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[G2 and Desire Z General] SlicedKuniva:
I think that Facebook is the culprit. At least for me it was. I was sitting at android system using ~35% and once I logged out of the Facebook app I checked back about 5 or so hours later and it went down to 12% or so.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ThaGeNeCySt:
But i like that FB app :( only thing I disliked was getting sent to the web when checking notifications. Maybe social scope will alleviate that
[G2 and Desire Z General] pmstc:
It's looking to me that Facebook was using a decent chunk of battery. Android system is down to 19% for me today after signing out of facebook. I've been listening to music all morning too so thats probably why its still high-ish.

When I get home from work I'm going to monitor my battery again and see if the e-mail app is still using up battery.

If someone else has logged out of facebook and saw battery usage go down, then I think it is safe to say that the app is buggy.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ThaGeNeCySt:
wow... so are you telling me my battery life will go from 12+ hours to 16-17 if i log out of facebook? YOWZERS
[G2 and Desire Z General] pmstc:
When I posted this thread yesterday I was at 24% at 3pm. Right now, at 1pm after logging out of facebook last night and unplugging this morning at the exact same time, my battery is at 68%. I have been listening to music all morning too, browsing the web periodically, and I got a few short phone calls. So unless my battery life tanks 40% in the next 2 hours, I think that being logged in to facebook definitely seems to be eating up battery on the G2.

My testing is hardly scientific, though. But I have had the phone unplugged for 6 hours and 40 minutes and im only down to 68%. Not bad at all.

Someone else should try testing a day logged in to facebook (with notifications, syncing, and refresh all off) and a day logged out of facebook.

edit: also, my Android System is down to 15%. much better.
[G2 and Desire Z General] joebobjoe:
What about the Twitter app?

And turning off background data won't stop Facebook from draining battery?
[G2 and Desire Z General] pmstc:
I'm not sure, I don't use twitter. And I haven't tried turning off background data, I'm trying to narrow down my battery issues to an application specific level. I'd rather turn off facebook for being a battery hog than turn off all of my background data. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Sefirato:
Am testing that one out. However, I have just the syncing on but I don't think that syncs constantly. We'll see how my phone fares with that setting I have now with notifications and refresh both being off but still logged on the Facebook app. My phone averages around 10-12 hours per charge even with using Trillian and AndChat and quite a copious amount of texting during the event hours. I changed the Facebook settings last night. We'll see how the day goes with the battery.
[G2 and Desire Z General] pmstc:
For me, just turning off notifications and refresh didn't help battery life. I had everything turned off and it was still draining battery (what it was doing? I have no clue... shouldn't have been doing anything.. I think the application has a bug)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Snuggl3s:
Loged off Fb and twitter and the battery lasted all day no problems! Also turned off GPS seeing as I rarley use google maps and now very happy with my G2 batt. Thx!

fRom Snugs G2 ^.^
[G2 and Desire Z General] joebobjoe:
Me too. Getting great battery life now!
[HD Mini Themes and Apps] maggot1994:
i need help. at the moment i'm using beejive IM for icq. still the best instant messenger. i am using the official version which is a beta. after a few minuten the program gets freezed. i have to take out the battery for restart. what can i do? i dont want another program

thanks
[HD2 General] svtplaya:
Hi im new to this forum. I just got my HD2 for t-mobile, i go into albums and click on all albums and I see all albums from facebook friends. I dont know what the problem is. Please help I dont want all those pictures.
[HD2 General] hagba:
You have to add a line in the registery ignor list,just do a search in this forum and look for:

Facebook Ignor list.

I have a detailed post somewhere,you can also find it in the HINTS&Tweaks on the first page in this forum.
[HD2 General] svtplaya:
Thanks, i ran a search for the thread and I couldnt find it.
[HD2 General] hagba:
Ok I will post here how to do it after about 4 hours from now,that is,if you know how to use ReGedit application.
[HD2 General] otherworld:
Have a read of this:

http://www.jayceooi.com/2010/02/08/how-to-hide-folders-with-pictures-from-htc-album/

That should do the trick :)
[Desire General] dpatel20:
Hi - I have a HTC Desire (T-Mobile UK - which seems to be different to other HTC Desires in functionality/menu options).

