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[Captivate General] lost2030:
I consider myself to be a heavy user!! I like to text, browse the web, listen to music (either from my own files or streaming,) check email and comment on facebook all throughout the day. I did that perfectly fine with my Bold 9700, that battery lasted a full day or more.

I had an iPhone 4 and my battery would not last my 8 hour work shift!! I either had a bad battery or who knows what was going on with that phone. I didn't even leave the apps running...the phone was nice, but that battery killed it for me. I don't understand how some people got a full day out of it.

On the Captivate the most I have gotten has been around 10 hours of use and that's not even using it how I normally like to. I stop charging it at 8:30 and my battery is 100% around 10am I'm already in my low 90's or upper 80's. I don't have any widgets updating, I have a black wallpaper, I don't have the haptic feedback on, and I sync email hourly.

Could my battery be bad?? How can some of you manage to get 16 or so hours out of it??
[Captivate General] acespaid:
one thing that kills me is CELL STANDBY....when im in my office at work i get no signal. If i dont put it in AIRPLANE mode it will just search and search and just freaking kill my battery! never had that with my iphone.....is there any app that will stop it from searching after a few minutes? getting sick of turning on airplane mode and if i forget im down 10% in no time....
[Captivate General] GermanGuy:
Poor battery life is the reason that I returned my phone as well. I am still lurking on the captivate forums however for a possible solution that would convince me to get the phone again.
[Captivate General] lost2030:
I just browsed the web for about 2 hours straight on my phone and my battery went from 100% to around 63%. I have the browser display setting 1 notch before the lowest setting and I was not using wifi. My phone displayed between 2 and 4 bars the whole time.

Does that seem like a decent amount to drain or should it last longer??
[Captivate General] djgleebs:
Thats amazing. My phone would be dead.
[Captivate General] cachookaman:
my phones been unplugged for 8 and a half hours and im down to 45% battery left. the battery life has gotten much better over the past few days.
[Captivate General] faceless808:
Have not had my phone on charge for 14 hours 51 min,

44%

I worked all day today and used it for normal txt, phone, and email.. and opened up a 720p movie to show someone
[Captivate General] anilkuj:
7 hours of the charger , some apps install , music, web, couple of phone calls , emails etc

battery at 70%

i did a full drain and charged the battery with the phone turned off to all the way too 100% and left if untouched for another hour.
[Captivate General] Byrus:
I tried everything I read, but nothing worked except doing a data reset. Before I had terrible battery life. My battery would drain real fast just on standby. 3:30am Thursday morning I took my phone off charge, after letting the battery drain down to shutoff. Then I did the data reset very reluctant, not wanting to lose all my apps. I'm very happy I did though. My battery right now has only moved 1 notch from full. I've talked probably 1hr, surfed internet and checked email another hr. I haven't installed all the apps like I had before. I'm also not using a task manager or juice defender. Something I installed or was preinstalled caused all my problems and probably yours too.
[Captivate General] golemaw:
I am noticing something strange with the way the phone charges while on and off.

Usually while on it charges pretty quickly maybe within an hour get 100 but the life is trouble.

I tried draining the battery to zero and left it charging without turning it on. Charging this way was really really slow. At about 25% i turned it on and instantly it jumped to 55% on the status screen but the battery was still draining fast even on standby.

Next I tried draining to 0 then let it charge to 100%. This took a few hours. But now the battery life is very good. I left out on standby while sleeping with wifi on for about 6 hours and was at 97%. Now its almost 1pm here. And I have been using it moderately and its at 85%.

I hope after a few battery drains it gets better.
[Captivate General] grinr:
Agreed. I just did this and my battery life is awesome. There is something (an app, widget, setting) that drains the battery like CRAZY. Factory Reset that sucker and watch your battery life go back to awesome.
[Captivate General] t3hmuffinman:
how do you do a factory reset?
[Captivate General] grinr:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=737841
[Captivate General] staySICK:
I haven't really noticed a thread for it, but has anyone noticed a discrepancy between the battery percentage and the icon? The battery will be almost completely full but battstatt and the phone's battery status will show less than 50%.

