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[EVO 4G Android Development] hidavi:
best EVO rom I've ever tried. Fast as hell. Sense 3.0 just isn't for the EVO, but Sense 2.1 is just fine!
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
thank you. just for your info this is sense 1.0
[EVO 4G Android Development] hidavi:
That's what I meant. Sense 2.1 is actually kinda sluggish on this phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
hey Brad. On the next update, how about DSP manager and gtalk with video chat??
[EVO 4G Android Development] yelrx8:
Dialpad while on a call

Hi Brad,

I found a slight bug in 2.0 Beta 5 and wondering if you see the same issue on 3.0.

During a call, I cannot pull up the dialpad. The dialpad icon is still there on the lower left corner, but pressing it only toggles the icon's up or down arrow. The dialpad does NOT come up.

Other than that, thanks for a great rom. The 2.0beta5 has been my daily since it came out and its great.

Please keep up the good work!
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
I finished all by backups, partitioned the sd card (2 Gigs), added a swap partition (512mb just in case), cleared all the settings, files, caches, and what not and flashed the rom.

So far so good. . . feels like stock, looks like stock, quick and smooth.

Wifi –check

4g – check

Camera – check

A2sd –check

Battery icon – cool

I reloading my apps now. I will play with it and see how she does.

Nice job!

Thanks Brad. Let me know if I can be of any assistance on this end.
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
i could do that.

hmm, i haven't seen that, but i will test after i test a small bug in my other rom, thanks for the input!
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
hey! I am back in the beta 1 of version three, made a few calls to my mytouch and my blackberry, as well as received from both, had no problem pulling up the dialpad in a variety of situations. i can flash back to 2.0 beta 5 and see if i can reproduce as well.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yelrx8:
Thanks for looking into this. I'm going to flash to 3beta1 today and see if everything is fixed.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
3 beta 1

Rock solid so far.

I found one glitch. Teeter.apk will not install. No sleep lost over that.

250mb free space, luv it.

How about hdmi mirroring some time in the future.

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
your welcome! let me know how you make out.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
What can I say. :confused: It's the only thing I could find that wasn't working. :D

I told my friends and family what you've done here. The responce I seem to get is "OK. . . . What?"

What can you expect from peeps who use their phone for phone calls?

Great work Brad. I'll be watching to see what else you can come up with.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
Here is a tweak to consider. . .

Set RTSP Proxy Port and HTTP PD Proxy Port to 0 (zero)

and set RTSP Proxy Address and HTTP PD Proxy Address to 0.0.0.0

This will bypass Sprint's proxy servers and make for smoother video streaming with some apps.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
This tweek also improves download speeds. And it does work, I've used it myself. Good tip wmilea :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1range:
phillymade & wmilea do you if there are any concerns with these settings i.e. possible conflicts (ROM ) 3g 4g connections...phone calls, overages data roaming etc
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
No conflicts. The settings point to a Sprint proxy server that has been know to have issues in the past. The server would cause lags in video streams and reduce download speeds.

At one point in time the Sprint tech people were giving you the EVO's MSL password and talking you through the process of making the change manually.

I'm sure Sprint isn't happy about it, but it works.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Kaoshin:
Where would I find these settings? In the ##3282# settings?

*edit - nevermind I found them in there, thanks for the tip. Anybody that wants to do this there is a MSL reader on the android market place if you don't have your MSL
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
Originally Posted by brad560

really?? i mean i have teeter in data/app cause i figured everyone would uninstall it immediately, i will check that out.

Yea, teeter is one app I don't uninstall. Its a fun one to have on hand. :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
LOL. i'll make sure to leave it in!
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
Sweet. How's the update coming along?
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
getting there, :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
Looking forward to it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkness22:
Finally had a chance to get everything set up. Pre-partitioning, everything was running fine but b/c my internal memory was down to ~20mb things were starting to get choppy. CameraZoom even force quit on me. Things were running much better around 40mb internal. Seems like that's the threshold. For anyone on the fence, partitioning is likely a good idea.

