yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Poor battery life with the Rezound is just a fact of life... I know that switching to Art DOES increase battery life, but there are issues with Art that really make it not that great for a daily driver.

I've noticed a few graphics issues in this rom that we don't have in CM, so I'm going to have to investigate that a bit, but otherwise it's been pretty stable.
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Netflix hack posted in 2nd post. Tested and working. :)
[HTC Rezound] imparables:
Nice job. Thanks!!!!!
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
So your saying that the battery life is as "typical" on KitKat with the Rezound as any other ROM? :)

Also, what issues have you noted with ART that might effect it being a daily driver? I use ART on my Nexus 4 and it is trouble free... What do you see as the reason ART couldn't be a dd ROM in this case?
[HTC Rezound] NickDVS:
Can someone post a screen shot of this once it is installed? Please :)
[HTC Rezound] 4GivenByChrist:
[MENTION=2658396]kkozma[/MENTION] ROM seems really smooth. YouTube, BT streaming and calls, and camera functions all work well with dalvik runtime. As you mentioned ART does seem to have issues at times.

Great job on the build - look forward to testing it out more as a DD.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Will post some screen shots shortly... Pretty plain jane, so not sure what your looking for.

One thing I noticed, from the home screen if you press Menu -> Settings nothing happens, no menu, pressing Settings from App screen works fine. Also, if you press Wallpaper from Menu on Home screen you get "Launcher3 has stopped" (Nevermind, it just didn't like the fact I had the SD card mounted as USB Storage, once I turned it off, it was fine). Just starting to play around, haven't even flashed Gapps yet.

EDIT: some basic screen shots attached, not much to see though

EDIT2: Gapps installed (Banks), base configuration, and some basic apps installed (Play Store didn't reinstall apps coming from LiquidSmooth) and ran it through some everyday stuff... Exchange email, WiFi Hotspot (tried Nexus 4, HP laptop, XBox360 all successful), media playback, Chrome, Google Maps, etc. all working fine, no issues of any kind so far other than the Menu->Settings things I mentioned above. Going to give it a run this week and see what happens... nice work [MENTION=2658396]kkozma[/MENTION] and the rest of the devs. :good:

EDIT3: Added a screen shot from after I configed with basic apps I use, a few widgets, and gapps... in case someone was interested.
[HTC Rezound] scy1192:
Haven't really used Evervolv before, are the Performance settings hidden or just not in Evervolv?
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Settings->Toolbox -> Performance

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Wow... memory usage is amazing so far, averaging 390MB free?!?! I haven't seen that in a LONG time!!!
[HTC Rezound] scy1192:
Been using it for a little while, it's really fast. Might be because I had that install of CM11 for a while and I wiped it for Evervolv, but who knows.

With xposed and Gravity Box I'm not missing anything.
[HTC Rezound] blu422:
Anyone know if gsm is working? Cm11 doesn't quite have it working yet... Everything except sending texts...
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Not sure about GSM. I do know that Evervolv uses a slightly different telephony codebase. Give it a shot! :)
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
This is my new daily driver ROM... I tried to break this, really I did, but I couldn't... everything works, Bluetooth, camera, tethering, prox sensor with no tweaks, Exchange email/calendar/contacts... everything. The ONLY think I found that isn't working is when you press Menu->Settings it does nothing, but accessing settings from the pull-down or app menu works fine.

Battery life is average, not terrible, but not great. Memory management and usage is amazing, and I am running with close to 400MB free on a regular basis.

FYI to others... this ROM is plain jane, there isn't any fluff at all, it is as very basic and has few tweaks and settings but that is by design. That isn't a bad thing but if you are used to Tachyon, Carbon, or others it might seem like something is missing, but it isn't, just be aware you will have to add the apps and stuff you want/need that are anything beyond the core of Android. Out of the box there is barely one full page of apps and only basic widgets, so you will probably need some lockscreen and widget add-ons as well if you are used to other ROMs.

All and all, for the first full blown KitKat release for the Rezound, this is a stable, usable basic ROM... I whole-heartedly recommend this ROM.

Will continue to use this as my DD, if I run across anything I will share.
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Thanks for the glowing review! :) If it means anything to anyone else. I've installed this on my wife's Rezound and she has no complaints. She's as big of a technophobe there is, so I'd say that's also a good sign. Haha!

How about mounting the SD Card for USB mass storage? I wasn't able to get that going on mine and I saw someone in the CM thread with the same issue... I think it's probably something in the mount points, but I'm chicken to mess with that stuff!
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
It worked fine for me, but I did have to turn it on manually from the dropdown menu.

