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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
I can certainly address that as my daughter and I both still have Sprint and our ELTE's. 4G has come alive in parts of Sarasota/Bradenton, but it is spotty at best! The only place I've seen a decent signal is around Best Buy at 75 and University. If you veer off the interstate at all, no 4G. Verizon has solid 4G in every part of town and out WAY east of the interstate. VZW 4G is solid out past even Myakka City in the boonies, whereas you can't even make a phone call half the time in the well populated Lakewood Ranch area on Sprint, much less get 4G.

That's the plan. The only thing "dead" are my ROMs for the Evo 3D. My plan with this ROM was to update it whenever new bases are released from Sprint. Sense 5 is a big jump, a lot of work, and the last time I talked to the devs working on that (just a few days ago), there were still things being worked out. So suffice it to say that I don't plan any updates here until Sprint releases new software. I have been checking in on this thread about once a week but mostly just to keep an eye on things to see if/when a new base is being released. You guys do a great job self-servicing here and for that I thank you!

At any given time, my focus will always be on one particular device. I can't spread my efforts across multiple devices simultaneously and do the job I want to do. So for now, the VZW Note II is my primary platform and the ELTE is a "back burner" device. When a new base is released from Sprint, however, the ELTE will move to the front! I will say though, that it's so much easier to develop on Touchwiz (code is more complete) that if HTC pulls any more tricks like they did with s-on a couple bases ago where they "fixed" the /system partition so you can't write to it with s-on, making life more difficult for ROM devs, I'm out and I'll drop HTC like a hot coal! So let's just hope HTC doesn't get any more "bright ideas".

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] KaoMinerva:
Don't worry guys... I will soon be taking over development of the mean roms and just name them KaoRom...

Sent From My Galaxy Note 2
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] zmag:
[HELP] Microphone long-press not showing up in MeanBean's HTC Sense input keyboard...

Guys I have a problem with the HTC Sense input (MeanBean's replacement keyboard)

When I use it normally (i.e. anywhere) the microphone long-press does not show up above the period key.

BUT, if I go to the Settings then start the Tutorial; it's there.

Is there an option I'm not seeing?! Please help me, the original HTC keyboad has it.

Thanks in advance, zmag
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] njspank:
Try settings, language and keyboard, and either select Google voice typing to show the mic or make sure it's unckecked to hide the mic.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] RHall1340:
I was thinking it would be interesting if someone took over the "Mean" roms for the EVO LTE.. I certainly don't have the knowledge to do it but I am sure others do. As Mikey said he just doesn't have time to actively develop for two platforms. I think what people enjoyed so much about Meanrom's is that its 'stock, stable, with options that make sense'. While I had hoped for Mikey to keep providing at least semi-regular updates its just not realistic at this point. We need another developer with the same principles who has the time and knowledge to continue the spirit of meanrom.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Riff76:
WhereTF is the kaonexus?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] revaew:
I flashed the latest version but I am having a weird boot loop issue. I am S-on and flashed like the instructions say, and I didn't get the "LOOK" step. So following the instructions, I simply rebooted since another flash wasn't required. Well it booted up, got through the rotating mean bean boot animation and proceeded to "optimize apps". After this, it rebooted. After the boot animation, it loaded up the sense lock screen with that field wallpaper thing. Well after being on that sense lock screen for about 3 seconds, it reboots back to the boot animation. It will play the animation for about 30 seconds, get to the sense lock screen, then reboot again. It does this continuously. Any ideas?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] RonMac:
Flash the Rom once more and see if that solves the problem.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] zmag:
Thanks for telling me that it was disabled but now it works so, thank you! Cheers, zmag
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] KaoMinerva:
Nexus 4 wasn't eligible... We still wait

Sent From My Galaxy Note 2
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] njspank:
No problem!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tybo31316:
What is vdm client and wiper app? Can they be safely removed?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Bsober:
Not exactly sure what they are, so I would suggest Google. I think vdm client is tied into network, visual voice mail, and sms text.??

