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[Vibrant General] Halieus:
OverClock?

I used SET CPU on my G1 and really loved the new life it gave my old hardware. I would like to open it up and see what my Sammy Vibe can really do. Is there a way to get some real OVER clocking?

Battery life is really not an issue for me so far.
[Vibrant General] jblade1000:
we need a kernel that will enable it. its apparently not possible on the stock kernel...
[Vibrant General] neptune985:
I have been having the exact same freezing issue when the screen times out, I'm unable to revive the phone without pulling the battery. I have tried many different setting in Setcpu including those posted here. I finally just uninstalled it and everythings right again. Best to avoid this app for now.
[Vibrant General] alcangel64:
Hey man i did that and i still did not work any other way to set it up.
[Vibrant General] aaronkahn:
Vibrant wont come out of Blank Screen

I used Set CPU and put it to the max 1000 and then the max on the other readings it forced closed and after the tmobile and Galaxy animations it goes to a blank screen.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
Yeah, I uninstalled it after a week because it was just too unstable. I was getting freezes several times a day, which is unacceptable. Other people might have better luck, but my phone did not like it at all.
[Vibrant General] vapotrini:
So far the only way I can get the program to work 100% is to not have any screen off profile. If I just set it to 1200 max - 200 min / conservative it works fine. Yet once I use profiles and screen off at 100, 200 or 400 it won't turn back on. Every morning it's the same thing, battery pull.
[Vibrant General] pelmenept:
I have similar problem. As long as I am not using "Profiles" at all it is fine. Playing with profiles setting for a while, but not being able to make them 100% stable.

Another thing, if your screen does not come on, you don't have to pull the battery out. Just keep holding on/off button for 5-7 seconds, it'll reboot. It's not a complete freeze, I believe only display system (whatever it is) fails.
[Vibrant General] nick4droid:
Stuck at Recovery Mode

Guyz,

I have firetrap sugar on Spice Mi300. Installed Set CPU.

Tried entering the recovery mode, the phone gets stuck at 1st screen with a line "Enter recovery Mode" displayed on top.

Please help.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bhagiratha:
I am running the latest build of CyanogenMod-6 (V6.0.0-RC1) with the snapv3 kernel, and my Evo is running at amazing speeds and performance has been way better than my other custom ROMS.

But I wish I was able to have a boot screen that shows the boot up process in text mode, like something that looks similar to booting into "Safe Mode" in windows or verbose mode under macs. Like what logcat live wallpaper does.

http://www.androlib.com/android.screenshot.app.nxDz-tBDD.u.aspx

If this could be done, that would be great to have on the Evo and would serve to lessen the boot time.

Thank you all for all the wonderful work. Cheers!
[Desire General] 325i.:
I have currently got a froyo rom with A2sd+.

I wanted to see if the built in app2sd is any good. So i had a app which is 4mb which i transferred by going to manage applications>move to SD.

This has been done but when i go back to the the internal phone memory, its still the same. I would have thought that this would increase?
[Desire General] foxmeister:
If you were running A2SD+, the app wasn't in your phone memory to start with, so your phone storage won't change.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] 325i.:
Ok thanks, but i thought a small amount of data was still on the phone memory?

When i install an app, the internal memory does go down very slightly.

So shall i keep it how it is or is it worth me moving some apps to the SD via the menu?
[Desire General] foxmeister:
/data/data isn't moved on SD card as part of legacy A2SD (stability issues) and Froyo A2SD leaves private data on the phone memory too.

If you are happy with your legacy A2SD setup, there's no point using Froyo A2SD.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] 325i.:
Thanks im happy with A2SD+.

I just want to use the method that uses the least amount of internal phone memory.
[Desire General] schalmers:
moved to new topic
[General Questions and Answers] Rencx:
Hello!

I find 2 good things trought app Device Update.

Null Keyboard - Annoyed with the soft keyboard popping up all the time? Then use this to add a Null, soft keyboard, which takes up no room on the screen.

CommButton Vibrate - Allows changing to Vibrate mode by holding the CommManger button for 2 seconds.

I wonder if somone now where I can get them on .cabs?

I find old version of NullKB and it brokes my ROM.. I even have to do hard reset and than Flash device again. I use WM6.5

And if CommButton Vibrate just edit registry how I can make cab who do that.

