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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
<old>wow, harsh remarks dude. erasmux worked his butt off on this and dozens of other roms and is one of the main reasons why the gsm hero had such a huge following on xda.

show a little respect.<end of old comment>

update: I read your thoughts afterwards kaiowas82 and I guess you understand how that came across badly. So please disregard my comment in this post.

And to Erasmux,

if you do manage to find a fix for (a) root and (b) lockscreen responsiveness, you will forever be in my debt. wait, you already are in my debt. I owe you for probably 5 or 6 of the firmware versions I've run on my hero over the past year! Keep up the amazing work so we problematic users can keep our heros limping along LoL :-)

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kabadahija:
I have trying this ROM from yesterday and it is very nice and smooth. Sometimes I feel small lag but it is OK for me.

I can`t change CPU speed with SetCpu, it says that SetCpu couldn`t obtain root access. Is it because of this fix for lockscreen or I am missing something ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Yes :(.

I will try to return to this ROM soon, and at the very least fix this.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kabadahija:
I have noticed that this fix didn`t make some big improvement for screenlock for me. Is there option to disable this fix and to gain root again, or I must once more time install this great looking ROM without fix.

BTW, great ROM Erasmux.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
The fix fixes the changing of the lockscreen wallpaper. The responsiveness of the lockscreen is something I have failed to the fix the last time I was at it. I will look into it again when I revisit this ROM but now sure what I can do without the sources for sense....

Regarding the lossing of the root, I have no idea. For me this fix worked perfectly and did not effect root. I know some users also report root works with this fix, while many others report the losing of the root....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
is there an easy re-rooting tool (android resident) that I could try on this to see if I get root back? like how one-click root an-root or whatever it was called) used to work on rooting 2.1 heros.... anythign like that?

cheers and thanks for even taking the time to consider working on this rom again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Sorry I have no idea about that one-click rooting stuff. Generally speaking the situation is much simpler here because your device is rooted (i.e. you have a working recovery I would hope :p).

You can try to reinstall the SU either from here or from here (I don't remember which one I used for HeroLatte, the files doesn't seem to fit either of them?!).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
good point. yea, maybe reinstalling SU. will try it later :-)

thanks E.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ChocolateLab:
I am curious about this ROM and would like to try it.

Does tts and google navigation work in this one?

I've read there have been some issues with the lockscreen of this one before. Does the Sense 3.0 Lockscreen work with it?

Is it more stable and faster than SalsaSense?

What about the battery life time?

Is it possible to add a quick settings tab in the notifications bar?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CSL00:
Great ROM a few fc's here and there (browser mainly) but when using LV.4.7 bluetooth dies, when on LV.5 and LVX.5c, d and e WiFi breaks (all clean installs). This is the best froyo sense for the hero and it gets better with Las Venturas/Venturax in terms of smoothness.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] untitledmangxg:
sorry, but i do not understand...what means "improved lagg"???its more laggy?who wants that?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nicky9door:
Its called a joke, erasmux is saying the rom still needs some work
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I don't know of any problems with navigation, but I also don't have any personal experience with it.

I highly doubt the "Sense 3.0 Lockscreen" will work on this ROM, let me know if you find a way to make it work.

I believe it should be more stable than SalsaSense. I don't know about speed, I think both these ROMs are pretty bad on the speed department. If you want good performance use either the good old official 2.1 Sense, or even faster ASOP/CM roms like Floyo and such. Also see my answer to untitledmangxg below.

Battery life should be decent I believe.

Let me know if you manage to add this quick settings tab thingy.

The next version, when I finally get to it, will probably use the latest LV/LX kernel version. Wifi should not be a problem. Usb tethering is currently a problem with LV/LX (not ROM related).

This was mostly my frustration with this version. At the time I had very big hopes for this ROM. From my initial impression I thought it had a lot of potential. At least at the time, I even felt I made things worst with the 0.9 release (performance-wise worst, it does fix a lot of bugs - see changelog) - hence the title....

When I revisit this ROM, I will do what I can. Do note that I really did put a lot of effort into it at the time so not sure how much more I can get out of it. hopefully the new .35 kernel might help performance a bit.

