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[HTC Aria Android Development] loursonbrun:
Hello all,

I installed this ROM last Tuesday Mar/15 (- refresh install, full data+dalvik wipe -)and everything is working really good except for the battery life: it drains circa 10% every hour even if the phone is just sitting idle.

I have changed the "Wifi Never sleep" policy setting as adviced on some NexusS forums and set the phone network type to "GSM/CDMA auto PRL", but nothing seems to improve the life span, it just keeps draining while sitting idle.

Anyone has experienced this behavior as well?
[HTC Aria Android Development] hungmung:
What process does it say is using all your power under the battery stats?

Sent from my Liberty
[HTC Aria Android Development] loursonbrun:
According to Battery Use stats is the display with 82%, but when I go inside the details it says its time on is only 35min 35 secs, however it's been 4h50mins since it's running on battery, so I guess those numbers are wrong.

Brightness is set to the lowest and screen time-off to 2 mins.

I am going to give nightly 26 a try, apparently it won't need the CM7->CM6->CM7 work around for the GPS to work...I hope battery life improves as well.
[HTC Aria Android Development] AlbinoAsian:
I'm loving CM7 more and more everyday, but one thing is causing me grief. My phone calls hold by accident because the screen doesn't lock during a call and my ear/face touches the hold button. Does anyone have a workaround? Or settings I should try. Thanks

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[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
Try going into Settings and change the mode to Left Handed.
[HTC Aria Android Development] CallMeAria:
the 35 mins 35 sec is most likely the time the display has actually been on since the phone was last unplugged. where as the 4hrs+ is the overall time since the phone was last unplugged.
[HTC Aria Android Development] AlbinoAsian:
I'm not left-handed, but I'll give it a shot =D

me and my big ears! ;)
[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
I believe the "Left Handed" refers to the hand you usually hold the phone in while talking.. :D
[HTC Aria Android Development] AlbinoAsian:
I did gather as much... and I never use my left hand or my left ear, I think my ears are so big they are hitting the "hold" button in the top left corner, you follow?
[HTC Aria Android Development] dh4645:
hah, that happened to me once over the weekend. i was holding the phone against my ear with my shoulder playing a video game while talking to the wife. it was pretty funny since i was still talking for a while then didnt hear anything back...then it took a while to get hooked up again since we kept calling each other at the same time. hah. but has only happened that once.

so, why does the phone make all those clicking noises when plugged into the pc? anyone else get that. then when i click turn on usb, then let it sit and have the screen goes off it clicks once more.
[HTC Aria Android Development] CallMeAria:
I used to have a problem with this. I put the dialer into left hand mode and it moves the hold button across the screen. I haven't accidentally hit the hold button since.

Sent from my cm7 Aria.
[HTC Aria Android Development] loursonbrun:
Right; either way I think I found the cause of this battery drainage: the live-wallpapers. I switched the Nexus live wallpaper to a picture wallpaper and the battery has been at 100% for the last 4 hours and some; I just got a 2 min call and now it's at 99%.

Anyone has been having this sort of issues with the live wallpapers being that much battery consuming even when the screen is off ?
[HTC Aria Android Development] lilhaiti:
Tested this ROM today, I didn't really see much of a difference between this ROM and the latest nightly (I guess thats a good thing). Everything works the same. Speed seemed to be very similar. GPS seemed slightly slower (maybe it was just me) but still pretty quick. WiFi worked pretty well and also auto connected to remembered networks. What are we looking to gain from the Wildfire S libs? Is this ROM supposed to run any better than the CM7 for Aria? Will the newer libs open the doors for new possibilities?
[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
I think your in the wrong thread. This is OFFICIAL CyanogenMod 7 for Aria :: V7.0.0-RC2 (3/7/2011)
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
I disagree about lwp.
[HTC Aria Android Development] kabell4:
I'm actually getting less battery drain on the WCDMA preferred setting than I was with GSM/CDMA.
[HTC Aria Android Development] drjim:
Nightlies

Where can I find the nightly downloads (I did a search and it didn't turn up)?

And can anyone tell me if they feel that the nightlies are as stable as the RC (which seems to have some bugs)?