Wiper app I believe has something in clearing cache or memory of process's not running anymore. Just guessing.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
Disabling vdm client will prevent you from being able to update your profile and prl.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mumbles202:
Anyone know what the default kernel that is installed w/ this ROM?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Magnum_Enforcer:
It's stock with flar2's overclocking modules.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
I've looked into that wiper app before and I'm struggling a little to remember what conclusion I came to. It was first reported to have something to do with task killing but I believe it actually has something to do with GPS and nothing to do with task killing. I'd leave that one alone.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mjhuffer:
In complete honesty, I thought it had something to do with the windshield wiper that came across your screen when you have full weather animations on and it is raining in your location.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 10-Dee-Q:
mikey , will you upgrade to HTC One ?

im a fans of your ROMs but

honestly i prefer HTC devices to Samsung

their touchwizz is horrible IMHO

so im still using ELTE right now, but planning to upgrade my device when you do upgrade .

so tell us in advance okay...

:)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] stanglifemike:
I was thinking the same thing
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
You can't tell much by what's in the APK. There's not much in the wiper APK but a lot of WiFi finagling and scanning and some calls to the wiper service. Seems a little odd to have a separate service running just to operate the weather wiper blade on your homescreen but... it is HTC so maybe it's doing some backup WiFi locating for when GPS is off, and that feeds into the weather wiper.

Probably not. Honestly, I think the Evo 4G LTE was my last HTC device. Touchwiz does just about everything Sense can do and more, and it actually seems quite a bit more mature as code goes: more complete code. TW also seems a bit less buggy than Sense. Sorry, but I'm only reporting what I see. For example, if you want to turn on/off the 360 rotation in the launcher, in HTC you find the boolean flag in the code and turn it on or off but then you find that the code isn't there to support both on and off and when you try to use it with the flag flipped, you've got to go in and complete the missing code so it works both ways. With Touchwiz: just flip the flag and it works. Same for arrays and such. Want an extra row in your launcher to get 4x5, in Touchwiz you can just change a 4 to a 5 in the XML, change a couple of spacings in the XML, and it just works. On Sense, you change the 4 to a 5 and then you find that none of the full screen widgets work any more and they're all jammed up under the status bar. Finally, want to add another icon to the quick settings (toggles), in Touchwiz you can just open "arrays.xml" and add a text entry that matches and it both shows up and works. With HTC, you have to do that, enumerate the array, and then go into the smali code and change their hard coded array length from 7 to 8 and hope the code is there to back it up. I also find that I'm spending less time on Touchwiz putting things back that should have never been taken out in the first place, like having to drag old Gingerbread code back into the Sense launcher just so the menu key will work on the homescreen.

That's just to name a few things I've run into that make working with Touchwiz a lot "cleaner".

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] buzzwyzr:
Found this by using the Google machine

http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...m-2-4-5-se-landscape-eqs-apm.html#post1813208
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
The entire APK is dedicated to scanning for WiFi, looking at WPS setups, and checking location such as latitude/longitude. So either it is part of the location services that locates you via cell tower/WiFi access points when GPS is off... or it's just doing all that to feed location information to the wiper service (which I can't decompile). I guess it could be reporting location to serve the windshield wiper weather animation... but if not for the name "wiper", I never would have guessed that. It certainly looks to have nothing at all to do with task killing.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] salmonfishy:
Wouldnt constantly disabling the second core damage it?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Nooblube:
I have to say I miss this rom but am so happy I traded my evo for the gs3.. rite after mikey left I said I'm done with htc.. never thought I would like any samsung phone but I love this phone.. so many roms to chose from.. I'm in flashers heaven! !
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bennyboy78:
Hows LTE? Can it pick it up better than the evo?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 11secEVO:
I have to agree with the comment that the previous user made. The Phone is way better than the HTC and the LTE is faster and it picks up way way better. I also have to agree on the comment that Mike left this ROM alone and it's dead now. I have tried everything on here and I am disappointed. All the other ROMs and Yes I did say that. ALL OTHER ROMS that are made for the HTC EVO 4G LTE for Sprint have huge issues, specially with lagging video and game play. Absolutely horrible. I actually made a video of Stock Galaxy S II killing my rooted oc piece of trash HTC EVO 4G LTE. It's safe to say that I will never ever come back to HTC after the release of Galaxy S 4. It was fun while it lasted boys :) I hope to see some of you with the GS4. I will check in from time to time to see if there are any new updates to this ROM because I do have one other family member on this phone and I want to keep him updated for a while but as for me See you all later and hopefully on a Galaxy :)

