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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuthedude:
Hi guys, I am brand new so bear with me. I JUST got my EVO today, and it came with the upgrated .6 software. After 2 hours of trying, I finally figured out that the software prevents you of rooting your phone.

So I guess what I need to do is roll back to a different version. I've read some threads about it, and I am feeling a bit confused. Most of the threads assume common knowledge, and that is something I just dont have yet. Could someone post a step by step walkthrough on how to get my phone back to a state that I can root it? Or maybe its just easier to just wait till someone figures out a way to root the phone using the .6 software? Any help would be appreciated, cause Im sure as hell not going to pay Sprint 30 bux a month for tethering....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neckface:
Thank that man. ^^^
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuthedude:
Yea, I dont fully understand what step 2 means. So I get the .exe first? then what? Also what does "go into your shell" mean? I'm sure I'm making it more complicated than it really is.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trentlythp:
I had .6 on mine and used biles guide and it worked fine. It's in the development section. That may help :)

I just went and looked (to make sure I wasn't crazy) and it does work with .6

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=701004

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Sent via the Sprint HTC EVO
[General Questions and Answers] manuchanson:
Hello all,

I ask the community about the existance (or not) of any application allowing a mobile device (windows mobile in my case) to act as a video streaming server (send the live video from your camera to the internet).

I already know and tested Qik, Livecast and so one BUT the application installed on the mobile only allow to upload the video recorded to their own server (ie qik.com, livecast.com) where an account register is needed, then video can be shared online/and on your facebook/blog.

So does anyone has hack a such qik/livecast mobile application in order to modify the server URL coded in hard I guess, so that we can upload on our own server and then do what we want with the stream ?

Or do you know any other open sources software that can fulfill this function on a windows mobile device ?

Regards,

Emmanuel
[General Questions and Answers] manuchanson:
No ideas ? :(
[General Questions and Answers] Fif23:
Roger fiver fiver alpha foxtrot zero
[General Questions and Answers] dipaolnv:
Would setting it up via activesync work for you? That works over your phone's data connection, there may be a slight lag in receiving emails.
[General Questions and Answers] LichtiMC:
Another question:

Is it possible to synchronize the tasks too with Googel-ActiveSync-server m.google.com??? With my device I always get an error...
[General Questions and Answers] fwt:
Look at point 10

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
[General Questions and Answers] Anyajohn:
Anti Vibration Gloves

Nice blog...

Thanks

Anya
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] sunder74:
Mods please remove this was a double post
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
I know there's more threads around, but just wanted to share what worked for ME.

I've been experimenting with many of the settings - specifically, turning off 'enable always-on mobile data', and playing with the location settings, etc. No matter what I tried before, I was getting around a 10% drain/hour.

Last night I removed the contacts (htc people) widget. It's 5pm now, and my Evo has been off the charger since 7:30am. Down to 78% battery. That's with light/moderate usage. (before, I was seeing the 10% drain even when my phone was completely idle..)

Thought that might save someone else.. BIG difference for me was that single item - removing the htc people widget.

EDIT 06/27/10

Couple of comments about this - my Facebook account has 800 contacts. Your millage will vary if you have a small number of friends. Also, might want to disable the widgets for friendstream as well. This makes a *huge* difference if you're using facebook.. also, the update that's rumored to be coming tomorrow is rumored to have a battery saving patch in relation to facebook, so it may fix this battery hog.. For now, disabling it is the best bit (by simply removing the widget..) We'll see if HTC actually manages to tame this widget.. Personally, I don't miss it at all.. fast enough to pull people up via the search or the phone app..

-mark
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
are you referring to "friend stream"? or the "people" contact icon on the main screen?
[EVO 4G General] akrod2as:
This is also what I want clarification on.
[EVO 4G General] GinjiVitis:
I can confirm this. I removed the HTC people widget yesterday and my battery life today is improved AND it seems to have helped if not fixed my restarting issue
[EVO 4G General] akrod2as:
Can you confirm if it's the "people" in main menu, or the favorites widget?
[EVO 4G General] Damonte:
The HTC People widget shows up as the people Favorites. This is what is being referred to here.
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
I'm referring to the HTC people widget. (but - I removed friendstream / Facebook / Twitter / etc quite a while back to combat battery loss. Nothing helped until removing this widget)

Ps - its 10pm now and I've had moderate use in this phone since this morning - down to 40% left.. I would have had to recharge by mid afternoon before)
[EVO 4G General] akrod2as:
ah ok, I assumed so but no reason not to check. I removed that right off the bat since I don't see a point to it.
[EVO 4G General] troyhough:
just delete the 'people' widget shortcut on the homescreen or the one in the main menu as well???
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
Just from the homescreen.