Thanks.
[HTC Aria Android Development] whynot_:
http://mirror.teamdouche.net/?device=liberty

I think they work great...
[HTC Aria Android Development] CallMeAria:
I highly recommend flashing a nightly. Im on 30 right now and its running perfectly. They have been 100% stable for me (with the exception of a few of the very early ones).
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
I have no idea why people are still using the RC's. The nightlies put these to shame.

Sent from my Liberty
[HTC Aria Android Development] dh4645:
yeah, thats what i do, i usually update every other day. have 30 on my sd card now to update. (with the stupid camera click sound removed)

i still have minor issues with themes not sticking and swype not working (until i change back to stock, then back to swype). it's not a big deal at all, just annoying to have to do it after every restart and nightly update (almost every time anyway)
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Agreed, on build 30 now and loving it.
[HTC Aria Android Development] wdavis0911:
bluetooth address

Has the bluetooth address (43:29:B0:00:00:00) issue been fixed yet?
[HTC Aria Android Development] ValkyrieLiberty:
*Newb Question WARNING. WARNING*

How do i change that...? I want to test it. lol

*Edit *#*#4636#*#*
[HTC Aria Android Development] drowningchild:
nope

10 char
[HTC Aria Android Development] Benny1234:
SIP dialing in CM7/ Gingerbread

Before I flash this RC2, can anyone verify SIP integrated dialing from these builds, ie from contacts? Are any of the nightlies better?

Its the only feature Im looking for from Gingerbread.

Thanks in advance.
[HTC Aria Android Development] drjim:
install non-Market apks

Apologies in advance if this is a CM7 newbie question or it is the wrong thread.

I flashed the latest nightly and really like it. But I can't figure out how to install a non-market apk (i.e., one that's on my PC).

Please advise.

Thankss.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DanGeorges:
Go to settings/applications/

check the "Unknown sources" box

Copy the .apk file from your computer to the device

navigate to the file you downloaded in step 3

press on the file (to install it)

.
[HTC Aria Android Development] drjim:
What's the best way to navigate to the file (re: #4)?

Much appreciated.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
Astro or the built in file manager in your app drawer
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
Somebody's slackin' on building the RC3 for Liberty. :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
No, based on what I read in another thread, Attn1 is trying to fix the flaky GPS issue before committing RC3 for the Aria.

;)
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Exactly what I read in the CM7 nightly forum.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dh4645:
well, i guess that's good, mines working after i did the fix.
[HTC Aria Android Development] stealthycow:
hey guys, I'm still on CM7 RC1. when RC2 first came out I switched over to it, but I was running darktremor's apps2ext, and couldn't get it to reinstall and it just generally seemed to be causing lots of problems, so I just reverted back to RC1. I'm guessing it isn't "officially" supported or anything, seeing as how nightlies come out so often and a2ext doesn't really update, but does anyone have it working on a nightly? anything in particular to do to get it running?
[HTC Aria Android Development] lieberman54:
cm-7.0.0-RC4

New release candidate: RC4 is now available for Aria/Liberty.
[HTC Aria Android Development] mikelebz:
Just saw this. Yay!

Edit:100th post
[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
I've been running DT a2sd with the CM7 nightlies & RCs since the beginning without any problems. What version of DT are you using and what are you moving to the Ext?
[HTC Aria Android Development] gdgeorge:
I've also been running A2SD beta 4th for quite awhile. There's a patch file that I used to install it when it gave me issues on a reinstall. I can sign it up if you need it, but it's actually in this thread or the other as well I think.

BTW I have my Apps and the Dalvik cache moved. When I moved the regular Cache I had issues with the system booting to default (i.e. no apparent and reset GAPPS.) on reboot.
[HTC Aria Android Development] drowningchild:
why not just use s2e?
[HTC Aria Android Development] tommyguns818:
You took the words our of my mouth drowningchild. I love useing S2E. Simple to use, no problems.
[HTC Aria Android Development] stealthycow:
I was using the 4th beta, just moving apps over, no cache or anything. I guess I'll try again, it was a while ago that I did it so I don't remember exactly what happened.

