yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC EVO 3D] SPreston2001:
Had your SD card mounted 2 ur pc? Lol
[HTC EVO 3D] jamexman:
Would be great if you could remove the 4 tab limit on the browser.

Also, I wiped, installed from clean. But I'm still missing my GPS icon (no matter if gps is on or off, it just won't show on the notifications bar).
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Can you confirm that download file says....

CleanROM_2.0.Final.zip?

If it does then are you restoring ANYTHING from titanium back up or adding any other mods to the ROM? I can assure the ROM has the GPS on notification. There has to be something fishy going on.

Yes you sound liek anoob, lol J/K. ROM Updater works and is in full affect... BUT YOU CANT FLASH the ZIP fiel from inside the updater. It will download to SD card and you have to manually boot into recovery using the power button mneu. Then just flash the zip. Very simple but yet highly affective :)

Nah, just noobish, lol :)
[HTC EVO 3D] TP1085:
+1 on more than 4 tabs, and also about the GPS icon. I assumed it was removed on purpose, but I also don't have it. When GPS is actually in use the satellite shows up, but nothing besides that.

Also, is the Sprint hot spot supposed to work over 4g? When I try to use it on 4g I get the message telling me I don't have the service.

And to clarify, i did do a full wipe, and this is also my first custom Rom on this phone.
[HTC EVO 3D] jamexman:
There we go, we are two with the lost GPS icon. Yes, I verified is the final zip. Only thing I can think is I'm rooted with HTC's method with S-ON, will that affect anything? anybody else without the gps icon? (dont have other mode installed BTW)
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Either I am misunderstanding him or you? Or I am misunderstanding your concern... Either way... we have a misunderstanding going on here....

This is how the GPS icon should and does work.... As noted by the poster above....

You will NOT have a GPS Icon when GPS is idle. When GPS goes ACTIVE you

will

have GPS ICON for locating then locked. That is what I have and how I intended the ROM to be.

Now, do your results differ from this?

Please confirm and we can go from there.
[HTC EVO 3D] jamexman:
Maybe we are having a misunderstanding then, this is what I meant, on the stock ROM, if you have gps enable it shows like a crosshair or bullseye, don't know how to describe it. If you have gps off, it has a diagonal line. This is a good battery saver as a quick glance you know your gps is on or off. Then if an app is using the gps it also shows like an activity satellite dish.

So you meant you purposely removed that crossair-ish icon and only the animated dish shows?
[HTC EVO 3D] LiquidSolstice:
That crosshair is not related to the GPS. It's "Location Services". It has nothing to do with battery savings either.
[HTC EVO 3D] jamexman:
That's not what I meant, it helps me keeping gps on or off in check, thus saving battery. Not a big deal, but were trying to figure out if It's a bug or it it was intended to be removed.
[HTC EVO 3D] LiquidSolstice:
Again, you're not understanding, I know what you're talking about; that icon has nothing to do with whether or not the GPS is on. The crosshair that toggles between being visible and having a line through it is Location Services, not GPS. It's called "GPS Icon" for short, but it's actually the Location Services Reticle.

You won't be getting better battery life if there's a line through it. All that means is that no application is currently using Location Services. Location Services can be in use without the GPS actually being on, it's a separate setting.

Most people always leave Location Settings on, so therefore it just takes up space.

The true GPS icon will only appear when the GPS in the phone is actively hunting for your position, and even then, even if the checkbox for GPS is toggled on, the GPS still won't be active unless an application calls for it.
[HTC EVO 3D] BadBoyNDSU:
I'd also like to chime in and say I'd rather have the recent apps back in the tray.

Thanks for the great work on this rom.
[HTC EVO 3D] TP1085:
OK, then we are all set with the GPS. For me, it is working exactly as described. The crosshairs are gone, the satellite is there when GPS is actually being used.

And the crosshairs indicate location services. It is fine to leave it on all the time, there are no battery savings from having that turned off as far as I am aware.

Anyone know anything about Sprint Hotspot not working over 4G?
[HTC EVO 3D] cody_cummins:
Im havibg an issue, this rom wont allow my phone to sleep
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Can you explain how you are coming to this conclusion?
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Yeah, they will all be fine.

Yeah, should be. But when you switch kernels... You just never know.

The one that is included with it has shown to give incredible battery life. I would run that first.
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Just an FYI:

I put the bcblend kernel from 2.7 in ROM Updater so those that enjoyed that kernel can grab it easily.

