yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Inspire 4G] tedrogers61:
I think the policy should be one of openness, but with Google as the first port of call. I think people are sometimes not willing to do the legwork, which is frustrating.

I did a lot of my own research in a matter of weeks, and I've also asked some dumb questions, but I was very grateful they were answered. Hopefully the frequency of dumb questions is now reduced, and I can give something back.

Sent from my Desire HD
[HTC Inspire 4G] Salpula:
I think I have the same problem, though, I mostly notice it when trying to open a story from Pulse News Reader in the browser (which I should probably note is responsible for the largest number of page loads in my browser). It passes off to the browser but it never goes anywhere. It seems that if I copy the URL, close the windows and open another window in browser it will load. Also, certainly does not happen every time.

I would say this is pretty common, and is probably the norm for a large number of users at most forums. Props to you.

However, on every forum I frequent there are people who crap up threads asking the same questions over and over again, completely ignoring large parts of the OP (often containing the answers they seek) in every thread they post in, and who can't seem to grasp that the multitude of negative responses every time they post is because it gets old, really old. Even after they have been doing it for years. The people who run these threads aren't your mommy, if you are going to mess with your phone on this level, the least you could do is educate yourself a bit about what you are doing in the first place as many of us do. When you have a thread that is 176 pages long, its a pain to search the thread for things, when 50+ of those pages are posts like the ones that started this whole thing, it makes it that much more tedious. Matt james just threw out some knee-jerk sperg rage at a situation he didn't truly understand - which is just as bad - and he was being a **** straight up. Ironic, perhaps, since he seems to think people need to stop being dicks on here. kennypow3rs was stern, clear about why he was being stern, and not a total **** - there is a big difference there.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tedrogers61:
Couldn't agree more! Now let's get back on topic y'all. :thumbup:
[HTC Inspire 4G] wrenhal:
No, we MUST reach 5300 posts!!

/sarcasm
[HTC Inspire 4G] warus1:
Not yet, but I have a feeling that it's coming soon

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If I reboot to recovery and mount the USB it works fine.

Since no one else is having this issue, I suspect it might be me so I'll do a full wipe and see how that goes.

Thanks to everyone for your help in trouble shooting :good:
[HTC Inspire 4G] SupremeBeaver:
Like I said a few times, this from really is brilliant. However I get bad battery drain, not when the screen is off though. When in sleep mode I get very little drain, but when I'm using the phone the battery plummets much faster than with any other from I've used. Is this a common problem?
[HTC Inspire 4G] ai6908:
Not really...my battery life has been normal. Check to see what is draining the battery...
[HTC Inspire 4G] kennypow3rs:
Yea it is, especially if you're a moderate to heavy user like myself. The inspire has only a poor little 1250mA battery (really small for its size). I get weak battery on all roms lol. Only way to beat this is to order another $5 battery from Amazon like I did. That way I have a spare battery to pop in at all times.
[HTC Inspire 4G] wrenhal:
Turn off animations, lower screen brightness. Remove widgets from screen.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SupremeBeaver:
Nah i doubt the battery is the problem. Like i said i've used almost all roms and so far none use up as much power as this rom when the screen is on. I doubt it's a specific app either because with the exact same app configuration on Ice Cold rom battery drain was more acceptable. With Ice Cold i remember Display usage was always in the 90s which is good because it indicates that battery is being used by the hardware and less so by the system. But on this rom Display is always around 50 or 60 indicating that the system is using more battery.

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I have no doubt those will help with battery, but that doesnt change the fact that with other roms with the same configuration i get much less drain. I think there is an underlying problem, and first thing that comes to mind is the kernel governor. Currently testing ondemand.
[HTC Inspire 4G] kennypow3rs:
Try smartassv2 that seems to work best on most phones. Existz also recommended that one so that has to mean something...it drains OK but again, my evo 4G got way battery cause it had a 1500mA battery I still never got a half a day on any rom with my inspire.
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
I get pretty decent battery life.., usually +3-4hrs screen ON time from the time I wake up until I go to bed and usually have around 25% left (over 12-14hrs). I also listen to music quit a bit when screen off, then around 50-100 txt a day, on xda quit a bit, browser, around 2hrs of phone time, streaming video from WatchESPN app..etc..etc. All with default governor, no "battery saving apps" , and most of the time I don't have wifi where I'm at so all with mobile network. Plus I do a lot of benching when testing new optimizations, new commits..etc..
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
Can someone who uses OpenVPN or similar test this kernel and see if it works?

