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I hate Froyo!

Thought the title would get your attention.
After upgrading to Froyo, I have many issues, two of which I'll cover here in hope that someone can resolve them.
First issue is battery life. Absolutely horrible after upgrading. Thought it would be the opposite. Can someone please provide some resolution to this issue? I've disabled a number of things said to resolve this problem but none have worked.
The second issue is the accelerometer after upgrading. Most screens end up in landscape view and switching back to portrait is difficult. I have tried to calibrate it but that didn't work. Don't like the huge delay or failed attempt to switch between both on this version. Calibration does not work.
Any help is appreciated...

pookieguy said:
Thought the title would get your attention.
After upgrading to Froyo, I have many issues, two of which I'll cover here in hope that someone can resolve them.
First issue is battery life. Absolutely horrible after upgrading. Thought it would be the opposite. Can someone please provide some resolution to this issue? I've disabled a number of things said to resolve this problem but none have worked.
The second issue is the accelerometer after upgrading. Most screens end up in landscape view and switching back to portrait is difficult. I have tried to calibrate it but that didn't work. Don't like the huge delay or failed attempt to switch between both on this version. Calibration does not work.
Any help is appreciated...
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buy a new battery and a good charger
menu>settings> display> uncheck Auto-rotate screen

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Why would I want to uncheck that option? I want it to auto rotate but want it to happen quicker than it has after upgrading.

battery..
In addition, the battery is obviously not the problem here. This started after upgrading to Froyo.

Were you using a custom ROM with 2.1?
Are you using a custom ROM with 2.2?
As far as I know, the stock ROM with 2.1 didn't have great battery life either (thought I'm not sure, I rooted my phone the day I got it ). So if you're using a stock ROM with 2.2, you could have the same issue.
Also, if you are rooted, try using SetCPU. Even with the default kernel you can use it to underclock your phone when the screen's off and save a lot of battery.

pookieguy said:
Thought the title would get your attention.
After upgrading to Froyo, I have many issues, two of which I'll cover here in hope that someone can resolve them.
First issue is battery life. Absolutely horrible after upgrading. Thought it would be the opposite. Can someone please provide some resolution to this issue? I've disabled a number of things said to resolve this problem but none have worked.
The second issue is the accelerometer after upgrading. Most screens end up in landscape view and switching back to portrait is difficult. I have tried to calibrate it but that didn't work. Don't like the huge delay or failed attempt to switch between both on this version. Calibration does not work.
Any help is appreciated...
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You hate Froyo then please return your EVO to sprint

are you running a task killer? try removing it. Have you tried any of the MANY battery life tricks? Try flashing the update.zip, could have been a messy install. you also could be suffering from useritis.

root
Thanks for the reply. No, phone has not been rooted. I simply waited for the 2.2 upgrade and can confirm both issues are a result of upgrading. You are right...the stock ROM did not have good battery life. However, after upgrading, it is much worse in comparison.
The g-sensor issue is also a huge problem. With that said, I'm looking for a fix to these two issues.
Thanks,

task killer..
tonyh703,
Yes, I'm running Advanced Task Killer which did not have a problem before. Is this an app that can cause this problem? I'll remove it if so...

You really need to do a little detective work to find out why your battery is not lasting. My battery is actually lasting noticeably longer on froyo. I was using Fresh 1.0.1 before with Netarchy's kernel and would just barely make it through the day of moderate use. Now that I have updated to Fresh 3.1.0.1, I am easily making it through the day with about the same use. Yesterday, I went 14 hours and still had 26% left when I plugged it in for the night. My usage was about 2 hours streaming last.fm, about a half hour of phone calls, about 1 1/2 hours of internet and twitter, about 45 minutes watching video's, and an hour and a half of reading with my kindle ap. To me that is pretty darn good. I have gps on, twitter syncing every half hour, and google sync on, most of my other stuff like email and such is set to manually sync. The only thing I did notice is that the first day after going to Froyo, my battery went down pretty quick, but after a day or two it settled down to the way it is now on it's own. Today I have had about the same use as yesterday so far, and have been off of the charger for 11 hours and have 76% remaining.
As to your other problem, can't say, mine is working fine.

If youve got an led flashlight type of app installed uninstall it they conflict with the HTC LED flashlight. That seems to be the most common problem with people upgrading to Froyo.

