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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baconmania:
I'm on CM6.1.2 with the stock kernel and I'm having trouble getting a GPS lock, especially indoors. The normal fix for this is to flash to stock, do the GPSCLRX trick, then flash back. Every time I flash to stock, the GPS lock is instantaneous upon opening Maps. When I flash back to CM6, the delay returns. It takes up to two minutes for the phone to obtain a lock, giving me the message about your location being temporarily unavailable in the meantime. Anyone know how to fix GPS under CM6?
[Desire Themes and Apps] su27:
Is there an application that shows current power usage in mA (and how many mAh left) in notification area?

I'm not looking for widget or status bar % icon.
[Desire Themes and Apps] robosky55:
Try an app called "where's my Droid power"
[Desire Themes and Apps] su27:
No, this app is just a little better version of Battery Usage from standard Android. This is not what I'm looking for.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Felys:
You can try "Battery Droid" widget from the market but you must click the widget to obtain information
[Desire Themes and Apps] Gundam00qan:
I KNOW.

Battery Monitor Widget! by 3c something.

Buy it. It's the best battery app ever very frequent updates !
[Desire Themes and Apps] su27:
Yeah, I'm using it now but I was hoping for something that wouldn't take precious space on my home screen.
[Desire Themes and Apps] VanDir:
Thank you!
[Desire Themes and Apps] sdup:
Check Power Tutor
[HD7 General] paullu:
been waitting for a while.....when?! when? mircosoft sucks...getting hate wm:(
[HD7 General] Audio:
It's been 3 Months?!?!?!?! Get a grip. What do you want the update for?!?!?! If you're not happy with the phone currently why did you get it?!?!?! Why can't you use the bloody search feature to find the answer to your redundant thread?!?!?!

These sort of things wind me up....grrrrrr
[HD7 General] tfn:
as far as I know there will be two updates...

one smaller update within a couple of months and a larger on later during the year

but 'copy and paste' was mentioned and also faster loading of apps etc.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 2371530:
Would us samsung vibrant owners still have devs cause its looking like alot of devs want to throw this phone in the trash lol I would like to have the vibrant plus its ensuing this great phone should have been but another $500 ehh :/
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chichu_9:
I bet we will still see some love from the Devs in this thread.
[EVO Shift 4G General] fifedogg:
I'm hitting 41 hours and still have 19% battery life. I noticed it took around 10 full charges before my phone started to get this great battery life. I've been using it as normal and even listened to howard stern for a couple of hours yesterday. Talked on the phone a bunch of times around 30 texts and even used my 4g for a few minutes. I've never had an andorid phone last this long for me even when I had my Optimus S which I thought was awesome.

Anyone else getting this awesome battery life? I'll post screen shots when its about dead as I dont want to plug the phone into usb to get the pics.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Zardos66:
Charging twice a day here. Its worse than my hero.

Sent from my bathroom, with toilet paper.
[EVO Shift 4G General] fifedogg:
I would investigate as that shouldnt be. My shift lasts almost 2.5x my hero. I bet if I had your phone in front of my I could find out whats killing it soo fast.

Is your phone getting hot? I would do a full system wipe and start over from scratch and see if it doesnt get better after you try the things I've listed below. Note, I didnt have this great of battery life until 6 days after I purchased the phone and charged and discharged numerous times. The first few days the battery life was not good at all.

A little list of things to do, check and or disable;

1. Use spare parts and find out whats killing your battery ie partial wake usage, cpu etc.

2. Turn your window animations from all to only some animations

3. Turn off automatic display and keep it around 20-30%

4. I have auto sync off on all my appz (E-mail, Gmail, Facebook etc.). I update my E-mail and such manually.

5. Turn off data when not using it. I find data accounts for around 15-25% of juice used and thats just when on idle.

6. Only use widgets on the homescreen if you really have to (Running widgets use a lot of power over time)

7. Use Android Hackers tool from the market and it will break down how long your cpu was in a certain state. ie my cpu spent 65% at 245mhz and 28% at 806mhz.

