yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] vonh68:
I would prefer to legally own the movies, and Hulu was a great solution, but they shut down all mobile units a year ago. Although i heard that there is, or is soon to be an iphone app to watch hulu movies for a 10$ monthly fee. Which wouldnt be to bad, but again, im gonna need the damn iphone!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] vwood2121:
you can use hulu if you use skyfire web browser, plus skyfire is the best browser for flash.
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
Ive had spotty 3g at my house since i got my phone. Most ive seen is 2 bars. Noticed tonight i left my phone on table and came back and i had full bars with 3g.

Picked up phone like i always and hold with left hand it drops to 1 to no bars. So i hold the phone with right hand i get stronger signal, left hand weak...

Im guessing the antenna is on the left bottom side of the phone apparently covering it up drops my 3g signal significantly, going from full to no bars just by covering left corner ...anyone else?

Not really complaining because i still connect 3g fine but i do drop to edge allot if im in certain rooms and phone calls never drop just curious of maybe a solution or whatnot

I looked on youtube and found this but you dont have to hold phone like this. just palm it with left hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefQ4I2wOXs

And sorry if posted already i could find anything on this here
[Vibrant General] ram130:
Happens here too. Funny thing is that I have case on it. One thing those in the youtube comments are mixing up and not understanding is the signal strength. I wish they were more smart people in the world lol..

Anyway what I am getting at is that this happens with all Vibrants, it just depends on your current signal strength in dBm. For example, if I'm inside with around 4-5 bars, around -81dBm. Then when I grip it, the signal will go down by -20dBm or more resulting in two to three bar lost. Where as if I'm outside with around -51dBm and do the same thing. It will result in the same -20dBm but you won't notice it enough because the bars don't start to go down until around -89dBm or more.

* The lower the dBm, the better your signal.

* It was the same issue with Nexus One.

* The design of the phone is causing your hand to have more of an effect on it.

If anyone want to proove this case. Just get two Vibrants next to each other in the same area and do the hand thing.
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
Yea see i never noticed this with my N1 But yea what your saying makes scene.

Its not a big deal i still connect avr 1mbps with weak signal but found it odd
[Vibrant General] ram130:
Yea same here. I do admit the signal is even more sensitive than my n1 was though. Oh well I guess this is just one thing we have live it until a better phone comes again.
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
Shouldn't 2.2 come with an updated radio and if so maybe it will help
[Vibrant General] ram130:
It might make the radio use more power from my experience but this isn't a software issue. Though speaking of software, right now the dBm read out and bars are off by 5 or so dBm. So when we get the 2.2 update we should see the proper signal read out which will appear stronger and it should be more stable as well. Either way, our hands will still be able to affect the phone. Just like any other phone but more drastic with the Vibrant, N1 and iPhone 4.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
The bars are generally useless and I don't think it's really an issue unless it's actually dropping the signal. I have zero bars of 3G all the time, and I still get full speed. The difference between zero bars and zero signal is rather large, IMO.

If the signal attenuation from holding it causes you to drop 3G altogether, well, I feel for you. It's never happened to me, and I've done all kinds of grip experiments to see if I could make the signal attenuate.

To go on, the Vibrant has the best radio of any phone I've ever used. The test for me is whether I can hold signal in my building's elevator. Virtually every phone I've owned (and most all my friends' phones) dropped signal as soon as the doors closed or shortly after. Prior to my Vibrant, the champ was my Blackberry 8820, which could hold signal for about two floors before cutting out. The Vibrant? It may drop to EDGE, but I still hold some kind of signal all the way down, which is amazing.
[Vibrant General] eortizr:
That something I notice the first day I got the Vibrant , did not have that issue with other previous phone in the same spot... if I put the phone in a table it gets full bars.. once I pick up the phone it goes back to 2 bars... the only way I get full bars is if a hold the phone just from the bottom.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
I'm going to have a seizure if I see another one of these threads.

-81dBm is an obvious flaw and should be completely disregarded UNLESS you're off of JFD or anything based on JFD. This phones reported signal strength refreshes FAR more often than nearly all other Android phones on the market. Motorola on T-Mobile being the slowest to refresh any signal changes.

The bars are wrong and very inaccurate. Do a search. Update to JI2 or JI4.
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
Another one of what threads?

Cut me some slack i rarely ask questions here and no one force you to click on this thread... but i do appreciate the info you gave.

Only thing i noticed when I went threw your post history is you replying to this question with threads with topic names not related to this problem.

