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[myTouch 3G Slide General] i0nicx:
My battery life has been ok, not great, some facebook, some twitter, a few hundred texts. some interwebbing. I can get around 10-12 hours from a charge it seems. which in my opinion is crap lol. i had a rooted cliq before this that was running only the basics in the background(killed all the bloatware and extra crap), i could get almost 2 days outta that thing.

I thinks once we get root and kill all the bloat and stuff running in the background, battery life will go through the roof. A vanilla 2.1 or 2.2 will prolly do wonders for battery life.

just my 2 cents
[myTouch 3G Slide General] shadowmike:
I almost feel like raising my hand and calling bs on 2 days with the cliq'r but i dont know you.

the cliq i used would get about 10 hours with use and 19 or so without use.

my g1 would get about 9 - 18

the mytouch 10 - 18

the old garbage samsung flip and sony flip phones 2 - 3 days.

this slide im averaging 10 - 12 with heavy use and 17 - 19 without much use.

keep in mind only had it for 2 - 3 days since release date but i did drain the battery and recharge it a few times the first day to break it in.

so far id say its about average on battery life.

i charge overnight

then either while driving, or working

then i connect to pc at home

with a full battery in the morning

and a slight top off mid day i never run out of battery life.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] i0nicx:
Hehe with my cliq I only had only the essentials running(there's a few custom roms out). So it went for almost 2 days. You can get the roms off modmymoto forums if you wanna check em out. The key to the cliq is killing motoblur =). Pm me if you want info shadow
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
I'm happy with battery life. First day I played with a lot, browsed a bunch and installed many apps and got around 12 hours(most I'd ever get from G1). Today I'm going on almost 24, took it off the charger at 4am after letting it fully charge, didnt start using it till around 10am and at 10am the battery still read 100% which I thought was wrong. Right now its at 17% (still havent gotten the 15% warning) at 1:30am, I'm sure it'll make it till 4. Sent around 50 text today, installed around two apps, and didnt do much voice talking or browsing but I did at least a good 30 mins worth from both. I periodically kill all with advanced task manager (except sense).
[myTouch 3G Slide General] rebelbanker:
Amen. I carry a 3 in. USB to Micro USB cord that charges me at home, in my car and at work.

Those that are disapponted by the battery life are being unrealistic with their expectations. Power is too easy to come by to waste time *****ing about it. Makes you look too lazy or good to plug it in.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] RoastGecko:
I purchased mine yesterday,and it sat on the charger overnight, and read a full charge in the morning.

6 hours 42 minutes later, it gave me a "battery life is at 26%" warning. WiFi, bluetooth and GPS were all off (all day)

I have it setup to check my email and facebook, but I had my Kaiser doing that and more for 2 days at a time with a smaller battery...

Usage-

55% Display (was set to auto)

32% Voice calls (20m 21s)

9% cell standby (6h 44m 59s)

4% Phone Idle (5h 10m 4s)

This seems absurd! If tomorrow doesn't do better, I'm taking it back.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] shadowmike:
.Realistic ... I never expect an electrical device that CONSTINTLY draws power to have a great battery, I dont race my car all day or let it idle in my driveway and wonder why theres no gas in the tank. a battery holds a resorce that regardless if yo like it or not .. will deplete over time. Advanced task killer is a great tool to get rid of th7e programs rnning in th7e back grond. to save batt life.

.Sorry for any mispellings, my laptops keyboard is taking a crap on me after it got rained on last night.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] RoastGecko:
I don't think my expectations were high. Most people outside our community think "only a day" is bad battery life. I expected to be able to make it through 1 day without going dead. Being 3/4 drained after only ~20 minutes of talk time is absurd, especially since I didn't use the web or IM, etc. Just POP3 email every 30 minutes, and I uploaded 4 or 5 photos to facebook.

