[ROM][GEN2]CyanogenMod 7 (Android 2.3.7)

[Guest Anil k Solanki]

Hey guys,

N152 - do you still have youtube and other videos playing with grid lines?

I had this waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in N88 and never seen that after until I got on N152! :(

Hi rockstarszzzz, I remember discussing this very same issue with you waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. I have just tried YouTube, and I'm sorry to report I have no issues on N152. :(

I use YouTube often at home on desktops & laptops, so I forget how good the YouTube app on ANDROID actually is.

Sorry I can't help. Anil.

Edited August 5, 2011 by Anil k Solanki

[Guest k0zmic]

Hi rockstarszzzz, I remember discussing this very same issue with you waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. I have just tried YouTube, and I'm sorry to report I have no issues on N152. :(

I use YouTube often at home on desktops & laptops, so I forget how good the YouTube app on ANDROID actually is.

Sorry I can't help. Anil.

Just tested as well. It works fine for me.

The only thing that wouldn't play was a 2 hour and a half hour film but no grid lines.

[Guest ritterkeks]

has anyone else experienced excessive data usage under gingerbread?

it always has been ~20MB /day with only a few google searches,

now its always around ~50MB a day, without any additional data usage other than syncing...

I've already checked that the usage 3g watchdog displays is correct, since my provider states the same on the web interface.

sure, I now have the google+ app installed, which automatically uploads any picture I take to google's servers....

but no pictures - no upload, right?

is there a more advanced way of tweaking google's syncing, other than switching it OFF?

like trading in push for longer battery life... no syncing throughout the night... etc

regards,

ritterkeks

[Guest sej7278]

has anyone else experienced excessive data usage under gingerbread?

i've got a feeling google+ syncs a massive amount of data, also google reader is a nasty piece of work.

best thing is to turn off sync and do it manually in the app, and definitely turn off that g+ photo dropbox thing!

you sure you're not getting market updates or something? i don't think its anything to do with the rom or android version, probably an app or sync setting.

it would be nice to have finer grained control - like sync over wifi only or after 6pm only, or on an app-by-app basis e.g. always sync gmail via 3g but leave google+ until you're on wifi/offpeak.

i don't think any of the issues in your signature are valid anymore, at least not on cm7.

Edited August 5, 2011 by sej7278

[Guest Anil k Solanki]

has anyone else experienced excessive data usage under gingerbread?

it always has been ~20MB /day with only a few google searches,

now its always around ~50MB a day, without any additional data usage other than syncing...

I've already checked that the usage 3g watchdog displays is correct, since my provider states the same on the web interface.

sure, I now have the google+ app installed, which automatically uploads any picture I take to google's servers....

but no pictures - no upload, right?

is there a more advanced way of tweaking google's syncing, other than switching it OFF?

like trading in push for longer battery life... no syncing throughout the night... etc

regards,

ritterkeks

Hi ritterkeks, I am using N152 2.3.5 Gingerbread and I can't say I have noticed any excessive data traffic, everything seems normal. I do use Google+, but admittedly I am not a big user.

I saw in your signature the link about 16 GB cards not allowing flashing of ROM's. I have used a 16 GB SD card from almost day one, and it works absolutely fine, I have flashed many different ROM's from this card, Gen 1 & Gen 2. This is the card I use. eBay link

Anil.

Edited August 6, 2011 by Anil k Solanki

[Guest little pea]

Hi there please can use help?

My problem is that ive been usin cm7 for a while now and ive tried all the other roms and they where all good but i like how detailed cm7 is, for example all the neat extra settings i can use hehe

but thers 1 problem i left my blade on at 92% battery last nite and when i woke up it was on 77% i checked spare parts and the partial wake usage and it seem that android system (like accounts and sync etc etc) was on for 8hours And 23 minutes but i have nothing syncing or any apps running in background wifi and mobile data disableld aswell ive never had this before i barley lost 1% at times.

i was on 152 nightly and ive just switched back to 151 any help wud be great and thank you to all the developers use are all doing a brilliant job

