yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] scriz:
Yes, I am running a completely stock rom/kernel minus a few sprint apps and root/cwm recovery

I backed up and removed alot more than the DRM files, but the DRM particular files I removed were DrmProvider.apk, DrmUA.apk, and SisoDrmProvider.apk, then end the DRM service in Settings->Applications->Running Services.

Heres my stats so far for today. Unplugged at '100%' last night around midnight.
[Epic 4G General] Aneirin:
From what I can tell this update really minimizes battery drain when the phone is idle. Since most people have their phones idle for longer periods of time and simply use the phone for short bursts of activity this means most people see a dramatic improvement. Those that are constantly using their phones and thus preventing more idle time see little to no effect.
[Epic 4G General] jemarent:
FYI

shootme works fine on epic without rooting. Just and FYI
[Epic 4G General] Masterface7:
Alright I got my battery numbers for today.

from 100% down to 15% (it cut off my video so i am just gonna record the numbers now and plug it back in to finish)

8hours 20m 16s

display -> 80% and it was on for 4h 16m 50s

cell standby -> 7% it was without signal 0%

Media server -> 5%

Android system -> 3%

Phone Idle -> 3%

I would say those are pretty good numbers I watched 2 hours and 15 minute of video and a fair bit of music streaming with 4g among other things. The backlight was either on the lowest setting or 1 above it the whole time.

I killed the drm service just using the stock android task manager and

I shuffled airplane mode when i unplugged it this morning

Everything else is stock
[Epic 4G General] flyers2114:
Scriz I pretty much have done the same as you have....except I just disabled orm....but have removed apps etc....did airplane mode....have not tried shabby pen fix yet.....the only bad thing about the great life is right now I dont wanna flash or try any other kernels.....scared....lol....oh and I did root and install CW....
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
I have used shoot me from day 1 without root. This battery usuage is with root,cwm, galaxy rom and kernel Di18 no gay juice defender or task killer. Ha ha
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
Also on Di18 do not remove drm apps or you will get problems with music and titanium back up and fc's
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
Yo scriz how did you post your screenshots so big?
[Epic 4G General] scriz:
I still have yet to get my first FC. And Idk about my screenshots..just take them with shootme, upload through photobucket mobile and copy the link
[Epic 4G General] Six-Deuce:
Ever since the update earlier my battery indicator and widget is wayyy too weird. I keep losing power as I charge (no usage) and unplugged the battery drain seems random at best. Even before the update my battery indicator would go under 80 % within 30 mins of unplugging with minimal use. I didn't have these issues until recently and the update feels like it made it worse!
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
Getting some excellent battery life after the update.

I'm at 21 + hours and I still have 50% battery life.

I'm rooted and running stock. I have removed a bunch of bloatware though. I have startup auditor to block the DRM thing on restarts. I have tried updating the PRL and Profile a few times over the past 20 hours but it always failed. I understand that this resets the radio and actually helps with the TWS bug. No juice defender, no set CPU.

I usually go this route to reset the radio rather than doing the airplane mode trick. Although, I just type in *#4636*1111# in the dial pad and go to phone information. Then I hit "run ping test" once or twice until the Set Preferred network type down at the bottom says unknown. If you wait a few hours and go back to it, it'll be reset to the default setting of WDMC or whatever.

Anyways, I know some people have said that the battery meter is off but still. 21 hours without a charge is darn good in my book. Since last unplugged, I've used my phone to text and email quite a bit. Did some light browsing and made a few phone calls.
[Epic 4G General] ansong:
No matter what patch level I'm at, my phone will go from full to battery icon empty and flashing, screen dimmed empty in about 5 hours and thirty minutes.

My phone has not been rooted. My time without signal is usually between 1 and 4 percent...what am I doing wrong?
[Epic 4G General] ansong:
Normal battery life?

In the few minutes since my last post, my battery completely died.

It gets moderate usage: mostly facebook app, redditisfun, xda app, maybe 10 text messages and 10 minutes of voice calls. My wife has an Epic as well and it has the same problem. Hers is on wifi as well as 3g during the day, mine is on 3g only, between 1 and 4 bars typically.

