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[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farsight73:
I don't use any. Leave it naked and so far still sparkling shiny.. Just don't wanna ruin the clear beauty display by putting screen protector. Beside it's scratch resistant, so if you just put a little extra careful then the defy wouldn't get any scratch at all. Extra self discipline is all needed for me.

Sent from my awesome Moto Defy Gingerbread 2.3.3 - XDA Premium
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramy911us:
you guys should really try skinomi full body kit,its a life saver....
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antukubo:
my Defy is naked w/o any screen protector too. I took a good care of it everytime, for the past 6 months. Unfortunately, yesterday I found a small scratch on it. About 1/8" long. It is not obvious but very-very-very annoying. Maybe I should quickly get a protection...
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramy911us:
^^thats what he said

Trolololololol:D
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sutitan:
I have an unused skinomi screen protector for the defy still new in the box. I had gotten two, but my wife didn't want one for her defy. Ive just been too lazy to send it back, and now its been over 30 days, too long for a refund.

I paid 11.95 for it. Anyone want to buy it for 8 (in the US)? I really wont make that much on it. Shipping will probably eat into any money ill make back.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cardozclive:
Gorila glass is not a scatch proof glass. Its is dust proof.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaos212:
I've had this phone for a little over 2 months and the screen is still near perfect. I used a screen protector for maybe 2 days but noticed it messed with the during phone call backlight sensor. I find a few wipes with the bottom of my shirt is more than sufficient
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aspergerish:
My Defy has many many small scratches, not that it bothers me
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arvs0z:
For 2 months I have always placed my Defy in my coin pouch which is always in my pocket. Last week I placed a glossy screen protector and I just found out recently that the protector (I HOPE) already had a scratch.

It may be just by chance that something scratched on the screen or the screen has always been so strong against my coins and keys :)
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I started off using a screen protector. After about 3 months it was pretty scratched up, and lowered contrast of the screen quite a bit, as well as touch responsiveness and not having as good a feel under the finger.

Then I really thought about it and decided that it was in fact pretty pointless... I was putting up with the scratches and poorer performance with the screen protector on. What am I keeping the screen so pristine for? So that in a couple of years when I move on, it can sit in the cupboard with a pristine screen? My defy lives in a belt case or on my desk, and gorilla glass is more than up to this.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labsin:
Some people seem to have problems with the proximity sensor not working correct with a screen protector. The sensor is for waking up the phone when you move the phone from your ear. If you have problems with phone not waking up after a call, cut a hole in the protector around the sensor(left above the 'M' in Motorola).

Thought to mention it in this tread.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmiket:
With the glass/digitizer selling for $20 it makes me wonder if the glass will resist scratches longer than two $10 screen protectors will???

I'm more worried about impacts breaking the screen after reading a website where a bunch of people said theirs broke falling a couple feet. I held a gzone commando in the store the other day and it has a thick bezel, i think more impacts happen to the edges than the center of the screen so i wonder if theres a cheap rubber case with a good bezel that could significantly reduce the chance of the screen breaking?

Anyone have problems with the camera lens scratching?

My dad has a samsung b2100 and was thinkign about a b2710 but i told him that with a defy he could have free wifi calling at home which would save him money over time. I wonder if the price of new defys on ebay will drop when the defy+ comes out and also how long will replacment parts and accesories be available? Ideally i could keep the phone alive for two years.

Edit: do any of the screen protectors have problems loosening if the phone is soaked in water alot? How do some protectors self heal?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] titoui:
I don't have any problem (like the proximity sensor) with my screen protection.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteeLx:
10months still pawning :D no need, Defy has Gorilla glass

[ http://gizmodo.com/5726124/what-is-gorilla-glass ]
[Wildfire General] esUK:
Hi I have been trying all evening to remove com.wsandroid.apk from my phone, using terminal but I simply cannot. I've tried many different commands and I'm just being told either permission denied, directory not found/not empty. I have a Wildfire which is obviously rooted. Please help me out, tearing my hair out here. :mad::mad:
[Wildfire General] BTaylor927:
So you're using modaco custom rom?

