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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ninj:
I just remembered something that may give us a piece of answer. On my Asus laptop, there's an option to "reset battery life" they say. Well, actually it just brings accuracy back to the % shown under Windows, but not the lifetime, the name is pretty confusing... whatever. This option, in BIOS, is operated as follow:

1. you select "START" and it pleases you to plug the computer's charger.

2. i plug it, it says "wait until it's fully charged"... then nothing happens on screen for at least 3 hours

3. "unplug the charger and lt it turn off alone"

That's it! I unplug, wait til it dies, start again, and my battery % is already much more accurate (the computer won't cut off suddently, with 12% remaining...)

So i guess the process you described is the right one (I assume Asus BIOS designer know how batteries work ;) ), but i would give it small changes:

1. Charge ubber fully

2. While still plugged, wipe stats, restart, wait until the ROM is loaded

3. Unplug the charger and let it die completely, restart once only and when it dies, you can plug again

The difference is

- i would wait for the ROM to be loaded before i unplugged, so i'm sure the system is ready to write the battery file.

I'll try that and tell you.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bongd:
Thanks for the addendum. Like I said, I don't know about all the very precise intricacies (wish I did), but for the most part is seems like it's something that takes users in the right direction.

Also did this with my Xperia X10, the wife's DZ and countless other Android phones in the office here and everyone reports better battery life. A few who switched ROMs saw massive increases in battery life. Most people saw at least a few more hours though (those who aren't rooted and screwing with their phones ;)).

I'm sure the Android OS does a fine job but we're making drastic changes versus normal users. As power users, it's best to invest the extra effort into calibrating our batteries from time to time or when making big changes. Just my two cents. If I can enjoy my phone more by doing virtually nothing, I'm all for it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] richierich118:
10h 21m 5s at 80 percent imagine if i calibrated my battery. This is with bluetooth headset on, a little web browsing,full 4g,auto brightness and a couple of calls. I always wipe bat stats when switching roms and let my phone drop to 15% before i charge
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bongd:
You should give it a shot. If my phone only lasted 10 hours I'd be swapping it for a new one as soon as possible. That's unimaginable.

I'm surprised when people get happy that their phone lasted only an entire work day. I'd die if my phone didn't last at LEAST that long! :eek:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
I didn't mean it as being too much work, just its kind of scary for me honestly because of my past G1 Dilemma. Not to be a parrot, but all I need to do is fully charge ( like I almost am,) reboot into recovery, wipe battery stats then unplug from my charger, then reboot? Then fully drain battery then FULLY charge it? Can I fully charge it while in android? Or does my phone need to be off?

Oh and the LED light should be green in recovery before I attempt to wipe battery stats right? I can't charge my phone with it off because it auto boots me into recovery manager.. never knew why but it does.

Sent from my Rooted God-like HTC Vision running Liquid Metal.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
umm he's only used 20% after 10+hrs... I'd say that's pretty good, even for minimal use...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Athrun88:
Hey,

Just wanted to pop in and say THANKS to the devs for releasing this ROM. First impressions are very clean and stable. Stock Sense experience without the carrier bloatware. Very nifty and will continue to use it until the next update! Thank you again (already "thanks!"ed the dev :) ).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bongd:
Don't worry, it's nothing to be afraid of. Just fully charge and delete battery stats, reboot it and use it like you would normally (or kill it by running GPS and streaming video over 3G or something), it's recommended to really kill it good and then charge it back up and bump charge it. I really recommend bump charging and killing the battery as much as possible but like I said, I don't know how much of an impact it has. I just get great battery life and it's worked for friends and co workers.

Whoops. I clearly missed the 80% part as I thought he said he just got 10 hours period. I'm replying at work and have the contrast and brightness turned way down. 8 or more hours a day with duel screen monitors reading tons of text can really kill your eyes. I get chronic migraines so that's why I turn everything way down. Good eye. :cool:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bstylz911:
There is seriously something wrong with this Rom and the signals.

There are some places where I cannot get any signal with this Rom installed.

But when switched to cyonagen, I get full bars....

Anyone else with the same problem?

Any suggestions

And I'm with radio .27 with updated lib files.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
Just Pm'd you.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stealth1985:
Everyone keeps insisting things are going forward yet there seem to be more problems reported now then before. Previous versions were smoother, had MUCH better battery life and stable. I can barely get a single day out of my phone as it is now yet on 0.8.5 I could easily get 2 without plugging the phone in.