As for my battery life, I'm a heavy user, and use it like I did my iPhone 3GS. I check twitter and fb often, browse the web and app store, and now that I have this phone, I'm compulsively checking these forums (seriously, this place is great) for updates on things like CM6 and the mimocan speed fix.

Also, I use live wallpapers (usually either the mario or nexus one boot), widgets are facebook and twitter, have push/pull on, and options like GPS over Network Location (Beautiful widgets) enabled. Not very battery friendly. I do use advanced task killer pretty aggressively.

My phone will last me at least 10 hours before I start getting battery notifications, I'll charge it for a short while after work, then have it off the charger until I go to bed, and put it back on (it's also my alarm clock, can't have it dying on me in the middle of the night).

I'm fairly pleased with the battery life, its done a lot better than my 3GS did. Once the "newness" of it wears away and I'm not obsessively playing with it, I'm sure it'll last longer between charges.
[Captivate General] ozziecis:
Have you tried turning off 3g inside your office? In my work building the 3g reception is incredibly bad, but I just flip it to EDGE and I get almost full bars. You can toggle it by following the steps in the thread titled "Disable 3G/ Use EDGE Only".

Hope that helps.
[Captivate General] Smallsmx3:
I'm rooted and did everything from the pimp my captivate pdf. If I do a factory reset do I have to root and download ti backup and everything?
[Captivate General] Byrus:
I wouldn't you might backup what's causing the problem.
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
I did a factory reset this morning and so far my batt results have been SUPERB. Haven't paid close attention, but I've been using the phone all day with no regard for the batt and it just keeps going.

Before resetting I had rooted and altered all sorts of things all over the phone. I didn't loose my root, but I did have to enable side loading again and also un-restrict the app market. Resetting didn't wipe the internal or external SD cards. Prior to resetting I backed up all my programs with Astro file browser just so I could quickly reinstall them again.

There is a much easier way to enable sideloading I found somewhere in this forum. I'll post it below, but I'm sorry I can't credit the person directly that wrote it.

Enable Sideloading

Must have the following installed

- BusyBox Installed (download Titanium, hit "problem" and then "do it")

- Samsung Captivate with root

- Might need the USB drivers - can be found easily around this forum

Turn on USB debugging: Settings >> Applications >> Development

Plug in your Samsung Captivate

Open up Command Prompt on your computer (Windows: start, search, type “cmd”, right click cmd, Run as Administrator)

Type in: cd _____PATH TO ANDROID SDK FOLDER______\tools

- Example: cd C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\tools

Type(or copy/paste) the following commands in order hitting 'enter' after each line

adb shell

su

chmod 666 /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.settings/settings.db

exit

exit

adb pull /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.settings/settings.db settings.db

echo update secure set value = 1 where name = 'install_non_market_apps';|sqlite3 settings.db

adb push settings.db /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.settings/settings.db

All done. Close your window and rejoice. :-)
[Captivate General] alkiter:
My settings.db doesn't have field 'install_non_market_apps'. What is the id number of the field?

This is my settings.db contents:

_id name value

---------- ------------ ----------

1 bluetooth_on 0

2 license_tran 0

3 expiry_remin 0

4 roaming_down 0

5 data_roaming 0

6 install_non_ 0

8 assisted_gps 1

9 network_pref 1

10 usb_mass_sto 1

13 preferred_ne 0

14 cdma_cell_br 1

15 preferred_cd 1

16 mock_locatio 0

17 alwaysOn_ena 1

18 manualAttach 0

21 backup_trans

48 logging_id2 24838d3527

49 logging_id 24838d3527

59 use_location 1

61 wifi_network 0

64 backup_provi 1

83 udhcp_enable 0

84 iptables_ena 0

114 usb_setting_ 0

130 enabled_acce

133 enabled_inpu com.swype.

135 background_d 1

151 location_pro network

183 wifi_on 1

192 default_inpu com.swype.

