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Hi.
I am solving the issues of CommMgrPro with Raphael. The most important were.
1) CMP didnt change the band correctly (2G <-> Auto <-> 3G)
2) CMP didnt set correctly the speaker volume.
Any help to see if those issues are gone in this version will be wellcome with free licenses
Version V2.2(2008-09-12)
1) There are towers on each country with same cell id. So now the primary key for Cell Mode will be CellID + LAC. CMP will convert your database so make a backup before and will fill the lac information each time it finds a cell with lac equals 0
2) Compatibility with HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro (Fixed Band manager, speaker manager, GPS manager and some GUI changes).
3) New option to repair the database.
4) New page for connections option (In connections/menu/options)
5) Option to disable/enable connections on roaming
6) Option to CMP startup delayed on page Options 3.
7) Option to Show/Hide the main window after start CMP.
8) Clicking on the higher part of the battery bar opens the battery page
9) Clicking on the lower part of the battery bar opens the battery page
10) Hide button is raplaced by calendar button.
11) New Today tab. This dialog lets you see the next events that will happen in the place, including calendar events, "Always on" schedules and other events (time limits, etc)
I´m on it!
I´m curious to see how much battery economy this will bring when switching off 3G? I´ll post my findings. What do you mean by speaker volume (in call?).
thanks
Belive me, it really save your battery if you swith off 3G mode. My battery lifetime increase from 8 to 26h.
Regards
B.
danielherrero said:
Hi.
I am solving the issues of CommMgrPro with Raphael. The most important were.
1) CMP didnt change the band correctly (2G <-> Auto <-> 3G)
2) CMP didnt set correctly the speaker volume.
Any help to see if those issues are gone in this version will be wellcome with free licenses
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Hi Daniel,
I'm expecting my Touch Pro on Friday, I'll report as soon as I can.
Manni
So far so good on the band...
I´ve tried all day switching between 2G and 3G and it seem to work seamlessly, which comes as a huge plus for me to save on battery when 3G is not needed.
One thing I don´t get.. the HIDE button. CMP is hidden but how to unhide it without having to press the icon to launch it again.
Update: Yes it asks for the PIN but naturally it has to since it´s reestablishing a connection to the Celular provider.
Regarding band switching - it works sometimes because sometimes CM just reset himself (generate errors)
Another thing is that if I'm switching from 3g to 2g is asking me for PIN
When I'm doing it mannualy (GSM to WCMDA switching) system never ask for it.
B.
Hi
In the options page you can set the pin code. In this way CMP will enter automatically the pin when switches the band....
fllysurfer said:
I´ve tried all day switching between 2G and 3G and it seem to work seamlessly, which comes as a huge plus for me to save on battery when 3G is not needed.
One thing I don´t get.. the HIDE button. CMP is hidden but how to unhide it without having to press the icon to launch it again.
Update: Yes it asks for the PIN but naturally it has to since it´s reestablishing a connection to the Celular provider.
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Well, I usually assign a hw button to CommMgrPro. Raphael has few buttons so I assigned long press phone button to CMP. CMP installs a Today plugin and a tray icon to manupulate CMP directly from today screen or bring it to front but you cannot see them with touchflo 3d. Sorry for not saying it before, you can set pic code in options dialog so cmp will enter pin code automatically....
Dani
fllysurfer said:
I´m curious to see how much battery economy this will bring when switching off 3G? I´ll post my findings. What do you mean by speaker volume (in call?).
thanks
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No, system volume. You can control ring tone and ring volume as a action associated to enter/exit in a profile/place (using cell ID)
It was short and 5min test - I'll check everything once again tomorrow and let you know.
Regards
B.
For those who want to check the 3g effect on the battery live. There is a tab on CMP that shows graphically the battery evolution in different scales of time and if you touch two points it tells you the speed, for example, 6 units per hour. Ok, let your device during some hours in 3g and check the drain speed. Do the same test using 2g. As you will see battery live lasts double (or more) using 2g...
Great Commmanager Replacement
Testing for about 15 mins now and so far no problems.
Although the ON/OFF switching for phone with the "no time limit" function is not very responsive. I had to click another icon before i could switch it on again.
