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[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
which bootloaders?
[Captivate Android Development] eep2378:
Which player do you like better? Remove the one you dont want from system/app :)
[Captivate Android Development] IlluminatedOne:
For those who are complaining about bad battery

There are many people who are complaining about bad battery life on recent update, however myself and many others are getting awesome battery strength. I get close to 24 hours on moderate-to-heavy usage with WiFi and data always on.

Few things I can share about the battery and its calibration -

Calibration - Calibrate your battery everytime you flash a new ROM. It is possible that your phone might retain the previous calibration but it is always good to follow the steps given below -

Plug in and charge your phone until it reaches 100%

Unplug it, turn it off and plug again. Charge it to 100%

Unplug it, turn it on, plug it again. Charge it to 100%

Unplug and use your phone until battery drains out completely. At this point your phones shuts off automatically.

Remove battery, wait for 5-10 seconds, put the battery back. Turn it on, while it is booting, plug the charger, charge it to 100% (I would recommend slow charging for first time)

Repeat the entire process 1 more time. (at max 2). This process tells your phone both ends of battery (full and null)

Even after calibration, your phone does not know at what exact point battery charges fully. It is a based on rounded-off values which keep changing with every charge cycle.

Charger - You can always use a slow charger to get better battery life. Charger came with phone is .7 Amps charger. USB charging is about .4 Amps. USB charging does not suit my time profile so I bought another wall charger which is .55 Amps.

Leaving the charging overnight - It does not help. Once your battery is reached at 100%, your phone shuts the charger no matter if the charger is still plugged. Your phone runs on power which is coming from charger and battery is not being used. (try removing battery while your phone is on and being plugged-in) Most batteries (fully charged), while not in use, drops a few millivolts. (Lithium-ion batteries in my lab shows the similar behavior)

So, if you have to leave your phone for overnight charging, do not complain if your battery percentage drops to 95~99% as soon as you unplug. (If it is less than 95%, I would highly recommend to follow calibration steps).

Then, obviously there are other things which affects the battery life such as (data, WiFi, background applications, network strength etc.) For best, have the WiFi/data turned on based on your needs. Use modem which gives you better network results.
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
I had the same problem and posted this 2 days ago, and ended up using another keyboard. I'm surprised the developers still haven't fixed this yet. Guess we're on our own.

I have the same problem, and it happened on both I9000 and I897 bootloaders. Now I have removed AOSP music player. Let's see if it helps.
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
which problem are u having? music skipping with both bootloaders?

Edit: and yeah devs here are worst
[Captivate Android Development] mrcpu:
This is happening to me with sony launcher as well. not often, but I have 300 apps installed.. But everything else works so well, that it's a minor inconvenience.

I am using the talon kernel (.4.4.22).
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
then you need more aggressive setting so that your launchers dont get killed when are running low on RAM.. basically what happens is launcher gets killed while you are low on RAM and when you press home launcher reloads
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
Well it doesn't skip, but both music players playing at the same time is the problem I'm having. Apex and Matted Blues has a combined total of 3 music players. Why so many?! Lol
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
well you can download 5 different music players from maket and play music on all of them. Aint that possible?
[Captivate Android Development] gerbig:
Hey watsa, have you seen the gingerbread enhancer thread over in the i9000 development forum? I applied the patched sqlite lib files and sqlite io seems considerably faster (the quadrant io tests finish almost immediately).

I'm not sure what the tweaks do, but if the performance increase that registers in quadrant is real then it should make our phones faster... imo, sqlite read/write has always been strangely slow on these phones, at least compared to my cousin's evo.
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
It is possible, but you don't hear anything lol. When I figured out multiple music players were playing at the same time, it seems that one overpowers the other. Stock Samsung Music Player > MIUI > AOSP in terms of sound priority it seems.