I need them to put in my ROM by deflaut... Or just cab to install from card.
[General Questions and Answers] Rencx:
Cant get answer here? (bump)
[General Questions and Answers] Rencx:
Please somone move this post to eyes and peoples that can help here...
[Legend General] Corra:
... even with the volume control at minimum. Does someone know if there is an application to fine regulate it?
[Legend General] AllWin:
I have Sennheiser CX300 II and no problems here at all with stock music player. Check everything once again, perhaps you're doing something wrong...
[Legend General] Corra:
I have no problem with music, just with some applications. I just can't set a volume as low as i can with the ipod touch
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
Okay so I noticed my Captivate seems to lose a lot of battery while in standby. To test this, I left it unplugged when I went to bed last night. I checked the battery level right when I went to sleep and then again when I woke up...

My battery drained from 64% to 31% in about 7 hours!!!

I know other threads discuss bad battery life. A bright screen and a 1GHZ processor can cause this so I can understand why the phone won't allow me to browse the web for 10 hours straight. But is everyone else getting an almost 5%/hour drain in battery while in standby?

Here is a little info about my setup:

-I took off an animated background and put one that is relatively dark (Screen is off during standby so I would think this doesn't matter)

-I have WiFi and Bluetooth enabled.

-I use both wireless networks and GPS for location.

-I have 1 Gmail account setup to check every hour.

-I have the Daily Briefing set up to check every 3 hours.

-I have the Slickdeals widget set to check every 2 hours.

-I have the Latitude widget running (you can't set how often it refreshes).

-I have the ESPN ScoreCenter widget running.

That's about all I did that I can think of that can possibly affect battery. I know I would get better battery with less background widgets, but all of this is in line with the amount of background services I had running on my last phone (Tilt 2) and that thing would last for several days with light use.

So, what I'm trying to find out is whether or not this is normal behavior that everyone is seeing or perhaps if one of the background widgets I'm using is known for draining a crazy amount of battery. Maybe I need to hard reset the phone? Thanks in advance for any ideas on how to lock this down.
[Captivate General] temperbad:
In poor reception I could see that. But I'm good area that's too much. Like 2% every hour is good... 5 is too much....
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
Thanks for your reply. I had 3 bars of service where I was last night. Also, this isn't the first time I've noticed about 5%/hour for standby, just one example...

So it sounds like I'm getting worse drain than normal? Now, how to fix it?
[Captivate General] MendedEagle:
Well...with all the email checks and having various Widgets check for updates..it will definitely drain the battery. I have been able to easily get twelve+ hours on standby without GPS on and turning off wifi when not at home or in a place with wifi.

Definitely can't go days without charging like I could with previous phones like my blackjack II buy I can get 12-16 hours with light to moderate use and 10-12 with somewhat moderate use of Facebook, wifi, various other apps.

EDIT: the Bluetooth as well will drain the battery.
[Captivate General] nbarsotti:
I have very similar battery usage to use. About 5% an hour not doing anything. I am always around a wifi and leave it turned on. I have nearly an out of the box setup. Between the poor battery life and crappy GPS, I may very well be taking this thing back.
[Captivate General] Blackforge:
Under Settings > Wireless and Network > Wi-Fi settings > Bring up the Advanced menu and set the Wi-Fi sleep policy to "Never".

This has helped my battery life immensely, since I am around Wi-Fi most of the time. This way all your data happens over Wi-Fi instead of 3G when the screen sleeps. I disable Wi-Fi when I'm not around any APs I normally connect to.

Pulled phone off the charger at 6:00AM yesterday morning. Streamed an hour and half to 2+ hours worth of Pandora over wi-fi getting ready for work and then some in the car. Did some web surfing during the day, various other things. (No phone calls really, except a brief wrong number). 4 e-mail accounts checking every 30 minutes (one an Exchange server). Also have Touchdown running push e-mail for another Exchange mailbox along with the Touchdown widget. Played around with some GPS apps (new google maps, Places, etc for a few minutes). Battery was down to about 16% by about midnight last night.
[Captivate General] born_fisherman:
My phone charged fully overnight (with power off). Was turned on at 7AM, it is now 11am, and am at 90%.

