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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
no problem :cool:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Migwickert:
This is interesting, I've never had trouble with battery drains on any nightly.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Crey23:
Som, call otterbox up...my understanding is if the craps out, they'll send you a new one.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] funkeee:
Hmm looks like Wireless Tether isn't working on CM7. Any recommendations for a behind the scenes tether app?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] primatage:
Built in wireless tether was working great last I used it. Needs to be secured though.

Sent by sheer force of will.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] martonikaj:
built in tether works great. 3rd party apps just mess with it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
Built in wireless tether also working fine for me...I say wipe data and try again.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] funkeee:
Built in hotspot gives me the unverbose error: Error. I was using the Wireless Tether 3rd party app before but that stopped working.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mark925:
Uninstall the 3rd party app, then reboot and try it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] noodles2224:
Anyone have a little problem with downloading from browser or market and there's no progress of it just says "starting download"?? Any help besides just wiping data in both market and download manager using titanium?? A reboot helps for abit but then does it again sometime throughout the day.. it gets annoying. Also browser fc once in awhile
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] funkeee:
Thanks a ton. That worked.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] KarlosTheJackal:
Thanks for this! I've turned it off & ill see what happens today with the dailer :-)

Delivered by Western Union in the rain after 70 Years
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] martonikaj:
After kinda seeing gross battery drain running #18, I'm seeing back to normal/better battery life on #19. Pretty light/normal use but I'm at 14hrs unplugged and 50%. That's drastically better than I saw on #18. Just thought I'd share for those of you who had some battery drain issues on #18.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] brfield:
I think the best battery life I have ever gotten on this phone was on 11, I am updating to 19 now from (I think) 17
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wayde187:
If you know of or heard of this problem let me know via Pm please. I don't have enough time to scan through the thread right now. I am running rc2 right now but I also had this problem with build 13. At a random time my hard keyboard will convert one of the letters to a hotkey and also disable my S key. So when I try to crank out a text, it just starts opening up different apps. Very annoying.

Sent with my CM7 G2 using XDA tansparent app.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joemm:
I had something like that once , I had flashed pershoot's kernel and my keyboard started doing the same thing, so I reflashed CM7 and left CM7's stock kernel and it went away, later I redownloaded Pershoot's kernel and reflashed it and my keyboard was fine, so i guess I had a bad download the first time I flashed pershoot's kernel. Try reflashing the RC2 with only a cache wipe or if you running another kernel might try reflashing that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gp4004:
I had this issue a few times. This morning I managed to switch back to a normal keyboard behaviour pressing once the magnifying key / Symbol (the key right next the left shift key)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Fallen Spartan:
Had this issue once as well. I put phone in recovery, reflashed Nightly and fault disappeared
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Bingo, that's what I did too, and it went away.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] SomEngangVar:
That's really weird. That's almost exactly what had happened to mine.About a six inch drop on to hardwood.

Cheers, man. I sent their support an email this morning. Hopefully it's under warranty since it was warping before it fell. The fall just made it worse. I didn't really have time to call today since I'm probably getting some work done on my leg by my girlfriend and have to worry about courses and all that fun stuff.

Edit since I don't feel like double-posting.

I switched out my radio the other day and got the lib files that match it. With the AUS radio I was seeing about 40% drop overnight so I'd be around sixty or the high fifty range when I woke up. Last night I wanted to see how it was and with all the settings the same... I woke up and it was at 85% after 14 hours overnight. I'd say that's a pretty good improvement wouldn't you?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] pawel_podgorski:
I was send e-mail to them yesterday. No respond till now and am still waiting.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Some apps request your location (fine) as part of their permission set. Since alot of devs are lazy, their "exit" button doesn't really exit, it just moves the process to the background. Call me crazy, but I don't trust apps to do what they say they'll do. I don't need some app pulling up my GPS trying to get a lock to send my location to some advertising agency when I'm indoors and/or not even using the app to begin with.

Devs: exit means EXIT. Why is it so hard to code your app to terminate completely?

/rant
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Do you have the option "Turn over silence" enabled? It's found in Settings, Call Settings. I read a few pages back that the phone constantly checks its orientation if you have this enabled.

I'm using nightly 13 with the AUS radio and battery life is superb. WiFi sleep is set for whenever the screen is off. I also set the phone to 2G only most of the time. The only time I turn on 3G is if I'm out and about and need high speed data. Also, I found by not using Automatic brightness my battery life increased significantly. It's usually set around 30% and I'll jack it up/down as needed.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Umm, better the case than your phone? I mean, isn't this precisely what the case is for?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Haha exactly what I was thinking?