P.s sorry about my writeing its not 1 of my strong points lol

Regards little pea

Edited August 6, 2011 by little pea

[Guest Anil k Solanki]

but thers 1 problem i left my blade on at 92% battery last nite and when i woke up it was on 77% i checked spare parts and the partial wake usage and it seem that android system (like accounts and sync etc etc) was on for 8hours And 23 minutes but i have nothing syncing or any apps running in background wifi and mobile data disableld aswell ive never had this before i barley lost 1% at times.

i was on 152 nightly and ive just switched back to 151 any help wud be great and thank you to all the developers use are all doing a brilliant job

Regards little pea

Hi little pea, you lost 15% over 8 hours. Using that metric, you would get 52 hours in standby. That is a pretty good figure.

I suggest starting by calibrating your battery stats. Use this app, charge the battery to 100%. Once it's completed reboot, and launch the battery app again, charge for another 2 hours, now hit the calibrate battery button in the app, not before.

Now comes the part I find most users simply don't do, the above procedure set's the 100% mark, now you have to set the 0% mark. This can be done easily, but the choice is yours. Simply keep using the handset until it turns itself off. On the way to 0% you will get two ANDROID warnings, one at 15%, and one at 5%, ignore these and continue using the phone until it goes dead. Or play a movie on loop, you decide.

You're done! Well, almost. Now charge your phone to 100% using the power adapter, not a USB port. Try this and see if your battery life doesn't improve. Just bear in mind, flashing a different ROM may mean you need to do the above procedure again. Cyanogen updates will be OK, (unless they change the Kernel).

I hope this helps. Anil.

[Guest CaptainSpectacular]

Same problem here, with n149. I didn't have ant battery drain issue since a long time. But since I've changed my battery wall charger, my battery fall very fast. I go to sleep with 68% and wake up with 49%.

This never happened to me before, my n142+ didn't drain battery at all, only if I use the phone. My new charger is 1000 mA, don't know if it's the problem...

I'll try to calibrate my battery again.

[Guest little pea]

Cheers anil nice1 :-)

So 52 hours is good for cm7 just to clarify?

[Guest targetbsp]

Have you tried putting it in airplane overnight? For me it'll use no more than 1% in that state. If yours uses more then you probably have something running that's not letting it be as battery efficient as it could be.

[Guest CaptainSpectacular]

Actually I can wake up my phone with Home, Menu and Back button. Don't know if it's a n149 feature ? When I can do that before, it's when an app is running.

So if I can wake up my phone with these buttons, so an app is running, but I don't know this app...

[Guest targetbsp]

Actually I can wake up my phone with Home, Menu and Back button. Don't know if it's a n149 feature ? When I can do that before, it's when an app is running.

So if I can wake up my phone with these buttons, so an app is running, but I don't know this app...

Spare Parts should tell you

[Guest Anil k Solanki]

Actually I can wake up my phone with Home, Menu and Back button. Don't know if it's a n149 feature ? When I can do that before, it's when an app is running.

So if I can wake up my phone with these buttons, so an app is running, but I don't know this app...

Hi CaptainSpectacular, waking up from other than the power button isn't a feature of Cyanogen. It's a glitch that's been mentioned many times before, so you're not alone. A reboot seems to fix the glitch.

Anil.

[Guest samjam]

a lot of the problem is probably that most of us on this thread have been here since it was under 300 pages lol.

for newcomers its too daunting, and could really do with being closed, the main points summarised and a new thread opened. of course going through it finding the helpful points would be an admin nightmare.

i guess if we took 10 pages each, we could work through it, but...... that said its a lot easier to find useful info here than on xda :D

It's been noted before that the model of the forum is wrong. Each forum and each thread needs a set of wiki pages where canonical information can be gathered, to which the forum becomes a discussion and a place where the information is gathered from.

The first few posts in a thread are often "reserved" in an attempt to do this but it depends on the original poster always updating them, who may have lost interest by then.

There is a separate wiki but it is not integrated with the forums.

