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This is my las try, I posted this message twice in the XDA forum.
I guess if no one having this issue I'll not bother folks with this again and will try to leave with it...
The problem goes like this, when I'm out of cellular reception area the phone shuts down and the only way to turn it back up is to remove and put back the battery.
I suspect this is some sort of strange power saving setting gone wrong.
Any idea on what can I do about it? Registry settings or something?
ROM: 1.93.831.1
Well, without knowing any better I've have to guess it was a problem with the Radio ROM. Are you using .08 or .11 radio version? If so, I'd try 0.5 - it seems to be the most stable for the majority of people here. I had heaps of problems (random freezes/crashes) when using 0.8 or 0.11 that forced me into a battery removal fix quite a few times...
If you've upgraded your Radio ROM (by itself) then most people suggest doing a hard reset afterwards, even though you don't *have* to, so make sure you try that...
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This is my las try, I posted this message twice in the XDA forum.
I guess if no one having this issue I'll not bother folks with this again and will try to leave with it...
The problem goes like this, when I'm out of cellular reception area the phone shuts down and the only way to turn it back up is to remove and put back the battery.
I suspect this is some sort of strange power saving setting gone wrong.
Any idea on what can I do about it? Registry settings or something?
ROM: 1.93.831.1
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It happes to my diamond too. Now i've got the lastest rom with latest radio (05) and in a week it happened only one time (before it happens a lot of time during a single day..)..
I've buy a new battery today just to be sure that it not a battery problem. I'll let you know in the next days.
By the way in my case i've see that the phone does not shut down when goes out of signal, but before shutting down i hear a short sound than the signal is missed and then the phone shutdown. Many times i need to wait a lot of minutes to power on the diamond. I've also try to froze the battery in this cases and like a kind of magic it's possibile to power on immediatly the baby. (this is why i've bought a new battery...)
I do also experience this problem, after upgraded my ROM to 1.93.831.1, when I'm out of cellular reception area the phone shuts down by itself.
I bought it to HTC service centre, they say no problem was found but they reload the Rom and replaced a new battery.
The problem still persist when i enter a no Network area, the phone automatically shut down again ...
Any idea on what can I do about it?
Please advise .....
Ummhh. Having the same problem here! Read a PDA Magazine and it says all bugs from Diamond have been removed and thats why Diamond 2 is released!
***BUMP***
Need a fix quick please!
@mod: please can you sticky this for a few day?
found the problem... sent it off two tmobile and they just took the handset not the battery...
they said they found no problem and made no changes.... i received the phone after 1 month and i put the battery in and it worked fine... used it with my car charger and started again so i left the battery out of the phone for 2 days then tried and works fine now.....
so my rom is stock; infact, i just got the phone. maybe three cabs. advanced config, mobile matt's theme.. .net 3.5? battery life seems like it's going to be a problem. i haven't even gotten it to say it was fully charged.. always still charging.
is it worth going to the "test" rom that we recently received? will that even improve batter life? i had a wizard for years before, and i must have flipped roms over 40 times.. and it just.. it never quite worked right the same after i started dicking with it. and i'm reading in the thread on that rom that some are going back over service issues.
opnions? any general battery life conservation methods?
Captain noob
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so my rom is stock; infact, i just got the phone. maybe three cabs. advanced config, mobile matt's theme.. .net 3.5? battery life seems like it's going to be a problem. i haven't even gotten it to say it was fully charged.. always still charging.
is it worth going to the "test" rom that we recently received? will that even improve batter life? i had a wizard for years before, and i must have flipped roms over 40 times.. and it just.. it never quite worked right the same after i started dicking with it. and i'm reading in the thread on that rom that some are going back over service issues.
opnions? any general battery life conservation methods?
Captain noob
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Have you left the Fuze to charge for 5+ hours yet? If so and you can't get it to say it's fully charged, you might want to investigate it further before you start flashing, to save yourself the trouble of flashing back the stock SPL and ROM in case you want to send it back for an exchange.
You're right, the battery life sucks. In Advanced Config, under "Power Management," I have all that stuff enabled and it helps a little. I also set my screen brightness down to the lowest I can tolerate instead of using the sensor.
