yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
What rom are you trying to put it in,and what part of it.

This might help too http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=864424
[Captivate Themes and Apps] TheEscapist:
First off, make sure you get his permission. Can't just go around taking peoples work. Secondly, you have to pull framework-res.apk, and copy over all the .pngs that you want in your new rom, over to that rom's framework-res.apk.

Also, 37F? Cold? Bah, come visit us up in Canada. It was -15C earlier this week.:cool:
[Captivate Themes and Apps] flashman2002:
Nevermind...
[Desire HD General] padlets:
Hi, i try to add new language to the settings but when i boot my phone i don't see the app, here is my logcat

W/PackageParser( 150): No actions in intent filter at /system/app/Settings.apk Binary XML file line #1363
W/PackageParser( 150): No actions in intent filter at /system/app/Settings.apk Binary XML file line #1408
W/PackageParser( 150): No actions in intent filter at /system/app/Settings.apk Binary XML file line #1416
W/PackageParser( 150): Problem in package /system/app/Settings.apk:
W/PackageParser( 150): Unknown element under <receiver>: intet-fileter at /system/app/Settings.apk Binary XML file line #1556
W/PackageParser( 150): Problem in package /system/app/Settings.apk:
W/PackageParser( 150): Unknown element under <receiver>: intet-fileter at /system/app/Settings.apk Binary XML file line #1559
W/PackageParser( 150): /system/app/Settings.apk (at Binary XML file line #1623): <meta-data> requires an android:name attribute

can anyone help me fix that, Thanks.
[Desire HD General] tani.os2:
same problem me.

but i try full wipe, its change setteing menu. try wipe.

not enough delete dalvik-cache, i canot find where data have.
[Captivate General] animalcostumeparty:
What Gives?

With wifi on, cell radio, gps and bluetooth off, no notifications, no apps allowed to connect besides sipdroid, I get 30 hours standby on Captivate. Under the same conditions, I get over 250 hours with my iPhone 4...

This can't be a straight hardware issue, I'm at a loss to explain why android is unusable as a wifi-only softphone, while the i4 does the job perfectly.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Are you using a modified ROM? Most modified ROM's don't turn off wifi when sleeping, whereas the official OTA ROM's do.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
Seriously? In a comparison test where you do not even use your $200 phone (with contract) you are concerned about battery consumption? Is it that hard to find a charger in 30 hours? What real world application are you trying to test?

On a side note my Escalade gets the same mpg as my civic hybrid when parked.
[Captivate General] newter55:
Odd....i get 20+ actually using the thing though i have noticed battery life is significantly better if you turn it off if you are not going to do anything with it but let it sit on the counter for days....also confirmed working on my evo. Perhaps i should look into developing this theory more
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
Music player testing

I spent $200 on this piece of junk, compared to my cassette player why is it that 2 years after I last used it it still plays but my captivate won't even power on?
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
Maybe it is not an android issue either. I have android phones in standby with cell radio off for 10 days. Maybe it is sipdroid - have you considered that?
[Captivate General] gunnyman:
haters gonna hate.

It's a phone, not an iPod.
[Captivate General] uberjon:
granted, i love my captivate.. but i notice power drain when 'idle' with wifi on too.. if i recall, it seems to be more severe depending on the encryption.. (none vs WPA2 tkip+aes)

if im not actively using wifi i tend to turn it off to save juice. :)
[Captivate General] newter55:
You guys do know that you can set the wifi to sleep when the screen is off? The default is fifteen minutes but this can be modified as well.
[Captivate General] gtg465x:
Setting your wifi sleep policy to never should actually get you more battery life. A strong wifi connection is generally going to use less battery than a 3G data connection, especially if you have less than 4 bars reception. On the stock firmware with wifi sleep set to never I was getting 75+ hour battery life with light use. Basically I was getting 3 days with light use, 2 days with moderate use, and 1 full day with heavy use.
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Homeboy's got to be on a leaked 2.2 build. On 2.1, I was getting nearly 4 days on wifi, and 3 days with minimal use on 3g, and that's with the wifi connection set to be always on.
[Captivate General] animalcostumeparty:
The purpose is to have a wifi softphone

It's like splitting the difference between a cell phone and a landline. No contract! Free calls and sms!

