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[EVO 4G General] EliWay:
A couple of things I haven't seen mentioned yet:

- Using a Network Analyzer tool, I have noticed that the Qik Application runs a service in the background that wakes up the 3G radio and pings Qik servers every minute,as well as whenever you turn your screen on or off regardless if you have an account associated with it or not!

I haven't been able to measure the impact on battery life but that's ridiculous for a software that comes pre-installed on every single EVO shipped. I have already contacted Qik but haven't gotten a response yet. In the meantime, just kill QikEngineService under "Running Services" every time you reboot your phone.

Also, for those with "Always-on mobile data" off, please be advised that apps that rely on C2DM (Google's Push notification service) such as:

- Tango Video Calls

- BeejiveIM

- Trillian

- Chrome to Phone

- SpringPad

- WhatsApp

- All other apps with proprietary push such as Fring,KiK messenger, etc

..will not work when the screen is off.
[EVO 4G General] VDub2174:
Can wait to try some of these tips out when I get home. My battery has been draining like crazy lately and I want it to last longer so I don't have to worry about charging it all the time.
[EVO 4G General] PhantomHacker:
Very helpful thread, we need more like these.
[EVO 4G General] Biofall:
Vote to the front page!!

Please
[EVO 4G General] raiderinks:
This is at least false information, and at best, it is just poorly understood details. For the electrical engineering explanation of the 10% drop, please read this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=909763

If you agree, please edit your post.
[EVO 4G General] Biofall:
I appreciate you trying to help, but I have read all of that. You are wrong, my information is not "false" and I definitely completely understand the details.

The phone's battery calculation (because that's all the battery life is) decides that once it thinks the phone has reached capacity, it stops charging until it calculates 90%. You are saying that to your knowledge (which you believe to be trumped by "the engineering experience of people that have devoted significant portions of their careers to the field of battery design...", (where I got my information, imagine that) the battery life is effectively reduced by about 10%. This would of course tie in to the initial drop issue, but it doesn't define it.

EDIT: Haha I didn't realize that was you who made that post.
[EVO 4G General] treckin:
Sooooooo many trolls in this thread, can YOU count them all!
[EVO 4G General] hodad37:
Root your phone and move on. My battery running fresh 3.5 lasts for 24 hours with moderate use.
[EVO 4G General] raiderinks:
Sigh, I guess I will crosspost.

http://www.mpoweruk.com/lithiumS.htm#charging

The reason you get the 10% drop is because they have designed the charger to prolong cycle life. If all it did was ramp up to 4.2V then bang on again at 4.1V you would get a random drop ranging from 0 to 10%. That differs from the behavior typically reported by users.
[EVO 4G General] Biofall:
Haha you think your foot access = better life? No, The chef may have cooked in modifications, but I know for a fact that Flipz keeps it very clean and close to stock. By the way, a lot of the steps are root only
[EVO 4G General] Biofall:
Added new UI Juice Defender settings to OP:
[EVO 4G General] tmc487:
Juice Defender Screenshot

Your juice defender screen shot link doesn't work anymore :(
[EVO 4G General] Biofall:
I think it does dude..
[EVO 4G General] oranium:
Sent From One BadAss Rooted Evo 4G On Myn's Warm 2.2 Rls 4 Steroids Via XDA App. ;-)
[EVO 4G General] oranium:
1 day 12 hrs without charging my phone ;-)

Tnx to Myns warm 2.2 Rls 5 .

Sent From One BadAss Rooted Evo 4G On Myn's Warm 2.2 Rls 4 Steroids Via XDA App. ;-)
[EVO 4G General] gpz1100:
Fred, I've found the opposite. It does indeed interfere with email, unless the email app happens to be the google app. Third party email clients are unable to access email after 5 minutes, and imap idle (push) stops working.
[EVO 4G General] redtrk:
Thank you,this is a good write up and very helpful!
[EVO 4G General] Biofall:
Glad I could help
[EVO 4G General] anguyen2008:
Would anyone happen to know if enabling/disabling surface dithering has an (significant) effect on battery life?
[EVO 4G General] alanpham7:
this really helped

