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Bad Battery Life, how to make it better?

Sorry for like, my 3rd thread in a few days.
Basically, I use my INC S for a lot of stuff, Music etc. and it barely gets me through the day.
How can I use apps like Set CPU, Oc/uv beater and such to gain better battery life, and what are the Exact settings for them?
Also, is there anything else that can help with battery?
(Currently on Android Revolution HD)

JccageX2 said:
Sorry for like, my 3rd thread in a few days.
Basically, I use my INC S for a lot of stuff, Music etc. and it barely gets me through the day.
How can I use apps like Set CPU, Oc/uv beater and such to gain better battery life, and what are the Exact settings for them?
Also, is there anything else that can help with battery?
(Currently on Android Revolution HD)
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Well the first thing you could do would be to go to cm7 and flash the tiamat kernel for better battery life.
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I'd say find out what's eating the battery...I'm using my Inc S frequently (at least e-mails and browsing every hour) and I get at least 2 days out of 1 charge.
Try disabling any live wallpapers, any widgets, any applications running in the background (like yahoo messenger, facebook, msn, etc) and don't use any task killer/juice defender...
When checking the battery usage, I see the phone going in deep sleep regularly (which is essential for good battery life) and I'm loosing about 6-7% over the night, with BT, Wifi always on and email with push.
Ohh and I'm on the latest stock Optus Australia Rom, Hboot 1.16.000.

I think it's just general use. Using the browser a bit, I don't have much things updating in the background and such.
@incrediblealex I got a HTC For sense, I don't want to go to CM7 without sense
I'll go cynaogeon when ICS Come's out probably

Install unity's latest kernel use setcpu with min 180 Max 1050 governer on smartass undervolt using incredicontrol -75 on every parameter.

itsbeertimenow said:
Install unity's latest kernel use setcpu with min 180 Max 1050 governer on smartass undervolt using incredicontrol -75 on every parameter.
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Do this and also flash Nikhils trinity sensationXL ROM, found in the development section. Just brought out an updated version and its sense 3.5 so, if u like sense which I do, u won't look back. I have posted my exact settings using ov/uv beater somewhere in this thread. Smootharse and smartarse are great governors. Increased my battery no end!
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trinity rom is a good rom. kinda like it alr on first look.

re calibation
empty used and fully recharged + 1.5 hrs

VaderXI said:
Do this and also flash Nikhils trinity sensationXL ROM, found in the development section. Just brought out an updated version and its sense 3.5 so, if u like sense which I do, u won't look back. I have posted my exact settings using ov/uv beater somewhere in this thread. Smootharse and smartarse are great governors. Increased my battery no end!
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There is no Smoothass setting when I install it.
Is there no simple settings I can use? or what are the exact settings for it?

U using ov/uv beater2 v1.7 yes? To be honest settings are personal preference, but what works for me is wake min 230400 wake max 1228800, sleep min 230400 sleep max 691200. Google it to find out more about CPU settings.
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Well mine has finally made it through the day without a charge!! Thanks to the Incredible 2 extended battery (fits the S perfectly and I'm sure the signal and wifi have got stronger), and still 30% left. Finally I've got a phone that I'm not scared to use without being near a socket......
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which incredible 2 extended battery are you using?

jmccoy555 said:
Well mine has finally made it through the day without a charge!! Thanks to the Incredible 2 extended battery (fits the S perfectly and I'm sure the signal and wifi have got stronger), and still 30% left. Finally I've got a phone that I'm not scared to use without being near a socket......
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Are you saying you are using a battery for another phone? I what is this incredible 2 extended battery you speak of?
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I'm using the official HTC Incredible 2 extended battery and back, 2150mAh, in my S. I think it's only available in the US, it's on the HTC site. There are a few sites I found that sell it and ship internationally but I got it from eBay, seller best_deal_today. Took about a week to deliver to the UK.
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Non responsive touchscreen

Hello,
Since I've bought my Incredible S about 8 months ago, I've been experiencing this problem. Somethimes, when I'm writing a message, there is 1 letter that doesn't work, if I press on it, it chooses the letter besides it. If I exit the app and reopen it, everything is fine. So its only the keyboard that's acting weird.
I had this on the standard 2.3.3 and 2.3.5 and now on 4.0.3 with the Virtuous Quatrro ROM.
Now I'm using the default ICS keyboard, on Gingerbread I used Better Keyboard.
Does anyone know a sollution?
Just to notice, my phone was send to HTC for repair somewhere around Octobre last year, and they replaced the whole front, including the screen. 2 weeks before that, they replaced the motherboard. So I still had the problem after the repair. And I think it's not software related, bevause it's just when I'm typing something, and not when I'm scrolling trough menu's or something like that.

