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[HTC Desire S] djomla43:
I'm not getting any of those,but sounds good that cool photo feat u have ;) try 4ext and let us know m8t.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
This is actually a Desire X port rather than a One X port but all the drivers have been switched out, camera wouldn't even start beforehand. I do think it's just comes down to certain configurations not playing nice, for example hboots 7.00.1002, 2.00.2002, and 2.00.002 are basically the same, they all contain the seperate lib partition that HTC switched to for 4.0.4, however, hboot 2.00.002 won't wipe correctly through recovery as I understand it, so in theory, if there are left over libs sitting in that partition it could be that that could cause some sort of conflict. This is guess work mind you, it would come down to whether that partition would ever get mounted by the kernel in the first instance or not.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
I am planning on sorting some kind if tweaks package in time, but again this is something that will be done once the Rom is fully stable, and may take a little while as this is more than just editing preexisting code, but actually sitting down and writing it from scratch which is always a little more difficult.
[HTC Desire S] Constantly:
So is camera working on this ROM or not?

100% should mean 100% because many users say this ROM is really good. But if camera isnt working right and i cant take pics with 5mp this is weird :S
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Camera works 100% for most people, there is a small number of people, (about 1 in 100 users) who have an issue at 5mp, however one of these users have reported the issue fixed when they upgraded both their hboot and their radio, so I am awaiting further reports from other other people with the problem.
[HTC Desire S] sasot:
Can you give me a TUT how to do this?

My device description is under my signature.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
I will have a look once at my pc, I am S-OFF so it's a bit different as far as flashing the radio goes. Give me about half hour to an hour.
[HTC Desire S] I_M_Ken:
Camera works well for me. Used it a few times already,

I think so far this is probably one of the better ICS roms out there for Desire S. Used it for almost a week without issue.

Was on Ice DS 7, but that got too laggy, lots of battery drain and too many FCs for me.

Im on:

SAGA PVT ENG S-OFF

HBOOT 2.00.2002

Radio: 3822.10.08.04M
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
okay after a quick look at the radio, it looks like to update the radio on an s-on device is a bit of a pain tbh as you need to relock the bootloader, flash the ruu with the correct radio (in this case the official ics update), then unlock the bootloader again. I will continue to look at flashing the hboot for you

which radio are you on currently btw?

In fact, just to check, is there anyone not on 2.00.002 that has the camera corruption at 5mp. (remember were talking about corruption on the main cam when set to 5mp, no the preview and thumbnail corruption of photos taken with the front facing camera when its set to 1mp which is a seperate issue caused by the fact that our ffc doesn't support 1mp.)
[HTC Desire S] djomla43:
Seems that messaging view that I said before is not working like I said,I get 2 line preview even that I set it up as 1 :)
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
haven't even looked at it to be honest with you, will have a look at it and see what is happening.
[HTC Desire S] djomla43:
For me It's working flawlessly :)

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It's not big deal m8t..:) I must say again,ROM is excellent 100% lag free..that's most important 4 me :)
[HTC Desire S] DieLyn:
Aaaah, once again, my bad about the Desire X/ONE X confusion. I really appreciate the effort you put into this ROM. I will be changing my recovery to 4Ext tomorrow and will wipe everything and do a fresh install of the ROM.
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
New year new version thantos2024? :laugh: Happy 2013!!!
[HTC Desire S] DieLyn:
Sad news, guys...

I installed 4EXT Recovery Touch v1.0.0.5 RC8. Wiped everything, both manually and by selecting "wipe all". Factory, cache, dalvik, boot, the whole lot. Did a clean install of the ROM, and checked the camera. Still had the corruption. :crying: I've now restored the nandroid of the ROM that I mad. Is there anything else I should be trying ?