The radio that's in the test ROM is incredible! I first flashed that with the stock ROM and it did wonders for my battery life. As I'm sure you've read by now, GPS sucks too on stock. The radio also helps a lot with GPS, I noticed a huge difference after flashing. I highly recommend NATF's ROMs, his version 4.5 is based off the test ROM and it is incredibly fast and stable. GPS works even better when the radio is coupled with the test ROM, or any ROM based on it. Battery life is so much better now.
Links to the radio thread and NATF's ROMs are in my sig.
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thanks so much for your rapid response. you can say i load that radio with my stock rom? i might be interested in doing that, however; my GPS seems to work fine. no difficulties like other people say. i hate to switch to another radio and screw that up.. but you claims wonders about battery life.
i have been closely eyeing a NATF rom. i've been watchin him since he "proudly got a branded fuze" even tho i didn't have this phone till last week.
i did charge it over night last night, and it did go to 100%.. and within two hours, about 8 text messages and changing my text message sound, i'm down to 86% so anything's worth a try.
i'm just so reluctant to flash to a new rom.. i hate all the bloatware, and the different things.. but it seems once you go down that road, it's soft resets every time something goes wrong, at least once a day. and emails tryin to figure out why my MMS only works when the moon is aligned.. i'm doing this same reflash work to a 2005 mustang GT brain and same kinda things.. now the idle isn't stable, if you drive the car, cut it off, then fire it back up it's touchy to drive.. seems like every time i **** with someone, yeah it flies on that one aspect, but it ends up being like a baby, always wiping the ass.
bottom line: what do i need to only flash that radio? Hard spl?
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thanks so much for your rapid response. you can say i load that radio with my stock rom? i might be interested in doing that, however; my GPS seems to work fine. no difficulties like other people say. i hate to switch to another radio and screw that up.. but you claims wonders about battery life.
i have been closely eyeing a NATF rom. i've been watchin him since he "proudly got a branded fuze" even tho i didn't have this phone till last week.
i did charge it over night last night, and it did go to 100%.. and within two hours, about 8 text messages and changing my text message sound, i'm down to 86% so anything's worth a try.
i'm just so reluctant to flash to a new rom.. i hate all the bloatware, and the different things.. but it seems once you go down that road, it's soft resets every time something goes wrong, at least once a day. and emails tryin to figure out why my MMS only works when the moon is aligned.. i'm doing this same reflash work to a 2005 mustang GT brain and same kinda things.. now the idle isn't stable, if you drive the car, cut it off, then fire it back up it's touchy to drive.. seems like every time i **** with someone, yeah it flies on that one aspect, but it ends up being like a baby, always wiping the ass.
bottom line: what do i need to only flash that radio? Hard spl?
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No prob man. First thing is we gotta make sure you have a GSM phone, so hopefully you're with AT&T and have a Fuze. If you're with verison or sprint, flashing is a no go. I really don't know anything about the CDMA versions of the Raph, but the forum for those are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=465
So if you do have a GSM, awesome. If you're worried about bloat, you don't have to anymore with NATF's ROMs. His standard ROM is loaded with great utilities and tools, no bloat and has about 320MB free "Storage Space" in memory. That's huge leaps over the stock with the bloat, and stock without the bloat it still beats it by 100MB! NATF's ROMs are definitely faster than the stock and are very stable. But if you're still reluctant to flash, I don't blame you, I barely got rid of my stock ROM a month ago; I've had the Fuze since it's launch date in Nov.
Yep, HardSPL is the first step. mskip has a great guide with all the required links to get you going, follow steps 1, 2, & 5 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448008
Lemme know how it works out for you.
New radio rom helps, as does switching to a ROM that doesn't load as much junk in the background. Also, do a soft reset after you run activesync on the phone - there's a lot of stuff that loads during synching that doesn't properly unload afterwards, meaning increased cpu and memory usage and thus battery.
In my opinion, i think you should get Da_G's 6.5 roms. Yes, they're beta but they run amazingly smooth, with very few glitches. and my battery life is AMAZING with them. I can go a whole day and half with a full charge as opposed to less than a day with all the other roms. and that's with constant texting and phone calls and data connection. not to mention his rom is really fast!
natf 4.5 att
i've decided around midnight i shall attempt not to brick my phone whilst flashin the natf rom. is there a link anyone could give me to a description of the rom?
