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Was wondering if anyone knew of a ROM that was strictly made to turn your Captivate into a mp3 player. I am getting a new phone and want to turn my captivate into a pure music player........no extra phone components as they aren't needed. Thanks appreciate it
dagreek05 said:
Was wondering if anyone knew of a ROM that was strictly made to turn your Captivate into a mp3 player. I am getting a new phone and want to turn my captivate into a pure music player........no extra phone components as they aren't needed. Thanks appreciate it
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I don't think you'll find a ROM that is made for that.. Although, you can get some really light ROM and install the music player you want on it. You battery won't drain and you'll be able to listen to music as much as you want (or almost ).
Im not too familiar with android where phone components/programs go........but i do know that there are quite a few that run in the background.........I wonder if theres a way to keep them disabled or remove them and keep android working.......im sure that would help the battery and improve speed
dagreek05 said:
Im not too familiar with android where phone components/programs go........but i do know that there are quite a few that run in the background.........I wonder if theres a way to keep them disabled or remove them and keep android working.......im sure that would help the battery and improve speed
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Tbh, speed should never be a problem.
As for battery, I had amazing battery life running FF 3.0 + speedmod k13e listening to music all day long.
Of course, you can kill some running services: Email, SnS, Google Services, Maps and such. But there are some others that you can't kill.
Either way, your phone should be just a good if not better than a mp3 player if you keep it light/stable. Beside, with your phone, you can have voodoo sound imp = amazing sound quality
If you either turn data mode off or flight mode off and that will boost your battery a lot
Sorry said on instead of off
You can also keep it in airplane mode and make sure wifi and bluetooth are off. Not using the radios will help with battery life as well.
edit: just a little too slow typing my reply!
dagreek05 said:
Im not too familiar with android where phone components/programs go........but i do know that there are quite a few that run in the background.........I wonder if theres a way to keep them disabled or remove them and keep android working.......im sure that would help the battery and improve speed
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wells system apps are in /system/app
3rd party apps are in /data/app
you can use titanium backup to freeze apps for testing purposes and then later uninstall them.
make sure you have voodoo sound installed! makes music listening way better.
Hrmmm
Does anyone know of a REALLY light rom? Thanks
dagreek05 said:
Does anyone know of a REALLY light rom? Thanks
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I believe A3 could be what you're looking for. It's very well built and I heard only great things about it.
I'm not sure about the last update but it used to be very stock looking.
great. thx for all info
BWolf56 said:
I believe A3 could be what you're looking for. It's very well built and I heard only great things about it.
I'm not sure about the last update but it used to be very stock looking.
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scifijerry said:
great. thx for all info
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Yeah, no bugs whatsoever and battery life is nothing but spectacular.
And be sure to get the Voodoo Control app of the market.
check out precision 2.5 It is only 78 mb and has absolutely the best battery life of any rom I've used. With airplane mode turned on I would say you could several days use of it. it is fast even without a lagfix which uses battery life on other roms. The developer (Ryude) wanted to make a stripped down rom for better battery life and did a great job.
Why not simply leave the similar card out. No similar card, No service. You'll still be able to use wifi.
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You can use a program like bloatfreeze to "hide" most apps
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Why not simply leave the similar card out. No similar card, No service. You'll still be able to use wifi.
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Even with the sim out the phone will maintain a cell connection thus consuming battery if airplane mode is not turned on.
Put the phone in airplane mode, and use Titanium back up to remove any apps or services you don't want.
I don't really understand why you'd want to strip it down to the point of *just* being an mp3 player - there are better devices out there. But it would make a pretty neat alternative to an iPod touch if you yanked out the SIM card and put the phone airplane mode. You'll get some really respectable battery life that way. The hardware/OS itself doesn't really use that much power outside of the radio and the screen being on. Most of the time the phone spends clocked down to 100 mHz or something and just sips power.
Great!
I would definitely use a launcher to hide all the unnecessary bloatware apps, install only minimal things and then use a premium music player that has all the features you need and looks nice to boot. The one I prefer for all that is PowerAmp, it really looks clean and has a ton of features for you. although you have to pay for it in market
my cappy have been my main music player for a year now!!!
dagreek05 said:
Was wondering if anyone knew of a ROM that was strictly made to turn your Captivate into a mp3 player. I am getting a new phone and want to turn my captivate into a pure music player........no extra phone components as they aren't needed. Thanks appreciate it
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093696
Not sure if links still work though.
