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[Fascinate Themes and Apps] akaine2001:
Battery Usage tips.

I've been using Green Power from Gael systems or Gael software on the market, for over a month now. The point of using these types of programs are to turn off your mobile internet connection when you aren't using it. I just like the fact that it automatically turns on at set intervals (juice defender you have to buy the pro version for this feature). If you can learn to turn off your internet connection when your not using it, you don't need an app like this, this is why people never talk about it, its just a matter of preference, and convenience. You want your connection always on for google voice texting?? I do, but I'd rather get my msg 30 minutes later if i'm in the house with my family, or 15 minutes later (when it auto updates and turns on internet connection. Those minutes in between when the net connection is off is what saves the most battery. If you don't need the 3g or wifi connection, turn it off. And if you live in a bad signal area, like we do, using the wifi while the phone is idle and then using the 3g when your actually using the phone works best. Using the wifi to surf, etc. will kill your battery.

So using wifi n your house, turning off internet connections (and wifi) when not using it, and lowering screen brightness/dark themes, will work best. Even if you don't use a dark theme, with these steps, we usually have about 3 hours of screen on time, depending on how much net usage this might be lower. That equals out to, real world, about 10-14 hours before we need to get the charger. Yeah you can idle the phone for 3 or 4 more hours at 10 percent in good signal, but you can only use the phone a good 40 minutes, without making any calls, then it will be dead.

Aim for atleast 12 hours of normal usage (for you). That way, in an emergency situation, after you dip the police, you will have enough battery to turn the phone off and save the last little bit to call the homies to pick you up, call the wife/gf (no phone dead arguments), etc.

Also, letting the charge run down below 40 percent before putting it back on the charger, and sometimes letting it go to 5-below will keep the battery trained and remembering the 0 and 100 range. I did maaaaaaadddddd studying on xda about battery life on the Nexus one and i've applied these same techniques to have this battery life on the SF. I don't know how people idle at like 30 hours and whatnot, they must have full signal, but for me, this is what works.:cool:

I even have a thread on xda about battery life

here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7370179#post7370179
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] hrez2kx:
JD used to work great for me. I'm now on adryn's 12/30 kernel with supah clean DL09 and its giving me problems, mainly that my gmail is not coming through. I have to manually refresh the gmail app foir it to receive my mail. Anyone know why?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] mloc33:
I tried Green Power and it did`nt work for me, it kept turning my wifi on and off, so if I dont want something of I just turn it off! Simple, I dont need another program running in the back round to do it for me.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
Lol. It does a bit more than that. In addition to wifi it manages your entire data connection, keeping it off when not in use or when traffic isn't flowing. Basically the idea is if your screen is off the data only opens for one minute every ten to push.

That keeps your data connection off 90% of the time you aren't actively using it. That can be significant battery savings depending on your usage.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] akaine2001:
Exactly... I don't know how you couldn't have got that from what I said but maybe he didn't read it all...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] mloc33:
I find it hard to set these battery saving apps up, I have JD set up ages ago and all tough it said it increased my battery life by 1.5 times, I just did`nt see it.

It would be handy if there was a guide for both, I know that everyone uses there phones differently, but there has to be a default set of specs and from there people can tweak to there needs?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] mloc33:
I finally got JD in I had to enable default APN, I had the one that came with Darky`s ROM.....lets hope it saves my battery......

Is there a recommended set of settings I should stick with?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] sohlican:
The result that I needed is to Enable Wi-Fi and Disable Mobile Data when I am at home or office.

Below are my settings and I am not sure if it is correct.

Controls, Data WiFi(Preferred, Auto disable), AutoSync(Ping)

Keep on, WiFi

Schedules, Schedule 15m, Night 2am->6am

triggers, Battery 15%, Screen, Traffic 10KB/15s, 15s min

apps: Enable: eBuddy, fring, Internet.....

location, (My WiFi AP)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Dj-Dubster_TN:
It works great on my fascinate I bought the ultimate version and I used to only get about 4 hours of use, now I can get between 6-7 average with heavy usage, it especially helps when your battery gets to like 15% with this extreme setting on and light use 15% battery will go and hour or 2
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nickfury718:
JD works amazingly on my fascinate. I routinely get 12+ hours since installing, versus 6-8 hours before.