No Wifi, bluetooth, or GPS...
[myTouch 3G Slide General] detox702:
I just wanted to come back and reply now that I've had a couple days to play with the phone. I've been using it for about 16 hours straight now, quite a few texts, 5-6 short phone calls, and maybe 20 minutes of 3G usage, I'm at 66%. I haven't had this phone on the charger at all.

On the other hand, my Nexus, which has been on the charger all except maybe 2 hours in that same amount of time is already at 88%.

I think we have a clear winner in the battery life category. At least from my tests.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] RoastGecko:
I am certain now that I have a defective phone.

I killed all running tasks, manually logged out of all IM clinents, etc, and then took it off the charger. I've made 12 minutes of calls today, it's only been unplugged for 4 1/2 hours and it's at ~%60 battery life.

12 minutes? Thats got to be a defect.

But, they are apparently out of stock... I might end up with a Touch Pro 2 or a HD2 after all...
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
Definitely not right .. I'm at 85 percent since 9am (7pm now), light use again though but its stand-by time is impeccable.. try and get another one, I can tell you the HD2 battery life is much, much worse, my father got it at the same time I got the slide and he's charging 2x a day. Mind you this guy would go the entire day with bluetooth,wifi, and gps on his G1. Oh and the usability of windows, well its just blah.. not trying to be biased at all. I have my brightness at 30 percent, syncng gmail only, and for widgets I have the curvefish battery widget, pure calander widget, power widget, and audiomanger. No bluetooth, gps or wifi on.

Have you tried going into the about phone in settings, and seeing whats draining the battery (click battery use)? See what cell standby is. Are you using 3g? May I suggest downloading anycut > new shortcut, activity, phone info. From there, open the short cut and you can adjust if you want 3g only (wcdma) or edge (gsm) only. Try setting it at one of the only settings, your phone might be dropping and picking up signal.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Fordude:
First post here, Hello World! :)

I have had mind for almost a week now. At first I was averaging about 1/2 day on a full charge. This was with Gmail syncing, no WIFI/GPS/BT on. Mild surfing, about a dozen SMS and 15 minutes of talk time.

I installed Advanced Task Killer and set it to shut off my apps on screen close. I am now able to go 17 hours ( a full day for me ) and I still have 15% left. This was with BT on for about 30 minutes of talk time, WIFI on for about 1 hour at the office, GPS on for clock/weather updates every 3 hours.

Overall, I am happy with the battery life on this device now. I am wondering if it took a while for the battery to calibrate and ATK helping with running apps.

I love this phone!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chrisinaz:
Sounds about like me. I don't use my phone to call much (go figure) but I listened to 15 min. of music, logged onto facebook for 10 minutes (3g) and sent probably 15 texts, and I was at about 65% in the 5 hours I had it unplugged.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Digitaldreamer7:
Here's a question, Did you all plug it in and let it charge to full when you got it BEFORE using it?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chrisinaz:
Sure did. Ive made that mistake before, but I do that with all phones now, even though with a lithium battery, it shouldn't make that much difference.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Digitaldreamer7:
Yea, I guess im just superstitious but I always do that with a new device. Have you tried recalibrating the battery? Charge to full, leave plugged in for like an hour after it says it's fully charged, wipe battery status, reboot, use normally? (if you can wipe battery status int he menu's without root) I'm picking my MYT3G slide up this weekend so I don't know if it can be done or not yet.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] HighRidas:
i think the battery life is great, i take the phone off of the charger around 9am. while im at work from 11aM-7pM i check my updates every hr or so. from 2-330 i listen to music also on my way home(7-8) and when i finally get back home round 8ish my battery is at about 58% then around midnight i get the 30% message. around 130-2am its at about 12% so i get 17hrs with medium usage
[myTouch 3G Slide General] fl_jeep:
My battery life isn't too bad. 17+ hours since unplugged of moderate use (but only like 1% left): Display 41% (on Auto), Wi-Fi 25% (worked at home, kept on wifi for data instead of 3G), Voice Calls 22% (35 minutes; 14 calls), Standby 8% and Idle 4%. I think if you're more active in process management, it will help with life. I also just switched Brightness from Auto to a manual setting of about 20%. I un-synced Tweet and Weather and am running very few widgets, but keep GPS on. My K9 Mail syncs on an hourly basis and Gmail with Calendar and Contacts auto-syncs. Overall, MUCH better than G1.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sexyana:
I really think people will never be satisfied with a phone. I have had no problem with my battery ive had a g1, cliq, and a behold 2 from those 3 behold 2 had the best battery life . ive had the slide for a while now and the battery is fine one thing though is i dont charge it over night i leave it on the charger for no more than 4 hours and that seems to work for me.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] nomadrider123:
I can run all day with normal to moderate use. thats from 3 am to 10 pm
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chrystal0925:
I turned off auto on display brightness and have a 100% better life outta this phone

