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[Desire Android Development] marange:
I cannot reproduce this. Can you tell me what you did ? Can you run the ThemeManager ? If not, please redownload the 2.6.8. I messed up the thememanager and did a reupload of the ROM.
[Desire Android Development] lenny_kano:
Yes of course, they do listen to users and consider their opinions. If they get too many complaints I'm sure things will change, but they are mainly concerned with reports from those with officially supported devices (for obvious reasons) :)

They mainly correspond with users on their forums (which are of course all Chinese at the moment).
[Desire Android Development] jerrylin612:
what did i do:

1. wipe all

2. install: choose a2sd, ext4, no swap, shaky kernel

3. my thememanager is right when running it by tapping the icon

4. when i get into the edit mode, and to choose any clock style, i will be FC.
[Desire Android Development] bel57:
Sorry, I'll deal with it. At least this port is a great job, thanks anyway :)

I agree but to my mind magnifying glass is useless, I prefer Xiaomi correcting bugs instead of adding this type of features :o

Yup, I just listed those apps as a recommandation for all users :thumbup:

Edit: Network Assistant works again, just stopped the app, cleared data and cache :D
[Desire Android Development] fangthorn:
When I first saw the magnifying glass I too thought it a bit silly, but then when I looked at it closely, I noticed that it's real purpose was to assist in positioning the cursor, and I must admit that it does make it a lot easier.
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
When I try install using MIUI-0.8.1-2.6.8.zip I get the following:

Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:Missing file:
system/media/lockscreen/lockscreen_011.jpg
E:Verification failed

Installation aborted.

I created an EXT3 partition using AMON-RA Recovery (I tried many times using my PC with a card reader, but my phone wouldn't read the card after that), but I can't get it to install.. Any ideas?
[Desire Android Development] l0minus:
Did you control your download with the md5 hash sum? Possible your download is corrupt?

I installed it this morning and no problems at all with the install.
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
Do you perhaps know what the MD5 hash is? I don't see it in the OP...

Edit: Scratch that, just found it on the goo.im download page. MD5 matches perfectly to my download.
[Desire Android Development] l0minus:
Well system/media/lockscreen/lockscreen_011.jpg is in the rom available,...

Try otherwise to clean cache and dalvik cache in recovery? maybe somehow there is a bit fallen down
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
I did a full wipe before I tried the first time, but just to be sure I tried again now with the 'Wipe only /cache' and 'Wipe only Dalvik-cache' options first. Still getting the exact same problem.

Checking in the actual zip file, there's no 'media' folder in the 'system' folder. If I look at the other ROMs I've downloaded, that folder does exist. Could that be the problem?

The file it's complaining about is actually in "/customize/system/media/lockscreen/lockscreen_011.jpg", there are 12 here, from "_000" up to "_011".
[Desire Android Development] lenny_kano:
Install 4ext, amon ra is outdated and can cause problems such as the one your having.

Edit: actually your problem should be solved by disabling signature verification, but I still recommend moving on from the recovery dark ages and using 4ext touch.
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
Suppose that does make sense, I've been using AMON-RA for over a year now, I got sick of CWM within a month of getting my Desire. But I suppose it is getting somewhat old now... I think I'll try disabling the signature verification first though, just because I've got many nandroid backups using AMON, if I switch recovery then they'll all be pretty much useless.

One last question then, if I go with EXT4, would you recommend the classic or the touch screen version?
[Desire Android Development] garreh:
Hi Marange

Do you know how to disable the lock screen tv animation (which I think started since Gingerbread build)? This animation is really annoying

Cheers
[Desire Android Development] fangthorn:
I would also strongly recommend, repartitioning with Ubuntu's "GParted" utility. You don't need an Ubuntu machine, you can boot off their installation DVD (or usb drive).
[Desire Android Development] marange:
I try to reproduce it, but have a problem with the last step. How do I go into edit mode ?

What I do is start the Themes and then I have 3 options (Local, Online and Mix). Which option do I select ? Could you please tell me more ...

