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[HTC Desire S] flykthewiz:
The Menu button does open menus! After first boot go to setting/ display and buttons/ Recent apps button and select press for menu, press and hold for recent apps. this will make your buttons function normally except that recent apps will be on long press menu rather than long press home.

Which Sense 4 ROM are you using that allows you to customize lockscreen shortcuts? This hasn't been an option since Sense 3.6
[HTC Desire S] PVL_93_RU:
ViperSAGA has an option in Venom Tweaks to manually set the lockscreen shortcuts by yourself independetly from the launcher dock
[HTC Desire S] flykthewiz:
ok but thats not a standard sense 4 (lite or full) function
[HTC Desire S] makikaki:
can you please send me yours sys.txt , maybe that is the solution , or just copy/paste it here.

Tnx
[HTC Desire S] tnZ:
that sounds like you have to update 3 different ROMs every time? is this a good idea? i dont know how much work it is to have 3 versions of one rom but i havent seen something like this before.

but i cant understand the full sense 4 disscussion. There are a lot of full sense 4 roms out there...so i think this rom should stay on sense lite, maybe with some flashable addons.

but thats only my opinion
[HTC Desire S] giel123:
i agree this rom should definitely stay as light as possible! the speed of the rom is so great because of this i guess, so why mess with it. and indeed there are enough full sens roms out there for people who want those.

great work thantos! (best rom for ds!)
[HTC Desire S] holvoetn:
Keep it as light as possible as was the initial intention when you started.

When the bugs are ironed out for the most part, this is a very sweet ROM ! (it is already ;) )
[HTC Desire S] vampire36:
Long time back I had said a few words...Somehow today after seeing this post I feel its lost again in vain...not cribbing just saying the thought with which you had released the rom suddenly losing its sight...the vision :)

A perfect fast stable lite rom...fastest :P :P would be more favourable...with few addons and clean base :)

That should be the differentiators...clean base...fast as lightning...super lite yet rock stable...rather than trying to please a few users who want more full sense functions...or atleast relase a RC so that most users who use this rom...get a stable version and then when you have reached a point say like endymion you can go with themeing and tweak stuff...making it more complete...a perfect sense 4 lite rom :)...though i don't use the rom frequently but have in nandroid backed up :) loved its speed... Can assure most love it this way and hardly care about few sense 4 full features ...Satisfying all never possible...So just stick to your initial vision...:) Just an opinion with thoughts of most users who use and love the speed and cleanliness of your rom...:)
[HTC Desire S] twist3rtm:
I would have to agree with vampire36 on this matter. There are other ROM's with much more teaks&themes. After testing them I decided to stick with this one because it's light, fast, stable and with good battery performance. If I would need something more perhaps I would try other ROM's.
[HTC Desire S] spavian:
Please stick with the light version , the rom is fantastic . We have enough full sense 4 roms , try to make this one the fastest rom for Desire S . Thank you for your work .
[HTC Desire S] zacman:
and also I would have to agree with vampire36...
[HTC Desire S] giel123:
I hava no idea if this is even possible since i am no dev but maybe a solution could be creating flashable zips of extra things which people can individually flash if they want more features?

Just an idea, im not commanding you to do things :P

keep up the good work!
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
Just flashed this been running jelly bean for a while now. This Rom is so fast please keep it as sense 4.1 lite.
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
While I am sure your little experiment of creating a hybrid ROM was much fun I am also sure you reached the right conclusion. Can't wait to get my hands on version 1.0 final of this great light ROM.
[HTC Desire S] fireblade:
i must agree with the last few post: keep it light! ..and i guess it'll make your life easier.

while the idea to have one rom that can be set as either lite/hybrid/full sense is great i think it'll become hard for you to follow and address issues. if for you is not too time consuming you can always develop a spin-off (or two) of this rom with dedicated thread(s).

btw you've done a great job so far!
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
Wait your great "hybrid rom" thantos2024. Thanks for your wonderful work.

