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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
I use the Facebook Contact Sync app which gives you the option to select higher resolution contact photos. And using JB loads Phone/Contact pretty fast. Especially CallerID which is a big problem in ICS (for our phone atleast).

And what was the last JB Test Build you tried? The current 53 is pretty nice and faster than older builds. It can still get bogged down with heavy load.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Formiak:
Could you point out that theme ? The only thing I saw is not functional anymore reloaded ui~~ and no normal theme with just transparent bar.

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Kéno40:
I've just wiped the SMS:MMS app data and chase settings. Will tell if it come back...

I didn't proceed a full wipe. I'm on the defafult keyboard, and on andromadus since the alphas.

I can't remember when this appeared...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
Hey blk_jack, right after one boots up after a fresh install, the ROM is at its fastest. I noticed that for the first two days, not only were the contacts and Phone.apk smooth, the custom ringtones also worked fine. But after 3 or 4 days, there was a definite slowing down and the phone/contacts displayed the most lag. Custom ringtones have stopped working now.

I did notice another thing - uninstalling apps that monitor battery seem to have some effect. I had an app called Karat that was developed by Stanford university. it suggests things to do to certain apps to improve battery life. I got rid of that and instantly saw a bump in performance with 1.3.1. Thinking along those lines, I stopped Better Battery Widget and a widget that displays CPU/RAM/etc in a nice concise form. In fact, I wiped away an entire home screen. I don't know if it's the one home screen less or that many widgets less, but there is again a noticeable bump in performance. Just my 2c.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
Yeah, I noticed a performance increase after I dropped to 3 homescreens instead of 5. And I'm probably going to remove BBS but not BMW. No use having both monitor unnecessarily.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
BBS doesn't actively monitor (though there is a new feature called watchdog, but I'm not talking about that). It just looks at stats already on the device. BMW however does monitor so if you want to get rid of something using wakelock, I would recommend that.

As for the slowdowns over time, I haven't suffered that myself except for when I was testing zram/swap after a few days.

If you notice things getting slow check to see what is using your memory. Maybe an app has a leak.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
What is the best way to do this? BBS tells me what has been eating my battery and wakelocks. Is that enough?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
BBS won't tell you the memory use, but there are countless apps that will. Even google's built in app viewer can show you, though it won't show you what amount of memory the services are using.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] guai11:
I got a serious bug. About an hour after turning on wifi, whole my data connection(3g and even 2g) turns off automatically. So I can't receive and make calls. After turning off wifi, it still doesn't recover. The only solution is reboot. I also tried another ics rom, indeed, milestone. Same issue comes up. Could anyone help me? I want my data connection alive with using wifi.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ollidiemaus:
maybe need to update your radio to an ics optimized one ? look here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1632482
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Zelych:
Do you ever have the same problem with Google Goggles? The first startup looks like in the screenshot, after another with a picture already shows fine.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] GinoAMelone:
Have you tried disabling swap? I haven't felt the need to use any of the swap techniques since I retired my G1.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] stranded.eu:
Does anyone have problems with: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=powercam.activity&hl=pl

It just kills my phone, after clicking around the app, only battery remove fixes it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
Search and read all sentences in the OP with the word "camera"
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Third party camera apps do not work (well or at all) on ICS roms for the vision. See the OP.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DJMartini:
That's next thing I'm going to try
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] youbadguy:
sometimes system can not read datas that stay on sd card in 1.32, but root-explorer app can read it,flinny97seems fine. my sd card is 16g c10 card,1.32is awesome,hope to fist this bug
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
You're not helping, read the OP and report issues appropriately.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] SoTacMatt:
I finally was able to put this on the G2. Very nice!

On a side note...I didn't realize the G2 was so heavy!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BacchusFLT:
Have 2000 contacts on Google, 2000 on each of the two Exchange accounts (still need to read the mail from my old job for a little while more) and then some 1500 Facebook contacts. Contact management is a pain and all searches in the list of contacts is SLOW.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] _symo_:
after flashed 1.3.2, phone suddenly shutting down after sending an sms and locking it, 4-5 times every day! if someone is having the same problem, my advice is to disable zRam and the problem will not happen. BTW great rom, i love it:)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Formiak:
Sad is that we can't do anything about that only way is to install another dialer client able to handle this.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Yea I noticed those kind of problems were cut down when I turned off zRam and just went with dataswap.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] timskyline86:
Clear your call log.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] direkt99:
Agreed. My phone was all of a sudden lagging when I have had no issues is previous versions of this rom. I did the same thing and its running a lot better.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] soulcrusher:
My phone keeps rebooting every time I'm not using it for a while. So it seems like it happens when it goes to deep sleep. When I woke up this morning it was all hot because it kept rebooting while I was charging it. I tried wiping cache, wiping data and reflashing the rom but it keeps rebooting. Anyone got an idea what's wrong?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Conan179:
My cell phone needs since the last update, a very long time until a connection to the internet or my wlan accespoint
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mcsmart:
After a few days without zram I did not have this issue any more. Generally the ROM feels much smoother without zram... Thanks for the hint!