Marange
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
Well, just to let you know, disabling signature verification did allow it to install, but it wouldn't boot... Once it hit the boot animation it just wouldn't go any further, left it for nearly an hour before I pulled the battery.

I'll change recovery and try it again later though, got other things to do for the moment.

Thanks for the suggestion, but the EXT3 partition is working just fine, no issues there. :) So I'll leave it as is for the moment at least.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
I think that there is no option to disable it (yet) in MIUI ICS. But I found something on MiuiAndroid, which includes changing a value in bools.xml. It is for SGS2, so I don't know if it works for the Desire.

The link is: http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/req-crt-off-animation-for-screen-off.16771/

Marange
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
The GB build of MIUI has options in the Animation menu to toggle the screen on and screen off animations (or at least the last couple versions I've used have had). Might be a bit of a long shot since I'm not certain of all the options, but there might be something useful in this thread on MIUIandroid.com? Look at the last link in the OP, there's an online folder with lots of different 'extended settings mod' related things.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Yes, the gingerbread build had this as an option. Xiaomi did not (yet) include this option in the ICS build. Hopefully they will include it soon. They are very busy to include the GB options. So who knows ?

About the MIUIandroid thread. You could test it, but I think (almost sure) it is only for GB. So use with caution :).

Marange
[Desire Android Development] l0minus:
Dutch translation for MIUI MARANGE ICS 0.8.1-2.6.8

Download

Marange, I tested both the QR code`s, and both are perfect working!
[Desire Android Development] garreh:
Marange, have you noticed the changelog for Sandvold? They have removed shaky's kernal in the latest version (0.12) because it "causes the most problems"

I'm currently using shaky's kernel, not had even one BSOD since I switched from using the stock kernel. I really don't want to go back to stock kernel, maybe we are suppose to use tiamat kernel in the next version? Just wondered your thoughts on this
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
So, I gave in and installed 4EXT recovery this morning, now I'm trying this ROM again. :)

Yesterday when I installed it after disabling the signature verification check (on AMON-RA recovery) I saw a silver logo that just said 'Android' for the boot animation.

Now with 4EXT the ROM installed much faster, but now it's sitting on the boot animation (screen with an orange 'MI' logo and 'xiaomi.com' below it), it's been like this for about 15 minutes now. I didn't see if it's an animated logo or not, but it's not moving at all... Approximately how long does the first boot actually take with this ROM?
[Desire Android Development] l0minus:
I have that also sometimes with a clean install, what I mostly do is remove battery, insert it again and restart.

Try it and I hope that is also working for you :rolleyes:

Sending from my HTC Desire, ICS Marange powered using XDA.
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
Thanks for the suggestion, I am quite familiar with flashing different ROMs, so I have already tried that.

Just pulled the battery again after waiting for over half an hour. Can anybody just tell me about how long the first boot should take..? If the average is something like 10 minutes, then at least I can save myself time while trying to get it working (as opposed to waiting for half an hour each time).
[Desire Android Development] fangthorn:
Mine was quite quick. Less than 10 minutes
[Desire Android Development] xepap:
Google Play Music (ver. 4.1.513) makes ROM crash

I've downloaded and installed manually the Google Play Music app from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1533816

To my knowledge it's the latest version of the app.

Installation goes fine but after a few minutes use I get a FC. I can't restart the app, and several other apps also crashes. I get an error saying something like "com.google.proces gapps has stopped working".

Everytime this happens I need to reeboot my phone in order to get other apps working again.

I really like the google music app, and it worked fine on MIUI GB.

So I guess my question is this: Anyone experienced the same and know what to do about it? Or anyone knows of a version of the google play music app that will work with this ROM?
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
I might have just beaten your first boot time then.... Mine took a measly 3 minutes once I got it working. :) Thanks to all of you for the help and suggestions, just got my first successful boot.

Now, I remember seeing that the installer supports all HBOOTs (I was using CM7r2, which is one of the many reasons I wanted to try this one), but only after switching to Data++ (180/5/252) and the obvious formats and restarts and milk and cookies, would it actually boot up.

