yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
Hi Habarug thanks for the tip, I think the only way left here is I'll find it out myself by flash Glassmacka again. :)

BTW, is there any flashable zipped file manager for Hero since I noticed the ROM doesn't include any, which is annoying since currently I'm currently in a place without wi-fi support which means I have to download a file explorer apk file by using cellphone data (which is twice annoying since I have to set the APNs manually.) :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] GeorgiUzunov1990:
OMG Nice work, but any news on the camera ?

The only thing holding me back from flashing is that I need the camera working!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jablo3:
I Have 3 Questions.

1. Can i install Beats Audio?

2. Do you have the red strips on the sides?

3. I can't install facebook from market. "Your device is not compatible with this version" Where i can download the newest version. And can i sync contacts with facebook.?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
1. those beats audio flash packages floating round the forum are for 2.3 ROMs.

2. yes the red strip thing occurs especially while browsing music library with default music app. but rarely happens on other apps after flashing hardware acceleration Zip pack.

3. i believe you can install Facebook apk manually via SD card.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jablo3:
But how to take it? Can you give me a link for it.?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
there are tons of android app sites out there, try google it. Or you can download any free app apk file from play.google.com via chrome browser with a plug in. Simply google "apk downloader".
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
update 2:

with 29 3rd party apps installed and 23 MB left for internal storage the device boot time is around 73 seconds.

update 3:

battery consumption is faster than 2.3 ROMs but acceptable, especially when it comes to that i have 3 1750mAh batteries standing by for my old Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] axel199513:
paulreminder, how did you change DPI value from 140 to 160??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
There're 2 apps can modify DPI: LCD Density Modder and LCD Density Changer.

Other than that you can simply edit your system configration file "build.prop" located in /system archive with file manager like Root Explorer, modify the following lines:

ro.sf.lcd_density=140

qemu.sf.lcd_density=140

to

ro.sf.lcd_density=160

qemu.sf.lcd_density=160

Save and reboot.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
Damn, there is this serious issue on Beta 1.3: incoming and outgoing calls are unexpectedly dropped. :(

Anyone ever had this issue?

I'm on EDGE network, issues occured when calling EDGE and CDMA phones.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I got that too! I almost missed a call for a job interview because of it :rolleyes:

I'm not sure, but isn't it possible that we touch the hang up button with our chin or something during the call? Could you try to make a call without touching the phone, using speakerphone or headset? :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
stritfajt I think that's the problem, not a software or hardware malfunction!:eek::eek::eek:

I made a phone call to my service provider, with phone screen untouched by my face. Everything went fine.

I made a second call, this time after connected I left my cheeck touch the un-dimmed phone screen and guess what? It hung up.

Thanks for the help. Any progress you can share with us about future release?:p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Then we can probably just do some xml edits to hide the hang-up button, so that's fine :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
I agree on that!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] aleksandar.1:
I've experienced that call drop too , with this rom (beta 1.3)....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
Other than that, how was other experiences going?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
That's what I hoped for!

I'm actually downloading the latest sources right now. Hopefully, I'll get it working without too much trouble :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] aleksandar.1:
well, after flashing the openGL 2.0 felt smoother :)

But i didn't found anything special to stick with it... (except being the guy in the company with a hero with android 4 :) everybody with an gingerbread or even eclair :D:D )

I think if this rom had a statusbar switches for wifi BT etc, it would be my choise, and another thing is the camera... i don't use it as often (the quality of the photos is not even close to my old nokia N95-2) but would be great if it works :D

I'll follow this forum for any updates and i'm IN for testing :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
Looking forward to it! Which specific version are you working on, 4.0.3 or 4.0.4? Have you seen my little review for beta 1.3? I think it'll be great to add SD card mount option and other stuff like better trackball clicking, auto brightness adjustment, better power control panel and DSP manager.

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Yes it'll be great to see camera work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darkmansd:
on the camera topic: what does the camera prevent from working? what issues have to be overcome?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1439435 see ghostofcain's reply.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Well, our camera library, which is proprietary, is made for 2.1 and can be used in 2.3 with some hacks. In 4.0 however, we would need a great amount of hacks to get it working.

To be honest, I can't see myself fixing the camera, I just don't have the time it would take. There's also very few other developers left on the Hero, so it seems unlikely that someone will get it working.

