yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Inspire 4G] MatUK.8:
I am just wondering if people are experiencing better battery life after rooting?

I am really stressing over the battery. Today, with just some phone calls and using the browser maybe once, total 9 hours, I have 66% battery. Is that bad or am I just overreacting. So little usage but down to 66% seems bad to me. I am coming from a blackberry, it easily made it through the day, even though it was really old. Am I just expecting too much from smart phone like this (with the touch screen and all the apps and features)?

I have the brightness way down, syncing turned off for most apps and on others syncs less often. Etc...
[HTC Inspire 4G] manny05:
thats actually pretty dam good after 9 hours...
[HTC Inspire 4G] morganblackstone:
LMAO mine died from a full charge in 8 hours yesterday.

13m45s talk time

35 text messages total

34 minutes browser time

35% brightness

So...you're lucky.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mj0528:
That's it?!?!
[HTC Inspire 4G] MatUK.8:
Well, I guess I just have to get used to it. I just hadn't used it much at all to get to the 66%.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MatUK.8:
But is anyone rooted and getting better battery?
[HTC Inspire 4G] morganblackstone:
That's IT. usually i have it plugged in at my other job but i was snow plowing. lucky it was a light storm or i would have been out longer and in some serious trouble. I also called AT&T (im an employee as well lol) and i complained about the captivate (i purchased two of them, gps and battery issues) and the battery life on the HTC and they wouldnt even waive the upgrade fee ($18...not to mention my early upgrade fee of $200) and couldnt notate the account saying that they would waive the $35 restocking fee. Thats BS because we do it for customers all day long at my store. Sorry to thread jack. lmao
[HTC Inspire 4G] gtg465x:
I believe the browser time listed there is cpu time, which doesn't necessarily correlate to how long you were using the browser. What was your display on time? If I stay connected to wifi most of the time I can get 3-4 hours of display on time (and about 16 hours total), which is pretty good for a phone with a 4.3 inch screen. It's better than the Captivate got running custom ROMs.

Don't be mistaken, this is no iPhone 4, BlackBerry, or dumbphone. You can't realistically expect to get more than a day of battery life with a modern, powerful, Android smartphone with a large display (although I did get almost 40 hours with very light use). I suggest getting a dock that you can rest it in while at work and a car charger as well. It's not a big deal and well worth the functions this phone provides imho.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mayoj7:
Im fully rooted and the battery is better after the root. instead of getting 8 hours out of it I now get atleast 10 depending on how often I am using it. I am a moderate to heavy user.
[HTC Inspire 4G] synnyster:
When I was stock before root, I'd normally have 60-70% battery in the evening. I unplug my phone around 7:30am and around 6-7pm is when it's at 60-70%. I play some word games through the day, browse very little, make a call or two, or just randomly go through my phone. I have my brightness set at 30% and I have a toggle to go to 20% if my battery gets low.

Right now I'm rooted with the RevHD .15 rom OCed at 1.228ghz. I seem to get around the same battery life. I haven't gone through a whole day after root without plugging in because I've been flashing though.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Hockey37:
I'm amazed at some people saying they use the phone heavily and only use 30-40% of the battery after 12 hours. I hardly use the phone, am on WiFi all day, and after 12 hours I've used 80% of my battery.

1 widget running, 2 email accounts checking every 15 min, Facebook and weather every hour, HTC Sync is set to push. I even set HTC Sync to 1 hour and not much has changed.
[HTC Inspire 4G] id10terrordfw:
That is a BIG reason why. I removed the account and it made a world of difference. Even set to once a day, it still ate the battery.
[HTC Inspire 4G] antioch216:
if you don't mind, could you go into detail exactly where you did that? I'm not quite sure where you deleted it...
[HTC Inspire 4G] synnyster:
Go to settings -> accounts & sync -> choose htc sense -> remove account
[HTC Inspire 4G] kevinwatson5:
Battery life