193 backup_enabl 0

194 adb_enabled 1

195 device_provi 1

197 android_id 200140047f

201 wifi_num_all 11
[Captivate General] ozziecis:
The Id is 6 - at least when I went through the steps. I think what you posted truncated the "name" column.
[Captivate General] alkiter:
Duh! Thanks, and sorry for the OT.
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
@alkiter: Mine didn't either, but I rebooted a few times and it somehow worked... over@

Before factory reset my batt was despicable (7hrs standby and dead). Now, I still don't think its quite up to par. What do you's think? I would imagine the phone should be able to handle a comfortable 4hrs use of anything...

11hrs - total off plug.

- 2hrs screen,

- 7min talk,

- 20 min maps (no GPS)

33% batt left

Overnight batt draw - 1-3% (I think thats the only normal part)
[Captivate General] Cobra302:
that doesnt even seem possible. unless you arent checking any emails, anything at all but having it just sit there. what all programs are you using? dont get me wrong, thats incredible battery life, but if you are turning off wifi, 3g, and anything else that makes it a phone to get that kind of battery life it doesnt seem worth it.
[Captivate General] cachookaman:
my phones been unplugged for 14 hours now and im only down to 55% battery with wifi connected the whole time. i havent really used my phone that much during that time though.
[Captivate General] phishie:
Even with Wifi on if you haven't been using your phone that much a 45% drain over 14 hours sounds pretty bad.
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
So I looked up some independent batt test sites. They quote OUTRAGEOUS numbers.

- 7.5hrs video play back

- 10hrs wifi use

- 5hrs 3g

Does ANYONE get these times?

http://www.sapiensbryan.com/index.php/samsung-galaxy-s-battery-test/

http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9...ours-of-video-playback-puts-critics-to-shame/
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
I just got a new phone two days ago because of the restart issue. This one has the same battery issue. Drains 2-4%/hour just being idle. I have nothing beyond launcher pro and google voice installed. Everything is on lockdown in terms of batt usage. The only thing I haven't done is turn off the cell antenna.

I've tried the tricks I knew: factory reset, calibration trick. These didn't help at all. My last phone just needed a factory reset and it was all good. Now I'm sad again :-( will it just improve itself when the phone "learns" the battery or something? I wish I could teach it
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] musada:
So I noticed on my task killer the most available memory I've seen was like 140. I'd have thought it would be at least double that. Can any one explain this
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] OrionBG:
There are only 256MB of RAM available to Android at the moment!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] aussiebum:
EDIT: hmmm nevermind... Quick System Info is reporting 245mb's of ram total?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] [ L ]:
Can someone give me the wallpaper for a Droid 2.2 CyaMod RC 2? I don't want to download a whole new ROM, so that would be nice if you could. Thank you!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] the7thcolumn:
Hey I was curious if I could change the boot animation on my HTC hero I have tried the following and it still wont change am I pointing it at the wrong directory?

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

C:\AndriodSDK\tools>adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootscreen
failed to copy 'bootanimation.zip' to '/system/media/bootscreen/bootanimation.zi
p': Read-only file system

C:\AndriodSDK\tools>adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local
815 KB/s (3553247 bytes in 4.253s)

None of these have worked I think I am putting them in the wrong spot because there can be only one correct place.

I couldnt find anything on the fourms about this and the google is full of boot animations but no one referring on where to put them.

HTC Hero Telus 2.1 (Official ROM? I have only used official roms from HTC, im kinda new to this... im trying!)

EDIT: I had checked out this thread > ( xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=591091 ) (sorry not allowed links in case I turn into a spam bot) but I cant copy into that folder and I dont have a sprint logo to copy over anyways...

THats why im requesting your help! I dont know what to do or where to begin do I need to re-flash?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] croques:
Jason Bourne: "Where are you now?"

Noah Vosen: "I'm sitting in my office."

JB: "I seriously doubt that."

NV: "Why would you doubt that?"

JB: "If you were in your office right now we'd be having this conversation face to face!"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=717576#1
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ante0:
'adb remount' is required.

That's the error it tosses about a read only file system.

Also, is your phone rooted?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] the7thcolumn:
ADB Remount? unsure what that is, and no im about to finish rooting it now.

