(FINAL) ROM 3-24-10 Twisted Goodsense Two Sense 2.5 with landscape build 21895

[DWhite456]

I love this rom but my battery drains SO fast. It is crazy how fast it drains. Talk time is about 1.5 hours tops and that is with the phone plugged in trying to charge as I talk. The phone heats up like an oven. My phone will go from 100% to 40% in a matter of a 3 hours when idle. Any ideas what I can do as I love this rom but need something longer lasting. I just changed to a different radio to see if that helps any?

[rev800x]

My battery does that no matter what ROM I use, even stock. Can only get about 5-8 hours out of it, depending on how much I talk on it.

[twisteddan]

Originally Posted by hotwired34

Twisted,
You know what else I noticed, I think there are a few icons missing from the task bar. The ones that I notice are the headphones icon and the bluetooth icon. I had my bluetooth active for over a week and didn't notice it because I was used to seeing the icon. Do you think you could add them back in?

Also, on the games, if you want...I could cab them up. I had developed a few in-house applications for my job and they got me a copy of WinCE Cab Manager.

Thanks again.

This is a link to tsowens taskbars http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512971 at xda developers (very good stuff). You will have to do a little reading and research. But there is some very useful info there.

Next release I may try to switch the Icons out for a different set. See if that helps.

Thanks for the offer to help. I have the games cabbed already I will just zip them up and that way everyone can choose what to install. Make sure that if you see noobynoob that you thank him for the games. He is the one that gave me all of the ones that I have loaded into the ROM. Before he bought a TP2 and had to leave.

Originally Posted by rev800x

I'm having absolutely no issues with the current ROM. I'm just leave as is as long as it keeps working like it is. I've never had this much good luck with a ROM! If ain't broke, don't fix it!

That is great news. Like I've said before feel free to stick with it if you have it set up how you want.

Originally Posted by krautdog

Good heavens I love this ROM, but at the same time I am excited for the new one. I think it's just that I love fiddling with my phone - that probably applies to all of us. I can't think of another reason I would bother flashing a new one with this one already loaded and doing great. As was recently said, this has me in love with my TP like never before. I had to do something to keep myself from buying the TP2, as I am totally strapped, and this was the perfect fix...sooo grateful.

Yeah I'm sure we all know what it is like being strapped right now...We would probably all own TP2s!!!!

You are welcome.

Originally Posted by baldag

Thanks, Dan!

I have to agree, Opera 10 is cool, but it doesn't reformat the text very well on a couple of text news sites I read daily, making them difficult to parse. The build of 9.7 you cooked in seems to be the only version that works well. Maybe I'll have to find another source for news....

Yeah I'm having a difficult time with making it the default anyway. I may consider making a link to download Opera 10. Because it will become the default browser once you install it anyway. It may save me a ton of hassle.

Originally Posted by DWhite456

I love this rom but my battery drains SO fast. It is crazy how fast it drains. Talk time is about 1.5 hours tops and that is with the phone plugged in trying to charge as I talk. The phone heats up like an oven. My phone will go from 100% to 40% in a matter of a 3 hours when idle. Any ideas what I can do as I love this rom but need something longer lasting. I just changed to a different radio to see if that helps any?

I'm being very serious when I tell you this.........I'm not dogging you or your phone. But, if your battery......with this ROM is dropping 60% in 3 hours on idle. I'm sure that you may need a new battery. Or you may need to totally drain your battery. And then do a full charge.

Drain your battery completely...........Like until it shuts off....Then wait about 5 minutes and turn it back on.........Drain it again until it shuts off....Wait about 5 minutes again...Turn it back on...........

Rinse and Repeat this process until the phone will not turn back on.
Then Plug the phone into the charger and let it completely charge uninterrupted.

Hopefully this will help.

[hotwired34]

Originally Posted by rev800x

My battery does that no matter what ROM I use, even stock. Can only get about 5-8 hours out of it, depending on how much I talk on it.

