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[Epic 4G Android Development] nubecoder:
This might be a tad bit late for some, but for the people who are looking for a solution to add some of the "missing" stock apps.

Check this thread.

There should be a Bonsai specific version of this concept coming sometime soon (Mammon needs to share the removed apps), but for now this should suffice.

=]
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Better to flash the ROM again first, as some remnants of the previous theme can be left behind sometimes.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JettMartinez:
Holy Battery Batman!

The lack of idle time power consumption on this ROM is just incredible. With extremely light usage (25 minutes screen on), but I'm at 13 hours unplugged and 80% battery.

Just great great work!
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Using Conservative or SmartAss?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Sean Hicks:
Same here w/ smartass. I left wifi on plus two scheduled nightly titanium events, and I lost 10% battery overnight.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Randy_T:
Over 1100 downloads of Bonsai v3.0.1 in the past day!

Aside from the clock issues, it seems we have a very stable release... ;)

My phone has been off charger for 24 hours and still has 27% battery. Running the SA gov.

All is well in Bonsai land...
[Epic 4G Android Development] Kelvala:
In regards to power consumption:

There was some discussion about the person with the best battery life on the forum to share his/her "batterystats.bin" file and the rest of the group could benefit from replacing their own with it.

Has this myth been proved or busted?
[Epic 4G Android Development] tahlsr:
Thanks given... thanks so much. I subscribe to this thread and try to read every post but must have missed it.

Love this ROM... Love this community....

fyi I had some random issues at the outset coming from a stock EB13 rooted. (including fc's for bluetooth and a few other apps)... fresh install rocked it!!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] gmorf33:
I haven't had battery life this good since nullghost's phoenix 1.43 kernel, and the performance of bonsai blows that out of the water. Lost 2% last night with wifi on. Very nice.

I still can't get over how freakin fast my phone is now. I'm not oc'd either. Soooooo snappy! Got amosher's gingerbread theme on it as well, so it not only functional but looks sexy as hell while doing it :D

Mucho praise to the bonsai team.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Too many variables for this to work. If there was an optimal "works for all" batterystats configuration, it would have been hard coded instead of being put into a changing file on the data partition.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Sean Hicks:
Is there a thread that explains how to do this? The adds are making me crazy
[Epic 4G Android Development] intulsa:
Have to ask as I see you talking about battery life. I just don't get it. With a stock battery I get about 12 hours before I hit the 25% mark. That's with about 3-4 hours screen time. Doing credit card transactions, appointments, email, scheduling sessions, ordering materials, some browsing. I actually thought that was great before I read Randy_T's post. If I leave the screen off it lasts a long time sure. But even with my seido 3000mah I might get 24 hours with about 6 hrs screen time which would be my normal day. That's with SetCPU at 100-1200 SA. Before flashing this rom stock battery wouldn't last the day. So, am I missing something here in the way of set up? I don't really see much difference between 3.0 and 3.0.1 as far as battery is concerned. Everything else is great. Don't get me wrong I'm fine with the way it runs now (finally) just curious about all of these battery claims I see with Bonsai as I don't see how it's possible. Unless I didn't set up Bonsai correctly.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JettMartinez:
Smartass 200-1200.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
hi, I was curious, about the kernel, I am running midNIGHT ROM, which has the Bonsai kernel.... only in the midNIGHT version, there is no setting for Smartass Governor. does anyone know why that is or how I can get that option on midNIGHT? a few of us have asked in the midNIGHT thread but received no response so far.... thx! I'm running the conservative governor for now, and it's working great, but just curious about Smartass.
[Epic 4G Android Development] youngpro83:
So just out of curiousity. Is there any way to get the Bonsai kernal without the ROM? I'm on midnight and although it is based off Bonsai.... it doesn't have the smartass govenor. Is the ondemand the same as the smartass??

Sent from the baddest phone on the planet
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
I'm trying to figure out the exact same thing. conservative is working nicely for me on midNIGHT, but I'm just curious about smartass.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JudasD:
There's a clock issue? I have been trying to keep up with the thread but dont recall seeing anything about the clock.