Is it possible for there to be hardware differences across the phones ? Just as some phones have a different mmc chip, could it be slightly different and thus causing problems ?
[HTC Desire S] glacier1122:
did u have lib partion wipe option enabled in 4ext recovery control?
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
It does not matter. If the kernel does not mount the lib partition it does not exist to the system

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
I'm still looking into things with the camera, some logcat off people with the problem would really help, as of yet noone has posted any. I will admit to leaning towards the radio at the moment though as Spartan is the only one who has updated it out of the few people with the camera issue and he no longer has a problem.
[HTC Desire S] nodeffect:
Dear thantos, could you implement power button + home button screen shot ? I've disabled swipe to wake but still couldn't use those buttons to capture shots. Thanks. Or perhaps I done it wrong ? Please enlighten me.
[HTC Desire S] Nazri786:
i believe the screenshot (power + home) doesn't work in this rom yet....as far as i know....there is an option when you press the power button only to take screenshot...
[HTC Desire S] Cole07:
Its working for me after editing buld.prop. Disable Sweep2Wake, then edit buld.prop line which is "ro.htc.framework.screencapture" from false to true

ro.htc.framework.screencapture= true
[HTC Desire S] petrevirgil:
This Rom has a compatible swap kernel?I want to use RAM expender and I need a swap kernel compatible....or is any way to activate swap editing the build.prop?
[HTC Desire S] MrFEr:
Hey Thantos, the widget size issue of the nameday calendar app has been fixed by the developer so I guess it's not a ROM issue in case of the chess app either.

Cheers!
[HTC Desire S] cdx47:
Every other Sense 4 Rom I try starts out great then the lags start happening, getting worse and worse. I really would like to know why this is. Some roms get worse quicker than others. In the mean time I will try out this one :)
[HTC Desire S] djomla43:
Same here m8t,tried few sense ROMs but get lags..not on this one..:)
[HTC Desire S] MrFEr:
I can confirm, it is as fast as it was in the beginning.
[HTC Desire S] Metallurgico:
This is the best Sense 4 / 4lite ROM for Desire S. It's quite as fast as stock Android 4.1, it's amazing.
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
I think you should call it a day and get this RC1 as Version 1.0 out of the door. What do you think, thantos? Fix the remaining bugs - if there are any fixable ones - in 1.5 and add some tweaks in 2.0. :)
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
tanthos, are you working on a new version or you're resting?. Either option is good. ;)
[HTC Desire S] bubi90:
Do you think pictures taken with this rom are comparable with those taken with stock rom? Or does this rom have the same problem with camera quality of the other sense 4 roms?

thanks
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
The camera works flawlessly, picture quality is as good as the sensor and the small lens allow. All settings work - burst mode, face detection, movie mode. There have been some reports of picture corruption on some user's devices but they appear to be isolated and can't be reproduced by the dev.
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
Installed today. It's awesome. I haven't found any bugs yet. :victory:
[HTC Desire S] DieLyn:
I found corruption on a 3MP picture that I took today. :(

This ROM is absolutely smooth, but I can't stay on it. And I know that I'm one out of every hundred, but surely there's a reason.
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
May I ask why you take pictures at 3MP? Why not take 5MP wide and crop as needed...
[HTC Desire S] DieLyn:
Because I'm one of the 1% of people that experience the camera corruption. Initially, I thought it was just at 5MP, so I switched down to 3MP. Now its giving me a problem(Although its not explicitly the same as the 5MP corruption. Maybe a once off thing?)
[HTC Desire S] zihinsiz:
After pushing amidabuddha's battery percentage mod, recent apps style turned to sense one. What should I do in order to have both battery percentage mod and AOSP recent apps screen?
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
This mod is for older version of SystemUI, so all the recent changes will disappear if you use it. It will be best to remove it from the OP.

Optionally you can use the png and xml files from my mod to make your own will the latest SystemUi

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] eisenger:
After a few days after flashing this rom, no problems encountered yet, this rom is really fast and smooth

great for daily use.

:thumbup: Great work! :)

did you tried the link on the first post for the battery percentage mod for the latest version?
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
Here's a version for RC1 of this ROM: http://dev0.org/download/Battery_Percentage_Desire-XS-RC1.zip Just had it cooked a couple of days ago. :)
[HTC Desire S] zihinsiz:
Thanks, It works. May be thantos replace the mod in the OP with this one.