Got my card partitioned (Sandisk 32bg Class 4) and everything back online. Enabled in Terminal Emulator + moved delvik over and now looking at about of 300mb free internal space. This really made things smooth. And after a restart the UI was noticeably quicker too. Also did the proxy port fix, Heap set to 48m, SD Speed Increase to 3072kb.

Overall, the UI now moves very quickly. Huge fan of this. Transition from app to app is very fast and there's no longer any lag or choppiness when running lots of apps/services.

Dolphin is seeing huge benefits as the speed increases directly result in faster page load times (not bandwith but processing each page). Even while Sprint Nav was running and I received + replied to a text (Handcent) everything kept right on moving. That's a first as usually there's some kind of keyboard lag or something.

I think I've found one minor bug involving the HeyTell app. Behavior is as follows:

* state is defined as HeyTell being active app used/on display when display goes to timeout

* while display is in timeout, new HeyTell message received

* upon pressing power button to wake display, message starts playing

* normal behavior would be, press power button to wake screen + unlock and if HeyTell is still last app used/on display then message auto plays

Not a dealbreaker by any means, but not being able to quickly cancel out of a potentially loud audio message could be problematic.

Had an idea for a feature, something that's possible to do with Tasker... be able to predefine a list of apps that when launched will automatically enable GPS. This is something that's always annoyed me with Nav but also Yelp and a few others. Keeping GPS off is a great way to increase battery life but it's obviously needed quite frequently. Thought this would be a logical addition to the OEM+ nature of this stellar rom.

Past here, I'd throw a vote in for Quick Settings and additional similar options.

Also, now that A2SD is running what exactly does "On SD" represent in terms of where the checked/unchecked apps reside?

That's about it for now. Down to post some more updates if you guys want as well.

I'm looking fwd to seeing what's in the next release. Great stuff Brad, thank you. And you as well Philly, your contributions ITT are much appreciated.
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
wow, had to read this twice! thanks for your input.

i have not heard of the heytell app??

i use the stock browser, but i hear dolphin is superfast, that's good it is more blazing!

i will look into the tasker thing for you, as well as quick settings is on the list of to do as well.

i do not know exactly what the "on" sd means myself, i do not use my sd card for app storage, as i am changing roms once a day or more, i barely have time to use my phone normally lol.
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
so i got some requests to include the latest gtalk with video chat, i have uploaded a test rom with the apk in it, if you fine folks could test this? i would test it but i have a new mytouch that has a front cam, but it doesn't include the new gtalk. the rom has no other mods to it persay, so this is just a test rom, odexed.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B8Q9Q8F0

thanks!!!!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
If you are using A2SD do not use the On SD check settings under Applications.

Checking the box will cause the app to moved back the Win/format partition on the SD card. Defeats the purpose of A2SD. I also hear is causes conflicts running the checked apps.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Deejaydark:
Why dont I see Sprint lovers icons on this? Or am I blind lol...
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
lol your not blind, i am going to have a mix of sprint lover's, and my own from the UOT kitchen, what you see in beta 1 is only the battery icon i made, other theming elements will come soon.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Deejaydark:
Oh ok... by the way I love ur work thx
[EVO 4G Android Development] adnvex:
Was really happened to find this rom and so far aside from a few minor things I don't have an issue with this rom in the least. Great work! Battery is pretty good, goes really quickly when the screen is on though I will try to do some things to see if I can maximise the battery life.