However, if developers for some other device running Adreno 130 and a armv6 cpu (are there even such devices?) get it working we could probably just port their hack over :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darkmansd:
couldn't we ask qualcomm for the drivers?^^

since they released the drivers for the adreno 200 chipsets both armv6 and armv7 after community request :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Yeah, sure, ill just give em a call later ^^
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darkmansd:
yeah i know...it sounds rather unlikely....but who knows? its better than doing nothing and waiting....if we ask for it all together maybe it works?

https://developer.qualcomm.com/foru...ming-graphics-optimization-adreno/8081?page=4

the thread with the people asking for the adreno 200 drivers....its only 5 pages long...so they weren't that many too...

and the worst possible outcome would be, that they don't support it anymore....which would be the same situation as now ;D

EDIT: But maybe someone with more experience like stritfajt should start the thread, since i would not exactly know what to ask for...and it shouldn't be a one-line post^^

EDIT2: Ah and we should ask the people of other phones with adreno130 to post there too....if there even are any other devices with it :D

EDIT3: these devices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSM7000

EDIT4: haha i got excited ;D but i think that there is no reason not to release the drivers since nobody would not buy a new phone even if the hero can run ics....since it really got old these days^^ it's more like a..."just because it can run on it" thing :D

EDIT5: ah i just read the post of ghostofcain....so drivers from quallcomm wouldn't bring any benefit?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jablo3:
Hello i found some things are not working:

1) Videos on by browser (like youtube etc)

2) Gallery,

3) Can't connect to computer via storage

4) i'll report more if i found.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I don't even think it's worth trying to contact quallcom since there's so few devices actually using it. They won't bother. But if you feel like it, go ahead. It would certainly help! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I compiled the Evervolv sources that HeroC uses. However, I couldn't get the OpenGL hack to work in it. I decided to try the CM sources instead, since this ROM is quite terrible without the OpenGL fix. I might not have any time tomorrow, but hopefully I'll be able to get some work done later this week :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
About the gallery issue, yes it's relatively slow and even not usable. This app is developed by cooliris and licensed to Google as android default photo app back in the 2.1 days. It's totally an awful app since not only it constantly creates thumbnail cache which affects device performance, cooliris seems has already dropped its update and support. You can Choose quick pic instead which is way better.

I did try to install stock ICS photo app but failed cuz I faced a parsing failure while installing the apk.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Who wants to try out some 4.0.4 goodness? :)

I couldn't get the OpenGL hack to work on 4.0.4 unfortunately... Maybe someone else is more lucky :) Bugs are to be expected, I haven't tested it much. I would appreciate it if you guys could see if we have the same level of functionality as before.

Anyways, here's the stuff you're waiting for:

ROM: http://www.mediafire.com/?z194atkhn5t9dn7

Gapps: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120317-signed.zip

I'll wait until a few people test it before I update the first post.

Enjoy :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] aleksandar.1:
tnx for the release

but, gapps 52 megs? :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Just as I'm going to football practice :/ Will see if I can try it tomorrow or something, but probably it'll have to wait untill friday. I'm waiting for reports on speed and stability :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jablo3:
I'll try it at friday! ;) Thanks for release. It's a good news for me!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I've tested it a little bit more now, but I don't have very much time at the moment.

Anyways, I'd say that Glassmacka 1.3 with the OpenGL hack is quite a lot better than this. 4.0.4 is slower and buggier. But if you really want to test 4.0.4, give it a shot :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sacpe25:
Thanks stritfajt for the update.

But the keyboard only has letters no Punctuation symbols for example @. :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Yeah, for some reason it only works with 140 DPI... Install "ICS Keyboard" from the market instead :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
4.0.4

Dear Dev,

I have tested youre update, the functionality is same as before every thing works (no camera).

* The rom is a littlebit slow and has no root (for me, perhaps someone else have more luck).

* After I've tried the OpenGL 2.0 patch, the screen went black and the ROM didnt boot up.

* The look is better (better dpi).

* When installing GAPPS setup has give me an forceclose message and the setup has restarted. After restart the setup has installed well.

* In general it is a good rom and it's definitely worth it to continue.

I hope to have informed you enough and I hope an update will come soon for this ROM.

Sincerely
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Did you have sound? I don't think ringtones worked for me. But I'm happy to hear that most stuff seems to work.

I read somewhere that 4.0.5 will have some performance updates. If there's any truth behind that statement it would be very nice, since our heroes can barely run ICS :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
Yes i had sound, i have not tried the ringtones.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dusaka:
i didnt have sound too :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
Neither did I with luck of sound in Beta 1.4. Switched back to Beta 1.3.