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i've decided around midnight i shall attempt not to brick my phone whilst flashin the natf rom. is there a link anyone could give me to a description of the rom?
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Can't go wrong with his thread, it's in my sig.
Some things to keep in mind:
Don't forget to back up your PIM, I use PPCPimBackup, you can find it at d0ugie's site: http://blownfuze.org/ If you do not have threaded SMS, change that in Advanced Config after you flash, then restore your PIM. Your contacts and calendar should come back right away after the restore, but the messages take a while to rebuild, so don't touch it for at least 15 mins after the reboot.
Sprite Backup from the stock rom isn't included in NATF's, you can find it here at Da_G's rom thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446652&highlight=sprite+backup
Everybody knows: the battery in the diamond is little bit to small for the device. sometimes i lost the power faster then i can use the device. yesterday i have filled the battery up to 100% at 10pm. in the morning at 5 am i had only 73% battery. i dont have used the device other night. i think this is not normal. i use HomeScreen++ UI, there i can measure the battery consumption. when the device is in standby, i have seen vor very short time a value for 20ma, but when the device is powered on i see values from 150 - 212ma.
What with your device? can we say, that this is normal or is this a error? whats the normal power consumption in stand by and at running time (no applications in foreground)? Can anyone give some normal value's?
dude that's very weird... are you using a standard ROM? which radio version are you using? how is the cell reception in your area or near your home? do you use GSM or 3G? there are many factors that can accelerate battery consumption...
try another ROM & make sure you have the latest RADIO I have a DAIM100 & use the 1.17.25.09 & after two years of owning it I still use the same battery & get a whole day at least, I also don't really play on my phone during the day but I sync & use GPS when travelling & also have my email on it & make & receive a fair amount of calls & txts so it depends on your particular situation...
i Have now changed my ROM to a earlir version. It uses now a COM5 Build. Before that i use a Com3 Build. As the Radio ROM is use every time the same as you (but with rilphone from 1.09). The Battery consumption is returned to normal. it uses now near 3% in 10 hours, without using the device (over night).
i dont know whats the problem with the newer ROM. The first days with the COM3 Build, the battery consumption was normal. i fear that the problem is comming with some service or program i have installes later, but i dont know what for software. BatLog couldnt help me at this point.
i'm also having the same problem, i need to charge my phone twice a day and when its fully charged from midnight it gets to about 70% by 10am how do i make it last longer and how do i update the ROM or whatever it is that you guys are talking about?
I suggest you to buy a new battery.
I had a 1800mAh from China on eBay at 10€ and i solved the problem.
Before buying it, i just had two batteries, but i had to carry in my poket another battery :\
I think BP E270 is a resolution.
It increase battery juice a little bit (1350mah) and keep your diamond in a sexy shape.
I'm using Don Salari rom (WM 6.5, TF3d 2.1) and have a fully 2 days without charging. Not so good but pretty pleased anyway.
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i'm also having the same problem, i need to charge my phone twice a day and when its fully charged from midnight it gets to about 70% by 10am how do i make it last longer and how do i update the ROM or whatever it is that you guys are talking about?
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There can be different reasons for abnormal battery consumption. actual i lost around 3-5% in 10 hours, without using the device. if i use it often its more, if i use wifi, hdspa or bluetooth or do i make a game, hear music or such thing, it consumes more. thats in my opinion a normal state for the diamond device.
the most important thing is the radion rom. the radio rom responsibly for the radio things in the device: Phone, hdspa, bluetooth, wifi, gps (not the fm radio). the problem is: not every radio is good for every device. on some devices the version 1.09 is good, on some other the latest 1.17.x
than there is the ROM for the device. you can see it as the operating system. at the moment im using am COM5 build (Windows Mobile 6.5.5, Version 7.00). I have had problem with 7.30, this is a COM3 build. On the Main Site of the ROM you can find intructions to flash this ROM to your device, because its not a official one.
