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[Q] Questions about rom, kernel, and set cpu combination

So I'm currently on Baked Snack 1.5 with the Netarchy 2.6.32 kernel and I've overclocked to 1.152ghz using SetCPU with conservative profile.
Basically when my screen is on I can see the battery indicator counting down.
Up time - 38 mins
Awake time - 12 mins
Battery left - 81% !!!!!
I thought this setup would have better battery life. I love how fast it feels, but I need the battery to last for at least the day, which obviously isn't going to happen this way. I'm ok with slowing down the clock speed if I really have to, but would prefer to keep it around 1.15.
Is this a bad combination of rom and kernel? or am I doing something wrong in SetCPU? Should I create a custom profile in SetCPU? Any advice on the settings I should use?
Any advice on working setups would be much appreciated!

I'm running Netarchy 4.1.8 bfs with a Rom from Fresh overclocked to 1.15 ghz.Best way to gain battery life is to set up a set CPU profile for when the screen is off.I run mine at a max 245mhz and min 128mhz when screen is off.Also make sure you set your set CPU main screen minimum to something fairly low like 245mhz,if you don't you will see pretty horrible draw when your screen is on.If you have your primary governors set correctly,min 245mhz,max 1.15 ghz for example,you should see the clock speed jump up and down.If your speed stays at 1.15 all the time your battery life will be horrible.
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I will take a shot at helping you by telling you what I did. I honestly didn't believe the battery life reports with high performance until I saw it for myself. I know it looks like a lot but it will work.
Go here and read all of Calkulin's posts. Install the EViO 1.1 ROM and the Kings BFS#5 for EViO kernel that Calkulin links in one of his posts in that thread. Use latest Amon_Ra and wipe everything twice. Yes it utilizes HAVS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745205
I read somewhere it was a good idea to remove SetCPU before flashing new kernels. I guess uninstalling prevents the auto detection settings from becoming corrupt between kernels. Also make sure you're using SetCPU v2.02 as recommended by Calkulin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7821664&postcount=1233
Update your radios to the latest. Update your PRI and PRL for optimal radio efficiency. LOL good luck with the PRI...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
When attempting to update the PRI I had to flash Fresh ROM with stock Kernel and do the ##786## method which includes factory reset. You must have your phone's MSL. I got my MSL using the free MSL Finder app on the market. You can always nandroid back when you finally get it. Took me a couple tries once I switched ROMs. Not a clue why or if it truly made a difference I just read that one guy added up reports of success while using Fresh ROM. I read a report that said updating the PRI will improve the efficiency of the radio in the way that it transmits and recieves between towers. I have no proof of this I did not save the link. But it certainly can't hurt and may improve radio power consumption.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753233
Wipe your battery stats and calibrate your battery as per these instructions. Be sure you see the phone says full not just the green LED.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Battery_recalibration
After completing the calibration and the phone has a solid set of battery stats recharge completely and then follow this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6796078&postcount=1
Use Set CPU overclock to 1.15 but keep Calkulin's profile. Or you can lower the max clock to conserve more battery.
Follow this guide. NOTE on step 5. I like my GMAIL to push so I leave background data enabled. Google is the only auto-sync I leave enabled. I disable weather and everything else from syncing. It's up to you just making you aware of that disabling Background Data can prevent instant emails.
http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20-tips-to-improve-htc-evo-4g-battery-life.html
Once that is all set use System Panel and follow this guys advice. Use a combination of Spare Parts app battery history information and System Panel's monitoring of apps to verify no apps are burning your battery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7873703&postcount=2
Im still looking into the CDMA only settings but I read in the network app user comments that its no longer required in 2.2 to prevent your radio from wasting battery life using the GSM radio. I am still researching this.
Hope this helps. This is what worked for me. If you actually have some time and determination to follow all of these steps you will see some amazing results.

Thanks for this. I will attempt to give this a shot tonight while watching some Sunday night HBO.
I appreciate you putting all of that in writing.

