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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] farris:
ICS works perfectly, however, I still have the data bug (data doesn't work anymore when switching Wifi-> 3G). I have wiped everything and installed the ROM again + EdKeys RIL matcher, it has worked for a week but now the bug is back again.

I can't live with this annoying bug, and it seems that development is discontinued for this ROM.. so maybe I'm going back to GB ROMs ( I don't ant to, but I want that my phone is functioning is it should be). JB is way too slow for the old DZ.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
The bug you're mentioning is an upstream bug. ICS upstream support has effectively been dead for months (hence why no new versions). If you happen to suffer from it I'm afraid you'll have to wait until the JB version of mimicry, or figure out why you're suffering from it and find your own solution.

That said, I've never suffered from it myself personally, so I suggest trying not installing the RIL matcher when you install the ROM (troubleshooting hints in the OP).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
Really looking forward to that, have you started work on it yet? :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Deathmehr:
YES! THANK YOU! I love the Mimicry 1.5.0 and I'd love to see it updated to JB. But please, change binding of headset button from Google Now back to media-controllable.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] toturi:
Overheating

I've been running this rom for months now and it's been amazing but I've been having an issue with overheating, I think. My tmo g2 had been hiccuping and so I reflashed the kernel; maybe a day later my phone just went off and wouldn't turn back on. I pulled the battery, waited a few minutes and still nothing. I ended up waiting about 5 hours and it came back. I clocked down the settings for overclocking from smartassv2 12xxmhz to 10xxmhz and things seemed good. I checked back a day later though and noticed that it reverted back to 12xx mhz so i set it back to 800 and rebooted and again it seemed to take the new settings. The next day it died again and took maybe 10 hours to come back. I reflashed the kernel again and had been checking the settings; everything seemed good until yesterday when it did it again.

Is it the kernel? hardware dying out? encouragement to switch to the newer 10.1 port?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] HTCDreamOn:
Fantastic ICS ROM

I am now running this ROM on my new G2 :) and it's great. I do have a few suggestions:

It would be nice to be able to change the bootanimation, launcher, etc. after installation through aroma as is possible with the other tweaks which can be changed in this way, and / or for the ability to install > 1 launcher, music app etc. (this is not significant as I have the knowledge to manually change these things).

Also, sorry to be a n00b but how do I use the OC Daemon? Anything applied in CPU settings does not stick (as said in the OP).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] demkantor:
Hey you got the g2! Your going to love it, especially compared to your g1 (minus the keyboard) just manually change the above mentioned it doesn't take long and sounds as if you have the know how.

As for the oc daemon you need to make sure you have no other oc apps installed, or just use set CPU or whatever.

.....also can't wait to test some jb mimicry*
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] farris:
Thanks for the reply. I am looking for European Radios now, maybe that will solve the problem (and leave the RIL matcher).

I have tested the other JB versions but I find them very slow, only workable with max processes on 2 but then whatsapp is acting weird.

I am very curious how the mimicry version of JB will be.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DooSHeK:
Got same issue and it is very annoying :[ Maybe I will try some sense 4.x based roms. Does anybody know if they have same issue?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
If you guys are European look specifically at the euro versions of the RIL updater package. They're different than the ones in the rom and might solve your issues.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] farris:
Gonna try that now!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DooSHeK:
I tried but when I picked up the call it's disconnects the call. So no luck :(
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] farris:
It worked well this morning with the European RIL, I even had a good connection in the train (never had that). But when I walked to my work address, data connection was bad again.

It looks to me that it has something to do with DNS or so. Whatsapp text works well, but images in whatsapp and browsing (and gmail) doesn't work.

How can that be?!?! any ideas blk_jck?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Where we stand for Jelly Bean

Well well! It has been over 3 months since the last Mimicry release and an update is long overdue at this point.

First, I bought a new phone! I now own a SGS3 (d2att), and, despite how I thought I could not adjust to life without a QWERTY, well, I hate to admit it but I have. I'm even faster now typing on screen, go figure! (Maybe a bit less accurate/precise though ;))

Second, I've been developing for JB for the past 2 months! I'm part of the amazing SlimRoms team and have been adding new features & fixes to SlimBean, which is based off AOSP 4.1.2.

I was planning on releasing Mimicry for JB when we released a beta of Andromadus, but as we all know that happened as soon as 4.2 dropped and attention immediately switched to that. At this point I've started work on porting everything to 4.2 and in the near future I'll be working with Flinny to add in the old CM9 keyboard/trackball specific features everybody loves from Andromadus/Mimicry before adding my own features back into the builds.

Here's an official list of features that have been completely ported to Jelly Bean (4.1.2) and will be making their way to 4.2 in the near future. I will be looking for alpha testers and very much look forward to contributing code to both the regular Andromadus builds as well as Mimicry ones.