Had the same problem. And I have a solution: don't notice it
I know its irritating sometimes, but that's not a real problem, so take it easy
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SandySemenov said:
Had the same problem. And I have a solution: don't notice it
I know its irritating sometimes, but that's not a real problem, so take it easy
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Well, half the times I'm writing a message there is at least one key not working, and I have to reopen the app, it's quite frustrating...

MrSenne said:
Hello,
Since I've bought my Incredible S about 8 months ago, I've been experiencing this problem. Somethimes, when I'm writing a message, there is 1 letter that doesn't work, if I press on it, it chooses the letter besides it. If I exit the app and reopen it, everything is fine. So its only the keyboard that's acting weird.
I had this on the standard 2.3.3 and 2.3.5 and now on 4.0.3 with the Virtuous Quatrro ROM.
Now I'm using the default ICS keyboard, on Gingerbread I used Better Keyboard.
Does anyone know a sollution?
Just to notice, my phone was send to HTC for repair somewhere around Octobre last year, and they replaced the whole front, including the screen. 2 weeks before that, they replaced the motherboard. So I still had the problem after the repair. And I think it's not software related, bevause it's just when I'm typing something, and not when I'm scrolling trough menu's or something like that.
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I have had that problem with my mum's Wildfire S as well.
But then i realized that the phone had not been rebooted in a while.
Restarting the phone did the trick so i assumed that there were too many programs running in the background.
However, now after i guess a couple of months, the problem still persists albeit at a very minor stage.

Either lock the screen then unlock it. Or reboot the phone.
Both methods work for me when I get this issue. I use the lockscreen when I need my phone but if I've got a 5mins spare ill reboot.
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vizzy said:
Either lock the screen then unlock it. Or reboot the phone.
Both methods work for me when I get this issue. I use the lockscreen when I need my phone but if I've got a 5mins spare ill reboot.
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The funny part is when this issue occurs, sliding the lock screen also seems impossible

Then lockscreen and unlock it again and all is fixed? ..... when I have issues with lock screen I just lock and re-unlock then it fixes it.
Does that work for you?
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Locking and unlocking the lockscreen helpes, but there has to be a permanent sollution for this right?

Not that I know of. ....are you using just stock lockscreen etc or do you have 3rd party apps like widget locker?
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vizzy said:
Not that I know of. ....are you using just stock lockscreen etc or do you have 3rd party apps like widget locker?
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The stock ICS lockscreen.

Ahh. Could try a clean install of a different rom see if it happens? Tbh I'm just learning to live with it I get it once a week even less than that sometimes.
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I get it like 20 times a day so it's pretty annoying..
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Ahh then I honestly have no idea. I get it nown and again so it doesn't bother me too much.
All I can say it maybe try a different rom or kernel. Other than that I'm unsure maybe something internally it knackered as a worst case scenario.
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I had this problem aswell. It started out in the same way as yours just being a tad un responsive, but slowly got worse. What it turned out to be was that digitizer was faulty as I replaced the digitizer myself and the problem was solved. As you say that the screen etc has been replaced before this could well be the case. I would recommend getting in done professionally as it isn't an easy job. Look on the market for a touch screen test app and see if you have any dead spots.

letmedanz said:
The funny part is when this issue occurs, sliding the lock screen also seems impossible
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i've had the unresponsive lockscreen issue when using cm7 and cm7 based roms, then today i checked set cpu and i had a profile for screen off - a low clock speed with conservative governor. Changed to interactive and slightly high clock speeds and dont seem to be facing the issue any more....at least its been okay for the past 6 hours...hope this helps

I find if you lock the phone and wipe the screen until it's nice and clean it fixes this problem. It could be caused by a buildup of finger oils on the screen, or from your face after making a call. Not to sure though.

