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#501028 2-Aug-2011 20:54

I've come across something that may be good to know if you've set up a Hotmail/Windows Live mail account in your phone.

There are 2 ways you can do this: creating a Social Hub for Windows Live account, or creating an Exchange ActiveSync account. Both methods work, but there appears to be a bug with the ActiveSync method that causes excessive data usage and battery drain. There's a thread on XDA about it.

I only found this out because designgears has removed the social hub APKs from Cognition S2, and I switched to using ActiveSync because of that. My battery life is now about 2/3 of what I was getting on stock XXKG1.

I'm going to put the minimum Social Hub stuff back on and will see how battery usage changes.

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#501032 2-Aug-2011 21:01

nzgeek: I've come across something that may be good to know if you've set up a Hotmail/Windows Live mail account in your phone.

There are 2 ways you can do this: creating a Social Hub for Windows Live account, or creating an Exchange ActiveSync account. Both methods work, but there appears to be a bug with the ActiveSync method that causes excessive data usage and battery drain. There's a thread on XDA about it.

I only found this out because designgears has removed the social hub APKs from Cognition S2, and I switched to using ActiveSync because of that. My battery life is now about 2/3 of what I was getting on stock XXKG1.

I'm going to put the minimum Social Hub stuff back on and will see how battery usage changes.

I must confess I find it a little odd that people use an Android device without using Gmail as their primary cloud/e-mail provider; the whole Android platform is inextricably tied to everything else Google do; whether that's a good thing is another debate.

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#501047 2-Aug-2011 21:23

nofam: I must confess I find it a little odd that people use an Android device without using Gmail as their primary cloud/e-mail provider; the whole Android platform is inextricably tied to everything else Google do; whether that's a good thing is another debate.

I've been a Hotmail user since 1996 or 1997, back before it was bought by Microsoft. I've used it for so long that it's hard to give up on it.

My phone is currently set up with 4 email accounts (Hotmail, GMail, work's Exchange server, and my ISP's IMAP server), a Twitter account, and a Skype account (that's usually signed out). I'm used to a bit of battery usage, but ActiveSync + Hotmail is just insane.

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#501052 2-Aug-2011 21:32

nzgeek:
nofam: I must confess I find it a little odd that people use an Android device without using Gmail as their primary cloud/e-mail provider; the whole Android platform is inextricably tied to everything else Google do; whether that's a good thing is another debate.

I've been a Hotmail user since 1996 or 1997, back before it was bought by Microsoft. I've used it for so long that it's hard to give up on it.

My phone is currently set up with 4 email accounts (Hotmail, GMail, work's Exchange server, and my ISP's IMAP server), a Twitter account, and a Skype account (that's usually signed out). I'm used to a bit of battery usage, but ActiveSync + Hotmail is just insane.

I was a Hotmail member from 1996 until 2006, but Gmail made me realize how much I hated the newer Hotmail interfaces. I've never looked back really.

In case other people don't know (I'm sure you do nzgeek!), Gmail is very good at 'scrapiing' other e-mail accounts to make mail send/receive transparently through it's Gmail front-end, whilst still appearing to come from the other providers. . . . .I've found it a neat way to tidy up multiple accounts/providers.

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#501064 2-Aug-2011 21:56

nofam:
nzgeek:
nofam: I must confess I find it a little odd that people use an Android device without using Gmail as their primary cloud/e-mail provider; the whole Android platform is inextricably tied to everything else Google do; whether that's a good thing is another debate.

I've been a Hotmail user since 1996 or 1997, back before it was bought by Microsoft. I've used it for so long that it's hard to give up on it.

My phone is currently set up with 4 email accounts (Hotmail, GMail, work's Exchange server, and my ISP's IMAP server), a Twitter account, and a Skype account (that's usually signed out). I'm used to a bit of battery usage, but ActiveSync + Hotmail is just insane.

I was a Hotmail member from 1996 until 2006, but Gmail made me realize how much I hated the newer Hotmail interfaces. I've never looked back really.

In case other people don't know (I'm sure you do nzgeek!), Gmail is very good at 'scrapiing' other e-mail accounts to make mail send/receive transparently through it's Gmail front-end, whilst still appearing to come from the other providers. . . . .I've found it a neat way to tidy up multiple accounts/providers.

I can't remember the last time I actually had to use the web interface to Hotmail. I've got Outlook at work (using the Windows Live Connector), Windows Live Mail at home, and my phone when I'm on the go. That's probably a big part of why I don't really mind Hotmail

.

GMail is pretty good at linking with other email accounts that provide POP access. I just prefer to keep my email accounts fairly separate, just in case... (where's that tin-foil hat?!?!?)

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#501110 3-Aug-2011 00:22

guys i'm using vodafone australia and don't want to lose carrier specific settings. therefore only flashing chainfire kernel, no rom.

need to find the correct one to flash from this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

can anyone tell me if the letters code for anything? eg

" XX_OXA_KF2-v4.0-CWM4.zip
ZS_OZS_KF4-v4.0-CWM4.zip
XW_CLK_KF3-v4.0-CWM4.zip
XX_OXA_KG1-v4.1-CWM4.zip
XW_MOT_KG1-v4.1-CWM4.zip
ZS_OZS_KG2-v4.1-CWM4.zip
JP_XSG_KG2-v4.1-CWM4.zip
XX_OXA_KG2-v4.1-CWM4.zip "

the australian forums say the latest firmware is KF4 for VFAU. but ZS-OZS?? what's that!

