Holy Finishing Touches Batman, it's Sapphire 1.0

[mcapozzi]

I've been using Sapphire 1.0.0 for a few days now and the only app crash I've had was a couple FC's with acore (happens every other day or so). The phone recovers within 30 seconds so I really don't care. This is by far the most stable Froyo ROM I have used.

I've also applied the Stagefright fix (after enabling Stagefright in the build.prop) and the system level equalizer without any problems.

I hope I'll be able to fix these types of things when I get my Droid X next month.

Great job!

-Mike

 

[schellbl]

Does anyone know what Kernel comes with this standard? I can't get past the M logo. Yes I have wiped 3 times. Using SPRecovery by the way.

 

[dmartins]

Does anyone know what Kernel comes with this standard? I can't get past the M logo. Yes I have wiped 3 times. Using SPRecovery by the way.

I believe it's the 125MHz -1GHz.
Just us SPRecovery to load another kernel.
I would use a standard voltage one just to get it running.
You could start with this one 7x125-800SV

 

[jdm627]

Technically, it will be posible some themes drian the battery faster?
If yes,which theme have lees battery drain?

 

[litso]

^^^^ this......

Base + apps+ sync+backup+theme+backup+kernel

Sent from my Droid

Wow. I just installed tonight, and I downloaded everything at once. Theme, kernel, ROM, google apps. I then booted into clockwork and installed everything at one time. ROM first, then the others in no particular order. I haven't had any major problems yet, and I have successfully received a phone call. Guess I got lucky.

More often than not that will probably work for most people. Those steps are recommended because if something is going to cause problems, its going to be the theme or the kernel. The hardware in Droids isn't identical across the board. Some phones can run a 1.2 GHz ULV kernel no problems, others will never reach that clockspeed, or require a standard voltage kernel to achieve it.

If you follow those steps though, you can make sure that your base sapphire installs and runs fine. Then you can make sure the theme is installed and running fine. Then the kernel. If something does go wrong, you know exactly what caused the problem and can easily fix it, and you have backups all along the way to go back to a working set up instead of starting from scratch.

 

[droiddadi]

Technically, it will be posible some themes drian the battery faster?
If yes,which theme have lees battery drain?

Yes in my case. Other than battery drain they also caused freezes and reboots in my case. I tried black bar and black glass themes. YMMV

 

[mcapozzi]

Technically, it will be posible some themes drian the battery faster?
If yes,which theme have lees battery drain?

Yes in my case. Other than battery drain they also caused freezes and reboots in my case. I tried black bar and black glass themes. YMMV

I can understand an app freeze or a reboot being a result of a theme, but I'm having a tough time believing that a theme would increase battery usage. I guess if a themed app froze it would probably consume more battery as it did its death spiral. Themed apps that run properly shouldn't cause increased battery usage. It isn't like a theme will keep your screen on any longer than it would running stock.

FWIW, the NexTheme for Sapphire runs extremely well.

-Mike

 

[dmartins]

Technically, it will be posible some themes drian the battery faster?
If yes,which theme have lees battery drain?

Not for me.
I removed ADWLauncher and left everything else and I get the same battery drain as before.
I'm even using a custom Launcher2.apk. http://www.droidforums.net/forum/cvpcs/69418-sapphire-1-0-themed-default-launcher.html

 

[SamuriHL]

Droid X theme is working fine for me. I didn't notice any battery life differences.

 

[droiddadi]

Technically, it will be posible some themes drian the battery faster?
If yes,which theme have lees battery drain?

Yes in my case. Other than battery drain they also caused freezes and reboots in my case. I tried black bar and black glass themes. YMMV

I can understand an app freeze or a reboot being a result of a theme, but I'm having a tough time believing that a theme would increase battery usage. I guess if a themed app froze it would probably consume more battery as it did its death spiral. Themed apps that run properly shouldn't cause increased battery usage. It isn't like a theme will keep your screen on any longer than it would running stock.

FWIW, the NexTheme for Sapphire runs extremely well.

-Mike

I couldn't find which app is causing the freeze. App freeze causes more battery drain. I will give Nextheme a shot. Does nextheme has default droid fonts?

 

[jdm627]

Technically, it will be posible some themes drian the battery faster?
If yes,which theme have lees battery drain?

Yes in my case. Other than battery drain they also caused freezes and reboots in my case. I tried black bar and black glass themes. YMMV

Thank you I agree with you because the theme used more resource and I will try only with the theme included and I´ll see.
And minimum brightness.

 

[TuBitMittens]

Technically, it will be posible some themes drian the battery faster?
If yes,which theme have lees battery drain?

Yes in my case. Other than battery drain they also caused freezes and reboots in my case. I tried black bar and black glass themes. YMMV

Thank you I agree with you because the theme used more resource and I will try only with the theme included and I´ll see.
And minimum brightness.

Actually I'm glad you guys brought this up, because I've been noticing for the longest time I used the black glass theme on the roms I've tried my display percentage would tell me like at least 50 % of the battery, even on normal use. But now I'm using Liquid's Frozen yogurt rom with the watermark theme and my display is no longer showing that high of a percentage, so I wonder... I wonder what everyone else' take is on this 'discovery'..lol

 

[TRIKOTRET]

Im sure someone asked this question somewhere, but I cant find it. Oh well. Ill you experts. Is it recommended to use minfreemanager or is it a waste like ATK..

 

[captdroid]

Im sure someone asked this question somewhere, but I cant find it. Oh well. Ill you experts. Is it recommended to use minfreemanager or is it a waste like ATK..

I leave it up to Android to manage memory as configured default Sapphire install except for compcache turned on. I don't use any automatic task killer or minfreemanager. I do use Systempanel by NextApp to see what's going on but that's about it. Nextapp has a good writeup on auto task killer why it's a bad idea. CVPCS has a good writeup

Your going to get different opinions concerning minfree and ATK's. Works what is best for you, but remember ATK's general cause more problems then help and minfreemanager is not needed IMO

 

[brochaos]

i have been having some memory issues as of late. i posted a pic a few pages back, but my free mem would drop to 0. i think something is leaking memory, but i have no way to check. i recently uninstalled minfreemanager after installing sapphire. maybe i will put it back to see if it still happens.