8. Keep off 4G, Bluetooth, wirless networks for location and GPS if not using it (GPS uses less power than wireless networks and is more accurate anyway) I assigned Quick Settings to open when I hold down the search button. That makes it easy to enable/disable any of these setting within seconds.

9. Turn off google talk and make sure it doesnt sign in automatically (most people dont realise this)

10. Turn screen timeout to 15 or 30 seconds (if longer your phone can keep the display on accidentally while in your pocket if a button is pressed, wasting power)

11. Dont use a task killer unless its to kill an app you know drains your battery and therefore must be closed to save juice

12. Check your apps. Some apps keep using cpu etc because they were not programed correctly. (some appz I've found to drain my battery are; Yahoo Mail, Craigslist, AndTorrent and the market if a download is hung up. There are a few others I cant remember off the top of my head) If your phone is getting hot for no apparent reason this may be the cause.

13. Calibrate your battery by bump charging (charge your phone till its full while on, turn it off and charge till its full again. Then bump charge it around 5-7 times) Wipe battery stats if applicable. If you have a car charger, plug your phone in on the way to work to account for the little bit of drain that occurs once the phone is fully charged yet still on the charger.

Remember you can get china made batteries for very cheap. I paid $12 for 2 batteries and a wall charger off ebay. This phone uses the same batteries as the Hero and Evo by the way.
[EVO Shift 4G General] StAlphonso:
yahoo mail DESTROYED my battery life on my hero so i havent used it in forever...sad to see it still had that problem....also I stopped using any battery widgets that show the exact percentage (as these are usually wrong anyway) and went back to using stock browser (Miren browser, while I really liked it, was eating my...)....i now check my battery through the settings....I was having varying battery life but after recalibrating by letting it die all the way then charging it up full i most recently got like 30 hours off the charger with moderate use and got down to 10%....coulda probably squeezed out a few more hours too if i left it idle....not too bad
[EVO Shift 4G General] fifedogg:
I find that Battery indicator doesnt draw much power if any as I've always used it and never had a problem. The maker of the app states it uses no extra power. I love the circular battery indicator version found in the market. Its not a widget, it stays in the upper left corner of your notification bar. You should give it a try.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Zardos66:
Phone doesn't get hot. I've started from scratch twice, I've ##DATA# reset. I had terrible service and data speeds before I did that and it did a number on my battery. Now it'd fine, but it just drains while doing nothing.

I never use task killers or auto sync, I live with spare parts and and monitor it, no real partial wake usage to speak of. I know how to save battery, my hero get 20+ hours with use and auto-sync on.

I'm thinking my battery might be bad. Feels like your talking down to me too, captain.

Sent from my bathroom, with toilet paper.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Shadodragon:
I haven't had mine a week yet, but atm I'm not getting half the battery life I did outta my Hero running AOSP's Gingerbread alpha.

I'm blaming the crap bloat that's part of the stock ROM.

With the display set to 15-20% I've got the display accounting for 69% of the battery usage. :/

Turning off sync is not an option and I feel defeats the purpose of a smart phone. Additionally, I fail to see the point in paying for 4G and not using it. (I do turn it off if I'm out of area for it or don't expect to be using much data.)

So thus far I'm disappointed in the battery life... but still think it'll improve vastly once rooted and cleaned up.

EDIT: Just did a test running Angry Birds for about 10 minutes... maybe 15. It ate up 9% of the battery in that time. Added another 1% to the display usage.
[EVO Shift 4G General] fifedogg:
I'm just trying to give advice so that other people understand what to do to get the most out of the battery. This wasnt meant to be just directed to you. Sorry for trying to help you out, Captain.
[EVO Shift 4G General] jesusice:
Miren's latest update last week is supposed to have "reduced battery usage". I've had no problems. Maybe time to come back to the Light..?
[EVO Shift 4G General] fifedogg:
I was able to hit the 48 hour mark with light use.
[EVO Shift 4G General] rhodiggah:
hey that's really impressive. I thought my 20 hours battery life was pretty good...kudos to you.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Downtime24:
def getting better bat supply. especially from my hero which only lasted about 6-8 hours, just got my shift yesterday afternoon. from a full charge: Constant texting, facebook, Zenonia 2 (Downloaded wifi), Snes emu + 11 roms (3G), and customizing it to my hearts content. almost 12 hrs later had 20% until i plugged it up at work.

