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[EVO 4G General] runvus:
It is a mini-computer. You don't use it like a "phone" anymore. You shouldn't expect more than 15-20 hours on it. Do you get angry when your laptop runs out of life after 5-6 hours? If you don't want to do tweaks, then don't. Keep a micro-USB at your desk at work and charge it there. I, myself, enjoy rooting so I don't mind tweaking it. I also get 30 hours of life on it due to this. If you don't like to do that, you get what you put into it.

Again, you have unrealistic expectations for a smart phone it seems. All I have is Set CPU running on my phone with Fresh 3.0.1 and works just fine. I still use my phone like a "Maserati", it just lowers the CPU when the screen is powered off. That is like saying you want your car to idle when you get home at night until the next morning. It doesn't change how you drive it, just how you store it in the garage.

You don't have to use them though. You can remove friendstream and go with either the twitter or FB update app or go without either and just check facebook like anyone else. As far as favorites go, you don't have to use that either. You can just make shortcuts to each person's phone number on that same screen if you think that is sucking all your battery life. There are always other options or fixes, but again you expect the phone to come out of the box perfect without any customization. You are getting away from what Android really is. Something tells me the Iphone would have been more your liking since it is built around lack of true customization. This isn't a rip, but just saying if you want cookie cutter phone reliability, it is hard to beat Apple. If you want the ability to tinker with the phone, the power to change things, and the power to make your phone yours, then that is more Android.

I can understand your frustration, but nothing was ever promised to us on purchase. I don't remember anywhere seeing something saying the battery would last 30+ hours out of the box. Apple had an actual structural issue with their phone, that is why they had the lawsuits and PR nightmare. This is just the phone doing what most would probably expect(at least anyone who had a G1 or Hero or any of the earlier Android phones). You love the device enough to keep it even with your frustration, something tells me it works quite well for you. But I have yet to see any over-promising/under-delivering on the Evo myself.

And no, I don't work for Sprint or HTC. And no offense meant to you as a person, just I didn't understand your motives on your frustration. Guess we will have different opinions on the Evo so far.
[EVO 4G General] bjitty:
I had the same battery problem after updating to 2.2. After 3 hours my battery was at 50%. Normally it'd be at 50% after 9 to 10 hours of usage.

I did find that some settings had been reset. Once I turned off all the crap syncing, gtalk logging in, Sprint Zone, etc my battery usage has seemed to flatten out.

I made it an hour and only dropped 2% which is much more like it. This is all with very little usage going on.
[EVO 4G General] dmora01:
Buy a new battery! Best solution!

No joda!

Sent from my EVO!
[EVO 4G General] Sporkman:
very funny just pluged my phone in using flipz newest after 19 hours

make sure you are signed out of googletalk !!
[EVO 4G General] fone_fanatic:
My girlfriend's EVO battery life went to crap after 2.2 (.6) update as well.

She barely uses the phone (messaging, light browsing and a few games) She never uses 4G or wifi, only has an exchange server synced for emails and gmail connected for contacts but syncing on that is disabled, as well as google talk.

Well last night i went to bed around 3am and her phone was charging on my side of the bed, knowing she has to get up at 8am for work, i unplugged it and moved it to her side of the bed.

She woke me up *****ing at me accusing me of playing with it all night and killing the battery (which i've done before, but not this time :D). Anyway her battery life usually lasted close to 20 hours before the update and now its down to 4-5!

I'll redo the charge for 8 hours, unplug, turn off, charge for an hour, turn on for 2-3 min, turn off, and charge for another hour sequence probably tonight and hopefully it'll be back to normal.

Also she says her camera isn't working and it keeps freezing :/

I'll take a closer look at when she comes over later but everything was fine before froyo now her phone has gone haywire. She's only got maybe 5 or 6 apps installed, she barely knows how to use the thing, i got it for her so i can play with it :D.

Anyone seeing other problems after froyo update?
[EVO 4G General] pmilford:
I am/was also suffering from poor battery life after the update to 2.2.