Great work on the battery graphs very useful
I will report tomorrow after some intesive usage.
WatskeBart said:
Testing for about 15 mins now and so far no problems.
Although the ON/OFF switching for phone with the "no time limit" function is not very responsive. I had to click another icon before i could switch it on again.
Great work on the battery graphs very useful
I will report tomorrow after some intesive usage.
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hehe I see to tested it deeply. Turn on phone with time limit was disabled one month ago because the people requested in this way. Anyway I will remove the time limit dialog to avoid confussion....
CommManager replacement is only a little feature. The main one is let CMP (CommMgrPro) to set the state of the device (phone, band, BT, WIFI, speaker, connections, beam, messaging, brightness, ring tone, today theme, call forward, open and close programs, etc) depending on your current location by cell id (home, work, cinema, etc) and weekday/hour. In this way the state of the device will be different on your work&monday&10:00 than on home&sunday&13:00, isnt it?
Dani
Hi
I ve uploaded a new beta (b6). It warns if you want to change the band but you didnt set the pin code on options and a few more things. If you look at the screenshots on first post you will see there is a screen dedicated to the current (different than the battery page)with two lines, one for instant current drain and other for average. In this way is easy to check the current (in mA) needed for your device under different circunstances (wifi, band, gps, etc) and the temperature of the battery (important for the people like me having problems with device not charging if running gps/tomtom in a warm day).
ps: Talking about gps and temperature, finally I bought and A/C mount system so the battery's temperature is always low and no problem charging....
Hi Daniel,
So I received my Touch Pro today, and the first program I installed was CMP
Couple of issues:
- I installed without deactivating Touch Flo 3D, so I got an error message when the program first launched (I guess it couldn't launch the today plugin).
- If I deactivate the Touch Flo 3D, the icons in the plugin are stil QVGA. Same thing if you change the icons of the location (which makes it difficult to select the right one, as they are not for the software where the seem to be on the screen, if you see what I mean)
- Same thing for the fonts on mostpages / menus. Most of them are very small (hard coded for QVGA I guess) which makes them much harder to reads than on a QVGA device. The location line, or the function icons at the bottom of the main screen, are normal size. Everything else is small (for example, "there is a newer version").
- When Touch Flo 3D is activated, there is no directaccess to CMP (lower right globe icon), but I guess that's normal.
Otherwise, everything seems to work fine. I guess most of this is VGA related rather than Touch Pro related, but here you go, I'm coming from CMP on a Tytn II...
Edit: forgot to specify that the speaker setting and the band switching seems to work fine.
Hi
Thank you very much for your comments and help. Fortunately most of those issues are related with the sizzo vga skin so can be changed modifying the file skin.xml. Modify and enhance the vga skizzo skin is one of the pending things to do. Please follow reporting anything you see
Hi Daniel,
Done a bit more testing today, and I found out that there are two connections in CMP (T-mobile PicMessage and T-Mobile Internet), while I have only one connection setup by default (T-mobile).
They are both enabled, none of them is always on, and only the PicMessage is connected.
Is this normal? I'm quite sure I had only one on my Vario III. Which one do I need to get my push email? If I want to get my exchange email as it arrives, do I need to switch one of these to always on? (by the way, my exchange server is setup properly, and it works thanks to MrVanx...).
Hi Manni
CMP shows all the connectios,even hidden connection. Probably in the connections wizard your operator set up the second connection for other pourposes like mms,wap,etc.
If you re using direct push(like me) you dont need to mark any connection as "always on" because activesync will keep the connection alive....
Dani
danielherrero said:
Hi Manni
CMP shows all the connectios,even hidden connection. Probably in the connections wizard your operator set up the second connection for other pourposes like mms,wap,etc.
If you re using direct push(like me) you dont need to mark any connection as "always on" because activesync will keep the connection alive....
Dani
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Thanks a lot for the clarification!
I've tested both b5 and b6 versions on orygial HTC rom.
