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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DRSdroid:
OK, big problem.. since flashing the newer .19 radio, i now have GPS lock fixed, WIFI ok, but NO data and my battery is dying REALLY quick... i'm going to go back and flash the original .19 radio and see what happens
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] robuser007:
wipe efs, cache and dalvik cache.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DRSdroid:
never mind, i'm dumb! i didn't notice lastnight that while reading the threads you linked i actually download the CM7 RIL zip.. i'm good now! i wiped cache & dalvik, reflashed the the CM9_AKOP RIL and then did efs wipe and wiped both caches again.. seems great now!

EDIT: Oddly though, i'm still having a weird issue with Google Music app.. seems to only be when i'm charging AND using headphones.. it takes forever for the app to open, and for tracks to play. If i'm just charging it's fine.. and if i'm just using headphones it's fine too.. Anyone else having problems with that app? Again, this is with offline music, not even talking about streaming content from their server
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
That's 2 people telling me they can't hear me well, is it just my voice or is there a problem with the mic gain volume? :D

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DRSdroid:
i've had some fairly long phone convos without any complaints of volume being too low, but most were business related so they may have just been polite and not told me they could barely hear me
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
I'm just merging the kernel with jerl92's recent changes and there seem to be a fix for the low audio volume, I'll crank it up 10% more, can't hurt right? lol

I also see a lot of fixes for the camera and GL. And strangely a new IO scheduler that is by definition only suitable for physical HDDs (wtf?). And new SLQB memory allocator looks interesting, I'll have to read up on that though.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Jivebunny:
@ N1k3r You not watching the game? No issues here with wifi, gps, or volume. Only thing is apex launcher getting redraws/loads because of memory I guess.

Verstuurd van mijn HTC Vision met Tapatalk
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
lol no I'm not watching, fixing undervolting support is more fun :p
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DRSdroid:
So I'm guessing no one else is having the music prob? Lol, its ok, if I run it without charging at the same time, music plays fine. Next update I'll do a full fresh format & install and get rid of the swap partition too.

There isn't anything set in the rom (like a tweak or something) that triggers when the phone has headphones and a charger plugged in at the same time right?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Not that I know of, try clean AOKP with stock kernel if it has the same issue.

AD: The kernel changes lost me 600points in antutu, this may take a while to find out what's wrong.

AD2: second build - 4680 ... getting there :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DRSdroid:
I'll stock aokp when i have a chance.. oddly enough when i plugged the charger in after work and plugged in the headphones, the phone activated "car mode" (something that's happened randomly since CM7) and it played all the tracks fine :-/ very confusing
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Rozza C:
This is probably just me.

But the Gmail and Email seems to take a while to open.

Does anyone experience this?

Also, there's a little lag when waking the phone up... But I think that might be down to the CPU speeds needing a chance to pick up again.

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Broman400:
What is wakelock usage...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Indiwiz:
any way to stop the phone app from force closing every time there is a call made or placed? this happens with custom dpi only btw. but what confuses me is that it randomly started doing this.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Rozza C:
Does anyone use bluetooth regularly and notice that the phone tends to freeze up from time to time?

It's probably just me but when I'm using bluetooth headset playing music, the phone can become really unresponsive...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Jivebunny:
Same here, can't put my finger on it. Memory management is not that great at times either. Sometimes it leaves way much apps available either under 'recent apps', or in actual memory. Whenever it starts the freezing, and it's not too bad, I can go in the recent apps and I start killing a few manually. Usually this fixes the lag and freezes.

I also suspect the Facebook app, because it sometimes freezes on me with a fc message and everything bogs down. I hate that app lol. It's a neccesary evil for me :(

Anyone experiencing the same symptoms?

.19 Radio, Elitemode ICS 20120728, Dataswap 64, Swap partition 128mb and sdext 2gb.

/Edit

Forgot to mention I use SetCPU with settings mentioned in nikers post on the frontpage and have Incredicontrol installed (No UV).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] waqypaqy:
Just installed this ROM. Seems pretty good so far

I've noticed there's an option for Trackpad Wake but is there one for Trackpad unlock? I prefer double pressing the trackpad to unlock rather than having to unlock it via the on-screen lock

Edit: And having installed SetCPU how would I go about implementing your settings as described in the quote in the 2nd post i.e P1 P2 etc etc?

Many thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] =JKT=:
Yes, FB is really really bad for slowing the phone. Also, Play Store can also bog it down after multiple app updates (even after they are done). There is an alternate FB client I wanted to try called Fast, but it keeps getting login errors...

