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[Q] Battery drain: mystery network usage?

I'm running CM6.1 RC2, and the past couple of days I have experienced excessive drain, mainly in the first 50%. I attached a picture of the issue. I went to spare parts battery history to see the network usage, since in the about phone battery usage cell standby was 84% of the battery usage, and under network usage there was just an entry for 0, using the most network. When I clicked on '0' the settings application crashed. Yesterday it dropped 35% in 2.5 hours, before it slowed down. It was ridiculous, never used to have this problem, and the battery is only a couple of weeks old so it has to be software. Today it is at 53% after 7.5 hours, which is pretty decent, but at around 70% I disabled 3g and background data to save some energy for a few hours. Is there any way of figuring out what is causing this, or should I reflash? Could it be a CM6.1 RC2 bug? Anyone else having this issue? Thanks in advance
BTW I have no idea why the dialer was so high in usage I only had like MAYBE 15 minutes total of voice calls in 2 hours. The 0 is what I'm concerned about.

Anyone? Bump? No one else is having the issue? Still happening to me on RC3.

I've been getting that problem too.
I used to have battery life of up to 4 days (Mostly standby), now I'm lucky if I get 1.5 (Same usage).
I went in to spare parts and it crashed for me too.

Battery drain here too since cm 6.1
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Well '0' is he system's ID, 0 is root. In the graph the blue is bytes sent, red is bytes received. Have you checked other usage like CPU usage? That might be a better indicator of what's using your battery. Then from there you can start to narrow it down to a specific process or app. I'm using the latest nightly and don't have that issue, never have. I use a bit more battery than I think I should but nothing crazy.
Do you have wifi or bluetooth on? Those drain your battery like no other.

I havent used wifi at all today, unplugged at around 6:30, it's 3:45 now and I'm at 63%, but from around 9:50 to 11:45 and then from 12:20 to 2:20 I had airplane mode enabled since the time without a signal was at 70%, very low signal area. So it seems like for only 4 hours or maybe 5~ of non airplane mode time I should be at above 63%. I only had wifi on for a half an hour today. I'm considering going back to stock for a few days just to see the battery life comparison, and then nandroiding back to CM6.1. I always end up going back to AOSP-based roms in the end. I don't have a data plan on my phone at the moment, getting it today I'm pretty sure, so could all of the blue be from the phone continuously trying to access a website? But other people said they have the same issue and I'm assuming that they have data plans, so that can't be too much related. Hmm.
I also checked cpu usage and such like you suggested, there were a lot of things listed but all but two of them were too small to even have a bar. The two that did have a bar visible were minuscule to put it lightly, so that can't be an issue. Battery use in the about phone area always has cell standby at the top, normally between 40 and 80%. It would seem like there is way too much cell communication going on, moreso than normal. Cell standby stays at the top in even high signal areas, so it's not the signal levels. Kind of stumped here.

Well if the cell is in standby then it's linked to a tower and awaiting activity. Every now and then it 'checks in'. If it's doing that too often then that could seriously drain the battery. You're right though, I'd just switch back. Trouble shooting the exact issue wouldn't be worth the time. Maybe try flashing it again later, could have just been a corrupt download that didn't flash properly.

After conditioning my battery religiously (full to empty with every charge cycle) I am back up to about 15 to 16 hours from full battery to system shut down which is way better than the 10-12 hours I was getting when I first loaded RC2. CR_OTA ROM gave me up to 24-30 hours off of one charge with the exact CPU/2g/3g/wi-fi "routine" as I am using with RC2. Tracked battery usage with System Panel app and RC2 has a steady and even drain pattern ... an even diagonal line down the graph (100% to 0%). Cell standby uses a ridiculous 40% of the battery from full charge! On the stock ROM System Panel app shows plateaus throughout the day when the phone screen is off/sleeping where battery use is virtually non-existent. I'm going to load RC3 today and track the cell standby and battery usage. This time I am not going to use setCPU and just let the ROM run as the CM team designed it to be used and see if anything has changed. I tried this with RC2 and the battery still trended absolutely evenly from 100% to 0%. I can live with a 16 hour battery cycle for the CM ROM because it is very smooth and never has a glitch. The stock ROM is smooth as well but it has some buggy behaviors that I just cannot stand for and it does not run the latest GAPPS.

I've noticed i have exacly the same problem(was actually gonna post it when i found this thread)
Needless to say that on eclair my battery lasted ~48 hours constantly, not its drained in max 24...

The highest I have EVER gotten was 24 hours, and that was on a cm6.1 nightly build, pre RC2. I loaded cr_mod and experienced a HUGE drain. I had airplane mode on, just to test, and it dropped 7% in an hour, in AIRPLANE mode, with no screen on time. I went into spare parts and looked at the usage, and sure enough, "running" was at the top, with 99% of the time spent without sleeping. This has never happened before though, so I can probably attribute that to my modifications. I deleted a few apk's and de-odexed it before I flashed it, and I have a feeling something I did corrupted something else, so I'll flash plain old cr_mod and see where that leaves me. I should probably get back into the habit of full charge/drain every cycle. I used to do that until my battery started lasting longer than I was awake for, so I always had to plug it in at around 15 to 30%. I'll run some more "trials" and see what's going on.
Also, on an unrelated note, I love the stock rom, I always love the sense UI, but I hate HTC_IME compared to the froyo Latin_IME, is there any way at all I could port the froyo Latin_IME to the eclair stock rom?
Edit: also, I flashed dumfuq's OC kernel over cr_mod, could that have been the culprit to the battery drain?