So how did that work out for you? I think this could really help all those who just rooted from OTA 2.2. I really like EViO with Calkulin's version of Kingklicks BFS#5. I don't mean to say the other devs lack skill or anything. I was just relaying what I did. Calkulin is releasing EViO 1.2 today with an updated kernel btw.
If anyone has anything else to add I'm all ears. Please let us know how things worked out for you.

any notice 100% awake time with 3.70.651.1?

i flashed the stock rooted RUU and i get 100% awake time... anyone else? i haven't tried any other 3.70.651.1 roms..

I did. But I wiped and flashed again. No problems since.
Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.

hmm i wiped and reflashed about 5 times, still 100% awake.. weird

No problem here phone is sleeping like it should. Using SteelRom rev I at the moment.

Awake meaning the screen never turns off?
Spoken from my Evo using Ultra Keyboard and XDA App

Try downloading the ROM again. You may have a bad download. Also, did you use Titanium Backup to install everything?
Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.

try uninstalling apps that you recently downloaded. I had the same problem on a different rom, turns out it was something called sensorly map keeping my phone up.

its a fresh flash... no apps installed. i also tried steelrom, same behavior.... if i flash 3.30.x.x no,100% awake issues. any ideas?

MarkGBE, WHAT particular item is keeping your phone in awake mode. Use some tool, like spare parts, and see what exactly is keeping it awake.
Report this info back and folks will be able to help you more.

Compusmurf said:
MarkGBE, WHAT particular item is keeping your phone in awake mode. Use some tool, like spare parts, and see what exactly is keeping it awake.
Report this info back and folks will be able to help you more.
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not sure. looking in spare parts... i dont see anything with a ton of usage,.,.,.

In spare parts, Battery History, Partial Wake usage, select Since Last unplugged.
If you're getting 100% wake time, whatever's holding it open will show there.
Leave it unplugged, turn the screen off and let it sit for awhile to gather up some statistics.

currently on the top of that list is 'Media' with 2m 47 sec. second is android system. 1min 56sec..

yeah this makes no sense... nothing appears to be keeping it awake...

Just wanted to confirm that I have this problem using both most recent SprintLovers and Fresh. Even restoring from nandroid backup seems to keep it open. Fresh install, no apps. Driving me nuts.
Attempting to flash burnt droid now. Will report results.
EDIT: nada.
Using latest radios, etc. from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
Also using burnt droid's kernel with less aggressive undervolting.

ever since...
ever since I flashed the latest radios my phone has not went to sleep. software version 3.30 and it also seems like my battery life has taken a dive for the worst. Any ideas?

Adam1422 said:
ever since I flashed the latest radios my phone has not went to sleep. software version 3.30 and it also seems like my battery life has taken a dive for the worst. Any ideas?
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You're close. It's actually pri 1.90 that's keeping the phone awake. Just revert back to 1.77 and it should sleep again.
Edit: pri 1.90 was the cause of my 100% wake time. I reverted to 1.77 to fix it but now I am going to test the latest radios versus the radios we upgraded from and also a combination of flashing new and previous radios together.

lovethyEVO said:
You're close. It's actually pri 1.90 that's keeping the phone awake. Just revert back to 1.77 and it should sleep again.
Edit: pri 1.90 was the cause of my 100% wake time. I reverted to 1.77 to fix it but now I am going to test the latest radios versus the radios we upgraded from and also a combination of flashing new and previous radios together.
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I've also read that 1.90 PRI, coupled with 3.70 ROM causes no problems. It seems one must use 3.70-based ROM to run 1.90 PRI.
What ROM base are you using?
Edit: If you are in fact using 3.70, then I wonder if 3.70 and 1.90 need to come up at the same time? That is, if you flashed them out of sync, maybe you need to wipe and re-flash?

Well, most of the romdev's all say not to do the new radios and pri if you're not on the new 3.70.x rom and not to mix and match kernels with it either.

