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[D-D-]

Hey twrock, I'm just wondering, what is the default speed set for this rom? Is it 528Mhz or 614Mhz?

[twrock]

D-D-, on 01 February 2012 - 10:02 PM, said:

Hey twrock, I'm just wondering, what is the default speed set for this rom? Is it 528Mhz or 614Mhz?

This one's default is 528. (max 691) I went conservative because I believe one of the main reasons to run this "older" rom is for the good battery life. Of course anyone can turn it up.
(TXG is 614 default.)

[pier11]

twrock, on 02 February 2012 - 01:06 AM, said:

...I believe one of the main reasons to run this "older" rom is for the good battery life.

Do you think it's because of kernel on rom (everything else) ?

[pedrojaime]

Currently getting 2 1/2 days with CPU set at 672.  I am sure I can get much more with lower CPU.  Thanks for  the Vanilla news twrock.  I am about to dive in and test cyanogenmod 7.2.  Something tells me I will really miss this rom!

[twrock]

pier11, on 02 February 2012 - 02:47 AM, said:

Do you think it's because of kernel on rom (everything else) ?

I wish I knew.

The kernel/boot.img were originally from the older FLB mod. I modified the ramdisk only a very little to adjust the max cpu speed and lowmem settings. So it is nothing I did to improve battery life there. Oh, I did add a few lines in build.prop to try to get a tiny bit more battery savings. It "feels" like it helped, but it is hard to tell.

I just know that with all of the CM6.1 roms I've tried, the battery just runs down faster if you do nothing other than let the phone sit completely idle for a few hours. Something is going on that uses power in the CM6.1 roms that doesn't in the RBM2 rom (the base for FTB).

I personally feel that TXG is more stable and "smoother" in my use of it (I get no acore warnings with TXG). But I like the battery life of this rom too much to sacrifice it.

I have not used your CM7.2 rom for long enough periods of time to give any opinion on how it compares. It seems a few people are mentioning that it burns power quite quickly. I hope there is something you (or others) can come up with that will give us equal battery life to this rom.

[D-D-]

twrock, on 02 February 2012 - 05:30 AM, said:

I personally feel that TXG is more stable and "smoother" in my use of it (I get no acore warnings with TXG). But I like the battery life of this rom too much to sacrifice it.

I have not used your CM7.2 rom for long enough periods of time to give any opinion on how it compares. It seems a few people are mentioning that it burns power quite quickly. I hope there is something you (or others) can come up with that will give us equal battery life to this rom.

Oh trust me, if that decides for you what to use, you won't even touch cm7. With cm7 I barely can get a day (with 2g data always on), with cm6 I get 1 or 2 (depends how many mails I've sent that day) and with custom 2.1 I get 2 or 3 days (again depends on how many mails I've sent).


Now actually I'm testing the official TRE (cause I always used the HU rom).
I don't know why, but only with the HU I get get to all of my backups (doesn't matter how much the system partition is).
The second dload file in it makes the trick.

[twrock]

D-D-, on 02 February 2012 - 12:20 PM, said:

I don't know why, but only with the HU I get get to all of my backups (doesn't matter how much the system partition is).

I don't understand what you mean by this sentence

I did a lot of work with the Tre rom previously. I really liked it, not only because of partition size, but that was part of it.

[D-D-]

Well I have some nand backups from before. Even if I change the system sizes and transfer almost everything to dataext and have even more than enough free space in sys, it wouldn't nand restore to different partition layout (for having more data for example).
I have my fav 2.1 rom installed and settled for my needs, but I can only restore it if I'm on TmoHU update (after the I update it with the second dload. It wouldn't work with the first one only).
I only get bootlops (t-mo/huawei screen, android and reboots).

[Dante2070]

After trying out a few other roms, with the 7.2 being the latest, I decided to return to this one, since it has proven to be the fastest, most reliable and stable one. Before reflashing it, I'd like to know what swap size you recomend when having a linux swap partition of 96 mb? According to your post I'm guessing 10 would be a good number (32mb - 30, more mb - less swap?). Also, how do I set it in TE? Thanks in advance.

[twrock]

Dante2070, on 09 February 2012 - 02:59 PM, said:

After trying out a few other roms, with the 7.2 being the latest, I decided to return to this one, since it has proven to be the fastest, most reliable and stable one. Before reflashing it, I'd like to know what swap size you recomend when having a linux swap partition of 96 mb? According to your post I'm guessing 10 would be a good number (32mb - 30, more mb - less swap?). Also, how do I set it in TE? Thanks in advance.

I've never had a swap partition that large. Since the default swappiness is set in the boot.img to 15, you might just leave it there for a while and see what happens. If you don't experience lag, don't change it. You can of course use A2sdGUI to set that as well. But in TE:

su
a2sd swappy15

where the number is the level of swappiness you want.

[Dante2070]

Thanks!

Edited by Dante2070, 10 February 2012 - 03:06 PM.