EDIT: I lately noticed that teadrinker's mod in the OP is the one for RC1 and it works too.
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
Maybe the link in the OP should just quote that the version for RC1 there was cooked from a ROM that had the full screen switcher selected during install. Anyhow, now we have both versions linked in this thread and all can live happily ever after. :D
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Hi all, I have been laid up ill which is why I have been so quite. Am now recovering so will be getting back to work on the Rom.

I have been emailed a logcat from someone who has the camera bug so will be seeing If I can figure out what is causing the problem.
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
I'm happy that you're okay.
[HTC Desire S] terragady:
How to add battery %?
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
There is a zip a few posts back, or you can use the online kitchen to make your own
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
Are battery percentage mods working ok ?

Last I used it - on stock ICS, it was highly inaccurate.

Battery usage was showing for example 7% however battery in notification bar 16%..
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
This one is accurate

Seems you have a "resize issue" at the lower part of the notification panel too ;)

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
About battery life

With light usage, no Wi-Fi, 3G, Auto-Sync, gaming, GPS etc. - just phone calls (shame on me, why I use a smartphone for this...).

Anyway, does anyone have experience with BetterBatteryStats on this ROM? The ones I used before on other ROMs are not working, tried to download newer ones, no luck. Just full screen black with the title, and have to press home to exit homescreen.
[HTC Desire S] PVL_93_RU:
Thantos, have you made a flashable .zip of the camera.apk from this ROM yet?
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
And I thought you'd never notice. ;)
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
Pretty cool stuff, however, i experience a bit larger consumption that with stock ICS.

Normally my battery would drop about 10% a day (idle, no calls, no messages, autosync on, 1 gmail acc, weather). With same conditions i experience about 20-25% drop with Desire XS.
[HTC Desire S] glacier1122:
Try using b2b kernel
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
How to install.

Or is it already ? Do i have to only change some setting ?
[HTC Desire S] PVL_93_RU:
Flash through recovery just like a ROM
[HTC Desire S] jarmal:
I want to report some minor problems. First is WiFi direct. It doesn't work in most cases. I managed to connect to sgs2 twice and even devices was able to ping eachother but in general it doesn't work. I suspect problem is driver related and using WiFi direct causes other problems like not working hotspot. Tested on Tweaked X and XI kernels.

The other problem is DLNA . I'm unable to play movies made with internal camera on xbmc. It was possible in stock GB, ICS and IceDS. It smells like bug in base rom for me. Thantos mentioned previously about rebasing XS to newer Desire X rom. I think it's good idea and might solve some htc's issues.
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
Reporting minor bug.

Front camera is default set on 1MPix. Which is apparently not supported, because picture is squeezed. When i change to 640x480, it's ok.

Maybe it's not a bug, just a small issue, but disable it, if you can ;)
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Yeah this is something that has come to my attention, it is a pure hardware limitation as we only have a vga front camera. The 1mb option for front cam will be removed.

haven't used either of these features yet so will look into them.
[HTC Desire S] MrFEr:
Hi,

I've noticed a minor but strange bug: I put the XDA app's shortcut into a folder I've created on the screen however it keeps disappearing from it. The other shortcuts are stay but not XDA.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
move the XDA app to internal memory instead of it being installed to the sdcard, its caused by the fact that the sdcard doesn't mount until after rosie runs, I am trying to find a way to get the sdcard to mount earlier in the boot process to fix this.
[HTC Desire S] Tirofog:
You could try go to settings/apps, move xda to internal storage, that should fix it.
[HTC Desire S] MrFEr:
Thanks guys, I've moved it to the internal memory, I hope it'll do the job. It was strange because I've never faced this issue before.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Well guys I had the opportunity today to actually compare my Desire S running this rom to a Desire X, and I have to say it seems better on the Desire S than it does the Desire X, although it could well be that I am just biased. (confused the hell out of the guy in the store to see a desire s running sense 4.1.)

Seeing the way that it runs even when compared to a dual core phone that the rom was originally from, plus comments from users with regards to no lag appearing after prolong use I have reached a decision that perhaps wont be the most popular but I feel is the best course with this rom with regards to adding full sense features to the rom.