I personally built the rom I am using with the 3.70 base. I also updated all the radios. When I reverted the pri thats when my wake issue dropped. But its fine. I will still test and then just keep whatever works for my rom.

lovethyEVO said:
I personally built the rom I am using with the 3.70 base. I also updated all the radios. When I reverted the pri thats when my wake issue dropped. But its fine. I will still test and then just keep whatever works for my rom.
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Thanks. Please do report back if you have new results.

CM7 RC1 Experience

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.

admang said:
[*]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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admang said:
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.
Sent from my Evo powered by MIUI

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!

[Q] G2 Stock Radio Battery Drain

I believe I may have a radio battery drain issue. The battery consumption on idle seems too fast for me, averaging around 5%/hour. Battery stats reports cell standby at over 40% constantly, and nothing I have done has made a difference.
Only things I have done is perm root, gfree, clockwork, hboot, and baconbits. Also have setcpu with screen off profile. Have not flashed any radios yet or run the ril matcher. Though I am considering trying it to see if it makes any difference.
Only other notable thing is that battery drain is reduced when on wifi calling, but cell standby still consumes the most power, next is wifi. Battery drain on wifi calling on idle is about 3.4%/hour, better but still seems high to me.
Would the RIL matcher do anything if I ran it with stock ROM and stock radio? My current radio version is 26.03.02.26_M
Any ideas? Could it be bad radio hardware? Or is this normal?
--MrAnt--

I don't see the stock radio doing that, maybe if you flashed a different radio. But this is stock, and it's supposed to work efficiently on your device.
Make sure gps or wifi and all of that aren't on. Try buying titantium backup pro where there's a freeze app function so apps can't launch in the bg.
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I'm with you on this one.
I had the stock radio, and was getting battery use on standby of about 50-60%. I've now flashed the gingerbread test rom radio, and I'm currently at 35% battery/standby and falling.
With the stock I was dropping 1-2% a MINUTE

Im using the stock radio and i have about 45% battery drain from cell standby, is there anyway to lower this? i have tasker and apndroid but i cant tell if there working. but i use my phone a lot throughout the day and im thinking maybe activating/deactivating it is wasting more battery then just leaving it on. Any suggestions on a radio i should try? and do you just flash radios in CWM? and btw im running CM7 2.3.3

Kevin001111 said:
Im using the stock radio and i have about 45% battery drain from cell standby, is there anyway to lower this? i have tasker and apndroid but i cant tell if there working. but i use my phone a lot throughout the day and im thinking maybe activating/deactivating it is wasting more battery then just leaving it on. Any suggestions on a radio i should try? and do you just flash radios in CWM? and btw im running CM7 2.3.3
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I downloaded the radio from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11666760&postcount=1 and renamed to PC10IMG.zip
Booted into bootloader and flashed it..that was it! Radio updated in less than 2 minutes!

You flashed the newest radio from the gingerbread test rom, 26.08.04.16? Did you run the RIL matcher? Might try this out this weekend.
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[Q] Synergy battery issue!!

So I recently flashed Synergy RC1 into my Evo; and I'm loving it.. but I'm getting really short battery life; most of the power is used by the display.. I've tried turning off compatibility mode on spare parts; turning off animation; lowest screen brightness & nothing.. I would truly appreciate if someone helped me with this issue and also I realized "up time" and "awake time" are identical; they don't have a second of difference.. I've seen many threads and none of those solutions seem to fix the problem "/ thanks

If your uptime and awake time are identical then, more than likely, you have a wakelock issue. Something is preventing your phone from entering sleep mode and thus the reason for your battery drainage. Are all of your radios up to date? If so, try downgrading the PRI....
posting & replying via my EVO 4G

dougjamal said:
If your uptime and awake time are identical then, more than likely, you have a wakelock issue. Something is preventing your phone from entering sleep mode and thus the reason for your battery drainage. Are all of your radios up to date? If so, try downgrading the PRI....
posting & replying via my EVO 4G
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They aren't up to date "/ should I update them? And how can I figure out what's causing the wakelock problem? And thank you I truly appreciate your help

