Evo 4g battery saving tip - get rid of the people widget - EVO 4G General

I know there's more threads around, but just wanted to share what worked for ME.
I've been experimenting with many of the settings - specifically, turning off 'enable always-on mobile data', and playing with the location settings, etc. No matter what I tried before, I was getting around a 10% drain/hour.
Last night I removed the contacts (htc people) widget. It's 5pm now, and my Evo has been off the charger since 7:30am. Down to 78% battery. That's with light/moderate usage. (before, I was seeing the 10% drain even when my phone was completely idle..)
Thought that might save someone else.. BIG difference for me was that single item - removing the htc people widget.
EDIT 06/27/10
Couple of comments about this - my Facebook account has 800 contacts. Your millage will vary if you have a small number of friends. Also, might want to disable the widgets for friendstream as well. This makes a *huge* difference if you're using facebook.. also, the update that's rumored to be coming tomorrow is rumored to have a battery saving patch in relation to facebook, so it may fix this battery hog.. For now, disabling it is the best bit (by simply removing the widget..) We'll see if HTC actually manages to tame this widget.. Personally, I don't miss it at all.. fast enough to pull people up via the search or the phone app..
-mark

are you referring to "friend stream"? or the "people" contact icon on the main screen?

IceCreaMan said:
are you referring to "friend stream"? or the "people" contact icon on the main screen?
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This is also what I want clarification on.

I can confirm this. I removed the HTC people widget yesterday and my battery life today is improved AND it seems to have helped if not fixed my restarting issue

GinjiVitis said:
I can confirm this. I removed the HTC people widget yesterday and my battery life today is improved AND it seems to have helped if not fixed my restarting issue
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Can you confirm if it's the "people" in main menu, or the favorites widget?

The HTC People widget shows up as the people Favorites. This is what is being referred to here.

I'm referring to the HTC people widget. (but - I removed friendstream / Facebook / Twitter / etc quite a while back to combat battery loss. Nothing helped until removing this widget)
Ps - its 10pm now and I've had moderate use in this phone since this morning - down to 40% left.. I would have had to recharge by mid afternoon before)

Damonte said:
The HTC People widget shows up as the people Favorites. This is what is being referred to here.
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ah ok, I assumed so but no reason not to check. I removed that right off the bat since I don't see a point to it.

diomark said:
I'm referring to the HTC people widget. (but - I removed friendstream / Facebook / Twitter / etc quite a while back to combat battery loss. Nothing helped until removing this widget)
Ps - its 10pm now and I've had moderate use in this phone since this morning - down to 40% left.. I would have had to recharge by mid afternoon before)
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just delete the 'people' widget shortcut on the homescreen or the one in the main menu as well???

troyhough said:
just delete the 'people' widget shortcut on the homescreen or the one in the main menu as well???
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Just from the homescreen.
-m

i'll try it -- thanks

hmm..
I dont use the widget at all
i need to kill the "people" service very often... i have close to 300 of my phonebook contacts linked to facebook.. and for some reason this can suck up to 800mb of data in one day..
i want the facebook integration, but i dont know what to do.

TurboX2 said:
hmm..
I dont use the widget at all
i need to kill the "people" service very often... i have close to 300 of my phonebook contacts linked to facebook.. and for some reason this can suck up to 800mb of data in one day..
i want the facebook integration, but i dont know what to do.
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Try having 800 facebook friends ;/
You can set the sync times for friendsfinder /facebook - it may help as well. For me at least the people widget was the missing link..
-mark
(ps - I'm from g'ville too; or at least used to be...)

The people favorites one that comes default one screen to the left or the people icon that comes on the main screen??

Ok. I have a update regarding the friend widget. This is my first day back to work sense removing it and normally by the end of my shift with regular use i leave the office with 20 or so %. Today i am leaving work with 67%!! And zero system restarts. I think this widget has some serious memory holes and its removal has seriously improved my Evo

I will also confirm this works on the Hero FYI. Unplugged this morning at 7:30 with a full charge and it is now 4:37 PM I still have 84% battery. Carazy!

i just removed mine as well, i wasn't using it anyway, we'll see how it goes

The whole service is buggy. My gf's phone took off the other day, constant data and only 3 hours of battery on standby. Nothing helped, reboot, nothing, removing the facebook account and re-adding it fixed it completely, been weeks with no problems now. You might try this rather than killing the service, it's like the account sync goes bad it gets stuck in a loop, constantly running, and once it's bad nothing fixes it other than removing the account and re-adding it.
My GF and I bought at the same time, same revisions, same apps, worked fine for weeks, then hers went crazy for days. Did everything short of a factory default, decided to remove the account and re-add as suggested on android forums, it worked, no problems since. Seems silly, but I saw it definitively work with my own eyes. Battery utilization had the android.process.acore at 2% (but it was the only diff between my phone and hers), once I removed and re-added the account this disappeared. No need to change the widgets, she uses friend stream and contacts widget, all of them, before 3 hours standby, now two days.
Seems stupid but I think sense has some bug problems now that HTC should REALLY address.

