Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro -- Now working on Verizon! And with GPS!

[hsingh00]

Originally Posted by hsingh00

Ok...4.25 hrs of usage..and I'm at 50%...not too shabby! Note that I turned off "Background Data" syncing. I've done a good number of txting, syncing my email about once a hr or so, and checking my battery every 30 mins or so .

One weird thing I see so far....You know the indicator (circular button's LED) that does the wavy thing when its charging in WM?...its doing it. No notifications or anything either...I made sure by killing everything. This is with it sleeping.... it doesn't do it when the screen is active.

6.25 hrs..and the battery's at 11%. Same conditions as b4....also i forgot to mention that my screen brightness is at about 25%. Haven't made any phone calls or anything..so after my phone completely dies I'll charge it up and i'll be ready for higher evening usage.

[rujelus22]

I reset my APN settings to default and tried to turn on wifi but when I turn it on it reboots the phone. tried again on the next boot and it goes back to unable to turn on, second attempt rebooted the phone again any ideas?

[[SP]JESTER]

you guys have really came along ways in the last month or to. keep it up, i always hated my htc touch pro, it was new and no one really cared for it. Then i found the ppcgeeks site and started the custom roms. It liked it more and more, Now out of no where, this thing can run 3 different operating systems. Windows Mobile / Android / And Blackberry (Still in development of course). Its turned into quite the super phone. It made me smile to make a call and the microphone worked! It still has its moments as always cuz its a 528mhz processor. (kinda blah) but it rocks and android rules

[daprospecta]

I have two problems which may have already been mentioned but they are:

1. After my phone goes into lock for five minutes or more then I unlock it, the screen dims and I can't get it to come back even if I adjust the brightness.

2. SprintTV doesn't work

Any solutions?

[hamagc]

ok sometime in the last half hour it completely died. done, dead.


so battery lasted from roughly 9am to 2pm. 5 hours, i think thats close to previous versions.

2 phone calls, maybe 5 mins each, 4 text messages (2 sent, 2 received), 3 emails pushed, 5 mins of playing suduko (while drinking starbucks of course), 1 app downloaded from market, and 1 sync of emails, contacts, and calendar.

thats about all i can think of.

[hsingh00]

9:30-5ish...so about 7.5 hrs for me...I sent out and received well over 150 txts...synced email probably about 10 times...played with the phones settings and checked battery usage probably 20 mins in all..

I'll really stress it 2nite..minus the automatic syncing.

[hamagc]

so it looks like much of my battery went to the auto sync. looks like you used your phone more but had no push on. i used it less but with push on and my battery died faster. interesting.

[Yibrushn]

Originally Posted by daprospecta

I have two problems which may have already been mentioned but they are:

1. After my phone goes into lock for five minutes or more then I unlock it, the screen dims and I can't get it to come back even if I adjust the brightness.



Any solutions?

Read the first 4 posts!

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by hsingh00

lol...wow...interesting...maybe by turning this "feature" off we can save extra 10 mins of battery time!

You should be able to turn it off by just removing the LEDEffects Application -- but I doubt it would net you even a 10 minute gain.

Originally Posted by hamagc

ok, battery is not doing so well now.

i do have push email running for outlook. 3 test text messages, a 5 minute phone call, and minimal playing around.

i am getting the battery is under 13% message now but it is still jumping as high as 50%. battery usage is as follows:

Cell Standby: 74%
Phone Idle: 22%
Display: 5%

i'll report back again once it is completely dead.


also curious, android has ads. do these affect battery life?

I think the battery reporting (from my own experience) is a little less accurate in the bottom half than in the top half of the range, for what it's worth.

And I don't think the ads should be a drain unless you leave the screen open to an app that has the ads running. They don't seem to update unless they're in the foreground. (Not 100% sure about this, but I'm trying to remain optimistic.)

Originally Posted by rujelus22

I reset my APN settings to default and tried to turn on wifi but when I turn it on it reboots the phone. tried again on the next boot and it goes back to unable to turn on, second attempt rebooted the phone again any ideas?

Trash your data.img and try again from the beginning. I hate to give that advice (it's sort of swatting a fly with a cricket bat), but unless you use the rootfs that I packaged up, it'll write incorrect wifi calibration settings to the data partition and then it won't work until you delete them; the easiest way to do that is to make sure you've got my package and trash the data.img.

Originally Posted by [SP]JESTER

you guys have really came along ways in the last month or to. keep it up, i always hated my htc touch pro, it was new and no one really cared for it. Then i found the ppcgeeks site and started the custom roms. It liked it more and more, Now out of no where, this thing can run 3 different operating systems. Windows Mobile / Android / And Blackberry (Still in development of course). Its turned into quite the super phone. It made me smile to make a call and the microphone worked! It still has its moments as always cuz its a 528mhz processor. (kinda blah) but it rocks and android rules

Funny, I was just saying the other day to a friend, "It's so weird... I loved this phone when I got it... now I sort of hate it... and nothing's changed. How does that happen?" I love the Android stuff, but damn do I despise the underpowered processor. And I can handle the weird bugs in Android, because it's a project, but the constant weird snafus in WinMo have really gotten old. I'm kind of jealous of a friend with a TP2, and I'm kind of jealous of my other friend with a Vogue running Android.

...maybe this says more about me than about the phones themselves.

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