Shouldn't be the culprit. It would drain quicker because of the clock speed but shouldn't be too bad.
Yes Latin_IME should be able to be used with sense. Just delete htc_ime and clicker.apk then install latin_ime and it's corresponding clicker.apk which you can get from various roms'. Btw, clicker is used to calibrate the keyboard so you don't have to install it.
NJAZ, what's the result on using CM6.1 without SetCPU? Big difference or not?

KCRic said:
Shouldn't be the culprit. It would drain quicker because of the clock speed but shouldn't be too bad.
Yes Latin_IME should be able to be used with sense. Just delete htc_ime and clicker.apk then install latin_ime and it's corresponding clicker.apk which you can get from various roms'. Btw, clicker is used to calibrate the keyboard so you don't have to install it.
NJAZ, what's the result on using CM6.1 without SetCPU? Big difference or not?
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Actually, by process of elimination, the kernel was the issue. I remember hearing about there being a bug in the older dumfuq kernels with something idle being null, I really don't remember but it had something to do with sleeping. I flashed pure CR_mod and then 3.5 dumfuq and I experienced the same issue where it wouldn't sleep. I flashed 4.0, but I think it's too soon to determine whether or not the same issue with sleep is occurring.
I tried doing what you said with LatinIME.apk, I even imported the lib file from /system/lib on CM6.1, but the it was nowhere to be found in the system when I booted. It wasn't under keyboard settings, and HTC_IME was gone. I figured it was an incompatibility between froyo and eclair, since the stock sense rom is eclair and the LatinIME.apk is from a froyo ROM. Do I have to something more than just adb push the apk and lib file? I also tried installing it with a file manager, and no surprise, problem parsing the package. It's a system apk so I didnt expect it to be able to install via a file manager. Do I have to use adb install instead of adb push? I'm wondering if htc IME is so wired into the system that it won't work that way. What if I rename LatinIME.apk to htcime.apk or whatever the name of HTCime is and see if that works, because the system may be is treating that as the stock android keyboard, rather than a third party one, because it is labeled touch input in settings, just like LatinIME in aosp roms.
I'll experiment some more I guess
edit: Nevermind, 4.0 is draining as well, albeit less rapidly. Ah well. I guess I'll have to go back to CM6.1 if I want to do overclock. Shame, I love sense so much.
ANOTHER edit: nevermind, you were right, it isn't the kernel at all. It happens when I turn wifi off. I'm assuming that's because I don't have a data plan so it's continually retrying a server that it can't access. I don't know why it didn't do this on the stock HTC kernel, but I'm pretty sure it's the issue. If I turn wifi AND mobile data connection off, it stays at normal drain as well. Well, I'm at 11% and my battery app is estimating roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes remaining, so I don't know if that's GOOD, but I'll give it a good full charge tonight and run it tomorrow. I hopefully will have data activated tomorrow so I can really test it.

Hey guys new to the slide forum but not new to the site. I come from the G1 thread and we had the similar problem. How is your battery life on a 2.1 ROM? I have my phone rooted with a Sense ROM and it has 2.2 and i do see a bad battery drain as well. I remember froyo ROMs battery life may not be the greatest yet. I remember that was always a big problem over there and it looks like it still hurts here. Have you tried setcpu settings?

Maybe this information will help, i forgot to mention last time i posted that i'm not using a HTC device, i'm using Samsung Galaxy S, and there are more ppl with this problem on our forum aswell, so maybe someone can use this information correctly, i mean, it's either a program that's doing this or some strange freaky froyo process that not everybody has? or idk..

We'll need to get a log or something from one of the phones doing this and see if we can pinpoint the issue. Anyone experiencing this issue using compcache? Maybe it's doing some sort of background compression/decompression or swap is swapping too much while the phone is 'off'. Like I said, we'll need a log dump uploaded so we can sift through it.
As far as the latin_ime, try getting the one from a 2.1 vanilla rom. Check the slide rom bible for the 'senseless' roms like CM5 or something. That should do it.

KCRic said:
We'll need to get a log or something from one of the phones doing this and see if we can pinpoint the issue. Anyone experiencing this issue using compcache? Maybe it's doing some sort of background compression/decompression or swap is swapping too much while the phone is 'off'. Like I said, we'll need a log dump uploaded so we can sift through it.
As far as the latin_ime, try getting the one from a 2.1 vanilla rom. Check the slide rom bible for the 'senseless' roms like CM5 or something. That should do it.
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Well my desire was to get the froyo latinIME onto eclair, since it's prediction engine was so much improved, but I'm getting used to HTC_IME so it doesn't matter.
As for the battery, for me at least, running the cmkernel from dumfuq, v4.0, I get BETTER battery life than the stock HTC kernel. Weird right? If I enable data I get tons of blue in spare parts, under network usage, for things like calendar and contacts. I'll have to assume that's because of the lack of data plan, my data plan doesn't become effective until december 9th. Otherwise, I have no excessive drain. It must be a cm6 issue, with cell polling. Cell standby was always up in the 70%+ range in battery usage in cm6, and on the stock rom it's around 27%. Wi-fi and display are highest, and I still get 20-25 hours.
I agree, to pinpoint the cause of the problem in cm6, someone needs a log to analyze, I'm not actually that smart with these things, nor am I running cm anymore, so can't really help there, but it'd be a good start.