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I would like to first start by saying that for this to be a first build it is astronomical ive had some cyanmod builds back when i had my mytouch and hero that wasnt as great but with that said i must give some constructive criticism the audio kernel needs some work, and vtl fc's alot the battery life omg the battery life i did do the bat. stat reset trick and it helped a little bit also i exp. black and gray bars sometimes when i would wake the phone i absoultly love the build and much kudos to all the programmers i know that feed back helps so if yall need a season tester let me know i gotcha
I'm sure they appreciate your honesty, but I... can't really make out 25% of that post.
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This is the first time I've ever heard of these issues with the openZio rom.
My audio is at least as good as stock. VTL never force closes.
No Grey & black bars.
The battery life is greatly improved with the setcpu profiles.
Did you follow the openZio rom instructions carefully and in sequence after the first boot?
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I did them all to a T! I got poor audio, wifi goes in and out and everything takes forever to load no matter what it is!
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Looks like you guys are the proverbial needles in the haystack.
If factory reset and reflashing doesnt do it for you, just go back to stock.
Some things to note:
CALIBRATE YOUR BATTERY.
Make sure your ROOTED (or setcpu and autokiller profiles wont work)
Use SetCPU!!
If you are using TIBackup to restore apps, DO NOT RESTORE DATA!!! ONLY APP!! And never,, NEVER SYSTEM DATA!!!! (only after you have backed up WITH an OpenZio ROM can you restore app data and system data)
The audio issues they are referring to (Im sure) is the monotone bug (plug in a headset and it plays monotone). To fix this, unplug the headphone with music going, wait 3 sec. and plug it back in.
Lets be clear, This is NOT an OpenZio Bug. It is a Zio build bug related to the stock kernel!!
The battery issues? Come on guys, theres a cheap little 1100mAh battery in these things.... The battery life just stinks to begin with. If you calibrate your battery PROPERLY, and use setCPU, it counterbalances the CPU overclock. Make sure your 3g data signal strength is good, because these phones eat up the battery on weak 3g signals (if you are in a weak area, turn off auto-sync to help in saving battery life.)
OpenZio...
hey guys,
totally new to posting on XDA, but i have been reading a lot about the OpenZio platform. i like 90% of what i have read ( the other 10% I'm sure is just noobs like me not paying attention the the directions ) anyways, i have a few questions that i cant seem to glean answers for out of the forums,
what version of android is OpenZio built on? ( i Just upgraded to FroYo and i kinda like the features i have with it, mainly App 2 SD, and i dont want to lose that feature )
do i need to install the android SDK? ( it seems unclear weather or not i need the SDK installed in order to install the ROM. )
how the heck do you get ClockWorkMod to work on the Zio? ( since hearing about OpenZio i have been trying to figure out how to install it on my Cricket Zio but everywhere i turn seems to say that the CWM wont work on it. )
It may be my noob-ness showing but i really hate the fact that i know nothing about flashing roms. i am a quick learner and i would love to learn more about this. ( truthfully i cant stand the stock Cricket Android ROM on my phone )
And i would love to get rid of the Bloatware that they've put into it... oh and the status bar could do with a makeover too. i've seen so many android phones that have better looking icons and status bar colors that when i look at my zio i :'(
and there doesn't seem to be anything in the market that can change the status bar.
thank you for reading this
Dear Fauxfire27;
OpenZio ROM is 2.2.1
No SDK required.
Clockworkmod Recovery for Zio: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968602
After running CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073889
Sincerely: XDA Search Results
thankx spz0 i bow to your excellence and i have one more question.
what do you recommend i use to backup my zio. ( just in case i screw the whole thing up. )
Create a backup using CWM
ok thanks again ))) this just backs up the rom to the sd card right? and if it does i can copy it over to my computer and save it there right?
it works!!!!!!! yeay !!!! spz0 you are the best!!!! as soon as i have money i am so totally going to donate to your cause !!!!
you rock!!!!!
Fauxfire27 said:
ok thanks again ))) this just backs up the rom to the sd card right? and if it does i can copy it over to my computer and save it there right?
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yes.
Spz0 said:
Looks like you guys are the proverbial needles in the haystack.
If factory reset and reflashing doesnt do it for you, just go back to stock.
Some things to note:
CALIBRATE YOUR BATTERY.
Make sure your ROOTED (or setcpu and autokiller profiles wont work)
Use SetCPU!!
