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[Miscellaneous Android Development] dosmastr:
I have an interesting problem on my hands. My phone, as previously discussed, cannot install this in its current state.

The debloated and 3c app tweaked stock rom is def an improvement over factory. My question is, it will cost me at least 15 dollars to ship my phone for oem repairs (hopefully just a reflash of stock partitions on internal memory) so figure ballpark (hoepfully) 15 to 50 dollars.

This is what I would have to pay to be able to use this rom.

Is it worth it?

Is it much smoother and with less hangups than the stock rom? (Go project butter!)

What is memory utilization like? Fresh boot all cleaned up the stock rom has around 120MB of free RAM. (And from time to time tasker complains there is low free memory.)

How about cyanogenmod?

What other reasons compelled you to upgrade?

Or what things did you not have before but have now learned of and can't live without?

Lastly, does the bump the phone on one side to move the cursor still work (idk if that's mytouch only or generally in android, but I need that)

I hope this is still close enough to on topic, and the answers help others decide what's best for them

Cheers,

dosmastr
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dreamworks66:
do what?

So what are u asking? So your going to send your mytouch q to be reflashed for 15? What is this upgrade?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dosmastr:
stock = 2.3.6

cyanogen = 4.0

cyanogen = upgrade, wouldn't you say?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dreamworks66:
yea

Yea i would not send it out. Use kernal tuner with it to turn off vsynce, runs good then
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sur3nd1p1ty:
Just echoing.

Definitely turn Vsync off, then (don't know if it's been said) go ahead and set the lcd density in the build.prop to 140. Keyboard fits perfectly now and there's basically no lag.

Edit:

Actually. Looks like setting buildprop to 140 makes the phone process crash when making or recieving calls. Sorry about that. Bad idea.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
Is this phone still being developed for or are all these nightlies still just auto-builds?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bunu:
I'm on nightly 4/14/2013 and I did some of the tweaks that were recently mentioned. I turned off v-sync and I used v6 super charger (I did the services.jar patching tweak for JB/ICS also) and I must say, this phone is flying. I turned on all animations and I am using animations for my launcher (Go Launcher EX) and this phone is still smooth. Everything looks and feels fluid. Of course, there are moments when the phone just stutters for a few seconds but now it is not happening as much.

Thanks so much guys!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kdog1202:
Is there any random reboots?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mrSkippo:
no random reboots on the 5/5 nightly.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] piercedfreak:
I flashed 5/5 nightly, and any pictures i take come out really white, they were perfect on stock, am i missing a setting, or something?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bunu:
a new nightly was released today after a long stretch of no new updates. Is there a website to see the change log?

EDIT: I found the change log. Looks like nothing much have changed http://9.cmxlog.com/?device=c800
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lasportsfan:
Whats up guys. Coming back to this phone after a while and I wanted to know if anyone knows the process to get it back to stock rom. Thanks in advance any help would be appreciated. :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sur3nd1p1ty:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1752704

The stock ROM, which you can flash using CWM, is at the bottom of the first post.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lasportsfan:
I searched around soon after I made this post and found the very same thread. :) Thanks for the help.

I forgot what a nice litte budget phone this was. Its crazy how smooth it runs on the stock UI. Everything is fine except of course a few current apps do not work on gingerbread and I can't seem to get 4g speed or send/receive texts. I'm assuming its because that firmware is for the tmobile c800 and I have the virgin canada c800g. I guess I will have to make due.

Thanks again for the help. :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] reg.s:
A friend of mine gave me his old phone that was used in the USA - T-mobile myTouch (LG C800). Now I'm trying to use phone to another country with another mobile operator.

The problem is that the phone can't connect to any mobile operator. I tried with two different SIM cards. The error message was stating: "Your SIM card does not allow a connection to this network."

I tried flashing the phone using CWM recovery and CM9 rom. Unfortunately i did not try to use any SIM card before i flashed it. After few attempts i decided to preflash the phone back to its original stock rom, but there was no change!

I checked its specifications and it supports all GSM 850/900/1800/1900. What would you advise me to do now?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sur3nd1p1ty:
The phone is probably carrier locked. It will only work with a T-Mobile SIM. You have to either ask your friend to ask T-Mobile for the unlock code or pay for it online (some people can get the unlock code for you for a price)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
unlocks for the C-800 are $2 on ebay, I got both of mine unlocked in one shot.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bunu:
Well I moved on to the S4. I would say thanks for the support for this phone. This ROM made the c800 manageable and I would like to express my deepest gratitude.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hapticxchaos:
Hello when I use this I get terrible lag. Facebook and gmail are unusable. The browser is also slow. I have tried overclocking. But unless I set it to performance at 1500mhx it doesn't help. I don't have any local media, so would the .nomedia file help in my case? Exactly what folder should I place it in? I would like to see an update to address the lag, and perhaps remap the text button from gmail to the texting app. Also keyboard light timeout would be awesome as well. Very grateful for this as gingerbread kinda sux lol. Thx for the rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luismrosa:
is there a way to improve the performance of this cm9 for this phone c800?, are they working to release a stable rom cm9 for the c800?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] revwillie:
Don't count on updates. As usual, time matches on and newer phones are pushing devices like this one aside. It would be interesting to see if KitKat optimization could make 4.4 run well on old single core phones, but a lot of work would be required.