SGS3 is in every way better than the HTC EVO 4G LTE......
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] maxpower7:
I find this comment baffling because I have no issues at all with gaming on the Evo. I've also used a GS3 and I found it to be pretty comparable to the Evo in terms of speed, which makes sense because the underlying hardware is so similar. The screen on the EVO, though, absolutely blows the GS3 away. I understand that AMOLED vs LCD is largely subjective, but the fact remains that the Evo renders images with 50% more subpixels than the GS3 at the same effective resolution, resulting in much smoother images.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 11secEVO:
Hey I am saying it like it is. This is the only ROM that does not have any lag. Yes the hardware is the same except the GS3 has a graphics accelerator. Anyhow, who cares. I have a ton of phones and the reason I like the HTC over all of them is because of the construction. The support for this is is really not that good. The ROMs are mediocre at best. I have the Nexus S 4, Galaxy Nexus, GS2, GS3, Galaxy Note 2, HTC EVO 4G LTE so I can tell you what I think because I see the difference an this phone sufferes when it come to games like Temple Run II.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] maxpower7:
"Graphics accelerator?" Care to elaborate on what you mean by that? Both phones have an Adreno 225 GPU.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 11secEVO:
Here you go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhnJV95YTgk
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] maxpower7:
There are a few points to be made about that video.

1) Both phones performed almost exactly the same with everything he did.

2) There was absolutely nothing about a "graphics accelerator" in the GS3 that the Evo lacks, mainly because there is no such thing. Both phones have a "graphics accelerator" in the form of an Adreno 225 GPU, which is a verifiable fact.

3) The screen on the Evo completely trumps the GS3, which looks very dim and blue by comparison.

4) A whole lot of people lack understanding of how ram functions in a phone. More ram means better multitasking, which I will concede is a problem with the Evo and an advantage for the GS3. More ram does NOT, however, make the phone perform faster.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
No argument there: that's the reason I chose the Evo over the GS3. The GS3 is not a full HD screen. You can't really call a 720 x 1280 screen 720p unless it is 720p full color, so when it's missing 33% of the color information, it's something less than true 720p... and it shows.

Such is NOT the case for the Note 2, however, and I actually prefer the Note 2 screen over the Evo 4G LTE! The Note 2 sports all three colors at each pixel site and the brightness is in line with the Evo. White balance is a personal preference but your eyes adjust to it, so if you look at the Note 2 for a while and then go back to the Evo, the Evo's screen looks bad. And vice versa. But once your eyes adjust to using one or the other, white balance is really a non issue. I haven't been keeping up with the specs on the S4 but I hope it uses the same FULL color matrix that the Note 2 uses because doing that avoids my complaint about screen sharpness and edge sharpness that I had on the GS3 while at the same time making the screen brighter.

The only down side I can see to the latest AMOLED design is the potential for screen burn in. But I've had my Note 2 for a little over a month now and it sits on the same screen (TWRP for example) sometimes for hours while I'm working. Not a hint of any burn in, so maybe they fixed that problem too.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] KaoMinerva:
We've lost him...... **** you Samsung

Sent From My Galaxy Note 2
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
I'm still here... but now I'm like that annoying guy in your hometown stadium... wearing the wrong color jersey. ;)

