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[HD2 General] dalapigi:
Hi

I've been reading xda threads for long now and I have always wondered if there was a way to transform a smartphone into a basic phone. Let me explain myself.

I own an HTC HD2 and I'm really satisfied with it's big screen, power, ... I live in a house with electricity (:cool:) and thus charging it every 1 or 2 days is not a real problem. But once a while I have to live a fews days or a week without electricity (for example holidays like a one week camping), but I still have to receive a few important phone calls.

I'm using Android right now and this led me to think of a linux build (for example launched from WM) that would only enable us to browse our contacts directory and manage phone calls. The interface would be very simple, without beautiful effects, and I guess it would be possible for the battery to last very long this way, since most of the apps launched on powerful OS would not even be included. There would be not slidings, no transparency, and everything that require power.

I'm sorry if such a topic exists but I took some time to search and nothing appeared. And please don't replay "It is not the purpose of smartphones" since I know that, I've made a choice and I'm satisfied, but I just want to know if there's a way to make it even better.

I'm not (yet?) a developer so what I ask might be unrealistic, but I'm convinced this idea could be useful to most people. There could also be other ways to achieve this, like another OS or just a WM mode...

Don't you think it would be great to be able to switch to this when long battery life is needed ?
[HD2 General] morpheus1982:
Hello,

That is actually quite interesting, but the first time I have heard of such a query in the 9 months this phone has been released. :)

Just out of interest, have you tried running the phone with just the standard WM interface to see how long the battery lasts?
[HD2 General] fred_up:
Alternative solutions:

1 - You could always try wind-up, or solar charger.

2 - buy the cheapest PAYG phone you can get (on your network)and put your HD2 SIM in it.. These tend to last quite a few days on standby and you don't really care if it gets bashed or wet.
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
could u really do that? </3
[HD2 General] dalapigi:
@fred_up

Those are nice ideas ! (Infact I've lost my cheap phone recently)

Morpheus, what you mean is WM without sense ? I'm not sure there would be a huge improvement...
[HD2 General] p107r0:
you can turn Sense off in Settings/More/Today,

and according to BattClock power consumption on my Leo (YMMV) is:

Sense: 100-300 mA

Windows Default: 42 mA
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Turning off sense would give you a noticable amount of battery life......

The sense interface is a hungry hungry beast........

The linux idea is nice but the problem is that it would be running on top of windows and therefore not save any battery.........

Luckily I still have my trusty (4 days without a charge) N95........

The old girl still comes in handy... :D
[HD2 General] jdwrrzmm:
Whenever I break my good phone I just use a T-mobile PAYG phone until I can order a new phone. Or if I'm going camping or biking or something.
[HD2 General] dalapigi:
nice i will try to disable sense ! thanks for this tip

about linux, i believe i read that wm is completzly shut down when launching android (it only serves as a trigger ?)
[HD2 General] buzz killington:
Running SPB Mobile Shell, I lose 1% of battery life every 3 hours on standy. That's with data and wifi turned off and just the phone running. That would give me about 300 hours of standby time. In theory that should last you a week with a few short calls. :)

Problem with Android/Ubuntu on this phone right now is you have to run it off the sd card, which draws a lot more power. Whenever the screen is on it draws a lot of power anyway. The best I've done so far is 6% drain over 8 hours with just the phone running in standby.

The most obvious/best solution for you is to just bring an old dumb phone instead or as backup. Then you can just slip the sim card out and use that to make/receive calls.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpovolo:
Anyway to make the buttons on the front turn the desire on?

thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kien:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=683902
[Android Software Development] Geo411m:
Does anyone know if it's possible to mod the Stock Froyo lockscreen to enable access to the notification bar (check notifications from lockscreen)? I know widget locker does this but was wondering if I could edit a system file (android.policy.jar maybe?) to enable this.
[Android Software Development] navillos:
I would like to know as well. Love your rom by the way Geo.
[Android Software Development] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I think you're looking for

frameworks/policies/base/phone/com/android/internal/policy/impl/KeyguardViewMediator.java specifically:

private void adjustStatusBarLocked() {
...
// if the keyguard is shown, allow the status bar to open
// only if the keyguard is insecure and is covered by another window
boolean enable = !mShowing || (mHidden && !isSecure());
mStatusBarManager.disable(enable ?
StatusBarManager.DISABLE_NONE :
StatusBarManager.DISABLE_EXPAND);
[Android Software Development] Geo411m:
Thanks :)

