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I'm just wondering if it's possible to somehow either rebuild the framework-res.apk with these images replaced. (I have absolutely no knowledge of apk signing)
Or even easier, if you could just replace the framework-res with the Captivate one.
I like the fact that it changes color based on the battery level, one of my few gripes with the Vibrant.
Someone needs to fix the fact that the battery meter shows 75% when you're at 40% ACTUAL battery.
advil0 said:
Someone needs to fix the fact that the battery meter shows 75% when you're at 40% ACTUAL battery.
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That's always been a slight issue with Android devices in my experience. Maybe not quite so drastic though.
I just dislike that the battery indicator is blue from full to dead. Doesn't give much of a gauge for when you're getting too low.
The Captivate's is not like this, it shows orange and red at lower levels.
I also think it's unusual that the MMS notification is white on the Captivate and yellow on the Vibrant. Just one of those amusingly odd things I noticed.
Here ya go, just flash with clockwork, should work no problem
EDIT: Needs a little more work
chaoscentral said:
Here ya go, just flash with clockwork, should work no problem
EDIT: Needs a little more work
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Definitely interested in this too, hope you sort it out.
cheers, =)
chaoscentral said:
Here ya go, just flash with clockwork, should work no problem
EDIT: Needs a little more work
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Haha, didn't even see the original upload, but it's probably a good thing, reflashing back down to stock with Odin and getting back to my nandroid has become one of my least favorite passtimes. DX
there are themes that do this... flash the black bar mod from the themes... its the easiest way for you to change it...
if you want i can teach you how to do it yourself and send you everything you need to do it...
junkdruggler said:
there are themes that do this... flash the black bar mod from the themes... its the easiest way for you to change it...
if you want i can teach you how to do it yourself and send you everything you need to do it...
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I only want to change the battery icon, and specifically to the Captivate version, I like having the blue battery icon when full, but I just want it to change at lower levels.
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I only want to change the battery icon, and specifically to the Captivate version, I like having the blue battery icon when full, but I just want it to change at lower levels.
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ditto, exactly how I feel, until we get a CM5/6 or similar build that will display battery % in the status bar.
cheers, =)
+1 for this, or at least to have our battery icon read a little bit more accurately...
Just threw together a quick morph of the stock Vibrant battery icons. I actually measured the available space in the icon and figured how much each percentage would be (10, 20, 40, 60, 80). Only issue I can see is I don't know at what percentages the phone changes icons (ie. 20% icon at actual 20% or another close percentage).
I've tested it to make sure the morph applies, but haven't fully tested to see how accurate the icons are (but my calculations were done/correct).
....and yes, I seriously did measure out each percentage.
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Just threw together a quick morph of the stock Vibrant battery icons. I actually measured the available space in the icon and figured how much each percentage would be (10, 20, 40, 60, 80). Only issue I can see is I don't know at what percentages the phone changes icons (ie. 20% icon at actual 20% or another close percentage).
I've tested it to make sure the morph applies, but haven't fully tested to see how accurate the icons are (but my calculations were done/correct).
....and yes, I seriously did measure out each percentage.
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Dude! You win!
Well, sort of. That still didn't fix the colors. But I may be able to work with this.
I replaced the 10 and 20% images with those from the Captivate stock rom.
My battery hasn't made it that low, so I'm not sure if it worked.
But here's hoping.
Everything else about the morph is the same. I have no intentions of stealing thunder for your work. Nor do I know how to edit anything else within the zip.
Awesome! Thanks, would it be possible to get a revert file?
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Awesome! Thanks, would it be possible to get a revert file?
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You'll have to run that by someone with knowledge of how Metamorph works.
Like I said, I simply copy-pasted my way into getting the color changing battery icon. Also, I still haven't burned my battery low enough to know if it actually worked. XD
No problem, guys. If I had time last night, I would've grabbed the Captivate icons and used those. But it was late and the wife wanted to go to bed.
Revert would just need the stock icons pulled from the system dump and pasted in the file. If I have time I'll do that tonight......asking with another MM idea.
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I'd love to do this, but I am hesitant to do so without being able to go back to stock if something goes wrong - without re-flashing my entire backup.
Has anyone had the time to come up with the stock replacement yet?
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I'd love to do this, but I am hesitant to do so without being able to go back to stock if something goes wrong - without re-flashing my entire backup.
Has anyone had the time to come up with the stock replacement yet?
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You could just push the framework-res.apk back from a stock ROM image and reboot. That will put you back where you started. Not quite as easy as MetaMorph, but not really hard either.
Meant to work on a revert morph last night, but had other stuff going on. I'll do it tonight.