Is it the same fix as the speeding up SD card read speed? Post link please ^^
[Captivate Android Development] gerbig:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1244974

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1236779

I don't know how to link in xda app, that's why I didn't include it before. I broke down and opened the browser for you :)

Afaik, it's not a sd-card tweak, but modified sqlite lib files that make the difference. Quadrant is so much faster, it's like the oclf/loopback days. Except the loopback speedup was artificial... Maybe this one is an actual improvement?
[Captivate Android Development] jonnyg1097:
I always recalibrate my battery after I flash a new update. I first let it empty fully and then do the method you mention first. It seems to work every single time and now after the last calibration I went down to 70 percent only after 1 day (after moderate use).
[Captivate Android Development] olo567:
I toggled vibrate off, and then went into sound settings and set it back to vibrate 'Always.' Now the sound toggle switches between vibrate+sound and vibrate as I had before. Weird that the vibrate toggle interrupted that pattern, but I can live with this "fix." Sorry if I wasn't clear about what was behaving differently.
[Captivate Android Development] morpheus_1987:
I use my phone for TuneIn Radio via wifi so if it cuts out after screen goes out, that is something I would not like to have happen. I had Wifi policy set to never in 9.1 and it never gave me problems with battery life. I will still try it tomorrow to see if it helps.

For today, I've already reflashed 9.2 and redid battery recalibration so I don't want to introduce any other variables.
[Captivate Android Development] olo567:
That shouldn't happen. Wifi goes off when your phone sleeps, but it doesn't really go to sleep if you have a program running when the screen is off. If you were to pause the radio stream, then yes, it would turn off wifi, but you'd have to turn the screen back on to resume it, in which case wifi would re-activate.
[Captivate Android Development] TonyStark R.I.P.:
for those w/ music player issues. download and try PowerAMP from the market. You will probably like it enough to purchase it, I did almost a year ago;) It is so complete you probably won't use every function it offers
[Captivate Android Development] baxim:
hello, im on apex 9.0 to install apex 9.2 i download apex files, put in my cappy and intall in recovery? i lose my apps?

thanks! sorry about my english
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
9.1 was a wipe only, so you will have to install 9.2 full rom which means u will lose data. so backup --> flash 9.2 --> restore
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
I'm using the KC1 bootloader that comes with the install package.

The sound pops and skips a lot. A lot of my mp3 can't be read by Samsung Music, and no problem with ASOP.
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
lol KC1 is a modem not bootloaders
[Captivate Android Development] FirstNoobToBrickHisPhone:
Speaking of bootloaders. Is it possible to just install the new I897 bootloader into the Rogers Captivate?

Or is it better to just keep the i9000 bootloaders.

relevant
[Captivate Android Development] killer_raj:
well my wifi policy is set to never...means my wifi is on all the time..still today i plugged my phone back to charge after 28 hours ..and 1 hour 40 mins scree on..1 hour voice calls..and 15 times i rebooted my phone as i was testing n trying new things..

yes its possible...but i m using i9000 bootloaders without any problems...

BHAI WATSA...mujh se naaraaz ho kya??? :cool::p:D
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
Haha. True noob here!

Where exactly do I check for bootloaders? I used everything included in the Apex Install Package, and used Talon 0.4.4.22 after a few days on DC3.1.
[Captivate Android Development] TonyStark R.I.P.:
settings>about phone near bottom it well say i9000 or i897
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
The phone model is i897, Kernel is i9000.

I'm guessing it is an i9000 bootloader. That is one thing I didn't mess with. I just used what comes with Apex.
[Captivate Android Development] white00gt:
look at the line that says base band version if you are on i9000 boot loaders it will say like mine i9000 UGKC1
[Captivate Android Development] ex-28:
thought i seen somthing about this but i cant seem to locate it now , scince i updated from 9.1 to 9.2 my email wont check i have to hit manue refresh , is there a fix for this ?

i am useing the "gmail" icon

arug.....
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
Anyone got a problem where after restoring apps from Titanium Backup, Market can only see 3/4 of them? I did my usual routine of restoring apps, then clearing Market data and then running Market. It detected 34/45 or so apps.
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
lol so much of misinformation here. If you get a at&t bootscreen when powering on means that you have at&t bootloaders, else you will get I9000 bootscreen..