You seem to overlook what I am saying and brush it off as just complaining. I don't see why other unimportant aspects are being looked at when it seems major parts of the ROM are still not working. I am just trying to point out that the current bugs, problems that people are experiencing should be #1 priority and any new features should be on the backburner until the other issues are resolved.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Eclypz:
There is a difference between problems and preferences. 99% of these so-called problems are just preferences. You can't please everyone, but you can try to please the majority.

As for battery life:

You are not going to get days of battery life out of a heavily used smartphone. No true smartphone out there lasts longer than a day without major sacrifices. Typical users usually get no more than 18 hours out of a single charge on any smartphone platform. The only exception being Blackberry, which have weak but less power hungry hardware.

My Bold 9700 lasts 2.5 days on a single charge, and my iPhone and DesireZ both average 12-14 hours out of a single charge, but I consider myself a heavier user and this is the same whether I use CM7, stock ROM, or Virtuous. So I really don't think its fair for you to blame the ROM for your battery woes. There are just too many factors that affects battery life.

I find it really hard to believe you got 48hrs of life on 0.8.5, unless didn't use the phone at all. Or maybe you disabled features such as 3G or push services.

Don't get me wrong, it'd be nice to have better battery life, but what I'm seeing with v1.0.1 is no different than any other version I've flashed. If you still think something is wrong with your battery life, then I would start exploring other possibilities instead of suggesting there is a problem with the ROM.

In my opinion, 1.0.x is their best work yet.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] edwill44:
What were you doing (or not doing) to get 2 days out of your phone? I didn't even get that out of the stock Rom with very lite use.

And what aspects of this Rom are unimportant? Unfortunately this is one of the reasons developers abandon projects. Like Rmk said to you before, if the Rom doesn't suit your needs then find another one. And fyi, I'm down to 6% as I type this. I unplugged Monday night (about 30hrs).

Sent from my G2 with Sense on the XDA Premium app
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] patoberli:
I'm still on 0.8.5 and I get around 72 hours out of the rom. I disable Wifi when under 60% and disable 3G when under 25%.

Otherwise it's most of the day in my trousers on standby.

I'm using CPU Tuner to change the frequencies and am using Smartass governator for every state with varying clock rates depending on battery load.

Currently it's sind 73hrs and 5 mins off the plug and has 15% of remaining battery load.

pato
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
Any way to force a media scan our make it more reliable? The picture problem is one instance, and since my phone is also my media player, I use it a lot for that. Sometimes all my music will show up and sometimes new songs won't. Rebooting doesnt seem.to help.

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
Not to parrot, but no phone, that I've ever used, has ever last me over a day. Unless I never use the phone. And you haven't really posted bugs, rather than your personal preferance items you want to be in ths ROM. You could always go to IRC channels and google how to make roms, and make a ROM perfect for yourself. Or flash another stock sense ROM. And you meant to put "the "problems" that I am experiencing should be #1 priority", because honestly, no one is agreeing with you.

Sent from my Rooted God-like HTC Vision running Liquid Metal.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bouzouki:
just a heads up to everyone...... i was using the original radio and was having problems connecting to wifi calling. it wouldnt connect to the wifi network, nor ping, nor do wifi calling. so i flashed the new radio....27 i think, and immediately i connected to wifi network and wifi calling..... awesome!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
have you tried gunnar optics? I was getting serious headaches and now I hardly ever get any, I'm also staring at a dual monitor setup the majority of the time... best $90 I ever spent!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
Fantastic I'm glad you had so much success. When I ran this ROM though I connected flawlessly with .26 and .27 radios. Went back to .26 though. Bettery battery life for me.

Sent from my Rooted God-like HTC Vision running Liquid Metal.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BrutalHoe:
So is there fix for sending mms, because I still have issues, I replaced stock app w vanilla mms.apk, I did try to install it in few different ways n I still can't send pics not receive in that matter.

Running .26 radio , V 1.0.1 w latest pershoots kernel that u can find in clockwork ROM finder, and I did try other V kernels as well n no luck.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bouzouki:
i had tried updating the radio when i had 1.0.0, but it drained my battery ridiculously. so i went back to the old radio. now since i was able to customize 1.0.1 my way, i couldnt connect to wifi calling so i figured id flash the new radio and its worked out great so far... will know over the next couple of days about the battery life on it, but im sure ill be ok
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BrutalHoe:
How did u downgrade Ur radio? I tried flashing it like I did to upgraded to .27 but it won't flash.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sebalos:
Hi, I really appreciate your job. I was looking for the ROM as much close to stock as it is possible and I ve found this one. Very good job, I am starting just playing with it and also starting my adventure with Android and HTC.

I have found out thet the right button from the bottom bar (personalize) doesn't work, is there any fix already for this issue?

