yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
I'm tempted to try omni, but I kinda like Shiny... Yeesh, I wish ROM's were always stable, I used to live on the edge... 'Only calling works spotty and it boots? Its a daily driver!' Not anymore for me...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
Don't know what problems you've had but I haven't had any calling issues. I can send and recieve calls.. The only issue I've had in that department is the contacts app will crash. I don't mean to sound like an ass but if you want stable than go back to 4.2.2.... You're in unoffical support territory right now.

The problem is that 4.4.3 has no offical support from most rom makers right now. MW did a pretty good job builidng 4.4.3 into 4.4.2's base. There are going to be glitches for the first so many builds.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] otter34:
I've tried all the 4.4.2 out there and didn't see a stable one without bugs. This Rom so far has been problem free.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PowurPlayr:
I noticed torch is unresponsive, and there is a camera error: "can't connect". really like battery life and speed of OMNI.

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
Sorry about not getting a build up yesterday, as some of you already know I run on Valve Time...

I have had this happen a few times. I think it happens when you have the Camera app open (even if it's in the background) and then you mess with Torch. A reboot will fix it. I've just never been able to reproduce it when I'm able to get a proper logcat...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] auad:
Did not have a good experience with the 4.3.3v2, my phone was very slow, very unresponsive, and them I deviced to roll back to the previous 4.4.2, which was perfect!

I'll wait a little more cause I know FML will continue to be my ROM of choice! Keep the good work, and thanks for all your effort! :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rushead:
I dirty flashed over the last 4.4.2 and have no problems. Stock kernel.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
I made good progress last night for the next build! Lots of stuff for F2FS going on, not sure if the new build will be out today or tomorrow but um... yeah. :D

EDIT: Figured I'd share some details on what I'm doing for those that might be interested.

First off, I merged in the F2FS patches required for the ROM (not the kernel, yet anyway). However, I ended up with some headaches trying to merge in the stuff to the system/vold/ repo, so I'm going to just try using what Vanir has for that for the moment instead of trying to merge the F2FS stuff into what OmniROM had for that repo. There might be some changes I need to make to some other repos for that to all work properly then but I'll figure those out soon.

Next, I wanted to try and cut down on the space taken up by all the stuff in the ROM. F2FS kinda reserves some space for itself when you format with it, so the already getting-smaller (as in, compared to other newer devices that are accommodating Android taking up more space as it grows over time) /system partition for the Galaxy Nexus will be shrunk even more, so while right now there shouldn't be any issues fitting a ROM itself on there when using F2FS, GApps are going to be an issue. GApps have been growing like crazy over the past few Android versions too! We went from an 87MB zip for the 4.3.x GApps to basically double that for the 4.4.x GApps zip (and obviously it takes up more space when it's all extracted and everything too!). So, right now I'm running OptiPNG on a number of parts of Android.

OptiPNG is used to decrease the size of PNG images, without affecting the quality. PNG uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, the same thing used by the zlib compression library. OptiPNG leverages zlib's generally superior and more configurable compression settings to compress the image, which still remains compatible with the standard PNG format due to it using the same (de)compression method. OptiPNG can also cut back on the color palette used by the image, so instead of the image unnecessarily using 4 channels for the colors (well, 3 for RGB and 1 for alpha/transparency/whatever you want to call it), it can cut it back to just grayscale or only a certain amount of colors if possible. I've seen reductions anywhere between 25% to 80% in file size with it. Even if it only saves a few KB per image, that all adds up really fast! If I can save even 1MB, that's about the amount of space the FaceLock APK takes up. Even before this, I've made some big differences in the size of FML by removing general bloat and things that just aren't used by anybody, so hopefully FML will be able to handle F2FS well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
The next build should have at least 5MB trimmed off of it. I'm just finding thing after thing to trim out! FYI one thing that I'm cutting loose is the OmniROM boot animation... I kinda like it but it takes up 4.12MB of space versus the 0.76MB of the Nexus KitKat animation.

Unfortunately it seems OptiPNG wasn't as helpful as I was hoping it would be. I'll have to double check this, but from what I saw the APK was somehow already compressing the PNGs to the point of OptiPNG not making a real difference. That doesn't make any sense at all to me, as compressing something that's already compressed is usually useless, and APKs are basically a zip file... so... yeah. There were a few things I ran OptiPNG on that did make a difference, but there were also a number of things that didn't make a difference at all, and it takes so long to run OptiPNG on everything so the work to improvement ratio is just too damn high.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] terminal13:
Rom is running great as usual man. Thanks for the effort. Running with latest dirty is a nice combo too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
Can't wait. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pattyboi:):
your one devoted guy bro.

damn sure earned the upmost respect from me.