My uptime and awake time were both reading the same (see Settings, about phone, battery.)

I read elsewhere that it might be a LED application. I un-installed the two flashlight apps

that I had previously installed. (not the new HTC one though)

It has only been 30 minutes, but the uptime and awake times are finally different!

Peter
[EVO 4G General] opie2l:
Well i did factory reset last night and "so far" my battery is much better then yesterday. But we will see by the end of the day if it helped.
[EVO 4G General] clayginn:
This was at 24 hours and 40% battery left ( this is with little to no use for the app test.) I did find 3 apps that where an issue. LED Light (go figure) - this was the worse and once installed the phone did not sleep at all. Didn't even launch it. took it off after 30 min and 10% of what was left of the battery. next was PageOnce Assistant - This same seemed to be quiet but 10% battery in a hour (my average to this point was 5% in 1.5 hours for the first 9.5 and then 5% every 2 hours after I setup SET CPU). last is Advance Task Killer Full - I have heard the these don't play well with Froyo and it also took 10% in the last hour.

I did a little searching and other are also complaining about the LED apps eating the battery. I think they ate just poorly coded and maybe just being thrown out into the market or they just don't work the same way on Froyo. Any way have to replace a few apps but I think i got my battery life back. :)
[EVO 4G General] opie2l:
Well the factory reset did the trick for me. I am a hour away from were my battery died yesterday and i still have 85% left. HURRAY FOR ME!!!
[EVO 4G General] kftgr:
Noob question, but how easy is it to restore things after you factory reset?

Also, noticed that in 2.1, using System panel, I was able to see the CPU speed drop all the way down to around 250MHz. Now with 2.2, the lowest it would go is 500MHz. Is there a way this can be readjusted?
[EVO 4G General] ZombieReagan:
It's best to just re-install the apps from the marketplace, to be honest. If you've got all your contacts on your gmail account, then I wouldn't worry too much about a factory reset.
[EVO 4G General] opie2l:
its not bad at all.. like he said above all your contacts and stuff are on Google. You just have to re-install your apps and adjust your setting. Took me a total of 20 minutes at the most.
[Legend Themes and Apps] hack1135:
New concept of playing games. Try to gain as many points as possible by 'killing' bubbles in space around you... funny augmented reality game.

Kenball is free.
[Legend Themes and Apps] biomy:
can't u put a link please ?
[Legend Themes and Apps] SimDroid:
search the Market!
[Legend Themes and Apps] Terriz:
No Go

Crappy game. Very laggy on Legend. And only in Russian.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
You guys can obviously reply with your favorite feature(s) of 2.2, but are there any more subtle changes than overall performance boost you guys noticed?

For me, I like how the 3G looks like now. It's mundane and stupid, but I like how it's more curved rather than blocky. I don't have 4G in my area so I'm curious if the 4G looks similar to the new 3G or if it retains the old look.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avalst:
I appreciate the little touches of color HTC added to some of their icons :) I'm still poking around but that jumped out at me right off the bat.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
Oh yeah, I thought something looked off when I had to do the unlock pattern for the first time.

Is it just me or did the notification bar change a little? I use handcent for messaging, and usually when I got two messages in a row the notification bar just had the handcent image at the top. Now it shows 2, 3 or however many unread messages I have.

Very nice. I'm loving my phone even more.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxeneers:
Yeah, I dig the new 3G logo - it takes it in line with how the Incredible looks. I also like the "default" picture for those who don't have a photo for Caller ID. The 3D glossy Android looks great. Also, having Facebook statuses and pending Birthdays when someone calls on the call screen is awesome too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
Oh, and I noticed (but just now confirmed it) the AM/PM symbol is slightly smaller than it was before; prior to the update, the AM/PM would be the same font size as the time, but now it's like 1-2 pts smaller.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
I like that sound and display are seperated in the settings menu now.