[Guest targetbsp]

I think that makes the difference between those that think CM7 is good and those that don't. There have been good and bad builds of it. Various bad ones have been modifiable to be good. Those who follow this thread daily can keep on top of it and know what versions and patches to run and which to simply avoid. But you need the time to be able to do that! Having that time myself, I actually provide the condensed news from here onto another forum I frequent, advising them of the good versions and stuff lol.

[Guest little pea]

@targetbsp so which nightlhes or wateva wud recomend

i love cm7 n battery life varies to each user upon ow they use it me maself i dont sync or anything lyk that and i forgot about airplame mode lol

[Guest targetbsp]

I haven't had any issue with most of the new kernel ones. N135 had it's problems for unknown reasons, but everything else lately seems to have been fine. I'm currently running yesterdays 152. I'm on 75% after 20 hours and that included a little gaming last night.

[Guest Anil k Solanki]

It's been noted before that the model of the forum is wrong. Each forum and each thread needs a set of wiki pages where canonical information can be gathered, to which the forum becomes a discussion and a place where the information is gathered from.

The first few posts in a thread are often "reserved" in an attempt to do this but it depends on the original poster always updating them, who may have lost interest by then.

There is a separate wiki but it is not integrated with the forums.

Hi samjam, your suggestions are exactly what is needed. Other users in this thread have also mentioned the need for similar changes. Unfortunately the site is/has recently undergone major changes, so these great suggestions are unlikely to be taken up. Shame.

Anil.

[Guest Pelemanne]

On n152 using Tasker v1.0.21u with no problem, when updating to new v1.1 Tasker is not recognized by Superuser and is failing to get root privileges.

Anyone else having this problem?

[Guest Amphoras]

i've got a feeling google+ syncs a massive amount of data, also google reader is a nasty piece of work.

best thing is to turn off sync and do it manually in the app, and definitely turn off that g+ photo dropbox thing!

you sure you're not getting market updates or something? i don't think its anything to do with the rom or android version, probably an app or sync setting.

it would be nice to have finer grained control - like sync over wifi only or after 6pm only, or on an app-by-app basis e.g. always sync gmail via 3g but leave google+ until you're on wifi/offpeak.

i don't think any of the issues in your signature are valid anymore, at least not on cm7.

You could try using an app like AutomateIt to do some of that. You could use it to enable sync at certain times only at least, maybe some of the others as well. There's a free version and pro version that lets you do extra stuff as well (dunno if the pro version is any good or not, only have the free one).

[Guest lol looool]

N152: 10minutes 21 seconds using wifi (with 64 dBm) & Dolphin HD , battery deceases -12%

------------------- Battery Stats ------------------

Wifi ------------ 68%

Screen -------- 24 %

Dolphin Browser -- 1%

Android system --- 1%

:huh: What's happened with wifi driver? n148 runs better

[Guest targetbsp]

On n152 using Tasker v1.0.21u with no problem, when updating to new v1.1 Tasker is not recognized by Superuser and is failing to get root privileges.

Anyone else having this problem?

Works fine for me. Same Tasker update and same CM7 version. :S

[Guest Pelemanne]

Works fine for me. Same Tasker update and same CM7 version. :S

Made a fresh install of n152 and tasker v.1.1, tasker not recognized by superuser --> no root privileges.

Bug in tasker v.1.1 ? Previous versionv1.0.21u2 works fine.

Edited August 6, 2011 by Pelemanne

[Guest targetbsp]

Made a fresh install of n152 and tasker v.1.1, tasker not recognized by superuser --> no root privileges.

Bug in tasker v.1.1 ? Previous versionv1.0.21u2 works fine.

Actually... my tasker has never used root. Which might be why it works! What are you doing with it to need root? (so I can test)

[Guest Pelemanne]

Actually... my tasker has never used root. Which might be why it works! What are you doing with it to need root? (so I can test)

I'm controlling for example my batery usage and optimum performance by controlling cpu frequencies (http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1018245)

overclocking up to 748 when display on. You'll test by downloading profiles from xda-developers and try for "CPU_InteractiveManual" (change first the minimum freq. suitable for Blade. First for sure 600 MHz).

Tasker should require root(superuser promts) when you test it.

Edited August 6, 2011 by Pelemanne