PD: don't forget my homescreens :laugh:
[HTC Desire S] dan_alexandre:
Hey, haven't been around for a bit.. sorry i didn't give feedback yet on the gps issues.. but life not always goes the way we want(kinda been needing my phone too much to reflash it) :p

As for your future plans, really looking forward to see what you do with the cleansed rom :)
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Thanks for all the comments everyone. There is obviously overwhelming support for this Rom to stay as it is and keep any further projects seperate, so that is what I am going to do.

I am currently working on a bug with the hwcomposer that occurs during boot that I think might be connected to some of the minor bugs people are experiencing, unfortunately this is proving a tricky fix and is taking some time to iron out. Once I have it licked I will sort a few other bits and pieces and then will release RC1 to ensure that there are no bugs left before final release.
[HTC Desire S] gabanciano:
Hi! :)

I'm still having no shortcuts on the lockscreen. :((

i think it's with my phone. :(
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
expect new version ...
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
I am still working the hwcomposer.so bug at the moment, it is just proving to be a monumental pain in the rear end to nail down. However as this is something I feel to be quite a large bug I really want to make sure I've got it nailed down before I release the next update, (particularly as the next update us going to be the release candidate,) so I'm afraid the date of the next update is a little up in the air, but I'm hard at it and hope to have it all sorted and the update ready over the weekend.

If however it continues to be a pain then I may release an incremental update to address some of the minor issues such as the fonts in the interim.
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
It is interesting to have patches that add functionality ...
[HTC Desire S] zacman:
hi thantos, please don't forget live weather clock and lockscreen widgets properties. these will make your rom very popular.
[HTC Desire S] zacman:
can we use this mod for desire xs2.01?

http://xdaforums.com/..........

it's cancelled. don't try please.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
As it has the 4x1 clock I would say that is for sense full and not lite, but if you want you could do a backup and try it but I have my doubts that it will work.
[HTC Desire S] zacman:
no friends, it's not worked and also my sense clock widgets are out of order. don't try.

and dear thantos lastly, i forget you say, i could not see any file exlorer apk in original XS2.01, it's very usefull for backups. think this. and thanks again.
[HTC Desire S] sasot:
video at 720p

Does anyone tried to shoot a video with 720p full HD using this rom? Does it have blue flickering screen while capturing? If none I will switch to this rom. :P
[HTC Desire S] BigPickle80:
Is it possible to turn off volume keys for controlling ringtone etc on lock screen

It keeps switching from silent to loud in my pocket :p

Sent from my HTC Desire S

---------- Post added at 12:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:02 PM ----------

It works fine I just tested for you mate, no blue flicker

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] mizerok:
Hey thantos! Hope rom will have an update today :) Any news about porting google now ?
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Hi all, just to update you all, the hwcomposer bug is sorted, (thanks garleest for pointing me in the direction of the issue.) I am currently working on the sound enhancer to increase the number of available settings. Google now will be available as an optional extra in the next update, (both online and off line modes), but be aware that it will use up most of the free space in /system/ and you will not be able to update it through the play store. Vanishing lockscreen icons and corrupted preview in camera will also, hopefully, be a thing of the past. I am currently working on bluetooth, and GPS as well as looking at increasing the number of homescreens to 7, providing that in testing it doesn't decrease performance when the extra screens are full of widgets. Full lockscreen will not be implemented at the moment as there is an issue that I have also noted on one or 2 other roms where the lockscreen clock actually overlays the homescreen for about a second when you unlock, a little thing I know, but it bugs the hell out of me so would expect it to bug other people so will investigate further.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Hadn't had a problem so didn't even think about it to be honest, won't be an immediate fix on it but I will add it to the thinks to look at once the rom is stable. (have a number of things that people have requested I just haven't actually got around to looking at properly yet, but nothing is forgotten about, just takes me a little longer than the seasoned devs to work through things.)
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
battery drain

Using 2.01 more than a week, had no problems till today. Unplugged the phone in the morning and barely used it (5 minutes of talk, no Wi-Fi or 3G), phone should have spent the whole day in deep sleep. Instead of the usual 2+ days uptime with moderate usage (2-3 hours of phone calls, 1-2 hours screen on etc.) it last for 14 hours (drop from 100% to 12%). The drain was so smooth, no extra (GPS or something) battery consuming processes. The phone wasn't restarted since the flash of the ROM, so I tried to charge it right after I restarted it (will come back to you with the result, if it will be the same I will try to flash the Tweaked3 XI kernel).