Revert morph for the battery icons.
*not tested, but just pasted stock icons into my other morph.
Hey guys.
I've done my best to do lots of homework as I've slowly hacked my way into Continuum territory. I've spent a couple hours researching this and tried a couple zips and had to restore my phone.
Basically, I'm trying to get a percentage battery display instead of the battery icon in the top right notification bar, so I can see the battery level. I've looked at UOTKitchen, I even tried a Fascinate zip that did the same thing, but no dice.
Is there an easy way of doing this? I've been googling for a long time and can't find anything on this for the continuum specifically.
Thanks!
Let me add, I've rooted and flashed the Adrynaline DL17 clean ROM.
I got it working, I'll upload it later xP
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Don't mean to pester Trailblazer. Just wanted to make sure you were replying to this thread and not on another so I know where to search. Thanks.
Lmao, the percentage battery mod has been uploaded in the theme section for like a week xP lol go check it out
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Found it and applied the zip. Couple questions:
1) Looks like the GB theme contains the accurate battery mod. Is it possible to keep Adrynaline's clean DL17 ROM look and then apply the no clock and battery mods (and have the battery icon remain the standard blue)?
2) I've also seen a battery mod for Fascinate that has a circle with a meter on it, and the circle changes colors as the battery drains. Is this possible for the Continuum? If you google "samsung fascinate accurate battery life" several links come up with examples.
Thanks for your thoughts. Let me know how I can return the favor.
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Found it and applied the zip. Couple questions:
1) Looks like the GB theme contains the accurate battery mod. Is it possible to keep Adrynaline's clean DL17 ROM look and then apply the no clock and battery mods (and have the battery icon remain the standard blue)?
2) I've also seen a battery mod for Fascinate that has a circle with a meter on it, and the circle changes colors as the battery drains. Is this possible for the Continuum? If you google "samsung fascinate accurate battery life" several links come up with examples.
Thanks for your thoughts. Let me know how I can return the favor.
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Yeah, I can create an accurate battery touchwiz theme... No Problem
I could do that too, i just personally think that's ugly If a lot of people want it (and will actually keep it! ) Then i will do it
and just stick with this phone, that's all i can ask
EDIT: Go check out my thread in the theme section Just for you
Applied the zip. At first it was working, but after charging last night, it's stuck on 100%?
hmm... That's kinda weird... If it worked before, it should continue to work!
I'll take a look though!
Couple things I noticed that may help. It seems to freeze at one number. So for a while it was at 100. Then 80, later at 35. I think they changed during reboots of the phone, but not during every reboot.
I applied the Touchwiz zip over the top of the GB theme. Should that work? Would I need to reflash the whole ROM and then apply?
THanks trailblazer!
EDIT: Watched it a bit closer today. It went from 100 to 80, then 65, when I woke up this morning it was 35...looking at the actual battery level though, those are only rough estimates. It seems like it is probably using the default Touchwiz battery levels, rather than the full accurate percentage.
Just to be sure, I flashed the clean ROM again. Still same issues.
I hate to make a thread like this, but it seems that this is kinda of those "everyone already knows this" or similar question that does not get brought up.
Anyway:
I decided to revert from genokolar's CM7 to stock Froyo firmware (functionality and hopefully battery life reasons, just one was enough of reason)
I found a update firmware in huawei's site for 2.2.2 Froyo, it was two apps in dload folder I had to boot into volume up+down+power boot mode, prior to this I had wiped EVERYTHING I could in clockworkmod, and after the update and few reboots, the system seems to be in working order. Even my recovery image is replaced with stock one now.
I know the CM7 port in question had some kernel modifications - especially ones affecting to CPU clocks, that in hand may be stuff affecting battery in negative way, and also imposing possible problems with stock system - does the stock 2.2.2 update also write in the stock kernel? If yes, thank you, I will be relieved. if not, then I need to figure some back plan.
P.s. waiting official gingerbread as is everyone else. Bug reports from many people about the official beta was one reason I went to stock froyo for now.
Thanks!
Yes it does. Or it has for me.
If I understand you correctly, you got worse battery-life with CM7 than you had with stock firmware?
I nearly doubled the battery-life going from stock f/w to oxygen, right now on MIUI and on my second day without charging
julle131 said:
Yes it does. Or it has for me.
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Thanks. If so I then do not need to find way to install the kernel from huawei downloads just to know will the battery life increase.
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If I understand you correctly, you got worse battery-life with CM7 than you had with stock firmware?