Few questions,
Anyone know of a "HTC People" like widget out there?
Has this only been tested with the big 9 person widget and not the 3 scrolling?
Anyone know just how much better of battery life you can get by not running Sense? Aka, Android default, Launcher Pro, OpenHome, aLauncher etc? (Because you'll still have to install a bunch of other add ons to make up for the hole between stock 2.1 and Sense 2.1)
Should I really stop using FriendStream as well and revert to the default Twitter and Facebook widgets?
I've been using my EVO for awhile now and I must say I really do enjoy the HTC Sense feel over the basic Android desktop.
Am I really that "stupid" for using Sense or is it just a giant negative placebo effect that Sense really does ruin the battery life.
I've read a lot about all of this, but this is the first mention of the "People" widget. I've known about Friend feed for awhile but I've kept it anyways.
End game? My EVO has yet to run out of battery life once. I even carry around a second battery just in case, but so far I haven't had to use it. I will honestly say that I haven't quite used it too intensively and I'm always closing my processes, but it's about the same as my Touch Pro 2.
I do a lot of internet browsing, but on 3G in Opera Mini on Google Reader. Some apps, emailing and SMS here and there.

OK, I am really slow about this. I have a stock, off-the-shelf EVO. Can someone just post the steps needed to "remove" the people widget? Does this mean just remove it from the home screen? Is this the large widget or just the shortcut? I have "force close"d the service through Settings--Applications, but is this sufficient?
Thanks!

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Phone App is sloooooowwwwwww on Sprint Hero...

My phone app has been slow since I got my Sprint Hero. But lately, it has gotten extremely slow. Almost unusable... it's slow to open, respond to input and ring when someone calls. Any ideas, tips or tricks on what the deal is?
I thought about trying to cut down my contact list to see if that helps, but I really hate the idea of not having all my contacts available on my phone.
Any other ideas to speed this thing up?
Thanks!
I'd try reflashing and if you dont want to go to that extreme I'd try to make sure to reboot the phone daily
Are you using a task manager? Also I find a reboot every 3 or 5 days is usually a good idea unless you clear out some of the memory hogging processes like Gmail storage and such. Generally I'll notice a bit of lag if I fall under 30mb of available memory.
I have considered reflashing, but was trying to see if there were any other solutions first. I've reflashed a few times and keep finding that after while, the phone app consistently slowed down.
I typically reboot about every 3-5 days... lately a little more. Rebooting has been much more effective that task killers.
I've read that some folks had problems with slow contacts, but is it also affecting their phone apps? How many contacts is too many for this thing? Is 130+ contacts too many for this phone to handle?
mine does EXACTLY this ... but only after I pull the phone off of charge.. the charge light stays on.. and bam.... its slow.... only fixes with a reboot
I have a lot of contacts
I have 1400+ contacts and my pone is not too slow.
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Mario
I like to use the "all people" widget its located under the live folders when adding stuff to your homescreens. Basically it just has a list form of your contacts.
Then when you select one it loads up the people app
I found out that some of the apps, were causing the problem, I started uninstalling apps, I guess most of the apps are made for 1.6 maybe because we are on 1.5 causes some kind of issue. that's just my theory...
In the mean time, you can try that.
I find the phone app very slow in response. It's very aggravating.
I noticed on the Fresh Rom, there is a note that the Location service may be what is causing the slow down in the phone app... I turned off location service yesterday and noticed an immediate response increase with the phone app. I'm not ready to call this a fix yet, but I am going to keep the location service off for a little while longer and see if it helps.
If anyone else is seeing the phone slowness, give this a try and let us know your results...
It does work. And for the sake of clarification, it's a 1.5-wide problem and affects all 1.5 ROMs.
Are you using the Facebook linking? I noticed when I had this feature on the phone and contacts apps. It's a cool feature but not worth the slow down.
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I noticed on the Fresh Rom, there is a note that the Location service may be what is causing the slow down in the phone app... I turned off location service yesterday and noticed an immediate response increase with the phone app. I'm not ready to call this a fix yet, but I am going to keep the location service off for a little while longer and see if it helps.
If anyone else is seeing the phone slowness, give this a try and let us know your results...
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Does that mean that Locale wouldn't work? I'd rather deal with the slower dialer if so.
Yes, I am using the Facebook linking. I could see that killing it too. I wish it would just import pictures and info over to my Google contacts. Any ideas on how to do that?
And yes, turning off the location feature will disable general location info from the phone. However, it can be re-enabled from settings...
It's a problem that has to do with apps using seperate threads to check your location, which builds up over time causing the location services to eat clock cycles like Rosi O'Donnel eats candy on Halloween. Disabling location services is a temporary fix, and Flipz thinks he's solved the problem in his 1.1 release by using Android's location services instead of HTC's
I have to agree with the abcdfv, fresh 1.1 has completely eliminated the annoying phone lag for me...amazing work. Now if someone could address the keyboard lag this phone is ready to rock...
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I have to agree with the abcdfv, fresh 1.1 has completely eliminated the annoying phone lag for me...amazing work. Now if someone could address the keyboard lag this phone is ready to rock...
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Are you linked to a Facebook account and running fresh 1.1, and there is no lag in the people(contacts) app?
I have a linked Facebook account on my Fresh 1.1 ROM and while there is an almost negligible lag in the phone/contacts application still, it is drastically snappier and quick to response compared to the Stock ROM.
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Are you linked to a Facebook account and running fresh 1.1, and there is no lag in the people(contacts) app?
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I have most of my contacts linked to their respective facebook and flickr pages. Coldsweat says it best as "an almost negligible lag"...still present but not an issue in the slightest (.5 seconds). I am experiencing the same change with the contacts as well.
Give it a shot and post your results...I was very impressed.
FYI, I turned off Facebook sync (synced Facebook pics with SyncMyPix), dropped my slot cycle index to 1 and installed the Fresh 1.1 ROM. Holy crap. This thing is a screaming fast new phone
For those who are rooted (and not aware), Fresh ROM has come a long way and is really, very impressive. It's very fast and some of the interface mods are very attractive.