Now I'm off to play with it.. :D
[Desire Android Development] sensory:
Magnifying glass and paste?

How do I go about pasting something into a text-box when if I long-press all I get is the magnifying glass?

It looks like when I select the cursor in a text-field that it has a new little box pop-up, but there are no options in this box. It's just blank.

EDIT: I don't know if this is related to my previous problem, but the spell correction also doesn't work. It's as if there's no dictionary for it to read from.
[Desire Android Development] fangthorn:
I suspect it's a bug with MIUI 4.0.

If I double tap on the word "and" in the text (see attached image) I get the box you are referring to (I think). This box should contain options to cut, paste, select etc.
[Desire Android Development] sensory:
That's exactly the box I see. I assume it's meant to contain "Copy" and in other cases "Paste."
[Desire Android Development] headdy:
I also had some FC's like this in previous versions of this ROM.

What helped me is to clear cache + dalvik cache in my recovery
[Desire Android Development] xepap:
So you don't experience any problems with this version of the ROM? And which version of the google play music apk are you using?
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Hi,

I have the same version as you installed, but haven't used it a lot at the moment (much to busy with developing :) ). Can you tell me when the problem occurs ? Direct when starting (doesn't do that for me) or after using it for a time ?

Marange
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Ok, this could be something I broke. I missed the fact that the white box is probably there for a reason. I will look at the patch I made and see what goes wrong there.

Marange
[Desire Android Development] xepap:
Hi Marange,

Thanks for trying to look into this. take your time, I know you're busy...

After less than 5 minutes of use the app suddenly stops. When trying to restart it get the above mentioned error with something like "com.google.procceses gapps has stopped working".

Then I begin to get even more FC's on other apps (Google Talk for instance). The programs that closes cannot be restarted even if I long-press home-button and clear running programs. So every time I have to do a reboot.

Tried to look up for a solution in sandvolds thread where one guy mentioned that he experienced the same. He's workaround was to paste the apk into system and rename it to music.apk, thereby overwriting the MIUI music apk.

But I haven't tried that...

Hope you'll be able to find a solution ;-) It worked with XJ's MIUI. Don't know if this is a general issue with MIUI ICS.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
I just noticed this yesterday when I was looking at the 0.11 version. This is the reason why I don't try to keep up with the sandvold releases. He changes the ROM often and it is impossible to keep up. I did do a build with the 0.11 release to see what I need to fix to get it running, but a third of the patches went wrong and another third are off, so I would need to repatch a lot.

At the moment I will keep it at the 0.8.1 version and spent my time on bug fixes and trying to keep up with MIUI :). When the sandvold release become stable I will also update. Of course I will keep an eye out for the kernels and when there is a new "better/faster" version of a kernel I will include these. But for the moment I am happy with the shaky kernel so no need for me to remove it.

Marange
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
Just out of curiosity, is there any way to try the other kernels from the options during the install without reinstalling the whole ROM...? Or would it perhaps work to run the install again and select a different kernel without wiping anything first?

By the way, awesome work Marange! I'm absolutely loving MIUI ICS.. I've been playing with it pretty much non-stop since I got it running earlier today, haven't had very many issues at all so far. One was that the Gallery crashed once while setting favourite albums, but it launched again just fine and it's worked perfectly since.

One slightly bigger issue I had today (can only test again tomorrow when I get to work though) is with the Wifi. We use WPA2-PSK at work, and today when I tried to connect it just sat on "Obtaining IP address" and wouldn't go any further.. Any ideas on what I could check?
[Desire Android Development] pipo1000:
I have the same. With the default kernel I get the obtain problem, and with shaky kernel I can not flick the WLAN switch on.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
You can try other kernels, by selecting them in the installer. No need to wipe anything. Just make sure that the other options stay the same. I switch between kernels when testing and never had any problem. A note of the kernels. There are some issues with stability. Sometimes the kernels freeze and you'll get a "black screen of death (BSOD)". The problem is in the default governor (ondemand). The workaround is to select another governor (smartassv2 works nice in the shaky kernel).

