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[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I can believe your results if you really did drain it til it died, because even at 30% you still have a lot of juice left in it. I just don't recommend draining it below 15%, because if you fully discharge a lithium ion battery it will screw it all up.

And yes, Zeam is the most power efficient launcher.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Well im in trouble because my battery is usually below 15 every night. Does charging for a while without it being full hurt the battery?

And I may have to look a bit more into Seam. I just really like ADW
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
There are several recommendations to charge more frequently than to wait until it's dead and then charge. It keeps your battery healthy and you get more battery life that way.

I usually charge every day, regardless of what the % says. That means for me 40-50%.
[Captivate Android Development] dizx:
@xyrovice, I'm just kiddin' on ya. I think it's awesome that you get that kind of battery life. Next time, could you post how long your display has been active? I'm really curious about that. I think you are the exception to the rule when it comes to battery life.

I do pretty much the same thing you do when recalibrating, and I'm in the camp that thanks the gods when I get up to 24hrs of use. I am a voracious reader on RSS feeds, personal and work email, Twitter, text, etc so my display is highly active. :-)

I am also of the mindset not to completely drain the battery often as I firmly believe that it stresses it out. Once in a blue moon might be good, but not more than that. Frequent charging is always best when you can.

Ah well, I hope the next battery I buy will be that prototype version you got. :-)
[Captivate Android Development] xyrovice:
Ah. You're absolutely right regarding screen time on. I'm draining right now, so when I get a bit lower I'll post another screenshot for comparison. It's honestly something that didn't occur to me in the past, but I'm more than happy to keep an eye out.

Ultimately, I'd say that if it weren't for me having an exceptionally good battery (and there being lots of dev support for the captivate), I'd have probably jumped ship due to the GPS problems/lack of Samsung support.

(On that note, I just checked the Atrix forums, and they've ALREADY rooted+enabled sideloading (and non AT&T tethering). -- THUPER EKTHITED!!)

(^Addendum:

It's not even released yet

(the 22nd, Tuesday))

Damn. I usually fully discharge if I'm able, but now that I think about it, most of my efforts usually go into fully charging/cleaning the battery stats as opposed to fully discharging.

I'm actually kind of surprised (as well as really impressed) at how much you know about a bunch of things, ryude.

(also thanks for not shooting my results down as h4x)

I'm going to enable JIT here in a bit, but only after I've drained a little bit more. I just flashed 3.5+theme and after 21 hours I'm at 61%.

Granted, I just discovered Gun Bros.

Addicted? Maybe not, but it's hella fun.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Man xyrovice I'm jealous. I wish I knew what I could do to get that kind of battery life, heck even a day and a half would rock. I think one think I need to do is get rid of alot of apps on my phone (sitting in the mid 60's) because alot I rarely use. Also going to check out Zeam. Can you tell us a bit more about Watchdog?
[Captivate Android Development] Rrryan2:
Oh. It's not in the link in your sig though. I'll see if I can find another one somewhere.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
best bet would probably be to look in one of those other ROM's for it
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I'm at 64% battery, 16hr 38min since unplugged, and 3hr 22min screen time.

Definitely saving battery here :)
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Here you go, sorry for the inconvenience :)
[Captivate Android Development] gocats7:
Impressive, would you review your complete setup? I have good battery life on this ROM but nothing like that.
[Captivate Android Development] Rrryan2:
Thanks!

+10chars.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
You know I've only started setting up Zeam and I have to say its pretty fast. The only thing I notice it's missing from ADW is changing the icons (I was planning on changing them to match the theme with monochrome, circled icons). Is there any difference from Zeam from the Market and the one you put in the ROMs?
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Mine is just optimized, but the difference is pretty minor.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Well I just keep using this one then until the next version. Any idea if a TiBu data backup will restore to your version? (noticed there isn't a backup/restore option either)
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
They stopped development on Zeam a long time ago, there will be no more versions. Here is the one I use.
[Captivate Android Development] joeshmoe08:
I have not been keeping up with the thread so if this has been asked, sorry. But as far as I can see the last few pages don't have the answer to my question. Will the next release or so have the rotary lockscreen?
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I personally don't see the need for an extra lockscreen, does it do something special?
[Captivate Android Development] Rrryan2:
Yeah, a little. The rotary Lockscreen can be "spun" and a variety of functions accessed from it directly, like if you were just waking up the phone to make a call etc.
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Well in that case, I will do what I can :)
[Captivate Android Development] xyrovice:
Absolutely.

So, Watchdog is basically the answer to when people start hating on task killers. The people who made watchdog essentially had a really good grasp on how Froyo deals with apps, RAM, etc etc, and so they made what I guess is what's called a "Task monitor."