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General note: I know there is a great interest in this ROM, but please understand that I currently have my plate full with other projects (like LV and Floyo) and also that annoying RL I spend most of my days on :p. I will revisit this ROM, just not sure when I will get to it (a very rough estimate is probably weeks, hopefully only a very few).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nicky9door:
I hate to bump an old thread, but I am seeking to try this rom again. Unfortunately, the link to the dalvik fix no longer works. Does anyone have a copy?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CSL00:
Here you go http://www.mediafire.com/?w547a0a3o37madh, even if Lirasina manages to sort Chocolate Froyo, Espresso Sense is something.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
that fix was always murder on my phone, killing everything important. that's why I use agile lockscreen with double lock fix 3 setting to solve the lockscreen delay problem.

however video recording still doesn't work for me in this rom. otherwise it's quite good with my agile lock workaround.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
No big prommisses on that one XD
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
heh heh - video recorder isn't likely, I understand that. by the way lira, do you have the agile lockscreen apk I'm talking about? My friend who sent the apk to me originally told me it actually was free but has been removed from the market (no doubt because it's a perfect knockoff of the salsa lockscreen and htc got mad, like with the htc clock knock offs in the market).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
No I do not. but I got floyo 1.2.0 running now and loving it so far. but I noticed this rom does not save some things, when you reboot it. Like what song you had on last and what was on, like wifi and stuff.

But yea I need to reboot my phone daily for that deaf app I have XD stupid logs XD so yea. this rom is a no go for me. and choclate froyo. stupid part is. I can not even boot the normal one..... even if I set the clock speeds to low XD it gets in a loop.. so I can not check that one out really.

But Floyo 1.2.0 with my own theme and some tweaks is like a new phone XD.. VE6 is fast? Well no not for me XD......

still customizing the theme bit by bit to look as awesome and correct as possible :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saj222:
Lira, can you please share your new Floyo? I am currently running the tried and true Floyo 1.2 and am looking for something similar but a little different. Thanks! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
I will once I get the theme to what I want it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] schetz:
well Floyo 1.2.0 is a really great and fast ROM, it's only that GPS issue (restarts) that's keeping me away

if you could fix that :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J.K Nilsson:
I am afraid that the download links do not work anymore. :o

J.K Nilsson
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saj222:
I'll check at home to see if I still have a copy.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saj222:
Here you go: http://bit.ly/zlpxTY
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluepinkpanther:
Erasmux, can you try make 2.3 with sense for hero? Wildfire s (320x480) rom dump is on xda.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bonesy:
Dunno if 2.3 is possible,no one can even get it 5o boot yet!

Sent from my BMW 318Ti using Magic
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluepinkpanther:
Maybe this will help: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1025330

2.3.3 with sense for Magic
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] B1nny:
OMGWTF!!!

we-need-that-now omg :o

I heard you can just flash a magic rom on your hero.. let's try it ^^ haha :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tomekk_nt:
After you ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluepinkpanther:
:D On magic it's run pretty nice. New sense UI has few cool features. ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] B1nny:
It hangs at the hero logo :/ it flashes succesfully though, but it hangs :( anyone knows a quick fix for the hero logo hang?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluepinkpanther:
Maybe flash any hero kernel?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fancyhe:
Just tried and keep playing for several minutes. It's much more smooth than expected. WOW. Installed some version of Superuser then Titanium Backup, Root Explorer work fine. btw, The built-in APNs works for me (I'm in China), it shows all 3 supported APNs.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Thanks for the link, will take a look :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mljjlm:
With the Flykernel, I can run the magic-ROM, it's quite slow on first boot though :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluepinkpanther:
OK. I'm downloading magic rom :D

But first I need to recharge the battery.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
Nope, that didn't solve anything, the apns list is empty even after I choose reset to default from options menu inside the apn list.

My apns are automatically added in:

2.1: VillainRom 13; Elelinux 2.1

2.2: floyo 1.2; froyd villain 1.7; elelinux 6.2

2.3: Elelinux 7; CM7

(Just tried all of them, yeah I know I'm a flash junkie :P)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] B1nny:
wow really? :D

omg thnx for the info bro!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
sure, buy a used HTC Magic.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
wait, WHAT?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mljjlm:
Yep! :)

On first boot now,

- No Wifi/Hotspots (mobile network works though)

- GPS untested (but as it doesn't work on the magic, I wouldn't bet my money that it does on the hero)

- No Bluetooth

- Most animations is quite laggy

- I'm not sure whether it shuts down or hibernates yet (still on first boot ;) )

- It is posting a lot of debugging info in the logcat? xD

Btw. it has the new lockscreen where the background doesn't follow ;)

EDIT:

SD-Card isn't recognized.. - Neither is the USB, but adb-functions work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
"HTC Magic's Android 2.3 with Sense 2.1 port" works after flashing Flykernel12a and the rom adds my apns too:D but it doesn't recognize my sd-card :( is the sd-card working for you guys on that rom?

I think it has JIT enabled :D Clocked at 614 Smartass : Linpack scores : 3.78...3.63....3.75
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluepinkpanther:
Hell yeah :D

Now somebody can port this to our heros ;)

I'm on sfm (2.3.3 with sense from magic) with Las Venturas kernel and is working :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
wait, why'd you call it that? I thought it had sense 2.3? Are you saying that a magic dev dumped sense 2.1 over top of 2.3 because 2.3 sense wouldn't work?