I must be horrible at using search because I didn't see that one. Reading it now.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] the7thcolumn:
Just tried the remount process seems easy enough I just didnt know what you were reffering too.

Here is where im confused (as im new to this)

I followed a guid to rooting the HTC Telus Hero and I only did half of it as at the time I was trying to just get 2.1 on the phone as its not out in canada.

What I want to do is change the boot screen so I figure I need root access to the cell. (am I right?)

So I am trying to do that now (finish the root) but I dont need a custom rom right? Can I use the official one just with root access to change the boot screen?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] the7thcolumn:
I cant do an official one as I cant use it on my model apparently so I can you Villian12 on my Hero it looks cool but Im wondering is it worth ti for just boot animations. Like can I get root without a custom ROM?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ante0:
yes, you can.

It's worth installing a custom rom though :)

I can't find any guide for rooting without installing a custom rom though :/
[Hero, G2 Touch General] the7thcolumn:
How would I go about doing that?
[General Questions and Answers] n8tron:
Hi,

I am a newb to the android os, and I am wanting to root my phone. I would like to run custom ROMS, and update to the froyo version of Android. I found simple root, and tried it but the root failed in the flash hack step. Any ideas, I am really excited to learn, but have virtually no experience with programming so I am learning this all from scratch...
[General Questions and Answers] n8tron:
Rooted phone, now 4G will not connect...shiet

Help... I have just rooted my EVO. Used simple root, didn't work the first time--tried again and was successful. Now I cannot connect to 4G network. I never had any problems connecting before. Anybody else have this problem after rooting their phone. :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] chibixzero:
THink your asking in the wrong forum bud, Go to the appropiate one for info and help.
[General Questions and Answers] n8tron:
gotcha thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] shenery:
Been mucking about with roms for my phone and only one of the roms ive used got my network settings set up right.

Does anyone have a cab file or something that id be able to use to get my settings sorted?

Cheers
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] auau465121:
For some reason i got use to the stock keyboard with the arrows on it and i like it but all Froyo roms do not have it. And i use the sprint zone app all the time cant find that in Froyo either anybody know where i can find these apks?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] dwertz:
this should work
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] SteelH:
Here is a dump of all the apps
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] auau465121:
Thx :D

Thx :D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] auau465121:
How to install the keyboard i try to push and that was a no go where do u push it too?

and i see why they took sprint zone out of every rom thats been release it keeps FC everytime i open it :confused:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] tokuzumi:
I second being unable to install this. I was trying through Astro File Manager. It just says "Application Not Installed". If we were to push this, via ADB, where would we push the file?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] dwertz:
You may need to create a flashable zip file and flash it. I am not quite sure how to do this but they have a few threads on how.

http://www.robmcghee.com/android/creating-an-android-update-zip-package/
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] tuppaacc:
I've try everything to installing this app but it keeps FC.

If you want to try and push it, remove the "HTC_IME. Apk" from system/apps/ then it should let you install it!

If anyone Knows how to fix this error with 2. 2 PLEASE POST IT
[General Questions and Answers] venomshot629:
Where can we go to edit the registry when we are building a Custom ROM?

I heard there were registry hives or something but I forgot the file names.

I see lots of tutorials for chefs and fixes to problems saying what registry entries to make, but I dont know where to put them!

Note: I am talking about editing ROM Build registry files from the computer, not from the actual phone.

Thanks!
[Droid Eris Android Development] It IS Lupus:
I know A free one is in development.but I cannot find any other information on it. Any idea when more info will be released?

