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[Android Themes] freddyemmer:
i replaced all the apps and framework in my working folder zipped and signed did a full wipe and flashed it.. then setup came up and saying fc on phone
[Android Themes] Daneshm90:
Hmmm. Can u check ur log to see why it force-closes ? also does it let u continue or are u stuck at setup ? i want to know if other apps fc.
[Android Themes] freddyemmer:
it won't allow me to finish the setup.. maybe stupid question but how do i get the log?
[Android Themes] Daneshm90:
Type "adb logcat" in command prompt.
[Android Themes] freddyemmer:
Oke tried it but logcat is disabled on my rom.. I used the commands in recovery

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/logger/log_main/enable // ** '1' is enable log_main,

echo 2 >/sys/kernel/logger/log_main/priority // ** '2' is the log level, you can get the level number from the android source code.

but that apparently has no effect for the rom.. I think something went wrong while deodexing.. any tips how to enable the logcat?
[Android Themes] freddyemmer:
tried deodexing it again with the 2 yar files.. it's not only phone that fc also setup fc.. trying to find out how to add catlog to my rom so i can check it..
[Hero, G2 Touch General] whitewolf69:
Hi have the problem below can anyone help.

I am in recovery console RA 1.6.2

I have CLASS6 8GIG sdcard which is new and works

and partitioned EXT3

Yes I have 7 GIG left on sdcard free

C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell

/ # mount /system/sd

mount /system/sd

/ # sh /system/sd/switchrom.sh -s modacoR5

sh /system/sd/switchrom.sh -s modacoR5

/system/sd/switchrom.sh: line 7: EXTPART: not found

Storing ROM modacoR5, proceed? (y/n) y

y

Storing app data...

tar: empty archive

Error occurred during storing of app data...

tar operation failed.

Do you have enough space on the /sdcard?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Dormantlemon:
this may sound stupid, but is your battery low? my recovery 1.6.2 refuses to do any task if battery is below 15%
[Hero, G2 Touch General] whitewolf69:
No battery is at full capacity
[Hero, G2 Touch General] whitewolf69:
Fixed problem

Used these commands instead

mount /system/sd

switchrom.sh -s modacoR5

These ones didnt work original

mount /system/sd

sh /system/sd/switchrom.sh -s modacoR5
[XPERIA X10 General] AFK_Matrix:
Hi,

I was just wondering if there is anyway to stop my X10 from dimming the screen when the battery gets low? Its most annoying!!

Thanks.
[XPERIA X10 General] jas0607:
Agreed, it should be an option, but currently it is not. There is a way to get around it (slightly), just go to into your Display/Brightness setting and it should go back to normal. You may have to untick and tick the box to get it to do it, but it will. You'll have to do this everytime you get to the 15%/10% mark though.
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
I Have just Finished doing the Streak Wiki HERE Please go over and have a look and let me know please if you would like anything Adding or if anything is Wrong and needs Changing Thanks.

Andrew :)
[Streak 5 General] timmymarsh:
Nice work Andrew,

The wiki is a very useful means of keeping current information up to date, the best bit of all is that everyone can contribute by keeping it up to date, so please help Andrew by adding, contributing and updating :)

Cheers,

Tim.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StirCwazy:
There's only one issue that I have with the Incredible, and having owned one since launch that's not too bad. In low light to no light the camera flash is too bright for close up shots. If there's any sort of reflective surface in the shot it always lights it up to the point you can barely make out what's in the picture.

So with that being said, has anyone ever seen or heard of an app or a way to dim the flash when taking a picture? I know that with the leaked 2.2 the included LED Flashlight app there are 3 different brightness levels, so obviously you can control the LEDS. Is it possible with the camera?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoCGHOST:
I second that... I have the same issues. THey should let you adjust it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khukman:
I read in a post somewhere where somebody put a piece of toilet paper over the flash to dim it. I've never tried it, but you can give it a shot if you want!

