yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Cpu 1782 mhz 3d 4164
[HTC Amaze 4G] rdar_93:
Really! Wow!!!! That 3d mark is really good!!!

I can't wait till the official release :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Me too. Without Ravike this wouldn't ever be possible. He built the kernel with some extra goodies. Nothing fancy, but he fixed stuff that HTC didn't.

He and I are editing smalies in framework files. Very tedious....

He got the sensors working in sense 5. I'm going to revisit my sense 5 to see if I can get sensors working in that too.

I'd also like to say that [MENTION=2212152]SebastianFM[/MENTION] played a key role in the kernel building, along with guidance from the other viper devs.

Many thanks to many people!
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Oh and so far the 3.1.4 it's rock stable for what's working.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Sensors are working now
[HTC Amaze 4G] rdar_93:
:d:d:d:d:d awesome
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Holy cow! I'll upload some pics when I get home....

I got a 13002

It's not letting mine upload the screen shots
[HTC Amaze 4G] rdar_93:
:D That's basically as good as our Amaze gets :D

Thanks for the awesome work again! :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Good news, but comes with a catch.

If we can get viper 3.1.4 or higher (sense 5) working with everything excluding Bluetooth, i have permission to release it.

We have to get data, audio, and camera working first.

So stay tuned. I may open a thread in the general section for future viper amaze releases. And I'm going to start a poll. We need to know how many people are truly interested in this. Ravike and I are spending many hours on this and we want to know who's still out there...

Here's to a bright future!

And thanks again to team venom!
[HTC Amaze 4G] rdar_93:
:D That's great! Why excluding bluetooth tho?
[HTC Amaze 4G] SuperAfnan:
Bluetooth is still near impossible, as usual.
[HTC Amaze 4G] rdar_93:
Oh.. Well I guess that's just a pebble among rocks as long as we get the rom functional otherwise :D

I barely (almost never) use bluetooth, but I know it varies from person to person.
[HTC Amaze 4G] SuperAfnan:
[MENTION=5115117]ravike14[/MENTION] [MENTION=1821867]chevycowboyusa[/MENTION]

Did y'all ever manage to get Wi-Fi hotspot and Wi-Fi tether working? I'm hoping the kernel can help fix more issues on new releasees than on Sense 4.1.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Odysseus1962:
For the same reason as with previous versions, Bluetooth is problematic with ported ROMs due to the TI chip HTC used on the Amaze. It's the reason only stock ICS based ROMs are fully functional and why all of the JB and KK builds have Bluetooth and tethering issues. I hope this enlightens the situation.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Tethering requires Bluetooth, so does Wi-Fi hotspot. If I'm not mistaken.

Most of the big things right now are editing many framework files and lots of smalies...

Wi-Fi calling may be a different story. We will focus our efforts on the most important things first. Need to be able to make phone calls, and you have to be able to hear the person on the other end.

Camera and the other stuff is secondary. Camera may actually come before data because it may be an easier fix.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ravike14:
its never been a kernel issue,, its a big rom issue with missing files :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] SuperAfnan:
Dang, I was hoping the kernel might change the outlook of success in that regard. ?
[HTC Amaze 4G] pbergonzi:
Count me in.

Count me in, chevy and ravike.
[HTC Amaze 4G] huzefaonline:
Awesome chevy. Count me in. Have an amaze with me and i'm a loyal venom addict so i aint going no where. Right here for you sir.
[HTC Amaze 4G] thiruanand:
i love this

hi boss,

i am amatuer in android OS,

but expert in changing the ROM's and i have been doing it for quite long time.

i am using glaxy s, s3, note 1, amaze 4g, xperia x8 and xperia ray, e, z and c.

i used all roms, asop's, cynogenmods, 8, 9 10 and 11 too.

but in case of viper for my amaze g... i could not make it happen.

i have opened the bootloader, s-off and using kitkat rom now.

when i tried to install viper its opening up to bootloader then goes for a long silence.

i have been trying all the tricks. including instralling t-mobile stocks for several times.

i am missing your lovely rom..

can you help me with my issues in my amaze 4g. which is a asian version.. as i am from india and its not launched here... its from singapore version.

pls guide me chevy.... need tto upgrade to even sense5 version...
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Sense 5 isn't ready yet.

