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[Thunderbolt Android Development] dapbmonkey4u:
So I am back on Gingeritis 3D after running the 10-26 Rom. I guess I am a sense fanboy.

The Rom runs great. I did not have any random reboots or text garbling.

The camera worked but was s little wonky at first to get working. The option for custom pulldown shade wallpaper fc and won't load. But a huge deal to me, just mentioning it. My only real gripe is coming from a reboot or initial setup the time it took to get the data connection with Google servers to be able to get play store access is excessive in my opinion. This is pretty Damn flawless to me...but again I am just a sense fanboy and I am back home.

If you flash this Rom you are in for a treat as long as you follow correct flashing directions. Enjoy and great work!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
What is otg usb anyway? I have seen you post this before and I ask why you just dont flash the Rom and find out? It's a tiny Rom and would take a couple of seconds for you to find out for sure if it will work. Twisted this 10-26 build is amazing. The audio is perfect and putting dsp manager in here wasn't even necessary imo. So far everything is smoother than ever and I'm loving the battery life. I added some build prop tweak I found and it has helped tremendously.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Link_of_Hyrule:
I'm pretty sure that the HTC Thunderbolt lacks the hardware to do OTG or HDMI out or anything of the sort even if the rom did support it.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Klonopin:
So that means formatting all partitions to ext4? Or just the System partition?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
If you're on a Rom that is formatted as ext3 you'll need to format all the partitions to ext4 before you flash because the format script during flash only does the system.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] gobraves00:
All the sudden I can't see any of my emails now. I'm on the newest build. Everything was working fine earlier. Don't know what I have done since this morning. Any ideas would be great.

Edit. So I rebooted. Had to turn wifi off then back on again. Pulled up email and I was able to see my emails again but then I got my first random reboot:(

sent from thunda down unda
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Klonopin:
Issue with Settings>Backup & Reset>Build Backup - log included

Hi there Twisted,

I just wanted to point out a bit of an issue I attempted to isolate that includes the Backup & Reset feature "Build Backup/Restore".

I know that this function already exists in Titanium Backup, but sometimes Titanium Backup doesn't restore it properly, so I've created this log to show you the errors and also took screenshots for you as well.

Log: View attachment mecha.ics.102612.error.backup.restore.txt

Screenshots:
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Klonopin:
Thanks for the information, now its time for me to rewipe and reflash - hopefully this may solve some of my issues.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] FirePsych:
Wiped, formatted and partitioned all but sd. Reformatted ext4 all options two times.

Relashed 10/26

Running 10/26 now for 8 hours without a problem.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Link_of_Hyrule:
In my honest opinion I don't think ext4 formatting really does much of anything it's a placebo because ext4 doesn't fix broken code. Usually I can wipe and flash a new build and not have problems for a week before the garbled text and other issues reappear so who knows what exactly causes them pretty sure that there are holes in the code that need to be fixed and twisted is working his very best to fix it. Maybe ext4 makes things smoother or faster if that's the case than Twisted you should probably modify the installer script to format the system to ext4 other wise let's not waste our time on this ext4 business. It's like the different between Fat32 and NTFS yeah NTFS is better but if Windows has bugs that's not going to fix it.

EDIT: The install script for this rom formats the system to ext4 anyways. So anyone using this rom has an ext4 system.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
I thought I already established that the script formats only the system as ext4. The rest however is only being formatted in ext3. I just figured things would be better if they are consistent with one another. It does feel and perform a lot better setup this way imo. Seems to install a little faster and boot faster as well. Could be a placebo. I'm not at all saying this is the solution to people's problems. Just something I wanted to point out. I noticed typically the install script usually formats all the partitions the same way except this one.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Link_of_Hyrule:
The script only formats the system not anything else. My question is other than a script how in TWRP do you format data/cache/dalvic whatever else to ext4? Honestly I've looked at 4Ext and it doesn't seem like it offers as many features or as good of an interface as TWRP Recovery. TWRP just got completely rewritten in C++ and updated to Jelly Bean recovery from AOSP source so things like fix permissions are a lot faster like 10 seconds instead of 15 minutes.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] pricematthew4143:
Thanks I was afraid of that
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
I've never used twrp but it's really quite simple to do with 4ext. Just go into tools, select wipe/format ext4, then factory reset in that menu and select each partition you want to format in ext4. Or you could just make a nand backup of the rom and use the tools menu to co.vert the backup to ext4. It's simpler just to do it prior to flashing though.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Link_of_Hyrule:
Yeah I think that is like the only thing that TWRP lacks it seems that it doesn't have an actual option to choose in the gui what you format it to but meh. Someone should just make a script for TWRP that converts everything to ext4 if it is that much better.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] DrunkUncas:
Just to throw a bit more chaos into this discussion, I guess now would be a good time to admit that I've been formatting everything ext3 for the last 6 weeks now. I've bounced between liquid and sense builds, with the occasional restore of CM7.1.1

I usually wipe everything, format everything, then flash.