MusicMan374 said:
Well my desire was to get the froyo latinIME onto eclair, since it's prediction engine was so much improved, but I'm getting used to HTC_IME so it doesn't matter.
As for the battery, for me at least, running the cmkernel from dumfuq, v4.0, I get BETTER battery life than the stock HTC kernel. Weird right? If I enable data I get tons of blue in spare parts, under network usage, for things like calendar and contacts. I'll have to assume that's because of the lack of data plan, my data plan doesn't become effective until december 9th. Otherwise, I have no excessive drain. It must be a cm6 issue, with cell polling. Cell standby was always up in the 70%+ range in battery usage in cm6, and on the stock rom it's around 27%. Wi-fi and display are highest, and I still get 20-25 hours.
I agree, to pinpoint the cause of the problem in cm6, someone needs a log to analyze, I'm not actually that smart with these things, nor am I running cm anymore, so can't really help there, but it'd be a good start.
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Well I just recently saw this almost exact same issue (maybe not as extreme) on the samsung tablet running Cyanogen. They removed the phone, telephony, mms, and one more .apk to resolve it. This issue was caused by the lack of a use for those .apks but the system was still using them... a lot. It seemed similar but not exact, maybe some of us more tech savvy people can look into those and see if there's an issue.

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Well I just recently saw this almost exact same issue (maybe not as extreme) on the samsung tablet running Cyanogen. They removed the phone, telephony, mms, and one more .apk to resolve it. This issue was caused by the lack of a use for those .apks but the system was still using them... a lot. It seemed similar but not exact, maybe some of us more tech savvy people can look into those and see if there's an issue.
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Yeah that'd be cool. It must have something to do with that, since it's the cell radio sucking battery.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

I flashed 6.1.0 stable, battery drain seems to be slightly less. I'm still at around 5 or 10% below where I was at this time on stock, with 9.5 hours off the charger, current level 57%. Although, I did use airplane mode for almost 2 hours, so really I'm like 10 or 20% below where I should be. I just can't figure it out, cell standby is at like 80% usage in this ROM. It's ridiculous, is it the polling intervals or something? How can it be so much less battery efficient than stock?

I flashed 6.1 RC2 with a low battery and had trouble with battery life. TMO's service was acting very strange for a couple of weeks and my cell standby was consuming a lot of juice. Flashed 6.1 RC3 with a well conditioned full battery. At first I used no setCPU just to see how things would go ... 11 hours from full battery to empty. Added setCPU to RC3 and got 27+ hours out of a full charge. Either TMO fixed it's towers or RC3 was better with cell standby because my network usage was not cranking overtime like it had been. Finally, I flashed 6.1 stable with setCPU and I average around 22 to 24 hours on one charge.
One observsation - when I first flashed RC2 I was really into my phone again. I was constantly tweaking it and flipping through options, testing apps, digging new Gapps, etc. ... bottom line I was just using my device waaaaay more than usual and I think that played a huge role in my (supposed) poor battery performance. All seems to be well with 6.1 stable.

[Q] Nil's Business Gingersense 3.0 (v2.3) question

Hey everyone,
I'm under 10 posts, so I have to post here. With that said, I have a question.
I'm running nil's Business Gingersense 3.0 v2.3. When my 3G is on, my battery life seems to be sucked down about 2-3% every minute or so. Now, when I installed this ROM I did a full wipe of data/cache, dalvik, battery stats, return to stock. I also followed his instructions in his thread on his ROM about battery saving. In addition, I did my normal turning off syncing, setting apps to update only when opened, turning off all vibration features, etc. My battery still drops that 2-3% every minute.
I'm curious if anyone else is having/had this problem? If so, did you fix it?
I'm going to try Tiny's newest release kernel tonight, but wanted to see if anyone else had the same thing(s) going on with their DInc that I have.
Thanks in advance for you help!

Curious if you've noticed this after a full charge and after the battery percentage drops below ~94%?

I'm in the same boat with less than 10 posts so I also need to ask here. I am noticing that the HTC weather app seems to indicate a very different location than the one I am in. I also notice it with the weather bug app, so it seems to be a location issue and not an app issue. Sometimes if I go into settings/location and uncheck/recheck use wireless networks it corrects itself and sometimes it needs a reboot. Any ideas why or how to fix it? Thanks.