About phone doesnt say anything about bootloaders :p
[Captivate Android Development] iXNyNe:
Baseband is your modem, not bootloader. To my knowledge going to settings / about phone won't give you any indication of which bootloader you have. You can tell if you have i9000 or i897 by rebooting, if you see an att logo during boot then you have i897, if not you probably have i9000. I don't know if rogers cappys (which are i896 right? Have some other bootloader I've never seen or heard of but I imagine they would/should.

Also i9000 vs i897 bootloaders have different key combinations for getting into download or recovery mode so its handy to look into those.

Once you know what device your bootloaders were meant for you should still try to figure out what version of that device's bootloaders you have. Ex: there are two i897 bootloaders that I know of (maybe more i dont know of) and both show the att logo during boot, but the newer one supports gingerbread roms where the old one does not. I don't know of any way to tell which one you have other than trying to run a gingerbread rom and either succeeding or failing.

Also to my knowledge there is no reason NOT to be using gingerbread bootloaders whether you want to run a gingerbread rom or not because they are backwards compatible so my recommendation is to go put on the i897 att gingerbread bootloaders regardless of what rom you prefer to run. If you hate the att logo then I guess use the i9000 bootloaders but from what I've read the i897 bootloaders are recommended because they were actually made for our devices where the i9000 bootloaders were obviously made for the i9000.
[Captivate Android Development] killer_raj:
not expected from u my friend....:p

u hav been here for so long and so much flashing u did...:p

:D:D

and thats one reason that i never installed i897 bootloaders..coz i dont like at&t boot screen... :p
[Captivate Android Development] Uncle Irish:
Mine says I997UCKE3

:D:eek::D
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
Team Phoenix says it does not make a difference. I have used I9000 bootloaders for months and they are far superior to I897 bootloaders for me.
[Captivate Android Development] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Well it was my understanding (from some time back) that this was the way the dev would identify which BL was being used. If this has changed, my apologies for the statement.
[Captivate Android Development] marcopolo1:
did someone try this ?
[Captivate Android Development] eep2378:
+1 Its usually good practice to read the stickys(guides, etc) in each forum to familiarize yourself with these type of terms. :p
[Captivate Android Development] killer_raj:
chill dude...no apology required here...

i was just kiddin n pulling ur leg..as u hav been very active in xda...and u hav helped alot of people....

and we all miss out on somethin....(afterall humans)

watsa whts r u missin??? :D:D:D:D:D
[Captivate Android Development] TheShamsMan:
I have AT&T boot screen for sure.
[Captivate Android Development] ex-28:
scince i updated from 9.1 to 9.2 my email wont check i have to hit manue refresh , is there a fix for this ?

i am useing the "gmail" icon
[Captivate Android Development] killer_raj:
auto sync enabled???

go to account and sybc...and check if auto sync checked..then same page go to manage ac..and click on ur gmail ac address then inside u will get sync gmail..check that also..and viola ....

coz it works for me...though i keep my auto sync unchecked..but as u mentioned i just clicked the same ..sent myself mail in that ac from my lappy and saw it was workin..
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
how did u decide superiority of bootloaders?
[Captivate Android Development] bigbooty:
Yeah. I'd like to hear the answer to that one myself.
[Captivate Android Development] Crash:
Guys i need your opinion since im new with Android stuff hehe

im moderate to heavy user so take a look my battery status :D

Always on: GPS, Data, and wifi when im in home or office
[Captivate Android Development] impulser91:
Hi Everyone,

Ive run into a bit of a problem.

I was running CM7, and would like to try the new apex.

So i downloaded the Apex_Flasher, Odin one click JF6, Apex_9.2_JVR

Flashed to stock JF6, transferred Apex to sd card.

Download mode, install bootloader

Download mode, install kernel, wait for it to start boot looping.

Recovery, install apex, reboot

and then....... my phone just boot loops. :(
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
bold red above could be the problem. Once you install kernel, pull your battery and reboot into recovery using button combo, then flash apex
[Captivate Android Development] impulser91:
I did. I installed kernel, it rebooted out of download mode, i can hear the voodoo being applied, it then starts boot looping.

