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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] =JKT=:
I am impressed by the speed of this rom. I got a compliment from a Galaxy Nexus user who said "wow, your phone is always so fast!!"

But I have noticed that it slowed down to a crushing slowness a couple of times. But those times were always a) updating apps in the background (totally understandable) and b) when navigation was running in the bg.

I'm just wondering if there is a possibility that an IO scheduler change might help with multitasking. If it's noop or SIO, it should seem like the foreground app should always be given preference, right?

So is the current scheduler one of the multitasking ones, or is our simple scheduler goofing up what has priority?

Or had I just run out of ram? Lol
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wolek76:
Hello everyone

I'm loving the rom completely :)

I couldn't get trackpad light to work natively (am I missing something?) But managed to get it going with 'led me know' I had a backup of.

There is one problem though...

Whenever I'm trying to download any free app of the Play market I get the following error:

'Error processing purchase, error DF-BPA-09' ....???

Anyone can help perhaps?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
The default scheduler is SIO actually. There are some instances where you will experience slowdowns. To my knowledge this affects all ICS roms for the vision. The main ones are, as you said, installing apps from the market, but I've also known there to be slowdowns when browsing flash heavy websites. I wouldn't put it past Adobe to just have terrible code though for the flash player though.

It may be affected by the scheduler, but I think the problem lies deeper than that. Unfortunately I don't have any suggestions as to where, just makes sense. I've tried various schedulers in ICS and found SIO seems the best for me, and since then fyodor has made it the default in the Andromadus kernel.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
The trackpad should work without any issues, i've never seen it not work for myself personally. I've also never seen that error before. Did you come from a clean wipe? Maybe do a backup and try from a clean slate to see if you can reproduce those issues.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ccooluke:
question

I know comparisons are sometimes pointless, but I would like someone on this rom to tell me how it compares to CyanogenMod 9.0.0-RC0 BETA 13?

I'm running that right now, it runs pretty smooth, battery life sucks at times.

I am really intrigued by the notification and status bar mods in this rom. I am just curious if its just as stable as the rom I'm on now.

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wrapper:
Can't give you a battery comparison though I can't imagine there will be any stark difference. The rom is very stable, I've not had any issues and it runs just great.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] =JKT=:
Maybe the Play Store claims too high of a priority for its threads and the SIO is just doing what it's told and user interaction goes to crap. Seems like by now android would be designed to give the user the highest priority possible, but maybe not. That's me just guessing ignorantly. But if it is an issue with the market, perhaps there is a mod that can be done.

Or maybe I'll just put my phone down while I update apps haha
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
The codebase is virtually identical save for the changes in Andromadus and my personal Mimicry patches. All of which are changes to the aesthetics. As stated in the OP, this rom is based on CM9. That means it *is* effectively CM9 with the exception of what I've mentioned above.

Hope that helps clarify :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Powers88:
I actually prefer it that high. My stereo on anything else only needs the volume to be at 20 to be loud. With my AUX cord plugged into my phone and without it being above the max or whatever you want to call the bug, I need to put the volume at around 35 to be as loud and it doesnt sound as good lol. So whenever I have restarted my phone and am playing music for the first time I make a random call to my voicemail and then were usually good. If there is a way to permanently set it to that high volume I would appreciate it!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Since people love screenshots and out of context statistics ;) ... since I've been on vacation I've been using the ROM and keeping things going (the past 6 days). I'm the kinda guy that typically has his phone on for ages, never rebooting unless I have to, though lately I reboot so often testing new builds -- so this was a good chance to actually test a long uptime. No slowdowns save one instance where Google Backup was running for seemingly no reason. I disabled the google backup / restore stuff and hot rebooted.

Today specifically I used the phone as usual with typical browsing/XDA and plenty of music.. about 2 & a half hours worth. 4 & a half hours of screen on time when the battery ran out after 34 hours since I unplugged the charger.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dxaxn:
Hi everyone,

I'm basic user and this is my first ics rom, so please don't blame me for my questions. Superwipe, fresh instal, radio w rc data plus ril etc...

Testing for 4 days and I have few problems and I believe that I just overlooked some setting or it can be easily fixed, just need bit help.

So my wifi signal looks weak, I have one or no bar in places where I had full before.

Sometimes I can't see who is calling but I can see his name in history later with no problem.

My ringtone is randomly resetting even I moved that to system folder to be sure.

I'm not able watch news on www.ivysilani.cz, all browsers that I'm trying, freezing phone or FC.

I will be happy if someone more experienced can help me sort it.

Now, after all I really like speed and futures of this rom. Ability put apps to notification bar is so cool and handy. Rom is flying and I have new toy without buying new phone. Thank you very much for your time bj and enjoy rest of your vacation...