Bull_Moose said:
Curious if you've noticed this after a full charge and after the battery percentage drops below ~94%?
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Hey Bull_Moose,
I refrained from posting a response until after I gave Tiny's kernel a couple of days of use. I haven't noticed the drop as much with the new kernel as well as switching out the Yahoo mail app for K9 Mail. It still seems to be dropping a little quicker than I'd like, but perhaps that's because I am actually seeing percentage numbers now and thus it's creating a simulated quick drop effect.
I'll give it some more testing, but it seems better now after those two fixes. Like I said, not as good as it seemed with Froyo custom ROMs or even the Gingerbread OTA leak, but perhaps that because of all the little tweaks I can do with the ROM.

m6droid said:
Hey Bull_Moose,
I refrained from posting a response until after I gave Tiny's kernel a couple of days of use. I haven't noticed the drop as much with the new kernel as well as switching out the Yahoo mail app for K9 Mail. It still seems to be dropping a little quicker than I'd like, but perhaps that's because I am actually seeing percentage numbers now and thus it's creating a simulated quick drop effect.
I'll give it some more testing, but it seems better now after those two fixes. Like I said, not as good as it seemed with Froyo custom ROMs or even the Gingerbread OTA leak, but perhaps that because of all the little tweaks I can do with the ROM.
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I was the same way when I first used a ROM that showed % drops so part of it may just be the fact that you're keeping a closer eye on the battery life now. Once fully charged, these batteries will drain a couple of % even if it is still plugged in. That's why after five minutes of being unplugged your phone could have dropped 5% or more, it's simply "catching up" to the actual battery level.
But if you're noticing a quick drain after that initial drop then it's probably an app doing too much in the background. It is possible that the ROM/kernel/ROM and kernel combo is causing it, but I've never had this problem with any of Nils' ROMs even with the kernel he uses. (Tiny's is better though, in my opinion)

I have been using this ROM for about a week or two now and I am having an issue with the Friends widget. It will only set the default number on one person all the others go into my vcard and says set a default but it never stays set. Any suggestions???
Also can anyone tell me how to get the verizon backup assistant back. I know that I can use google for whatever reason I just prefer verizon. I have read a few forums but can't seem to find a solid answer. Also I am very new to this stuff so the more instruction from start to finish the better. Thanks in advance!!!

Is it possible at all with Nils Gingersense 3.0 or 3.5 to ever use fastboot, or is it completely out of the question (With the file being so large and all...)?

lol
lmbo im in the same boat with the 10 posts... is gay... yea this is part of getting my 10 done... im no noob!!!

Right...
gutiejor said:
lmbo im in the same boat with the 10 posts... is gay... yea this is part of getting my 10 done... im no noob!!!
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Yeah, what's the deal with that? Makes me feel like a lesser class being or something

you have less 10 posts. that means your good at following instructions.. and you know how to fix certain troubles on your phone..

T989 Nexus Rom battery drainage issue plus more

so I flashed the Nexus Rom as well as the newly updated 3.8 version with the battery % feature flashed on my phone. The entire procedure was done as instructed (restore/clear 3+ times on everything as instructed) and I waited well over 10 minutes upon a reboot. So all is set and almost everything is working flawlessly.
There are few issues, however, which I'm curious to know if I'm the only one experiencing this:
1. Battery Drain: Fully Charged at 100%, unplugged the cable at 6AM this morning. The phone has been on its battery power for roughly 7.5 hours now handling a total of 5 minutes of calls, roughly 30 text messages, 5 minutes of non-wifi internet usage, email is being pushed, and flashed 3.8. My display is set slightly below the mid section and I have zero widgets on my main screen except for the search bar. A total of 6 icons on my menu and that's it (only 1 page). My battery is at 40% right now. It's only been a day since I've had this flash and I just flashed on the 3.8 just few minutes ago.
2. From the Status Bar pull down menu, Shutdown and Reboot, Recovery option would hang and freeze the phone until I pull out the battery. I can only enter the Recovery mode manually by holding both +/- volume, power on, and releasing both once the 'samsung' logo appears.
3. Mobile HotSpot freezes for good 1-2 minutes. I cannot use my phone as a Hotspot at the moment.
I absolutely love the Nexus Rom from the looks, performance, looks to looks, but few of the glitches I've mentioned are quite irritating. If I'm the only person experiencing this, I'd want to continue on the search to remedy this issue. Please share some experience, ideas, or resolution if you have any!

1.) That's about right for battery. It's a leak so the battery life is still wanting compared to gb. If you thinks that's bad though, you should have seen uclc4
2.) Known bug. Even though its ucld2 the shutdown bug is still present for a few, and especially manifests itself as soon as you run fix permissions. Although the shutdown hang is "reportedly fixed" on ucld2 i'm running seanscreamz sky ics 4.2D-8 with ucld2 base and i have the same problem as well.
Suggestions, either use quickboot from google play, or reflash following op instructions and DO NOT fix permissions
3.) Hotspot doesn't really work all that well, even with the ultracfg fix. I recommend the "WiFi Tether 3.1-beta12" app, i'm using this instead and it works well.

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1.) That's about right for battery. It's a leak so the battery life is still wanting compared to gb. If you thinks that's bad though, you should have seen uclc4
2.) Known bug. Even though its ucld2 the shutdown bug is still present for a few, and especially manifests itself as soon as you run fix permissions. Although the shutdown hang is "reportedly fixed" on ucld2 i'm running seanscreamz sky ics 4.2D-8 with ucld2 base and i have the same problem as well.
Suggestions, either use quickboot from google play, or reflash following op instructions and DO NOT fix permissions
3.) Hotspot doesn't really work all that well, even with the ultracfg fix. I recommend the "WiFi Tether 3.1-beta12" app, i'm using this instead and it works well.
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Thanks for the input. I wish the battery life was better. I'll let it sink in for a few days to see if it'll improve. If not, I'll just have to keep searching for a rom with a better battery life. I've tried Beastmod, Juggnaut and many others which have yet to last for over 12 hours.
I read that the hotspot issue was fixed and with the 3.8 update, I presumed it to be completely polished. The shutdown bug, I can live with - hoping there's an upcoming fix in the works.
This ROM is the sickest looking ROM I've tried so far. I wouldn't call it the smoothest due to it's intermittent force closures and freezes, but when things improve down the road, I think this one will stay on my phone for awhile!