This is with moderate usage (some browsing, mostly on wi-fi, 15 or so phonecalls, sync and wifi on). The big difference between having this installed and not is the drain when the screen is off. There is virtually none. I'm talking 0-2% an hour, when I would previously lose 10% in an hour easily.

This is on a slightly undervolted overclocked Fascinate running @ 1.2 GHz using CommRom btw.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Terror_1:
I use CM 6.2 -100 kernel and can get around 22-30 hours without JD, I have noticed that the email client from stock android can eat battery. So I use k-9 instead and always turn off the screen when I am done with the phone.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Daswolven:
It works. Been a JD user since beta. It's a little buggy with the data on CDMA, but does save battery. I would recommend using it if you aren't a 3G all the time person, otherwise the delay gets annoying.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] obsidianchao:
I never personally noticed a big difference, but I also wouldn't let it throttle my data because I always use eBuddy messenger.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] shahud:
Works great for me and I'm not even using the paid version
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ellisz:
I have noticed a huge change in battery life since using this the last few days. I bought the .99 version as I thought it would allow apps to run even when JD has things shutdown. I get e-mails just fine when the screen is off but Weatherbug elite can't update no matter what I set it for. It alwas say "failed to load data, Tap to update"

Is there a trick for this? I did not have to do anything to K9 or Touchdown and they seem to work just fine.

Thanks
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Schnider:
I ran it on my droid x and now my fascinate. I love it I really saw an improvement in battery.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tapout27:
if you have the plus version go to customize then confirm that....go to settings tab, at the bottom under apps click enabled then under that hit configure apps

this will bring up the apps on your phone and allow you to enable, enable/screen off and disable them....for whatever apps you want to constantly poll data choose enable/screen off...that should do the trick

Hope that helps
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Breece:
Specially Elite Bug is not behaving with the built in android sync, thats why there are problems..

If you use the apps trigger for Elite bug data might be on constantly and you would not save a lot of juice, but try it...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ellisz:
I have tried the enable setting and enable with screen off. Does not seem to matter.

Breece: I am not sure what you are saying about how to fix it? Where is the apps trigger? Another option in JD?

Thanks
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] rwozniak:
It's worked for me...however I've uninstalled it for a couple of reasons. First, I think the battery savings estimates it comes up with are over stated. I'd guess I was getting 30-40% better battery even though it claimed more than double that. Second, the only way to really get anything signficant in saves is to have it shut down your GPS, 3G, WIFI etc which causes some really wierd results in some of the apps that expect a connection of some kind to be there on a regular basis. I was constantly having to turn radios back on manually (and sometimes even rebooting to get out of a wierd application error) when I needed to do just about anything useful with the phone.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] akaine2001:
Try SuperPower XDA

SuperPower XDA has been working pretty good. The 3g on off seems to not be as glitchy as JD (beta and regular) or Green Power. I'm gonna roll with it another day or so, but i was at like 18 h before the phone died today. Got my idle time back on ED01 w00t!

this was from using the batt stat wipe in cwm (and it not working) then using the su, bstats, method, which worked, obviously, 10 hour increase, same usage, something is weird with these phones' batteries i swear... my gf is still getting the di01 20+ hours if she doesnt use the phone. On eb01, using the su, bstat method to clear battery stats after full charge while phone off.