Did you update your firmware from gb to ics?
[HTC Amaze 4G] rdar_93:
I would hope he did, otherwise it'd be a piece of work. But since he has S-OFF I don't see reason for it to soft brick like this (unless he didn't SuperCID his phone, but I honestly don't know how that affects a rom....Well besides the fact that it does something for the partition something something. I have an idea, not sure. Enlighten me?)

You said you got S-OFF and unlocked bootloader, is your phone SuperCID too?

Also when you say you tried to install t-mobile, do you mean that you tried flashing an RUU?
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Good point. Must be super cid as well.

Super cid allows you to flash most roms provided that you have completed all requirements to flash.

There's a guide for upgrading T-Mobile and other brands of the amaze. I know of three different types of the amaze. T-Mobile US, there's an Asian model, and one more.

Which one do you have? And need to take this conversation to the general or q&a thread please.
[HTC Amaze 4G] thiruanand:
yes its super cid with 11111111 and ruu has been installed.
[HTC Amaze 4G] SuperAfnan:
Please take it to the Q&A thread...
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Time for an upgrade!

OK, Time to upgrade this version of Viper to 2.0.2

If you want to know whats coming, go to the ViperS 2.0.2 thread for now. Theres a lot of minor things that got updated.

I'm putting the finishing touches on it right now and making sure everything works!

A big Big thanks to [MENTION=5115117]ravike14[/MENTION] for getting network fixed. (worked on it all night)

He also helped in porting this beast as it was kicking my butt.

so all prior versions are no longer supported as this is now the current, stay tuned for the download link, and mash the hell out of [MENTION=5115117]ravike14[/MENTION] 's thanks button

Chevy
[HTC Amaze 4G] SuperAfnan:
[MENTION=5115117]ravike14[/MENTION]

May I ask exactly what you did to manage to fix data? Great job BTW.

??
[HTC Amaze 4G] ravike14:
The very same fix you and sports applied for sense 4 roms, just had to figure it out by myself :)

Well bout JB the radios nearly works the imei and baseband appears correctly a small framework issue is there it doesn't read the sim correctly but hopefully JB will have working gsm radios soon guys :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Yousvel:
[MENTION=5115117]ravike14[/MENTION] deserves more thanks, for all his hard work, on xda.
[HTC Amaze 4G] navneet_bhaskar:
Great work [MENTION=5115117]ravike14[/MENTION] and [MENTION=1821867]chevycowboyusa[/MENTION] , :good::good::good::good::laugh::laugh:
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Going to finish up on the aroma installer tonight. I've got the proper permission. And I should be posting the update in a day or two. This update is a rebase and should fix a few problems with the current build.

Again, this is to get by for a few until we have a release for jellybean with working data.
[HTC Amaze 4G] huzefaonline:
Great work chevy. So glad that you, ravike and team venom are developing for amaze. Waiting for all your releases. All the best for future releases :thumbup: badly waiting :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Viper Amaze 2.0.2

There are some random testers that will be testing the new rom.

Soon as I hear news from them I will either release the link right away, or go back to fixing the build.

The only known buggy bug right now is when you turn on GPS it works great! But when you turn it off, you have to reboot to turn it back on again.

The same problem exists with the prior Viper Amaze builds.

Also the usual BT/WiFi calling/hotspot doesn't work.

I may be able to fix them, but would rather work on it in a 4.5 or sense 5 build.

Good luck to the testers, and pm me right away!
[HTC Amaze 4G] Yousvel:
Thanks a million for your great work. I would like to test it and give my feedback. Would you please give me this favor?
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
I want to thank my beta testers. And the others that volunteered. When jellybean is ready for beta testing I will recruit some more testers.

The build is uploading now. Link will be provided shortly. Please check the md5sum before flashing.

Any bugs beyond the known issues report in the bugs thread not here.

Hit the thanks button for ravike14 too!

If you want to make a non development comment, please make it in the other two threads.

Thanks

Chevy
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
And it's up!
[HTC Amaze 4G] navneet_bhaskar:
Hi Chevy,

Thanks for your Great work, but i tried booting with Nightmare kernel , but its giving me boot loop, but working fine with faux123 kernel.