And there are some small stability issues. But these are almost all random ones, which makes it a bit difficult to figure out why these happen. Most of the time a retry works. But I keep working on it.

Wifi is something which is taken from the base rom (same with the kernels) and I know that some people have problems, but sometimes it starts working. An option is to select the drewis dhcp option in the installer. Some people have success with that one or another option is to set it to static instead of dhcp. At least make sure that the adhoc option is OFF. That does not work. I am still looking into that one.

Marange
[Desire Android Development] marange:
See if the drewis dhcp in the installer works for you. And make sure the adhoc option is off. I have a problem to get that one working (also have a problem to test it, so that makes it a bit hard to fix it).
[Desire Android Development] garreh:
I switched to smartassv2 governor with shaky kernel and not had one BSOD in about 2 weeks, when I use to get them almost daily or every other day. I also use deadline I/O scheduler though that's probably not related to BSOD anyway, just thought I'd mention.

Maybe other kernels will be as stable with the same governor?
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Same here. After I switch governor (first to conservative and now smartassv2) I did not have an BSOD. Before I had them daily (or more then one on a day), which was very annoying.

As far as I understand is that all kernels have the same problem with the ondemand governer. By changing the governor the problem is gone. But not all kernels have the same governor. for example the stock rom does not have smartassv2.
[Desire Android Development] ale8530:
Marange Hello, this is our italian pack MIUI Italy for your great rom, you can post as a link :) http://miui.nexus-lab.com/media/miui/versions/miui-V4-2.6.8-Desire-ITA-pack-1.zip I just wanted to tell you that your application generates Antispam.apk FC and it is a problem of the Rom.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Thank you also for the language pack. I appreciate your hard work.

And you are right. I messed up the Antispam this week. I made english the default language instead of chinese and majorly messed up the resources. I fixed it now.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Bedankt voor de language pack. Vind het erg leuk dat er ook een nederlandse vertaling voor de ROM is.

En ook bedankt voor het testen van de QR codes.

Marange

(Nothing mysterious, so translation for non-dutch speakers: Thanks for the language pack. Very nice to have a dutch language pack. And thanks for testing the QR codes ;) ).
[Desire Android Development] ale8530:
Marange do not worry this is a trivial FC, ​​to solve the next release :).

Thanks :)
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
So, I reinstalled selecting the Drewis DHCP option for wifi, but I can't even enable Wifi at all now... I've attached two screenshots of the Wifi settings to help explain.

When I open the Wifi settings screen, I immediately see the screen with the 'Select Nearby WLAN' and 'WLAN Settings' headings, and the 'Advanced settings' button (which, from what i remember, should only show once Wifi is turned on?).

As soon as I try turn Wifi on, the toggle on the right flashes to the 'On' position for a second, then back to the 'Off' position, and the screen sits there showing 'Turning WLAN on...' until I close the page and open it again.

I've just sat and tried each of the four kernels both with and without Drewis DHCP (restored nandroid first backup between each), nothing other than the first install I did will even allow me to enable Wifi now...
[Desire Android Development] marange:
This is very strange. I never had this behaviour. And I just checked and tested it again and it gives the correct behaviour. I have no clue why this is happening.

I know that some users had wifi trouble, but that was solved by the drewis dhcp option. Can you select wifi with a static IP?

Does someone else here recognises this behaviour ? Someone who has a clue ?

Marange
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Small bump

Just a small note to let everyone know that my build machine, an old computer I had l lying around, is slowly breaking down. Not a big problem, but it means that I need to shop around for a new build machine... Hopefully I find a cheap and small one soon and that the releases/bug fixes don't get interrupted to much.

Marange
[Desire Android Development] neXus PRIME:
@marange, You could get help from a guy on some ics thread in desire forum, willing to share a FAST build machine.....maybe in bcm, or aokp..... You can talk with him... I'll find his nick and post......