Download the latest version of HTC Sync and install. This will also install the adb drivers. (I presume you use windows, if not, I apologise)

Download the Android SDK

Put the phone in fastboot mode (Power+Volume down) and plug it into your computer.

When the drivers are installed, use the command prompt to navigate to the tools folder within the android sdk folder.

Type the following commands, pressing enter at the end of each line:

adb shell

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock03 /system

cd app

rm -r com.wsandroid.apk

That should do it :)
[Wildfire General] esUK:
I'm using the stock ROM but it is rooted with Unrevoked. I'll try these instructions anyway.
[Wildfire General] esUK:
I'm trying these settings, but when I get to adb remount, I get this error: remount failed: Operation not permitted

EDIT: I put the phone into recovery mode and mounted it and it said remount succeeded, I then followed step 2. both *wsandroid* and com.wsandroid.apk and it says that they cannot be found.

EDIT: Nevermind, deleted it :D
[Wildfire General] ramdroid77:
There's currently no write access to system partition using Unrevoked on Wildfire. So you can't remove it. You flashed it with update.zip? I'm not an expert (yet) but I assume the only way (or easiest way) to remove it is to flash your stock ROM again.
[Epic 4G General] patrickoneal:
I searched and couldn't find the solution to this. After I installed the froyo update, my app drawer was in some random order. It took a while for me to figure it out:

You have to be on in the apps screen.

Press the menu button on the bottom left of the phone.

Press Edit.

Press the menu button on the bottom left of the phone again.

Press "a-z sort".

This was bothering me, so I figured I'd share the solution.
[Epic 4G General] redram38:
But is there a way to set it to sort this way all the time. I have to go and do this every time I install a new app
[Epic 4G General] patrickoneal:
Not that I could find. This isn't ideal but is better than having to move each app to the correct location manually.
[Epic 4G General] pyroswithoutfire:
Just be happy you have the option. It seems like there trying to set up the app drawer to be more like the iphone but at least we have the option to set it to alphabetical order. But on the brighter side if you hit menu and then edit you can delete what ever apps you want. Which is similar to the iphone to.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
This is because the Epic runs Touchwiz 3.0 after the 2.2.1 update. The International Galaxy S, the captivate, fascinate, etc could already do this.

Sent from The Chaotic Void.
[Epic 4G General] zion12:
@Zanderman, I can't seem to find the option in International Galaxy S.

Could you list out the steps please.
[Epic 4G General] jerbeck24:
Sorry, was already answered...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfiej:
Please? :D

EDIT: I mean.. Transitions for stock FroYo.. I worded it wrong :/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rewen:
As I posted in another thread:

I am rooted, S-OFF, using the Sense Modaco ROM. Battery usage was no better with the Stock Bell Rom before rooting or S-OFF.

My main concern is the screen flickering at low brightness. it's as if it's unable to decide on a specific level of brightness and makes me question if it's actually saving any power.

I set my phone to Auto brightness and I am going to see if that is actually worse of if it's on par with 20%.

Ugh - just realized there is another thread pretty much all about this. I thought it was a different issue. Still, does anyone know if there is a better batch of phones or something? I have a FutureShop warranty so it'd be easy enough for me to replace if it will actually provide a solution
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
No-one has posted anything, to my knowledge, about a different batch of phones having better battery life. I would check out the other threads about battery life (including those on the G2 side too) and see if you can get yours to last better. But it could just be something faulty on your phone/battery.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rickroller:
Auto-brightness would make it even worse..because there is some type of bug or something that isn't making it function like it should. I was also getting terrible battery life until I followed some of these steps: http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20-tips-to-improve-htc-evo-4g-battery-life.html

Biggest killers are any widgets that are constantly updating..or facebook/twitter apps that are constantly updating. As well..i recommend SetCPU to underclock your phone when your screen is turned off. This should also help with conserving battery life along with some of the steps provided in that link.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rewen:
I am considering waiting a month or so and then having mine replaced. Unless I managed to figure something else out. My HTC Legend had better battery life.

