CM7 Nightly Discussion Thread [Old, please use new thread]

[Guest Rotmann]

2. Battery drain - don't ask me why, but setting WiFi to never sleep has drastically improved my standby time. Yesterday on N11 I only lost c5% between 0700 and midday, same the day before on N8 - this is with light use, ie the odd email check and text message, couple of calls.

Was wifi active all the time? Or did you set wifi to never sleep and then disabled it? I use mostly HSDPA for data and barely WiFi, that's why I ask.

[Guest Tobriand]

2. Battery drain - don't ask me why, but setting WiFi to never sleep has drastically improved my standby time. Yesterday on N11 I only lost c5% between 0700 and midday, same the day before on N8 - this is with light use, ie the odd email check and text message, couple of calls.

Maybe it's something as simple as someone getting a minus sign the wrong way round, then? E.g. lets say WiFi has states which are coded in numbers from 1 to 4, corresponding to the radio transmission power.

If those correspondences are non-intuitive - e.g. if 1 means most power and 4 means least - then it seems possible that it's simply being set to the wrong level, and when it goes into standby, it starts transmitting harder than ever.

Also, from another device (I own a Pandora handheld, which has had a number of WiFi issues), polling for WiFi can be WAAAAAAY more intensive on the battery than staying connected to a network, at least on some WiFi chips. Specifically, on Pandora, battery drain equates to 5 hours of life with WiFi on, but not connected, and about 8 hours with it connected - even if usage otherwise remains entirely unchanged. Could something similar be having an impact here? E.g. instead of sleeping, WiFi just disconnects and then starts polling networks like crazy, only entering the lower power connected state once it's marked as awake. Conversely, if it never tries to sleep, it only polls when it's explicitly disconnected.

This behaviour could be tested by someone with two blades to spare (if anyone like that is reading this thread and fancies giving it a go): Install CM7 on each, connect one to a nearby network, and leave the other with WiFi turned on but disconnected. Set both in sleep mode (initially without setting WiFi to never sleep). Check rates of battery drain. Repeat wth never sleep turned on. If the phone without networks configured doesn't change battery drain rate, but the other does, then this might be a factor.

Just some thoughts by someone who's waiting for a few more issues to be solved before trying CM7 properly...

[Guest Maz2011]

I have my wifi set to "never sleep" but it still disconnects the second the device goes to sleep, and doesnt connect until I wake it back up again.

My battery empties very fast and I get occasional touchscreen freezes.

My screen stays black after a call and I have to keep pushing the on/off button to get it back again.

The camera colour is all washed-out on the nightly 11.

I shall try 12 now.

[Guest timsewell]

Was wifi active all the time? Or did you set wifi to never sleep and then disabled it? I use mostly HSDPA for data and barely WiFi, that's why I ask.

Set to never sleep and left enabled. End button behaviour set to sleep and mostly leave phone on 2G, BTW.

Moving on, I just flashed N12 and maybe it's subjective, but it feels slightly snappier, most noticeably keyboard response, which seemed a little laggy on the previous nightlies.

Edited March 3, 2011 by timsewell

[Guest alex1alex2alex3alex4]

2. Battery drain - don't ask me why, but setting WiFi to never sleep has drastically improved my standby time. Yesterday on N11 I only lost c5% between 0700 and midday, same the day before on N8 - this is with light use, ie the odd email check and text message, couple of calls.

Pardon my ignorance, where would you set WiFi to never sleep ?

[Guest timsewell]

Pardon my ignorance, where would you set WiFi to never sleep ?

Settings/Wireless & Networks / Wi-Fi Settings - press Menu button for advanced.

[Guest timsewell]

The camera colour is all washed-out on the nightly 11.

I shall try 12 now.

Stills camera v. washed out in N12, even with saturation set to highest level. Funnily enough video camera mode fully saturated.

Edited March 3, 2011 by timsewell

[Guest alex1alex2alex3alex4]

Settings/Wireless & Networks / Wi-Fi Settings - press Menu button for advanced.

Oh well, I've been in WiFi Settings, of course, but I guess this was about the only place

where I did NOT hit the menu key ...

Thanks !

[Guest Rotmann]

Oh well, I've been in WiFi Settings, of course, but I guess this was about the only place

where I did NOT hit the menu key ...

Thanks !

No wonder you did not find it, I mean WHO CAN find it without knowing of it? Android riddle menus :huh: Anyway, it seems N12 is no reason to upgrade.

[Guest t0mm13b]

Ok, as of now, flashed CM7 nightly 11

A couple of observations:

• Battery fully charged
  
• Delay of 250 put into /data/delay
  
• Car Home is installed (that was bundled in already!)
  