I like my benchmarks A LOT

I like the flashlight, and I like that I can "Set Install Location"

I like that the settings>applications>manage_applications menu opens so fast now

I like the new market, and how they are using tabs in some system menu's (like the applications menu)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
YES this was a HUGE, GARGANTUAN, MONOLITHIC improvement!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SgtSped:
Im on 4G now and its a squared off 4G with 3 possible bars for service, not sure what the old one looked like but it looks the same, but the new texting layout is somewhat nice, i liked the older style layout but i like how it tells you how many unread on in the top corner and how many texts you have going with each person, now it looks like a high score table to see who i can text the most in a month... haha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topdnbass:
Theres one of these small changes I absolutely hate. Remember that cool looking 3Dish bag icon in the market (top left). It now looks the same as the app icon. Which is crappay!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
The market update notification changed to look the same as the app icon? :(

Do you use Handcent? I thought the default messaging program didn't have a visible count on sending messages. Is this a new feature of the default messaging app or are you using Handcent? The Handcent notification bar icon has the little green circle with white font for number of unread messages.

Sounds like the 4G bar looks the same - it was not as squared off as the 3G symbol - I think only because the 4 seemed wider than the 3.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
I don't notice much of a difference. Sence is still the lethargic turd it always was.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natefuhr:
How? I can't find this setting anywhere
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Look in the app drawer
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strung:
Yeah i'm digging it

Props to HTC sense is bomb
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
Oh yeah I forgot to add that I love how the security pattern has a timer on it like the Droid X had when it launched (I think I read that at least) - you can set it to come on after a certain number of minutes rather than every time the screen is shut off!

HUGE plus in my book. I want the security there in case someone steals my phone, but not make me swipe it every single time while I text with someone over the course of 10 minutes.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natefuhr:
Wow... feeling noob here... still not seeing it....

I know where settings are but I can't find the actual check box or whatever it is to select the default install location
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
It's not in settings, its an app in the app drawer. It's called "SetInstallLocation" ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notown775:
the multi touch keyboard is awesome. even though I'm using the cm6 one

sent from my Satan fone
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quick2822:
One thing I noticed is the vibrate feedback from hitting the buttons -- it seems shorter and softer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
I know I already said this but DAMN I love how the security pattern doesn't require you to enter it now after EVERY single time you turn the screen off.

Even Gmail looks a little different. A lot of the physical look of apps seem to be more polished looking too.
[Desire Themes and Apps] danchappers:
Hey people. I was wondering if anyone else seems to be having issues with updating google maps to latest version on a rooted desire with old apps to sd enabled? It downloads but fails to install

I've had a quick look but can't find anything.this happens on all roms that I try.
[Desire Themes and Apps] djs_90:
i have this problem too...would lke to know a solution.

I read somewhere about uninstalling it first then reinstalling from the market....but it wont let me uninstall lol
[Desire Themes and Apps] zomig:
Make sure it is not running and if it is force close it, then uninstall it. Try unistalling it using a different tool like quick system info.
[Desire Themes and Apps] danchappers:
This works a treat thanks a lot mate this has been really annoying me
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] tuxStyle:
Did anyone managed to install iptables on a rooted X10?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] collider:
What I read is,you need first to activate netfilter hooks in kernel,like cyanogenmod,native SE kernel hasn't activated yet,i think.

Waiting for Roms :)
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] tuxStyle:
So, netfilter is disabled? :(

Damn it...

I was hoping is enabled but the release doesn't have the binaries/modules...

Somebody here got samba working and i was hoping it was the same issue :mad:
[Vibrant General] Novek:
I've tried the "brick fixes" on this forum, but without luck so far... I can get into download mode, and I've tried flashing with odin from this post which says "passed" to me. After this is reboots into a black screen after the "galaxy S" screen, and nothing can be done except making the capasitive buttons light up...

All help is appreciated!!

FYI I don't have a SD card installed during odin...

Solutions in #6 and #7...

