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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeLL116:
my compass always needs to be calibrated every time it's opened....using the figure 8 motion like you mentioned.

in terms of google skymap:

My skymap also sucks. The app shows the correct image of the sky that I'm pointing to, but everything seems to be off-center a little bit. I've experimented by messing with different G-sensor calibration scenarios(menu->settings->Display->G-Sensor Calibration). My hypothesis on the situation is:

When you put the phone on a flat surface and use the g-sensor calibration tool, the device does calibrate properly...BUT...my belief is that the protruding camera on the back of the device puts the phone just a bit off-center on one of the axis'. I'm guessing if you elevate the bottom of the phone slightly with a very small object(like maybe 4-6 sheets of stacked copy paper) and then run the g-sensor calibration tool it might inadvertently correct your skymap problem.

I did it the described process above very unscientifically (with my finger holding up the bottom of the phone while resting the top of the phone on a surface that's questionably level) and noticed the skymap image was off-set still, but in the complete other direction. This would indicate that you may be able to correct the problem this way if you're precise enough with an off-set calibration.

I just don't care enough about skymap to do it.

What's everyone else's thoughts?
[Sable] mike.danny:
Hi,

Usually I use my device with two BT headsets, first is Jabra BT3030 for A2DP music listening and second is my car stereo with BT only as headset for phone calls. Normally when device is in standby, any of the two BT headsets turning on makes the device wake up and connect to device.

Recently after a backup / hard reset / restore action, when the device is in standby, turning on any of the headsets wakes the device, headset connected icon appears, but no connection is actually made.

I have to turn off then on either the headset or the BT on device. That means when device is not in standby connection is made as is supposed to.

When connection is made, device going in standby does not affect the connection.

I have tried re-pairing the device with both headsets, but there's no change.

Should I try another or more backup / hard reset / restore action till, hopefully, it's back to normal or there is another solution? :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laidick:
Hi experts here,

I am new i9000 user coming from G2.

I flashed XXJPK for days, found that my battery drops very fast.

I stop all data access at night and the battery still drops...

I found that the 'Display' uses > 80% !! (even when I slept for 8 hours)

Attached is the screen cap of my battery stats..

Do anyone has the same issue?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald Nice:
This is Android Development, not Questions & Answers! Please post in the right sections!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcespon:
What have you installed after JPK? Task killer? Lag fix?

Mine is not doing that. I did a hard-reset yesterday, installed my apps (no task killer, no root, no lag fix) and disabled everything (WiFi, bluetooth, GPS, 3G, autosync). Battery did not drop even 1% in 6 hours.

Display should not take any battery if it's off. Maybe you have something that awakes the phone constantly. Check autorefresh on weather, e-mail, twitter, news feeds... I usally have that disabled or set to 8 hours minimum.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackmalibu:
got the same problem here.. i do got the docrom (custom rom) ,auto killer installed and lagfix (OCLF v2+) it goes from 100% to about 60% in 9 houres.. without doing a thing.. on top of that i got juicedefender ultimate installed.. but it doesnt seem to help at all..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laidick:
The problem is why the 'Display' uses > 80% while I off the screen for hours?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcboyy:
Got the same problem here. I just reverted back to jm8 (eclair 2.1) with takayuma Rom.. I think all froyo versions have battery draining issue
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miro666:
I think, you guys must make this and maybe fix battery issue:

Refreshing battery stats after Odin or flashing (important)

or me personal, for my Galaxy very helpfull was this HTC Desire methode:

[HOW TO] Calibrate Desire Battery

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcboyy:
I'm having exactly same problem with you. My brightness is 75% even in sleep mode and it drains the battery. I guess thats the main culprit to solve my battery draining issue. I wonder why it happens to certain people, because some users only have 48% for brightness and their battery can last more than a day

** apparently using Eclair 2.1 doesn't solve the issue as my brightness is still 70% ... I've tried the batterystats.bin fix and same thing happens. Damn !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laidick:
It's true. JM8 and the battery fix doesn't help.

But I found that when I turn my connection from 3G mode to Wifi mode, my battery drops only 10% overnight.

I think there is some problem in the 3G connection.

Do you think this is kernel related?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daenney:
One way to keep the drain down is getting a black theme such as the Transparent theme and setting a black background. Because of the AMOLED screen black is basically 'pixel off'. It helps just a bit.

I have similar experiences with WiFi vs. 3G, 3G drains battery awfully fast whereas WiFi seems to be consuming significantly less power.
[Droid 2 General] novagraduate:
Hey All,

Didn't see it here, but I saw a trick to improve the Droid 2 call quality. I saw it for the dx, and gave it a shot.