OTA update 100 percent awake time.

So I updated my EVO to fix the qik problem as mine would not sign in.
Now I noticed I have 100 percent awake time and the battery is draining fast.
Anyone have this problem? I searched around but didn't see a mention of it anywhere. I have not rooted yet at all just setup the phone then did the update. Had no problems before the update.
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Mine seems to randomly stay awake too (but not always!)
Download the spare parts app from the market and in the battery history section, check the partial wake usage to see what's keeping the phone awake.
Mine seems to randomly stay awake too (but not always!)
Download the spare parts app from the market and in the battery history section, check the partial wake usage to see what's keeping the phone awake.
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Ya I had that installed seems to android system and calendar.
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Hero Flashbacks!!!
Well there is something going on with calendar as it will be 100 percent awake if calendar is running soon as I kill it with task panel the phone sleeps.
Damn it
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I'm also seeing the 100% wake after the ota update. I'm downloading spare parts now to check if it's the calendar.
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Today: 5 hours off the charger...5 hours awake time ONLY by the calendar. It's pretty impressive. I'm trying unchecking the calendar sync portion of gmail sync and charging it up to see how it performs for the second half of today. >.<
I killed the calendar app and my phone is finally going to sleep. This is probably it. I was getting the same result in spare parts. I installed auto task killer to kill the calendar in case I ever do open it.
I killed it also and the battery is performing MUCH better after a few hours by comparison. I wonder what it is about it that's not letting go properly.
Nothing here after update, Up is 10 hours, awake is 3 hours...my poor pocket empire is feeling neglected!
Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?
nachyochez said:
Nothing here after update, Up is 10 hours, awake is 3 hours...my poor pocket empire is feeling neglected!
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Do you sync with google calendar?
sph33r said:
Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?
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I am using the widget. I turned off all calendars except the Exchange one I need, and it still has the partial wake lock. Anyone find a workaround? We need a new thread for this?
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Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?
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I disabled the widget but that didn't stop it.
Looking into the logcat output, I saw on each sleep/wake cycle, 'SocialNetworkSyncmanager' acquiring a wakelock all the time (or, what seemed like a wakelock from the logcat).
Couldn't find exactly what that was, but noticed Footprints was running (wtf is that thing). Force closed that **** from Settings > Applications > Manage Applications, and now no 'SocialNetworkSyncManager' wakelock logcat messages.
Looking in Spare Parts, it seems that Calendar is no longer 100% of the partial wakelock time. Hrm. Will keep testing, but really need rundown time tests tomorrow to really get an idea of this works.
I had no idea footprints was part of the calendar. I never used it on windows mobile but I'll try disabling that too.
I am also running the widget but seems to make no diff if I use it or not.
I will start investigating the log cat see if matches the mentioned above.
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donatom3 said:
I had no idea footprints was part of the calendar. I never used it on windows mobile but I'll try disabling that too.
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Me either. We'll see. Now I really want root so i can uninstall the Sprint crapware (NFL, "Navigation" meta-app, Footprints, FriendStream). Sheesh.
mchang said:
Me either. We'll see. Now I really want root so i can uninstall the Sprint crapware (NFL, "Navigation" meta-app, Footprints, FriendStream). Sheesh.
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The only two of those that are sprint are NFL and navigator. The rest are all htc.
donatom3 said:
The only two of those that are sprint are NFL and navigator. The rest are all htc.
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True. Let me restate it then: I want a clean rooted image so that all that crap isn't in there, including the HTC and Sprint stuff!