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] HeroMeng:
Little error.. heroc_keypad.kl is in /system/usr/keylayout/heroc_keypad.kl.

EDIT: And it's heroc-keypad and not heroc_keypad.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Nice catch, lol.

Always forget something simple.

EDIT: I really need to start posting stuff while using my laptop.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] feefeeboomboom:
nice

thanks man this is awesome.

im just "learning" linux. how would i set up the search button for an intent(sp) like opening the browser.apk
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Well "SEARCH" essentially launches the browser by linking it automatically to google search.

But, in regards to assigning it to launch a different(unlisted) activity, I'm not sure. That's something I'm actually looking into myself, and I think I'm making a little bit of head way :p.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
Haha great work [HOPE]maybe the hero development won't die[/HOPE]

I'm putting this in my sig if you don't mind?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
As long as there are people there willing to learn, development for the Hero will never die.

[RANT]

I'll make a post in the General Section with all the bookmarked dev'ing related resources that I've found over the year. Then people can just jump in and start reading/tinkering.

What I don't like about the HeroCDMA forum is that most of the community here doesn't share much of HOW they did/do things. Hopefully that will change.

=D

[/RANT] (Please don't respond to this part, haha)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
almost forgot what program are you using to open the kl file? Mine always comes out in a horizontal line instead of a vertical like yours?

Edit: Nevermind wordpad does it great
[Hero CDMA Android Development] feefeeboomboom:
notepad++ is the sh!-|-
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
I'm a dumbass. I didn't read the entire post before I asked my question and thought that nevermind. Yes notepad is the s
[Hero CDMA Android Development] srkmagnus:
Good work, thanks for putting together a very easy to read how-to.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chrish03:
Thanks for this, the trackball is so annoying for pictures. I made the changes just as it states to but the zoom won't work on the search button, I hold it down and it does nothing, any idea why that may be? And the search button no longer responds on the homescreen, which makes sense but why not in the camera app?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Zoom? Do you mean auto-focus?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] CarbonKang:
I want to do this but I cant get my phone to remount. I have never had a problem before.

cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools

adb remount

doesn't remount says "no devices found"
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Heh, is your phone plugged in? USB cable damaged? USB port damaged? Hole plugged? Bears?

If it's none of those, do this:

adb kill-server
adb start-server

then

adb remount

If that doesn't work, start from the top again.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chrish03:
LOL, reading comprehension FTW! I got FOCUS and ZOOM confused. Don't play with your phone late at night!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] CarbonKang:
none of that worked. And there is nothing wrong with the ports at all. I think its Darchdroid.. It has something defective every time I use it lol.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Do you have USB debugging enabled?