It's like running your car into a pole in the parking garage and then being mad that your bumpers is broken. Is the rest of your car okay? Good, then the bumper did it's job.

Same goes for the case. Did it protect your phone? Then stop complaining, and stop dropping your phone :p
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] david279:
Anybody seen this commit...

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,3895
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] merdely:
Awesome. Can't wait for #20. Or #21 or whatever!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] pawel_podgorski:
I can bet with you if phone fall down back battery cover will fall of and keyboard will open and that's it so what is a problem with cover
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] SomEngangVar:
I wasn't complaining. Disappointed, sure as anyone would be. But better the case than the phone. The only reason I emailed them was because like I said the top piece was warping and didn't fit right before it even dropped.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
Damn, and all it took was erasing sGpsInterface = NULL; :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
Was gonna say the same thing...

sGpsInterface = NULL;

Gooood bye
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] merdely:
I thought the same exact thing.

Makes sense, though, right? When disabling GPS for the first time, you get rid of the object so it can't be re-enabled...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
I am not entirely sure, after looking at the whole code it seems like that was an unnecessary pointer but I could be wrong :p
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] enoch861:
I remember solving it by hitting the search button on the keyboard...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] enoch861:
It has to be in the messaging app only though....I think.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pflunz:
for those with the shortcut"error".

when you want to write something with your hardware keyboard and you jump into some apps, just hit the search button.

after that you can write normally.

you don`t have to flash the ROM again ^^

you really should read how android manages apps. an exit button is absolutely not seccessary. a lot devs just add this exit button, because a lot of people are asking for it.

Sent from my cm7 powered European Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NuShrike:
It was a merge error and probable object leak. They threw away the pointer without freeing it properly (since this is C++), and also didn't replace it later when they needed it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tbalden:
Strange bug in #18 for me. Everytime I access market with wifi plus mobilenet set on (wifi is in effect) it switches on mobilenet for a second and then off. Wifi still on. Now the problem is not this, but that then wifi speed is cut down to around 1mbit :-o until I reconnect wifi then its back to normal. Workaround, I switch off mobile net at home when I've wifi... :)

I suspect its present since long, probably early nightlies as well.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
I'm quite aware of how app management is performed. Android will go about cleaning up and terminating processes if and when it needs to. This isn't a question of free ram, it's a question of exit meaning EXIT. If I wanted the app to stay open I'd just hit the back key or hold Home to switch out. If I press EXIT, then the app should terminate, completely.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IharpI:
Same bug here on #19!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kara mustafa:
i had the same bud on previous versions.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
I also get this "bug". But I feel like I have it had it for awhile now....maybe since #14 or #15.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
I believe thats due the checks the Market performs upon launch. Carriers are able to add/hide apps as they wish. Long time ago one was able to bypass this by accessing the market through wifi but this is no longer the case...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NuShrike:
For just this part, isn't this normal?

iirc, "with Google" certification requires Market access checks through mobile data. It's been doing that since vanilla Froyo on G2 for me.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
i think thats on all of them...im still running nightly 6 (im updating now to 19) and even stock OS it did it. i think the market requires it for a second for some reason?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Untouchab1e:
Ill answer on behalf of all devs with what Google tells us. Android handles multi-tasking automatically. When more resources are needed, apps that are not needed will be killed off eventually. This is how its supposed to be. Google encourages devs to avoid implementing "exit" functionality. You can read more on this here and here.

Please read and learn before accusing us of being lazy..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Untouchab1e:
Sorry for bringing up an old post, but Ive been away for a while and Im catching up. Have you submitted your issue(s) to the bug tracker?

Its impossible for us to handle these kinds of requests through email. The CM7 dev team is doing a remarkable job but if you have constructive criticism, please feel free to elaborate
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Again, I'm well aware of Android's resource management techniques. The laziness comment wasn't directed at all devs. To clarify: if a dev puts an "exit" button in his/her app, the app damn well better terminate. Google suggesting that devs shouldn't do it doesn't make a bit of difference to me. Leaving apps open and allowing them to consume CPU cycles/bandwidth after I've finished with them is not, in my mind, intelligent design.

Taken from your first link:

There isn't exactly a plethora of "wise developers" out there in the Android market.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
it eats battery when on, i turned that option off and battery life was a whole lot better. i got that hint somewhere either in this thread probably 99932424 posts ago lol or somewhere else on this forum. (not picking on you to say search, its hidden pretty good probably i dont even know where i asked lol). just saying that feature bleeds the battery dry thru the dialer program
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Mikey:
3rd party apps 8 out of 10 do have an exit feature in menu.