Facebook app update

Just downloaded update and seems lot closer now to look like the iPhone one. I don't use Facebook app much so anybody notice any major differences since last one?
yep.. it auto updated this morning for me.. and its much nicer feel to it.. also like the little photo slider at the bottom.
wish they would implement facebook chat though
Much better, only thing I miss is to see who liked smth, option to slide to next picture when viewing pictures(it is so stupid to me to touch next and previous button) and chat
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wish they would implement facebook chat though
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FB chat through the AIM client seems to work fine for me. But yes, it would be nice if we didn't have to run another app alongside the proper FB one.
Has anyone tried syncing contacts through Facebook rather than Facebook for HTC Sense? Since this update I have two Facebook accounts in the Accounts and Sync settings. If I try to use the new one it doesn't seem to work. It offers a new contact link but doesn't have pictures or anything attached to it.
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while we wait for them to put chat on the app in the mean time download go chat the ui is good it looks like google talk
I can't believe items in the notification menu still take you to the mobile version of the site in your browser and don't stay within the app.
Apart from that, I like it.
Partial Wake usage withe the new 1.3 client
Check the "Partial Wake Usage" (*#*#4636#*#*): with Facebook client 1.3, no contact sync and autoupdate on "never" i have 100% usage (on facebook app)
A definite improvement... wish they'd change the horrible icon though.
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Check the "Partial Wake Usage" (*#*#4636#*#*): with Facebook client 1.3, no contact sync and autoupdate on "never" i have 100% usage (on facebook app)
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So do I.
I had to logout.. Unplugged since 6h30 AM > now 2h22PM battery>40%
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So do I.
I had to logout.. Unplugged since 6h30 AM > now 2h22PM battery>40%
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Yep, I've just uninstalled the update.
Would this be because of the 'new notification implementation'? I did, for the first time ever, actually receive a notification whilst I had it installed!
It's using way to much of the cpu, too bad since I really liked the update but I need to uninstall it aswell Battery is more important!
Do people think a fix will come out for this? Surely this is an error, it uses way too much battery!
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Do people think a fix will come out for this? Surely this is an error, it uses way too much battery!
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It has to be some sort of unforeseen thing. I would hope to see an update to fix this soon.
Mind you, I'm not overly impressed with the new features- was expected something far bigger and better.
I just wished, they can have a widget like the one on iphone where it displays the notifications on a corner.
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Yep, I've just uninstalled the update.
Would this be because of the 'new notification implementation'? I did, for the first time ever, actually receive a notification whilst I had it installed!
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Thank god I now know why my phone as gone from 100% to 0% in the space of 6 hrs.
Thought it was the Froyo update but can see now it looks like it's this new update.
Has anybody emailed them yet to inform them of the excessive battery increase?
Yes I have already mailed the developer
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I installed it when I first saw that the 1.3 was released and I haven't noticed any difference what so ever on my battery usage. I don't use any taskkiller so I haven't killed it of.
is there any fix for the battery-usage-of-death issue ?

[Q] Does the Facebook App Drain Your Battery?