I rooted mine and am running Core Droid and I was coming home from work after 8 hours and have 15% to 30% battery left. After root and custom Rom and screen set to 30% brightness which is still bright I am off the charger for 12.5 hours now with moderate use and have 29% battery left. Thats with htc sense set to push. I removed it and will test this out tomorrow.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gtg465x:
Those two email accounts checking every 15 min and Facebook every hour are killing you. If you set those email accounts to forward to a gmail account so emails are pushed to your phone it will save a lot of battery. As for Facebook... do you really need to know what 500 people are doing every hour?
[HTC Inspire 4G] synnyster:
I would just do manual Facebook refresh when I go into the app. There is no need to have that updated all day every day.
[HTC Inspire 4G] silverwolf0:
What is the battery life on standby with basically all radios and wireless turned off (3g,bluetooth,wifi,etc.) except for 2g for voice calls? Basically, how long can it last as a very basic dumbphone?
[HTC Inspire 4G] ronan_zj:
If u turn off 3G network and use 2G, u get more battery life.

I have Nexus one with me under ATT 3G, and the battery life only holds for 20 hours, ( hardly making any calls, internet ect. just standby). However, when I was in China for summer, the battery life was about 3days under EDGE network, so I guess 3G network and SYNC can make ur standby hours shorter.
[HTC Inspire 4G] MatUK.8:
My battery is much better now. I downloaded juice defender and I think it actually helped.
[HTC Inspire 4G] draino623:
Using stock rooted by attn1 and Buzz 1.22 oc/uv kernal
[HTC Aria General] TKTAB911:
^Fixed it. No problem now.
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
The AT&T 2.1 update 1 is very rootable. Just use Unrevoked 3.32 at http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
[HTC Aria General] zervic:
when you power + volume down, wait for it to do its thing then go to recovery lol
[HTC Aria General] TKTAB911:
Ive tried unrevoked3. It just sits at the main screen telling me its waiting for the device to be connected/enable debug mode and to make sure HTC software is *not* installed.
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
Have you ever installed HTC Sync on the PC? You need to do that because it places some drivers on the PC that Unrevoked needs. After you install HTC Sync you can remove it and it will leave the drivers in place.
[HTC Aria General] TKTAB911:
Yeah, i've messed with it for about 3 hours now. Uninstalled-reinstalled. Tried doing it all in different order. Tried it on windows 7 [this pc] and Windows Vista.

Figured i'll just cut out all the extra b.s. with drivers and go with this method;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741824
[HTC Aria General] vicmora5:
Im pretty sure I know what youre talking about with that extra step that shows up, The aria doesnt have it all you do is go to recovery. The video which I saw, which may or not may the one you saw, was one where a guy was doing it with an evo which is very similar but the evo includes that extra step.

I had this same problem I didnt know where to start because I didnt see that step but I was told I didnt need it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] resistance8:
can a cyenogen mod work on evo 4g , rooted with unrevoked? and if not how do i get it to ... cuz cm have better roms than others
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarda42:
Yes, I'm running it. As are thousands of other people.

Here's CyanogenMod 7 with WiMax

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=902051

Here's the first RC:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=956187

There's no WiMax in this one, there is in the above one though.

Make sure you read the entire post, and flash gapps before you start the phone back up!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Running gginggerbread 6 from the first link. Rooted with UnrEVOked.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] resistance8:
Ok, thanx so i am like new 2 this so wats wimax for and whats d best rom yall have n is it a battery saver
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewZJ:
wimax is 4g, regular cm has only 3g/wifi, gginggerbread has it all
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] resistance8:
im still lost can u give me sum like step by step to where i need 2 b to download a rom cuz i have set up 2 accounts n nun sayin how r where 2 go to browse a rom
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
The first post of the threads linked in the 2nd post will have a download link for the ROMs, but here is CM7 RC1 (no 4g)

http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/update-cm-7.0.0-RC1-Supersonic-signed.zip

ginggerbread (CM7 Wimax)

http://tinyw.in/lH

google apps (need to flash this after the ROM regarless of which you choose in the same recovery session):

http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/7/universal/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
Thats why there are stickies at the top of the forum, for you to read and find the answers on your own:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798469

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=746482

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=701245

And if you still have questions, there is this wonderful thing called a Search Tool:

http://xdaforums.com/search.php?f=619
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarda42:
Make sure you do a lot of reading first too, if you end up making a mistake or getting somewhere you don't understand it can break your phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosympathy:
I hear if u spell Cyanogenmod correctly it works properly :D
[Wildfire General] RemcoManuel:
As a lot of people have been scrutinizing XDA for intel on the possibilities to root the Wildfire, myself included, I feel obligated to share this message with all of you.