JD
[Epic 4G Android Development] JudasD:
Actually if you just untick create symbolic links, then reapply the add blocker you should be fine.

JD
[Epic 4G Android Development] DeeODoubleD:
No, ondemand is different from smartass
[Epic 4G Android Development] DeeODoubleD:
All things considered, the clock was nothing compared to the big picture. You guys did an awesome job with this. Your mothers should be proud and you deserve a medal of honor!
[Epic 4G Android Development] MasterQu:
The sa govenor is an additional setting randy created that is his own personal settings. He baked it in so we can test them in real world situations. The other settings have not been tweaked and. Are the standard settings found in set cpu.

At this time the bosai team does not provide a kernal only version. Most of our tweaks and changes in the kernal would break the system without a compatible rom. At least this is my understanding.

Sent from my Beastly Emotionless Bonsai while in the deepest reaches of the pit.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yellowxboy:
Haha you're not the only one. I guess I'm content with my 12 hour battery life. I think it just depends on how heavy of a user you are. I use my phone constantly so the stock battery drain.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DeeODoubleD:
I tested mine somewhat by leaving it on overnight. I have 8 hours unplugged and 45 minutes display on and I'm @ 68% battery left.

The thing is you said 3-4 hours display on. I've never heard of people getting much more than 4 hours from a battery. The best thing I did was order 2 1500mah batteries with included wall charger for 25 bucks from amazon. Quick switch out and only 15 seconds to boot this phone and you're back in business.
[Epic 4G Android Development] caspertodd:
I'm completely blown away at how easy this was to install. Installed correctly the first time coming from a different rom with all my apps/data intact! Great job with this!
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
thank you for this explanation :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
It's like a high end custom Ferrari. They build the engine and build the rest of the car around it. Even if the engine could fit into another car, there are many functions that just wouldn't work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] kapalua:
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

Anyone else having problems with the pinch zoom on Opera Mobile 10.1 beta? I managed to get it to function by installing Genocide 1.2 Ghz OC EB13 Kernel V.04.
[Epic 4G Android Development] fsc137:
TwCrushDLauncher FC?

The only bug I'm seeing in V3.0.1 is a force close of TwCrushDLauncher, when

I go to apps, menu, "View type", "Alphabetical list". The "Alphabetical grid" is OK, "Customizable grid" is OK, and the launcher otherwise works.

I cleared the data for TwCrushDLauncher, and this cleared my icons but did not solve the problem.

Someone else said that they had seen this as well.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yeah, it's an experimental version of the launcher.
[Epic 4G Android Development] fsc137:
So the fix for now is "don't press the `Alphabetical list' button"?
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
WOW! i was curious about the smartass governor, so i flashed over to Bonsai from midNIGHT, and i've never had a smoother, easier transition between ROMs.... you guys rock!

i was curious about smartass: i have it set to my normal setting, 100/1200, and i have it set to smartass. i noticed that the cpu doesn't seem to idle at 100, like on conservative, but instead it goes from 400 to 1200, to 800, to 400, etc etc. is this how it works, and should i be concerned about it? i know people have been having great results, so i'm really just curious as to how/why this does this. thx

thanks for the great ROM and everything :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
We're not 100% sure how it works. My speculation is that it doesn't dip down to the 100-200 range unless the screen is off.
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
ah ok, cool. but the battery life is good? i'll be running it and seeing for myself :D thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] huytrang90:
This is the behavior I see. I'm curious on how it work for you on sa governor.please let me know.
[Epic 4G Android Development] skee/07088:
thanks for the update, guys...much respect due.
[Epic 4G Android Development] gzub:
Repartition phone?

I was thinking that ideally we should try and reduce the system to just the operating system core and apks that are not available on the market, and all user apps should go into data to allow for easy migration between versions and so that ROM makers do not have to upgrade their ROMs every time their is a new GMail.apk out...

Has anyone seen anyone have success repartitioning the Epic or hardware that shares similarities with it?

I am guessing that this might be the one area where you could really brick your phone, unlike a simple ROM upgrade failure...