I've been using this rom for about a week and the battery has been working great, better than any stock rom I've had. I'll unplug it in the morning around 745 and it'll last until I go to bed around 11.
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You should try Mr X' s tweaked Telus stock ROM. This ROM has the best battery life among T989 ROMs period. It is Canadian but works great on T-mobile network. It also does not have much bloatwares as T mobiles stock one. Just Make sure you have wifi sharing, wifi sharing manager and social hub frozen through titanium backup.
As for wireless hotspot, the stock one from Telus works well.
I get about 16 hours use. It may vary for you but battery lasts longest with this ROM.
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Best ICS ROM

Any recommendations? I switched from CM 7.2 stable to CM 9 RC2 (both with V6 Supercharge) and while I love the new ICS UI, it's definitely a lot slower/more power hungry/unstable. I frequently get ANRs, FCs random hangs and reboots. Also, text display corruption and 720p video recording isn't working either.
Is there anything better in terms of stability and speed? Would prefer a stock ICS look.

Aokp then..its good enough..
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try elitemod ics, or mimicry
these are the best in my opinion
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Best ICS rom
Hy everyone,
In april leaved the Virtuous team ROM (what was the name? Oh, Unity 2.05) to install the Sensewich beta 6 with ICS.
IMHO it was very fast, with Sense 4.0, ICS 4.0.3., simply faboulous. The drawback was that the hot spot wifi doesn't work, the camera doesn't work, usb tethering does not work and sometime became a little bit slowly, just for some seconds/minutes.
Now, since yesterday, I use the Sensewich beta 8. Same features of beta 6, but now the camera is ok (w/o AF), but still no camcorder, hot spot wifi works after several reboot, no usb tethering but, the worst issue is that the bluetooth now doesn't work!
I discovered this just this evening when I entered in my car: I turn on the bluetooth but no connection, the phone crash, it needed to tear down the battery to restart it. When arrived at home, I saw on the thread that the bluetooth is not available.
So, next weeks I will be on holiday without car, so I can accept this issue, but I hope (and I guess) who xT4Z1N4TRx is working yet to solve this issue. Not acceptable issue!

My favorite is in my sig. Its super fast, havent had any glitches or force closes. In fact each day I still cant believe how fast it is and that I am using ICS on a G2!! I'd highly recommend it and the dev is constantly updating it; he just released an update last week..
I havent had any issues with text distortion and actually know that you mention it I havent tried the video recorder yet. But its beautiful with everything else

I would recommend mimicry. It's unbelievably smooth.
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Thanks. Will probably try mimicry. Since they're both based on CM9, do I need to do a full wipe if I'm coming from CM9 RC2? Or will a dalvik wipe suffice?
Thanks.

goister said:
Thanks. Will probably try mimicry. Since they're both based on CM9, do I need to do a full wipe if I'm coming from CM9 RC2? Or will a dalvik wipe suffice?
Thanks.
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Neither, read the Mimicry OP FAQ
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Thanks. On Mimicry 1.3.1 with Apex launcher now. So far so good...

The mimicry ROM is a Senseless ROM?
If would be possible to use locations also with no Sense, I will try this ROM too.
Someone know how could I install Locations, in order to use the GPS navigation? I've bought the Europe navigation perpetual license!

barrazzi said:
The mimicry ROM is a Senseless ROM?
If would be possible to use locations also with no Sense, I will try this ROM too.
Someone know how could I install Locations, in order to use the GPS navigation? I've bought the Europe navigation perpetual license!
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I'm not familiar enough with sense locations. From searching the forums I saw a post by a member that it wouldn't work without sense. You can try backing it up titanium backup and restoring and hopefully it'll work. My understanding is that it'll probably need some htc sense frameworks that are most likely missing in any aosp based rom
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Thank you for the suggestion!
I've just download the Virtuous Infinity 1.31.0 Alpha 2 which has all the main features working (camera, wifi, bluetooth). Reading some posts in the specific thread, I saw this ROM seems slow, lazy (a post say"Slow is an understatement!").
Has someone install this ROM?

Mimicry
Mimicry is working great for me. Really surprised at how fast and smooth it is. Only thing is that it appears to drain battery faster than gingerbread (tmobile).

dakrath said:
Mimicry is working great for me. Really surprised at how fast and smooth it is. Only thing is that it appears to drain battery faster than gingerbread (tmobile).
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Yes, it drains my battery QUITE fast the second I turn on the display, and I haven't really found a fix for it in any way. Clocking my CPU back down, different CPU governors, forcing (or not forcing) hardware acceleration... none of it works. My phone doesn't use much battery at all, until I actually use it, and then I can literally sit there and watch my battery counter count down.
Would anything help this?

