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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wrapper:
Loving 1.40. I'm still missing SMS notifications though - I only see new SMS when I actually open the Messaging app and see that I've got a few that I wasn't notified of. Any tips?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] austriker27:
Try an app called ghostly sms. It's free and makes sure you never miss an sms. It's great I had no idea I was missing sms until I installed it.

sent from my rocking HTC G2 loaded with ICS

EDIT: hm well I know its an whats its setup for, but ghostly sms will notify you when you get an sms so perhaps it will help. You can just delete the sms in ghostly sms after you are notified. I know its not perfect.. but it will work for now until you find the perfect solution..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Conan179:
the problem is, by wrapper, he is missing the notifaction, the sms is than in sms app, without a notification.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] greed2:
When the next version ?:D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] masterleron:
Very good, best rom out there. I'm just waiting for an update. ;)

Good work blk_jack!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
Use a different launcher.

I use go launcher and go notifications to sort this out : ]
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
I use TeslaUnread for this.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] c00ller:
So I used to experience some really, really bad slowdowns with this ROM. I would wipe, flash ROM, restore apps on Ti Backup and it would slowdown in a few days. After blk_jack suggested I look for bad apps, I decided to freeze Facebook and Line messaging apps via Ti Backup, wiped Dalvik and cache, and Mimicry has been back to staying smooth ever since! I'm not sure which is causing the slowdowns, Facebook, or Line, or if even it was just wiping Dalvik and cache that brought me back to speed, but I don't see any more signs of slowdowns. :cool:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] austriker27:
facebook baaaaaadddd..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] prairie-dad:
Really helpful info. I was plagued by the same issues, jumped to other ROMS, and now see a way back. Excellent.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
For the first time, I'm pushing three days without rebootin, and phone's still as smooth as ever.

My HTC Vision sez hai!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ajxx16:
I posted a week ago about Google music player issues I've been experiencing, finally got to getting a log cat for it. I looked over it but I'm not sure what to even look for, still learning for me.

http://pastebin.com/KFYAPsY5

The music will be fine for the first couple songs then it will just skip and freeze, kinda how music playing on a computer sounds when you overclock your goods just a tad bit too much and it freezes lol. If you get a chance to look it over is appreciate it, I've tried basically everything on my end I can think of.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Please do a clean wipe and reproduce the issue without any of your apps installed. I'm certain it's something you've installed that's causing the lag.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ablivian:
I have an idea for you, because all the ideas are now in the rom:)

Maybe, it's possible to choose for the feature: ics lockscreen or jellybean lockscreen. There is a lockscreen replacement for jellybean: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2JpbnQubG9ja2VyIl0.

This does not have all the features we know have with the original lockscreen.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zofox:
Can you suggest me some cools widgets forma this rom? Such as analog clocks or wheater similar maybe to sense 4.0 :)

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Fancy Widgets :P (the default skin is very Sense-like, though I prefer some of the other free skins you can download from the preference).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ajhavery:
Can 3.x kernel be brought to this rom, as it is working fine on cm9 by jerl92. I love the customizations mimicry provides us with, but 3.x kernel will sort out the camera issue. (everything working fine on cm9 by jerl92)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
The Andromadus team is working on it, and I wouldn't exactly say "everything" is working fine. It'll be incorporated into Mimicry once mimicry reaches version 2.0 (ie: when the andromadus test builds become stable enough to warrant it.)

Jerl's 3.0 kernel comes from a mix of stuff from Flinny's Test builds and Flemmard's. So technically whatever he incorporated, the andromadus team already has it, it's just not in mimicry yet. 1.4.* will probably be the last mimicry that is with the 2.6.x kernel.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ajhavery:
Looking forward to it. I did looked at the kernel commits on github and found that most of stuff is by flinny and flemmard, that's why I asked if it is coming soon.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eboy_gb:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1721809

That's a nice sense 4.0 clock. I've used it before.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] loomism2:
I just switched over to this rom from CM7 last night. So far I have absolutely no regrets and everything is running smoothly.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eboy_gb:
I should finally give a review of this ROM because it's so awesome.

I've been using mimicry for just over two weeks now - one week on 1.3.2 and one week on 1.4.0.

Right out of the gate with the Aroma installer, being able to customize the ROM to suit your needs is a very nice feature.

Immediately, the night I flashed the ROM, I kept telling the guys on #mimicry how much faster this ROM seemed compared to the other CM9 one I had been running - I don't think that was a placebo effect or anything because I still feel that it holds true two weeks later.

