all of a sudden voicecommand.exe is using all resources. I've only done two reg tweaks since the problem. one was the battery drain reg hack and the other was the fix for voice command in wm6. I think its the battery drain one because after the voice command tweak everything worked fine. if anyone else is experiencing this please report it.
Yes, most likely it's the " Battery drain SOLVED! " that's the problem. At least for me and several of my other 8125's it was the problem. A little pretentious perhaps, at least where I come from (that would be the land of accountability)
Those of us that have our devices tweaked to put IE history, etc on the SC will have problems with such a reg edit.
I've found a perhaps better solution but I'm not going to say that it's going to make your life better
(I THINK that it's helped me, waiting on input from others)
Here's the link to the XDA post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=287165
Here's the cabs that will take you there and back.
First place I found it was http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/...obile-5-devices-by-enabling-power-management/
It MIGHT have helped me, still researching ... YMMV
Actual reg keys are
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\AsyncMac1\Parms]
Default value type and value are
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:1
Change to
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Irsir1\Parms]
Default value type and value are
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:1
Change to
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\PPTP1\Parms]
Default value type and value are
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:1
Change to
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\L2TP1\Parms]
Default value type and value are
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:1
Change to
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
Hope I was of some help.
had to hard rest. GRRRRRRRRR
when i try the tweak ill report back.
hiimcliff said:
had to hard rest. GRRRRRRRRR
when i try the tweak ill report back.
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Ahh, it's not THAT bad ... beta testing for Faria and Molski I got used to it. Now that I'm creating my own ROMs I flash or hard reset even more it seems (if that's possible)
btw, I put those reg settings in my ROM I created yesterday and my battery seems quite happy... but as I said earlier, YMMV..
Will this work on WM6 also or is it just slated for WM5?
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Will this work on WM6 also or is it just slated for WM5?
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I run my own custom WM6 ROM so yes it does. Actually it's not OS dependent.
btw, this has noticeably increased my battery life. Yesterday, in about 8 hours, I dropped to 85% from 100%.
I agree, this seems to really help. When I put the WM6 MBE ROM on my phone, I was seeing 15% - 25% decrease in the battery overnight (so the phone just sitting idle, no calls or anything). After putting this cab on for the tweak, I now only see about 2% decrease overnight for the last few nights. Daytime battery life is significantly better also (but then I'm constantly hooking up to the USB so I can't say for sure how much better).
Thanks!
I applied these changes today when my battery was at 66%. I have push E-Mail on all the time as a rule. After four hours with five calls lasting a total of 40 minutes I am down to 29%. Any thoughts ?
I am using BatteryStatus but have the overclocking disabled right now.
My battey is aweful
How does this thing work? I downloaded the CABS and installed...now what? Do I personally change the Reg or did those CABS do it?
Hello,
I'm a complete newbie to HD2, I just got it yesterday. And I'm suffering from the battery drain problem. I've read some of this thread:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=585729
However I'm lost at two points:
1. How do I disable 3G and switch to 2G-GSM? I believe this will save some battery. Also I hear something like HSPA or whatever, I believe it's some sort of data connection but I don't know what I should do with it either.
2. How do I edit the registry? There are people recommending registry editing to each other, but I have no idea where to start. I'm an experienced windows *desktop* user, so I know the risks of editing registry, however I don't have a clue how I can edit the registry of an HD2 phone.
Thank you for your patience and answers
Best,
Harzem
Hello,
Quick answer to question 2; search on the internet for a tool called PHM reg (forget that, look here...http://freewareppc.com/utilities/phmregistryeditor.shtml ). Download the cab file and transfer it onto your device, preferably onto the external SD card.
Tap on it to install then go look for the icon in your startup folder to view.
If you are an experienced windows desktop user you will be aware of the advantages of backing up your registry first before tinkering with it.
WB
Also bear in mind that until you have cycled the battery a fair number of times it's life will seem shorter than it actually is - give it a few days and you should notice an improvement in battery life.
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Also bear in mind that until you have cycled the battery a fair number of times it's life will seem shorter than it actually is - give it a few days and you should notice an improvement in battery life.