Sent from my new toy with apologise for my english.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] XxhTcG2uSERxX:
I'm having a problem with the wifi hotspot it only worked once which was the 1st time I turned it on.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] shellin:
Just want to report that after flashing over flinny97 without wiping, everything works fine. It is very snappy, which is probably due to the supercharger :) thanks for such a great ROM.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
May I ask what wallpaper is that?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jmaciak:
You could try to clear cache and data of Google Play application. If that will not help, try to clear cache and dalvik and fix permissions using your custom recovery. If none of those helps, do as Blackjack says and do a clean install (do not forget to use tools as superwipe+4ext and vision efs wipe as those do better work in removing all unwanted residues).

As for the trackpad light, if it still does not work even after clean install, maybe do a logcat while receiving some notification or check if it works using another rom (gb, ics).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wolek76:
Thanks for the tips, fixing permissions had done the trick!!!

As for the trackpad light... for the love of god I cannot find the option for it. Could someone point me to it please?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rkwhyte2:
+1 I'd like to know also.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] michael9413:
for my side it was not working at all... anyone could help... if not i'll go back to AOKP for the moment... it was the best Daily ICS ROM at the moment which i had used...

thanks...

---------- Post added at 10:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:04 PM ----------

Hotspot for my side it was not working at all... anyone could help... if not i'll go back to AOKP for the moment... it was the best Daily ICS ROM at the moment which i had used...

thanks...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TRFFTR:
For trackpad light, you can use Light Flow, now it works fantastic with our Desire Z :good:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
As mentioned before, you have to bypass DHCP and configure your network manually.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] =JKT=:
If I posted every day saying how much I'm loving this rom, would it bother anyone?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
Okay well I'm going to give this a shot once my phone is all charged up. Cm7.2 "stable"'s Gapps package from 2011828 caused my phone to bootloop repeatedly and once I got past that, there is some sort of really terrible background batterydrain/inability to go into deep sleep on idle after a week so I might as well pull the plug and try this out. Will report back in an hour or two with my first impressions of the first near complete ICS rom I've tried.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] darkspadez:
You need to use ICS Gapps not Cm7.2 "stable" gapps as 7.2 is for GB not ICS.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
Right I'm aware of that. My issue was when trying to flash Cm7.2, using the last final package of Gapps, "20120828" which is what they linked in the actual official announcement post on the Cyanogen Forums, I was repeatedly bootlooped. In retrospect I worded that badly and should probably send the team a logcat.

In other news, since I'm at it I extracted the .APK for Swiftkey X 2.2 out of an old backup so if anyone is hardup for a copy send me a PM with a screengrab of your market account showing that you actually purchased Swiftkey and I'll send it to you. Do not send me a PM unless you can prove you have purchased Swiftkey. I will call you terrible things if you do.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] XxhTcG2uSERxX:
How?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
Install hangs on HTC bootscreen for over ten minutes. I can understand the need to rebuild the davlik cache but this is ridiculous.

Edit: Okay, I let it sit for almost a half hour and it just hung on the HTC screen. If the dev could give some ideas as to why this is occurring, that'd be swell. I've never had a davlik rebuild take that long so I believe there is something else at work.

Installation went like this.

Reboot to recovery

Full device reset, wipe cache, wipe davlik

Select Zip> Mimicry 1.01

Aroma installer runs, go with default

Flashes

Flash Gapps package for Cm9

Reboot

Hang on HTC screen.

I'm assuming that I've done everything correct here? I've flashed a lot of roms before but this is the first time I've ever dealt with Aroma installer.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] .A.J.:
I used the same method except I flashed the SuperWipe+ext4.zip file instead of doing the factory reset that you may have done. Worked great for me & although I'm back on ILWT's CM7.2, this is the best ICS Rom of those I've tried (all non-sense roms). Good luck!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Aroma should have no impact on this. Make sure all your partitions are ext4 and I would recommend formatting all partitions with 4ext or using the ext4 superwipe mentioned in the previous post. A factory reset is probably not sufficient and there's likely an issue with your /data directory so make sure it gets wiped as ext4.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
Okay well it sounds like in order to do all this I'll need to back up my SD card, flash an entirely new recovery, format all my partitions to ext4 (I had assumed they were already but it's been a while since I did it and I don't know how to check in clockwork mod), then find this superwipe and hope it works.

I'm assuming that this is the superwipe you're talking about?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
It's a gnome background that I modified and resized. If you want I can get the original image when I get back home, but here's the actual background I use on my phone.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2094658/Vision/modified_gnome_bg_ics.png
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Not necessarily. Your sdcard should remain untouched and if you use the ext4 superwipe you won't have to install 4ext. I just recommend 4ext because it's so damn good and the author deserves way more praise than he gets. The ext4 superwipe will automatically format your partitions as ext4.

