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[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Battery log

So, since 11:00 this morning I've logged everything I've done to use battery power on my Desire.

Battery log

Settings:

Auto Brightness

WiFi on

3G On

Sync On (Google account & Gmail only)

Sipdroid on & connected via TCP (pbxes.org)

Locale with location-based profiles activated

Launcher Pro

Static WP

Beautiful Widgets Beautiful Home

Dialer Pro

GPS + Location Services on demand

Timeline:

-Unplugged at 11:00 AM (100%)

-Cleaned up SD Card: 5 minutes with device on

-10 minute phone call

-15:00 - 93%

-15:07-15:37 - Read a few forum threads (mainly light grey and white backgrounds) - 86%

-16:35-16:55 - Few more forums... - 81%

-Tested power consumption (because andycted gave me the following tip: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=723217), which lost me a few percentage points (idle power consumption with screen on lowest, screen on highest and screen off)

-Another rough half hour of surfing - 73%

So, battery stats at 8 PM (9 hours later):

By the way: Due to andycted's tip, I've found out that the button backlight draws roughly 10mA. Idle, with the screen on the lowest setting, that's a difference of about 8 percent (110mA vs 120mA) of power used - that's huge! We need to find a way to permanently turn off the backlight for users who want to maximize battery life.

In conclusion: Power consumption of the ROM is perfectly fine. Idle in my config (remember: sync, wifi, 3G radio, all on!) is around 5-15mA with the screen off, 120mA with the screen on lowest, and 165-180 with the screen on highest. As you can see, the screen uses a ton of power... unfortunately I don't have any comparison data from my old Milestone, but I have the feeling that the battery drained much more slowly when the screen was on. Hopefully the sLCD Desires will help get better battery life.

-edit- For people wondering how the current draw in mA relates to battery life: the Desire has a 1400mAh battery - that means you could draw 1400mA for an hour before it's empty, or 140mA for 10 hours, or 14mA for 100 hours - you get the picture. At 5mA (my standby current draw, more or less), you get 280 hours of battery life. At 120mA (idle, screen on lowest), 11.7 hours... at 175mA, 8 hours.

-edit2- This is with OpenDesire 3.0.5, btw.. Install order: 3.0.0=>3.0.2=>3.0.3=>3.0.2=>3.0.4=>3.0.5, all with at least a day of use before the next patch...
[Desire Android Development] newbieee:
Music player app

Hey guys, this ROM is just perfect!

Can you recommend some simple music player application with 4x1 widget? The build one (OD v3.0.5) seems to have some problems with creating playlists (simple add / remove songs in playlist?), cannot read some metadata at *.wma files (song artist) and it's widgets have senselessly big album-cover-icon and very small field for a song name and buttons to control it.

Besides i would like the app to be able to use pause/play/next while the phone screen is locked (as in default sense app).

And what about the possibility to change the call screen - the method how to answer the phone? With wet or dirty hands is almost impossible for me to slide left/right to answer the phone - but original sense up/down was ok.

Thanks in advance :)
[Desire Android Development] andycted:
Nice testing, if you have time you could also sum it up in the mentioned thread, to compare mA drain and see if I hit some bogus reading
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
According to the readings I took earlier, yours are spot on. Any fluctuations (mine seem to be very slightly higher) can probably be attributed to the fact that I've got more crap running in the background :D
[Desire Android Development] gianton:
Today after a couple of full circle discharge/charge battery life has been great.

Unplugged at 11:00 100%, after almost 2 hours of browsing with wifi and 1/2 hour of navigation it is 41% at 22:27!
[Desire Android Development] alstrike:
Hi guys,

I really like this ROM and I just have one question, I don´t know if it has been answered before.

Will it be possible at some point to have the FM Radio application running in OpenDesire? I really miss it...

Thanks
[Desire Android Development] gianton:
DeovFerreira a Dev @ Cyanogen Rom Dev team, said no it can't be implemented in AOSP ROMs as FM radio uses HTC's framework.
[Desire Android Development] kfasheldon:
Anyone following my battery updates; 15% now - can't complain today at all. Heavy use of GPS, XDA and Mail along with Maps amazing from 8:30 ish. Putting GPS on seems to have increased battery - cant really be true must be clean wipe and re flash inc wipe of batt stats. Something must have cooked these up or something on te way to 3.05 from 3.02. Still working well now.

