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[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

In fairness to team venom they have done some very good work in respect to things like their tweaks package, but I think that perhaps they have over extended themselves trying to keep so many projects going at once and as a result there communication with users, particularly on some of the older devices they support has suffered. Also I feel that they keep too tight a grip on an improvements they come up with in an attempt to keep there roms as popular as possible rather than sharing for the betterment of the community as a whole. (After all we are all here to try and make things better for everyone aren't we?) But as they took the time to do all the coding work needed to make those improvements, then that is completely their right and we shouldn't hold it against them for doing so, after all under xda rules the second they share something with anyone, then it can be used by anyone at anytime and they lose control of how its used and where, so I suppose that is why they do it. It wouldn't surprise me though if in time we see them start reducing down the number of devices they support to a core few, which, although would mean a loss some devices, would be a good thing for those that they continue to support as they would be able to offer better support to the end users. Also, please don't forget that the viper Rom was only released onto the Desire S after pressure from users to do so when torxx mentioned that it wouldn't be released because he didn't think it was ready.

Edit, as an aside this is starting to slide towards being off topic, so to pull it back, would people like to be able to choose between having the carrier name always show in the notification bar as it does now and not in the final version as some people said they found it useful for roaming etc.
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
It is unnecessary, working perfectly. The way he described in his post led me to this result. I'm still on beta 2.01, so if something has been changed since, than sorry for my post. And congrats to your "new" phone, take care of it and your dog! ;)
[HTC Desire S] twist3rtm:
If it's possible I would like to have the name of the carrier when there are no notifications. It is indeed really useful when in roaming.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Oh nice, don't need to worry about it then.

Yep, confirmed as well on the test version I'm working on. Basically that bottom right button links to the last music app used. To change it, add the shortcut to the app you want in the HTC music app. Then open the car app and scroll to the right to show music apps list. Open the app you want, then when you next go back to the car app the icon in the bottom right will switch to the app you last selected.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Say guys I was wondering if someone with better artistic skills than me would be interested in putting together a boot animation for the Rom? I'm not thinking of anything too fancy, even something as simple as an inverted HTC ONE X boot animation but saying HTC Desire XS instead obviously would be great, something simple .just think that a polished custom boot logo would be a nice little addition.

Sent from the person sitting in the dark.behind you.
[HTC Desire S] eisenger:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

The boot animation of htc Droid DNA, can be a great boot animation for this amazing rom. :)
[HTC Desire S] gsimeonov:
Just without the boot sound, huh? Silent is always better :fingers-crossed:
[HTC Desire S] robertut:
In which version? On my Desire S with your Desire XR RC 1 this doesn't work for me! Scrolling to the right in car app brings up only TuneIn, the other icons don't appear, which were added to the music app...

Help!
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
hmm, could be then that some of the changes to RC1 broke the feature, I will have a look at what is happening.
[HTC Desire S] fblasot:
R: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Not a big problem (in RC1), just to report:

when I'm setting the contact's picture I can choose it from different sources like gallery, take with camera, google, google+, facebook, whatsapp and Skype (of course you can be different...).

The lasts 2 are the only that doesn't have the image, just the standard black head, but in the respective apps the images are present...
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Guys I am a bit behind as I have been roped into repairing other halfs kid sisters laptop, but RC2 will be given to beta testers by the end of the day. (Just want to go through and double check things like the installer before I send it out.)

Remeber for the next version you will need to be on one of the new hboots and preferably on radio 3831.19.00.110
[HTC Desire S] Cole07:
IDK is there a test group but I'm ready for test rom. I'm already using Test Rom and haven't any problem (if carrier name on statusbar isn't a bug :) )

And a suggestion: Amidabuddha's new patched kernel in RC2 or 2nd test rom would be great
[HTC Desire S] Jedioscuro:
I would love a bootanimation dedicated to this rom. Unfortunately i haven't the necessary skill to do such a job...

But please try to figure it out, cause you deserve it!
[HTC Desire S] orbinho:
skins

and also if you can add more skins, and another thing, sometimes when i press the power button the screen comes on but you can see a very small delay, is this a known issue or it's just me reporting it ?
[HTC Desire S] HelixH:
After deleting the TuneIn app and installing the TuneIn Pro App from the Amazon App Store I can't even add TuneIn to the car mode. It appears in the Music App but not in the list of music apps in car mode.
[HTC Desire S] puit:
any reason to prefer the new hboot? i would rather stay on the revolutionary hboot 6.98....
[HTC Desire S] robertut:
There is a revolutionary 7.00.1002...