Agree on your second point. I wish there was a way to at least lock the screen to an orientation when need. The delay though is ridiculous.
I have also noticed that the delay to type sometimes is severely long causing me to retype the words a second time before they appear in the screen.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

FWIW - I found a little trick on a forum somewhere that allegedly came from HTC techs...
It goes like this - first, charge your phone as normal (phone on, 8 hours)
Then, after 8 hours and the phone reporting fully charged status, take the phone off the charger for about 3 minutes (just enough to slightly discharge it) and then turn it off (power down) and put it back on the charger for an hour or so.
Then, take it off the charger and turn it back on.
That's it! It sounds a bit ridiculous, but I think the cited reason was that whenever you install a new ROM, the "system" needs to understand when the battery is truly full and this trick helps to recalibrate and ensure that it is.
I really don't have any way (nor the desire) to verify the science behind this, but I did it myself after the horrible battery life I got with FroYo.
About a week out now and my battery is behaving completely normally, and possibly better than with 2.1, though only marginally if that...
Give it a shot - if it works, there you go, if not... Well it's not like you've lost anything.
Good luck, though YMMV.
Sent from my EVO 4G (Froyo - Stock HTC Rom)

have any of yall had a long delay when putting in a name for the reciver in sms? I kid you not it takes almost 3 to 5 sec for it to pull up a name and phone number from my phone book.

Its sad that you need to do "tricks" to get decent battery life, because most people expect it out of the box. Yes you can apply a custom rom with a undervolted cpu, but that shouldnt be necessary. I personally love doing all that stuff, but the majority of people are completely ignorant to these methods and might return their phones because of battery life, but for you people on here...BAKEDSNACK 1.2.5 with the latest of his kernel..amazing battery life.

Get rid of that task killer!! Froyo does not need it... Not to mention none of the task killers support Froyo correctly. Uninstall it, try using Froyo without it.

I recommend getting rid of the task killer and go without system panel lite. It works with froyo without any problems. I also recommend letting your battery completely die out before charging it again.
My Evo worked without any issues after the update to froyo. Also, if you are a widget fanatic, I recommend limiting the amount yo u use . The reason being that everytime you unlock your phone and scroll from one page to through next, you are loading said widgets into memory which help to eating up the battery quicker.
Also if you have a lot of things updating in the background, that can kill your battery quicker. I'm always on my phone and get anywhere from ten to fourteen hours of use. I also use a cpu manager to extend the life of my battery when not in use.
Sent from my HTC Evo

DO NOT DEPLETE YOUR BATTERY COMPLETELY!! These are Li-ion batteries. Depleting the battery too much can damage the cells. Discharging the batteries 100% before charging to avoid memory effect is a phenomena unique to Ni-Cad batteries. If a Li-ion is discharged too severely, it causes an irreversible reaction inside the cell that prevents the battery from holding any charge at all. This common in laptop batteries.
To the OPs issue, do you have the latest Facebook update (1.3.1)? Version 1.3.0 had an issue that was keeping the phone awake eating up battery life.
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sombdy said:
DO NOT DEPLETE YOUR BATTERY COMPLETELY!! These are Li-ion batteries. Depleting the battery too much can damage the cells. Discharging the batteries 100% before charging to avoid memory effect is a phenomena unique to Ni-Cad batteries. If a Li-ion is discharged too severely, it causes an irreversible reaction inside the cell that prevents the battery from holding any charge at all. This common in laptop batteries.
To the OPs issue, do you have the latest Facebook update (1.3.1)? Version 1.3.0 had an issue that was keeping the phone awake eating up battery life.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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I could see how this could be bad if you discharged it completely every single time, but every phone ive had including the iphone, it has been specificly stated many times to COMPLETELY DISCHARGE THE BATTERY ATLEAST ONCE A MONTH

Still no luck...
Guys,
I have removed the task killer and have removed the other LED Light utility. Still having battery issues. Any other suggestions please??
Also,
What about the accelerometer? Having many issues with it. First off, when a text msg comes in, it automatically shows in landscape. Phone switches to landscape fine but it is very difficult to switch back to portrait.
Any other help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Battery life problem

I flashed original rom but my battery behavior is still like on 2.3.5 RC4. Charge to 99% and drains very fast. Did someone know how to get back it original life. I tried battery calibrators from the market and battery wipe from clockwork mod but no result

If your optimus is old it is normal that battery life will get worser and worser ... All you can do is get new battery of ebay like I did and now my battery life is normal ...
Mike

It's not old. Its younger than a year. Battery life was good and on swift it last long and charge to 100% but after last time i flashed 2.3.5 rc4 i calibrate it (to try it last longer like on other roms) and now even on stock it drains like on rc4 and not charged to 100%