I was wondering about Sprint Zone and the preinstalled HTC widgets though - they do not appear to be easily uninstalled (I had to use Titanium). The widgets such as the Quick Recorder still show up even after being removed and cannot be uninstalled from the "Get more Widgets" menu or the widgets menu its self. I will try another wipe of the cache as it seems to have gotten rid of some of the phantom widgets. The only other strange thing with widgets I saw was the #ff000000 that was showing up in the widget list and caused a crash of Rosie. Quite possibly that is from me removing the widgets but I thought I'd let you know.
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
the additional "widgets" are not made uninstallable, due to them being very small in file size and i would assume many would find them useful. also i left sprint zone and the sprint installer apk as i assume they are tied to the system in ways that it might mess up the rom if i moved them to data/app

hope that answers your questions
[EVO 4G Android Development] adnvex:
Cannot believe I managed to misspell happy. That does answer my questions though! The widgets do indeed disappear from the list after a few cache wipes, except for the #ff000000 one.

I have removed Sprint Zone several times so far and have seen no ill effects except for not seeing those monthly updates about new sprint phones. So who knows.

Cheers! And thanks again for a great rom.
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkness22:
Figured since you were putting all this time into coding such a fluid and reliable rom it was the least that could be done.

No HeyTell? Awww Brad, you're missin out man. :D

Last year my brother kept bugging me to it install it so I did. It was pretty weak sauce, force-closed a lot, messages were lost etc. Then out of no where the dev(s) really pulled it together and ever since it's been rock solid. Now I use it constantly... it's audible texting. And its really fun, totally addictive.

Appreciate you considering the requests. Unsure what your backlog is like but understand if there are higher pri's in the list.

Yeeeah, that's what I was thinking. Appreciate the confirmation. Unchecked everything, ran CacheMate and then thru Terminal performed an a2sd resetcache. Good to go.

It's stuff like this that makes me trust in your coding. Props.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
Thanks. Just saw this, downloading now. I added a gtalk zip I had as well as a quick settings zip. Very happy with it. I let you know how this one is in a bit.

My EVO is Stock, Rooted and BAD ASS!
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
Awesome! Even though I can't test it persay it did open no force closes etc.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
Darkness, glad it all worked out for you. I see that the reading was to your benefit. Keep the feed back coming.

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By the way, this is my current set up

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Hey Tell is like voxer, its a ptt app. Its fun.

Brad, tried the test rom, thanks for putting teeter and dsp in, but i'm reverting back to beta 3v1. DSP keeps giving fc's even after 2 permission fixes and a uid fix, and the gtalk opens, but when you click on video it closes the app. On the up side, I see that it is a smaller rom, and still very fast. Over all, I'm always happy with what you do, and very happy to test out what every you are cooking up. Thanks for all you time and effort, it does not go unnoticed :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
I will try to get to this over the weekend. I'm working Saturday and the Patriots play Saturday night. I'll to see what Sunday is like. Can I install this rom over the current beta? Will I lose anything?
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
Patriots fan? Sweet me too lol. I wouldn't install it over the beta. There's nothing in it as far as beta 1 features
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
Thank you, for your input. I used dsp on my evo and had no problems? And thanks ill see what other s are saying about the new gtalk.
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkness22:
Love the setup philly. And yes, there's a comical amount of well documented info on this board. It's way too easy. I spend a grip of time on a few Audi boards and the guides are usually never as linear + turnkey as the ones here.

And Brad, I keep forgetting to mention this but philly's caps just reminded me. I absolutely love the current battery icon. Please don't change it. Every time I unlock the screen and check my battery it's noticed and well received.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nofences:
Great Job! But it needs to go on a diet!

Honestly, this is a fantastic ROM. I personally LOVE Sense, I have tried several other ROM's that try to get too cute with the layout or presentation. Your ROM keeps it simple. That being said, I could do without the bloatware being pre installed. I spent the first 15 minutes after flashing, removing all the bloatware. All of these apps are available in the Market for free, with the exception of Quickoffice Pro (which should remain in the ROM). Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader are pretty universal, but not everyone uses Google+ or QIK, both of which are considerable in size and would save a tremendous amount of space when downloading the ROM. Maybe, if you wanted to, do a stripped down version. For those that like it quick and easy.