have a great night,next paycheck i get im sending your way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
Well I'm also a nice guy, and there's no way I could accept an entire paycheck from somebody. Even if it's just a small check from a part time minimum wage job or something, I still couldn't because I've been on the receiving end of paychecks like those and those are the jobs that can wear you out the most (I'd like to see somebody who works behind a desk from 8-5 complain about their feet hurting like hell: try running around bussing tables at a busy supper club all by yourself for 8 hours for a boss that is the freakin' devil!). Which leads me to this rant:

The minimum wage in the USA is stupidly low. I'm not saying it should be $15/hour like those fast food workers went on protest for a while ago, I think that's ridiculous too, but to keep up with inflation properly our minimum wage should be over $10/hour last I checked. I'm not expecting something like that either, but I think $9 or $9.25 per hour would be reasonable and maybe with a $8/hour step a year before it goes to $9 like what has been done in the past for minimum wage hikes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying raising the minimum wage magically fixes things. A raise in the minimum wage would most likely cause some layoffs as well as price increases for some things, but when people make more money they have more to spend as well. I mean come on, working a more-than-full-time job at minimum wage should NOT put you below the poverty line. And don't think that it's just younger people still in high school etc. who work minimum wage jobs, in many cases (such as where I live) it's basically impossible to be hired at a place without a high school diploma. Why? Because then your employer doesn't have to work around your school schedule, and more and more people that are already long done with high school are looking for any job they can find, even the minimum wage ones.

FYI, my boss really was the devil. Anybody who held the position of busser/dishwasher before I started, quit way before I did. 50% of the other employees quit while I was there too. Multiple people started AFTER me and quit BEFORE me. I ONLY WORKED THERE FOR 6 MONTHS. That is a RIDICULOUS turnover rate.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pattyboi:):
i dont even get minimum wage lmao,i work under the table/odd jobs for good friends in low places and when im roofing or moving housing pieces i get about 5$ a hour,i finish a day with about 40$ give or take,i feel bad for the people who work at my middle school/high school,before we got out on the tenth i was talking to a very good friend who gets payed 7.25 to deal with 575 kids a dad in a cafeteria,who are arrogant and rude,thats something thats ridiculous (this whole i just wrote is gonna be stupid cause ive been up 32 hours with no sleep and its 3:29 am here,sorry for my dumbness dude)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rushead:
The real issue is that min. wage jobs were designed for high school kids, but now people are expected to live off of them. How can someone support a family while working at Walmart? (by shopping at Walmart!) I think it's around 90% of Walmart employees qualify for food stamps. And they use them at Walmart. Isn't that double indemnity?

Our whole system is designed to make corporate titans bigger while the employee gets less. It even happens at the college level where more than 80% of instructors are part time. The state penalizes districts for not meeting a 50-50 balance between full & part-time employees, but they'd rather pay the fine than pay benefits & higher salaries.

Something has to change, and raising minimum wage is not the solution. It might get votes, but it's not going to solve the larger issue. But, the ultra rich want more po folk, and since they rule the world....

[/Rant]

Sent from a flashead cracker.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] uninc4709:
I sporadically get this weird app switcher that I can't get out of unless I restart my phone. Anyone know how I can shut it off? It's the only time I need to shut off my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] otter34:
Same here. Only way I know is to turn phone off.

Sometimes the keyboard and back soft key just doesn't work. Everything else does though. It happens with multiple apps and stock as well as Swype. I have to kill the app then start over. Seems to be a bigger problem with Astrid
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
I don't get that problem. That is very weird.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rushead:
I've never had that problem either.

Sent from a flashead cracker.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] uninc4709:
Well it's a very real issue as I get it at least twice a week. Just wish I new what caused that mode to start in the first place.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] otter34:
Hangouts is just an awful messaging app. Anyone like it? If I want to call someone from a text message I don't have an option to set a default. If I'm creating a new message it's a3 step process... Same for sending a picture... Awful
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bsmitty83:
hangouts is amazing to me I love it and have no issue with it . I don't even use the dialer , I just call people from the hangout . its very simple and by far the best messenger service I've used on android . just my opinion tho .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vprasad1:
What are your thoughts on installing FML via images to accommodate repartitioning the Galaxy Nexus for a larger /system from a batch file that can be executed on a PC-- say something similar to how Google distributes their factory images? Folks would have to deal with losing everything if they forgot to backup to an external storage, but at least they'd be on F2FS-All.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
Working on the new build again. I discovered that there was metadata I could strip from the PNGs with OptiPNG, which has further cut down on the sizes of PNGs and should have a greater effect on reducing APK size (what better way to cut down on size than to remove some data entirely rather than just try and compress it?!), however I'm not certain if this is entirely safe so right now I'm not doing to do that on everything in the event that I have to revert it. I was also able to cut down the boot animation to 0.53MB now too. This next build is looking pretty good size-wise.