I'm seeing better battery life already. Thanks!!
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
lol, I don't even know what that is.... :D
[EVO 4G General] life:
ok, correct me if im wrong but, disabling the enable always mobile data would make the phone search for signal every time you unlocked your phone. which in return would eat more battery than staying connected to the mobile data. It has been said that when you in areas with weak signal, your phone is search for stronger signal which kills the battery. by disabling the enable always your forcing your phone to search for the signal every time you unlock it, where as if you stayed connected it wouldn't be searching (unless your area has weak signal) because your always connected.

right??

but of course if you are in area where signal is weak or bad, then yes disabling enable always on mobile data would be a great idea.
[EVO 4G General] adodson927:
Thanks, Works great!
[EVO 4G General] gaxiolafm:
Very useful information. Thank you for all your research and shared knowledge. However, I followed what you said about doing a factory reset if the phone still doesn't sleep to remove all add on apps and out STILL doesn't sleep. I am getting many hours of battery life (about 10 with moderate use), but I'm sure it could be more if the damn thing went to sleep when the screen is off.

Edit: Fixed the Wimax after flashing the latest update and now my phone is back to normal. I'm doing about 14 hours of moderate use a day and it might get down to 25%.
[EVO 4G General] enko420:
Here is mine, Stock everything. Rooted w/ HTC Unlock, HBoot 1.50

I use set cpu w/ juice defender

I guess my battery is just badass and all your guys' SUCK ! :P
[EVO 4G General] scottspa74:
Hboot 1.5 is not an Evo hboot. ...suck... What phone do you have JA?

Edit: oh, and anyone who tells you to wipe battery stats, needs to get on Google+ and talk with the Google employees who create android. They find it laughable, and work hard to debunk the ridiculous myth. Sign up, you'll learn something.

sent from AOKP heaven
[EVO 4G General] enko420:
i use evo 3d
[EVO 4G General] EvoWayne:
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer

I've thrown in the towel on task killers and have been using AutoKiller for the past several weeks. AutoKiller Memory Optimizer is not a regular task manager, but rather fine tunes android systems inner memory manager to keep your device fast over time. As a side effect it also lowers battery consumption. Also includes a manual process/service manager. I've seen a huge improvement in battery life. AutoKiller is free and can be found in Market or an ad free Pro version is available that includes a Chuck Norris mode. Root is required.
[EVO 4G General] Imprezed:
after playing with that HTC Home desktop flipclock/weather app. I looove how the clock flips and wished that it would do that on the phone. Any roms that do that?
[EVO 4G General] felacio:
No ROMS actually do that. But there is a program out called Flip Clock beta. I believe. That actually flips. It's cool, I ran it for a while. Haven't installed it since flashing a new Rom though..

EDIT: oohh.. not cool. The developer pulled the app and packaged it in there Home++ launcher alternative. The flip clock can't be used outside of their launcher.. hmm.. I'll look for the beta..

EDITED AGAIN: found a link to the program. Here you go.

http://www.4shared.com/file/vloqJo-J/mobiintuititandroidfreeflipclo.html

...in 1943, I killed a drifter.
[EVO 4G General] Imprezed:
Thanks man that is pretty cool, I wish I knew how to code, I would totally love to integrate this into the HTC widget.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] StrangeShadow:
I use Notes' Recording Option to Record Meetings, saving them automatically onto the storage card, but ever since I updated to the New Tilt 2 Rom, I get a "Memory Full" Notice after every 10 Minutes of Recording through Notes.

I have an 8GB Memory Card, and an good amount of Internal Memory left too...

...Anyone else experiencing this...And more importantly, know a fix?

I use this app daily in Meetings...which is causing a problem...stuck carrying a 2nd device now "Digital Recorder"

Please Help
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] StrangeShadow:
Problem disappeared after a few soft resets...idk why...but good.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
I'm trying to change the font color in the notification bar that says when you are downloading/installing a new app, and when you get an email, and when you plug in your USB and so forth. I'm not sure if it's part of the framework or services or a crazy mod with XML editing and re-compiling apk's like in the BlueSteel thread. I still want to keep everything else in the pull down bar the same though...
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Corey@rabbit:
So your not dead:eek: I was about to call in a search party!

