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[HTC Aria General] nuttkrakk:
My wishlist (prioritized):

1. Take deodexed fr008 rom. Strip astro, etc. (Essentially revert to vanilla)

2. Update Google apps, youtube etc that were part of the rom with the latest versions (so that no updates will be required when rom is flashed)

3. Implement boot options.

4. Implement notification menu power toggle Widgets (I just saw a mod on desire HD forum that also adds recent apps to the notification menu) - This mod requires s-off. Something aria users aren't privy to.(can this be bypassed by using:

ln -s widget.txt /system/widget.txt?)

5. Theme icons, add additional wallpapers, change font (an international capable one).

6. Theme sense ui and widgets. (This is hefty)

7. Theme Google apps and widgets.

8. Add some convenience hacks.

9. Include matching themes or mods for third party market apps such as SMS unread count, go Dev team apps (launcher, SMS, contact&dialer) or adw, lp, etc

In general all gfx used should be optimized (some developers skinny the size for better performance and rom size reduction).

Phew, I guess that's all - for now.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
EDIT : Grabbed the deodexed FR008 ROM, added a custom boot screen animation, changed ROM name to brswatttDDXFR008, and added GODEV Apps. Working on Power Prompts tomorrow morning.

I removed the Sense Launcher completely. I replaced it with GoLauncher. (THIS IS JUST A TEST. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU WANT THE LAUNCHER TO BE.) Go Contacts / Go Dialer are force closing. Have to figure out why.

EDIT 2 : Go contacts / Go Dialer is working now. Cooking up reboot menu.

I'll tally up the votes later.
[HTC Aria General] stone_ship:
Wow, I didn't know you could remove Rosie altogether. I don't mind losing the Sense homescreen widgets, but I am curious if the lockscreen music widget/notifications still work w/o Rosie. Those are really useful!
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Other launchers don't let you take advantage of sense widgets. :/
[HTC Aria General] stone_ship:
Yeah I know, but I was just saying that if you can remove the Sense launcher, but retain the lockscreen functionality, it'd be like having the best of both worlds. The lockscreen is HTCLockScreen.apk I believe.

Anyway nevermind, not worth getting into at this point--great progress you are making!
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Yeah, the lockscreen stays.
[HTC Aria General] nuttkrakk:
You sure this is a good idea? Removing Rosie will break HTC Widgets. Then you will have a big chunk of. HTC apks you'll have to resolve dependencies in addition to some rogue services running in background.

If you want a secondary launcher or other third party software, you should ask their respective developer for permission to use in your rom. As far as I know, go Dec apps are free but not GPL.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
You can't use HTC Widgets on other launchers anyways.

And I don't want a SECONDary launcher, I'd rather have a primary one that's NOT HTC Sense...cause it's slow. And you won't have those .apks if you remove them with no problems.

And I'll talk to the DEVs.
[HTC Aria General] ValkyrieLiberty:
I think The DEV's wouldn't mind, as long as credit was given. (Which it would be)....it's worth a try, worst they could do is say. . . NO.
[HTC Aria General] wushi8:
I'am use cm7,That is very good.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Cyanogenmod 7 is out of the picture dude. lol :)

True. It will be taken care of.
[HTC Aria General] ValkyrieLiberty:
Besides...good publicity and (Free) advertising for the GO-Team...(Might throw that in if things go south...) It's a win, win In my opinion...

As for testers(in the Far future), i'll help debug and test for sure! (Maybe even help theme....)
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Help is needed bro :)
[HTC Aria General] zervic:
I stand corrected :) thanks for the info, that all makes sense.
[HTC Aria General] ValkyrieLiberty:
Photoshop

I could make the png's in photoshop (I took a class) and this tut will help out GREATLY. i think we need to use the T-Mobile Theme Engine....
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Not with sense bro. That's only on cm7
[HTC Aria General] ValkyrieLiberty:
Oh hell yeah! I skipped the page where it said this was sense...I can help more now!
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Sounds good. :)
[HTC Aria General] woodbane:
Correct, I just unzipped the CM6 ROM, opened the RAR of the FR008 ROM and just drag and drop! I only replaced the Voice Dialer.apk not the Bluetooth one.
[HTC Aria General] woodbane:
I'd go with ADW or LauncherPro - both free although I think ADW is open source and you'd need dev permission for LauncherPro.