The reason I want to try auto or higher brightness is to see if lowering it was actually saving me any battery life. I am curious if there's a driver or display issues that causes it to use the same amount regardless of the setting. So far I don't seem to be running out any faster @ auto than I was at 20%, but it hasn't been a long enough time to tell for sure.

Also I am unable to do the battery tip for the evo because once I turn off the phone and go to charge it again, it's instantly green. But I am going to try it anyway even though it's green.

Since writing the first post I used the OC module to get my phone to 1.2ghz. I have SetCPU set to run on boot with the onDemand setting. I have a profile that says to slow the CPU when the screen is off. From what I've read it doesn't make a ton of difference with this particular phone, but we'll see...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steviewevie:
Yep, that's what I found too, when you try and charge it thinks it's already charged and goes green straight away again. But as you said, worth a try.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rewen:
I just wanted to report back and say that I had my phone replaced. So far so good:

- No screen flicker issue at low brightness

- Battery has lasted nearly 20 hours with moderate-heavy use (played NFS Shift, setup basically everything on the phone after rooting, installed all my apps, backups, flashed some roms, 20+ texts, 3-4 short calls, showing people random apps.)

If it's not all in my head then this is definitely much better now!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catachresistant:
Curious. It seems that everyone who reports the screen flickering problem has poor battery life.

Defective displays?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NSD:
I feel my battery life is pretty bad as well. I've unplugged the phone this morning at 7 AM. Now it's 2 PM, and I'm at 37%. In between, the only things I've done are: send/receive a few emails and chat on gtalk. Brightness is at 40%, animations are turned off, wifi and gps location off. Using latest Cyanogenmod (6.1.1) and have no screen flicker issues :(

Edit: 17 minutes later, it's now at 27% :(
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost800:
How long have you had the phone for?

Initially the first few days I got the phone, battery life was really bad, could drain in a few hours.

After a week or two of use, I now have reasonable battery life, the phone can last all day with light usage and still have lots of juice left. Actually I think if you make a few calls and a few txts, battery could last 2 days. If you play with it, one day for sure but you need to plug in over night.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NSD:
(if you're talking to me) It's quite new, just picked it up on Friday actually. Also I've kept on researching, and it seems that poor coverage (like I have at work, from 7 til 3) tends to drain the battery even more, since the phone keeps switching between HSPA, 3G, etc.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rewen:
I had my first one for about a month at least. This replacement was from Saturday.

Today I've had my phone unplugged since 8am, it's 5:30pm and I have 45% battery left, but the screen is the #2 user. Standby is #1 @ 40% of my battery usage, due to over 4 hours of time without a signal. The screen is only 24% and has been on for 48 minutes. Voice calls is #3 at 23% battery usage, with 23mins of calling.

My other phone would have died by now.

Also I spent an hour of streaming bluetooth audio to my car. Bluetooth doesn't even register on the battery usage. I've never seen it use more than 2% and it's always on. I am not sure why people say it uses a lot.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benven:
Just want to share my experience.

I too had poor battery life. Stock Bell ROM. Got to 3:00 pm and it used to die. Use this for work. Pushing data all day from Exchange server, bluetooth on all day because I'm in and out of the car, talk on average 30 minutes per day, texting, surfing, tethering, blah blah. Believe it or not, my old Omnia II would get me thru the day no problem.