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] maxpower7:
I agree that the Note 2 has a great screen, and much better than the GS3. The GS4 unfortunately still has a pentile matrix (RGBG, I believe) instead of full RGB pixels, but honestly, you're not going to really notice any color accuracy issues or pixelation at the fairly insane resolution of 1080 x 1920. I'd wager that the GS4 screen will look a good deal better than either the Note 2 or Evo.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
It'll be interesting because the difference between 1080 and 720 should more than make up for the missing 33% color data, but my problem with the GS3 was both brightness and edge crispness. I could always see some color fringing on sharp edges, even text, with the pentile setup. And, regardless of resolution, technically speaking it doesn't matter how many pixels are on the screen: if you're missing 33% of the photo elements, the screen is still going to be just as dark as the GS3 unless they did something to improve brightness.

Funny thing is, the Note 2 would actually benefit from 1080p. The S4 doesn't need it as much because the screen size is smaller. Honestly, 1080p is overkill for any screen size 5 inches or under. Your eyes simply cannot see well enough beyond that without magnification. Even on the Note 2, that's 267 PPI and without magnification the vast majority of people would never see the difference if that screen was 1080 vs 720.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] maxpower7:
The dimness is a deliberate choice on Samsung's part rather than anything having to do with the pentile matrix that they use. Samsung calibrates their screens to be dimmer than LCD because AMOLED is a huge power drain. I've heard that they've improved that to some extent now and the GS4 screen will be brighter as a result, but I guess that remains to be seen.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 11secEVO:
Mike do you have a ROM for the Note 2 yet? I got my wife that phone and I have a couple of them and I wanted to see your work on this phone. I am using the Allstar one right now, but I would like to get your ROM. 14 hours and I get to preorder the S4 I hope to see you there :) Any more updates coming to this ROM?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Randy D:
.5 nice so far :) for those who care, quadrant and other benchmarks bounced back
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] insanedeath44:
Thxs mikey for the update great work loving this ron is mean as hexx .. got a question would the feature of sending a image in facebook throw text message win out savin the picture be add on later ? Thxs for the great work
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JerryGNYC:
Flashed and almost fully booted! :D

:beer: :cyclops:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Joey121215:
Hey Mike, I know someone said that quick settings may be impossible, but what if you make a horizontal quick settings on the top of the status bar, like on cm or touchwiz?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] banccalif:
Like this? I'm using power toggles until we get official quick settings
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rootlinux:
Yeah, looks good.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] banccalif:
Here's the play link

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Wildcard50:
Uuummm leaps and freaking bounds better then v0.4! Wow!

Only problem I'm having, which has been happening for quite sometime (over a month of MR-ICS), is that OTA Updater does not work. When I attempt to DL, it says tells me there is an error almost instantly.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] iandmacdonald:
I'm impressed with the OTA updated for this rom. Versions .2, ,3, .4, and .5 have downloaded flawlessly over wi-fi in less than three minutes and installed with no problem. It was very rare to get a successful download on the ICS OTA updater.

---------- Post added at 07:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:46 PM ----------

Lol, I just saw the post above mine after I hit reply.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dvirus1023:
Check the ota folder in storage, it does not delete previously downloaded updates so they pile up quickly and will not allow another download because its full.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Rammv:
Beat me too it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
Man that's sweet. I should just include it as part of the ROM.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tridogg97:
Wow thanks man update 0.5 is working very well.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] elgreek84:
Agree about the power toggle app - it looks sweet, downloading and trying now.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] banccalif:
Works for me:thumbup: Idk if you seen me asking previously about ASOP Recent Apps mod? I have a it that enables it but breaks you battery and gps mods. You think you can make it work for mean bean and have as a flashable zip for the mean bean folder?