I've used both of these in free versions and they both have paid upgrade versions in the marketplace. Both are very good although I think LauncherPro has the edge as it really has some very good direct replacements for Sense widgets.

Maybe the dev could be persuaded to let you include it as many people would probably upgrade to the pro version, he'd be getting his product to a wider audience to boot.:D
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
I agree. Launcherpro is my preferred launcher.
[HTC Aria General] CallMeAria:
I'm a diehard launcherpro plus user, and i think its still the best oaid launcher out there. But when it comes to free launchers I think go launcher ex is the way to go.
[HTC Aria General] ValkyrieLiberty:
I agree, launcher pro is fast but cost, golauncher ex rules for free
[HTC Aria General] thefawns:
miui :) plz haha that would be so epic...
[Dell Venue] Lord60:
anyone interested in trading their Venue (NOT pro) for a Dell Laptop?

let me know in private messaging, and I'll give the specs of the laptop.

thanks
[Nexus One General] Macmee:
I wouldn't even say I use my phone frequently. When I used the miui or however it's spelt rom I would have 60 percent to 30 remaining each day. On gingerbread? I'm down to 15 percent every day and every night my phone has shut off due to lack of battery.

Isn't there any rom with excellent battery life? That's all I want, I use my phone for tethering.
[Nexus One General] gizmo2431:
i put CM7-RC2 on my device yesterday and it's the best battery life i've ever gotten.
[Nexus One General] b1337:
Gb battery life owns, u got something else going on
[Nexus One General] Zmydust:
No he doesn't, i've measured religiously since the original nexus shipments and this is by far the worst
[Nexus One General] josemedina1983:
My battery was really bad but now it seems to last me 10hrs & up which is weird for a phone to last me that long. I really think theirs an app or bug running the battery crazy I don't use any task managers. Their was a thread somewhere saying to run your phone on recovery mode and to press on the reboot/restart and battery get better I did that so maybe it does work but I highly doubt it.
[Nexus One General] christiankk:
I can vouch for poor battery too. I am on CM7 RC2 and I can't even make it through a day with light use. By light use, I mean practally not using the phone at all. :(
[Nexus One General] ttnurmi:
My battery life seems to be better than ever. Some 10-20 percentage units more left in the evenings all down the line.

Edit: Stock GB, no task managers.
[Nexus One General] ap3604:
I agree. Gingerbread has been nothing short of AMAZING for my battery life. The battery life is so good now that I stopped using my spare battery altogether! :):p:D
[Nexus One General] itay1:
Did you happen to do an Update or a full install when you got gingerbread?

Some suggest that it's due to the update process.. so you might want to try a full install:

http://android.clients.google.com/p...b119f8.signed-passion-ota-102588.656099b1.zip

Remember to wipe your cache first..
[Nexus One General] commodoor:
What i noticed is taht custom roms use more battery than stock rom. this is for me i don't say that it is like this for everyone. But with gigerbread i got the best battery life. i also think using apps from SD uses also a lot of battery life, but again i have no other choice to low on memory.
[Nexus One General] bohlool:
bug

I had the same problem. I am on stock gb.

Just set wifi sleep policy to never. It will last 2 days after that. It is definetly a bug.
[Nexus One General] black beard:
Seems to be a real mixed bag with GB on N1's. Lots of people saying "better battery" many others, myself included, reporting much worse. For me, I experienced very poor battery life right from updating to the stock GB using the singned passion .zip file. Even did a factory reset, and only reinstalled my daily used apps and it made little difference, then I went back onto a MIUI rom for a few days and battery life was wonderful again.

Then early this week I flashed to CM7 RC2, and for two days battery life was the worst I've ever had.

Had been seeing a few comments on different forums of people who had the same problem swearing black and blue that after they changed the wifi sleep policy to "always on" their battery life improved dramatically on Gingerbread.

I know if sounds backwards, and that is why I was sceptical for ages, but last night I made the change to see if it would make a difference for me today and all I can say is WOW!!! Phone had a real test today as I started work really early. As of right now the phone has been off charge for 16 hours.

Half a dozen or more voice calls, minimal text, my usual wifi and 3g data, about 10 min of streaming video over wifi and about 1/2 hour in total running Navigation.

There is no way in hell my phone would have done all that and even lasted me 8 hours prior to changing the wifi sleep policy - so I think there is definitely something in it.