When you factor in the savings from losing the contract, the phone (any phone...) pays for itself in less than a year.

Yes, I am on a leaked 2.2 rom. For some reason I assumed battery management would be better...

I need to revert back to stock eclair and test again!

Also, I think this iphone battery might need calibration. It took two full days to lose 20% and then lost 36% in 12 hours. So the results are a better but less shockingly so.

I'll update after a full calibration on the iphone battery and run on the captivate with stock eclair-
[Captivate General] vunuts:
I'm catching your drift now.... If you don't find that flashing back to stock gives you acceptable battery life, try perception 8. Non uv/oc version. That's what I'm on now and it is amazing.
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
I know exactly what he's talking about. I had my captivate, and battery life was horrible on 2.1 and the leaked 2.2 build. I've had my iPhone 4 for about a week now, and the battery life is significantly better.
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
Geez, you guys get DAYS worth of usage out of it? I'm lucky to make it through the day! But I'm starting to think I'm just a heavier user. I have a very active Exchange account with Push, 4 more email accounts on 30 minute fetch, handful of widgets on 30 minute updates. WiFi always in use (thanks to the Y5 App), I use remote desktop/vnc a few times a day, and I do everything I can to keep it charged.

During the weekdays I'll get 15 hours of use, weekends I could possibly stretch it out to 24-30. Eh.....that's on Axura.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
Was an I phone user. The hardware is great. I os is horrid. Too controlled, too limited. I would expect that you would get good battery life when the phone inhibits you from doing just about everything. Could never see myself going back unless they scrap the os and open it up.
[Captivate General] gtg465x:
The question is... why are you still reading the Captivate forum? If you were completely satisfied with the switch it seems like you would only be reading iPhone dev forums.
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
It actually should be a lot better in 2.2. My friend who owns an HTC Desire said his battery life increased by about 75% after the 2.2 update (though he may be exaggerating, who knows). The reason our battery life gets worse with the 2.2 roms is because they're all based off of unfinished leaked roms, which still have a lot of bugs and aren't completely optimized for our devices. I expect things to get significantly better once the official 2.2 rom is released or when/if we get a 2.3 port from the nexus s.
[Captivate General] SiL3nTKiLL:
my captivate lasts more than 30 hours lol
[Captivate General] Dani897:
my phone lasts 60+ hrs with light use and everything on. normal use and i get about 40.
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
I'm not for all the fanboy "my device is better because..." thing. A lot of thought went in to what device I wanted to have, I weighed all the pros and cons (which have been discussed to death). I actually ditched the captivate for the HTC Surround, then came to the iPhone when my 30 days were almost up. I don't see anything wrong with me reading on the Captivate and Windows Phone 7 forums regularly. If I can help an individual, either by answering questions or offering my opinion based on the fact that I've owned pretty much every major smartphone to hit AT&T in the last few months, I will. So, no, I'm happy with my phone and my decision. Just trying to help some fellow XDA members out.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
If you only had a captivate for less then thirty days you are on no position to comment on the phone. I have had one for 4 months and the more I learn the more I know why it was the right choice. On the other hand I had an I phone for two years and since the os had basically remained unchanged since the first time I turned it on I moved forward
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
I got my captivate on launch day, I had it much longer than 30 days. I sold it, did an early upgrade to the Surround, and thus giving me 30 days to return it. Look guy, I love android, no one is trying to knock you off your wagon. Go out and get you a Ford Pinto, and let's see how long it takes you to realize that it's crap. In my case it was the horrible GPS, and the lack of support from Samsung. Did that GPS fix work for you? What about Froyo, where's that at? Can you take a picture in the dark? These are things that swayed me. I love the phone, however can't live with the baggage. So calm down, I'm not bashing your phone, just trying to give my opinion.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
I have been on froyo for 2 months. I get accurate gps lock with actual turn by turn directions. I actually can use this as a phone and not have to worry about dropping every other call. Sound quality on phone calls is vastly superior. Yes the camera does not have flash.