Can I edit pre-existing files or does this have to compiled from source? I really haven't built from source but this may be the thing that gets me started.
[Android Software Development] springah:
relating to this, does anyone know how to disable the power button while lock screen is on?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s_dimaio:
How can I configure Eclipse to use the entire Android source code?

I'm working on the file settings.apk using eclipse...but with the editor, for example, I can't import "android.os.SystemProperties" (error: 'cannot be resolved').

there's a guide to configure eclipse to work on system app???

thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiicytuna:
Same question... did you ever find an answer?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dolby71:
Sorry for bumping an old thread, but... might anyone have an answer for that?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinodkbishnoi:
Solution

Hi all,

I have found solution for this problem.

:good:
[Captivate Android Development] sl8125:
Just found this on Samsung Firmware Web site. Enjoy.

http://samsung-firmware.webs.com/samsungi897.htm

Please post reviews and difference with JH2.
[Captivate Android Development] jhnstn00:
Oh no, just when I was happy with jh2 and super root. Hilarious!
[Captivate Android Development] born_fisherman:
Hmm wonder what this entails?? My data cable isn't with me today so I can't try it out :mad: anyone able to flash this and give us an update?
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Just flashed and waiting on first boot now. Will give my 2 cents later on.
[Captivate Android Development] shaolin95:
Well, it is still 2.1 so I will pass as I have no GPS issues which is probably what this fixes...
[Captivate Android Development] ranova:
do a my tracks test - go drive around and see if it plots it accurately
[Captivate Android Development] wpb2:
This is crazyness. I just reflashed JH2/ rooted/ ext2. I don't want to do it all over again unless there is HSUPA or no need for the lag fix.

Im still upset about the USB tethering being taken away. What next no Android-wifi-tether?
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
So far the ROM looks pretty much like JH2. I haven't tested GPS, and probably won't for a while. I didn't notice any new apps, quadrant scores were typical stock scores.

Designgears Superrooter + runs on this, just ran it and applying lagfix now.

Overall, to my untrained eye, no major changes from JH2. Someone with more experience may want to jump in here.
[Captivate Android Development] A.VOID:
any changes to the gps settings?
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
Downloading it now... I'd be happy if the only change was the removal of GPS logging =P
[Captivate Android Development] rajendra82:
Is logging still enabled in jupiter.xml?

Are Fandango, G4TV, and Asphalt 5 HD still missing from the market?
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Honestly I haven't looked. And also, I'm not sure I would know if there were changes. I have never used the GPS on my captivate, just use my Tom-Tom.
[Captivate Android Development] rajendra82:
If you have root explorer, look at the 10th line of /system/etc/jupiter.xml using the text viewer in portrait mode. You should see an entry called cLogEnabled followed by either ="true" or ="false". If the value is "true", then logging is enabled, otherwise not.
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Yes, they are still missing.

After root and lagfix, quadrant score is 1897.

About to restore my nandroid of JH2, not seeing any improvements at all.
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
On mine, cLogEnabled = false.
[Captivate Android Development] Zilch25:
You guys aren't going to see consistent improvements in quadrant from just flashing to a new internal build of the stock firmware. It's going to be smaller refinements, all of these things we're getting from samsung-firmwares are internal test builds that are current candidates to be new AT&T OTA updates.
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Ok, so I may give it to the end of the day.

One thing missing from market is Digital Clock widget by Maize. I even you the market access tool and still nothing. Does anyone have the apk they can give me a link to or something?
[Captivate Android Development] tbae2:
That's what I was thinking as well 2.1 is 2.1 after all, anything you have noticed?
[Captivate Android Development] tbae2:
Try setting market access to t-mobile uk or AU?
[Captivate Android Development] bobbylx:
Yeah, I don't put much faith in Quadrant scores, I just list them as more of an FYI. Real world testing, about the same as JH2 so far.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Neo3D:
Does anyone know the name or have the "Super Power Control Widget" found in Cyanogen RC2 ROM?

