I tried some instructions in the past that will automatically overclock the OMAP processor every time the display lights up, and then lets you set a lower clock when the display is off. I never got them to work for me.
Is there a better way to get the same effect now? I hate having to manually enter omapclock every time I have the need for speed.
I second wanting more info on this.
search on here for an app called tornado..its for ppc but works fine on the dash...you can set it to underclock when the phone is idle and overclock when you are running something...works well.
my tmo tp2 not displaying the right time. If i turn the phone on & off it comes back, has anyone seen this? did a search here nothing has come up.
no one else has had this problem w/ the tmo version?
Make sure you have it set for the right timezone. go to "setting, all settings, system, clocks and alarms" then set your time zone up...Tj
yeah, time zone checked, right city too... still, ugh................
Hmm I'm stumped ...Tj
How far off time is it? 5 minutes, 1 hour, several hours? Is it consistently that far off? If you're turning it off and turning it back on it sounds like it's pulling the time from the tower. Try going into the "Phone" settings (start, settings, personal, phone), go to the TIme Zones tab and uncheck Automatic change time zone and clock option.
Toleraen said:
How far off time is it? 5 minutes, 1 hour, several hours? Is it consistently that far off? If you're turning it off and turning it back on it sounds like it's pulling the time from the tower. Try going into the "Phone" settings (start, settings, personal, phone), go to the TIme Zones tab and uncheck Automatic change time zone and clock option.
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Perfect..I was having a similar problem, thanks!
I had this issue last night. The time was off by 2 hours. I unchecked the setting as suggested in the above thread.
Toleraen said:
How far off time is it? 5 minutes, 1 hour, several hours? Is it consistently that far off? If you're turning it off and turning it back on it sounds like it's pulling the time from the tower. Try going into the "Phone" settings (start, settings, personal, phone), go to the TIme Zones tab and uncheck Automatic change time zone and clock option.
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it could be 15~45 minutes off, i have seen that type of variation.
I am just wondering what is considered GOOD battery life when playing games.
Using juice plotter, I estimated that after playing FF7 on FPSE for an hour that it uses approximately %12. This is with JuiceDefender disabling all connections except the phone at the same time.
This puts my total play time at about 8 hours continuously.
Just wondering what other people are getting.
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I am just wondering what is considered GOOD battery life when playing games.
Using juice plotter, I estimated that after playing FF7 on FPSE for an hour that it uses approximately %12. This is with JuiceDefender disabling all connections except the phone at the same time.
This puts my total play time at about 8 hours continuously.
Just wondering what other people are getting.
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That's very good. I play GTA 3 for about 15 mins and it takes up 20% of my battery !
And even Super Mario World on the Snes emulator I play that for about 7 mins takes up 6%
What's going on there?
How high is your screen brightness?
Maybe the PS Portable software is a battery hog.
Also do you have juice defender? With it disabled 1 hour takes up about 22-24% batter, with it turned on and disdabling connections, it went down to %12.
Either that or I'd call your cell provider back and tell them your battered FUBAR.
I mean I let my cell sit all night from about 10:30PM to 6AM, which in juicedefender is set as NIGHT mode and it turns EVERYTHING off, and turns on silent mode. I lose maybe 4-5% overnight.
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How high is your screen brightness?
Maybe the PS Portable software is a battery hog.
Also do you have juice defender? With it disabled 1 hour takes up about 22-24% batter, with it turned on and disdabling connections, it went down to %12.
Either that or I'd call your cell provider back and tell them your battered FUBAR.
I mean I let my cell sit all night from about 10:30PM to 6AM, which in juicedefender is set as NIGHT mode and it turns EVERYTHING off, and turns on silent mode. I lose maybe 4-5% overnight.
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I have half brightness with auto brightness on. I'll try juice defender and see how it goes.
Which Android version are you on 0.42 or 0.62 ?
Using the stock sony 2.3.4, so .42 I believe.
Try This program RootDim. Set brightness to about 25%, adjust slightly as needed. Then go turn auto brightness off.
You can set profiles so during the day, go into the program and choose a brighter profile. Not as easy but it seem better.
I've heard auto brightness actually uses more battery power from constant brightness shifting.
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Using the stock sony 2.3.4, so .42 I believe.
