez, whats your secret?
[Nexus One General] c0wb0ycliche:
I second that, holy crap lol.
[Nexus One General] BigDamHero:
!!! Were you hit by lightening as a child or something? I can only conclude your natural charge is keeping it going :->

Also - OP - nice set of tips - thanks
[Nexus One General] Chahk:
Wow... I only get that good of a battery life if I turn my N1 off! ;)
[Nexus One General] cymru:
Are you guys being serious?!

I am indeed consistently getting 48 hours battery life...
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
48 is on the high side of things... I usually go to bed with about 40% remaining, and put it on the charger overnight... I get up at 8AM and go to bed around 12AM. So I am getting about 26 hours out of mine.

Edit:

Accidently typed in 36 when I meant to type 26. Fixed.
[Nexus One General] ChillRays:
I have a noob question, which this forum is how I get most of my N1 knowledge...

Which uses up more battery life, 3G or wifi?

Thanks to whoever replies.. (my best guess would be 3G)
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
That's actually 26 hours.
[Nexus One General] c0wb0ycliche:
Which is still a lot. I'd really like to know how you are doing this. Do you make any voice calls? Do you text/e-mail a lot? Watch videos? Browse the web? Play music etc.?

I mean my usage is based on maybe an hour a day of talking on the phone, and a few hundred text messages, maybe a couple e-mails, frequent twitter/Facebook updates, and maybe a couple hours a day of playing games, watching videos, reading news etc.

I imagine if I just left the phone there it'd be close to 26-30 hours, but not with regular use.
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
Erm, this is not correct, is it?

The whole point of multitasking means things still carry on when not in focus. If you leave everything running, they will all try and use data and CPU cycles, no?
[Nexus One General] Namuna:
Some nice suggestions there c0wb0ycliche! Thanks.

A couple of other thoughts/suggestions...

1. In the choices of kernels, pershoots is regarded as being excellent with battery life (partly from being undervolted I imagine) and the fact it's also overclocked at the same time ain't so bad either. :cool:

2. Not sure how much extra juice is saved by not using a Live Wallpaper, but if we're talking about battery savings here it might as well be said.
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
I would not be surprised if a large majority of people who get 25+ hrs hook onto wifi networks for a majority of the data usage. When switching to wifi the phone steps down to 2g mode for phone services.

No. Some applications have sister services that do this, but not all applications.
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
Good point, has anyone mentioned SetCPU? If you set up a profile, it will lower your clock speed to 300mhz while the screen is off. Saves quite a bit of power.
[Nexus One General] c0wb0ycliche:
I am going to install this now and see how it affects my battery life in addition to everything else I tried.
[Nexus One General] faraz1992:
Thanks for the analysis.

I thought GPS/Bluetooth/WiFi/3g don't consume battery unless they are doing some data transfer...

If what you say is true then you can consider adding this to your guide.

* If you're not using 3g, then switch from dual mode to 2g.

* Use UVed kernels (but this is very radical when compared to other tips ;) )

* Tweaking the CPU according to your needs using SetCPU.
[Nexus One General] PrawnPoBoy:
Android is a little different than a regular desktop OS. When an application is switched out it doesn't typically continue to run. It will stay in memory until some other app needs it, but it wont use any CPU time. For an app to continue to do any work in the background it has to implement a "service". Most apps don't do this unless there is good reason to, such as playing music. Most only implement "activities".

More info here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html

I'm not so sure about this. There are some networks that don't have 2G at all. The new Telus/Bell network in Canada only has HSDPA, so switching the phone to EDGE would disconnect it completely. You can verify this by going to Settings -> About phone -> Status and then looking at "Mobile network type" when connected to a WiFi network. You'll probably notice it is still on UMTS if it's available and not EDGE.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
Thank you, the 3 is too close to the 2 on the keyboard... I will edit my post.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
I use my phone on a very regular basis... I have my work email set to push, gmail pushes as well, use the news widget on a regular basis(couple times an hour updating, read almost every article), SMS/IM very regularly from 3PM until 10PM(some others throughout the day, but am in class during the day so can't really message during that, and I get home from work around 10, at which point in time I get on my puter)... I make about an hour of calling a day. I don't play music or videos for the most part. I also browse on my phone a bit, but not a lot. It does get a solid hour straight, on WiFi, during my dead hour between classes.

I mostly use 2G or WiFi... only time I will switch over to 3G is if I am out and about, can't connect to WiFi, and really need the increased data speeds, ie using google maps.

My usage is not light or non-existent, as you can see above.

The key, IMHO, to good battery life is putting it on 2G, keeping the screen brightness down, NOT USING A TASK KILLER (if I kill a task, I use the app manager) and putting the phone into sleep mode yourself, not just letting the screen time out on its own. Right now, I am not even using a tricked out kernel, just Cyan stock kernel his ROMs come with (trying to get a "baseline" for when we do some kernel testing in the near future).