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Thank you, I intend to charge-discharge it at least three times before losing hope
However since I'm sure I won't need the 3G, I want to disable it right away, so if you know how I can do that I will be very happy to know!
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Thank you, I intend to charge-discharge it at least three times before losing hope
However since I'm sure I won't need the 3G, I want to disable it right away, so if you know how I can do that I will be very happy to know!
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Go to Phone/Menu/Options then scroll the list till you see the Band entry. Select this then in the top half of the screen select 'GSM' instead of 'Auto'
Now click 'Done' then if you get a warning about your current data session, accept the warning. Press the power button for 3 seconds to access the sub-menu and select 'Power off'. Now press the power button again to restart the phone.
@wacky.banana, I forgot to thank you in my last post, sorry for that and thank you!
@NeilM, I would have never found it myself, I was searching the start menu, not the "phone" menu. Your help is really appreciated
I got tired of the ugly green buttons and checkboxes in the ROMs built off of the newer Sense builds, so I yanked the pretty blue ones from the latest AT&T Tilt 2 official ROM and cabbed 'em up. Pictures:
My goal with this was, primarily, to get rid of the rancid green color. As such, for the most part, a lot of the graphical components of Sense have been left untouched. I have specifically not included anything that changes the home tab graphics or the tab slider. As pictured above, for the most part the only items which should be altered are the following:
Checkboxes
Sliders
Radio Buttons
Selection Highlights
Calendar Day Squares
Note that, while the blue highlights do appear in sense-specific tabs, they do not change the standard WinMo menu colors. Further, not all of the green has been replaced. There are still a few little buttons squirreled away in the operating system that I do not know the location of. If anybody sees one after installing this cab, and also knows where the offending file is buried, please feel free to share. The primary purpose of this thread is to stamp out the green menace.
Okay: Standard disclaimer time!
THIS IS ONLY FOR DEVICES RUNNING SENSE 2.5.
Seriously, if you are not running Sense 2.5, DO NOT install this.
THIS HAS ONLY BEEN TESTED BY ME ON MY WVGA DEVICE. If you have a HVGA or QVGA device, this may well not work for you at all, and I would not recommend it. As I do not have a device in either of those resolutions which runs Sense, I will not be offering anything in those resolutions. I'll include a zip file of all of the files included in the cab in case anyone wants to mess with them. It's not like I created them, anyway.
THE ATTACHED CAB FILE COPIES OVER MANILA SYSTEM FILES. While I have found it to be uninstallable for me, I make no guarantees that anyone else's experience will be the same. Copying over system files of any sort brings with it the inherent risk of a possible hard reset, especially because I barely know what I'm doing with any of this. That having been said, this has been working well for me. Let me know if your results are any different.
Further, I have only tested this on my Tilt 2, which has WVGA resolution, was already Hard SPL'd, and running a cooked ROM. You may well need to install SDKcerts before this will install correctly. A quick search of the forums will provide this for you if you need it.
NOTE: As the cab copies over Manila system files, it is highly recommended that you exit Sense before installing. In your settings menu, under "Home", uncheck "HTC Sense" under the "Items" tab. Doing this should exit Sense, and you should now be able to access whatever file explorer you use through the start menu to install this thing.
If you do not exit sense before installing, and something gets borked, don't ask me how to fix it. Well, I mean, you can ask, it's just that I'm not going to be able to tell you anything useful.
Cheers!
Edit: Ack! Forgot to mention that the manila files in these are CFC compressed, so if you don't have a ROM that's set up for that, you WILL need to apply the CFC-enable patch. Check with your chef to confirm if they use CFC compression (most cooked roms will, stock roms will not), and search the forum for the patch file. I'll try to update these later when I'm back on my home PC; don't have the files handy on my phone at the moment.
I really dig the blue, one suggestion though. I'm sure you may've looked into it but changing the battery color on the top bar to blue would be nice.
Yeah. I'm trying to decide how I'm gonna handle the battery indicator. The big poot about it is that it's stuffed inside a dll as 100 different images. 1 for each percentage point. Of course, then there's the one for charge state, and probably more that I'm forgetting at the moment.