Discovered that :
1. Cannot clear history of battery usage in CURRENT tab - on BATTERY tab this feature works fine
2. Cannot verify database integristy - error message appear
3. Switching between G2 and G3 works smooth - tested VERY intensivly for last 3-4 days.
Small hints
1. there are two graphs on main screen - on the left is graph for battery and on the right for available field. Is nice of you if you can just create the link between battery graph on main screen and CURRENT/BATTERY tab on settings. This is common problem that Touch Pro battery has very short lifetime and I'm very interested in checking which action is draining my battery more than normal - graph is perfect place for this.
5. Last suggestion for booting TP and application starting process. Everytime when I'm performing soft reset or just starting device, I'm waiting to put my PIN as fast as possible to get my TP online, but THEN CommManPro LOGO is showing and grrrrrrrrrrrrrr I'm must wait next 5sek to tap my PIN.
You know, this is not a problem if you are using your phone for private, and there is no more than 3-4 calls from you sister/girlfriend/mother/lover by day, but I'm using my TP for buisness (and testing everything in the same time) manner so time when I'm available is critical - one missed call (because of 5sek delay) and couple of bucks less in my pocket
If it possible for you to just pospone CommManPro to starting just after TF3D it's nice!
Regards
B.
I started this week finally fed up with the fact that I had to charge my battery every 24 hours. It was not working for me and I seriously was getting finally pissed off with this phone that I love so much and defend so much.
I did some research around here and using my best friend Google and found bits and pieces.
I decided to start a post where we can contribute ways to conserve the battery life. The one I have used has so far gone over 6 hours and only used 17% of battery life after calls of about 5 minutes in total. Normally by now my phone would be on 2 bars.
The ultimate thing to be aware of is that the battery is just like our bodies. The more activities, the faster the depletion. By activities I mean applications running. Now often you 'end' an application and yet it is still running chewing your battery behind your back.
Here are some tips:
[*]Light Displays
This is the common tip. Go to 'start/ settings/ power management' and look for 'Backlight time out on battery' and 'Display time out on battery'. The lower you set the time for these, the less battery you use therfore the more you conserve batteries.
I set my backlight time out to 5 seconds and display time out to 1 minutes. After making a call I rarely need the lights on. I adjust this stuff when I use other applications like Mobile Comic Reader (yes, I'm a comic book geek).
[*]Automatic email downloads
Now this is one that I overlooked and was like 'You idiot!'
Just remember, the more active your phone is the more battery it chews up. Email updates has your phone communicate with your mail box to find new emails and download them automatically.
To change this (in case you don't know) click 'start/ messages/ <select email account>/ menu/ settings/ next/ next/ next/ next/ next/' You should be on the screen that has 'automatic send/ receive emails'. The lower the frequency you set, the more battery you save.
I set mine to 'Once a day' and opt it to only download 'Todays messages'.
[*]Ending tasks using task manager
I only find out there is a task manager yesterday and I've had this phone for like a year and a half. How crazy is that?
Click 'start' and go right to the bottom and you will find it. Just like normal desk/ laptop task manager, you can use this to stop programs from running. Often times you end a program and think that it has stopped running but it is actually still running. The biggest culprit on this is 'Windows Media Player'.
Every so often, especially after using an application, make it a habit to close it off in task manager.
Switching off GPRS and/ or EDGE
You will notice a 'E' or 'G' at the top of your phone. This merely tells you that there are GPRS or EDGE networks operational. This is completely different from the 'E' or 'G' in the top right hand corner where your signal strength metre is.
If there is a 'E' or 'G' there, it means that your EDGE or GPRS is still connected and running. A running program means battery is being chewed.
At the top of your screen you'll see the first highlighted section containing 'Wi-fi; the time; your network service provider'. Clicking on this takes you to your Comm Manager with 8 rectangles. On the right hand column third row is an icon that looks like a PDA or touch screen with two arrows in different directions. Click this application to turn it off (give it a cross).
When you go back to your home screen, the 'E' or 'G' in the top right hand corner (not to be confused with the ones on the top middle) will be replaced with an icon I can only describe as a key that opens a tin of sardines. This means your EDGE or GPRS is turned off and not active.
