Johnny Cakes
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Spoken like someone with absolutely no people skills.
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Spoken like someone with absolutely no people skills.
Ok.
Hand full of chill pills for everyone.
Look -
There are those of us who don't code, and those who do.
Those who DO typically have a laser like focus on the facts and details of what they're working on, and due to that suggestions like "would be nice" are taken as irritants, not as discussion points.
I know.
I've worked with programming types AND non programmers / marketing teams on many projects in my life. I've come to be sort of a translator between those disparate groups. A useful career skill for me, I guess.
My point here is HEY! Don't get your panties in a wad over something someone "writes" in a forum... Read for understanding.
And yeah, programmers often DO have fewer people skills than those who don't...
But I know lots of "non programmers" who's people skills suck harder than a 15 hp shop vac.
John
Now, ON TOPIC -
I got a new MOMENT!
Where can I find upgrades? Is there a kernel for 1.6, or even 2.0 yet? Better / Faster camera app? Even my HTC Touch WinMO 6 camera opened and took pictures / videos faster!!
John
Hand full of chill pills for everyone.
Look -
There are those of us who don't code, and those who do.
Those who DO typically have a laser like focus on the facts and details of what they're working on, and due to that suggestions like "would be nice" are taken as irritants, not as discussion points.
I know.
I've worked with programming types AND non programmers / marketing teams on many projects in my life. I've come to be sort of a translator between those disparate groups. A useful career skill for me, I guess.
My point here is HEY! Don't get your panties in a wad over something someone "writes" in a forum... Read for understanding.
And yeah, programmers often DO have fewer people skills than those who don't...
But I know lots of "non programmers" who's people skills suck harder than a 15 hp shop vac.
John
Now, ON TOPIC -
I got a new MOMENT!
Where can I find upgrades? Is there a kernel for 1.6, or even 2.0 yet? Better / Faster camera app? Even my HTC Touch WinMO 6 camera opened and took pictures / videos faster!!
John
1.6/2.0/2.1 kernels are impossible at this time (samsung uses MFS/XSR which we dont have access to)..
As for upgrades.. check the wiki in my signature and you should find the vast majority of information you need...
For the record.. i am not a programmer.. i am a chemical oceanography graduate student with a b.s. in chemistry and license/monitor radioactive materials for a state health department
I am doing this as a side project, but you are right about the laser focus aspect.. after spending a few days and basically memorizing the code i have a good idea what it can and can't do.. usually the first time someone suggests something i am polite and refuse it, but when they start the next time with "Honestly, I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I don't get it." then they are just being an ignorant troll and i wont be so nice the next time
Numus -
Ignorant and Troll don't always go together, and - please remember your early collegiate years - The only stupid question is one unasked. I don't get it IS valid, when someone does not have the same level of exposure to the material you do.
It's quite fine for someone to say to Stephen King "I don't get it" when talking about the BOOK 'the shining' after only having seen the movie...
Go forth, young man, and ENJOY your side project. We all do too!
So, the file system is 'locked' on these here moments?? How fargin ***! (in a 'non politically incorrect sense of the phrase...)
Ignorant and Troll don't always go together, and - please remember your early collegiate years - The only stupid question is one unasked. I don't get it IS valid, when someone does not have the same level of exposure to the material you do.
It's quite fine for someone to say to Stephen King "I don't get it" when talking about the BOOK 'the shining' after only having seen the movie...
Go forth, young man, and ENJOY your side project. We all do too!
So, the file system is 'locked' on these here moments?? How fargin ***! (in a 'non politically incorrect sense of the phrase...)
Hey Numus, I was wondering how the battery code that you updated is working in ze08. I'm currently on ze06 and haven't updated yet because there have been reports about banding on the display on the newest version. The battery mod has been such a relief in ze06 though. I understand the update in ze08 provides 5% increments instead of 10 but is it more accurate than ze06? And is the screen banding an issue?
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The battery code seems a lot more stable since i modified both (mid) and (low) reporting levels (still no idea what the difference between them is in terms of what uses what).. the banding isn't much of an issue really and only happens very rarely in landscape mode.. you will get a quick green line adn then it is gone.. we thin git is something that happened when zef recompiled the 2d/3d drivers with optimizations.. if it gets really bad he said he will revert to the original drivers..
The only thing about the battery is it has a problem during recharge were it will jump voltage really quick (this is due to teh increase load during a charge cycle and the ADC chip being incredibly sensitive due to small variables... still trying to get samsung to revert to the 9bits/spica adc calculation).. but once it hits 95% it will stay there until it is actually 100% full... Know it is not uniform in the reporting levels due to different temperatures and different loads on the processor.. Sometimes you could be at 75% for a long time before you hit 70% and sometimes you can hit 75% and a few minute later hit 70% and then 65%..all the battery code does now is have much better accuracy in reporting "capacity" of battery by calculating off the behold II voltage/percent settings (uses the same battery as the moment and the discharge graph looks almost perfect for a lithium-ion discharge when i manually plotted them in voltage vs percent)...
Thanks for the info. I noticed that when charging for brief periods of time the meter gets thrown off for a bit. Not an issue because it stabilizes relatively quickly. One interesting thing that I noticed is that when you use the brightest setting with the great new flashlight app that jvrobert made it wreaks havoc on the battery meter. I guess because it draws so much voltage. My moment required a reboot before the battery was back on track. It was only after using the brightest setting for say a minute. Short bursts don't have the same effect. I don't need the extreme brightness of the bright setting, just thought what it did to the battery was interesting.
ya.. has to do with how the adc is obtained and during a high load like that it probabl messes with the adc chip.. it is kinda no sensative to the point i had to make it oversensative to get semi accurate readings
Man, I upgraded to the newest zefie release 08 and things are really smooth. Haven't even noticed any screen artifacts that others have reported and I've used the phone a lot in landscape and portrait. Benchmark scores with Linpack have gone from 3.05 Mflops/s to 3.5Mflops/s and everything is running smoother. The best part though is still the battery. I can use the phone all day now without hitting that pesky 15% mark. The 5% increments are very cool. The only problem I am having is when the wifi is on and you power off the phone it turns itself back on spontaneously. With the wifi off, everything powers off as normal. Thanks again!
mysticmead
Android Expert
so... with ZE08 you're sort of having a reverse airplane mode issue? I kinda like that!
I've seen the artifacts but only once and that was when I was going to the phone status menu under settings. It was a brief green line that ran through the middle of the screen. It wasn't there for more than .2 seconds. Not near enough to make me want to go back to stock!
I kind of like it too. It reminds me not to leave the wifi on and I get the benefit of even more battery life. Definitely not going back to stock unless I have to to upgrade to 2.1.