yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_hustleman:
ok, I'm in a great mood, I FINALLY got my EVO to last from when I leave home to when I get back home with normal usage (no point in only sending texts and short phone calls - if that's all I'm gonna do I coulda got a razr!) but here it is including settings and all with usage details included.

ROM: Damaged Goods 3.5

Running: Advance Task Killer, Battery Indicator, Voice Dialer, Call Filter, Handcent SMS, and google voice just WOULD NOT stay closed!!!

Settings: Auto-sync off, automatic brightness, haptic feedback is off, background data is off

Other: I charged with an external charger that I got off of ebay, so the battery had a good charge to it

Usage Details:

1:59 pm turned on wifi and unplugged the phone

1:18-1:19 short phone call, dropped to 98%

1:47-2:11pm web browsing. Battery dropped to 91%

2:25-2:26 quick facebook check, battery dropped to 90%

2:43pm - checked e-mail, battery dropped to 88%

2:54-2:56 - 2 min. phone call. no change in battery

3:04-3:33 - turned off wi-fi, played some pandora + web browsing. battery dropped to 77%

3:40-3:41pm - phone call. no change in battery

4:15 - battery at 75%

4:16pm - internet (checked e-mail and facebook status)

4:58pm - battery at 69%

5:00pm-5:03 - phone call. battery at 68%

5:04pm-5:09 started playing music and doing the transformers movie puzzle

5:09-5:11pm - phone call.

5:11pm-6:10pm - continued music and transformers puzzle, let a couple people that stopped me asking about the phone play with this and that feature, did a 4g speed test (over 7mbps btw) and other things.

6:10pm - 49%

6:11pm - 11:08pm - phone placed in airplane mode while I'm working

11:08-11:42pm - picked up phone at 39% battery, then continued playing music and transformers puzzle

11:42-12:27 - phone call. dropped battery down to 10%

1:02am - battery down to 8%

now - 1:25am, battery still on 8%

Froyo has definitely improved my battery life, I used to couldn't get this type of battery life out of my EVO. Oh and here's the screen shot at the end of it all to prove the phone was actually USED, and not just sitting around.

to those that dont' know, when you see screen shots with a high percentage of phone idle and cell standby it means the person isn't really using the phone, just letting it sit, or only sending a text or something like that. Think about it - how much use is someone getting out of a phone if 20+% of the battery was used on IDLING/STANDING BY?

I think I'll try it again tomorrow since I have a longer shift, and thursday since I'm off and see if there's any difference.

The point of this post?

I wanna get even more tips to see if I can get more life out of this battery.

where are the people talking about they get 2 days' battery life out of it?

give me some tips to get to that level!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RTC88:
You could use setcpu to underclock the phone. Also maybe you should stop using advanced task killer as many people have mentioned on the board it isn't off any use in froyo it may actually harm battery life. I think the battery indicator may also be a potential battery drainer. You should just install the battery percentage mod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kris54241:
Use cm nightlies with juice defender n setcpu I end the day around 50 with heavy usage to say the least
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kris54241:
I just saw u had basically everything turned off....I had **** battery on DC roms too...even if I did all that....I run my phone how it's suppose to b ran....everything on and thats what I get...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brutal-Force:
Get the 3500mah Seidio Battery. You will never have to worry about your battery again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
here you go two websites that have my phone lasting from 7am - 11pm with use

1 - http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20-tips-to-improve-htc-evo-4g-battery-life.html

2 - http://www.techhackz.com/2010/06/how-to-increase-your-htc-evo-4g-battery.html

the overclock widget and the settings is highly important I can take my phone off charger and 20-30 minutes later after a few txt messages I still show at 100%. I do turn off my 3g but I do run wifi... Try it out
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
Some of these people might not agree with, but I’m now pulling over 20 hours (possibly even more, I recharge when I get to around 30% battery) with heavier usage than you, exchange set to “as items arrive”, beautiful widgets set to sync weather every 2 hours, data always on, and no airplane mode at all.

1 – lose the task killer. Let things sit in the background. If the background items aren’t set up to sync, then the amount of cpu and battery they’re using are negligible. You actually might be wasting more battery and cpu trying to keep them killed.