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Yes, it drains my battery QUITE fast the second I turn on the display, and I haven't really found a fix for it in any way. Clocking my CPU back down, different CPU governors, forcing (or not forcing) hardware acceleration... none of it works. My phone doesn't use much battery at all, until I actually use it, and then I can literally sit there and watch my battery counter count down.
Would anything help this?
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Over the span of 20h I get 4-4.5 hours of screen on. That said though, ICS will use more juice than GB.
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It definitely uses more juice than CM 7.2. There are also a couple of problems, particularly using Chrome. Sometimes when I click on a link on facebook and choose Chrome to open it, the page will load halfway and just hang there, becoming unresponsive to everything, including hardware buttons. I will then have to pull the battery out, or just wait for it to heat up and then auto-reboot. I haven't noticed this when I start Chrome manually and surf, but that could be just a coincidence.
Also, unlike CM 7.x, there's no way of specifying an additional timeout after screen off before screen lock(PIN/password/pattern) activates. It's quite irritating to always have to authenticate myself when I turn my screen off and on again, even if it's just 2s later.

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It definitely uses more juice than CM 7.2. There are also a couple of problems, particularly using Chrome. Sometimes when I click on a link on facebook and choose Chrome to open it, the page will load halfway and just hang there, becoming unresponsive to everything, including hardware buttons. I will then have to pull the battery out, or just wait for it to heat up and then auto-reboot. I haven't noticed this when I start Chrome manually and surf, but that could be just a coincidence.
Also, unlike CM 7.x, there's no way of specifying an additional timeout after screen off before screen lock(PIN/password/pattern) activates. It's quite irritating to always have to authenticate myself when I turn my screen off and on again, even if it's just 2s later.
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Chrome has numerous bugs on our device when using any ICS rom, a number of them are filed in the chrome bug tracker so all you can do is wait for Google to address those issues.
As for delayed lock, it of course works perfectly in ICS. I don't know where you're looking but it's under Settings - Lock screen - Screen Security.
Also, FYI, the Facebook app on ICS is also prone to issues with lag and wakelock abuse amongst some of the reported problems. Until they fix those, it's recommended that you use an alternative client.
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I've combed through Settings->Lock Screen->Screen Security numerous times, but I've yet to find a way to achieve what I want, which is to set a delay n such that my screen lock will only activate n seconds after I press the power button to turn my screen off. My "Automatically lock" is set to "1 minute after sleep", my "Power button instantly locks" is disabled and my "Screen lock" is "Secured with pattern". How exactly can I get it to "work perfectly"? Right now it's simply not working.
Also, I'm using Friendcaster most of the time, though I do also have Facebook installed, but notifications disabled though.

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I've combed through Settings->Lock Screen->Screen Security numerous times, but I've yet to find a way to achieve what I want, which is to set a delay n such that my screen lock will only activate n seconds after I press the power button to turn my screen off. My "Automatically lock" is set to "1 minute after sleep", my "Power button instantly locks" is disabled and my "Screen lock" is "Secured with pattern". How exactly can I get it to "work perfectly"? Right now it's simply not working.
Also, I'm using Friendcaster most of the time, though I do also have Facebook installed, but notifications disabled though.
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Hm I dunno, I just tested it & it seemed to work for me. Maybe try setting your lockscreen to slide or off, then resetting your pin? I don't normally use a secure lock though.
Good on you for using friendcaster!

Just wanted to post my experience with battery life and Mimicry. On GB I had great battery life; no complaints. I easily got a full day with moderate use (3-4 hours screen time). But I was pleasantly surprised with the extended life I saw with Mimicry. In fact, I was prepared to see a decrease. I'm quite careful to not use apps/settings which demand resources if they are not absolutely necessary. That said, without much different in the way of apps/settings, Mimicry provides slightly better battery life than ILWT (based on CM7). Obviously, results do vary...

[Q] HTC One X MaximusHD 21.1-Some apps have problems with connecting when using WiFi

So today I've installed latest MaximusHD rom for HTC One X, and everything is super fine, except for one thing - when I'm trying to connect to my Skydrive (using official app) while on Wi-Fi I just can't do it. After awhile it just says that I should check if I have a connection. The problem does not occur when I switch to Data Transmission. Other apps usually are able to connect but it seems slower than when using Data Transmision.
I have installed the WiFi update, and when using Google Play, or browsing the internet it seems to work just fine... I also switched from Superuser to SuperSU, but the problem occured before that so I don't think it had anything to do with that (noob question - which should I use? Superuser was there by default, but is ist actually better, or there is no big difference?)

Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the app?
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Yep.
seedubya said:
Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the app?
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I tried, it's still very slow.
Other odd thing is that when I turn on Data Transmission it's always showing the "H" symbol, even in the places where it previously showed "3G" or "3.5G", now it never switches. What does it mean? The speed seems fine though.