Or are you just saying that sense really has had no major updates since 2.1?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] iHero96:
I hope yes..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
HTC's Android version has Sense (Launcher) in it ... the new Sense 2.1 is just a new version of UI ....

Think that Sense is like LauncherPro .... LauncherPro is now at version 0.8.4.1 and Sense has version 2.1

So the rom is Android 2.3.3 and the Sense version is 2.1

Villainrom 13 or Elelinux 2.1 doesn't have Sense 2.1 in it just a lower version of it with Android 2.1
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
FTR I think I, maybe all of us, have gotten used to our heros performing badly cuz of the GB roms floating around and some other roms that claim to be fast but are actually quite slow (like the 6.2 rom I was using until today).

I just went back to floyo 1.2 and was pleasantly surprised to find no lags at all, no unlock lag, no phone answering lag, much faster touchscreen response, faster UI in every way, and that ugly purple I hate so much (LoL, sorry erasmux - you had a color blind moment with that rom ;-).

So I'm happy to be back with the speed and performance I used to have last year again with the older, faster roms, and floyo is the fastest relatively recent rom I think still.

I suspect that trying to get GB sense working on the hero will be too slow since all GB roms for the hero have a big issue with screen animation transitions having a very slow frame rate. like blob copying is borked or something on the hero.

I think I'd focus on this 2.2 sense rom erasmux - I think it will have more potential. No matter how much I prefer GB's features, I think sense uses smooth graphics so much that it will just never run well on GB on the hero.

Cool trick though to get that magic rom running so easily on the hero :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] B1nny:
I think this sense rom runs really GREAT for a first port! No drivers have been changed, only another kernel, not even overclocked yet!

I think this sense ui GB rom can be a real succes, I also don't like the CM7 stuff, but I have to say, the animations in this rom are pretty smooth, the overall performace needs a big boost though :/ I will vid it within the hour ^^
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mljjlm:
Just to add some more info on the Magic-ROM:

With Riemer's .35-kernel (Las Venturas 0.4.1), the WiFi still does not work

The SD-card and the USB-functions are there though..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
for those that tried Magic's 2.3 with sense : try choosing to turn off the phone and wait for about 10 seconds and power up your phone :D ... it boots instantly :)) (this hibernate effect goes away if you pull out the battery)

Edit: the downside of the hibernate thing is that u can't boot to recovery until you pull out the battery

Edit2: restart option also restarts my phone in about 10-15 seconds :D

Edit3: ty mljjlm for the tip .... I can confirm that using Las Venturas 0.4.1 enables the sd-card and Connect to PC also works. It seems that rom needs kernel 2.6.35

Edit4: I hope we will see 2.3.3 with sense ported to hero someday :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mljjlm:
Didn't work for me first time, but could be a crash as well :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pkn3000:
Is this a my touch slide port because under the model it says my touch slide
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Well the Elelinux-apns.zip file is the apn list from Elelinux 7 and very very close to the one in CM7 and floyo 1.2 (and I assume to all CM-based ROMs). I think I'll use this one for future releases. Hopefully with a clean install it will solve your problem, I currently have no other ideas.

First, I agree that currently the GB roms seems a bit sluggish and unstable. I still hope that with time we can improve this, as GB is most likely the last android version the hero will see. About the animations, I always just disable them. Were there even animation in Froyo?

In the long run, I will probably devout most of my efforts to CM7. If I see it is a lost cause, I might revert to CM6 and continue from where Floyo left....

About the colors, sorry but I like the general direction of the colors on Floyo. I know that a least a couple more people like it - could very well be only a minority, still I am not the only one ;). That said, I know theming is not my strong suit, and I hope to dedicate most of my time to the low level stuff of getting our devices to run faster and more stable and not to choosing colors....

This is another reason to prefer CM7 with its T-mobile theming engine :) Interestingly, the espresso (and this port also), also has the T-mobile theming engine, I wonder how a CM7 theme would look on it? I would assume that the CM7 themes are missing the theming for the sense apps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] riemervdzee:
Well you know what they say... real programmers can't design. You should take it as a compliment Eras ;-P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
I agree... kind of. Im runnin elelinux 2.1 at the moment and i have to say its very smooth compared to all the vanilla/aosp (whatever you call it) 2.2 and 2.3 ROMS I tried. The only thing is that battery life is a bit poor. whether this is because of sense or just 2.1 Android I dont know. either way I have set my max freq at 518 at the moment and the phone is still very running smooth so if this drastically improves battery life ill be very pleased.