All-in-all, this is a great ROM and spending a few minutes removing bloatware is pretty standard with most every ROM so it is a small price to pay. I will be sticking with this ROM as my daily driver and look forward to your updates. Thanks again for all your hard work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
thank you so much for your kind words. i was actually working on some things today and got frustrated and took a break for the patriots game lol. yes i am thinking on how i want this rom to be, so i have a lot to consider.
[EVO 4G Android Development] SteveGrandRapids:
Installed latest Sprint 3 beta 1 and noticed two things:

1. Battery seemed to drain down quickly. First time I ever got the low battery warning . . . did not do anything different with phone . . I am not a heavy user.

a. Dialer used 28%

b. Display used 25%

c. Mediaserver used 19%

2. Had stock Sprint boot up screen/sounds . . . was this to be expected?
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
how long were you between being plugged in??

and yes stock sounds/boot up/down for now, will be changed by the final version.

thanks for checking the rom out!
[EVO 4G Android Development] SteveGrandRapids:
1. Battery was 100% when rom was applied. Was off of charger for less than 12 hours when low battery warning came on.

2. :D

3. For a test, it is 8am local time here . . just unplugged phone from charger at 100% . . . will watch it today . . .
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
i'm seeing about seven to eight hours with the beta being on my evo, it is a mixed bag = stock kernel can be great or bad, every phone is different. gonna try to improve battery life for the final release.
[EVO 4G Android Development] SteveGrandRapids:
Hmmm . . just unplugged phone at 8am @ 100% and now at 8:03am it is at 96% . . . ???
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
there is a trickle down charge, i might have "termed it wrong" there are many posts about this here, the battery will lose charge, but not lose a charge, you can read up on it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] zoofer:
I installed your rom last evening and so far, so good. I have had 3G and MMS issues with several other custom roms, but both are now working as they should since I installed yours.

I'll keep using it and report any problems I find. Thanks for the hard work.

KC
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1range:
I had to change my display settings from auto...that was my biggest drain...that improved things significantly...enjoying the ROM...waiting for update : )

100% @ 8am...1pm at 81% wifi on since..
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
OK, I'm going to throw out some info about the battery that may be of use. First off, keep in mind that this device is a battery hog (all androids are). But I have been doing this method and it helps, it does not extend your battery life but it resets the battery. I do this EVERY TIME I flash a rom. Your device has I file called battery stats. It keeps track of how much battery power an app uses and how much it needs to run the screen, widgets and such. You get the point. So as you flash different rom's, this list gets bigger and discombobulated. For me, I do the following, and it resets my battery back to zero if you will and I can start fresh.

First grab a battery calibration app, I use this one https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uZW1hLmJhdHRlcnljYWxpYnJhdGlvbiJd

Now, plug in your device and charge till the light is green. WITH out unplugging you device, use your file manager and go to device>system>battery stat bin. Delete this file. Now go into recovery and wipe the battery stats and reboot. Once the device reboots, wait for the indicator to turn green again, open the calibration app and click calibrate. Now unplug your device and your good to go. Again, this does not extend your battery life, it just wipes the slate clean. I do this and it does help. I also do not plug in until I get to under 10% and will not take it off the charger until it is at 100%. There are other thing you can do to improve life, like change the screen time out, remove widgets, turn off indicators and sync, ect. But that is old news. Try this, and tell me what you think.
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkness22:
Damn, Philly just beat me to the punch.

Addressing the battery issues with my phone was one of the first things I did after rooting + flashing this rom. Nutshell, just use the battery calibration app he's linked. That's exactly what I used and my batteries are showing much better efficiency. It really does work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
Thanks for the reply darkness. For the others out there, just give it a try, it can't hurt. :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkness22:
Certainly.

Related, if you're grabbing apps to fine tune things I'd also suggest trying SD Speed Increase. Seems to have made an improvement for me.

