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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dimitri Vladkov:
Oh, now I get it, that's great. I found V6 Supercharger Instructions very complicated, in the end I'm sure I would manage to get it working, but I really appreciate your effort in making everything as easy as selecting and then clicking NEXT. I installed mimicry 1.1.2 the day it came out and I'm already anxious about what's next, are you working on a 1.1.3 update? Once again, great job with the ROM, everything runs smoothly, congrats.

P.S. I use 4ext, and as such it creates 2 ext partitions, I made each partition with 512Mb each and then skipped the creation of a swap partition as I read throughout the forums that ext4 doesn't benefit from swap (also in the long run swap damages the sdcard), is that correct? What would be the optimal setup? Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] N_ine:
Just here to report that I fixed my issue from earlier.

Root browser > /system/usr/keychars renamed vision-keypad-ell.kcm to vision-keypad-ell.kcm.backup and the vision-keypad.kcm file to vision-keypad-ell.kcm. And I followed the same process with the vision-keypad.kl and vision-keypad-ell.kl files.

Hope this helps anyone that may encounter this issue in the future.

Other than that, congratulations for this great rom.

Cheers.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] travis:
@blk_jack - I don't know what you did with OOM-Priority-Charger-v1.4-mimicry-112.zip (hope it wasn't a placebo) but everything speed and notification wise now seems to be fine on my phone:fingers-crossed:. I'm feeling so brave that I might even uninstall ghostlysms;)

Presumably if it causes no one else any problems you'll be able to "bake it into" V6?

THANKYOU for your efforts particularly as it wasn't causing many people (including yourself!) a problem:good:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jcX4ever:
"Unfortunately, Clock has stopped"

This is a very fast ROM.

The Wifi calling works good.

However, there is one problem, when I set the ALARM clock it gives me this "Unfortunately, Clock has stopped"... yup I can't set an alarm clock. I wonder if I'm the only one having problem with this. I'm sorry that I cant use the search button. XDA seem to be having problem with the 'search' tonight.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] travis:
Sorry can't help but just for your info.I have tried it and seems OK on my setup.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
Try wiping the data for clock using Titanium Backup.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Yea, so the way V6 works is there are minfree values (levels of free RAM to kill apps) and then priority levels for types of processes. (visible, background, services, etc).

zeppelinrox's default modifications to services.jar not only modify the home launcher priority (from 6 to 1), but also 5 other priorities. So what I did was revert a bunch of those back to their stock priority and the launcher from 6 to 2. Typically users have to go to http://android.mimic.ca or via the script (which uses the site) to patch their services.jar.

The V6 Supercharger webapp site was created by me, and what I do w/ mimicry builds is I have a post-compile script that does a bunch of things for me like patch services.jar through a local API for when you select V6 Supercharger in Aroma. I've been testing the modified V6 Supercharger services.jar (that you're using) for a bit longer than you and it works swimmingly, so the changes we've been testing will likely be included in the next version.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I'll add a copy of the -ell files to the Enhanced Keymaps option for the next release. Speaking of which though, what language package is ell? Is it a variation of english?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ohhdavid:
The camera works right after a clean install but then ultimately fc's and won't take photos anymore it will just fc when you hit the shutter. Help!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] comat0se:
FWIW, I flashed this and it basically rendered my phone unusable. After a really long start up "Android is starting applications" it finally started with a FC on "phone". After you click ok, it immediately crashes again, and again. I just flashed the Mimicry rom over top again and things seem to be back to normal. BTW, new beta of Nova Launcher is out.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Currently the only working camera app is the stock one. Using anything else will be prone to errors, memory leaks & crashes. That said, if you're using the stock app feel free to open a thread under the G2/Desire Z QA section as you're experiencing something abnormal and more debugging is needed.

Which is outside the immediate scope of this thread.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] travis:
Brilliant - thanks again:)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dimitri Vladkov:
Oh, now I get it, that's great. I found V6 Supercharger Instructions very complicated, in the end I'm sure I would manage to get it working, but I really appreciate your effort in making everything as easy as selecting and then clicking NEXT. I installed mimicry 1.1.2 the day it came out and I'm already anxious about what's next, are you working on a 1.1.3 update? Once again, great job with the ROM, everything runs smoothly, congrats.

P.S. I use 4ext, and as such it creates 2 ext partitions, I made each partition with 512Mb each and then skipped the creation of a swap partition as I read throughout the forums that ext4 doesn't benefit from swap (also in the long run swap damages the sdcard), is that correct? What would be the optimal setup? Thanks!