I also added the kernel changes to fix the CVE-2014-3153 futex vulnerability as well as some futex issues.

Small rant: I think it's a little annoying that geohot is being made out to be a "god" when he is just exploiting a vulnerability discovered and disclosed by somebody else. Don't get me wrong, I agree that he is talented, but this recent thing he's made some press for isn't as big of a thing others are making it out to be.

Additional rant: Cyanogen Inc. is touting that they had this patched up about 10 days ago. My question is, why did this catch some people so off-guard then? OmniROM has multiple kernels that were just patched yesterday or a couple days ago, if Cyanogen Inc. truly cared about the open-source community anymore they woud've informed other ROMs about it so they could have it fixed (before it caught more publicity) as well.

I have never seen such a thing. It'd be helpful if you could get me a logcat the next time this happens!

I'm not familiar with what you're describing, but I am interested in increasing the system partition size and the cache partition size. I'm thinking 75MB added to each or so. I'm just not familiar with how that would be done.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jmagsho:
Graphics Issues

So I'm new to the party here - checked out FML based on the recommendation of others, and I'm impressed. It's been great so far. I only have one issue that's driving me nuts and it's the dreaded black boxes graphics problem. I know that there was a flag that could be set in Chrome to reduce/eliminate this, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was or where I read about it. Have any of you guys encountered this?

Any help is appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
I thought the ramdisk is what controlled partition sizes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
This has not been an issue in FML for a loooong time. I have no idea why it's an issue for you right now. Get me a logcat of when this is happening.

If that was the case it'd be as if there are dynamic partition sizes... doesn't sound right to me but I could be wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
NVM, I had a quick lesson in ramdisk and boot img... I had it completely wrong lol.

I was told to ask this..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
As far as I can tell there aren't unused drawables included.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] otter34:
Voice to text with stock everything just forced a restart, however I've had this issue with omni going back a few releases.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
Ok, the guy I'm talking to is the same guy who helped get Candykat off the ground.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dbt816:
I'll be darned if I didn't see that yesterday myself. Had to reboot to get it cleared. I don't know the sequence of events that caused it, but in my case I will say I fumbled the phone in my hands :) It's like something overrides OmniSwitch...yet OmniSwitch still works, but you just can't get to any foreground apps. [MENTION=3390093]MWisBest[/MENTION] I will try to get a logcat as well if it happens again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
Edit: nvm I just had a full on tard moment….

It was suggested to me that if you wanted to really cut back on space you could remove a bunch of less used features and make them available via aroma installer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
Oh just great. I get everything all set for this next build and am about to release it, then when I was already done with my usual testing I ended up with a plague of audio problems, courtesy of all this damn Qualcomm audio junk merged recently. Now I have to pick through that (THE MAJORITY OF WHICH BROUGHT TO YOU VIA CYANOGEN INC. OF COURSE!) and fix it. I am just LIVID right now. You think you guys get frustrated when a new build takes long?? I'm the one who has to sit here and work through stupid crap like this! At least you guys have your phones mostly working, I instead have to put up with my phone calls randomly glitching in and out of speakerphone to the point of not being able to have a conversation with anybody until this is fixed! THE ONE THING A PHONE IS MEANT FOR, I CAN'T DO!

Oh trust me, there's lots of unused stuff I've removed. There's nothing worthwhile left for me to take out at this point.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
My last phone was the HTC Thunderbolt. The very phone that HTC took forever to release kernel source for and even when they did they broke the kernel. By broke I mean we were plagued with issues using the source. I think at one point the dev(s) determined that HTC purposely broke the source. It didn't even get an ICS update until KK 4.4 came out.... I can't speak for anyone else but a few of us Bolt users migrated here, we're used to waiting. lol

Take your time, relax, make notes of where you stop and get away from it for a while. No sense in going gray over a release. :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] otter34:
I might be seeing a pattern. It seems to occur most often in landscape mode. I pressed the recents soft key in landscape and I think I was rotating to portrait when it occurred
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
That actually kind of makes sense with what the screenshot showed and it gives me a starting point on where to look, thank you!