Use spare parts to see is there app that drain battery.

install "batterycalibration" from market, charge to 100% and calibrate your battery for this rom

Yes i download two battery calibration programs but the problem is that it's not charging to 100% but to 99% and drains very fast after this. i'll calibrate it a few days hope to fix

yeah, that happens to most people.
unplug, use a few seconds or 1min or so and plugin and wait if its fully charged, it could be that you have to do that a few times (2-3x)

coleonyx said:
I flashed original rom but my battery behavior is still like on 2.3.5 RC4. Charge to 99% and drains very fast.
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Your not alone on this, same thing with me.
I have ordered another battery from ebay but dont really know why all of a sudden this just began happening whilst using the same Rom which I think has something to do with it.
I use a program from Market called Android Booster to terminate running programs that start up or dont close once started, as sometimes if you use your camera, it will be still running, even if you close it up so hence battery life turns crap.
But also, if somebody phones me for 5 minutes this also nearly drains my battery, and I have everything also turned off. (WLAN, Blutooth, Data, GPS etc).
So dont know why this is suddenly heavy on the battery as it never seemed to do this when first installed.
There you have it, your not alone but think I will migrate to another or buy another phone as I think its pathetic to have to charge one's phone everyday, or twice a day if you chat to somebody for 5 minutes as it defeats the purpose.

coleonyx said:
Yes i download two battery calibration programs but the problem is that it's not charging to 100% but to 99% and drains very fast after this. i'll calibrate it a few days hope to fix
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Try charging through the wall charger instead of through the USB port on your pc. Worked for me then, recalibrate.

Turning off 3G when not needed?
Try turning 2G Network only in Wireless and Network --> Mobile Network

airbus360 said:
Try turning 2G Network only in Wireless and Network --> Mobile Network
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I got my brand new battery and even charged it up via Power Supply from the wall.
Have run the phone only on 2G network only box ticked and everything else turned off (and I mean nearly everything) and for whatever reason, the Battery new or old still does not last long.
Even after it charges to 99% says its charged, it discharges very fast, or if somebody phones you and you only talk for 2 minutes the battery drops to like near 30% which is pathetic.
Something is sucking the life out of the battery folks with these Rom's so can somebody exactly put the food on the table here and say, whats up?

zzsomebody said:
I got my brand new battery and even charged it up via Power Supply from the wall.
Have run the phone only on 2G network only box ticked and everything else turned off (and I mean nearly everything) and for whatever reason, the Battery new or old still does not last long.
Even after it charges to 99% says its charged, it discharges very fast, or if somebody phones you and you only talk for 2 minutes the battery drops to like near 30% which is pathetic.
Something is sucking the life out of the battery folks with these Rom's so can somebody exactly put the food on the table here and say, whats up?
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What ROM are you using? It takes some time to charge up the battery and even if it says '99%' that doesn't always mean that it is. What is the capacity of the battery? I'd say charge it for about 6 hours and see then.

Thanks Johnny,
Problem at present seems to be solved now.
Yesterday and before I had been using Mur4ik's CM7 2.0 RC4.
I then uninstalled a stack of apps that I only used every so often and now its like back to normal so I guess it must have been those apps installed.
Folks here is a big tip. Uninstall Apps to test your battery to find out which one is the Energy Hog because even if you are not using them, they seem to be running due to either bad programming of the app or a system management issue related connection between the two.
Now, I have just updated to Mur4ik's CM7 2.0 RC5 and will certainly think twice prior to installing a bunch of things for the sake of installing apps.
Cheers people~!

Updated Nexus One to 2.3.6 and now running really hot

Hi all,
Got the 2.3.6 (GRK39F) system update this morning but I've noticed today that my Nexus One is running unusually hot despite me not really using it.
I've tried rebooting and the problem seems to remain.
Battery temperature is coming up as 37.6 °C according to the test app (having typed *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer)
Anyone else having a similar problem? Any suggestions to further debug or resolve?

I haven't got the update yet. But if it keeps getting worse, I would try a factory reset.

No issues here, I am at 32.5°C with light use.

Not sure what I did but it seems to be back to normal now. I fiddled round switching on and off wifi/gps/sync etc and charged the phone over night and it was fine in the morning and has been today.