I did an upgrade to Froyo (official, OTA version) and it restored my contacts after the upgrade.

I did a factory reset (for another issue) and assumed it would restore my contacts but it didn't!! The data must be there but how do I get it to do the restore???
[Desire General] andQlimax:
On the Desire with froyo no more data backup and restore at the moment..u can sync contacts with gmail

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] dpatel20:
Thanks. Are you absolutely sure? I ask because when I loaded froyo it restored my data...at least that's what it said it was doing!
[Desire General] andQlimax:
I'm sure:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=744660&highlight=data+backup&page=4

When u loaded froyo, u still have backup feature because was in 2.1, now that u have froyo, when u did factory reset there is no backup feature (at the moment, we will hope in next htc updates).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sijo45:
About a month or more ago, my emails stopped coming through to my HTC Desire automatically. At the time, I was running Android 2.1

I thought I would wait to see if the problem was fixed by the 2.2 update, but after receiving the Orange OTA update, push email still doesn't work, and I have to refresh manually.

Any ideas anyone? I am pretty sure I haven't changed any settings, but couldn't find a push email setting when looking a moment ago!

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
Check in setting/account and synch if gmail/mail synch is enabled

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sijo45:
Thanks, that's fixed it. I have no idea how it got disabled!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oggeh:
Hi guys, ever since I updated my Desire with Froyo (OTA) I've experienced a "bug" in the "dual-touch" that the Desire has.

The problem is when you are dual-touching and hold the first finger absolute still and remove the second one, the touch of the second one stays on until you move the first finger.

Which isn't a big problem until you play a game where you have to hold one button and steer at the same time.

Link to a crappy video to show my problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eLYfHGeFnY

Now to my question, is it only me who is experiencing this kind of problem? Could this be fixed with a bakground app that checks the touch screen (when the second touch leaves the screen)?

/Oggeh
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
Same problem, i think is "normal" for the desire...isnt a multitouch screen..is an emulation and of course dont work properly..

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oggeh:
But I don't recall the Desire having that problem before Froyo :/
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
the desire dosent have multi-touch, it has dual-touch, basically the way this works is, the desire's screen can only physically detect one finger touch, when you touch the screen with a second finger, although the desire can detect that a 2nd finger has touched the screen, it dosent know where that 2nd finger touch is, it then uses a mathematical algorithm using 3 points of reference, to work out where the 2nd finger is ..........
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hamdir:
ok this is problematic in FPS games and games like meteor blitz

something i noticed though, on my previous amoled desire i had the official screen protector installed so i never noticed the problems in games

now on my new handset still unprotected, multi-touch games struggles a lot more

can anyone else confirm if their experience is better with the screen protector?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oggeh:
My bad, I thought people like you would understand when i wrote "multi-touch" in the title. I will certainly swap it out ..........

On Topic: Do you guys think it's any idea to start a conversation with HTC about this or is it just a waste of time??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
i understand what you ment, i was correcting you because i thought you didnt know, btw its not a bug, the symptoms you are describing are what happens with this kind of touch panel........
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oggeh:
Even though I didn't notice this kind of bug before Froyo update? I mean, did someone experience this in 2.1?? Before Froyo it was possible to play games, emulators etc.