I'd use s2e, but I have an ext2 partition and s2e says it uses ext3...that'd mean I'd have to reformat my card, right? so, trying to avoid that, but I guess if it doesn't take next time I'll go ahead with that.

edit: I see a command in a2sd that will convert an ext2 partition to an ext3. guess I'll go ahead and do that and install s2e.
[HTC Aria Android Development] CallMeAria:
+2 on this! Its never ever not once given me any problems at all. And its as simple as it gets to use it. Want something moved? Check a box. Changed your ming? Uncheck a box. Its literally that basic and its free from the market.
[HTC Aria Android Development] mikelebz:
what is the difference between all of these programs and the built in method of moving apps to the SD card under the Applications menu?
[HTC Aria Android Development] drowningchild:
first post still says rc2 for dl link
[HTC Aria Android Development] CallMeAria:
The built in a2sd moves the apps to the FAT32 partition of your sd card, which loads to late in the boot process to allow moving apps that use widgets. With a2ext you can move all apps to the ext2/3/4 partition of the SD card with no ill side effects.
[HTC Aria Android Development] drumist:
The built-in Android method can only move apps that specifically support being moved to the SD card, while the other methods allow you to move any application. Also you can move things like dalvik cache as well which some people have had good results with on the Aria due to its limited available memory.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Nutshell69:
:)

thanks for the RC4! ! !

installed without a hitch

Did a full wipe

Everything is up and running just fine so far (GPS/WiFi/....)

Great Job Devs!!!!!
[HTC Aria Android Development] drjim:
Is there a change log anywhere, so we can see what has been added or improved?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Ditto. RC4 looking great!
[HTC Aria Android Development] tribestros:
I'm on RC4. Drunk whore WiFi still, but I think that's because of the bad WiFi at the uni. Anyway, I like it, a lot. Hope battery is good.
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
GPS did not work properly on an upgrade from nightly 32 to RC4. And is still broken on a full install after a complete format of everything. GPS Status shows a fix from the first satellite it finds, and even if there are eleven sats it still never gives me any location data. I am on the new ATT radio if that makes a difference. I am also not located in the US. I have never had any GPS issues until now.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tommyguns818:
I came from a rc2 with latest radio and ladios kernal to rc4 and GPS locks quick but navigation icon always pointing north east. This is after a full wipe, cache, dalvik. Went back to rc2. Anybody else notice this? Did a reboot which fixed for a sec. Then back to north east direction.
[HTC Aria Android Development] drowningchild:
i let gps run a bit and it finally got a lock(maps) & gps staus got a lock afterwards also
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
Funny thing is that GPS Status shows a lock from the first satellite it finds, but there is not position data. I'll let it sit there for a while and see what happens then, but there definitely are still some bugs in the new library.
[HTC Aria Android Development] drowningchild:
i let it sit in maps because i also used gps status and the same thing happened, and it eventually locked on to an actual gps signal & not network location
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
I finally got data in gps status after about 7 minutes. Then I closed it and went to maps and after a few minutes waiting it never gave me a location. In the morning I am going to push the old libs that never gave me any problems.
[HTC Aria Android Development] hi2u2:
new gps:

1) still stuck on sideways orientation in nav

2) although it locks, it seems like it can't determine my location accurately. it continually reroutes while driving, and the coordinates seem to be off by 1000 ft or more.

3) loses lock between apps. for example, if i switch from maps to nav, it'll lose the lock, and take about 30 secs to re-aquire.
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
Seriously? did you even read the first post?