As for the ppl who aren't noticing bad battery, maybe they already had theirs set this way - or maybe it's an issue only effecting certain batches of devices (like the wifi reconnect issue which seemed to be pretty common pre froyo)
[Nexus One General] Jyveafk:
it /WAS/ terrible at first. Really, really dire, but it's back to what it used to be, even better now perhaps.

To the OP, do you have WIFI turned on still? I used to leave it turned on and it didn't ever knock down battery as it was going to sleep and not coming back, so wasn't a drain. GB appears to have fixed this, and it was staying on, thrashing the battery.

Turning it off and turning it on as needed only, battery life is now fine.

Do you have WIFI Turned on? Bluetooth? For now, to try and test what's happening, turn off 3g, wifi, bluetooth, automatic date/time sync, and JUST use it as a phone for a day. See what % you're at at the end of the day.

Then we can take it from there.

But I'd be pretty certain that it's wifi related, in that it's now working as it should be, we just got used to it being broken before.
[Nexus One General] wang1404:
My phone on cm7 rc2 has worse battery than I used to have with wildmonks kernel and cm6.1. Yesterday, the phone was barely used until 8 o'clock at night. It was at 45 percent. After an hour medium use, its gotten down to 23 so I had to plug in the phone....the easiest fix? Keep a charger In the car! :-)
[Nexus One General] NexusDro:
Using stock Gingerbread and I can say that my battery life is decent, better than Froyo for sure. The phone lasts longer than 16 hours and I use bluetooth to listen to music for 1.5 hrs on my commute home. By the time I get home after a long day (8pm'ish), I still have about 20 to 30% left.
[Nexus One General] Macmee:
I have no wifi no bluetooth no gps and a dim screen.

Tis is seriously crappy battery life.

Does anyone think they can link me to a good miui rom. For me, it seems that gb just wont work.

I am running stock gb then i flashed the root and my boot loader is unlocked.
[Nexus One General] Mentski:
Listen to this person!

For some reason, since 2.3.3, if you have your Wifi policy to sleep when the screen is off, Android will rip through your battery. You'll notice Android OS taking all the battery on the status page.

Set the sleep policy to never and you get better battery life again. Turn off Wifi manually when you're not using it, even better. Until somebody fixes this bug, I guess it's the only workaround we've got.

More info: check issue 15057 on code.google.com - cant post link due to the newness of this account.
[Nexus One General] subvecto:
Same here on shorter battery life my nexus one as well post gingerbread ota... I will look into detailed system processes and try to find out why...
[Nexus One General] subvecto:
Will give it a try on this, mine is set to turn off when screen is off.
[Nexus One General] Devastatin:
Log into latitude and log out. Every time there is a map update it defaults to being a battery draining monster. But in essence. Something to do with maps link to latitude (which i don't even use) breaks my phones battery life.
[Nexus One General] christiankk:
I switched roms from CM7 RC2 to stock GB (wifi set to never) and now my battery life is stellar :D

CM7 RC2 has some serious problems with battery drain.
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
You definitely want sleep policy at never. Battery difference has always been enormous with it set to never, like double at least.
[Nexus One General] bobbyphoenix:
Sleep to never. Just giving my 2 cents. Great battery life. Still have 31% after two days.
[Nexus One General] vitorjna:
Can you just tell me how much time has the screen been on, and what brightness level is it set to?

Thanks
[Nexus One General] KAwAtA:
It also appears to not have a sim card in there, therefore no service. My old htc magic would last maybe 1-2 days with a sim card. I believe a week without one. I'm confused as to why you're comparing it that way
[Nexus One General] bobbyphoenix:
Yeah I just switched it to my Defy, but I still get the same life with or without the SIM in it. Maybe a bit less with than without, but not enough to say that causes the battery to drain faster to be an issue. I switch between N1, Defy, and DHD a lot. I only use 2G also. Is there a place I can see the actual screen "on time"? I can't find it. I know I use it about six hours a day. Not a lot, but enough for me to know how long I can be out without worrying about battery life. My brightness is set to 35%.
[Nexus One General] vitorjna:
On the second image you uploaded, just press where it says "Display" and it will show how much time it's been on. But 6h/day seems too much for it to still last more than 2 days...
[Nexus One General] marcelol:
And...

What you've displayed running is ???? Stock GB ?
[Nexus One General] marcelol:
2G...huh ?