I got a cheap siii lte for my wife last month and then I basically converted her old c800 into a touch screen feature phone for our 12 year old. With no gapps and all of the data apps and services removed or disabled, this Rom gets great performance and several days uptime on a charge.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] magikstar:
[MENTION=2935448]chui101[/MENTION] is the project adandonned?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bunu:
I wonder if there is a kit kat ROM for this device? I moved on to a better phone but I want to put the c800 to use. Even the Droid X from 4-5 yrs ago has a kit kat ROM
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
Nano needs a vt100 terminal. Set the terminal type to vt100 instead of screen. Alternatively, install dropbear on your device and ssh in to use nano.

Camera flash will not work until we get a working camera HAL. Qualcomm's code published on CodeAurora does not contain some proprietary headers that are critical to getting it to work, and plenty of people have tried to get QCom to release those headers to no avail. In the meantime, we are reliant on a halfway compatible HAL library from another device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
I wonder how Jelly Bean would perform on this thing.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bunu:
Well they are saying if a device can run ICS pretty well, it can run JB without any problem. I'm extremely happy for ICS. Now with the screen color fixed, I love it even more. Each release also gets more stable and faster. Keep up the good work CHUI!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
Update: I have made some changes to the kernel that allow the LED to turn on and off properly. Torch uses the camera HAL in a different way than the camera itself, directly setting the state of the LED, so it is working now on my system. I am still doing lots of debugging in the kernel to see if the camera HAL does even send a command to turn on the LED that might be being misinterpreted as something else, but so far no luck.

If anyone is wondering, we are using a slightly modified HAL from the Huawei Honor U8860.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gagdude:
Hi guys, I'm really sorry if this is hijacking the thread in any way. I just didn't feel like creating an entire thread for this one question.

You probably don't know me since I dont own a Mytouch Q and I don't hang out in any threads for it. But I did just buy a used one off ebay and I'm definitely going to root it. Ill flash this ROM once more bugs get worked out, but I'm really just wondering about the official ICS update. LG said they would update this guy in Q2 and its the middle of Q3 now. Has it been updated?

I believe there is only one mytouch q, which is the t-mobile exclusive, so I don't think they meant any type or international version... ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
There is only one MyTouch Q but there are several LG C800 variants called the Eclypse, I believe for Virgin Mobile Canada and Bell Canada. Pretty much all bugs that can be worked out are worked out at this point on this ROM - I just knocked out Bluetooth today. (the full compile is running guys, it'll be up sometime tomorrow!)

LG had said they would update a lot of phones, MyTouch Q included, in Q2 2012. None of the phones they mentioned (at least in the US that I know of) have received their promised updates as of yet. I believe the Bell Canada version just received an update to Gingerbread 2.3.6 (not even the latest Gingerbread version, which is 2.3.7, if you can believe that). If they can't even release the latest Gingerbread version, I'm not holding out much hope for an ICS release (though that would help us get the camera flash fully working).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Rayk1080:
Hi all,

Chui, let me tell you that I am so impressed and so grateful for your dedication to this device. I have a Samsung Infuse 4G and am lucky enough to have multiple devs (who are as talented as you) that got our device Jelly Bean.

But my best friend recently got stuck with a My Touch Q for the next 2 years against his will. I'll have him attack your thanks button when he makes an account here but I'd just like to thank you on his behalf (and for those of the MyTouch Q community) for your outstanding work. Keep it up, man!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
I'm getting KP's and flat out reboots when I turn my screen on sometimes. How do you want me to accurately gather information on this?
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[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
After the reboot you can open up a terminal and type "cat /proc/last_kmsg > /sdcard/last_kmsg.txt" and post that last_kmsg.txt file here or on pastebin.

Most likely it is bluetooth, I would think - I think there's something wrong with the power management code. Is yours turned on?

