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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Final5k:
Well, the problem started right after using task29 yesterday night - so the rom is not at fault because I flashed the same rom many times before. Phone also was working fine (never dropped or no damages - still in mint condition). What do you mean by "bricked your phone"?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
What I was wondering is whether you cooked your own ROM yourself, and this is somehow responsible for the current state of your phone (e.g. by cooking in something damaging to the phone). But it sounds like this isn't the case.

Previously, some people have reported problems like this when there's a USB problem. Have you tried a different USB cable, just to see if that helps ? Or looking very closely at the pins of the USB connector on the phone to see if they could be damaged ?

You mention that flashing by SD card doesn't seem to work either. Have you had that working ok before ? Because sometimes it can be sensitive to the make of SD card, as well as how it's formatted.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Final5k:
thanks for the advices, steviewevie. I really appreciate :) All the usb pins seems to be in good condition and yes, I've tried 3 different usb cables but to no avail. If there were a problem with the pins, I believe that the phone would have problems to sync with the computer and I did not encounter this situation in the past. I assume the usb is ok.

As for the cards, I have only used Transcend ones formatted to Fat32 - never tried to flash using sd before until I got this problem.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
Try searching for some details on the "mtty" tool. It might be that you can use that to help - mtty gives you some commands you can use to the bootloader.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Final5k:
Already tried the commands from "The DEFINITIVE MTTY Thread!!" before and phone is still stucked. Anyone can help please??
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] ravenholm:
Please help me too!!

I do task29 when it finished it's show 1st boot screen,Then i pull the battery out.(Finished Every process of Task29)

1 hour later,I want to flash new rom.I try to enter bootloader,it can't and i try to turn on my Rhodium too.I think that battery out of power then i go to charge it.

3-5 minutes it's wake and show 1st boot screen and turnoff itself.again and again.

Is it bricked yet?

thanks :(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
What happens if you just leave it charging for some time, is the charge light coming on ?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] PUTALE:
sounds to me that it could be the battery is out of power. Maybe try to leave the battery in with the power cable for a short period of time and see if you can turn it on and flash the rom.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] ravenholm:
yes,the charge light is on.but 3-5 minutes of charging.it's wake and show 1st boot screen and turnoff itself.again and again too.

Before i do task 29 battery has 46 %.i think the battery left power about 30%.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] tarroyo:
Thats definitely a issue with the battery, Not enough power is getting to your battery maybe after a bad flash or something you did wrong.

I seen a similar issue when my battery was dead and I tried charging it via usb the device would turn on then loop n turn itself off . 5, 10 mins later it did the same thing. . .
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] ravenholm:
Is my battery dead yet?

If i buy a new one,Does it work? Or How to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] steviewevie:
Do you know anyone with the same phone as you that could charge your battery ? Otherwise you might need to buy another battery. I would have *thought* that a new battery would be charged, but this is only a guess, and it might depend where you buy it from. I don't suppose you have a lot of options though.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lennyz1988:
By the first boot screen you mean the HTC screen? Then you did something wrong. Then it's normal that the phone would reboot or turn itself off.

Are you sure you try entering the bootloader the right way? Keep volume down + power on button pressed until you see the bootloader. I mean really keep them pressed until the bootloader shows up.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] ravenholm:
I can't enter to bootloader and I can't turn on my phone without charger.

**CAN'T USE USB CHARGER TO ENTER BOOTLOADER TOO

That i told from last post i charge my phone and 3-5 minutes it's show 1st boot screen [HTC] and turnoff itself.I charge it for 6 hours then i try to turn it on,it can't.it like battery out of power.I think my battery is dead :(

Thanks all reply XD
[Vibrant General] Bronk93:
A few things I do to help with battery life is:

Disable Audible touch tones

Disable Audible selection

Disable Haptic feedback

Disable SD card notifications

Set animations to NO animations

Uninstall media hub if you dont use it

Disable auto brightness adjustment

Disable power saving mode

I disable the last 2 and just swipe the notification bar to adjust brightness. Granted these items really only work when using the phone but I can go about 2 days of normal use without a charge believe it or not.
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
yeah disabling 3g has always been the best option for people really, really concerned with battery life.