2 – uninstall all stock apps like news, stocks, peep, talk, etc

3 – try the BakedSnack ROM, or at least his Baked1 kernel on your current ROM – his built in underclocking helped me out enormously.

4 – if you’ve flashed a bunch of ROMs lately, you might want to go through the Cyanogen’s battery recalibration process

You might also want to try setting up some SetCPU profiles, I don't think it's needed with BakedSnack, but it works wonders on other roms.

Also, your note about "how much use is someone getting out of a phone if 20+% of the battery was used on IDLING/STANDING BY?" is a bit off - I think your percentages are so low there due to your 5 hours of airplane mode. Can you post your uptime and awake time? That will give you a much clearer picture of usage.

And this part is a personal pet peeve of mine - if almost half of your 12 hours uptime is in airplane mode, that's not something to be proud of. it might be better than what you had before, but people are getting 10+ hours without airplane mode - if you have to cripple your phone to get good battery, that shouldn't count.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
I think basically getting your phone to be underclocked when its idle will be the biggest help. The Overclock widget lets you set your processor speed. I am also running stock rooted 2.2 with all the garbage apps removed. I ran mine both ways with wifi and 3g on all day and wifi and 3g on demand. I have gotten very good battery life since adding OC. I agree that you should use your phone as normal and make your decision from there... but underclocking seems to be the way to go
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_hustleman:
I tried that today, I'll post results at the end of this post

how?

I'm still an android noob

will try that out soon.

done that

would that function differently from overclock widget?

but idle and standby is doing NOTHING - that's what my phone was doing when I had it on airplane mode, but yet and still such a SMALL amount of percentage was being used.

I HAD TO put the phone on airplane mode for the simple fact that my job has a very low signal (I think Kroger INTENTIONALLY blocks cell phone reception because I get a full signal outside, almost no signal inside, and it's like that at EVERY kroger I ever go to!) and if I don't put it in airplane mode, my battery would have drained extremely fast.

I don't have the up time and awake time because I didn't think to do a screen shot of it.

the alternative is keep it off of airplane mode and have my battery die off in 2-2.5 hours. Yeah, I think I made the right choice in that instant lol, usually I don't use airplane mode except when I'm sleep
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_hustleman:
where do Iget the battery percentage mod?

and what's the difference between setCPU and overclock widget's underclocking?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Systemfraud:
Would this calibration method be found on the CM Wikipedia?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kris54241:
All it is ...is do a full charge to 100% go into clockwork recovery advanced reset battery settings then restart phone n run till dead
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kris54241:
No difference...except setcpu u can run profiles...setcpu is free on xda find the forum
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] e-motion:
If you can flash an undervolted kernel, it makes a big difference. No task killer, and I wouldn't go with automatic brightness, it uses too much battery for my taste.

Anyway, I'm on CM6 with Snap kernel 5.01 and just got 22 hours 15 minutes with 30 minutes of phone calls, an hour 15 minutes of BT stereo streaming, approximately 1.4 GB of file downloads overs wi-fi, a good 30 or 40 text messages, and a bit of gaming, emails, web surfing, etc, where the display was on for 4 hours and 11 minutes... I was down to 4% when all done.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
Setcpu is probably a little more complicated than Overclock widget, figuring your a noob thats why I suggested that but it has been working great for me. To remove apps you must be rooted and if you are you can use root explorer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
depends on the rom - but titanuim usually works. Just don't uninstall any of the stock weather apps - i've heard those can cause issues if you unistall. Makes sure that they're not set up to sync though.

sort of, it's a bit more advanced, and allows you to set up profiles. There are enough "SetCPU Settings" threads out there, that you shouldn't have too many issues setting up profiles. Again though, depending on the rom/kernel, you may not want to use either.

not quite - it's not just that your phone is doing nothing, those items also show that they're waiting to do something. In arplaine mode they're not even waiting, so the percetages will be much lower. I don't think I'm explaining this well, but by putting your phone in airplane mode, its telling standby and idle to stop being ready, and basically turn off, so of course the total percent will be lower.

