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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] garyg2k:
Hey thanks for that info, I was actually having the same problem but never said anything about it. I thought it was just me... because my GPS doesn't work either and everyone else's works. :( GPS only locks when firing it up in WinMo first. :mad:

But anyway, after reading your post I checked the md5 hash of the system.ext2 on my sd card against the system.ext2 in the bundle and they didn't match. After overwriting the file, My Location finally works. It didn't fix my GPS though, maybe I'll try to delete my data.img next.

But that gave me a good idea, arrrghhh maybe you can include a md5 hash checker with the next release. So as soon as we copy the files to our sd card, we run the hash checker and know for sure if everything copied okay. I guarantee that would cut down on some of the inconsistency issues. I used the TestFile Applet in a program called ExactFile but there are many others. :D
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] argenisaz:
Hi.

I'd like to share my experience with you folks just to see what you think.

I have a RHOD500, I've double checked it several times (under the battery). So I selected the RHOD500 startup.txt.

Problem is my keyboard layout was wrong.

After googling for a while I found my solution, something that I still can't believe: MY RHOD500 HAS A RHOD400 KEYBOARD LAYOUT!!!

Changed that in my startup text and everything is where it's supposed to be on the keyboard.

Sometimes you see some weird sh*t in life.

Have a nice day! =)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] benouch:
Hi garyg2k,

My problem wasn't with GPS but with cell network location. If you want to get a better fix with your gps you should update your satellites' information with Quick GPS in WinMo. Info here.

I'm glad it helped anyway.

Ben.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] mgross029:
garyg2k,

I was having problems with my GPS getting a lock quickly, so I went into WinMo and turned the radios back on through Comm Mgr (Airplane Mode off)... Then Updated Quick GPS as Ben had stated above. I then turned the radios back off (Airplane Mode on) rebooted and launched Android. GPS does get a lock quicker now. Hope this helps...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Hrm, I almost never use wifi. If you wait, or disable wifi, does the cell signal come back? How long have you waited (2 minutes is probably enough)?

My system used to come back in a really bad state. Now, with the new RIL - the phone almost always comes back in a 'good' state. It'll have no service at first, but then it negotiates and eventually I have data within a minute or two...

As for a workaround on your issue, have you tried flipping Airplane mode on/off? That would be my only guess if waiting isn't the answer ;).

I'm not sure what causes this exactly, other than the system hanging. It just seems much more frequent in this build than previous builds. I'm wondering if it's some of the tweaks that were made... Others have looked at taming some of these values, see this thread. You can test the theory by adjusting the values on the fly with that SD Booster app.

Hrm. I guess it is a good idea - we never used to have this issue, I wonder why all of the sudden it's cropped up...

Well, maybe we had the issue all along and never knew it :p. Who knows... I'll see what sir stine thinks about it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] the show stopper:
i read that post and i am still trying to figure out what to do
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Then don't worry 'bout it. Definitely a more advanced topic in Android.

You can use an app like DroidWall to prevent apps from auto-syncing (it's a firewall app basically). It's very powerful, and you can tell apps to only use wifi, only 3g, or nothing at all. Then you can add a little widget on your homescreen so you can easily enable/disable the app so when you do need to use something like the Market (and it's not filtered out) you can flip DroidWall off, use the Market, flip it back on and be good to go.

It's really only part of the solution that I posted previously. The other solution deals with apps starting automatically on boot, which if it's above your head... just don't worry about it & use DroidWall :p.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] rpierce99:
Using droidwall to stop apps from syncing is fine, but it won't stop them from launching, and in some cases an app that tries to sync and fails will retry sooner than if it succeeded, thus shortening battery life, so I'd be careful with that.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] argenisaz:
Hi there.

My keyboard backlight is not working.

My phone is a RHOD500, kernel 2.6.27.46-01342 (htc-msm-linux @ 20110718_223029) and rootfs-20110727-358bc80.

I'd appreciate some help with this.

Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
See this post. I need to add this to the caveat list, thanks for reminding me ;).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] dsramesh:
With the latest build 8/05/11, Rhod500 is very slow upon boot and keeps SOD within few minutes. Also, unable to receive incoming calls but do get missed call notification. I can call out without any problem.

My startup file:

set ramsize 0x10000000

set ramaddr 0x10000000

set mtype 2292

set KERNEL zImage

set initrd initrd.gz

set initrd_offset 0x00a00000

set cmdline "msmsdcc_fmax=48000000 lcd.density=240 msmvkeyb_toggle=off gsensor_axis=2,1,3 pm.sleep_mode=1 acpuclock.oc_freq_khz=700000 physkeyboard=rhod500"

boot

..Ramesh
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Where did you get that startup? Certainly not from the STARTUPS folder.

Remove all the junk you added.

Also, what radio firmware is your device on? 2.37 is the newest VZ radio, you should try updating to it.

There's also a RIL update, but it seems unnecessary if you're on the newest radio.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] ibm_chandan:
Is it possible to Root Android on RHO100

Namashkaar Everybody!

just wanted to clear my my confusion/doubt. is it possible to root Android on RHO100.

If yes, then

1) is it useful/ worth it ?

2) what if i want to reinstate to Windows 6.5?

3) can Froyo be upgraded to gingerbread and to sandwich?

Thanks in advance mates.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Namastay to you.

1. The build is already rooted. No need to 'root' anything...

2. Simply reboot. Everything is run off the SD card, so where WinMo in installed (internal memory, sometimes called NAND) is not touched.

3. There is a FroYo build and a GingerBread build. Who knows about Ice Cream Sandwich. You can switch between builds and keep your data.img (assuming they're XDAndroid builds) so in that way you can upgrade... but it's not like a 'normal' Android device in that you won't get some over-the-air notification that an update is available.

Let me know if you have further questions.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] mrife:
Migrated from FX06 to FX07

I switched from FX06 to FX07. I first just ran FX07 against a copy of my FX06 data.img file. I was unable to get WIFI to work, so I went back and created a new data.img file with FX07. I used Titanium Backup to migrate my applications and application data to FX07. All applications worked except Angry Birds full version. It was slow in FX06, but functioned. In FX07 Angry Birds stopped on the loading screen. I found the Angry Birds Lite APK via Google search. It is not available on Android Market. The original file was com.rovio.angrybirds_lite.apk. I could not install it using Astro file manager. It would just say did not install. I tried copying it from the SD card to the phone and unmounting the SD card as some had success with that. I could not get that to work. I was about to give up when I renamed the APK file to angrybirdslite.apk and was able to install it from the SD card with Astro file manager.

I will leave FX07 running all weekend and try out all my applications with deeper testing.

Thanks to all.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] dsramesh:
I got this from your posting on another thread and thought needed the following for the new Haret:

set initrd_offset 0x00a00000

set cmdline "msmsdcc_fmax=48000000..."

I will remove it and try again.

Thanks!

..Ramesh
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
The initrd_offset is only if you're messing with experimental kernels.

The msmsdcc_fmax is a SD card frequency setting - only works, again, if you're messing with experimental stuff ;).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] gmann1:
Question to somebody with RHOD100 and FRX07 - How it's look like with battery life on 1 charge and ? (half day, day, day and half....)

Thx. :cool:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Tippfehler:
I have had 2 hours, bought a new battery (white one) an have one day now.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] MerlinOfLore:
Hmmm Let it sit for 10 minutes with no change... just an 'X' over my bars. Airplane mode won't turn on at that point either although it does go into Airplane mode after I reboot through WinMo and into FRX07...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] championc:
Phone: RHOD100

Build: FRX07

Rootfs: 20110727

Kernel: 20110809

Before Kernel 20110805 I was lucky got get 8 or so hours. Something major happened in 20110805 and then a bit more in 20110809 and I'm now getting about 24hrs.