Enjoy!
[HTC EVO 3D] Evil Bob:
Yeah, I was having some minor battery issues with 2.7 that I suspected were kernel related, moderate use and only getting 20 hours of out it where I was getting a good 72 hours off of 2.5. Just finished downloading 2.8 and flashing now.

I also just read the 3D is on the list for Ice Cream Sandwich, can't wait (http://www.xda-developers.com/android/htc-announces-which-devices-get-ice-cream-sandwich/).
[HTC EVO 3D] saboxerman:
Can't wait? I can't wait to see what Scott does with it!!!!!

BTW, is the 2 MP front camera still a tweak in play? I am on a clean wipe and install of 2.7 and still only have 1 MP on the front camera.
[HTC EVO 3D] SPreston2001:
Would there be any added benefits if I jumped to 2.8 from 2.5 considering its pretty much the same ROM? I'm not sure if anything was added that I'm not aware of. Thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Just installed 2.8 and then updated to the bcblend kernel via ROM Updater (gotta have my OC). ;) Working fine. In fact, I'm getting benchmarks that are maybe 10% faster than on 2.7. Not sure what's up with that, but I'll take it.

Thanks for 2.8!

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] Irving Cowboy:
For some reason, and I promise I've read through this thread so if I missed it before, I'm sorry, but I cannot get any 3g connection going... it just tells me 1x all the time unless I'm in a 4g area and then of course it's smoking. Is this a radio issue?
[HTC EVO 3D] jbermi:
this rom is coded to tell the truth about your 3G connection, stock sprint ROM wil not tell ou if you are in 1X, it will still show 3G.

have you had 3G speeds before where it is showing 1X.

have you updated your PRL or profile lately?
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Its possible it was kernel related. I wont say it wasn't. I always got good life with either so I figured I would go back to the CleanROM faithful mwalt kernel. Every one liked that kernel. I dont personally think its as peppy as bcblend speed for speed but thats to be understood.

I cant wait for ICS either. IM gonna be pretty happy when that comes out. No 2 MP cam.

Honestly, no. This is basically 2.5 with updated apps. Now, if you ever had to wipe for some reason then I would might as well install the new ROM.

Indeed! I figured I would could make everyone happy be keeping a stock based kernel in the ROM and then make bcblend as a feature.

What are you getting for benchmarks? Its possible the tweaks in 2.7 that I thought were adding to the devices were actually taking away from it.

Yep, indeed it is.

-Scott
[HTC EVO 3D] Irving Cowboy:
I was getting 3g speeds in my area when I was stock.

I have not updated my profile or PRL as of late, at least not that I know of. My PRL is 21081 and my baseband is 0.97.10.0808

Should it be different?
[HTC EVO 3D] luckylui:
That 21081 is notorious for 1x reception, im using the og evo 60681and no 1x has come up since.

hTc 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
I agree. I have 21081 and am lucky to get 3G at all. Even after the network update I got poor reception.

Could you do me a solid? Post the instructions (again) on how to revert it and post the PRL you are using? I cant deal with this PRL any more.
[HTC EVO 3D] djstone86:
for some reason when ever I try to install the stock battery or beats VIA ROM updater I get a force close. just updated to 2.8. any ideas?
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
What force closes?
[HTC EVO 3D] computim:
Here is the link on available PRL's and how to perform the PRL change.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1145111

http://team-nocturnal.com/showthread.php?41-Collection-of-PRL-s&
[HTC EVO 3D] Saneless One:
Thanks for the update Scott. I kept everything but the RAM script :D

As for the "This rom tells the truth about 3G/1X" is that really what's going on? When I did the Sprint update (that you just rooted and provided mostly as-is) a few months ago it did the same thing. Then when I went to CleanROM it wasn't any different.

So I think it's something in the Sprint base code, and yeah, I still think part of it is showing the true 1x and part of it is also not switching to 3G as much because places now where it shows 1x I had 3G before and I had 3G speeds before without a doubt.
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
I think the ROM is accurately showing your connection. Do you think the speeds are any different when it shows 1x? Also, did you / have you tried to change the PRL?
[HTC EVO 3D] Saneless One:
I've tried updating my PRL, but I haven't tried to manually change it. I seem to have the same results on 21080 and 21081.