It works like this:

Download it, install it, and open it. The first thing it asks is how strict you want it to be monitoring, and it makes it easy by giving you just three different settings (conservative, moderate, or aggressive (i think)). Basically, you just set it and forget it.

What it actually does is every now and then take a 'snapshot' (in a sense) of all the programs running, their CPU & RAM usage, and then decides if that's over a certain determined threshold. Now, you can change this threshold depending on how rampant you'd like to let your apps run (digitally). For example, I've set any non-OS-related apps to have a threshold of either 20 or 30% (I forget) CPU usage. For my OS-related processes it's like 40%. If watchdog ever detects that an app EXCEEDS that, then my phone vibrates, I get a little dog symbol in my notification bar, I click it, and it pops a little window open saying "app x was using y amount of CPU usage, do you want to ignore it, kill it, whitelist it, or blacklist it?"

Ignore: disregard this once

Kill: "light em up"

whitelist: ALWAYS ignore

blacklist: ALWAYS "light em up" (This feature is only available in the paid version)

So, as I said before, Watchdog is basically what you should have instead of a Task killer. It makes sure you aren't killing things BLINDLY. It alerts you if something really isn't right within your processes and then gives you the option to deal with them the way you find appropriate.

I'll also say that when I set MY watchdog settings/thresholds, I decided to have it monitor vital OS processes. Now, I never kill those, I just always want to know what's going on.

So that's what watchdog does/is. Instead of killing tasks blindly, it alerts you to whenever a process/task/app is consuming much more CPU usage than it should. This in turn contributes to better RAM usage while making sure apps don't get out of hand.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Well I downloaded it and set it for moderate, so we'll see what happens from here. I've always used advanced task killer when my phone gets sluggish but guess il try this one out and see iowa things go.

As im typing this im noticing that there is a bit of lag from the time I type a key and when it shows up. Never had that before on this ROM. Not sure if anyone else has noticed the same or not.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Ah my available memory is 30mb according to advanced task killer. Didnt kill anything, giving watchdog the benefit of the doubt but my phone definitely is bogged down
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
LMFAO, awesome man.
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
Lol I've never been a big fan of something that runs to stop other things from running seems sort of counter productive lol anyhow let me know how this thing works. Also suckerpunch released update with mem tweak seems a little snappier.

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[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
This morning I would have agreed :) but that with Zeam and uninstalling some other programs made my phone fluid
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I'm working on UCKB1, so not going to be that much development going on for Precision. I'll still be reading this thread and trying to answer questions.
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
So your liking watch dog? I used to use juice defender but didn't notice a difference with it on or off.

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[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
uckb1 gonna be for precision? I see it was released on 1st. Think I'm gonna read and see how youguys build these roms. Also a suggestion if you have free time all the little zips and mods you have made throughout this thread if you made a section on the front page for them you would save alot of time from having to answer those type of questions. Either way great rom by far best I've used

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[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I know, just been busy lately that's all :)
[Captivate Android Development] Vivified:
If you give me a Precision KB1 ROM with Monochrome theme... well then sir you will have another beer on me! DG appears to have been working on a KB1 ROM as well and seems to be near release so I may have to flash that one until yours is done :cool:
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
What r perks of kb1 over what we are running now other Than being newer.

[ROM] Precision 3.5 [Kernel] Suckerpunch #51
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
You can already flash one through ODIN, but it isn't deodexed or anything.
[Captivate Android Development] Vivified:
Here's what Ryude has to say:
[Captivate Android Development] Vivified:
Yeah... but I want one all done up by one of the great devs :D

Not a big fan of the stock theme myself, Monochrome has me hooked!
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I want to put monochrome on it as fast as I can, but it might not be an easy copy/paste job. There could be some smali files that need to be edited in order to get lockscreen support and extended power menu. Eventually, I will get it working.
[Captivate Android Development] Vivified:
Still, after trying out Precision... I can't help but trust that whatever you put out will be "slim and smooth"
[Captivate Android Development] bobmcgee:
I wanted to test this out and love it. So far battery is okay, getting about a day out of the phone (no lagfix, no overclock). However, as I have found with a number of ROMS on this XDA site (sans Cognition/Perception/Andromeda) I get drop outs when I use bluetooth on my car stereo. The phone connects just fine to my headphones (Motorola S9), but on my car (Ford Sync) the phone bit drops out after about 2 minutes of being connected. I brought this up on another forum, but never did receive an answer as to why this would happen. Would someone kindly explain why this is. I would very much appreciate it.

Many thanks.

Best,

bob
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Because it's an i9000 kernel re-oriented for our captivate.
[Captivate Android Development] bobmcgee:
Sir Ryude,

You are a gentleman as well as a scholar. I appreciate the comment. May I ask for a more technical explanation. Why is it only when the phone is connected via bluetooth? I assume that if we knew that, it would have been fixed. Are there theories as to why this is? Seems like a timeout problem to me, but why is only the phone affected and not devices such as headphones. Perhaps different BT protocols for data transfer...

