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[Verizon Droid Charge] streetlightman:
one last newb question, i promise (i just don't want to brick my phone)

so basically, all i have to do is hook up to Odin and flash it and I'm done? I don't have to do a manual data wipe before I flash it correct?

I'm running stock non-rooted ED2 right now if that matters.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
yeah you should be fine
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
For your first question from your last post: When you flash this rom your data won't be wiped and you will keep everything, everything, texts, everything.

2: you don't need wipe data and yes just hook up to Odin and flash this in PDA mode. ALSO, don't forget to take the file OUT of the zip folder. It's actually a tar folder but it does the same thing.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
@ Anyone claiming the latest version is draining battery life more than previous versions

1 of 2 things is happening

either you are having a placebo effect and are looking for problems with the rom

or

your lagfix is disabled

download terminal emulator from the market

open it and type mount

approx 4th line down it should say something like ext4 system

if you see

rfs system then your lagfix is disabled and you should boot into recovery scroll down to voodoo and enable lagfix

the last couple of updates were mostly all cosmetic additions. its like painting your car and thinking it is going faster or slower because of the paint
[Verizon Droid Charge] streetlightman:
Mad nice! Super successful flashing thanks to all of your help and I love the ROM. The ONLY thing that bothers me is the themed swype keyboard. Is there a way to bring that back to the original?
[Verizon Droid Charge] airric00:
I think you just go to the settings by hitting the menu button on the home page and find the keyboard, switch it to the samsung..

Is there a keyboard that is similar the to HTC incredible? Man I miss that keyboard. I hate having to navigate for the symbols!! How is the gingerbread keyboard?
[Verizon Droid Charge] streetlightman:
Thanks for the reply but I think you misunderstood; I want to switch the swype keyboard included with this rom back to the original swype keyboard
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Have any of you tried the HDMI output with this ROM or stock? I've used, to no avail:

- multiple HDMImicro to HDMI adapters

- multiple HDMI cables

- multiple HDMI ports on my TV

The video is fine, always. The audio, however, will not play at all when the HDMI cable is plugged into the phone. With the HDMI cable in, it won't play through the phone's speaker or the headphone output jack. The weird thing is, when I unplug the HDMI cable, the phone's external speaker doesn't play the song(s) that were still playing throughout the testing process. The songs didn't get paused, I checked, and you can obviously see the song playing, but the notification sounds did play through the speaker! wtf :confused:. The media volume was also definitely turned up throughout the testing process, and I verified it was turned up whenever plugging/unplugging the HDMI and headphone cables.

*Another weird thing about the whole HDMI audio failure/testing process - after I unplugged the HDMI cable from the phone and sat down to watch TV, the phone magically started playing the music, minutes later. I wasn't playing with the phone, the screen was off and it was simply sitting next to me. And it was the music that was still playing from before.

After that happened, I tested all variables a second time and nothing worked, again. The same *weird thing with the media audio happened again.

And now I'm here, asking the crowd for their experiences and input. Please someone test this out if you have a HDMI micro adapter or cable. Let me know if there's some weird setting that I missed, or if it's possibly something with the AB ROM. I'm pretty sure HDMI in general can be a finicky B (with it's digital handshake or whatever the hell it's called), but the video works perfectly fine, so I'm not quite sure what the fudge is going on. Please halp.

Please do not tell me the thing cannot play audio through HDMI because I'll probably push my parents down the stairs and collect their life insurance money early so that I could heal my crushed spirit by procuring a few cars and a house in San Diego/hookers.

I'm pretty sure Smart Keyboard Pro has the HTC Sense keyboard skin and features you're looking for:
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Why can't I delete this post?
[Verizon Droid Charge] streetlightman:
HDMI works fine for me both with this ROM and with the stock ROM. Sound works too. Maybe it's the cable you're using? This is the cable I ordered: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VWYBC2.

Maybe try a different file for the audio. That's what I'd do.

Hope that helps
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
I bought one like the one you posted and I also have an HDMImico male -> HDMI female adapter so that I can use whatever regular HDMI cable I feel like. Neither worked.

The cable that it similar to yours definitely says video/audio on the box. The other adapter was ordered online, I can check the website later.
[Verizon Droid Charge] airric00:
oh that's the one I been missing.. I downloaded the swift keyboard. pretty similar. but the font is pretty small.. thanks for the hit..
[Verizon Droid Charge] Mig1234:
Aesome. Worked first time like a charm. Guys thank you soooooooooo much, I honestly and sincerely appreciate you guys. Thanks!!!:D
[Verizon Droid Charge] immjg:
Not in the first menu, but in the "more" menu, it happens on all apps that have this secound level menu.