I've seen similar issues.
I've also noticed battery life has gone down significantly.
I've investigated a bit and noticed that suddenly my Facebook app was consuming about 30% of the power (i barely use the facebook app).
It turns out this has been keeping the GPS on for ages... and i could see my GPS always looking for a lock.
I uninstalled facebook (as much as i can, you can't really remove it completely on stock..) and this seems to make things much better.
Maybe you're seeing the same problem?

HaggleLad said:
I've noticed today that my Nexus One is running unusually hot despite me not really using it.
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Have your phone been plugged into a computer via USB when you realized that issue?
I'm asking, because a while ago i realized my Nexus One's battery got extremly hot when connected via USB, though it turned out that it only happened, when using not the original USB cable.

itay1 said:
I've seen similar issues.
I've also noticed battery life has gone down significantly.
I've investigated a bit and noticed that suddenly my Facebook app was consuming about 30% of the power (i barely use the facebook app).
It turns out this has been keeping the GPS on for ages... and i could see my GPS always looking for a lock.
I uninstalled facebook (as much as i can, you can't really remove it completely on stock..) and this seems to make things much better.
Maybe you're seeing the same problem?
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I know I am a little late to the game on this one (no internet at home for another 10 days and I was out of town), but I was having the same issue with facebook constantly using GPS, but an uninstall and reinstall fixed it. I think it was just a botched update. Granted, I am running CM7, so I uninstalled the full app, but maybe redoing the updates will fix the gps problem for you.

Using Battery Spy I've seen that different cables support charging at different maximum current levels. If the phone seems hot during charging then its because it is actually charging faster.

The Skype app can make the phones run very hot also. I had to remove it for that reason.

Possibly getting a Note; few Questions

Hey guys,
I currently have a Galaxy Nexus and I really love it, but I'm one of those guys that really loves to try new devices and I feel like the Note would be the last device I wanted for a very long time if I got it. I thought the Nexus would be this device, but the Note just intrigues me..
I was just wondering what kind of battery life you guys see? Isn't the Note battery over 2,000 mAH stock? (2,600?)
I guess the huge deal with the Nexus for me was ICS. I've been lurking your development forums and saw that CM9 is pretty much close to functional aside from the camera and some other things kernel related, is this an incorrect assumption?
Lastly.. Is ANYONE using this on T-mobile? Either living with EDGE speeds or even having a mobile hotspot on the side to use for the data?
Thanks guys!

Also, is there CM7 in any form?

Hi there!
For battery life its very dependent on the user, the note comes with 2500mAH of battery power, I find it lacking because of the new stuff I can do with the note as compared to my Galaxy S1 and S2.
For Cyanogen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423795&highlight=cm9

As EarlZ said battery life would depend on usage pattern.
With my usage pattern, averaging about 2.5 hours of screen on time, at the end of the day, after about 15 hours, the battery is at about 40-50%. I use it mostly for browsing, & watching videos. So I still charge nightly but I find it more than adequate.
My auto-brightness is set to on and I don't use any additional power saving features.

As other posters said, the battery is 2500 mAh. As for battery usage example: today, after 13 hours of usage, the battery still has 38% remaining.
Usage means: data connection active all the time; display on for 2 hours (auto brightness); Nemo Picross played for about 1/2 hour; browsing, email, a few SMS, a little talk (just a little, some minutes); bluetooth on all the time and a MBW-150 connected using OpenWatch for at least 10 hours; WiFi on for about 1/2 hour in the morning. Also, I don't use any battery optimizers, no task killers etc. It's basically a stock Galaxy Note, with Zeam Launcher instead of TW, and rooted.