Do you guys know what build this started happening in?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] otter34:
I just started using omni switch this build so I'm no help there
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] goplaycheckers:
Anyone else having issues using Exchange in the new version of the Email app published yesterday by Google on the Play Store? Unlike the stock Email app, there is no Exchange option when setting up an account (either via the app or through the Add Account option in settings) - only POP and IMAP are listed. Google claims the app supports Exchange. Not sure if it's a ROM issue, app conflict, or something else. I've tried disabling the built-in Email and Exchange Services apps, clearing cache, deleting the existing account, deleting the phone in Exchange (Office 365), basically everything I can think of. Is there anyone else that uses Exchange/ActiveSync for email that can confirm if they're seeing the same issues with the new app?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.email
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mhirsh:
Love the ROM. Been my daily driver for months. Only app issue I have is with watchespn app. Its usable, but has weird video around the edges. Any one else experience the same? Thanks for your awesome work and dedication.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MongolPup:
No sir I have not. I use it to cast to my TV/watch highlights all the time. Anyone else?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
I think I finally tracked down and fixed at least the majority of the audio bugs I ran into recently that have delayed the new build. I took a break from development for once (by playing some video games of course!) in hopes that I'd come back to it with a fresh perspective, which worked. So, hopefully I can get a build up either tonight or tomorrow. In addition to F2FS support there might be a few other surprises in there...

NOTE: Another way you could donate is getting something for me on my Steam wishlist, Steam has its summer sale going on right now so a lot of it is just like $2 games etc! (:

I've seen something like that before... back when Focal (the camera app) was in its early stages, it had the exact same problem for a while, but eventually it was fixed in Focal, so I'd suggest contacting the support people or whatever for that app and reporting the issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MongolPup:
Yup just kidding, the app does it for me too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] otter34:
GPS has been a huge battery drain for me. I lost 30% in an hour of not doing anything much. Turned it off and I've only lost 8% doing pretty much the same things the last hour
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
GPS is always a battery hog lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] quickdraw86:
GPS (especially all three sources enabled) destroys the battery life on my thunderbolt, gnex, and nexus 7 FLO the same. it's not a bug or lack of optimization, more of a consequence of using continuous GPS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rice923:
Does anyone know why I can't uninstall a few certain apps? The uninstall button is greyed out. The app in question is Cerberus, a sort of phone protection software.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] smokeydriver:
For Cerberus, you most likely gave it device administrator rights, so you'll have to remove those rights first, then the button shouldn't be greyed out anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rice923:
I recall them telling me about administrative rights. I couldn't find out how to disable it. Any pointers?

I also wanted to use TiBu to remove it, bit my TiBu is FCing immediately every time
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
Ran into another snag with the new build, ugh. Not sure how long this one will take me.

As others have said, GPS is and probably always will be a huge battery hog.

Settings --> Security --> Device Administrators.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] smokeydriver:
Settings, Security, Device Administrator

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rice923:
MW and smokey, thanks for pointing that out to me! Time to start cleaning out the app drawer!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pattyboi:):
[MENTION=3390093]MWisBest[/MENTION] ,ever thought of adding your own version of the open delta system for fml?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
:laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pattyboi:):
ctfu,point taken :good: :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ashclepdia:
hey awesome thread, get back up to the top of list in tapatalk do I don't have to scroll so far to find you...ahh there we go...bumpity.

(not meant at ALL to rush [MENTION=3390093]MWisBest[/MENTION] , I know be a busy guy, I just wanted thread near top lol)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
I think I've got all the issues resolved... new build should be out tomorrow.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shadow Death:
Sweet! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] smokeydriver:
Yay! I'm very excited for 2 reasons.

1- I'd switched to Omni when AOSP was having my text messages being sent out multiple times. Guess it's been a month or two since I did a clean flash, and my phone's starting to run slow and started sending my wife the same text 4-15 times. Anyone else had this problem?

2- I always seem to do a clean flash and a new release comes out the very next day, so I'm really looking forward to a clean install with the newest release.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
Do you by chance use the stock Messaging app for text messages? I'm wondering if this is specific to that, as I use Hangouts and haven't had an issue with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] smokeydriver:
Yup, stock. I've been thinking about switching to hangouts. Do SMS/MMS get saved when doing a clean install, or do I need to use something like SMS backup but for hangouts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
My phone has died. No idea why.

I had just flashed the new build I was working on to test it, about half way through generating the dalvik cache the screen went black. Phone was unresponsive. I had to pull the battery to shut it off. Now it will not turn on whatsoever. It's not recognized via USB either. It won't even turn on when plugged into a wall charger.

If I remember correctly I have a 2 year extended warranty through Verizon, I got my phone in January 2013. Since the phone won't even boot they shouldn't be able to tell it's rooted and unlocked etc. The problem is that there's a good chance they'll want to replace it with an "equivalent" phone since the Galaxy Nexus is like, 2 and a half years old, so chances are they don't have one to just replace this one with. Verizon hasn't even been selling them since January of 2013 (I got lucky and was able to get one (the LAST one too) at WalMart of all places). So if they try to pull that "equivalent" crap on me, I'll either:

1. Try to convince them otherwise.

2. Demand that the replacement be a Developer Edition of some kind, probably a Moto X. (Otherwise how is it an equivalent?)

3. Try and get a replacement mainboard or something and fix my phone myself.

So at the moment FML is on hold, sorry guys.