EDIT: That's the wrong superwipe. You need the one that's explicitly labeled ext4. I've uploaded it here
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
Excellent, thanks. It has been a while since I've done a full sd card backup so I suppose now is a good a time as any, haha. I used to have 4ext installed and I did actually use it to format my partitions to ext4 but to be safe, I'll just go the whole nine yards and do it all again. Might as well get with the times.

Do you have any suggestions for a particular favored radio, since I'm doing all this stuff?

Edit: Well would you look at that, somewhere along the line data, system, and cache all converted back to ext3. Fancy that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
.19 seems to be the one functioning the best these days with ed's RIL/lib matcher. I'll be including his package in the next Mimicry but for now you'll need to flash it over after.

Personally I don't often use GPS and haven't noticed issues but there are people who swear by it so if you do have issues look into it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] .A.J.:
As Blk_jack said, you don't need to back up your SD card. The link he provided is the right one.

I will also second 4ext recovery as being more than worth it. That guy has put lots of work into it and is very much available and a pleasure to communicate with. I advised him of a bug, we did some testing, and it was fixed and in a new release in record time.

For radio I would go with the latest one from Ed_Keys along with his newest radio/ril matcher see this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1632482 While that does mean flashing a new radio, just make sure you have sufficient power and that you verify the MD5 on your phone before flashing.

Blk_jack, this ROM is excellent and far better than I thought ICS would run on our phones without an official ICS release for the DHD. Thank you. The only thing stopping me from using this as a DD is that there is one app, paper camera, that my girl uses on my phone and it doesn't work on this rom. The other camera apps work and I'm sure I'll have to wait a long time until the camera drivers are released until it will work. Either way, I'm still looking forward to every release.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
Okay so I got 4ext installed, converted cache, system, and data over to ext4. Did my backups. Flashed the superwipe package which blackjack just linked. Phone rebooted. Flashed Mimicry 1.01, correct gapps package.

Phone is now sitting on HTC screen and has been hanging for just under 10 minutes. Going to give it another 5 to be on the safe side then pull the battery. I've never encountered this issue before and it's very frustrating all things considered.

Edit:.... Great and now that I'm trying to do a restore, I'm stuck at the HTC bootscreen. Fantastic. I don't know what to tell you man but your rom is not playing nice.

Edit 2: retracted, incorrect conclusion.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] demkantor:
Check the md5sum, I suggest a fresh download. Try fastboot -w to get a clean wipe. You can also attempt fastboot or adb to push the ROM. Usually when I see these problems it is user error or sometimes but rarely a hardware problem

Have you flashed many roms in the past? Has this ever happened before? Link the gapps package you are downloading and someone can double check it is the right one. Are you attempting to flash a kernel on top of this?

Are you willing to move all of this to a q&a thread as that would be the best place to ask and have answered your questions?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
Thx alot. It reminds me of this LWP here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.driftwood.wallpaper.passage.free&hl=en .. But with the lights on/off, lol.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
MD5sum for the Mimicry File is 0d5d65ffd1b5a931cc70aa0b8cb41b4

It'd help if there was an MD5 for me to compare this against, but I didn't see one in the OP. Additionally, this is the third download of this file, as I too thought I was having a faulty DL.

Gapps package is the second mirror in the OP, located at http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip . MD5 checksum is 7c524e1e078164f681e0aa6753180b2c

Yes, I have flashed roms in the past so I am aware of the basic guidelines.

No, I've never been stuck at the HTC lockscreen for 30 minutes at a time before. The maximum amount of time I've ever had for a davlik cache to be rebuilt was in the 5 minute range, on Android Revolution 7 which is a rather weighty Sense 3.5 rom.

No, I am not attempting to flash a kernel over this.

Thinking there may be some issue with the radio/wifi calling install I've removed that as a pre-configuration, as well as V6 supercharger.

Some more stats:

Prior to flash.

Post Flash, Prior to Gapps Package:

After Gapps Install.

Alright so I'm confused here. Why is a rom that's 150mb to download as a compressed zip only coming out to 64mb install size?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I apologize for not posting the md5sum in the OP, it'll have that and more in the next release. Anyway the reason it seems is an incorrect md5. The md5 hash should be: 16c16d1594f9e0ead955c6a97cc7953f

Also to clarify a few points, the rom doesn't write anything to /data -- only /system. The reason why you sometimes need to wipe data on ROM flashes is to ensure no previous saved data conflicts with a new ROM.

Try the download again, there are a few mirrors if the main link has issues for you.

Hope that helps.

Also, dalvik cache is not rebuilt on the HTC logo screen, it's rebuilt during the regular boot animation or when it says "Updating System". If you get stuck on the HTC bootscreen, pull your battery and use logcat through adb to find the errors.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
No problem about the md5, but what's really irking me is that this is the third time I've downloaded the file each time thinking that it has somehow screwed up in transfer.