Mimicry got rid of what I would call "sticky scrolling" (I would flick the screen to go to the bottom of a page or a list and it would barely move) coming from, again, another CM9 ROM I was using. (Maybe this is actually from switching launchers though? I've changed from Trebuchet to Nova).

Mimicry also handles "heavy" apps better - The Play Store and the dreaded Facebook app definitely open faster.

I haven't really experienced any problems with this ROM - I don't even think the text corruption issue has come up since I changed over.

Awesome ROM, keep up the good work blk_jack and team!

FEATURE REQUEST: would it be possible to add this mod? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1751560 It's nice not to have to use a 3rd party alarm app.

Also, is this feature possible on our older phones? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rV58jGEq-c&t=11m15s I know we have the ability to change the render effect under display, but it's not quite the same thing... Again, maybe it's not possible on our phones because of display and/or gpu?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Looks like it's simply a flashable zip. Which is simply a DeskClock.apk in /system/app

If they included an addon.d script for it it would survive even an mimicry update.

something like this saved in /system/addon.d/30-DeskClock.sh

#!/sbin/sh
#
# /system/addon.d/30-DeskClock.sh
#

. /tmp/backuptool.functions

list_files() {
cat <<EOF
app/DeskClock.apk
EOF
}

case "$1" in
backup)
list_files | while read FILE DUMMY; do
backup_file $S/"$FILE"
done
;;
restore)
list_files | while read FILE REPLACEMENT; do
R=""
[ -n "$REPLACEMENT" ] && R="$S/$REPLACEMENT"
[ -f "$C/$S/$FILE" ] && restore_file $S/"$FILE" "$R"
done
;;
pre-backup)
# Stub
;;
post-backup)
# Stub
;;
pre-restore)
# Stub
;;
post-restore)
# Stub
;;
esac

If that was included, then you could upgrade mimicry and it woudl remain, just like how it already preserves gapps and my dataswap/sd-ext scripts.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eboy_gb:
Yup, it is indeed a flashable zip. :good:

Uh, okay. I know squat about about java :eek: (assuming that's java). Could I write the file in notepad++? and then I have to make sure it has that .sh extension - because it's a unix script? and simply place it in that sub directory you mentioned? (This is something I'd actually like to try :cowboy: )
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Naw that's not even close to java that's just a simple shell script. (ie: linux/unix basics).

Rename this attachment to 40-personal.sh , you can actually open it up in notepad++ and add any other system apps you want to keep per line under app/DeskClock.apk (that's in reference to the /system/app folder)

My own script mainly just keeps titanium backup, mobile defense etc.

What it does is when mimicry rom is flashed, it runs thru the /system/addon.d/ scripts, backs up any files mentioned to /tmp , then after the rom is done flashing and installed, it'll restore the backed up apps/files back to the rom (you'll notice one for google apps in the addon.d folder as well).

You place that 40-personal.sh into /system/addon.d/ , set permissions to 0755, then reboot.

ie: in Recovery , mount /system then on computer:

adb push 40-personal.sh /system/addon.d/40-personal.sh

adb shell chmod 0755 /system/addon.d/40-personal.sh

Alternatively you can always point the creator of that zip to these postings and have em include the addon.d script into his own zip for any roms supporting backuptools.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zofox:
For people who were looking for it i found a cool se se 4.0 clock here! :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1554077

Try it! :)

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] la.ouiche:
I have exactly the same behavior, when ringing the phone first shows the number, and it can be up to 10 sec before it shows me who it is.

All my contacts are gmail.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] v.a.r:
So do I. Same for me. I use gmail too. And I can provide a log cat if need be.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] c00ller:
This is happening to me, as well. A few questions: do you have photos for your contacts that get delayed ID? Are you using any kind of contact sync app (e.g., Facebook contact sync)?

---------- Post added at 12:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:30 PM ----------

I have been using an app called GPS Monitor to give me more details about GPS connections when I need them. However, since upgrading from GB to ICS, there has been a problem of the notification sticking after GPS is no longer being used. I first thought this was a problem with the app and ICS compatibility. But after contacting the developer, he believes it is a ROM issue, as he has gotten reports only from a small number of users with HTC devices running custom ICS ROMs (he didn't get more detailed than that):

Thoughts, blk_jack?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] v.a.r:
Some of my contacts have photos. No syncing with Facebook. It also happens for contacts without pictures.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DooSHeK:
Same here. Didn't bother with this previously because I have quite small delay but it's getting annoying with the time.

