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[Epic 4G General] icantdrawanime:
Those of you having battery life troubles, I suggest reflashing the latest update with a full factory reset/cache wipe.

I was getting terrible battery life (10 hours with light usage) before this and I pinned the bulk of my battery troubles on the 50% Time without signal that I was getting. Well, yesterday I reflashed my phone and wiped everything because I was going to a deodexed rom. I noticed after reflashing that my time without signal had dropped to 0. So I went the tedious route and didnt restore any of my apps from titanium backup.

As of the time of this post, I've had my phone off the charger for 7 hours with the same usage and I have 74% of my battery left.

My phone is rooted and I removed the DRM apks like it suggests in the dev forum.

Best of luck =)

Edit: It should be noted that I was on wifi for about 2:30 of those 7 hours and I dont have the undervolted kernel installed... yet
[Epic 4G General] Demianwulf:
Just curious...How many hours do you get now?
[Epic 4G General] herbthehammer:
I've said this before. When I really started using the smartphones I've had, I found myself firing up the laptop less. About the only thing lately I've used the laptop for is torrents and watching movies or HD TV episodes. I'm about half way through the first season of stargate universe. Sometimes it's a real pain in the ass to type stuff in forms or forums on the phone so I use the lap for that too.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] tacc:
Following situation:

I used Outlook to get my E-Mails (2 different addresses) and used ActiveSync to get them on my Diamond2. It created an Account called "Outlook" and stored them there.

Now I have mobile Internet and wanted my Smartphone to download them. It looked like it wasn't possible to somehow add them to the already existing "Outlook" account. So I created one account for each address.

What I didn't notice was that it automatically choose IMAP. But IMAP is only available for premium users or whatever. But somehow it managed to download a few E-Mails every now and then. It stored every E-Mail in its own account. And when I connected my Diamond2 to the PC and it started syncing and the E-Mails disappeared from their accounts and reappeared in "Outlook".

So basically:

"Outlook" contained all E-Mails and the other 2 accounts contained all E-Mails that my Diamond2 downloaded since the last sync.

Now I noticed the IMAP mistake and set it to POP3. Problem is that with a free acccount you can only check for Mails every 15 Minutes. So I decided to let my Smartphone do all the E-Mail downloading from now on. Problem is that now all Mails stay in their own account. They don't end up in "Outlook" and don't get synced to Outlook either.

I'd just delete all Accounts and try something else. But first I need those Mails get synced to Outlook.

Everything is kind of weird so I just wnated to ask if somebody has a idea.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smac7:
okay, i rooted my evo quite some time ago so havnt had to think about this for a while. i need to take in my evo due to faulty hardware (the power button is sticky) but i wanted to make sure once i got my replacement i could root it. i cant seem to figure out if 3.29.651.5 is rooted yet? does unrevoked 3.21 work with this OTA? i dont know if it will come with this firmware but i hear sometimes the techs will update the phone before they hand it over.

also, to unroot my current evo, does this method still work? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780141&highlight=wipe

any other tips would be appreciated.

EDIT: come to think, has 3.29.651.5 even been released yet? i feel like my evo has had it for a month.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
Yeah Unrevoked works just fine for the latest OTA so you should have no problems there.

I do believe that that unroot method works, but I haven't tried it myself so I can't give you a definitive answer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smac7:
thanks. im in the middle of unrooting right now. seems to be working so far.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrapkgb:
Were there any problems unrooting for you? I want to root and have the OTA 3.29 however before I do I just want to make sure we are able to unroot the same as 3.26 without any probs... any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dom085:
Just rooted another EVO that was on 3.29. No hiccups. Everything went smoothly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mizzos4:
Are there new evos with 3.29.651.5 pre-installed right now? My friend just got his yesterday and it was still on a previous build.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
yes there are quite a few and sometimes they update your software at the store for you prior to giving it too you..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnythan:
I got mine at an affiliate store on 9/29 and it had 3.29.651.5 preinstalled.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrk13s:
Hi Everyone,

is it just me or since flashing your phone battery life is not that long?

i own x10a, i running not timescene stuff all wifi, gmail, email is all turned off. I just run the bare minimum hardly place games. use it to only text message and make calls and i just fully charged my phone last night and now it already used 1/4 of the battery from 5 text messages this morning. the phone is brand new. just got it last thursday. any ideas?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devein:
- reduce display brightness and time to turn off

- disable power-hungry features (wifi, gps, bluetooth, even gsm at certain time) - you can do that automatically using tasker and his 'wifi near', 'gsm cell near' action contexts

- use SetCPU to dynamically scale processor speed, it is probably enabled by default but setcpu gives you a way to configure it. rooting needed.

also, reducing cpu usage can help reduce battery usage:

- edit autostart and disable programs that you dont need to have in memory (for example, i dont know why titanium backup places in the autostart and is loaded, and no feature of it is needed for me in realtime so i disabled it)

- task killers can *probably* help by automatically cleaning up programs that reside in memory after using them. i think that some poorly written apps can use CPU even in background and even when they do nothing ;)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrk13s:
hi thanks for the reply, yes i now notice when i reduced my brightness it has stoped chewing battery. when i get SetCPU will that allow me to configured the autostart application on my xperia x10?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devein:
i dont really know what you mean.