So, yeah, I'm mulling over my options.
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Yeah. I'm trying to decide how I'm gonna handle the battery indicator. The big poot about it is that it's stuffed inside a dll as 100 different images. 1 for each percentage point. Of course, then there's the one for charge state, and probably more that I'm forgetting at the moment.
So, yeah, I'm mulling over my options.
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Wow, what a fustercluck. I can't believe it's supposed to show each percentage point of difference, honestly I thought it did every 10 percent.
Working well on TouchPro
Thank you for this nice mod. I am using TouchPro (VGA) and your theme is working very well
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Wow, what a fustercluck. I can't believe it's supposed to show each percentage point of difference, honestly I thought it did every 10 percent.
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It works in 10% steps by default but someone wrote a mod that changed it to 1% steps, I think.. I have never been in a situation where I needed to know how EXACTLY how much battery life I had left. I left it out for like one version and lotsa people asked for it back. I guess people just WANT, regardless of how useful it is . I mean I'm not complaining, I just feel sorry for those guys that make taskbars. This is probably why we don't see too many of em anyways.
Fo serious. Additionally, it's all canned up in that .dll along with everything else for the taskbar, so modding just the battery means using a modified version of someone else's work for the rest, which some folk get less than thrilled about. I've started cannibalizing little bits of other folk's pretty picture bits for my own personal enjoyment, but it's nothing that can be reposted here. Meh. Oh well, at least it's Friday.
The default 10% battery meter increment is terrible, IMO. No, you don't need to know the power remaining to 1% accuracy, but its very helpful to know what it is more accurately than 10%. On the 10% meter, 50% and 59% both read as "50%". That much inaccuracy can be a big deal if you're running low on charge, and not near a power source, no charger, etc.
I can understand how this makes it a pain to work on the taskbar. But aside from that, I've seen far more people that prefer the 1% increment to 10%.
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The default 10% battery meter increment is terrible, IMO. No, you don't need to know the power remaining to 1% accuracy, but its very helpful to know what it is more accurately than 10%. On the 10% meter, 50% and 59% both read as "50%". That much inaccuracy can be a big deal if you're running low on charge, and not near a power source, no charger, etc.
I can understand how this makes it a pain to work on the taskbar. But aside from that, I've seen far more people that prefer the 1% increment to 10%.
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There is a reason why a lot of PDA manufacturers use only 10% increment battery meters: You cannot measure battery capacity so precisely. There is no sense in using 1% increment imho.
There's a lot of truth to that. The problem is that a user who is presented with a percentage expects a measure in 100 increments, whether it's accurate or not, because that's what we understand percent measure to be. Average user doesn't get that it's a battery issue and not an icon issue. Fix would be to use an icon that people do not have an ingrained understanding of being able to measure at a more accurate level; however, as there's not really an icon option with 10 increments that fits into the taskbar in an aesthetically pleasing way, we use percentages, and are where we are now. Personally, even understanding the limits of battery measure accuracy, I like the percentages, but probably mostly because I, like most people, can relate easily to a percent measure.
Hah! As with all questions on the board, the answer already existed on the board.
Nice android-themed taskbar icons colored in blue. This is what I am now running on my device.
Of all things, there's even a version without percentage numbers for Jackos!
Man, I'm totally jazzed now. With my taskbar issue resolved, I may see if I can take some time this weekend or this upcoming week to try and learn how to skin some of the other ugly green bits still in my phone that don't already have drop-in files in the AT&T rom to cover them.
Hey FL5!
First of all, thanks for cabbing it all up and the effort you already put into this . I haven't run across many green stuff since I installed it, so I think you got quite a lot of it eliminated .
Having it installed however, a couple of things I would have liked to keep the way they were also changed.
Is there some way to figure out how to select different elements to change or keep?
I've got a cab creator, so the only (probably quite big) thing I need to select my own preferences is a list with what's what in it!
Since you've been looking into this already, I thought you maybe have some sort of overview on this, so I don't have to change every file manually to see what it does.