:eek:
[HTC Amaze 4G] Odysseus1962:
I just wanted to chime in after using this ROM for a day (I was one of the beta-testers). In my opinion this is one of the most feature packed, polished, themed ROMs ever to grace the Amaze. Everything works and works well with the exception of Wifi tethering and some Blutooth functions. Even that I think can be fixed if someone has the time and inclination to do so, as it seems there are a bunch of configuration files that point to the Broadcom BT drivers instead of the Ti ones (the Sensation from which this was ported, uses the more standard open-sourced Broadcom chip instead of the closed-sourced Ti found in our Amaze).

Using wifi_tether_v3.4-experimental.apk and experimenting with different settings, I was able to transmit a signal that could be seen by my laptop, but couldn't connect. Which leads me to believe all of the required drivers and kernel modules are present and it's just a matter of the time-consuming process of going through the config files to properly point to the Ti drivers instead of Broadcom. Chevy and Ravike are now concentrating their efforts on the "Black Russian" JB + Sense ROM, so this presents an excellent opportunity for someone to get their hands dirty, learn first-hand about the inner workings of the Android OS, and fix the tethering / Bluetooth issues.

On a side note: I highly recommend that anyone using this or any other ICS based ROM to install the Xposed framework and the Master Key multi-fix [2.0] module for it. Xposed has many modules that offer ROM enhancements without having to custom hack .jar files. The Master Key issue is a very serious security flaw that affects all Android versions before JB-4.3. There are several Xposed modules that include a fix, such as GravityBox, however, these multiple purpose modules won't work on ICS with Sense. Where as the standalone Master Key multi-fix [2.0] module does work on these ROMs.

From what I've read this security flaw is serious enough that all manufactures should have released patches for it. However let's face it, the Amaze is now abandonware and HTC is never going to fix it. So install Xposed, the link is in the OP in this thread here: http://xdaforums.com/xposed/framework-xposed-rom-modding-modifying-t1574401 Then once the framework is installed select the Master Key multi-fix [2.0] module from within the installer. It doesn't slow down or hinder the device in any way so there's no excuse for not taking a few minutes to button-down your device and tighten-up it's security. I've been doing this myself ever since ARHD-5.0 came out which included Xposed, we all should too.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jv2k:
I have to ask did you do anything special during the install? Should I have gone with fauxe during the aroma installation? Cause wifi does not activate at all for me and I'm curious if perhaps there is some tweak I'm missing.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Odysseus1962:
The Beta only had the Faux kernel, but previous experience tells me that Nightmare and Faux are interchangeable. When I last used Nightmare in a previous version of this ROM I flashed it from the stand alone .zip that I found in an older thread here. The Nightmare version that was included in that ROM left the default CPU voltages a little too high for my purposes (because it uses the same settings as Faux). In my discussions with Chevy he said he had problems using the stock kernel successfully, which is why it's not included for installation.

The only thing I can think of that would make WiFi not work with the Nightmare kernel would be if the modules weren't getting copied over during installation or that they were being somehow overwritten.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Um. You have to select one kernel or the other.

You need one selected because it needs to copy in the proper modules folder. If you unchecked both kennels then you screwed it up...

Like Odysseus said, faux does have significant advantages over nightmare.

As far as Ravikes Rom or kernel, this Rom, Viper 2.0.2 is android 4.O.4 sense 4.1. Like the title of the op says.

Ravikes kennel only works on an android version 4.1.2.

Ravikes Rom is 4.1.2.

This is a major update from what we had before. It's also a learning experience that will help bring the newer sense roms to you.

Ravike14 is working on getting data and radio related stuff working in a higher sense version.

I'm tackling the Bluetooth problem.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
For those experiencing booting issues.Please go to recovery and to mounts and storage and unmount everything.

Then reboot.

I also recommend using the super wipe function. And please please, you must select one kernel or the other. If you choose nightmare, uncheck faux. Don't flash with both selected.
[HTC Amaze 4G] incapable86:
I must say the rom has improved alot from previous versions. The side panel app! I love it... I installed the rom with faux kernel but it's manual brightness value was somehow high even it's on lowest value.. so i had to change to nightmare kernel.. instead of dirty flashing i had the nightmarekernelv1.1.zip from sport's thread, now the brightness is fine and I love the rom :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] jv2k:
Ah I gotcha. Because of all the kudos to ravik just before the release and you mentioning it was training for the jb roms I figured this was some weird ICS ravik hybrid of some kind.