Another problem is that I had my first a huuuge lag with this rom. Phone was connected to pc, wifi on, gps on, probably market running(don't remember exactly but some app was running) and I had a call and I couldn't answer, phone just freezes. After few minutes when tappin back button phone get unfreez. Watchdog didn't noticed anything, weird.

Is there any log in the system that I could see what has happened?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] AndroidGangsta:
Yea me too happens all the time
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sheikmans:
I have all my hundreds of contacts synched with gmail, whatsapp, linkedin and facebook. I experience no issues at all when someone calls me. Number and photo is directly visible.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Check the OP & search for GPS. Basically, your best bet is to try all the solutions available. Flash EdKey's package, don't flash it, wipe AGPS data, etc. Since you use wifi calling though, you're basically forced into flashing his package. I would check out his thread for other reported issues people have with GPS.

Personally though.. I don't suffer from any sort of photo/phone number lookup lag nor have I ever had any problems getting a GPS lock :P
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] H4rry:
Guys with the dialer lag.

I'm no expert but this is what is currently working for me.

Try a full wipe and install the latest v1.4.0.

Follow the advice below from about three pages back. Altho I have Google BackUp enabled and Dropbox sync'ing too with no problems.

I hope this helps.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] c00ller:
Ah, I think you misread. I have never had any issues with getting a GPS lock. The potential problem in question is that the app (which displays the number of satellites viewed and locked in the notification bar) doesn't seem to be receiving the proper intents or whatnot (potentially from the kernel?) whenever an app stops using the GPS. This happens seemingly randomly, but when it does, the app just kind of hangs because it thinks GPS is still in use when it really isn't. I hope this made sense..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Ahh my bad, sorry! Okay so I just installed the app & gave it a try.

Right now I'm running it with some apps and it appears to be reporting the information in the notification bar fine (9 satellites, indoors). When I switch out of the app it sends up a toast message saying "GPS off" and the notification disappears. When I go back into an app (or another app) it resumes working as I expect is intended.

My thoughts are maybe it's because you're using Wifi calling? That package contains old libs required for compatibility reasons that have caused problems for people in the past. :(
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
To people facing laggy Phone.apk/Contacts.apk issues, there is nothing you can do to fix it. It's a CM9 issue that affects our device for some strange reason. I have had it for months now and have learnt to live with it, however frustrating it is. It'll happen with/without FB sync, < 100 or > 1000 contacts, or any combination of things. I have tried every trick in the book and nothing works.

blk_jack, perhaps you can add this info in the OP given how frequently people tend to think it's the ROM that is causing issues.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
You are correct. Jelly Bean fixes it tho.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] DooSHeK:
I think it's not only CM9 issue. Previously I had ILWT, earlier Virtuous Roms and had same issue. And I have only ~100 entries in contacts. Maybe it's something to do with hardware.. hmm Just guessing.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Formiak:
not for me but it's better a bit
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ajxx16:
Tried this and same issue with only gapps flashed, I decided to reflash my Rom and choose to not use dsp and so far I haven't ran into the issue.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] spovat:
one of the smoothest ROMS I've used, love it. However... using Google maps renders the phone almost useless. The lag it creates is unbearable. anyone else having this issue or would a wipe fix this?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] robuser007:
I switched to JB: don't have the wifi to data issues anymore :)

Can the RIL fom JB can be ported to this rom ?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
I don't actually have this issue. Used it today to check out a new place to go with the lady.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Please read the OP. If you suffer an issue that's not marked in the OP, you need to follow the necessary steps to fix/reproduce it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] krkr:
Guys got an issue where when changing cpu governor to something other than smartassv2 its changed back in matter of seconds
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eboy_gb:
I believe that's because of OC Daemon - read the OP - you'll have to re-install and turn it off as an option in aroma.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] krkr:
So I won't be able to OC like this I guess
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eboy_gb:
I'm not sure what you mean "OC like this"? You can use an app like set-cpu if you like. I believe OC Daemon shuts off when it detects another governor.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
The virtuous OC Daemon doesn't load if it detects SetCPU installed to the apps folder.

Also in regards to overclocking make sure you're min and max values aren't too far apart. At best 246 - 1400 is probably the largest range you can have with stability, otherwise you gota bump up the minimum if you go higher.

But yes something like SetCPU for more control, I use to use SetCPU with profiles, but power consumption wise, I found the VOC daemon in mimicry to do just as well.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] krkr:
Was looking for governor to change cpu feq as needed anything like this?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mickey_mouse:
Dutch number format problem

Hi,

First of all, I'm a big fan of this ROM!!!