Hi Arrrghhh, how can I tell my current version and would you have a link to download this one ?

C
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Major A:
I use the same setup for Kernel and Rootfs on my Rhod100_fr, and I found Froyo very usable and effective, whithout killing battery in a blink. GSM and 3G access are quite stable and it's possible to give and receive calls without compromising stability.

I could not tell if it can endorse 24h, but it stays for sure able to run dozens of hours as it did yesterday.

I tried some low end android devices less capable and efficient than Rhod in this setup.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Caio:
Hello,

I'm using this ROM from about 10 days, it's good, but I've some problems that I need to fix. Here the list:

-sometimes putting the phone on airplane mode requires reboot to reenable the connections

-GPS seems to be very slow to hook satellites

-charge led is always powered on on my phone

-keyboard leds don't work (the keyboard is always lightless)

-I have an italian keyboard. How can I change the layout of the hardware keyboard (android is already set on italian)?

-Does it possible to reboot only the android system without having to also reboot windows every time?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] anticimex:
Alright, regarding my previous comment - I fixed it. My memory card was apparantly not working correctly, and it could not finalize the install. So, I went and bought myself a 16GB Class4 HC memory card (for anyone wondering) and it's working perfectly!

I have three questions though.

1. Why is the LED-indicator always orange when I am using the phone, but when I click on the lock button it is green? I've read that it's not sleeping correctly(?), but what could be affecting it? I've turned everything off on my windows mobile.

2. I have a swedish phone, but I can't use the swedish characters on my keyboard since it apparantly has changed to a UK version. Is there any chance I can fix this?

3. None of my contacts on my SIM-card have been added to my android. How can I add all my contacts to my android version?

Other than that, I am loving the XDANDROID, thanks alot for your work!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Bummer. Well, I guess rebooting is your only option. Not sure why it works well for me... I wish the reboots within Android wouldn't happen at all, I have a feeling it's due to iowait...

Try getting the app "SD Booster" and change your cache size to 256. See if it works better for you. The default was upped to 2048, but I think for most it has done more harm than good. Hopefully you'll have less reboots within Android with this setting...

GSM and CDMA are obviously going to be drastically different. DO NOT flash a CDMA radio firmware onto a GSM-only phone. You're asking for a brick.

You can check radio version in Android in Settings -> About Phone -> Baseband version. The numbers/letters after the underscore should be your radio version.

You can find updated radios on the forum. Not sure what's out there for GSM, sorry...

Airplane mode is flaky, but much better in this version (trust me).

GPS will be very slow. Use QuickGPS in WinMo or get a lock in WinMo before booting Android, locks will DRAMATICALLY decrease in time.

Charge LED is always powered on my phone... someone didn't read the FAQ, this represents sleep state. Orange = wake, green = sleep.

Keyboard LED's don't work - try to disable auto backlight. I added that caveat, but since you didn't read anything else I guess I shouldn't expect you to read the caveat list :rolleyes:.

Italian keyboard, did you bother setting physkeyboard=rhod100_it in startup.txt?

Yes, WinMo is not going away. We need it to initialize hardware and start Android for us. Booting without WinMo requires a lot of work... which is happening, it's just slow going. This is the most stable way to run Android at this time - using WinMo.

Seems you read a little...

For #1, is GPS enabled? Not as in 'active' in the notification bar, I mean simply enabled in Settings -> Location & Security? That'll kill sleep. Having BT on in WinMo when you boot Android will kill sleep. Random stupid apps will kill sleep. That's about it.

I don't think there is a Swedish layout... This is all I see for RHOD:

physkeyboard=rhod100_de
physkeyboard=rhod100_fr
physkeyboard=rhod100_it
physkeyboard=rhod100_uk
physkeyboard=rhod100_nordic

Take a pic of your keyboard, someone can try to implement it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] großa:
Good that it is working now :)

1: Orange Led means your phone is in use, or is doing some background stuff. Solid green means deep sleep. So if the LED is green, everythings fine.