http://code.google.com/p/aospx/issues/detail?id=56#c11
[HTC Inspire 4G] SupremeBeaver:
Damn, i could only dream of that kind of battery life.
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
Devicecustomizer has created a video of BR7 for those that want to check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uESk26ttpTA&feature=plcp
[HTC Inspire 4G] Raza Qadri:
Have you tried battery calibrator by maker of v6 it helps a little

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[HTC Inspire 4G] SupremeBeaver:
I've been using Ondemand for the past 3 hours and it seems like the drain is gone. Still early to draw conclusions but things are looking good.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ai6908:
I don't have those tweaked in my ROM. I usually leave it default.

Sent from my Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] warus1:
Problem solved, thanks to everyone for the assist.. Did a full wipe and re-install.. works as it should now. Thanks again :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] nj_PeePs:
I can test it tomorrow and let you know how it works out.

Sent from my Inspire 4G, running aospX using the xda-developers app
[HTC Inspire 4G] iPwn_:
I changed the default I/O scheduler in the ROM from V(R) to SIO and my battery life improved a lot.
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
For those that have hung out in the irc channel for a while, you know I've suffered from my laptops hdd repeatedly corrupting..well today its took a major **** and is no longer with us...along with all fans burning out (and possibly CPU damage) .. So needless to say I'm without a machine for now...but not all's lost, luckily I used a remote build machine for compiling/storage so hopefully I can get it setup for everyday use. But right now I'm unable to do any compiling/work on aospX. I was able to SSH in with my tablet and push the remaining changes I had locally, but I'll need to get something figured out before I can do any more work...so if u don't see any updates or any work on git for the next little bit, this is why.
[HTC Inspire 4G] cwhitney24:
So sorry to hear man. Hopefully you get back up and running soon.

sent from my Galaxy Nexus while eating bacon
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
I'm going to try to run off a live CD and just SSH in, but where my fans are burnt out its getting hot and shutting down every few min...so im going to try to get that temp fixed until I can get a new machine
[HTC Inspire 4G] wrenhal:
Can anybody do this?
[HTC Inspire 4G] mehrshadkh:
And your fan here will die... :D

I know that's a big problem and for sure you can't use it for a hard use. but you can buy a coolpad. It would help you for using just sometime in a day. but not much. There is no problem with your mother board or any thing else on your PC if it starts without any BEEP sound for once, twice or third time. Don't afraid it would be fix so easily. That's only fan problem. But don't use CPU in these days before you handle fan problem. cause it can damage CPU by temprature. ;)

Will wait for you. ;)
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
Was going to try this ROM, but apparently my education stopped with a masters degree and I needed a doctorate to figure out where the heck to download this file. Can someone simply give me a link to download the file. NOT a link to a page with 50 other links on it.. Cause apparently, I am too stupid to figure out what all those files are on the page I found.. Since God forbid any of them says: ROM YOU WANT HERE!!!! LOL

'Thanks in advance....

Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] ~wolverine~:
nevermind
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
Its not that hard, under Downloads in the OP is the link to the main site on GoogleCode...then just click the Downloads tab...simple as that. Otherwise people don't read and the same old **** gets posted page after page.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SpectroPro:
First, didn't dawn on me to click the link for GoogleCode.. since that isn't the name of the rom and quite honestly, when I saw the word GoogleCode, to my pea brain, that says CODE...ie..raw developer type data... THEN, when I did click on it finally, I never noticed the tabs at the top. DOH!!! Saw the side links...but totally missed the top of page.. Thank you!!!