Sample what it looks like
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
Right on, thanks for the feedback! I may have to load this guy up tonight :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
I loaded up your ROM tonight and I LOVE it so far! However, I have one issue, when I try to set the weather in the Desktop Cradle app it keeps force closing, any ideas? Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
Battery life is horrid. And I can't figure out why!
[Verizon Droid Charge] dslider85:
Battery life is horrid on this phone period. If you want better battery turn off 4g and wifi, if wifi is on it constantly scans for a network killing you battery. I went and bought the dock form Verizon that has a spare battery. It charges your phone and the spare so you always have a fresh battery and its only $50.

Edit: also turn down your screen brightness that will save you some battery also
[Verizon Droid Charge] will2live:
Battery life IMO is not the best on any LTE/4g device at this time. However the Charge is WAY better then the tBolt is that is for sure. But I agree make sure brightness is turned down, Wifi off, and also check you apps so they are not updating every 15 mins. unless you need an app to update all the time IMO it is best to just set them to manual or at least every couple of hours to conserve battery.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
Guys I know how the battery works and stuff. This rom is actually killing the battery more than ED1 or ED2 stock bloated. I perfectly fine battery life for a 4G phone on ED1. It would last 2 days with 4G on full time. That's not bad. As soon as I flashed this rom it went to junk. I went from 100% yesterday morning to 50% in under 3 hours. I barely used the phone at all. It seemed to drain at the same speed after that when I put the phone away for 3 hours and mobile data off. Still 50% after 3 hours. Something in the rom or kernel is the culprit, don't know what though. Good luck finding it but I have to go back to stock because I need my phone working. I hate stock :(
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
Sorry Syn Ack, nothing that i have added besides the kernel would effect battery and all that i have removed would only help battery life. Hope it improves for you on stock
[Verizon Droid Charge] dslider85:
Wierd i ran stock ed2 for a week and never made it 8 hours without my phone going dead. Switched to this and i can make it about 10 with medium use. Then just swap batteries. Don't know. When you flashed did you do a full wipe? When i went from stock to this i had some issues but they were fixed with a full wipe including dev cache.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
I didn't wipe because I didn't want to lose my data. It's all good though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] SirLance99:
I don't know what happened to your phone, but I have doubled my battery life. That's with over 45GB used last month.
[Verizon Droid Charge] salto571:
Did you remember to enable voodoo to covert to ext4?
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
Any thoughts or ideas on this?
[Verizon Droid Charge] jdog_12345:
Thanks!

I am really liking this ROM so far. I like the color scheme way better. Keep up the good work! :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] H3Dude:
Manually remove Superuser if returning to stock?

If I decide to return to stock, do I have to manually remove Superuser or will a flash of stock ROM remove it? It cant be removed via unistall and I tried to find it with Root explorer to no avail. Not sure that would even work since it would need root rights from the program it is deleting. Thanks.
[Verizon Droid Charge] omnia38:
Any chance of having the next version of this rim support the wiimote application. I lovehaving full hdmi mirroring on my phone for emulator, only wish I could use my wiimote to game.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Does your HDMI play the audio properly? I cannot get the audio to play through HDMI. I've tried different adapters, cables, inputs, etc. Refer to my post earlier in the thread regarding this annoyance.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
as new updates come out for the altered beast rom... how do we update without losing our information? If I have to oden flash this baby everytime to receive an update i'm gonna lose everything each time. Is there plans to release a .zip flashable file through CWM?
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Flashing with Odin won't wipe your personal data. I've updated from V1 -> V2 -> V3 -> V4 and never wiped any of my data.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Sweet. For some reason I was thinking that flashing with oden deletes data. So im on version 4 right now... when 5 comes out I simply flash with oden and all my apps and settings stay... correct? On other platforms flashing a new rom erased my data at times
[Verizon Droid Charge] Haloman800:
I second this. I'd REALLY appreciate WiiMote support :D. My nephew loves Mario, and I'll be his favorite uncle if I let him play it on the big screen ;D
[Verizon Droid Charge] will2live:
That would be correct on a future update of AB. Word is there will be *.zip format soon tho that can be flashed via CWR.

As for deleting data it all depends on the ROM and what you had running before had. Some ROMs do in fact require you to wipe the device but others do not. A prime example would be going from a ROM like AB to say one that is built strictly as AOSP. In that case odds are you WOULD be required to wipe data. But normally when you stay with the same dev wiping is not Required unless they made some major major changes.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
First of all let me tell you droidxcon.... This rom is AMAZING!!!!!! No random restarts since I flashed it and this thing really is a beast!!!!

I only have one problem so far and I think it might be due to some framework that might have been subtracted out of the rom...