Good thing about this one is its light on mem, and also has root, so it can toggle background data (i hate having to do that all the time). Which really just blows JD and the other power protectors out the water since background data is the biggest drainer that people leave on (since market needs it).
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] rac1974:
I only use it when I won't have access to my charger like when I'm working. Today I took it off charge at 9:30am and when I got home at midnight I was at 48%. Made a few calls on speaker and did my normal texting and checking the weather and xda a few times. So if you ask me it works. I'm running Evil 3.5.1
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Breece:
What do you mean by "it has root" ? You mean it uses root? JD does that aswell, and toggles data in the background oO
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] stephenj37826:
I used both jd and super power. I just use smoda widget and turn it off when im not using my internet.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] ellisz:
What I have noticed is that when I am at work, I have wifi off and cell signal is excellent, I get amazing battery with JD running. On the weekend, wifi is on and cell signal is low, I get less than steller battery. It was worse without JD though. Wifi really seems to drain more on Froyo than on Eclair.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] geneblazer:
i'm trying to get to like juice Defender but not sure i understand the settings. Would you be able to tell me the settings that you use. or direct me to a web site that shows how to use J.D I have the paid app. Thanks for your help.
[Nexus One General] jabakken:
Does anyone know when Gameloft will be letting ATT Nexus One users buy more than 4 games. Is there a way to get it on to the Nexus One anyway?

Thanks
[Nexus One General] the_canuck:
wapshop.gameloft.com/wifi/tryandbuy

if you go through at&t, you wont see the games (probably some business deal between the two companies fell through or something), but if you go to gameloft directly through the link above, you'll see the HD games available for your phone.
[Nexus One General] nexus5894:
Sim card

Take the AT&T sim card out and connect over Wi-Fi, this removes all carrier restrictions to the Market on any Android phone that doesn't have a physically modified market app. Shame for CDMA phones that can't do this.
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
There are only 4 (5 including the free version of Asphalt HD) in my Market and I'm on Vodafone UK.
[Nexus One General] the_canuck:
a) don't get any non-HD versions of games for the nexus. they're awful ports of the generic versions they make for all other phones.

b) if you're going to get HD games, the better place to get them is at the link i posted: wapshop.gameloft.com/wifi/tryandbuy the games here are unlockable demos. that is, they're demos, but when you buy the full version (from inside the game), you don't have to download anything else, because the full game was on the apk that you downloaded, just locked down. the purchase that you do through the game is done directly with gameloft's shop.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] [Krueger]Dr.Stein:
good stuff

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/10/01/how-to-find-and-run-googles-car-home-app/

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/10/01/download-google-car-home-app/

if you cannot firgure out how to create a shortcut go here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8404454&postcount=9
[Droid X General] Oh_wow:
I started my android research 3 months ago. I've read nearly everything I could on a handful of websites like xda (and droid-life.com, droidxforums, androidforums, lifehacker, droidforums.net, howtogeek, androidpolice, mydroidworld and others) enough to be an expert lurker and terrified of being flamed.

After a little more than a week with my DX, I've rooted and survived the Froyo 2.2 OTA (forget the boogeyman--my new fear is the word "bricked"). For the last 5 days I've been too afraid to modify my phone at all after reading hundreds of horror stories (back to lurking again:o).

So, fear aside, I 'm looking for a simplified (what is it with the over-abundance of icons?) format that makes the phone more usable for me. I've been experimenting with Astro file manager and using Titanium backup to freeze apps but it's just not working for me.

So, with the plethora of posts out there from the last few days of what might or might not work, brick, or help...any recommendations on how I should proceed?

TIA
[Droid X General] citanes-26:
The RubiX rom is nearly blur-free and most of the bloat removed.
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
If you're gun shy, you can always just install Launcher Pro and hide them by selecting from the home screen, Menu -> Preferences -> General -> Hidden Apps
[Droid X General] Oh_wow:
Both of these are terrific options that I haven't seen in any posts--thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] e900_au:
Hello all,

Hopefully this is the right section to post this in.

I hope you can post questions about PDA not just PDA's with mobiles inside them.

I have a E900 tablet PC built by i think Menq. I think it is also called the b1701. It`s sold as a tablet PC.. but it really isn`t (Well not with how it is sold anyway). The copy of CE 6 that's on it is striped to the bone. There is no pocket anything.. no word , msn ect..

