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[Milestone XT720 Android Development] exist2resist:
Garbage

First of all I'd like to say thanks for the effort, however your title "fast/stable" is only a half truth.

Yes the ROM is fast, but it is not stable.

Since the first version of this ROM, I have had constant headaches.

The dominant one and that has existed since the first version is where the screen will not turn on when I press the power button, the menu, home, back and search keys will light up but the screen will not come on.

I can even predict this behavior, if I first boot up the phone and start playing with it and the four bottom keys are not illuminated I know that when I press the power button and go into "standby" I will not be able to come out of it.

Each time this happens I have to wipe the cache

Another problem with V4 is that when I go into the Camera and Video apps my phone freezes.

I even did a factory wipe/reset on this phone, before flashing, also wiped both the cache, no matter how many time I flash it with the GalaxyXTV4 ROM and clear cache the same issue persists. Definitively not stable when applications are freezing my phone.

Cheers
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
+1 pal...,

I too have this persistent issue (screen not turning back on after suspend and 4 bottom keys get illuminated whenever i toggle the power switch). This also happens when i copy some large files from pc to sd card using usb mass storage mode. I thought my sd card was busted.. but having this weird issue with screen off.. with "remove battery, put back on and hit power" is the only solution to come out of this issue.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] exist2resist:
Maybe someone can look into this and hook us up with a fix.

Are you also getting issues of the phone freezing when using the Video capture application? Is your phone over-clocked?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
Hi,

yes.. phone freezes often (i think it runs out of RAM) when i use video recorder or click pics quickly.. i have to resort to superbox to kill all running processes.

also i see a slanted pic of the current view (residue pic) whenever the camera app is killed or closed..

yes i had it overclocked to 1.1g/65vsel.. now i have reclocked at 1g/56vsel.

and ofcourse battery life is greatly reduced. after an overnight full charge (100%), morning 2 hours of doing nothing (except auto push of email inbox .. on 3G !!) would bring the battery charge to 80%.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] syrenz:
I don't tend to have issues in other areas, but camera and video definitely freeze up a LOT. :(

I have had the black screen, only buttons on bottom illuminated (specifically when transferring large files), but it doesn't happen often outside of transfering files and I just unmount my SD card and place in an sd card reader and transfer that way if I'm doing something significant. But this black screen issue has happened all the way back since I was on stock 2.1 and happened on every ROM (it actually has been happening far LESS frequently than when it used to when I was on stock 2.1).

Currently I'm hoping that either we get an official 2.2. upgrade from CB that will maybe smooth out some of these issues or maybe the development of CM7 (or MIUI?) will be succesful and stability with camera apps and other areas of the phone will increase...
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] exist2resist:
Looks like we both have the same issue and it is not just a coincidence.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] reverendkjr:
Those of you who are having problems with this current build...

I have finally been able to have success with identifying a POSSIBLE solution. It works well for me, so MAYBE it will work for you.

After you flash the ROM and clear all of your cache and reset everything, reboot the phone.. and IMMEDIATELY PULL THE BATTERY. DO NOT LET IT REBOOT.

Then, take your microsd card OUT of the phone, put it into a CARD READER, and reformat to whatever combination of partitions you choose. Then, put the card back into the phone and TURN IT ON.

Please post your results.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] exist2resist:
That is not a solution, it's a workaround, I would love a solution though. An update would be nice.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] reverendkjr:
I disagree. I believe this falls under the category of solution. If you are going to flash a new ROM onto a phone, it would make perfectly good sense to completely purge ALL info from the phone that is a remnant of the previous ROM, which would include the sd card stuff. I find this to be an essential step in the flashing process that most people want to ignore. However, I have found recently that this may be the piece that everyone is missing.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Enricosteph:
Hy to all....

I noticed a problem with the SD-Card in every Rom....one of the Partition gets unmount by itself so the Phone crashes and it Crashes faster if something uses the Card for examble the Cam or you use the Phone as CardReader......