This happened to me too. And it's happening to YouTube and google play.
Could it be because I didn't do the OTA update?
In that case i have a little question: if I update the OTA do I/will it wipe all data?

mortix02 said:
This happened to me too. And it's happening to YouTube and google play.
Could it be because I didn't do the OTA update?
In that case i have a little question: if I update the OTA do I/will it wipe all data?
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Well I did the OTA update almost right away (after intalling few apps), and I saw the problem after that, so I don't think it has anything to do with that although it's suppose to fix WiFi. Oh and it didn't wipe my data.
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Well I can't post in MaximusHD thread yet so I'll ask here, does everyone using this rom experience such a tremendous drop in battery life when using Data Transmission? On WiFi it's normal, but when using cellular it drains 5-10% in 10 minutes... That seems absurd.

bump. Seriously? Anyone knows if this problem with power drain when using cellular data transmission is also present in other clean Sense 5 Roms? Or is there a way to fix that, or maybe there is an update underway?

I just switched ROMs but was getting a full days use out of a charge. WiFi at work and home all day. So I never really used hspda.
Sent from my Avatar ROM that kicks buttski!!!

kolas310 said:
Well I did the OTA update almost right away (after intalling few apps), and I saw the problem after that, so I don't think it has anything to do with that although it's suppose to fix WiFi. Oh and it didn't wipe my data.
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Well I can't post in MaximusHD thread yet so I'll ask here, does everyone using this rom experience such a tremendous drop in battery life when using Data Transmission? On WiFi it's normal, but when using cellular it drains 5-10% in 10 minutes... That seems absurd.
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Yes! It does this for me too. It seems to drain at something like 1% per minute for me when I have mobile data on. Wifi also drains it quickly, but not as fast. I posted about this in the Maximus thread (some other issues too) but nobody has replied. Good to know it's not just me.

Nasalhair said:
Yes! It does this for me too. It seems to drain at something like 1% per minute for me when I have mobile data on. Wifi also drains it quickly, but not as fast. I posted about this in the Maximus thread (some other issues too) but nobody has replied. Good to know it's not just me.
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Yep, hopefully there is going to be some kind of fix, I really wouldn't like to go through the whole configuration, app instalation, etc. process again.
Ok, so another thing is - some icons in one of the folders on my home screen disapear. It's always in the same folder, and only in this one, others seem to be unaffected.

kolas310 said:
Yep, hopefully there is going to be some kind of fix, I really wouldn't like to go through the whole configuration, app instalation, etc. process again.
Ok, so another thing is - some icons in one of the folders on my home screen disapear. It's always in the same folder, and only in this one, others seem to be unaffected.
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Issues I'm having:
1. Crazy battery drain when I enable wifi, but particularly bad when I enable mobile data. I have a Tasker profile where if I enable wifi and connect to my home network, autosync and GPS are enabled for 2 minutes then disable themselves. Last night my phone was on 61%, I enabled wifi, and immediately it dropped to 56%.
2. When I go to bed at night I turn my phone off. If I put it on charge at night it gets to a certain point and the phone switches itself on! One night last week it switched itself on at about 89%, so I switched it off again, and about ten minutes later it switched itself on again!
3. I use Google Calendar, not the HTC one. I seem to be unable to disable the HTC calendar - the only option is to "freeze" it in my backup app.
Aside from these things, I really like the rom, but these three issues are making me wonder if I should try something like ARHD and see if the same things are present there.

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Issues I'm having:
1. Crazy battery drain when I enable wifi, but particularly bad when I enable mobile data. I have a Tasker profile where if I enable wifi and connect to my home network, autosync and GPS are enabled for 2 minutes then disable themselves. Last night my phone was on 61%, I enabled wifi, and immediately it dropped to 56%.
2. When I go to bed at night I turn my phone off. If I put it on charge at night it gets to a certain point and the phone switches itself on! One night last week it switched itself on at about 89%, so I switched it off again, and about ten minutes later it switched itself on again!
3. I use Google Calendar, not the HTC one. I seem to be unable to disable the HTC calendar - the only option is to "freeze" it in my backup app.
Aside from these things, I really like the rom, but these three issues are making me wonder if I should try something like ARHD and see if the same things are present there.
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Well I don't know how it is with the phone turning itself on, because I'm not turning it off to begin with.
The thing with calendar - it seems to me it was also like that when using official Sense 4+, so I don't know if it's fixable.
I think I'm going to switch to ViperX Sense 5 Rom, people seem to say good things about battery life in this one.

kolas310 said:
Well I don't know how it is with the phone turning itself on, because I'm not turning it off to begin with.
The thing with calendar - it seems to me it was also like that when using official Sense 4+, so I don't know if it's fixable.
I think I'm going to switch to ViperX Sense 5 Rom, people seem to say good things about battery life in this one.
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Yes, I know some people think the idea of switching a phone off is somehow weird, but I turn mine off at night. As an experiment I just switched my phone off here in work, plugged it in to charge it (it was on about 93% - charged overnight and it has lost 7% since I switched it on when I got up for work at 5.30) and lo and behold it powered itself on when it reached 100%. I don't want this to happen.
The calendar on Sense 4 could be disabled - I know this as I had it disabled! I prefer the Google calendar, so I disabled the HTC one. On this ROM you can only hide it, or backup apps allow it to be frozen, which is what I've had to resort to.