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There can be different reasons for abnormal battery consumption. actual i lost around 3-5% in 10 hours, without using the device. if i use it often its more, if i use wifi, hdspa or bluetooth or do i make a game, hear music or such thing, it consumes more. thats in my opinion a normal state for the diamond device.
the most important thing is the radion rom. the radio rom responsibly for the radio things in the device: Phone, hdspa, bluetooth, wifi, gps (not the fm radio). the problem is: not every radio is good for every device. on some devices the version 1.09 is good, on some other the latest 1.17.x
than there is the ROM for the device. you can see it as the operating system. at the moment im using am COM5 build (Windows Mobile 6.5.5, Version 7.00). I have had problem with 7.30, this is a COM3 build. On the Main Site of the ROM you can find intructions to flash this ROM to your device, because its not a official one.
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erm... my phone is not used at all for 10 hours whilst i am sleeping and i switch my wi-fi and bluetooth off also. sometimes i even put the phone into airplane mode to see if it makes a difference but not much.
about the radio and roms, im still a bit unsure as to how that works i have a htc touch diamond which is wm 6.1 not 6.5... would it be possible to upgrade it to a 6.5 by flashing the rom?
sorry for the million questions lol im just confused as to how it all works
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erm... my phone is not used at all for 10 hours whilst i am sleeping and i switch my wi-fi and bluetooth off also. sometimes i even put the phone into airplane mode to see if it makes a difference but not much.
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then there is something wrong with your device. if take phone to airplane mode, it uses around 1% in 10h!!! When you have the original rom on your device. i think you have some software installed that consumes such a amount of battery or your batters is broken.
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about the radio and roms, im still a bit unsure as to how that works i have a htc touch diamond which is wm 6.1 not 6.5... would it be possible to upgrade it to a 6.5 by flashing the rom?
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Sure, you can upgrade, but its not a official way and you loose your guarantee. you do this al on your risk. a good German guide you can find here: http://www.pocketpc.ch/td-rom-upgrade/42092-htc-touch-diamond-rom-upgrade-anleitung.html or of English here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=416211. Most important: You should make a complete backup of all your data. there are a lot of apps, that can do this. i recommend SPB Backup. After this: Install the latest official ROM from HTC, make a Hardreset and install directly after this the unofficial ROM of your choice. after flashing, make Hardreset again, before you continue. Remember to flash first the official ROM, than Hardreset, then unofficial ROM, then Hardreset for every ROM you test. you can find many ROM's here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=430 or here http://www.htc-developers.de/viewforum.php?f=85
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then there is something wrong with your device. if take phone to airplane mode, it uses around 1% in 10h!!! When you have the original rom on your device. i think you have some software installed that consumes such a amount of battery or your batters is broken.
Sure, you can upgrade, but its not a official way and you loose your guarantee. you do this al on your risk. a good German guide you can find here: http://www.pocketpc.ch/td-rom-upgrade/42092-htc-touch-diamond-rom-upgrade-anleitung.html or of English here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=416211. Most important: You should make a complete backup of all your data. there are a lot of apps, that can do this. i recommend SPB Backup. After this: Install the latest official ROM from HTC, make a Hardreset and install directly after this the unofficial ROM of your choice. after flashing, make Hardreset again, before you continue. Remember to flash first the official ROM, than Hardreset, then unofficial ROM, then Hardreset for every ROM you test. you can find many ROM's here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=430 or here http://www.htc-developers.de/viewforum.php?f=85
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thank you very much for your help, i will definitely try to do this over the next few hours after your wonderful explanation... cheers mate!!
Shaks said:
thank you very much for your help, i will definitely try to do this over the next few hours after your wonderful explanation... cheers mate!!
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i got stuck and confused half way through reading what to do wish i could get someone to do this for me
For the first time, it seems to be very complicated, but it is not. Trust me.
first: Backup you whole device or only the needed data.
in the first step you need to install HardSPL. I use 1.93 from Olinex. Do a softreset after this. After the softreset i have installed the HTC Stock ROM. the easyest way is it, to put the image in the root of your internal storage. name the file DIAMIMG.nbh. Now boot in to USB Mode with holding Volume Down and Right Softkey Button pressed (the <- Key), with this pressed, to a reset with your stylus. it apears a 3 colored screen, followed by a gray screen with instructions in blue letters. follow the instructions. DO NOT destroy the internal storage, there are your backup and the image file!
With the Stock Rom installed, make a HardReset (same as Boot to USB mode, but now hold VolumeDown and the middle round button). After this put your custom ROM to the internal memory, otherwrite the Stock ROM. Boot to USB Mode and follow the instructions. When your done, make again a HardReset. The Hardresets are very important, after this last hardreset you have the device with a custom ROM.