Systems are stock, unrooted. Less than 6 hrs of battery life? Is this normal?
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
Definitely not normal. And you say your TWS is low? Try changing this:

Menu > Settings Call Settings > Select System > Sprint Only

Reboot. Give that a shot and see if you get better battery life. I think since you are getting an iffy signal, it's killing your battery.
[Epic 4G General] ansong:
Thanks, it was set to "automatic". I'm rebooting now. Once I've got a full charge / discharge cycle on it, I'll report in.
[Epic 4G General] Kaarukun:
Been doing alright on battery life after the airplane mode trick. 8+ hours and I'm down to about 72% with light usage, some games, internet, and gps. Though streaming pandora during my workout last night drained my battery pretty fast.
[Epic 4G General] scriz:
Changing it to Sprint Only will disable your ability to roam if i recall.
[Epic 4G General] scriz:
I have no doubt that the time without signal thing is killing our batteries. I didn't notice a big battery life increase when I disabled the drm service until I did the airplane mode trick.
[Epic 4G General] zetterwing:
When a phone is searching for a signal the battery takes a huge hit. The tws is what this is all about. My bb curve was a battery monster UNLESS it was searching for a signal. I could almost watch the battery drain. I have the same issue with the Epic...as long as I have a signal of 1-2 bars it is great. If, for some reason, my Airave cuts out my battery starts to drain fast. I don't know if there is a way to limit the resources being directed to the radio while searching for a signal or to make it stop searching but this would help a lot. Is there a way to disable only the cell radio in this case? I could live with wifi only in bad service areas...like my home...if necessary.
[Epic 4G General] Kosiak:
Im using baked goods 1.0 and geniusdogs 10/6 kernel w/out voodoo and my tws is 3% with 2 bars in my house, outside I usually have 0% and it doesnt even show the tws text.battery seems pretty good but I will post results in the morning after taking it off charger tonight
[Epic 4G General] scriz:
I think you're misunderstanding the TWS "bug" that we are speaking of. The TWS bug is that the radio is polling for WCDMA signal and CDMA signal. Our phones, as you know, use CDMA and WiMax.

The TWS bug was a very well known issue for us old Hero owners as well, once the 2.1 roms started leaking out, as the same issue was happening.
[Epic 4G General] Masterface7:
Hi guys when posting your battery life stats please post the time your display is on. Battery info is nearly useless without it. Unless someone is having some serious problems having the display on will be the main battery killer.
[Epic 4G General] zetterwing:
Am I mistaken or is tws time without signal? I think result I understand what you're saying though. I just happen to have an actual situation of no signal. Same results as the bug in this case.
[Epic 4G General] mastarifla:
I am very... very... VERY happy with my battery life, still looks to be at 50% chugging along after 36 hours... (using noobnl's rom, removed drm, airplane tws fix)

Edit: brightness all the way down, no animations, wi-fi on when I use data otherwise off, no vibration at all, no dialtones, screen timeout 30 sec, power saving mode, keyboard timeout 30 sec.

Apps used today: Music, Doubletwist, Maps, Reddit, Gmail, Facebook, Imgur, Shootme, Shazam (all relatively lightly).

You DO NOT need juice defender or anything like that, frankly I found them to be more of a hassle than a benefit.
[Epic 4G General] flyers2114:
I second this opinion....useless to me
[Epic 4G General] wettems35:
What exactly is drm and when I go to applications there's the of them . is it safe to delete all of them?

Also this may be off topic but when I get absolutely no signal I continuously get alerted that im data roaming after I have already turned off data roaming. Any idea of what I can do about that problem
[Epic 4G General] delta7tn:
First two days after tbe update I had no battery life issues at all... today the phone went dead after 3 hours and it claimed that it was without signal 50% of the time... exact same thing on my brother's epic too.

Reboot and a quick switch to airplane mode for a sec, and I've been able to stream pandora nonstop for 5 hours, and the battery is at about 75% now.
[Epic 4G General] akei1:
DRM is just crap that's integrated into our phones lol Uses a lot of battery life.