2: Ask StarFox (or F22). They made the rhod100_de layout. Perhaps one of them will do the swedisch layout too.

If so, you have to bind/mount it afterwards.

3: Just goto Contacts, press the windows button and choose import/export. There you can import your contacts from the SIM-card.

Good luck ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] odzk:
is there a way to completely turn off the LED? I just recently replaced my flex (ribbon that connects the keyboard to the mainboard and LCD) and orange light is kinda annoying, its light is very bright orange esp. in total darkness unlike the old flex where the orange led was just average.

I have 2 instances that the keyboard backlight went off even the phone was in total darkness (light sensor was not working) but a soft reset fixed it.

Not sure what the real issue my phone is having, but I only have 7 - 8 hours of battery life (with data off) with average sms/ some phone calls.

2 hours or less if data is ON (HSDPA) heavy browsing,

4 hours or so if only for messenger (yahoo, or nimbuzz) with no browsing.

- overclocking the device to 700+ mhz did really boost the speed of the phone, its getting a little at par with the andriod native device g1, but Im getting -30 mins on the battery life.

i forgot the kernel im using, but its a one step higher than what's included in teh bundle.

Other than that, it works great!!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
If you're getting 30 minutes of battery life, your battery is dying or dead. I get 12+ hours, and I'm oc'd to 700. I know some that get 24+ hours, depending on usage. Try to make sure everything is up to date... kernel&rootfs.

As for the keyboard backlight, make sure auto-brightness is disabled. It causes issues with the keyboard/button lights. This is in the caveat list :rolleyes:.

The orange LED... is NOT going away anytime soon. Do you not grasp what it represents? Why have I had to re-answer this question with every post? It represents sleep state, and if it doesn't go solid green the phone isn't sleeping and IT'LL KILL YOUR BATTERY. Hence the reason for the indicator - it lets you know when the phone isn't sleeping properly so you can fix it before the phone just dies.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] odzk:
what i mean about 30 mins is 30 mins lesser than the original battery life so if i get 7, and if I OC it i get 6.5, and yes I think its about to die, maybe i need to replace this.

Do you get 12 hours of battery life with data always on and face book and messenger running on the background? cool, i only get 2 - 4 hours if I do that, 7 hours if data is OFF.

the orange and green LED light always on is not actually on the performance or function issue, im not against its function, its doing what it supposed to do, i think its more on the preference issue, my orange LED light is very bright, when I say its bright, i really mean it, I can even use it as a flash light in total darkness, (not sure why its so bright though, maybe what I have is not an original flex, the original one that it used to have is not as bright as this one, i just purchase it on ebay for $25, http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260790900889&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

but since its not going away i think I'll just have to live with it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Oh yea, OC will drain you battery quicker, so that's expected.

As for the battery life, I don't use Facebook (that app is AWFUL, not to mention the site...) but I do have GMail syncing. I don't think there's too much else that auto-syncs for me. I have ClockSync run every 6 hours, and I'm sure there's a few background apps that check things at random. DroidWall can help curb the automatic sync's from happening without your knowledge. Only problem is you gotta remember, if you block it then you'll have to manually sync.

I still get 12+ hours with data/sync on. But it seems you're syncing a lot more than I am. 99% of the time my phone has a solid green LED. I also don't make too many phone calls during the day from my cell - I use my desk phone @ work usually when I'm making / receiving calls (<3 Google Voice).

On the orange LED being so bright - I have no clue. Mine is pretty bright too, I just turn it face down at night so it doesn't bother me. Any other time it doesn't bother me because the screen is so much brighter than the LED... so if the screen is on & you're looking at it, I don't see how the LED can be bothersome. If the screen is off and you're staring at a blank screen... then you're just weird :p.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] fortunz:
Well since you asked, if the screen isn't very bright, at minimum viewable brightness in pitch black with black background and green text for reading, the led can be quite bright, searing even. Rhodium is a great ereader, and I like to get in some reading each night right before falling asleep. I've taped over my LED. I can still see enough light to know what the sleep state is, but not enough to burn the light straight into my brain. I've also turned off both my keyboard led and front button leds. Right now I'm pondering attempting to locate whatever switch in the kernel to compile my own. Never had a sleep issue myself. I could always test new kernels from the autobuild, if they sleep fine, compile the newest code with just the led switch changed.