Odd that it worked at all without a kernel though. I mean besides wifi not working everything went great.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
That's because you didn't do a super wipe, so it left the boot partition intact. The only thing that was missing was the kernel modules. That's the surprising part.

Now that this is released, with what bugs we have, it is a superior Rom and one step closer to a working jellybean.

You'll notice, if you downloaded black Russian for a test drive, that the 2.0.2 ui is much closer now to 4.5.

:)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Odysseus1962:
Now that you mention it, I too just noticed the brightness issue you mention, however, I think it's related to the ROM not the kernel. For some reason after a reboot this ROM seems to revert to default settings for several selections. I noticed that it will also revert to GSM only (Edge-2G) when I previously selected WCDMA only (HSDPA+). So that's at least two parameters that reset themselves, perhaps there are more.

Now I'm upset that I wasn't more thorough while testing yesterday so I could have given Chevy a heads-up. I used it for over a day and never thought about rebooting it, but like I said, when rebooted at least these two settings don't stick across the reboot.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Well, that may be something to keep in mind while we are but building/porting the next Rom.

It may be a settings file that may need permissions changed our could be missing all together. Check the venom tweaks and change the settings in there, also run fix permissions and check the keep settings on boot in the venom app too. That may help.
[HTC Amaze 4G] pokey77:
I have been a supporter of your roms for a long time. I flashed the updated and everything is good but the battery drains very fast. From the time i unplugged my device and finished my smoke it dropped to 80%. Is there something i dis wrong?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Odysseus1962:
Are you familiar with the Faux kernel that's included in this ROM? There are numerous tweaks available in the Venom Tweaks app. May I suggest you try the intellidemand governor in conjunction with the SIO io scheduler. Then experiment with undervolting the CPU. Finally, give it a bit of time. It always takes a day or two for a newly installed ROM to fully settle down and achieve maximum battery life.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Thank you! Did you do a full wipe or a superwipe? Did you turn on Bluetooth? Did you modify governor settings? Were you in a bad cell area?

If I'm in a bad cell area it sucks the guts out of the battery. Make sure you fully charge and reboot to recovery and check battery level in 4 ext.

Certain apps can suck battery too.

Shut off things you don't need. And check your power menu in settings and look for what's using the battery.
[HTC Amaze 4G] pokey77:
I was on your previous rom and everything was good in terms of the bat. I didn't want to change any govenors etc as your roms work fine without me changing anything. I'll let it settle for a few days and see what happens. My sd card also gave an unmounted error.

And yes i did a superwipe and I'm currently on wifi only with a good signal and default governor settings.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Go into setting and then storages. Is the sdcard mounted there?
[HTC Amaze 4G] pokey77:
It's greyed out, not available. I eject it, it works for a while and it gives an error again.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Use 4ext and check the sdcard. Not sure what section it's in, but you can see if something's bad with the card
[HTC Amaze 4G] Muneeb Saeed:
Hi there i'm sorry to post this, but android file hosts links dies in the middle while downloading on my cell, and i don't have a computer or a laptop right now. And i really wanted to try out the rom. Can any one please upload it to their dropbox and send me a link, with your permission of course [MENTION=1821867]chevycowboyusa[/MENTION]
[HTC Amaze 4G] incapable86:
Use UC Browser Cloud Download.. I had same issue with androidfilehosts... Let UCDisk download & upload it and you may download it after with resume supported.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Librastar:
thanks for the wonderful update

Nice update :good: ,no serious issues noticed till now :fingers-crossed: but turning off Airplane mod is mess,I have to restart my device for that :confused:
[MENTION=1821867]chevycowboyusa[/MENTION]
[HTC Amaze 4G] haninatoon:
nice work keep going wait your 4.4.2 with the new kernel
[HTC Amaze 4G] ravike14:
Not 4.4.2 it's 4.1.1-4.1.2 :P not more than that
[HTC Amaze 4G] Muneeb Saeed:
Thanks bro it worked.
[HTC Amaze 4G] omareziz:
If it is 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 with sense I will take it :P thank you. *getting restless*
[HTC Amaze 4G] ravike14:
Yup official JB Sense :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
technically, you still may have had a kernel. not selecting any kernel leaves you with the kernel you had, so if you were already running viper, you had a kernel and the boot partition wasnt touched.

Take a look at the very end of the updater-script some time and look at how the kernel is flashed.