Go to settings -> applications -> running services -> stop the DRM services you see. Do that after each time you decided to reboot the phone.

Sometimes I get a very weak signal (0-1 bars) and start to roam a lot. That happens to me a lot inside buildings. When that happens I turn off 3G and use wi-fi (hopefully there's a wi-fi network in the building) and usually wi-fi gives you a good signal strength. So I basically switch from 3G (weak signal) to wi-fi (strong signal) in those locations. I think this is very important if you have apps syncing.

Be sure to set wi-fi sleep policy to never if you decide to use wi-fi and turn off 3G in locations with weak 3G signal. It's NOT fixed in the DI18 update.
[Epic 4G General] rando991:
Where did you read this? I keep hearing that SNSService is essential, but so far noone has stepped up to say WHAT it is or what it does. Mine keeps going into a restart loop so I kill it and my battery useage becomes tolerable.
[Epic 4G General] asedeno:
Do we know what AndroidSprintExtension does? I manually removed it from /system/app/ and my battery life has never been better. The only other thing I need to do is toggle airplane mode for the TWS bug.

Note: I'm running EB13.
[Epic 4G General] xxmastermindxx:
SNS is social network sync. It syncs your facebook/myspace/twitter contacts to their contacts in your phone book.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] BNAS:
Rooted my phone. Have Superuser. Tried to run GlaxaySBootLWP.apk for wallpaper but keep getting the following error:

Install Blocked. For security, your phone is set to block installation of applications not sourced in Android Market.

Any thoughts on how to get this to install? Thanks.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Misled3k:
..this.is.a.subliminal.message.play.some.violent.v ideogames.then.kill.your.parents..

That's AT&T's doing.

You should check out the "Captivate Bible (directory)" reference thread. It's the very first thread at the Captivate Android Development forum. I would link you there... but I can't. :(
[Captivate Themes and Apps] g0nk:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=788093
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Tchem:
Download "sideload wonder machine" is what I use. It should do the trick
[Captivate Themes and Apps] dressanderc:
Can someone post an updated settings.DB so I don't have go download the SQL editor and do all that crap when I get home. When I update to JH7 it kicked me back. Thanks
[Captivate Themes and Apps] alphadog00:
You can't do it - at least that was mentioned before - and why you don't see a settings.db file listed. There are some machine specific entries that are not supposed to be copied from machine to machine.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] dressanderc:
Ah. Thanks anyway, I need to stop being lazy anyway
[Windows Mobile Software Development] cb2206:
Hi,

I am searching for a command or command line app to initiate a call on Windows Mobile 6.5.3. Alternatively, passing a telephone number to the phone app would also be sufficient as long as it can be triggered via command line.

Thanks,

Christian
[Windows Mobile Software Development] frmariam:
Check this...

In WinMo 6.1 this works. cmd apps rock!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] tito12:
Works also in 6.5.x :)
[Epic 4G General] marc91988:
Wtf is up with all these moderators closing threads?? first it was hero_over now noobnl? if we want to donate to help increase production on development for our device whats the problem? I used to think this place was pretty chill but lately its been a bunch of bs and there honestly you mods just slowing down dev. for our device by closing threads and pissing the developers off. The devs should have every right to put there donations link up here to get paid for there countless hours of hard work just like XDA does since if it wasn't for the devs you wouldn't get half the traffic you do right? So i would think the least you all could do is let them all post there donation links since again no one forcing them to donate.

And if you guys keep it up your just gonna lose your awesome development community that everyone comes here for and hopefully we will all migrate to a much better forum where this bs isn't a problem.

vent completed.
[Epic 4G General] brian_hoffman:
Well, I am not a MOD here, but I can not at all agree with you thinking the threads are being closed because of donation links. It has been my understanding that donation links it itself are fine to ROMS/Kernals that are not vaporware.

There has been quite alot of "coming soon [insert kicks ass rom name here]" then ask for a donation.--- That is not tolerated, and shouldn't be.

