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[Captivate General] Enhanced:
My Aurora live wallpaper is still there. I don't remember having an Ocean Wave one though.

The overall bootup time for my phone seems to be dramatically decreased. The first screen with Samsung i896 is on for a few seconds, the Rogers splash screen comes on for a second and the Galaxy S logo doesn't remain for any longer than it has before. Overall, I think the strangeness is just because the entire sequence is sped up because the phone is faster.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
Right. Load some movie onto ur phone, and let it run till ur phone runs out. When ur phone dies, then do a full charge cycle. This should possibly help.
[Captivate General] yobbei:
Did you lag fix? Did you lag fix with 2.1 before?

couple of things:

1. Browser is Slower for me.

2. I rooted and lag-fixed and the quadrant score is lower than 2.1 lag fixed (19xx vs 23xx)

3. Some apps works a lot better (google maps loads quickly and doesn't crash, gallery is a lot quicker)

4. Hardware buttons not as responsive.

5. Aurora is still there never had ocean wave.

Chatted with Rogers live support and I was told this is NOT an official update even tho it is from Kies. The official update will be posted on redboard.rogers.com and they are saying they are not supporting this firmware.

Yes Rogers suck.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Flew from Ft. Lauderdale to St. Louis to L.A. on Tuesday. Watched three movies totaling over 5-1/2 hours and still had 30% battery when we landed. I think there's quicker ways to run down a battery on this phone.:D
[Captivate General] gunstar3035:
Ok so in talking to my wife I messed up....

My phone was unplugged from 7am today and right now at 3:51pm, after downloading a battery calibration widget and checking its meter, votage, ect, I have 87% after being on all day with a live wall paper running since being unplugged (the water one with the fall leaves) and my default launcher being launcher pro. I've not used the phone much other than for 2 calls maybe taking up 20min.

Is that good? I dont know...

Anyways upon booting up again I agree that the boot time is much faster.

I think I will run the battery down playing some games...like I need an excuse to play more Angry Birds LOL
[Captivate General] gunstar3035:
WTF?! lol and yes they do ;)
[Captivate General] slntdth93:
well my phone boots up fast but my gps cant get a lock anymore (GPS Test).

on that note, what was the gps dialer command.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
Oh wow! Looks like u r one of the very few with this awesome battery life..!!!
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
Actually, I was quite surprised. I know it goes faster when surfing the web, using nav or just browsing through Market. I did do a test using conversions of the same movie clip in different formats to see how much processor use each needed. The .mkv clips used 2-3 points less CPU for playback than mpg2 or mp4 in both Xvid and H.264 codec and they played equally smooth and stunning on the Cappy. I convert all my movies to mkv now.
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
But.. um I don't either :)
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Nah. There is a better way that has been posted here before. Do a search. IIRC, it involves charge the battery to 100%, power off, charge to 100% in off mode and power on, top off again and repeat this cycle one more time.
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
If you don't drain the battery all the way, how can the phone calibrate anything?

I believe in running the phone down until it shuts off as the most reliable way. I do this once ever few months, and i have for every phone i have owned. Excellent battery life.
[Captivate General] Sqdnguns:
Please UPDATE your thread title so n00b's don't get confused and start foaming at the mouth.

Should read:

[ROGERS] Strange things with official 2.2

Spelling errors corrected as well...........
[Captivate General] Sqdnguns:
Maybe Rogers should look into this since it is being pushed out by Samsung to Rogers phones. If it borks these phones, won't Rogers have some liability??

Just asking.........
[Captivate General] TriC_101:
This ROM is great.. loving it so far.. not bugs and battery life is great. already root and removed the 4 rogers apps.
[Captivate General] Fortysixandtwo:
thanks for the tips everyone....was able to get 2.2 running with 1.5 kies being utilized.

Liking 2.2 so far -except a slower web browsing experience over hspa? Any thoughts? I have selected "on demand" but that doesn't seem to improve anything.