(I haven't had any problems with darchs build)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] CarbonKang:
ya, trust me I know what I'm doing. ;)

It just doesn't work

:)

I would love to show you a logcat... but i cant adb remount LOL
[Hero CDMA Android Development] CarbonKang:
Can someone make a flashable zip so i can have a designated camera button as search? I want to be able to click it to take a snap shot of my phone with dro cap. :)

Thanks
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Here ya go.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] CarbonKang:
Thanks man. Sorry my phone hates me and i couldn't do it my self. But seriously thanks! :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Not a problem.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] feefeeboomboom:
Any luck on custom app launching?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
I remember doing this on my qa1 and I think that the phone assigns numbers to downloaded apps
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Aside from possibly spoofing the called intent by renaming the .apk(I don't think it calls the apk), I haven't found out another way... I'll go poke around the source and see how the intent>activity is handled.

Then again, I've been spacing off on this heh. damn hangover.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chaser841:
Is there anyway to turn the search key into like a mute button for when the phone goes off? Ideally I was looking to see if I can use it to acknowledge and mute my alert from text messages.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Hmmm, I'm fairly certain push Volume Down mutes an alert. But I'll see what I can do.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] brokentoaster24:
hmm, i followed the directions exactly and everything seemed to work.. but the keys still do the same thing. do i need to reboot to have the changes take effect?

edit: should have read the last line of OP's first post
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Yep.

10 char.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] barnacles10:
[GUIDE] How to Remap Hardkey(button) Actions

Have you tried physically mounting the device to your computer, then remounting through adb?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] MapleBacon:
I changed the search key to open up the camera but it still opens up the universal search program. I followed the directions as written and rebooted the phone. Any ideas?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
It should work. Copy and paste your edit with "CODE" tags so I can see what you did.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] MapleBacon:
key 102 HOME
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK
key 127 CAMERA
key 231 CALL
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 191 DPAD_CENTER

key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Should work.

Are you sure you pushed it back to the right place?

adb remount
adb push heroc-keypad.kl /system/usr/keylayout/heroc-keypad.kl

After you push it back, then reboot. Then long press to see if it works. it should work. lol
[Hero CDMA Android Development] MapleBacon:
The first time, I just copied the file via USB and then used root explorer to paste it back into the original system folder it was in and overwrite the original. I used the cmd prompt this time to push it through, rebooted, and it works fine. I'm happy but still curious why it didn't work the other way:confused: Thanks though. I always wanted a dedicated camera button. Looking forward to any other tricks you got :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] kyouko:
I edited the file on the phone and replaced it using root explorer without any problem. I'm guessing you never changed the permission on the file

> All 3 on the first column under "Read" and the top one under "write/user"
[Hero CDMA Android Development] danaff37:
anyway to change the long press actions? I would love to change voice dial to open voice search

(once you figure out how to launch apks also... lol)

edit: I'm a moron, I didn't realize you could long press search key to voice search... haha
[Hero CDMA Android Development] MapleBacon:
Is there any way to change or add the actions for long pressing a key? For example, could I have the search button open up the camera when pressed and the browser when long pressed?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] epitaphromance:
maybe you should just do the update.zip
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Heh. The problem with launching applications other than the ones listed under the possible intents is simply that. It's literally coded into the source.

I mean you could dive in and change it yourself, but that is cumbersome.

I'm working on a work-around so it could be simpler. :p
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Oh, and if you guys want to disable "menu" from unlocking(by not even waking the screen), just removed the WAKE_DROPPED from the line.

(This post is only useful if your logical thinking doesn't take you there in the first place)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] lokipimpin:
dude...u...da.....sh!$.....lol
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Thank bmxrider4444 for putting 2 and 2 together first. heh.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] MapleBacon:
I can't wait to see what you got as far as a workaround Decad3nce. Opening up applications would be sick. Also, the ability to change what's opened when pressed or long pressed would create so many possibilities.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] yaeger:
Wow this is pretty cool. If there was a first to press the end key once during a call to turn off the screen, and the second to hang up, that would be awesome. If anyone agrees and knows how to change the settings, please advise.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dman977:
Not sure why this did not work...