And if you read my first post you would have seen

and

... thanks for the info guys
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdill3000:
So This is Quite Odd....Not Only Is FB not synching but i have to go one by one in Contacts----> history..and then select ah friend and then add friend and THEN and ONLY THEN is the contact synced :confused: but.....here is the confusing part in History when i hit Menu and selct "View by" and check off Facebook....i see NOTHING.... but......wen i select Myspace it shows all the Facebook history...:eek::confused: and when i check off Myspace only my FB history shows:confused::confused: i am Thoroughly Confused:confused::confused::confused:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinoiryder:
have you tried removing the account and adding it again? that help me before..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdill3000:
yea i tried that....Nothing has seemed to work for me...the adding one by one thing is the ONLY way that seems to work for me :( but "get friends" nothing seems to work at all
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinoiryder:
this might ba stupid question but simples thing are always missed.. have you configure your facebook to sync contacts?

go to your apps.. select Account and Sync.. select the facebook acount and see if you have sync contacts check..

I also heard that FB was total shutdown for four hours yesterday.. this might cause the problem to..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2sh0rt:
Not trying to hijack this thread but i too have a question regarding FB...

Anyone know of a way to have more than one FB account on their phone?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] collin_ph:
In case you don't already know, this script is written for CM6 roms, but has been ported to many others. The main purpose is to increase battery life and performance of the phone it's running on.

To install, simply download the file in the link below, copy it to your SD card, reboot into recovery and flash it.

As always, the latest version still can get around 24+ hours of battery life with normal usage under CM6 on a HTC Hero.

I only test this tweak on the Hero CDMA, but it's possible that it works on other phones. I really do expect that this will be the last version of V3 and will become "final" one we've verified that it works on all phones.

New features:

Allows disk scheduler changes for even faster disk access.

CFS Tweak (disabled by default) modified to play nicer with GPS.

Collin_ph Battery Tweak v3 RC2: http://www.primoweb.com/froyo/collin_ph_battery_tweak_v3_rc2.zip

Documentation: http://www.primoweb.com/froyo/battery_tweak_v3.html

Please check the doc page often as I've not yet updated the battery tweak from other versions yet.

Please note, if you're new, there is a lot of features that aren't covered here, such as the ability to configure nearly every tweak within battery tweak, so PLEASE check out the docs. If you have any questions please let me know. Thanks!

Thanks to:

Decad3nce for porting rc1 to the eris, and for working with me to develop this release.

Tomatosoup for helping work on the next release which will be called tweaktool.

There's not much there now, but keep your eyes peeled on tweaktool.com -- once that tool is available, it should work on many more phones and be available on the market.

NOTE: Several users have let me know that they are getting marked improved performance by changing the scheduler from "ondemand" to "interactive" through the custom settings. The "ondemand" scheduler is the default in RC2, but will most likely be replaced with the "interactive" scheduler in the final release. You may consider choosing a custom option at this point and changing the scheduler to "interactive". I'd appreciate any input you may have on this subject.

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By the way, I'm saving up to take my kids to see the last launch of the space shuttle Discovery on November 1st. If you like and use the tweak, please consider donating using the following link:

Or at least upvote my reddit thread :-)

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk53y/garage_sale_to_support_taking_my_kids_to_see_the/
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ganja5000:
WEWT!!

wewt! you the man
[Hero CDMA Android Development] tubazeppelin:
Thanks so much! I'll give this a shot on ZenEXP tonight and let you know how my battery does tomorrow.

So in this update do I still have to run batt-cfg to get everything set up? Also, can I check if it's working the same way? (pidoff bat.sh?)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] collin_ph:
You don't have to run batt-cfg, it should run as is unless you want to tweak the settings. and the command to check if it is working is pidof batt.sh
[Hero CDMA Android Development] wardfan220:
Love the battery life I get with you battery tweak. Just installed the rc2, thanks for the awesome work.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Macanage:
Having problems with the link. Anyone else?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] PTown599:
Nope, just d/l'd.

Thanks for this collin_ph
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Jon.StatiK:
Says its down for me.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Macanage:
The Xda "App" on the phone does not show the attached zip that is at the bottom of the forum post.

Probably will have to go to Xda via the browser.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] livelikealegend:
Says down for me also

OOPS Another d/l link at the bottom of the post
[Hero CDMA Android Development] collin_ph:
Sorry about the site being down folks, had a problem with the server. It's back up and running, luckily I had attached the file to the thread. Sorry for the inconvenience.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
bump. 10char
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dean.d:
Works great with cm6 stable. Definitely my preference over setcpu or OC widget. Thanks alot.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] nspot:
So I was looking through the batt.sh code and saw that swapiness was set to 0. Does this imply that paging in/out drains battery?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] feefeeboomboom:
Is there any typos in this release? lol jk.. but really
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dirkyd3rk:
Is using this tweak with the #14 uncapped kernel ok? should i delete setcpu, before i flashed this tweak i was getting 4.8 linpack after install it went to 3.9 what am i doing wrong lol
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Make sure you delete set CPU if you're using this tweak. They don't work well together.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] nspot:
After going over the script code, I noticed that the governor is set to "ondemand". Does that provide better battery life than "interactive"? Also, what is the purpose of the disk tweaks? When they were enabled, my battery life was horrible. Perhaps because I use Darktremor's A2SD?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
IMO, it really depends on your use.