Regards!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
As title says guys, I don't no why but my battery life is just really bad since I moved from stock 2.1 Rom to custom ROMs :-(

Is it my phone? I can't work pig wot it is. I checked the battery usage #*#*4636*#*#) and it seems the Android system is using A LOT of it. I tried charging with phone off, clearing battery stats, not overcharging, but just can't resolve this issue.

Also, I have sync set to update manually and have mobile internet off always, only on wen needed. Same with WiFi. Screen is on auto and time off screen lock set to 30 seconds

I am using OpenDesire sense Rom

Any help will be really appreciated.

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackWhiteOne:
I could feel WiFi siginal of 2.2 is much better that stock 2.1,

I suppose that the better performance will bring the fast battery drain,

if your custom ROM support WiFi N mode,

that really makes your battery life short that before.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] triangle85:
I have the same problem and same settings as you. I read on other forum that people who updated to official 2.2 have even better battery life.

I cant even squeze 20 hours out of my battery :/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloHimself:
You guys should always post what ROMs you are using...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] triangle85:
Opendesire 3.3, its the same with defrost.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgrec92:
i also had really bad battery life on those 2 roms

even doing nothing the phone would just keep dropping

go to official froyo 2.2

neophye roms for me have amazing battery life = 48 hrs..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sutty86:
Agree with cygnet
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubberfuist:
Neophytes's battery life +1
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
I'm using OpenDesire sense Rom
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] triangle85:
Is there another non sense rom? I really like stock better...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djind:
Check if the phone goes to sleep correctly. Spareparts > battery usage: other usage, since last unplugged.

I had the same problem, until I found out that the phone was not going to sleep. (running and screen on percentages were way off. Almost 100% running and a lot less for screen on.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sector51:
update to the last radio
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nb8k:
I found that after forcing everything to install to SD card my battery life plummeted. There were apps/widgets that should have stayed on the phone. Once I moved these back, battery life was back to normal.

I use Systempanel to see the battery drain graph and could see a pattern to it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OpiZA:
Same issue here, Will try Neophyte tonight :)

Using this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741663, and it's fantastic! However batt life on .08 and .20 radio is a shocker. I watched a 1 min trailer on youtube, in and out and I lost 4% battery. Before with OpenDesire I'd be shocked if the battery percentage even twitched slightly.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackDragonBE:
I use Defrost 1.5a and I just use about 2% every hour when the phone is sleeping, and that's with auto sync and mobile data enabled. (disabled it's 1%/hour)

Always underclock to the lowest mhz when the screen is off using SetCPU and when you do use your phone make sure the brightness isn't too high.

I could make a whole list of tips, but I'm sure you'll find more than enough of those on the net.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Metalazzo:
I may be dumb but how do you force your phone to go into sleep once screen is turned off ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
Which apps were they?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
How did u resolve this issue?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djind:
(using Cyanogenmod 6)

When your screen is off, your phone should automatically go to sleep. Sometimes widgets or apps keep this from happening (like the music player), making it use battery as if you are constantly working on it.

How I resolved this issue was to find out what app or widget caused this. I ended up starting from a fresh reset, installing first all apps I really use (calendar/message widgets, powerstrip etc.)

I tested by installing an app, rebooting (or sometimes not), check the running time of the phone, turning screen off, and check again in 5 minutes. The phone should go to sleep in about 30 - 40 seconds. I am telling you this, because most apps causing this are widgets/apps running constantly.

However, I found in spareparts also that 'settings' was taking alot of usage time in usage statistics. A simple reboot did the trick from here on. But I am guessing I had installed something which made some app not close properly..

Maybe it is better to have a task manager/killer for these situations.

