UD 3.0.0 RC - 7 Devices - Droid 1 is RC2 Now!

[jsimon]

I always will love ud roms but for some reason i have been running 3.0 rc2 and my battery has just died like no other any hints??

 

[anuraj1]

I always will love ud roms but for some reason i have been running 3.0 rc2 and my battery has just died like no other any hints??

Sounds like a kernel issue or an app that is constantly polling.

 

[neilrl79]

I'm having an issue with the browser, every time I click on a link in someones post it takes me to an error message but if I click a link that it is part of a websites layout it works fine. This is a very new problem that just started this morning and I can't figure it out.

 

[jsimon]

I always will love ud roms but for some reason i have been running 3.0 rc2 and my battery has just died like no other any hints??

Sounds like a kernel issue or an app that is constantly polling.

well i have advanced task killer, i will try turning the autokill level up
My brother got me in to flashing roms and i have no idea where to start with kernels

 

[sgtguthrie]

I always will love ud roms but for some reason i have been running 3.0 rc2 and my battery has just died like no other any hints??

Sounds like a kernel issue or an app that is constantly polling.

well i have advanced task killer, i will try turning the autokill level up
My brother got me in to flashing roms and i have no idea where to start with kernels

Advanced Task Killer is probably part of your problem if your battery like sucks. Android has a native task manager that is smart enough to "kill a task" if it needs memory. One big problem with task killers, they kill processes and not just running apps. Your phone just like a computer keeps processes in place which make it faster to load an app. Look at task manager in windows (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and see the processes. None of them are using memory, but are there ready to do their job. When ATK kills those processes the system will load them back up right away rather than keeping them in place to begin with. So essentially your ATK kills the processes then your phone has to restart them every time you use it (for some people every time you turn off the screen!!!) So using task killers will play a large role in killing your battery life by making your phone work harder. I stopped using it prior to froyo and my phone was far faster with drastically better battery life! If you have a problem with some apps constantly running in the background, create a shortcut on your home screen for "Running Services". Just check it once in a while and stop any 3rd party apps you don't want running. Also, install "Cache Cleaner NG" and when your phone starts to feel sluggish, just clean the cache with one touch and it's faster again.

Hope this helps.

 

[jsimon]

Sounds like a kernel issue or an app that is constantly polling.

well i have advanced task killer, i will try turning the autokill level up
My brother got me in to flashing roms and i have no idea where to start with kernels

Advanced Task Killer is probably part of your problem if your battery like sucks. Android has a native task manager that is smart enough to "kill a task" if it needs memory. One big problem with task killers, they kill processes and not just running apps. Your phone just like a computer keeps processes in place which make it faster to load an app. Look at task manager in windows (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and see the processes. None of them are using memory, but are there ready to do their job. When ATK kills those processes the system will load them back up right away rather than keeping them in place to begin with. So essentially your ATK kills the processes then your phone has to restart them every time you use it (for some people every time you turn off the screen!!!) So using task killers will play a large role in killing your battery life by making your phone work harder. I stopped using it prior to froyo and my phone was far faster with drastically better battery life! If you have a problem with some apps constantly running in the background, create a shortcut on your home screen for "Running Services". Just check it once in a while and stop any 3rd party apps you don't want running. Also, install "Cache Cleaner NG" and when your phone starts to feel sluggish, just clean the cache with one touch and it's faster again.

Hope this helps.

Thanks ill try the cache cleaner ng and see what happens and i keep some processes from not being killed

 

[sgtguthrie]

well i have advanced task killer, i will try turning the autokill level up
My brother got me in to flashing roms and i have no idea where to start with kernels

Advanced Task Killer is probably part of your problem if your battery like sucks. Android has a native task manager that is smart enough to "kill a task" if it needs memory. One big problem with task killers, they kill processes and not just running apps. Your phone just like a computer keeps processes in place which make it faster to load an app. Look at task manager in windows (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and see the processes. None of them are using memory, but are there ready to do their job. When ATK kills those processes the system will load them back up right away rather than keeping them in place to begin with. So essentially your ATK kills the processes then your phone has to restart them every time you use it (for some people every time you turn off the screen!!!) So using task killers will play a large role in killing your battery life by making your phone work harder. I stopped using it prior to froyo and my phone was far faster with drastically better battery life! If you have a problem with some apps constantly running in the background, create a shortcut on your home screen for "Running Services". Just check it once in a while and stop any 3rd party apps you don't want running. Also, install "Cache Cleaner NG" and when your phone starts to feel sluggish, just clean the cache with one touch and it's faster again.

Hope this helps.

Thanks ill try the cache cleaner ng and see what happens and i keep some processes from not being killed

I'm sure, but you are probably killing far more than you realize. Just my 2 cents...good luck.