Google apps dont cause they depend on each one way or another to run fast and smooth, linked together, in the background.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Mikey:
@onelikeseabass

get an app from th e market called systemPanel app/ TaskManager it's free

Play around with it, you will be amazed at how and what info it gives you and all :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] chris2busy:
its awesome but with a huge battery drain following it just isnt worth it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Yep, I've already used that app and experienced the same. I can force close something just fine from settings. Was useful back on Froyo to see Android System running away with CPU cycles though.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Did you know that 67% of all statistics are made up? Regardless, my gripe is that they don't actually exit. Wrong place to have this discussion anyway.

Apologies for the off topic rant that started this convo.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] shabgard:
Anyone one knows what "Lock Desktop" option does?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] androidcues:
havent you ever spent hours and hours and hours making your desktop all nice and pretty with fancy widgets and such? Only to see it all get washed out by careless fingers? It locks your desktop in so you cannot delete or modify your desktop unless you unlock it.

Pretty cool eh?!?

wheres #20? I need moar nighties.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] shabgard:
Cool no more effing up my desktop when I'm drunk, thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] chris2busy:
well if you enable and use , long hold back button to exit apps they do..get used to using that instead of just hitting home button and ur golden.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zaelia:
I am on 19 and my wifi signal has gone south its not my router my vibrant has a great wifi signal anyone else having this at all
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] shabgard:
Have you guys ever noticed that you almost loose wifi signal when you open your keyboard?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joshlusignan:
Yes, most definitely. Its from holding the phone that way tho...not the actual opening of the phone. Kinda sucks when wifi signal is low to begin with.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] merdely:
Have never seen that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nyflyguy:
I remember seeing that option back in Froyo, but I can't seem to find it in CM7.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] SomEngangVar:
Settings - Applications - Development - Stop app via long press
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] androidcues:
Yeah -- that trick was HUGE on the G1.... its the only thing that could whack the G1 out of its lethargy....

but is it even necessary on the G2? I mean.. i have yet to see a slow phone with this G2.

Battery is awesome -- gps is killer and wifi is just moar powerful than ever.

I just tried flashing Honeycomb to my G1... oh man -- not a pretty sight! So that helps keep the speed in check (G1 vs G2)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] schaggo:
I guess I'm the first one to uuuhm... "notice" since other posts would be here already otherwise. But, uuuhm... my phone doesnt work on #19. Dead, no signal, searching for networks throws an error instead of searching for available networks. Restoring a backup to see if my hardware is fried or if it really is #19...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] SomEngangVar:
Had a weird bug just now. Sensor rotation stopped working so I rebooted and got the damaged SD notification, mounted it in settings and everything is back to normal.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Had the rotation get stuck in landscape too...two seperate times. I found that by disabling and then enabling again fixed it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
#21 is out! http://mirror.teamdouche.net/?device=vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tun4f1sh:
Haven't tested it yet, but it looks like the GPS fix is in this build:

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,3895
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] supermario12312:
Just flashed Nightly 21, and at first, it seemed pretty, well, responsive! It was sooo slick!... At least, at first. After signing into my Google account, Google Talk is already waiting for me with an error because it can't connect. No big deal, just reboot and turn on Wifi... right? Wrong. After rebooting, I am once again greeted with the Google Talk error, and the Market also tells me that it has restored 0 Applications. Well I waited about 15-20 minutes or so, maybe it's just a little glitch. But no, naw, the Market was done. Installing any application, paid or otherwise was a futile effort, telling me that the download could not be completed because of an unknown error. All of this is going on while the Wifi signal indicator is white (AKA, not connected to Google).

So i'm liking the progress so far, it's definitely becoming much more stable. This was probably just a fluke in some code relating to Google account sign-in (the setup screen never gave me an error, so I didn't put in the password wrong obviously :3)

BTW, this is coming from a complete wipe. Technically, a double wipe (I did a factory reset and wiped the Dalvik cache twice before flashing anything). Maybe it was just a bad install, so I'll have to give this another chance some other time. Or I might wait until the next nightly.

So, has anyone who has flashed nightly #21 had any of the problems I described above? I'd like to think that it was just a bad install, because the ROM was so slick, and I really wanna use it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] martonikaj:
GPS working for me well on #21 after not working for a long time. Turned GPS on/off/on/off/on/off/on worked every time, instantly locked on in Google Maps and double checked with GPS Test app.