ZaySk said:
I find if you lock the phone and wipe the screen until it's nice and clean it fixes this problem. It could be caused by a buildup of finger oils on the screen, or from your face after making a call. Not to sure though.
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I don't think its a reason, coz I've never heard about dirty screen lockscreen problems
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vizzy said:
Either lock the screen then unlock it. Or reboot the phone.
Both methods work for me when I get this issue. I use the lockscreen when I need my phone but if I've got a 5mins spare ill reboot.
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same with me.. huhu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCT5odDTaf8

Looking for the perfect rom.... For me.

Don't worry I'm not asking "Which rom is the best". After all thats an insult to developers and its a matter of preference anyway. I'm asking which one meets my needs or most of them anyway. I'm looking for a rom with the following:
*No annoying "android is upgrading" on every boot
*All animations enabled
*wifi tethering unlocked
*ability to disable lte and use hspa+/Edge only
Other things that would be nice but not as important:
*bloatware removed (I can do this with TB anyway if rooted)
*ASOP notification bar theme, no more gb looking icons (probably can do this with uot kitchen dunno)
*"visual voicemail" button removed from dialer Google voice button instead? (Is this possible? If anything just linking gvoice to it would work)
*Sense 4 launcher or just a modified 3.6 launcher with Widgets in the app drawer (I don't think it exists but I know I could just as well use apex or nova but I love the sense Widgets)
*removed recent apps from notification area (whats the point? I can just hold home anyway)
*configurable quick settings
Also ROM has to work on the HTC vivid on at&t. Quick question too does permaroot mean permanent forever? Like there's no way back? Also I noticed the vivid tools and the rooting ics guide which one should I use? And lastly do I need to achieve s-off or is rooting enough? I apologize for all the questions but I came from the captivate and its stock with an unlocked bootloader and almost designed for rooting and custom roms
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So you would defenitely want either PGs rum float or (just Google: androidninjas)
Or wild child's from. Google wcxxperia...
As for permroot , it means it is permanent you want loose root on reboot or power downs. But not permanent as in never go back. There are a hand full of ways to go back...
Try using the super guide first. I think In the guide he puts a link to his toolkit. But since you aren't really familiar with this use the super guide. It goes step by step.
Hope this helped.
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How about you read all of the ROM's threads, test each one out and see which one you like.

I've been reading up on them but its a bit confusing ATM.

you can't go wrong with the Virtuous Inquisition rom or the wajee ones, search the development thread, there are like 5 new roms.

