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[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
I hope to hear more results like this from others. This essentially mimics my results. Also interested in experience with second (or even third) boot. I suspect someone will eventually see a SIM card added notice (which is easy to bypass), but I'll be quite happy if both the activation screen and sim added notices are finally fixed.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
I get the "r" too just that it doesnt go away never, I really don't care that much about it, are you still working on the msm8960 ril, also why not use the Qualcomm ril?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
At first boot I got the activation screen. Gave it 15 minutes but it never timed out. Hit the restart button and when it rebooted it went thru the google process of logging in and worked fine after that.

network mode: lte/cdma/evdo/gsm/wcdma

system: automatic

cdma sub: ruim/sim

not sure if 4g is working for me on this build. it wasnt changed from 3g yet, but im at work and might not get a good signal for 4g.

EDIT. after reboot i got the sim card added pop up.

screenshot of activation screen:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Actually, I was hoping to hear from someone in a 3G zone. The activation screen you see is different than the "Waiting for network... activation can take a few minutes" screen to which I was referring above. In your case, selecting restart is the only option (it will not timeout) and I'm glad to hear it did not re-appear on second boot. I consider this a success case... assuming 4G eventually does work when you get in a region with reasonable signal strength. Thanks for the report (and especially the screenshot which cleared this up quickly).

Bah, I'm just going to pretend I didn't see this. Hopefully, it goes away after a few reboots and slowing down the boot-time by installing apps (I think it's a race condition of the boot process finishing before the radio is ready).

You're always going to be an outlier since your use case is out of the USA and with a non-Verizon SIM. I'm focusing on getting the phone working as well as possible in the USA on Verizon and expect that you can probably tweak network settings and build.prop to make the phone work well in Central America (not to mention helping teach others how to do this).

We're using the HTCQualcommRIL.java class as a minimal extension to the AOSP RIL.java class. The goal with these AOSP projects is always to rely on as little manufacturer specific code as possible. The QualcommSharedRIL.java class is actually pretty outdated by today's standards.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
LOL it persisted 2 times then has since stopped. 4g is working and I think my google music error is gone because its not closing at all. Dont really have any issues yet that would motivate me to restore a backup either.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Thanks for the follow-up report. I think I can live with this RIL for now... it's not particularly easy to get these patches pushed upstream, especially when they only benefit one device. Indeed you can continue to run the build. The battery drain issue is my primary concern about recommending the builds for widespread use.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
I typically run nightly 4/19 which has no issues for me and I'm very familiar with the speed of battery drain on that version. When I get back to work on Tuesday, I can compare this build battery life to see if it's worse. If it's really fast, then I'll have to restore to my good backup.

Thanks for your work tho. I appreciate getting a newer build that Google music works on since the Bluetooth updates also give me better functionality with the phone and the Bluetooth in my car now. Still needs to be able to transmit media info like my old Inc 2 did running gb.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] ILikeBubbles:
I'm having this problem, i tried installing avatar because i was bored and had a bunch of time but ever since i installed Avatar my radio hasn't been working at all! i'm going to re-check out your post on how to fix that but things i've done so far are

-restore my stock backup that i made when i rooted

-flash rc5

-flash rc2

i'm about to check out the post again and i'll update this as i go...
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] somerandomname1:
If the battery drain is too much and you want to use a slightly newer version than 4/19 I'm running RC1 with no google music issues.

Mower, do you know of any file I can edit or something I can do to stop the text message broadcast when connected to BT in my car? I keep getting the message "No number available. Say 'text message' to read aloud" or something along those lines. Older builds never did this, and now it keeps interrupting my music and prompting me to have it read aloud every text message I get.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
There was something in rc1 that wasn't playing well and had me restoring to 4/19, but I can't remember.

Regarding the Bluetooth issue in your car, what make and model is it? This was one of the features I was happy to get with the new rc. I didn't see any way to adjust the function in the Bluetooth option of the device you have paired but with my car I can turn off text notifications on my car's screen. So you might have to use the options with your car instead of on the phone to get the desired results.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Pete02:
If it's any help to you when I was doing this I only had to follow steps 1 and 2 from post #2. Once I restored the stock rom and kernel my phone lit up like a Christmas tree. I didn't have to flash the stock recovery or anything else. You do have to be on twrp 2.3.3 to be able to flash the stock rom though. That much is certain. But all in all it was a lot easier than I though and now I have a backup of the stock rom in case this ever happens again. ;) Good luck to ya!