Adam :- Anychance of the Full W/R Overlay being implemented (automatically so anyone can use) , maybe not on 3.1 but following ! Thanks
[Desire Android Development] pphillips001:
I just love this ROM. It has worked flawlessly since installation and the battery life has been great.

I've personally opted for the LauncherPro route - I just love the independently scrolling trays and the 3D app tray wipes the smile off the guy who sits next to me at work every time I show it him (meh iphone 4 user).

I've added the circle battery mod - using the excellent thread here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=724778

For music I've been using the originally titled 'Music Player' by Social Soft - a freebie off the market that gives you a 4x1 widget and controls on the lock screen.

RockPlayer is still the king of video playback with mpg/avi support.

Surely having this much fun with a mobile phone is either illegal or taxable. :D

Excellent device backed up by this community! Life is sweet.
[Desire Android Development] tttommy:
And we have liftoff! :)

My last battery update for those who care :p

I now consider "the battery drainage problem" as fixed on my Desire! :)

Sorry for the norwegian..
[Desire Android Development] ryanrich:
3.0.5 is really excellent! Nice job guys!
[Desire Android Development] dakore:
I care :)

I'm folowing your testing and I have few questions about your phone usage:

- Do you use any kind of active sync (gmail)? I can se H icon so perhaps your phone is constantly connected on 3G instead wifi...

- Basically you said we should erase mms.apk from 3.0.0 package, flash it and update on 3.0.5 - correct?

- what am I loosing with removing mms.apk - I assume mms, but have to ask

- What radio do you use?

- And finnaly, your picture says "1 day of using the phone" and 47% battery left? Am I right?

Thank you!
[Desire Android Development] MrJiM:
I have 51% battery left after over 31h usage. lots of syncs once per hour in the background.
[Desire Android Development] ourfear:
hmm, with open desire 3.0.5?

btw i want to ask, i have a 3.05 nandroid backup, and now i am using 3.0.2, if i restore 3.0.5 nandroid backup, should i need to wipe battery status before do nandroid restore?
[Desire Android Development] AdamG:
Hoping to release v3.1.0 tonight,

the proprietary libs have been updated to the ones from the 2.09 ota update,

the video encoders are now compiled from source,

replaced the power reporting configuration,

openvpn support added,

the rest will be explained in due course.
[Desire Android Development] GANJDROID:
Tonight? But that's so far away! :( But always worth the wait :D
[Desire Android Development] ourfear:
damn.. i can't wait..
[Desire Android Development] jasonlau83:
Great! Will camp here!
[Desire Android Development] dnlgee:
Trackpad is working absolutely fine for me..
[Desire Android Development] jms.flynn:
I am getting complaints of echo when i put people on speaker, but not during normal use. Every volume combo tried.
[Desire Android Development] Yopsi:
Trackball not working here. Full wipe 4 reboots.
[Desire Android Development] jaketurbo:
Very slight echo on normal calls for me but barely noticeable.

When on speaker, a lot of echo.
[Desire Android Development] antz88c:
FB doesn't sync or just me?
[Desire Android Development] franklinvv:
Loss of data connection may also be caused by the latest version of SwitchPro Widget.

http://aleigood.blogspot.com/2010/06/about-update-to-18.html
[Desire Android Development] hongly:
Trackball not work.

thanks adam :)
[Desire Android Development] Jagdish84:
I know this might be a bit of a dumb question, but when its saying no wipe is needed its reffering towards upgrading, not installing this rom from 3.1, or am i missing something?!
[Desire Android Development] toppi73:
Hi,

does anyone has a link in which is described how the build in app2sd from froyo works?
[Desire Android Development] nicjo814:
There seems to be different opinions regarding Facebook sync... I've wiped via RomManager and installed the 1.3 version of OpenDesire and for me the facebook widget updates correctly, but the contacts doesn't get the associated pictures from FB and as more people have described the FB link on a contact takes me to my own profile instead of that of the contact. Any ideas as to why it's working for some and not for others?

Otherwise the rom works great.

Just reverted to Defrost 1.5 via nandroid backup and there none of the above mentioned issues arise... Really strange :-)

Should probably also mention that the cache is 0 B. Will try and wipe data and retry the FB sync setup.
[Desire Android Development] Nekromantik:
On all froyo ROMs for me, apart from OpenDesire as I not tried it yet some of my clontacts synced and added fb pictures but others I had to manually link them to FB.
[Desire Android Development] EddyOS:
How do you manually sync a FB account with a contact in stock Android? Can't find the option...