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/blob/gingerbread/CHANGELOG.mkdn
[HTC Aria Android Development] AlbinoAsian:
Did many wallpapers get removed from this release? Or am I just really slow? are they removing them to decrease rom size? Then I like that

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[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
I pushed the old libgps.so and gps.liberty.so from Nightly 32 to my RC4 install and GPS is working as expected again. At least for me, the new library makes GPS unuseable.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tribestros:
I'm going to be pissed if RC4 screwed up my GPS. I had it working.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
Count on it

Sent from my Liberty
[HTC Aria Android Development] dh4645:
so what is the deal with USB? had this issue since coming to cm7

i was trying to hook my phone up to my laptop to transfer RC4 last night and it would not work. i would press turn on USB and it would spin, then restart (or do nothing)....over and over. usually if i do it enough times it'll just randomly work...or if i try another USB port, but last night it did not work.

had to use dropbox and wifi while in bed to SLOWLY transfer is to sdcard
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
I had an issue where my roomate has the same charger as me and his charger (usb cable) would only work for charge. As soon as I tried my charger it would work. He also has a port on his computer that only works for charge which is kind of weird as well. Have you tried rebooting your phone to see if that works? Also, just download straight to your SD card, much less room for hassles and obstacles when you do that. Just a suggestion. And obviously the first things I said may not and probably will not apply to you but figured i'd throw it out there.

Also, in the case that your phone port is about to take a **** on you. You may want to flash another ROM and see if the problem still persists. Of course, it could also be your SD card that's about to **** on you. So yea, try a different SD card as well if you have one available. Anyway, if it's your port and it goes bad you may have a hard time unrooting it to return it to AT&T if your battery dies on you. Again, just a suggestion.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
If you are seriously going to be pissed maybe you should not be running experimental builds or release candidates, maybe you should wait for the official release.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tribestros:
GPS works just as fast as it always did.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dh4645:
i did not try rebooting manually last night (it just automatically reboots after i hit turn on usb sometimes, sometimes the circle just spins and spins). i do have an sd card slot on my laptop, but didnt feel like finding the sd adapter and taking the phone apart. (but i guess it would have been faster). it just doesnt work nicely/easily like it should....as it did with 2.1 stock rom (even after i rooted it)

i have a different cable at work and that one usually works within 3 or 4 tries...just today it rebooted itself 3 times after hitting turn on usb, before it actually took hold and opened up the folder.

i wont unroot to return to at&t if my battery dies, i'll just buy a $15 battery from amazon.
[HTC Aria Android Development] orb3000:
Please try to keep the discussion relaxed
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
Not to be a jerk, but you should stick with cm6 or 2.2.2. They are good roms with little to no problems. Batt life is awesome on both. Wifi is great too.

Sent from my Liberty
[HTC Aria Android Development] tribestros:
I've ran CM7 since it began. Why do people tend to get so butthurt when you point out problems? Isn't this the point of experimental builds? You try to point out the problems with the builds. The intelligence level is shockingly low sometimes.
[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
Maybe, "I have a right to be

disappointed

" would be a more understandable choice of words? ;)

Those that live in glass houses................................... :)

---------

Having been involved with software development for several decades, I do think that I understand part of your frustration. RC's are typically stable milestones in the development process, but that just hasn't worked out to be the case with CM7 IMO.

The stability of the Nightlies has been extremely good and for what ever reason, the Nightly prior to, and immediately following each RC seems to have turned out to be better than the RC itself.

None the less, I have nothing but praise for all those that have contributed to making CM7 a great product.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
We only recommended you using a different rom because from either user error or your phone sucks, cm7 isn't meshing good with your phone. That's all.

Sent from my Liberty
[HTC Aria Android Development] enewman17:
Here is the deal with the problems everyone posts. The problems with wifi, gps, are to a select few or hundreds or thousands. But if 10,000 don't have these issues and a 100 do, maybe its not the rom but your phone. I have the same phone (Aria/Liberty bought it 11/26/10) I have yet to experiance a single problem with either wifi or gps (Nightly 32 now). If I leave wifi on it connects every single time to every router I have synced to. And if its a new connection it always asks if i want to connect. And for gps it just works, never a problem. Gps worked just as well as my Garmin while driving. well maybe not as good ;) but still pretty good. Battery drain.... damn maybe you just flashed a new rom and now your freaking playing with it. Let the phone start and settle out, it honestly might take days and few charges before you realize that its not that bad. In my experiance if you don't get at least 1 bar on 3g.. switch to 2g. I have to do it every morning when I get to work. If i don't searching for 3g wipes out the battery. After doing this If I leave my phone alone all day I will leave work 8-9hr with about 90+ percent of my battery more on the plus side. Wifi is off while I'm at work, gps is toggled on. I leave work toggle 3g back on and life is good. Battery drain about the same on weekends when I leave 3g on. 3g signal is pretty good where I live.