Maybe it's just all in my head and it really was slower before :)
[HTC EVO 3D] djstone86:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/848/20111108142909.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/17/20111108142921.jpg/

thats what i get everytime
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Has anyone else noticed erratic signal strength readings with this ROM? I've noticed it before (with 2.7 and now 2.8) but never said anything. Before this ROM, my signal strength would generally be 1 bar at my house and would sometimes fade to zero bars for a few seconds (even though I could keep a signal/call). I'd sometimes (but very seldom) see two bars.

Now with this ROM, it seems to jump all over the place: 0 bars, then 2 bars, then 0 again, then occasionally even full 6 bars, then back down to 1 bar, etc. cycling every few seconds.

Keeping calls and 3G/data speeds don't seem affected: just the signal meter.

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] Saneless One:
I bought my 3D the first day it was available and that's been my experience on Stock v1, v2, and CleanROM. Can't remember what CM7.1a3 did...

It's probably something with Sprint/HTC's code in general.

djstone86: Apply it from recovery. I think you have to use recovery anyway (according to the popup)
[HTC EVO 3D] SPreston2001:
Unless Scott has updated the Updater, you cant apply the update from the ROM Updater. You can only download it and apply it via recovery.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Is it possible that this ROM updates the signal strength more frequently? It's possible that it did this before but I just didn't notice it because it didn't do it as fast. That was my only thought.

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
I think its just piss poor Sprint service. But on the ROM side, I made no changes to the UI that would cause that so if its doing it... Its really seeing those changes. My phones have always done that from Stock to Root. They always jump around in a low signal area. I dont think you have anything to worry about.

Nope, no changes at all. Instructions still state to flash a mod by booting into recovery. That's why it does that.

-Scott
[HTC EVO 3D] divedr:
On Claen ROM 2.8 and was wondering what the difference between the two kernels is. Does the mwalt included in 2.8 slow things down? what's the difference?
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
No the mwalt was the prior kernel to 2.7. V 2.7 was the only time I deviated from mwalt since the kernels inception.

bcblend allows for OC. If you dont OC and are happy with the performance of mwalt build then dont bother. But some people like to OC so I just put it in ROM updater for them. Easy access instead of trolling though pages and pages of posts to find it.
[HTC EVO 3D] epikphone:
So I'm sure everything knows this, but for posterity's sake...when you flash a ROM, make sure you calibrate your battery correctly!

I would leave the phone on, charge it and wait until it hit 99% (could never get 100%) and tried to calibrate via either the Battery Calibration app.

Having less-than-stellar battery life as reported by others here drove me to re-calibrate again -- this time using TWRP recovery. Even despite the phone showing at green LED indicator AND 99% in the battery stats, when I booted into recovery mode, it was only at 82% charge!

I then turned the phone off and kept charging and charging, periodically booting into recovery to see what percentage the battery was charged at. Finally, when I achieved a 99% charge via the indicator in TWRP recovery, I wiped the battery stats.

At low to moderate usage today, my uptime is 12 hours, 9 minutes with 62% left on my battery.

Thanks Scott for a ROM with great battery life -- you just have to know how to set it up right. ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
I recommend a slightly different method but in all reality the results will be the same...

My best results are when I do this...

Flash new ROM

Let it drain to 0

Charge overnight

Profit!

Essentially what you did is near the same thing. Just a diff way.
[HTC EVO 3D] jbermi:
to be honest, I have never truly calibrated my battery, but yet I still get great results. I usually average a good 18 hours before I recharge, and even then I still have 40% left..

and i have never found TWRP's batt % to be accurate, mostly because the phone eats battery booting into recovery and rebooting afterwards.

I have never had bad battery results with scott's ROMs.. but each phone does odd stuff, sometimes.

my current setup is DE 1.2 with a few of my own theming mods, i use green power app (like juice defender but I find it works better) the bcblend kernel, even though i don't OC, i find it very stable on myphone and it performs without issues, (the tiamat one never played nice for me, mwalts stock and freeza's stock were great)

I have been playing around with different combo of init.d tweaks lately....i think sysctl tweaks, zipalign, ramscript and sd read ahed script are the only ones needed. still trying things out...
[HTC EVO 3D] saboxerman:
Adobe

Anyone else having FC issues with Adobe Reader?