I do not use GPS, have nothing running, no emails or social networking status updates.. The phone is on standby on my desk. I only do a few text messages and 5 minutes of voice calls / day.

So this means I get 40hrs of standby time? That is a little ridiculous.

I chatted with AT&T tech support and they said that the AT&T stores don't have battery replacements yet, but I could get a full phone replacement since I am within the 30 days still.

But from what I am hearing, it seems most people are having the same issue if not worse, correct?

I really don't want to set everything back up AGAIN. I am coming from using a Samsung Eternity - understand it isn't a true "smartphone" - but I use it the same, and would easily go 3-4 days without needing a charge.
[Captivate General] larryccf:
with GPS off, wifi off, BT off, no data sync or background data turned on, i charge it fully at night -

last 3 nights in a row, at midnight it was showing 100% and at 7:30AM it would show 97-98% remaining, and that was using the alarm, set to loud and probably ran 2 minutes before i'd hit the off button
[Captivate General] firehazard:
From 7:30am-11am, I have used 4% of my battery. I have these things going on:

-Exchange sync (real time)

-Facebook sync (once every hour)

-wireless off, bluetooth off, GPS not being utilized

-Weather.com and a Google search widget

The battery use shows this:

-Cell standby: 48%

-Phone idle: 36%

-Display: 8%

-Android System: 3%

-Email: 3%

-Android OS: 2%

I've barely used my phone this morning, so I'd think 4% of use in 3.5 hours is quite acceptable. It sounds like you need to make some modifications to improve your performance.
[Captivate General] born_fisherman:
firehazard - what modifications have you done? I have wifi/bt off, background data off, no email syncing - display brightness all the way down..
[Captivate General] AJerman:
To anyone who is having very poor battery life, I suggest a factory data reset when you exhaust other options. My phone wasn't lasting me more than about 8 hours on a full charge, with light to moderate usage. After a factory reset, I just ran nearly 24 hours with similar usage.

I can't tell you what changed or what got removed, maybe it was an app that was running and draining the battery that I didn't see, but battery life is MUCH better now. Hell, everything is running much better, even the GPS.

I went from wanting to throw this phone at a wall and return it for my iPhone 4 again, to loving it in less than 24 hours.
[Captivate General] firehazard:
I'm referring to him running wifi and bluetooth when he's not even using his phone. Stuff like that.
[Captivate General] warri:
Just for recording keeping, when a phone company says their phone can last XXXHours in Standby this means, that all wireless transmitters are off. this means (for the most part) airplane mode, with bluetooth, and wifi OFF.

these continuous wireless transmitters are why you didnt get the 200Hours or what ever it is in standby mode.
[Captivate General] tysj:
I recently took my phone back to BestBuy for a replacement since my battery was trying to kill itself overnight as well. I did the full charge when I first got it and purposely ran the battery down to quickly get it to turn itself off at 0%. Did a full recharge and repeated this process about 3 times and last night my battery only went down 3% over 6 hours. Compared to the 30-40% that was draining before, I'd say the full discharge/full recharge works that people have been talking about in the battery threads works. Thanks, everyone! I use Y5 to have it automatically connect to my WiFi at home when it's in range. Not much more than the usual was left to sync (although JuiceDefender may be working to turn stuff off when my screen is off) such as Gmail, Beautiful widgets, facebook, and one rss feed.

Either that or I had a crappy battery before :P
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
Seems like some folks are having the same problem as me, while others are having much better results. Firehazard's situation and drain while not in use is pretty much in line with my expectations of the phone. With my old Tilt 2, I left WiFi and Bluetooth on all the time and still got great standby time out of the phone. When those connections weren't in use, they weren't really draining my battery in any way. I'm going to try to disable them though and see if that helps. I'll also try to monitor the battery usage screen and see how much power is going to wifi and bluetooth when I have them on.
[Captivate General] phishie:
I've been suspicious of my battery as well, tracking it casually today.

Took it off the charger approx 8:30am, immediately went to 99%.

Watching it over the last hour it appears to be losing 1% / 10 minutes.