Sent from my eris
[Droid Eris Android Development] sms440:
Not psx4droid right?
[Droid Eris Android Development] jcase:
I know one is out, but don't expect it to work on the eris. Its going to need a decent gpu.
[Droid Eris Android Development] atanasovski:
Yeah, it doesn't work well on the Eris a little laggy-- but i just tried it with Chrono Cross maybe different games have better frame rates? Hope this helps!
[Droid Eris Android Development] CPCookieMan:
They say they might be coming out with dual core snapdragons in the near future. I can't wait! DS games on my phone might be cool. :)
[Droid Eris Android Development] Hungry Man:
This will be a million times better with a dual core processor.
[Droid Eris Android Development] CPCookieMan:
Processor doesn't make a phone though. GPU's in phones need to come a long way to really see the affects of 2gHz processors. Honestly I don't care if you have 4 gHz in your phone, if you have the ram of an Eris it won't be that much speedier then an Eris. All things need to be improved or else it is just a bottle-neck.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Hungry Man:
Well this is almost certainly like computer emulation where it's nearly 100% based on CPU and the GPU does virtually nothing. The threads just aren't sent through the GPU on an emulator because it's way too complication. So two cores will in fact have a very large thread on multithreaded emulation.
[Droid Eris Android Development] CPCookieMan:
Yeah, I see where you're coming from there. I read online that if you had hardware 10x the original, you could emulate a device perfectly. Technically that makes the DS an ok candidate for a snapdragon phone. The DS has two processors that clock at 67 and 33 mHz. That makes it having 100mHz of processor. (I was surprised how little of a processor it actually has.) Do the math. If a snapdragon clocks at 1024mHz (1gHz) then 1000mHz would emulate it fine. That's all hypothetically speaking though. Games would probably still lag on a Droid X or Incredible. Could happen. ;) I just don't know about buttons. On the droid you could map them to letters but on the Eris... Where do buttons go?

PSX, maybe that could be nice, but when my phone can emulate Gamecube and Xbox1, times will be good. :)
[Droid Eris Android Development] Hungry Man:
The issue is that dual core processors are exponentially faster than single core. A dual core 500 mhz processor does not equate a single core 1ghz processor in fact it's much closer to a 2ghz processor in benchmark scores if not higher.
[Droid Eris Android Development] CPCookieMan:
I thought the complete opposite. Dual 1.5gHz vs. 3gHz, 3 gets the win for me. My lappy is a dual 2.13gHz and it doesn't seem like 4.26. Just my thoughts, I haven't actually run tests to verify this. Computing wise, a lot of applications only use one core. There in lies the problem with dual core. Plus, why do you call that an issue?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Hungry Man:
Well it's simply an issue at the moment because of the fact that phones only have one core is all.

And dual cores will always outpower single cores because of the increase in L3 cache size, which literally does not exist on a single core processor. The L3 Cache increases the speed of a dual or multi core processor by quite a lot.

edit: And a lot of emulators utilize multicores, if not all.

Just saying, this is a huge step forward though. It's just a matter of splitting the threads.
[Droid Eris Android Development] mixedlemon:
The best solution for this would be using another controller with bluetooth. I know most of the iphone (and a few of the android) emulators can sync with a wiimote to avoid awful on-screen buttons.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfofelm:
I am seeing a lot of people satisfied with the samsung music app on Galaxy S, and would like to try it on Moto Droid... Can anyone extract and post the apk file for it? and would it work or would the app look for some samsung signature that it only runs on samsung phone? Thanks in advance!!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daropedia:
I doubt it looks for a samsung but it does appear to have hooks into the rest of the system. You'd need a samsung modified core.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfofelm:
Yup... I searched around for past hour or so... it seems that way... I will wait for someone great to break through the locks... =)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] LiquidXed:
Anybody get the PTT button to work in any of these roms? if so which, and or how. Any cabs work?

Read my sig to c what im usen
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] JEANRIVERA:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=554240
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] moswen:
If you are asking if anyone has PTT to talk enabled in some custom ROMS I remember some of twopumpchumps early ROMs did (can't remember which ones)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=576361

but if you mean re-purposing the button then JEANRIVERA has pointed you in the right direction
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] chadster214:
PTT Remap

Here's a cab I made. its a lot easier.. also you can find this PTT Remap over at XDA Market.

View attachment 367727
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattseg:
Just throwing this out as a non-developer.

Would a software fix to increase compass sensitivity fix the compass issues we are having? I've seen apps that allowed you to dumb down the compass, with the goal to be anti-jitter, perhaps making it more sensitive would make it more responsive? (Compass app for one, but sadly it doesn't let you turn the sensitivity up)

..again, just a thought, and hopefully not a dumb one.

-Matt