If you use very intensive applications, you'd want your processor to jump to max right away(ondemand). But lets say that you just unlock your screen to send a quick text, interactive would be a lot better.

Interactive, overall, will always have better battery life. The problem is that it sometimes 'sticks' to the min freq before ramping, making garbage collection crap out something fierce.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] nspot:
I see. I can't say I've noticed the slow ramp-up with "interactive" before, but the note about garbage collection makes sense. But going back to my earlier question, I noticed that the disk tweaks simply amounted to mounting certain directories to new locations. Still unclear on how these increase performance/battery life.

As an aside, the dalvik VM heap parameter is equivalent to the JVM heap, correct?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] collin_ph:
Interesting concept. I haven't gotten to play with this on a phone yet, but do your cat statements simply hang until the state changes (I.E. not looping infinitely while waiting)? The newer version of Battery Tweak (called TweakTool) has very similar features, however, by default, the speed is not controlled by the screen.

I'll let you know what I find out in testing. Great work. Could easily put in your method of screen switching as an option in the existing battery tweak. Thanks.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ahmadshawki:
Help me please, got an error...

I get:

E:Can't chown/mod /system/bin/batt.sh

(No such file or directory)

E:Failure at line 7: set_perm 0 2000 0755 SYSTEM:bin/

Installation aborted.

I'm using the latest CM6.1 stable mod. Is there anything wrong with my phone, or may be it is still incompatible with the 6.1 version?

So, is there anything I can do, or should I just wait for the new release?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Yes you can :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Is tweaktool out yet?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ch33kybutt:
Here's adb shell output of the process in lockscreen mode ...

# pidof 98ssswitch
pidof 98ssswitch
2004
# strace -p2004
strace -p2004
Process 2004 attached - interrupt to quit
read(3,

and it waits until screen is unlocked and then ...

read(3, "awake", 128) = 5
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
read(3, "", 128) = 0
close(3) = 0
getpgid(0) = 1914
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 3728
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], []) = 0
fork() = 4683
getpgid(0) = 1914
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 4683
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], []) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], []) = 0
fcntl64(1, F_DUPFD, 10) = 10
close(1) = 0
open("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 1
write(1, "ondemand\n", 9) = 9
close(1) = 0
fcntl64(10, F_DUPFD, 1) = 1
close(10) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], []) = 0
fcntl64(1, F_DUPFD, 10) = 10
close(1) = 0

and continues to change parameters and then goes back to wait-state ...

--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], []) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
fork() = 4747
close(4) = 0
read(3,

until next state-change.

So it saves even more battery without having to poll continuously. And the added benefit of being able to be run on most ROMs, without prerequisite of init.local.rc functionality.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] aiwetir:
nevermind..
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SgtUSMC:
So I installed this last night and so far this morning I've had 2 reboots and the xda app is having fc issues... is this related?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Derangedpony:
I run your tweak on my Hero with the latest aosp 2.2 and love it. I know that a task killer shouldn't be needed but with this tweak and Advanced Task Killer for Froyo, my battery is around 60% when I plug it in for the night. Thanks!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] texas_ex:
Amazing stuff! Thank you for all your efforts. Now I don't have to have a charger everywhere I go. I appreciate it!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] hardhead808:
HEEELLPPP

i have a bad number of 5017 4960. I had the older version before and that nvere happened. I did the pidof batt thing and those numbers popped up.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] godiZFICTION:
The battery life I have gotten from this is crazy. Thanks for your hard work

Sent from my aM9 hero.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SimranSingh:
So all I do is install the zip in my recovery and I'm done ?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] godiZFICTION:
Do that. Then go to terminal and type su and hit enter. Next type batt-cfg to open the settings.

Sent from my aM9 hero.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] alexdemonumber3:
The reason you keep getting reboots and FC's is because this battery tweak's default settings over your hero's processor to about 768000mhz. That's an unstable speed and will cause crashes often. Set your overclock frequency to 748800mhz (Max) and that should be stable, at least its always stable for Me.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
691 is universally stable on the hero :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SgtUSMC:
Thanks guys...I'd use the thanks button but I don't rate it yet on this screen name. I set the 691 profile and haven't had problems since. Battery life is much improved... thanks for the hard work.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SGTSTEW75:
SEMPER FI DEVIL

Sent from a wise ass Marine, who swapped his moment for a froyo'd hero! Now whos the dummy!!!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pyropup55:
Stupid question, how soon should I see results? I did this last night, took my phone of the charger around 1pm and under very little use my phone was dead around 9pm. Do I need to recalibrate the battery stats?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] phillyman02:
check battey usage in spare parts, could be a app thats not allowing the phone to sleep etc.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pyropup55:
The only thing I could see that it might have been was facebook with a partial waketime of like 30, I'm assuming it's that, what's the fix for it?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] phillyman02:
What does "other usage" say? Whats your "running" percentage?