Edit: now that I think about it, all I did was access the internal storage to grab my screen shots, I didn't try to actually access the SD card, I will give that a shot when I get back to the office.
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Ok, I just tested GSM with my AT&T sim card and it did not work. It's possible it was caused by something I missed in one of the config files to build with. I have corrected that and am re-building now.
[HTC Rezound] rootforce:
Does built in wireless hotspot work without hotspot subscription check on vzw?
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
It probably wouldn't hurt to back up the SD Card and do a clean format of it.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
The 2 zips for simultaneous data and voice they do the same right, just one for gsm and one for CDMA?
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
Turning on GSM supports breaks simultaneous voice and data. If you're on Verizon, stick with the CDMA (which the next build is going to default to), if you need GSM, flash the other.
[HTC Rezound] drellisdee:
Made a verizon app installer that enables Verizon Visual Voice Mail, My Verizon, etc on asop type roms. Just flash from recovery. VVM was a pita to figure out but a feature I love no matter what rom I'm on.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
OK so since I use gsm (tmobile Sim) I flash gsm fix.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
No... GSM is baked in to current versions. The GSM patch is for future versions of the ROM, the CDMA patch is for current roms to be able to allow simultaneous voice and data. All roms going forward will have the CDMA patch pre installed and if you want GSM you will have to flash the GSM patch.
[HTC Rezound] AtomicFizzle:
This rom is pretty solid. So far so good!

One weird thing I noticed though is that you can't use SuperSU with it. When I tried to update the su binary after installing SuperSU, it won't boot up after the reboot- black screens and have to do a battery pull. Booting to recovery and reinstalling over top (which apparently wipes system) will get it to boot back up again. Tried two times. For now, I'm just using the included superuser. Could be something in the latest SuperSU - looks like from the notes they made some significant changes recently.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
Thanks i understand now.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Why are you flashing SuperSU? Root is baked in...
[HTC Rezound] AtomicFizzle:
Not to get root obviously, but more for the management of root. I have used it forever on cm based ROMs. I have always liked supersu. It has a lot of options and looks nice?
[HTC Rezound] rgnicholas:
Hello all... this is not a complaint but just wanted to verify that I just tried the 01/21/14 build and in my case, the data still doesn't work. I am using the "NV" switch (no sim) with PagePlus. For what it's worth, I also tried the latest CM11 build in Neo's thread... couldn't get my number to light up, so to speak, because I couldn't switch from SIM to NV. I'll keep watching and testing along the way :cool:
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
[MENTION=2658396]kkozma[/MENTION] mentioned this in the CM11 thread, I don't think you will have to wait long...

Meaning the code is there for SIM-less operation, it is just awaiting merging into the main source code tree, so once that is done and he does a fresh repo sync and build, it should work for you.
[HTC Rezound] rgnicholas:
Thanks for the clarification. I remembered his mentioning this but I guess I got mixed up... thinking it was already in the new build. I'll keep an eye out for the evolution of the ROM.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
im really not sure if im even getting 3g, there is just an e symbol over the signal i thought it meant evdo?
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
No... Evdo is a CDMA thing, in GSM a little e next to signal strength indicates Edge, or 2G, service... Best you will get is around 200kbps down. Compared to Verizon 3G (EVDO) average speeds of 750k-1M/sec, or GSM 3G speeds of 2-3Mbps.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
I'm most likely going to switch carriers then. What works best other than Verizon. Maybe cricket they offer 4g now in my area.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
The only way to get near-4G service on any carrier besides Verizon is 4G AT&T via HSPA+ (LTE is not possible with other carrier than VZW) with lots of NV and prop.build mods on a stockish ROM... Otherwise the best you will ever get basic 2G on any US GSM carrier, and EVDO 3G on Verizon resellers or prepaid (requires many mods).
[HTC Rezound] Nappyloxs:
I cannot get this to run smooth on my Verizon rezound. In really starting to think it may be my phone going.

I tried to flash yesterday with wipe data, cache, davik, clean wipe. I switches to art and installed banks gapps. Apps would take a minute to open. It would just freeze before opening. I tried upping performance which helped a little but not much. So i did a clean flash with twrp wiped everything but ex. SD. Keep davlik runtime. Ran better but then started getting reboots like crazy. It could have been i ran the phone low. A few apps crashed and i got the blacks squares in chrome.

So i just reflashed, and rebooted a few time. No wipe until later. It is running a little better but i have had to battery pull twice. Once in chrome one in home screen. I forgot data cut out also until a reboot.

I was also having trouble on cm11 1/12. Im hoping it if i run it a few days it is will stabilize.
[HTC Rezound] SigLover21:
It works great for me. I'm not going to test the "ART" version. I formatted the sd card and did a full wipe, flashed the rom, gapps and cdma.

:laugh::good:
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
so the best carrier to use besides verizon would be at&t prepaid to get the most function out of the phone, i understand no 4g LTE but at least 4g is better than 2g.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
It seems some Rezounds just dont like KitKat, assuming you tried the full S-Off Downgrade/Upgrade procedure, are on latest radios and firmware, tried different recovery, etc, basically all the normal in depth troubleshooting things, and it still fails, I Dont know what else to sat.

