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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MisiuKP:
Hi Blue,

Unfortunately my problem with calendar is present.

To make sure I did everything right I took new SD card, formatted it (FAT32), and performed fresh install. After that I set my phone aside for about 20 min, then proceeded with on screen setup - I kept pressing next until finished. Set aside for about 10 min. Next using Bloater I installed email app to be able to sync my calendar with exchange. And after sync my calendar is one hour ahead of original schedule. Do you have any idea how I can fix that?

Thank you.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
To be honest with you - i'm stumped. Can I put a request out to everyone using the ROM who can check this to please do so?

Any information I can get surrounding this issue could be clues leading to a solution, and I really want to solve it.

Thanks in advance for any help the rest of you can give - as soon as I get finished recompiling the .apk for the APN settings i'll tackle the problem from square one again and see if I missed something along the way.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] PrinceMorganti:
Question, can you put up a tut on how you changed the colors?

I am insane enough to spend a billion hours in photoshop if it means i have purple tint instead of green :)

Also, thank you for your hard work!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
Snap everthing is awesome. But the green hue is unpleasing to my eye personally ;) Please share your work if you make progress on this.

As for APN's..... Its good to get into a habbit of jusing APN Backup & Restore... comes in very useful. It saves your apn into a xml file for restoration post ro flash's.. very nice clean app.

Thanks for this Blue!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Funny you should ask...

Custom Sense Lockring on the MT4GS - easy step-by-step

Part 1 of a 3-part tutorial on how to change the colors.

This one teaches you the basics of how to work with .apk files to extract graphics properly, which ones to stay away from (covered in the next two chapters that i'm typing up in between doing stuff on the ROM right now) and how to edit and put them back in an .apk file.

Afterwards, you can look up my link on how to script a market update in my "guide index" link in my sig to learn how to make a flashable-zip file to flash the .apk to the system partition, or you can use root explorer (or something similar) to place it there manually and reset the permissions.

You'll need to make sure you wipe cache and dalvik-cache before the new settings will take effect.

Part 2 covers .9.png files and how to work with them correctly, which also will teach you how to properly decompile and recompile .apk files and how to work with the graphics in them to make sure it turns out right. It's a convoluted process to ensure it doesn't mess up the .apk file, so it's a rather in-depth tutorial that is getting drug out by the attention i'm spending on the ROM at the moment.

I really would love to see people being motivated and taking that step to start customizing and toying with their devices.

Just, please, if you run into errors in the ROM and you've been editing any of the files in it, start your problem report by detailing what files you edited and include a concise list of all of your changes.

I'll stand by my work as I give it, but once someone starts messing with it all guarantees are off the table...and there's no way for me to tell what you did unless you explicitly lay it all out.

I'll try and help if there's an issue, but please make it clear to others who come behind that you broke it and not me so people don't end up thinking the ROM is bugged when it's not.

I put a lot of work into smoothing out the operation and making it run more smoothly and quickly - simply decompiling and recompiling an .apk file without changing anything can throw the balance off in your install if the computer you're doing it on misses a bit or a byte in the decpompile/recompile process.

You have no idea how painfully long it took to make sure that I rebooted the computer in-between each decompile/recompile operation and ensuring that the system had clear RAM and no extraneous processes running. It's a long, tedious process to do it the right way across the board, and for a release version I sit here and take my time doing one operation at a time with a reboot of the computer in between, and build my software package one agonizingly slow piece at a time.

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I'm trying to get those other tutorials plus a few more posted over the next few days, I want to lay out in clear, easy to follow steps how to do everything i've done with this ROM so anyone else can grab Pauls de-odexed stock base or an AOSP build and create their own ROM from scratch.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] PrinceMorganti:
My other question stemming from that, is how much can be done by creating a theme to override the tinting?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cal3thousand:
Damn Blue!

Not only do you rock as a Dev, but your service and dedication to us are unparalleled. It is evident in quality of your replies and the quality of your ROM. I must give you your propers for being such a stand up guy.

Believe me, I owe you! From your work on the Nook Color to this device, you've made my last 2 devices worth keeping. And I seriously consider asking you about your next phone before it comes time to upgrade personally.

I've donated to devs of a much lesser greatness. Would you accept any donations from us (I don't see a link)?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] nbetcher:
Woo! Thanks Blue! ROM is great. One complaint though: the green tinted icons make me want to barf. Good idea, but it just doesn't go right. Any chance at allowing us to revert that in a flashable zip? Thanks bud!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCnZqg1RgGA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Quite a bit.

Try setting a different theme ( Jazz maybe, it's pretty different ) and see what turns into the theme color and what doesn't.

A lot of the theme resources ( graphics, colors and such ) are built directly into fusion.apk as hidden resources you have to use the .m10 editor program to access.