O, and i dunno about the font... Im guessing its tied in with all the other fonts and to change that one the system font must be changed.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
Haha zombiefied and running 2.2 finally. Workin on Froyo Dynamite, stay tuned...
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
Anybody? This is the last thing I need before my theme can be completed...
[Droid X Themes and Apps] ghostlypickel:
It's an XML edit. Look in framewrok-res.apk > res > layout > status_bar_latest_event.xml. Open it in a Hex editor, and look for the values 08 00 00 1C, everything after that should be 00 00 00. Change the 00 00 00s to FF FF FF. Or you can download the framework-res.apk from my SenseX theme, and just swap out the images.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Corey@rabbit:
I think he was asking about actual fonts, not color.

Fonts are located in system/fonts pull them from your phone, look at which one is the one that needs to be changed then push the one you want (with correct file name of course )
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
I actually did mean the color. Thanks guys

Sent from my DROIDX
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
I'm having some trouble finding the string. I don't see anywhere in here 08 00 00 1C. I also put the file from the SenseX theme in there an there was no difference when I pushed framework-res.apk.

03 00 08 00 50 03 00 00 01 00 1C 00 38 01 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 54 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0F 00 00 00 1F 00 00 00 2D 00 00 00 32 00 00 00 3F 00 00 00 4B 00 00 00 57 00 00 00 66 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 9D 00 00 00 A0 00 00 00 AF 00 00 00 DA 00 00 00 0C 0C 6C 61 79 6F 75 74 5F 77 69 64 74 68 00 0D 0D 6C 61 79 6F 75 74 5F 68 65 69 67 68 74 00 0B 0B 6F 72 69 65 6E 74 61 74 69 6F 6E 00 02 02 69 64 00 0A 0A 62 61 63 6B 67 72 6F 75 6E 64 00 09 09 66 6F 63 75 73 61 62 6C 65 00 09 09 63 6C 69 63 6B 61 62 6C 65 00 0C 0C 70 61 64 64 69 6E 67 52 69 67 68 74 00 07 07 61 6E 64 72 6F 69 64 00 2A 2A 68 74 74 70 3A 2F 2F 73 63 68 65 6D 61 73 2E 61 6E 64 72 6F 69 64 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 61 70 6B 2F 72 65 73 2F 61 6E 64 72 6F 69 64 00 00 00 00 0C 0C 4C 69 6E 65 61 72 4C 61 79 6F 75 74 00 28 28 63 6F 6D 2E 61 6E 64 72 6F 69 64 2E 73 65 72 76 65 72 2E 73 74 61 74 75 73 2E 4C 61 74 65 73 74 49 74 65 6D 56 69 65 77 00 04 04 56 69 65 77 00 00 00 00 80 01 08 00 28 00 00 00 F4 00 01 01 F5 00 01 01 C4 00 01 01 D0 00 01 01 D4 00 01 01 DA 00 01 01 E5 00 01 01 D8 00 01 01 00 01 10 00 18 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 02 01 10 00 60 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 0B 00 00 00 14 00 14 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 10 01 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 10 FF FF FF FF 09 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 05 02 41 00 00 02 01 10 00 B0 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 0C 00 00 00 14 00 14 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 01 02 00 02 01 09 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 01 8C 00 08 01 09 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 05 02 06 00 00 09 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 12 FF FF FF FF 09 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 12 FF FF FF FF 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 10 FF FF FF FF 09 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 05 02 40 00 00 03 01 10 00 18 00 00 00 0F 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 0C 00 00 00 02 01 10 00 60 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 0D 00 00 00 14 00 14 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 01 12 00 08 01 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 10 FF FF FF FF 09 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 05 02 01 00 00 03 01 10 00 18 00 00 00 15 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 0D 00 00 00 03 01 10 00 18 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 0B 00 00 00 01 01 10 00 18 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 08 00 00 00 09 00 00 00
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
Got it. It wasnt status_bar_latest_event.xml is was just the status_bar.xml file
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Corey@rabbit:
i thought that color was in the services.jar file... good to know
[Droid X Themes and Apps] Explodee:
I think services.jar covers the clock, date, and pull down menu. But the xml files in the layout folder are for notifications.
[Droid X Themes and Apps] will2live:
Thx for the Hex info Ghost & the file name Explodee.

I just edited my framework-res to get the white to display also like the OP was asking about and it worked like a charm
[Fascinate General] ibegary:
All the reviews are making me nervous... thank god for a return policy.