SetCPU sets cpu clock downsteping on specified profiles (for example display off - set cpu 284 mhz to 384 mhz)

Autostart managers allow removing programs that put themselves on autostart, like on ms windows you know ;) . of course you can always launch them later with your touch ;) )

type "autostart" on android market to browse and see what they can do.

SetCPU is either on market or XDA x10 forums - use forum search.

good luck! :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrk13s:
Hi Devein,

sorry i am still having an issue with this application i power up the app and asks me to select my phone, i select auto detec because my phone is not listed, then it has a green scroll bar in the middle, i do not know how to setup profiles. and set this autostart manager you talk about.

thanks.

I figured it out thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devein:
No problem: D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrk13s:
i am really disappointed though with the battery life of the x10. such an short battery life compared to what was stated.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_iceman:
Something weird has happened to my phone.. I was getting easily 16 hours off 60% charge.. then in the last 3-4 days it's dive bombing.. I'm down to 63% remaining from full charge after 5 hours... and haven't used it a lot..

Tried removing any new apps I've installed this week.. and also switched mobile data off as I've noticed that I've started getting a weak 3G signal at home and thought this might be the problem.. but doesn't seem to have slowed it down..

I'm on R2BA026 and not rooted.. I've not changed anything else..

Tempted to do a FDR it's that bad.. but I know that I'll get the 2.1 update in the next 2 weeks so really don't want to have to go through the pain of setting it all up again and then have to do it again when 2.1 lands!

The problem seems to have started when I did a test of using Moxier to get Hotmail Push.. but I've got rid of that now, and have cleared all the moxier data..

Confused!. Anyone?

(EDIT - Fixed it - for some reason Moxier still had data in it.. so deleted the data within App management and it's been ok since)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] citsym:
Check out my tutorial on getting the most out of Xperia X10 battery.

Most of the things have already been pointed out above. But, you still might come across a few tips not covered here in my tutorial.

As with iceman, most of the time it's some naughty app that causes all the trouble.
[EVO 4G General] IPvFletch:
I did unrEVOked 3.21 and applied OMJ's 2.2 netarchy kernel ROM.

I am not sure what my battery life was at this point but I was now on 2.2 after using eclair 2.1 for so long.

I wanted to go to the new stock kernel so reupdated to OMJ's stock kernel 2.2 ROM. I also added back the Sprint TV Widget.

Ever since, I have noticed a MAJOR drop in battery life. I usually get 30-40 hours on a single charge. Now I'm down to about 10. It is REALLY screwed up.

I have CWM backups of all of the phases, including my 2.1 ROM.

I might experiment rolling back if nobody else has any better ideas on how to debug?

I am using ATK but I make ATK kill itself so it is only there to help me kill procs. I noticed QIK and FRING seem to run all the time now whereas they didn't before I updated them. Not sure if that is related. TOP app shows me nothing special but system_server taking up most of the CPU like maybe 6% peaking while idling. Otherwise I just can't figure it out!! I used to be the one bragging about how awesome my battery has been (running original OTA1 which let me still use unrEVOked 1.0 to get simple root all this time). I am finally on 2.2 and I'm disappointed with battery life now. WiFi is WAY better but that is about it. :\ My Nexus One does not suffer from 2.2 battery blues.. It is doing great!
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
Same here, I upgraded last week from ota1 to stock 2.2 with unrevoked and battery life OS alot less. I also have the same problem as you with apps continually being restarted even though I killed them or force stop. I installed autostarts to help control apps when system events occur, which helps.
[EVO 4G General] IPvFletch:
If I backup with TB and do a wipe/flash to some other ROM you think I could just restore from TB and be up and running again?
[EVO 4G General] fitz62:
Yes. That's how I go between Roms. TB just restores apps. The free version forces u to click install for each app. The donate version is one click install.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
I've tried a lot of android builds whilst the development has been going on and found that Bangster's 1.4 coupled with Michy's R11 was the best for me with regard to screen sensitivity and keyboard accuracy.

I recently had a dabble with m-deejay's next-gen builds Desire HD/Z etc (which are excellent by the way, credit to him), and found that I was getting a lot of screen bounce, missed button presses and a very frustating keyboard experience (Hastarin R7.1). Pressing and holding the delete key for example would result in keypresses bouncing all over the place, sometimes several keys removed from the delete key. I tried a plain Froyo Sense build and found the same thing, although not quite as bad.