Fusion is also a very, very delicate .apk file and easily upset and broken. Trying to make too many changes to it at one time will cause it to run poorly, and the lag a poorly running fusion.apk file puts on a Sense system is unbearable horrible.

A crappy fusion.apk is like sitting on a 14.4kbps modem and trying to watch a youtube video, to make a good analogy.

In order to build another theme into the ROM you'd have to either edit the resources for a current theme and change it to something else, or write a new one in - writing a new one in is a much bigger task.

Some things you won't be able to affect are the menu icons, icons when you long-press on the homescreen to get the personalize menu, some of the highlight presses in the system and any app icons provided by the apps themselves.

You can however override all the hue changes for highlights (check marks, text boxes, touch-select and so forth) that are located in:

- /system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk

- /system/framework/framework-res.apk

- /system/app/SystemUI.apk

- /system/app/Rosie.apk

...and a few others.

Whenever you hit a spot where you can't affect it by the theme, it'll fall back on the system default, which i'm slowly changing from the HTC Blue I can't stand looking at to the Green I like a whole lot better.

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I would like to add more theme options to Bulletproof beyond what the stock 6 options are, and this is something i've been looking into. I don't have all the info yet, but i'm putting together a short list of what I don't know so I can figure it out and then write a themes tutorial.

Edit:

Forgot to mention, the .m10 editor and how to use it is part 3 of that 3 part tutorial I linked to part one of over in themes and apps.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
You would have to basically rewind the majority of all the changes I did to bring us from 1.0 to 1.1 to make that happen.

Using the Green hue also requires fewer system resources to draw then blue does as a color and accounts for some of the speed increase you now see in front of you.

I just lucked out that it's my favorite color, and the darker green redraws with less resources then that puke-android color I can't stand.

Guess it's time for some of you out there to start trying your hand at making themes.

If people can create themes that are well done, not buggy and work without incident, I would be willing to add them to the ROM by seeding all the correct resource packages in the files they need to be for the theme to work in the ROM.

I am not sure what all of those resources are yet, but i'm learning quick and have ( i'm pretty sure ) most of it down.

The best way to get something done is to do it yourself - i'm taking the initiative to replace the ugly blue system default theme with something I like better (performance gains aside) and am willing to work with people to maybe add new themes to Bulletproof if they can hit my quality standard.

( Just in case anyone was wondering why I put so much work into documenting how i'm doing what i'm doing...we can all play along and make something amazing together if some of you out there are up to the challenge )

Edit: if you were just talking about the icons, it'll look better once the rest of the blue is gone and it's green through and through - lol - at least to me, but there's something to be said about something that's complete versus piecemeal. Right now the default theme is only half converted from blue to green, so it's pretty jarring where you see it working both colors.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Appreciate the compliments - the best way you can donate to me is to spend time helping other people out around in the community.

Especially with how small the MT4GS forums are, that kind of general helpfulness from everyone is worth more to me then any amount of money.

I come here to learn, teach, share and be excited about what we're doing and accomplishing and learning together - when i'm ready to take my knowledge and commercialize it i'll dump some apps in the market.

For everything I do on XDA, my time to the community is given freely and I feel that accepting monetary compensation would cheapen that and make it something different then it is now.

I appreciate the offer from you and others, but helping each other out and spending some time being patient with someone who needs it is a much better gift to me.

( Goodness knows some people have been pretty patient with me when i've just had some stupid moments, even on this project. )
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cal3thousand:
Will do. I will try my best to pay your efforts forward in this forum.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
...oh and I know I said it somewhere before, but I plan on packaging up all the app icons and menu icons I edited to colorize Bulletproof as I have so people can just download the whole package and play with them as they started.

It was a royal pain to de-index all the art and turn it all into RGB color mode, as well as cleaning up all the stray pixels and generally touching up everything that got messed up swapping from one color mode to another.

I hate doing it, but am tenacious enough to see the project through.

Now that i've done that to mostly all of the art that comes stock with the Bulletproof distribution, there's no reason to make everyone else do that too when I can shave 2/3's of the editing time off people's projects by prepping them with pre-touched up art ready to be colored.

Give me a few days to sort out my tutorials and such and you'll see it all available probably by the end of the weekend.

Open source is open source, the work i've done i'll share freely so others don't have to re-invent the wheel and can pick up where I left off...it's like the basic principle of what open source is.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Sinfamy:
Great ROM, the only thing that I need now is for stock colors, I am not a fan of the green. Otherwise great work!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] yogi2010:
So far the ROM seems to run super smooth, and bloater seems to work like a charm! Way to go Blue, and thanks!

