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Hi all, this is my first post and I'm a n00b to rooting, but don't let that stop you from reading on since I'm an advanced user and hope I can add some value here. Honestly, don't know what took me so long to do this. Posting to the Q&A forum since I can't yet post to the RC1 Dev forum.
My main goals for rooting were to get out from under Sprint's downgrade of my Swype beta (I should never have installed that OTA update, duh), upgrade to GB, and get better performance (battery especially).
I tried lots of the GB ROMs so far and experienced some of the reported problems like cycling reboots, slow/non-responsive market, CM skate anim cycling, etc. Some ROMs had swype, some didn't and most produced the licensing issue discussed in these forums when trying to install the latest beta.
Long story short, I've found a very stable and fast performing combo that I thought I'd share, and ask a question about. Here's what I did:
In recovery, Format_all, wipe data, system, cache, dalvik.
Install RC1, install the latest GB google apps and restart.
3G performance was piss poor, and I want wimax (more Geeees!), so I installed the toast wimax kernel (and antipasto font which I'm loving), cleared caches again, restarted and now 3G performance was faster than I think it has ever been. [EDIT: WiFi now an issue] and GPS are fast and stable. Best part, I was able to download and install the very latest Swype beta on this ROM.
A couple things that need addressing though:
'Cell standby' is a somewhat high percentage battery drain which I'll try to tackle through other reported methods (could be wimax searching/standby?). That said, battery life is still very good and way better than sprint/sense, even under heavy/constant use.
USB issues: Enable USB debugging and notify. Icon shows in notification bar. Disable debugging, but leave notify checked. Debugging icon still shows. Tied to this is the inability to select the mount/charge options, which others have recently reported in the RC1 Dev forum. So can't mount to PC. Any updates on how to resolve?
WiFi is now non-functional on my office AP.
WiMax control settings not showing up since they aren't there with this ROM/kernel combo for some reason. Any/all ideas welcome on this point too.
Slow market downloads, even though speedtest shows 527kbps down.
Thanks again everyone for this great community!
I haven't had any luck with my phone on my office AP (3COM) since I got this darn phone. For some odd reason it gets the wrong gateway and I have to set it up manually from the terminal if I want to use it after connecting. Check your gateway when you connect and see what you are getting.
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[*]WiMax control settings not showing up since they aren't there with this ROM/kernel combo for some reason. Any/all ideas welcome on this point too.
Thanks again everyone for this great community!
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WiMax isn't in RC1 yet. You can get an alpha build that Shinzul has up. Or wait until the Final release which should have WiMax and HDMI working.
Thanks, I'll check the gateway, and will check out Shinzul's alpha.
Had my first auto reboot today, and Sms is not working right (yes, less than 160 chars and not mms). Might have spoken too soon about this combo...
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Thanks, I'll check the gateway, and will check out Shinzul's alpha.
Had my first auto reboot today, and Sms is not working right (yes, less than 160 chars and not mms). Might have spoken too soon about this combo...
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Wait till the final release. It will be more stable.
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admang said:
A couple things that need addressing though:
'Cell standby' is a somewhat high percentage battery drain which I'll try to tackle through other reported methods (could be wimax searching/standby?). That said, battery life is still very good and way better than sprint/sense, even under heavy/constant use.
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Keep in mind that the "Percentages" will always total a 100%. Something will always be big.
So to me I WANT TO See Cell Standby be high. That means nothing stupid in the OS is chewing it up. And Cell Standby isn't effected all that much except the Radio Firmware (and settings) !! So be careful what you wish for.
The problem for me is, on sense you can uncheck radio always on to remove that cell standby huge drain. On froyo you can use juice defender. But on cm7 you can do neither. So I need to turn it on and off manually. Very annoying, anybody have a solution?
If you install CM7 nightly build #6 (today's build), it now has support for WiMax and SMS splitting.
juice defender is failing me. and i reeeeeallly hate turning data on and off manually. any suggestions? i'm new to aosp so i'm a bit lost rigt now.
Just use the expanded notification bar and toggle data. You're not gonna be able to shut off the radio without airplane mode.
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dkdude36 said:
juice defender is failing me. and i reeeeeallly hate turning data on and off manually. any suggestions? i'm new to aosp so i'm a bit lost rigt now.
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Unfortunately I think some permissions changed within Android 2.3 which CM7 uses and JuiceDefender just doesn't work on it yet. You're only other option is to flash CM6 (Android 2.2) if you must have JuiceDefender working in ASOP.
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Unfortunately I think some permissions changed within Android 2.3 which CM7 uses and JuiceDefender just doesn't work on it yet. You're only other option is to flash CM6 (Android 2.2) if you must have JuiceDefender working in ASOP.
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ya it looks like thats the case. sucks cause it is taking a really high toll on my battery. i hope somebody will put it into one of the next builds soon.