Geoff
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
ok, i think people have had good results, but i'll report back after a day's use or so.
[Epic 4G Android Development] cerebralzulu:
Phone dialers

If I install a phone dialer (DialerTabActivity.apk), will it put the CIQ files back into the ROM?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Good question. What to do with all the unused space in the system partition.
[Epic 4G Android Development] youngpro83:
Ok. Cool. I was just wondering because Im on Midnight and I got 38 hours out of my phone with some more than average use. I just flashed the ROM so I was on it all the time so it seemed. I finally decided to charge at the 15% mark. I was really impressed but I had been hearing so many ppl talk about their battery life with the smartass govenor so I figured if I combined the two I would have some badass battery life. Either way I love both ROMs. I just decided to go with Midnight because Im lazy and Medic pretty much makes it easy to flash and add all the extras. Thanks for the explanation tho.

Hahaaaa!! Nice way to put it man. LOL!!

Yeah I have always and I think I always will be a loyal fan of Midnight ROMs but since this was the base I thought I would flash this first and see how it was. I actually liked it, but then I had to pretty much hunt for all the extra stuff I needed like my gallery and Sprint apps which isnt a deal breaker for me, Im just lazy and Medic lays it all out for you. My wife's phone is still on Bonsai with the smartass govenor so I will see how her battery is today. I told her to just use it like she normally does. We bought 3 extra batteries and a charger for like 11 dollars off of ebay so she has an extra battery just in case it doesnt last too long. If her battery outlasts my 38 hours than I will have to jump ship and just deal with the searching of all my apps because battery life is key to me.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Comando156:
I'm noticing that after I flashed 3.0.1 my time without signal is now always dispayed as 50%... usually or previous to flash it was 5%... any one else having this issue? I'm going to reflash later today and see if that fixes it. Also I noticed that in spare parts I can't choose the option for wifi to sleep, it keeps defaulting to never sleep. Any ideas all wise fourm buddies?
[Epic 4G Android Development] yogi2010:
yeah, i have NO complaints about midNIGHT whatsoever, i had awesome battery life on conservative, and everything works. but curiosity got to me, lol. i too will see how 'smartass' works today.

yeah, i bought the extra battery and charger, AND the extended battery, which is basically 2 regular batteries fused together! comes with a new back cover to house the thing, but i don't mind the little extra bulk at all, and in fact, i kind of like it :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] nubecoder:
It will rain all kinds of hell down on your poor little Epic.

If the DialerTabActivity.apk file has not come from the new no CIQ files, then yes it will CIQ and cause FCs.

[edit]

Meaning that, if the mod/theme hasn't been updated with the new NO CIQ, then get ready for some FC adventures.

=]
[Epic 4G Android Development] bdillon:
How do you find time without signal? I am getting horrible battery life on the past two Bonsai ROMs. I just wiped everything and am going to run the barebones ROM for a while, then add my apps back in one by one. I couldn't find anything in Spare Parts that gave me an indication that something was acting up.

Today my phone went from 100 to 89 percent in about 50 minutes with absolutely 0 usage and screen on time.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
You can change the WiFi sleep policy settings in WiFi settings/advanced settings, but "Never" is where you want it. This will consume the least amount of battery.

As far as TWS goes, some folks say it goes back to normal after updating the PRL, but-

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11976615&postcount=2392
[Epic 4G Android Development] HeisRisen:
Is there no way that we can make an update zip that is cwm3 flashable to modify the CIQ files? Or is there a way to make a script we can run on a theme's zip file that will clean up the CIQ?
[Epic 4G Android Development] BeerChameleon:
LOL FC adventures, ive had plenty of these. :rolleyes:

But its a good way to learn not what to do to your phone.

My epic probaly hates me and is like why are you feeding me this garbage and making me sick..

BTW @ Bonsai Team, This Rom is so awesome, i will never leave my bonsai tree for anything, just so easy, ive put it on my dads phone and my brothers phone and it was a breeze and no worry about losing anything!! :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] codest3r:
Hey Comando - I don't have TWS bug but I hear a few others have - one fix mentioned earlier was updating your PRL. If that doesn't fix it I hear toggling the Airplane Mode at boot still works. You can use Tasker to automate this if you desire.