• Did not install optional google apps...
  
• Replaced ADW Launcher, with ADW Ex
  
• Restored contacts/sync
  
• Installed DroidWall
  

Now, the handset is in Airplane mode.... will check later on how it goes in that regard.

Noticed a new status bar tweak option...

Will post update later on. :(

From the time stamp of the above post to now....

Ok, re-activated the handset by switching off airplane mode, battery now at 60%!!!! :( not good...

Edited March 3, 2011 by t0mm13b

[Guest galorin]

Just downloaded and flashed it. Can we get a mirror for the Google Apps link in the first post? android.d3xt3r01.tk is resolving, but timing out, can't download the apps.

Proximity sensor/screen wake thing is a bit of a problem, even when on power, but I noticed loads of ShouldBeFixed things that should come with the next nightly. Had just flashed it when wife called, no time to tinker.

[Guest skull_fcuk]

Do you get any delay before the screen comes back on after a call or is it completely normal? Mine takes about 15s which is a pain if you have to use the keypad during a call.

Yes I've had the same problem since nightly 11 connecting to a WPA enterprise network (PEAP, MSCHAPv2). It connects without trouble the first time, but won't reconnect unless you forget and reapply the settings. I'm going to do a full wipe and try again before adding a report.

Apeman, my screen comes straight back, just as it always has. There is maybe a 0.5 second delay, but it's certainly not 15secs as in your case :( I do a full wipe of everything before installing new nightlies, and only restore Apps using Titanium Backup Free version.

[Guest Chris_M]

No blade specific changes for 10 days in the change log at https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_devi...its/gingerbread

:(

So why don't you fix some defects and submit the changes?

It's not all take take take.....

[Guest viggee64]

my "car home" app is broken in cm7? anyone else experiencing that?

it's like that since N8

[Guest Rotmann]

my "car home" app is broken in cm7? anyone else experiencing that?

it's like that since N8

It's like that since RC1. Delete it and install it from market, it will work, it's not a priority though, with the crazy idle battery drain.

[Guest BigD18t]

Flashed n12 over n11 with just wiping cache, Wifi has been on all morning, and including the flash since 7.30 ive lost 15% which is much better than n11 for me.

[Guest realkeule]

stupid question:

i see only 2 installed apps in market app.

but i have some more...if i search in market for an installed app, the app is shown as already installed.

any hints to fix it?

sry4 bad english :(

Edited March 3, 2011 by realkeule

[Guest DonJamal]

proximity doesnt work... i guess im gonna get back 2 jjrls9

anyway its good but the proximity makes me angry

Edited March 3, 2011 by DonJamal

[Guest ufoman]

Flashed n12 over n11 with just wiping cache, Wifi has been on all morning, and including the flash since 7.30 ive lost 15% which is much better than n11 for me.

Most likely the cache wipe has helped you - md5 sums of N11 and N12 differ, but the size of both is almost identical...

Edited March 3, 2011 by ufoman

[Guest shakerist]

I have a magicsim dual sim adapter and sim tool kit wont change to sim 2 it just has a loading thing on the top right hand corner, it occasionally did this on 2.2 but kill stk with a task manager and try again it would work this is not working at all help me

[Guest viggee64]

It's like that since RC1. Delete it and install it from market, it will work, it's not a priority though, with the crazy idle battery drain.

okay thanks. couldn't find it on the market but the apks from xda worked: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928697

[Guest Victor von Zeppelin]

Guys, the proximity sensor does work, and if you put "mot.proximity.delay=150" into the build.prop file, it;ll speed up magnificently. It's all on the first page

[Guest Rotmann]

stupid question:

i see only 2 installed apps in market app.

but i have some more...if i search in market for an installed app, the app is shown as already installed.

any hints to fix it?

sry4 bad english :(

Do you have some ext apps2sd? If you don't explain your phone configuration how do you want people to help you?

proximity doesnt work... i guess im gonna get back 2 jjrls9

anyway its good but the proximity makes me angry

Try the build.prop mod.

okay thanks. couldn't find it on the market but the apks from xda worked: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928697

You're welcome, you can also extract the apk from any froyo ROM and install it.

[Guest Zythus]

Guys, how to set my home screen to turn horizontal? Market is normally turning, home screen not

But - the Mod is great! Great job guys! Everything works for me :( only that home screen

[Guest grmn]

Guys, the proximity sensor does work, and if you put "mot.proximity.delay=150" into the build.prop file, it;ll speed up magnificently. It's all on the first page

Didn't Tom G say that this setting only works for motorola phones?