I've checked it twice after factory reset and still the same.

Regards,

Sebalos
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BrutalHoe:
It does work, its customizable button, open all Ur apps and click on launchKey app first.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
not sure how much this matters, but you should be running a 2.x kernel with this rom, best results seem to be with either standard or advanced, advanced uses pershoot's voltage tables, just with some of them removed (40+ volt/freq sets is overkill and causes too much scaling)

if you continue to have issues you need to try the "stock" htc kernel for a week and report back (in the kernel thread)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] retrokick:
Just wanted to shout out a quick THANK YOU!!! I've had my G2 about a week (just converted from an Epic on Sprint) and just got it rooted tonight. I've heard talk in other forums of Virtuous, so naturally it was the first one I tried. I'm BLOWN AWAY!! :D Looks exactly like the Evo, which is what I've been craving. After having Sense on the Evo, TouchWiz on the Epic and stock Android on the G2 were just LACKING. Sense is where it's at!!

I must get some much needed sleep for work tomorrow... but I will report back tomorrow evening should I come across any issues. Thanks again devs for all your hard work! I'm just thrilled to have Sense back!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sebalos:
Ok, :) thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Capt ZZzzz:
Cool
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
seriously... do people just not bother reading change-logs? honestly, you people just go "ooh, new rom, let me just blindly flash this fat bastard and be on my way... oh wait why doesn't this, this, and this thing work like I (think) it should?"

save some face, and take the 30seconds it takes to read the change-log people, if you don't at LEAST do this, I think you somewhat deserve to be ignored, laughed at, or worse... lol... no offense, but it's just common sense... :confused::eek::confused:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sebalos:
So many words you could really use them to help somebody than make a speech like in a church.

Regards
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sebalos:
And one thing more, take an example from BruteHoe, he just answered.

If you want keep your thoughts in your a.. and don't answer to anybody.

Kindly regards
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
Honestly every once in a while, it just has to be said, no harm was meant, it was merely a request, albeit a little on the sarcastic side... for that I apologize. I think once you start to dig around here, you'll realize that I go out of my way to help 99.9% of the time... but some things just need to be said... I'll try to keep the cynicism to a minimum though =P
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] luis86dr:
Haven't tried this rom in quite some time. Decided to give it a go today. Great rom. Running 1.0.1 with advanced kernel. Everything works but gps. Will not get a lock for the life of me. Any input anyone?

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] android602:
I'm still having problems with the market place..it keeps on force closing..I flashed the Rom twice n wiped data cache..

sent from g2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Athrun88:
GPS works perfect for me. Lock usually takes 30seconds to 1 minute. Search for "GPS Status & Toolbox" in the market and use that to refresh your GPS database in your phone. If not, there is another app "FasterFix" which you can use to download region specific GPS data.

Good luck!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] luis86dr:
Also having a issue with the htc clock / weather widget where it doesnt display my location. Have it setup to auto find my location but it keeps showing "current location" on the widget itself instead of my actualy location.

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ramsfan_Jim:
I hate to state the obvious, but if you're not getting a GPS lock, it won't know your location...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] crazyC:
I might be wrong about this, but I assumed it used Google's location service to find the location via cell towers and wifi networks rather than the GPS which would not be available much of the time? My location adjusts without GPS use as far as I know.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] 5thave174:
Yes, I think it used to behave that way. Mine, too, is not aware of my location. I set it manually.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dustrho:
I almost never have GPS running on my phone, and the HTC Weather/Clock always knows where I am. I wish it would update itself more than once an hour, because then it would be a little bit more accurate. I would prefer 15 minutes or even 30 minutes, if it were at all possible.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] marka2k:
Same here mine picks up location from the Cell Towers, it's not always 100% accurate but nothing to complain about.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sparacis:
I am actually having trouble with the weather app location. I use my phone in both boston and New york as I travel back and forth but for some reason my phone stay on the boston location and change to NY. When I open the app I see where I am in NY for a second and then it reverts back to boston. I cleared all the date in the applications menu for all the weather related issues and now it is stuck on my NY location and not changing to Boston
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Capt ZZzzz:
As this is my first Android device like a number of other users here, most of the entries in the changelog are meaningless until I acquire sufficient time with ecosystem. Hence it is a fact of life that there will always be lame questions asked by new users, you can chose to ignore such posts.