When I first decided to build this rom it was because of the fact that we didn't have a single pure sense 4 lite rom available for the desire s, it was either sense lite/full hybrids or full sense 4. What I wanted was something that was light weight and responsive which did what I wanted it to do. During developing the rom people were requesting more features be added from full sense, there have been requests, for the full lockscreen, the live weather app, full dialer etc, and I was looking at adding these as addons down the line. The problem is that whenever I add these features little things start to creep in that I don't like, for example, on the full lockscreen, when you unlock it the clock stays super imposed over the homescreen for about half a second to a second, or I see a whole new bunch of warning errors appearing in the logcat.

All these little thing combine over time to bog down the system and take away the smoothness and responsiveness that makes this rom so unique. So, I have decided that I will not be porting any of the sense full features to this rom, as to do so will mean losing what this rom was originally meant to have been about. I know that there are people who do like all the eye candy such as live weather, the full lockscreen etc, but we already have a number of great roms, from far better devs than myself in the form of Fallout from lowveld and Sabsa Prime from alirez_sos that are sense lite with sense full features added, another just isn't needed.

I hope people understand why I have made this decision and know that it is done to preserve the integrity of Desire XS so that it contiunes to be a rom that offers users as fluid and responsive an experience as possible.
[HTC Desire S] craftman:
I think you made the right decision

When I first gave a ride to this ROM on my DS I was a bit disappointed because of the lack of full Sense features (yes, I DO love eye candy). The ROM spent a couple of minutes only on the phone, and I went on with others. After I fed up with lags I gave a second try and since a month I'm a proud user of DXS - it is as good (if not better) as the original GB 2.3.5 was. thantos2024, hats off! Keep this ROM as clear-out as possible.

I hope keeping full Sense features away from DXS will direct you to port a One SV ROM (for example) to fulfill the needs for a fast, stable native WVGA full Sense 4.1 ROM ;)
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Yes a full sense 4 Rom will be my next project, I am actually playing around with a couple of things atm, but, first plan to get this to at least version 1 before I release anything.
[HTC Desire S] vampire36:
You know what I loved the comment...

Today you proved y U a good dev rather than just a dev...

Awesome and always keep your thinking this super clear...

Considerate yet at the end Crystal clear and firm...

Rom flies...after months I have a sense for 2 weeks...

Might be the same for 4 weeks more till my exams get over...:)

Kudos to U...

Just try either a small app or just a setting for small stuff like reorder quick setting...looping homes screen if possible...

Awesome and continue the good work...:)

Cam works perfect for me :P
[HTC Desire S] jsis83:
+1
[HTC Desire S] eisenger:
Its good to have a rom that has superb speeed, performance and simplicity (its good to have those eyecandy stuff though, i can live without it to improve performance).

Maybe you can make another rom like this with tweaks.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
To keep you all updated this is where things stand at the moment.

The next release will be version 1, as I feel that the Rom has proved itself to be stable enough for a final release as any bugs are minor or only affect less than 1% of users, (almost 1000 downloads and only a half dozen users have camera issues with the main camera, I still haven't ruled out hboot/radio setup as being the cause of this rather than a Rom issue.)

The changes will be:

Rom will be rebased to latest Desire X base.

Libs folder will now be moved to the seperate lib partition of the new hboots. This means that users will need to be on either hboot 2.00.2002 or 7.00.2002. This will give me enough free space to fully reodex the Rom even if users install all the optional extras which will further increase overall speed of the Rom, especially at boot time.

Fonts will be changed again to hopefully fully fix the dialectic issues.

Finally fully fix install for extra apps.

Carrier no longer stuck in status bar all the time.

Battery percentage mod included by default

Introduce some init.d tweaks and build.prop tweaks to help improve overall speed and responsiveness.

Remove the 1mp option from the front facing camera.

HTC told us that the Desire S, despite their changes to the hboot wasn't capable of running sense 4. I plan to prove them wrong. This final release will mimic as close as I can get it to what they should have released for us. It will be fully odexed to match what they would release running on their own ics hboot that they gave us. It will be smooth, responsive and able to handle everything you want it to do. In its current state it already works as well if not better than the Desire X, and its burst capture is just as quick as the ONE X when I compared them side by side yesterday. (started and stopped burst capture on both at the same time and they both took the exact same number of shots.) and that is all at stock speed, no overclocking at all.