The aroma installer makes a kernel.prop file and the updater script reads that file to see what you have chosen. so if you choose faux, and you already had faux, it copies it over to the boot partition again. If you choose nightmare, it would copy over the night mare kernel. And if you chose nothing, but did a super wipe you would not have had any boot partition left because it formats the boot partition.

:)

I believe I had responded to a question as to why I released another ICS rom and not the next generation of JB.

Ravike and I have ported other ICS roms to figure out whats needed for certain functions.

This was practice for building future roms, plus I wanted to give everybody a new boost with a better version of the viper ICS to hold you over until we get something better.

I will be releasing Viper sense 5 if we can get it working to whats working in viper now. But I'm trying to figure out how to get bluetooth working right now.

I hope it wont be long. Ravike keeps making discoveries every day, so things start working more and more.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Odysseus1962:
[MENTION=1821867]chevycowboyusa[/MENTION] I discovered why some of my settings selections weren't sticking across reboots (at least when S-on like I am). Within the Venom Tweaks applet there is a setting make system RW, by default it's unchecked. When this is unchecked any settings changes made in the /system partition are reverted when rebooting. When enabled these changes do stick. I thought I'd clue-in anyone else who was having this issue.

I hope this helps.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Re: [ROM] Viper Amaze 1.6.4 [ICS |Android 4.0.4 | Sense 4.1]

Bwahahaha! Lol I was going to ask for some proof!
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Re: [ROM] Viper Amaze 1.6.4 [ICS |Android 4.0.4 | Sense 4.1]

I actually have a sensation. Well my daughter does..
[HTC Amaze 4G] Brooklyn8807:
Re: [ROM] Viper Amaze 1.6.4 [ICS |Android 4.0.4 | Sense 4.1]

If team venom does I'm fact have a legit facebook then he is not lying about the the jb update. The sense 6 was a sarcastic post for the eta trolls but the first one seems legit.

If you follow the facebook link from venom hub you will see. I'm not holding my breath for it though. I'm happy right here with sense 4 :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
obviously no one followed the goo.gl link, otherwise they'd see: NO ETA... lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Hey there Blast0id!

Thanks for giving me the shove in the right direction with making flashable zips!

:)

Trying to see if I can get the actual 4.5 keyboard to work 100% (I've got help on it) :)

227 downloads of 1.6.4 so far! that tells me were are still a strong community!
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Re: [ROM] Viper Amaze 1.6.4 [ICS |Android 4.0.4 | Sense 4.1]

And we have a 100% Fully functional 4.5 keyboard.

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1831510&stc=1&d=1364186080

Credit and a big THANKS go to admin131 for playing with the keyboard and got it working!

Link above and in post #3

Download and flash thru recovery.

Also might want to fix permissions while your in recovery!
[HTC Amaze 4G] Hassaan.W:
true but the sensation has sense 4 with bluetooth as well as cm 10.1. the amaze is still better though.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chevycowboyusa:
Build prop edit

One more for tonight! Post # 3 updated

This is a newly edited build.prop.

I flashed this earlier this evening and my battery life is better!

Flash this file in recovery and afterwards fix permissions (under tools in 4ext)

plug your phone in to charge until notification light turns green

unplug and check after a while.

I found that there was something preventing deep sleep.

G'night!
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Yea but Android 5.0 doesn't exist either lol

Don't use bluetooth and correction you guys don't have cm-10.1 i have whatever i want
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
try out this aroma package http://goo.im/devs/Sportsstar89/Ruby/ViperRom
[HTC Amaze 4G] SpiritFyre:
Re: [ROM] Viper Amaze 1.6.4 [ICS |Android 4.0.4 | Sense 4.1]

Sport we love u

*waving the magic muffin they let us pass*. Sent from a Force filled Muffin wielder.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Darikus:
What are your settings spirit.fm? Not work!
[HTC Amaze 4G] masondoctorjt:
Re: [ROM] Viper Amaze 1.6.4 [ICS |Android 4.0.4 | Sense 4.1]

Yeah, I was just seeing how dumb he could make himself look.lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] daorderdillon:
Re: [ROM] Viper Amaze 1.6.4 [ICS |Android 4.0.4 | Sense 4.1]

Well far as I can see this rom is finished I don't even care about bluetooth and nfc and WiFi tether finally I cud backup my nightmare rom and use this viper rom :D