Is it just me or does web browsing seem sluggish on 2.2?
[Captivate General] ricethief:
Are you browsing sites heavy with flash content?
[Captivate General] Sqdnguns:
p0rntube will do that................
[Captivate General] Fortysixandtwo:
not at all....in fact, loading these forums takes some time. Just doesn't seem as snappy as 2.1 :confused:

I have done a clean install, pulled the battery, started from scratch etc etc.

Any thoughts?
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
You don't need to run it down (not healthy for the Li-ion battery). The Li-ion battery should have the dedicated circuit to monitor its juice level (very important in order protect the battery) but somehow Android OS is too dumb to figure it out. The calibration is for training the OS, not the battery. The OS needs to be trained to store the correct data in a file.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
The flash plugin really does a heavy toll on the browser performance (Steve Jobs is aabsolutely right on this). By default the flash plugin will be always loaded (all forums have flash content, e.g. ads). You can go to browser and set the flash plugin to on-demand mode so the flash content will only be activated when you tap on them. This will speed up the browser.
[Captivate General] Fortysixandtwo:
Quadrant benchmark result is roughly 1000. Does that sound right?
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
Yes, calibration is for training OS/circuitry that monitors battery.

Use whatever method you see fit, however numerous device manufacturers (Apple is one, Dell & HP too) have specific KB articles for improving battery performance and ALL reference running the device until it will no longer turn on (search apple for Macbook and iPhone LiON calibration). The device needs to know empty and full in order to properly reflect charge level and charge properly.

This is not dangerous to the battery because you are using a smart device, to drain the battery. You are not using a flashlight that leave the circuit connected drawing every last electron out; you are using a device that detects when the current flow or voltage drops and will shut off. So you never actually drain the battery 100%. The worst thing you can do to an LiON battery is leave it plugged in all the time.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Yes, it does not destory battery but remember Li-ION batteries has very limited recharge cycle (< 1000), counted from fully run down->Fully charged->fully run down. So, if you purposefully run it down for nothing, you just wasted a recharge cycle.

Absolutely false. Leaving it plugged in all the time is what makes most of my laptop batteries last 3 to 5 years. If you let it run down all the time, your will need new battery within a year.
[Captivate General] newter55:
Might want to do some more research...lion batteries last longest when stored at 40% charge and cool, like in the fridge :). The heat and being fully charged constantly from your laptop actually kills battery life. Ideal is to remove the battery when on ac power but this risks data loss.

Edited for swype
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] heresandyboy:
Pictures and Videos

New Pics, More to come soon...
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] Strepsils:
KDE on HD2. AWESOME!!!
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] acemonvw:
OOOhhh, Exciting!

Can't wait to see the pics!

Good job!
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] efebe:
Great!! I Cant wait to try it out :D thanks a lot for ur work!!!
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] Vampir1c:
this sounds crazy man, awesome work, I cant wait to have this on my hd2 :)
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] zeehh:
Wheres the download link :0?
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] mattfmartin:
So the only difference between this, and dcordes version is the interface? Anyways looking forward to seeing the progress on it.
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] huggs:
So cool! There's so much new stuff going on with the HD2 right now! Awesome that we now have a choice of gnome or kde, thanks for sharing man, real good stuff

~HD2 Android~
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] venomhtchd2:
Screen shots Sir ;)
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] ricky886:
Have any beta version can download:confused:
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] heresandyboy:
My apologies to everyone for the delay in release.. I have a few more bugs to iron out mainly performance issues and i've expanded my own software to handle network mode notifications etc even further so it should be fully comprehensive. Im also looking into modifying sphone to work better on HD2, I've already revised the icon set so the ugly black and white network signal icons are now beautiful. I will release this as soon as I am happy it runs perfectly. A couple more days and you will have all my efforts to play with! Please anyone get in touch if you can host the download for me and I will send you a copy as soon as I am ready.

The wait is almost over!
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] Tokl:
I aggree,

its better to make it run smooth than people cry "something is not working" ;)

P.S. I can host it on my Rapidshare account.