I've been getting great battery life but then recently noticed that I hit 50% by lunch (when usually, I hit 50% by 10-11pm, after unplugging in the morning like everyone else).
Then, I noticed that FB was showing me notifications after installing it a few days ago. I tried to find a way to disable notifications in FB, but there is no such option, so is it basically running all the time in the background? Makes ya wonder what Zuckerberg is tracking in the background?
I'm uninstalling FB tonight and see if I can get back the awesome 1.5-2 day battery life I'm used to.
It does drain battery terribly but I don't think its because of notifications. I think the chat refusing to close is causing a partial wake issue. Download spare parts and Facebook is always running. Probably best to just use the site.
I never have any problems with the facebook app. You can disable notifications in the settings.
I cant really speak to the chat problem. I have been signed out of chat since that feature was added.
So if you are having issues, try disabling notifications and signing out of chat. See if that makes any difference.
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I never have any problems with the facebook app. You can disable notifications in the settings.
I cant really speak to the chat problem. I have been signed out of chat since that feature was added.
So if you are having issues, try disabling notifications and signing out of chat. See if that makes any difference.
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Cool, I'll put FB back on after a few days and try those suggestions. I wanna make sure that it was the culprit in my poor battery life.
I just left a comment for them about this in the Market. I'm also going to install it back again and uninstall it from the Market and mark it as Defective, so they get a second hint.
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Cool, I'll put FB back on after a few days and try those suggestions. I wanna make sure that it was the culprit in my poor battery life.
I just left a comment for them about this in the Market. I'm also going to install it back again and uninstall it from the Market and mark it as Defective, so they get a second hint.
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It's for sure the chat....just make sure you stay signed out of it and you wont have the drain issues.
I dropped the FB sync settings down to once or twice a day and that was a huge help on battery life. I don't use the widget, so instant status updates have no value to me and this allows the profile pics to stay relatively up to date.
I noticed the widget causing the most battery drain.
I think i will stick to the site.
New version of the Facebook app just came out. Version 1.5.1 if i recall. Might help those of you having battery drain issues.
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Noticed changes in DL30