- mcsmart
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Before you report any issues you need to read the FAQ/Known Issues section in the OP. Try everything you can, find solutions for yourself. Wipe caches, revert settings you have made, factory reset, wipe app data, etc. Assume the issue is on your side and try your best to isolate it. Before you do report an issue keep in mind this is a developer thread -- collect evidence, do some due diligence and try to always provide a logcat by recreating the problem as reliably as possible.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
I had this same problem, turns out my battery was damaged at some point during the flash of the rom (I have no idea how) and changing it solved the problem.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] LGS1231:
Is anyone having any issues with GO SMS? Sometimes I would not receive any sort of notifications when I get texts.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bogdan5844:
I have the same problem with the stock messaging app. The message is received, the notification shows, it appears alright but the phone doesn't ring or vibrate. Oddly, whenever I send a test message to see if it works it always works fine...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
Is it always or sometimes? This used to be an issue once for me with the earlier versions of the ROM, but not anymore. My messages have been consistently arriving. Try wiping the data for the messaging app using TiBu. It might fix things.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bogdan5844:
The messages always arrive. The notification doesn't vibrate/sound/show all the time.

On a side note, how's the battery life for you guys? Mine ate up 25% in a little over two hours...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
See the topic for information on battery drain..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dave_id:
hey

for some reason there is a line on bottom of the photos that I took recently...can be red,pink or white

see here:

(looks like a compressed ****ed video)

also sometimes I have no 3G/2G no matter what I do there's, no signal,and I have to reboot...I think the wifi swapping is doing something
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Change the resolution down one.

PS: Are you sure you're using the Andromadus/Mimicry kernel?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BacchusFLT:
Stock SMS caused me issues today; requested SMS ticket, saw the notification and could open it and show it in the entrance. However after that it was gone from the list. Searching for parts of the contents, I found it, but tryng to open it from the search result just opened a blank message. I have cleared the list and will see what gets out of that. So this is no formal complaint of an error - I need to understand it a bit more before I formally bring it forward (I also did not get into trouble for this as the backup to GMail - with the tag SMS - worked and I could show that copy as well...).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jspina:
So I have a feature request that would be an awesome thing if it was possible. Can the rom check its md5 sum before it flashes? I think that it would be very useful and would cut down on the silly "bugs" listed by users.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
4ext does that for you, as will the new OTA updater included in the next version :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Deadeye37:
I just rooted my G2 for the first time and installed Mimicry 1.3.2. I LOVE THIS! So much better without all that bloat. I also like the little nuances added to this ROM (quick torch, battery icons, shortcuts in the notifications, etc.). Good job blk_jack and keep up the good work! I can't wait for the JB version and that OTA updater.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Mimicry 1.4.0

Andromadus Mimicry v1.4.0 - August 17, 2012

Changelog

– Merged in new CM9 stable changes

– fn+backspace (delete line) is now fn+longpress backspace. This should prevent accidental deletions

– Added complete translations to Andromadus/Mimicry Settings for Chinese, French, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Polish and Russian

– Added partial translations to Andromadus/Mimicry Settings for Spanish, Finnish, Korean and Italian

– Special thanks to all the individuals who helped out by contributing/voting for translations!!

– They are: dinfinity, dwardo, goodhyun, HugoBoss, Latino38, lempiainen, lombardia2k, LordGenki, lz2android, montydrei, SuperKid, TpmKranz, ufoman, Ventricle, VitaliyK, WMP & xviames

– Help out with translations! Join the Andromadus project to contribute [link]

– Extracted hardcoded english strings in Andromadus/Mimicry Settings - can now be translated! Cleaned up strings and translations

– Fixed CM's backuptool and implemented it to work properly in Aroma. This will automatically preserve gapps between Mimicry flashes

– Added OTAUpdater. This will automatically inform you of new Mimicry versions!

– Updated ApexLauncher to v1.3.0beta2
​

​

CM9 has an official stable release and all those patches have been merged into Mimicry 1.4.0. This is still a beta release, since we suffer from unofficial drivers and such, but it may be as close as we get for AOSP ICS.