Try This program RootDim. Set brightness to about 25%, adjust slightly as needed. Then go turn auto brightness off.
You can set profiles so during the day, go into the program and choose a brighter profile. Not as easy but it seem better.
I've heard auto brightness actually uses more battery power from constant brightness shifting.
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Aha I'll turn auto brightness off. So your not rooted or anything right ? so you have the sony ericsson processes running in the background?
Thing is I don't lose that much on stand by just like you 4-5% overnight so that's not an issue. It's only when playing games and wifi as well.
Oh no I'm rooted, and I removed all the crapware. Well removed some, froze others.
Need to be rooted to use rootdim anyways.
Then why not root your phone? doesn't hurt it.
Yeah I think I will. That must be the reason all those sony ericsson apps/processes that are running in the background must be using the battery up when I play games.
Just spend the $5 on Titanium Backup pro. I did, and $5 on Juice Defender Ultimate. Best $10 I've ever spent on a phone.
If you buy Titanium Backup pro you can freeze things. This means they stay installed, but cant do anything, if something goes wrong, just unfreeze it.
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Just spend the $5 on Titanium Backup pro. I did, and $5 on Juice Defender Ultimate. Best $10 I've ever spent on a phone.
If you buy Titanium Backup pro you can freeze things. This means they stay installed, but cant do anything, if something goes wrong, just unfreeze it.
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I'm not rooted. Can I use Titanium Backup ?
Nope, it needs root to run.
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Then why not root your phone? doesn't hurt it.
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Where did you root your phone from ? give me a straightforward thing not too hard.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
SuperOneClick. doesn't get any easier. Might take a few tries and reboots but it does work.
Just make sure USB debugging is turned on when you do this.
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Just spend the $5 on Titanium Backup pro. I did, and $5 on Juice Defender Ultimate. Best $10 I've ever spent on a phone.
If you buy Titanium Backup pro you can freeze things. This means they stay installed, but cant do anything, if something goes wrong, just unfreeze it.
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What is your setup on Juice Defender to get the best battery life ?
This is assuming you have ultimate:
Under STATUS:
Profile: Advanced
Under CONTROLS:
Mobile data: Enabled
Wifi: Enabled (You can use wifi prefered if you want, it just will ALWAYS enable wifi, wait for a signal, connect, or wait for a signal if theres none, then finally connect data. I prefer to not use wifi prefered, as it takes longer to connect. I'll just do it myself.
AutoSync: PING. You can have juice defender also enable/disdable background data. I don't because it's still experimental, I'll use it once it's stable.
Keep enabled: Disable both of these (not lit up) if they aren't already.
Bluetooth: Use it if ya have a bluetooth device, leave it disabled if ya don't.
Timeout: I don't use it, as I already have the settings in the android settings itself. And I have found it can sometiems cause problems. Try it out, but if it doesn't work, you'll have to reinstall JD.
Auto Brightness: Keep disdabled, same thign with android's auto brightness, uses more. I prefer to use RootDim. also, it gives an error saying a light sensor isn't on the Play, which is weird because it does. So the feature is still in beta.
CPU: This is an underclocking utility to save battery power. enable it, but don't touch the underclock settings, you're gaming performance will decrease. Underclock it only if your a moron for buying a Play to not use it for gaming. Go down to the governor setting and change it to conservative. governmors are explained herE:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843406
GPS: Seems good but still in beta. Will wait for release to test.
Under Schedule:
Schedule: ENABLED
Frequency and Duration: These mainly come into play while the program is asleep. It will enable the device every so often, and keep it enabled for atleast a sertain amount of time. this is to let background data and sync get your emails and such. I have mine set to 30min and 30 seconds. So every 30 mins, connectivity will enable for 30 seconds. don't worry, if you have alot to sync for some reason, it doesn't cut off, it will stay enabled until it's done. (this is set on another setting.)
controls: Default
Night: Enable this and set it to whenever you usually goto bed, and when you usually get up in the morning.
Adaptive start end: I have mine set to +30m max, end -1hmax. This depends totally on you.
Options: Silent
Peak: I keep this disabled. Use it based on the instructions if you REALLY want it.
Weekend and Night(weekend): I don't use these, go ahead if you want to. I keep them disabled.