-m
[EVO 4G General] troyhough:
i'll try it :) -- thanks
[EVO 4G General] TurboX2:
hmm..

I dont use the widget at all

i need to kill the "people" service very often... i have close to 300 of my phonebook contacts linked to facebook.. and for some reason this can suck up to 800mb of data in one day..

i want the facebook integration, but i dont know what to do.
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
Try having 800 facebook friends ;/

You can set the sync times for friendsfinder /facebook - it may help as well. For me at least the people widget was the missing link..

-mark

(ps - I'm from g'ville too; or at least used to be...)
[EVO 4G General] carguy4471:
The people favorites one that comes default one screen to the left or the people icon that comes on the main screen??
[EVO 4G General] GinjiVitis:
Ok. I have a update regarding the friend widget. This is my first day back to work sense removing it and normally by the end of my shift with regular use i leave the office with 20 or so %. Today i am leaving work with 67%!! And zero system restarts. I think this widget has some serious memory holes and its removal has seriously improved my Evo
[EVO 4G General] Tipharet:
I will also confirm this works on the Hero FYI. Unplugged this morning at 7:30 with a full charge and it is now 4:37 PM I still have 84% battery. Carazy!
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
i just removed mine as well, i wasn't using it anyway, we'll see how it goes
[EVO 4G General] darkfluid:
The whole service is buggy. My gf's phone took off the other day, constant data and only 3 hours of battery on standby. Nothing helped, reboot, nothing, removing the facebook account and re-adding it fixed it completely, been weeks with no problems now. You might try this rather than killing the service, it's like the account sync goes bad it gets stuck in a loop, constantly running, and once it's bad nothing fixes it other than removing the account and re-adding it.

My GF and I bought at the same time, same revisions, same apps, worked fine for weeks, then hers went crazy for days. Did everything short of a factory default, decided to remove the account and re-add as suggested on android forums, it worked, no problems since. Seems silly, but I saw it definitively work with my own eyes. Battery utilization had the android.process.acore at 2% (but it was the only diff between my phone and hers), once I removed and re-added the account this disappeared. No need to change the widgets, she uses friend stream and contacts widget, all of them, before 3 hours standby, now two days.

Seems stupid but I think sense has some bug problems now that HTC should REALLY address.
[EVO 4G General] B3RL1N:
Few questions,

Anyone know of a "HTC People" like widget out there?

Has this only been tested with the big 9 person widget and not the 3 scrolling?

Anyone know just how much better of battery life you can get by not running Sense? Aka, Android default, Launcher Pro, OpenHome, aLauncher etc? (Because you'll still have to install a bunch of other add ons to make up for the hole between stock 2.1 and Sense 2.1)

Should I really stop using FriendStream as well and revert to the default Twitter and Facebook widgets?

I've been using my EVO for awhile now and I must say I really do enjoy the HTC Sense feel over the basic Android desktop.

Am I really that "stupid" for using Sense or is it just a giant negative placebo effect that Sense really does ruin the battery life.

I've read a lot about all of this, but this is the first mention of the "People" widget. I've known about Friend feed for awhile but I've kept it anyways.

End game? My EVO has yet to run out of battery life once. I even carry around a second battery just in case, but so far I haven't had to use it. I will honestly say that I haven't quite used it too intensively and I'm always closing my processes, but it's about the same as my Touch Pro 2.

I do a lot of internet browsing, but on 3G in Opera Mini on Google Reader. Some apps, emailing and SMS here and there.
[EVO 4G General] pixelpop:
OK, I am really slow about this. I have a stock, off-the-shelf EVO. Can someone just post the steps needed to "remove" the people widget? Does this mean just remove it from the home screen? Is this the large widget or just the shortcut? I have "force close"d the service through Settings--Applications, but is this sufficient?

Thanks! :-)
[EVO 4G General] jrdejavux:
are you guys deleting the apk or just removing from the home screen?
[EVO 4G General] B3RL1N:
I'm guessing they are all talking about removing the widget from the homescreen. I'm 99.9% sure they are discussing just that. Because anything else, like uninstalling the people function would require Root access. For all the Android newbies, that's control over editing the devices main files and folders. The "root" folders.

But I'm wondering if it's really the people "process" that's causing the battery drain and not the widget.

Mines already on auto-kill. So possibly that solves the problem? Because my battery has never been that bad and I'm sure I started auto-killing it from day 1.

Regardless, I replaced the widget.

I'm now using the "People / Contact Widget" (Having some bug issues though)

And I replaced FriendFeed with "Pure Messenger Widget".

Pure Messenger is 10x better than FriendFeed. Viva la XDA!