Link here http://db.tt/auQTc13C
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jackzepplin:
Does your internal storage have enough space to save it? I had the same problem for quite some time until I realized I didn't have enough space on my internal storage.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] banccalif:
Blacked out Facebook 2.0, I didn't create it but I'm using it and it's all good:D

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35964712/Black_facebook2.0.apk
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] P.Mobile:
hey when i flashed MB 0.5 homescreen was blank and no widgets were on any of the screens like normal.. is that suppoed to be like that?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] IRBanite:
You can also open OTA Updater and go into menu then View Downloaded Roms and delete from there.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Magnum_Enforcer:
Ask and you shall receive:D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2187854

It's for the Verizon Note 2.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
From most tech articles I've read, the dimness is attributed to the fact that each pixel on the display is missing one of three photo elements (either red or blue). Having to "rob" data from adjacent pixels to display any given color would, in theory, definitely darken the display at least on some colors. That said, I find the Note 2's display just as bright as the Evo 4G LTE (which I still have), maybe even a tad brighter if you max both out. The S4: remains to be seen.

Yes, but only a Verizon variant at the moment.

BTW, I forgot to mention and maybe I'm staying off topic too long here... but it is related to my "other" ROM I guess. ;) I do note a slight amount of "clouds" on the Note 2 display. That is, on an all white screen, there is some very slight brightness variation. These would normally be called "clouds" on, say, an LCD TV. My eyes are super sensitive to those though. I complain about those on my TV too. I've shown about a dozen people the phone and asked them if they can see the variation and they just frown and look at me as if I'm on some psychedelic drugs and say, "Looks perfect to me". So I guess it's just me. In comparison the Evo 4G LTE screen is 100% smooth/perfect as far as brightness edge to edge. It's a real nit pick though because you can't really see it unless you have an all white screen or almost all white with some scrolling text. And then... what are you looking at anyway? :)

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] zosopage:
info from a defector...

so with Mike on to another phone, I decided to jump ship and try a bunch of other ROMS... I tried:

slimbean

rootbox

Hatka

Sinister

Blues and Jazz

and yesterday I came back to Mean.... I was bored with the look of mean and wanted to play, but what I found is that the differences on the others do not outweigh the performance of Mean. I am getting around 24 hours of battery life on Mean. Each of the others, I was a good 8 hours less using the exact same apps. Out of the ones listed above, I liked the AOKP roms the best. Unfortunately, I liked blues and Jazz the least as it was just too moded for my liking. Nothing against any of the developers that are doing these, they are fantastic, but for me personally, Mikes Mean is just too refined in its current revision. In order to please my issue with the look, I bought next launcher and I am happy with the looks again...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] maxpower7:
I had a similar issue with the Epic 4g Touch that I was using as my DD for about 8 months, except that I mainly had the problem with greys rather than whites for some reason. The screen on that phone was just eye-assaultingly terrible for so many other reasons though.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 11secEVO:
Damn!!! That's nice but what about Sprint version? :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yankees2450:
Q

anybody has any issue with charging while driving, cuz my said usb charging while I'm driving. I remember using my EVO 4G n while was driving it said AC charging. Could this be a kernel issue. Plus when charging using usb it takes forever. Anybody
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ahecht:
You need a charger that (a) can actually put out 1 amp (many cheap "2 amp" made-in-china chargers can't even do that) and (b) bridges the correct pins to tell the phone that it is an AC charger (the Sprint/iBolt car dock bridges those pins no matter which charger you use).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rpenrod23:
Have you tried the Sense 5 port ROM yet? If you can deal with no Bluetooth, I think it's pretty sweet. Add OMJ's mod pack and Arc Reactor kernel and battery life is really really good, especially considering it's technically still a "beta".
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gscarborough:
I believe Mikey has been done for awhile he is working on the note 2 in the Verizon forum
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] icethegreat:
I've been dying to try but bluetooth is a must unfortunately :mad:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] travisw0204:
Hey Mikey I know you're not devving for the LTE anymore, until a new base comes out that is, but is it possible for you to update the Google Wallet app? There was an update and I don't wanna take it because I'm gonna get that Unsupported Device banner that you removed before.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jawknee530:
I work for a Sprint reseller and all of the AMOLED phones we have on display have burn in. Obviously phones that are on display have very different usage than someone elses phone but it still was surprising to me when I noticed that the Galaxy Nexus, GS2, GS3, and Note II all have burn in.