There has also been alot of "coming soon [insert kicks ass rom name here]" but if you donate you can download it from my site over here, and when I feel like it I will post it here for the masses-- Using XDA as an advertising forum. -- Again more threads in the dev section offering nothing but a place holder.

I think the point is "put up, or shut up" we do not need to scour threads in the dev section that do not contain any dev material.

In addition, this thread will be the next target as it is not offering anything but constructive critisism (which I cannot flash to my epic) and makes for yet an even more poor dev section.

There is a general forum for a reason, I usually do not post but felt compelled to share my views on your thoughts.

-cheers
[Epic 4G General] Dameon87:
I agree. The point of closing those threads is simply to make this forum a better place to get what you need in the term of DEVELOPMENT/ROMS/etc. This isn't a place to advertise your "Donateware" ROM, or to have tons of Coming Soon threads. Get a beta our or something, release it, and post a thread.

Now I do agree in Coming Soon threads if its only a day or two out. Hell, it builds hype, and gives people something to look forward to. But if you are going to post a "Coming Soon" Thread and wait 2+ weeks before you even release anything, then it needs to be closed.

Anyway, please look into everything before you make such bold assumptions.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
i guarentee this is probably another account for smeone who posted donateware, over and over after countless warnings
[Epic 4G General] USAF22:
+1. I completely agree. I hate that idea. I mean, yes, these people put a lot of effort into their ROMs, and yes, they should get compensation, but it should not be mandatory, and it should not affect when you get ROM. Pimp your donations or site as much as you want, but the strength of this forum, and many others like it, is the free and open source nature of the projects on it. I would hate to see all that fall apart because of some people trying to take advantage of users. I completely agree with the Mods on this one.
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
Most people donate from the heart without being asked to do it and thats the way it should be.I owned Behold 2 and MyTouch Slide 3GS,both forums have excellent developers and never once did i see "Coming Soon" or "Go to my site to donate" thread.But every time developer bricked his phone you better believe everybody donated within a day to get them a new phone,and they never asked for donations-people did it cuz we loved the work they put it.Plus 90% of developers make roms for fun and not for money,but they should get donations because they brick alot of phones,lol.
[Epic 4G General] Cayniarb:
I have to agree with just about everything said here after the OP.

Plus, check facts before ranting. According to Toast (the Mod in question), the changes to Hero_Over's thread were made at Hero_Over's request.

I find it hard to fault moderators for doing (a) exactly what they say they will in the forum rules, and (b) exactly what a thread starter asks of them.

I am not a developer, and maybe I would feel differently if I were, but XDA is supposed to be about community development and not marketing/sales.
[Epic 4G General] infamousjax:
You're an idiot.
[Epic 4G General] yellowxboy:
1st post, welcome to the forums. haha
[Epic 4G General] wacky.banana:
To the OP,

The answer to your questions can be found here...http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81, in particular, items 8 and 11.

You might also want to read these rules in their entirety so you fully understand them.

I am moving this to General, where it should have been correctly posted, and closing this. if you have any further questions on the moderation of this site then please do not hesitate to contact any member of the moderating team.

WB
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] isthisreallife:
Please refer to my title
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Please refer to the Themes and Apps section. :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luvit:
Is the call log written to a file? ..our even a temp file? If so where is the location?

--Tanks
[About XDA developers] vikas_vtcm:
Hello All,

I am a regular visitor of the XDA and found it the most resourceful website on the planet. It gives me a sense that I have come to my people place.

After browsing on to various posts and topics I felt that I should also do something for this community and decided to create file sharing website where most powerful brains (XDA members) can put there hard work and share with the world without any difficulty as I have seen many of you people uses (4shared.com, rapidshare, megaupload, etc) but they all not so easy place to download the files. I want to give you people a beautiful place to upload and download files.

I firmly believe that we can grow high with each others support and can always take a further step even in those directions for which people says "Its Blocked".

I want that this place (XDA should be called as one stop mobile solution place) because where peoples thought ends we start working from that place.