But it's kinda hard to tell people not to use 3g on their brand new 3g capable devices.
[Vibrant General] BritCrit:
You may want to add how to test if you battery is bad. If you use you phone repeatedly while it its plugged in you risk overheating and damaging your battery. Signs that unitas is the case are very quick drain and long (7 hours) charge times. You can easily test and see if your battery its damaged. Remove it from your phone and place on flat surface (e.g. Counter top) try spinning the battery. If it rotates easily and quickly you battery is bulging, this is a sign of damage. Time for a new battery.
[Vibrant General] blink55184:
Answer to #2-

Use APNDroid. Comes with a widget.
[Vibrant General] smutek:
Thanks to the OP and other contributors in this thread.

I flashed a ROM with the ji6 modem and battery life has been noticeably ****ty since. Example - this morning I unplugged my phone at 7:30 am. 100% charged. It's 10:21 am and my phone is at 75%

In the last 3 hours I browsed the web for 10 minutes while having my coffee and a smoke before heading out to work. Blue tooth was on for my drive, and I've sent 2 text messages. Aside from that my phone has been on stand-by since I unplugged it 3 hours ago.

I'm going to try to flash back to ji2 tonight as the battery usage was definitely better. Will also look into the 3G thing.

Thanks again.
[Vibrant General] Tarzanman:
You forgot to mention the two DRM and one downloader services that run resident on JI6.

These were the cause of my reduced battery life after I upgraded. Killing & removing these processes restored my battery life back to normal
[Vibrant General] smutek:
I just tried this - switching 3G off works fine, but switching 3G back on didn't work for me. I had to re-boot to get 3G back so this is a no-go in my case.
[Vibrant General] GuestX0082:
I know how to kill the processes for the DRM and downloader but how do I remove them?
[Vibrant General] speoples20:
OP thank you for putting together the list. But I've never seen the point of doing all this. Its like getting a lamborghini and only driving 40mph because it you don't want to waste gas, whats the point? Either get a second wall charger to charge at work or a car charger. Heck even get a second battery if you are out for a long period of time.
[Vibrant General] steel_3d:
You don't need to disable 3g.

The point of my post is to avoid people wasting their time with tweaks that have little to no effect on battery life. I'm telling people that they're wasting time killing apps and optimizing cpu usage and twiddling their settings when the radio drains most of their battery on standby anyway.

Meaning no matter what changes you make, you can only hope to improve your battery life by a tiny amount, because any other effect is overshadowed by 3G.

Put another way, you will NEVER get battery life much longer than a day if you're on 3g, so you're wasting your energy trying all kinds of tricks.
[Vibrant General] steel_3d:
For me the widget did nothing. But it seems like it's not even supposed to turn the 3G radio off, but ALL APN network traffic. Did I miss something? It won't save battery power as long as the 3G radio is on.

I went back to the 2G-3G OnOff widget by Curvefish. It's not one-click, it's just a shortcut to Mobile Network Settings, but it works. Note that sometimes it takes a while for the data connection to re-establish after you see the 3G or E icon.
[Vibrant General] gagb1967:
Back to my Moto Startac

While i understand the idea behind this thread, your conclusion is simple.

If you use the phone as a smartphone, it will eat up your battery no matter what.

I personally go through two batteries and some a day. (they cost about 12 bucks in ebay, and they work just fine)

The price for saving battery is not using the phone, and having a 400 bucks phone just for show off is just silly at least.

If you have a phone like this is to use it. At least you can change the battery not like some other devices......:eek:
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
I understand that task killer is useless, but do any of you use Autokiller (memory manager) ?
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
That's kind of a redundant question because even if you do not use the app, your phone is still performing the functions. The app just adjusts the settings. But to answer your question, using a memory optimization tool such as AutoKiller is 1000% more efficient than using a Task Killer. I don't think it effects battery much, but works wonders on performance.
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
There's no 3g-off widget because apparently in Android there's no way to do that through a direct command. I also use the Curvefish widget, and you are absolutely right about turning off 3g to save battery. I normally do so when I'm asleep or if I'm sitting at my desk next to a computer (why do I need fast data on my phone when I have my computer right here?).

