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[Reider59]

I had this phone 7 months and then started losing power, reinstalled FnC 6 (my fave) and ran loads of tests.  Got a replacement battery for £10 and was happy again a few months.  I always always got good power retension up until changing the battery and then after fitting the new one, up until it started again.  I put the Micro SD and the 02 card in another non Android phone and decided to use that until I had enough for a new phone.  I decided against another new battery, but really hated the fact that I could no longer use this phone, I love it to bits.

The non Android phone went flat overnight and was turned off when I awoke, yet it started with 100% power and I knew this phone normally lasted 5 days+.  Straight away I suspected one of the cards, 02 or Micro SD.  It turned out it was the Micro SD Card, so I copied the contents, formatted the card in the phone, replaced the contents, started the phone and ran Titanium Backup.  Overnight the phone only lost 1% where normally even when I was happy with the power usage it lost 8% overnight.  Two days in with slight use I still have 80% power left and I am well happy at this and the prospect of continuing to use the phone I love to bits.  The Micro SD Card is a cheap 16gig Adata one and though a more expensive one may have helped people will fit their purchases to their budget.  So this is a post to inform others that it's not always the end of the world with power issues and it's not always the most obvious of causes and/or replacements.

Just a FYI and hope it helps someone......

Steve

[lohtse]

Hmmm that's useful too know as having battery issues! So will swap sdcard to see results

.anyone know why sd can drain battery?

[omegavesko]

lohtse, on 26 February 2013 - 07:24 PM, said:

Hmmm that's useful too know as having battery issues! So will swap sdcard to see results

.anyone know why sd can drain battery?

It's certainly interesting, but I have no idea. It could be some error that causes continuous I/O operations to occur (resulting in wakelocks and bad battery life), but I've never seen this happen before.

[snowbord]

Hey.  I've been out of the loop for a bit and have been given a TMV to reinstall.

What is the best / most stable ROM?  RLS 6?  Any hacks needed to reinstall the original Music app / flash the kernel / fix front facing camera etc?  Also fixing the gray checkboxes with the original ones?

I need to have a solid release with no battery drain or not working bits.  Thanks!

[dodgetimmy]

The only reason to install stock music app is for Bluetooth to work, otherwise release 7 is great.

http://www.modaco.co...NC-RLS8-[2.3.5]Release 8 is also good (it comes with original music app so Bluetooth works out of the box).

My camera isn't upside down and there and there are kernels built into different roms already, even if you need to flash it's easy, just done the same as the rom.

Edited by dodgetimmy, 31 March 2013 - 11:44 AM.

[momist]

dodgetimmy, on 31 March 2013 - 11:39 AM, said:

http://www.modaco.co...NC-RLS8-[2.3.5]Release 8 is also good (it comes with original music app so Bluetooth works out of the box).

Hi,  I just looked at that link, and it says RLS8 is for SF2 only.  Is that right?  Thanks.

[gbosh]

You could always flash the TMV OC kernel on stock based roms. that should make it work on the TMV

[dodgetimmy]

Yup don't be scared about flashing a kernel, it really is as easy as flashing the Rom itself:)

[snowbord]

Ok - installed RLS7, changed the camera app to stock from stock ROM - front camera working normally.  Changed Music2 to Music.  Installed the tick patch and the Nemus launcher patch.

All seems to be good.  I am unable to find the ROM menu however to tweak the notification power widget and do a proximity reset.  Am I missing something?  Also, is it normal for the CRT off and landscape <=> portrait animations to be disabled?

Edited by snowbord, 31 March 2013 - 11:11 PM.

[dodgetimmy]

There's no menu to configure as far as I am aware.

Everything else sounds good. I have never seen the crt animation when turning off unless I have the inspirate visual mod installed.

Never seen landscape portrait animations at all.

[jones1901]

Hi all.  I've had a San Francisco II with Fish&Chips for a good few months now.  Last week I switched it off, but when I switched it on again it goes as far as the FnC logo with the ball going around the fish's outline, and stays that way, apart from occasionally going blank for half a second.

Is there anything I can do?  I don't know a great deal about this stuff.  I got an electronics degree 20 years ago so I know just enough to be dangerous.

Thanks, raverr and  n4y4nrules and the rest of you.

VJ.

[dodgetimmy]

jones1901, on 16 April 2013 - 06:58 PM, said:

Hi all.  I've had a San Francisco II with Fish&Chips for a good few months now.  Last week I switched it off, but when I switched it on again it goes as far as the FnC logo with the ball going around the fish's outline, and stays that way, apart from occasionally going blank for half a second.

Is there anything I can do?  I don't know a great deal about this stuff.  I got an electronics degree 20 years ago so I know just enough to be dangerous.

Thanks, raverr and  n4y4nrules and the rest of you.

VJ.

Take the battery out to turn it off, then while turning back on hold the down side button.

You should enter cwm recovery where you can first try wiping "dalvik cache"in advance, or if that doesn't work, try a factory reset. If they fail it's a matter of installing a Rom again. Just the same as you did before.

[Prince iqbal]

love this Rom using since last year without any problem

Edited by Prince iqbal, 01 May 2013 - 12:24 AM.