Running and Screen On percentages should not have too much of a difference if your testing and not using the phone while screen is off (music, bg stuff)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nielsjeh:
You could try juicedefender, it helps improve battery life by disabling unneeded connections while the phone is not in use
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webber2109:
which version of neophyte rom u guys are using? also, is it the nextsense or the other one? i am using nextsense 3.2 but i don't find the battery life fantastic
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webber2109:
which should have more? running or screen on percentage? i have running 14.3% and screen on 13.3%. Is this normal?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubberfuist:
currently on neophytes v1.2

kinda oldschool i know.

just too lazy to upgrade to 1.6 or nextsense.

I think 1.6 neophyte has better battery than nextsense (from what ppl are saying)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webber2109:
actually what is the difference between nextsense and 1.6? care to elaborate how many hours your battery on 1.2 can last?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
Right, just to update. I have done a clean install of neophytes nextsense and still its draining my battery!! While browsing, battery % is goin down fairly fast!! I checked battery usage on spare parts and again under other usage both screen on n running are 100%
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
Here is a screen shot
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seanet:
It seems to me that the .20 radio has made a big difference - in the wrong direction...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
Any one?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidophile:
I'm using Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM (16/07 v1.0c | OpenDesire Team).

just tested the battery drain overnight, it's at 0.5%/h

- gps on

- wifi on

- sync on

- 2g

I've tried some ROMs including the latest 2.2.

now I'm back to 1.0c again.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cuchulainx:
Best battery life for me is on deFrost 2.5a running the Gala S 2.0 theme, A2SD+ (ext 3) and the .20 radio, I've lost count of the 2.2 Sense roms I've tried, none of them even came close. I don't think I'll be flashing any more now until we see a Gingerbread leak.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 160bpm:
Have same... have try some things:

Start every morning at 08:00 hour pull out the charger.

1) WiFi on / Data off.. battery has 12 - 15% on 23:xx hour. (Clear signal)

2) Data on / WiFi off battery has 12 - 15% on 23:xx hour. (Clear signal)

3) WiFi on / Data off.. battery has 12 - 15% on 18:xx hour (Search sometimes for signal)

4 Data on / WiFi off.. battery has 12 - 15% on 18:xx hour (Search sometimes for signal)

So when i have a clear signal and the phone is not searching every time because of lost connection and network it is all okee for me...

Have also test without any WiFi or Data connection... battery take 2.5 days before it was empty
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OpiZA:
Every 2.2 ROM i've tried has had pathetic battery life... Loosing 5% of ur battery from a few min of browsing is not on. Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM 1.0c had fantastic battery life, I'm gonna try NextSense, and the Battery Saver version. If that doesn't help then back to 1.0c for me
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BallBrain:
Desire is up and running since yesterday 8am.

I'm at 58% at the moment.

Have been browsing a little, used the GPS for 40min. Used wifi to check FB and mail and install a patch.

So I think I can't complain.

I'm using OpenDesire 3.0.4 at the moment with the latest radio.

Everything is off, except 3G. And I turn dataconnection or wifi on when I need it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OpiZA:
Perhaps it's a Sense + 2.2 issue then
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nb8k:
Things like Digital clock and Beautiful widgets had defaulted to SD because I was using external storage as default.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanski:
The latest facebook update had a battery drain bug, they've released an update which is supposed to fix it but some say it hasn't
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparksalot:
That is correct, but it's not the issue that this is.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b6rt:
I have terrible battery life as well, I use the original froyo rom posted by Paul @ Modaco.

Dont really know what to do for now ... go back to 2.1 ? or the previous leak ? :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
This is terrible how there is no known reason or solution to this pathetic issue!

Tbh Apple will never have or allow this type of issue to drag for so long! I'm regretting not getting the iPhone 4!!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramshanker:
Have you people never heard of a battery charger ?.What's the big issue with battery life ?.

I'm pretty sure that if you're in the fortunate position to own a mobile phone like the HTC Desire then you can afford and remember to charge the device up now and again...

THIS IS NOT 2001 PEOPLE!.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b6rt:
Maybe you don't have a real battery drain problem and don't realize what's the problem. Currently my battery can't support one complete day.