Also, uploaded new zip.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dsreyes1014:
Bluetooth activated does produce Kernel Panics. As far as the reboots it happend even after turning off the phone's bluetooth.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
I've not had it happen with bluetooth off, so if you can get a last_kmsg to me after it happens it would be most appreciated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
It was deactivated. Give me over the weekend to try to reproduce the crash
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dsreyes1014:
Ok I'm actually running on stock ROM right now for the bluetooth and also working on compiling for CM10 for our phones. What I can tell you was that I tried putting in a 8GB sdcard and that's when I would get a freeze on the phone. I did confirm a badly formatted sdcard so it's not the ROM. I had a couple of random reboots right after I would finish a call and press the power button to bring up the screen. I guess tapping the power button trying to bring up the screen sent the phone to reboot? So maybe user error and not firmware error. Sorry for the confusion everyone.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
Got a crash message for ya chui:

http://pastebin.com/WsQDBu6j

Your latest build the LED works but the camera doesn't. Turn the screen on and off over and over and I promise you it'll crash the phone.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
So LED works (but not as flash), panorama works? BT and charger mode?​
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gagdude:
Yes LED works as a flashlight in the Torch app.

Panorama works, but in the preview its inverted. The actual picture file is fine, however.

Charging works, but the phone does not acknowledge it. (So it charges but phone does not display it is)

BT seems to be an issue, it causes the phone to reboot randomly. Based on what I've read in this thread, its a good idea to leave it off
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gdc763:
led flash

so i was kind of wondering, what's the word on the camera flash, any new developments? :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
So the reason our camera flash won't work is because the camera app and the camera interface are not communicating properly with regards to scene modes. The camera app's idea of no scene mode is "auto" whereas the camera interface (HAL) version of no scene mode is "off". since the camera HALis not getting "off" as a scene mode it assumes it has to do something special and automagically disables the flash for that shot. if i tell the camera app to send "off" to the camera interface, the camera app assumes there's something special going on and automagically disables the flash as well.

Unless Qualcomm releases some critical proprietary headers for the camera HAL we will not have functional camera flash unless someone more creative than I am can come up with some sort of workaround.

Bluetooth is also a bit of a challenge. There is some sort of race condition going on with the power states, and I am unsure of how to access all the call stacks at that time to see what is pulling the rug out from under an active bluetooth operation. I've also tried to make bluetooth power operations atomic but to no avail.

Being the only developer on this device is pretty difficult; I don't exactly have the knowledge of a Google engineer to figure these things out, nor do I have the time currently. Building has just become tedious at this point; my computer has spent more hours compiling CM9 than I have spent at work in the past month. The people who do know how to fix things at CyanogenMod are not being very helpful as this is a device they neither own nor have interest in. I'll look into things as I can but will say at this point we are pretty close to the end of development for this device on CM9.

CM10 is another beast which I will tackle once I have the time and resources. I can not compile CM10 at all because my build environment is 32-bit. The toolchain for jellybean is entirely 64-bit and Athlon XP does not have 64-bit support. I don't really have the money to get a newer build system currently, or disk space to run a virtual machine in.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Thanks for all the support. I hope you knew what you were getting into doing this for the community. Some people are dicks about it "WTF OMG this ROM hasn't been updated in a DAY!", some people are just curious (me), and some...no idea. I have two laptops laying around I could donate to you, but not sure they would do any good (a Dell 17" inspiron from 5+ years ago, and a old HP laptop, 15", maybe 3 years old?) I can dig them out and give you specs if you want (I assume you'll need something to handle the x64 instructions, correct?) I have a quadcore intel desktop, but it's running Win7 x64. I don't think I can compile with that, can I? I also have Eclipse installed and a GitHub account. If you want to walk me through making a build rig (if Win7 is a possibility) I can do that.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Wow, maybe we could see Jelly Bean on this device in the near future. BTW anyone else see "3G" on their device as apposed to 4G? I thought maybe this was because of T-Mobiles HSPA+ network as apposed to LTE. I have no idea.

Also, does anyone have a copy of the Q's stock ROM, or at least know where I can find one? I inadvertently deleted mine. In a worst case scenario I would need to flash back to stock.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
Sigh....