I was hoping maybe some one has found a way to install the missing apps onto this? The best bet would be a new rom image to load onto it.. But i doubt there is one. Have spent hours searching for one.. But nothing found.

I have followed the MSN / live messenger thread on here and tried to install the different versions. Most of them install to flash ok. But don`t run at all. Have tried running the "exe compatibility test" program.. there was afew versions. None of them run either. I`m not sure they will run on CE 6 anyway.

It runs a Samsung S3C2416XH-40 CPU. has 128 mb ram, 2 GB flash. 7" screen.

If any one has any ideas that would be great.

Thanks for your help.

D.
[Vibrant General] burntrat:
I recently found out that my phone is hardware locked. I hear that people are getting theirs replaced because it's a defect. I tried to explain this where I got my phone about a month ago. No dice. They called up T-Mobile and I could not get a new phone. How did everyone get a replacement? Also, did you get brand new ones or refurbs? Thanks.
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
Just call tmobile directly. Don't tell them you bought it from someone else. Pretend as if you night it from them. I have gotten mine replaced even though I bought it from else where. The key us to sound like you know what you're talking about and to be persistent. You may get a no can do answer but call again and you'll eventually get a rep that erl return it right away cause they don't know what else to do. Btw always say you have already done a factory reset before they try to get you to do it.
[Vibrant General] burntrat:
So I say that I already did a factory reset and want a replacement because I can't get into recovery mode?
[Vibrant General] ookas:
just call them up and say that you can't do a hard reset and that the phone is defective... go to the tmobile store, they are a dealership and are privately owned, not by tmobile, so most of the time they'll just laugh in your face... CALL them
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
I wouldn't mention recovery mode. Id mention something like gps not working and you need a phone with gps for your job and that you paid for a phone and it said it had gps when it doesn't work. But still mention that you have done numerous factory resets with no success. They'll send you another. I'm getting my third one and after 3 replacements you get a upgrade to something else or you can continue with your phone.
[Vibrant General] zephiK:
GPS isn't a "hardware" problem, its firmware related. Don't think that would work at all. They'll probably just redirect you to a new firmware update.
[Vibrant General] 1quickturbosix:
How can you tell if your phone is "hardware locked"?
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
Nah itll work cause I've gotten 2 replacements but saying that. Trust me I'd you get the right repo that doesn't know they will just replace it. Plus after saying you have done a factory reset they have no more troubleshooting steps on their script. Lol! Plus whether its hardware or software related the phone should work as advertised and if it doesn't then that's their fault
[Vibrant General] mentalex2:
I called tmo and told them I couldn't get into recovery using the vol up vol dow buttons and I want a replacement. The phone is supposed to be able to do this, therefore it is defective. They agreed and sent me a brand new phone. Recovery works flawlessly.
[Vibrant General] ookas:
told you that's all you had to do ;) i did the same... the newer replacement phones that they are now sending out aren't hardware locked anymore, they finally fixed the problem in QC
[Vibrant General] burntrat:
That is weird. How come the recovery mode thing didn't work the first time? I think they might ask me why I would want to get into recovery mode. What do I say?
[Vibrant General] vapotrini:
What about people who don't have contracts with them? Will they do it if I don't have a contract? That's highly doubtful.
[Vibrant General] burntrat:
I found out by trying to get into recovery mode. I followed a bunch of different methods and none of them worked.

Also:

So, I say I can't get into recovery mode and they'll agree to send me a new phone? When I send it back, do I do any kind of reset or leave it as is?
[Vibrant General] mmalott:
Yesterday, I fudged an install of a mod and got a bunch of TwLanuncher errors. My phone is hardware locked and after about an hour, Tmo decided to give me a new one. I simply told them and its true that I cant hard reset the phone. Only problem is that I cant flash back to stock either. Hope this isnt a problem...
[Vibrant General] PSP_Hacker:
Thanks everyone for posting this information, this will be very useful.

