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[Android Apps and Games] simonshaw3:
superpower on wildfire

This is a Good

app 10/10 nice one batt larst 3 days now
[Android Apps and Games] RolluS:
Same here.

I sort that SuperPower doesn't work with newest Speedmod or Super Optimised kernels...

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[Android Apps and Games] Mikiya:
I have Speedmod k12T with FrAndroidRom (based on JPY) and SuperPower works fine ;)
[Android Apps and Games] djkoa:
Easy Improvements

Hi there!

This application its one of the best I saw for battery saving. Still, there are just 3 things needed urgent:

1. To change the frequency ondemand (as a setting). Currently u set to 400mhz..but should be at least 600 so that wont deadsleep

2. To fix the superkick when someone adds apk on rom (by some reason, it only works after reinstall)

3. This is the most important fix: to add "GPS", "Wifi" and "Screen always on" to the application specific options. It could be amazing if so. Would make us save the battery realllly a lot. Imagine what is to start and stop the GPS only when open Maps or Copilot.

Please...i know this is veeeeery easy, since u did the most complicated part.

Hugs
[Android Apps and Games] K1ll1an:
Great App

Great App ... I'm running it on a ACER A1 Liquid with LCR 2.0.

I've got a problem ... if i set use only 2G when screen is off I lost always the signal (2g is working if I set it on the standard option on the phone it works). Do I have to apply a different setting ?
[Android Apps and Games] insaneoctane:
Use with pandora?

I've been happily using SuperPower for a while now. I recently started using Pandora, and it appears it stops playing at the end of most songs....until I wake the phone up and SuperPower re-connects the data stream....Does anyone else here use Pandora and find out how to use it with SuperPower? If I could simply disable SuperPower while I'm playing Pandora, I would be willing to do that...

Thanks for a great app
[Android Apps and Games] jack711:
new idea

This is a awesome app, I love it.

You have a feature that turns off wifi when screen is off. However, can you add a feature that allows wifi to be turned on at interval of time just like what you have in data connection? For instance, wifi torns on every 15 minutes for 2 minutes. This feature is useful for those who don't have dataplan.

"In application specific options" can you add a feature "wifi always required"? so that pandora can be played without getting interrupt.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] jack711:
idea

Goto the "Application Specific" feature and goto Pandora and check "Data always required"

Hope this help

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Davith:
2G/G3 switching with screen ON/OFF does work, it's just the application specific options that don't.

I'm not too bothered though. I just set it to go on 3G when the screen is on then revert back to 2G the rest of the time.

Great app. I'll test it another few weeks then will get the donation version. :)
[Android Apps and Games] thecresta:
Hi All, I've started a thread regarding the difference between data toggle widgets/apps and the 'use packet data' option in the mobile network settings - wondered if anybody here could clear it up for me?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=945502

(wouldn't want to be flamed for double posting :p)

Many thanks in advance :)
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Yes there might well be a difference regarding disabling certain parts of the radio (and thus power savings).

SuperPower does not work with APN's, it works with an internal Android data disable setting (which apparently does not work properly on Gingerbread). A lot of other programs do work with APN's.

Whether or not SuperPower flips the same switch (internally) as the "use packet data" option is not really known at the moment.

Take note that you can have multiple APNs configured. If you disable on APN base, the phone might still keep data components active. It is quite possible that the optimization case for "all APNs disabled" is not implemented that it really just disables packet data. It may well be that with disabled APNs components are kept on that are turned off when you "disable packet data", hence the power difference.

Furthermore, a number of APN-based apps don't actually "disable" APNs, the rename the APN connection. This has the result that the device will actually try to setup data connection, but simply fail at it. You can imagine that this still saves power because you aren't transmitting lots of data and programs (may) detect there is no data connection so don't do a lot of work, but that the power saving is less than if the APNs are truly disabled or entire packet data is disabled.

