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Looking to finally update my GF's phone to Froyo now it seems perfect, but I'm wondering about Hardware Acceleration.

It must affect the battery as its using the GPU to make the animations smoother? But how bad is it? At the moment the phone will just push 2 days (More like 36 hours, unplug in the morning, don't charge at night, plug in next evening) and I'm looking to keep that.

Thoughts and opinions?

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Guest Len Ash
Looking to finally update my GF's phone to Froyo now it seems perfect, but I'm wondering about Hardware Acceleration.

It must affect the battery as its using the GPU to make the animations smoother? But how bad is it? At the moment the phone will just push 2 days (More like 36 hours, unplug in the morning, don't charge at night, plug in next evening) and I'm looking to keep that.

Thoughts and opinions?

Unless she uses 3D stuff, no point. JJ9 and MC12 are pretty smooth as it is. Easy to change HW Acc back and forth anyhow.

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Guest mELIANTE
I only asked because I want to use the Modaco ROM but I can't remove HW acceleration without paying to become a member :/

Yes you can, it's easy. Use the search :D

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Guest mELIANTE
I did a search and only found a few froyo roms and the official thread...

PM a link?

I don't have a link but you have to edit your build.prop in /system (use a file explorer that uses root) and put a # before debug.sf.hw=0

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Guest Len Ash
I don't have a link but you have to edit your build.prop in /system (use a file explorer that uses root) and put a # before debug.sf.hw=0

Or edit build.prop as above, rezip in to the original ROM and CW again - your settings will remain intact as you don't need to wipe.

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I don't have a link but you have to edit your build.prop in /system (use a file explorer that uses root) and put a # before debug.sf.hw=0

That would turn hw acceleration on.

Anyway, it's not going to affect battery life negatively, if the gpu isn't working it means the cpu has to do more & it's less efficient at drawing graphics, which is why you have a gpu, it's more likely to save battery than use more. Also, you'll struggle to play any 3d games.

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Guest mELIANTE
That would turn hw acceleration on.

Anyway, it's not going to affect battery life negatively, if the gpu isn't working it means the cpu has to do more & it's less efficient at drawing graphics, which is why you have a gpu, it's more likely to save battery than use more. Also, you'll struggle to play any 3d games.

Ops, didn't read the question properly, I thought he was asking to turn it on. My bad :D

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Guest Digitalize

Hmm, think I'll upgrade it to the stock Modaco 2.2.

The SD card died that I used to install the last ROM, so I have none of the ClockworkMod files etc, do I have to completely redo the process from stock?

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Hmm, think I'll upgrade it to the stock Modaco 2.2.

The SD card died that I used to install the last ROM, so I have none of the ClockworkMod files etc, do I have to completely redo the process from stock?

No, you don't have to :D

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