Using shipping T-mo radio. No other issues yet.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
You should also try formatting system and boot in the mounts and storage settings of CWM the next time you do a full wipe.. You'll have to also flash the gapps file if you do this but it should give you a nice clean install.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] OriginalGabriel:
I'm probably going to get an ass ton of different answers to this but, here goes: what's the best means to flash (meaning, steps of wiping, etc.)

Currently I do the following but seem to keep having issues no one else does (note, I do all of this from CWM, not RM).

System reset

Wipe data

Wipe cache

Wipe Dalvik

Flash CM

Flash gapps

Fix permissions

Boot

Reboot
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] SomEngangVar:
You do all that going between updates? Most people here just go

Wipe cache

Wipe dalvik

Flash update

Flash anything else that needs to be done.

Some people always back up first some don't. Some mount /system and fix permissions. Some wipe cache twice, which is a little odd imo. I've been doing it like this and have never had any problems with the process.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ifaint:
Bad experience on battery in #19, 9 hours medium use with 10% left.

Flashed #21 just now, wait and see.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] brfield:
Lol, I've never had a problem just straight flashing the update, sometimes I wipe dalvik
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nyt:
I just upgraded from 17 to 21 and I'm not seeing any of these issues.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] martonikaj:
Doing all of those steps every time you flash a nightly is a ridiculous amount of unnecessary work. Like the above poster said, most people (including myself) just follow this strategy:

1) Backup current

2) Wipe cache/dalvik cache

3) Flash update

4) Flash any other mod while in recovery

5) Reboot.

If you've already got things working, wiping data every time is causing more issues than its fixing. Having to reflash gapps, do additional reboots, and reset your settings etc. is not at all worth the hassle imho.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] OriginalGabriel:
I appologize, I'm coming from either stock or CM6 (CM7 hasn't been stable enough for me yet).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
I can confirm that #21 fixes the GPS on, off, on issue.. Still getting GPS satellite locks under 15 seconds inside my house also.. Radio: 26.06.02.27 (AUS)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] martonikaj:
well a full data wipe is definitely a great idea coming from CM6 or any other ROM for the first time, but flashing between nightlies the data wipe is definitely overkill.

Fwiw if you dot your i's and cross your t's the first time you set it up, CM7 is extremely stable for the large majority of people. I guess it just depends how much tinkering you wanna do. I was apprehensive my first time getting into nightlies thinking they were going to act like beta software, but they really are nice.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] JassyNL:
I can confirm that! I've been using the Nightly's on daily basis (So no testing and so on) and I can confirm that they are really stable for daily use. There is no reason to be affraid of loading buggy software/nightlies to your G2/Desire Z.

On #21 my GPS works instantly with Stock Radio Desire Z (26.04.02.17).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] itsallandroid:
So I went to mexdroid for a little bit (for the GPS) but jumped right off of that within in a day to get back to my nightly's and what a perfect example of why we have this forum, CM was having a problem (GPS) and now thanks to the devs hard work its fixed in 21! Thanks CM I love my nightlys!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] noodles2224:
Anyone with issue in downloading in market and browser? Doesn't show progress but states "starting download"
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bnoot:
Also just noticed it....u my sir have great attention 2 detail
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] philosophics:
Open your keyboard and press the power button to turn your screen off.

While the keyboard is still open, press the power button to turn the screen on and you should see lock sliders that are NOT the same as the lock sliders you would see if the keyboard was closed. Gingerbread lock sliders are darker and not as transparent, (which IMHO, are gross and don't match. Perfer the one's we're used to)...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mejorguille:
Not only that, but in the stock gingerbread launcher (not adw), it does the same thing and loses the sharp gingerbread edges on the dock and returns to froyo bubbles as well. Lol its weird!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] apollostees:
Weird mobile data issue.

I was running build#0 for about 2 days and everything was perfect,

now suddenly without any changes mobile data has turned white in taskbar and will no longer connect.

I've rebooted about 3 times.

I nandroided back to a state before the issue.

I've now flashed build# 5, and still have the same issue.

My radio is:26.03.02.26_M
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] danieljordanmaddux:
I've noticed this also!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Deathcactus:
I will blatently honest with you I thought I was having radio problems on my rom but truth is it was just t mobile give it a while and it should turn back to normal I think t mobile is having a bad day lol if this doesn't work call them and if they say it is not them then flash other radios but to be honest I do not think it is the rom. I know there was not alot of punctuation with that but I just used gb key board
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Deathcactus:
Btw build 6 is up
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] billyskip:
6 is out.. Get it
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mejorguille:
Build 6 is up :)

Edit: Lol crap I refreshed the page and 2people beat me to it...