I did not go into an I phone forum and start a thread. I am not the one who needs to be knocked off a wagon

Be happy with your phone.find forums where you can mock the captivate, with a bunch of other people who have the exact same generic home screens you do. Marvel as it takes apple 4 years to update its os to allow you to have a picture background. You won't see me posting on those threads. I own a Captivate.
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
... Wow. Somehow me saying that I experienced the same thing as the OP apparently makes me mocking the captivate? This is insane, your acting as if I'm insulting you and your family, bro. It's a phone, I get it, people are defensive when it comes to their decisions, even if it is the purchase of a cell phone. But in the end, it's still just a phone. Just because I have an iPhone doesn't mean I cant post on XDA. It's an awesome community. I'm not "mocking" anyones phone, or them for owning it. Look at my first post in this thread, nothing. If for some reason I offended you, I apologize. I have no intentions of trying to convince people that I have the best phone, and they don't. The fact is, they all have their pros and cons, there is no perfect device. So, handshake to you my man, keep rocking that android, you got nothing but love here.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
No one is offended just some friendly banter. Bit bored so just having a go at it. I love my phone, you love yours. Such is life. No offense meant. Non taken on my part
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
Cool. Poor OP, we hijacked his thread.
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
oh well
[Captivate General] oriongaby:
Exactly what I thought.
[Captivate General] fyrebug:
wow, flame wars,

it's great that some of you can get 70+ hours somehow, but I actually use my phone. I'm finding the battery life of the captivate (stock rogers 2.1) to be half of what my iphone 3g was.

I would NEVER go back to an iphone, but that doesn;t change the fact that the captivate's battery life sucks.

I shouldn't have to get not use my phone, or be called an idiot becuase I want to use it. the response from you guys is completly silly. denial 101.

hey look, I'll remove the battery from my captivate and get a million hours!
[Captivate General] diablo009:
Personally, from a usability point of view, if a phone can survive a day of calls/messaging/whatever u do to call it moderate to heavy usage, you should be good. And Captivate does come for over a day with moderate use.

My wife has an iphone that sometimes makes me jealous over the battery left at the end of day, but she uses purely for a few calls, and unlike me. I literally use the phone for everything, and many a times when I am lazy to get to the laptop, and still manage to get the day through.

Display is the main hog for any battery, and Captivate has a larger display (4") compared to iPhone 4 (3.5").

And I think, we should not forget that iphone and captivate are two phones in their own worlds, worlds apart, and should not be compared.
[Captivate General] animalcostumeparty:
Hmm, flame wars indeed... c'est la vie.

I'm finding that flashing back to stock without a PC in the house to be a bit of neat trick. I partitioned and installed XP on my ubuntu machine (x86) but didn't have any luck getting odin to recognize the phone in DL mode. So I'm bootcamping my macbook with a torrented version of windows 7 (I've been putting this off anyway) and we'll see how it goes.

Looks like the iphone is going to get 5 days of standby set up as a softphone (I called it about once a day to make sure the sip connection never died). But I still need to figure out what happened the night it lost 36% over 12 hours (probably those evil dissidents at wikileaks using a botnet to take over the world! or not...)

I'll update as soon as I'm back to stock and have a day's worth of standby with the captivate to report on.
[Captivate General] DarrellRaines:
I carry around both an iphone 4 and a captivate daily. Now all personal preferences aside, I have found that on stock rom the battery life on the captivate wad on par with the iphone with moderate use.

On leaked 2.2, axura, and cognition (both the newest builds) my battery life was dismal.

On perception 8 I would day my battery life is slightly less than my iphone, but only because I find myself using the captivate more than my iphone as of late.