Wifi Sleep policy is best at "never" - leave it alone. Wifi is minimal power draw.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Comando156:
Thanks mattallica76, i updated the PRL, and then restarted and TWS dropped to 0... ill report back after more use...
[Epic 4G Android Development] codest3r:
FYI - My PRL after updating a few times (looks like you can keep updating it again and again to the same PRL:o) is 60676. You can see it under Settings -> About Phone -> Status
[Epic 4G Android Development] nicholishen:
I've never seen this before...

So last night I flashed a fresh copy of bonsai and installed all my apps from the market (as opposed to mybackup). After it was all finished, I swapped out my battery (both OEM) for one that was charging externally. After some light use, the battery was still at 97% with over 13 hours of uptime.

Additional settings that I used:

Setcpu 200-1000 Conservative

ScreenFilter @ 40%
[Epic 4G Android Development] DeeODoubleD:
Find the sprintzone.apk install it let it update content then update your PRL, that corrected mine.

For the file go to the midnight 4.x thread and link to randy's website. On the right side of the first page are edify sprint apps download that and pull and install only the sprintzone apk.
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
my remote desktop program wouldn't connect so I rebooted the phone. went from 65% to 13% on reboot, then the remote desktop program worked again. phone was working fine, i was talking on it before that, i think somehow talking on the phone killed the data or something. not sure why the battery went all the way down like that. like if I didn't reboot it, the battery magically would have all that extra juice? its been charging for past hour or so, now back up to 66%, which doesn't really make sense that it went from 13 to 66% in an hour either.
[Epic 4G Android Development] bdillon:
Mine has done this since Bonsai v2.something. It's random. When it does I shut it off and yank the battery for a few. After that it goes back to normal.

I'm wondering how well everything stays in tact being backed up and restored. I was getting horrible battery life the last two ROMs. Today I decided to wipe and start from scratch. The only apps I have installed are Spare Parts, YouTube and Facebook and so far my battery life is back to normal. I was losing a percent every couple of minutes, like I was back when the Gallery problem occurred, only I couldn't find a culprit in Spare Parts or Battery History.
[Epic 4G Android Development] nicholishen:
It frequently does that when you use the reboot function on any rom. I have found it is best practice to power off and back on.
[Epic 4G Android Development] johnyardavid:
Do I have to use setcpu to overclock this or can I edit an init script to set defaults?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Your choice.
[Epic 4G Android Development] johnyardavid:
Which init script? I didn't see it in init.rc and I thought that's where it was. Or do I just need to add some lines in that script
[Epic 4G Android Development] robl45:
does spare parts show the phone is sleeping? mine would sleep sometimes and other times it wouldn't sleep, then things got worse and worse so its probably a hardware problem with the phone, I had the same issues, new replacement phone is working great so far except for this issue today, phone is always sleeping like it should be.
[Epic 4G Android Development] bdillon:
I couldn't find any indications of anything being wrong with the basic tools I have/know. Spare Parts did not show anything using an excessive wake lock if that's what you mean.
[Epic 4G Android Development] dwallersv:
No, all of this can be done on the command line through connectbot or any other free terminal emulator.

The only requirement is learning a few posix commands (cp, mv, chown, chmod, ls, and maybe a few others), a learning curve of an hour at the most.

I may be oversimplifying this, as I'm a crusty old unix hack from the paleozoic. So this stuff comes naturally to me. However, it's really worth learning a bit about linux shells, command line interface, and the standard suite of posix (really, unix/linux) commands available. I mess around on my Epic in connectbot, scripting, editing files, and doing other junk in bash every day.
[Epic 4G Android Development] JudasD:
has anyone been able to find an AOSP unlock screen for Bonsai 3.0.1? I see one for Syndicate, but not sure if it would work on Bonsai.

Thanks,

JD
[Epic 4G Android Development] dwallersv:
Too many posts to read through and see if this is redundant, so I'll just report it.

After disconnecting BT, audio that should be routed to the speaker on the back of the phone is routed to the earpiece at the top of the front of the phone. Have to reboot to fix this.