As for the battery - previous posters are spot on. To sum it up - most likely you will need to charge every day, unless you don't use your phone much (which is highly unlikely if you have such an awesome device).
As for CM7 - I haven't seen any CM7 mods for note. Maybe I've missed it, but I guess it's because ICS will come out soon for Note and there's not really a point in getting CM7 working if CM9 is so close.
As for CM9 and ICS - I wanted to wait for a more polished version and visited the forums multiple times a day, hoping an ICS leak from samsung had come out, but in the end I couldn't wait more and installed the current CM9 build (link a few posts up) and I am now using it daily (for about 4 days now). Apart from a few annoyances, it is absolutely great! Camera doesn't work yet, which is a shame, but I can live with that for now. As I get it, Bluetooth is unstable (I don't use BT so I don't care), battery stats don't work (it still shows the percentage and the graph, but doesn't give a breakdown of the percentage each app consumes). MTP doesn't work, so you have to either use adb to push files or reboot in recovery and activate mass storage there. A bit annoying, but not a deal-breaker for me, since I have a SMB file server at home, so I just put my needed files there and then pull them using wifi with a file manager that supports SMB.
There are a few more slight annoyances, for example:
After the phone goes into deep sleep, you can usually only wake it by pressing power button (as opposed to current gingerbread ROMs, where you can also use the physical HOME button). Some people report rarely not being able to wake the device after it goes into deep sleep, speculating that it might be caused by not locking the screen manually but allowing it to lock via inactivity time-out. Also, some apps show some black artifacts, as if the screen was "rotting away" before your eyes . This can be fixed by forcing graphics acceleration in the settings. Supposedly this can break other apps, but I haven't yet run into one that wouldn't work. Once my battery drained on this ROM about 40% overnight, but that was probably some bad app, since it only happened once. Also, once the screen time-out set itself to "no time-out" so my screen was on multiple hours and drained most of my battery, but this has also only happened once. There are also some random FCs and sometimes the back button closes the app, but you can just run the app again and usually it will be where you left it, so no big deal.
Other than that, it's AMAZING! Very smooth, battery life seems quite good, GPS gets a lock VERY fast (people are saying it's also true in gingerbread, but I was never able to get as fast GPS lock on any non-ICS ROM. All the apps I have tried work fine, with one exception being the CM Music app (the one for ICS). Besides, as soon as an ICS leak from Samsung comes out, I think the CM9 ROM will be in a very stable state very quickly.
So, I would say, go for the Note!

Unplugged it at 8am many phone calls with moderate usage,from 2.30pm continuous non stop web surfing and browser youtubing until exactly 6pm, 31% was left.with brightness auto wifi and gps on.

[Q] [AOSP] Official 4.4 - S4 Google Edition - v6.0-OTA - Feel the Experience of Nexus

Hello to all!
Since I don't have honor to post on main development page I need to post here in question!
I can't find nowhere something about battery life, I installed without problem ROM on my SIV and battery life is very poor. Yesterday I watched on YouTube MKBHD Hangout with Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside which have length of 39 minutes I think. My battery was at star 98% and at the time of ending video vas 45%. Battery can't last full day of normal usage. (it last from 07:00 to 18:00). At beginning I noticed this problem and I installed One Power Guard and its always on powersave or standby mode.
This anyone facing with this problem?

Yes mine is exactly the same. Running v4.0 and battery life is terrible now. Camera app force closes every now and then and sometimes maybe twice a week it reboots.
Plus I can't charge it switched off - everytime I plug it in it starts up.

Hi,
My battery is a little poor too, but it was because I was with my cellphone screen on almost the whole day... When it was an extreme case (when I was in 4.3 AOSP ROM and it didn't last even some hours, like you), I recalibrated it (I used to do it with my Xoom and X10 Mini Pro, it may be a placebo, but looks like it worked...
To recalibrate simply let your battery run completely out, then plug to the charger and let it charger completely while turned off (the white battery icon appears), then turn it on and let it run out again, then charge fully again. Remember that plugging and unplugging your device from the charger is bad for your battery, and remember to keep the screen brightness very low, turn off WiFi, Bluetooth and SPECIALLY 3G when you're not using.
Hope this helps,
~Lord

mk2vr6 said:
Yes mine is exactly the same. Running v4.0 and battery life is terrible now. Camera app force closes every now and then and sometimes maybe twice a week it reboots.
Plus I can't charge it switched off - everytime I plug it in it starts up.
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You need to flash v.6.0 which mostly correct FC camera app. I notec when i was runinng on ART reboots was more common.
My solution was to flash MK9 stock rom, this is the most stable and reliably by me so far.

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XxLordxX said:
Hi,
My battery is a little poor too, but it was because I was with my cellphone screen on almost the whole day... When it was an extreme case (when I was in 4.3 AOSP ROM and it didn't last even some hours, like you), I recalibrated it (I used to do it with my Xoom and X10 Mini Pro, it may be a placebo, but looks like it worked...
To recalibrate simply let your battery run completely out, then plug to the charger and let it charger completely while turned off (the white battery icon appears), then turn it on and let it run out again, then charge fully again. Remember that plugging and unplugging your device from the charger is bad for your battery, and remember to keep the screen brightness very low, turn off WiFi, Bluetooth and SPECIALLY 3G when you're not using.
Hope this helps,~Lord
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Thank you for advice. I was using battery calibration on my Galaxy SI GT-i9000 and Xperia X8 and it was uselles. Know i didn't se enyware that i need to recalibrate battery so i didnt do that.