Second: I don't have ADB installed. I checked the MD5 with 4ext directly. I have no idea how to read a logcat and typically I generate them with the application "logthis". The Android SDK weighs in at almost 8gb and I didn't use it enough to justify the space. Ironic. I know.

Third: As an experiment I just tried installing the latest Beta 14 of CM9 and it booted after being recompiled in less than 3 minutes. I'll give it one more shot with a fresh download of Mimicry but I'm not holding my breath after screwing around with this for the past three plus hours.

Edit:

I've just downloaded a copy of Mimicry from each mirror and checked their MD5 using MD5Checksum via Softpedia.

Mirror One MD5: 7BAA4CCEC4A498342E626C7801939F8B

Mirror Two: DCAFA0083C45EDEE78B1919A20692D87

Mirror Three: 16C16D1594F9E0EAD955C6A97CC7953F

So it looks like the first two downloads are corrupt. I'll try the third.

Oh, I did save the installer log last time I tried to install so if that helps, I've attached it.

Edit: HOLY **** IT IS ACTUALLY BOOTING Looks like a bad md5 was the culprit. Wish it'd taken less time to figure that out but hey, at least we're past the HTC Screen! :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
8 GiB? I don't know what version you are referring to but mine takes 64,4 MiB to be able to run adb. And this amount of space is totally justified in my opinion.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
The md5 of the file you were installing is wrong, which means the file is incomplete, which is why you're having issues. Also consider that there have been well over 1000 installs of this rom without corrupt download / installation issues, so as mentioned previously, it's not the rom itself.

Lastly, to install and run adb in windows is incredibly easy and the sdk is only 38mb for windows. You just need the tools, nothing else. Using adb to transfer files may have also reduced the bad downloads of the rom in the firstplace and having adb is incredibly useful for a number of reasons.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] michael9413:
hi there... how to bypass.... mind to mention a lil more to help... thanks...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
You select a static ip and setup the gateway & such appropriately. It was mentioned a few pages back though so check that out for tips.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
I'm only able to help if you're running GNU/Linux or Windows. If so, write me a private message to avoid spamming this beautiful thread.

Edit:

That's the long story short; sorry blk_jack, I was unable to notice that you've already answered whilst typing my answer.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
This is not the fault of the originating host, however. All 3 sources have matching md5sums. To demonstrate, I just downloaded each (I'm on vacation away from home) and ran an md5sum.

jeff@transformtu:~/Downloads$ md5sum mimicry-1.1.0.zip mimicry-1.1.0\(1\).zip mimicry-1.1.0\(2\).zip

16c16d1594f9e0ead955c6a97cc7953f mimicry-1.1.0.zip

16c16d1594f9e0ead955c6a97cc7953f mimicry-1.1.0(1).zip

16c16d1594f9e0ead955c6a97cc7953f mimicry-1.1.0(2).zip
​

I post these only to reassure people reading this that the download mirrors are definitely not at fault.

Like Tpm said though, let's keep the general Android Q&A stuff that's outside the scope of this ROM free from this thread. I'll be adding some appropriate sections to the OP today to hep remedy this.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astriaos:
Problem has been fixed, sorry to have cluttered your thread up but it seemed like the appropriate place to get feedback. I don't know what the issue was with the hosts or why the files downloaded improperly to my PC. All I know is what I've told you since it would be beyond stupid to make up false md5 sums just to screw with you. As it stands, it's booting and I've learned my lesson about making sure MD5s are correct.

Enjoy the rest of your vacation, thanks for the help. I look forward to exploring ICS for the first time with your rom.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dxaxn:
I'm sorry for reposting that but really no one else with some of that problems? Pick up phone without know who is calling is weird. I fixed my numbers to full format but still no luck. Anyone? Please
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I believe there was a patch recently committed to the cm9 repo to fix a low signal ui glitch which may be behind what you've mentioned, so we'll find out in the next version.

That website does indeed bail when viewing the flash video. Likely an issue with the flash implementation on the Site or adobe's latest flash version on our device.

As for the caller ID delay, I don't suffer from this so I don't have any insight into it really.

Per the disappearing ringtones, this was reported and solved by resetting and checking the CyanogenMod profiles. From what I've heard the profiles are a bit buggy, so hopefully we'll see a fix down the road. I've never had my custom ringtones disappear on me, but I also don't use profiles and I just keep my custom mp3s in /sdcard/ringtones and /sdcard/notifications respectively.

Hope that helps
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dxaxn:
Thank you for reply. Wifi icon glitch don't bother me anymore, I'm connected even with no bar. Same for ringtones, I'm not using any profile, but its just few clicks to fix it. Hopefully we will see some update from adobe about that video problem.

But problem that I can't see who is calling drive me crazy. I will try fresh instal after work and will try some different dialer if I will find some good one. Will report back. Wish me luck and thank you for everything...

One more question. Can I change yahoo server for lock screen weather with other server somehow? Thx