It's not about a new ROM a day it's that he's now the 5th person to quit this turd handset.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Also, these bulls**t comments. That ads no valve, and it makes you such a negative nancy. Why would I ever help someone like this?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
Go back one page to see my bug report. Check those dubs. I don' t see your bug report. And i was just about to PM chui and donate my stock Q so he didnt have to use uhis, and possibly back up its stock rom and maybe fix that crashing issue when you turn the screen on sometimes. An offer which is still on the table. I reserve the right to feel frustrated when my phone is abandoned by everyone including the manufacturer.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
I'm not quitting this handset, it's just that I'm nearing the end of what I can do given what I have. About all I can reasonably do right now is build nightlies that integrate whatever CM9 fixes are upstream. If I had the ability to do more I would still do more - the phone itself is good hardware. The only bull**** parts are that I do a better job than LG at providing software support, and that Qualcomm is not helping any open source projects. Just ask the people who are trying to get CM working on the HP Touchpad.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
There's a somewhat working stock ROM on the CWM thread, SMS/MMS may not work (due to CarrierIQ removal) but I use Google Voice so it's not a big deal...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
I should be able to build a fully stock rom from the latest LG update, so you can keep your Q (unless it's burning a hole in your pocket!). I just need a newer old computer or more disk space right now, but ace7196 might be able to help me in that department!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vxbinaca:
Honestly, right now CM10 is a distant thing. Right now i wanna fix the bug thats crashing the handset in CM9 when i turn on the screen. Chui if you flick the screen on and off youll see the crash. I kmsg'd the crash so anything else i can do ill do it. id provide a laptopbut im in the proscess of moving to it. im getting come cash in a few weeks so ill kick some your way then.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
I think that is actually a bug in the CM9 gralloc code that has recently been fixed, nothing specific to our device.

ALSO: I may have fixed bluetooth! Will be testing this tomorrow...

https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/q...it;h=167141c9b5bc94fdb5da5ec3a5c6543c80a7cd94

KNEW it was a race condition!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] skrambled:
Thank you for all your work and well written guides on this chui! My cousin just got an S3 and I wanted to see what I could do with this device. Flashed cwm and cm9 successfully thanks to your guides. Can't wait to show him that this device isn't a total POS!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
WARNING

My phone will no longer turn on. I think its because I was overclocking to 1.5GHz and I fried the CPU. I would not overclock past 1.2GHz if I were to do it over. Luckily It's under warranty and Tmobile has more important things to do than go through my phone and find a custom ROM. I am getting it replaced, unfortunately I had $40 ghost Armour all over it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
Had a revelation last night in my dreams and realized I was staring the workaround for the camera flash in the face all this time. It's now fixed.

Basically hacked up the Camera app to recognize both "off" and "auto" for flash purposes. Helps to keep a broader perspective... I was all obsessed with reverse engineering the camera HAL!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] droideastcoast:
Can you change the Title to add Canadian LG Eclypse C800G?

Can you change the Title to add Canadian LG Eclypse C800G? as its really the same phone as I have tested the T-Mobile US FW: 2.3.6 V10v http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata...00/V10V_00.kdz

and it also works on the CANADIAN Version Bell/Virgin LG Eclypse C800G.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
Done! Thanks for confirming.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] droideastcoast:
Your welcome.

Tomorrow I will post a Video of the CANADIAN Version Bell/Virgin LG Eclypse C800G running the T-Mobile US FW: 2.3.6 V10v http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata...00/V10V_00.kdz

with me flipping over the phone taking battery out and showing the model sticker as the model shows up in Android as the C800 not the C800G.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
Oh, I thought you meant you had tested CM9 on this. This is the CM9 thread, if you have stuff about stock rom please put it in that thread.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] droideastcoast:
sorry about that.

I have also tested the [ROM][CM9][ICS] CyanogenMod 9 I can also confirm that it too works. sorry about that BTW
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gagdude:
That's great news! Time for me to finally flash this ROM. (Oh yeah, just wondering, so camera flash is completely working, any small issues with your workaround?)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chui101:
In theory, there shouldn't be any issues with the workaround, but who knows. If my past is any indicator, there were some pretty convoluted logic statements that I probably put a parenthesis in wrong or something. But do let me know if anything seems wonky or some indicators pop up that shouldn't or whatever.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] skrambled:
I flashed the 8/20 update and it's running nicely! Camera flash is working fine, and High Brightness on Torch is working great too (on the 8/10 build the flash was flickering instead of staying lit). Great work chui!

I have a question about your installation instructions, which does not say to wipe cache/dalvic when updating from a previous cm build. I've run CM on a few devices and I think all have included instructions to wipe the cache partition and the dalvic cache prior to flashing the rom. Is that unnecessary for this device, or should it be included in the instructions?

EDIT: Also wanted to mention that on the cm 9 & 10 builds (and most other roms for that matter) that prior to flashing for a first time we've been formatting system in mounts/storage. Wouldn't this be especially important if your coming from 2.3.x to 4.0.x as in this cm9 build?

I used my wiping methods above for initial installation and for the update and didn't have any problems, I just have no idea if there's a benefit in the case of this device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gdc763:
thanks a lot chui!! the camera flash works great!! you're a phone programing/cm9 god... :)