I nearly doubled the battery-life going from stock f/w to oxygen, right now on MIUI and on my second day without charging
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Well, It is combination of functional issues, general feel that the system may not work like intended, and to experiment will the battery life increase. Generally I looked the ROM selection for while but there seemed to be quite wide array of bug reports for each what I did not want to buy into. Unless there is some widely accepted strong recommendation for system - thanks for the input though.
Battery life can have a huge difference between phones. Also how much you use it has effect. I have better battery life in stock too i have used all rom except the new ics ones.
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julle131 said:
Battery life can have a huge difference between phones. Also how much you use it has effect. I have better battery life in stock too i have used all rom except the new ics ones.
Sent from my battlefield 3 using origin.
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Yeah, from tests I hear if something, battery life in Hussein is quite great, at least in stock manner.
And my first problem basically was first night after installing CM7 and leaving phone, screen off idle, not charging, and during that 6 or so hours of idle, with wifi and connections turned off, my battery had been drained to half when I woke up and checked the clock.
Thanks tho. Not to say the ROM development are bad, opposite, they bring what people want, and already done better work at customized gingerbread builds for this device than Hussein with their betas. To me the battery life just is more crucial than the features of both 2.3 and the customized ROM.
also, thanks.
-sent from the darn x5, in lying position and tired as what
I got the phone just 3 days ago from an insurance claim, had no problems with it other than the power button is a pain sometimes.
I rooted the phone yesterday with visionary at first, then gfree after i got the s-off, and I have the CWM 5.8 touch recovery. I then flashed Virtuous Unity 2.39 and the Darkside v12 kernel, as well as all sorts of different radio's. I then fell asleep after installing those, and before setting up the ROM, and i left it charging on my computer overnight.
I woke up about 5 hours later, and the phone was at 4% battery life. I dont know what happened. i can get it to about 2% charge and then it stops and dies out. i did notice that the clock on the status bar froze at one point and said 11:40 when it was really 12:27. the clock widget on the main screen was correct the whole time.
I am able to get into recovery, I am able to get into fastboot, I am able to get into the ROM...
I have switched out the radio to different one than the one last night, and i have switched the kernel to "CollectiveACE-BFS-v0.1.5" and that doesnt solve the issue. I have also cleared the battery stats, even though i didn't want to since it was at such a low level of power...none of these things helped.
I have also noticed that after the phone shuts off, when i power it back on, it goes into recovery. I am unsure why, but when I tell it to reboot from recovery, it goes right back to recovery, and i have to pull my battery to get it to go to the OS.
Any idea's? and I am sorry if this is confusing...
Try flashing a new ROM. But before you do, flash Mike1986's superwipe script from here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61962340/Android_Revolution_HD_Super_Wipe.zip , just to make sure everything is fully clean . Then flash your ROM of choice. Also, never flash radios for the heck of it. They can easily brick your device. Be careful, and report back
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I got the phone just 3 days ago from an insurance claim, had no problems with it other than the power button is a pain sometimes.
I rooted the phone yesterday with visionary at first, then gfree after i got the s-off, and I have the CWM 5.8 touch recovery. I then flashed Virtuous Unity 2.39 and the Darkside v12 kernel, as well as all sorts of different radio's. I then fell asleep after installing those, and before setting up the ROM, and i left it charging on my computer overnight.
I woke up about 5 hours later, and the phone was at 4% battery life. I dont know what happened. i can get it to about 2% charge and then it stops and dies out. i did notice that the clock on the status bar froze at one point and said 11:40 when it was really 12:27. the clock widget on the main screen was correct the whole time.
I am able to get into recovery, I am able to get into fastboot, I am able to get into the ROM...
I have switched out the radio to different one than the one last night, and i have switched the kernel to "CollectiveACE-BFS-v0.1.5" and that doesnt solve the issue. I have also cleared the battery stats, even though i didn't want to since it was at such a low level of power...none of these things helped.
I have also noticed that after the phone shuts off, when i power it back on, it goes into recovery. I am unsure why, but when I tell it to reboot from recovery, it goes right back to recovery, and i have to pull my battery to get it to go to the OS.
Any idea's? and I am sorry if this is confusing...
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Stop flashing aosp kernels on your SENSE rom... Try darkside sense v7 or one of the unity kernels and all should be fine.
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I have installed Icecreaminsanity 7.1 AOKP fixed or whatever the name of it is. I did not know the kernels were different depending on AOSP and Sense. If i have ICS on it now, which kernel should I use since there are no ICS kernels for the glacier?
I dont know if the charging issue is fixed yet, because i just did the superwipe and put on the ICS ROM. I will post if it is fixed or not, but my hopes are low
edit: Sorry, it is IceColdInsomnia 7.1.AOKP-test.