So, I decided to try the bare kernel from Michyprima's R11 (AXI, Desire, OC) on my current Froyo Desire build just to see if it was down to the kernal 100%. Instant bounce removal... keyboard is accurate and now when I press & hold on the home screen, I don't get the screen wobbling from side to side as the software thinks that I'm moving my finger around rapidly.

To recap; it seems like I was getting more bounce with Hastarin's R7.1 than any other, but certainly Michy's R11 (Desire based) is making my phone usable again. It really was bad before.

More messing required methinks... I may re-load the Desire Z build on to my SD card and try R11 to see what it's like. One thing I remember is whilst trying m-deejay's Desire HD 3.1 (which had an Evo kernel IIRC), keyboard bounce was almost non-existant. It wasn't until I changed to D-HD 3.3 that the keyboard became a pain to use (Hastarin R7.1).

Hastarin if you read this, please note this is by no means a dig, I have the greatest respect for all the guys posting builds here, these are just my obvservations.

As with all things Android/HD2 related, YMMV. Your thoughts are welcome.

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Edit: I've taken a couple of quick videos of m-deejay's brand new 3.4 Desire HD build showing this phenomenon (kernal is huanyu's #21). Replacing the zImage with Michy's R11 virtually eliminates it.

Video 1 - homescreen

Video 2 - keyboard

Could this be Windows ROM related? Might flash another WinMo ROM to see if it's any different.

Edit 2 Sent my HD2 back to HTC today, hopefully for TS replacement... see relevant post here.

Edit 3 Received my HD2 back from HTC's repair department. Problem fixed. No more bouncing :) Relevant post here.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
No-one else with similar experiences?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] burpingboy:
Me too!

previously was using M-deejay's froyo sense 2.2 and the keyboard was a great improvement from my old stock HD2 Windows keyboard, which was oversensitive and jumps alot, making typing a hassle. I did not have any problems with the froyo sense 2.2 keyboard, it was accurate and sufficiently responsive, and even have my essential chinese input.

However, after the 2.4 version was released, i updated it, and noted that the browser's bookmark crashes. So i though, why not give EVO Sense 1.6 a try?

Btw, i did not realise any problems with the 2.4 keyboard, so it's probably as good as the 2.2 version.

Then i ran EVO sense 1.6, and i feel that the keyboard is different. Firstly it's the additional arrow buttons below, which is useful, and more like the original HD2's keyboard. Then it also has chinese input.

BUT i experience alot of the "bouncing" problems, if not more than my original HD2 windows rom. tried calibrating a few times, and deleting the calibration, but it doesn't help.

i want to emphasize again i am very grateful to all the developers like M-deejay, Hastarin, for developing all these builds that are effectively working. this is likewise, just my observation.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
Anyone else? I can't believe it's just us two!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
Videos added to 1st post.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jaka.erc:
I tried to replicate your problem (m-deejay's Desire HD 3.4) but I coulnd't. I also thinkg that the keyboarad its not as accurate as some of the builds but its not that bad as yours.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JanssoN:
I'm sorry to say but the lag with the keyboard kinda looks funny :D

My keyboard isn't very accurate too. Sometimes it just takes the wrong key. I mean when I press the backslash it takes "m" or something although i was pressing backslash. This was on Hastarin 4.1.

But it really seems to be kernel related. With the r11 my keyboard is okay.

I don't think is caused by the WM ROM, but which one do you use?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] anoschka666:
have the same prob!;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] muzicman0:
yep...and I get phantom touches also.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
What WinMo ROM are you running?

CleanEx DsE GTX 6.5.x

Try changing your zImage to Michyprima's R11 and post your findings :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] coolbeer1990:
OK ! very common HD2 touchscreen failure! ...ur touchscreen is defective ....there are many threads already on xda regarding this ...but could not be solved because this is a hardware problem ...this even happens in winmo ! here are the youtube videos having same problem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhrA3u4rcI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rJJ1eyM9FM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEHn9CaHFpk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY60I9Z0RU0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSvAlqw6HJw&feature=more_related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIE_wV4djs&feature=more_related

and here is my thread about this in detail - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=745255

so , the conclusion is ...u have to get ur screen replaced under warranty ....i had the same problem with my hd2 ...and i got so pissed ...so get ur screen changed and that is the only solution !

hope that helps -

cheers

coolbeer1990 :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sp33dy_gtx:
Got it to but not in my homescreen. When I am typing with swype ... When I try to delete a word it will write 10 :X nice feature but its really anoying. But lets wait I thing dev know about it let wait for nand and the bother them with this. I heard It is a long way to nand :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
Thanks for your reply. However, my screen isn't defective as I don't have this problem in Windows and using a different kernel fixes it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] coolbeer1990:
that's great my friend :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] white-energy:
Well.. i have the same thing in hastarins latest kernel :confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
I dont have this on DesireZ out the box.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dino_Donis:
I have MDeejay's latest Desire HD build and have this problem, how do I fix it? If I need to replace the Kernel how do I do it? What side effects will it have?