If you are using TIBackup to restore apps, DO NOT RESTORE DATA!!! ONLY APP!! And never,, NEVER SYSTEM DATA!!!! (only after you have backed up WITH an OpenZio ROM can you restore app data and system data)
The audio issues they are referring to (Im sure) is the monotone bug (plug in a headset and it plays monotone). To fix this, unplug the headphone with music going, wait 3 sec. and plug it back in.
Lets be clear, This is NOT an OpenZio Bug. It is a Zio build bug related to the stock kernel!!
The battery issues? Come on guys, theres a cheap little 1100mAh battery in these things.... The battery life just stinks to begin with. If you calibrate your battery PROPERLY, and use setCPU, it counterbalances the CPU overclock. Make sure your 3g data signal strength is good, because these phones eat up the battery on weak 3g signals (if you are in a weak area, turn off auto-sync to help in saving battery life.)
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THANK YOU.
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Works great. Hope to see more updates soon.
Now where is the download link or post for 2.2.1?
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My brother's galaxy note have been facing serious sod problems since he bought the phone at Nov 2012. After he faced it the 1st time , he sent to SC and got it back. After 1-2months the problem came again and he asked for my help. I persume it was because the malaysian firmware of the ICS was somewhat unstable from what i read from forums here and there. So i changed the firmware to JB duno from which country when it came out in MAC. After a week or so. The problem reappeared . So I just decided to root and chnge the kernel and also the ROM. Changed the ROM to a stock rom and a kernel. Still the problem persist. I'm out of options. Went to the ****ty SC and the idiots just factory reset the phone and give u back. BUNCH OF RETAR*S . (sorry for my languange)
Hope someone here may help me out with my problem. Thanks a million :laugh:
Check all the apps you have installed maybe you find the bad one whose causing it as you have mentioned it comes after sometime of installing a fresh rom and have you tried any aosp rom maybe that will fix the issue
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Check all the apps you have installed maybe you find the bad one whose causing it as you have mentioned it comes after sometime of installing a fresh rom and have you tried any aosp rom maybe that will fix the issue
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I just installed an aosp rom (PA) and I hope it fixes the problem. Well I've seen the amount of apps installed in the note and its jst a quarter the amount I have in the Galaxy S2 and my S2 works like a charm. The note has been giving me headache ever since I got it from my brother. Hope this does solve it , if not I guess its something else maybe hardware
Phone sod twice on paranoid android. FML! Guess im visiting SC tmrw again.
Same problem with me..
My Note 1 has SOD since 1st time bought it..
be patience to install JB --> still SOD
change kernel to SpeedMod 5.3 --> SOD again
change kernel to PhilZ --> sometimes SOD
I have read many information that related with SOD in galnote 1, my opinion it is related with hardware too.. sometimes
or it is related with kernel... it can not wake from deep sleep..
anyone have another better suggestion to cure this ?
if u're using pure stock rom still facing the same problems then definitely is hardware issues！
if ur device still under warranties suggest bring to SC ask them do a thorough check on it n let them know what's going on actually...
Yes, I use stock ROM still has SOD,
so it's hardware issue for sure...
but I will keep the phone for now because sometimes SC doesn't give solution to this..
psywarx said:
Yes, I use stock ROM still has SOD,
so it's hardware issue for sure...
but I will keep the phone for now because sometimes SC doesn't give solution to this..
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Yeah and they will give your phone back only doing a factory reset lol
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I too get this SOD once a week on my GT-N7000
Phone status when this happens:
stock JB(earlier ICS), non-rooted, data connection, wifi, GPS, bluetooth all disabled. Battery mostly above 80%.
Gmail, Google+, Facebook and all other social n/w apps disabled (yes, i am an oldtimer )
During SOD, if a third party calls my number, he hears it ringing, but my handset is dead as dodo (quite dangerous as the calling person may think i am not answering it)
i used to get this when it was on ICS and still getting it after i upgraded to JB.
Most of the time, SOD occurs during wee hours in morning ( i used battery monitor app that logs battery stats every 10 minutes to check the time when this happens).
Sometimes it occurs when the phone is in my jeans back pocket. phone needs a 10 second press on pwr switch to restart it.
Turning off the "power saver" mode seem to reduce the probability of SOD.
i have taken this phone to SC and they re-flashed the JB.
i told the SC chap that i have already done this and couple of factory resets, but he said that they do "much more" than just re-flashing through kies like calibrating camera, bluetooth )
does anyone in the know, know if this is indeed true ?