P.P.S. Is there a way of making the lockscreen stay on longer? I set up an owner text but the screen shuts off so fast that you can't even read the whole thing.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Detafewa:
This one's awesome. Much faster than the unofficial CM9 RC1 or Andromadus. The install menu is beautiful.

Dun know why does this thing only have a rating of 4 stars but I guess it's because of the bugs some people encountered. Haven't had any myself but then again, I'm not some people.

Thanks again. It's.. brilliant. I don't know how else to describe it. You gonna have to come up with a new word for that one.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I'm a fairly outspoken person and have been openly critical of development and developers on XDA and as a result I believe a number of people downvoted the thread early on. I've spoken about it before when it was mentioned in this thread, but it was 7 "1" votes in a row the day after the thread opened.

Take that as you will, it's not a big deal to me, but it did create a confusing situation that has had to be addressed a few times already :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I've been working on the next version since 1.1.2 was released actually. Since RC1 there's been a code freeze on CM9 so there haven't been too many changes on that end. The big changes involve the new features I'm adding, things that take longer than just updating to a new version of CM9 since it's new code and I try to do a lot of testing to ensure things are stable.

Also bugfixes. I hope a few bluetooth issues have been resolved as well as the missing notifications bug with V6 Supercharger.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] m1k30rz:
this ROM is fantastic, have been using it all day yesterday and today and I love it :) thanks man. seems faster on my phone than CM7 which is saying something! :good:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dimitri Vladkov:
Ah, that's great news! Hey could you please answer these questions below? I would really appreciate, also, I rated it 5 stars, in all sincerity, I went from CM to Mimicry and if the project keep on going I don't think I'll ever go back to CM lol.

QUESTIONS:

I use 4ext, and as such it creates 2 ext partitions, I made each partition with 512Mb each and then skipped the creation of a swap partition as I read throughout the forums that ext4 doesn't benefit from swap (also in the long run swap damages the sdcard), is that correct? What would be the optimal setup? Thanks!

Also, is there a way of making the lockscreen stay on longer? I set up an owner text but the screen shuts off so fast that you can't even read the whole thing.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lilzad:
hi i was wondering if someone can help me?? for some reason after installing 1.1.2 everytime i call or someone calls me after a couple of minutes the call breaks up for me and i can only hear bits or nothing of wat the other person is saying can someone help me fix this please thank you
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] c00ller:
At the end of every call, when I end the call, it takes me back to the call log. Kind of silly in my opinion, but anyway, it always takes a good while (maybe 5-8 seconds) for the call log to actually show up. That is, it will show a blank call log before actually showing its contents. Is this happening to anyone else? I do not have a large call log by any means..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] WiuEmPe:
Is possible to add option to dispplay day of week on the data in notifications?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] N_ine:
The -ell files are the greek keyboard files I believe.

And yes, I had US english chosen so no idea why it kept using those. In another thread about keymaps, someone from hong kong had a similar issue until he did pretty much what I did with the -hk files in his case.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
This happens to me too. Quite irritating but then I guess it boils down to the phone app with 600 contacts. I just hit the home button after the call to remedy this occurrence.

My HTC Vision sez hai!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
I had that problem also. Couldnt find out how to fix it, so i just selected Google Music instead of cm9 apollo in the aroma installation screen (pre-flash). I actually use poweramp music player but havent gotten around to setting it up since moving to ics roms.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wrapper:
Great, just flashed over B4 and it seems to be working fine. Thanks for your work :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NeverGone\RU:
Feature request: an option to enable camera button on a lockscreen. This will give super-fast access to the camera, kinda like on the Doubleshot ROM.

And thanks for your work of course. The ROM is great. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwsco:
Its already there isn't it? Just stroke left instead of right...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwsco:
You can also add options in the lock screen settings
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NeverGone\RU:
I was talking about the hardware camera button, not the lockscreen shortcut for it :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dwsco:
Ahh.. sorry, I get it :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PaganAng3l:
I just flashed this rom and all is smooth and nice so far. Thank you for all your work blk_jack, I intend to make this rom my dd so I'm looking forward to future releases.

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Hai_Duong:
I would like to have SWAP... I only have 50mb RAM free :/
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
I actually had an idea similar to this. The difference is the camera button, when held if the screen is off, would wake, unlock and launch the camera app.

I know I'd probably use that, anybody else?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] XxhTcG2uSERxX:
Can I change the multi tasking back to regular instead of the sense 4.0 style
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PaganAng3l:
Have you tried the supercharger mod and script? I normally keep ~80mb of free ram with them running, be warned though that getting too aggressive with the settings will cause more lag than it fixes
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Powers88:
If memory serves after installing the rom it said that you could remove features by re running the zip from recovery
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
First off, great job! It's nice to see diversity on our devices so long after it has been released (and deemed obsolete)! Here's to Jellybean and beyond.