In ROM Control, under Performance, you can choose minimum free memory. I chose 80mb (default is 44mb), and haven't had any slowdown issues since then, but of course multitasking isn't quite as good.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
That won't work, the min free options under performance (and most everything else under performance) is made ineffectiveness the scripts set to 444 to prevent them from overwriting nik3r's kernel tweaks.

The dataswap mod helps more if not already using it.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
For too many apps running and slowing your phone down - get rid of swap. Swap determines how much can really run at once without killing. Especially SD swap will kill your performance after a few hours of usage.

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
:) swap is helpful for multitasking (I just wouldn't go as slow as sd swap), but only if you refrain from using poorly coded applications.

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Been using this for a week and gotta say the battery life is amazing. Been 3 days and still had 46% battery with moderate use. have been using bluetooth with no problems with my car. Not very responsive sometimes but otherwise a very good rom. Also noticed that the keyboard light doesnt always work but I assume that's a power save feature.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Depends if you're using auto brightness, the default levels table doesn't enable the keyboard til roughly the lowest 5 steps or so. Can be treated under the display settings.

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] waqypaqy:
How can I get trackball unlock working? Or is only trackball awake available?

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] =JKT=:
Good to know! I did notice that the rom hovered around 50 mb free still sometimes, but I could never remember if i'd rebooted it since when I changed the setting (didn't check save for boot).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] S4crifice:
SMS client

Hi,

I must say that I was really satisfied with you ROM, but when JB came, I tried and I decided to use that ROM.

Would you work also on JB ROM?

And here is the main question - what I really desiderate is your SMS client (ICS client, original) which can set on strip unicode - I dont wanna use Handcent or Go, because of some compabilities with lockscreen etc., so I ask, is there any way to port your SMS client to the new JB ROM (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1605016) - make some app, or install zip to replace the sms client inside JB ROM?

Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dcpathak:
Hi,

You have made such a wonderful rom, great job! I've not seen so many customization options on any ics rom. It's beautiful and fast.

I'm using since last 3 days and also noticed some problems:

1. It's draining my battery pretty fast :(

2. And the most important one, I installed so many apps from Play Store and after 1 hour, I cannot see any of them though when I want to reinstall them, it says it would replace an already installed app (that means that app is somewhere but not visible). It's pretty annoying. Please suggest some remedy.

3. Is it essential to enable sd-ext and swap? I flashed 64mb swap file provided by you. Is it automatically activated or I have do something to activate it?

Thanks in anticipation...

Dcpathak
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
so, i flashed this ROM today (for the 4th time)... the steps i did, and the issues:

-superwiped

-flashed the ROM

-flashed the Gtalk MOD

-rebooted

-phone booted, finished setup

-rebooted

-phone booted fine, installed an app

-rebooted

-noticed that app dissapeared...

i then reinstalled another app to recheck, and after every reboot all the apps i've installed dissapear... so i restored my titanium backup (about 100 apps) and after a reboot the boot animation hanged (freezed, paused)... and with battery pull/system wipe and reflash/cache+dalvik wipe and reflash... it didn't boot

so back to CM7 to figure out what's causing this.

no logcat for you! cuz i wasn't home when i was flashing :D

EDIT: i need a fix PLEASE! this is the best ICS ROM, and i need it (cuz everybody around me has ICS now)

oh and if you can, make a fixed release, and a delta release for me (maybe send it by PM) cuz i can't handle that much downloads
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] demkantor:
I've tested this rom without sdext as well (although just a test as I use sdext) and it worked fine for me. I'm thinking you should double check you have all your partitions formated to ext4, and don't do a restore from titanium being some of those apps may have instability issues on ics being they were originally used in 2.3.x

rather install all needed from market and creat a new backup in titanium to be used for ics roms, a little more work the first time but in the future things will be smoother
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
i have my partition set to ext4 (i checked that before flashing)

and a restore always worked with other ICS ROMs, even this one back when i had sdext

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i didn't mean to mock you or to offend you in any kind of way
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Riro Zizo:

When you log in to your google account DO NOT check the backup/restore option! That is most likely cause of your problems, you are restoring CM7 google backup onto ICS ROM (including system apps and settings). The restore can cause disappearing apps, apps FC on startup, FCs in settings, random crashes and many more inexplicable problems.