BTW, maybe that's one of the reasons HTC suspended the OTA update for froyo.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramshanker:
One day what ?. Standby...WIFI, mobile internet, Camera use, Calls...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex-V:
I just saw a video from a german man...and he explained the update of the ota update...and he says battery stays longer...up to 3 days...?!?!

Is the ota update better in battery drain...?

with kind regards...Alex

edit: not our ota based roms...i mean the update
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djind:
Rooting has its risks.. It is not something made available by HTC or any other reseller, so you shouldn't blame anyone.

But TBH I really think you have done or are doing something, which makes the battery drain.

Just check spareparts what apps are using and IF the phone goes to sleep. Facebook for example has a well known problem, which drains the battery rather quickly. When flashing a new rom I usually do > wipe first > flash > wipe > go to settings proces > reboot..

Fully charge the battery, go to recovery and clear battery stats.

It lasts easily a day on normal use. Obviously browsing constantly, mp3 background etc makes it only last a couple of hours.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparksalot:
Some of us are suffering stupidly short battery life, maybe 3x shorter than normal. It's ridiculous.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidophile:
I'm back on using the HTC Sense 1.0c from the OpenDesire team again.

38% battery drain in 28 hours.

- enabled wifi with 'no sleep' policy

- enabled 2g only when my mobile is stationary

- enabled gps 24/7

- enabled sync on gmail, weather and rss

in this 28 hours I took two calls and surfed my rss feeds, wrote an email

overall consumption is now at 1.3%/h

I haven't found another ROM beeing able to compete with that.

With other ROMs I had to experience a 3-4 times higher battery drain.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roomkokos:
Guys, why dont you check out if its your phone problem, your rom problem, your app priblem or your usage problem....

Flash the same rom again, wipe all data and cashes and battery stats. Then DONT instal ny apps but use the phone as it is for two to three full battery drains. That should give you an idea how long the battery actually lasts. Then gradually instal apps one by one testing it for batery life.

It might take a while but at least you wont blame htc for your problems.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidophile:
the app 'SystemPanel' will track usage over time and put it in a nice graph.

I use this a lot to determine the battery-vamp
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klaus27:
My sister owns an iphone 3GS and she can hardly reach the end of the day without charging. If battery life is your main issue, then you should think about what you would do with your beautiful iphone when the battery starts loosing capacity. Are you able to replace it? NO!

Get yourself a car kit, install an official rom and take the freedom of our beloved Android Market with good care. Think before install!!!

If you rooted your phone, installed a custom rom - an overclocked one maybe -, you should not wonder too much about battery life.

Start by installing the most basic but rooted rom you can find and use it just with the stock apps for a few days. You will then get the idea of how long the Desire can stay without needing a charge.

Some tipps are:

- With every new ROM, wipe your battery stats from recovery

- don't ever use vibrating on your phone. This eats up a lot of battery

- Check all available refreshing rates. (Genie widget, Email, News apps, Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, ...) - every 4 - 6 hours is way enough for me

- disable background animation in Twitter app

- disable animations at all

- if you use Launcher Pro, set menu opening speed to 10

- use less widgets

- don't use any task manager, don't even install one. Don't change the settings of autokiller!! Leave it as is. Forget about free memory, the phone keeps track of this by itself. Apps in standby don't need to be launched again which kills the battery as well.

- Set screen timeout to 1 minute at max

- adjust screen brightness

- disable vibrate on key press

- disable WLAN/Bluetooth/GPS whenever possible

- remove Genie widget, it's a battery killer
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twicejr:
Try calling *#*#4636*#*# and select gsm auto prl.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloHimself:
+1

Also take a look at JuiceDefender / UltimateJuice.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 160bpm:
Is already set :)...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BallBrain:
Phone is up for 3 days now with wifi use and gps ...