Here is what I did: clean install of 2.8 with full wipe. Installed Reader from the market. FC'd upon use. Turned off phone completely. Turned back on about 20 seconds later. Tried opening Reader again and it FC'd.
[HTC EVO 3D] SPreston2001:
Nope, I just opened Adobe reader with no problems. Try reinstalling it to see if that helps.
[HTC EVO 3D] DJB628:
Same here, AR working fine
[HTC EVO 3D] mswlogo:
Same here. I've yet to recal. I just let the phone do it's thing. It automatically recals on it's own over time.

All these tricks just speed up the process.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
Scott,

You've been asking for ideas, so here's one. I've been thinking about this ever since I dabbled in SBC on my Evo 4G and AFAIK no one has done it. As most of us know, the way the charging works on these phones is that once it is charged to 100%, it stops charging and lets the phone drop to 95% and then charges again. This causes the charge to constantly "bounce" between 95 and 100%. When you take the phone off the charger, you basically get a random charge that can be 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or 100%.

Can this be changed to raise that 95% level to 98%? I'm not going to open the whole SBC can of worms because this isn't SBC. It wouldn't be overcharging. It'd simply not let the phone drop to 95% before it starts the charge again: it'd only let it drop to 98% so it'd bounce between 98% and 100% instead of 95% and 100%. In fact, the optimal solution would be a mod that allows the user to choose a value between 90 and 99 for the kick-on charge. But just a 98% threshold would be better than 95%.

Possible?

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] jbermi:
I think that is something that is hard coded into the kernel/hardware. there is/was testing of an SBC kernel for the 3D...not sure where it went. I use to be a big fan of SBC, but i think over time it did more damage to my battery. it was mostly because, before I sold my OG$G, i charged up some older batteries I had that i never used once I rooted, and noticed they held their charges better than the one I used with a SBC kernel for 6 months...and they were all official HTC batteries, no chinese knockoffs, too.

to me the drop to 95 is not bad as the drop to 90 on the OG, just unplug it and plug it back in and usually in a few minutes it will hit hundred then i unplug, I find using battery monitor widget (its b the same dev of System tuner) to sound an alarm when its done charging and full, very handy.
[HTC EVO 3D] saboxerman:
Uninstalled and reinstalled. Works fine. Never had a bad install from the Market until this one. Thanks for the help.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
I don't think it can be hard coded if you can get SBC by just replacing the kernel. Note, however, that I'm not asking for SBC because SBC tries to keep a trickle/float charge on the battery at all times which is not good for lithium batteries. What I'd like is to just raise the lower threshold for charging. I can see no down side to doing that because it is the same as unplugging the charger at 98% and plugging it back in... and it'd ensure that you never take your phone off the charger and end up with a 95% or 96% charge: something that happens to me all the time.

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] jbermi:
you are better off asking in a kernel thread...SBC just changed how it charged, but the threshold i think is built into the battery. but trickle charging that SBC does overrides it... don't quote me on it, but thats how i understand it to work from a layman's point of view. laptop batteries operate similarly, fro instance mine is always plugged in, but never hits 100, either, it cycles down to 95 back up to 99, unless i unplug for a minute and plug back in, it will hundred again.
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Yes, that would be a kernel level thing but its quite do-able. Here is my response: I see no value in it. Form some reason HTC choose to toggle at 95% I honestly don't know what the ramifications are if you went with different values.

OG Evo was 90%???????

Yeah, that is pretty weird.
[HTC EVO 3D] jbermi:
yeah it was 90, I have no issues withi it at 95, HTC did it for a reason, thats why I don't see why one must mess with the kernel much, it just works as is, but i do think bcblend is a tad better performer than stock.

also the average user would not know about the drop, unless they either monitored % via an app/widget or were rooted and did a battery mod to see the percentages.
[HTC EVO 3D] hitman4274:
The 95% isn't a bad number, all the work involved I don't think would be worth that 3% to set it to 98%, that is a great idea tho.

2.8 is running flawlessly, I do have a battery draining app somewhere, might be Google+ I just reinstalled it when I updated the ROM. So I get to do some trouble shooting, anyways.. once I get the phone to sleep right it will be mint great work as always Scott

Shot from my shooter in 3D

injected with cleanrom2.7
[HTC EVO 3D] hawkman610:
This version of the ROM is working great! Much better than 2.7 was for me.
[HTC EVO 3D] hawkman610:
Is anyone able to modify one of the mods for me? I like the green glowing crysis, but I really dislike the.charging part of it. Could the blue battery be changed over to just a lightning bolt or something other than what is there now?
[HTC EVO 3D] bongohawk:
I also have to agree this ROM is better than 2.7. It appeared after awhile of running 2.7 my auto rotate was sluggish. Like it took 3 seconds sometimes. I did have an autorotate widget to temporarily fix it but it still seems a little sluggish. This new 2.8 has fixed that problem. I think it may have been something with the Kernel.