You only use 2G ?? What kind of EDGE performance you getting up there in Orlando. Here in Miami best EDGE you can hope for is as bad as a 56K baud modem.
[Nexus One General] bobbyphoenix:
Yes stock GB. Screen time on: 4h 1m 16s. EDGE speeds average 215KPBS down 190KPBS up in Orlando.

EDIT

I just put the SIM back in. Going to charge to 100%, and then report back again to see how it compares to what I posted without the SIM.
[Nexus One General] liam.lah:
Ive never been able to accurate guage my battery life, unfortunately at home we have a tin roof, So even on wifi, the voice reception is completely marginal, and the battery drains intensely even with no use.
[Nexus One General] Solidgrue:
Have you configured a corporate email account? I've found that to be a big battery killer for me.

I've been fussing over my phone's power since GB came out. I moved over to custom ROMs around the same time GB dropped, so I have no experience with the stock ROM, but I did notice an improvement in power use when I accidentally broke one of my email accounts.

On a clean install of the latest CM7 nightly with Wifi policy set to "Never" and accounts configured for IMAP email, Facebook and Twitter, I'm finding I get battery use under 1%/hour. If I add an Exchange ("Corporate") account to that mix, I observe battery use jump up to 3-5% per hour. There's also a lot of blue bar for wake time indicated in the battery graph. It works out to the difference of two days on a full charge without Exchange, versus 16 hours for with it. Kind of a shame, because I miss having my work calendar accessible from my phone.

I've found the "Where's my droid power" app to be helpful in tracking down power hogs. If that doesn't work for you, you might also try setting your phone back to factory default and restoring features one by one to figure out if there's a rogue app.
[Nexus One General] RogerPodacter:
yeah the corp exchange is the killer. i'm not on gingerbread, just cyan 6.1. but for the last 5 months i've had mu work email account setup as push, all the time. i finally tested removing this account, and holy crap my battery life improved drastically. now i just check work email manually. it really is a battery drainer.
[Nexus One General] dublued:
Sleep Policy

Edit: nevermind, i'm stupid. figured it out. the battery life is now back to normal!

The battery on my wife's N1 has been horrible since the OTA.

How do I go about setting the wifi sleep policy to never? Is it in the settings?
[Nexus One General] fyid:
i dont think the wifi sleep policy is the answer to all battery trouble. on my n1 with stock gb ota the wifi sleep policy made no difference at all. on top of that, the android system taking lots of battery power only happened the first day - i'm not sure if it needed an extra reboot or if i did something else to stop it but it went away & i haven't seen it since. however, i did have worse battery life on gb than froyo, until a few days ago - that's when i was disgusted enough to look into it more. i used 'os monitor' to look at the network connections and disabled/uninstalled things that had open connections. mainly for me this was the background sync updates (in settings) and weather channel widget (which i uninstalled). since then i have re-enabled everything except weather channel & yesterday my battery life was back to froyo level.
[Nexus One General] gqkevyn:
My battery life seems ALOT better ever since I got Gingerbread. Currently my phone is at 71% it's been off the charger for 22 hours.

38% Voice Calls (30 Minutes)

24% Cell Standby

22% Phone Idle

13% Display (20 Minutes)

2% Android OS

Normally my batter isn't this good, but I really didn't use my phone yesterday much. I'm on Stock GB with auto brightness for display.

Edit: Forgot to mention I keep it 3G the whole time.
[Nexus One General] galaxys:
For me, battery life seems better than Froyo since I flashed Gingerbread...
[Nexus One General] Know-Fear:
I am running a self compiled daily CM7 ROM. (nothing new added or subtracted) Today so far my phone has been off the charger for 12 hours. I have made 3 phones calls (about 10 min. each) and sent about 15 text messages. Checked gmail about 5 times. Used tweetdeck about 5 times. As of right now, my battery is still at 73%. I think this is my best battery life ever.
[Nexus One General] haturaya:
Reverted back to FRG83G 2.2.2 due to bad battery performance with 2.3.3

2.3.3 looks like a step forward & two steps backward. Nicer UI but lesser stability. Riddled with bugs that doesn't exist / being addressed in FRG83G in the first place.
[Nexus One General] sarshadd:
So it seemed as though my battery life was the same if not better up until around this past Weekend...

I tried to sideload a copy of SMS Bomber that had a fairly robust set of permissions. It looked different than the copy my friend was running and it always force quit so i uninstalled it immediately.