Greetz Tokl
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] ALPTEKİN_:
kde and HD2.This will be exciting....
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] deadman_walking1:
waiting anxiously ... hope the result is awesome :) .. good luck
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] heresandyboy:
A nightmare has befallen my HD2, the usb port has come loose and I am unable to charge it to complete this work, I have just ordered a cradle with spare battery charging slot so when it arrives I'll finish the last bit of work I have to do. I managed to sort out most of the performance issues and am really happy with the battery life, general usability and finger friendliness. Theres just a bit of testing to be done on my custom made software and its ready to go! Devastating I cant test usb host mode. Guess I'll have to find a HD2 with the spare parts I need on ebay as repairing the usb is not an option, theres nothing to solder back its torn the connections on the board.
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
have you looked at following the tracks on the board towards the closest part, and solder a wire between that and the connector?

it's close to what i done on my modified usb hub to bypase the diode which original protects the host usb port and controller chip, so the external powersupply powers everything.

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] brooon:
OH MY GOD...THEY KILLED HD2!!! :D

I´m deeply sorry for that, I would donate some cents (if I only could... :( <--undergraduate)
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] liaoxijun2009:
Can someone uploas some pictures? thanks
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] deadman_walking1:
This is Sad ... i will still eagerly wait for it ... please also add sound to it :D :) .. i guess this is without sound .. isin'it ? :confused:
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] nicedude_abad:
Fab work mate. Hope your HD2 recovers well :P. Keep up the good work and hope this sound issue gets sorted. That's the only major bottleneck I think.
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] martijnloeffen:
Very nice...
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] adamvanner:
Anyone know if the magldr version will support both NAND and SD? I cant see many using ubuntu as a primary OS (apart from if using the HD2 as a device for crazy tech / arts projects maybe)

and... just an idea, but what about a dual hibernate feature to allow fast and persistent switching between OSs?
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] vizier:
Thanks man. This is great.
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
check this post by dcordes.

if both the linux and andoid kernel have this feature, switching should be possible (soon).

that is offcourse if ubuntu/kubuntu also get/have this feature.

alltho a simple reboot would suffice on ubuntu/kubuntu.

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] ricky886:
Have any update?:o:(:mad::D
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] dertester123:
Its really bad with the brocken usb port. Im scared mine will die someday too :(

Its a hard part to change, a miniusb port should be easier to get than a mainboard. Also the Mainboard costs nearly half of a phone with brocken screen...

Maby you know some electrican with good soldering skills who could replace the port for you?

Our device has a "Micro-B" port if im right..

That should be one for example:

Link

Maby there are better ones that feature that little solderings points at the side for a better hold on the mainboard:

I think its cheaper to order a port and find someone that would solder this for a beer ^^
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] arbalah:
Waiting for Magldr version.
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
any change of a higher resolution picture of the board, or zoomed in on the connector?

from what i can see now soldering isn't even an option.

the only points which can be soldered are the ground connectors of the plug.

if the plug gets ripped off, like what happend to andy, the print tracks get ripped to pieces.

now to repair those you need soldering glue and a special uv-light/hot-air type of soldering iron/box, and then it's still not sure if it's possible to repair them (depends how much and how the print tracks are ripped to pieces).

i have the hot air type at home somewhere but it's broken, no idea if i'm able to repair it.

this is the cheapest model i could find so far, which i'm not to sure that it would be suited for the job (not stable enough in temperature of the airflow).

the 2 others on that site would be suited for sure but then the beer would most likely become a box.

leaving out the fact of practising a bit. lol

i tryed it many times with a normal soldering iron on bigger prints, but the succes rate with that is very small.

below 2mm the succes rate is around 1 out of 10, 1mm is just luck.

luck isn't an option, as you can see the connector has 4 contacts.

i hope you get my drift.

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] mardurhack:
Holy sheep... O_o
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] dertester123:
hmm...

the picture above is just a regular mainboard...

I would cut off the old connector, the ground plugs can easily removed with a normal iron and the actual cables... i would cut them off over the mainboard and then with more space when the rest of the port is gone i would remove the last bit of the cables...