Running services:

SnsService

GTalkService

DMService (Device management)

Swype

TransactionService (Messaging)

org.npr.android.news (NPR)

Battery Widget

Dictionary.com (word of the day widget)

JuiceDefender

Android Core Apps

Google Voice

Cached Applications:

AppBrain

AT&T Nav

Calendar

com.sec.android.providers.downloads

Daily Briefing

LogsProvider

My Uploads

Phone

Samsung account

Wapedia

Just using it for the past 5 minutes to write up everything running has dropped the battery almost 3%. Albeit I have terrible cell coverage where I am. It does seem that the cell and wifi receivers are a bit weak, or the meters are biased conservatively.

*edit* I want to be clear that I love this phone, I just want to try and find out what and if certain services/applications drain the battery and if not then if I have a bad battery.
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
Okay, so I turned OFF bluetooth and WiFi and checked the battery before bed and right when I woke up. This time, I lost 24% over 8 hours. Certainly a big improvement over 33% in 7 hours, but also no where near where my old Tilt 2 was. I would lose 2-3% overnight at the most with that phone. I checked the battery meter and the majority of the battery went to Cell Standby and Phone Idle. Those don't seem like things that can be avoided through tweaking. I was in an area with 3 bars of service (same as night before), so I don't think that was an issue.

I'm debating whether or not I should try a factory data reset. Some folks reported good results with that. I really don't feel like reconfiguring my whole device if there isn't a good chance for improvement. Maybe the GPS fix that's coming will help battery life?
[Captivate General] a_fuegon:
Have you tried reconditioning the battery? That would be the charging/discharching cycles mentioned throughout the forum?

I have done it and my phone has been on standby for more than 24 hours and I am still at 50% battery. It's just had very light usage. Wifi on for about an hour, snapping a few pics, deleting some others. A bit of calc usage. When I first got it, my battery was dismal.

Mine hasn't been modded one bit yet, just installed some apps from the market and a weather widget.
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
Yes, tried that. It actually helped a little but I'm still getting poor results compared to some.

I have another theory/question. I use gmail as my only email account on my phone. Its set up through the system and it syncs to the gmail application on the phone. I also have it set up in the Samsung default email client (which I prefer). Am I wasting battery because the two apps are checking mail independently? Does the gmail account sync while the Samsung one checks at intervals (I have mine set to 1 hr)?
[Captivate General] systoxity:
probably.

follow battery optimization guide in pimp my captivate.pdf thread. I get 1-2% battery consumption per hour with moderate to light usage.

heavy usage drops my battery about 4-5% per hour. By heavy usage I mean playing 3D games for hours str8
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
I have Exchange, Pop3 and Gmail all running. Exchange does PUSH but shuts off between 10pm and 7am, Gmail syncs all the time, and POP checks hourly. I lose maybe 8% of battery overnight (8 hours).

I would try callibrating battery first by doing full discharge. Also, make sure there are no apps running all the time pulling data - email sync uses very little as it only does heartbeat stuff. If you have news widgets, they update all the time with lots of data.

A last resort would be a system reset, then run it for a day with no 3rd party apps and see how it behaves.
[Captivate General] grinr:
I've had the same experience. about 5% battery lost per hour doing absolutely nothing. No sync, nothing powered up, no widgets, no nothing. I bring this thing home from work at 6PM and by 9AM's alarm it's at about 25%. Compared to anything else I've used (iPhone, Droid, Droid X, Aria, Incredible) this is the worst by far.

I just factory reset it but if this doesn't help, I will wipe away my tears and return it. Too bad because I love this phone except for this.
[Captivate General] a_fuegon:
Exchanging is not an option? I would go that way first.
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
I will definately check out the PDF and report back any progress.

@grinr: Let me know if the reset helps after you are able to evaluate the battery.
[Captivate General] mterrence5:
ive had the phone for about 4 days now. Drained it on day one setting it up. Charged it over night. Day two I drained it downloading apps and modifying setting. It was all done by 1:30pm.

Day 3/4 I took the phone off the charger at about 7am. I have downloaded 1/2 apps maybe uninstalled 4 apps. Other than that light internet usage, about 15 texts a day and checking facebook/mail once and hour. Battery is at 10% by 2pm.