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For the first time, it seems to be very complicated, but it is not. Trust me.
first: Backup you whole device or only the needed data.
in the first step you need to install HardSPL. I use 1.93 from Olinex. Do a softreset after this. After the softreset i have installed the HTC Stock ROM. the easyest way is it, to put the image in the root of your internal storage. name the file DIAMIMG.nbh. Now boot in to USB Mode with holding Volume Down and Right Softkey Button pressed (the <- Key), with this pressed, to a reset with your stylus. it apears a 3 colored screen, followed by a gray screen with instructions in blue letters. follow the instructions. DO NOT destroy the internal storage, there are your backup and the image file!
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thanks once again, let me start with just backing up my data to begin with... i am on the thread for hardspl 1.93 from olinex which i am currently reading through with a confused face lol
also when i press and hold the volume down button and softkey button (<-) it does not do anything (soft reset) instead i have had to download a softreset app in the past just to do a soft reset... (im using a touch diamond) ?
you must press both buttons, dont release them, do a reset (press the red dot with you stylus in the stylus slot). dont release the both buttons, hold dem pressed until the colored screen appears.
you must press both buttons, dont release them, do a reset (press the red dot with you stylus in the stylus slot). dont release the both buttons, hold dem pressed until the colored screen appears.
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To flash rom via Internal card
1. Hold Volume down and Back buttons .
2. Press the reset button.
3. Keep holding Volume down and Back buttons then release reset button.
To reset to boot-loader mode ( for upgrade Hard-SPL or flash ROM via computer )
1. Hold Volume down button.
2. Press the reset button.
3. Keep holding Volume down then release reset button, you will see tri-color screen - that is called boot-loader mode.
For Battery consumption issue - maybe your battery is too old - you should change to another one.
I'm using Galilio battery with 1400mAh - which has same size with original battery and I can use my phone 2 days ( with sense 2.5 ) or 3 days ( with sense 2.1 ) without charging.
do you have a link to the battery?
Hi Everyone!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S GT I9000 with Froyo 2.2 and I noticed that the Clock Time is always becoming late.
((I also noticed that this only happens when the Phone is running on battery)NOT TRUE). I did a factory reset, installed different clocks widgets, but the phone clock is always delaying. I have no idea why this is happening!
Any suggestions?
First step is back up data and factory reset .
jje
JJEgan said:
First step is back up data and factory reset .
jje
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Done!!! Still the same!!!
Go to menu\settings\time & date & check that "Automatic network values" is checked. If it is then its possible that your provider is sending the wrong time info.
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Go to menu\settings\time & date & check that "Automatic network values" is checked. If it is then its possible that your provider is sending the wrong time info.
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I've found the same with Voda Ireland, I unchecked auto values and installed "ClockSync"
http://www.appbrain.com/app/clocksync/ru.org.amip.ClockSync
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Go to menu\settings\time & date & check that "Automatic network values" is checked. If it is then its possible that your provider is sending the wrong time info.
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I tried with that option checked and unchecked, and still it delays.
Thanks Anyway.
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I've found the same with Voda Ireland, I unchecked auto values and installed "ClockSync"
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Did the same, but this way you have to be always connected to the internet, and it doesn't fix the problem. It is just a way to bypass this problem. (thanks anyway)
What I was able to find, using the Clock Sync, is that the Phone as an average time drift of -3760,654, more than an hour per day. But the reason why this is happening it's completely unknown for me.
Oh, and BTW, I said above this deviation only occurs when the Phone is running on the battery, but that is not true!!!
Very odd, mine would only go out by an hour if I left it on auto, you can set a different interval time and select wifi only, but it works fine over 2g, I can't see it pulling much data if you're worried about that.
Mine goes out by about 0.3 of a second a day, which is quite negligible
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Very odd, mine would only go out by an hour if I left it on auto, you can set a different interval time and select wifi only, but it works fine over 2g, I can't see it pulling much data if you're worried about that.
Mine goes out by about 0.3 of a second a day, which is quite negligible
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Thanks!
That doesn't worry me that much, but I was really interested in knowing why this happens and get a proper resolution.