Thanks in advance
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bountygiver:
keyboard bounce also experienced by me when i am trying to type fast, using hastrin r7.1 as well, maybe is caused by the touchscreen delay?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ginjopowder:
have you tried keyboard calibration?

in the setting menu ..

it ask you to type that ..lazy brown fox jumps..

it helps me alot.. well some of it i guess

and also try the schrub bartome build. the keyboard is perfect-iphone like. im using this build for day use
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rkalas:
I experience the same issue with the new kernel releases. But with hastarin #3 the touchscreen works normally.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] :
i get this too, if i type too fast random characters start being pressed
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
I gave coolbeer1990's post some more thought and decided to look further into the Windows performance of my screen. I haven't used WM since there've been usable Android builds available and so had forgotten that I used to get bounce there too, just to a lesser degree. I've since revisited Windows and can confirm that coolbeer1990's assessment was correct. I have a knackered touchscreen. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it's probably been defective since the day I bought the phone brand new and have just been working round it with sensitivity reducing settings, etc.

It seems that the kernal derivitive has a massive effect on screen sensitivity. So much so, that Michyprima's R11 virtually elimited my bounce even though my screen is clearly defective.

I sent my phone back to HTC today, hopefully for a TS replacement. It has a month of manufacturer's warranty remaining ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] g2tl:
I have the same issue, but unfortunately cannot have the screen replaced without paying a fortune :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] g2tl:
And here's the fix!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8645568&postcount=912
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
That is not a fix for the problem being discussed in this thread.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] memin1857:
It is the fix. The scrolling lag fix also fixes the keyboard bounce. Try the hastarin 7.5 kernel.

It is discussed here, people mention keyboard too:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=809839
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Mikenif:
hastarins 7.5 kernel also solved it for me
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] coolbeer1990:
i told u na brother ! thank god u got it right ! and after the replacement TS will be perfect ! cheers!!!! :)

coolbeer1990
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Major_Sarcasm:
And... you were right. I have just received my HD2 back from HTC. All screen bounce/wobble in WinMob is gone, when pressing on the screen I can't draw crazy lines all over it in the Notes app anymore and the Sense slider actually selects the tab I wanted instead of one or two either side.

I've just loaded a fresh Android build on to it (mdeejay's rEVOlution 2.2 with Hastarin's r7.7 kernel) and everything is hunky-dory.

Problem solved it seems. Anyone else who's phone is still under warranty and has bounce issues, send it back to HTC ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] benchbench:
Hey there,

I cant install an app ( .apk is on sd card and not available on the market) so the normal workaround is to unmount sd and install app from market ...in my case not possible. If sd is unmounted my file explorer logically cant find apk to install.. ideas? :)

Thx
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] asctony:
I posted on this and others have too. What I do if it will not install I go back to WM, copy from PC to SD Card. Then boot up Android and you should be able to install.

Here is the link to my posting on this subject.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798028

Hope this helps!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] benchbench:
Thx. Going to test this tomorrow :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mastajest:
When you unmount the sdcard via android, you don't really unmount the physical sdcard, you unmount the data.img

So, after you select unmount, just use your preferred file explorer and go all the way out to the root and look for /sdcard, not mnt/sdcard. Then you should see all the files on your sdcard, and you can install the .apk files that for whatever reason won't install when the data.img is mounted.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] benchbench:
Great it works :) thx!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DroidChin:
Hey, I'm also having the same issue installing an .apk and I need to unmount the SD to install it. When I unmount it though, Astro cannot detect the SD card.
[Captivate General] JamesR913:
I was wondering what everyone is using to convert movies to play on your captivate. I tried handbrake with no success. (probably just don't how to use it). Any help would be appreciated.
[Captivate General] andoh:
Why, pray tell, do you even need to convert videos? Just throw them on this puppy. That is one of the major selling points of this phone.
[Captivate General] gmanunited:
You are probably right. You are using Handbrake wrong. It works great. Just look over the web to find some walk throughs. Make sure you use VLC with Handbrake. You can also use DVD Fab decrytor Use it for the trial but You can always rip your dvd's for free.
[Captivate General] JamesR913:
I am trying to get movies off dvds. I also have some movies I ripped from dvdfab in my computer that are in the weird dvdfab format