I only have App Killer, Battery Status Pro, Weather.com, Facebook running in addtion to email and system services. Emails download every hour. Facebook every 30 minutes. GPS/Wifi off. 3G data is what I have been using as Wifi is not availabe at work. Battery usage says 64% and 78% of my usage has been "Display", 12% Standby 5% idle. When I click on the details it says I have used 2hrs 13minues of "Display" time. I get that its a touch screen and that should be #1 but I have the brightness at low and auto-adjust shutoff. Does this make sense or is something wrong?
[Captivate General] anilkuj:
i tired all that and finally went ahead and exchanged my phone for a new one

will check the battery life over the next couple of days and post my results.
[Captivate General] phishie:
That's absurd, I can hardly believe that. At that rate you could play 3D games for 20 hours straight. No way.

If that's true I need to return my phone.
[Captivate General] phishie:
Tell me if you think I may have a bad phone/battery (I've had the phone for two weeks and have fully discharged and charged it two or three times):

I charged my phone to 100%. Then I spent about 2-2.5 hours playing with it and I'm now at 70%. All battery percentages are from "Battery Widget".

During that time I had airplane mode on but WIFI on as well. According to WIFI Analyzer I'm getting about -74 dBM form the router. I have suspicions about the quality of the Captivate's WIFI receiver; laptops next to me are getting -60 to -55 dBm.

By "playing with it" I mean I was downloading and installing apps, rearranging Widgets, and changing settings. I didn't send a single text, make a single call, or play/stream any video or audio. Most of those 2-2.5 hours were spent downloading and playing with the Beautiful Widgets and Power Strip applications.

Seems like pretty ****ty battery life, no?
[Captivate General] G35tr:
I'm right along there with you guys. Pretty lousy battery life, although being that I just got the phone a few days ago, I've been on it pretty heavily.

I've run it down to full discharge, and am giving it a full charge (+ a few hours) to see if that helps.

The rather short battery life wouldn't be so much of an issue if this thing didn't charge SLOW AS DEATH!!!
[Captivate General] phishie:
Hahah, the first 2-3 charges are slow but I've found it charges faster in subsequent charges.
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
I dunno why everyones getting their panties in a twist. This is COMPLETELY normal for ALL smartphones (maybe not iPhones though). I've been working with these phones since the original windows mobile builds. The battery ALWAYS sucks when its brand new and fresh. This was even the case with the old Nickel batteries with memory. For whatever reason weather it be the OS or the battery itself.

It ALWAYS improves with use. I'm on my 4th power cycle now and my run times have doubled if not more. No need to drain and charge and do all these gimmicks. Just use the phone normally.

1st power up - lasted roughly 2.5 hrs of hardcore use

2nd power cycle - maybe 3hrs heavy use

4th power cycle - well its been off the chord for maybe 5 hours now and I'm at 85%. Standby with little use. Mostly SMS
[Captivate General] phishie:
What's the difference between "drain and charge" and "power cycle"?
[Captivate General] grinr:
Wrong .
[Captivate General] grinr:
Ok, so I factory reset this effer hours ago and it's still at over 90%. This was definitely impossible before I factory reset. I have all the stock BS widgets running and the live wallpaper with the little bubbles floating around, no Wifi no BT no GPS. I'm just listening to MP3s now... will report more by end of day.
[Captivate General] phishie:
This may be a placebo effect but it really seems like the first 50% drains much faster than the last 50% when the phone is in standby.

Although they seem to drain equally as fast when using the phone.

My phone drained 8-9% last night after three phone calls. The total sum call time for those calls: 26 minutes.
[Captivate General] \/icious:
My phone has been off the plug for 10hrs now, i had 7minutes worth of calls, no wifi or BT on, no active wallpaper and im at 92% battery.
[Captivate General] phishie:
I'm assuming most of that time the phone was in standby?
[Captivate General] nolanta:
I was goofing around with mine and turned on the live wallpaper of the planet rotating, and it just sucked the battery down like crazy. Turn it off, back to normal.

I think a lot of people have unrealistic expectations that you can have all the widgets, bells and whistles running, and get great battery life. You have to find a balance.

Remove your app killer, stop worrying about memory, let the OS handle it.

Turn off the fancy wallpaper unless you're just showing it off to someone.

If you didn't bring your BT, turn it off. If you're not using foursquare, maps or navigation, turn it off.

There's a really handy widget to make turning these things off and on just one click.