I know that some users may not like the idea of having to upgrade their hboots, bit I feel that this is a necessary step inorder to get the best out of the Rom so that it can live up to its full potential.

As of this moment I cannot give you a release date for version 1 but it certainly won't be for at least a couple of weeks as I will be testing the Rom to destruction form at least a week or so once complete inorder to try and catch as many last minute bugs that may appear as possible.

Once version 1 has been released though I will then begin working on a tweaks app. This will be built from scratch and will at least include

Being able to switch between 1-7 homescreens.

Built in OC, UV, and governor switching.

The ability to enable and disable EQS items

More will be added but these are the basics that I think people have requested the most, again it won't be a quick release as this is something to be built from scratch rather than just editing existing code
[HTC Desire S] PVL_93_RU:
Oh

My

God

DAT CHANGELOG
[HTC Desire S] signfinder:
thantos2024

its perfect.

Desire XS RC1 work in freq 800 very fine.

HTC - just greedy and greedy company.
[HTC Desire S] nodeffect:
Great news man, been waiting for this new release. Are u going to add full weather lockscreen and widget too ? Thanks...
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Please see what I wrote a few posts back with regards to full sense 4 features
[HTC Desire S] cdx47:
This rom reminds me of how ICE DS used to be. Slick, fast, no lags. Battery life is decent although of course it can't match Viper Saga. Great rom for reliable day to day use.
[HTC Desire S] finistere:
Well, to be honest, I don't get this whole lib partition thing. If I understand it correctly, all it does is move the directory /system/lib to a separate partition. So, the space that was occupied by /system before now gets divided into /system and /system/lib. You don't gain any additional space, all you get is less flexibility. When one of these two partitions fills up and there's still some free space on the other one this free space is wasted.

Someone at HTC decided they liked the new hboot to behave this way, but for a custom ROM it should be completely irrelevant if the libs get loaded from /system/lib or from /system/lib on a separate partition.

Could you shed some light into this?
[HTC Desire S] teadrinker:
No, the extra partition is part of what was /cache. So you save space on /system. (/system is the same size as before)
[HTC Desire S] fblasot:
My hboot is 2.02.0002 (from original ICS ruu update), will I have problems ?

If I'm not wrong with my hboot it is not possible format or write /system/lib partition...

Now I don't have any problems with your XS rc1 rom .
[HTC Desire S] teadrinker:
It might work if you edit the updater-script and change "/dev/block/mmcblk0p28" to "/dev/block/mmcblk0p29", but I'm not sure.
[HTC Desire S] fblasot:
From what I understood maybe could be changed to /dev/block/mmcblk0p25, the /system partition, but the risk is that the new ROM (system + lib partition) will not fit and run out of space...

I think I have to downgrade hboot and maybe go S_OFF.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Well by shifting the libs to the /system_lib partition instead of it being on the traditional /system partition means that on an install, with all the extras apart from google now you get over 200MB of free space on system before reodexing the rom and 130MB after reodexing. They didn't split the system partition to make the extra system_lib partition, but I think took it from the data partition instead, (I have a total of 1.13GB of internal storage on 2.00.2002) by the time I have reodexed google now etc I expect that there will be about another 70-80MB of spaced used if someone wants to install all of the optional extras that will be included in the rom. this means that without the 150MB of extra space gained by moving /system/lib to /system_lib there would not be enough room to reodex the rom unless I was to dump all the optional extras.

Edit ah teadrinker has said it was the cache they altered to create the /system/lib partition

also personally I believe you get more flexibility with the new hboot as you can flash all the roms availible, not just roms that have been made to fit on the single partition.
[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Well if you wiling to be a guinea pig, I will knock up a reodexed version of RC1 using the seperate lib partition for testing purposes either tomorrow or monday.
[HTC Desire S] fblasot:
If from your point of view it is better to have 2.00.2002 (and if s-off ?) I will do it just when you will release v1, don't loose time for me...work for the new version :p