The other thing I would recommend is AutoStarts. There are way too many apps that open themselves up at bizarre and inappropriate times. Autostarts is an easy and painless way to see which apps do this and keep them from opening.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
+1000

Great battery life comes to people who hardly use their phones. Guess I need to get a netbook. Will prolly get a netbook or 3g laptop + skype and ETF my phone soon. These battery woes are show-stopping.
[Vibrant General] Yellow C6:
Losing 4% an hour on standby when you're not using the phone is unacceptable. Samsung screwed something up with the JI6 update. Most people think it's because of the stupid Media Hub. I think they are right.

People are not complaining about the poor battery life from using the phone. They are complaining about the slow battery drain even when they are not using it. ~4% an hour adds up fast. Vibrant is supposed to have 450 hour (18 days) stand-by time. That's what is rated. But people are getting 24 hour (1 day) stand-by time after JI6.
[Vibrant General] steel_3d:
I'm not ready to sign off on this idea. For me simply flashing JI2 over JI6 fixed it. For some people flashing JI6 back over still left the problem fixed. I still have those processes running on JI2 and my battery life is fine.

The other reason I'm not ready to recommend wiping out those DRM processes is that apparently it stops the bundled Avatar movie from playing, and might affect other things that users may get pissed about. I've read that killing the downloader process people are talking about kills the market. So I really wish those people advocating that solution would figure their **** out and provide exact steps for the fix (right now their posts are really vague like "kill the processes that are named something like this" and not well tested; in all my research I didn't find the exact name of the "downloader" process).
[Vibrant General] Shack544:
Is it possible to flash the ji2 modem without root? Wishful thinking, I suppose..
[Vibrant General] henreeg:
not possible my friend.
[Vibrant General] slighpcs:
Sure it is, so long as you have the resources to utilize Odin... take a look at this thread for the the modem (tar file).
[Vibrant General] JJG2:
I've just discovered something that really helped my battery life, I apologize if it has been stated before.

I'm on a clean unrooted vibrant. After I finished charging last night, the meter showed 100%. But right when I unplugged it, it dropped down to 98%, so I charged it again until it showed 100% again before I unplugged it. It really seems to be helping the battery greatly; I only drained around 7-8% over the course of 10 hours of standby which was unusually awesome.

Yeah I guess it's kind of like recalibrating my battery, but without really doing so because I'm not rooted or don't have clockwork recovery or something. So I guess this is good enough
[Vibrant General] nhatduongchi:
While we're on the battery subject, can anyone recommend a good eBay seller or website to order a good after market battery for Vibrant? Thanks
[Vibrant General] shiboboo:
Am I the only one getting really good battery life? On light use (a few texts, a few phone calls, using it as an alarm clock, a few minutes of web, and maybe a few minutes of radio streaming), I'm at 30% left after 3 days and 45 minutes. I've turned off audible feedback, turned down haptic feedback to a lower level, turned the brightness all the way down, disabled auto-brightness, turned off blue-tooth, and use a black background. I've also rooted and deleted a few bloat apps.

Granted, I can also run the batter down quickly by streaming radio for a few hours and playing angry birds, but I seem to be getting much better battery life than most.

Note: MediaHub is not one of the apps I deleted, however, I've never once opened it.
[Vibrant General] Shrivel:
No, you're not the only one, but we definitely seem to be in the minority. I posted the same in another battery thread and caught some flack. I wouldn't even describe my usage as "light", but even "moderate" and I still go to bed with 60% or more of battery after 15+ hours.