I've had consistent data with no drops since MR2, with the combo radio and .19
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Link_of_Hyrule:
And thus my point is proven data drops and whatever isn't solved by ext4 LOL.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
The only gain to be had from formatting in ext4 is a slight performance boost. It has nothing to do with the radios or the GPS. It may help people that are getting fcs which is the reason I pointed out that only the system was being formatted in ext4
[Thunderbolt Android Development] hallstevenson:
From my Linux experience, I'm certain that ext4 isn't faster. ext4 is (or was) nothing more than ext3 with journaling added. Journaling is a reliability feature, not performance.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
It also included the ability to view extremely large file sizes. Read this article here and you will see why it improves performance.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
[Thunderbolt Android Development] FirePsych:
19 hours in and I have garbled text. Bummer. I guess that supports the whole "ext4 doesn't really make the difference theory", at least as it relates to specific issues.

Has anyone had the garbled text on 10/22 or 10/25?

Still, the smoothes AOSP ICS rom I've run so far.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Klonopin:
Hate to tell you this man, but the garbled text has nothing to do with the format of your partitions, or any of the builds.. its the GPU.. and as many have said, until we get an official kernel leaked or made, we're going to have rough areas.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] FirePsych:
Right the first part was kind of my point. The prep didn't make much of a difference, if anything maybe it delayed it, but I haven't controlled for all of the variables.

I was wondering though if it seemed more prevalent on the most recent release compared to previous releases. I don't recall having it as often on the other ICS releases, but again, overall, this is the smoothest. Just wonderin'
[Thunderbolt Android Development] hallstevenson:
Fair enough.... I'll bet you that any performance gains are such that the user will NEVER notice them though. On paper or in theory, yes, it could be faster. In reality, no.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dvgb173:
Do you want to share?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
Paste this at the bottom of the build prop

# Battery Saving

ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=0

pm.sleep_mode=1

debug.performance.tuning=1

debug.composition.type=hw

debug.sf.hw=1

persist.android.strictmode=0

persist.sys.use_dithering=1

persist.sys.ui.hw=true

persist.sys.purgeable_assets=1

ro.com.google.networklocation=0

ro.kernel.android.checkjni=0

ro.config.nocheckin=1

ro.vold.umsdirtyratio=20

dalvik.vm.checkjni=false

dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit

video.accelerate.hw=1

profiler.force_disable_err_rpt=1

profiler.force_disable_ulog=1
[Thunderbolt Android Development] woodt94:
What does this do exactly?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] crackedvenom2:
Also wondering if you want to clarify

Sent from my Thunderbolt with Ice Cream Sandwich
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
There are so many there to explain they all do something g different of course. Parts of it disable error reporting and another part of it is disabling the logging of errors. Another aspect of it makes the phone sleep a little deeper and there is one in there that frees up RAM. One of them enables video acceleration which probably isn't totally necessary but it won't hurt if it is.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbornack:
Also, having issues receiving pictures when there is text with it. Just a pic, no problems.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bright2018:
What kind of battery life are you guys seeing? Mine seems to be slowly going down here with every build (been dirty flashing).

I'm using the 1750 extended battery.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ryanstfl:
As far as build tweaks; try Pimp my Tom, search the forums, really useful tweak utility.

sent from Tapatalk 2 on an HTC Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt Android Development] FirePsych:
Killer battery life in a good way on Rezound battery.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jonah1234:
LOL! I think you meant Pimp my Rom.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] crashdau:
I did search of the thread, but didn't see it mentioned anywhere....how do you remove the Google Search Widget? It won't let me select it to remove it.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bright2018:
The stock battery or an extended one?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] lukesed:
This is not a direct answer to your question, but I've found that Nova Launcher works really well with this ROM.

Even the free version gives you multiple options for when/if/how the search widget should appear.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] crackedvenom2:
I've been getting freezes with apex. Maybe I'll try nova again

Sent from my Thunderbolt with Ice Cream Sandwich
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Shadow Death:
I went into work at 11pm last night at 89% and left work at 6:30am at 79%... that was basic usage though. I used it mainly for an alarm while at work so I know to do certain things at certain times.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
Disable persistent search bar in launcher settings.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dvgb173:
Any way to turn off transitions and animations?