Anyone else with the same problem? Beside of this, the ROM is brilliant, thanks thantos2024!
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Just to let you know all the reason that I haven't posted any kind of update is that my computer died this afternoon. I'm pretty sure it is the graphics card finally giving up on me and will hopefully fond a replacement I can afford tomorrow.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Can't say I've had any battery issues myself, but, to be fair, I always have the phone on charge over night, and its spending a lot of te plugged onto the pc of late where I'm testing different things so it's not really had much chance to be an issue.
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
You should definitely install Better Battery Stats. The drain could be caused by anything - an app not terminating correctly, a rampant background service, whatever.
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
That was the first thing I tried, as always. ;) The only problem was RC1-5 was unable to start and show wakeups nor alarms. After restarting the phone yesterday midnight it seems the problem has gone, no significant drops in battery level, works as previously. I try to restart my phone as rare as possible, so if it happens again after a week, then something is wrong with the long term run (will come back if any). The weird is I didn't start anything else that was not started during the previous charging periods. To be honest, I removed a lot of programs and installed about 10 additional ones from Play Store, so have no idea what could cause the problem.
[HTC Desire S] mizerok:
Hey thantos! How your PC feel ? :D

P.s can't wait for update\changelog, can you write something we will have in rc1 ?
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Working on pc atm hope to have it up and running soon.

Rc1 will have the hwcomposer working correctly, google now will be an option in the aroma installer, the sound enhancer will have some extra eq settings enabled, will hopefully have fixed the disappearing lockscreen icons and corruption to video preview that some users were experiencing. Still need to finish and test extra homescreens. GPS should he fixed and hopefully fully fixed Bluetooth audio issues. Plus other little fixes here and there such as services.jar signature checking correctly patched landscape Rosie etc etc
[HTC Desire S] UmairAhmad:
Landscape rosie will be working... Thats cool... I think first light sense rom which has landscape option... Hats off
[HTC Desire S] Hungry hustler:
Hats off!
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Should say, that I have done the edits for landscape Rosie, but I didn't get chance to push the apk to my phone before comp died so haven't actually tested it yet but should work fine. I will admit, purely selfish reasons to include it as I use a dock pretty often so nice to have Rosie switch to landscape when it's docked up.
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
I'm anxious, I need rc1 ... ;)
[HTC Desire S] holvoetn:
Hey, nothing wrong making the ROM the way you want it foremost.

We can only benefit from your work and graciousness :)
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Okay comp still isn't booting, :mad:gonna go grab some parts of a friend of mine to track down the fault when he finishes work, but as he does shift work won't be for a couple more hours yet I'm afraid:(

Well after ripping everything else out of my pc and it all working fine in my mates pc, I tried my new graphics card in his system and guess what. The bloody thing doesn't work. Will get it replaced tomorrow guys and we'll be back in business.
[HTC Desire S] nodeffect:
I just hope its not caused by your power supply, cuz some power supply does cause some troubles ... Once my pc keeps restarting because of the ****ty PSU. But anyway, hope u got your pc back to normal.

Ok, back to topic. I just switch to this Rom from cooldroid. I love the full sense 4.1 on cooldroid but it gives me lag after and few days of usage, then I switch to this Rom. Eventhough its not full sense but this Rom gives me the smoothness that I really enjoying right now. Love everything about this Rom. Everything looks great and properly resized thanks to the same phone resolution ? And no resizing needed. I'm sticking to this Rom from now. Thanks.

Just a few suggestions ?

Would love to have different lock screen.

Would love to have full weather widget.

Would love to have option to adjust, add/remove quick settings.

Would love to have power+home button screen shot.