Li-ion batteries do have a life expectancy and are really only good for maybe 1000 charges or so. Never ever let Li-ion batteries drop below the 3.7v. With that said charge your phone when ever you can. The more you let your battery drain till it is almost dead WILL KILL IT, these types of batteries like to be charged all the time. Even short bump charges will have no ill effect to your battery. Li-ion batteries do not build a memory effect, unlike Ni-Cad or Ni-Mh which tend to get a crystalline build up in the cells from slow charging and or over charging. Even though the rom might be telling you that the screen uses the most of your battery (which is true... kinda.) You could play a session of angry birds way longer than heavy internet surfing. Using data from the phones radio takes a lot of power, wifi uses less, so use it... if it works (lol) mine does.

We all realize that some do have problems with the rom other like me do not. I don't know why... maybe it is the phone. Maybe Htc used a batch of resisters from another company when they built a certain batch. These sorts of things could explain why some have problems and other do not. Who knows...

I love CM7. Build 32 with the new radio baseband flashed is working perfectly for me.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
So this is considered pointing out a problem?

Look at it from a devs point of view, they spend their free time working on this excellent(IMO) FREE software for you to put on your phone with no compensation. Then they come in here to see feedback and get the above.

Intelligence level is shockingly low indeed.

I apologize for my distractions to this thread.
[HTC Aria Android Development] OJsakila:
^^^^ "blah blah blah blah-blah blah..."

whatever...seems to be working great for ME! Thanks again for your hard work! I love this site :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] tribestros:
Oh, sorry a$$hat, I forgot you represent the devs. Yeah, totally.

What's funny is that my GPS works...other people decided to just make an ass of themselves.

Anyway, [/thread derailing]
[HTC Aria Android Development] Noobla_Khan:
Actually I want them to keep making this stuff for our phones...don't you?

Glad your stuff works.

In RC4 the orientation of my GPS is wrong, but I'm sure a fix will be in place shortly as several seem to have this issue.
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
Okay, well when i said download it directly to the phone, i meant from the phones browser. Much easier. Do you have a spare SD card that you can throw in the phone to see if that is the problem? obviously it's not the cable if it's happening at work with a different cable. Unless it's both cables (unlikely). I wasn't saying if you're battery died, i was saying if your charge port died...
[HTC Aria Android Development] kfuzion:
EDIT: @dh4645 and @zervic: I had similar issues last night connecting my phone to my laptop via USB. Tried on several different ports and 1 other computer, and my phone would always freeze and reboot after I hit "Turn on usb mode". I looked at the free ROM space(the built-in stuff- it's like 180MB or so) on my phone, and I only had 20MB. So, I uninstalled some programs and moved some to SD, got it up to ~60MB free space, and it worked fine afterward. Later I backed up my SD(to laptop), and formatted an ext partition, and moved all of my apps to it with S2E, for good measure. I'm not sure if this is the proper fix but it's worth a shot, let me know if it works.

I haven't tested much CM7 nightlies since RC2, but I've ran CM6.1.1 and CM7(nightlies and/or RC versions) exclusively for the last few months. With RC4, it's the first time that wifi at my university works consistently (i.e. as good as the stock Aria ROM). Redirects to the wifi login page instantly. Just a heads up if anyone else had wifi issues with previous versions.

Anyway CM7 has been awesome since the first nightlies, now its even moreso.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dh4645:
i only have 200 MB plan so an 80 MB file download is not an option.

last night it worked after one restart, but i used the cable i bought from monoprice (same as the one i have at work) maybe it's just the oem htc cable that came with it.

thanks for at least trying to steer me in the right direction
[HTC Aria Android Development] Moh_Jay:
Use wifi to download when available, its what I do :P

Signatures are fancy.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tribestros:
Yeah, my orientation is whacked. Noticed it when I tried to use Google Nav yesterday. I figure it can't be a hard fix.