I have a vague recollection of this being reported somewhere on the forums, maybe in this thread. Is there any fix for it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] DeeODoubleD:
I

It works great, I use it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] s9ortner:
I had it happen a couple weeks ago. A reboot fixed the problem and it hasn't happened since.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
This is a leftover issue from dk28. It happens when you have bt audio connected and then use bt to make or receive a call. It happened to me frequently on all dk28 ROMs when my Epic was connected to my car stereo via bt, but not as much on eb13. The only way to avoid it all together is only use bt for one or the other.
[Epic 4G Android Development] p3dr0maz:
I am currently using the one from Amosher13's Gingerbread theme. Works too.
[Epic 4G Android Development] for_ever:
I just flashed this rom on my phone and now I'm having trouble making my wifi work.

I can find networks but I just can't connect to them... I can however type in the WEP and WPA encryption keys, but it just won't connect to the wifi network... any one having this issue? Any suggestions?

I have already reflashed this rom and tried to fix permissions... still no luck, help?
[Epic 4G Android Development] s9ortner:
Wipe your data and it will work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] johny005:
Love the rom so far.... only thing I'm intereseted in now is the messaging app, anyone know a way to change the size or get away from the bubble.... or point me in the right direction

John
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
What is it you want? Just the app no bubbles, as in old style? Would you like to try my transparent one?
[Epic 4G Android Development] johny005:
I'm just talking about the size of the bubbles...its huge... any way to make them smaller?
[Epic 4G Android Development] henboffman:
I keep getting "recording failed" error at random intervals of video recording.
[Epic 4G Android Development] troyolson92:
Black screen lockup:

I flashed this rom, which runs awesome on my phone, to my wifes phone. Her's randomly, frequently, shows black screen and locked up so tight gotta remove the battery..... Anyone, help, ?
[Epic 4G Android Development] p3dr0maz:
Install this to free yourself from the iPhone look alike app:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=869565&page=89#885

By install I mean push it with adb to /system/app or use your favorite file explorer to drop it in there.
[Epic 4G Android Development] theimpaler747:
Here, this is the transparent one, see if you like it :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Kelvala:
Launcher Pro works fine, also lets you save your "shortcuts" so you can restore them back should you reflash :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] DaIronFist:
Awesome! Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Top Nurse:
Wow! This thread has gone ballistic...getting hard to keep up with it.

I went back to Launcher EX as I'm kind of set in my ways about having fancy launchers that work. Been trying the smartass governor, but still not ready to applaud it as yet.

I dl a clock file that Mammon ul but cwm said the install script was screwed and it wouldn't install. Anyone else have this problem or did I get a bad dl?

Sent from Bonsai 6.0.3 :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] mrhocuspocus:
something seems terribly wrong for me, im not getting the stable results everyone else is.

after 1.5 days of use, this issue happened once.

about 16 hours into using the rom, I quickly hung up a call twice and then I could not make any more calls. eventually I just hit the reboot button. Ive had this problem before on eb13 kernels... what Ive never seen before is this...

when the phone rebooted it went from 86% (before reboot) to 11% battery! everything seemed fine with the phone after reboot, but after ten minutes of use i decided to shut down and restart the phone, after i did this it said 26% battery!!!!

also every time i turn the screen off with the power button, the screen goes off and immediately comes back on with lock screen showing. :confused:

not to mention im not getting the great batterylife ppl are talking about, this rom is sucking about 10% per hour from my battery using smartass@1ghz
[Epic 4G Android Development] troyolson92:
Edit:

Her phone came with di18 and I odined the one file root/recovery3.0/eb13 radio/rom all in one then flashed this rom.

I set her setcpu same as mine originally to 100/1200 smartass, now out is 400/1200 smartass. Mine is set to smart ass 100/1200 and works awesome with battery life of over 30 hours heavy use (also thanks to tasker)
[Epic 4G Android Development] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Make the governer conservitive and have the clocks 1200/200
[Epic 4G Android Development] johny005:
Transparent messaging app is pretty cool!!

still don't like the size of the text though... needs to be smaller, and more compressed.