I changed the code so that only the trackball would wake the phone, I used this code...

key 102 HOME
key 139 MENU
key 158 BACK
key 127 SEARCH
key 231 CALL
key 107 ENDCALL
key 191 DPAD_CENTER WAKE_DROPPED

key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE

But for some reason, it did not work. It left me with a phone I could not wake up. So I changed to this...

key 102 HOME
key 139 MENU
key 158 BACK
key 127 SEARCH
key 231 CALL
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 191 DPAD_CENTER WAKE_DROPPED

key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE

The ENDCALL key wakes, but not the DPAD_CENTER (aka trackball). What gives?

Anybody know how you would be able to accomplish this? I don't want to unlock, just wake to the unlock screen.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] castaway1:
it is possible remap SEARCH key to "APP SWITCHER" like it is on holding HOME button? sometime when you hold HOME to bring up APP switcher it send you back to home.. i dont really need hardware search button so switch betwean applications can be more flexible with single key. thx
[Hero CDMA Android Development] kyouko:
OP idk if you knew or not but this guide was posted on xda's homepage :)

Very nice work, I've had my keys remapped since your post in darchdroid. Just another reason why rooting your hero is the way to go.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
The problem is that the intent activity with the APP SWITCHER(Explorer, I think) can't be changed without adding a reference binary, which is what I'm working on.

^ If anyone wants to help me. Looking at AdamWill's work

Didn't even notice, thanks for the heads up. :] That's awesome.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] fifedogg:
I think you should add to the original post that it is much easier to just open root explorer and edit it on the phone. Took me 2 mins to edit my keys. I added a camera button and stoped the menu from unlocking the phone. Just seems much easier than having to pull the file off and edit it on your PC.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Jackalo:
I used Root Explorer as well. It was worth the $2.50 to be able to modify things on the go.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Well the instructions were for people who weren't using anything else but the SDK to do it manually. Plus to provide some understanding.

Regardless, added to the original post.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Updated.

See first post. :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
has there been any success getting the camera to work with the wake drop function

I realized today I spend too much time on these forums when I multiquoted my gf's text message :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
No chance, since you're trying to launch the camera activity without even initializing anything else. Right now, the only other button that wakes the screen also does nothing but take you to the lockscreen(menu).

I haven't tested any other button for "WAKE_DROPPED". But I'm fairly sure anything else would work.

I don't know if that made sense, but it simply means that.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
I was just looking in the init.rc inside the boot.img ramdisk and I noticed that it is giving permissions to the red power button and menu button for waking the screen (i think i don't know no better) also some other commands

If we applied these permissions to the camera I think it would be possible because if you think about it the menu button and the power button both do two separate things when you press them twice. I just don't know where to go from there :D (<--smiley without the lazy button)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
Changing the permissions in init.rc should allow it; I haven't bothered messing much with that, but it makes sense.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thatguythatdid:
see that is where I got stuck because I'm pretty sure I know what to put there but I don't know how to recompile the kernel and I can't afford one of these high dollar :D folks to teach me. (amazing I can decompile but can't compile :) )
[Hero CDMA Android Development] souless poet:
Re: [GUIDE] How to Remap Hardkey(button) Actions

Can someone tell me how to edit the txt and get it to save. Cuz i can edit it but it wont stick.

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
HIt menu > save & exit.

It'll create a backup with the extenstion .bak at the end.

You'll need to reboot before you see any results.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dsMA:
remapping launcher button actions???

hi everyone

i want to remap my sense launcher buttons. essentially what i want to do is mimic the look and behavior of the helix launcher, a single center button that launches 'all programs'. yes i could just use helix but i like the sense widgets which only seem to b aval with the sense launcher.

it was suggested i read this this, but this thread is about remapping the physical keys on the device, i want to remap the soft launcher key buttons. Can anyone help me out with this?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
I know JsChiSurf has managed to remap the sense launcher buttons, check this thread(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=672801) or you can just pm him(http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2339345)