Maby this means to remove the old port bit by bit with mechanical tools first :D

I have overseen that the cables/conducting paths were ripped out to :( thats even a worse case...

Normally setting a new usb port on top with intact mainboard is no big deal even in this scale. I made myself a very thin soldering iron only for things like this...

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What i meant with my post at all:

In this case the mainboard is of no use(for a dev), so why dont try a risky "operation", cant get much worse ;D

A new port is cheap and the right soldering iron can be made at home...

Then its just a case of luck vs. skill ^^

Of course some knowledge and
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
if it happend to me i would try it instantly, the board is blown indeed and it can't get worse.

the question is: how big is the damage.

the best method is placing a wire over the break, this requires skill.

the luck factor is can you do it fast enough to not burn the print/track.

better tools then a modified iron like you have increases the luck factor a lot.

a normal iron depends on the heat conductivety of the tracks, very much heat around the tip and spreading out quickly.

air is beter as it gives a more stable temp on a wider area, reducing the posebilety of burning the tracks.

you can not deny this fact.

given the fact that my air soldering iron is broken i would also use your method tho. lol

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] dertester123:
Yeah your absolutely right ^^ Dont want to argue here^^:D

I was assuming that only the usb port itself was brocken not parts of the board too^^ That makes the whole thing very complicated.

I watched some videos about soldering with hot air, seems very intersting. But also needs much more experience than normal soldering( at least it looks like this, knowing max.temp of the parts you want to solder, board max temp ...melting points ^^)

But this goes offtopic now ^^ Hope the problem will be solved the best and cheapest way ;D
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] Ramidalf:
hello to everyone. Where is download link? am i blind? I tried to find but couldn't. let me know if it is there and i will keep searching. thank you :D
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] jenzy1985:
Waiting for Magldr Version
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
in this case the good news is also bad news.

there isn't any download link yet, so your not blind.

it could have been there but sadly the HD2 from andy has died unexpectedly.

the usb port broke off, so he's waiting for a new mainboard.

but there are 2 alternative's.

1) you try building it yourself, info on how to do that can be found here.

2) download ubuntu from this thread, remove gnome and install kde, and you basicly get kubuntu.

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] Ramidalf:
Thank you for info. I will be glad if i can build it by myself. But i dont know anything about operating system development. How long it will take to learn? Anyway, i will try to follow the info which you pointed to. Let's see what happen.
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
there are to many factors in play to say how long it's gone take to learn.

not only you yourself is a factor, also the hardware you are using to build it.

even tho i build my own kernels years back on freebsd, this didn't really help me due to the hardware i am currently using.

just a tiny netbook with the maximum amount of partitions, so i had to install ubuntu in a virtual machine (vm), which slows down the process a lot because it can't supply the vm with direct access to the host hardware.

building a bare minimal rootfs took about 4 or more hours on this setup.

adding to that, i am using fedora linux which currently has some bugs on qemu, so again i had to use the vm there.

running qemu on a allready slow vm makes things even slower, so slow actualy it became close to unworkable.

so i stepped away from this and decided to try and just build the kernel, which can be done on fedora.

this takes just a minute or 15 to build.

currently i'm hacking my way into a very anoying driver (kernel module), and to make it more fun, i'm doing that on the HD2 itself. lol

there is no documentation on the site on how to do that currently, but i'm seeing more and more life appearing in the driver, which makes it all more fun.

beside that i'm just using google so i have to figure out more things myself, so i learn more.

i have backup's on the rootfs on the netbook so i don't have to be afraid of making any mistakes.

actualy the more mistakes i make the more i learn. lol

if you don't wanna spend to much time on this you should go for method 2, you can cheat there by just adding kde, which can be done in 1 single step.

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] heresandyboy:
Im back in the game! While my HD2 is still in a state of disrepair im now able to change the battery with my cradle, do a few hours work, charge it, watch some tv, then do a few more hours. I'm still waiting on a couple of spare batteries. I'm very close to the finished product provided my HD2 doesn't blow up and take my fingers with it :o.