That makes perfect sense - what I was really trying to say is that if you're putting the phone in airplane mode for that long, your battery time should be MUCH better.

not sure what you mean here - you can find uptime and awaketime under settings in about phone under battery. was really just curious about the numbers not necessarily a screenshot, although you should be able to a screenshot of any screen if you wanted - try shootme from the market. - edit: just reread what you wrote, I misunderstood what you were saying ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_hustleman:
I thought about CM, but that rom sucks, it doesn't even have SENSE!

why on god's earth would anyone buy an HTC phone if they don't want sense?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kris54241:
R u kidding dude...sense is slow n Burns battery...get real
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kindakrazy:
just use baked snack and you will get 30+ hours with super fast stable rom...by far the best rom out there
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_hustleman:
so why would u buy an HTC phone (that's gonna come with sense btw) if u don't want it?

the facebook implementation is the greatest.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Durkbeef:
Hey yall, I am going to be studying abroad for 10 months and I am looking at some VoiP options. I will be getting an unlimited Data plan with very few calling minutes so I have been looking around all day for a solution. I need to be able to call my parents at home in the states.

Basically as of now, I was thinking of using Fring and finding a free SIP provider... does this make sense?

If anyone knows of a good solution, please help me out.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pakraider:
Sipdroid is the best SIP support you'll find, as it completely integrates into Android. For instance, you can set it up so that all your calls go through it (or just some of them, however you'd like to do it)

As for a SIP provider, lots to choose from. Callwithus.com is a good one with no hidden fees or anything and good rates. (terminating to the U.S. is about 9/10 of a cent per minute). I'd go with Callwithus+sipdroid.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Durkbeef:
Thanks for the help! Is set up relativly easy? (compared to say, rooting a phone or installing a rom)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blueman101:
not that either are terribly hard, but with the new 1 click rooting and rom installing, this procedure will probably take longer (making accounts, setting up settings, connecting accounts, etc)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dabundan01:
Hi everyone,

I know starting a new thread for an overused question is annoying but I really can't seem to find a confirming post.

My evo is rooted and the pri is 1.3. If I install the Stock RUU from sprint and then use the official updated version of android 2.2, would it update the pri to 1.4? I know I would lose root, maybe forever.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfrandy:
No it won't, their is no way currently to update the pri. All of the phones since release day came with the 1.40 pri, it has never been included in an OTA update or RUU. In other words, a pri update does not exist.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dabundan01:
ahh thanks! Then can I ask, How did we get 1.34?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrianBusby2038:
PRI 1.34_003 came as a result of rooting and installing the engineering bootloader.
[EVO 4G Accessories] samrozzi:
hey looking to get a macro lens for my evo to take some more interesting photos.

at this site

http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/06/review-magnetic-macro-lens-for-htc-evo-4g.html

it referenced amazon, which i much rather order from. but I dont know which one will work best with the evo. maximum price looking to spend is around 30-40ish

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&x=0...gnet camera lens&url=search-alias=electronics
[EVO 4G Accessories] nenn:
i suggest http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.14953 shipping will take awhile but its the best price.

else

http://www.amazon.com/Jelly-Lens-An...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1281533701&sr=1-10

or if you want to be cool and be fishy.

http://www.amazon.com/Bower-Large-0...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1281533701&sr=1-13

i think at the first site they have a fishy too :D *makes fishy face* *blub blub blub*
[EVO 4G Accessories] rutter9:
the novelty of these wear off extremely fast.
[EVO 4G Accessories] nenn:
there are many times when im sure a wide angle lens can come in handy. the lens of the stock camera is rather narrow.

i know i wouldnt mind a wider lens anyways, or rather the option of one :D
[EVO 4G Accessories] Caferacer:
If you have a loupe (The magnifying lens used for inspecting jewlery), that can be used as a macro lens easily.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] failurbydesign:
Is there a way to add or flash the info, I just would use a few ....
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjohnson3452:
Only way i know of is buying launcher pro. It has 3 sense widgets (calendar, people,bookmarks) built in with more to come.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] failurbydesign:
Good enough for me! Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Halle923:
I have my contacts linked to Facebook but when the person changes their pic on Facebook the contact pic doesn't change...anyone know why?