Many thanks for your time. I very much appreciate it.

Best,

bob
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
The kernel has a huge amount of code, much more than I care to go through to find all the differences. The i9000 and captivate are similar, but not the same. That is why you have these "quirks", random occurances happen all the time on these i9000 roms.
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
Jay_eS_lye hows dog watch am treating you

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[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Honestly I'm not seeing any gains with it at all. It hasn't gone off saying anything is affecting my phone, but when I see my available memory down in the 30's (only 76m right now) and my phone bogging down, I'm leaning towards just killing things. I have juice defender on here but it's not running right now, not sure if I want both going to try and help things out, but I may give it another day with both on, just afraid it's more resources going down the drain.
[Captivate Android Development] lowtaren:
foreign fonts

how can I restore foreign fonts to my Captivate running Precison 3.5? I was poking around the factoryfs.rfs from Odin, but didn't see the right files to extract. I'm trying to restore support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean. Thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
In the fonts folder, it's called DroidSansFallback.ttf.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
WatchDog didn't seem to do much for me, tho don't know if it's supposed to help with battery or not

30% battery left, 16h 48m since unplugged, 82% battery (Time on 2h 10m), 6% wifi, 5% cell standby, 4% voice calls, 2% phone idle (geez I should have just done a screen shot)

Used it moderately today, we'll see how tomorrow is. Running v3.5 with Suckerpunch #51, JIT enabled, auto-brightness back on, clock to 800mhz with -75UV all around
[Captivate Android Development] sicmadek:
on suckerpunch #51 i swear my phone is faster @600mhz. ive went back and fourth between 1ghz and 600hz to verify. stock or undervolted 600hz just pwns 1ghz!
[Captivate Android Development] lowtaren:
Thanks for the quick response. I restored the font and it is working now. Been running the rom for 3 days now and so far so good.

Where can I get the APK to restore the following: Settings-> Wireless and Networks -> Synchronise

Thanks!
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
In my sig, the apks are called "syncmlds.apk" and "syncmldm.apk".
[Captivate Android Development] Psytra:
I would like to say thank you for the awesome rom. I have been using it for a while and it is almost perfect for what I use my phone for.

The one thing I miss is the ability to play music.

I saw the music player apk from ryudes sig but it fails to install. What files do I need to install first so it will succeed?
[Captivate Android Development] sixstringsg:
Drop in system/app
[Captivate Android Development] lowtaren:
or download Double Twist from the Market. The Windows double twist also syncs music from your computer to the SD card.
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I bet you guys want to know how I got this kind of battery life.
[Captivate Android Development] Psytra:
I dont use windows so the syncing feature would be of little use for me but thanks for the suggestion on the app I will check it out. I was able to log into the shell and move the music player app to the proper folder but thanks for the alternative.
[Captivate Android Development] dizx:
I use DT as well. The only things I would like is for them to allow me to sync my playlist and media to my external SD card, not the internal one, and it needs an EQ.

Other than that, I am happy with DT.
[Captivate Android Development] dizx:
Don't hold us in suspense. That is awesome display time. Do tell!
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
A whole bunch of stuff, but here is what I remember.

- Brightness Level app (0% instead of 8% brightness)

- JFS lagfix

- Noop scheduler

- 600MHz clockspeed with -125 undervolt

- 32m dalvik.heapsize and 8m dalvik.startheapsize

- jit enabled

- Edge instead of 3g

- Wifi enabled only when using it, turn it off manually when I don't use it
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
I was down until you said edge lol. I might try 600 clock speed just don't want to under clock too much and hurt the processor

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[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Only reason I use Edge is because the area I live in gets horrible reception, and it bounces between 3g and edge constantly... which drains my battery.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Mine does that alot too, but there are times it runs 3g great. Is there a quick way to turn off 3g? And how do you mess with the heap size?
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Only way I know is to use settings, but I think there is an app "Quick Settings" or something that lets you toggle it.