The key seems to be the fact that my phone uses almost NOTHING while in standby. It's not unusual to put my phone into standby and come back two or three hours later and the battery percentage hasn't moved.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
^^ that is what Ive been struggling to get. I don't care if my battery dies in 4 hours BC I'm constantly on it..but what I have issue with is when it drains 5-10% in an hour while on standby. I have gotten rid of media hub which I think has improved my standby time.
[Vibrant General] floepie:
I think it's time to reach under the hood and see if there is a relationship between battery performance and battery serial numbers.
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
seems to me that you also have to stop the associated service(s). have you done that as well ?
[Vibrant General] floepie:
...and always a good idea to delete the delvik cache.
[Vibrant General] mr2t32:
I have tried JI2 and JI6 and the difference is about 2% more per hour drain with JI6. The main battery drain i have noticed is IM apps. Such as Ebuddy, Beejive, and any other IM apps. As long you have one of those apps in the background you can expect to see 15% to 20% drain per hour in standby. As of right now, I am using Trillian beta in battery saving mode and without any other setting changes, I am only losing about 4% in standby per hour.
[Vibrant General] MrGibbage:
I know that it has been said the google has not allowed the setting for 3G/2G to be directly accessible. Any chance it is accessible through a linux command line script/command? Because perhaps if it can be done on the command line, then I would expect that it could have an app/widget developed that executes those same commands? Probably blatantly obvious, given the kick-ass developers here, and I am sure that someone has thought of this before me, but I thought I'd still throw that idea out there.
[Vibrant General] Netphase:
Changing the Wifi Sleep Policy to "Never" seems to have made a huge difference with my battery life since I am at home with wifi access a lot of the time.

Menu -> Settings -> Wireless and Network -> Wifi Settings -> Menu -> Advanced -> Wifi Sleep Policy -> Never

It keeps the phone from switching back to 3G every time the screen turns off.
[Vibrant General] ProximaC:
last week I reverted my radio back to the JF2 as described in the OP and the difference is tremendous. I used to burn 4% to 5% per hour while the phone was sleeping. Barely using the phone would give me about 18 hours of life.

Now it's less than 1% per hour and the phone will last almost 2 full days.
[Vibrant General] Netphase:
You are not the only one, I am at 50% after 3 days and 5 hours with light use on Bionix with the JI2 modem.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Correct, but also mention that a majority of people actually use their phones. If u use ur phome for less than 2 hours in a 24 hour period, your battery usage pretty much doesn't matter. Not intending to sound *****y... But how can you make such a comparison when you barely use the device. Of course it will last 2 days.
[Vibrant General] steel_3d:
Yupp, I was about to update my first post with this. With wifi I'm at two and a half days with 36% left, light usage.
[Vibrant General] steel_3d:
I have gtalk always connected and I can get 3+ days of standby. It's possible the other apps are badly coded. You can monitor them with CPU monitoring tools like drain-o-meter, usage timelines, Astro's task manager, etc.
[Desire General] enemyrex:
i have for sale is a palm pre USA model if any is interested please contact me as i have activated this fone so i can be used as a developers handset for webOS. the fone itself is in excellent condition. it is only the handset that is for sale nothing else.

please contact me if interested
[Android Themes] SpleenballPro:
I have looked at numerous threads on themes, however I cant find anything about Custom Power Control Icons. Where can I find them?
[Android Themes] ADeadlySpoon:
I'd also like to know how this is possible, I know people have done it I just have no idea how.

Sent from my mind using telepathy
[Android Themes] zHk3R:
SwitchPro

Extended Controls Widget

- There are numerous others.
[Android Software Development] lbsk8addict:
Is there a way to change the color of the clock on a froyo without the use of cyanogenmod parts?

I installed the TMUS-32B-Froyo-CM6Remix and themed it with theme-porter but the clock still comes out black, since in cyanogen themes it is changed through cyanogenparts.

is there a way around this? like an update.zip or something? thanks in advance
[Android Software Development] L0cke:
I think this guide should do it, although I'm pretty sure it's not for Froyo, so some elements might be different, but will give you a good place to start:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=549309
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SilverL:
I have been trying to figure out what does the breakdown of the contacts list and sorts them under the appropriate letter heading. Contacts starting with A under A, ect.