Nasalhair said:
Yes, I know some people think the idea of switching a phone off is somehow weird, but I turn mine off at night. As an experiment I just switched my phone off here in work, plugged it in to charge it (it was on about 93% - charged overnight and it has lost 7% since I switched it on when I got up for work at 5.30) and lo and behold it powered itself on when it reached 100%. I don't want this to happen.
The calendar on Sense 4 could be disabled - I know this as I had it disabled! I prefer the Google calendar, so I disabled the HTC one. On this ROM you can only hide it, or backup apps allow it to be frozen, which is what I've had to resort to.
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Well then since nobody seems to know what to do in our instance, and I have no idea if there is some kind of update for MaximusHD underway, we propably will have to switch the Roms. I usually had the mobile Data Transmission turned on all the time when outside my apartment and while it did drain the battery more than WiFi it still was enough for 8+ hours of being on with medium usage (sometimes with battery saver option ticked when I needed to be outside for a longer period of time). Now the phone would be dead after few hours.
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Today I switched for ViperX Rom, and all of the issues I wrote about seem to be gone, Skydrive app no longer has any issues with connecting. Although I'll say something more about batery life in 2-3 days when I'll actually have a chance to see how it works. In general I can say that this ROM is a lot more customizable, and has lots of tweaks (greeat ones) I haven't seen in Maximus, but still I'll wait for a few days with my final opinion.

Ok so after using it for a few days I can tell that the ROM itself is just better in sheer terms of funcionality. First thing I noticed is that I can now put more than 16 shortcuts into Folders, the icon grid in app panel is 5x6 so now I have 3 pages to scroll instead of 7. WiFi seems work more stable but I can't say that it worked bad in MaximusHD. When it comes to battery drain while using Data Transmission - it's still there, but after a few cycles of charging it seems to get better bit by bit, if it still changes I'll let You know. ROM comes with lots of additional tools, and allows heavy customization, and reclocking the processor for better battery life. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know what about the phone turning itself on, because I don't switch it off. In terms of the callendar I also use gogle one and I just turned of sync options in the one provided by htc. Also I'm not sure if while installing the rom You are able to choose not to install the HTC callendar.

kolas310 said:
Ok so after using it for a few days I can tell that the ROM itself is just better in sheer terms of funcionality. First thing I noticed is that I can now put more than 16 shortcuts into Folders, the icon grid in app panel is 5x6 so now I have 3 pages to scroll instead of 7. WiFi seems work more stable but I can't say that it worked bad in MaximusHD. When it comes to battery drain while using Data Transmission - it's still there, but after a few cycles of charging it seems to get better bit by bit, if it still changes I'll let You know. ROM comes with lots of additional tools, and allows heavy customization, and reclocking the processor for better battery life. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know what about the phone turning itself on, because I don't switch it off. In terms of the callendar I also use gogle one and I just turned of sync options in the one provided by htc. Also I'm not sure if while installing the rom You are able to choose not to install the HTC callendar.
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I've gone back to my old Orange-branded 4.1.1 / Sense 4+ build. Battery life has gone through the roof, HTC calendar is disabled, everything works, no problems. As for the phone powering itself on, well, something odd happened there...
When I decided to go back to the old build I restored my Nandroid backup and reflashed my old boot.img, taking the phone back to its old setup, and all seemed well, but that night I switched it off at bedtime (still find it weird that so many people think I'm freakishly odd for daring to switch my phone off from time to time) and lo and behold, some time later, it switched itself on again! The next morning I did some searching about removing the Clockworkmod recovery, followed the instructions, and also relocked my bootloader for good measure, and guess what? Since then it hasn't powered itself on while charging. So all I can gather from this is it was either Clockworkmod or having an unlocked bootloader that caused my phone to power itself on, because as soon as these two things were changed it has behaved normally.
So anyway, I'm going to stay on this build until Orange get around to releasing 4.2, or my contract expires in April, whichever comes first. Probably the latter, as according to a post I've seen from Orange themselves they reckon the update will appear 3-6 MONTHS after the manufacturer releases it.

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I've gone back to my old Orange-branded 4.1.1 / Sense 4+ build. Battery life has gone through the roof, HTC calendar is disabled, everything works, no problems. As for the phone powering itself on, well, something odd happened there...
When I decided to go back to the old build I restored my Nandroid backup and reflashed my old boot.img, taking the phone back to its old setup, and all seemed well, but that night I switched it off at bedtime (still find it weird that so many people think I'm freakishly odd for daring to switch my phone off from time to time) and lo and behold, some time later, it switched itself on again! The next morning I did some searching about removing the Clockworkmod recovery, followed the instructions, and also relocked my bootloader for good measure, and guess what? Since then it hasn't powered itself on while charging. So all I can gather from this is it was either Clockworkmod or having an unlocked bootloader that caused my phone to power itself on, because as soon as these two things were changed it has behaved normally.
So anyway, I'm going to stay on this build until Orange get around to releasing 4.2, or my contract expires in April, whichever comes first. Probably the latter, as according to a post I've seen from Orange themselves they reckon the update will appear 3-6 MONTHS after the manufacturer releases it.
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Heh I'm alson in Orange (poland), and we got info that the update will show up sometime mid-december. I just got tired of waiting for them to update that's why I ended up with custom roms.
Maybe it was CM fault? I'm using TWRP, tonight I'll turn it off and see if it powers back itself during the night and let you know.