-BBQ
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
first screen to the left, press and hold on the people widget then drag to the bottom to remove.

my battery life increased with this change. last night i went to bed with 63% battery life and woke up with 55% very good. I have my exchange email synching every 15min with nitrodesk touchdown and this is over 3g.
[EVO 4G General] nYdGeo:
Thank you for the tip! Will give this a try. Any improvement at all will be great.
[EVO 4G General] cbuc1125:
best battery tip yet...this trick completely stopped my battery drain.
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
I used the 3 scrolling (might have been 4 scrolling?), which was the one I had the problems with. Also have friendstream disabled (or set to update like once/day I think..)

Not using any of the facebook/twitter widgets..

-mark
[EVO 4G General] dr g:
There are some indiciations that it's not the people widget per se but the Facebook syncing that causes problems. For some reason the phone downloads facebook sync data constantly sometimes, which naturally pounds the battery. Turn off facebook automatic sync (just run manually sometimes) and see if it helps.
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
Even after I removed the people widget from my home screen, I still have to keep closing it with task manager because it reopens by itself... how do I block an application from automatically opening..

I went to settings - applications - running services, but the people app never shows up
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
It doesn't.. That was the first thing I tied before removing the people's widget.. didn't help. HTC's people's widget was still syncing w/ facebook even though I had facebook itself set to sync once/day. (you could tell this as sometimes my contacts would have a green (1) nexto to them.. and going in, you could see their facebook status update)

-mark
[EVO 4G General] synplex:
It worked for me. I have the larger 9 people widget on one of my screens. I removed it (not uninstalled it) and I'm getting at least an extra 45-60 mins a day.... i cant believe it. So simple.
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
I switched the People widget with a Call History icon. Is that enough? Personally, I didn't notice much difference at all.
[EVO 4G General] fallentimm:
Just use damage control with battery saver its amazing
[EVO 4G General] nYdGeo:
That would be great, except that is rooting the phone. I plan on doing that eventually, but I think the focus here is trying to find out what it is that is sucking the life out of the battery of a basically stock Evo.

Sadly, I have tried the 'setting the band from GSM (auto) to CDMA (auto)' procedure and deleted the big friend/favorites thing from the screen to the left of home. If they made any improvement at all, its maybe an extra hour. To me, this is not substantial.

After 4 hours, including a fair amount of texting on GoogleTalk, briefly viewing a web page or two from links sent in GoogleTalk, and maybe 20 minutes on the phone, the battery was in the yellow at around 25-30%.

Google is quoted as saying that if you can't get a full day out of your android, something is wrong. They should have talked to Sprint, because in their default configuration, which launches just about everything at boot-up, it is impossible to get even close.

I keep all of the connections off (4G, Wifi, Bluetooth) as well as the GPS, I calibrated the battery, sent the radio band and deleted the big People widget, and with very light usage I can get 6 to maybe 8 hours depending on how we define light usage on that day.

In spite of the wonderful things about the Android system, by the time my Evo launches the 11 system services, 29 'inactive' processes, and the 11 active applications that all launch at boot, and that was before I added a couple of utilities...the battery doesn't have a chance.

Its amazing to me that not only can we not remove any software that came on the phone, but we cannot even stop them from auto launching. We can use a task killer, but they usually come with their own issues. Besides, we shouldn't need them.

I know a fair number of Android users, and of those only a handful that get a full day of reasonable usage from their android phones. What do they all have in common? They have all rooted their phones.

HTC built a great phone here, and I do still like the phone a lot, but that is in spite of the horrible implementation by Sprint. Leave it to Sprint to just about ruin a great thing.

My apologies for the rant...that's been building up for the last week since I got my Evo.
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
Might want to also get rid of the friendstream widget if you have that installed..

-m
[EVO 4G General] DSwarP:
Just wanted to say that removing this widget made a HUGE difference for me, so it looks like you are definitely correct.
[EVO 4G General] holob:
Ok, so this question has been asked several times in the thread, but no one has really clarified - is the "people" widget you guys are referring to the 1 column "friends" widget? Someone said go left one screen but the widgets change based on what 'scene' you have...

I have been having RIDICULOUS data usage (3.4gig over like 17 days with just a SMALL amount of tethering)... I think some HTC widget or process is to blame but need some clarification...

edit: nevermind, I see it is named 'people' when you go to add a widget. I have removed it from my home screens. Hopefully this fixes my -abysmal- battery life and ridiculous data usage I have been suffering lately... The phone gets hot even when not being used in relatively high signal areas. I suspect this widget is to blame for all of that downloading... I will update once I confirm.
[EVO 4G General] AcIdC0R3:
I tried the People / Contacts widget from the Market and downloaded the demo version and could only load two contacts into it, so I decided to pay the $1 for it and buy the full version and it still will only allow me only two contacts. Talk about pissed off. I've since emailed the dev and I've gotten no response. How did you get yours to work?
[EVO 4G General] holob:
Ok guys, so this people widget is definitely bugged at least when connected to a large facebook account and is the culprit to all of my battery and data usage problems. I disabled it and am easily getting 5-10x the battery life and my phone never gets hot like it is either searching for service or doing massive downloading anymore.