My contact list is showing no A list, then starts at d(showing in lowercase). It shows contacts properly and in order but doesnt have the proper headers. I've just been looking for a way to fix is all.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] qtJz:
Greetings,

I am very new at this. Just fixed so I got the 3-button combo for download mode. And I was thinking about fixing froyo 2.2 fix. I think I have i9000XXJM1 version.

Can I like update to any firmware version I want or?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] qtJz:
bump

Need to know asap please.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] BronzedDroid:
You're not really asking any good questions... what do you mean by "fixing froyo 2.2 fix" ?

You can update to basically anything uploaded in the SGS i9000 Android Development board. Basically, you should choose JP6/JPM or JPA, or a rom based on one of them. Flashing an untouched froyo firmware might change your recovery screen from 2e to 3e. In 3e you cannot flash unsigned update.zip-files, so you might have to follow one of the guides on here to get recovery 2e back.
[Fascinate General] evilhunter101:
So, I stumbled across something really cool (quite) a few minutes ago: apparently our devices really can power a few pixels selectively. In my accidental confirmation of Samsung's claim, I was able to get one of NoLED's notification icons to show on the screen without lighting up the rest of the black area for literally a split second.

Here's how:

1. You will need the app "NoLED" in order to continue. In the NoLED settings, make sure you have the icon for sms activated as well as the proximity sensor. My sms icon is set to a lime green, but I doubt that will affect this "test."

2. Send yourself a text message either from your own phone or from some other sms capable device. If sending it to yourself from your own phone, quickly lock the device using the power button after pushing send.

3. Allow NoLED to start flashing around the icon for sms. Wait roughly 5 seconds for the proximity sensor to activate.

4. For steps 4 and 5, it would be wise to be in a completely dark room to be able to more easily tell the difference between the true black and the lit black. With the proximity sensor now active, place your finger over it. The screen should turn off.

5. Now, upon removing your finger pay close attention to the icon that will appear. The icon will show up a couple of milliseconds before the rest of the screen activates.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 if needed to witness the true black.

This is proof that our SAMOLED screens can display true black.

I am not a developer so I have no idea how to act upon this find to, if possible, adjust settings in the our software to allow true black.

If you happen to know someone who is capable of modifying the kernels or ROMs for our devices to allow this behavior, then by all means have them follow the above steps to see the proof.

Though I hope this minor find can give someone the inspiration and/or start place needed to make these adjustments, I realize this is but a pebble in a world of boulders. Therefore, I remain skeptical and strongly advise others not to get your hopes up.

If anything, it is at least nice to see that Samsung wasn't just lying about the capabilities of SAMOLED screens, but also makes one wonder why they don't allow true black from the start.

Now, time to hit the hay.

Goodnight all.
[Fascinate General] A_Flying_Fox:
On the epic, when you power it up to the initial "galaxy s" screen, you can see true black...the fascinate doesn't have that opening animation?
[Fascinate General] evilhunter101:
It probably did at one point but since I changed kernels and boot animations trying to get rid of verizon crap that animation doesn't show up anymore, which sucks cause I actually liked that one.
[Fascinate General] chronster:
When i power the device off in a dark room, at the end of the power off cycle I get a black screen that isn't black like the other black screens when the phone is on. It looks like it's glowing in the dark or some junk, and you can see a weird pattern like something smudged across the screen.

Is this the type of thing you're talking about? That our devices, when showing black, are actually working to show that black and not just "turning the pixel off" er whatever?
[Fascinate General] evilhunter101:
Yes, if I'm understanding you correctly that is what I'm talking about. That glowing, almost grey effect shouldn't need to occur in order to show black. I hope it is something that can be hacked, but I don't know.
[Fascinate General] atrich0608:
I guess this makes me lucky to have 1 pixel stuck on blue. I can easily see the screen turn off in almost any lighting condition.