Greg
[HTC Inspire 4G] Phoenix-Lead:
Now you can pass on the PhD! You've been schooled by X!
[HTC Inspire 4G] PuterGeek:
Just made a small PayPal donation to help resolve your laptop issue. Just my little thanks for what you have accomplished. :good:
[HTC Inspire 4G] SayAliFlyeer:
Camera Quality and functionality not so good as stock

Camera Quality and Functionality is not so good ... as Gingerbread Stock
[HTC Inspire 4G] tarheelfanpdx:
You don't say.
[HTC Inspire 4G] kennypow3rs:
Hey existz when do you plan to fix your comp or get another one?
[HTC Inspire 4G] nj_PeePs:
@existz

I just tried openvpn, and it works perfectly.

For your laptop, if you would like a used HDD, I have a few 3.5 inch drives laying around that I wouldn't mind parting with, if you have a spare USB enclosure. As for the fans, if you can get to them, manually spinning them sometimes frees them up.

Sent from my Inspire 4G, running aospX using the xda-developers app
[HTC Inspire 4G] autosurgeon:
Pm me make and model of laptop and I will dig up replacement fan options.
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
Well some good news..got the fan situation under control and I am able to just run off a live CD for the time being, while SSH'ing into my remote build machine...which I kept most of my stuff remote anyways (after about the 5th time my local hdd corrupted and after losing everything over and over , I went this route) so I really didn't lose any time getting sources set back up. So as far as aospx goes we are good again.. I still need to get me a new laptop , my old one has taking a lot of abuse and I am surprised it lasted this long. But I should be starting back up on aospx soon.
[HTC Inspire 4G] playerjunglejosh:
Existz I don't see a donate button. Maybe all of us that would like to help you purchase a new laptop(I am assuming it would definitely help you in the creation of this Rom) would be willing to donate.

Anyway to donate?
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
Theres a 'Donate to Me' button under my avatar, and also link is in my sig...but i dont think it shows up on the mobile app, so ill post the link below.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7GNF3C3YCTNB6
[HTC Inspire 4G] cwhitney24:
You can't see it possible be cause you are on the mobile app. Look at the browser view to see the link.

Tried posting the link but didn't work. I'll try again.

Edit...existz beat me to it Lmao

sent from my Galaxy Nexus while eating bacon
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
Once I get everything back up and running the way I want it, ill try to get BR8 up...so hopefully sometime mid-week I can get everything done the way I want. So far got a couple bugs squashed, it seems VPN connections are now working (Issue 56), and also fixed the bug where the notification pull down would go completely blank from time to time, http://goo.gl/bEFre .. Ive also added O3 to a few packages that benefit from it the most, instead of just building the whole rom with O3 thumb cflags (which caused high memory usage), so im just going to start adding O3 to certain packages from build to build...in BR8 ive added it to libdex and to skia, as well as added back some CAF optimizations to skia. Theres a couple more things I want to get in BR8, but im hoping sometime in the next week I can get it posted.

Also modified media_profiles.xml some, it seems to fix some of the choppiness when recording in 720p.. We are getting close to a MR/RC release
[HTC Inspire 4G] kennypow3rs:
I was asking about your comp situation because I have an old 10.1" Acer aspire one AOD205 (2010) netbook laying around and if it could be of assistance I was going to give it to you. Its running a fresh version of xp but its ran 7, Android, Ubuntu, fedora, mint all like a champ. I dual booted many OS's from it with no issue. I know you like Linux so all you have to do is put it on USB and flash which ever flavor you want aside the xp. It works great but being 2 years old the battery is weak lasting only 30 min off charger but on charger its great. A new one is like 35 on eBay. If you need this little guy to help your work until you get another laptop its yours just let me know. Id toss it to you just to say thanks for all your hard work. 1.66ghz Intel atom, 160gb 1gb ram.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/7579/img20120903104035.jpg
[HTC Inspire 4G] wrenhal:
Above somebody mentioned making a change to scheduler to get better battery. Is this a change you could look into? Is it something a lay person can do without compiling stuff?
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
PM sent..

Yes, anyone can change IO scheduler,.. Theres quite a few apps out there that allows you to change the IO scheduler, such as No-Frills CPU Control and similar apps. But the default scheduler gives the best performance, and I really dont see IO scheduler making any drastic changes in battery life..especially VR vs SIO, as they are both pretty similar and function the same.. (they are both based off deadline)
[HTC Inspire 4G] SupremeBeaver:
Just an update on my battery situation.