I am currently sitting at 3.5 gigs used in 18 days (and I have locale set to automatically turn on WIFI at home!) which is wayyyyyy more than I should have used (I don't think I have ever gone over 1 gig in a month with other phones and I didn't used to use wifi at home). This widget must get stuck in some kind of download loop.

I suspect that is the main issue that the rumored OTA update is going to fix. Until then I recommend that everyone disable that widget especially if you are linked to a facebook account. If you are having major battery issues like I was, I recommend you check your data usage and see for yourself...
[EVO 4G General] B3RL1N:
I didn't :/

That's why I quickly edited my post to say "Having bug issues".

I gave up on it, what a waste!

What I ended up doing to replace the HTC people widget is adding each individual

contact solo.

Go to the add a "Widget" menu, select "Short cut" then "Person".

I liked how with People / Contact widget you could have a menu pop up with "Quick Contact", so after selecting "Person", you can select this same option and get the same response.

Hopefully the dev will fix this issue, sorry if I guided you to a faulty app. I also research anything I buy from the market place before hand.

I looked on Androidlib and found no comments, so I took a chance.

But just now I checked out AppBrain and noticed some disappointing comments, so we aren't alone. I'm sure this should get resolved soon though.
[EVO 4G General] SPENONE:
NO JOKE!

I removed the widget..and this is what happened

This is not a joke people. I use my phone normally...lots a web browsing, GPS, camera...LOTS of texting...and phone calls....and this is what i got. Unbelievable that the whole time it was that widget that was only giving me 6-8 hours. DO IT NOW PEOPLE!
[EVO 4G General] AcIdC0R3:
I've been in contact with the dev and he came out with a fix today but it still didn't address the issue. I loaded up ShootMe and then proceeded to load contacts into the widget and took a snap. Then the only action left was the back key to set it. This is where it is fouling up I believe. He has the Desire and Legend which work a little differently. So I took another snap and sent him an email explaining everything that I did and he shot me back an email saying he believes he knows what the issue is and will start coding it again in the morning and hopefully put out another update tomorrow evening. So, we are getting there. I just thought I would give you all the heads up as the HTC People widget seems to be a battery hog and this may be a decent replacement.

Cheers...
[EVO 4G General] ausch30:
There are quite a few guides here and there with tips to improve battery life on this thing and one of the things they all have in common is to use wifi whenever possible. Wifi uses far less battery than Sprints data connection so you may want to try that for starters. Another issue I have is virtually all the time I never get more than 3 bars on my Sprint connection. The worse your connection is, the faster your battery will drain. I have a rooted phone (using Fresh 0.3) and I get 12-14hrs out of a charge. When I see some other people's results though, I know I still have work to do. Another thing I did was to turn off all the haptic feedback, it's ok when you press a button and the phone vibrates but all those vibrations add up and cost you battery life. Turned it off a while ago and I don't miss it.

A guide to improving battery life

http://mysprintevo.blogspot.com/2010/06/guide-to-managing-battery-life-on-your.html
[EVO 4G General] pecosROB:
My phone started resetting automatically when I disabled the "enable always on mobile data" so I had to re-enable it.

I noticed a HUGE savings in battery when I removed the Friendstream, kept always on data, BUT I made the accounts sync on manual. This turns out to save a HUGE amount of power. It's not a big deal for me since I can just go to the actual app itself which is nicer and more detailed than the Friendstream anyway.

I'm running stock with the OTA, unrEVOked w/wireless tether, no 4G (none in my area), automatic screen brightness setting, manual sync, and use wi-fi when at home. Location services are turned on (but GPS is turned off). I got over 24 hours on a single charge.

Oh and I removed any Favorites widget.
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
So hang on... do I have to

uninstall

the People and FriendStream widgets or just removing them from the homescreen is enough?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zippa71385:
hmmm

Im no expert but what Id try is:

1.wipe

2.fresh DL amon_ra again ->flash

3.wipe cache and anyother option

4.fresh DL pauls first fyo50 root rom ->flash

5.wipe

6.fresh DL of the new fyo72 of your choice -> flash

7.wipe

8.fresh DL of clockwork

9.reboot

all your problems seem to have came from clockwork upgrade... once again im no expert, and "I reserve the right to be wrong" lol I love that saying... GOODLUCK bro!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldcd:
Thanks

Didn't have any luck though.

Boo.