Im gonna do a late night on it tonight and see how far i get. Will rush to get this out as a v0.1 in the next day or so, then continue my customisations and try to release some updates a week later. Will prob package the updates in an installer so you all dont have to download a full release twice in a short space of time. Im just so eager to get this out to you guys, i've been so gutted about the delays.

EDIT: Oh god pics, yes pics! I'll get on that now, pics pics pics! Hahah can you tell im very happy to be working on this again? :)
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] heresandyboy:
Yeah I had a go that way once, after I had some problems with my first attempt at customising a fresh kubuntu rootfs in qemu which is buggy as hell. Few pointers, it can take even longer to turn ubuntu fully into kubuntu this way, tho you can do it quickly and just keep it hybrid instead.

I ended up sticking with a fresh kubuntu rootfs from rootstock instead. There were problems around removing gnome stuff and adding kubuntu-desktop, breaking dependencies, having to locate and remove individual gnome applications as they look rubbush in kde (no theming etc though there is a way around this i noticed after) once certain parts of gnome are removed. Also while you can use it with gdm you'd prob want to switch the kdm for logging in, and unless you manually edit the config prior to rebooting could end up not being able to log in, this and a load of other problems I didnt think were worth the effort at the time.

So if you dont want to do any of the harder stuff and just want to have a go at kubuntu, installing it on top of ubuntu via 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' and doing nothing else will give you an approximation of the experience im working on you'll just need to log out of ubuntu after the install, and change the environment to KDE or change the startup to run kubuntu-netbook, take off efl-netbook and reboot, im sure there are another few ways too.

All of the issues in fully turning ubuntu into kubuntu are resolvable with a little effort but in my opinion its far less effort to get a fresh kubuntu with rootstock and then spend your time tweaking every little bit to work better on the phone instead.

I will document my every experince once i've actually finished work. I think once I have a set of instructions that are easy to follow you could all build your own with far less trouble than I have gone though and probably the same amount of fun. I have been keeping notes so shouldnt take too long.
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
pls pls pls, i think i can speak for everyone asking your to not hurry to much.

hurry leads to unexpected errors and bugs, better wait 1 or 2 extra day's to avoid that.

but i certainly can get your drift on releasing it.

it's just to much fun. lol

yea your right on that, specialy the dependencies can be a pain in the ass when your a starter on linux.

forget 1 thing and reboot to early and you end up wasting time, done it all to many times. lol

but i have to say it's very comforting to have a real keyboard attached to the HD2, avoids the login problem.

but in the end i realised i still do most the stuff over ssh. lol

and in the end they didn't release kubuntu for nothing, it's the best way to avoid all these problems.

personaly i have to confess that i'm a gnome fan, but my dad rather uses kde, and your kubuntu could convince him to finaly get a real phone. lol

specialy since my mom found the games on linux, they recently bought a second netbook for her.

and who knows, might do a xubuntu myself when i'm back from holiday, so we have the full line of ubuntu's here.

sure would love to learn to do it all from scratch like you did.

so pls post all your info on the htc-linux site.

ow and offcourse make the installer a package, not everyone has access to windows computers. lol

and release it via a torrent, if everyone keeps seeding to at least a ratio of 2.0 the speed should well outpreform the filehosting site's.

could you also post a picture of the usb port, just so i can get an idea if it truely is beyond repair.

i know i'm demanding. lol

feel free to slap me with a trout.

plopper
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] GuimbardePower:
Can we have some pics or vids? What changes between the version of plopper? Just kde or more? Will you make a nand version or a madglr version soon?

Sorry for my english i'm french :p
[HD2 Ubuntu Development] plopper:
ubuntu = gnome desktop.

kubuntu = kde desktop.

xubuntu = xfce desktop.

xfce is a lightweight desktop enviroment designed for (older) laptops.

it has less features/eye candy then gnome and kde, and therefor also a bit harder to use.

plopper