Anyways, great work Scott and keep it up!!!!
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Hey everyone. I need some help!

Can you please view this thread on my site: http://www.scottsroms.com/showthread.php?265-I-need-your-help!

Thanks a lot!

-Scott
[HTC EVO 3D] DJB628:
Took care of my part bro, hope everyone else chips in, you are worth every penny
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
The quickest, easiest way to modify any component....

http://uot.dakra.lt/

Just pick the battery you want and then upload framework-res.apk from /system/framework/ and it will spit out a new flashable zip with the battery you want.

Thats actually how I made all the battery and overscroll mods :c)
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
ooops... Or what he said! lol
[HTC EVO 3D] blooregard_q_kazoo:
google places FC whenever you click on a result. tried wiping cache and data, even complete wipe and same thing with a clean wipe and not signing into my google account. to reproduce, go to places, search something nearby, then try clicking it to go to maps section about the place you looked up, wait a second or 2 and you may get FC like i have been getting since going to 2.8 from 2.7 clean rom :(
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Nah, worked as it should for me. No Force Close...

I looked up coffee... It found 1,500,000 Starbucks in Fargo. I selected any one.. Then hit Directions... Map popped up... Waited... All good... hit directions... Now have this lady telling me how to get to Startbucks.

Not sure why you see FC. Did you dirty or clean flash?
[HTC EVO 3D] blooregard_q_kazoo:
oh its working for you, weird... ya i clean flashed it. wiped everything and flashed form recovery.
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Yeah... Hmmm... Not sure what else could cause that. I'll roll it around in my head and see if I can come up with something. Maybe you got a bad download?
[HTC EVO 3D] blooregard_q_kazoo:
ill try re-downloading and re flashing it, and let you know if that works or not and thanks for your help :)
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Ya, good luck man! Let me know how it works out!
[HTC EVO 3D] blooregard_q_kazoo:
i think i figured it out, i guess certain places you search for do it. im currently in plano texas, i search sushi, a place called edoko sushi in frisco texas comes up, i click on it, FC. i click on some other restaurant in the area, its fine. wth would cause just one particular place to FC? f'ing technology lol
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
WTF????

I will try searching for that on my phone and see what happens....
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Nope, works fine again...

Screenies...

On the same note... It would only take me about 17.5 hours to meet you for dinner... You know... Just sayin... if you wanted to buy dinner tomorrow :D
[HTC EVO 3D] mikeyxda:
In the interest of helping out, I gave it a try here too. Worked fine. Went all the way to directions. It'd take me 20h and 15m to meet you guys for dinner. I'm afraid after traveling that distance, I may need more than dinner though. ;)

Running 2.8 with the bcblend kernel. Only mod is crysis battery icon.

Mike
[HTC EVO 3D] loaferkan:
how did you get this white theme?
[HTC EVO 3D] DJB628:
Mine is white theme also, maybe you have a different version.
[HTC EVO 3D] hitman4274:
I owe you a lot bro, I'm just in a sticky situation atm too, got an old apartment complex breathing down my neck for $788, for a problem what was there when I moved in and back out.... When i get a chance ill send some $ your way, i owe you so much for the time, and effort you put into your work, let alone the stand alone support I've seen knowhere else but from you. I know words won't pay the bills. Just give me some time and ill send some goodies your way.

Shot from my shooter in 3D

injected with cleanrom2.8
[HTC EVO 3D] Scott:
Lets do it! We can all meet tomorrow for dinner!

Its all good! We hit the goal in about 24 hours! Im very happy with all the help the community gave ME!
[HTC EVO 3D] loaferkan:
I got 2.8, clicked on the front page, and it took me to another website, I looked for 2.8 and downloaded it, Anyways you can provide me with a direct link?

Edit, Oh I see, it's just the maps? lol I thought Clean had a total white theme done...anyone has the white theme, that would look a lot better, I had it on my HTC Windows phone...back in the days...
[HTC EVO 3D] DJB628:
Here Scott a boot animation for you, http://www.goodandevo.net/2011/11/i...on-and-audio-available-for-taste-testing.html