Anyway, after noticing a battery decline I restored my phone and reconfigured everything. Battery life has been the same if not worse. I could get through a full 12 hours and end up around ~40/30% with hard use. Now it's been only 14 hours and I'm already at 19%.

My phone has been asleep in my car for most of the day and I used GPS on maps (which I would enable/disable before entering/exiting maps) for MAYBE 10 minutes. Display used 61% and cell stand by and maps both used 11% so nothing stands out.

Something I've noticed in the logcat of late that I didn't really notice before was A LOT of

I/System.out (app ###) [INFO:##] f: runnning flush

I/System.out (app ###) [INFO:##] f: sending payload

and the app or process that was always responsible was com.google.process.gapps (com.google.android.gsf) with NetworkLocationService (com.google.android.android.apps.maps) coming in as a close second.

Normally it would just be a whole load of D/dalvikvm freeing resources, but these google app processes were checking in ever 10-15 lines on the logcat.

Any ideas?!
[Nexus One General] cottinghamm:
Disagree - totally

Following a multitude of cooked ROMs I have gone back to stock & installed 2.3.3 to seen what the standard OS is now doing. I am amazed at the improvement in battery life I am now seeing, plenty to get me through the day with normal use being lots of audio, web browsing, tweetdeck, email and Maps. I have a 14 month old battery that is still doing the business and am very happy.
[Nexus One General] crachel:
I've used Latitude for a long time, and it has never noticeably affected my battery.. I've been using GRI40 OTA lately and Google Maps has been destroying my battery. Signed out of Latitude and now a couple days later this very minimal setup I'm running has finally achieved the 1.5%/hour batter drain I expected.
[Nexus One General] wulfnuts:
maybe i should try stock OS

my battery's being ****
[Nexus One General] zupernovae:
What should I do to make the wifi policy to never?

My apologies for this silly question, but I've tried to search it in this thread and I got nothing :confused:
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
Go into your wifi settings, then click the menu button and select advanced...
[Nexus One General] zupernovae:
Aiyaya... I've never notice it before.

Thanks mate :), I'll check the battery consumption with this policy set to never,
[EVO 4G General] AyyRayy:
Go to now.sprint.com/nexus and you get an image that credits it

And if you go to now.sprint.com/evo3d it directs you to the home page. That showing they are crediting it.

Can't wait for ctia!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] tx_dbs_tx:
interesting.
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
Would be sweet if it's a beefed up nexus s...if not then fail.

I'm very excited to see the specs on the evo 3d

swyped from my cyanogenized and gingerbreaded EVO
[EVO 4G General] AyyRayy:
I think its going to be similar to the LG optimis 2X. Dual core ;)
[EVO 4G General] mdubs:
That's all well and good. Here's to hoping that it is made by htc though.
[EVO 4G General] dkdude36:
does htc even have dual cores yet?
[EVO 4G General] Double 0:
Does the Nexus S feels like all the other Galaxy S Phones? (Cheap and plasticly)

I really like it but if it feels like crap..it won't last long in my hands
[EVO 4G General] jagox5:
3D

Well see thats my question.

will the Evo 3d be a Lg phone or a htc phone?
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
It has that Samsung feel to it, but it's a pretty sweet phone. It feels solid and the little chin bit feels nice in the hand, but I'm not huge on the plastic myself. Nice to see it at least come to Sprint, I'm not entirely sold on these dual cores as I don't game or take in a whole lot of media on it sans music / random videos. 3D phones ... ehh, it should be the big phone of the 2 and I know the 3D toggle will be there ... and there is all that talk about 3D on displays that don't really do it justice ... blah blah blah. I'd consider the Nexus S, especially for just a year. Will be interesting to see what is what.
[EVO 4G General] goodboynyc:
I'm itching to find out how much it'll sell for. I don't have any problems with selling my Evo to get my hands on a Nexus S on Sprint.
[EVO 4G General] tb87:
I played with one at best buy but im too spoiled by my 4.3" screen to have it. Plus I'm not a big Samsung fan, other then that its a really nice looking phone, especially the curves.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
they will soon. probably at ctia. but their dual cores are inferior to the tegra/samsung dual cores. @ 1ghz vs 1ghz, htc/qualcomm's is about 25% slower. qualcomm is setting them at 1.2 ghz so it'll make up some of the gap but power consumption will shoot up plus the tegra 2 is 5nm smaller so tegra 2 is overall more power efficient. i'd personally want a tegra 2 but not much of a choice.