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#501113 3-Aug-2011 00:28

Any idea why my battery meter doesn't show Android OS anymore?

Please take a look at the photos attached.
Thanks.

Note that it was 25% left at 13hours, 16 hours makes battery looks decent because I've been at movies (captain america..) and phone was in gf's bag untouched for 3 hours..

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/blog511bed95ad4e2ff6f23018bab8539151.jpg

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/blogf675678de2ab06e5af6e0df6e6f92b65.jpg

Screenshots of 'Android System' broken down -

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/blog222c672bc586d7360436b0f38f5fc31d.jpg

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/blogb88b93673357e200172afecaab211995.jpg

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/bloge544c010eaf7f3158759cd8730d3eca2.jpg

Also at one stage it was on the same percentage for few hours:

Display 79%
Android system 7%
Cell standby 5%
Phone idle 4%
Voice calls 2%

I thought it was stuck but the time on battery was increasing so it wasn't completely stuck. Just thought I'd put it out there.

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#501197 3-Aug-2011 10:00

weird, my one still has android os. (2.3.4 - KG2 chainfire)
after last battery it was 44% still pretty average

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#501214 3-Aug-2011 10:27

joker97: guys i'm using vodafone australia and don't want to lose carrier specific settings. therefore only flashing chainfire kernel, no rom.

need to find the correct one to flash from this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

The kernel doesn't need to 100% match the ROM in order for it to be used. I'd suggest looking at the KG6 kernel from this post, or even Ninphetamine or SpeedMod. All of them are rooted kernels with CWM.

Ninphetamine and SpeedMod are probably slightly better choices than CF-Root. CF-Root is a stock binary kernel with some tweaks applied, whereas the others are built from source code. You can apply a greater range of tweaks to the source code, which means you can get better performance and battery life out of the phone.

everybodylovesfebs: Any idea why my battery meter doesn't show Android OS anymore?

grdwalker: weird, my one still has android os. (2.3.4 - KG2 chainfire)
after last battery it was 44% still pretty average

Are either of you using a custom ROM and/or kernel? I'm on Cognition S2 v1.31 + SpeedMod kernel K1 T17, and I don't see Android OS in my list either.

It's possible that a ROM customisation is hiding the process from the list, or that a source-built kernel contains tweaks that make Android OS use less CPU. I think it's worth trying to figure this out, because if it's a kernel thing then we may have a fairly easy way to increase battery life.

Edit: changed bits regarding Android OS usage

Update:

everybodylovesfebs: That's nice but all I changed is my kernel from cf root to hardcore speedmod while on same rom. on cf root I was around 22 & 25% ish for os and system..

Bit dramatic effect..

Looks to be a kernel thing then. I'm guessing that Hardcore has fixed whatever bug was causing high Android OS usage. I might stick with this kernel for a bit and see how things go.

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#501218 3-Aug-2011 10:32

That's nice but all I changed is my kernel from cf root to hardcore speedmod while on same rom. on cf root I was around 22 & 25% ish for os and system..
Bit dramatic effect..

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#501221 3-Aug-2011 10:34

joker97: the australian forums say the latest firmware is KF4 for VFAU. but ZS-OZS?? what's that!

That is the CSC for one of the stock Asian ROM for Hong Kong & Taiwan, nothing to do with Australian ROM, although I can understand how you thought it did with OZS

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#501222 3-Aug-2011 10:36

everybodylovesfebs: That's nice but all I changed is my kernel from cf root to hardcore speedmod while on same rom. on cf root I was around 22 & 25% ish for os and system..

Bit dramatic effect..

The Speedmod kernel has the logging that provides this metric disabled ;-)

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#501225 3-Aug-2011 10:38

If that's true Isn't that cheating to show user deceptive stats?

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#501227 3-Aug-2011 10:44

nofam:
everybodylovesfebs: That's nice but all I changed is my kernel from cf root to hardcore speedmod while on same rom. on cf root I was around 22 & 25% ish for os and system..

Bit dramatic effect..

The Speedmod kernel has the logging that provides this metric disabled ;-)

(I think I went overboard editing my last post, trying to avoid multi-posting...)

Hardcore you little sneak... and here I was thinking that maybe he'd worked some magic and made the process use less CPU. Nope, it's using the CPU, we just can't report on it.

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#501245 3-Aug-2011 11:25

nzgeek:
nofam:
everybodylovesfebs: That's nice but all I changed is my kernel from cf root to hardcore speedmod while on same rom. on cf root I was around 22 & 25% ish for os and system..

Bit dramatic effect..

The Speedmod kernel has the logging that provides this metric disabled ;-)

(I think I went overboard editing my last post, trying to avoid multi-posting...)

Hardcore you little sneak... and here I was thinking that maybe he'd worked some magic and made the process use less CPU. Nope, it's using the CPU, we just can't report on it.

Not really - the logging imposes a reasonable overhead, so he turned it off to save battery. . . . there's a certain logic there.

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