Root does everything work on GV 1.4 ?

[matttye]

My GPS is fine with 1.5 too.

 

[ducky1979]

Yeah but if you turn gps off and back on again does it start up ok, you need to test it a couple of times. Ive just left mine on.

 

[matttye]

Yeah but if you turn gps off and back on again does it start up ok, you need to test it a couple of times. Ive just left mine on.

Just tried it about 4 times, every time maps was able to lock onto my location fine.. well as good a lock on as you can get indoors anyway!

 

[ducky1979]

Are you actually turning the gps off though? If you are it must be just me? It's just a ball ache having to reboot everytime I want the gps to work.

 

[matttye]

Are you actually turning the gps off though? If you are it must be just me? It's just a ball ache having to reboot everytime I want the gps to work.

I'm turning off the GPS option yeah, not turning off the ability to find your location using the network.

 

[SUroot]

Just wondering if I should have flashed the ROM, then set it up, then flashed the kernel, then rebooted, then flashed the RIL, then rebooted. Y'know, do everything in stages...?

Rom and kernel should be fine, but I probably would put the RIL on afterwards. Is your RIL definitely the correct one for your radio? Do you have a problem with the RIL supplied with GV?

 

[aardys]

yeh see . this what i hate , flash a rom then get a ton of problems , makes you wonder why we bother

 

[SUroot]

Cant answer for everyone else, but each version offers the chance of more bug fixes and better performance. I like to find out if these offerings are realised and report back if they are not.

 

[aardys]

yeh spose , but we all need a working phone, maybe i should get a spare to mess about wiv

 

[SUroot]

Indeed we do. Mine always works unless I do something stupid. I never do anything in a rush. I always ensure I have enough time to roll back too. Always ensure you have your roll back strategy in place before and that it covers all eventualities.

Recently I have taken to backing up sd before flash too

 

[ducky1979]

well i got a reply off Richard Trip, he says hes tested the gps and his works fine, ive sent him my setup, so just see what he says, mine still isnt working if i switch off gps, i might start a new thread and see who else has got this problem. what radio are you all using?

 

[SUroot]

The one that starts 32.49 here

 

[Hadron]

have you gone back to Eviollet HAVS AXI CFS or are you testing the new kernel thats part of the rom??

Sorry, been offline all day today - v. unusual!

Was giving the GV HAVS kernel a test, and then that was updated today so I'm now testing the 1.8 version. All seems very snappy, USB transfer seemed faster than most 2.37 kernels I've used and battery not bad. Will let it overnight, see how that goes. Will have to try EViollet with 1.5 to compare at some point soon.

 

[Hadron]

Overnight drain ~double EViollet AXI, so back to the old fave.

 

[SUroot]

I now can get as low 4mA with WiFi on and 3mA with WiFi off.

2 hours of screen on and I still got this yesterday:

So 4 hours screen on.could have seen 34 hours battery life. Impressed with that

 

[amlothi]

What are you using to keep the display from killing the battery?

When I was on Stock ROM with Sense, my display always used very little of the battery (maybe 5-8% over an entire day) and I left it on Auto all the time.


I'm now using Auto Brightness on GV. Here's what I have today:

10.5 hours up
2.5 hours with the screen on
74% of usage from Display
37% charge in the battery

The next biggest items are cell standby and phone idle at 5 and 6%.

I did go into CM settings and adjust the brightness levels. I have them set between 30 and 50 for all of the levels. So, what am I missing?

 

[SUroot]

I have the brightness setting on minimum and set to full if I need it via notification widget set to dim/100%

There's nothing you can really do. It always adds up to 100%. It was so low on stock sense because everything else was using a lot of power so the screen % was relative.

Now you have custom aosp with undervolted kernel, everything else is using much less power but the screen is the same so everything elses % goes down and the screen seems higher but its all relative.

If my WiFi had been off, my screen would have been higher. I certainly get upto 75% sometimes


I use the eviollet kernels which I find more battery efficient too

 

[amlothi]

I have the brightness setting on minimum and set to full if I need it via notification widget set to dim/100%

There's nothing you can really do. It always adds up to 100%. It was so low on stock sense because everything else was using a lot of power so the screen % was relative.