so far this thing is a golden brick to me
[EVO Shift 4G General] tatonka_hero:
Just out of curiosity, how do you calibrate the battery? Just in case my battery life doesn't match the reports (I know my luck :))
[EVO Shift 4G General] fifedogg:
Its under # 13 on my 3rd post.
[EVO Shift 4G General] kenvan19:
getting great battery life isn't that surprising given you've got a 1500mah battery much like the evo and epic however 48 hours is rather impressive.

Sent from my cm7 Evo 4G!
[EVO Shift 4G General] kenvan19:
Working on calibrating my wifes battery and damn this thing is hard to kill. Even with with everything running for 5 hours its still over 20% finally decided to bring out the big guns. Turned on navigation and the flashlight. I'll post when I see the battery life after calibration.

Sent from my cm7 Evo 4G!

Edit: Phone plugged in at 7:53pm PST. Now to see how long it takes to charge.

Edit #2: Phone finally fully charged almost an hour after my evo finished its 0 to 100 at 12:19am

Edit #3: Holy F***. This phone takes forever to die and to die. Finally on the second off charge. I wouldn't still be doing this but for the fact that its saturday.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmdearras:
Is there a better browser for the Vegan 5.1 release? The Facebook website in particular has a problem with the bottom-docked chat bar scroll up the screen and getting in the way of games and posts.

Thanks!

Jim
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgpqaz:
I have seen the problem your talking about on Facebook. I haven't used any other browsers on it besides the default, an old version of fennec and the crashy veiwsonic one. When I get back home ill check out how fennec does on Facebook. I know dolphins a popular browser but I've never tried it. Does anyone know how it does on the gtab?

Decided to use my precious limited data on my Htc Aria, Xda app
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] festivus:
I've been really happy with Dolphin HD on Vegan 5.1. The up and down gesture controls are pretty helpful.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebadfrog:
There is also skyfire and xscope
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgpqaz:
Okay, I installed Dolphin on my Gtablet. It seems like a nice browser and a little more adapt for tablets than the regular android browser in froyo. It still dosnt seem to be better with the facebook chat bar. To tell you the truth I wasnt expecting the bar to work at all in any browser in android when i fist got my gtab. Im hoping for better browsers soon. If you take a look at the demo of the moto Xoom, It looks like they might have put chrome in honeycomb, if so it would be much better than any browser for android right now.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbowes:
They are all sorta lacking

Skyfire has a nice feature in being able to easily switch between mobile and desktop rendering of a web page. I find their little toolbar at the bottom of the screen that lets you integrate with Facebook to be annoying and there's no way to turn it off. The tabbed browsing isn't very friendly. You have to access it from a button on the control bar which opens another screen to select the tab. I never did figure out how to close a tab. It is pretty speedy. It's the only one I tested that isn't compatible with my Netvibes homepage--I don't know why, so I don't know what other sites might trip it up.

For me, Xscope was noticeably slower than the others in rendering pages. It's tabbed browsing works well, more like a computer browser's would. This one seemed to be the best at keeping flash-based items framed where they are supposed to be in relation to the rest of the webpage. (The facebook chat bar still rides up on this one...it rides up on all of them.) I don't like the fact that you cannot save webpages/bookmarks as shortcuts on the device's desktop with this browser.

No reason to talk about Opera Mobile.

I am using Dolphin. The tabs are best of the bunch. Swipe right and the bookmarks show. You can save bookmarks as shortcuts on the desktop. It's not quite as fast as Skyfire, but faster than Xscope. It does get to acting flaky sometimes--like trying to enter a term into the search field on the XDA site here. I've had it shut down a few times. To me, this ones features and usability set it apart from the others.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clayfree:
I mainly use Dolphin HD but have also installed Dolphin Mini and I really like it on the Gtab.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cscotty:
There's also a newer browser named Miren Browser. Check the market for it. It supports full flash and has tab browsing. Pretty neat.