Originally Posted by DWhite456

I love this rom but my battery drains SO fast. It is crazy how fast it drains. Talk time is about 1.5 hours tops and that is with the phone plugged in trying to charge as I talk. The phone heats up like an oven. My phone will go from 100% to 40% in a matter of a 3 hours when idle. Any ideas what I can do as I love this rom but need something longer lasting. I just changed to a different radio to see if that helps any?

I don't know, guys....I have had great success with my battery life with this ROM. The only thing that I did was change the data connection from Alway on to enabled (which makes it so that it only connects when a connection is needed). I did this through Advanced Config (had to download it...wasn't included in ROM)

[accessing]

Low battery on this rom - that's like swearing in a church at the top of your voice! Make sure you've done the flash dance when switching from one rom to the next. I can almost put money down to defend that battery last a day with normal use. Anyway, I remember finding my battery to be cooler when I had installed these cabs on an earlier version. I don't even have them installed now. Btw I am on Sprint's latest radio.

[QwaarJet]

same, i have great battery life with this ROM myself, i have no fear of it dying on me during the day. Example, right now i took it off the charger 6 hours ago and i'm currently at 80%

[nahcyrag]

Originally Posted by twisteddan

This is a link to tsowens taskbars http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512971 at xda developers (very good stuff). You will have to do a little reading and research. But there is some very useful info there.

Next release I may try to switch the Icons out for a different set. See if that helps.

Thanks for the offer to help. I have the games cabbed already I will just zip them up and that way everyone can choose what to install. Make sure that if you see noobynoob that you thank him for the games. He is the one that gave me all of the ones that I have loaded into the ROM. Before he bought a TP2 and had to leave.



That is great news. Like I've said before feel free to stick with it if you have it set up how you want.



Yeah I'm sure we all know what it is like being strapped right now...We would probably all own TP2s!!!!

You are welcome.



Yeah I'm having a difficult time with making it the default anyway. I may consider making a link to download Opera 10. Because it will become the default browser once you install it anyway. It may save me a ton of hassle.




I'm being very serious when I tell you this.........I'm not dogging you or your phone. But, if your battery......with this ROM is dropping 60% in 3 hours on idle. I'm sure that you may need a new battery. Or you may need to totally drain your battery. And then do a full charge.

Drain your battery completely...........Like until it shuts off....Then wait about 5 minutes and turn it back on.........Drain it again until it shuts off....Wait about 5 minutes again...Turn it back on...........

Rinse and Repeat this process until the phone will not turn back on.
Then Plug the phone into the charger and let it completely charge uninterrupted.

Hopefully this will help.

I have tried numerous rom on this forum. This Rom is by far...I do mean FAR is the best with Battery life. With this rom my phone can last 2 days. Some of the rom I tried before I am lucky if it last one day. I am convince there is something wrong with your battery not this ROM.

[fjrooney]

Regarding the comments on battery life, I have had both experiences with the same ROM. First I did the flash dance and the ROM worked very well. I installed a few programs that didn't work so well so I thought it would be a good idea to go for a clean start so I did a hard reset. After that it was like a totally different ROM. Battery life was bad, like the others are saying, and some shortcuts got lost so programs didn't work, settings were different, etc. I don't know why it should make a difference since I was using the same ROM, but it did. I'll try another flash dance and see how it comes out.

[Siq Mawsh]

I have always flash danced to stock for updating my ROM and I have never had battery problems.

[brokenlink]

Battery life seems to be an interesting phenomena with the phone and ROM. Overall I'd say the ROM is much better on batter life than prior versions. It seems that after the phone is full charged, it drops from 100% to 90 relatively quickly but then eventually stabilizes.

Yesterday I took my phone off the charger at about 3pm and now this morning at 7.30 am, more than 16 hours later it is at 50%, which I think, by typical standards, is remarkable. Admittedly there was light use - a couple of briefs calls, email polling through active sync, etc., some web browsing, and a couple mins use of iGO GPS (which btw runs great on the TP).

I had even downloaded a Formula 1 live timing app and played around with it for a bit.

So while I've had the ROM installed for about a week, this definitely the best battery life I've seen in that week. For those with bad life, assuming the battery is still good, take a look in the task manager and verify nothing is running that would drain the battery.