So i startet to use only one Partition....native Froyo app2sd......Move2sd Enabler.....

And after that every problem is gonne.....no freez....no reboot....nothing.....

My Phone runs for Days and nothing happend :D:D:D

GalaxyV4 is the best Rom i ever had on that Phone....

Thanks Thanks Thanks........
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Cesantony:
I just have a question, when you use the native froyo app2sd do you get lags? I mean, if i have an app or a game in my sd (with app2sd), don't you get lags when you play it?

Saludos
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ronnbon:
I sometimes miss a kind of appreciation to the work of khalpower and others who give there best to compensate the limitations of this phone.

I also was sometimes very frustrated and complained to the wrong people.

But compared to the stock 2.1 rom I still have a much better phone now with a lot more options than before. Just to have access to all 2.2-apps is just great.

Please keep in mind- compared to the next generation of 1-2 Ghz processor mobile phones the xt720 is no mid-to high end smartphone anymore (if it ever was) and sadly all the collected help from gifted people like dexter, khalpower and miozeAe etc. will not change this.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] exist2resist:
I will try it.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I will say that I've worked with a few posters on weird problems across a variety of ROMs based on Dexter's 1.3 and very often replacing or reformatting the SD card resolves the problem for unidentified reasons. If you haven't tried that it might be worth the effort as a workaround.

There was an interesting discussion earlier in the thread about needing higher voltage when overclocking with swap on the SD card. Maybe that's true in general but people aren't aware of it when undervolting.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] vari9:
Can anyone provide me a link to the droid x theme and tell me how to install it!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Enricosteph:
No lags here....and i did no overclock,no fastboot,no swap.....one partition,clear GalaxyV4 and Move2Sd enabler.....and i'm really happy with it.....and i forgot....a class 6 Sd.....
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I agree I am new here and it disappoints me to see nothing but total complaints and a sort of whining. I have found that the very few problems I have had was caused by the SD card. I was stuck in bootloop and having issues until I took my SD card out. I am using the standard card that came with my phone and it is only a class 2. But by reformatting my card it has been wonderfully fast and stable. Except now I can't install any new themes anymore since trying to install steelepicblueXT. Nothing changed and steelepicblueXT theme seemed to cause a big problem for me and have seen others with same problem with no solution to that yet. I had to reflash the stock rom and reformat and all to get my phone back and still can't change my theme. There seems to be something particular about the SD card and something wrong with steelepicblueXT. Maybe Reverend is on to something. I need to get a better class card as well. I had reboot and bootloop problems before I found this site and Dexters and Khalpowers miracle milestone saving work. A big thank you to the developers! I was about to toss my phone before I found you! My whole experience here and trying out the new roms and themes has been a thrill and totally awesome dudes thanks again!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Cesantony:
Well i think i will try it, just i want to know, the partition have to be in FAT32? I mean, if i have a 8Gb sdcard, i have to do one partition (all the 8Gb), that's right?

Thanks man
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ronnbon:
thats right
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] gera_nium:
cesantony, if you format the micro sdcard with your phone, its already format and partition in FAT32, i would recommend you to format and partition your 8gb micro sdcard with minitool partition wizard. details guide also provide by xda member SD Format & Partitioning w/ Minitool Partition. If good have partition in 8gb microsd like this.....fat32=6.4gb, ext3=1gb and swap linux=513mb, i have done and follow the guide and i hv no issue of reboot or hangs with v4 khalpowers optimized ROM:)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
Hello reverend,

Thanks for suggestion. I had tried it even before you posted this !!.. yes it works.. but what about all of the data stored in sd card.. e.g., titanium backup and other apps settings on sdcard. Even tho i had a full backup of my sd card, i am afraid to put back all of them. There is no other choice but to download all market apps once more...

