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[G2 and Desire Z General] Alluuu:
Let's create a buglist for sense ui on android 2.2 so we can report the whole list to HTC for repairs, because they don't take single reports seriously. Here are what I've found so far, but please tell us yours!

European version (Software# 1.34.405.5):

MAJOR BUGS!

*The SMS bug where screen randomly scrolls up when using the hardware keyboard.

*Handsfree is useless: when you answer a call using the the headset button, the phone (screen) still turns on and unlocks.. so when your phone is in your pocket screenside to your thigh, then it will stay on, since it has screen to leg contact, pressing random "buttons"

Annoying bugs!

*When flipping the phone over for speaker mode, the screen stays on even though it's not visible and uses battery pointlessly..

*Usually when on the homescreen and holding down the search key, it brings up the voice commands window.. but not if you're in landscape mode with the keyboard slid out..

*Maybe just me, but when I'm writing a sms, after it counts 5 messages it automatically converts my message into mms, which costs me.. I was told that it's my carriers issue, but they say it's HTC, and all they can do is report that as a bug.. And another thing is that I have no idea how the software does it's math but 160 + 160 characters is 306 + another 160 is 459 + another 160 = 612 + 160 = 765..? and whenever I'm using an uconventional character like ö or õ, even a single one, then 5 message limit is 335..

What just could be there!

*You can assign your contacts their home or whatever addresses, but it is only viewable with google maps, not locations.. It would make so much SENSE to just click on a contact and navigate to him/her via your "premium navigation" (sorry if I just haven't been able to find it..)

Thank you for all your contributions, and I will update em into this list.. I just presumed HTC is a complany that wants their customers to think of them as the company whoise products are well thouht out and reliable, but from what I got back from trying to report some bugs, they couldn't care less.. even though the repair for flipping over to speaker mode screen situation is fixable via adding 2 almost identical lines of code..
[G2 and Desire Z General] KiNG OMaR:
The lag. :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z General] Alluuu:
I used to think mine lagged baddly too, but then i removed a screenprotector I had added, and removed most of the widgets and live wallpaper, now it's smooth don't know which of the 3 did the trick.. I think the screen protector reduced the responsieveness because of its thickness.. but yeah sometimes loading time for some apps that should just pop open is to long.. Don't know what to think or how to feel about it..
[G2 and Desire Z General] keinengel:
Getting stuck with a "Please wait" sign when sending an SMS.
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
You'll need to add more details here, like which ROM you're talking about. There are lots of shipping ROMs for the Desire Z, e.g. European, various Asian ones, Bell, etc, etc. They all potentially have different issues.

Now we are starting to get updates to these at all.

It's pointless talking about a bug unless you can tie that to a specific version, e.g. the updates might fix some of this stuff.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ashrack0:
Also on European version and confirming this bugs.

Should we mass mail HTC for the bugs or what?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Alluuu:
They will look into a reported bug and start trouble-shooting the problem once they have enough bug reports, so yes, that was the idea I was going for.. (not exactly mass emailing but giving them enought bug reports, so they would start recognizing the bugs.. :D )
[G2 and Desire Z General] mufumbo:
setBuiltInZoomControls

I am the developer of craigsnotifica and I am very amused to discover that htc sense had changed the way android breaks.

:mad:

For example, calling this outside from a UI thread works on the normal android sdk's:

webSettings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);

INSTEAD, on HTC SENSE UI it breaks here:

com.htc.multitouch.MultiTouchDetector$MultiTouchHandler.<init>(MultiTouchDetector.java:180)

It took me MONTHS to understand this. I only fixed this because of a kind user.

thanks

rafa
[Desire General] torwag:
Hi,

all Rom threads have a rather big amount of discussions about battery life. It seems battery life varies between 8 hours to several days. Several reasons for this are addressed and one might check this first before anything else

1. Usage. If you use your phone you discharge it. Use it heavily with all whistle and bells turned on and you discharge it quickly.

2. Apps. Some apps like to phone home, sending or fetching frequently data. For some apps this is obvious. However, some might be hidding this or they are just bad programmed.

Using Powertutor and juiceplotter help to identify those battery eating apps. E. g., VoIP- or Mailclients, etc. are candidates being for battery sucking monsters.

3. Signal reception might make a different. The radio modules trying to minimize the sending power to save battery. If you put the phone in an box, bag or whatever the radio module might switch to a higher sending level to reach the cell tower.

In general you can't do much, simply choice "good" locations wherever possible.

4. Cell search and switching. Using a train or any other fast moving vehicle might require to switch very frequently between different cell towers. Every switch consumes power since data will be exchanged. If no cell signal is found the phone starts searching for one which consumes more power. Switch to flight mode if possible.