Everytime I click on the my verizon mobile app it gives me the error that you see in the attached picture. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck. Can anyone tell me what else I need to download to get this app working? I can't seem to find the verizon client anywhere to download. Droidxcon... is it something you can add back in to make this work? Thanks

##EDIT## see my other post in development... found a fix
[Verizon Droid Charge] awdshenanigans:
i hope not. odin>cwm as far as i'm concerned. easier to use + its the same program samsung uses so bricking is less likely.
[Verizon Droid Charge] awdshenanigans:
is it safe to use the "root tools" app with this rom?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Mig1234:
Recovery

Can someone tell me how to go "back" on recovery screen. Sometimes is shows the ******back***** but at times not, when in recovery mode. Thank you.
[Verizon Droid Charge] brabe1979:
It is currenty a bug with CWR. Imnuts is working to post a version that fixes this. Right now you just have to do a battery pull.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Sweetness. Thanks dude
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
I have found root tools to be extremely cranky and easy to misconfigure... i would stay away. Bricking is easy with that app
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
I loaded up your ROM tonight and I LOVE it so far! However, I have one issue, when I try to set the weather in the Desktop Cradle app it keeps force closing, any ideas? Thanks!

I take that as a no?
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
This rom is flawless! This thing sips battery with imnuts peanut butter jelly time kernel. I love love love it!!!!!!!! No random reboots.

Uptime is 4 days with no reboots!!!
[Verizon Droid Charge] awdshenanigans:
O ok. Thanks for the warning.
[Verizon Droid Charge] reflekt2099:
so would you say that the best (preferred) way is to go with imnuts' peanut butter jelly time kernel with the altered beast rom on top?
[Verizon Droid Charge] nvikram:
Everything looks good besides the glitchy 4G icon.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chef2:
question - will this put superuser on automatically? i would like to use some rooted apps

thank you
[Verizon Droid Charge] will2live:
It will in fact. IE the build is rooted and has the Voodoo Lagfix kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] thechaps:
I also get this error but all i do is reboot and it fixes it. It eventually comes back. It does this on all of the music players I've tried. I remember having this issue on a ROM back on my OG Droid but it got fixed. Not sure what it was but i no its fixable.

Also has anybody gotten the beta x swiftkey to work on this without it shrinking the keyboard size? I have my LCD Density down to 190. On my DX no matter what density i had it set to it wouldn't change the size of the Keyboard.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chef2:
ok, just flashed on odin.... great rom!

question.. the dock on the bottom with phone, messaging ect... is unthemed and grey. is that still a work in progress?

thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
can you upload and send me the mp3's you are having trouble with because i can not reproduce this problem
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
Launcher Pro will not let me distribute the launcher modified, i will add a patch for this after the fact after i figure out how to get eclipse to compile and publish
[Verizon Droid Charge] thechaps:
It happens with all .mp3's even when i try to download ringtones from zedge. Its not all the time just every once and a while. And again a reboot fixes it. Maybe just a bad flash i'll try reflashing tomorrow. Its just weird that somebody else is having the exact same issue.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Why not use GoLauncher? And when is V5 coming? :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
What new features will we see in V5? I like where the ROM and what you have done both in customization and theme work. The carbon fiber isn't my taste but its subjective. The work is really nice.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
V4.1.1 is up over at AC , CWM flashable

V5 will just be more removal of touchwiz brown and orange poop

Beta will have more mods but i dont want to speculate on them until im sure they will work. Ive gotten beaten up over the supposed battery thing so i dont want to give people more time to leave me angry PM's for not getting a feature i mention.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Just flashed 4.1.1 and things are looking great! Thanks for removing the carbon fiber, the 3g, and wifi icons... much better. Love love love the battery indicator.. please keep that. Wouldn't mind seeing the gps and download arrows back though
[Verizon Droid Charge] dslider85:
Man this Rom is great, people are always going to piss and moan about something. You don't see them creating anything, only trying to tear it down. Don't let them bring you down. Keep up the great work.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
I agree. You are the man droidxcon
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Update###

When booting the phone up, the media scanning is noticeably slower now... did you change anything with i/o file system or sdcard scanning?
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
nothing at all was changed, just some themeing and i added 2 apps
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
ok.. no biggie. Might just be my imagination

Everything is still working great! Thanks for pushing this out for CWM... sure makes it easy to flash on the go. You the man
[Verizon Droid Charge] Mikey450GT:
I'm really liking this rom, significantly quicker than the stock setup. I'm not sure if it matters, but my quadrant score is 45% higher or so :P

I definitely like the themes, keep it up!

EDIT: Is this pre 4.1.1? I personally like the CF Theme, but don't much care for the poop colors that come stock with it. If I update to 4.1.1 do I lose those?
[Verizon Droid Charge] dobo84:
Ok I have imnuts kernel with voodoo and his debloated rom can I still flash this via odin or am I stuck with what I have
[Verizon Droid Charge] ffd173:
Installed this rom yesterday and it is working great!!

Thanks to droidxcon.