FYI, i am also on one partition (FAT32, 64kb cluster size) with galaxy4 rom from khals.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] gera_nium:
dear chandanbs,

i try to figure out your problematic issue, but finally can't figure out....can you explain again what are the phone things that make you unhappy? as my initial reply, its matter of making a choice......if you unhappy with the original stock 2.1 eclair, then jump to custom 2.2 froyo...other than that those experts still doing their 'mankind' job :)....
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] vari9:
Guys there is no option for assisted gps in the settings....can anyone fix it!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
Settings >> Location & Security >> Use wireless networks
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] vari9:
There used to be 3 options before....one for gps second for determining location usiing wifi and third for assisted gps!

Is the second and third combined!?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
Hi gera..nium,

thanks for your kind advice.. But, i am very happy with Dexter-KhalPowers awesome 2.2.1 rom.. I'm just stating the issues here. I'm sure master chefs will figure out the solutions to all issues we currently have..:))
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Cesantony:
Heey gera_nium, tanks a lot for you tip, i think i will do that once more time (actually i have 3 partitions, 1 fat32, 1 for swap and another one in ext3[1Gb] for apps), actually i have arroud of 100Mb for swap, maybe that is the reason (i don't know) of have black screen froze every time when i activate the fjfalcon kernel (swap enabler) although before works fine.

Actually i have arround 2 or 3 weeks that my phone is getting slow, so weird, and now it's imposible (or very hard) to take a picture in 8Mpx and take a video, the apps have some lag when i want to open one, i really don't know what it's happening, maybe re-format the 3 partitions like you said gera_nium or maybe just one only partition in FAT32... we will see...

Saludos.

Anyone whit the same problem
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khalpowers:
correct..that is for assisted gps

which rom?..can you make the screen shot...:confused:
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
I think he's talking about the original 2.1 ROM
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khalpowers:
SteelEpicBlueV4 rom

Guys..

for those having problem to apply steelepicblue theme now can apply with new nandroid v4 rom with steelepicblue theme..:)

what you get:

- more space on \system ( metamorph working fine)

- new font

for stablity :

- app2ext ( 500 mb ext3/ext2 ,513 mb swap , the rest is fat32) DONT USE others 3rd party app2sd or native app2sd in the same time.Just create app folder only inside sd-ext.

- without app2ext ( 513 swap,the rest is fat32 ) .. can use 3rd party app2sd or native app2sd ( superbox 10.1).

screenshot below

Grab here http://www.multiupload.com/PLXJDHGPZ9

enjoy!!:D
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Cesantony:
Heey.. thanks Khal and i will do that.

I have a question, this SteelEpicBlueV4 rom already have the "NEW V4 Update"? or after install the new rom i have to install the "NEW V4 Update"?

Thanks again khal.

Saludos
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] alex0329:
Do you have to update the V4 swap-fix update with the new blue steel rom?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] inspigr:
Hi,

Today i get this phone and i install your ROM (Thank you!)

Just one question. When i install New V4GalaxyXT theme , all greek characters works fine, but when i install SteelEpicBlue V4 ROM, i get "squares" in most letters. Can i change the font (and how)?

Thank you in advance!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khalpowers:
Yes...included..
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khalpowers:
here i attach the galaxyxt font..apply fonts.zip thru update open recovery..
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] vari9:
Yup I am talking about the stock rom!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] inspigr:
I'll try it. Thank you so much!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] pillar2004:
No wifi with galaxy V4 rom

Anyone else have issues with connecting to WIFI running GalaxyXT V4? It just continually tries to connect to my home network over and over again.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] bagongs:
Just try to reflash the ROM, I've been told that sometimes a bad flash can occur...this method worked for me :))
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] qnguyen88:
Does anyone have this problem with the calendar widget (the original one) ? All of my appointments are written in white whereas the background is already white. So i can't read my appointements on the widget :s
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
App2ext

Thanks for the new steelepicblueXT V4 I love it everything is sweet! Don't see any reason for me to make any changes everything is exactly how I like it! Now I think I need to get a higher class SDcard maybe that will make it even better.