I also don't use the facebook app, twitter, et al... I am not a big social networking person, to say the very least(I can't even remember my myspace login and password).
[Nexus One General] GldRush98:
The trackball LED power usage is negligible.

Don't be stupid.
[Nexus One General] ztm.000:
i also get really good battery usage... i kill apps constantly and i have setCPU enebled. im gonna check out that juice app though. what do you guys do to get horrible 8 hours?

and by the way im really skeptical on the 48 hours of battery thing. post a screenshot of your usage and all that, then ill believe you...
[Nexus One General] bengrulz:
uhhh 8am till 12am is only 16 hours, not 36 or 26...
[Nexus One General] nazrin313:
im getting around 16-18hrs..n im happy with dat. im also using the phone frequently..twitter, web browsing, xda-ing, pocket empire,etc...i just cant put down the phone n dats my problem lol
[Nexus One General] c0wb0ycliche:
my guess is that it is all the auto-updating and refreshing apps. my friends droid eris is even worse, by the end of the work day its dead.

if you figure i have 2 gmail accounts pulling contacts, calendar, and email via push all the time, facebook and last.fm also syncing contacts, last.fm scrobbling music, facebook, myspace and twitter all also accessing data regulary, news and weather and newsrob, mms messaging, the market also randomly lets you know there are updates, google voice getting updates and on and on and on... its a huge amount of services trying to fetch data all the time.

i guess without using all of these you could theoretically get 48 hours or whatever but then why have a smartphone lol
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
I usually get two days of moderate use, one of heavy.

OP, how about you just pick up a spare battery so you can enjoy the phone as it was meant to be? If you want battery life at the expense of everything else just trade it in for a Razr.
[Nexus One General] logger:
Thats about what I get too.

Was thinking of starting a thread, How I nearly quadrupled my battery life! My battery lasts for 6 days. Dont use 3g, dont use data, dont make calls. Dont use GPS, Dont use screen.

My point is, all the methods to significantly increase battery life, really just hobble the phone. They result in you not using it to its full potential.

If there was a way to markedly increase battery life, without hobbling the phone, it would get my attention.

As it happens, I have an unopened spare battery and I am undecided if I should sell it on ebay or start using it. The convenience of having extra juice is questionable when weighed against the inconvenience of charging and swapping two batteries.
[Nexus One General] NeoS:
If the battery is fairly new, I would consider using it. The longer you wait, the less you get out of an Li-Ion battery.

SOURCE: http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
[Nexus One General] logger:
Yeah it is brand new. Only two weeks since I bought it from Google in a bundle with both cradles. That is why I am probably going to flog it on ebay.
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
Ooh, I was going to ask that. I have two spare batteries in my drawer. I charged them both up yesterday and was going to leave them in my drawer.

The problem is, they are there for emergencies. No good if they are half dead?

Maybe I leave one charged and one at 40%? If I go on holiday, I get them both charged up in advance...
[Nexus One General] ztm.000:
ya, i guess if you literally do not use your phone at all like a vagine... i mean i literally do all that stuff besides the google voice and it'll last til 4 in the morning. taking it off the charger at 7 am.
[Nexus One General] ztm.000:
but i also condition the **** out of my battery(s). they (i have two) are like well trained athletes.
[Nexus One General] ram130:
How much time to do recondition it? you like discharging all the way to 0% and charge it back up right?
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
I don't think you should do that with these batteries. Many people have posted in the past that this is bad for the battery. That's what you used to do with old batteries, not these.
[Nexus One General] pzumk:
Great guide but nothing new to me.. unfortunatly this is what I ever did and I thought I can triple my actual battery life again :D
[Nexus One General] ghostrida:
pics or it didn't happen

for those of you claiming 36-48 hours of battery life post your screenshot like I did below or no one will believe you. those are outrageous claims if you have the stock 1400 mAH battery.

(i recently took phone off charger. this is just an example) ;)
[Nexus One General] jay_zhead:
I don't know about the claims concerning the trackball light. It does nothing to my battery life whatsoever. The rest of what you wrote can indeed save some battery.

However, the two best battery savers, IMO, are SetCPU (only for rooted phones - will not work if you're stock) and disabling haptic feedback for the touch buttons. With SetCPU profiles enabled, I set the "standby" scheme to limit the CPU to 245mhz, that is a HUGE battery saver; and turning off the haptic feedback in the settings - and now I finish a day with about 50%-40% battery remaining, and that's with a moderate amount of surfing the web, listening to music, reading with FbReader, playing various games, watching youtube videos, etc; and Live Wallpapers and push email on...
[Nexus One General] ztm.000:
its not bad to do. obviously its working out amazingly for me. these people are just doing it wrong

what i do is drain it from 100% to 3-7%. then charge it back up to 100%, barely using it, and letting it sit for a couple hours
[Nexus One General] pistol4413:
i do something similar, but instead of draining it to 3-7% o take it all the way untill the device wont even power on. then i charge it till its 100% and give it a few more hours on the charger just to be safe. i do this process twice or 3 times a month when i have some spare time. the funny think i have noticed is that that last 10% is the hardest to kill! :eek:
[Nexus One General] :
Letting the device shut off itself too often is a horrible thing for this batteries.
[Nexus One General] pistol4413:
such as?? (10 char)
[Nexus One General] pzumk:
Really? 2 days ago I used my phone for a long time and it rapidly went to 10% and I thought I should get it on the charger soon.

