[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] madmaxx82:
Hi everyone!

I must apologize for not answering any of your posts. This is outrageous ;)

I'm really very sorry!

For the first time in about 6 months I got so much (urgent) work to do, that I wasn't able to dedicate enough time into 4ext since the release of the touch editions.

A release date is a poorly chosen one when you don't have enough time to be present in your own threads.

I hope that everything will be back to normal in about 2-3 weeks, but anyway it's getting better each day from now on.

In the meantime, if anything is important/urgent, please feel free to send me an email. It takes a lot less time to reply than to check all threads.

Thank you VERY much for all your great feedback!

Big thanks to craacK, Jotha, Euphorie, Patrics83 and Whiskey103 for your support!

I don't have enough time now to read through the whole thread, but would like to answer some recurring questions:

Version 1.0.0.2 RC1 has been improved a lot regarding speed of the UI and touchscreen "responsiveness". You shouldn't need to "click" twice anymore, just in rare cases. If this is still not the case for you, please tell me!

Also please tell me if I'm wrong but I really think that 4ext ng is now in a state where it's not just "cool" to have a touch UI, but its speed should already be that good that using it is a lot faster than with any classic recovery UI.

There is certainly a lot of room for changes and further improvements. And this will be done!

Since developing it I have never used the classic UI myself anymore ;)

Regarding a real progress indicator: this was left out due to not having enough time.

The classic recovery has both: an indeterminate progress (the one you get when you restore a nandroid for example) and a determinate "real" progress you get when doing backups.

This determinate progress indicator requires a recovery to count bytes or files being written.

This increases the time needed to complete a backup.

And that's why I had added a setting in the latest 4EXT Classic to switch that off.

My nr. 1 priority for the release of 4ext-ng was to have an indicator to show you that there's actually some work being done, which is the reason I implemented the in-determinative progress bar first, since some users were switching off the "real" progress indicator in 4EXT Classic to gain that little bit of additional speed.

But this has nothing todo with 4ext-ng in particular of course, but with any recovery.

So you shouldn't need to miss it in 4ext-ng: I will add the other progress type soon!

Something else: I've seen requests by users regarding a text output history.

This is already there! Just drag down the status bar yourself. You can even scroll inside that text!

And finally: Anyone who would like to create themes: please contact me. I didn't have the time to document the themes functionality yet. You will need the full properties file and the original icons!

Also please take into account that themes for ng should work differently.. there is not so much gain in changing backgrounds. In ng, much more graphics are being used. You really can change 95% of what you see.

Since there might not be enough time during the next 1-3 weeks to stay as active in the threads as I would like to, I will post about progress/news on

twitter and Google+

Thanks everyone for the awesome feedback and the great community :)