EDIT: Found it!
[Desire Android Development] gumbald:
I might be missing something, but how do you link contacts to FB? Multiple people with the same name are being bundled together and such but editing contacts won't let me remove the wrong ones. Just turned off FB contact sync for now.
[Desire Android Development] typhex:
Can someone give me a clear answer? Do i need to make an ext partition or does ap2sd work without it ?
[Desire Android Development] blubber83:
For Apps2SD+ you need an ext partition, for the built-in froyo apps2sd you just use spare parts tot turn it on.
[Desire Android Development] gatsu_1981:
Please, do this way:

Install rom manager from the market

Let it download the recovery utility (clockwork)

Partition it this way: 0 swap (no swap), 512 or 1024 EXT, make the rest of the SD as FAT32.
[Desire Android Development] typhex:
But my spareparts doesnt got this option to choose internal Ort external
[Desire Android Development] gumbald:
I can't see it in Spare Parts? Where am I looking?
[Desire Android Development] Mikulec:
try this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=702997
[Desire Android Development] typhex:
Exactly the same here
[Desire Android Development] vertti:
excellent! :D
[Desire Android Development] dnlgee:
Tonight being GMT time :P
[Desire Android Development] kurt666:
Nice AdamG but please make The slingplayer Work in this release it's been broken since OD 2.3.

Thank you so much
[Desire Android Development] MrJiM:
damn. playing music uses alot battery. 8% for about 1 hour. but this is normal right?
[Desire Android Development] aryonoco:
First post here after months of following various threads.

Great ROM AdamG, thanks for all your efforts.

I'm still running 3.0.2, it's so fast and stable that I haven't found a reason to apply the new patches. Will upgrade to 3.1 when it's released though.

Just wanted to say thanks, and put my 2 cents that this is a great, fast and stable ROM. The best ROM for Desire IMO.
[Desire Android Development] tabsina:
I have a question regarding wiping between installs

Ever since I switch from the 2.1 rom from MCR, i've been using rom manager to backup/wipe/install.. my question is whether the wipe checkbox (when you use the app) is a full wipe, or only minimal.. like does it also wipe battery stats, or anything else that might be an important thing to wipe (as I have gone through many defrost roms and now through 3.0.x roms from OD, and I just want to make sure my wipe method is the correct one)
[Desire Android Development] madman_cro:
Any news? When it will be up
[Desire Android Development] jasonlau83:
:( but i'll still wait..
[Desire Android Development] gianton:
Thanks for your hard work, really enjoying v3.0.5!
[Desire Android Development] Jgruar:
The mms.apk is just the stock messaging app. You can replace it with any downloadable messaging replacer (i use handcent). I removed it with adb from fully flashed 3.0.5 after checking with systempanel that it was running in the foreground.
[Desire Android Development] tttommy:
No problem:)
[Desire Android Development] ryanrich:
Sigh, still getting issues with the phone not sleeping and causing heavy battery drain when in standby. Have full wiped before loading, as always. Trying to narrow it down to what app or process is causing this...
[Desire Android Development] Andi9:
Volume-Problem

Hi

I'am using our Open Desire 3.05.

It is near to perfect for me.

The only Problem I have with all Desire-Roms is the sound level.

For me it's to noiseless. (speakerphone function)(all voloumecontroller on max)

It is possible to build an controller for increase the buildin maximum loudness or have anybody tipps for me.

Andi9

Sorry for my bad english
[Desire Android Development] ruralcomputerservices:
OpenDesire update installation question

I'm new to this forum, and OpenDesire 3.0.2 was my first ROM on my newly rooted Desire. I see that 3.1 is out soon, and that we are currently up to 3.0.5

My question is, if we flash the updates to our current installation, will this wipe the data on the phone?

I'm not worried about losing data as it is all in the cloud, but am worried that I will have to reinstall my apps. Again, not too much of a problem, but just a pain to do if I'm not expecting it.

Could someone please enlighten me?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Isn't it showing up in Battery History (*#*#INFO#*#*)?
[Desire Android Development] ryanrich:
Didn't see anything before. Just rebooted my phone, now will monitor throughout the day total CPU time of my apps.

Looking forward to 3.1.0 tonight... :)
[Desire Android Development] kfasheldon:
3.1 later and we all can start again. Is isnt it Beyer batt.