I managed to go yesterday from 100% to 1% with 4 hours screen on time. This is the most i've ever got out of my Desire HD. I took a screen cap of it but it seems ShootMe does some weird things with screenshots. Must not be ICS optimized. It's quite amazing because before this is was reporting some of the worst battery life i've ever had. Anway all i did was change the cpu governor from smartassv2 to plain smartass.

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This leads me to ask, doesn't this rom have built in screenshot capture? I tried the common Power + Vol Down with no success.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RoboWarriorSr:
When you hold the power button there is an option to take a screen shot.
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
As mentioned above, just long press power button and it will give u the option to Power Off, Reboot, Screenshot, Airplane mode...etc.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SupremeBeaver:
Don't know how I missed that lol thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
Yea, it probably won't ever be as good as stock...1, we are running AOSP (not meant for our device) so we have to hack a lot of things just to get them to work ..2, we are having to use a modified camera Hal with gingerbread libs and also using 2.6.35 kernel, when ICS was built for a device running a 3.0 kernel... Which we got a working 3.0 kernel but its in a very young state...some stuff still doesn't fully work yet, plus it seems to be a lot slower than our current kernel (0xbench VM test shows about a 2000-3000ms difference).. and 3, AOSP doesn't have some of the stuff stock Sense camera app does, nothing we can do about that (Sense is not open sourced so we have no HTC sources).

Last but not least, taking in all of the above, the Camera is a BIG work in progress...currently idk if anyone is even working on it, especially for ICS...so not much we can do until someone starts working on it.. Also considering all of the above, a lot of 3rd party apps don't work well with our current Camera Hal, causing some preview issues (blank screen, distorted image...etc).. We have to patch the stock camera app for our setup, so without having the sources to whatever 3rd party camera app, some of them just won't work correctly...and there's nothing we can really do short of having the source to whatever app and fixing it ourselves. But we got most of the main functions working with stock camera app, ie... snapshots, 480/720p recording, panaroma ..etc).
[HTC Inspire 4G] Salpula:
Existz: If you happen to have an HP laptop, I might have a spare fan, if you think you are handy enough with a small screwdriver to put one in (guides can be found online), I would send it to you assuming the model matches. Also: I have a spare laptop drive, if you are interested. . .can't afford to donate till I start my new job, so I thought I would offer what I can for now. :p
[HTC Inspire 4G] playerjunglejosh:
I thought we had finally got and started using a working 3.0 kernel...am I wrong?
[HTC Inspire 4G] existz:
We are still using 2.6 kernel ... 3.0 kernel still needs work before its anywhere near what we have now ..plus performance is sub-par to current kernel. Some AOSP JB roms use the 3.0, but they are still trying to get quite a few bugs worked out...IMO theres no point going backwards when everything is working on current 2.6..at least not right now
[HTC Inspire 4G] Synthetic.Nightmare:
Have you tried using the camerahal from caf? It works pretty well for us on the glacier. (I've gotten no complaints about using camera with 3rd party apps and have been able to use it with barcode scanner and Google goggles without a hitch)
[HTC Inspire 4G] gjkilcrease:
Use SetCPU
[HTC Inspire 4G] ai6908:
I am glad you dont want to go to 3.0 kernel, in my opinion there are still major bugs in that, which prevents me to use it as a daily driver.
[HTC Inspire 4G] playerjunglejosh:
Let's say a 3.0 kernel comes to the point its just as capable as our current kernel. What would the benefits be by having a 3.0 kernel over the current kernel? Would it be more compatible with apps or anything of the sort?
[HTC Inspire 4G] jrloper:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1658488

Sent from my Inspire 4G running AOSPX-BR7
[HTC Inspire 4G] espressofrap:
I love this thread. Aside from being able to download roms, i also learn a lot of new things from existz. His replies are always informative. Thanks man for spending time to reply even to questions which are, at times, not really worth answering. Hats off to you. We hope to have more devs like you here in xda.
[HTC Inspire 4G] _b_ship:
Just posting to let you know how much I appreciate what you've done here Existz (and everyone else involved), I just put this on my gf's Inspire after she finally let me root it, and I must say it absolutely blew me away in terms of smoothness and stability. That sense 3.0 ota update finally pushed me over the edge lol.