Thats all and thanks for your great Rom, much appreciated.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Nice to hear your enjoying the Rom, for the screenshot function, that is an easy fix as it has only been disabled in the build.prop due to interference with the sweep2wake function. There is an app in the themes and apps section that you can use to enable/disable both the screenshot function and sweep2wake function called simply sweep2wake enabler

As for the other functions they are something I'm looking at as an optional extra.

On the weather widget, do you mean the 4x4 widget? As that widget should be included.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
PC back up and running.

Okay all the good news is that I have my pc back up and running so can get back to sorting out the update:victory: I have been testing some of the mods that I was working on before my pc died and here is what I can confirm for the new release.

hwcomposer.msm7x30.so bug at boot fixed

google now is an option install through aroma

additional equalizer options as well as being able to switch between beats studio/ Pro/ibeats etc in Sound Enhancer

Rosie now has seven homescreens instead of 5, however this has caused all widget placement to have shifted over one screen first boot. ( am looking to fix, you will just need to move them manually for now. )

Hopefully missing lockscreen icons and corrupted video preview are fixed. (cant test properly as never had the issue.)

Autobrightness and captive button backlights tweaked

You will be able to select gps conf by regional location during install

Hopefully the gps lock will no longer keep resetting

And there is probably a few other bits I have forgotten about.

Unfortunately it looks like I haven't implemented all the code needed yet to enable landscape rosie, from what I can tell HTC completely removed the code in sense lite so I am having to port all the smail entries by hand. this is something I will keep working on in the hope I can get it functioning. (on the plus side alot of the xml code is still present its just the smali that need working out.)

I need to check a few other bits and peices and make some edits to the aroma installer then will hopefully have the update uploaded for you all later this evening.
[HTC Desire S] zacman:
big event and day for all us. thanks thantos and waiting. hopefully, live weather widgets are coming now....
[HTC Desire S] mizerok:
Yeah, today we can have an update! Thanks, i'm happy! =)

p.s. have you updated base to 1.18 ?
[HTC Desire S] makikaki:
The fault was in my sys.txt, thx craftman for sending me yours. Now everything is perfect
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
Oh my good... :eek: Thank you for this Christmas present thantos2024.

Sorry for my Google translator english.
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
Looking forward to the new version
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Sorry for the delay yet again guys, but in testing I have found that something I changed has broke the camera. It now does a silent force close whenever you try to do anything so I am just sorting that out first, can't in good conscience release an update with a busted camera. I will keep at it till it is fixed.

Okay have really screwed to pooch on the camera, and after spending several hours messing around with files I just remembered that my copy of 2.01 has some modded files in it from early testing, I have to assume that they are the problem, Unfortunately I have to get some sleep as it is now 3:10am and I have to be up at 6:30 to go pick up my sister in law. As soon as I get back from that I will download a fresh copy, work out exactly what the problem is and get the update rolled out.

I want to say thank you to you all for your patience, I know you have all been waiting and getting delay after delay so far. Please know this is my priority and come what may you will 100% have an update tomorrow.

There are 2 bugs that you will have with the 7 screen Rosie though which I'll let you know about now.

1: on first boot or a reset the scene is applied as though screen 3 is still the default smokescreen, so you will need to either shift all the widgets over one screen, or strip them off and start again.

2: When you go to add a widget etc to home it still only scrolls through the first 5, so to add to screen 6 or 7 you need to ensure you long press on those particular screens.

I will have these fixed up asap then release it as an incremental patch straight away.
[HTC Desire S] Jedioscuro:
Ehi don't worry! This is why the devs never talk about a release date but only say: "when it's done". We appreciate your work and we'll get the rom when YOU will decide that it's worth to be published. Otherwise we'll continue on support your work and wait. So now don't worry, sleep sound and don't forget to pick your sister in law :D

sent from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away...
[HTC Desire S] nodeffect:
Wow, I think you're the only dev who would keep updating us on the progress... It gives us high hopes and confidences... thank u so much... But anyway, take your time man, I'm sure all of us can wait for this awesome Rom. Very much appreciated. :)
[HTC Desire S] zacman:
thantos please don't make any change your camera apk. because your rom is one of no problem camera.
[HTC Desire S] nodeffect:
Totally agree! It doesn't makes the brightness to 100%... It keeps the same brightness value when using the camera.. its flawless...!
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Okay, now I can actually load up the XDA forums, (anyone else had trouble btw.) I can let you know what's happening.