There's just one annoying issue that keeps causing problems: if I try to dial a number with international formatting (even from my contact list) it cuts off the first 8 digits. For example if I tap in +31334699999 it shows (and dials) as 9999. As I'm also abbroad sometimes I've stored al my numbers in international format, but now I cannot call these numbers.

Anyone have an idea?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
This definitely sounds like an upstream AOSP/CM9 issue. Have you checked to see if there's a bug issued for it on CyanogenMod's website? Maybe some international users can chime in if they have(n't) had this happen..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dsip:
My numbers are almost all stored like that, I travel a lot and I have never had any problem like that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] krkr:
I will test SetCPU thanks for the tip :)

one more things :

whats the definite solution for the delay in getting name shown when having an incoming call?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] heathenasparagus:
I used my phone abroad last week and that hasn't happened to me. then again, I am using DialerOne.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
Yeah. Not had any issues so far. Most, if not all my numbers are stored in international formatting or with a zero prefix. Try using MoreLocale2.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
Just tried dialing England. Seems fine.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ibemad1:
The same thing happens for me, even after a full wipe. So its gotta be a Google maps/rom issue.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
If you did a full wipe and restored Maps using TiBU, you may have issues with specific apps. Use TiBU and delete app data for Maps. You will see a change.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
That's not true. There are literally thousands of Mimicry users who don't suffer from that issue, which means it's an outlying problem specific to a precise condition. We need to determine what that condition is (bad/old app data, bad cache data, etc) and fix it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] H4rry:
I don't have this problem. The numbers are entered correctly and dial correctly. It just seems that the string of numbers is too long to fit on the screen so you are left with the final four figures. Turn the phone landscape and you should see all the numbers displayed.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] austriker27:
Oh so true. Google maps works rather well on mine especially considering how graphic intense it seems and how old and awesome our g2 s are.

sent from my rocking HTC G2 loaded with ICS
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mickey_mouse:
Hi blk_jack, thanks to Kompre's PM I've found out that its a fontsize issue. Setting the system font-size to small or rotating the Phone displays the right number. So this workaround solves my problem for now. Perhaps this gives you an idea if ther's a more structural solution, instead of the systemwide fontsetting.

Anyways, thanks for your quick response and good luck with all further development.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] XVI Ames:
Best rom ever

Ok, the title of my post is a little flattery ;)

I am using it since several weeks now, and I am mostly satisfied... Nevertheless, I have encountered slowlyness on several occasions, and it was not always so obvious to find out the cause of the problem... accusing the facebook app or the native browser, and live with it, wiping data of slow applications (maps, waze, ...), uninstalling background applications (watchdog, Llama, ...), converting my partitions to Ext4, using Data Swap...

Lately, my phone started to really make me crazy, on tuesday night... every time I was using an heavy application (FB, maps, waze...), my phone did not only run very slow, it litteraly freezed. Nothing responded, for several minutes, and I had to remove the battery (which I did previously only when I was not patient enough!), several time in the afternoon...

So I decided to reinstall from scratch (wipe everything, format everything, reinstall just the ROM), but I still had the same problem: without any other application installed, the phone freezed on unlock screen!

I was almost convinced my phone was dead, after more than 18 months of use... but I finally reinstalled the rom (from scratch again) without Virtuous OC Daemon!

And now, my phone is really faster than ever, smoother than ever, stabler than ever...

I guess there might be an hardware malfunction because of which my phone doesn't like processor speed variations, but I think all my problems came from that, and were enlightened by some "heavy" applications I use, but which are not directly responsible for the slowlyness I encountered...

Several very useful advices are in the OP, but I did not see a suggestion to disable this mod. It may help in some cases ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ibemad1:
Well, it may or may not be true. A lot of people may not notice it since it doesn't happen every time you launch Google maps, maybe only 1 time out of 20.

---------- Post added at 03:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:38 PM ----------

Try switching to the ondemand governor. The smartassv2 governed has a tendency to switch to the lowest available frequency when there's no input from the user, but the CPU is 100% busy. This leads to really bad performance unless you touch the screen constantly while apps are doing heavy work.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] XVI Ames:
Thanks, I will try this... first, I try to add one app per day!

I have reinstalled FB, it is still smooth, I also "need" Llama and swype beta, I will check if installing them (one by one) has bad consequences... !
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Jalaluddin:
cm 9.1 is out, can we expect a update?