---------- Post added at 08:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:09 PM ----------

After running the 0616 build for a few hours I had no problem with reboots. The phone came right back to normal every time. I also noticed that my apps were not just shutting themselves down anymore which was awesome. I was actually pretty happy with the build until I started up one of my games and the phone locked up on me but you did say there were plenty of bugs with it so I just restored one of my backups instead. After restoring to another version my signal is still strong and working well.

Thanks again for all your efforts on this mdmower and Happy Father's Day to you or anyone else it may apply to! :good:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] somerandomname1:
Its a jeep patriot. I'll look into car options then, just figured there might be a way to stop it through the ROM since it wasn't a feature in older versions. I don't have a screen, its all voice controlled so I guess I'll have to look through the guide or Google for all the voice commands.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
Ok just ran into a frustrating bug in bleeding edge. Google music only plays in mono out of the right channel. Nothing plays in stereo either over bt or with headphones plugged into top port. All other music apps I've tried play normally, Pandora, Slacker and Apollo.

EDIT: after an undetermined amount of time or some other condition, many other audio apps exhibit this behavior as well. experienced it with apollo and slacker also.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] zeyoner:
Had the same issue. Did what in post #2 and it resolved the issue.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
power amp plays both channels correctly but i'm having the same problem with pandora and google music.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] compnird:
Going to try this today. Hoping that this helps the data connection issue, it's rather annoying and caused me to jump back to my Nexus while I'm still in the states. I will be in Europe all next week so really want this working properly since it's got the global radios. All else fails I'll restore to a known good before I go.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
There is some rather strange behavior concerning charging with the bleeding-edge builds. I do not recommend running them beyond the RIL testing I requested earlier (which I would be happy to hear more about). For all the users noting bugs (audio) with the bleeding-edge builds, it's not the time to bring up issues you encounter yet - these are for limited testing only. Quite a bit has to be ironed out seeing as an official 3.4 kernel from HTC has never been made available.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Pete02:
Hey guys just fyi... I did a full wipe after testing out the 0616 build and restored viper for a bit there and all was fine but this morning decided to try Avatar's latest build (based on RC5 I believe) and I'm having the same audio issue. I posted about it in the Avatar thread but thought I'd post it here too since some of you are experiencing the same problem.

I'm only getting audio from the right side channel with Apollo and Pandora via BT. I haven't tried headphones yet. I also noticed that the volume just seems to be low with everything else as well. In-call volume, alarm, ringtone, etc...
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] brianr134:
I'm seeing the roaming symbol for 5-10sec on startup. First few boots everything worked good then started getting notices about sim card requiring the back button on a reboot. Believe it only happens if I let the phone boot and not unlock the screen right away on boot.

Settings pointed to sim instead of nv. Phone and text were working. Let me know if you want a logcat and I'll reinstall and try to reproduce it when I'm at home.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] compnird:
I figured as much, this won't be my daily driver past Thursday. Just want to see how she rolls with the RIL update you noted.

Full Factory reset, even blanked out all storage data, it's like a brand new phone.

I did not install GAPPS, didn't get any messages about activation or SIM card. Nor do I when I reboot, that is awesome.

Right now I am rocking about 1 bar of 4G where I usually have 2 bars in this very spot but the signal is showing about the same: -106dBm 34asu

(and speeds are subjectively about the same as I usually see)

I also noticed that I can send MMS messages immediately after loading the ROM whereas I previously would need to wipe Dalvik after the first reboot of a fresh ROM in order to get the Phone number to show properly instead of the 000-000-0000 in settings.

After about an hour of use my internet connection died, I still show 1 bar of 4G. (signal bars turned gray from blue)

Toggled mobile data off then on and it works again.

I have a theory; my location is saturated in other signals but not very strong with LTE and CDMA so perhaps it's getting confused since it can see all the other signals which are much stronger?

My settings were for all radios enabled and all roaming flags checked. I just set it to disable roaming and only use LTE/CDMA/EvDO to see if any changes.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
msm8960 has an official HTC 3.4 kernel, how come we cant use it or at least parts of it to build ours?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
We are using this, but there are several "board files" which tell the kernel hardware addresses and capabilities which are specific to each device. Furthermore, the kernel is just kind of dumped on the public and not necessarily configured to work with AOSP ROMs. That said, fireball is not in any worse shape than jewel, evita and ville. The known issues are common to all devices, so Flemmard did a nice job of porting board files for fighter.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
Good to know. Thank you. ^_^
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
It seems this is not limited to CyanogenMod: thread by stock/rooted user
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] compnird:
After changing my radios from global mode to LTE/CDMA/EvDO and disabling roaming I have had no further issues with data connection loss on the 20130617 bleeding edge build. Prior to that change I lost connections several times as a lot of folks experience.

I am going to restore my backup to the latest Nightly and try the same trick and see if it helps while I am stateside.