Please remember to switch this back on when you want to send mms and go onto the internet using GPRS and stuff. Alternatively there is an option to automatically turn off GPRS if it is idle for a specified amount of time. for that you need any registry editor,
Goto HKLM\Comm\ConnMgr\Settings\Planner
Now change CacheTime to say 120 to turn of GPRS after its idle for 2 mins.
And Change SuspendResume from ~GPRS to GPRS_bye_if_device_off
That's the tips that I have found have made me a happy s710 user. I don't know if there are battery conservation programs for the s710 - I searched in vein - but in the end it just came down to efficient use of energy.
If there are any further suggestions, I invite all to drop their personal ideas that work.
God speed.
Please remember to switch this back on when you want to send mms and go onto the internet using GPRS and stuff.
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There is an option to automatically turn off GPRS if it is idle for a specified amount of time. for that you need any registry editor,
Goto HKLM\Comm\ConnMgr\Settings\Planner
Now change CacheTime to say 120 to turn of GPRS after its idle for 2 mins.
And Change SuspendResume from ~GPRS to GPRS_bye_if_device_off
Hey. Nice.
I'll look for that. I was wondering if there was such a function.
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Hey. Nice.
I'll look for that. I was wondering if there was such a function.
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just add it to your post. that way pple will get everything from the first post. BTW tc shows strange values, try resco or sktools.
Thanks. That was a good idea. I just added it.
Radio Off
I do some searching in internet and found this freeware RADIO OFF
It will automatically off your radio. just need to set the time..
Enabling Cell Info Display drains the battery.
Since updating my XE to ICS I've noticed a bug with the wifi signal strength icon. On unlocking the device I see minimal wifi strength, but then if I lock and unlock again, the wifi strength shows a full signal. As far as I can tell, the actual true signal strength is the same, it just the wifi bars that appear to have a glitch.
Anyone else get this?
Same experience here - I thought I was going mad!
Same here.. And also I see sometimes minimal wifi strength icon while wifi is off.. :O
I'm glad it's not just me then. I should have mentioned that I noticed this after I'd done a factory reset, not sure if the problem was there before that.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium
Wow guys you're so funny Its not a bug, when phone is locked it goes into sleep mode and lowers wifi strength to save battery
I can understand that. But why does the icon not show full strength when the phone is unlocked? I'm currently on Wifi and the only part of the icon that is white is the dot at the bottom. I'm next to my router so the strength should be all the way up.
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I can understand that. But why does the icon not show full strength when the phone is unlocked? I'm currently on Wifi and the only part of the icon that is white is the dot at the bottom. I'm next to my router so the strength should be all the way up.
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It takes time to regain the signal.
Ahhhh, makes perfect sense and, now that I know what I'm looking at/for, that's exactly what I'm seeing!
Thanks Deathsongx3!
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I used Wifi Analyser this time and with the wifi reception showing at just one bar, then again with full bars after another unlock, the signal strength remains the same other than my hand effecting the reception slightly. That would seem to suggest that it's nothing to do with sleep mode or low power wifi.
If the signal strength remains the same, then it must just be a glitch with the wifi signal indicator in the status bar?
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I used Wifi Analyser this time and with the wifi reception showing at just one bar, then again with full bars after another unlock, the signal strength remains the same other than my hand effecting the reception slightly. That would seem to suggest that it's nothing to do with sleep mode or low power wifi.
If the signal strength remains the same, then it must just be a glitch with the wifi signal indicator in the status bar?
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I wonder if the "Best Wifi Performance" option in Advanced Wifi settings has any bearing on this issue? I'm calling it an issue because Seagull's post definitely suggests it is...
Not sure, but I don't have 'Best Wifi' selected.
Hmm, neither do I. I'm going to select it and see what happens...
Did anyone get to the bottom of this?
I'm wondering if the 'settings update' patch that came after ICS has anything to do with it.
Hello,
i had same Problem under Gingerbread, but founded a solution. Its not perfect, but it works. Download the App "Network Signal Info" over Play Store. After Installation, put a Wifi Widget to your Homescreen. Now the Signal works correctly. I hope this helps.
