[Fascinate Android Development] OnlyStrife:
Battery life killed me, but I have other questions too

Hey everyone,

Firstly, thanks, Butch, for making this Rom. It is by far my favorite Rom I have ever seen and I quickly found my home with SuperDark. Unfortunately I ran into this same problem that DarthCivicus did. I've tried a few different Roms, included Zinc Elements, which is Deodexed (though I have no idea what deodex means), as well as a couple others and haven't seen this problem anywhere else. I originally converted from DI01 though, so I had lots of problems. I then figured out how to flash DJ05 properly using Odin and was so pleased when I got perfect results.

Unfortunately, after using installing it my

full

battery got toasted in about 6-8 hours with minimal use. Even on standby the battery was draining crazy fast. I won't use this Rom permanently until the solution is found cause I definitely need more than 1/3 of a day of charge and know my phone is capable of that. Something else odd I noticed was that with 1 or 2 programs open, the thing would barely charge faster than it was discharging. Anyway, I am currently running the Zinc Elements v2.1.3 for today since I needed a working phone (though it's not that great IMO and is built on DI01). The following is a list of my current specs and troubleshooting measures taken:

specs:

Model number - SCH-I500

Hardware version - i500.04

Baseband version - S:i500.04 V.DJ05

Kernel version - 2.6.29

Build number - SCH-I500.DI01 - this, I assume, is Zinc Elements build, not my baseband.

I flashed SuperDark over the DJ05 stock Rom after following the walkthrough and using Odin, so I thought it'd be pretty error free there as everything seemed to work after switching from DI01. The Fascinate is my first smartphone and I only rooted a week ago or so, so I'm still pretty new in this whole process but I learn fast. I have a very small amount of exposure to adb and really hate manual programming since that's not my forte and is still kinda scary to me, so doing anything with that would most likely require a walkthrough.

I am also confounded because RyanZA's OCLF didn't work on this Rom on my phone either. The first time I attempted, the phone got stuck on the Samsung loading screen after finishing "successfully" and never actually booted. After reflashing the Rom, OCLF would error out on me, and I think I set in some error reports with that info, Butch (with return email address onlystrife@gmail.com).

Regardless of what happens with OCLF, I still want to use this Rom, so I'd be willing to figure out how to used Voodoo or Stupidfast installations if necessary though I've never tried them. As far as I'm aware, I installed DJ05 correctly as I wiped all of the user data+cache+delvik before installing DJ05, then did the same process before installing SuperDark on top of the DJ05 stock. One possibility is that Titanium Backup is restoring some incompatible or outdated programs as they all are from DI01 but I plan on controlling for that the second time by not restoring TiB apps right away (or ever if it ends up being the problem).

So, step by step, my next plan of action is to redo what I've already done by 1) doing full reformat of DJ05 using Odin then reinstalling DJ05 stock by following the guidelines in the walkthrough, 2) doing a clean install SuperDark on top of that, and 3) not doing TiB.

If you guys think of anything else I could do, let me know. I really want to use this awesome Rom, but I can't if my battery won't last. Any assistance/information will be helpful as, again, I'm still kinda new to this whole area of computing. Thanks so much for everything, guys, and especially Butch!

I'll edit or post again with updates of my situation. Thanks, and Happy 2011 (though we still wait for 2.2 :mad: ).

Update: I reinstalled and installed voodoo which seemed to help a little bit. The battery isn't dropping at the speed of light anymore, but it still isn't anywhere comparable to when i had stock installed. Let me know any ideas you might have. Again, thanks for your help and time, guys.