According to this, v6.98 has to be updated because "It is recommended that after unlocking your device with Revolutionary you install an ENG bootloader, so that you can easily upgrade and downgrade your bootloader if required in the future - not doing so can lead to difficulties".
[HTC Desire S] jugg1es:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

I have had no issues whatsoever with any rom on the radio and hboot in my sig. The radio is the only thing i haven't changed on this phone :D

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
[HTC Desire S] BeatB:
AW: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

I thought the op is talking about the latest original hboot from HTC.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

There are several versions of the new hboot with the seperate lib partition available, the reason I am switching to using these types of hboots is that making use of them allows enough free space for me to reodex the Rom.

There isn't any real advantage to the old hboot over the newer ones other than a slightly larger cache, but given the size of cache available that really doesn't make any difference, having a version of the new type of hboot just means that devs have a bit extra space to play with when designing there Roms. I personally wpuldnt be surprised to see this being taken advantage of more in the future, although I will admit, would have been better if HTC had simply added the extra space to the system partition if they were going to be moving the partitions round rather than go and create a whole new one. I know that on some devices they have actually created completely custom partitions to give them the space they needed for some of the later sense roms. Can't help wondering if the same could be done for the Desire S. Just think, no more juggling apps around just to make a Rom fit.

I am just fixing a bug that appeared in the camera on the new version, for some reason using burst capture now causes the camera app to freeze and force close. As soon as that is sorted I will hand it over to the testers, they will have a couple of days to stress the Rom to see if I broke anything else, then it will be released as RC2, by which time I hope to have version one ready to head out to the testers.
[HTC Desire S] holvoetn:
Q: why reodex the rom besides space ? I thought that nowadays it does not make that much difference performance wise ?

Plus it makes it harder to apply new kernel versions...
[HTC Desire S] robertut:
I had issues with camera not taking correct videos in 720p resolution, with certain ROMs. New radio fixed all of them.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

It's not just about space, when the Rom has been deodexed, the system has to basically reodex an app before it runs it, this is part of what the davlik cache is all about, now while with newer handsets their processing power is such that they can do this a lot quicker than before, it still takes up a lot of cpu cycles, meaning that your cpu is pegged at higher frequencies for longer, which in turn means more power used causing reduced battery life.

Given how battery life on any smart phone suffers with heavy use any thing that can be done to increase it is a good thing, and given that I have had over 6 hours screen on time on the odex test version (got the handset fully charged, unlocked it, pulled the plug and then used it constantly till about 5% battery left.) I think it's worth the effort.

The other reason is that it goes with the the premise of this Rom. Users may recall a post I made a little while back with regards to how HTC had released the abortion that was the ics update for the desire s saying that it was the best we could get and how our Desire S wasn't capable of running Sense 4 in any way shape or form, I promised to prove them completely wrong by releasing a Rom that would be a match to a HTC official release as close as physically possible. Reodexing the Rom and using the new hboot is a part of that process. With the Rom deodexed all on the old hboot, you could argue that HTC still never could have released it officially as all manufacturers deodex their Rom and it simply wouldn't fit on the old hboot. However they made the new hboot part of the ics update but still said they couldn't sense 4 in any form to work on the desire s. This Rom proves they are 100% wrong. Belive me if I could find a way to do it I would take the hboot and radio as well and convert the Rom into a full RUU so that everyone could use it regardless of whether or not they were on a full stock rom.

I will continue to work at trying to do the same thing with future versions of android and HTC sense as well, after all even if the desire X doesn't get updated, there will ha another handset we can take it from somewhere.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
okay, so got the camera sorted out, just need to fix some errors in the install script and it'll finally be ready to send to the testers. Other than the camera bug and the install script everything else looks good. Hopefully the beta testers will come to the same conclusion.
[HTC Desire S] razi914:
what will be the Changelog from RC1 to RC2?
[HTC Desire S] DarthSimian:
I am not sure if you managed to solve the bluetooth headset issue. But this solution worked for me. I don't know if it has any other side-effects though

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36138018&postcount=15
[HTC Desire S] peters.:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Is the official Wikipedia app working? On my phone it starts, but can't load any page, it thinks it is offline.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Sorry for the continued delays in getting this out to the testers, but in going over the boot time logcats for a final chech, I have discovered that it is throwing a manifest error for the framework-res that I want to look into first. I apprieciate that the delays are frustrating, but I want to get as many bugs as I possibly can nailed before I release it, this particular I admit at first glance doesn't seem to cause any issues right now, but I want to be sure that it wont cause an issue further down the line.

@peters. I will try out the Wikipedia app and see what is happening with it.