Looking forward to this.

Thanks Adam.
[Desire Android Development] hyperhead:
My battery improvement story :)

Just to chip into all the conversations on the battery drain issue.

My battery used to drain terribly overnight (100% - 59%). I turned off wi-fi, data, GPS, syncing, the screen, still to no avail.

Mine improved vastly once MMS.apk was stopped and no longer used.

Following the advice given in this thread, I used SystemPanelLite to see what was running in the foreground. MMS was. After stopping it with Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Messaging > Force Stop the battery stopped draining overnight (it still goes down but only about 5%)

I now use Handcent for messaging (it stays nicely in the background when checked with SystemPanelLite). Everything seems to be ok.

Just thought I would share this with everyone, as like many others the issue was driving me mad for a while.
[Desire Android Development] otto_di2:
Looking forward 2 3.1 version

Hello everyone.

I am looking forward to the new version, sure hope that we can find a black theme afterward :-)

One request I have for future builds is the Exchange integration that I have seen in other ROm, like eg. CyanogenMOD. maybe we can get the same thing here?
[Desire Android Development] ourfear:
back to 3.02, and today from 7:30 am to 4:20 pm, 10+ calls, 3 times reboots to install applications and backup, from 100% down to 74%, it's really better than 3.0.5
[Desire Android Development] pa.pn2:
i also erased mms.apk via adb shell and battery life seems to be better now...
[Desire Android Development] vertti:
Turn over to silence not working

"Turn over to silence ring" setting doesn't seem to be working in OD 3.0.4.
[Desire Android Development] Larpeiran:
Thanks for the job, it´s and amazing ROM, great save battery, better work speed.
[Desire Android Development] BaGRoS:
Maybe in version 3.1 You can add polish dictionary and polish capitalization?
[Desire Android Development] dakore:
Thanks! Mine mms.apk is also running in foreground so I will try to remove it with adb.

Quick question: Will I loose my messages by doing that removal process?
[Desire Android Development] Acidmax:
Turn over to silence doesn't work here either, using 3.0.5. I don't know if that was an HTC feature.
[Desire Android Development] pa.pn2:
yes i think so,do a nandroid then...
[Desire Android Development] bradmax57:
Sorry for asking what has probably been asked 100's of times in this thread but do I need a ext partition for this rom, i didnt see a answer quickly searching and someone can probably help a lot quicker than me seaching hundreds of pages
[Desire Android Development] vertti:
well it is in the settings menu... and disabled by default. but doesn't seem to do anything when i enable it. (call settings -> turn over silence[x])
[Desire Android Development] otijhuis:
Check if your trackpad died when you can't explain it with the battery history. It stops the phone from sleeping and doesn't show up in the history.
[Desire Android Development] Milamber:
This update that is due to occur later this evening is something I'm getting rather excited about!

I think I might set up camp here for now. :cool:
[Desire Android Development] tabsina:
does anyone know the answer?
[Desire Android Development] nkostis:
you don't *need* one. If you don't create one you can still use 2.2's default behavior of choosing to install to sd, if the app supports it.

However it's better to create one (just shrink the main partition and add an ext2/3/4 partition in the end) since the rom will then transparently use it for apps without you needing to do anything else, and without the app being specifically written to allow move-to-sd functionality.
[Desire Android Development] Mentes:
unplugged this morrnig at 8:00 @ 100% after doing nothing with the phone the battery status is at 12:30 @ 70%

and you are right, my trackpad died and there is also no show up in the history.

any solution for the trackpad issue?
[Desire Android Development] Cactus42:
I'd hazard a guess that this trackpad-death problem is why some are getting brilliant battery life, and others get bad.

On a side note - anyone else noticed the charge time with OD? On mine it charges incredibly fast even from USB.
[Desire Android Development] subvertbeats:
Regarding mms.apk,

Looking in System Panel my Messaging app is also running in the foreground, but showing zero CPU time.

My battery life seems pretty good, no real complaints. A few times I have had a battery issue I think its been due to the OJ dying.

Why would Messaging be hurting some, and not others?
[Desire Android Development] ryanrich:
Yeah I also see mine is running in the foreground, but it's not using anything, and my battery is stable now after my latest reboot so I doubt it's the messaging app.