Could it be related to the ROM installed on the Phone?
Changed the ROM to GingerBread 2.3.3 so far it works like a charm!!
Mine 2.3.3 but still having this issue.. how to solve???
Hi. Just wondering if anyone has gotten around to a solution to the problem. I have been resetting my phone's time every day as it gets delayed more and more as the day goes. I reset it, after a few hours it will be 2 mins delayed (against my laptop's time), by the end of the day, it would already be 5-7 mins late. I didn't notice it before until I realised that my phone's already a day late!
I've tried the above suggestions, but I still have the same problem. Kindly help me out of this one. Thank you.
Ok, first up I want to apologize for being a huge noob when it comes to smart phones, the Velocity is my first.
Ok, recently upgraded to stock ICS as was told by a Telstra store it would improve battery life.
Suffice to say I now need to charge my phone 2 times during the day, even with all non essential things turned off. Also while my 4g has picked up slighly, my 3g is almost non existent.
I work in a remote town and I usually dont have the luxury of charging the phone at noon, hence a dead phone by 1pm now (used to last all day fine)
Simply, I just want to take it back to the stock gingerbread it came with so I can at least use it again.
I have read through the forums for about 7 hours now, can't find what I need (noob remember)
I did find the holiday shipped rom collection post and D/L the RUU_HOLIDAY_SENSE3_5_Telstra_WWE_2.27.841.6_Radio_3.01.4720.09_3
file.
If I run it it wont do anything because its older than what is on the phone.
Found the instructions on how to turn it into a PH39IMG.zip file and loaded to a SD card. pretty much did the same thing at the hboot menu (older file)
Found out how to turn autoloader to unlock and did that, the sd card method now runs through (every file says missing or something though) till the end, but if you reboot its still ICS.
Yes, I have seen the super guide, but it seemed to be for AT&T phones, and being that i don't know much about them, I didnt want to go through it and be wrong.
I have been told it should be as simple as dl the ruu from HTC and running it, but HTC only have the ICS ruu for telstra phones, not the old GB version.
I have emailed both HTC and Telstra asking about it and no response.
Local telstra shop had conflicting info.. one guy said they could do it, but would cost $100, a different guy said no way to go back.
I'm hoping someone can show an extreme noob how to fix this, otherwise I'll have to look at buying a new phone as its pointless having this one for just half a day!
First of all, thank you for actually taking the time to read.
Second, anything in the superguide is applicable to your phone. Just replace any instances of ATT with Telstra, and you're good to go.
What you're going to have to do, if you want GB again, is to unlock your bootloader and fastboot flash a recovery image (ClockworkMod recovery will do), and then you can get a Telstra stock ROM zip from GB and flash that in recovery.
My other suggestion would have been to do the RUU method, but you've already tried that. I'm working under the presumption that your bootloader is locked, as the RUU method is guaranteed to fail if it is.
I'm curious, however, as to why ICS is using more battery on your device than GB did. That's not normal. Do me a favor, could you either screencap or read out what it says in your Settings -> Power -> Battery Use screen when your phone is nearly dead (14% battery or just an extended usage period). Something is very abnormal if you are getting worse battery life on ICS over GB.
Thanks very much for that,
Bootloader is unlocked (I think I said autoloader before, oops) Did it via the HTC unlock tool.
For a bit more info, I had an error 140 before I unlocked, and an error 155 afterwards. I did look up the error codes and the 155 seems to be a wrong version.
Will do a screen cap when I can for you, but from reading the Telstra forums and Whirlpool, it seems there are a lot of people with the same issue and more
(lower battery life, worse signal strength, tinny speaker on calls, call drops, random reboots on charging.. I only have the first 2 issues)
Most of them are looking for fixes for the issues, well.. complaining about them mostly. I think I'm one of the few that want to return to the old version.
As i said, I dont know a lot about them, and I know GB worked for me
EDIT: Get the Telstra stock rom.. is where I got the first one from ok, or is there somewhere else?
You CANNOT run an RUU with an unlocked bootloader, but that's another story for another day.
Do you have some form of recovery on it (CWM, WCX, TeamWin Touch)? If so, it's just a matter of finding a zip of the stock GB ROM. Else, you can use Jirv311 (I hope I spelled that right)'s method of compiling the stock RUU-based ROM posted on the development forum. I know a PH39IMG flash was made for ATT users, but I would advise against using that.