It's really sweet and would love to use it! I had to switch off cm6 RC2 cuz it was draining my battery like no other, even with Snap v7.11 :(
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DomSim:
it is coded by the cm team. you may be able to pull it from the rom though. as for the battery draw, i have been on cm6 since the very first nightly. while my battery isnt astounding it isnt much worse than anything else i had tried prior. did you wipe battery stats and "calibrate" the battery?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] spiicytuna:
Switched Pro is what you're looking for: http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/switchpro-widget_gpdm.html
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] vrsix5spd:
I tried pulling the settings and settingsprovider .apk's from cyanogen and replacing them in Damage control and it was a disaster so if it is possible it is certainly going to take a bit more effort than just swapping out a file or two.

I'd love to see this available as well.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] twilk73:
switch pro is nice but its not the same. Switch pro doesnt go vertical like the CM6 power control does. Plus switch pro has four diffrent widget sizes in the widget menu. I am a neat freak and all those widget sizes make me unhappy. Thanks OP I didnt even see the new power control in CM6 I figured it was the same as the one from RC1. Now I can get rid of switch pro and things are a bit neater lol.

Also on RC2 and after 13 hours I was at 14% battery. Early on in the day I was texting and calling just a little I also did a quick web search and played a game for about 10 minutes, after 10 hours like that I was at 47% which also was equal to 2 hours and 46 minuts of up time. A few hours later I surfed the web for about 1.5 hours bringing my phone down to 14% I forgot to check uptime before plugging it in, but if my estimate is correct it should be close to 4 hours plus of up time with a total of 13 hours without a charge. Thats awesome! I have gmail being pushed and a PSN widget refreshing every one hour. I no longer have beautiful widgets refreshing because I clicked the setting to have it refresh after wake. So actually I set it to sync at 16 hours since you cant turn it off. Also if you wake the phone within 10 minutes the beautiful widgets wont refresh, thus it wont wast battery. More then 10 mintus and it will refresh. So I am not sure if thats heavy use or moderate use. On another not I dont have any battery savers installed, I dont use anything to kill apps. Instead I monitor my system with system panel and running services. I make sure nothign is constantly running and I watch running services. I do not kill programs in running services I look to it for times and referance only. Also dont look at running services and get confused by things like pure music showing up as running. Personaly my running services shows pure music, tikl ptt and about 10 or more other things. Just because its showing it doesnt mean its hogging your battery lol.

Check out system panel and click the help button its very informative.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mlin:
Power control plus in the market looks similar to the cm6 widget. Haven't tried it yet though.

EVO on Tapatalk
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TheBiles:
Try Extended Controls. It's way better than SwitchPro.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idownload:
3 days ago my HTC Desire stop sync-ing with Google Contacts. It sync with Gmail and Calendar, but not with Contacts. What may be the problem?
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] sam_1421:
Hi,

I instaklled the SMS update recently released by HTC, and I like it. The only thing I don't really like is that I must press the send button on the screen, which is not nicely placed. It's not a big issue, but I text a lot and I would like to correct it.

So, would it me possible to map a key to send the SMS when it's ready? Like, Fn + Enter?

Also, when I updated, it seems that it removed completely the old Microsoft SMS client, and I lost all the SMS I had there. Is there a way to restore then in the HTC app?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Sam
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] sam_1421:
Nobody has got an idea?
[General Questions and Answers] Jikes:
Hi,

I've sync'd my outlook calendar with Samsung Galaxy S Android calendar. However, all my events are half an hour earlier than the actual time.

Does anyone know why this is so, and how to rectify this?

Thanks,

--

Jikes.
[General Questions and Answers] odyon:
Can you describe how you've managed to sync your outlook with your SGS? I bet there is a large number of people interested in knowing that. Then we might also be able to find out if the half hour change always happens, and what is causing this.