Yeah gotta admit with the great one x reviews and the gs3 launch I was starting to regret getting this phone but seeing the recent surge in development makes me feel more confident. I originally didn't plan on rooting and installing a custom rom but I kept my captivate stock for all of 2 weeks and its killing me how limited I am to customizing plus I loved using my cappys wifi tether with my flyer and lte is eating my batteries and killing my phone when using Pandora over Bluetooth! If anything I may just root soon so I can tweak the phone
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Sounds like either the virtuous or Wajee's from would be a good choice for you. They are ports of sensation rooms so all three current ones have hspa/edge connectivity only from what I've seen. They are very slick and quick with running either the stock ics launcher (wajee's unsensed) or apex (virtuous). There might be a few bugs still being worked out but those are the closest to what you seem to require at the moment!
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Yeah I was looking at both of those. Does hspa+ aka fake 4G work?
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as far as I can tell all signs points to yes. I ran some speed test and they are holding close to what I got stock in my non-lte town
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Cool. Only thing is I do love the sense widgets and the lockscreen shortcuts. Guess you can't have it all.
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The unsensed beta has lock screen shortcuts, but no HTC Widgets tho unfortunately. That's a sacrifice for such a nice rom. But with beautiful widget you don't really need the HTC Widgets.
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Yeah I got beautiful Widgets and fancy Widgets actually. Bought fancy Widgets when I got my captivate and beautiful Widgets was on sale for 10 cents during Google's 10 days of 10 cent apps. They do a great job no doubt but one thing they can't do is animations. But they do have an advantage with the ability to link custom weather apps because honestly the sense one is meh.
The unsensed one must of borrowed that from cm. CM7 had the rings lock screen where you could add a third ring and add up to 4 shortcuts with it. What is the aosp ics lock screen like? The way Google made it sound was lock screen shortcuts are built in. Honestly as long as I can access my camera I'm good.
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From what I can tell its pretty much the same lock screen then. Camera/phone/SMS/unlock from that screen.one bonus too is lock screen control for music apps . Rdio/slacker is so much better now
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Sounds good I'll give them a try when I get time to sit down with this thing. My flyer took a bit to get it rooted, lots of adb commands etc. Don't think the vivid will be as bad as the flyer doesn't have a GUI to use.
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Rooting the phone is quite simple. Even doing the s-off is fairly a easy process when it comes down to it. Follow the guide and you should be fine. If you need help post here or jump on the irc, a lot of smart people hang out there and love helping out.
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kevsthabest said:
Sounds like either the virtuous or Wajee's from would be a good choice for you. They are ports of sensation rooms so all three current ones have hspa/edge connectivity only from what I've seen. They are very slick and quick with running either the stock ics launcher (wajee's unsensed) or apex (virtuous). There might be a few bugs still being worked out but those are the closest to what you seem to require at the moment!
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Wait, they don't have LTE? Why would that be the case, since it is using a Holiday radio? I personally haven't tested it, as I don't live in an LTE area.
Also, Virtuous is using Nova, which I instantly replaced with the stock ICS launcher.
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I don't even really care about lte now. Only real use of it is to show off your download speed to your friends. But it eats your battery alive and causes overheating issues and just pointless anyway with a 2 gig data cap. When I went on vacation a coupled weeks ago I went out of lte coverage and battery life was worlds better and I was still getting 12 meg down. 12 meg is what my home internet is so hspa+ is all you really need.
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As far as I've seen the ports don't have late because they are straight ports. These roms don't have lte support built in. You can confirm this by going in the dialer and typing *#*#4636#*#* and under phone information. The option for late isn't available. But like the op said. Its mostly not required while using your phone 90% of the time. It just uses your data a lot faster and doesn't really change much else in your web browsing experience.
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Hey one quick question. I was looking at the Junopeterbear S-off and it looks kind of complicated...wire trick? Do I need to even concern myself with that or is just unlocking the bootloader and obtaining root access enough? ugh... I have to take the phone apart? Man I don't even wanna mess with that. Hopefully they'll have an ADB method or cwm flashable method in the future. I'll just stay away from that!
Edit: yeah sure enough the screw on the panel I need to pull off has a sticker that says "void" on it. I don't want to void my warrenty. Obviously flashing a rom technically does that but only if they can proove it! Might be different if I ever even once made it through a contract without having to swap my phone out for various hardware failures (Captivates speaker broke swapped it out and 3 months later the power button died on the refirb)

kevsthabest said:
As far as I've seen the ports don't have late because they are straight ports. These roms don't have lte support built in. You can confirm this by going in the dialer and typing *#*#4636#*#* and under phone information. The option for late isn't available. But like the op said. Its mostly not required while using your phone 90% of the time. It just uses your data a lot faster and doesn't really change much else in your web browsing experience.
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According to cruzin_cruising, the Virtuous ROM still has LTE support. I don't really know, since I don't live in an LTE area.

[Q] ICS - is it worth the upgrade?

Hi Guys,
I want some feedback regarding ICS update. Is it worth it? I am on Rogers (Canada). Any one experience ghost call/sms? How stable is it?
I would appreciate any feedback?
Thanks

A lot of users are having difficulty with the base band working. There's a thread about it in the optimus forums. My son uses mine to play angry birds. Wifi works well. I think someone mentioned problems with Bluetooth connections. As with most things your mileage may vary.
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Mine runs ics great a little lag at times but pretty good working it all out though
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From my experience MMS sucked, the camera was buggy, and there's a lot of Korean bits left in it. I think GB Prometheus ROM has it beat by a long shot to be honest. If you like working on Android you'll enjoy it cause you will be doing a lot of it.
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kamkash said:
Hi Guys,
I want some feedback regarding ICS update. Is it worth it? I am on Rogers (Canada). Any one experience ghost call/sms? How stable is it?
I would appreciate any feedback?
Thanks
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It charges the phone a lot faster, battery's charge lasts longer than before while not using the phone.
Once you have flashed the baseband with the fastboot procedure (because once you have flashed the ICS rom you lose the GB download mode) and once you have deleted all the Korean T, Nate and SKT bloatware, it runs pretty great...HOWEVER!!!
You ARE NOT going to be able to adjust the brightness while watching 3d videos or movies while using the stock player...
You ARE NOT going to be able to use the 3D Converter as you used to with GB because IT DOES NOT TRANSFORM ANY GAMES TO 3D!!!
The CAMERA PROBLEM!!!
Some games are not running like they should (ocassional slowdowns not present while using GB) even if they are in 2D and you have most of the telephone's ram free.
Everything else appears to be working fine.