Fair play to the devs for making 2.2 and 2.3 work on the Hero but I personally dont miss many of the features from these later android versions. The only new feature I really wanted was apps2sd and that was introduced to 2.1 roms a long time ago so i'm a happy customer (for the time being anyway).

having said all of that I actually think its sense that is so smooth (must be excellent coding on htc's part!) so a 2.2 or 2.3 sense ROM would probably excellent too! so to sum up. its be great if you got this (or 2.3 sense) running properly, but id be equally happy if you returned to 2.1 and spruced that up a bit! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
yea, I was just kidding around with you Erasmux. :-)

The problem I've noticed in gb roms on the hero aren't solved by disabling all animations - there are still some types of screen updates that have that same slow framerate. So somewhere in the gb roms is something that would really benefit overall performance if it was fixed, even without animations enabled in the settings.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
I folowed your steps (Again) with Floyo and indeed, it is smooth XD

How fast you can get used to something crappy XD.

and then think that is the best.

I do hope someday these kind of bugs in GB or anything else for that matter will get fixed and it will run awesone like Floyo
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pkn3000:
under the model number it says my touch slide is that normal
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pkn3000:
but I could flash it though clockwork mod it was successful
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I am abandoning work on port this, as bonesy has started working on Sense 2.3 port:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1028146

Good luck to him :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
Our Hero's are so lucky to have so many people urging to keep the phone alive with up-to-date software! But instead of each one building on their own, couldn't you cooperate to make an even better one? :rolleyes: Because you all have different qualifications! I'm sure bonesy has made the foundation for a brilliant rom!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I am interested in collaborations with any developer who is interested, because I really have very little time to devout to this. For now I have found none who is interested.... Those interested please PM me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gawis:
just wanted to say thanks to erasmux for coming back to the Hero scene :)

perhaps there will be a day when all Hero devs get to join forces..

until then, I'm thankfull to each and every single one of them for making our Heroes last a little longer..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
start with this port to learn

i started today to moddify this port, at first only the looks.

i'm almost finished to get rid of the t-mobile pink colours.

Changed friendstram to stock htc looks.

I did get rid of the bubbels in the themes to use themes from tegra rom.

and more to come.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
nice! maybe once you have a release of your modded version you should make a new thread for it (obviously giving full credit to erasmux for the actual rom).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
We (Me and Arnoslag) are hoping to release a major rehaul of this ROM together. Personally, I am concentrating on the low level stuff. Except the problem of the camera, I think this ROM could have great potential. Still there quite a few things that bug me here, so it might take a bit to get a release stabilized on my side....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
That sounds great! I've tried the ROM port of Gingebread Sense, and I totally agreed that lies a LOT of work to get that one stable and functioning. I haven't tried this particular version of 2.2 Sense, but these require much less work as they are already working pretty well. The one thing that annoyed me was sudden "hiccups" in Rosie which led to freezing and stuff, but a bit of tweaking and you're good to go! :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
cool. Without the GB speed hurdles and memory requirements to worry about this definitely seems like a project worth completing.

camera is unfortunate as it's actually quite useful, but I understand the limitations of working with those htc executables, and froyo's benefits outweight camera benefits probably :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Can anyone tell me, if in this Herosso-0.2 release the Wifi Hotspot is working?

If it doesn't work, I probably won't be able to fix it as I have no data plan (thats why I can't test it myself...). I mainly want to know if to keep it in the ROM or remove it....

If anyone goes through the process of actually flashing this premature piece of work to test it, and it does not work, please also create a logcat for me, who knows maybe I'll have an idea from it....

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Update posted.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Psyed:
Dl'ing right now. Flashing it in a few minutes. Will make a logcat dump for you :)

(Off-topic: I'm guessing Eclipse will start freaking again when logcat gets "too long").
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Wupper:
HeroLatte has been mirrored :). here
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Psyed:
Installing went fine, love the initial setup tbh. :)

WiFi hotspot not working for me, already sent you the logcat output :)

I'm @ work right now, going to test it a bit more during the break :)

Off-Topic: Tested the App I'm developing and added your rom to the positive results list :p (I'm reporting every rom + version + phone I'm using to test the app, damn that list is getting long :p)

Edit:

One realy anoying bug is that the phone keeps switchting to "Disk drive" when connected to the notebook. When I switch it to Charge Only it stays there for a few minutes and then switches back (auto) to Disk drive.

Another issue I've found has to do with the Settings Screen. Every now and then, after changing some settings, the settings screen is opened twice (and have to close it twice pressing the "back" button).

Going to make another logcat dump in a few min :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pahildo:
so hows the rom??

is it ok to use for everyday use??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
for the diskdrive bug, you have to go to "settings" connect to Pc" and choose option that you want. And then it will remember your choice
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Psyed:
Lol, thanks :)

Never had to look there before, didn't even think about it tbh. :o

Dismiss the issue then :p