Or simply clear the backup app settings option in your current ROM, you should be asked if you want to delete all online backups. Select yes and it should become compatible for next flash. If you ever enable the backup on CM7 again, you must clear the backups again or not use that feature under ICS at all.

Use titanium instead and only for missing apps
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Do you only ever use super-wipe? Why not the usual Factory-Reset/Wipe the recovery provides? Also if you use 4EXT recovery tap the info to see if all the partitions are ext4 or ext3, if some are still ext3, format them as ext4, find most ICS roms tend to work best on ext4.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
bro, ur repeating lol

i do superwipes coming from GB to ICS (or to JB)... if i was flashing a CM7 ROM i won't superwipe.

i told you i had everything at ext4 by viewing the info (i said i checked befoe wiping)

@Nik3r: so if i understood correctly:

i'm on ur CM7 ROM now. things to do:

uncheck the google backup under settings-privacy

say yes to the delletion of the backed up data in google's servers

flash ICS!!

uncheck google backup

restore titanium backup (only user apps)

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Yes that would be safest thing to do. The backup is pointless anyway if you use titanium. It's made for people who don't want to do backups, basically it installs everything you bought on market again and restores app data. But it apparently covers some system apps as well and global system settings which are very different on AOKP compared to CM7.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
did all those steps and still every app i install (not even a restore of titanium) gets removed after a reboot

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
You're not using sd-ext, right? Try it without the sdcard plugged in.

I think you still have a sd-ext partition on your card in some form, perhaps unformatted second partition? This gets detected and the files get moved there.. it obviously fails but the original files are lost in the process.

I have no other explanation. I'd wipe the slate clean from recovery, backup everything on your card to PC, partition with full format from recovery and select no sd-ext or swap, boot and copy back (after a test of course).

If this is the case, getting it to work would be invaluable to me as I will be able to fix it for future.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
1) i DO NOT HAVE sd-ext!!! we've established that!

2) maybe in some sort of unformatted, cuz after i had a 768MB sd-ext, i told my recovery to remove that and give me 128MB swap without losing fat32... so maybe a small amount of sd-ext is left corrupted

3) if i pressed skip sd-ext and skip swap it won't do anything...

anyway, i'll try formatting my sd... probably making a 64MB swap

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Ok I though we've established THIS already lol.

Again. You can't have only swap and no sd-ext on your card. It's a package deal unless you modify those mounting scripts yourself. Swap is expected as mount point 2, fat is at 0, sd-ext at 1. If you use just fat and swap partition, the system will assume partition 1 is sd-ext, while in fact it is swap. Therefore the move operation will fail, because there's no filesystem.

Problem solved.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
ok then... now backing up, i'll repartition, try, and report
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Even without the partition you can still use floating swap, use this in /data/local/userinit.sh (0775)

busybox dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdcard/swapfile bs=1M count=64
mkswap /sdcard/swapfile
swapon /sdcard/swapfile

It may be slower but only marginally
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
ah yeah! swap file... or use swapper2 to do the job

i won't use swap anymore too... i really need the fat32 now... and just now, i made my sd fat32 only... i'll report after 5 mins

EDIT: right after reboot i noticed Adobe Reader, IncrediControl, and Oper Mobile appeared... so that's a good thing... i'll try installing an app and reboot... just to make sure

EDIT EDIT: @Nik3r... u sir are an AWESOME MAN!!!!

and by that you know it works... now to restore sd, and titanium apps

EDIT EDIT EDIT: after the restore, i rebooted, and everything is working flawlessly... how's that for a report :P

btw i managed to cut down the sd 'consumption' to 6GB (i was consuming 8GB)... so that's awesome

while typing the above sentence i noticed 'function' '?' isn't working (the " button)... maybe a remap would help
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
No offense but I can't keep track of every single person I help and what their personal preferences are every single time. You're probably like 1 of 20 or 30 people, and I can't keep track of everyone's personal preference without a little reminder if there's been more than a few hours since the history of problems.

But either way glad Nik3r cleared up what the issue was.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
uhh... Beats app (aka AWESOME beats, DSP manager) isn't doing anything to the sound... or is it just me?

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Beats is always active. As for DSP manager, it doesn't work with apps that use their own postprocessing, unless disabled.

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] parkave85:
Can I still get the 2x swap if I flash the new kernel on top of old install? Just wondering....

Edit: I mean the 2x faster swap stated in changelog.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
It's not 2x faster swap, it just attempts to write 2x faster with lower throttling ;)

And yes

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tretiy:
Hello, and thank you for your great work.