What OS are you running and which version of Kies (I suppose you synced with Kies, right?)
[General Questions and Answers] Jikes:
Well, on Android, I've added my corporate email as one of the accounts, and enabled synchronization of contacts and calendar. This takes care of synchronizing my corporate email from exchange to the Samsung Galaxy S phone automatically.

What I meant by outlook contacts is going through corporate exchange which contains everything that I see in Outlook.

Running on Android 2.1. Not used Kies for this functionality.

Thanks,

--

Jikes.
[General Questions and Answers] Shamms:
Hi All,

I am facing the same issue. One more point to add. Once i try to modify the date on my sgs calender, entries are deleted from both outlook and sgs calender.

Can someone check and respond.

Rgds

Shammi.
[General Questions and Answers] ravi4chahal:
I am facing same problem with SGS after flashing to JH1, all my events are half an hour earlier than the actual time. Any solutions yet...?
[General Questions and Answers] kishiro:
Re: Calendar Sync Problem on Samsung Galaxy S

Any known workaround for this?

I'm having this problem on both firmware 2.1 and 2.2.

I'm syncing my Corporate Exchange Calendar, and GMail Calendar. Both are an hour wrong when they get to my phone. If I add a new entry to the Google Calendar on the phone, it will show the correct time on the phone, and an hour late on Google Calandar via the web.

The time settings and timezone are correct on the Exchange server and the phone. It does not matter if I set the time manually on the phone or use the auto Get-time-from-Network setting.

It seems to me that the Samsung Sync program adds Daylight Savings regardless of where the calendar entries are synced from, and regardless if the source has allready compensated for daylight savings or not.
[General Questions and Answers] Xenodwarf:
I've got the exact same problem. One hour wrong.

Tried searching the web but this is the only place i have come across someone with the same problem.

Would really like to fix this :)
[General Questions and Answers] Xenodwarf:
Someones got to know something about this? Anyone?
[General Questions and Answers] navanid:
Calender events half an hour early issue

any updates on this? any one could able to crack this?

It looks like all galaxy s has this issue but I see only few people reporting and discussing about it.

its confirmed by google that 2.1 does not have native calender sync support and its developed by samsung and Samsung has to fix it.

I am wondering is it a setting that we are missing or really a bug?

Navaneeth
[General Questions and Answers] Xenodwarf:
My probleme turned out to be the time zone. I had to change it to gmt +2 though norway is really +1

Called samsung about it and the supportguy told me to try that and ut worked.
[General Questions and Answers] relic000:
yes this fixes it: go to settings > time > set to manual > select your CORRECT time zone.

If the time does not match, your operator is the problem.

Keep time on manual, do not change timezone, but manually adjust the time to the correct time.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kromosome:
Hey Everybody,

I've got a problem with the FingerKeyboard 2.1 on my HD2.

I'm using ChuckyROM GTX, in which the FingerKB is originally installed, but I needed the hungarian language (which is not originally installed in the ROM's FingerKey.) so I decided to download the "language-full" version of the keyboard.

I've downloaded the 2.1 WVGA version with the GTX_White and other skins, but after I installed & adjusted it an error message appeared "Error loading skin" and "Skin error: resolution for screen size not found!" I've already checked the skin files out, I downloaded some new skins, but unfortunatelly the FingerKeyboard is still not working...

What should I do? :( Thanks in advance!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djumanihil:
hi i had some overheating problems with my htc hd 2 for the past month. mobile wouldn't start up if overheated or close during a phone call and then refuse to start up again. i was dumb enough to take it back to the service with a broken bootloader which ended up with them refusing to swap the board of the mobile for me with the warranty and asking 312 euro from me to change it instead.

at this point i'm looking for a place i could buy a new board and swap it myself or any other way i could fix it. flashing it again will not change anything i've done that several times and restoring the bootloader and taking it back to service won't work either cause now they've put the info in the online service system that i have illegal software in the mobile and the company wont touch my motherboard (correct me if it's not called motherboard in mobiles but i don't know the exact term for it).