I will post a change log up later for you all.
[HTC Desire S] arkhan11:
black screen on opening certain apps

Hi guys, I've been following this rom since beta1.6 and I think ATM it is the best one for our DS. I've just one problem I can't figure out. Some apps I install remain with black screen after opening. It happens with evernote (v4.5.4) and LMT launcher. I sorted it partially out installing evernote 4.5.1 and no updating it. nope for LMT. I also fear that other apps may have this issue, too. anyway no problem with other roms. how to fix this? are there any installation tweaks which may cause this? thanks!
[HTC Desire S] peters.:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Pls have a look on this post, it should fix these problems:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37628758
[HTC Desire S] arkhan11:
Duh! .... I searched in the thread for 'black screen' and there wasn't that! bah! mistery.

anyway man thanks :) I'll test it in minutes.

----update----

great! it works! thanks to you for replaying me and to developer for the flashable zip.
[HTC Desire S] twist3rtm:
I am planning to upgrade to the final version of XS rom when will be done. I am currently on the beta version and for now I'm happy with it.

As I see thantos will advise to use a certain bootloader and radio.

To use the beta version of XS rom I've just unlocked with the htcDev tool. So I'm not S-OFF, I'm still S-ON:

SAGA PTV SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-2.00.002

RADIO-322.10.08.04_M

and 4EXT recovery.

So I in order to use the final version I have to upgrade the HBOOT and Radio.

As far as I know, I cannot upgrade to another Hboot and radio without S-OFF.

I've checked the forum for tutorials but the ones that I've found are using revolutionary that only use hboot 0.98....

In the OP there are the recommended hboot : 2.00.2002 or 7.00.1002 but I'm on 2.00.002 . Is is OK or it's an old hboot that needs to be upgraded ?

Also, in order to change the radio I have to use the revolutionary tool and in order to use the revolutionary tool I have to downgrade to 0.98.... hboot ?!

Can please someone take the time to explain me in little steps what I need to do in order to use the new XS rom when it will be available ? Thank you
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Hboot is fine as it has the extra lib partition, and the radio only need upgrading if you have the issue of camera corruption, if not then it will also be fine. However, if you do wish to go S-OFF, then you could do as I did, which is the following

gain s-off via revolutionary tool

follow the guide HERE to change the hboot from 0.98... to 2.00.2002

flash rom and radio.
[HTC Desire S] twist3rtm:
revolutionary tool has options only for two 0.98... hboot as I saw it on the tool. Is it OK to use the tool if I have a different hboot than the ones in the tool ?

If the hboot is OK for your rom then I don't want to change it. But the radio I would like to try the new one, because with the original one I have some wi-fi problems (I had them on the original rom too so it's not related to your rom)

So I guess I need S-off just to change the radio but I need a tool for HBOOT-2.00.002 . Sorry for bugging you.
[HTC Desire S] teadrinker:
AW: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

If you want to s-off your phone, you'll first have to downgrade your hboot (by flashing an old ruu), then use the revolutionary tool, then upgrade your hboot to 2.00.2002 or 7.00.1002. There are guides in the general section.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
yeah as tea-drinker said you would have to downgrade. the other option is to relock your hboot through htc-dev, flash the official ics update from htc dev then htc -dev unlock your hnoot again to reflash your recovery etc, that I believe would give you the new radio and hboot in one sweep, of course if I am wrong on that point I am sure someone will correct me. (I have always gone down the S-OFF route so not 100% on the htc unlock/lock side of things.)

In fact the only reason not to do it that way would be to keep S-OFF, unless for some bizzare reason you cant htc-dev unlock your hboot after flashing the ics update, but I dont see any reason why you couldn't.
[HTC Desire S] fblasot:
R: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

@twist3rtm:

May be you can follow some part of what I did for me...

See post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36663710&postcount=902
[HTC Desire S] twist3rtm:
Thank you all for your replies. I think the method with flashing official ics ruu is the simplest and suitable for me. I do not need the s-off for other things so if I can get the hboot and radio just from flashing ics ruu than so be it. Thanks again
[HTC Desire S] eisenger:
does this mean that after doing that i can flash rom without the need to flash the boot.img of the rom separately? :)

*** UNLOCKED ***

SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-2.02.0002

RADIO-3831.19.00.110
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Once your S-OFF then no you don't need to flash the boot.img separately, that is just something that needs to be done if when you unlock the boot via htc-dev.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Okay all I have gone through the framework-res error and it is a minor thing that won't cause any unforseen issues so I am not going to worry about it to much atm. I have done some probing into the errors thrown up with the mount service and haven't really got very far with it yet, however homescreen shortcuts to apps installed to the sdcard now appear to persist after a reboot, which is something people had had issues with so that is some progress, however it still takes a minute for gallery and music app to show any content, so I shall continue looking into this in the future to try and improve that. For now I just need to finish tidying up some of the aroma script and then it will ready for the beta testers. With that in mind I plan to release RC2 by Wednesday or Thursday, providing, the beta testers don't turn up something major in the mean time.