This are already steps which helps to safe a big chunk of the batteryand all this steps are completely rom independent.

In my opinion roms might contribute only to a small amount to the battery power. Maybe there is a buggy program or some settings are not optimized. However any more or less stable Rom should result in a rather similar battery life time.

Same is true for the kernel. Sure undervoltage, different schedulers, etc. might all change something regarding the power consumption. However this could not explain this very different reported battery life times. Its more in the range of +- 2 hours.

I know it was discussed sometimes already. I believe that some reported battery problems are due to a wrong combination of libs and settings for the used radio module.

Many people upgraded to the newest radio, however the local carrier might slightly modified settings to there specific needs. Furthermore, the might use a special tailored library enhanced by functions for there particular network.

This was given, at least for the Japanese carrier Softbank.

build.prop contains some special calls and a look into the library libhtc_ril show corresponding functions.

If roms carrier a different version of libhtc_ril and does not call settings in build.prop people on the particular carrier might observe battery drains.

Even worth the present situation creates random combination of radio firmware, build.prop, and libhtc_ril.

What might be needed is a installation routine for a Rom, which is capable to modify and replace above mentioned files for the given carrier.

I know that this would work since I'm doing it manually every time I install a different rom.

Would be glad to hear other opinions on this topic.
[Desire General] alperto:
sure, the use of my phone make different battery drain but with the same use, this same battery drain change with the rom installed in this same phone! and the radio or the kernel of this same rom can make also difference in the battery drain (cf DeFroST for exemple...) with a scale between 8 and 20 hours!!! so i think the rom have a lot importance in battery drain ;-)
[Desire General] torwag:
Hi,

I think one has to differentiate between an potential bug in a rom which might drain the battery and a "stable" rom.

From the technical point you can tweak rom and kernel to the max but this would never result in 4 times longer battery.

I would not say thay you can't get a kernel highly optimized for performance which might drain much more. However, in general all roms come with power-savvy kernels the small differences between those kernels could in my opinion not make such a big differences.

Same is well known for laptops. Sure a stock kernel might drain faster but even if I tweak out the very last options in the kernel settings I could never improve battery life time by 400%. That would be instead of 2 hours my laptop would suddenly hold 8 or more hours.

I belive the same is true to roms. There are some which emphase light the use of light apps and avoid animations and other battery eating eye candy. However, it can't result in an difference of 3-4 times, unlike something is simply wrong within the rom.

The main point is, nobody seems to give attention to the different modifications different carriers introduce in stock roms.

Thus, using a rom for which libs and settings come originally from T-mobile UK might fail heavily for Softbank Japan, or Verizon US.

What would be needed is

1. Awareness of the different carrier-based settings.

2. An application which is capable to modify and replace the mentioned files specific for the used carrier.
[Desire General] philips1992:
Definitely,the battery life should be associated with ROM.The models of running ROM are different-----how the SD card works..
[HTC Aria General] cjtulowiecki:
Whenever I am using a cm rom, I can usually sync my contact photos with fb, but that's as far as it goes, any messaging app I use even though they support contact pictures and syncing with facebook, never show the contact pictures. For example im using go sms currently. Is anyone else having this problem?
[HTC Aria General] CallMeAria:
I'm on cm6.1.1 and using handcent sms and I'm getting the facebook contact pictures in there. So its not a cm problem. Maybe its go sms that doesn't display?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] no-success:
I've done all the market hacks and tried all the tricks but im wondering why most of the actual 3d games i want to get to show off the muscle that this great little tegra 2 tablet can flex.

it seems like the games i want on here right now "pocket legend" and "rocket bunnies" don't show up in the market and I was looking forward to "dungeon defenders"

I think there needs to be a big push of actually finding a way to get the full market that my Nexus One gets...

This is mostly why i bought the tablet, and thanks to all the great devs here we've been able to get "almost" everything working (Thanks roebeet, et all)

maybe we can make a nice thread with some different market fingerprints and post market results? (or any other suggestions)

I am currently running the latest Vegantab beta4 fyi.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] rcgabriel:
Well, as the guy who has tried all the market fingerprints and build.prop stuff and wrote the thread on the "full" market fix, I can tell you with some confidence that Pocket Legends and some of the other 3d games are a known issue - I have tried changing every build.prop setting to match that of my Nexus One (which finds those apps with no problem), and there are still a handful of 3d games that will not show up. I have also found that if you change too many of the settings in build.prop, you will eventually bootloop your G Tablet because Android itself gets confused about what it's running on. :)

You can find my notes on the subject in my posts on my thread in this forum on Full Market Fix.