According to the the thetechjournal.com, posted PaulOBrien apparently succeeded in rooting the wildfire.

http://thetechjournal.com/electronics/mobile/rooted-htc-wildfire-successfully.xhtml

Instructions might become available soon...

As been proved time and time again, developers will not accept impossible. Lets be patient and wait for the release!

EDIT: It seems I have misread the mentioned post. It showed yesterdays date and I missed the postdate. My appologies!!
[Wildfire General] hoho20022222:
Good ^^
[Wildfire General] tehshouter:
Great news :D but you link is not working ;)

Edit:

Fake... This news is posted on July 2010 so its not for 2.2 :(
[Wildfire General] Ardeloth:
Link is dead....
[Wildfire General] nicky041192:
Fail.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire
[Wildfire General] Supercluster:
Yes this article is from last year. Not sure how that can help anyone...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] cudanny:
If you have a look at the attached image you'll see my problem.

Im not a great code writer or anything (or a great code reader) so I'm not sure whats going on here, however I would very much like to be able to download xaps with this program so that I can install them on my phone.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] cudanny:
Forgot to attach pic to first post :o
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] killerrabbit02:
try this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=908293
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] cudanny:
Thankyou very helpfull :D

Is there any chance of finding a working market place xap dowloader that doesnt hide paid games? (I know XDA doesnt like discussing this in public, so could you please PM the answer if you know)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] schmao:
Also search for the .5 version of WP7 3MktPlace on Google. It works.
[Nook Color General] bobsilver:
My rooted NC 1.1 has stopped reconnecting automatically to my wifi network after sleep. It had been working fine for a while so I am not sure what changed. To get it to reconnect I either need to toggle the wifi on/off or select the network using wifi settings. After that it is fine. If I just put it to sleep and turn it back on after a minute or so it connects fine. The problem occurs after several minutes (say 10) of sleep.

I have deleted all my network connections, rebooted and then connected to my network with no change. Again this had been working fine in its current state.

I then reimaged it to a known working 1.1 image using CWR but the wifi issue remains.

This is more nuisance then anything else but it sure is annoying.

Look forward to any suggestions since I dont know what else to try.

Bob Silver

NC 1.1 rooted 1.1ghz

Ipad 3g 4.2.1

Iphone 4 IOS 4.1 jailbroken
[Nook Color General] Midnitte:
same problem here, sometimes it works but after waiting too long it doesn't reconnect. I think after being asleep so long it just fails to refresh/rescan. Kind of silly they dont have a rescan/refresh button in the wifi settings...
[Nook Color General] Tweakrr:
You can try going into Settings/Wireless/Wifi Settings/hit the menu again and go to Advanced, set the sleep option to Never. This helps but it still shuts off the wifi after being locked for a few minutes.

The fix I use is called "SoftLocker Free" in the market. This basically prevents it from sleeping, but still allows the screen to turn off. It draws more power from the battery since the wifi stays on, but I've had good luck with it.
[Nook Color General] geekyradical:
Strange question, but do you have AT&T? I've seen a ton of folks with non-rooted nooks have this issue on the official Barnes and Noble forum, all with Uverse.
[Nook Color General] bobsilver:
No i am not using att.

Thanks for the tips so far.

Bob
[Nook Color General] richardop:
ZTE blade has a similar issue, there's a couple of workarounds.