I'd like to once again thank all the awesome people who helped translate this and all future versions of Andromadus/Mimicry. We're always looking for more languages, or fixes to the existing translations, so feel free to sign up and help out! [link]

Download v1.4.0 [link]

Upgrade/Flash instructions are in the OP. Installer FAQ/Known Issues are in the OP. Please consult these posts and understand the type of thread I'd like to maintain here before posting either Issues/bugs and before asking questions answered in the FAQ.

Thanks everyone for your continued co-operation & help with finding and fixing issues.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Careless_:
awesome. thanks blk_jack

as for my request for digital clock. I found a sense-like clock that works great. I think its a bit of a memory hog, but I'm fine with it.

I wouldn't be offended if you feel the need to remove that request unless you feel like adding it now that it's the only one left.

you rock

:victory:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mrvanx:
Care to divulge which clock you found?? :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sefy:
I'd recommend Weather & Toggle Widget, it's 99% like Sense Clock, i personally love it.

Or if you want a 100% appearance copy, i recall back with LP Sense UI, he released a Clock Widget which was very easy on memory
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dave_id:
now that you ask,no i'm not

in the about phone:

kernel:

2.6.35.14-andromadus-ics-bfs-04

mon aug 6...

so I guess it's good?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Since it's based off andromadus it's correct, as of 1.4.0 should be 2.6.35.14-andromadus-ics-bfs-04 jeff@mimicry))

I mainly ask because if you were using an older version (ie: 1.3.1 and earlier) there was a chance that the correct boot/kernel was not flashed when the option of Wifi Calling was selected, and you would end up with whatever previous kernel you had intact (ie: going from a JellyBean 3.0 kernel to Mimicry, but keeping the kernel would boot, but would also retain any of the JB problems).

---------- Post added at 07:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:33 PM ----------

I usually use Fancy Widgets for that and then pick out the desired skin.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bogdan5844:
I believe we can flash 1.4.0 over 1.3.9 without a complete format? (e.g. only cache and dalvik wiped)

P.S.: Romanian translated 100%
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jspina:
I think that would be ok

http://translate.google.com/#auto/ro/I think that would be ok
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bogdan5844:
Ok, don't know what the Google Translate link was there for. :D By the P.S. I meant that I finished the translation on Crowdin.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jspina:
ah well then never mind lol. :eek:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] chrys582586:
is the WiFi hotspot working well??
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] robuser007:
I had some issues with connected to wifi with the previous version (using the wifi to data patch from espania): otherwise switching between doesn't work.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Was working fine last time I used it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Wifi to data switching works great for me, as does wifi tethering. Check the OP as it mentions things that could cause issues.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DooSHeK:
I have suggestion. Previously I had Elitemod and there was an options related to Lockscreen. In one option you could set your main lockscreen and shortcuts but there was another place (I don't remember in which menu) where you could set pin, pattern etc. and you could set that pin or pattern was displayed after you unlocked phone with your main lockscreen. I couldn't find this in Mimicry. I hope you understood what I mean.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Careless_:
do we need to run the disk-swap zip again to get it to work, or is it always enabled even after updating.

re: ota updater... can't wait to see it put to use.

:good:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Bodarko:
Hi, I have some problem with voice search - not working,

BR
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
As long as you installed version 1.2 or later the addon.d scripts would have been added as such would be backed up and restored by the mimicry installer as of version 1.3.3.

Because of the addon.d support (or known as cm's backuptool) I've been able to update mimicry without having to reflash that or gapps.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] robuser007:
I lost root after updating: how should I fix this?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] philosophics:
How in the world did you pull that off??

Sd-ext is disabled every time I update the ROM. I know this because I forget forget to flash that zip and then when the device is booted up, SURPRISE, there is no apps. Back into recovery and flash the zip, everything comes back after boot.

Side-note, do NOT use sd-swap with this rom along with data-swap and sd-ext enabled. Made this ROM run like my old G1 when CM6 came out...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] robuser007:
sdext and superuser:fixed by changing settings in su.

How does dataswap (internal memory) work with this rom without v6 supercharger (never use both!) ?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
If you came from flashing Google Now you need to reflash gapps or the Google Now zip again.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
Yes. Even in silent mode, it shows the vibrate icon. I use the profiles function a lot, and I pored through all the settings to see if vibrations were active anywhere. Wasted my time though.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] darrenkellum:
The standard Calendar widget doesnt show any information for me, can anyone else try this widget and let me know if it works for them?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Zuckerfrei:
I have the same problem with the Calendar.