My trackpad is currently working, and in fact I don't remember ever losing trackpad usability on OD. Will monitor from now though...
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
System Panel isn't showing Messaging at all on my install...
[Desire Android Development] Milamber:
You can just convert the ext2 to a ext3 though right and that should be OK? Or do you need a ex2 and a ext3?
[Desire Android Development] memphisuklf:
Got a problem that hopefully someone can help me solve.

Been using opendesire for a while now and have been running 3.05 since it was released with no problems apart from this morning.

No mobile data connection at all. Was working fine yesterday but can't get it enabled at all. Tried reflashing radio with no joy, anyone got any ideas?
[Desire Android Development] dnlgee:
Updated the hosts file for ad blocking. Flash as you would a ROM.

Latest Release - UpdateHosts.100810-2.zip

Mirror - Megaupload

Old versions and tree - /adblock/
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
I've had this too, and it disappeared soon afterwards (after various reboots). At the time, my mobile provider was having trouble... but I'm still not entirely convinced it wasn't a bug.
[Desire Android Development] otijhuis:
The only major issue for me right now with both OpenDesire and Cyanogenmod is the oj/trackpad death. Other than that they both are running very very well. The maximum time without the trackpad dying has been about 28 hours. Mostly it dies once or twice a day. Btw, when the trackpad dies the clicking still works, which is probably why most people don't notice it is dead. Most people just use it for trackpad wake it seems. In 99% of the cases where I notice my battery is draining way too much the trackpad died and the phone stops going to sleep.
[Desire Android Development] raze1000@hotmail.com:
Loved this Rom but using launch x Pro and after reboot launch x pro widgets etc are gone.

Also better keyboard pro seems to get disabled on a reboot.

Could this be down to using standard Froyo apps2sd instead of ext3 ?
[Desire Android Development] memphisuklf:
So just wait a while and see? Rebooted a number of times with no luck. To be honest I can't really say if I had this problem last night as I was on wifi.
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
To be honest, I'm not sure what caused the signal to disappear, or what caused it to reappear...

I'm also on WiFi for most of the day, so I didn't notice it for a long time either.
[Desire Android Development] nkostis:
the "ext2/3/4" in my answer meant "ext2 or ext3 or ext4". you don't need two different ext partitions.

i assumed that your sd currently has a vfat or fat32 partition and that you could shrink it to add the ext partition.
[Desire Android Development] memphisuklf:
Don't think its anything to do with my network (orange UK) as my wife has got same phone on same network and no problems at her end. Any other advice. Will reflashing 3.05 sort it?
[Desire Android Development] spaboleo:
hm...batter life isn't the best and I get forced closes when starting the "HTC_IME" keyboard :(
[Desire Android Development] mbac:
Battery drain?

My trackpad dies as well, after a while, but what do you mean “stops going to sleep”? If you mean that the screen won’t automatically turn off, that’s not the case on my system. If you mean that the screen does turn off, but the system won’t go into some kind of standby, then that might be happening here as well.

The reason I say this is that I’m getting a short battery life which seems to be due to the display (40-50% overall battery usage): when using the phone normally except for phone calls (didn’t get nor make one), battery usage is about 7%/hour.

I’m running Tasker, Advanced Task Manager, a Beautiful Widget, Twidroyd and Gmail as background services—too much? Still, it seems to me as if something’s draining abnormally. Cell network is set to 3G, WiFi sleep is set to “Never if plugged in.”

How about you?
[Desire Android Development] otijhuis:
Probably. I'm using launcher-x pro as well with the old style a2sd (ext3) and have no problems with it disappearing. It's a known issue with froyo implementation. They recommend not to install widgets etc. on sd which makes it a lot less useful.
[Desire Android Development] Milamber:
Doesn't work.

Tried on three other ROMS, Pays 1.9, Opendesire 3.05 and the latest Neophyte.

Which recovery image are you fellas using as that's clearly the issue here.
[Desire Android Development] otijhuis:
Indeed, not sleeping means the screen turns off fine but the phone doesn't go into standby.

My 3g and such is always turned off when I'm at work so syncing is no issue for me. This morning when I left for work the trackpad was working with the battery at 99%. 2 to 3 hours later I noticed the battery at 88% without any usage. Normally I'd expect only a 1 or 2% drop during that time. The trackpad had died again.

The display usage % might be a bug. Read several times that it might not show the right amount so not sure about it.
[Desire Android Development] dnlgee:
I've resigned and reuploaded it, download here - http://dnlgee.co.uk/adblock/UpdateHosts.100810-2.zip