So far I've had great results with wifi, sms, and phone on straight talk in USA. Wish I could say for Rodgers. There is a thread here that discusses working basebands for the O3D and the Thrill. you should check it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33336122

Irritating screen

So as the title says I got a REALLY irritating screen...
Ex. If I open minecraft I'm playing... Multi-touch doesn't bug and if I wait till my screen goes off and hit the power button to go back to the game my multitouch bugs... I changed about 6 roms sane problem... Please help if u got a solution for this problem
Thanks In advance
-ozi
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oziboy said:
So as the title says I got a REALLY irritating screen...
Ex. If I open minecraft I'm playing... Multi-touch doesn't bug and if I wait till my screen goes off and hit the power button to go back to the game my multitouch bugs... I changed about 6 roms sane problem... Please help if u got a solution for this problem
Thanks In advance
-ozi
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If it's just Minecraft, I have the issue as well.
The kernels are fine. They have multi-touch fixed.

072665995 said:
If it's just Minecraft, I have the issue as well.
The kernels are fine. They have multi-touch fixed.
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I had that kind of issues in other couple of games as well like "snake payback", sometimes it happens when i go to other app and come back to game.

pinkyponku said:
I had that kind of issues in other couple of games as well like "snake payback", sometimes it happens when i go to other app and come back to game.
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Yea something like that u understand what i mean... P.s. even if I overclock my phone it still has the same effect thus nothing to do with performance... XD
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072665995 said:
If it's just Minecraft, I have the issue as well.
The kernels are fine. They have multi-touch fixed.
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All multitouch games like beach buggy blitz minecraft gta 3 gta vice city etc.
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Anyone who can help? Anyone?
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oziboy said:
Anyone who can help? Anyone?
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I have not found any solutions as yet, I think it is related to some service getting killed or something related to memory or IncS hardware limitation. It is quite possible that it is issue with games (due to above) because I remember testing touches with YAMTT app and touches worked fine, probably you can check it for your phone.
As a workaround, I lock-unlock again and see if it works. If it is still not working, long press home key to get app running history, remove that game and open it again (restarting game ). I remember on rare occasions I have to restart my phone.
P.S.
I am not expert, we have many experts here in this forums, so few of above may be incorrect

pinkyponku said:
I have not found any solutions as yet, I think it is related to some service getting killed or something related to memory or IncS hardware limitation. It is quite possible that it is issue with games (due to above) because I remember testing touches with YAMTT app and touches worked fine, probably you can check it for your phone.
As a workaround, I lock-unlock again and see if it works. If it is still not working, long press home key to get app running history, remove that game and open it again (restarting game ). I remember on rare occasions I have to restart my phone.
P.S.
I am not expert, we have many experts here in this forums, so few of above may be incorrect
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Thx for your reply I already used this solution (sorry if I forgot to type) for a loong time and I actually hate it... Sometimes I wanna play multiplayer games with friends and when the game is loading I look so something else, my phone locks its screen and then,... My screen is TOTALLY MESSED UP and I gotta do the whoooole process again kill task, go to home, lock screen unlock start app and if it still doesn't work, redo the cycle and I'm tired of doing that thx anyways
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Yes, same here, its irritating. Have you tried SVHD 2.1 ROM with kangaroo v19 kernel, I am getting the best performance from my phone amongst the ROMs that I have personally tried. At this moment I am not playing games heavily, but have not faced this issue in svhd ROM. I would suggest that you keep ROM for 2-3 days to conclude if that ROM works for you (like performance, battery etc)
Meanwhile let's wait for solutions from experienced user or expert.
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pinkyponku said:
Yes, same here, its irritating. Have you tried SVHD 2.1 ROM with kangaroo v19 kernel, I am getting the best performance from my phone amongst the ROMs that I have personally tried. At this moment I am not playing games heavily, but have not faced this issue in svhd ROM. I would suggest that you keep ROM for 2-3 days to conclude if that ROM works for you (like performance, battery etc)
Meanwhile let's wait for solutions from experienced user or expert.
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Hey thanks for your reply... I was searching for other roms anyway, since vipervivo stopped copying from viperdhd yes I use vipervivo ...
So imma try that Rom
I'm downloading it thank u
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