Thanks
-mprab
updates...
After 2 days of re-flashing at a samsung authorised service center, i got SoD 2 times in a period of 12 hours.
once last night and second time when i was traveling to office.
Last night i installed some bare-minimum apps back after waiting 2 days for any SoD to happen in "stock" condition.
Well.... i did not pay 30K to use the GNote as just a phone, so installed some basic apps (Battery monitor, Bangalore BMTC, RealCalc, GPS Test, ES File explorer and a first time app StatusLogger)
phone went dead at 1:00 am in morning and as usual there was no wakeup alarm.
phone was warm to touch when it was lying dead. The battery which was 96% at 00:30 AM had gone down to 54% at 7:00 AM.
Status logger did not show any loss of GSM signal which might have resulted in phone transmitting at higher power/hunting for signal etc.
The "radio" seemed working, because when i made a call to the dead phone from my landline, i could hear the phone ring instead of expected "phone is switched off" message i was expecting.
So this has to do with application processor going in some infinite loop.
Uninstalling all apps is NOT an option.
anyone know if we can establish any debug connection to phone and know what the hell CPU is up to in this situation ?
any processor logger that will periodically log all the processes running on phone ?
SOD resolved... not a single one since 6 months.
Hey guys, just wanted to share this info with you, I had SOD's like anything and did all freakingly possible things right from flashing roms to kernels, speed up CPU, banging my head in front of the dumb witted morons at samsung service... to get rid of that pain. What helped me was an app called "WAKELOCK" by darken which is merely 72kb in size but works wonders, not a single SOD after that. What u need to do is.... it has a list of presets that makes sure your cpu stays up. You need to select the preset called "partial wake lock" which is at no. 4, and viola...
It ensures that the CPU is running. No SOD ever after. Also, you need to make it autorun on boot from the options. Yea, it does eat up batter a bit more but its definitely manageable. I still need to charge my note only at night.
Just to be sure, I uninstalled it and guess what, SOD returned. So, do try it, I hope it helps...
Hello ,
im using the HTC One M7 Since he got in the dutch store.
Im very happy with this phone . I flashed rom a few times and im currently on InsertCoins latest rom.
The problem i have now is that my battery runs out more quick , before its 5 o clock @ work my phone is drained to 25 %.....
Even with battery save mode on...
My question is why woud my battery drain so quick now , and what can i do to fix it?
Also my notification light on the front doesnt work @ all only when i plug it in charger.
My last question actually the most important , i listen to music alot , and i love the htc stock music player with long list of recently added. The problem is he doenst read these songs , i never see witch songs i added .. they just dissapear in a music list wich has like 1000 songs. How can i fix it?
Thank you for reading this! if you can help me out please leave a message!
Greetings
Daan
You probably have a rogue app. Search, this has been asked a lot. Install Gsam or better battery stats or wakelock detector. Make sure you also install it as a system app if you're running kitkat.
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You probably have a rogue app. Search, this has been asked a lot. Install Gsam or better battery stats or wakelock detector. Make sure you also install it as a system app if you're running kitkat.
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i am running kitkat , Rogue means something bad? And how do i install it as system app?
Tnx for ur reaction
Yes, I meansan app that stops your phone from sleeping.
Installing as a system app... It'll probably ask you, or it's in the settings. You'll figure it out if you try.
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Yes, I meansan app that stops your phone from sleeping.
Installing as a system app... It'll probably ask you, or it's in the settings. You'll figure it out if you try.
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The most active app is system: wakeclock
Any idea how i can get my notification light working?
Grtz
hay all i searched the forum and the net to find if anyone is having the same issue but didnt find anyway,
i've tried several kitkat roms with several versions they are all great roms but for me i had experienced a common bug between them ,sometimes the phone gets heat up and the battery drains very fast i open the cpu monitor and find that there is a process ( not a specific one ) using 50% of the cpu till the battery die , it doesnt get killed when i kill it the only solution is by restarting the phone
it happens randomly not always sometimes daily sometimes every 2 or more days sometimes several times a day.
i use xposed with all the roms i tried .
dont know if it is familiar with anyone here but i hope someone could help Thanx
no one here to help ?