Big thanks to all the devs of this Rom and on xda
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ninj:
I agree with you though I think it's also up to the developer of a feature to make it understandable. I know they do it on their free time, and I'm the first one to be grateful, but this app launcher is a good example of the problem. It's a great feature, but nobody understand how to use it. And nobody will never read the changelog, it's a fact. So such a feature should come with a helper. Like when you click on it, if it's not bind to anything, it opens the key launcher app with a message : "you haven't bind this button yet, blabla..."

With the last radio i flashed (26.06.02.27) i get the same problems, no GPS, or very hardly, and for only some minutes.

Did you wipe Dalvik cache too (in advanced menu in CWM recovery)?

Couldn't find the first app you mention, in the market.

As said before me, indeed, the GPS is not necessary to know where you are. Although it's the most precise way to get your location, GSM triangulation and wifi signals are good enough for city precision.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] stealthee:
BUG:

Not seen anyone mention this put i went to turn down the brightness of the scrreen thru the power widget. and does not matter if i put it back where it was or not. the screen is hell to wake up. i must click 6-7 times before i get it awake. running virts 1.5 cpu thru rom manager. not sure if anyone has seen this? i have to basicly reflash back to make it stop doing this. well i guess i could do a reset not tried that but wondering if there is a fix i missed when i was searching.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Eclypz:
Weird. Everything was going good, but today, my gps couldn't lock on either (was trying to use google navigation). However, a reboot resolved it.

.27 radio
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
@rmk40 is there any eta on the wifi calling fix for me??? I know you are very busy but I do need it. I will have to switch unfortunately if I can't get it back..... sorry to bother you about it again but I really do need it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Delta105RUS:
Personally I stoped updating the since 0.90. I am just sick of having to reinstall all my third party apps. 0.90 has the wake problem, but I'm willing to live with it.

RUS4LIFE
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
if you just need a zip to flash that adds the proper modules... etc... i can help you with that... if you already have the stuff present and it's not working... then I probably can't help you, let me know =)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
that is exactly what I need that would be amazing! Can you PM me a link to download it???
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
alright, I'll toss one together... had to download the rom zip again, so let me pull the proper files and build and I'll post it here, in case anyone else might need it...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
Great thank you!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
for anyone else that might need this, flash it via recovery. It automatically clears dalvik, so first boot after flashing might take a little longer than previous or subsequent boots...

anyways, hope it helps... please let me know if you have any issues!

O.K. had to get a little help from rmk, I didn't fully understand the symlink issue... but here, this file should definitely work... also added the forgotten file (libganril.so)... enjoy!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
thank you so much I will try it now.............
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
wow works perfect thank you so very much!!!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
glad it worked for you =) wish I could use it... hehe... even though simple mobile uses t-mobiles network, they don't allow wifi-calling :mad:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
Oh man that does suck. Wifi calling was the only thing I needed from Android I wasn't getting. Now I am complete lol thanks again!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
no problem ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bouzouki:
hey benjaminz, i was having some intermittent problems with wifi calling. so i flashed this on it and it automatically seems to be better. thanks!!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Delta105RUS:
Maybe someone already answered this but my customize button (on the right of the "phone" button) doesn't do anything. I press it, abduction norhing.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
1. open launchkey app from app drawer, setup desired "action"

2. hit right softkey on launcher to perform desired action

3. update to "donate" version of launchkey for some added functionality, I personally use the donate version, it has some very nice features, most of which are included in free version that is included in rom.

4. enjoy your added functionality, or search this form for "returnLAUNCHERtoSTOCK" and flash that zip via recover, to remove this functionality
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Maybe I need to put the download links inside the change log. If you guys read nothing else, you should at least look at the change logs for every release.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BSAKSOUK:
I wish rmk and EvilD could use the optimizations included in Isensation HD Rom in their Virtuous ROM (if its possible).

That way, it would be simply the ultimate ROM for the G2/DesireZ.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Delta105RUS:
Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lainvalenajr:
Lol try to request it my friend
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
Where is that rom? What kind of features?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EuroSpeed:
You did not read it thoroughly then. No need to wipe when upgrading.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] csufmedina1:
With the rom update v0.7.0 I'm still not able to send MMS..maybe I must be doing something wrong???
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jerrycycle:
When you have a rom like stock and or any other that mms works, use a app like Apn backup & restore to save that information. When you install and rom and complain mms is not work delete current setting and install the saved setting that work. Save a lot of typing.

You can read back in the post for mms settings or use the ones in link 324 from the post and apply using apn backup & restore.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=835687&page=33
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EuroSpeed:
MMS is working for me, without changing any APNs.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
Does this rom with the new kernel break mac adress?? I want it to keep working with htcsense.com

Edit: just installed this and it breaks mac address and htcsese.com mac now shows as 00:11:22:33:44:55