Now you have custom aosp with undervolted kernel, everything else is using much less power but the screen is the same so everything elses % goes down and the screen seems higher but its all relative.

If my WiFi had been off, my screen would have been higher. I certainly get upto 75% sometimes


I use the eviollet kernels which I find more battery efficient too

Thanks. I don't want to adjust the brightness manually all the time. I figured out the levels for the auto brightness, but there are lots of options under the display settings in CM that I don't understand. I have googled and couldn't find a FAQ or tutorial about them.

If anyone has more info on what they all do, I would appreciate it.


Edit: I still think my screen is using significantly more power than yours. I realize that it should if you are setting it to minimum all the time, but I wouldn't think it would be so significant.

If the battery measurements are accurate, we can see in your example that 45% of the capacity of your battery is used. 45% of the amount used is from the screen. So, multiplied together, that is 20.25% of your total battery's capacity used by the screen in 2 hours.

In my case, I calculated it using 46% of my battery's capacity in 2.5 hours. So, almost twice as much as yours.

If that was the case, I would have never gotten the kind of life out of my Desire with the Sense ROM that I did (according to your explanation, the screen was using the same amount of power but the system was using even more than the screen - I wouldn't have lasted half a day...)

Honestly, total battery life is NOT improved dramatically with this ROM so far. So, something is different with the power consumption of the display - OR - the battery logging is either not accurate and significantly different that that on the stock ROM.

 

[SUroot]

I promise you my explanation is correct. Your display is using more power than mine as yours is brighter.

When I have everything turned on, my screen uses a smaller percentage of the battery. When I have things turned off, my screen uses a bigger percentage of battery.

There's nothing particularly wrong with your results. They look perfectly normal to me

It's all relative and depends on usage.

Also in regards to your maths and half a day battery, don't forget that when the screen is off, much less power is being used by everything (sleep) so the percentages can remain the same but the battery will last longer than you think.

For example, this is what mine look like right now

Have you tried the eviollet kernel? I find them much better than the gv kernels

 

[MikeC1408]

Got the delay of someone hearing me when I answer the phone now. Might got bad to 1.4 for now.

Can I flash 1.4 over 1.5?

 

[Hadron]

Got the delay of someone hearing me when I answer the phone now. Might got bad to 1.4 for now.

Can I flash 1.4 over 1.5?

I expect so - I flashed 1.2 over 1.3 last week. It would only be a problem if there were settings which were incompatible, which isn't likely.

 

[SUroot]

Off topic, but Ultimate online theme kitched V 4 (after some requests and info from a few of us at XDA) now supports themechooser.apk

Mine is still being cooked. Awaiting it to be finished to test.

http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/

On the last page instead of picking framework-res, you upload an existing apk and it cooks based on that.

I'll let you know results.


My test worked but need to re do it

 

[ducky1979]

how does this work then, you pick everything you want then they cook it into the rom of your choice? and what do you mean about the framerate-res???

 

[SUroot]

how does this work then, you pick everything you want then they cook it into the rom of your choice? and what do you mean about the framerate-res???

Remember this post when you had your problem when you flashed battery mod?

http://androidforums.com/desire-all...s-everything-work-gv-1-4-a-2.html#post2412750

Where a theme swaps out the framework-res.apk when you flash it? And that it changes on each version of the rom and the wrong framework causes the problems you had?

Well gingervillain also has an app called theme chooser which you install themes via an apk and just select it in the app. You may have downloaded such a theme.

Well historically, the theme kitchen only made flashable zips, so you had to cook a new one everytime you updated your rom. Themechooser themes are not the same. Now the kitchen creates them for you, so you can make 10 themes and choose between them without flashing anything and works on all theme chooser roms.

 

[ducky1979]

thats awesome, so i just install it and go through theme chooser? will it change everything then, even though i have flashed circles mod? what do i do then at the upload bit, do i just choose gingervillian 1.5?