In summary - the issue seems to be more than just using a different Market Fingerprint. That does not solve the problem, though it may make a few addition or a few less items show up. Right now, by most of my metrics, we have at least 95% of the items in Market showing up.

BTW, I have seen posts stating that the work around for Pocket Legends has been to download directly from their site, though I have not done so myself.

My understanding is that the CyanogenMod ROM for G Tablet does not require the Maket Fix and has no issues with missing items in Market because of the way the ROM image is built. I think the person to ask about this is bekriebel who built CyanogenMod for G Tablet - he can explain the concept of release-keys better than I can and how Market supports it out of the box on the CM ROM.

Unfortunately, it's a bit outside of my time availability right now to work much more on this, having already spent a day or more figuring out what I figured out. :) But please keep me in the loop if you figure anything else out!
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] no-success:
I just thought it would be good to have a good constructive conversation about why else it might not be working... so the build.prop isnt the thing then.

its sad that 3d games are not showing up when this device was built for 3d gaming!
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] HorsexD:
Pocket legends shows up on mine. got it installed...lemme try the other one..

EDIT: Strange they arent showing up anymore. when i was on Cyanogen 6.1 i Had them showing up. then again I didnt have the new market that looks like xbox live. strange...
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] no-success:
this is what I'm refering to its so spotty. there is this great drawing app that i purchased that id love to use on the tab called "sketchbook mobile" but its not showing up for me either.

I know there have been lots of people working on it but it would be great if we could somehow compare market search results on some of them to find the best?

also if cyanogenmod has more working downloads is there anyway that the market from cyanogenmod can be rolled into Vegantab?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Wyngnut:
Dungeon Defenders is amazing its based on the unreal engine and really shows off this hardware.

If we are patient I am sure there will be many amazing games in the future for this CPU/chipset.

I had originally intended to only use the gtab until a good windows7 tab was released but after seeing Dungeon defenders on this system I seriously doubt any windows based tab will be able to come close to this tab for some time and I am sure the cost of a system like that will be much higher.

U need to check out this game to understand what I mean.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Mikeg1969:
Agreed, DD plays perfectly on the gtab. Hopefully this is just the beginning of things to come once Honeycomb is in place and developers start making apps with tablets in mind.
[Nook Color General] Benny1234:
So I know a few of the live wallpapers are working and some arent. I can verify that the snow live wallpaper is working from the market. I downloaded and installed the beach live wallpaper apk via ADB. It shows a screenshot in the live wallpapers section on the device, but wont preview or work as background. All I get is a black screen.

Does anyone know if there is a way to get this working? Does another file need modified or dropped in? Or will it simply not work until we get froyo? I really want to get the beach live wallpaper working, its what I have on all my android phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bokbacken:
A little stuff that could be good

Usefull stuff and help will be collected here

To find out if suspect #3 has visited your phone (frequent flashers should suspect this) then this might help:

In SGSTools ther is a script to do that procedure of removing thumbnails and also delete two databases so they get rebuilt after reboot. In SGSTool (search market, need root) press Apply script then select clean_thumb_db.txt

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Modems could have a positive/negative effect on battery life, it could depend on what carrier you are on different regions could also matter.

pele78 have made a very good page about different modems, please take a look at it:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9579987&postcount=11945

And DocRambone has a great collection of modems if you want to test another to see if it gives you a couple of extra hours in you SGS:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9724862&postcount=14434

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lpy hooked up a multimeter to the battery and did some live measurements, I have put them in one post that you find here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10137241&postcount=387

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TheYar has a batterythread over at the captivates forums, you might find some interesting things over there as well:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806211

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rigor.m made this suggestion:

To check for wifi bug, from a pc, log in to your router, check what IP your phone got, ping that IP from your PC does the phone respond when wifi should be off? - Report your findings!

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Added January 11:

About the battery meter, hardcore found something weird, please see his post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10505720&postcount=8811

Regarding these things, please check the links under Expert witnesses in the previous post.

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Feel obliged to recommend a visit to hardcore's Speedmod kernel thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10056736#post10056736

Also this post for a different wifi firmware:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10056736&postcount=6706

And a direct link to his download page:

http://touristinparadise.blogspot.com/2010/11/samsung-galaxy-s-download-speedmod.html

And now I also add trasig's Advanced Voodoo 5 kernel with OC/UV:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=823300

Direct link to his download page:

http://kernel.1ug.org/

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] bokbacken:
Extra - useful CWM files

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexhull24:
I have tested mine overnight (JPX) and lost 10% in around 8 hrs. 2.2.1 email client set to sync every hour on two accounts. I have now turned it off and will update once tested again.