Anyone have thoughts on Spare Parts? I felt like this was helping my lag-tastic unrooted Evo but now, eh... not so much.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Waynehead69:
Brad,

I know that you spend good quality time on cooking a rom, and may I add that you do a great job. However is there a way that you could cut the size of the rom? Say in half maybe? Maybe the size of the Barebones rom? I hope that I'm not being critical of your work, as that is not my intention. Thanks!
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkness22:
You do the partition + A2SD? Saying it helps is a bit of an understatement.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
the bare bones rom has no extras in it. It is striped down to minimal thus the size. To have a rom as sweet as this, with the extras is worth the small size. the rom size should not be a big issue, that does not inhibit the memory or ram speed. Besides, you can uninstall any of the apk's you don't want, and lets face it, every rom you flash has things in it you don't want/use just get rom manager from the mkt, and you can uninstall as many apk's at one time as you want. I uninstalled 17 apps that I know I wont use, run a2sd commands and have 443 meg's free.

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I have never really used spare parts. Never had a need for it, so I can not comment on it. I have tweaked my sd speed. But if you flash this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25795010/sdreadahead-1024.zip it sets you speed to 1024 and you don't have to reset after reboot.

Or if you don't wan't to flash, open your file manager and do the following:

1. Open the file manager, and click the sys folder.

2. Then click devices > virtual > bdi > 179:0.

4. Long press read_ahead_kb and select Open in Text Editor from the options menu that appears.

5. You should see a lot of white space and a single number in the first line. If the value is 4, replace it with 128. If the value is already 128 (some devs bake it into their custom ROMs), then enter the value you want.

6. Press the Menu button on your EVO and tap Save & Exit (or just Exit if you didn't have to make any changes in the previous step).
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkness22:
K, I'll toss it. Seems unnecessary now that my rom is snappy on it's own.

Went the FM route with Astro, read_ahead_kb = 3072. But the app forces the increase on startup so that's probably why.
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
caught up on the past 2 days posts here, as far as "stripping down" the rom, that kinds of defeats my purpose of the goals itself of my rom, to be an "updated" version of the sprint rom that came with the phone, with some extras, i don't want to call it a "sprint lovers rom" but that is what inspired me to do this.

and thanks to everyone who gave advice on the battery life of the rom!
[EVO 4G Android Development] adnvex:
Not sure about the battery on some days (1 % a minute) but its tollerable usually.

The size of the Rom is not too bad personally especially when most of it can be removed .
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmillea:
I have pretty much stuck with stock based roms and battery drain has been consistent. I haven’t seen any difference with this rom. Watching the new battery icon it seems like it’s going down awfully fast, but in going about my normal routine I’m getting the same results that I always have.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
Ok here is what I get on 4G in NYC, look at the time this was done.

My EVO is Stock, Rooted and BAD ASS!
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
not bad man!! houston speeds are ok . meh.

gonna work on beta 2 tonight before xda shuts down in the am for the sopa protest.
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
Here is something odd, I don't live in a 4G area, sooooo I'm on it now and when I hit the home key to exit an app, it goes to the HTC screen and then loads the home screen. Has any one else has this happen

My EVO is Stock, Rooted and BAD ASS!
[EVO 4G Android Development] phillymade:
What is that?

My EVO is Stock, Rooted and BAD ASS!
[EVO 4G Android Development] brad560:
sopa? the bill in congress all is talking about, at the top of each forum here is an announcement? that xda is shutting down at 8am tomorrow morning est.

http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?f=653
[EVO 4G Android Development] jamieg71:
I'm betting there's a few people that missed the memo. Glad I saw it too, and thanks for the reminder. I think I might of gone into shock if I pulled up xda tomorrow and it was gone. Lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] Deromeh:
whats up with all your roms I like em but i need to update my MM server and whenever i try to access MSL or ##DATA# or anything related to it it just pauses at the dial screen until i push back or home.....