Scott
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] usafle:
Miren and Dolphin HD are my "go to" browsers on this.

Miren just "looks" nicer for some reason then Dolphin HD. I tend to use Miren more for aesthetic purposes.

Either browser sometimes gives me download errors when I try to download. Once in a while (more often then not) I get the following error when trying to download: "Can't download as file size is unknown" and then it just quits.

Any one have any ideas how to fix that?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackSwanBB:
I'm also for Dolphin HD. Lately it's been FC-ing on me, but I'm not blaming Dolphin itself (I'll be repartitioning today).
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astevens54:
Dolphin Mini, seems to be geared more towards the g-tab. I've tried several of the others and mini works best for me.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riverfenix729:
I just put vegan on my gtab but many of the applications wont show up on the market and when i find them via browser it says they are not compatable with my device ie launcher pro and any of the dolphin browsers. I love HD on my droidx and would love to have in on my gtab aswell
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cubanjinx:
All u have to do is look at the sticky that says READ HERE FIRST. its got a market fix that will let u access everything

Via TT
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumbleweed:
take a look at firefox. Was using Dolphin, but this is much faster.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sm0k3d 0uT:
I have been using dolphin browser hd. It has been working well on my g-tab

Swyped from my St0n3d VEGAn 1.0 Beta 5.1.1 G-Tab
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clintre:
On the G-Tab I have tried most of the browsers.

Dolphin HD is my favorite so far. I am really looking forward to their public beta of the tablet optimized version.

Skyfire is fast, but I HATE that bottom bar.

Firefox 4 is out for Android, but the website graphics are bad compared to others. Some type of optimizing I am guessing. Despite that it is still slow.

I need to try Miren. I have not had a chance yet.

Being a tablet as opposed to a phone I would love for them to just release full Chrome on it.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffhvt:
Dolphin HD has some nice features, but it seems to present a condensed version of my favorite daily newspapers. I've tried typing in the full url, but it changes it and won't seem to present the normal view, that the stock Vegan browser presents. (An example, AZcentral.com.) Anyone know of a fix. Meantime I will try Miren. Can't get firefox to download to my Viewsonic, as Google does not recognize it as a android device. (I heard that going back to stock rom will fix that??)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chadness:
That's probably on the newspaper's web site, reacting to the fact that it is a mobile browser. Go in to the Dolphin settings and change the user agent to Desktop, and see if that helps.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptor402:
Hey

I had posted earlier about my N1 not connecting to my network. I thought the problem was fixed, but I guess I was wrong. The problem is deeper than that. I flashed CM7 Nightly. All was well but the mobile network wasn't working. The reception bars were zero with a small cross on them. I flashed MM's Gingerbread. The network got stuck like that. No bars. On the lockscreen it read "(No Service)|Airtel" (airtel being the name of my service provider). Then I found out that audio wasn't working either. No audio from the speakers or 3.5mm jack. I changed roms, changed sims, everything. Nothing worked. I tried my sim in another phone and it worked perfectly.

I then tried updating the hboot. It seemed to have worked but a reboot later I was back on square one.

I then tried to update my radio (I'm on 4.6. Tried to update to 5.12) but on connecting the USB cable the notification didn't pop up. The charging LED lit up but that's all. I tried mounting my SD card through AmonRA's recovery but my PC did not detect it.

What could be wrong with my Nexus One? I've been using this phone for about 10 months now and after this I'm back to my old Sony Ericsson w705. It's unbearable. Somebody please help me. Any help will be appreciated.

Regards

Raptor
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dirk:
Have you tried returning to stock to see if the situation improves?

You did do a nandroid backup of your stock ROM before flashing everything yes?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptor402:
I rooted when I still had eclair and haven't been on stock ever since. I have a nandroid backup of my stock eclair ROM. I think I'll download a stock FRF91 and try it. I updated the radio to 5.12 but it has had no effect on the problem. I'll try a stock 2.2 ROM tomorrow since it's night here in India right now. Thanks for your response.

Regards

Raptor
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptor402:
Hey, sorry for my long absence. I had been caught up.