I have one question. I only see 3 home screens. Is there something I am missing or can you include the option for more in future updates?

THANKS :D:D
[Verizon Droid Charge] H3Dude:
You can add more screens through the menu at the home screen.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jdkzombie:
About the slow sd scanning, there is an app here called "sd increase" and i believe its in the "android development" thread and it significantly increases the sd scan speed by scanning more files faster. which means faster boot ups!! and other things. :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] ffd173:
Duhhh!! I should have seen that. THANK YOU!
[Verizon Droid Charge] sableshanae:
Will you be working on a gingerbread rom anytime soon?? The development for my thunderbolt was very swift and it would look amazing on the Charge.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
I'm looking to wipe my Charge and reinstall AB v4.1 like the person above but I wasn't exactly sure what steps I needed to take. Can I boot into CWM by holding Volume up or some crap, then wipe data/cache? At that point, my phone would be blank, correct? Could I then flash AB V4.1 using Odin? Or after selecting wipe data/cache from CWM, should I go to install zip, from sd, etc..?
[Verizon Droid Charge] dobo84:
Never mind just flashed it, was a scary process....Im one brick away from a divorce. Thankfully it work flawless
[Verizon Droid Charge] ffd173:
I've been playing with this rom and there is one thing that got debloated that I would like.

It's the weatherbug widget app. I know it's a samsung/weatherbug thing.

If you could, please post up just that app. Thanks! :cool:
[Verizon Droid Charge] fyodor32768:
I'll second this. In addition to this being a generally fast and excellent ROM, I also get excellent battery life using this with the PBJT kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Amir_Clark:
I can't find the v1.4.1, can someone post a link for it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] H3Dude:
No prob. It is hard to keep up when you are always changing it up and keeping it real. You hit my thank you button and doubled my amount of TY's. HA HA!! I am cruisin'!
[Verizon Droid Charge] streetlightman:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/cha...t-alpha-4-1-1-voodoo-cwm-ed2-root-w-demo.html

Scroll to the bottom and hit download
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
I think I got it..

1. Booted into CWM

2. Wiped data/factory reset

3. Wiped cache partition

4. Installed .zip from SD (PBJT kernel)

5. Installed .zip from SD (AB V4.1.1)

6. Pulled battery

7. Booted up and it sat at the animation for a bit, but I don't believe I heard the lady's voice..

I think I'm good?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Amir_Clark:
ok, thanks alot!
[Verizon Droid Charge] H3Dude:
I was just reading that factory reset in CWM wasn't working. guess it is for you. that is a good sign
[Verizon Droid Charge] dobo84:
Philly I don't think you can install this Rom with out odin but I might be wrong

Sent from my Altered voodoo Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] Amir_Clark:
I just flashed v1.4.1 using CWM, everything went well, it didn't take long to do it. I like the black and blue theme, its really nice. Great Rom!! Thanks for all the work your doing.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Haha yeah I suppose it is. Everything is fine, the kernel and ROM both loaded and Titanium Backup restored all of my data.

I originally used Odin to flash the various AB versions until this new v4.1.1. Then I just used the CWR that was packaged in with AB to do everything I posted earlier.

droidXcon, what's with the battery icon in the notification bar changing from the blue battery to the red circle battery icon randomly?
[Verizon Droid Charge] brian1972ct:
You jinxed me, I hadn't gotten the blue battery until I just read your post and looked at the phone. I have to say I had grown to love he red circle with the percentage inside!

Edit: I think it stays blue when fully charged, then goes to the red circle when less then 98%
[Verizon Droid Charge] vc66:
Same here...either way it's a minor hiccup and this rom with imnuts' kernel is sick. Nice job! I can't wait to see the beta!
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
I hate to be buggy, but somebody must know ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
Yeah its a alpha build its not the end product. im working on it. sorry
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
That's fine, I was just wondering if maybe it was something I did wrong, or maybe a reflash was needed. No worries on this, it's not a deal breaker by any means, and I'm sure you'll have it all ironed out eventually, thanks for getting back to me!
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
Will you be incorporating the new EE4 Hotfix into this ROM? It looks like it fixes quite a few things.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
its going to be a little more difficult than that i have been up all night and found some limitations that we are going to have to get around to put out a solid rom
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
No worries, do what ya gotta do! If I can be of any help in beta testing or anything else, let me know! Oh, and get some sleep ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
I have been more than happy with your work so far and honestly this ROM is awesome. IF they aren't happy, they should remove it and run stock, another ROM or say nothing. Constructive feedback is great, whining isn't helpful.
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
I will have to check that app out and see what it can do for us.
[Verizon Droid Charge] r00t beer:
[/QUOTE]

Ahh, battery just went down to 75. I'm seriously going to stab someone in the face.[/QUOTE]

Shoulda got an iPhone :D

JK