= Features done for JB =

Code-complete features in 4.1.2

– Notification Shortcuts

– Kill All Recent Apps

– Various Battery Icons

– Custom Date in Statusbar (plus center clock/custom colors/upper & lowercase!)

– Custom Statusbar color/opacity

– Plus new features/fixes not in Mimicry 1.5.0

​

​

JB in action!

The vision mostly slumbering
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] demkantor:
sucks you left our phone! but im glad your still interesting in supporting, as we all know mimicry ics is about as good as we can get on the g2/dz and not that i have anything against andromadus - its amazing - but i would love to see slimbean officially supported on the g2/dz ... absolute perfection on my n7!

cant wait!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ernestnwanu:
Whoa great news! Mind sharing those wallpapers? They're gorgeous!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dukenukemx:
I can never understand how people get used to touch screen keyboards. That and when you gotta type is takes up nearly the whole screen. Trust me I've modded a friends Galaxy S3 and I absolutely hate having to type on it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
Awwww yeaaah, put slimbean on my friends One x, awesome rom!

If mimicry JB is themed like slimbean I'll be a happy man when it comes to using it .

More than happy to Alpha test when it comes round to it. :highfive:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] farris:
^^ Please don't quote the whole post :)

blk_jackm how's the speed of JB? Can you test it or don't you have the DZ anymore? :) The other JB versions on XDA are not as fast as ICS is... But maybe after a lot of tweaking it's possible to fully use JB.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Well, I got used to it because a) typing in landscape on a phone this big gives you a lot of space to type on. I actually added a feature in Slimbean that disables the landscape full screen keyboard that happens sometimes when you're typing, so while you do have reduced space, you can still see a lot of the screen. Right now I can see everything I've typed so far with the full keyboard up.

B) Using something like SwiftKey (or even stock these days) also lets you forego having to use spaces most of the time.

C) you have to press lighter on the keys. This reduces time. Combine that with swiping backwards to delete the last word and you can really type quickly with still being able to fix mistakes.

D) auto correct. It's insanely good with some keyboards.

I can type an extremely fast string of garbage and it will get it right 95% of the time.

That said, it took me a good month to get really good with typing on screen. If you've picked up a device like the sgs3 and used it for a few minutes and made up your mind that you could never type on screen -- That's definitely not a fair length of time to get used to it.

I'm just posting this as one guy who was a diehard qwerty fan and had his mind changed. Onscreen isn't for everyone and there are moments where I miss the qwerty (ssh), but the reduced size of this phone coupled with all the support and available accessories also help make the lack of a keyboard easier to deal with.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I honestly haven't really used my dz at length since I got the sgs3, but from what I've heard 4.2 really flies (on all devices). I'll be getting back into it on my vision once I start testing the keyboard features and such, so I'll give status updates on IRC.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
Since I'm bored, was wondering if it was possible to pull the battery bar feature out of this rom and put it into cm10.1 ?

I know the basics of cooking up a rom but was wondering if you could point me in the right direction regarding that particular feature ( like where do i even find it :p )
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dimitri Vladkov:
Well, I'm sticking with my Desire Z until it dies on me, I just love this old fella so much. But for those that complain about mainstream phones like the Samsung Galaxy S3 cause they don't have a qwerty keyboard, why don't you just buy one and get one of these then?

It's a cover with a bluetooth qwerty keyboard attached to it, seems like a good answer to this problem. But rumor has it that T-Mobile is preparing a version of the Galaxy S3 with an embedded qwerty keyboard which will be called Galaxy S Relay 4G.

@blk_jack I'm a big fan of your work for the Desire Z community, I've been using Andromadus Mimicry since it's first version and I love it, switched from Cyanogen to it and never looked back, I'm very much looking forward to this next release, it would be a great Christmas gift if it still came out this year. ;)

EDIT:

Forget what I said about the Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G, seems like after all everything was just a bunch of rumors, it doesn't even compare to the S3 in terms of hardware, but I gotta say it still looks like a sweet qwerty phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
The relay 4G has the same cpu as the US variant of the sgs3 but only 1gb of ram. There is a thread here dedicated to the device and since it has a small user base and very little developer support there's currently no xda forum for it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] _nicolas_:
first of all, great rom

but when i am surfing the web, my phone freezes a lot. the only thing i could do than, is with 10 minutes or remove the battery.

anyone else has this problem? Or knows the solution?

thnaks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] demkantor:
probably should try a different browser but to answer your question fully attach a logcat
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] oVeRdOsE.:
Yes, if I do heavy stuff, like browsing on google image, or loading a flash video on the webpage. i use opera in desktop mode.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
Sounds like you are running of ram to me. Try ending all other processes before you use the browser.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zofox:
I'd like to have some features from aokp rom :) like meteo on the status bar and others little things :P waiting for jb! :D