By the time I actually figure out how to do it (I've been reading through xdandroid pages on the topic and googling various topics that elude me), the led will probably have already been changed or the sun will have gone supernova, but I'm still thinking about it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] odzk:
Ive noticed that the cause of the degradation of the performance of the phone is when the memory goes at 0 (which is actually very obvious), unfortunately android doesn't closed any app that running on the background, is there a way that we can automatically closed the first app launched to give way to the new app being launch?

I tried all the task killer on the market and none of them does this. The only app that i find close to this function is the advance task killer of rechild, but it only clears the memory if the screen is turn off, or other options like 30 mins, 1 hour - etc.

This what happens.

I run Facebook app (i know its awful but there is no other substitute) eats a lot of memory, and put it on background, then I open up yahoo messenger, again another memory eater, and I put it on background, so I have a few memory left, I open up browser, eats a lot of memory too, then the memory reaches 0, (sometimes I can still manage to open Running services and I can see that it has 0 memory) the phone starts to lag like crazy and hang, then message keeps on popping up to close the browser. and when I close it, goes back to normal.

Is there a software that will close the 1st app that you launch to free up memory? Like if the memory gets too low, it will automatically close the facebook since its the first app that I open. and if its still low, it will close the yahoo messenger and so on.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] anticimex:
Thank you for your help, it's highly appreciated! I don't have a camera to take a picture of my keyboard, but it's something like this, but on the hard keyboard and not the software one:

About the GPS, none of that is on for me, which is weird.

Thank you aswell :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Sorry, can't do anything based on that pic. I'd need a pic of the actual keyboard.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] SteelLife:
I have to use my FRXo7 data.img because of the no wifi when let the phone make one itself. Where is the newest kernel? and I'm using the newest rootfs. Arrrghhh, I know yell at me my getlogs was no help I assume.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
No I'm going to yell at you for asking where the newest kernel is. Read the first post, the autobuild services are all listed.

Incremental Updates also has all the info you could possibly want on the subject.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] odzk:
any thoughts on this one?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] anticimex:
Hmm, I'll see what I can do. Thanks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Yea, you already nailed it. You're running memory hungry apps on a device that has very little memory. Don't have those apps running in the background, you'll be much happier.

I've already mentioned that there's some values within Android you can tweak. I'm sure 'there's an app for that' but I don't know what it is. The values are in init.rc, and relate to how aggressively Android manages memory. It's a dangerous thing to be mucking with.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] blognc:
I'd like to recommend this be changed for future versions. There's no reason a behavior like this wouldn't be an improvement:

No LED = awake

Green LED = asleep

Having the LED on ALL the time is annoying, especially when staring at the screen. We only need to know when the device is asleep. Knowing that it awake can be inferred from it not being asleep.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] SteelLife:
Ok I'm going to give up on trying to get a data.img with wifi now my problem is this once my old data.img become completely bogged down I'm in trouble. Do you think there will be another build or something to help because I can't even get connectbot to install I'm soooooooooooo sad:(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] yoyo81:
If your problem is the LED being on when staring at a blank screen, your suggestion appears to be flawed.

I think

No LED = sleeping

Orange LED = awake

would be more useful. This way, the green LED can be used for useful things like message indicators :)

I don't know how much work would be required to do this, but perhaps diving into some kernel code would help. Perhaps someone else on here can point us in the right direction?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] fortunz:
Your suggestions might get lost in this mega thread. May I suggest posting here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1176672

Why would he stare at a blank screen?