I am still having one issue I can't seem to work out. I have only been able to get app2ext to work one time and I think that was after I flashed back to stock 2.1, reformatted and partitioned my sdcard, then flashed Dexter's V1.3, then flashed Khalpowers galaxyXT V4. After all the flashing and reformatting I have done trying to get everything right it never actually worked until I followed the steps I just stated. Since the new SteelepicblueXT I followed Reverendkjr's possible solution and App2ext didn't work. I then tried Factory reset and restore all with factory reset again and it didn't work. So I am going to try everything from Stock 2.1 to Dexter's V1.3 to the new SteelepicblueXT and hopefully that will resolve the issue. If anybody has another suggestion I'd like to hear it. Thanks to all the developers and everyone in this forum as everything here has been very helpful and a Milestone savior!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
You might want to look at User control of /sd-ext here. So after you follow the reverends method you still have to create the appropriate directories.

Edit: I think I would try unmounting the sdcard, going to the pc & backup pertinent data, reformat with the desired partitions, restore data & copy the nandroid files to the appropriate folder on the FAT32 partition, remount the sdcard in the phone & create my desired directories in sd-ext then reboot into Open Recovery & restore the new ROM.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] syrenz:
Thanks for Steel epic blue Khal. ROM looks great :)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] pillar2004:
Openrecovery not working

I tried to reflash the galaxy V4 to fix my wifi problem...only trouble is I cannot get the full version of openrecovery to launch. I get the triangle with the exclamation mark and have to reboot with the lite version pressing volume up + camera......what now?

ok, so I had to do a factory reset, which sucks, and then it launched like normal. Now I just have to see if wifi problem goes away with reflash...
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
Try running the install option in Dexter's System Recovery app. If that doesn't work I would download the OpenRecovery files from ModMyMobile, unrar them on your PC & copy the opnerecovery folder and opnerecovery.zip over the files already on your sdcard.

HTH
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] tubekeeper:
Should I install the V4 swap-fix update

for this rom?

I got the answer in the threads
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] alex0329:
Would there be a reason why I can't get the boot.img kernel to work with the steel epic blue rom? I fastboot it like the other roms and its showing that it worked, but when I look at SetCPU it shows 0 for swap.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Did you enable USB Debugging? Applications/Development/Usb Debugging
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] reverendkjr:
Just so you all know, I posted a modified build.prop in the General Discussion Forum that allows Netflix to work on GalaxyXT ROM.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
RE:Getting App2ext to work

Well I've tried just about every way I know possible flashing the SteelEpicBlueV4 after partitioning my SDcard ext3-500 swap-513 and rest fat32 I have found my only solution that works for me to get app2ext to work automatically is to

1. flash back stock 2.1 with rsd lite

2. Partition sdcard and add the Dexters stock221v13 with nandroid, openrecovery.apk and root folders to root of sdcard

3. also add SteelEpicBlueV4 into nandroid/openrecovery/SteelEpicBlueV4 so you have both dexters stock221v13 and SteelEpicBlueV4 ready to restore

4. Restore stock221v13 in recovery then factory reset

5. boot in recovery again and restore SteelEpicBlueV4 and factory reset.

It automatically made an app folder in ext3 and gives you the option to move all your apps. But this last time I did it it moved all my apps to ext3 without option and need to figure out how to be able to move some back to phone.

I'm a beginner but have been playing with all this for a while now and that is the only way it has worked for me. Hopefully it may help someone. It seems restoring Dexter's V1.3 in between is what makes app2ext work
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
The dreaded issue revisited even after following reverend's workaround "blank screen with bottom touch buttons lit when power key pressed"

After nandroiding khals latest V4BlueSteel ROM, just after pressing the camera shutter button to instrument "reboot", i pulled out the battery and took out sd card.. formatted to 7.x gb FAT32, 513 linux swap. and put back the sd card to phone and rebooted. For a while .. while transferring small apps to sd card from pc, it was all ok.