Inviato dal mio HTC Vision con Tapatalk 2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] _nicolas_:
thanks that could be it
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] andreiv3103:
I just installed your ROM on my Desire Z. FANTASTIC ROM! I love it. Fast, responsive, full of features. Just one question: any chance to get the 3.0 kernel? Or is there a way to separately flash the 3.0 kernel? I saw that this ROM has the 3.0 kernel, but that ROM is much worse on my phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Warbuff:
Wait for jb release
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jumphog:
EDIT - Ill post this in Q and A instead

HI all, Ive got a desire z and have been running mimicry 1.5.0 for the last month, its all been great, no major porblems and seemed stable. Yesterday voice serach stopped working (wasnt picking up anything from the microphone), so I rebooted and it got stuck in a boot loop. It would get just past the animation then reboot back to the HTC screen. This morning I tried deleting caches and user data but that didnt help, so I re-installed mimicry and google apps.

That seemed to work, Id got apps installed again, it had been running for a couple of hours, then the gps stopped working - no satellites found. I did a reset again then it got stuck in another boot loop. Its now in a state where wiping data and re-installing dont fix it. Strangely after reinstalling the first boot will work for a few seconds, enough to select a country, then it just resets and then gets into a loop again, but now it wont get past the end of the animation.Ive just tried 'CM9.1-vision-3.0-Final' and that does the same. I guess this is about the time that its turning wifi on, so maybe its a radio problem?

According to power+vol down:

VISION PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT-0.84.2000 (PC1011000)

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.03.02.18_M3

eMMC-boot

Sep 8 2010,15:56:38

Any ideas?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tarryl:
how do I delete a picture from the gallery it shouldn't be this difficult, I hold down I press the menu button, tried to edit it no option to delete it unless I use a file manager
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] H4rry:
Try selecting the picture from the gallery, press menu and it's the top option.

edit

You can also long press on a picture in album view to select it, select as many more as you need to delete then press the three dots in the top right to get a menu. Top option again is delete.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] acg11:
My GF's bell desire z does the same thing to her. I've also approached it with the theory that it's a RAM issue, as someone else has posted. Didn't matter which browser she was using, most performed roughly the same and were prone to hanging. Just today I've replaced nova launcher with zeam launcher (avg 50mb vs 30mb) and am trying to convince her to scrap the facebook app, which is always hovering in memory with between 30-50mb consumed. She's testing out the Fast for facebook app, or may just use the web version instead. Browser performance seems to be better, but she'll be using it more extensively over the next week and I can't say for sure yet whether either of these 'fixes' will really make a difference.

If anyone else has any other ideas, I'd also be interested to hear about and test them.

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] trapdogg:
I had the se problem I had to boot back in to the installer then uninstall some enhancements after thaty phone worked better
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
I use Nova, no Facebook, but Friendcaster for the sync and facebook stuff. Also, try Opera Mobile.

One thing's for sure, when I needed an extremely quick and rock stable OS for important stuff, like say, going out of town, or stuff, I'd always switch back to CM7 for that time period. As long as I have access to my PC, I don't mind ICS/JB on my phone and the occasional slowdown.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Been using 1.5 since release and only recently slowed down. Fixed that with cache cleaner and decided to update to the latest radio that recently came out. Even though I'm in America I've seen improvements. GPS can be a lot faster if you edit the gps.conf file as well. FasterGPS app is free and makes it easy to correct it. Otherwise I use Nova and use the full Facebook app. FireFox for the web.

My only real issue is Robin, which crashes often. Though I blame that on the app and not Mimicry.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mdonders:
Very nice rom! Very fast and stable!!

One question though: after recieving e.g. a whattsapp msg, the status-led only blinks two times and then stops.

So you cant see that a new msg has arived when the screen is turned off.

Is there anyway to change this, so the led keeps on blinking untill you read this msg?

Thanks anyway for all your great work!

Grtz Mark
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] deeznuts13:
Is swap_enabler not supported in this rom? I have an 8gb SD card and I wouldn't mind using it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] oVeRdOsE.:
Yes, but you can't enable it with the swap_enabler.sh from virtuous forums.

You can use swapper2 (app) to enable it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mdonders:
Anyone?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] oVeRdOsE.:
I want to know too.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] deeznuts13:
Okay so downloaded swapper2. It worked! But I noticed that with the swap_enabler.sh I would create a swap partition 128 ext and 256 swap partition. In the settings on swapper2, how do I go about configuring it so that I get best results and good battery life.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Strazhce:
Device encryption

Hi, I still need help with this. Did anyone tested device encryption?

Could you please test it? Be aware, that I had to wipe/restore my device from nandroid backup image in order to stop reboots.

Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] acg11:
Any chance you remember which enhancements you disabled? I'll possibly try this on her desire z as well.