Well, here's where I stand: I tried all the roms I could find- stock 2.2, cm 5, cm 6, cm 7, MIUI, 2.3, everything. But my phone just shows no service. Nothing in the device status too. There is no audio, neither through the speaker, nor through the 3.5mm port. And the worst of all, it refuses to mount the SD card. When I connect my N1 to my PC the charging LED glows orange but no USB mount message appears. I've tried mount widgets and apps but nothing happens. I can't even mount the SD card through the recovery (Amon RA, latest). I tried ADB devices but it didn't show any connected devices. What should I do?

I'm currently using my old Sony Ericsson w705 and going from Android to J2ME isn't really something anyone would like. I will be really grateful if someone could help me fix my beloved N1.

Regards

Raptor
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
I guess you're out of options - restore your phone to stock and send to HTC for repairs. This seems to be the only answer to your troubles.

Read my signature, look there for Unroot/restore guide, PASSIMG method, using FRG33 ROM. Execute the guide. If your phone starts working - great, if not - send to HTC.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptor402:
I guess that's what I'll have to do. Thanks for your response. I'll get down to restoring it to stock.

Regards

Raptor
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raptor402:
Hey

I tried the PASSIMG.zip method. I got back to stock hoping it would fix the problems but no luck there. I live in India so it's unlikely I will be able to send the phone to HTC. Besides, I unlocked my bootloader so my warranty is void.

Anyway, I think I may have found a lead. After the PASSIMG.zip didn't fix it, I went back to CM7 nightlies. I installed SPB shell ui. It comes with it's own wallpaper and changed my wallpaper to its own wallpaper. Anyway, I was updating the nightly build and I did a complete wipe a couple of times. After I flashed the new build and it booted, I realized that the wallpaper from the SPB shell ui was still there. I have a habit of wiping every time I flash. When I updated again it was gone. But a few builds later it was back.

What I think is that there is something wrong in the system partition and clearing it might solve the problem. But then again, I might be wrong. I would appreciate some advice on this matter.

Regards

Raptor

Edit: I wiped the /system partition through root explorer. It didn't fix the problem. Could there be some other files in the phone memory that could be causing this problem?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dissa:
Hi all.

As some other users have I have a big problem: my HD2 continue freezing!!

And this happen with Android and WP7 too...And this especially when I use 3G data connection (but I am not sure).

So the solution is to pull the battery off..wait 5 minutes (or more).. put the battery in.. and finally I can start up the phone.

Anyone have some solutions? I am desperate!! If I don't find a solution I will sell my HD2 :(

Thanks in advance guys!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fenlig:
Is it happening during boot cos thats whats happening to me. Im starting to think its a problem with the radio so im going to role mine back.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Code Breaker:
Try changing your memory card, worth a try :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dissa:
I have tried many radios.. but.. nothing changed...

God
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smokey713:
same thing happened to me it started resently with any android sd,Ram , or nand so i went back to stock tmobile WM ROM and still freeze when on YouTube or web ... I just call T-mobile so they can send me a new HD2
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
Also try posting in the correct forum.

This is for developments not for your support or discussions.
[Captivate General] rahlquist:
Ok got an interesting find. Recently while testing my wifi I downloaded the mini test server from http://speedtest.net/mini.php. Installed it on my local test box running opensuse 11.3 and ran it and my laptops average 55000kbps up/down on 2.4ghz 802.11n and 75000kbps up/down on 5.0ghz. So for giggles I decided to try my captivate... It was less than stellar.

Average is 24000kbps down and 2600kbps up! Up can spike as high as 3600kbps but still pretty sad. I tried both the stock browser and Dolphin.

Whats the best you can get? Is the captivate throttled on upload or is the browser just not capable?
[Captivate General] bradleyG:
They have an app that does the same thing called speedtest.
[Captivate General] msm903:
That's correct but the OP is attempting to verify the MAX wifi throughput on te Captivate device, thus the Local server on his desktop.
[Captivate General] rahlquist:
I think you missed the point BradleyG, speedtest is limited to the max bandwidth of your broadband connection. I want to see whats the max wifi speed the phone is capable of sustaining.