A (dumb) request: Given that so many of us end up flashing Edkeys' updater to fix the radios, is it possible to drop that into Aroma?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Unfortunately swap does not benefit AOSP based roms.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lilzad:
I was wondering is it possible to add a weather in the status bar like u can in the AOKP version for those of u that dont no what i mean look at the image below.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] shellin:
That'd be nice as an option, but I also like using the camera as a pause button for music controls :)

Mapping the camera button to launching the camera while the screen is off when NOT playing music is a good idea though!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tronmech:
I think at least part of this is already there. Why? Because the gps.vision.so file looks to be the one from the last g2 stock ROM. This might be an artifact of my selecting the wifi calling option though.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
It is definitely possible (most things aesthetic are). The greater issue is that ideally it would tie into the lockscreen Weather code to reduce reuse and make it more efficient. It's a great feature though and something I have thought about :)

Yea totally, since I too use the camera button to pause music ;)

Actually your suspicion was correct. It's because you flashed wifi calling. I'll talk to Ed about including it in the next version since there seems to be such demand for it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Careless_:
you're a fellow Torontonian too! awesome.

:D

best ICS rom i've used so far.

v6 supercharger script,

nova prime launcher

one more clock free - app

does everything i need it to do, and is super fast.

awwwwwwesome. finally found a suitable DD. going to try this out for the entire week and see if I can make it crash.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] demkantor:
well you have this a bit worng. the ext partition is setup to store your apps (sometimes app data/cache) and that's all. this is good if you have a huge amount of apps and more than the phones internal partition can hold. but depending on the setup it can be slower than keeping your apps in internal partition. the second ext partition is mostly useless unless the rom you are using supports this (possibly to seperate data and apk, whatever the use would be. linux swap (or just swap) is to be thought of as virtual ram it is kinda like adding more ram to your phone by using a block from sdcard. this however is slow ram compared to you phones internal ram. the trade off is you have more ram, but as it swaps pages between internal and sd it is slower ram

kinda like the old g1 days when we all needed compcahce, well sorta - compcache is like virtual swap, it is compressed ram, again compressing ram is like having more of it but it is slower ram because it needs to compressed and then decompressed

some will still tell you swap or compcache is needed and works great some will say it is terible stay away from it. use what you like in my opinion, if it seems faster good, if not whatever, don't use it.

and yes the continual writes to swap in your sd card can make it die out sooner, but sdcards are mostly cheap and for the most part it would take months if not years to damage.

personally I move my apps to my ext4 partition, almost always use swap (always have a partition I just sometimes disabble) and never use compcache.

ok done wasting space in this thread as I'm rambaling off topic, mimicry is awesome, rated 5 stars, people rating it less need to think before they take personal attacks too seriously and just rate the rom not the dev :p
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
I have seen it since B2 and have quite given up hope on CM fixing Phone.apk's issues. And I have < 100 contacts.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
blk_jack says he only has around 100 contacts and the phone app isn't slow for him at all. So it might have to do from where the contacts are synced.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
Just to further educate people on swap w/ Android. It's not actually more ram as some of you may think. When processes are moved to swap they are done so w/o any regard for the Android Activity Lifecycle [link]. This can actually be really bad, and is not intended for how Android should ideally deal with pausing or stopping an application. A well developed application should intelligently pause/stop depending on if its RAM is needed and start again with very little interruption.

What swap can do is keep applications running without having them appropriately pause or stop (since the systems OOM groupings are artificially inflated by the system thinking it has more RAM). This can lead to performance issues that people who use swap often talk about.

..and of course it causes a lot of wear on your sdcard.

Simply put, in my opinion the small situational gain from swap where you don't have to restore an app from its paused/stopped state (think, you switch back to Browser and it doesn't have to reload the page) is vastly outweighed by the potential issues you will encounter by not using Android's activity lifecycle appropriately. Plus when you're switching to an app from swap it's much slower than switching to an app in actual RAM.. and if its been paused/stopped to free up the ram it becomes a restore-from-swap vs. onRestore in the app situation and almost every time you're better off using the app's native onRestore function.

The reason it worked well on the early, extremely low memory devices is because those devices couldn't have more than a couple apps in memory, period. Including the framework/service/system processes thus leading to a general slowdown affecting the entire system's usability.