Can anyone comment on whether updating the radio is recommended for Bell Canada Desire Z's? I've held off on applying this update because Bell operates on a different baseband than T-mobile, and I'm under the impression the update would not necessarily have the desired effect as a result if applied. Haven't found any conclusive info though.

Anyway, she reports after a week of use that the browser hanging is gone, so it seems freeing up more RAM really helped out. I'd probably credit this mostly to getting rid of facebook, but zeam seems to be a little lighter on resources than nova as well, and as an average, user, she hasn't noticed a difference after getting her widgets setup again. Also reports that fast for facebook is a worthy replacement to the facebook app as well. I've never compared it to friendcaster so I can't say which is preferable, but I'm gonna leave things as is unless she uncovers any other issues.

She does mention occasional random OS restarts but I haven't been able to track these down or reproduce them when I'm using the phone.

Thanks for the replies!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] palmwangja:
any news around here re: mimicry JB?

It's about time to put together JB progress and move on ?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] OriginalGabriel:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2031678
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Check the OP to a link to the post. It's in progress.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] palmwangja:
Yeah, blk_jack, I knew your work in progress. I just wanted to know when I can install mimicry 1.6(?).

I'm holding back on further rom installation ever since you released 1.5, and already miss the good old installer of mimicry. :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Has anyone ever had problems loading contacts from their SIM card? Got a person trying to do this with this rom and they can't.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dxaxn:
Yes, I had this problem as well. I tried all apps from market no luck. But its same with all non sense roms what I ever tried. So I restored my stock rom, backup contacts and now I have them in google account. I would love to have them in sim just to be sure, but no go...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ajhavery:
I still feel that ICS was more smooth on our device as compared to JB, I've tried every single nightly which flinny has released and I was never able to get similar performance as mimicry.

I would in my opinion would love to see a more featured and updated ICS version of mimicry instead of jb.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] palmwangja:
what about the memory usage status?

My mimicry is always under 50MB free memory, and heavily reliant upon swap... don't know what's the problem with this and I tried KSM and bitmap resources release option in the performance settings.

I just hoped JB would solve this issue?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sketch85:
I have the same impressions. I switched back from JB to mimicry ICS and I don't think that four the Desire Z JW will work.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] oVeRdOsE.:
I tought it was just a placebo effect. I'm glad that I'm not the only one.

damn, I wished my dz were able to get android 6 :(
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Turns out all kernels that aren't original don't have access to sim card. Seems to be an HTC thing cause my Mytouch 4G Slide has the same problem. Pretty much HTC+CyanogenMod = no sim card contacts.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ghostnik:
Does anyone else have this problem. When I send messages from the message app, my text seem to take long to get to the recipient. The other day I sent a text to someone and two days later is when the person got the text. Is this my carrier's (tmobile-usa) issue or is it the rom's (andromadus mimicry v1.5.0) issue on my DZ. The weird thing is that when I text from google voice app using my google voice number my text are received by recipient instantaneously. What could be going on here. The same issue of delayed texts happens with messaging app when I send a picture text or MMS. Recipients will say they never received it or it takes hours to get to them.

Any help will be much appreciated.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] deeznuts13:
Does anybody have the same problem as I do? When someone sends me a picture or MMS it just says download and when I press it nothing happens. Do I configure something somewhere or what? This is my third time that I flashed mimicry and I had no problems with it before. Please help!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] leikamkei:
Can you please state which carrier you are on? If you are Straight Talk SIM(T-Mobile provisioned), I may be able to help. If not, the only thing that I can say is to make sure you are not connected to a Wi-Fi network when you attempt to download whatever was in the MMS. I am going to assume that you already know that. You say that you have been using Mimicry before this flash correct?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] deeznuts13:
I didn't disable wifi. I will try that haha. Another question, what does mobile data in settings mean if it's enabled or disabled? Because I don't have a Web plan and I use wifi for Internet. Does enabling the mobile data thing in settings do anything? Will I be charged?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] UszekPL:
Odp: [ROM][September 4] Andromadus Mimicry v1.5.0 [ICS / CM9.1 stable]

So could you port SlimRom to our Vision?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] HTCDreamOn:
I've tried porting a SlimROM from the Desire HD (ported from the Nexus S) but although it boots, it has the same problems as my PA port (in sig), that is, software keyboard won't show up, physical keyboard backlight doesn't work, and rotation upon keyboard open won't work. Of course, I'm sure blk_jack would compile from source if he were to give us SlimROM, being as he's part of the team. I love Mimicry though, I'm sticking with CM10.1 for now for the newness, but when Mimicry JB comes out, without a doubt I'll use it (Mimicry was the first and best ROM I've used on the Vision :D ). I'd be willing to try out Alpha / test builds for that matter. @blk_jack, how''re they going?