Sent from outer space using RF transmitters
[Desire Android Development] bel57:
WLAN works fine except that I can't use Wi-Fi tethering while datas are enabled... when I switch on tethering it goes off directly :/
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Do you mean the option "Portable WLAN hotspot" ? I just checked and I can select that option (it switches from WIFI to Mobile) and gives the message that tethering is on. And I did use it some time ago and it worked then.

NOTE: I just noticed "Bluetooth tethering". Never see that one before and never tested it. Did someone use it and did it work/gave problems ? I am trying to test it, but my MAC does not find the phone at the moment.

Marange
[Desire Android Development] marange:
New lockscreens

On miuiandroid, you can download 2 new lockscreens made by Xiaomi and translated by Miuiandroid. I just played a little with them and they look really nice.

The link is: http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/new-miui-v4-lockscreens.16914/
[Desire Android Development] bel57:
Yes, Portable WLAN hotspot (=tether by Wi-Fi). When I switch it on, it works fine. Then I enable datas and portable WLAN turn off automatically... What a problem :banghead:
[Desire Android Development] ph87:
Hey Marange!

do you know, when the german language Pack will be released? I don't want to hurry you up, I just to know it...;)

Btw! Since the 2.6.1 your ROM ist just amazing!!!:)
[Desire Android Development] pipo1000:
I have exactly the same. With the shakey kernel I have the 'WLAN switch on' problem. With other kernels the 'obtain' problem. I tried the Drewis fix, but it does not help. My original 2.4.13 AndroidMIUI version does work with WLAN and my router. I did a full wipe and reinstall.

By the way, I really want to thank you for bringing miui v4 to the Desire. I love the MIUI interface.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Ehe ? What I do, is:

- Both WLAN and Data is selected in the pulldown/Toggles menu.

- Because I am on my WLAN network, wifi is on.

- In settings, I select More ... / Tethering / Portable WLAN hotspot (which is off)

- Select the Portable WLAN hotspan option

What happens:

- Wifi switces off

- Notification of "Turning WLAN on"

- Data switches on

- Notification of "Portable hotspot AndroidAP active"

Result:

- Data on and a icon in the notifications with the message: "Tethering or hotspot active".

What are you doing ? I never select "Data" to get it to work.

Marange
[Desire Android Development] marange:
I really don't know. The language packs are made by other users and they post here when a new version is available. Some of it is coordinated by 1982Strand, and I know that he is very busy with "real life" stuff at the moment. I have no involvement whatsoever. I just enjoy it.

Marange.
[Desire Android Development] marange:
Very strange. The only time I got the "obtain" problem was when I had a IP conflict in my network. My wife's computer had a static IP address and my DHCP server gave the same address to the phone. When the computer was off, there was no problem, but when she switched on the computer and the phone was on the network and error occured on her computer. When the phone was off the network and tried to connect I got the obtain error. So now I made sure that the static address are outside the DHCP address range.

But I don't think that is the issue here. I have no idea. Does static IP work ?
[Desire Android Development] ZaLiTHkA:
Hey Marange,

My adventures in attempting to get my Wifi working today while I was at work left my phone stuck in a boot loop... Or more specifically, unable to boot into anything other than fastboot, bootloader or recovery. No matter what options I selected when trying to install your ROM would change that. I needed to carry on with work, so I left it alone until I got home..

Just now I found a post on HTCDesireForum where another user was having the exact same problem. A reply from sakai4eva says:

But as mentioned, installing MIUI V4 2.6.8 didn't fix it... I mounted my sdcard and used ADB to push another ROM (MIUI-AU 2.1.10, which I was using previously) back to my phone and installed it with 4EXT. At which point it booted just fine.

Then I formatted everything except /sdcard and /boot, installed MIUI V4 2.6.8 again, and again it goes straight into fastboot...

Any ideas on this..? It was working fine yesterday, but today it just won't run.

I noticed at the end of the installer, there's an option to save the installation log file.. Would that perhaps show anything helpful here? If so, I could run the install, save the log, pull it with ADB and upload it for you.
[Desire Android Development] o_0YaphetS:
what means "error 921" of google play?
[Desire Android Development] l0minus:
o_0YaphetS, see topic here