Some battery test results

Today did some basic tests to see how the batter compared to a Sony Z Ultra.

Be advised this is not a fair test, the ZU is 2 years old. While the device has been properly maintained and not stressed a lot, its still with a two year old battery.

Screen on ( ZU: 45%, X2: 50% ( brighter then ZU to compensate the battery somewhat )), no activity.

ZU: Lost about 11% in 75 minutes.
X2: Lost about 4% in 75 minutes.

At that rate the devices will last:

ZU: 11h15 minutes
X2: 31h10 minutes

Now this matches up with a review i read where they state that the X2 will last 35 hours with screen on.

The double to triple battery life seems to match up with the reviews i read before. Its powering a bigger screen, higher resolution, has more memory ( 3GB vs 2GB ), and still triple the ( 2 year old ) ZU, despite given a extra handicap with a high screen usage.

Some benches:

AnTuTu:

ZU: 39.900
X2: 49.200

About 25% better benchmark performance. Memory had clearly more bandwidth, faster internal flash, CPU score was a bit of a head breaker. Faster on multithread and float ( probably because of the 64 bit ) but slower in the single core ( pure ) integer performance.

Screens:

If both devices are put next to each other, the ZU its color looks more washed ( grayish ) out compared to the X2. The X2's color are more stronger.

So far its a great ZU replacement.

Things i do not like: The screen has a higher output for everything ( everything looks bigger on the screen ) compared to the ZU where they reduced the rendering size for the font/etc, giving more content on the screen.

This needs a fix somehow ( do not know if this can be changed with a setting or needs a custom rom ).

That is it. Not a lot of time right now.

App results in blank black screen on android phone....why?

I have removed all the elements from my layout and commented out references to the controls etc that I did have in my layout:

Code:

---

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#0099cc"
    tools:context=".HexapodControls"
    android:id="@+id/frame_controls"
    android:visibility="visible"
    android:paddingTop="50dp">

    <!-- The primary full-screen view. This can be replaced with whatever view
        is needed to present your content, e.g. VideoView, SurfaceView,
        TextureView, etc. -->

    <!-- This FrameLayout insets its children based on system windows using
        android:fitsSystemWindows. -->

</FrameLayout>

---

So why, when I generate the apk in android studio and install it on my phone, do I get a blank black screen.

I give up! What have I changed to cause this?

Flashing any rom results in infinite boot

I have tried the roms below:
Pac-rom
LiquidSmooth
CyanogenMod 12.1
CyanogenMod 11

And the result is it always gets stuck at boot where the boot animation continues infinitely. I have gave it about 30 minutes to boot.

With LiquidSmooth I was able to run logcat, but CM12.1 I am not able to.

I have tried resetting system, data, caches in twrp and using the reset for new rom in philz.
I have tried flashing with both TWRP and Philz.
I am using the latest Philz and TWRP.

The only thing that has worked for me is samsung stock ROM, but I do not like the stock ROM.

Are there SPH-L900 phones you have to do something different?
Is there a way to get boot logs from CM12?
Am I doing something wrong?

See attachment from LiquidSmooth.

Attached Files

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