On the phone's dail pad, enter:

##PROGRAM

Passcode is 000000 (six zeros)

Option 4

I chose 13k, best sound for me, try different ones. You can change back anytime. Just do the same as above.

My call quality was muddy before, now its soupy.
[Droid 2 General] jj702561:
hey im kinda new, could you explain what your doing a little more for me please
[Droid 2 General] novagraduate:
We are modifying our phones way of communicationg with the towers. it has made phone calls much better for me. You can always change back. Thanks.
[Droid 2 General] subsoniic:
what is default ? id like to know before i try this =P
[Droid 2 General] novagraduate:
The default on the Droid 2 is EVRC. Cheers.:)
[Droid 2 General] Jojo_Burton:
I wonder what the difference is between EVRC-B and 13k.. ?

I remember EVRC-B for the Droid Incredible but I didn't have 13k as an option. It made a huge difference for me on the Incredible.

EVRC is the default and will work on every cell tower.. EVRC-B and I believe 13k is not available in all areas, some towers don't have the ability to use the other codecs. If it's not compatible you will hear a series of beeps when you try and make a call. Just remember that you made the switch and if you run into problems just change it back to EVRC.

I'm going to try this trick on my Droid X now! ;) Thanks novagraduate!

I prefer my call quality creamy but I'll take soupy any day.. lol.
[Droid 2 General] subsoniic:
Thx ! Gonna try this wen I get off work...why didn't they just do this from factory ?
[Droid 2 General] novagraduate:
That's because it uses older technology. I have had it set like this for a week, and nothing but better sound. The other settings may be newer, but they seem to deliver muddy audio on my D2. Night and day for me.
[Droid 2 General] subsoniic:
Wow must say...big improvement.. thx !
[Droid 2 General] S.Meezy:
thanks, this worked awesome... random thought... got to playin around inside that menu, and there is n option for "data calll" option 8...

anybody have any idea what that could be?

Also, just like the Evo (possibly all android phones ?) *#*#4636#*#* is another menu... not sure of its use for this phone just yet..
[Droid 2 General] orpamoc:
i was wondering why the call quality was so weird sounding when i first got the phone. will try this when i get off work. hopefully i will notice a difference
[Droid 2 General] jones7773:
...hey guys, .. i would really like to use this code to change my call quality, however, everytime i type in the letters & press send, i'm taken to the Market!!!...any ideas why??
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
Could you tell us what mods if any you have made to your Droid2?

And what version it is (i.e. 2.2.0 or 4.0)?
[Droid 2 General] chromadroid:
Maybe I'm missing something too. First I couldn't figure out how to type in ##PROGRAM. I figured you meant ##7764726 (using the soft key dial pad). when I pressed the enter key, it made a call and the line said "all circuits are busy"

#EDIT#

I figured it out. ##7764726 and press the green handset call soft button.
[Droid 2 General] justbob1:
New Droid 2 owner. Love everything about it except the phone quality.

I tried the ##PROGRAM thing and got to the options screen but I think they may have changed the order of the selections or something from when this thread was made.

Option 4 for me takes me to something that says "SID/NID pair" and I get a bunch of options for SID/NID1, SID/NID2, etc.

Nothing for 13k or EVRC or anything like that. And I can't find those options under any of the other categories either.

Anyone know what I should do here or how I get to the right place?

Thanks.
[Droid 2 General] mebizzle:
The menu option should be called "Vocoder"
[Droid 2 General] soonster:
I've tried press from the phone pad : ##PROGRAM and it actual dials the # instead of the hidden menu. Currently using the GummyJar 2.5 w/ GalxS theme, no luck. The other hidden menu worked : *#*#4636#*#*

Restored my stock d2 rom, I was able to get into both hidden menus. Anyone else can confirmed the GummyJar 2.5 rom?

Also, while being on the Stock D2 rom, I made the changes to 13k but would that setting stick if I revert back to GJar 2.5? :confused:
[Droid 2 General] Herndon:
I have the same problem. Though I haven't tried that other menu yet.

But about it sticking it don't believe it would. I would think when wipe data/ factory reset to flash gummyJAR it would revert back to stock
[Droid 2 General] justbob1:
I do not get that option in the menu. When I go to ##PROGRAM (password 000000) here is the menu I get:

01 User Activation

02 AKEY

03 Extended NAM

04 SID/NID Pair

05 Mobile P-REV

06 Test Mode

07 Data Call Settings

08 SMS/MMS Settings

09 HTTP proxy settings

10 Proximity Sensor

11 CMAS Test Settings

And that's it. I've looked under all of those options and there is no vocoder thing in those either.