What exactly happens when you disable packet data, if certain device components will shut down or not, is quite likely different per device as it's something the OEM does in hardware.
[Android Apps and Games] shortskoolbus:
For all those that are looking to switch 2g/3g for screen off profiles and low battery, I have been using CPU tuner which has been working great with gb and cm7.
[Android Apps and Games] Omnichron:
thank you sir! my name is guinea pig and proud of it! :D
[Android Apps and Games] helmutiffe:
Another data point re the 2G/3G switch:

I'm using a Motorola Droid 2 Global running the Fission 2.4.3 ROM. Of particular interest to me is the auto 2G/3G switching feature (I'm using this phone outside the US with a GSM carrier).

When using RIL injection, behaviour is similar to what others reported with a Motorola Defy - that is, when switching to 2G, it changes bands to EDGE but returns to UMTS after a few seconds.

The sidekick does install - using it, the switch to 2G on a wifi connection is successful, but never returns to 3G when out of wifi range. When manually switching Superpower back to 3G mode, using the 'tap to switch' in the notification bar, sometimes (perhaps 1 in 5 chance) this will crash the phone. Once I got a really weird notification that the phone couldn't find the SIM anymore, and was reverting to the CDMA radio.

On this note, I guess that maybe the sidekick is having trouble dealing with global phones that have multiple cellular radios?
[Android Apps and Games] nizno:
First of all Thanks for this great app !

Im very happy with it and just wondering about 1 thing,

its for some reason not automatically turning off wifi when i leave my home ( Auto wi-fi disable is enabled. )

when i arrive at work its asking me to connect to a network and its showing networks found. when i cancel that action wi-fi is still on.

am i doing something wrong?

Greetings,

Samsung Galaxy S ( Dutch ) on Darky's 9.2 resurrection
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Interesting. I think these devices that switch back have non-standard code for band switching, though not sure. I'd have to dig into the sources for those devices.

Regarding global devices, it depends on the what and how. If its a device you need to reboot between switching between CDMA and GSM, it shouldn't be an issue. If it can switch without rebooting, that would in itself be a problem.

Either way, the 2G/3G switching needs to be looked at again, because there are a number of devices that have issues with it.

That is odd, but possible if there has not been enough "awake but the screen is off" time during your home-work travel.
[Android Apps and Games] helmutiffe:
The Droid 2 Global is one that can switch radios without rebooting.

If you need a guinea pig to test changes of the 2G/3G switching algorithm, let me know :) I'm happy to help.
[Android Apps and Games] arielxarg:
will test this apps on LG Optimus One P500 and i'll report it back to you :D

THANKS btw, i always got problem with battery life for my phone ( always x_x ). Hope this apps can help me :D
[Android Apps and Games] scungilli:
Hi

I would like to use the 2G/3G switch function of your app with the sidekick method.

When I try to install sidekick it fails.

Any tip on how I can get this working on my phone (signature)?

Maybe anyone has tried it on the Desire HD so far and can give me a tip?

Thanks (:
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
I think some others posted the DHD needs to be permanently rooted and S-OFF, but I have no experience with that personally.
[Android Apps and Games] matt2053:
Are there any plans to update the application so that disable mobile data works on Android 2.3?
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Definitely! I'm still waiting for a proper 2.3 port for one of my devices.
[Android Apps and Games] matt2053:
Right on.
[Android Apps and Games] pirate.666:
Doesn't this app work on 2.3 properly? That would explain why it doesn't disconnect wifi when screen is turned off in my phone...
[Android Apps and Games] scungilli:
Well my device is S-Off and perm rooted...

Maybe someone who's using the same phone can help me?

I noticed that your app keeps the phone from going into deep sleep about 45min when running 4h in standby mode (screen off). Is this normal?

But thanks for your app, its a really nice idea and on a very very good way, I hope you keep the work up (:
[Android Apps and Games] pirate.666:
Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
[Android Apps and Games] pirate.666:
It's seems like it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't...weird :S
[Android Apps and Games] ehabfg:
is this work on htc desire hd
[Android Apps and Games] matt2053:
My suggestion is to try again after the App is updated to support 2.3
[Android Apps and Games] GeraldRudi:
look here: Ginger yoshi 1.0 RC4 (android 2.3.2) for 32b and 32a now
[Android Apps and Games] helmutiffe:
A folllow up to this - I've determined the crash/reboot here is not the fault of the Sidekick app - I tried doing a manual toggle in the Android settings section (from "GSM only" to "GSM/WCDMA auto") and it too crashed the phone.