I was also tempted to return it. But I decided to try a few things. Installed Set CPU and a task killer at the same time. Shut down as many tasks as possible on start up. Widgets and accounts, except Exchange-push, run and sync every hour. I get about 40% battery by dinner. I am happy now :).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kenzy-FIN:
I'm quite happy with my Desire Z's battery life, It lasts for about 36 hours with moderate use. I have Juicedefender and Ultimatejuice installed, data or wifi are opened only when an app needs data connection, this increased my battery life by 10 hours or sth like that. Nice app.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcaz:
I had terrible battery life until I went overseas. It is a stock Bell ROM, but I arrived in Spain Monday and am using a Spanish SIM card.

My battery life has increased from 14 hours with Bell's 3G signal to my current 27 hours and 35% remaining battery using GSM and WiFi always on. Funny thing is that no matter where I am it says the screen is by far my biggest power drain.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] architect_:
Where did you buy your Desire Z and how did you get it replaced? I'm with Bell and they would take mine to send out for "repair" but not sure if that will do anything. This will take 3-6 weeks apparently and I'm not sure if they it is worth it.

I'm running 10 hours with that I consider fair usage (few calls, text, map/gsp, and facebook.) My display is the highest battery usage at 60% and on for about 1:45h. I'm very disappointed.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blubberor:
Hey,

it's the same with my G2.

Max 24h.

I've standard ROM installed.

No WiFi.

Brightness to about 30%.

Juice Defender is installed and I'm surfing and just the regular stuff, but even if it's just in standby, it's taking a lot of power (display takes most)

Best!

-blubberor
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rewen:
I bought mine at FutureShop since I didn't think Bell would let me without buying at least a month of service (or being an existing customer). I also purchased FutureShop's extended warranty which is how I was able to get it swapped for a new one so quickly.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] filmore77:
I use the extended battery for the evo. Lasts about 1.5 days with ass loads of use. Just have to trim the plastic edges a bit.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rewen:
I have a couple of those red chichitech batteries but I wasn't able to notice any improvement with the problem phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razorless:
My Desire Z also has a flickering screen at lowest brightness, and with moderate use it dies after about 12 hours max. Even on lowest brightness the screen ueses 59% battery. I rarely manage to make it through the day without having to charge the phone. Im on stock ROM with latest OTA (1.72) btw.

Gonna have it replaced next week just cause of the flickering screen. Has anyone tried the 1700mAH battery from seidio?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CB620:
Running stock rooted, get almost two and a half days use out of it. Not setcpu no kernels no juice defenders. Couple widgets running, and moderate use.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
Do what I did: buy a spare battery.

Sent from a Western Union telegram.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deliberate187:
Sense likes to eat the battery too. Keep that in mind. If you're on a G2 (not DZ) it may be in your benefit to flash the stock ROM and see if that helps. I get at the very least 12 hours out of my phone and I am constantly surfing the internet and I send ~200 texts a day while at work or at home.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeryCoolAlan:
on froyo you cannot do apss2sd with lagfix turned on!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkside79:
Not true because I now have 6 apps installed on my external sd card. And I didnt put them there.have froyo.root and OCLF
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkside79:
Some apps are being installed there automaticly. Like Angry Birds Seasons and Slice It. No Idea why ether. But as long as they work I dont care. So apps can be installed to the external sd card using Froyo Rom and OCLF. Well atleast for me!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeryCoolAlan:
Really?

I cant move any it dont let me

Sent from my Samsung Vibrant
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkside79:
Back up ur sd card then try refomatting it! That should fix it.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] MWBehr:
I came across the following post in the i9000 forums:

I followed these instruction exactly on the new deodexed JK6 rom and it worked perfectly! :) I had never seen anyone mention before that we could use the UOT kitchen directly, and just thought I'd share. If this is old news, just let the thread die ;)

Original thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=765419

Edit: Added picture and a CWM .zip of the framework I built.