Next version will come with jit enabled and the dalvik heap tweaks.
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
I live here in louisiana and just got a new tower a while back otherwise I'd be in the same beauty with edge. About to start searching for this dalvik heap tweak you speak of lol

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[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I live in Louisiana as well, small world :)
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
Lol what part I moved back here with the navy 2 years ago live in walker and when u said crappy 3g I suspected louisiana lol because when I goto alot of areas out here recruiting the 3g and edge icons look like they r fighting there asses off

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[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I live in Ponchatoula.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
I try to avoid Louisiana :) im a Texas boy living in GA and dread driving thru there. Don't hate me now
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
Ponchatoula ha ha we r gonna be there for the strawberry festival think we r entering my daughter in the pageant

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[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
Living in GA and hating on LA really...really lol what part of texas r u from

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[Captivate Android Development] ntdb:
Really random, but I noted last night that I'm unable to play Words With Friends since installing 3.5. Tried bumping my UVs back up to normal, still no beans. Any idea why this might be? It freezes up and FCs right after opening up any game.
[Captivate Android Development] Jay_eS_Iye:
Well the GA thong isnt my choice but its grown on me. Im from San Antonio tho just left Fort Hood before coming here. Moving to NC in a month tho
[Captivate Android Development] jivy26:
Just tested it's working fine for me. You have anything else besides 3.5? If not I'd try reinstalling words with friends and a reboot

[ROM] Precision 3.5 [Kernel] Suckerpunch #51
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Words with friends is really buggy, everyone has problems with it.
[Captivate Android Development] dizx:
You can mess around with heap size in the /system/build.prop file and then reboot for good measure.
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Just don't go below 16m, Google specifies that all apps must reside within 16m or less. If you use less than that, some apps may fail to run (very few). I personally think 32m is the best balance.
[Captivate Android Development] dizx:
I'm gonna try out all of them except isolating to Edge.

UV is gonna have to stay at-75 across. My phone no likey -125.

I use an app called Screen Filter instead of Brightness Level. Should do the same thing.
[Captivate Android Development] ratatouille:
Can somebody tell me if a lockscreen from another ROM will work on Precision? And if yes, where would I find it and place it???? Thank you for your help...
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
You'd have to replace a lot of files and you wouldn't be able to retain the theme.
[Captivate Android Development] ratatouille:
Thank you Ryude, as fast as your ROM to answer.....
[Captivate Android Development] sicmadek:
Wwf constantly freezes and fcs since they updated it. Its a problem with the app itself.
[Captivate Android Development] lowtaren:
DoubleTwist used to sync to my external SD fine with AT&T Captivate stock 2.1. Also worked on Cognition 3.04.

Since I installed Precision 2.5, it is able to sync files to the external SD, but has not yet recognized the Playlists yet. Haven't toyed with it much yet though.
[Captivate Android Development] ntdb:
I'm undervolted to -50 from 800 down, topped out at 800. Besides that it's clean. I'll attribute it to the app and look for an update. Thanks all.
[Captivate Android Development] goob1284:
hey, just flashed the rom, hows the battery life and can we put custom icons in the zeam launcher?
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Battery life is good, unfortunately you cannot use custom icons in zeam launcher. LauncherPro is better if you want customization.
[Captivate Android Development] davwman:
Used to be a fan of both zeam and ll then discovered go launcher...have not looked back.
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I used to like go launcher until they started adding a bunch of crap I don't use. Zeam is stable, small, and very fast.
[Captivate Android Development] GYIVIjuNkY:
have to say i absolutely love this rom...flashed it when it first came out and my phone is still not dead :P and i use it constantly..overall extremely happy and cant wait for the new version, thanks for your awesome work!
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Update 2.0 is up!
[Captivate Android Development] davwman:
You da man!!!
[Captivate Android Development] GYIVIjuNkY:
flashing right now lol
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
After 8 straight work hours fixing the theme, I better be da man :)
[Captivate Android Development] davwman:
Do you take donations? First person I am willing to send money to.
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
I don't have a paypal account, but if the ROM gets popular and I make a lot more I will consider making a donation account.
[Captivate Android Development] xThe Enforcer:
I like the icons used on this ROM. Not bad!
[Captivate Android Development] mcord11758:
Where about on the island? Going to take your suggestion and give jk3 a spin
[Captivate Android Development] AtoZ0to9:
Think I'll give that modem a try... also in southern US
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
JK3 has been giving me better battery and signal reception than JK4, it's why I changed it to the default modem.

Fresh install of 2.0, ran quadrant and hit 1221. That's a full 100 points higher than 1.01 :D
[Captivate Android Development] AtoZ0to9:
Better yet, think I'll just go ahead and try your ROM... been running Darkys for a while, I like his configurator to remove as much as possible... but 77mb?

All i care to have is a barebones ROM, then I add LauncherPro and FancyWidgetPro, few shortcuts and a few apps... really i only use one screen... I want my phone fast, reliable, and as good a battery as possible without sacrificing other stuff...

Downloading now...
[Captivate Android Development] lrs421:
ryude, this looks official. Great work! I cant wait to see that new dialer :)
[Captivate Android Development] ryude:
Home haptic feedback works now as well. Credit to mikeymike for his fix.
[Captivate Android Development] lrs421:
You really should consider a donate button. This rom is what a lot of people have been looking for!
[Captivate Android Development] pvr:
No option for stock theme? The rom is very good and I want to take the bandwagon on v2 but the theme kinda bums me out :\