Under number 05 Mobile P-REV it is set to P_REV_6 (there are options for 9, 4, 3 or 1). I have no idea what that does though or if it's related to Vocoder at all. Haven't played with this setting yet but am willing to experiment if it's generally believed I wouldn't brick my phone or something weird.

Anyone have any ideas? Is this just a thing with my phone or version?
[Droid 2 General] Cheepjeep85:
sweet, worked great. much better that was the only thing i really didn't like about the phone, a camera fix would be great also.
[Droid 2 General] justbob1:
Okay, I think I figured out the problem. I have a Droid 2 Global. Thought it was the same as the Droid 2 with a new name but evidently it's "mostly" the same and they have taken the vocoder setting thing out of the programming part.

Anyone know how I might be able to access it and improve the sound? I've had a couple of important calls with quieter speakers where I was really struggling to hear what they were saying...and that was indoors and completely silent.

I'm still within my 30 day return window and am seriously thinking of giving it back. I love pretty much everything else about this thing...except that the volume and call quality of the calls themselves is lousy.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
I have ported the Windows Mobile 6.x program Freda to Windows Phone 7.

The program is an Ebook reader for books in EPUB (DRM-free), HTML and TXT format.

I've published a demo video.

[UPDATE: See here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=795753&page=15 for the latest version of the program.]
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Iridox:
Is there a way to reformat the text at all? It's going to be really difficult to read with that little spacing between lines, etc.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
There are options on the 'Settings' screen that allow you to:

add space between paragraphs

increase the line spacing (or decrease it to 0.9 if you want an even denser reading experience)

change font

change font size

define an external margin (a blank border) around the edge of the page

Between these, you'll probably find a way to get an appearance that works for you
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] janneman22:
i like the simplicity of your app, but somewhere i think it's to simple:(
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
I will be adding such features as:

- download from any OPDS catalog, not just Wattpad's system

- view and navigate the book's table of contents

- manage settings (i.e. save and use 'presets').

- ...

Maybe that will be complicated enough for you ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] janneman22:
For sure:) but keep adding features
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] addicus:
I left you a message on the youtube site. I like it. Keep it going but you are doing a great job.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] dairyface:
I look forward to seeing this when I get my WP7 next week! :D

I definately need an ereader so I can read my kids books
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Omega Ra:
I already see the app on the marketplace, glad to see it there as I have freda for 6.5 :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Yep, I spent 30 mins at the O2 shop yesterday, getting fingermarks on the screen of an HTC HD7 and checking that Freda works OK on a real phone. Conclusion: it's usable, but there are a few niggles. I'll be pushing out a new release in a few days to deal with them ...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] wheresmybeaver:
Fair dues, developing such a complex app without even having the phone!

I'm interested in particular in having an ereader that can read epub files from my own server, since we don't seem to be able to add epub or txt files to our WP7 devices just yet.

Thanks for all the hard work.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ericc191:
This is pretty impressive. I look forward to downloading you app! Keep up the good work, man.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
The app knows how to work with any server that can produce an OPDS catalog, and I have tested it with Calibre (both using the Calibre Content Server and also the Calibre2Opds solution based on DropBox). There is one major ugliness: because of the brain-dead way that Microsoft have implemented (well 'not implemented') HTTP authentication, it only works if you set a blank password on your Calibre server. Not really an issue if you're using it on your own local wireless network, but not suitable for wider internet use.

I'm hoping Microsoft will roll out a patch for this in the Q1 release; if they don't, I can code proper authentication myself, but it will be a tedious job.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] nrfitchett4:
zune doesn't support epub??? :confused:
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] bigfoune:
thx jim

!!!great job;)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] buffalosolja42:
Is it still in Marketplace I can't find it anymore....

Sorry looked on phone and PC.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sensboston:
Jim, could you please check this catalog: http://81.1.213.130:8091/opds/

Freda can access OPDS but can't read epubs from that site (FBReaderJ for Android works without problems)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] digitaldon37:
I didn't see it either. I got an update notification but it wouldn't update. Went to look for Freda and couldn't find it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
It's true - I admit it. Freda is off the marketplace at the moment.

There was a problem with the last update, and I have temporarily pulled it. It should be back in a couple of days.

