Root Dialer issue

[zerocool79346]

My dialer is absolutely destroying my battery right now (higher than anything else besides display), anybody have any ideas how to remedy this? I'm thinking I'll just flash another ROM, but I figured I'd find out if anyone else had any better ideas. I'm running CELB on 3.5.

 

[kobel1up]

This is a first I have heard of that problem with a dialer. I am running nonsensikal v10.8 and like the feel of it. I don't like froyo roms, but this is a nice one, fast, smooth and works how I like my roms to work.

 

[Podivin]

I think this is the first time I've heard of dialer draining the battery too. Plenty of complaints about slow dialers, but not 'thirsty' ones. I personally have not seen that problem. I'm currently on Nonsensikal also, but I don't care for the 2.2 dialer so I'm using Dialer One.

 

[zerocool79346]

I think this is the first time I've heard of dialer draining the battery too. Plenty of complaints about slow dialers, but not 'thirsty' ones. I personally have not seen that problem. I'm currently on Nonsensikal also, but I don't care for the 2.2 dialer so I'm using Dialer One.

I killed it under settings and wiped it's data along with dialer storage and all is good so far. Honestly, I think it may have been what was causing my enormous battery drain on xtrSense this week as well. Makes no sense to me, but when I wiped the data, it deleted my text messages so maybe a text i had received was causing it to hang in limbo.

 

[cwk]

Please pardon me while I hijack this thread to flog my favorite dead horse. The dialer. Now that I've rooted this thing, what dialer can I find that includes a 2-second pause and/or a Wait key? I've been trawling this and every other Droid forum I can find looking for something. Ye, as a matter of fact, I am a little frustrated.

 

[doogald]

If I use the Swiftkey keyboard, and long-press the menu key within the dialer, it has pause and wait keys in the keyboard when it pops up.

Even if you do not use Swiftkey, pause is simply a comma, wait is a semi-colon. Long-press Menu and see if the keyboard you use gives you access to those keys.

 

[cwk]

Wonder of wonders! Long-pressing Menu on the default KaosFroyo dialer brings up an alternative keypad that has P and W. Now my next gripe. The pauses and subsequent numbers don't get saved into the call log. An annoyance, but better a weak capability than none at all.

Thanks!

 

[doogald]

Are they stored in saved numbers of contact records? If so, can you not simply create contacts for those people, if you want to call them more than once?

 

[cwk]

Are they stored in saved numbers of contact records? If so, can you not simply create contacts for those people, if you want to call them more than once?

The pauses and passcodes are saved in the contacts, but it's a usability issue. Because I'm fat-fingered, I'd like to dial a conference number, check it, and press send. So far, I have that with the new discovery. But now I want to save the successfully dialed number and passcode. All that shows up in the call history is the base number. I have to again manually key in the passcode if I want to save the conference number.

With the new discovery, I have about 80% of what I was looking for, so I guess I should be happy with it. I know, it's so 1990's to use a phone to talk to people. I guess I'm becoming a curmudgeon.