Some minutes later it was already on 0%
[Nexus One General] ztm.000:
ya.. uh.. every time you drain it to 0% it makes that next charge slightly less every time. holds less power, kills cells. and if i use it in the last 10% it drains quickly but if i dont then it sticks around for maybe an hour or two.
[Nexus One General] notasimpleway:
The Auto Killer app is a great way to save battery and free up memory as well. It tweaks the internal task killer. Try it. And you won't have to use another task killer.
[Nexus One General] Ryanmo5:
I get anywhere between 8 and 25 hours depending on the amount of use. I use auto memory manager set on mild, no task killer (not needed) and I don't use setcpu. Trackball notifications don't have much of an affect on battery life for me personally. Stay away from browser, 3G and Gps whenever possible and battery life is great!
[Nexus One General] jlevy73:
I agree auto memory manager is pretty good. However, this whole issue of battery life sometime gets taken out of perspective. The N1 is like having a small computer in our pocket. 1Ghz is an awful lot of power. Nowadays a power outlet isn't too far away so IMO no reason to keep away from some of the advantages this phone brings by trying to preserve battery life. At least we're not stuck with a 1230mA battery like the Incredible has :)
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
Umm, if you do the math, you will see that at my usage rate of 3.75% an hour that you would get 26.6666666667 hours...

And for the guy saying post screen shots, I am not going to waste my time. No offense, but if people don't want to believe it, then so what?
[Nexus One General] MaximReapage:
I have a non-Google desktop dock with a spare battery charger on it, so it's really easy for me to keep my 2 spares charged.

Sent from my Nexus One using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Nexus One General] RinTinTigger:
to the OP:

i have some points to add:

Presets: Running on CM 5.0.6 with KMOBS 925 Kernel

1. Turn off Live Wallpaper, they suck the battery....pretty fast

2. UC: Use the Underclock Widget or setCPU to underclock while screen is off

3. Switch to 2G network, when not needing fast conenction (e.g. while surfing)

Together with Juice Defender, this works pretty well to save battery live
[Nexus One General] DMaverick50:
Please stay in taylorville

Also, there has been thread after thread concluding that these batteries can't be conditioned. I know nothing but what Im told so how can the info be verified? Both sides are 100% sure they are correct...
[Nexus One General] BlueScreenJunky:
I don't think it's been mentionned already : using a dark/black theme and setting all your apps to display white text on black background should help as well.
[Nexus One General] erikiksaz:
JuiceDefender did wonders for my battery life (realistically added about 1.5X the life), but I ran into a few problems.

The program was set to enable 3g for 5mins every 30mins, which worked for a couple days. Once this weekend hit, JuiceDefender stopped enabling my 3g. Restarting my phone would usually fix it (restarting the radio alone would not, however), but today JD managed to kill my 3g connection for a good hour or so.

Anyone have it work flawlessly for long periods of time?
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
Oh dear. I read quite a few of the comments on the app saying it caused issues with their connection :( This would be a shame if we can't use it.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
Read the sticky at the top of this sub-forum talking about Li-Ion batteries... There is confusion by many. Long story short, you can't condition the cells like a NiCa, but you can condition the system that reads and monitors the charge levels (better known as calibrating).

Like I have said many a time before, I have been told by BB and HTC in training that the absolute best thing to do for battery life is as follows:

When you first get the phone, run the battery way down (some even say til it turns off), pull the battery, then put it back in the phone and put it on the charger until fully charged (usually takes about 4 hours, overnight is best)... then take it off the charger, and turn it on.

Also, don't do this on a regular basis, it DOES some harm to the battery cells, but that harm should be minimal compared to the gains from having a properly calibrated battery.

For regular use, doesn't really matter, but the best cycle is to run your battery down to about 20% before putting on the charger, make sure once you put the phone on the charger you leave it on until fully charged (short charge cycles are not optimal, however not horrible) Then, if you notice your battery life seems much shorter, re-calibrate it by running down to about 10%, doing a battery pull, and charging with the phone off.

Personally, I just put my phone on the charger every single night when I go to bed. Haven't had to re-calibrate it at all, still getting damn good battery life.
[Nexus One General] DMaverick50:
good info thanks. ill check out the sticky as well