Everyones experiences will differ as we do not use both phones the same way and as the ios has had alot more polish. Than the captivate os has so far.

Just my two cent.
[Captivate General] animalcostumeparty:
Finally back to stock

Bad news...

20 hours standby! No usage!

Like I said in the OP, no way this is strictly a hardware issue, I like android more than iOS and I'm looking for a solution to this problem.

I don't know if anyone else is in a position to do this but some independent verification would be incredibly helpful. Settings are as follows:

Airplane mode

Wifi on, sleep = "never"

No background data/syncing

No bluetooth

No gps

No location over wifi

Signed into Pbxes on Sipdroid over TCP protocol

Let me know if there's any chance you can help a fella out.

Basically "Phone Idle" goes haywire under this config and starts consuming almost 5%/hr. It does not do this for me under regular cell configuration. I can't figure it out.
[Captivate General] gothpunk4christ:
Different technologies though. The Captivate has a much more vibrant screen (AMOLED) which also consumes less power. How MUCH less power is another story, but it does require less as it's not actively shining a backlight the entire time. Minimal, maybe, but still noticeable.

A Captivate uses a 1500mAh battery where as the iphail 4 uses a 1420mAh, the Cap has a higher battery capacity. The difference, I think, has a lot to do with the new processor they used in the iphail (Excuse me, I type that by habit almost... ), and the next reason given below at the end of this post. I say this while currently restoring/repairing/rebuilding all the broken iphails my family possess. And the little sisters boyfriend's. I hate these things so much. Ugh.

I will have to say that Apple does know how to design their software to run on absolute minimal power consumption.... mainly cause there isn't much at all there...
[Captivate General] DarrellRaines:
If you really want to test the battery life on them, set them in airplane mode and leave them on the counter for several days and only check it occasionally to see if it still has power.

Once that is done, turn one service on that has a corresponding service on the other and well you get the idea.

On a completely unrelated note, I just turned on my gameboy SP for the first time in probably 2 or 3 years and it still had a charge....enough for me to sit on the pot and play Final Fantasy a bit.

Maybe we just need Nintendo to make an android phone.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
During one of my battery stress tests, I let the captivate run a movie repeatedly till it could play no more saying something like "battery low to play". At this point I had the movie vid running for like 5+ hours.

And from my point of view, 5+ hours of full screen video with sound sent to internal speaker is pretty decent for any gadget designed to be a phone.
[Captivate General] animalcostumeparty:
Total Madness

You guys are going to love this.

So just for kicks I turned airplane mode off (I don't have a sim in it though...) and turned on background data and wifi location services as well as auto sync.

The battery life came back to normal. About 5 days with wifi always on.

Hilarious.

For some reason, the "phone idle" set of routines has a fit when you keep it on airplane mode with wifi on, turn all background data off and keep a tcp connection pinging once an hour (sip registration).

I have no idea why this is the case. Any thoughts?
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
Um - it is an iPhone. They haven't deviated from the design or OS and have been able to tweak tweak tweak to get it right. So I'm not surprised that the phone will have longer battery life.

This is one of the largest faults of any Android device. If you go around the web and read reviews on Android <x> device the biggest concern is battery drain/life of that device.

I'm not complaining - but these are the facts of life at the moment. Apple has a dedicated team of developers, engineers, QA testers, marketing, slaves to develop and test the OS and the hardware.

Android has Google to develop the base software then gives it to the manufacturers who then screw it up (i.e. TOUCHWIZ). Also the hardware manufacturers are then designing the hardware to loosely match Google's specs and they go "does it run" - yup! and release it.

It is then up to the Android community to report bugs and do the final test out in the field. Jobs stated "Fragmentation" of the devices - and in part he is correct - it could be the downfall of Android devices.

BUT - I wouldn't trade my Android phone in for another iPhone - I enjoy the freedom, the look and feel of Android, and the fact it is MY PHONE and not Apple's on a permanent leash to their constricted environment and iTunes.

Bottom line: Get an iPhone if your stressed about battery life. If you want to have a device that you know you can do whatever you want with stick with Android and deal with the known issues.