And yes I know that the Desire don't have the best touch sensor.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
yes it happend with eclair, its because, imagine when u touch the screen with one finger, the screen detects it yeah? when u touch it with the second one the device see's it as one big finger touch, and then uses its reference point to work out where the 2 fingers are, now when u take one finger off again, because the first finger is still touching the screen it dosent realise because it cant phyically distinguish two fingers :confused: if you get what i mean lol
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oggeh:
Ok, but I'm still not convinced, is there any video of the problem with Eclair or even on a Nexus One with Eclair/Froyo?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2yQHuHHFU
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oggeh:
Isn't that just the common axis bug?
[Desire Themes and Apps] ownjoouk:
EDIT: For anyone that wants it, I found it here!!

http://android.modaco.com/content/g...lpaper-htc-sense-livewallpaper-for-froyo-2-2/
[Desire Themes and Apps] AndroHero:
sence lwp's wont run without the htc framework, have you tried beautiful live wallpaper? its just like sence's but more options and obv 3rd party
[Desire Themes and Apps] ownjoouk:
It does work. Look at the edit i posted, it has a link. Paul at modaco has it working just fine!
[Desire Themes and Apps] cCeT:
download link doesnt work.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] dipudew:
hello frens,

i have got a serious issue with my asus p320. i just upgrade my rom to 4.15 from the official download site of asus...now my cell is showing no gsm network...i also restored it back to 4.10..but it doesnot help...i m totally screwed..N m not getting any solutions...

plz plz plz help

regards
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] suraj_xda:
hi,

i am also facing the same problem, i tried 3 gsm sim but getting same respose...no network... plz help some one....

suraj
[Captivate General] ScottyNuttz:
I have a request. Can someone with Froyo installed check the Mini Diary program and see if there are any additional export options? In 2.1, only Facebook and My Space are there, but I heard that the Vibrant has an MMS option. I would love to be able to send these to something that is not so public, I just want to have a cloud backup, since I have found myself using this regularly.
[Captivate General] heteroerectus:
Unfortunately it doesn't look like it. It seems like a great diary program, except that it doesn't export. I'd like to see it update to google docs, or even export to a txt file.
[Captivate General] qsito:
I've been using the Mini-Diary for a while now and just switched over to a 2.2 ROM that doesn't include it... could someone post the apk? Thanks in advance!
[Droid X General] MrDanger:
Ok... I will take a stab at this.

FIRST, You DO NOT have to settle for the apps that come preinstalled on your phone! Just had to clear that up... Ok, here we go:

Check an app called "Dialer One" and see if that fits your needs... I haven't used it in a while... but heard it still a great replacement for the stock dialer.

Searching for a better Contact Manager is on my To-Do list.. hope someone comes in and help out a little more with that one :o

Don't worry about the "ninja" apps TOO much. Android Froyo has an amazing task manager and even though you SEE the apps as "running applications", they are not really RUNNING. They are more like... in a queue.. so they are ready for whenever you come back to them....but you still have to watch what the apps are doing. Some do not play nicely and hog memory. I'll link a good post here in a minute explaining that a little better.

There is a widget that can help you out here.. it's called "Power Control" put that bad boy on your homescreen and the option to turn on/off wifi, bluetooth, gps, etc is at your fingertips (for even more controls... check out "Extended Controls" in the market. It cost like $1 and some change)

I'm... not really following this one. For one.. you CAN use folders on your homescreen and put whatever your heart desires in them.. and label it accordingly. I'm not sure what you mean by the "X" in the app :confused:

SenseX?? What is that?? Anyway.. as you will find out soon, 99% of the Droid X community despise MotoBlur!! You can use a different Home Launcher and not use Blur. Two of the major Home Launcher replacements are Adw.launcher & LauncherPro... which one is better is a whole different story. They are both great and only YOU can choose which one is best. There many threads comparing them and they run neck to neck mostly. I'm on LauncherPro personally :rolleyes:

Custom Roms?? Eh.. I personally do my own developments and theming on my phone and do not use them... there not really all what they cracked up to be because whatever they have on them... I can do myself. So I'm not much of an help on that one... Somebody else maybe will chime in.

P.S-To fix the Verizon thing, go to the "M" in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen by the clock on your PC and right click it.. there should be an option saying to tell it to NOT send you to the Verizon site when you connect your phone. I don't know the EXACT wording of the option menu.. I'm on a mac :p
[Droid X General] EtherBoo:
Thank you for your reply.