Since then Android's activity lifecycle system has improved, mobile devices' hardware has improved and the OS as a whole has improved.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rraxda:
Is Swiftkey still a no-go at this point?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] c00ller:
I've got a little over 100 contacts, and they're all from Google Contacts. Just putting it out there in case we reach a consensus. Ideally though, I would just like the old CM7 preference check box for "Return to call log" on call end (and I guess that would have to be coupled with a preference for which default tab to open for the phone app: dialer, log, or contacts) ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Pantherx12:
It's working perfectly for me ( latest swiftkey and mimicry) :good:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Nospin:
I would like to second this feature, choosing where you went after ending a call, and which tab the dialer brought up were pretty nice.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rkwhyte2:
I'll add another vote for this, another thing that bothers me is in the favorites tab it is listing contacts out alphabetically and with CM7 it would list them based on who you called most often.

I'll also say that I have less than 75 contacts synced to Google and it is taking quite awhile for the dailer to come back once I complete a call.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mrvanx:
No shift/fn lock problem with the hardware keyboard?? I reverted to the stock kb as swift key 3 annoyed the hell outta me.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jevring:
Gmail app missing

Is it just me, or is the Gmail app missing in this rom? I installed the gapps package, but I can't seem to find it.

Furthermore, while I can find the gmail client via my web browser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gm), I can't actually find it in the android market when I search with my phone. Does it simply not exist on ICS?

The reason I ask is that the original ICS mail client leaves a lot to be desired. I'd love the Sense default email client, but, well, not a sense rom...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] elmanortega:
amazing rom thank a lot
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tarroyo:
Gmail isn't included in the gapps package.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TpmKranz:
It does exist. It is just not available for download/findable in Google Play in all countries. Try getting the apk directly. I would like to attach it but I'm not sure if that is allowed so you should search the internet for it. The current version is, as far as I know, 4.0.5.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ashwinmudigonda:
Hmm. I have What'sApp, Facebook(via a 3rd party) and Google. I just unchecked Whatsapp and facebook. Let's see how it performs now.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blk_jack:
SwiftKey 3 is still affected by the shift/fn lock bug. I recommend switching to a backup of X if you have it. Unfortunately I can't find any other prediction type keyboards that also work with our hardware keyboard.

If anybody knows one please let me know, I'm eager to switch away from SwiftKey just out of principal for letting this issue carry on for so long even with numerous bug reports & people giving feedback in the market.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
The latest Swype beta, and the new stock Android KB from 4.1/JB.

EDIT: You have to sign up for swype beta @ beta.swype.com .. Not sure if they latest AKB (JB) is on the market yet (doubt it until source is released in a week or two).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mrvanx:
I will take a look at swype beta and report back. Am a bit annoyed since I paid for swiftkey x and this bug came into being when it "updated" from x to 3. I guess I shouldn't be that bothered since I bought x when there was a £0.20 promo price on it!

Edit: I take it swype beta is an app floating around somewhere?? Can't find it on play shop??
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] shellin:
^ download a beta on swype.com

it's prediction isn't that good but I love swyping :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
I'm pretty sure it'll improve as the updates go on.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Detafewa:
No matter how many times, I always get a bit surprised by how kind people expect devs to be here. I'm a maintainer of some kind myself in Arch linux's User Repository and not a way in _hell_ am I always "nice". Some people get offended by my tone from time to time and that's usually what I just make them live with.

At least yours in this thread has been very kind from early on. It's a bit hard to imagine myself talking like that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ohhdavid:
Please can someone help? On a fresh install it seems that the camera only works the first them then something causes it to FC. After that it keeps FCing until I run through the install again. Any ideas? I tried clearing camera data. Camera works on Vignette but has the graphic glitches.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Aumkar:
Nice. Lemme know how it works out. I require the facebook contact sync for contact photos mainly. Removed the Facebook app from my phone completely.

The Swype Beta is pretty badass for me. Supports multitouch typing like your regular keyboards, and swyping, and handwriting and voice recognition ( the latter two of which I don't exactly use ).

However, for chatting and stuff, the swype beta allows me to get to a decent typing speed as compared to a full fledged keyboard, so I'm quite happy.

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I faced a new issue yesterday. For the first time, on my run, my tracks were changing automatically. And randomly. My headphones don't have any buttons, just the mic and earpieces so that wasn't the problem. I unplugged the headphones and plugged them back in and there was still an issue. It would just skip ahead, often multiple tracks.

Using Meelec M2Ps with Apollo. The only thing that fixed it was holding the Vol Dn button for reverting to the previous track. Then it stopped. However, it took me a good 6 minutes to figure that out while running lol.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] JRW160:
This rom has been running great for me for the past few days. I'm very impressed with it. Great work