Or.... you could always get a Windows phone ;)
[Captivate General] skinien:
Well said, sir. Well said.
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
If you visit the apple forums, there are hundreds of threads complaining about poor battery life. It is almost always 3rd party apps.

I think the Android users complain more, because they do more tweaking and using of their phones. If you use it more, you use more battery.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
I would rather do with a car charger and a spare charger at work, than go to an iPhone.

And oh yes, I could always get a spare battery if I get so desperate.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
Try changing ur battery. Could be the case of a bad battery.

Like I posted in one of the earlier posts:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9554183&postcount=3

Copied from my earlier post on the link above:

I am currently like 45% left after about 8 hours with moderate usage. Trying to see if I can stretch more than this.

My today's usage statistics:

1. 11 hours 25 min 4 secs since unplugged

2. Battery remaining: 63%

3. Voice calls: 1h 10m 15s

4. Display: 1h 15m 42s

5. 2 gmail accounts with push turned on with about 10 mails delivered today

6. google voice with push all time with about 100-120 messages delivered using push

a. I do not have SetCPU.

b. I have my brightness set to 0, with auto-brightness turned off.

c. I have turned on EDGE, and 3G turned off since the phone was off charging hook. In short, on EDGE all the time.

d. Static but nice, colored wall paper.
[Captivate General] WebCobra:
Couldn't agree more.

Oh and yeah, you have to notice that android is basicly a linux os. It's a linux pc in your hand.
[Captivate General] skatcat31:
The iphone has a much slower processor than our 1ghz monsters, and nowhere near as much ram. Out also doesn't have the same graphics power. Purely from the more powerful hardware do we get dismal battery life. But dammit, dungeon defenders is just to much fun.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] elisamia:
hello guys,

I would like to know if there is a way to increase wifi range.

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wallah:
+1 me too, thanks !!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dupel:
No
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rothariger:
just no?

there must be a way...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nagrom78:
You need some tin foil and sticky back plastic or an extension lead for your wireless router
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pramathesh:
More on the tin foil method please...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AvatarReborn:
I think the person was talking about extending the range from the router.

Unless you know how to change the configuration for the wifi on the phone itself, I don't think it is possible.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bynar010:
Get Rayden to fire a lightning bolt at your phone, it will be super charged then.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
Wi Fi range extender for home router .

jje
[Droid Incredible General] parcou:
I left Windows Mobile Touch Pro 2 for the Droid and has been a good move. Problem I have with the Droid when I am out in the rural of Maui, Hawaii I can get GPS lock but the screen is bland, no map data because the cell service does not reach to certain areas of the rural areas. So Google Nav shows me moving but no maps to see where I am.

If I had the app like Garmin as I did on WinMo, I had the actual maps on a SD card on my device the Garmin app pull from.

If not Garmin, is there an app the offers app & map data that could reside on the SD card that I can use in country/rural areas where no cellular usage is possible?
[Droid Incredible General] worwig:
I'm about to retire my TP2 and move on like you.

I had Garmin XT and have been looking for a replacement for the reasons you mention. It looks like the CoPilot software may be the answer.

http://www.alk.com/copilot/android/
[Droid Incredible General] BenHolliday:
That's strange, I install satellite and leave cell coverage frequently while Navigation still tracks. It says something about data connection lost but keeps chugging along.
[Droid Incredible General] bilbobrian:
I believe the new google maps will fix this when it is released.
[Droid Incredible General] parcou:
Well for me since Google maps seems to act like a streaming like function to pull the maps over the cell towers as I drive along. When I was up 6000 feet on mountain roads the maps went away and the signal bars had an 'x'. I had no cell coverage in this remote area. If I had the Garmin XT maps or something like it on my device it I feel it could have pulled the data from the device because the GPS was working but all I saw was the blue gps arrow but no background of maps. It has happened to me before in Oregon heading towards sea-side and cell coverage drops as I get away from Beaverton.