Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

It doesn't actually charge faster, the system just thinks it's charging faster... battery code isn't so mature... Probably could use a lot of love.

Oh and task killers aren't a good idea - but occasionally I've had to kill apps before. It's rare.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

I like task killers because I see tasks just auto launching in background, seems like i close them via task manager, check again in half hour and they are back up again and i didn't reopen them :S

can't uninstall app because I use it, I just dont want them running on their own without me launching them

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

This is why task killers are a BAD idea. If the app is setup as a service, it WILL relaunch automatically.

See my speed improvements thread, and look at the "pm disable" section. This will disable the service, but still allow you to use the app. Saves battery life and improves performance.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

hm I looked at it the last time you pointed it to me, I had trouble telling if the script was working but you said it was if i did it right lol

I didn't see the pm section, I'll look it over again, more than likely I'll need help getting it to work :(

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Read. Then re-read. Then re-re-read. Try. Then re-try. Then re-re-try. Then start back at reading again.

If you're still stuck, then ask for help. If you haven't read and re-read and tried/re-tried at least 5x, then you haven't read/tried enough on your own :p.

A lot of this stuff didn't just 'come to me'. It was through a lot of hard work and loooong nights...

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

hm "sounds" easy enough to do... but what is this shell that you mention?

where do I type in the pm disable string?

edit: i guess it's adb, I'm watchign your video on setting it up lol
ok i got it working i think... how do i verified it worked? I saw the killed statement on the adb shell but now what?

edit: don't know if you use this or have something like it when going through the logs, but i found it rather helpful right now http://www.musetips.com/text-filter.html just open the data.txt with it and filter in the for broadcast, it shows you every line with it in it. Made finding each occurance a lot easier just now. I use this program when i need to sort large files like this

result? I'm not sure if it is working, some of them seem to keep coming back, I'll disable it and wait a few minutes, get new log and it's back on logs

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Please don't clutter this thread with questions that belong in the speed improvements thread.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Sorry I should have been more specific. Yes. I have the sprint tp2 RHOD400.

Well, the good news is that it worked this time. I don't know why it was acting up before. :dontknow: I guess 3rd time is the charm.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Now that I'm learning to play with adb, I also got droid explorer working. I don't know who but I remember someone saying that it wasn't working. I don't see the icon in windows, but droid explorer works fine for me.

>.> think i messed up a pm disable though, the sound controls dont work now, it stays at 100% regardless of what I set volume too lol. I can pull this log if you think it's helpful but since I think it's just from the pm disables, I don't think it'd help you debug anything aside from my lack of adb skills

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

arrrghhh, I got the physical kb fixed, I disabled everything under "Keyboard and Input", thanks for your help.

However, my battery life is only 2 hours on full charge without any useage; this is killing me; I have all data turned off; any suggestion? Thanks!

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Go thru what you disabled... I hope you wrote it down or somehow kept track of it.

If you didn't, then you might have to start over. I completely hosed it the first time and disabled way too much, and of course didn't document it. I hope you backed up your data.img! I at least did that, so reverting was easy :p.

Cool.

As for battery life, without any usage!?!? Do you have GPS on? That shouldn't kill sleep anymore, but perhaps it is for you? I'm not sure what would cause such horrible battery life - my battery is by no means new, and I usually get 10 hours with very little usage. 5-6 with moderate usage.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

GPS is off.. I really need to get this battery issue fixed.. on WM, i get all day..

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

For the physical kb, when I type (i.e. "i", "n", etc) I get a pop up with suggestions; how do i turn that thing off, it's annoying and waits for me to press back-key.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Have you tried any different kernels? Last I checked .39 produced very good battery life results.

Other than that, I guess try to reduce the number of apps that are syncing constantly, and turn off data when not in use.

This happens when you hold the button. I've had it pop up a few times, just hit the X button. I don't think there's a way to disable it without hacking userland - it's an Android feature.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

One other thing, I made a call to cell from another phone, it takes a while for the incoming call to show up on the TP2, is this a known issue? Thankx

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

To say it's well known is an understatement.

Seems to be a uniquely CDMA problem. No foreseeable solution, considering the guy who rewrote the RIL did so for CDMA completely blind.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

what does the error, Android.process.Acore unexpectedly stopped working mean?
it only gives me a force close option and the message box shows up shortly again after i tell it to force close. i did some searching on the interwebs and found that many people that run into this error have edited the contacts and the screen resolution or something of the sort. for the people with regular android phones they can reset the phone or delete the last few apps that were downloaded, but i havent used my phone for anything in the last 48 hours except a few calls. so do i need to format my sd card and start all over from the begining.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Nah, this issue is a confusing one. I believe it's due to permissions getting hosed (or some other data.img corruption? Usually from a bad/sudden shutdown).

You can either try and do the fix_permissions.sh script from Cyanogen, or just create a new data.img.