Using built in monitor and SGSInfo, I've found no anomalies in battery usage, but it is higher than previous firmwares.

Good idea for a thread!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] darkalchemist:
Ah, this is the perfect thread for me. I'm in the midst of trying to recalibrate my battery. I can say though, that with wifi and 3g off, I get next to no drain. (A bit annoying having to have them off though). I do however get drain with 3g on. I currently have gmail sync on and I've updated with the AOSP email now with push sync for exchange to see if it helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NetCopAD:
OK, I'll share my current status.

I've been using XWJPA with JPM modem for more than a month and was very satisfied with battery life.

Recently I upgraded to Doc's rom v5.1 (XXJPX based) and that introduced a battery drain problem.

When WiFi is connected, the phone fails to sleep properly and is running more than 50% of the time when idle, which results in huge loss of power (more than 10% per hour on several ocasions).

I've since upgraded to Doc's v6, v6.1, v6.2 as well as stock XXJPY, kernels Voodoo 5.0.3, Hardcore's K12, and stock, modems JPM, JPP, JPY = problem persists. All testing done on clean flashed roms with no additional software installed.

Another (well known) issue i'm having since JM1 is "Time without signal: 50%" which is easily solved by switching Airplane Mode On and Off, but it's annoying nonetheless, especially if you forget to do it upon restart only to find your battery is flat 5 hours later.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hydrouk:
Darkyy has fixed this wifi battery drain issue and a load of other stuff in his latest ROM

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=814091

Excellent ROM, pure speed and looks tasty ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] corgar:
check wifi sleep policy too
[Galaxy S I9000 General] anoneemooz:
I experienced quite a ridiculous amount of drain on the stock + voodoo kernel bundled with Doc's JPY 6.1 ROM as well as on SpeedMod k11c. I literally saw my battery dwindle down as I was using it normally yesterday.

No games, no music or video...just exchanging a few text messages and setting up my apps and such again after a fresh flash. Wifi, 3g, Bluetooth, Auto-Rotate, GPS were all off. Brightness set to the lowest possible. Still lost as much as 10-15% in an hour and let's say within that one hour the screen was on for half the time (I was out of the house so I didn't time it or anything)...

Have not had good battery life since Doc's JP8 ROM sadly and that was back in the days of 2.2...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NetCopAD:
AFAIK he has not fixed it, but thinks XXJPY has the fix included, which is not the case for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] anoneemooz:
I've read through the latter posts on there and the problem still persists for a lot of people. Wifi battery drain issue still doesn't seem resolved in his latest ROM according to recent posts.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jackall:
From my side, i have noticed a quite a big difference in battery drain when switching from voodoo to speedmod's kernel. (speedmod's being much better in terms of drain in my case), but having said this, I never came any close to JPO in terms of battery drain yet. That was much better for me.

I installed the latest voodoo kernel last night, and noticed that in my Battery info history, the infamous "0" process did not appear at all in network usage, and battery drain was not that bad (still nowehere close to JPO) but not bad either. Basically I removed the phone from the charger at 4AM this morning (after trying the suggested "trick" of fully draining the phone and charging while the phone was off, have no idea if this makes any difference at all ... but am out of ideas at this stage) and am at 66% battery at 3:00 PM. I would say on less than normal usage today, since I did not use it much, but I have seen worse.

I hav now just flashed the latest speedmod kernel, based on JPX (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=822756) K12 and will revert back.

I have also tried all the wipe battery stats suggested (with charger, without charger, at 100%, at 1% and so on, none ever helped)

Also the script to clear the thumbnails and the possibly corrupted databases ... still no joy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bokbacken:
Ok, thanks for the insight, but please don't use this thread as an adverising space.

So for some facts:

"this wifi battery drain issue" guess you refer to the previous poster, but I would really like to know a little mor details about the problem, and how has Darkyy fixed this?

Refering to the 1 post in a thread is not the kind of scientific facts that will help finding the true causes so could you be a little more specific?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] anoneemooz:
It's a "fix" that came with JPY, not actually one done by darky..and it still isn't fixed according to recent posts by those who've recently updated to his JPY (v7) ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bdl1969:
Interesting thread! I went from 2.2 JP8 to 2.2.1 JPU and found that my battery drain decreased, it went from 2 days between charges to (almost) 3 days. I then flashed JPX and then JPY and found the battery drain terrible with both, I was lucky to get a day and a half before recharging. I've just flashed back to JPU and then flashed the BUJP5 modem (which is the correct stock one for my phone / country). I'm waiting to see what happens to the battery life now... I'll post results as soon as I get a feel for whether it's any better / worse.