Thanks a ton
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
Sounds like a boot loop, but I can't figure out why you would get one with the stock odin flash. Try doing a factory reset? it shouldn't be needed, but who knows?
[Vibrant General] Novek:
how? tried the "hard reset" whitout luck :eek:
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
In recovery.. there should be a factory reset option. I thought odin did that though.
[Vibrant General] Novek:
when it is resetting I can read "mbr checksum error" or similar in yellow text before it's wiping data etc...
[Vibrant General] AustinKnight45:
Try this ...turn you phone off but keep it plugged into you cpu usb cord and open oidin, next put your phone in download mode and put the needed files in oden and click start I had a hard time getting odin to work right for some reason this may not help but it worked for me. Good luck I don't think you bricked I think you can come out of this.
[Vibrant General] ElahC:
I assume that you used the partition in ROM Manager? If so I had the same problem as you. The phone would boot up to a black screen with only the buttons working. What I did was flash Eugenes 2.2 Froyo Rom, I surprised that it booted up and worked. After that I flashed back to stock rom and it work as it did before!
[Vibrant General] Novek:
Thanks for the help, but my problem occurs after odin... when it's rebooting and it says "passed!" i just end up with a black screen with only the capasitive buttons lighting up when pressed...

that's my problem!! found it, downloading now... will report back for future accidents...

Froyo worked!! Thanks a ton! Now I just have to downgrade :)
[Vibrant General] Novek:
sry... dubbel
[Vibrant General] farrisizdaman:
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. How did you get odin to detect your phone? I put it into download mode but no detection plzzz help
[Vibrant General] AustinKnight45:
I turned the phone off while the usb was connected when the phone if off open odin ounce its open boot up the phone and boot it into download mode from there odin will connect and you can put the files you need into it and click start. This worked well for me when I needed to revert back to factory vibrant after flashing the "Real lag FIX" kernel that made my ear piece not work and some of my buttons not work but boy was my phone snappy and my benchmarks were awesome but what good does that do when your girl calls you and you cant hear her and all she can hear is you saying hellllllllooooooo .
[Vibrant General] farrisizdaman:
I"ve been trying to flash with odin now for about 2 hours. It gets stuck on DO NOT DISCONNECT. And never finishes.
[Vibrant General] AustinKnight45:
Ya it was like that for me until I did what I said in my last post, you do have the samsung drivers installed ?

Edit: And you are using this method or this thread HERE
[Vibrant General] Novek:
You have managed to get into download mode right? My device is up and running stock now, but gonna try some other ROM now =)
[Vibrant General] ElahC:
Glad to hear your phone is back up and running :).
[Vibrant General] sifuquoc:
i know this is an old thread, but i figure this can help someone later... brick is a common search term, and i figure this will come up in a search and this will save time for others...

here's what happened to me. i was flashing back to stock and was in download mode. the blue bar was moving etc and murphy and his dumb law decided to kill my my usb port... i thought the phone was DEAD! nothing i did woke the phone up. no battery indicator, buttons didn't do anything... it was all black. holding up/down and power didnt turn the phone on and into recovery or download mode... the phone was DEAD...

then after scouring the forum forever, i finally got the phone into download mode...

NOTE: i don't recall if the usb wire was plugged into the computer or not... i think it was though...

NOTE2: samsung drivers should have been installed already...

- remove the battery

- hold vol up and vol down buttons

- reinsert battery

i thought WOO HOO!! I GOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE!!!

the next issue i had was getting odin to recognize the phone... it didn't detect what com port i had. but after a lot of reading, i finally got it to work...

- open odin first

- then get into download mode using the steps above...

after odin recognized the port the phone was plugged into, i flashed back to stock rom using the instructions given on this site... and my dead phone works again...

i was able to fix a dead phone!! this phone could be un-brickable!!

i hope this helps...
[Vibrant General] Mage42384:
Open odin first, then plug in your phone.
[Desire General] Vildar:
Hey hey. Hope this is the right place to put this.