I'm at 11%. Clean opendesire. No widgets and manual sync
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubberfuist:
why can't I see that option?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6Fg8:
Coming from WinMo world, i started with the Desire and 2.1 a few weeks ago, and had reasonable battery life. After the OTA 2.2 it was absolute horror, i could literally watch the juice being sucked from the batt. It didnt even survive a night (doing nothing but sleep) when i charged it fully.

I've read a couple of discussions on using a task killer, where the pro's stated this to be useless, against the concept of Android etc. Since the horror was unbearable, i installed taskpanel and set it up to kill almost everything except system tasks. Since then, my batt performance is absolutely great, as i've been used to with my other PDA's and expected from Android too.

BTW i had an iPhone 3GS before and it had the worst battery ever.

Just my 0.02€
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klaus27:
This is an obvious sign that your task killer is constantly killing an application which was draining the battery. A regular Android system does not need any task killer except the built-in one with the built-in settings.

One thing I do on a regular basis. I check which background services are running (settings -> applications -> services). I keep this list as clean as possible (uninstall Astrid Tasks for instance).

And I track down the cpu usage of the applications (full version of SystemPanel is an excellent choice for this purpose).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparksalot:
That's the point, except it IS needing it because something is wrong/bugged.

We just don't know what.

Some things don't show up in the running serices/active tasks lists because they are somewhat "too low", that is for example the polling of the optical joypad (which was an issue on some roms as i went unresponsive until reboot and the system polled endlessly frantically and drained the battery quickly)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klaus27:
Does any task killer help in this situation? No!

The best bet is to go with a rooted but otherwise official rom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andycted:
Anything that can be killed in a task killer can be shown in task monitoring application. And you can't 'kill' the optical joypad.

Having an automatic task killer is a bad workaround to finding and removing which application is not behaving well. Using system panel it will take less than an hour to monitor and find stuck application.

And I still can't understand why people are *****ing about poor HTC in the DEV section !!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianius:
Check your apps, there has to be one which is buggy or does a lot of updates in background!

To find that app/s try a task killer, put all apps in ignore list, then set autokill and put only one app (which could be it) out of ignore list...

Like this check every app and you will find your problem app. ;)

I'm on official 2.2 (rooted / no taskkiller) and have a huge battery improvement! Lost 25% in 9h now, but used it a lot - with a few phone calls, sms, mails, wifi on, browsing, music,...

Be carefull with individual roms, the most have some issues...

And for all those iphone pro arguments...are there any custom roms for iphone?... I used a 3G for a while and battery sucks extremly - half a day and no 2nd battery possible!

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6Fg8:
At least it helps using the device ;) I did hunt for the battsucker to no avail, all i got was android system having huge amounts of cpu time, no details though. At this time neither did i know of systempanel nor was rooted (which both changed since then)

Not a custom ROM i know of, but there's android available ... good choice! :p
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparksalot:
You don't kill it no, but on some roms it was dying due to a bug and then the system sat around endlessly polling it which was causing the phone not to sleep.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
It's seems that my sensor usage is really funny! Here is a screenshot

The battery runs out put VERY fast when using the phone, but when on standby its fine.

I really need a solution
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamran:
No one?

On standby, my battery consumption is fine, but its only when I use it that battery is drained extremely quick!! Browsing especially. I think its when the phone is using mobile network when it drains it fast
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex-V:
I think thats because if the cpu has nothing to do it go down to 245 mhz...instead of 998 mhz

you can watch this if you set the setcpu widget to every 5 sec

with kind regards...Alex
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xinot:
I thought setcpu widget itself was huge battery hog... ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pitbull_Raven:
NexTSense is draining my battery faster than I can dare to imagine. Fully charged, unplug it every day at 7:30 in the morning. It's now 16:46 in the afternoon and with 2.1. I'd still have some 65% left with wifi and 3g on. With this custom rom??? I am down to 15 having gotten the 20% warning a while ago already.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex-V:
i think thats right...but it´s only for see if this work ;)