EDIT:

The Nightly does not have the extensive options in the menu for radio bands that the bleeding edge has. Bleeding edge has an option for LTE/CDMA/EvDo only but Nightly does not, best I can do is CDMA/EvDo only or select LTE/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA

I am also noticing that Nightly doesn't have selection for UMTS/HSPA or GPRS but I know it has those radios.

Anyone have comment on these modes? Perhaps this is why I have such slow 1G/2G data in parts of Europe who use HSPA for 3G?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Good progress was made on the bleeding-edge builds today. The bug that concerned me most, battery actually discharging while plugged in and level indicator being way off, has been fixed. Stereo audio over headphones should work now as well (I don't have anything to test bluetooth). I'm more comfortable with the idea of a wider test audience, but please realize there are plenty of bugs to be squashed.

Seeking testing on battery drain in bleeding-edge builds

I'd would appreciate reports of battery consumption rates while the phone is idle.

1) Let the phone sit idle while you sleep and note the battery level before and after you sleep. Divide the change in battery level by the time elapsed and report your result as X %/hr. (e.g. 4.125 %/hr would be the result of 33 percent battery drop over 8 hrs)

2) Note what hardware features you had enabled: LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
audio for pandora is still broken. only plays out one side. battery seems to be the same as it was before maybe a little bit better. 4 hours off the charger down 27% with nothing but gapps installed. im going to charge it now to 100% and get some more numbers for ya.

-_________________- looks like goo downloaded 6/16 and not 19 going to redownload it on my pc this time. will report back

Audio bug is fixed. thank you will report battery when i get a full charge
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
Can we do an update from the 6/16 edge rom or does it have to be a full wipe install?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
so far, 3 hours 20 min on battery with 22m screen time i'm at 79% so not too bad off a battery draw compared to RC5. going to install my apps and play some music for a bit and report back.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
I'm looking for idle stats, hence my suggestion of testing while you sleep.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] compnird:
Will update later on Idle time but at least the battery drain issue seems to be better, the 6/16 sucked the battery dry in a couple hours with minimal usage but I am doing pretty good at halfway through the day with 72% remaining.

FYI, RIL is rock solid today, have had zero issues since loading the 6/19 version. I have great 4G signal in 3 places I usually have no signal in. No dead network connections either.

Camera doesn't focus at all though... how am I supposed to take pictures of my lunch for the interwebs? ;)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
this was an idle state. but i will test tonight when i sleep.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
i notice on the bleeding edge page, known issue 5 says waking screen results in dim display. then its followed up by your screen possibly going bad. i also experienced this issue on the 6/16 build but never got a chance to remark on it. just wanted to point out that you arent the only one.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] times_infinity:
I'll have to second this statement.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
Over night stats . started with 100%
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
So, 6hrs 44min with a battery drop of 29%: 29% / 6.75hrs = 4.3 %/hr

I don't think this is so bad. I ended up in the range of 4.7 %/hr which I partly attribute to a weak 4G signal.

I will shift my attention to the panel now -- and this isn't going to be easy. There are several panels that shipped in the fireball. We had to more-or-less copy ville's panel file, which doesn't have the right specs for us, hence some flicker and stubbornness to turn on completely. I've prodded HTC to release 3.4 kernel source for the fireball... or at least just some 3.4 compatible board files for fighter, but they consistently say "we're committed to helping the open source community, but no".

If you guys could write HTC and tell them how much the open source community would appreciate kernel 3.4 source for the Incredible 4G, I would be grateful. My pestering alone isn't going far.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Pete02:
Okay, so I basically installed the 0619 build with gapps, logged into Google and let the phone run. I didn't install any of my apps or log into anything else. At 100% battery charge with only 4G running I showed a 25% drop after 9hrs. At your calculations that should come to 2.77777778%/hr.

I tried to include a screen shot but for some reason I kept getting an error. The battery shows:

Cell standby at 50%

Phone idle at 46%

Screen at 4%

Android OS at 2%
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
filled it out, we will see what they say. :)

I just now noticed the screen flicker. O.o "can not be unseen"

robo answer:

Dear JUSTIN,

Thank you for contacting HTC regarding Kernel Source code, Justin. I know that this code is important to the development community and I will be happy to assist you with the correct information regarding this.

HTC is committed to assisting customers in getting kernel source code for HTC devices. We will release source code in accordance with any applicable open source license terms. We are working to release appropriate kernel code bases as soon as possible after device launch but we cannot guarantee the exact time frame. Other source codes, which are not required to be disclosed by the open source license terms, unfortunately cannot be disclosed by HTC as they may be proprietary to HTC or its licensor.