1. Keep the device awake when screen is off (holds wifi connection but uses battery power)

2. Automatically toggle wifi when you turn the screen back on.

I've made an app that does (1.) when you leave wifi on and turn the screen off. (similar to softlocker, but it automatically grabs the lock when wifi is left on and has other features). Search for "Advanced wifi lock"

If you want (2.) grab "Blade wifi fix".
[Nook Color General] tenderidol:
This seems to be common among Android devices judging by the sheer volume of WiFi fix and Wifi lock applications in the market. Now, we just have to figure out which one works better with NookColor. Free would be better of course :D
[Nook Color General] maincut:
Mine does it as well - WiFi on after waking up. Can stay awake for 10 minutes not connecting, bus as soon as I'll go to wireless settings, I can see it obtaining IP immediately. I also noticed it goes away from time to time and comes back by itself.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ceo.mtcl:
I and my wife both had iPhone 4 so we could facetime. Now I upgraded to Atrix. Is there anyway we can still do video chat? I thought of using yahoo messenger but it only shows back camera... no front camera... :(
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grave101:
Get Skype for iPhone. Video calling for android skype is about to be released.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ECdOc:
hAVEN'T TRIED IT YET BUT TRY THIS http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=960942 SRY4CAPS
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtmaniak:
I'm quite interested in this as well.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hdblab:
please keep me informed.

thanks!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdlopez83:
+1 interested
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain1995:
Use Tango

I use Tango. It's cross platform so you can video chat from Android to iPhone.

Skype still doesn't support video for Android but they are working on it.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gvndeb60:
Tango works on the Atrix and iPhone 4, my wife and I use it. I do not believe any other video chat app will currently work cross platform with the Atrix.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevenmc8602:
I know we had the fix before but after the mandatory update of y! messenger it no longer works... I was wondering if anybody has an updated fix?
[General Questions and Answers] laurence2410:
Hi there all quick question that i have searched alot on google for

basically when you download something from android market you can view a progress bar on the download in notifications drop down. My question is, is there a way to show how quickly the app is downloading and when it is complete?

i have a htc desire hd that is fully rooted. I used to own an iphone 4 and when i downloaded using installous the download could be senn downloading with a kb/s and e.t.a on the progress bar

Thanks in advance for your help not sure this is possible though :-)
[General Questions and Answers] tersey:
I am almost positive that there is not an app for this. But do not quote me on it haha.

If I had to make a suggestion I would say get any of the apps that show the speed of your network for example network info II (free app on android) which will give all the info about the network
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnobts:
Bought my atrix at radioshack and then rooted it and took it to the att store to see if i could use the webtop with wifi tether or by adding an apn. Didnt work. Wondering if someone can make a program like 3gunrestrictor to trick the atrix its connected to its own wifi connection somehow. Any thoughts?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jnewell05:
I second this.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4g XDA app.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clubtech:
I was able to get it to work somehow.

Here is what i did:

1) Created the custom APN for free tethering as described here.

2) Under APN type i put the following: default,dun,tether

3) i made sure my wifi hostspot is working properly (to make sure i setup the APN correctly). Once confirmed i shut down the hotspot app.

4) connected the HD media dock and launched webtop - it tried to verify the connection and kinda got stuck there.

5) i then changed the APN from the one i created to a built in one called "AT&T US Tether". at that point Webtop got access to the internet somehow (an no i don't have a tethering plan, i have an grandfathered unlimited data plan).

6) I immediately switched back to my custom APN after i saw webtop passed the connection authorization stage and voila...it is online via 3G/4G. I know for sure that the webtop is connecting through the custom APN and somehow - it works.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EstebanCarlos:
+1 on this behavior...

Although I did not switch back to the custom APN, nor did I specify the APN type. I did go to the ATT website to check my existing plan and still shows unlimited data...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnobts:
glad to hear you guys got it to work (haven't been able to get that method to work for tethering myself, can't change the MMS Protocol). ok, my dock arrives this weekend, one other question. can ATT tell if I'm going this (using custom APN) to enable tether for the laptop dock? I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't want to lose their unlimited data plan. I asked this question once already and so have a couple others buy have not seen a response.