Edit 2: Added battery option images

This framework was built for the deodexed JK6 rom. I make no guarantees of success or failure of flashing to any other rom. Also, of course, if you don't make a backup first and/or don't know how to use Odin to recover, you're on your own.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] intruda119:
Thx for the finding. Worked perfectly
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] demo23019:
Thanks for sharing works great
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] mp2ning:
I tried it and it works on sXe v3.1!

Sent from my Froyo-powered Vibrant
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] MWBehr:
Glad to hear it's working for you guys. From what I gathered from the i9000 forums, the kitchen should work for any rom we have.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] YetisAreReal:
Thanks for posting this it worked perfect on my stock 2.2. I chose the SCB with % Version Z Custom type. Really happy with this since I wanted a true battery percentage reading.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] zimphishmonger:
Good find! Thanks for sharing :)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] jzero88:
Anyone willing to upload a stock accurate battery percentage for JK6? Would be great, thanks in advance!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] MWBehr:
This zip I included is for the stock deodexed JK6 (also includes nicer status icons). If people would like to share their zips for the various roms the get this working on, I'd be happy to include them in the OP to make things easier on others. Please include the following information:

Rom name and version number

Battery mod selected

Status icon set (if any) included

Any other framework mods previously applied
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Wykedx:
i can't seem to get this to work, i keep getting shtf errors...

anyone want to post a video tutorial or explain to me exactly how i extract my framework apk to the kitchen?? thank you!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] reddragon72:
How about JL1? I tried another one for JK6 and was getting FC's on the alarm and camera so I think something is going on there with the JL1 modem. Not sure though, but it worked fine till the JL1 modem was installed. Oh and I rolled back to the standard Android icons with JL1 and all FC's stopped so it had to be something with this on JL1.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] reddragon72:
here is what I drummed up. Very similar to others but I felt that the green needed to be the highest percentage as green is usually denoted with fully charged.

I have this loaded and it is working for me, but as the OP states, use at your own risk and only on deodexed JK6.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] MWBehr:
The modem shouldn't have hurt anything, been sporting JL1 modem since release along with my same JK6 battery mod for awhile now.

Thanks for the contribution, I'll add it to the OP ;)

Is your framework from a deodexed rom (either deodexed stock or virtually any custom rom)?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Jackdog89:
Wow, thanks for sharing.

If any one is interested I used this method on stock deodexed JL4 with no problems.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Wykedx:
My framework is from nero rom. Isn't that deodexed?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] qroche85:
It won't work with Nero1. I tried.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] MWBehr:
From what I've been able to gather, the .9 PNGs in the framework don't decompile too easily on some heavily themed roms. I wish I could tell you what exactly the reason for this is, but I'm still learning and haven't gotten that far yet ;)
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] harpua1980:
Anyone have any luck with a screen capture app?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] New2Android:
You mean shootme? I have it installed and it works
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Sprdtyf350:
Did you install the version from the market? All it does for me is takes a picture of a black screen.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] KnightCrusader:
I've tried shootme and drocap2 and they both give me black images. How is everyone else getting screen shots?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] acuralegendz:
Same here, just black screens, 2.2 zpad
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] harpua1980:
Doesn't work for me
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] KnightCrusader:
It looks like the only thing that works is to get the DDMS tool from the Android SDK, and get a screen capture that way. Its the only way I have been able to do it, so far.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] thetechman123:
Is there any sort if tutorial on how to do this so we can get screen capture?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] KnightCrusader:
1. Download the Android SDK

2. Make sure you have set up ADB for your GTab (if not, get the Wireless ADB widget, or do the hack mentioned on the GTab Super Thread)

3. Launch DDMS.bat (in the SDK tools/ directory).

4. After the window pops up, select the device in the grid that is the GTab (if there is more than one, I usually have the GTab and Droid2 connected at the same time)

5. Select the Device Menu, and choose "Screen Capture..."

Easy breezy. Hardest part is setting up ADB to work.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] normz007:
I got the ADB widget... still getting the ADB error. Hmm, where can I find the GTab Super Thread? Can someone post the link?