I now have the stock one X camera.apk working perfectly, but of course it needs to be resized. I'm afraid that I got a bit waylaid today as my better half threw a surprise party for me for my birthday but should be able.to get the resizing done tomorrow and we should then be all set.:D
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
In this very special case: Happy Birthday!
[HTC Desire S] spavian:
Happy birthday , and keep the good work . Whe wait for the new Rom
[HTC Desire S] mizerok:
Happy birthday thantos! Wish you good luck in your life !
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
Happy birthday!!!!
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
Happy Birthday
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
we will have upgrade today thantos2024 ?
[HTC Desire S] Quark^2:
I'm happily running ICE_DS 6.5 now (for a while), but am curious about Sense 4.1 and this ROM seems to be to my taste.

Before I start thinking about upgrading: how is this ROM for a daily driver? If possible, compared to ICE :)

It has the same kernel and android version, so the difference should be in tweaks + Sense version...

What I need for a daily driver is: no lag (ICE_DS has some sometime, but not often to be annoying) and basically everything working (inc. camera).
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Well I've been using it as my daily science I started developing it and it works fine for me, a couple of users have had the odd little bug but nothing major.

It doesn't include any sort of tweak app atm, that's something I'm looking at attempting to build from scratch once the Rom is stable, but it does have quick settings APM etc, and us very smooth and fluid with no lags when scrolling through menus opening apps etc. Oh yeah, and the camera works 100% on all functions. (Burst, HDR, panoramic, capturing stills while recording etc.)
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Yeah, should be. Will resize the new camera.apk and then just a case of testing aroma.
[HTC Desire S] sasot:
Ok sir. I will flash now. :) no flicker also when watching the captured video?

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Nope, playback should be perfect, I spent slot of time sorting the egl and playback files out on this Rom, (if you compare to fallout for example this uses completely different egl files.)
[HTC Desire S] sasot:
Ok sir. Thanks. Same procedure like flashing in fallout? My device status is s-on, htc dev unlock. Other is on my siggy. Just to be sure before flashin. :)

Edit: i will flash now :) i'll just try. I iwill flash like what i did before. Still newbie with this. :(

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
Altough I'm running a different ROM, I appreciate both of your works. I wanted to leave my comment here just to tell you: this is what I would expect from a DEV thread - help each other. Keep up the good work

@thantos2024

+1 vote for as stock-like ROM as possible with a small amount of customization (QS, APM, Battery%)

@lowveld

Hope you are doing fine.
[HTC Desire S] sunand777:
any way nice rom... but when attending phone calls the sound is not clear..
[HTC Desire S] cybercat1:
I made "factory defaults erase", than 1 more shot with "Wipe cache + dalvik", no formatting of partitions. May be that was the reason...
[HTC Desire S] juancp:
Great ROM! Everything works perfectly fine, performance is amazing and battery life is exactly the same as Venom and Fallout. I normally prefer AOSP/AOPK roms for speed, but this is as close as you get and since it's Sense it doesn't break a whole bunch of stuff like AOSP does.

Excellent work! I've tested bluetooth with my car audio and it works perfectly. No sound problems like some people are reporting on Venom.

Thanks a lot! :)

Edit: Forgot to mention, absolutely no problems with SuperSU. Using Titanium Backup and ES File Explorer mounting root as rw, no issues there. I'm guessing the previous poster didn't fully wipe before installing. (I'm using EXT4 recovery)
[HTC Desire S] mizerok:
Installed, what i can say. I can't say anything...... it's fastest rom that i tried even without overclocking...

My tests in Antutu:

1) Ondemand + sio + 1.2 Ghz = 3650

2) Ondemand + sio + 1.5 Ghz = 4250

3) Interactive + sio + 1.5 Ghz = 4500