DominicanBabyBoy23 said:
They aren't up to date "/ should I update them? And how can I figure out what's causing the wakelock problem? And thank you I truly appreciate your help
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Download the alogcat app from the Market and pay attention to anything colored in red. I would recommend updating your radios and then updating your profiles once you're booted back up.
posting & replying via my EVO 4G

dougjamal said:
If your uptime and awake time are identical then, more than likely, you have a wakelock issue. Something is preventing your phone from entering sleep mode and thus the reason for your battery drainage. Are all of your radios up to date? If so, try downgrading the PRI....
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Well he'd need to upgrade to at least 1.77, as he's on 1.34.
And you can download the spare parts app, check battery history, then since wake lock, and see what [if anything[ is really high.

teh roxxorz said:
Well he'd need to upgrade to at least 1.77, as he's on 1.34.
And you can download the spare parts app, check battery history, then since wake lock, and see what [if anything[ is really high.
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Yeah I have spare parts but when I hit battery history it force closes on me "/ but alright ill downgrade it to 1.77

dougjamal said:
Download the alogcat app from the Market and pay attention to anything colored in red. I would recommend updating your radios and then updating your profiles once you're booted back up.
posting & replying via my EVO 4G
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I downloaded alogcat; and there are a few red things; most of them have to do with mms.. i added the file but they arent color coded... idk if you would like to take a look at it

teh roxxorz said:
Well he'd need to upgrade to at least 1.77, as he's on 1.34.
And you can download the spare parts app, check battery history, then since wake lock, and see what [if anything[ is really high.
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Whether or not he "needs" to is debatable, however, I suggest that he does upgrape to at least 1.77. Thanks for point that my, my friend......Sorry for the delayed response but I was at the hospital with my daughter for most of the day.

DominicanBabyBoy23 said:
I downloaded alogcat; and there are a few red things; most of them have to do with mms.. i added the file but they arent color coded... idk if you would like to take a look at it
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Copy & paste a line or two. Also, after you've upgraded your PRL, check to see if your uptimes & awake time change.

I am having the same issue where the display usage stays extremely high. However, I do not have the wake lock issue. Currently my awake time is 6:30 and my up time is 29:50. Synergy isn't the only ROM that has given me the display usage issue though. The first time I encountered it was with MikFroyo, even though it didn't used to happen with that rom. Before the display issue I got my best battery life ever on MikFroyo. So I can't use that rom anymore, and now Synergy has it too. If someone could get to the bottom of this that would be awesome as I love Synergy, by far my favorite ROM I've ever tried for the Evo. Here's a few pics, one is from MikFroyo 4.62, one is from Synergy, and the other is from Warm TwoPointTwo which is what my battery life used to look like, and still does when I use a few other roms (Salvage-Mod for example).

The high display percentage doesn't necessarily equate to battery drain especially if your battery usage is on par with what you're used to having.
posting & replying via my EVO 4G

dougjamal said:
Whether or not he "needs" to is debatable, however, I suggest that he does upgrape to at least 1.77. Thanks for point that my, my friend......Sorry for the delayed response but I was at the hospital with my daughter for most of the day.
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That's fine; hope your daughter is fine though and yeah after I updated to 1.77_33 up time and awake have changed; thank you but I still have the screen issue.. the screen is more then 50% of the power; is there any way to solve that issue?

Anything on this yet? I'm still having this issue.

The_Cobbler0 said:
Anything on this yet? I'm still having this issue.
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Update..... I found my own answer... since I'm under the eight post limit and can't post links, just Google "Google code synergy base" click the "Issues" tab and search for "Display is killing battery life" and in there you will find your answer.

I just wanted to chime in to say that I was having this same wakelock issue on my EVO 4G with Synergy RLS1 and the latest radios..
Downgrading the PRI to 1.77 worked beautifully.. she now sleeps like a baby