Per your question about ROM source, where did you find it exactly?
Worse comes to worst, just flash a custom GB ROM instead of a stock one if you can't find it. Holiraider is hella nice and gave me plenty of battery life.
By the by, if you choose a rooted ROM, I would heavily recommend to you to use SetCPU and underclock your phone. Search the HTC Dream G1's app board (under legacy devices), and you'll find a link. It's free to XDA members. On ICS, I have no problems ending the day at 50% battery, and that's with reasonably heavy use and my 3 email accounts checking mail at highest frequency.
Rom was from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338919&highlight=holiday+shipped+rom+collection
The link has a telstra GB rom there.
Have also read something about radios? From what I see that is what runs the phone signal side.. some threads have said that a RUU rollback wont change the radio version.. is that correct?
Well, doing some thread hopping I think I have done a proper rollback. Using mainly the superguide and associated links, I have unlocked the phone, think I have rooted it, flashed the Kernal and flashed the rom.
For some reason the only proper RUU/roms I could find wouldn't work, so have installed holiraider. I think I did it right because its running and usable on my phone now.
Unfortunately though, the issues I got when I upgraded to ICS are still there. Bad signal and battery life.
As a guide, I used to be able to have full 3g signal anywhere inside my house, now it fluctuates wildly, if I put my wife's phone alongside mine, hers is steady full signal, mine fluctuates between 0 and 3 bars.
Battery life: If left on screen locked, it seems to last overnight (8 hours)
As soon as you use it you can see the battery metre falling.
Sending a txt messages is using 2-3%, a post on facebook is about 5%
PRE ICS: Standby time about 32 hours, usable time: about 8-9hours
POST ICS: Standby time about 8-9 hours, usable time: anywhere from 4-6 hours.
I can only think with my limited knowledge that the signal fluctuating all the time may be what is chewing up the battery? (Bluetooth and wifi both off) And maybe the ICS update 'upgraded' something that the Holiraider rollback hasnt downgraded?
Same thing happened to me upgrading from GB to ICS. Turns out GoogleBackup was causing partial wakelocks, using both CPU and radio constantly. To check for this or anything else keeping your phone from sleeping, install and run BetterBatteryStats (free for xda users) from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 and look at partial wakelocks.
Otherwise try checking a process monitor to look at what is active all the time, or perhaps use DroidWall to block internet access to apps that don't require it but may be using it.
Regarding the phone's signal, you'll have to go into the network status (in settings) to get numbers (IIRC correctly anything above -106dBm is a usable 3G signal). If this doesn't help, 2G will give you a better signal but it's not ideal. Nothing should be affecting your signal if you don't change the radio however.
Only major thing in the wake locks is alarm manager.
Signal goes from about 91db to 108db. Borrowed a friends phone and sits stable on about 85db.
I think the radio would have been updated when ics was installed. Can the radio be rolled back too?
Jaximus said:
Only major thing in the wake locks is alarm manager.
Signal goes from about 91db to 108db. Borrowed a friends phone and sits stable on about 85db.
I think the radio would have been updated when ics was installed. Can the radio be rolled back too?
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Are you talking about the HTC Clock app, or did you install a third-party app by the name of Alarm Manager? If the latter's the case, you know what to do.
If the former is the case, you might just need to go to Settings -> Applications -> All -> Clock and clear its data.
Is your friend also on a Velocity? Different phones can have different readings based on random variables like interference and antenna placement.
Yeah, its just the HTC clock app. turned off the alarm earlier and its gone from the wake lock, but battery life hasnt changed. My last post was from the phone in question and it used 8% battery to type and post it.
Had a 15min phone call today too, used up 45% of my battery ( made sure to check before and after call.)
Nope, friends phone was a moterola Defy+
Thing is, I had this phone from a few days after they released here, so have been using it since Feb-ish on stock GB with no abnormal battery problems or signal problems.
Installed ICS and problems. Rollback to GB, still problems. I'm using the phone in the same area at home that had no issues before, so its gotta be something ICS, or at least Telstra's version of ICS, did to it.Since I still have the issue, its also gotta be something that didnt rollback with just flashing the rom..