Hi,
problem with Android 4.2.2 CM 10.1 Build 22 Andromadus, HTC Desire S
When using HD traffic, then the animated icons on the right side make my screen "grey" and also TomTom itself suddenly loose the GPS signal. (other applications like Maps, Copilot, GPS tools, .. have, at the same time, the GPS signal ok) You can see there is no speed, etc, ..., navigation is completely lost.
I was testing that more 3 weeks and only reasons are the animated icons on the right side - if there is no accident on the way, then everything is fine.....
A guy on tomtom forum asnwered me this:
When there is traffic on the right side, the Tomtom app begins to use lots of CPU for its constant background recalculation to look for faster routes. Perhaps the ROM has a bug where the system loses GPS signal when CPU is under high strain.
that sounds reasonably but I'm still waiting for registration on andromadus.flinny.org to announce this issue there....
Any other idea how to solve it or who clould fix that? Othewise I'm going to switch to another ROM
Hello peeps,
I have just received my Pixel 6A and while i am extremely satisfied, coming from a Huawei P30, this phone has definitely few drawbacks.
1. The signal strength. My phone constantly keeps dropping 1-2 bars while being in my room. (previous phone was full good signal always.
a) Whenever i call someone, before getting the signal tone, like 10 seconds have to pass with the phone being silent and then reaching the 'ding ding' tone.
b) Signal in the gym is extremely low and i almost get no reception. (P30 from huawei had signal almost everywhere inside.
c) I recorded a 5 second video in a shopping mall yesterday and i tried sendig the video to my friend 30 times using whatsapp/ viber / facebook / instagram on cellular internet and different wifi-s and couldnt send it from the mall, from my friend's house and it suddenly started working after 1 hour. (I also had the phone restarted 2 times in between to try and make it work ( unsuccesfully)
2. There is a date/weather (weather can be removed) display on the first main page on the phone, on the upper right which cannot be removed no matter what.
I have a widget that i would like to place there but i cannot since their internal date is stuck there and obstructs the place i would like to use my date/weather/time widget on.
3. Apps just stop sometimes and are non-react-ant. I always keep 1-2 apps open, and never more than that. Example, oppening instagram app > going to my profile > suddenly i cannot click anywhere, i can only close the app and open again and it will work. This happens for multiple apps.
4. No notification number on the apps like there is on almost all android phones. You should have an option to have example Messages(3) next to your Messages app, but instead it states Messages and a random colored circle just indicating that there IS a message, not how many.
Being my third day with this device, im somewhat really bothered by these minor/major issues so i am wondering, has anyone else complained for these and how come that they havent been addressed/implemented/fixed already?
Thank you for the read/input =)
The bars indicating mobile data signal strength on your phone do not provide an accurate measure of the signal strength. Each carrier and phone manufacturer has their own interpretation of what each bar represents, so the number of bars can vary across different carriers and phones [1]. Therefore, it is not possible to compare signal strength between different phone models simply by looking at the number of bars displayed on the screen [8].
Date, weather, notification dots, etc depends on your launcher, perhaps the default Pixel Launcher isn't to your liking, there are plenty of others that you might prefer.
I'm using Lawnchair 2 personally, it's close to Pixel Launcher but allows to hide At a glance (the time weather thing) and the search bar, and also has notification dots with numbers.
There is also a mod for the Pixel launcher if you're rooted, didnt try that one though.
That apps randomly close or stop is a bit worrying though, mine don't do that, well that said, it's normal that apps that rely on internet data need to refresh when you reopen them due to battery optimisation.
Aka, if you dont clear them from your recent apps then they stay open as in in memory, yes, but they still get stopped from actually processing stuff after a while to save battery.
You can try to disable battery optimisation for those apps if you don't like that.
They shouldnt be crashing though.
Unfortunately, i am no fan of launchers.
On the other side, i have just found another glitch/issue/hardware problem?
Whenever i use my phone for the calls (the thing it should be mostly used for) and use speaker instead of putting the phone to my ear, the other person will hear around 20 % of what i say.
The phone is literally 30 sentimeters away from me and ill say 3 sentences to which the other party is quiet and asks if i have said anything since the voice is sliced/muffled/cut/low volume.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Well, as far as I know, huawei excels on signal strenght due the fact that they own a lot of intelectual property regarding to that.