I will check out the Dialer. Thank you very much.

Darn!

A friend of mine told me that, but it's hard for me to not be a bit OCD about background Applications. I've been a Windows user most of my life, and coming from WinMo, background apps really kill performance.

More than anything, my issue is with things like Skype loading when I do not want to be signed in. I want auto-login when I launch the Application, but I don't want the application loading when it feels like it, and me getting a random IM or call from someone when I didn't even tell it to log in.

It also bothers me that Amazon MP3, something I've never even loaded, has turned itself on. It makes me feel like I don't have control over my phone.

I do have a widget that lets me turn these things on and off, I was just hoping for a way to set it up so that the GPS is "pinged" and only used as needed, and turned back off. My TP2 did this, and was a great battery saver. Having to turn the GPS on and off just to get a weather update based on location is a bit annoying.

I didn't mean on the home-screen, I meant in the application list. So when I hit the application list, I can sort them by "Games", "Google", etc.

For the "X", what I mean is in reference to closing an App. In WinMo, the top right of the screen had an X, and if I touched that X, the app would close. Now, once I exit the App, I need to use an application killer to close said App.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=764840

Looks like Sense for the Droid X. In Beta now, so I'm waiting for a stable release.

Really, it's just to get rid of bloatware and take advantage of some performance optimizations that have been made.

A couple of other things that have come up.

I need a better keyboard. One with arrows so I can navigate text. Touching isn't precise enough, and I don't have a stylus with this phone. Today I voiced a text message, and I went to correct an error, but I couldn't get the curse to go in the exact spot I needed it to go into. My old OSK had arrow soft-keys I could tap to navigate with.

Also, I notice when I pull my phone out of the leather pouch I have, when I hit the power button it comes up in landscape, and the accelerometer doesn't pick up on the turn. I need to turn the screen off and turn it back on.

Finally, I'm having extender issues, but I think I need to call VZW for that. When leaving my house, I can't reconnect to Data without a power-cycle.

Thank you for the reply.
[Droid X General] Corey@rabbit:
my .02

3. Break yourself from the taskiller need. If you have programs allways running that you dont need, ie skype or city id. Root and delete those SOB's. you can look around and there are plenty of articles of why not to use them. Android is a linux based os. Linux is far supirior to Win in memeory management. You dont need task killers.

4. if your gps is turned on its not always running. It only runs when needed. Is by chance your wifi on? that will run all the time by searching for access points. if not you might have maps running, make sure to always back out of maps and not just hit home. That way it closes and doesnt just run in background. (actually goes for most apps)

5 organization- you cant sort the app drawer, you can hide apps (just the icons) using launcher pro, not sure if ADW has that option. Useing folders or the app "app manager" is your best bet

extra. swype has arrows. swype from the swype icon to abc and it will bring up a new keyboard.
[Droid X General] thepolishguy:
I came from winmo- so I know all about your "X" pains. But I say forget about a task killer or even killing tasks (except maybe maps and navigation). I did a little reading about pros and cons and decided to try the "no task killer" approach. I haven't had any problems. the task killer is a pain anyways. you can kill apps all day long and there are a bunch of them that are just going to repopulate themselves in like 5 minutes. I just said, "fegetaboutit". My phone runs great.

if you open the dialer and are on the contacts tab just long press the menu button (the physical button) and your keyboard will pop up. start typing and contacts will appear.

I like "Zeam Launcher". There is a thread here on XDA. I have Launcher Pro+ -but actually liked Zeam so much I use it. Just different preferences though.

that's all i got for now.
[Droid X General] EtherBoo:
Thank you for your replies.

I will try to be a bit less OCD regarding my tasks. I did kill a couple of services of applications that kept starting, like Skype.

I'll check out those launchers and see if I like them better.

Any good stock widgets?

EDIT:

So I just tried to check my location on Google Maps with GPS turned off, and it says I need to turn it on.