I cannot choose a calendar.

Also Buisiness Calendar doesnt show a Calendar.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
I know right? Unfortunately our phone has low RAM so its not very good for lots of services plus multi-tasking. Once the RAM hits below 60MB levels, it really starts to slow, even lock-up sometimes. If we had atleast 1GB of RAM we wouldn't be having this discussion right now. Can't wait to upgrade to the SGS3.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jspina:
just using the volume buttons I am able to go between vibrate and silent and I get both icons as well as the vibration.

Works fine for me.

I only have one account so I cant test the choosing option for guy above
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
Are you able to connect to the internet from your manually configured network device? I can also connect to the tethered wireless network and ssh, for example, works fine but pinging, let's say, google.com just gives me the "unknown host" error.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] csolanol:
I tested usb tethering only.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Zuckerfrei:
After reinstalling the google apps the Calendar works.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
And internet access works?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] csolanol:
yup, all worked like it should.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
What settings do you use?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] csolanol:
Using linux, configured usb0 interface. Started logcat before enable usb tethering and saw the ip address that the phone was using after enabling it. Configured the usb0 interface in the same network, the phone ip as gateway and google's dns (8.8.8.8). Phone was using ip 192.168.42.129 and i tried computer with 192.168.42.4 on /24 (255.255.255.0).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] darrenkellum:
I just reinstalled the gapps and still not working calendar widget. I'll keep trying other things.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] johrie:
I have a bug to report.

When you go to "settings> development options> background process limit" i always set it to 3 processes. But when i reboot it restores it to the "standard limit". I have had this on every ICS ROM i have tried so far. Is there anyway of fixing this issue?

Thanks!

Sent from the Going Merry
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
Thank you, sir. I would never have guessed how to find that out myself.

Except the small problem with tethering I really enjoy this ROM. And so I'd like to thank you, blk_jack, for this and would love to contribute some ideas, too.

How about the ability to choose, which buttons trigger the quick torch? I found that it's quite unhandy to keep the power button pressed (at least for me) and so I think it would make more sense to add a submenu in "Lock screen" where one can assign functions to buttons (my favorite for the quick torch would be the trackpad). This menu would also be suitable for the option to choose whether the camera button should pause/play the music, launch the camera app or do nothing (or maybe even trigger the quick torch).

I hope that I manged to express myself in an understandable way, that my suggestions are realizable and that they are considered worth becoming part of the ROM.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] catachresistant:
After running some tests, you're correct, except when the app is running a service in the background. Sorry about that.

But what about the other part? After running a number of apps, the multitasking menu gets bogged down with a million entries unless you've been swiping them away. It's also confusing: It displays apps that are no longer in memory.

Can we have it so that it only displays running and cached apps?

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hacklana:
i found a bug in messaging when sms comes and the phone still in messaging app view the phone not vobrate or even ringing

edit : not even get any error on logcat about mms
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Gwanatu:
BEST. ROM. EVER.

Dear Lord. I've been testing the One S for a week now and I come back to my G2 with this? Downright amazing, this looks more featured than any ROM I've ever seen! Phenomenal job!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] harmenss:
Great ROM. Smooth as butter :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] HTCTOUCHPRO91:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264960&page=35 news about gpu overclocking!!

Linaro optimisation Will be include in this rom?

Thank You for the rom :-)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Settings -> lockscreen
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
From the OP..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] v.a.r:
I think you mean something similar to the sense lock screen. You get the slider and then the passcode or pin or pattern lock after you slide. I think it will be a nice addition..:) could you include it in the list of features to be added?

Btw 1.4.0 seems to be running perfectly. Camera is broken in Google goggles though(if it hasn't been previously mentioned). Will give you a logcat if you want one. :)

Great job blk_jack. Simply love the ROM. Thanks for all the hardwork and keep it up. :D :thumbup:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] philosophics:
I use both and it seems to be working a lot better now...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Gotta give a huge shoutout to all the awesome people who have already helped out with new translations since 1.4.0! So far on crowdin there are 3 new complete translations for Romanian, Serbian and Turkish. Very cool and I appreciate the effort everybody has put into helping this project :)

I will likely use the new OTA Updater to push an extremely small update containing only the translations in the next week or so. Thanks guys!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ajxx16:
So far this is the best ics Rom I've come across, great job.

I have one issue though and couldn't seem to find it reported anywhere, with music playback through Google play, a few songs in the songs will freeze up as if it truss to play while it's buffering. At the moment I can't get a logcat for ya, I'll try and get one later in the week.