Give me a chance to root and see if I can remove all this bloatware, bing crap.

Such a pretty device too....
[Fascinate General] dmaustin:
ya no kidding huh?

I ordered a droid x almost 2 weeks ago and have been mulling over switching to the fascinate ever since. Apparently now I'll have to wait to receive my droid x and then bring it in and return it for the fascinate. Good thing it's coming tomorrow(they told me it would ship on the 13th).

I have no idea what to do. The fascinate looks great as far as specs go. It really just depends on how the custom roms are going to run on it, because there's no way I'm sticking with bing search and maps... EVERYONE has said it but it's just retarded!

Soo... the DX's bootloader is still locked. The Fascinate is "supposedly" completely unlocked. The DX is supposed to be getting Froyo anyday now right? And who knows when the Fascinate will get it... sometime this year huh?

I'm so tired of this stinky old Touch Pro 2 that I can't even check my twitter on anymore! I'm definately leaning towards trying the Fascinate. And I will DEFINATELY be rooting/hacking/overclocking to the fullest of it's capabilities. Sorry for going on.. I've had smartphones on my brain for the last week. At least most of ya'll understand what I'm going through.
[Fascinate General] Epell:
Just one week? I have been thinking about Fascinate for months (ever since it was announced)

I knew Bing would be default search engine but I never thought it would be the only search engine.

Here I was, getting a bit antsy thinking Google might turn evil after the net neutrality deal, but MS is still the evil lord of technology.
[Fascinate General] emplox:
First of all, the reviews (Gizmodo/Engadget/Droid Life) that were written about the Fascinate were all awful. Not a single one of them did the phone any justice, nor did they cover anything except how much they hated the fact that Bing was the only search engine and that TouchWiz has a lag issues and other problems. They never said anything about the hardware being superior to any other device vzw offers. There is no doubt that TouchWiz needs improving and that having only Bing is stupid. However this phone is awesome. The cpu/gpu/screen are all much better than the Droid X and the Droid 2 and the Droid Incredible. Once this thing is rooted and the ROMs start coming, it will be the king.
[Fascinate General] Epell:
"The phone hardware is pretty good!" -Gizmodo

"In terms of raw specs, the Fascinate looks lustworthy no matter how you slice it." -Engadget

"It has an amazing screen and specs to put many phones to shame..." -DroidLife

I'm pretty sure you were trolling though.
[Fascinate General] emplox:
Actually I wasn't. What you pasted is literally about all they wrote. They seem like they are trying to prove a point that they hate what they did with Bing, so you shouldn't buy the phone. I think Gizmodo went as far as saying if you want a Galaxy S phone you should switch carriers...

I just think the reviews were all terribly ignorant, and not really fair compared to some of the other reviews i've seen them do. I don't even know how you can compare this phone to a Droid Incredible at this point, it's far superior in every category with the exception that Sense UI is likely a bit better than TouchWiz.

This is one of my favorites:

"Camera: This actually started out in the “Good” section and as I continued through the review, it had to be moved. 5MP? Really? The picture quality of shots taken with the camera aren’t bad at all, but with the Incredible and Droid X both sporting 8MP beasts, you’ve got to come strong."

This guy is clearly clueless, and what he says makes no sense at all.
[Fascinate General] eleazar123:
"The phone hardware is pretty good!" -Gizmodo

lol, what a joke.

It's not trolling to say that the reviews aren't good. If he was trolling it would make more sense for him to be mocking the phone and saying it sucks. Instead he's saying the phone will likely be very popular even with all of the bad reviews.

Either way, imo the only good review is slash gear's b/c they gave a thorough in-depth review. Not a "lightning" review, not a quick overview, but a REAL review.

Now, let's get this back on topic.

I am not trusting any of the reviews at this point. I'll be picking up my fascinate tomorrow and I have high hopes and expectations.
[Fascinate General] badmf222:
I wonder if they said the same thing when they were giving glowing reviews to the iPhone 4. After all, it ONLY packs a 5mp camera as well. What a crock these people all are.
[Fascinate General] dr154:
This phone is only better by its screen type & gpu, both phones straight out the box, the droid x performance a hella alot better then the fascinate in some good ol benchmark test such as quadrant, its true it performance better at gpu benchmark of course because of the updated gpu inside it; but IMO Droid X is still better.
[Fascinate General] eleazar123:
Not to be nit-picky, but the Hummingbird CPU is superior to the Droid X snapdragon.