WOW i love this ROM...but i digress...its still too early to tell if it's going to fix the charging issue. I did notice that when the screen was on and i was going through the launcher, it didnt interrupt me telling me my battery was only at 3%...maybe that's a good sign.
No, it didnt fix the issue. While leaving the screen off and plugged into the wall, the charge dropped to 2%, and now it's blinking between the green and orange LED's...what do I do now??? Any recommended kernels for this rom? would an AOSP kernel be better than a Sense kernel for this new ROM?
Edit: I am already using the kernel mentioned by the OP in the thread for that ROM...the Collectives ACE kernel.
Get an external battery charger or find a friend with a glacier or t-bolt and charge the battery. Flash PD15IMG.zip and start over. If it still doesn't charge tell them they sent you a busted device, raise some hell, and see what you can get.
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i think that may be my only option. I appreciate your guys' help. it was really nice to see people giving actual advice with links instead of just telling me im in idiot and telling me to search for it.
Haha, well some of us are trying. Also, you didn't post in the dev section, so that's an automatic plus.
Don't forget to get S-On if you have to send it back.
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Haha, well some of us are trying. Also, you didn't post in the dev section, so that's an automatic plus.
Don't forget to get S-On if you have to send it back.
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Haha yeah, props to OP!
i'm no noob to this forum or to rooting...but i am to the MT4G...lol it's a completely different beast than the MT3G i came from. Thanks again, and i guess a mod can close this thread out...
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Hey. So I wanted to buy the nexus 4 , and then I've heard that the battery life is suck.
I found out that it could be fixed by installing a custom kernel.
I'd like to apply a cusom kernel
that saves -Alot- of battery , doesnt change anyting specific but the battery usage.
and to still stay with the Original Rom.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Hey. So I wanted to buy the nexus 4 , and then I've heard that the battery life is suck.
I found out that it could be fixed by installing a custom kernel.
I'd like to apply a cusom kernel
that saves -Alot- of battery , doesnt change anyting specific but the battery usage.
and to still stay with the Original Rom.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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try them all out, they are all good. the thing is, all our devices react differently, and all our usages vary with as many users as there are. so the only way that you would find YOUR perfect kernel that YOUR device likes the best is to try them all out. it takes seconds to flash, so time isnt an issue. try one every few days, youll find the one thats for you.
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try them all out, they are all good. the thing is, all our devices react differently, and all our usages vary with as many users as there are. so the only way that you would find YOUR perfect kernel that YOUR device likes the best is to try them all out. it takes seconds to flash, so time isnt an issue. try one every few days, youll find the one thats for you.
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OK... but all the kernel changes something in the rom. I would like to keep my rom exactly the way it is , exept from the battery usage.
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OK... but all the kernel changes something in the rom. I would like to keep my rom exactly the way it is , exept from the battery usage.
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You can flash any kernel you want, and the ROM will stay the same. The kernel operates "under the hood" (the engine), while the ROM is what you see (rest of the car, to use that analogy). You can use an app called Trickster Mod to tweak kernel settings. Be sure to know what you're doing though, and keep a backup just in case.
Also, be sure if you flash faux or trinity kernel (that I know of), that you flash on top of a stock kernel/reset kernel. If you flash any of those on top of another custom kernel, you could get in trouble (because of the way the kernels are installed).
And the stock kernel is really not as bad as people make it out to be.
Sure custom will usually be better. But stock is not that bad. All those reports of horrid battery life I really don't know what the heck they are doing to be honest.
I used it for a while. And the other nexus 4 in the house is bone stock. It gets off the charger at 530am and needs to be charged around 4pm with around 4 hrs of screen time and 45 mins or so of candy crush.
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You can flash any kernel you want, and the ROM will stay the same. The kernel operates "under the hood" (the engine), while the ROM is what you see (rest of the car, to use that analogy). You can use an app called Trickster Mod to tweak kernel settings. Be sure to know what you're doing though, and keep a backup just in case.
Also, be sure if you flash faux or trinity kernel (that I know of), that you flash on top of a stock kernel/reset kernel. If you flash any of those on top of another custom kernel, you could get in trouble (because of the way the kernels are installed).
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And the stock kernel is really not as bad as people make it out to be.
Sure custom will usually be better. But stock is not that bad. All those reports of horrid battery life I really don't know what the heck they are doing to be honest.
I used it for a while. And the other nexus 4 in the house is bone stock. It gets off the charger at 530am and needs to be charged around 4pm with around 4 hrs of screen time and 45 mins or so of candy crush.
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Now that the battery life is improved on 4.3 JB version , I wont be needed to a custom kernel. Thanks alot.