Then i battery pull. 3 button combo into recovery, install from zip, apex, it installs, reboot and it just starts looping at the i897 screen.
[Captivate Android Development] geokilla:
Simple. The Recovery and Download combos are far easier to use with I9000 than with I897 bootloaders.
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
when u were on jf6 u installed kernel and then allowed it to boot. what I am saying is pull the battery and dont allow it to reboot. pull battery, pop it back in and then reboot into recovery. if all this is too confusing uncheck auto-reboot option in ODIN for kernel flash.
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
out of curiosity why do u keep GPS on all the time? also what was your display time?
[Captivate Android Development] Crash:
the gps is just because my wife and i like to use latitud my display time 30 seconds :D
[Captivate Android Development] impulser91:
Oh i see. Okay, i will try that right now.
[Captivate Android Development] impulser91:
Same problem. Only this time i could hear the lag fix applying AFTER i installed apex.

And just to update my current process flow

Downloaded the Apex_Flasher, Odin one click JF6, Apex_9.2_JVR

Flashed to stock JF6, transferred Apex to sd card.

Download mode, install bootloader - Forced reboot into recovery

Battery pull

Download mode, install kernel - Battery pull - no reboot

Recovery, install apex, reboot

Lagfix applies, and then boot loops
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
lol 30 seconds must be screen timeout. whats the battery usage by display?
[Captivate Android Development] Crash:
Watsa.

i have another reboot, i think i now what it cause.

It looks like ram is out the phone reboots himself :o
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
then it can only be 2 things:

1. Flash again on top of bootlooping Apex to see if that fixes.

2. Bad download - can only be solved by redownloading :(
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
cant be that. it rebooted by itself or u were using some app?
[Captivate Android Development] Crash:
43% says :o
[Captivate Android Development] Crash:
By itself :(
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
All who were having swype FC on MB, redownload and flash the theme. Its fixed
[Captivate Android Development] metalfangs:
Will do :) Love the themed swype.
[Captivate Android Development] richsale:
Thanks watsa that fixed it , no more fc's with swype.
[Captivate Android Development] killer_raj:
PLS HELP watsa..

1)wanted my status bar transparent...i mean where i hav my clock and wifi icon and signal bar n stuff...

tried to change statusbar_background9.png but it doest work...its still stayin black..

2)learnt to rearrange 9 toggle menu..by editing xml files..

3)and how to get yahoo mail workin in this rom using email otion?? just tried for the first time...always says user name password incorrect
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
gtalk gtalk gtalk
[Captivate Android Development] dwmoss:
Just giving this a shot after running dlevs for a while.

the stock wallpaper looks gorgeous.i chickened out and stayed with launcher pro instead of the awesomeness launchers.

thanks for all the work and effort.

dm
[Captivate Android Development] olo567:
Date in the file name is the same on MediaFire, was it really changed? Flashing now anyway, thanks. :D

Edit: Filesize is slightly different, I buy it. Thanks watsa/froli!
[Captivate Android Development] ex-28:
,

thank you soo much auto sync was not on , all working now , really appreciate it , wonder why it was disabled when i updated , a well :)
[Captivate Android Development] Exostenza:
This happens every time. If I open my browser and tilt the phone right as it is opening my phone crashes and I have to pull the battery. On 9.1 it would just FC.

Anyone else getting this?

EDIT: My friend's phone with 9.2 FCs every time I do this to it. Confirmed bug?
[Captivate Android Development] byrdtulsa:
After putting in email and password select manual setup then click imap acct . Input imap server as imap.mail.yahoo.com and security type as accept all certificates. Click next then go change outbound settings smtp to smtp.mail.yahoo.com security type just select ssl . Works every time
[Captivate Android Development] killer_raj:
he he..and i did it..but i hav to discuss something with u...ur trick half worked..and half i had to edit one smali file value also...

and i hav to discuss somethin abt browser also...which i saw after making my status bar transparent...

your welcome... happy to help....

well just after ur confirmation..i opened my browser...opened a website..while it was opening..i rotated my phone in every direction..and my screen rotated accordingly..but didnt forceclose....if its not doin anythin to me..then i wonder why would it do that to u....

thanx dear...though i know that manual setup...but still thanx for effort of replyin....

i just tried the automatic setup..coz thats what i use for hotmail also..and it works..so thought it shd work with yahoo also..but when it didnt then i thought its a bug..then watsa told me on gtalk..that it doesnt work automatic..and i will hav to put manual values...so did that..

but THANX
[Captivate Android Development] iXNyNe:
As far as I could tell there was no difference but as I said the i897 bootloaders are actually made for our devices where the i9000 are not.