sure it's my fault i was stupid enough to forget about the warranty issue with the non official software but now that it's done and i can't get it fixed for free i'm looking for a way to get it fixed as cheap as possible.

thanks for you time
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carxdadevelopers:
may be there one application that you installed that cause the cpu to work continuously which result in overheating
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djumanihil:
anyone knows a site that sells cheap boards for hd 2 ?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilwilwel:
before buying a new mainboard .. try to flash your Radio
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sameh afyfy:
hi,

hope u found solution for ur problem

actually i have the same problem with my htc hd2 and i can't send it for warranty

i want to know what u did with urs

thanks,
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
Sorry but what has this got to do with WM6.5? Shouldn't this be in the General section as its not related o a specific OS in any way, just the hardware.
[Vibrant General] nearblack:
So I just rooted my device and then tried to install a lag fix... when I rebooted my phone after the script, I heard the T-Mobile jingle and then it came to a blank screen. When I pressed the power button there was no response. If I press any of the white keys at the bottom, they just light up. I CAN turn my phone off and go into recovery mode.

This thing has kind of shaken me up so I am willing to go back to an unrooted phone.

PLEASE HELP!
[Vibrant General] Alkaloid:
Nandroid, my friend.

Since you are able to boot into recovery, do a nandroid restore.

If you do not have your own nandroid backup There is a thread in the Dev forum you can dowload one from. Just search "[ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working)" (I can't hotlink yet. sorry)

This is all assuming you have installed clockwork recovery, which you should have done before you attempted any modding of any sort. Also always remember to create a nandroid of your current system before trying something that is still in beta.
[Vibrant General] evilsaftan:
i got same problem here and a don't have clockwork recovery :-(
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
Then you have to use odin if you don't have clockwork...

My phones have been flashed more than Girls Gone Wild..

-@JunkDruggler
[Vibrant General] nearblack:
I think I found a fix that works...

I just went to recovery mode, and deleted all user data.

I then rebooted and still had a blank screen for about 10 seconds, and then my lock screen came up.

Worked for me! Thanks everyone.
[Vibrant General] MGA2009:
Sorry to resurrect old posts, but I would like to know If after rooting and lag fixing it, it didn't show ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on boot screen and you were only able to hear the sounds and the buttons lit up...

I have a Vibrant on this situation and would like to know I this procedure can fix it.

Best Regards.
[Vibrant General] techpreneur:
Just wait 10 mins if nothing do a battery pull...boot...wait another 10. It will boot after that. Had same issue on two vibrants.
[Vibrant General] Alex530:
Happendd to me. Just let it sit there. It'll boot.
[Vibrant General] theXeffect:
This happen to me I tired volume up+down+ power nothing happen...... here's what I found...Unplug ur battery n plug it back in with ur usb n when it turns on use adb on ur computer..... adb reboot recovery n do a data wipe

Hope this helps :-)
[Vibrant General] MGA2009:
Thanks for your answers, will try them all and report results.

Best Regards.
[General Topics] rothariger:
hello,

someone can tell me if its possible to use it that way???

the headset that im talking about is this one ...

greetings.
[HTC Tornado] Krio88:
Hey there,

I have installed a new 6.5 ROM and I am missing the SIM Manager. The problem is that I exported all my contacts with the SIM Manager of my 6.1 Windows to a backup file (contactbackup.dcb) using the Dopod SIM Manager which was installed on 6.1

Now I want to restore this file but I only could find the SIM Manager for Touchscreen devices so it didn't work :(

Has anyone a cab or exe of the SIM Manager I am looking for? =)

Thanks in advance!
[HTC Tornado] gutek85:
I had the same problem. Finally done this with another phone with WM 6.1 ROM.

Do you know the software version that works?
[HTC Tornado] tobbbie:
look at this post for the SIM manager and this one for a better strategy next time.

Both in the same thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452144
[HTC Tornado] gutek85:
Thanks tobbie:) I'll try this version of SIM Manager... Tryed one, but restore function didn't work

P.S. I know PIM Backup program, but I mean SIM contacts backup restore. This program can't do it;)