Sent from the greatest phone on the face of the planet
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndraiden:
go to settings and sync ur facebook contacts
[Vibrant General] kizer:
I'm coming to the conclusion that playing with Drop Box and ClockWork is awesome.

I'm here at home and I see there is a new Camera.zip in development and I wanted to try it. I couldn't find my USB cable so I just fired up my browser on my PC and launched Dropbox.com created a folder called Vibrant so I could keep it rather clean. Created a Camera folder and uploaded the Captivate camera.zip and the Stock.zip files.

Wife was driving so I fired up drop box in my phone and synced my phone and it showed that the new folders existed and I clicked the Captivate and the Stock phone zips. They downloaded to my phone's SD card in the Drop Box folder. Launched Rom Manager and then booted into Recovery aka Clockwork. Selected the option to flash a zip file. Searched through all of the folders until I found the ones I wanted in my Dropbox folder and flashed away. Phone rebooted and I have the Captivate camera and if I decide I don't like it I can always flash the stock or remove it from my phone via root manager and as long as the folders/files still appear to exist in Drop Box I can sync and download at any time.

Why is that cool in my opinion? Well you can have several files just sitting on your Drop Box account available for syncing to your phone when ever you need them and not physically taking up space on your phone. You get 2gig of space and when you need it just sync it and use it. Use your browser opposed to using their software on your PC if you choose so.

It looks like you can send files to Drop Box via "OI File Manager". I'm not sure why it appears to be the only file manager that will upload files other than pictures and videos. None the less I know where I can backup my apk files if I choose. ;) I have a habit of keeping backups of my apks's because nothing is more frustrating than having a dev change something and all of the sudden it doesn't work. I know its not on purpose, but I'm some what prepared.
[Vibrant General] XfooYen:
Cool story, bro!

Not sent from my Vibrant using XDA App 'cause I returned it.
[HD2 General] bazinga:
When I record a video and I play it back it says loading and sound comes out but it's like white noise. I think it was a cab file installation that caused it. Do other people have this problem?
[HD2 General] bazinga:
*bumpbump*
[HD2 General] rp-x1:
Have you tried uninstalling the cab you think caused it?

Do you have any details on what the cab was, what it is meant to do, and the name of it? Might help others in the future.
[HD2 General] bazinga:
well i had SKTOOLS and pocket mechanics installed. I just uninstalled it. Tried playing a video. Still the sound.
[HD2 General] bazinga:
ok i found out what the problem is but i dont know how to fix it.

after hard reseting it, the video playback was fine, but after i used the registry cleaner from pocket machanics the video playback stopped working.

so is there a way to get that registry i deleted, back?
[Android] Chiggins:
I'm very interested in doing some ROM development, though I'm quite the beginner. I know my way around Java and can hold up against some C, and I've also done some apps. I have a few questions though before I get started.

After I run make on the AOSP, how can I test my build with the emulator and my device (Eris)?

Will using the build on my Eris work, provided there are no build problems?

How could I base a ROM I make off of an existing ROM? (For example, KaosFroyo)

What is the difference between cooking a ROM, and running make on the AOSP?

I think thats about it for now. Thanks for taking a look!
[Android] gnarlyc:
1) I'll answer the Eris part, since I have done that more than once... You need to zip up the following:

a) /system folder from 'out/target/product/generic (or desirec if you used a vendor tree)

b) a /META-INF/com/google/android folder structure with a working update-script

c) a boot.img with an Eris kernel and appropriate init.* scripts in the ramdisk
​

Then sign the resulting zip. There's your base ROM. You can also just throw that into dsixda's kitchen.

2) Yes. Define 'work'. You'll need an Eris kernel, Eris specific drivers in the right place, and the correct settings in the init.* scripts and build.prop. It also helps to have a wlan.ko in /system/lib/modules that is compiled against the kernel that you are using.