Doug B.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] localceleb:
Dates in the thread title would make the progress of this rom easier to follow. Just an honest suggestion.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jonah1234:
Is there any way to disable emoticons in text messages.

Sent from my CM9 HTC Thunderbolt from Tapatalk 2.4
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Klonopin:
I'd also like to know this, but I found if you disable page notifications in your app drawer it helps
[Thunderbolt Android Development] tuckandroll:
Love this rom but the blank emails have gotten worse in this latest build idk why.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] 1337GamingNinja:
Have you made sure that your Gmail app is a system app rather than a user app?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] hallstevenson:
That doesn't work. Many of us have already tried it with no luck.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Klonopin:
Here's my latest battery life and this is without any additions to the prop file.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Shadow Death:
One thing I have noticed is that android and Linux, though they may have the same core features, are still different and used on different hardware. A desktop or server can run Linux like a dream but try running a Linux diatro on a phone and I bet it will run very different. A desktop or server may not notice a difference between ext3 and ext4 because of the raw power the processor produces, these phones on the other hand run on a processor which uses a battery. Not being as powerful as today's desktops something as small as changing the file system may actually have a noticeable effect. Either way it certainly does not hurt to use it.

Honestly, I had to do a clean flash of the last build. My apps finally just didn't like having a new system flashed around them. So I started clean and those were my battery stats before I messed with the build prop today.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dvgb173:
Found it under developer options>transition animations and window animations. They both have an off setting.

Edit: doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Doug B.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
The whole reason I pointed it out was because people were reporting force closes and I figured maybe havING the file system the same may help that.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] FirePsych:
Stock Rezound battery .
[Thunderbolt Android Development] premiso:
@ Gmail's going blank. I was messing with the LCD Density, and I think that may have something to do with them going blank. I am currently running LCD Density at 160 and have not had a blank email in 2 days. Could just be chance, but worth a shot for others to try.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] hallstevenson:
Don't trust the battery percentage reading. I can frequently charge mine for 1-2 hours and know that it should be almost to 100% after say 2 hours, but it's only reading 60%. I reboot and .... it jumps to 100%.

Wiping battery stats, etc, etc don't help at all. And remember, a Google/Android s/w engineer said it's a placebo effect anyway !

---------- Post added at 11:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:48 AM ----------

A negative side-effect of changing the density is many apps won't show up in the Market as they will think your phone is incompatible with the app(s).

Did you go from 240 to 160 ? That's quite a change ! People generally bump it by 10 or maybe 20.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] premiso:
Yea, it was actually at 120, I like my screen smaller. But 120 had a few issues, so I bumped it to 160 and that is when I noticed my gmails not going blank anymore.

As far as the apps, that explains a lot! I was wondering why some stuff wouldn't work. I just used an apk fetcher using my touchpad ID and downloaded / installed fine. But I do not do a ton of apps and most of the ones I do I already have the apk for anyhow. But that makes a lot of sense and great to know.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
Were you able to use the dialer? Once you go down to far the dialer won't work and sometimes the lockscreen won't work either.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] kr0n1c:
This is driving me crazy. In settings under display I un-tick the "Auto-rotate screen" option. The homescreen doesn't auto rotate but every app does. I go back into the settings and the auto-rotate screen option is checked! Anyone know a fix? I already checked to make sure it wasn't my launcher (Nova)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Link_of_Hyrule:
Well other than the composition bypass I don't think the other settings are sticking. The garbled text has appeared once again I fear it's a bug that will never die.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] premiso:
The dialer and lock screen work fine. However, when I went down to 90 nothing really worked. But on 160 everything seems to work fine.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jonah1234:
Is there anyway to disable emoticons in text messages?

---------- Post added at 12:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:46 PM ----------

You can also use lcd density modder pro which comes with a modded market. Does the phone work for you?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] facted:
I have managed to incorporate Google Now into this build using the link that was provided earlier in this thread, but does anyone know how to update this version that's available to the new version of Google Search that was released today?

Also, has anyone else noticed difficulty in getting data on either 4G or wifi when switching between the two? Often when I switch from one to the other, I don't have data on my phone until I disable and re-enable whatever mode I've switched to a few times. Kinda annoying. Using the .19 antennas.

Loving this ROM, though!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jumpman1229:
Sorry for the noob question but this is the radio, correct?

Also, what is the recommended radio for this rom or any of Jester's or Liquid's ICS roms?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] DrunkUncas:
.19 radios on all of them
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bright2018:
Wiping battery stats seemed to help me out some.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Link_of_Hyrule:
I would say if you actually let your phone die all the way and charge it up all the way that'll fix the problem usually.