Please keep an eye on http://developer.htc.com for more information.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] somerandomname1:


Done.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Pete02:
Also done. :thumbup:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] compnird:
I have a friend who works at HTC, I just asked her if she has any connections in the dev center.

Will also write in for updated kernel.

So far, other than camera glitches, screen oddness and flicker this build rocks pretty hard. RIL is far better in my usage than previously. Kind of wish I could stick with this but I am reverting to a nightly I know works so I don't have issues overseas this weekend. If I find a moment however I will try using this bleeding edge when I am in a global roaming scenario just for kicks and giggles.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
No need for a screenshot, that 2.78 %/hr figure is what I'm looking for. That's a good number. WiFi off?

I could use some feedback regarding which panels suffer flickering issues. Can several of you 1) post a kmsg and 2) report whether your screen flickers with build 0619a? (It is easiest seen with a light background up and using your peripheral vision)

Capturing a kmsg:

Settings > Developer options:

Root access = Apps and adb

Android debugging = on

Restart phone and type this at terminal as soon as the spinning CM logo appears:

adb shell "su -c 'cat /proc/kmsg' > /sdcard/kmsg.log"

When phone is fully booted, hit CTRL+C to stop logging

Pull the log from your phone:

adb pull /sdcard/kmsg.log

Post the log here: http://h8.pwnz.org/paste/ (language = plain text)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Pete02:
Yep. I've always noticed that WiFi drains my battery more than 4g and since I paid to stay unlimited I prefer not to use it.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
I have a proposal that I have been thinking of , how about if we make a petition for all HTC msm8960 devices, and make HTC release source by board so if they release source they release for Ville evita jet and fighter all on the same source since they only differ on board files, just a random though
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SynisterWolf:
not to go anymore off topic but if they dont have a 3.4 kernel for our device, how would they give us the source for it? or are you more worried about 3.4 kernel source in general?

---------- Post added at 01:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:56 PM ----------

downloading 6/19a right now will run kmsg.log for you once i have it installed.

when trying to pull the log ADB tells me device is offline. toggled debug and accepted the key now it says online but i get this msg can't create /sdcard/kmsg.log: Permission denied

got it:

adb shell
su
cat /proc/kmsg > /sdcard/kmsg.log

worked but i had to do it in that order.

http://h8.pwnz.org/paste/view/b2c442d3

i can still see flicker. if the screen is dim and there is a white box, like to show contrast, you can see the flicker in the darker areas.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] cyberkeeper1:
Okay so this is my current battery usage on RC 4 and this is to compare with what I will be using on the new builds. Once I install a new ROM I will post a screenshot after a day or two of use

Sent from my Incredible 4G LTE
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Honestly these screenshots don't help much. The stats I'm looking for are really simple: note time and battery level, go to sleep, wake up and note time and battery level. I recommend doing this overnight because I don't want any screen=on time in the statistics. Then mention whether LTE, Bluetooth, and/or WiFi were enabled or disabled.

<6>[ 6.399511] fighter_lcd_on PANEL_ID_FIGHTER_SONY_OTM_MP

Same panel as me, so we likely see the same thing. Hoping to hear from others, especially those that don't see flicker.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] cyberkeeper1:
Well in rc4 don't have a way of pulling the exact screen on and off time but I can tell you that my screen was on most of the day. if you look at the battery usage of screen time versus total time on battery, you can figure that I had the screen on at least 3 hours total combined.

here is the stats I have now:

14h on battery with:

WiFi always on (set on during sleep)

NFC off

Bluetooth off

RIL (disabled in *#*#4636#*#* settings)

GPS off

Brightness set to 100% all day.

auto-rotate on

now what I am going to do is turn all that was off to on. this is going to be my control test. provided I don't use the items that are on, my results should stay about the same. I will see what just having them on does to my battery. note that RIL will still stay off because I have no sim card or service.

Sent from my Incredible 4G LTE
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
You're going way outside of any stats I'm interested in. Just don't worry about it. Not to mention, I don't want results from any of the RC builds.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Pete02:
Sorry I can't test for you now md. I'm taking off for the weekend tomorrow and have to get prepped for it. I am however off all next week and would be more than happy to test whatever you want. I'll catch up with the thread when I get back. Thanks again for all your hard work on this!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] cyberkeeper1:
I am kind of confused here... you are asking for stats that my phone doesn't offer and I was only comparing the RC build to the latest of yours. I don't know how to acquire screen on time and sleep time or anything else. Maybe if you showed me how to do that I could help you out.

Sent from my Incredible 4G LTE
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
Refer to this post to provide stats. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42720291

Installation of the newest bleeding edge build required.