3) If you take an existing Eris ROM and use it as a base, you're golden. The Eris specific stuff is already there. At that point, you can theme, add/remove apps/etc. Give credit where credit is due though. Personally, I recommend that you start with a stock ROM or AOSP, but that's me.

4) Well, I suppose it depends on who you ask... Some devs don't really like the 'cook' moniker. It sort of implies that you are just taking parts from everywhere else and making something tasty instead of coming up with something new. Compiling AOSP is not really coming up with something new, but at least you started 'from scratch'.

Even if you don't want to use a kitchen, I recommend that you download dsixda's and my Android Builder to look at the scripts. You can learn a lot by looking at those.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arvinghost:
i been reading for days and followed 3 different rooting instruction and keep getting permision denied and not going to Recovery.

i downloaded the sprint stock rom again and tried but still not working.

i already have htc sync installed along with android-sdk .

can anyone please tell me what i am doing wrong?

please see the attached pictures
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HelgesenJ:
Flash the original 2.1 ruu. Ended in .5

Also please read the posting guidelines this belongs in Q&A.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chromiumleaf:
Have you tried this one? Followed every single step without skipping any of them? Start over from the beginning.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=694572
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arvinghost:
thank you for your replies guys. i am about to follow that instruction and downloading the ( RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_2.27.651.5_R_signed_release.exe )

and hopefully that works.

also sorry for posting in the wrong place.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arvinghost:
Worked Perfect. thank you guys so much

* Please moved this thread to the right place.

thanks
[Captivate Android Development] BuglessPete:
[TOOL] Unleash The Beast V0.2 (Root, Remove Bloat, Sideloading, Unrestricted & More)

My website: www.peteralfonso.com

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UNLEASH THE BEAST V0.2

File Size = 2.66 MB

* Will root your Samsung Captivate (if you already have root that is ok too)

* Can enable sideloading (for installing non market apps)

* Install Busybox & symlinks (V1.17.1)

* Install SQLite3

* Install Wireless Tether App (V2.0.5) (turns phone into a router for free)

* Install Market Access App (V1.0.6) (Can uncensor your market)

* Install News & Weather App (a.k.a. Genie Widget)

* Blocks Advertisements in Apps & Browser

* Removes the AT&T Boot Animation (credit to me!)

* Removes Power On Sound

* Removes Power Off Sound

* Removes AT&T Family Map App

* Removes AT&T Music App

* Removes AT&T Maps App

* Removes AT&T Navigator App

* Removes AT&T Radio App

* Removes AT&T Hot Spots App

* Removes Days App

* Removes Daily Briefing App

* Removes Google Maps (download from market to have the latest version)

* Removes Memo App

* Removes Mini Diary App

* Removes Mobile Banking App

* Removes Mobile Video App

* Removes MobiTV App

* Removes My Files App (Astro File Manager is WAY better)

* Removes Where App

* Removes Write And Go App

* Removes Yellow Pages App

For those of you worried you will need any of these apps there are better replacements for them in the Market. Trust me you will not miss any of them once you flash this tool. If you are still worried I will eventually make a restore tool that will add them back if need be.

Installation Instructions:

1. Download unleashthebeastv0.2.zip

2. Rename to update.zip

3. Place on sdcard (the built in card, not the removable)

4. Boot into recovery mode

(shut off phone, then hold power, volume up, & volume down at the same time)

5. Select "Reinstall Packages"

6. Enjoy, you have now Unleashed The Beast!

Side-loading Instructions:

1. Open a terminal (you can download "Android Terminal Emulator" in the market)

2. Type in: su

3. Type in: sideloading

4. Your phone will reboot and sideloading will be enabled!

Changelog:

Version 0.2

-Downgraded Busybox to V1.17.1 (has more commands)

-Properly symlinked all busybox commands

-Created a sideloading script!

-Added SQLite3

-Updated Wireless Tether to pre8
[Captivate Android Development] kennethpenn:
Wow. Brilliant work man. Good job. I'll test it out when I get home.
[Captivate Android Development] BuglessPete:
If you have any suggestions feel free...
[Captivate Android Development] kennethpenn:
Does this enable app sideloading?