It would be interesting to see if any other phones that show the "switch back to UMTS after a few seconds" behaviour using the RIL approach, also crash sometimes if using the Sidekick approach - or whether this is unique to this model of phone.
[Android Apps and Games] Blondasisko:
USB debugging

In my SGS (maybe it will work on your Desire HD), with USB debugging on and after plugging the cable I managed to install sidekick. Before that I could not on a stock rom.
[Android Apps and Games] BK553:
Cyanogen 7 Gingerbread RC1 is out, let's get this bad boy updated! :)
[Android Apps and Games] RobinD42:
Hi,

I just wanted to say thanks for SuperPower. I've been running it for a few days on my Epic 4G (with the Bonsai ROM) and it has made a HUGE difference in battery consumption for me. The phone is now using almost no power when it is idle, and the power level only drops about 2 percent overnight! Simply amazing.

If anybody is interested in feature requests I think it would be nice if there was a little UI besides just the configuration options. Perhaps a screen with a master Enable/Disable button (there has been once or twice when I wished that SP wasn't active) and also perhaps a log of what SP is turning on or off and why. The latter would be helpful for the user when s/he is fine-tuning the configuration options for their usage patterns.

Thanks!

Robin
[Android Apps and Games] WEiSLaND:
Hi,

Im unable to install Sidekick in my SGS i9000, my installed rom is based in JS5 and the kernel is speedmod k13b, usb debug mode is activated, lagfix not applied, rooted.

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] edwilo2005:
looking for it for a while thank you man
[Android Apps and Games] edwilo2005:
yo keep it up dude
[Android Apps and Games] ajgarr:
Thanks for this great app. I had tried a few other battery apps from the market earlier but nothing compares to the control this provides.

One improvement I can think of is to have an app-specific setting for wifi too like there is for 3G. Currently the wifi turns on along with the screen which unnecessarily uses the battery even if I'm not using any network intensive app.

Or is this already doable and I just don't know the settings?
[Android Apps and Games] ECrispy:
This is one of the best apps I've used, it made a huge difference. Unfortunately I've recent;y switched to MIUI and found out I can't use it anymore :( I hope this situation gets resolved soon.
[Android Apps and Games] Skitzi:
What happens when installed on MIUI? I was about to go download this from the market until I saw your post.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
The UI doesn't work because the MIUI guys messed up a few of the base Android UI components. The background service still works, you just have no way to configure it.
[Android Apps and Games] Just_s:
Just out of curiosity, when people in this thread keep mentioning "reporting the issues to the MIUI devs", who is it that you all are referring to? The ROM itself is coded/created in China for the Chinese version of the N1 and only ported in the West to other handsets.

The devs who port the ROM for us really have no ability to repair the code changes as MIUI is closed source (though the Chinese devs open up a little bit more every week.)

I'm not coming down on anyone, I just want to make sure everyone understands the limitations. It likely will be quite awhile before these types of issues are addressed as it is a Beta for them and a ported Beta for us. I think Chainfire has a good point, there really is no obligation nor good reason for him to continually attempt to fix his app for a ROM that changes weekly. Perhaps when MIUI comes out of Beta, our MIUI devs can take a look at SuperPower and help bridge the gap.

If you have been reporting the issue to MIUI China, good show, that just might work LOL :)
[Android Apps and Games] _bryan_:
I am from china and use original chinese MIUI. I report this bug to MIUI's developers several times and get no reply.
[Android Apps and Games] zanzabros:
I'm too on miui and have a huge battery trouble, especially due to data traffic i think. I've had superpower on a previous rom and i want to thanks the developer for the great job, this is app really rocks.

too bad it doesn't work for miui yet, i hope some day it will be fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] Just_s:
Good to know and thank you for reporting it directly, maybe we will see some movement eventually! :)
[Android Apps and Games] jabbawalkee:
For reals...definitely fingers crossed and patiently waiting :)
[Android Apps and Games] avgjoemomma:
What about the update with the widgets, etc?:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] zepretender:
I'm on 2.3 (CM7 RC1). Some functions don't seem to work properly (like data auto-off on screen off). But it stills a great app !