By example, just because you can fit a round peg through a square hole doesn't mean that's what the peg or hole are meant for.

While I agree the button combos of the i9000 bootloaders are easier, that's hardly grounds for use of a term like superior. Easier button combos is more of a matter of opinion and a personal preference, which again I do agree with, but it has no real impact on performance.
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
did u happen to restore some data related to browser? I rotated my phone 360 degrees to test it and everything was fine
[Captivate Android Development] dwmoss:
I start the browser and rotate the phone like a pin wheel and don't have the issue either.
[Captivate Android Development] eep2378:
has anyone tried the mattedblues theme for Go launcher from market? I dl'd it but it wont install.
[Captivate Android Development] richsale:
It does'nt work from the market.

Try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1242553

for you GoLauncher users, you may want to go to this url. He/She is taking requests for more GoLauncher themes.
[Captivate Android Development] morpheus_1987:
I have managed to resolve my battery drain issue on 9.2 now. Yesterday, I Nandroid restored my 9.1 setup and reflashed the 9.2 upgrade from 9.1.zip. I redid the battery calibration as you should with every flash and then monitored its' idle throughout the day. Seeing as that was all I did, I would probably attribute it to the battery calibration although I used the same instructions as I always have which is pretty much the same that gets posted everywhere.

However, in my quest to restore my good battery life, I did encounter some very useful tools: BetteryBatteryStats (can be found on XDA), Battery Monitor Widget Pro.

Now I've applied the text mod to the 9 toggles and can fully enjoy my phone again! Hopefully I won't have to go through such a long process in future updates. Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions.
[Captivate Android Development] froli13:
I'll see when MattedOrange is done, but as of now it's not on my todo list.
[Captivate Android Development] marcopolo1:
Pinnacle 1.0?

hey watsa, is Pinnacle 1.0 the next step of Apex?

baseband KH3?
[Captivate Android Development] froli13:
My answer to people complaining about battery life: still 19% light usage though... Only 1h 6m of display.
[Captivate Android Development] bigbooty:
I like it.....
[Captivate Android Development] richsale:
I can't get MattedBlue and the words under the icons in 9 toggle at the same time.

It's one or the other. Can this be fixed ?
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
both mods are in systemUI apk. The MB systemUI will have to be modified to show text.
[Captivate Android Development] richsale:
I guess that means we need froli13.

Any chance of getting some help froli ?
[Captivate Android Development] froli13:
The author removed it from market because of that. You can find it in xda forums.
[Captivate Android Development] killer_raj:
watsaaaaaaaa grrrrrrrrr

i was just thinking that i will not flash for few weeks..even if 9.3 comes out....

but its kh3...so obviously i will hav to flash again..(this weekend?????)

:cool::p:D
[Captivate Android Development] Crash:
Damn hehehe this will be 9.3 ?

nice !!!
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
nope this is a new rom altogether, 9.3 is also in works
[Captivate Android Development] d_gritza:
Does this mean we need to abandon i9000BL in exchange for the cappy ones?
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
If you are staying on Apex and waiting for 9.3 then no :D
[Captivate Android Development] d_gritza:
I'm compelled to go with the KF1 BL....that way I get to play with pretty much every rom out there except for Darky... good idea?
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
I have made that switch long back. Now I will never flash bootloaders
[Captivate Android Development] d_gritza:
I'm terrified of flashing BL, but I guess I should do it now, once and for all.
[Captivate Android Development] froli13:
Quick report on xcal's kernel. Everything is as good as DC, but battery seems better. Worth a try if you want more juice :)
[Captivate Android Development] white00gt:
Hey watsa you check this out yet http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1246883

phone seems a little more responsive- maybe to be included in 9.xxx?
[Captivate Android Development] watsa:
parts of it will be in 9.3 :)