Got myself a HTC Desire the otherday, and wanted to update to the latest new 2.2.

When i tried to update it wanted to download the Vodafone version. Which i dont want as i thought the phone was unlocked. My o2 sim works in fine though. I am guessing it was just de branded.

The version on there at the moment says 2.1-update1.

Is there a way i can make it see the HTC unbranded or at the least o2 version of the update?

Thans in advanced.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
I tried to run pngopt on the latest froyo release and after flashing the ROM, the HTC_IME.apk continually force closes.

I ran the pngopt on the entire /system/app dir before flashing and now I recall reading from Fresh's release notes that through experience he knew what apk's did not pngopt well.

Can anyone give me a list of apk's I shouldn't touch with pngopt?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukedukem:
Since I'm sure not a lot of people know the answer to this I will just post my findings so far.

It looks like HTC_IME.apk is the only apk that doesn't like png optimization. I have been running my ROM for several hours and no problems so far after replacing HTC_IME with the original untouched version.

I removed all of the Sprintware first, so there may be problems with those apk's and pngopt, I have no dersire to install those and find out :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ioos:
I've been searching this forum and google. What is pngopt?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ioos:
I'm an idiot. You guys are just talking about generic png optimization aren't you? So you just unzip the apk, optimize it and re-zip? Is there a "favorite" optimizer for linux?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SoCalMiles:
Smooth Sense Icons v.1.0 by Jercik

These are for the Latest 8/1 Froyo Update

All work was done by Jercik....please

DONATE

to him if you like it. I'm not sure he'd appreciate his e-mail up so here's the link to his thread to find a way to donate.

Place on SD and install through CWRecovery or Rom Manager

P.S. This will be making its way into my theme soon!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jellis24:
Awesome!

Thanks for these, just installed them and they look great!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] emplox:
I really want to learn how to make custom application icons. Anyone have a guide? Is it easy? Great job on these btw.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] palomosan:
This look nice, thanks.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yzdirtrider13:
The gray numbers not covered by the colored battery meter are really hard to read in anything but dim light, but still a good little set. Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dkhait:
i get FC on launcher , runing SkyRaider Rom 2.0.1
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] deficitism:
I'm going to have to agree with this. Make the text white on the battery, and it will be money!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] zerf:
+1 to that. Other then that its working as intended thanks!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Asterdroid:
Another +1 on the battery text. Other than that, very nice.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SoCalMiles:
These are the originals from jercik, the creator of this mod. I will modify them for my theme.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ncsttsccr:
if anybody wants the text white go to the thread and let the dev know...

has anyone else verified they don't work on skyraider 2.0.1?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SoCalMiles:
edit....checking it out
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] BillytheKid82:
thank u very much! this works well with pmf2 rom
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] xvenom89:
Doesn't work. Force Closes for me at bootup, too.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] bonzai299:
im going to have to disagree, mine works great.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] a4diziac:
Wanted to share my results. It force closes on me on bootup...

Running LauncherPro. Will try switching back to Sense to see if I get the same issues and report back.

Edit: Not sure about etiquette here so I'll just edit my original post. I tried switching back to Sense UI to see if anything changed...still getting a lot of force closes on bootup. I am running the leaked 2.2 build and I'm rooted. The only other thing I can think of is that I am running the default Android lock screen.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] xvenom89:
If we're both running SkyRaider 2.0.1 and are both installing the zip, how is it not working for me but you aren't having any trouble? Very strange.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yojoe600:
works for me on adrynalyne second rom
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] BillytheKid82:
this is working fine on my phone....pmf2, launcherpro, vanilla lock screen
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Squintz:
I was able to change the battery text to white and install. Looks and works great on the first leaked Froyo rom (pre 8/1). Just waiting to see if Jercik minds that I post the zip since I modified his work :D
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] yojoe600:
haha yea hurry up with that im waiting to add the transparent notification to this haha