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Siyah Gingerbread kernel (v2.x)

No problems here with charging on 2.2rc1. Been connected to charger for about 3 hours and battery temperature at 31C.

For anyone wishing to check their battery temperature...

Dial pad > *#*#4636#*#* > Battery information

Not convinced it was the battery a such , I ean the whole screen was hot to the touch near to the top of the phone. :( Its always one of those things that you experience and no one else does :D
 
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Siyah 2.2 rc2 is up! :D

"Changelog:

ondemandx, ondemand fixes and lulzactive tweaks.
changed memory allocator (from SLAB to SLQB)
possible fix for lag during hotplugging. because of that I have reverted some performance tweaks which were causing battery drain & the device to become hot
some code cleanups to get ready for the release
 
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Beta 6 and I don't remember making a battery last on one charge this long before :D

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Testing rc2 now.
Seems smooth on TW4.5, but still stuttery on Go Launcher. Not as smooth as RAGEmod.
Still waiting to see if I get a system freeze as per beta 7 thru 16

Rudedawg: thats a LOT of wakeloks you have there.
Have you looked into it with betterbatterystats?

yeah it just says phone connection or wi fi :( I have those things switched off when its not in use so who knows.




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you get the point...
 
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Tick those first 3 boxes
in latitude itself, make sure you are not recording your position constantly and have history enabled etc. switch these off. ie location reporting>do not update your location, and disable auto check ins and check in notifications
(unless of course you want all this happening!)

rc2 update:
I got a freeze. The screen stops responding to key presses. The home+power buttons respond but not the screen itself. I've now disabled my screen off profile to see if it is this that is causing the issue.
 
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Tick those first 3 boxes
in latitude itself, make sure you are not recording your position constantly and have history enabled etc. switch these off. ie location reporting>do not update your location, and disable auto check ins and check in notifications
(unless of course you want all this happening!)

rc2 update:
I got a freeze. The screen stops responding to key presses. The home+power buttons respond but not the screen itself. I've now disabled my screen off profile to see if it is this that is causing the issue.

Ok well to be honest Latitude was cool when I was using Google+ but that died on its ass pretty quik so I cancelled my account. Now latitude is about as useful as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

Goodbye latitude. \o
 
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I'm on beta6 as well...wow! how on earth did you get 22 hours Rudedawg?


For all the beta 6 experts out there: If you take into account my awake time, which are almost in sync with my screen on time. Except for a bit at the start and near the end which are due to the music player. Does this seem reasonable usage to anybody? I also left it on auto brightness today because squinting at a dark screen was beginning to give me the poops. :p Oh and also put Never when plugged in for the Wi-Fi sleep policy.

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That doesnt seem unreasonable to me considering you had around 7 hours of screen-on time.

Possible tweaks are to look at CPUspy at what are the most frequent MHz active, and also to ensure your phone is going into deep sleep. If you have a lot on 1400-1600Mhz, it may be an idea to limit it to 1200Mhz in SetCPU, but this of course depends on if slowing down will be a problem for you (eg if you are heaviliy into gaming which it appears you are not) Setting max to 1200 could extend your battery when your screen is on

I've sorted out the phone freeze issue i've been having on the last 5000 versions of this kernel.
Seems it was down to my screen off profile:
500 max, 100 min, Priority 100, Conservative.
I disabled this, and no freeze.
I've upped it now to 800 to see if it will freeze again......

Edit2: Freeze on 800
I have now disabled all profiles altogether....
 
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I don't know how good a reading this is because I started charging once it reached down to 15% which was when I took those other two screenshots. I don't overclock at all, I just keep it on 100-1200Mhz using lulzactive.

Yeah I don't actually play any games, my heaviest usage comes from whatsapp and dolphin browser mini. Everything else is pretty minimal usage.

But if it's just mostly the screen being on that is draining the battery, then I think I can live with that, no point not using a screen so big and nice to its fullest, right? :D
 
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