But, when i tried to copy a 10 mb file, the file copy operation just froze in the middle and the device had been suspended. I pressed power key to resume, but only the bottom 4 buttons lit up with a blank screen.

I had recently flashed 2.1 imager + dex 1.3 + khals GalaxyV4.. and was pretty happy with 3dstring's new dark froyo remix theme. But, i wasnt content and ....

Looks like this issue is here to stay.. :(
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] reverendkjr:
Just to test, try formatting to just one FAT32 partition and see if you get any different results.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
Hello reverend..

trying out your suggestion..
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
Hi reverend,

tried.. but unsuccessful. filetransfer freezes for large files..

i was doubting my sdcard. but why should it work with large files (200 mb) when used alogn with pc and card reader..??

i never had this issue during pre khal v3 roms.. or even dexter roms..
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Try calibrating your battery. I've seen the blank screen problem only when the phone *thinks* it is on fumes (even though it may not be).

Before I calibrated mine lots of funky things would happen. The charge level would be at fill and then drop to empty almost instantly and power off. Then pushing power gives the "I don't even have enough power to boot to the empty battery picture" Pulling the battery and putting it back then seems to re-convince the phone that there's still charge.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] chandanbs:
Hello Mioze..

Thanks for your suggestion.. Let me know the proper method of calibrating the battery.

Often i find : when the battery level is less than 20 %.. after 15 mins.. it would show up as 10% and then shut off.. and i have to charge for atleast 10 minutes before it would reboot or battery charging display would show up.. and within half hour it would show 40 %..and i am not sure if it is really charging properly..

the way i understand about calibrating:

1. charge device untill 100%.

2. discharge battery (by usage) till it shuts off completely (how do we do that .. only by just by using the device??? or by some calibration tool?)

3. then charge full.

is that so?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
Try this
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] alex0329:
Yes I enabled USB Debugging. The command prompt on the computer showed that it fastbooted the kernel and it rebooted my phone. But when i check it on SetCPU, it shows 0 for swap.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I figured, probably a stupid question for me to ask lol. I'm new here and the only reason I asked is cause I made the mistake of forgetting to enable it and was getting pretty upset trying to load it lmao. I set my ext3 to 500 and swap to 513 and flashed the stock 2.1 then Dexters 2.2.1 V1.3 then Khal's V4. out of a ton of reflashes and repartitioning trying every way I know the only time I was able to get app2ext to work properly was when I flashed Dexter's V1.3 in between. So now I think I finally got my phone fixed and everything seems perfect. The only way I checked my swap is thru "about phone" to check kernel version and it says falcon so with everything working and the version showing falcons I assume it's all good!

I absolutely love everything about my new XT720! Big Thanks to everyone involved I was ready to ditch my milestone a month or so ago. To the ones still having trouble like I did hang in there it can be worked out! If all else fails try it my way, it worked for me! lol.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khalpowers:
how to remove lag on hd recording?..the answer is switch to Flight Mode, clear all tasks then start videoing. That's it, Can some of you guys test it to confirm?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khankuan:
only tried going flight mode. not sure how to check the fps of the 2 videos :S but the spinning fan on flightmode seems to be continuous but the normal one seems to show some pattern of the fan blades. hope you get what i mean by that :P
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] hellmonger:
Confirmed here way faster recording.... view screen during rec is much smoother end result is better good find!!!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] vari9:
Guys I got a solution for the battery problem:

Overclock to1.1 ghz or 1.0ghz ( vsel 65-70.)...it's stable!

Use set cpu( when screen off set it to max 250 mhz)

Download juice defender and always run it on balanced mode when you have adequate battery level

It works for me and now my battery life is just like it used to be in the stock rom...actually better

Tell me if it works for you!
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] khankuan:
Did that. still 3 hours every 10%..