I'm trying to get used to the green myself, lol. About the only little 'bug' I have come across in what I use the phone for is the current temperature seems to be missing from the big weather widget.... anyone else seeing this? Other than, everything seems great.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Micoman:
wow I'm about to ask about the jpeg quality in general forum but Bulletproof already have the answer. :P

Thank you.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MisiuKP:
Tomorrow i will try to reinstall original ROM from T-Mobile and will report results (nandroid backup).
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] richierich118:
Thanks for the fullscreen webbrowser works great. Also anyone having problems with market place saying the phone is out of memory when it is not (25apps+) just delete market cache and data then download should be fine.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Yea, I am.

I am looking at 1.0 on on device and 1.1 on the other - big weather widget has temp on 1.0 but not on 1.1.

Thanks for letting me know, i'll look into this.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I really wish I could do something more for you - it bothers me that you're having this issue and I can't figure out why.

Thanks for being so patient while i'm so stumped.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MisiuKP:
I just finished restoring The original ROM and tje problem is there as well, looks like my phone is misbehave.

O wonder whaty options at that point?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] yellowjacket1981:
This is so refreshing. I was using the roms of a certain dev that got banned, but really couldn't stand his bad attitude, so I have abandoned them. I am so glad I found you blue, the roms are awesome, and you have a great attitude. I also really love the tutorials, because this is helping me learn things that I have wanted to learn. Thanks.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
It just doesn't make sense that your phone is okay on time for everything else but this one thing - it hasn't since the beginning but I tried to appraoach it as something I did. I ignored the idea of it being an outside source, didn't mention it, and tried not to give up without pursuing every possible avenue I could traverse.

At this point, now that you've shown it's a ROM-independent problem, the only logical conclusion is the exchange server is not correct. Might see if there's a tech support contact you could find to let them know so they can reset the clock on the machine.

I didn't want to take the easy road and make it someone else's problem, but here we are and it really is - there's nothing you or I can do to fix it unless you can sync with a different machine.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] PrinceMorganti:
Thank you! that will make it easy to do some basic tinting, though to be fair, if the green is less resource heavy i will deal with it (i barely notice the blue as it is)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] teangerhofer:
I love you man... seriously.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] zaxondis:
How to backup and restore between ROM installs

So I went from 1.0 to 1.1 and decided to try backing up my apps and restoring them using Titanium Backup. I'm happy to report that it was as successful as it has ever been.

Here are the steps that worked:

1. Back up using the batch option "Backup all user apps"

2. After installing your new ROM and waiting the 10 minutes it needs to settle and all, (This is the Important part!) install TitaniumBackup.apk without using the market. After a little reading I found out that if you try and use the Market to download the app, it tries to run it's own restore which is typically only partially successful or not successful at all.

I REPEAT: It's important that titanium backup is installed WITHOUT USING the market! Also please note that the market should not be loaded up at all until you finish the restore process! (Blue: perhaps it can be loaded into the ROM by default again?).

3. Use the option "Restore missing apps with data" from the batch menu. Many may know this, but NEVER RESTORE SYSTEM DATA IT ALMOST NEVER WORKS.

4. After the restore completes, reboot the phone using the "Normal" reboot. Depending on the number of apps restored, it helps to let it sit for a few minutes to be sure those that need to load into memory.

If these steps are followed, backups and restores should work well.

If you need a copy of the TitaniumBackup.apk to keep on your SD check out this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1082385

Hope this helps others!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] yellowjacket1981:
all you have to do before you open the market is go to settings, privacy, and uncheck Automatic restore. you may have to check back up my settings to be able to uncheck Automatic restore....then you can use the market to get tibu, and it won't start restoring when you open the market. I actually do this before linking my google account to the phone.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
19hours uptime, medium usage. 38% remaining (anker 1900mah)

One small thing I noticed, when I woke up, my time was stuck at 12.00.... However in settings, date & time it was reading the correct time (8.30am)... I had launcher7 installed (was testing various new home replacements for fun) where this launcher was showing the correct time (8.30am.)

Hot reboot seemd to sort it out.

Just wanted to bring it up.

Very impressed with this release: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCnZqg1RgGA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Edit - 25hours w/ 9% remaining. Cannot complain at all!

Sent from my mt4gs in a Vest
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] zaxondis:
Ahh thanks for that! Now to play with the tweaks on this awesome ROM.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
Bluetooth Speakers?

Does anyone know if we can connect the mt4g slide to speakers via Bluetooth.

I'm trying to use this in my gym without connected via 3.5mm aux jack.

Will this device work for instance?

(as an interim between my phone and pre-existing speakers to connect to this bluetooth adaptor.)