How do I set it up to use the GPS as needed?
[Droid X General] zanix:
I leave location services on (GPS)

My theory is that applications will only enable GPS when they need them, so if you have a application running that wants GPS, it will use it.

The GPS icon appears in the notification bar when I'm using something that is using GPS, so I assume its only actually on when this icon is present. Leave it on in settings just makes is available.

Any widget or application that has a setting for manual location (Weather, IMDB) I use it, and disable GPS location, to keep GPS from running all of the time.

To exit an app you are using, either hit the back button or the home button.

If you are worried about "ninja" apps using cpu and memory, you can try a minfree adjustment application such as AutoKiller Memory Optimizer. It fine tunes android's inner memory manager to be a bit more aggressive in closing applications.

I use another Rom (rubiX, link in sig) that already has minfree adjusted (according to the author) and it does help in keeping the X smooth. It also removes all (well most) of Blur and default installed apps as well, so you start with a very clean X.

The default home screen (blur) is crap. I would also suggest replacing it with LauncherPro or ADW

For removing the pre-installed applications. Follow this guide

http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/d...ta-3-ways-super-easy-safe-safe-easy-free.html

Some apps in /system/app/ are not named what they are

(IE. mynet.apk = 3g Hotspot)

For a keyboard anywhere, you can hold the menu button, and it will pop up.

Swype is really a few keyboards. Swype from the icon to the SYM button, it will give you the edit panel (arrows, home, end, copy, paste, etc...) press the ABC button to go back.

Swype from the icon to the f key, it will turn into a number pad. Press the ABC button to go back to the normal keyboard.

Run the tutorial on Swype too, it will give you some very nice pointers on it's use. I used Swype on windows mobile and I found out a few things about Swype I never knew.

Also, as for touching where your cursor is in a text field, if you press and hold, and magnifying bubble will pop up. This makes moving the cursor easier
[Droid X General] thepolishguy:
Did you find a dialer yet? I saw these posted and thought about this thread...

http://www.appbrain.com/app/kz.mek.DialerOne

http://www.appbrain.com/app/acontacts/kz.mek.aContacts

Haven't had a chance to try them yet.
[Droid X General] gunkle:
OMG. thanks. been loving swype but that has been driving me nuts. Thanks for the info.
[Droid X General] EtherBoo:
Thank you for the replies.

One of the things I liked about my TP2, is I could leave location services on, and it used very little battery.

I guess Weather Bug just SUCKS battery out like crazy. I turned on the GPS last night for something, and decided to see how well it did with battery today. It turns out that some grocery shopping app I wanted to try was sucking my GPS dry (no idea why)... yet another "ninja app" that just started up because it felt like it (this kind of **** really makes me :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:, programs should only start up when I tell them to, not when a component of my phone turns on).

I live in an apartment that has really bad signal (I actually have a Network Extender), so that might be my GPS constantly trying to update when I'm at home killing my battery.

WeatherBug is set to update every hour, so I'm going to see what happens tomorrow with the GPS turned on. It would be nice if I could just set it and forget it, not need to turn it off every time I come home.

Thank you for the contact program, I might check it out. I've been pretty content since I got DialerOne and found out I can get the keyboard up by holding the options.

I tried LauncherPro, and I LOVED it at first, and my phones performance was fantastic!

Then I found out it charges me to resize widgets... WTF is that crap?

I'm going to try some other launchers and see what happens. I'm getting the hang of it, but I still do not like things starting up on their own. Regardless of memory management, my phone should not just decide to boot up programs on it's own.
[Droid X General] Corey@rabbit:
the phone only does what the app or the user tells it to do. If theirs an app that you don't like, delete it.

And complaining that launcher pro charges for every thing it offers is ridiculous. Every thing it offers for free already ( 7 home screens, 10 rows and columns, unreal speed improvement, etc. ) then to get the extras its less than most people throw away on a daily basis. Where as this three dollars its money that pays off on a daily basis

Adw and lp should be paid apps from the start for all they offer.

You have 3 options, write your own program, use the stock launcher, find a free one.

-end rant