[Dante2070]

It seems that 10 runs a bit better than 15. Will I have to re-enter the swapiness every time I reboot, or is a2sd  swappy permanent? Also, what is the command to check swappy?

Edited by Dante2070, 10 February 2012 - 03:07 PM.

[twrock]

No you don't have to reenter it each boot. The command is: cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
A2sd gui will also display that setting.

[twrock]

D-D-, on 02 February 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

Well I have some nand backups from before. Even if I change the system sizes and transfer almost everything to dataext and have even more than enough free space in sys, it wouldn't nand restore to different partition layout (for having more data for example).
I have my fav 2.1 rom installed and settled for my needs, but I can only restore it if I'm on TmoHU update (after the I update it with the second dload. It wouldn't work with the first one only).
I only get bootlops (t-mo/huawei screen, android and reboots).

I just remembered something about restoring to a different "base rom update". Did you try to do an Advanced Restore, and restore only the necessary partitions, one at a time? This has worked for me.

Edited by twrock, 11 February 2012 - 04:00 AM.

[D-D-]

Ok. I'll give it a go.
But what do you mean by "only necesssery?

[twrock]

D-D-, on 11 February 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

Ok. I'll give it a go.
But what do you mean by "only necesssery?

I haven't done it in a while, so I can't remember what shows up. I'm hoping as you look at the list, if there is something not to restore, it will be apparent. Sorry, but it has been a really long time since I did it, and I think my purpose was to only restore /boot and /system, and end up with a "clean" system. I think your purpose is quite different, so you will be restoring much more.

[pedrojaime]

Hey guys I'm back to my favourite ROM (FTB) again..  After tweaking and using 7.2 for a few weeks I consistently noticed:
-Without 3G I was getting stellar battery life with 18-20% battery discharge over 24 hours.
-With 3G enabled all day, the battery went down very fast (by about 60-80%) by the end of the day

For this reason and general speed, stability and 'lightness' (the dialer always responds faster on FTB no matter what), I am back to FTB.  To be honest, apart from the eye candy and extra Cyanogen tweak settings, there is nothing really that  stands out  on 7.2 that I cannot do on FTB, just my 2 cents..

If anything, I wish the remaining battery percentage number could be displayed in the status bar in FTB, that's all and its not a dire situation since there are app that can do that available on Market.

Hope it helps anyone looking to make a decision

@twrock: I ready that U8220-6 device was different to the bog standard U8220 but I don't see it.  I don't have the extra RAM model that people write about, only 104Mb

Your included app 'Android System Info' tells me i have:
-ARMv6 compatible processor rev 2
-QCT SURF7201A Board
-160dpi screen


Peter

[twrock]

pedrojaime, on 15 February 2012 - 03:54 PM, said:

Hey guys I'm back to my favourite ROM (FTB) again..  After tweaking and using 7.2 for a few weeks I consistently noticed:
-Without 3G I was getting stellar battery life with 18-20% battery discharge over 24 hours.
-With 3G enabled all day, the battery went down very fast (by about 60-80%) by the end of the day

For this reason and general speed, stability and 'lightness' (the dialer always responds faster on FTB no matter what), I am back to FTB.  To be honest, apart from the eye candy and extra Cyanogen tweak settings, there is nothing really that  stands out  on 7.2 that I cannot do on FTB, just my 2 cents..

If anything, I wish the remaining battery percentage number could be displayed in the status bar in FTB, that's all and its not a dire situation since there are app that can do that available on Market.

Hope it helps anyone looking to make a decision

@twrock: I ready that U8220-6 device was different to the bog standard U8220 but I don't see it.  I don't have the extra RAM model that people write about, only 104Mb

Your included app 'Android System Info' tells me i have:
-ARMv6 compatible processor rev 2
-QCT SURF7201A Board
-160dpi screen


Peter

Regarding the battery number, IIRC, there might be some searching you can do in this forum on themes for 2.1 that included this functionality. It's been so long that I really don't remember, but I'm just "feeling" like there was something.

I thought the U8220-6 needed to have its own official rom flashed as the base (vs. Tre, UK Pulse, etc.) or the radio would not work properly. Is that not the case?

I don't doubt I'll be back to FTB after I'm done testing dr.flo's "clean" CM6.1 stable. I will probably make that the basis for the next TXG update, and I want to use it long enough to make sure there isn't some major problem with it. And even though CM6.1 is rock stable (no fc's), the FTB battery life is just too good to give up.

Edited by twrock, 16 February 2012 - 01:32 AM.

[pedrojaime]

I agree with you about battery life, not to mention the stability there is in FTB!  I have had issues with 3G not working which is why i was always of the understanding that Venezuela Movilnet has to be flashed first before installing any other ROM.  Do you know of any U8220-6-specific ROMs out there?  i would be interested to test to see what happens with the radio.

Thanks for all your help as always!

Peter

[Dante2070]

I just noticed that I can't play youtube videos videos with the youtube app. I don't think I had that problem with this rom before, bui I'm not sure if I ever tried it out. Any ideas?