Unfortunately, I'm having one big problem which could, probably, force me to move back to 2.3.7: where the heck are hardware shortcuts' setup? For example, I want to assign Shazam to search-Z, Financisto to search-F, Reminder to search-R and so on, but only the default ones are working (search-b = browser, search-s = sms). How do I reassign the shortcuts?

Also, how to assign the two application keys (1 and 2, the second and third keys right after the space bar) to other apps?

And how to enable trackpad unlock? There is only an option for trackpad wake, but not the unlock.

Thank you in advance.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
No idea. There is no AOKP for our phone officially, this is just a port, therefore keyboard-specific stuff is missing. There are like no phones with keyboards nowadays so perfectly understandable.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I ain't trying to steal any thunderszz, but Mimicry has the hardware shortcuts as well as trackpad unlock. AOKP is nice, though, and there are features it has over CM9.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
system still "crashes" on heavy usage/multitasking, where i always press "wait" to make it work... what's up with that?

oh and i'm still waiting for a fix of the hw keyboard mapping

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] xhitz:
Also can confirm that Pandora/Gmusic/Youtube didn't change for me on any of the following options?

Headphones -nothing changed in the EQ

Phone Speaker - nothing

And I use a blue tooth speaker to check also and it didn't work either? The bass seems to always be loud on my g2 any to mod for treble boost always?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dcpathak:
Occassional unresponsive screen

Hi nik3r!

I'm using this beautiful rom by you since last 10 days. It's really awesome man :)

I would like to give some feedback:

1. The rom is extremely customizable and pretty fast :)

2. Leaves considerable amount of ram free

But, 3. The screen becomes unresponsive several times. This problem is pretty accentuated when I wake up in morning and try to use my mobile (may be it wants to sleep more :)). I then reboot into bootloader, reboot it several times, go to recovery, fix permissions etc. and after taking care like this for about 1 hour, it starts responding back. Even when I'm using the mobile, the screen stops responding and then I switch the screen off, switch it on and then proceed further :(. I wonder is there a solution for it!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Sounds like you are using a big fat swap file, I never got any slowdowns when I wasn't using swap. Save for app reloads.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
i'm currently using a 50MB swap file..... perfect balance between multitasking and no slowdowns

EDIT: just got a call, the phone was in deep sleep, it started vibrating, after like 3 seconds it started ringing, after another 3 seconds the screen showed up, and after 2 seconds i could answer... that's 8 seconds of extreme lag on call...

after i hung up, is it supposed to go to the call log? cuz it got to something but it was L.A.G.G.Y....

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Yes the Phone provider app rarely gets accessed and thus it is the first to be completely swapped.

That means if you receive a call it may take a while for it to "unswap" back to memory so it's able to actually show caller ID and allow you to accept call.

I suppose on SD card the delay is even more horrible than my 64MB DataSwap.

Without swap there's no issue as the app would simply get killed and re-inited, which is in this case much faster. The larger swap the more noticable delay you will get, double that on SD.

I am currently looking into ways to decrease (yes no typo) the phone app priority, so that it gets killed instead of swapped to a closet.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] robuser007:
I lost root...how could I solve it ? Some apps seems to have it.

Superuser has its issues I guess, maybe its time for supersu in your next build?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
wow hey! u lost root, we didn't

wipe and reflash in worst cases

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
huh? how can one lose root? :D

Open superuser app, go to info tab.

1) Make sure the temp unroot option is not ticked

2) tap the su binary and let it update, then reboot

Perhaps you have some malware? I don't see how this could happen.

EDIT: haha as Riro Zizo said - you lost it, you go find it :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
btw, i noticed the CPU hangs out alot on 806MHz... i'm on 1GHz smartassV2, should i increase the max freq to hang out on some higher freq? or should i make some other changes?

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
It should prefer 768Mhz or lower until you need more.

I just removed all swap from my phone and it's so much faster...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
won't that kill multitasking?

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
That's the point :p

But it ain't so bad, it's the way android was designed to be and it works rather well.

Swap just breaks the internal task killer, the larger swap the worse it gets. Up to the point you described, it took on average 8 seconds for the caller id to show when the phone was on for over a day. It's always snappy without swap.

You know I was always opponent of swap, the fact that I gave the Vision world a faster alternative doesn't mean it's automatically good enough to use for everyone :D

There is one more level of speed that possibly may be achieved on swap, but the processing overhead of that idea may make it not worth the effort.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
shutting swap off... you're so darn charismatic XD

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