 

[hookbill]

I'm having an issue with the browser, every time I click on a link in someones post it takes me to an error message but if I click a link that it is part of a websites layout it works fine. This is a very new problem that just started this morning and I can't figure it out.

Cleaned the browser cache and cookies lately? I don't think this is a ROM issue or else I wouldn't of posted. If you have when is the last time you reset your Droid?

 

[HeadKase]

got a lot of reboots with RC2, restoring a backup... looking forward to a fully functional UD 3

 

[BayouFlyFisher]

well i have advanced task killer, i will try turning the autokill level up
My brother got me in to flashing roms and i have no idea where to start with kernels

Task Killers Per Lifehacker:

Android Task Killers Explained: What They Do and Why You Shouldn't Use Them
How Android Manages Processes

In Android, processes and Applications are two different things. An app can stay "running" in the background without any processes eating up your phone's resources. Android keeps the app in its memory so it launches more quickly and returns to its prior state. When your phone runs out of memory, Android will automatically start killing tasks on its own, starting with ones that you haven't used in awhile.
The problem is that Android uses RAM differently than, say, Windows. On Android, having your RAM nearly full is a good thing. It means that when you relaunch an app you've previously opened, the app launches quickly and returns to its previous state. So while Android actually uses RAM efficiently, most users see that their RAM is full and assume that's what's slowing down their phone. In reality, your CPU—which is only used by apps that are actually active—is almost always the bottleneck.

Why Task Killers Are (Usually) Bad News

Apps like Advanced Task Killer, the most popular task killer in the Market, act on the incorrect assumption that freeing up memory on an Android device is a good thing. When launched, it presents you with a list of "running" apps and the option to kill as many as you want. You can also hit the Menu button to access a more detailed "Services" view, that lists exactly which parts of each application are "running", how much memory they take up, and how much free memory is available on your phone. This set-up implies that the goal of killing these apps is to free up memory. Nowhere on the list does it mention the number of CPU cycles each app is consuming, only the memory you'll free by killing it. As we've learned, full memory is not a bad thing—we want to watch out for the CPU, the resource that actually slows down your phone and drains your battery life.
Thus, killing all but the essential apps (or telling Android to kill apps more aggressively with the "autokill" feature) is generally unnecessary. Furthermore, it's actually possible that this will worsen your phone's performance and battery life. Whether you're manually killing apps all the time or telling the task killer to aggressively remove apps from your memory, you're actually using CPU cycles when you otherwise wouldn't—killing apps that aren't doing anything in the first place.
In fact, some of the processes related to those apps will actually start right back up, further draining your CPU. If they don't, killing those processes can cause other sorts of problems—alarms don't go off, you don't receive text messages, or other related apps may force close without warning. All in all, you're usually better off letting your phone work as intended—especially if you're more of a casual user. In these instances, a task killer causes more problems than it solves.
What You Should Do Instead

That said, not all apps are created equal. Many of you have used task killers in the past and actually found that after freeing up memory, your phone works a bit better. It's more likely that this is because you've killed a bad app—one that was poorly coded, and (for example) keeps trying to connect to the internet even when it shouldn't. Any performance increase you experience is more likely because you killed the right app, not because you freed up loads of memory (or, in many cases, it's just placebo). Instead of killing all those apps, find out which ones are actually causing the problems. If you really know what you're doing, you may benefit from using a task killer to stop the one or two inefficient-but-loved apps on your phone.
Note, however, that this is still a contested notion. A lot of developers (including ROM builder extraordinaire, Cyanogen) will not even look at your bug reports if you're using a task killer. In this humble blogger's opinion, your best bet is to stay away from regular task killer usage entirely. If you absolutely have to have that one battery-killing app on your phone, though, kill away—just be aware that when you experience a recurring Android bug later on, the task killer may be at fault. Of course, you can just stop using it to determine whether that is or isn't the case.

 

[jsimon]

Well guys thanks for all the input, imma try doing some different things with cache cleaner and see if anything imporves

 

[sgtguthrie]

Thanks Bayou, I couldn't find the article...I now have it saved for next time.

 

[Godric]

So I really like this rom on my droid 1, but I keep getting random reboots every now and then and my camera force closes when I try to open it.

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[llt_droid]

So I really like this rom on my droid 1, but I keep getting random reboots every now and then and my camera force closes when I try to open it.

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Yes, the camera is listed in the op as not working as yet.

 

[BayouFlyFisher]

So I really like this rom on my droid 1, but I keep getting random reboots every now and then . . . .

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I would reload the rom without any wipes. This is a really stable rom. I've had no reboots since I move on from the 3.0.0 Beta. The first nightly and everything since has been totally stable for me.

Good luck.