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Maybe no one else has this problem. Maybe it is a strange effect due to settings of an old installation. Try a fresh install, wipe all data.
thanx for replying .. yes i tried i installed official TW gb then official TW jb then again flashed custom kitkat same issue no luck
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ttm1st said:
thanx for replying .. yes i tried i installed official TW gb then official TW jb then again flashed custom kitkat same issue no luck
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The VERY common n MOST probable cause of battery drain in all current KK roms is: GOOGLE +
Delete or deactivate it (preferably just delete it) and try again.
The 2nd Most probable would be media scanner, go to advanced setting and then turn media scan off.
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hay all i searched the forum and the net to find if anyone is having the same issue but didnt find anyway,
i've tried several kitkat roms with several versions they are all great roms but for me i had experienced a common bug between them ,sometimes the phone gets heat up and the battery drains very fast i open the cpu monitor and find that there is a process ( not a specific one ) using 50% of the cpu till the battery die , it doesnt get killed when i kill it the only solution is by restarting the phone
it happens randomly not always sometimes daily sometimes every 2 or more days sometimes several times a day.
i use xposed with all the roms i tried .
dont know if it is familiar with anyone here but i hope someone could help Thanx
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Yes I experienced the same with KitKat CM11. Mine was plain CM, no Google Apps so no Google+. I have also tried the last "stable" CM (10.1.3 I think) and that also converted my Note into a hand warmer. Like you I had to power down, I couldn't kill the problem processes and it wasn't always the same process.
The problems with the Exynos based devices is documented on xda at great length. Unfortunately some people gloss over or fail to mention this when promoting various ROMs. The CM devs quit supporting these devices because it's not possible to do it as well as they would like (thanks to Samsung being indifferent or unsupportive, not any failure or unwillingness by the CM and community devs). You aren't going to get a ROM that works as well as stock. You can get ROMs that do some stuff better or have a newer version of this or that or have some very attractive UI but there are major issues such as overheating, less good video and audio codec support on the device DSP (try some HD movies with ac3 or dts audio and you will know!) and the external SD card spontaneously unmounting (possibly this is causing the runaway processes as well as the more obvious sudden stops in file transfers and music playback when using the extra card).
Omnirom is the only GT-N7000 ROM I tried that didn't overheat or have runaway processes and kill the battery life and it also has a very professional feel. I also noticed that scrolling and page rendering in Firefox was much better in Omnirom, almost as good as stock Samsung. However I ran into some other issues (some mentioned above) so I have switched back to Samsung's 4.1.2. I don't need Kitkat but if I did I would probably choose Omnirom, but actually the stock Samsung firmware has been smoothest and has by far the best battery life in my experience - just use the built-in "Power saving mode", job done. The ability to disable apps in the stock firmware is perfectly good enough to disable any of the so-called bloatware or even all the Google services and apps. If you like to disable so much stuff that your Note breaks then root it and install something like Performance Control and you can freeze anything you like and make yourself a nice boot loop
If you just want a bit more control over your device you can root it without flashing any ROM or custom kernel by using method 1B* as described at forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1329360 There is no need to flash a "safe" kernel, that advice is for older android versions and is totally redundant for 4.1.2.
*short version:
Reboot into recovery, install Root_SuperSu 0.95
Boot. Run Supersu, update it.
Reboot into recovery, install Root_busybox *.zip
All done.
It's rock solid stable, has great battery life, supports all audio and video codecs, doesn't get hot, runs smooth, lets you be in control.
thanx for giving ur time ... to be honest i installed TW 4.1.2 before at first it ran smooth but after a while it starts to get laggy alot even with root and with bloatware removed and so .but in kitkat roms its alot smoother the only problem is theon i mentioned i will try as u guys said ill disable google+ and see if it helps . thanx for u all again
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@julian67
Hei julian, 1st of all thank you for providing useful and educating informations. Typing them sure took much of your time n it's greatly appreciated. But if I may add a bit of opinion, those problems mentioned mostly come with the newer version of KK like 4.4.3 n 4.4.4's. In 4.4.2, those problems mentioned rarely happened unless of course u have google + enabled. The most irritating bug is just how music player stopped suddenly after playing for sometime (times variable to each person's device) n only rebooting can solve it. Lots of advices states that formatting to ex-fat could solve the problem (unproven by me, haven't tried it). With regards of HD movies I also haven't tried as I only watch 480 p movies in my phone, save more memory storage means more movies to watch. A good example other than omnirom as u stated would be C-Rom 4.4.2 vers. I use it for almost 3 months n music player bug is the only thing that crazes me. Anyway thanks again.
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