Is SuperPower still developped ? Because there is no update since about 3 months...
[Android Apps and Games] sageDieu:
I used this on eclair and after upgrading to froyo I still don't have any of the options; they are blanked out and say "requires android 2.2" even after reinstalling.
[Android Apps and Games] habylab:
Yeah this doesn't seem to work on the latest updates 2.2.1. Hope for an update soon! FCs all the time for me, frustrating

Sent from my ever changing Rom (Doc or Darky) Galaxy S
[Android Apps and Games] fbloise:
This app has giving me nothing but troubles in the last custom ROM revisions.

Don't get me wrong, it used to work great, yeah, in custom roms from october and november 2010... but we are almost approaching march 2011 and the last update was back in november.

I'm using Darky's Rom 9.2 on a GT-i9000 and I installed superpower with the ril inject.

Now the phone looks like christmas lights, switching from 2G to 3G all the time, very unstable.

The options for "when screen is off" not always work; if the phone is restarted, the app doesnt keep the settings saved.

and if I continue, I wont finish today.

I will gladly pay for something that works. But this is just too beta to be used and whats worst, too beta to pay for it.
[Android Apps and Games] itsmattgw:
FEATURE REQUEST:

I'd like to see a feature that is:

"Do not automatically connect to WIFI networks when they are available. [ x ]"

There's this accesspoint at work that has a bunch of firewall restrictions so I'd rather stay on my 3G so I have to turn off WIFI in order to stop it from connecting...HOWEVER, I use TASKER which periodically turns on the WIFI to check status' during which time it connects for a brief moment and loses connection. Having this option would resolve these types of issues.
[Android Apps and Games] jalutaja.stranger:
ring volume setup for night mode

If possible, please add ring volume configuration to night mode. Currently there is possible to go to airplane mode but that turns 2G/3G off. I'd like to have mobile on but volume turned to vibrate only.

Best regards,

Jalutaja
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Remember SuperPower is very very beta at the moment when you try it ;)

I would recommend uninstalling JuiceDefender for when you are trying SuperPower, by the way. They have a very high chance of conflicting with eachother.

Regarding bandswitching, no, it does not happen while you're on the phone (or at least it shouldn't!). Bandswitching causes a network disconnect for about 30 seconds, if it happened during a phonecall the call would be dropped.
[Android Apps and Games] s88:
Yes, i noticed the connection was lost momentarily during bandswitching. 30secs is too long, Is there a way to reduce it?
[Android Apps and Games] tjsooley:
I am intrested in this for a captivate running a custom jpm kernel.

tried it and it is way buggy.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
As stated countless times, max powersaving == inconvenience. There is no way to reduce this time. Disable 2G/3G switching if it takes too long for you.

"way buggy" is a not a very useful comment. If you state whatever the problems were you have encountered, perhaps something can be done about them.
[Android Apps and Games] tjsooley:
lockups cannot even force close the app sometimes cannot select the different options
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Fair enough. Please, with the next beta release through market, be so kind as to run it again and try reproducing the force closes. Market saves all the crash information so I can check out what caused them.
[Android Apps and Games] danzel:
Im using JPM also and survived the night without any issues at all. Using tamayuma's jpm v1 + voodoo pre3.

Battery seems to be a tad bit longer with this app. Thanks chainfire!
[Android Apps and Games] tjsooley:
the program never fc'ed it locked up the whole phone

and i remember that the program kept spamming the super user app
[Android Apps and Games] dragoswhoz:
hello!

thanks for this great app.

do you think it's possible to make this scenario possible: turn off data when screen goes off, turn on data when accessing certain apps (like the ones in the "apps requiring 3g" list). i don't need data on every time my screen is on (maybe i want to write a message, or to play a game, something that doesn't need internet connection).

Thank you again!
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
It's on the to-do list, but will probably not make it into the upcoming version, will be the one after that, I think. (But who knows...)
[Android Apps and Games] g@l@xyS:
just installed it...

hmmmmm no problems till now...!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hello! Thank you very much for this piece of art. My english is not very good.. so I will try to explain myself... will be possible in 2G with the screen off to switch 3G after screen unlock? Sometimes I check the time with my SGS and the behaviour 2G > 3G > 2G it's too hard :)

By the way.. it's possible to modify a ROM (ex. JPM) in order to use the test keys and the sidekick method?