I don’t see a thread like this so I would like to start one
I have noticed a ton of changes in the stock DL30 build and there are still some i probably haven’t ran into yet. I think it would be fun to see what changes people have noticed. . I know a lot of these are in the original leak thread but that thread is too saturated with questions and issues people are having.
I would kind of like to keep it clean so I would like to see lists of changes only and not a ton of questions.
I will start off with a few things I have noticed so far. I have left out some of the obvious things that comes with froyo but feel free to add them if you wish
-Facebook syncs contacts automatically. No need to get friends and then check the ones you want from Facebook
-You can now manually join contacts. Maybe you could do this before?
-You can now use custom ringtones for contacts that aren’t local on the phone
-You can use media files for ringtones
-Can now use multiple exchange accounts
-Can now use out of office for exchange accounts
-Can use pin unlock even though it doesn’t work because it says you need a symbol
-New theme which I actually like.
-Has new e-mail and text counts on the Touch wiz icons
-Can use media or voice tones for alarm
-The sliding thingy when you are typing, makes it much easier to correct spelling mistakes
-Can change fonts
-Media hub added
-Includes Samsung keyboard which I prefer over the others now
-Dock now works!
Only thing I don't like is that you have to enable background data in order to do anything related to data. Never had to do that before.
Anyone got yahoo email setup on the new DL30? I tried to read email (HTML based) from like amazon and other spam I usually get and now it say message too long, cant not display.
Anyone getting that too?
Font changer
No google maps originally
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Pinch to view home screens.
Email count on the home screen is awesome....
jv
Few things I noticed so far:
For exchange accounts it lets you choose seperate peak and off peak sync times which is cool.
The notifications has an auto-rotation on/off button along with your wifi, bt etc. But it doesn't really work with your homescreens unless you install laungher pro or something.
Signal strength has definitely increased.
Also, after I got DL30, I was asked to update camera firmware, and that added a couple of minor changes to camera.
Also forgot to mention that while in Car or Desk cradle the home screen now is landscape. Also when you get calls when on either the call screen is landscape!!! can you say "Awesome"!!!!
jv
And I am sure everyone is dying to know this, they replaced blockbuster with media hub.
Couple of things, keep in mind I was rooted running a custom ROM previously and now have LP running:
1. I like the changes to gmail (I was used to 2.2 gmail from my droid, took me a sec to figure where the send button moved to)
2. For whatever reason, after flashing and restoring apps with Titanium, I was debinged, however, that applies to voice search and all functions of the car dock aside from basic search. Hence, none of those functions work (voice search, navigation, maps. Not a deal breaker..just an observation.
3. The battery icon seems likes it's not even tied to the actual charge amount. Again..no big deal, I use simi clock and I check my battery there.
4. Gallery renders FAST..
5. Market still on old version...hasn't updated yet.
Haven't had a chance to really check any flash websites but will get around to it.
Issue with back button from contacts
Has anyone else had the back button stop working when in contacts?
It worked fine when I first got done with the update, then sometime after sync of facebook it stopped working. Not sure if that was the cause but something made it stop.
Be sure to open up the camera app. New firmware there.
I also noticed some of the bloat apps I had to remove when I first got my phone are gone. CityID immediately comes to mind (which I thought was the worst thing ever!), but I also noticed the Kindle app is missing and someone already mentioned Blockbuster. I thought they were more, but my memory is escaping me now.
The stock music player is also different, but this is my first Android device and thus first experience with 2.2, so this might just be a froyo thing. When I'm playing music and turn the screen off, when I turn it back on to the lock screen, there's a piece of CD hanging from the top of the screen. This can be pulled down to control the music. I never noticed this before, but I also may have never used the music player with the puzzle lock screen. Anyway, it's a cool feature that I dig. If I change to the AOSP lock screen (which I like way more than the puzzle lock), will this feature still be present?
I found a workaround for the Exchange pin issue.
If you setup a PIN before you setup your Exchange account from settings-> location & security-> screen unlock, it will work. You'll still see the message about device security needing to be setup at first but it will start syncing and not ask again.
Hope this helps!
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Has anyone else had the back button stop working when in contacts?
It worked fine when I first got done with the update, then sometime after sync of facebook it stopped working. Not sure if that was the cause but something made it stop.
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same here!
flushd said:
I found a workaround for the Exchange pin issue.
If you setup a PIN before you setup your Exchange account from settings-> location & security-> screen unlock, it will work. You'll still see the message about device security needing to be setup at first but it will start syncing and not ask again.
Hope this helps!
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Thank you, thank you, and thank you!
This was the main thing that bugged me on this rom and i was able to get around it. If you have the security policies already pushed you can go into Device administrator and remove the one for your exchange account, then go change your PIN, after a while your e-mail account will tell you that you need to enable the security policy again.
Thanks again!
CDODGE said:
Thank you, thank you, and thank you!
This was the main thing that bugged me on this rom and i was able to get around it. If you have the security policies already pushed you can go into Device administrator and remove the one for your exchange account, then go change your PIN, after a while your e-mail account will tell you that you need to enable the security policy again.
Thanks again!
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Glad this worked for you. As an Exchange Administrator and user, this is one of the best features of Froyo!!! No more full keyboard to enter PIN.
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Couple of things, keep in mind I was rooted running a custom ROM previously and now have LP running:
1. I like the changes to gmail (I was used to 2.2 gmail from my droid, took me a sec to figure where the send button moved to)
2. For whatever reason, after flashing and restoring apps with Titanium, I was debinged, however, that applies to voice search and all functions of the car dock aside from basic search. Hence, none of those functions work (voice search, navigation, maps. Not a deal breaker..just an observation.
3. The battery icon seems likes it's not even tied to the actual charge amount. Again..no big deal, I use simi clock and I check my battery there.
4. Gallery renders FAST..
5. Market still on old version...hasn't updated yet.
Haven't had a chance to really check any flash websites but will get around to it.
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3. Yeah I noticed that also. It was showing all blue but when I go into settings it shows battery at 80%. Oh well.
5. Must have just updated Market because I went in a few minutes ago and it's showing the newest one.
Love this new update.
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How can you tell if its the new market? What changed? Also, tried some web sites for flash but doesnt want to play. I'll have to try with a different browser.
beeblebrux said:
I also noticed some of the bloat apps I had to remove when I first got my phone are gone. CityID immediately comes to mind (which I thought was the worst thing ever!), but I also noticed the Kindle app is missing and someone already mentioned Blockbuster. I thought they were more, but my memory is escaping me now.
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Yup, CityID, Blockbuster, Kindle, the demos for Need for Speed and Tetris and a few others.
I'm wondering if this was an early version of 2.2, before they had a chance to add all that crap in. Would be nice if Verizon listened to their customers and actually choose to leave that stuff out in 2.2.
you have to go to the market and download adobe flash player 10.1
i have noticed SIGNIFICANT battery/signal strength increase.. I was barely able to get 16 hours out of my battery before and now mines been on for 14 hours and its still at 60 percent.. my time without a signal was at like 30% on DL09 or DJ05 and now its at 4% without a signal. much more memory available.. could be because im using super clean tho..

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