Do you you have facebook refreshing at high intervals? I set mine to "never" and just have it refresh whenever I open the app. Its actually the best way to set all apps for battery life.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] roksoc:
I have also had bad luck with this tweak. It seems to make my phone sluggish and the battery drain real fast. I am running CM6. I notice that when I flashed this tweak for some reason when I look at my battery usage it would show some ADW activity event hough I am running Launcherpro and when I disable the tweak these are no longer there. not sure how I can help you diagnose what is happening with me but please let me know because I would really like to have an absurd amount of battery life like others here are experiencing
[Hero CDMA Android Development] aiwetir:
ADW is built into cm, you would have to manually uninstall it to have it not s show up. Try switching between interactive and ondemand via batt-cfg option 3

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Actually all you have to do is uninstall it with titanium backup :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] aiwetir:
Assuming they have it.

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Well it's not that hard to download, it is free ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] roksoc:
changed it to interactive and removed adw. phone seems to be running like stock cm6 as for battery life I guess I'll have to wait and see. Thanks!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
No problem, glad you got it! :)

Sent from a truly Epic phone!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] roksoc:
Something isn't right. after 5 hours I am down to 50% battery and when I check my usages my display shows 44% and the time on is only 18m. Under Voice calls it shows 14% and only 4min of usage. I am using the battery that came with the phone not some knock off. Any thoughts?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Those percentages are only for the percent of battery that it's used... that doesn't mean that the display has eaten 44% of your battery, it simply means that out of your battery gone, 44% is due to the display.... did that make any sense? :p :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] roksoc:
haha got it. but that still means that around 20% of my battery was used up on less that 20 minutes of having the display on. That seems very high.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Yeah that is high.... perhaps try recalibrating the battery?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] roksoc:
How does one do that? Is it just wiping battery in Recovery?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Here's the proper steps:

Charge phone to 100%

Boot into recovery

Wipe battery stats

Unplug and boot up

Use phone until it dies and runs out of battery

Charge up again to 100%

Repeat step 5 about 2-3 times, and you're good :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] roksoc:
Thanks for all the help. you'll be seeing some paypal love this coming week.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
No problem, and thank you so much, I really appreciate that! :) I'd give you a thanks, but I've already used 5 :o :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] heroid007:
AOSP Gingerbread?

Can one use this tweak for Gingerbread ROM (0.1.2) by AOSP?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Hmm..... not sure on 2.3 ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] 24601:
There are some using the tweak on 0.1.2, but the jury is still out on if it is useful. Too early to tell, especially since 0.1.2 is still unstable.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
It'll probably work, but yeah it may not work well ;) :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] aplacetorest:
i flashed this....but i dont see it in my app drawer. how do i change settings on it?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
It doesn't go in the app drawer. You configure in terminal emulator. Type

su

batt-cfg

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Sent from my Sprint SuperHero.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thefatrat:
same issue

What were the results from this? I am not seeing battery improvement either and am having trouble charging. When is the best time to run 'batt-diag -v' to get the info you need?

CMDA Hero

Rom:CyanogenMod-6.1.0-Heroc (stable from december)

Kernel:2.6.29.6-Uncapped adnan@decad3nce #43 (i'm guessing this is the issue)

UPDATE: I reflashed CM and I'm back on Kernel- 2.6.29.6-cyanogenmod ameer@darchstar #3. We'll see if this helps.

UPDATE 2: No change in battery usage with different kernel. still almost dead after 9 hours and limited usage. (couple phone calls, txts, no browser, no music, some hourly syncing) any help out there?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Not supposed to be in the app drawer ;) :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] killacammiami:
wat mhz should i use? or wat should i do after i install this?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Open terminal emulator

Type this in:

su
batt-cfg

Configure as you like! :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
can i use this on liquidsense 2.1 oxed?

is it working for sense roms?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] collin_ph:
It does not appear in the app drawer. Think of it more like a kernel update (although it really is not). The configuration utility is accessible through the terminal by typing batt-cfg -- for more info, check out the documentation at www.primoweb.com/froyo
[Hero CDMA Android Development] collin_ph:
Unfortunately, I do not know, Best way to try is to install it, then after booting, go to terminal and type

pidof batt.sh

if you get a number response, then there's a good chance that it's working.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
I think you can, it should be fine :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] collin_ph:
It will definitely work on Sense roms, mainly they just need to support a overclockable kernel.