Regards!
[Android Apps and Games] toansta:
@ Chainfire this program is really sweeeeet! i don't know if it's the program or something else but the battery life is really extended.

anyways, just wanted to ask. when i lock the screen after a few seconds (about 5-7sec) the phone vibrates. Is that from the app? if so what does it mean?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] :
Yeah.. the meaning is that 2G/3G has been disabled :D
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
I will look into the lock screen thing. I don't know if it's possible :)

As for modifying an existing ROM to use different keys, I think it's possible, but I am not a ROM chef, I really don't know how. Probably have to recook entire ROM.

Yes it's the app that vibrates. It's a debug notification to let me know when the app is done processing and is letting the phone go to deep sleep (if it wants to). This is turned off (by default) in next release. Which will hopefully be today !
[Android Apps and Games] :
Ok, thank you! I will ask to some chef. About the lock screen, actually juice defender have the option to do it! If you don't unlock you didn't get any changes in the connection setting :D
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
v0.60 released !

v0.60 has been released on Market. It's on there instead of having the APK on here because Market tracks force closes, which will help me debug. The QR code to get it from Market is in the first post, with the changelog in the third post.

SuperPower is still far from finished, but this release brings a hell of a lot of bug fixes and new features. Please refer to the changelog for details.

I would have liked to update the first post right now with all the new information as well as write release notes, but unfortunately I am out of time for now. I will try updating these later today or tomorrow.

In the meantime, let me know how this new version works for you :)
[Android Apps and Games] :
It's working fine! Thank you for add the lock options :) the only one thing is that I get some lag (2-3 seconds) when I enter into a sub menu... but I can live with it :D
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Yes, the UI could still use some speed optimization fixes. It works reasonably well on the phones I tested it on, though. At the moment I'm working on feature completion with higher priority than UI, but a fix will come :)

Are you using an SGS ? If so, which ROM, and with or without lagfix ?
[Android Apps and Games] tjsooley:
.60 rocks

I will def buy this
[Android Apps and Games] habylab:
Settings aren't being saved... if there's a fix for that, could someone PM me please? Thanks!

Sent from my ever changing Rom (Doc or Darky) Galaxy S
[Android Apps and Games] habylab:
Does this work still? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bclark:
My issue was the Steam kernel. All fixed after I switched off. The kernel was affecting initd processes
[Android Apps and Games] Omnichron:
thank you! :D
[Android Apps and Games] habylab:
Ah OK. I'm on tegraks. Have tried it, will let you know if it helps. Seems to randomly save some settings and not others. Thanks anyway. Hopefully a new version soon anyway, saw him saying he was working on it in January.

Sent from my ever changing Rom (Doc or Darky) Galaxy S
[Android Apps and Games] remixtech:
I have a question :

I have checked the options to sync automatically every 1 hours for 3 minutes. But I still not received my mails correctly.

I am most of the time in 2g, is superpower toggle 3g when it sync automatically, and next toggle 2g ?

Have a nice day,
[Android Apps and Games] avgjoemomma:
Chainfire: Looks like the GB OTA for the Nexus One is coming soon. Do you suggest uninstalling SuperPower and waiting for the updated version?:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] Jolest:
This may be "a known issue", but I hope the link below might help...

I've been having problems with battery-helper apps (SuperPower, JuiceDefender, Green Power, etc.) since I switched to Ginger Tazz (CM7 version of GingerBread).

It appears that there's an issue with an over-zealous Google employee changing the classification of the radio-control permission in such a way as to make it difficult (impossible?) for a non-system app to enable/disable the mobile-data setting on all versions of GingerBread.

A summary of the problem are here along with a link to the git repository commit record where the change was made.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14789
[Android Apps and Games] avgjoemomma:
No answer, so I just un-installed SuperPower. Waiting for an updated copy for GingerBread now that the OTA is out. Not too much to ask since I bought the full version, right? :)
[Android Apps and Games] ssiriuss:
i need this for my hd2 thnx