[HD2 Android NAND Development] wwchang:
Hey folks, I've considered it before to add an visible icon for the Power button, but frankly it just looked too hokey, because of the way the CM 9 / 10 team has scrunched together the end buttons, for the tiny Search button originally - it's their fault, and it's a difficult get-around.

So I just settled on referencing an 'invisible icon' that it should appeal to most for this situation.

Actually, it's a CM issue that they don't include a Power button to begin with, and it seems to me to be some inside-political reason for this - I can't figure any other reason why they do a Search button but not a Power, and it's just as easy for them to code for a Power button.

Believe me, if you look at the SystemUI.apk source for the soft buttons layouting, in the NavBar editor, they can make a Power button just as easily - it's by choice really, and even if you submitted your version to their githubs I bet they wouldn't accept it.

CM is not AOKP, and AOKP has by far a better soft button scheme we all know.

But AOKP doesn't have a mature tablet mode like PA, and I think PA runs the best overall in any case - just a better android /framework that runs faster than even CM10.

But that's the state of things - what can you do, right?

Maybe the newest PACman v16. is working better than v15.

Actually, melando told me Xylo's back from his 'recoup break', and I'm relieved for that really.

When Xylo left to take a break a couple of weeks ago, I guess I thought he wasn't coming back so I actually felt compelled to do some ports for myself - so I put together some ports of my own, of AOKP JB04, JB05 using tytung's CM10 JB 1.1 as a /lib jni-wrappers base & kernel, which ran pretty well, and then even tried doing PACman 15.0(?) from szl.kiev's xperia thread, that Xylo had referenced in his OP.

Anyway, I got the feeling that kovjanos had, that szl.kiev's PACman wasn't mature enough, really just didn't run that well, so I started to try porting PA, about the same as kovjanos, but with PA 2.50 & 2.51 at that time.

So actually, I feel so connected to kovjanos' effort, because I think he went thru a very similar process recently, of trying to do the PACman port, and then not being satisfied with szl.kiev's build at that time, and then going back to ParanoidAndroid.

Especially too that I mostly use tablet 720px mode on ParanoidAndroid, and the PA 2.5x status bar clock had the day of week, month, in big fonts.

The PACman 15.0 tablet mode status bar clock was hacked so small by szl.kiev, and I don't know if the latest szl.kiev PAC is the same or not.

Even right now, I'm using my own port of PA 2.52 too, that I was telling kovjanos in a pm, but I couldn't get the phone / data to activate - just kept giving me 'no mobile network' when making phone calls, which frustrated me for days, argh.

(Ha, but so much thanks kovjanos because after that 1st pm to you, I winmerge diff'd your /framework/framework-res.apk and found out that yours had a modified...

/framework/framework-res.apk/bools.xml

..<bool name="skip_restoring_network_selection">false</bool>

and this is the key flag for making the phone and data activate.)

Argh, didn't mean for this to become some kind of porting tirade.

So I'm glad that Xylo is feeling up to making a rom as maybe more to your liking. I know a lot of you guys and gals need him a lot, and it's a not-so-small responsibility for him to feel up to providing for you - so more encouragement and bolstering to him. I have learned so much from him when it comes to porting to the hd2, and just don't express often enough how much I appreciate him - even his small 'porting guide' that he'd posted to the ParanoidAndroid thread itself, a long while back, has some super tips.

I like kovjanos' rom quite, because I like PA a lot, esp the tablet mode - and I think kovjanos has done an over-the-top job on his rom - it's very well thought out, very complete, has many options for apps to include or not, etc - great effort.

..and now, the aroma installer should be mostly worked out too - i suggest for anyone who has experienced any puzzling issues, esp coming from v1.2, to install v1.4 with the updated installer.

But wrt to the visible icon for the Power button, I'd have to say *I probably will not change it* - really sorry, folks.

Because it really doesn't look too good if you actually saw it that way.

J, if you are interested to change it please be do - you can decompile the button modded SystemUI.apk and winmerge diff with the unmod'd SystemUI.apk, and see exactly what changes I've made. I'm sure you will see it immediately.

Or someone in the threads, feel free to make any changes you wish, to your heart's content - it's an open source place here anyway, more-or-less.

Right now, I've been in the process of shifting to a different phone (sg n7100 'note 2') and all the issues with that, and for my eur & tmous hd2s I'm actually using my own port of PA 2.52.

If PACman has improved since szl.kiev's v15 build, I'd say just to use that.

And if you like a pure version of PA, esp for tablet mode, I'd recommend to use kovjanos' new PA rom - very well put together, and I know he's extremely committed and almost tireless to deliver you his best rom effort.

Personally I'm compelled to support kovjanos, just because I've been going thru his almost exact process for the hd2 the past couple of weeks - it's just more along the lines of how I've been thinking lately for the hd2, no other reasons - pure coincidence, and personal comraderie feeling for me.