The things I don't like blue are for example:
Contact view tabs
Music library tabs
Month header at calendar tab
Some things still green (don't know if this is helpful or not):
The account selection icon on mail-tab.
Camera options
It's nothing all that complicated.
The cab file takes the stuff that's in the zip file and copies it into \Windows over the gross green files. You can trail-and-error your way around with it and see what you do and don't like.
As far as viewing the files outside of your phone, the only files in that zip pack are png & bmp images, which you can view in most image viewers, and manila files, which can be viewed (mostly with descriptions, no less) in chainfire's cfc tool.
Copying some bits over the black bits was really just stuff that happened when I was trail-and-erroring my way through, and just kinda liked the results. I'll play around with this a bit and see if I can't come up with something for you.
As an aside, how would anyone feel about leaving home tab buttons black at rest, but then highlighting in blue when pressed? I've been running mine like that for a bit and I quite enjoy it. I've also swapped out the music tab buttons for blue ones, which I could see as being quite user-preference. Perhaps I'll make separate cabs so that folk can pick-and-choose.
Would be awesome for sure!
Highest awesomeness would be achieved by a "green to blue" cab and additional "black to blue" cabs .
If you want any help with doing this just let me know! (like opening a section of the manila files in that program and sort them into those 2 categories)
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The things I don't like blue are for example:
Contact view tabs
Music library tabs
Month header at calendar tab
Some things still green (don't know if this is helpful or not):
The account selection icon on mail-tab.
Camera options
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That tab slider button for contacts, music, etc. is all the same file. Original black one attached.
Original black header for calendar tab month view attached.
For the mail tab, the original was black with a green ring, and the ATT one was dark blue with a lighter blue ring. I cut the light blue ring and pasted it onto the original black slider, which I figure is closer to what you'd want. That one's attached. After loading it in to test it, I quite like it. I don't use the mail tab, though, so it's a shame I won't be seeing it anymore.
Not really 100% sure where the camera bits are yet. Camera is a bit deeper into the file structure than Sense. Graphics may be rolled up into a dll. Digging into the dll files to make other, deeper OS-level stuff blue is the next step, after I get the Sense changes all hammered out.
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Would be awesome for sure!
Highest awesomeness would be achieved by a "green to blue" cab and additional "black to blue" cabs .
If you want any help with doing this just let me know! (like opening a section of the manila files in that program and sort them into those 2 categories)
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Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking. One main cab to smash out the green, and then bits&pieces cabs to swap selected blue parts in for the original black bits.
I've already got all of the original blue bits in various folders that I've been screwing with, so there's really not any need for you to sort 'em for me. The only reason I hadn't sorted them in to cabs already is half distraction and half not really being sure that anyone really wants these. There's really not a lot of hits on the original files and not really a lot of activity in this thread. I might need to move it to the main WinMo themes&apps area...
Note: Unzip attached files and copy into \Windows folder to make changes. Back up the files that are already there in case you want to change back.
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There is a reason why a lot of PDA manufacturers use only 10% increment battery meters: You cannot measure battery capacity so precisely. There is no sense in using 1% increment imho.
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I couldn't agree more!
Although it would make sense for, hypothetically speaking, 57% to be read as 60, and 53 to be read as 50. I'm sure it works that way?
In the threads for the battery thing, for the rhodium at least, the 10% indicators always round up until it gets down to 5% battery life, so 91%-100% displays as 100% and so on. However, that may only be with the carrier batt % driver, and may round more accurately with the 1% drivers. Dunno for certain on that. All I do know is that changing to a percentage-less blue battery indicator is both aesthetically pleasing and more than functional enough for regular use.
wow! this is fantastic!
you think you'll be able to do one more in "cyan"?
it'll be perfect with my screens
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but these were lifted directly from the AT&T rom, not created from scratch by me. I do not have the skills to color in anything like this.
Besides, I much prefer this color blue to cyan.
Thanks for this. I'll probably set this up on my Black and Blue grill theme. I've been trying to change all of the green back to blue, but haven't gotten everything. Good work.