Was shipping free or not?
[Vibrant General] PSP_Hacker:
I don't think T-Mobile will bother to check the contents of your phone. They'll just send it back to Samsung. And if Samsung discovers that your phone has custom firmware, they probably won't care either because the transaction was done already.
[Vibrant General] PSP_Hacker:
That's what I want to know. They might ask why we want to enter recovery...
[Vibrant General] nomadrider123:
Someone correct me if I am wrong here. Simply tell them that you cant hard reset the phone.
[Vibrant General] Fuskand:
I think you guys are over estimating the technical-prowess of the T-Mob reps. They wouldn't know about 'recovery' modes, custom firmwares, or anything. Most of the time, they're gonna take what you say at face value; just go for the easy in. Just say your phone is hardware locked, unable to do factory resets, etc. and play dumb. You don't need to tell them about recoveries or custom roms. Pretend you're a technologically-impotent average consumer fer chrissakes.
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
Shipping is free unless you want express. But on your second replacement they ship it express for free
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
I have flex pay and they exchange mine with no problem every time. It doesn't matter if your in contact or not. If you bought thee phone full price or not the phone comes with a 1 year warranty and if you have php on your account tmobile is there for you. That's why they have great customer service.
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
Just wondering... Why have changed phones so many times?
[Vibrant General] joroboyvn:
I posted that in another thread, but that's what happened yesterday..

Both phones we have with my girlfriend are hardware locked or whatever you call it.

Went to T-Mobile store today and the sales person make note online about the issue. Than we contact the T-Mobile customer representative and they are sending us new phones. But she said that it's not guaranteed that the new ones won't have the same issue. So I'll keep trying until we got "working" phones.

There's also slight hope of Samsung or T-Mobile release firmware update to fix the issue. And just for the record I've tried every possible way to get into recovery/download mode, but non have worked :) So yes it's a known issue with the phone and T-Mobile are aware of it.. Otherwise I love my vibrant. .
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
Every vibrant I have had has had issues. My first one the buttons stopped working, second gps didn't work and I travel alot so I really need that and I just got my 3rd yesterday and this one is fine. But tmobile already told me I can you're at no additional charge to the g2 or another android phone of equal value if something else goes wrong.
[Vibrant General] mmalott:
$10 for like 5 business days and $20 for 2 or 3 was my choices.
[Vibrant General] vapotrini:
What I want to know is, if you return your phone will they 100% send you back a hardware unlocked one? Would hate to go through the whole process only to end up with the same locked phone.

Also, I read somewhere that people were now having problems unlocking vibrants. Anyone unlock one recently?
[Vibrant General] tornado76:
I just got mine replaced at a store today. I called Tmo last night and told them I couldn't get into recovery. She told me that they could replace it and gave me the shipping options and prices. I asked that the shipping chargers be waived since I didn't have the phone for more than 30 days and she agreed. She told me that she couldn't gaurantee a new one though.

I asked if I could go back to the store where I bought it and change it out for a brand new one and she actually called the store to find out for me. I was able to go to the store this morning and walked out with a new one that will boot into recovery.

I made them test it out and the first one they pulled out of the box booted into recovery with no problems. The guy working there did ask why I wanted to access recovery so bad, he asked if I wanted to flash it haha. I played dumb and said what this phone doesn't have a camera flash lol. I just said that I wanted to be able to fix it myself if the update goes bad.

FYI my understanding is that if you bought the phone outright and put it on a plan you already have and don't do an upgrade extension you have 30 days and not 14. That is what my reciept says under the return policy. The girl at the store didn't know that Tmo called for me last night and tried to say 14 days and I told her I bought it full price and my reciept says 30 days, she read it and went and got me a new phone.
[Vibrant General] mmalott:
No its not 100% if you get one hardware unlocked. But... as time goes on the chances are much better. Seems that the majority of the batch came from the August time frame. The farther we get from that date the less of a chance you get one odd unit thats been sitting somewhere for a while.