Just throwin' that out there.
[Fascinate General] vaxick:
Galaxy S phones stumble during the I/O test in Quadrant. People created a patch for it and the phone scores well above anything else.
[Fascinate General] ksizzle9:
Just throwin this out there, it has a OMAP which is also superior to the snapdragon. But yes once this ***** has some good custom roms it will b king, i playedneed for speed on it, OMG it was like better than my psp, no lie, can't wait, im on the way to the store to pick one up n less than a 2 hours, i couldn't even sleep last night im so stoked. Ill be keeping this one for awhile. The veibrant has a 1.6OC coming soon this phhone will b SWEET!!!!!
[Fascinate General] eleazar123:
lol, I'm with ya there. I just wish I didn't have to wait till after work. :(
[Fascinate General] kbcarroll:
I don't post here much, but I bought into the BOGO fascinate deal yesterday. I have been a WM nerd for years and was waiting for some decent WP7 devices before I upgraded from my TP2. I'm stuck on verizon, and it looks like there are no noteworthy WP7 launch devices. I also work for verizon, so I get an upgrade every 10 months. Figured I'd take a chance withandroid for the next 10 months to try the whole shebang.

Being a geek, I took one look at the specs and was impressed.

First: This is XDA. What does all this bing/touchwiz nonsense mean to us? The FIRST thing I do with any smartphone I get is root! Aren't the CNET/Amazon review boards for the people who can't get over these tiny carrier-specific idiosyncracies?

I keep reading the reviews as well--and most importantly the reviews in the user-submitted sections. The phone is getting absolutely flamed by people who don't even own it yet feel the need to rank it at a "1" on all levels because of Bing. Seriously?
[Fascinate General] spotmark:
I'm not worried about a thing. Once this phone is rooted, and I'm sure it won't take long, it's going to be a beast.:D
[Fascinate General] ibegary:
I got my fascinate this morning and it is a thing of beauty.

Unfortunately, I can use it yet. Verizon billing system is having issues in the Midwest and cant activate me yet. Atleast that's what their telling me.

But i'm having fun moving the puzzle piece around, haven't seen the word "BING" yet. :D
[Fascinate General] dr154:
Droid X doesn't even have a Snapdragon processor, its OMAP, there's a difference...

The point im making is that straight out of the box Droid X is clearly the winner of any phone out there but its ui, sure the samsumg probably have more result once its rooted, thats with any smartphone, kinda worry's me some of these people even come ova to xda...
[Fascinate General] Jodiuh:
The Fascinate felt a whole lot snappier and smooth to me vs the DROID X/2. I'm having a tough time deciding which to go with.
[Fascinate General] kbcarroll:
I work in a vzw call center. Droid x's everywhere. After playing with my fascinate, 2 coworkers are returning their X's for the fascinate. Rarely have I seen a device this well done.
[Fascinate General] Accused187:
+1, I too have returned my X for the Fascinate. My main gripe with the X was the hardware buttons (I just didn't like them personally). But after seeing the performance of the Fascinate I was sold (and it has haptic buttons :).
[Droid 2 General] ljbaumer:
http://forum.droid-life.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=160

someone check this out for me cause I would love to have a sense theme.

not sure if this theme only works with a sense phone but it sure looks like sense and a black status bar would be great on the droid 2.

thanks in advance,

ljbaumer
[Droid 2 General] ghostlypickel:
It will be soon ;)
[Droid 2 General] couga6442:
do we have a ballpark guess in time? because i would be very much interested in running this on a d2 as well =D
[HD2 General] gtb5:
Both Coreplayer and Windows Media cannot display Chinese Character for MP3 files, do I need to install some cab or any other way to solve? Thanks!
[HD2 General] ymtan:
just a suggestion

is your phone capable of reading chinese in other apps?

if not then you can try copying the fonts for chinese into your phone.

refer to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=711232

the paragraph in blue in the first post and see if it works.
[HD2 General] gtb5:
Thanks and problem solved after changing regional setting of computer.