THANKS!
[HTC Inspire 4G] PuterGeek:
Agreed.

Rob is one of the most professional people I've encountered on XDA or in my 'real' life as an embedded systems engineer. I don't know what his paying job is but it clearly excels at what he has done on this ROM.

:good::good::good::good::good:
[HTC Inspire 4G] kBTWOFOUR:
I know I don't post that much on here, but I just want to say this ROM is the best ROM I have ever used on my Inspire. I have flashed every JB and ICS on here available for the Inspire and DHD, but nothing comes close to this ROM's performance and stability. The ROM is so smooth and does not have a lot of bugs like a lot of the other ROMs.

Hopefully in a few years when I am done with school I will be able to help out the community.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Shimmty:
Wasn't exactly sure where to post this...

1) can I delete the rom zip once I start using the rom

2) on my mac book air, every time I download a rom, it comes out as a folder, not a zip file
[HTC Inspire 4G] chrisz5z:
+1

The guy has even went out of his way to help me on some unrelated scripting. I always have came back to his roms/kernels, even when there was only the older gingerbread builds...or even further back with his Talon kernel when I had my old Captivate

Sent from a satellite
[HTC Inspire 4G] iPwn_:
Are you using Safari? By default it is set to "open" files rather than save them. Go into the Safari settings and change that.

Specifically:

Safari > Preferences > General > Uncheck "Open "safe" files after downloading"
[HTC Inspire 4G] Bzow:
Yes, you can delete the zip file once you've flashed the ROM.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RoboWarriorSr:
Is anybody having problems with A.D.F.L.Y website? Every time i get directed to that site it says website not available. Can't download Roms. I flashed BR7 over BR6, possibly need a wipe?
[HTC Inspire 4G] pradeepd:
There seems to be an issue with adfly not loading on mobile devices.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Raza Qadri:
It's loading for me in opera

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[HTC Inspire 4G] cnote74:
You need to turn ad blocking off for adfly to work right.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Raza Qadri:
Nope it will still work without blocking it

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[HTC Inspire 4G] Youngunn2008:
Seconded. Rob is a great dev in the spirit of what this site is all about, helping each other. He helped me learn how to compile ics from source and use git hub.

Keep it up Rob (existz):thumbup:
[HTC Inspire 4G] ghostryder12:
Hi Existz, i've searched and searched and it's now nearly 3am. I've been looking for a link to your kernels. I've had it in a past ROM, but it's no longer on my sd card. Can you provide a link to your kernels?

Thanks in advance.

From my Supercharged Inspire
[HTC Inspire 4G] jmot205:
Hi guys. First of all, love this ROM, been with it since BR1, thanks so much to existz and everyone helping to keep it going!! Unfortunately I'm having a similar problem to the one SupremeBeaver posted about a few pages back and have had it through the latest versions of AOSPX.

My battery drains like mad when the screen is on (but doesn't seem to decrease at all when the screen is off). I've attached a screenshot of it, and I usually see a decrease of approx 1% per minute with the display on. Although strangely, at 1% remaining, it lasts for a fair bit longer (maybe 20 minutes).

Not sure how relevant it is, but I first noticed this around BR4-BR5. I always wipe all when flashing AOSPX, but restore apps with TB. I've tried the Smartassv2, Smartass, ondemand, ondemandx CPU govenors to no avail, and even tried changing to SIO from VR as a previous post suggested (but existz said it wouldn't help anyway - correct). Have wiped batterystats many times too.

In terms of resolving this, can anyone think of anything in particular that may be the cause for this? Maybe an app I'm using or some setting I stupidly set to "power guzzling mode"? (Display brightness is auto BTW, and I usually have it in low light areas anyway so I don't think it's that.)

Or shall I go down the avenue of fresh flash, wipe all, no restore and run a logcat with the screen on? (Would that even give specific enough info without giving too much?) Usually just have time for that on weekend / whenever a new BR comes out and I can't resist, if you reckon it'll help.

Cheers (and sorry for the short story - I prefer to give too much info than not enough)

Just lost 40% writing this on and off on my 40 minute commute :(
[HTC Inspire 4G] jmot205:
Probably a better screenshot (I.e. no other apps using power) is this one.