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/logitech-wireless-bluetooth-speaker-adapter-11358345-pdt.html

Sent from my mt4gs in a Vest
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] zaxondis:
I would imagine it should work since you can connect both phone and media audio via Bluetooth. I have Bluetooth earbuds that work great with mine.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
Snap, I just seen the blutooth aspect in the music app. Wahooo. Thanks for confirming dude.

Nice one

Sent from my mt4gs in a Vest
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MisiuKP:
Thanks Blue.

The fanny part is that my other phone (HTC Inspire 4G) is connected to the same server and has no problem what so ever.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MisiuKP:
Can someone point me to direction how to turn s-off back on?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] yogi2010:
There hasn't been any way to achieve that thus far, but I thought maybe the Mr. Root script here in the development section had that option. I haven't heard of anyone doing it yet tho... let us know!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] inkling:
I'm getting force closes when I try to access the battery usage screen

EDIT: "settings" force closes, that is
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MisiuKP:
OK, I found solution for my case,

I deleted (ouch:() my all calendar entries and re-entered them again, and now I do not have problem any more.:D:D:D
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] inkling:
Also with v1.1 I'm getting the same issue I had in 1.0, with widgets being unavailable after a reboot. Variety of market widgets, using GoLauncher.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] pmcqueen:
Thanks for all the hard work, blue. Will flash as soon as I have a few spare minutes.

Don't mind the unappreciative folks. If there's one thing that is as apparent in the real world as on the interwebs, it's peoples' general snobbiness and 'me' complexes. Do the work for yourself and not for others and let the asses be asses.. no need to even acknowledge them.

I'm sure this is as solid a rom as any out there for our device right now. Hope you continue to contribute to the community, your work is much appreciated. Will report back with any bugs I find.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
That is fantastic!!!!

I am so glad to hear you got it all worked out, thanks for updating with the happy answer!

Eh, no worries - you can't please all the people all the time, and I knew some people would miss the blue system default theme as I was converting it to green.

I can't think of a specific instance in the thread where i've been offended or felt put out by any of the responses to the color change, people have voiced their opinions in a polite fashion and i'm cool with that.

If anything, i'm hoping that it'll inspire some of the people who miss the system default of blue to take the plunge and start developing their own theme - maybe replace one of the other ones with what the blue was ( spring and retro are almost the same - one of those would be my first choice for replacement )... the .9.png tutorial I was writing yesterday got finished a little while ago here: Edit .9.png files for the MT4GS - step-by-step. ...

... or help figure out how to add a whole new theme to the operating system.

I'd love to learn how to do that, and the idea of being able to distribute Bulletproof with 15-20 themes right off the bat on a fresh install would be fantastic!

Bulletproof is getting it's own personality makeover, and the system default is going to the shade of green i'm working on. Just kinda seperates it even more from a simple Sense clone while preserving the Sense experience.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I forget what we did about this before - give me a chance to scroll back through the thread and look up all the back-and-forth we said about it previously, and after I look into the issue quoted below i'll install Go on my dev device and see what I come up with.

I haven't been able to duplicate this on either of my two devices running 1.1

Can I get everyone running 1.1 to check their battery usage screen and see if they get a force close?

Edit - problem resolved with reboot, no need to check.

I'm not sure why this would be happening, i'm going to re-install 1.1 again on my dev phone and see if it happens on a fresh install.

Are you using any apps that have anything to do with battery, monitoring, or anything else related to settings?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Way cool - you should go write something about them in the accessory section. I wanted to get a set - but ended up spending my money on a bluetooth keyboard instead.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Can you clarify for me something -

Was it the Sense launcher ( Rosie.apk ) that wasn't displaying the correct time, or the aftermarket launcher?

Also, where was the time display not correct - lockscreen, status bar ... ?

( glad hot reboot sorted it out - that makes it sound like just a random hiccup, but i'd like to look into it further just to be sure. I'm not trying to write anything off without examining it fully first. )
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
And:

This stuff is helpful info for people carrying backup data forward from 1.0 to 1.1

Again, I don't officially recommend it, but for anyone wanting to try they should read this over.

I'm going to link this post to the 1.1 release post where I talked about backups.

I don't see any reason why we can't look into doing this - once I get the rest of the default system set and the rest of my planned changes to bring us up to 2.0 we can make this happen.

It's a handful of small changes to get there - all the 1.x updates are small incrementals to get to 2.0 and nothing as drastic as what 1.1 was is gonna go down.

I'll put TI back in on 2.0 for sure if it doesn't make it's way back in sooner.

( ... though I prefer MyBackup, but the free version only does one backup and overwrites that for the next one - I think that will confuse people, otherwise that would be my choice. )

I've personally always had issues with TI when using it on my Nook Color, and after seeing all the problems people had restoring data to apps that were changed on the pre-1.0 Bulletproof release from Romanbb, it was a very easy decision to just axe it.