Also, I have been fiddling around with the one sv Rom and hope to have an alpha of Desire SV released by the middle to end of next week.
[HTC Desire S] Raphael1984:
AW: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Hello. My WiFi is deactivating after Short Time in Standby... Is there a fix....
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Hmm, hadn't come across this issue myself, what version of the rom, radio, hboot etc are you using?
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

Well, it looks like in porting to 8.14 base I have managed to break beats completely:mad:, so I am now working on restoring it.:o
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
Try turn off Power Saving in APM, maybe that cause the problem.
[HTC Desire S] Raphael1984:
AW: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

19.00.110 Radio

7...... Hboot

Rc1 Rom.

I have the Option always on activated.....
[HTC Desire S] razi914:
Re: [ROM][22 Dec 12]Desire XS RC 1 [Sense 4.1 lite] [Android 4.0.4] 100% Working cam

This rom is a record breaker!! The first rom to run more then 36 days !! Only bugs which annoy me is , when i restart ,some apps would not appear in app drawer, takes a little time,. And the power efficency option in quick settings automaticaly turns off whenever i turn it on

@thantos , please tell changelog of RC 2 ,,:)
[HTC Desire S] vulpine:
I have installed this ROM. For some reason my browser is crashing every time.

I have clean installed this. Also, my battery life seems to be considerably poor. Is it normal or am I doing some thing wrong?
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
should be absolutely no problems with the browser, and feedback form users has suggest it has a good battery life so I am not sure why you have a particular problem. the only thing I could think is that perhaps you've restored something that it doesn't like.

Try doing a full wipe, including your data partition, then reflash the rom and try it without restoring any apps or settings and see if the problem still occurs.

Anyone else on the latest beta have problems with the browser?
[HTC Desire S] giel123:
This rom is really nice dude! I like the fact that its stock and "light". Great performace and batterylife.

I'll stick with this one for a while! :highfive:
[HTC Desire S] mizerok:
Yep, i'm flashaholic but have sticked on this one, awaiting for zip for recent apps on search key :good:
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Yeah sry will get that up later, I some how managed to screw up the zip file and need to redo it, just not has a chance yet today

EDIT

Mod to change Recent Apps to the search key has been added to the end of the first post
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Guys you can flash this to fix wifi tethering, will add it also to the first post
[HTC Desire S] mizerok:
Thx, no hd quality in camera
[HTC Desire S] vulpine:
Thanks for the reply dude. Its may be because I have restored data from few apps. I will try clearing my data.
[HTC Desire S] nikolas60:
wifi doesnt works stucks at turning on
[HTC Desire S] tnZ:
Tried the Recent Apps and Wifi Tethering addons. Both working fine. Thank you for the good work. :)
[HTC Desire S] zacman:
but i could not see fast continuous photo shootting choice in camera menü. end i think long press home button activity does not work like sense 4, we can not see last applications. and home screens must be turn continuously at least in my opinion. thanks.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Yeah, I included the wrong camera.apk by mistake where I had been doing some experimenting, sorry about that.

For the recent apps behavior please read the change log on the second post on the front page or go back a few posts where I have also said about it.

This is sense 4 lite so there is no continuous scrolling on the home screens, I know some mods have edited the files to make it work, but the aim of this Rom is to keep it as lightweight and fluid as possible so that it stays responsive and smooth even over heavy use, and the results so far I think speak for themselves, (I got a score of 5700 on antutu after 5 hours of constantly using the phone, without any reboots or clearing of memory etc.) So to that end the only mods that will be on this Rom by default will be APM and a basic battery percentage mod, and perhaps quicksettings, although I am considering adding that as a separate add-on so people can choose if they want it or not.

You know after rereading this realised it almost sounds like a rant, which wasn't what I meant to sound like, just wanted to let people know what my long term intentions are for this rom. Something lightweight and bugfree that people find a joy to use.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Hmm, your the only one who has reported that problem. Are you HTC-dev unlocked, and if so did you flash the boot image after you flashed the rom?

If you have, or that doesn't work then try doing a full wipe, and refreshing.

If that doesn't work then try flashing tweaked kernel X separately.

If it doesn't work after that I haven't got a clue.