Continuing from my OP, I'm now off RC1 and onto Nightly #12 with WiMax. WiMax when on is a huge battery drain and I'll be doing some post-reading to figure out if someone has found a way to set a WiMax antenna polling frequency so that it can sleep for periods when not connected.
That said, the WiMax is nice and fast...so I only enable it with the notification bar widget when I need speed or talk/data simultaneously. I also use a new version of Setting Profiles (Full version) to toggle the Wimax on/off based on where I am -- note that this is a test version sent to me by the developers as I've been helping them test this feature. So I don't know if it's in the latest market release version, but if you are a paid owner of that app, just email them and ask for it (although the updated market release is likely not far off if it's not out already).
With the XDA-sponsored SetCPU on and no WiMax, I'm actually getting great standby times in the double-digit number of hours, which has been a first for me with this phone! I know there are some great posts out there about manual conditioning of the battery, which I'm eager to try, and other useful battery-related posts.
I am running CM7 RC1 and I have to say I love it. The first couple of days after flashing I was experiencing terrible battery life. I mean 5 hours or less. I finally flashed Savage-Zen kernel and used the "smartass: governor in CM settings. My battery was better, but Cell Standby was still draining all the battery. I wiped the dalvik cache again and it helped some. but I think the best thing I did was disable google backup settings. Keep in mind before I flashed the kernel and battery life was horrible I wasnt using it heavily, WiFi was off completely, I toggled mobile data on and off as needed, and didnt let anything except for weather autosync. I had maybe 10 applications as well. Once I flashed Savage-zen, used smartass, and disabled Backup data to google servers. MY battery lasts over 2 days with moderate usage with mobile data always on and gmail and weather auto synced.
As far as bug-wise, the only thing I have experienced so far is sometimes there is a slight delay when unlocking the phone and getting the lockscreen to show. Sometimes when the button is pressed to unlock, the bottom touch buttons light up, but the lockscreen takes like 5 seconds to appear.
One more thing is the GPS icon stays in the notification area once it has been turned on and back off.
All in all I can say now that I have amazing battery life, I love CM7 and will not use anything else besides CM7. I cannot wait until the stable release is out. GO CyanogenMod Team!
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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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.
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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.
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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!
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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).
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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...
- Has anybody been experiencing 3G/HSPA+ signal issues whilst on CM10-M2 or the CM10 10/14 nightly?
I completely lost my signal until I had a friend call my phone. And then it came back, but it was very slow. (The indicator was grey) This seems to happen often.
- Also, do profiles work?
I have a School profile (default lockscreen with a pattern) and a Home profile (insecure lockscreen) It seems like switching in between these does nothing since I have to still unlock the device with a pattern when I use the Home profile.
- Home button issues?
This just might be my phone, but my homebutton has not been waking my device sometimes. I have to push it extra hard for it to register.
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- Has anybody been experiencing 3G/HSPA+ signal issues whilst on CM10-M2 or the CM10 10/14 nightly?
I completely lost my signal until I had a friend call my phone. And then it came back, but it was very slow. (The indicator was grey) This seems to happen often.
- Also, do profiles work?
I have a School profile (default lockscreen with a pattern) and a Home profile (insecure lockscreen) It seems like switching in between these does nothing since I have to still unlock the device with a pattern when I use the Home profile.
- Home button issues?
This just might be my phone, but my homebutton has not been waking my device sometimes. I have to push it extra hard for it to register.
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Grey bars means you aren't connected to Google Services, I haven't had any issues with signal.
The home button is a known issue. Mine does most of the time but sometimes it takes two presses.
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Grey bars means you aren't connected to Google Services, I haven't had any issues with signal.
The home button is a known issue. Mine does most of the time but sometimes it takes two presses.
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It could just possibly be a bad connection within the hallways (cell signal has been known to falter in there.) But even using my phone outside seems to yield a weak signal.
Okay, I thought that my home button was broken, thanks for clearing that up!
Using capacitive buttons would be some much more durable..
So, after much hassle (I managed to brick my phone) I finally managed to fix my data speeds.
Switched back to stock TW ICS.
Data speed aren't 12mbps, but at least fast enough for me to actually use my data.
Which is strange, but heck, I can finally use my phone again.
Just have to wait for the OTA Jellybean update then...
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So, after much hassle (I managed to brick my phone) I finally managed to fix my data speeds.
Switched back to stock TW ICS.
Data speed aren't 12mbps, but at least fast enough for me to actually use my data.
Which is strange, but heck, I can finally use my phone again.
Just have to wait for the OTA Jellybean update then...
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That's strange.. why don't you try a touchwiz jellybean ROM?
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That's strange.. why don't you try a touchwiz jellybean ROM?
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FrostyJB was the first ROM that I ever installed on my GSIII.