But I want to know that do you people really require this service, because only after that I will be able to work upon it.

Please give my your feedback.
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
Many people have tried this before, but the bandwidth needed usually puts paid to them, as cost of running is HUGE. One month, I used 3TB bandwidth just for one ROM. If our team has 5 ROMs just now, that could be a lot of bandwidth (not necessarily 15 TB, but lots)... Multiply that by number of devs, you could have issues with finding a data center...

And storage space. Each ROM for android is 100 to 200 MB, multiplied by all the devs, that would be a hell of a lot of storage space... And where would you back it up to?

It would be a mammoth task... Just saying :)
[About XDA developers] vikas_vtcm:
Thanks for your quick response,

Bandwidth and the data space will not be a problem with me ...

As i can arrange an Unlimited data space and bandwidth for this service. With a real high speed connectivity...

But I need your support .... Are you with my me???
[About XDA developers] vikas_vtcm:
Hello all,

I need feedback please...

Is this services really required???
[About XDA developers] NotATreoFan:
As Pulser said, bandwidth can be a huge issue. However the even larger issue would be with the software companies taking issue with a central repository like what you propose.

Generally, rapidshare and the others offer a certain degree of anonymity, which came in handy whenever Microsoft got a bug up its butt.

Sent from my rooted Droid X, powered by Froyo and Big Red.
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
As NATF said, the issue of hosting the files would put you in shaky legal waters (regardless of where you live or hold the server, since something like this could reach international scales pretty quickly)...

Even with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited space, I can assure you there will be a limit, where the datacenter would not allow a dedicated server to operate at (I presume you are talking dedicated server, as anything less than full dedicated would have you kicked off the package faster than you could say XDA :(

But as for bandwidth, I have saturated out 5x100Mbps mirrors with one ROM release, so I honestly think you would be facing an immense task.

Coupled with the fact that even the tiniest slip up would result in almost all the ROMs available being offline while maintenance occurred (making your service lose credibility), if there was data loss, it could be catastrophic if nobody had backups. (Data loss could be due to police raid and seizure warrant, or hack attempts)

Personally, I will always release ROMs from either servers I own, or using space kindly donated by users of our ROMs who have servers operating below capacity.

Mediafire/multiupload etc are also so popular that it would be hard to persuade people to move across. And being able to upload there keeps people further from Microsoft etc, rather than directly uploading...

Imagine if you got subpoenaed for ftpd logs (the logs of all uploads to the server), or worse, the apache access ogs (the details of everyone who downloaded from it)

Whilst it's a very kind and generous offer, I think the logistics and legal issues would prevent it being feasible. A central repository is a good link in the chain to burst, hence why the scattergun approach is much more effective :)
[About XDA developers] vikas_vtcm:
Thanks for your credible feedback..

Is there some solution to overcome all theses legal and other kind of issues... and on my side I will look in the matter and get back to you guys...

I really appreciate that you guys took pain in putting some light in this matter.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejattina:
Does anyone know to work around this restricted WiFi tether bull crap?

Rooting doesn't seem too easy, I've tried, but I think I need the easiest version possible, cause it just get more complicated with image issues and other issues...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almi88:
I've just updated to 1.5.3.10093_80 and now Kies doesn't connect to my phone.... It just stays at connecting... What to do? :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davanw:
Mine too, on two different computers. :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almi88:
Ok.. It's working now.. I've reinstalled the drivers.. but now I have another problem... I can't save my contacts on my Pc... it says that my device isn't connected... :| Nice software developed by Samsung... ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almi88:
Sorry... It says that the device is in use...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rene_r:
I also get the message, phone is in use when I want do display my contacts on Kies.(I tried an older version of kies and also the latest)

Is there a solution for that?

Maybe it has something to do with themes, because before I installed the ANDRODeNa GaLaSSiA-theme I was able to copy my phone-contacts to my pc via kies.

any suggestions?

br

rene_r
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almi88:
So nobody knows how to fix this issue? :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
have you tried rebooting the PC?

disconect the USB devices first