FYI If you would like to add a little native ICS UI for your Beta 1.3 music app, try music player for ICS by CyanogenMod team extracted from CM9 ROM.

Installation:

delete music.apk and musicfx.apk located in /system/app by using file manager like root explorer;

download the CM9 music app from http://goo.gl/CckWp;

install it like any standard apks from your sd card;

done.

It's been confirmed by me the music app itself works fine and has equalizer options and DSP configration enabled, which however, is yet to be tested since they were designed for Samsung Galaxy Nexus. So if you want to modify the updater-script files to make them flashable for Hero running ICS ROMs.

Here are DSP manager install and uninstall zips (NEED MODIFYING) I found from http://sghi777.blogspot.com/2012/03/dsp-manager-music-equalizer-for-stock.html

View attachment DSPManager_ICS_CWM.zip

View attachment DSPManager_ICS_CWM_Uninstall.zip
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] newdecember:
Anyone know of a workaround for gallery 3d? Just keeps fc everytime I try to use it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulreminder:
Try "QuickPic" instead. I think the developer of native Gigerbread gallery, the "Cooliris" has stopped supporting or updating for this app.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] newdecember:
Thanks. I'll give it a shot.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darkmansd:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1427030

does this help at all on the camera department? :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DiGiTY:
How did you get this to run on Pandigital Novel?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paltrow:
Can't download Beta 1.3 from the link of dropbox,

does anyone have mirror?

thanks a lot!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lost101:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/project-butter-improves-android-4-1s-speed/

Perhaps this will help the Hero run ICS a little more smoothly.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] faZevoLv:
That's not for ICS, that's for the new android jelly bean (android 4.1).

Good find anyway:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 1ceb0x:
But implement it in the right way, it could help ICS also!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ZACHARiAS_:
hows the development status of this little wonder? :D

kudos
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] iakeco:
Very good work

I'm with ATT in the USA and I can make phone calls. How do I get Google apps
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Actually, there's now 3 people who claim they cam make phone calls. Really weird. Oh well, I'll get to building again and see what I can come up with.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darkmansd:
i haven't tried it yet since i'm on the go....but did you try to turn off the pin lock from the sim like guy_smiley posted?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Loxxy:
Ok i can make and receive calls, but on the dialled number the call drops after about 30 seconds.

sorry folks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I don't think I have pin lock enabled (never did afaik).... is this some default setting in this rom or something that we need to disable?

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haha my hero does that on all roms LoL
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nickholtus:
Hi,

Ik can make phone calls with t-mobile NL

I have no PIN
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darkmansd:
alright....maybe we can be a better help if everyone here really tells whats working for him and whats not(and on which network he is)...i will test out the new build tomorrow....with a full list of bugs/working stuff....

but since more people with no pin have calls working it could be an issue with the pin instead of the cdma stuff.....could be a coincidence too :)

@stritfajt: any way we can help more?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Schiehallion:
What's Ele's progress? Like the hunter he is I bet he brings home the bacon soon. Well done all you lads on this
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sssharer:
Touchscreen very smooth :)

Calling works ok on T-Mobile Croatia :)

Great job!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Ok so flashed again for another test. Found these things, if I'm picky...

- settings pages sometimes cancel out of current submenu without warning

- settings with a popup select box fail to render.... I think its in display timeout?

- frequent alerts of either sim missing, sim inserted tap to restart phone, sporadically switching between those states

- on one bootup it correctly showed TELUS network but calls again didnt work and sim errors repeating still ... My theory is that I may have briefly had sim access maybe but died before I got to try phone call?

- adding widgets to screen (funky way to do this now, by the way) failed for me without error

- WiFi config ok and browsed Google ok but after reboot WiFi showed no signal thereafter

- flashed gapps but it failed with error during wizard and prevented further experiments cuz it blocked home access.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Prof Peach:
Hoorah for me.

I can make and receive calls on O2 uk.

I have a sim pin enabled. Status bar shows no signal but manually selected O2.

Not finding the screen as fast as others indicate but switching screen animation off made a big difference.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Loxxy:
rolled back to 2.3.7 nightly build ready for alpha 3 :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I searched everywhere like settings-display but couldn't find animation settings like that?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Prof Peach:
I found them in dev tools>development settings.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I would greatly appreciate if you guys could provide me with the following information:

Is calling/data working for you?

Which radio version are you using (if you're unsure you can boot the phone with the volume down button pressed)?

I'm starting to believe that this is relevant since I can't seem to spot any regional pattern or something.

Thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I think I'm using the latest radio. I'm in western canada (vancouver area, telus network).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Could you check to be sure?

I'm starting to think we should just tell people that the ROM works fine except when they're on a skiing holiday. :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Prof Peach:
How do I find radio version..... Vol- button just starts me in safe mode.

Also.... has anyone fiured out conncting to laptop..... would like to add an app or 2 to delve around...... file explorer at least.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Yeah, can't you see your radio version on the 5th row from the top there?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Prof Peach:
Eh.... no. Safe mode is the same as normal with safe mode in a box at the bottom left.

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Baseband version is 63.18.55.06PU_6.35.15.11

Is that what you need.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Well... Then we have different safe modes, mine says radio. But yeah, that's what I needed, will try to flash that one.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Loxxy:
Radio: 6.35.17.03
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stefpaul:
Is there any way to import libs from the 2.3.7 version of android?... the settings should be the same, because we run the same source code in theory...:confused: I was thinking in importing libs from eles rom and put them in here...but now shure if whey will work...

It's good that there is a big fever in making a ICS rom on the hero. I'm shure that ICS will run as best as Gingerbread on the hero, but i'm shure that it will take a while to see a stable working rom...

Stefan
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Of course there is, just that it probably requires hacks hacks in the android source code. It's way easier to use the ICS libs and then try to get the proprietary libs working with some hacks (there isn't much of a alternative when it comes to those since we can't build them ourselves).

Were you thinking of any libs in particular? :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stefpaul:
well i was thinking that there have to be libs that are related the the issues that we have: calling & data, and the rest... I'm not a developer but since the little hero has some settings that are used, there has to be a way to import them so that they will work on the ICS build...i took a look in the .zip of the ICS and GB rom and see that lot's of things are the same, so that means that most of the source code has to be the same, in order to get a things working... I know that there have to be some changes, but there has to be a way to implement settings... I will take a look in the morning to see if i have any idea.

The problems is , can you give me a guide in editing files in that zip? never developed, but want to take a look to see if i can get something working...

thanks in advance:D

Stefan
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
You could just try to unzip the roms, move some files around and then zip the ICS rom again and flash it. It probably won't work but you could try it if you want to.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
The problem with calling/data seems to be with the sim-cards. A user sent me a PM and he apparently had 3 sim-cards, 2 of them worked and one didn't. This was tested on the same phone with the same radio.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Prof Peach:
Tried flashing 2 different gapps to see if any file manager would work, give me access to root explorer but both gapps cause setup wizard to run. As soon as you touch the android image to begin setup it crashes and wont go any further.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I'll have a look at that tomorrow.

I can't seem to get my head around the calling/data problem. I just made a successfull call. 10 minutes ago, I had the "You've inserted a new sim-card blah, blah, blah"-popup. Anyways, I just ordered a new sim-card to see if there's any difference.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zodiark:
Made a video

I've made a video to show you how it works. Nice job, congratullations.. it has a long way to work well, but it's less than a week that google released the code, so congratullations!

watch?v=C3FSomVYrr0
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] puppyko:
Some further test from me:-

1. Calls - As reported before previously, connection between calls could be extablished but could only pick up speech from the earpiece on the phone. The micpiece was not functioning. Speakerphone not functioning as well. Trackball flashing light worked well when receiving calls.

2. Bluetooth - Did find my Plantronics Bluetooth Earpiece but kept stuck at 'pairing....'. So did not manage to pair up and connect for me.

3. 3G Data - SURPRISE! SURPRISE! Manually entered in my provider's APNs, under a new tab called BEARER <LTE/eHRPD/Unspecified> I tried all 3 which initially failed to get any 3G Data. Finally settled again for 'Unspecified' on my Internet APN and surprisingly got the 3G Icon showed up and it's working! Using 3G Data, I managed to use the browser to surf web :D

4. WiFi - As reported previously, worked fine without any problem. With WiFi in operation, 3G Data would be off, just like in the past.

5. USB - Tried to connect as MTP/ PTP under USB computer connection setting, both with error message, so could not connect to my Window PC to view or transfer files.

6. GPS - Couldn't test without Maps or having any GPS apps install.

And finally...great mistake

7. Gapps - Tried flashed a GB Gapps from recovery, only to encounter 'Setup Wizard has stop' error message which would not allow me to further my ICS test unless I were to re-flash the ROM.

So, that's all for now.

Big Thanks to Stritfajt for getting ICS into Hero :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] perdita2000:
Long live to our HEROES!!!

Perdita2000