And I hated it....
That experience just wasn't as fast as I would like and the battery life was terrible.
I'm open to suggestions for other TW-based JB ROMS though if anyone has any.
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Even stock ICS TW doesn't suit me. Battery life is terrible (Not used at all today, screen's been on for 30 minutes = 79% battery.) and the OS itself feels groggy and slowed.
CM10 feels like the only ROM that I could really use.
For your home button, have you disabled svoice? Double press home and if svoice opens go into settings and uncheck double press home to open.
For profiles, not too sure as I've never really used them, but have you looked into apps like Tasker?
How long ago did you try the jb roms? Both Frosty and XquiziT have come a long way and according to almost everyone are great daily drivers.
For data speeds, have you tried all the different modems? My thread is now stickied in Development. Check post 3 for some build.prop tweaks that may help as well.
As for battery life, it sounds like you're just not using the correct settings if that's your goal. Turn off any features when you're not using them. Especially auto sync. If you have a poor signal this can decimate your battery. (Which may be the main cause anyway, to which id have to say to try the different modems.) I generally get great battery. Often 3-4 hours screen on and can go 20-30 hours on a charge.
Hope some of this helps.
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I agree on stock firmware being sluggish. It's just terrible. I personally chose to get away from TouchWiz altoghether. I don't hate the way it looks, I just like AOSP more. I've been using CM10 for over two months now.
Well, as it's been said, the home button issue has been around for a while now. Don't press it hard, just press a few times.
I don't use profiles myself. I get the feeling that the profile settings just don't encompass security settings. I would expect that to be for ringtones/volumes etc. But maybe Tasker can do this for you (PIN or slide, depending on location)? Tasker is very cool, and even more powerful. Even if it can't do this for you, it's still worth every penny (imo).
As far as your data connection, if data stops working, try cycling it off and on. It should re-establish the connection. Have you tried different modems?
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For your home button, have you disabled svoice? Double press home and if svoice opens go into settings and uncheck double press home to open.
For profiles, not too sure as I've never really used them, but have you looked into apps like Tasker?
How long ago did you try the jb roms? Both Frosty and XquiziT have come a long way and according to almost everyone are great daily drivers.
For data speeds, have you tried all the different modems? My thread is now stickied in Development. Check post 3 for some build.prop tweaks that may help as well.
As for battery life, it sounds like you're just not using the correct settings if that's your goal. Turn off any features when you're not using them. Especially auto sync. If you have a poor signal this can decimate your battery. (Which may be the main cause anyway, to which id have to say to try the different modems.) I generally get great battery. Often 3-4 hours screen on and can go 20-30 hours on a charge.
Hope some of this helps.
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I have S-Voice disabled, yes. Plus, the whole issue of the home button doesn't really bother me anymore. Simply reaching my hand up to push the powerbutton is easier now that I have switched cases.
I tried FrostyJB at the end of September.
The build.prop tweaks seem too far out of my league, but thank you so much for the modem idea!
I can remember installing the UVLI8 once upon a time and getting insane results. Will definitely give it a shot. The Jellybean modems work on JB 4.1.2 right?
My battery usage has always been the bare minimum. Literally no toggles are on (GPS, WiFi, Sync, etc) and that's my status. I've been noticing that "Cell Standby" has been the primary culprit for battery drain.
Hello. Just wanted to share how I was able to fix my GPS finally on sense 6 based roms. I have been able to get agps locks but navigation and on board GPS have been unusable for almost three months now on stock sense 6 and other roms like viper and nusensesix.
100% figured out my GPS issues after 3 months of turmoil. Had to ruu, then factory reset with stock recovery. I then logged into my Google account and used the stock Rom for a day, enabling high accuracy in location settings and using navigation for the whole day. Nav started working pretty well after about an hour. Later in the day I was able to flash a new Rom and navigation has remained solid ever since. I am now able to use all of the the big three sense kernels without issue.
I can't even tell you how many paths I've gone down (topntp, messing with every setting on the phone, touching every kernel and Rom possible. Wipe this wipe that, GPS status, pulling the SIM card. So relieved to have this solved.)
This may seem like common sense to try but I have been floundering to find a fix. Hope this helps someone.
Honestly, one more thing seems to help. I swear it really helps when I turn off wifi optimization. Using GPS Status, the signal indicator looks much stronger overall while navigation is in use. Cant back this up at all but Im rolling disabled and things are much better overall even after the factory reset. Could be coincidence, but maybe it has an affect on overall power consumption?
Peace.
Edit #2. Fyi. Since the Nov 4 HTC service pack update I get insanely good GPS performance with no tweaking at all. Locks indoors now in 10-15 seconds. Maybe this whole issue was a service pack thing.
Glad you finally got it going. Hopefully this will provide others with a good direction if they are in the same boat.
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