Edit: well the composition type is working I guess it only shows when you click it. Going to try out c2d for a while.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] gobraves00:
Blank emails again. Damn. I gotta have emails for work. I don't use Gmail I use the email app phone has on it from rom. Anyone got any tricks other than rebooting the phone.

sent from thunda down unda
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ss0mohit:
why does nova keep closing?

I'll have like 2-3 processes open in the background and a lot of the time after I press home to get back to nova, it'll keep reloading my applications in the app drawer
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dvgb173:
Yeah. Under Settings> Developer Options> The last option: Kill app back button. Check this.

Then when you get blank emails, long press the back key to kill the app. Then re-open email. Works for me. YMMV.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Dwazzue:
Or just use advanced task killer free and kill all apps or just Gmail. Also works if you get garbled launcher text to kill launcher with it.

Only had garbled launcher text once. But use it every time to kill email or Gmail when they are blank.

Like that I can kill everything as well...
[Thunderbolt Android Development] facted:
Did you install with a full wipe? I bit the bullet, got myself ext4, and did a full wipe (left sd card) intact, and haven't had any gmail issues, and more importantly haven't had any reboots either. Prior to doing this I was getting both (with the latest version of this rom). I was using ClockWorkMod Recovery before that.

On another note, does anyone have any issues switching between wifi and 4g? When my phone does this, it's almost like the switch doesn't work even though it shows up on my notification bar that it does. But the data won't work until I manually turn off/on 1 or 2 times then mode that I've switched into. Thoughts?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbornack:
I still get this now and then. Even after an initial Airplane Mode on/off. Most recently, I've been having issues with SMS/MMS while on WiFi. I'll leave my house, and all of the sudden people will get a queue of SMS/MMS messages from me. They say then send, without error, but they appear to sit in some queue until I pull off of WiFi.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] hallstevenson:
That is strange and suggests you're actually losing 1x data as well as 3G and/or 4G/LTE. On the one hand, data is data, so it sounds normal but I don't recall others mentioning losing 1x data nor having it turned off while WiFi is connected. 3G and/or 4G/LTE, yes, and that's actually by design.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Spikelangelo:
I have a question about incoming calls. On my girlfriend's ICS the incoming caller picture is full screen with an overlay of the answer/reject buttons. On this ROM the caller picture is obviously full screen with an overlay of the answer/reject orb but it's as if the overlay doesn't have a transparent background. Half of the screen is black so you only see the forehead of who is calling. Is this a bug? I've looked through the settings in the phone/contacts thinking there would be options to change how to answer the phone but there aren't any. I am using the stock phone/dialer included with this ROM.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbornack:
Exactly.. and when MMS is sent, I ***DONT**** see 3G/4G kick on to send it. Side note, why doesn't it send to VZW over WiFi somehow?

Anyways.. I keep mobile data on when I'm on WiFi, so that's not it.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
Running fine here. Data is solid. Not one drop yet and I've had them all day on several different roms today.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] RBarnett09:
Which radios are you using?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
605.19 the leak radios give me random reboots and all others are far worse. It has been good the past few days so I'm thinking its partially something Verizon is doing.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] crackedvenom2:
Edit

Figured it out. Never mind.

Sent from my Thunderbolt with Ice Cream Sandwich
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Dark Jedi:
No its just like every other liquid ics build. With that hacked ril it will give you data drops all over the place. While trying to download something off the market I watch it cycle fast from 1x to 3g to 4g about 5 times and then crashed to where I had to place in airplane mode to just get data back. The last rom I was on data was solid and using the leaked combo radios. So I know its not the radios as I was running SHIFTAO5P_HACK3D_V2.8 and no data drops nothing, I personally wouldnt use this rom as it will give you the same frustration as all the other liquid ics builds with data, Till they can get a better ril built these roms based off that ril will suffer the same drops over and over. As I typed this I watched my data drop 5 times.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] disconnecktie:
Since you didn't read my previous post I'll clarify for you. I've been running the liquid ics builds for over a month and haven't had data drops like I've been getting today. All day yesterday I had no problems and today its all crazy. I went back to a rom this morning that I know had good data and I still get data drops. I'm not blaming anyone for this and I know the ril is hacked together. And again I'm not even going to try the leaked radios because I get random reboots with them. They are junk.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Dark Jedi:
I have ran every single liquid ICS build and all of them data drops and even ran protekks version with the same results. All of them had to toggle airplane mode to get it back. I have tried every combo of radios out there. I am not the only one that experiences this. Everything else on the rom I love and wish I could use as a DD but where I live I am heavily dependent on my data.