I'd still rather have some sort of ios like app that tricks the phone into thinking its on wifi, but guess that's not possible.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yowza:
AWESOME

Thank you so much! I also did not have to switch back to the ATT US network, just left it on the custom one described above and it worked beautifully... WITHOUT changing MMS Protocol because it doesn't even show up on my phone.

my account still says I've used 5932.13 MB of Unlimited.

also, I turned on mobile hotspot, and I'm able to share my phone's connection via wifi to my Mac, WHILE using webtop firefox browser on my Atrix Laptop dock... BEAUTIFUL.

thanks again!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnobts:
glad its working for you guys, i'm still very anxious about att noticing this somehow.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spectre51:
Does changing this affect anything else when just using the phone? if I can the laptop dock working without changing anyway from my tethering plan I think I am sold. Can you post a couple ss of what your pan settings screens look like? Do you have to change back to the regular one to use the phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] donstylez:
I have A dead galaxy s vibrant...it does not turn on anymore I've called samsung and they told me to ship it to a service centre which I did...but the service centre sent it back the same way with the reason:

Return without repair

Engineering phone returns as is

Right now i'm waiting on a call back from the service centre to find out what's going on...I just wanted to know if there are any other options that i can take?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kops:
What was wrong with the phone? It would not turn on at all?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mab71:
Well rooting and modifying DOES VOID your warranty
[Galaxy S I9000 General] donstylez:
no it does not turn on at all anymore
[Galaxy S I9000 General] donstylez:
it was rooted but it has been for a little while now
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
it was rooted but it has been for a little while now

Doubt if thats the reject reject custom rom more like .

jje
[Epic 4G Themes] Masterface7:
I didn't really use DK27 very much but I remember the stock video player had the ability to bookmark videos and the stock player on eb13 doesn't seem to be able to do that. That kinda seems like a downgrade but maybe it'll make the player work smoother. Are any more of the stock apps changed from dk27?
[Epic 4G Themes] gtuansdiamm:
Do u mean dk28
[Epic 4G Themes] Masterface7:
sure, that sounds more correct.
[Epic 4G Themes] gtuansdiamm:
I don't see a bookmark function in dk28

But the video player saves where u left off on videos I have in my phone if thats what u mean
[Epic 4G Themes] jaronow:
just go download mVideoPlayer from the market, it rocks as a replacement for the stock player anyway
[Epic 4G Themes] intx:
or Rockplayer...which is very good in hardware mode 720p playback no problem, havent tried 1080p
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] GameDoctor:
Noticed the skype app runs ok, but doesn't like the microphone input, sounds overdriven and noisy, unusable. I have all EQ and noise reduction setting off.

This was in a quiet environment.

Hope its just a minor tweak needed, the test call receive audio was excellent.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] khufiya:
I observed this too.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] panflute:
Mine too. Hope someone reports this so they will fix it.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] GameDoctor:
Thanks for the confirmations.

Skype Devs... help!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] xenorabbit:
Skype is unusable for me as well due to this.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] MrSlacker:
Skype is absolutely not usable for me. Other party only hears noise and nothing else. Waiting for a fix ASAP coz this is one of the main features I been looking for.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] avacedani:
Does anyone know if there are plans to fix Skype on the atrix? This is a pretty major screw up on their part...
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] shawnbuck:
Has anyone tried Skype with the second microphone disabled?
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] avacedani:
I just got off the phone with Motorola tech support and their answer is that they don't support Skype and suggested using Qik instead. Doesn't seem like they plan on making any fixes for it as of now.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] clubtech:
And how can we do that?
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] shawnbuck:
In settings / call settings / noise suppression.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] clubtech:
Does not help.

In fact ALL VOIP apps i tried simply do not work.

Motorola really messed this up. i tried cSipsimple, spidroid, fring, tango, Skype, line2....nothing works like it should.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] shawnbuck:
Has anyone tried using a microphone through the headphone jack? This way we can find out where the error is.