This is basically starting from square one tho - so make sure you have a backup of your apps/data.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

ok thank you and by chance how do i prevent this from happening again

and you are right i did have an issue with the screen not coming back on so i popped the battery out and this would have caused this as what you said, but the only reason i did it was because the screen wont unlock when the battery gets really hot, so how do i fix this? if there is a fix

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Well patience is always a virtue when using this project. I always make DAMNED sure the phone is truly dead - try hitting power many, many times (but not all in a row!). Wait. Try swiping where the unlock "should" be after hitting power. Try plugging in USB, see if you can get into adb... etc.

Not really a fix for SoD's, we just need to figure out why they happen and write better code :D.

As for prevention, I think you know - the less sudden shutoffs, the better. I'm also considering doing some guides on how to make dedicated partitions and use ext4 - supposedly it helps with issues like this. Journaled FS on a SD card seems dumb, but a lot of people said it helps.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

alright got it figured out when the soD happens its only when the battery gets super hot and i think you know that, but today it happened without getting hot so i thought the battery was dead and it was according to wm but not to android i understand i just stated the obvious but if it was dead it still should have booted into wm from a complete shut off right?

and i though i would post this just for kicks, i have about 3 or 4 touch pro's and one of them magicly dissapeared for about 2 weeks or so and las tnight i found and i noticed a peculair thing. the back battery cover was a bit rounded so i took it off re conected the battery and put the cover on and it was the same so i took it off again and to my luck in the time the phone was missing the battery dicharged completely thus balloning it was the excess gas so now i need a new battery

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

What is this, I don't even...

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/7648/contextw.png

Edited for ppcgeeks:toothy10:

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

I see that there are several versions of Android build, is GBX0B the best and latest for TP2? Thanks!

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Uhm. What?

This build is still in testing. You can run it if you wish, but it assumes you know a thing or two about troubleshooting and that you can pull logs if something explodes.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

hm i noticed something a bit odd after remaking the data.img to fix the pm disable problem. After recreating it, none of the pm items came back :S I don't know if the settings get written to somewhere else but the problem went away, but when i pulled logs to find pm things to disable again, none of them came back :S

I can give you logs but they show nothing in them that I could find on pm items :S Just commenting/asking if they were written somewhere else. I deleted the android/data folder for the settings as well and replaced the data.img but the rest were untouched

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Well, the data.img is where the items are saved... so if you recreate the data.img, you'll have to redo it all.

Obviously this has to be done after you've restored all the apps you use. It would be useless to attempt it before you installed any apps.

I found some app to help with pm disable, but I forgot that name of it.

Again this should be in the speed improvements thread - not in this thread. Let's not clutter this thread with stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with the build.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

I was wondering if there was something like ##786# EPST.exe where I can access the phone's info in GBX0B.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

you mean something like *#*#INFO#*#*?

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Similar. I was wanting to see total life calls, life timer, and referb status. I can get that on the windows side w/ ##786#, but I was curious if there was a way to see that on the android side.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

I don't think our phones incorporate that. If you note, native HTC devices only work on EPST on Sense ROM's. AOSP... usually it doesn't work AFAIK. Perhaps there's something that can be hacked in to make it work - I've never looked to be honest.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

hm i been having white squares on google maps app, wondering if it is just me or is this something other people see as well?

I'm asking since I remade my data.img and not sure if the white squares are caused by me -.- or if it's everyone on this gbx0b, since I didn't get it before on frx07 (if it's new to this build, does it warrant logs, if so how should I get the logs? I mean I know how to get logs, but do I open maps app then get logs or what do I do to make it reproduceble?)

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

It's related to the Google Maps update. IIRC if you roll back, it goes away.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Is there a limit to the number of apps we can put into the auto install directory? I have been seeing some odd behavior. I had several apps in there on the first install. Most installed correctly. Then I removed the ones that didn't and replaced them with others. Some of the ones that originally installed correctly didn't the second time.

-Edit.
Never mind. I found the problem. The auto installer doesn't seem to like spaces in the file names.
Might be a good idea to put a note in that folder saying no spaces in file names. I swapped to underscores and my apps behaved again. :)

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Ah, that's interesting to note. There's probably a tweak to the regular expression that will fix this issue... Or perhaps that's just a Linux thing.

I'll look into it - I never knew why some failed and others didn't - I was never able to recreate a failure, and I never heard much from those that had issues. This makes sense tho. Thanks!

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

When I boot to GBX0B, it stucks at the XDAndorid screen forever (30 mins)... Why and what should I do? Thanks!

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Bad shutdown probably hosed the data.img.

Rename it to data.bak and try booting again. If it works, you'll have to restore all your apps/data.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Sure, but do I have first backup all the apps/data; otherwise, it's a pain the * to get everything back.. I rather do a restore.. Thanks in advance.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Well of course, this assumes you have already backed up all your apps and data in case something does go awry.

You might be too late, sorry. It's always a good idea to have a backup, lest you want to go thru and manually reinstall everything from the Market.

Re: [TESTING] XDAndroid GBX0B 2.3.7 Build
 

Man............... for next time, how do I back up the data/apps...