Under Triggers:
Battery and battery threashhold: I keep mine enabled and at 15%. This means if the battery hits 15%, all conectivity save the cell, is disabled. You can set this lower or higher if you want. If you're under the threshhold and you want to turn connections on, pull down your menu, click on the JD icon, a box will come up allowing you to enable conections until you lock your screen.
Charger: only AC is enabled. Can choose either of the others if ya want. USB would mean it takes longer to charge.
Screen: ENABLED
Options: Enable Ignore on Low Battery. this makes the battery threshhold thing work.
controls: default
Traffic: ENABLED
Traffic Threashhold: I have mine set to NORMAL 15s. What this means is that as long as theres an active connection, JD will not disable anything. But once the connection is finished, it turns it off and goes back to normal. so for my settings, as long as there is 10Kb of data every 15 seconds, it will stay connected. If it falls below that, disabled.
Apps: ENABLED
Configure: Interactive. Go and click on CONFIGURE APPS. This allows you to set up connection profiles for every app with 4 settings, ENABLED, ENABLED/SCREEN OFF, DISABLED, DO NOTHING. Enabled means connections will stay on inside that app. ENABLED/SCREEN OFF means if that app is running when the screen is off or asleep it stays enabled, I don't use it as it isn't very battery saving. DISABLED, when you go into the app, connections are disabled. DO NOTHING, if you go into the app, nothing happends.
Use ENABLED for apps that use the internet, browser, market, etc.
I never use ENABLED/SCREEN OFF for anything.
DISABLED: Use this for games, and other programs that don't use the internet that you use for long periods of time, such at FPSE, Mugen, etc.
DO NOTHING: Use this for apps that may not use the internet, but you're only going to use it fast. If you give these apps disabled, more battery it used to disable and enable connections every time you go into it.
LOCATION: This is really only useful is Wifi Prefered is enabled, otherwise even if this is enabled, it won't work. What this does is keep track of Wifi you have passwords to, and wifi hotspots. If you unlock your phone near one, it will auto connect to it. As well it keeps track of the range of the wireless signal, so it will know when it can connect. This takes a while for it to train.
After a day or so, you can goto the ABOUT tab and it will tell you approximately how much JD has increased your battery life by. On my X10 I was hitting 2.2x. But on Play I'm at about 1.8x. Then again it's a gaming phone, so no surprise.
Hope this helps!
Hello everyone,
I know the alarm free date #SAD...# is a beta feature at the moment, but I've run into a bug with it that I thought you should know about.
I have a section on a widget where I show the next alarm date and time, but I want to also show bedtime, which would be the alarm minus 8 hours. I know for standard dates, I can do something like #D-480...# if I want to subtract 8 hours. I can even do math within the variable, such as #D-$(8*60)$...# to subtract 8 hours. When I try this same sort of thing with the alarm free date variable, I find that it compounds amount added or subtracted each minute until something causes it to reset.
To make a simple example, if my alarm is set for 3:30 on Monday, and if I want to display the alarm time with 1 minute subtracted from it, I use #SAD-1 P:mm p#, and I should get 3:29am on Monday. It works correctly for the first minute, but as soon as another minute passes, I see that the the adjusted alarm time now shows 3:28am. So every time a minute passes, the adjusted alarm time gets multiplied by the number of minutes passed since I saved the widget. If I subtract 2 minutes at a time, then I see the time drop by 2 minutes as each minute passes. If I do 8 hours, then, well, it gets very strange very quickly.
I have noticed that the adjusted alarm time will reset from time to time, going back to the correct calculation for a minute, but I'm not sure of what causes the reset. Sometimes it will go back to the correct calculation after editing the widget, and sometimes it won't. Other times it will go back to the correct calculation after my screen has been off for a little bit and then I turn the screen back on, but not every time. Also, it looks like it may not add or subtract additional increments while the screen is off. Again, with my example of subtracting 1 minute, if my screen timeout is 2 minutes, then by the time the screen turns off, I'll see 3 minutes subtracted in total. If I turn the screen back on 10 minutes later, it will still show the 3 minutes subtracted. The next minute that the screen is on, it will either reset to 1 minute being subtracted, or it will continue to 4 minutes subtracted.
FYI, I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Android version 4.4.2, Sprint, rooted, but I am running on stock ROM and kernel.
I hope that this helps pinpoint where the bug may be. Please let me know if any other information is required.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Same problem here.