Sorry for any inconvenience.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] digitaldon37:
Thanks! I tried to write a review and rate it from within the Zune software, wouldn't let me do that either. (used your web site link to find it that way) There seems to be a lot of recent additions of ereaders in the Marketplace. Freda still tops them though.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Hopefully the new version (when it actually works) will be even better. It features:

- capability to download from any web-site, using an in-application browser

- Digest Authentication (which is to say, it will now work with a Calibre setup that does use passwords)

- Downloading books from DropBox (either public or private folders) [to be precise, this won't start working until Freda completes DropBox's application approval process]

Performance is, I am sorry to say, still rather slower than I would like. Sigh.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
I checked it. The problem is the EPUB format used for books on that site.

The EPUB format is, under the hood, just a ZIP archive containing a certain structure of XML files. The problem is that different epub-authoring programs make different assumptions about what "just a ZIP archive" means... because the ZIP standard (such as it is) includes different compression algorithms, and various fields that some implementers think are optional, and other implementers think are compulsory.

For opening EPUBs on Windows Phone 7, Freda relies on the operating system's built-in ZIP decompressor, and that is quite sensitive to the exact type of ZIP archive used. Some programs generate ZIP archives that it cannot read - and your files from flibusters seem to be one example of this. You can demonstrate this by downloading one of the EPUBs from that source onto your PC, renaming it to end in ZIP, using the ZIP extractor to extract the contents into a new folder, then zipping that folder up (using Windows 'send to compressed folder'). Rename that new compressed folder to a name that ends in EPUB, and you will now have an EPUB that Freda can read.

The solution for this problem is:

1) get flibuster's contributors to use a more standards-compliant zipfile generator; or

2) use a more permissive zip-extractor in Freda.

In due course, I will do (2) - but that depends on someone publishing a suitable ZIP library for Windows Phone 7. I have my eye on SharpZipLib (which is what I use in the Windows Mobile 6 version of Freda).

Cheers,

Jim
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sensboston:
Thanks, Jim. I've suspect something like this. Will try on this long weekend to play with Flibusta's epub as a zip-archive on WP7 (I'm developer). Will let you know about results - I'm very interesting in Freda!

About 1-st possible solution: I know the guy who wrote fb2->epub converter (flibusta/librusec uses fb2 format as a main ebooks container), it's simple not possible to push him change his program :-(
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] esberlat:
Buddyes when i try to install Freda, i click the link but in zune i don't have the install's button...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sensboston:
Tried to send you PM but not sure I did it right - nothing in sent messages :-( Probably, it's strange forum feature.

BTW, I found good, 100% working solution. Here is the example project: http://senssoft.com/ZipTest.zip , works fine with flibusta's epubs and not only flibusta's...

Hope to see new improved Freda soon! :-)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Got it, thanks. I will take a look.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
There is, temporarily, an issue with the software update. I expect Freda will be available for download in a day or two.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Never say that I don't listen to my users. :-)

Version 1.7 of Freda incorporates this Zip solution, and opens the flibusta epubs fine. It should be up on the Marketplace within the next few days (sadly I can't submit it for upload yet, because Microsoft are still grinding through the process of approving and publishing version 1.6, and there doesn't seem to be any way to get them to process one update until they've finished thinking about the previous one).
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sensboston:
Thanks, Jim! Will wait for 1.7... :-D

BTW, could you upload somewhere Freda's XAP? I can sideload and test before it will available on market.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] castrow:
Hi, I could configure Freda to search books of my dropbox account and now I can read them. I used Calibre opds.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Yes, that works. But it will only work if you put the books into your Public DropBox folder (which is how Calibre2opds works). So there are two reasons why I don't really like that solution: (1) it requires you to put your book collection in a public place (I agree the URL is obscure and hard to guess, but it is not actually hidden) and (2) it means messing about with Calibre and the Calibre2opds software, which some people will find quite complicated.

In version 1.7 (when published) you'll be able to keep your book collection in non-public DropBox folders, and access it directly from Freda without needing to first generate an OPDS catalog for it. I think that Joe Random User will find this simpler.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sensboston:
Just tested release 1.7. It fails on Samsung Focus (first time installed), and worked on the HTC Surround, installed as an update. Can't test now on the other handsets...

On the Focus it starts, but can't open epubs even included in release. Russian epub from Flibusta opens too long (forever long!). Freda shows the book cover and get stuck in "opening" stage.

Jim, may I give you a few advises?

First, you should do something with your pagination algorithm. It's really slow, especially for WP7 specs! FBReader on my old Android MID works considerably faster. So, it's not a hardware or OS features but the algorithm weakness.

Second, the text alignment for large fonts (can say - only readable fonts!) looks awful! If you want, I can send you a very simple hyphenation algorithm what works for most of European langs including Cyrillic (Russian). Same algorithm was used in WM HaaliReader and hyphenated text looks much-much-much better!