In theory, yes... Although I tried AT&T Go Phone and could never get better than Edge, [MENTION=5037435]REV3NT3CH[/MENTION] can probably give you the best info on this, the 3G US frequencies are locked and need to manually unlocked, most people who work with him can get at least basic 3G service where signal is good, the other issue is the radios are not "tuned" for US frequencies, so even once it is enabled the reception is marginal.

Honestly, the Moto G GPe for $199 is a better way to go, then get a cheap prepaid plan on any number of carriers.
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
hes right 4g on att or an att based carrier like straight talk is a huge hassle to get to work though 3g is very possible....i know upon releasing the guide (which i know is still in the works to get working functionally) that people will have a very hard time implementing it and followin it....it is VERY and i mean VERY extensive hex code work and not for the faint at heart.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
That sucks, iv waited 2 years for this rezound to get handed down to me. And I'm stuck with edge. Oh well time to look on Craig's list for a good phone cheap like I used to. I'll just look for one with a broken screen for cheap and fix it. Usually the best deal is a broken one, cheap to fix.
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
FWIW: I was able to get 3G with an AT&T sim card. However, I either need to be within eyesight of a tower or outdoors for it to actually work. Indoor it's basically not going to happen... The problem is the radios while unlocked are completely uncalibrated and unless the 3g signal is REALLY strong, it will not be enough to kick on... :(

That being said, it's good enough for me. I can use Wifi almost anywhere I go indoors and the AT&T 3G signal is pretty good in my area so it flips over to 3G almost as soon as I walk outside. It's either that or use this POS iPhone that came with the AT&T sim card. lol
[HTC Rezound] Nappyloxs:
Ace. Yes I tried cw and twrp. Also I'm on the latest radios hboot. I went back to beanstalk for a while.
[HTC Rezound] bacon612:
This is fantastic. Thank you. How do we install this? I opened the zip in ES file explorer to find out that they are system files and not and apk. I tried to flash it in CWM and no luck. Any suggestions guys?
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
Flash it in recovery. Double check your download isn't corrupted.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Not sure what you classify as "cheap", but a decent, used 3G/4G(HSPA+) phone for AT&T will run you $120-$150 (SGS2, HTC Vivid, Moto Atrix 2, etc), so if you can manage it I would suggest springing the extra $50 and grabbing a Moto G Google Play Edition, the 16GB version is $199 and for the money it is an amazing phone... it has sufficient horsepower for most tasks, the size is decent, and battery life is excellent with users reporting 6-7 hours of screen on time. Plus it's a GPe edition, so unlocked bootloader, latest Android, and a solid dev community are big pluses.

Of course, if you dig around and make some offers on Swappa, I have seen some of these and similar phones like the HTC Inspire go for under $100, so I guess it's your call and how much your wallet can handle.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Have had several people lately say I sound very loud and distorted unless I speak much softer than normal... No difference when using handset or Plantronics Voyager Legend headset via BT. Anyone else notice this or is my last Rezound starting to have a hardware failure... :(
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
No one has mentioned anything to me about it. I have the same rom on my wife's rezound and she talks on the phone quite often. I'll ask her and report back...

I should have a new build up later today FYI. I found some stuff from other msm8660 devices to try out in the kernel. So far so good on my test build. :) Other than that, nothing too major. We found out that thanks to Apple, google has removed the ability of the default email app to "linkify" web links. That has been fixed going forward for those who use that app, and I also adjusted the USB settings to always show USB options in the pulldown since we can use MTP and Mass Storage now (Mass storage, removed the USB options from the pulldown).
[HTC Rezound] tompdillon:
I am not sure what happened but my external sdcard will not mount anymore. I have tried several cards. I can't mount in recovery or when it boots.

Any ideas?
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Can you read it in an sd card reader in your PC? If you can, back it up and try to re-format it... See if that helps...

For everyone else. New build uploaded! Links in op adjusted..

I have re-mapped the memory for ION again, let me know how it works. Seems to have smoothed out some of the glitches I've been seeing. Also found a derp in the audio memory map, so maybe that might fix some of the audio skipping some users have been experienceing?

OH!! And I included the commit that will HOPEFULLY fix data for the folks who use a sim-less CDMA subscription. Please let me know if it works.

Enjoy!
[HTC Rezound] BBEgo:
Looks very cool!

Can you update the md5 info?

Thank you!
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
I thought i did... Does it not match?
[HTC Rezound] BBEgo:
I DL'd GApps twice cuz it didn't match. After that I checked the ROM and it didn't match either.

Thanks for looking into this. :)

Sent from my HTC DNA

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Maybe I was downloading your previous build? When were the new links posted? I dl'd around 1pm pst.

Sent from my HTC DNA

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Yup I downloaded your build from Jan 21. Grabbing the new one now. Thank you!

Sent from my HTC DNA
[HTC Rezound] tompdillon:
You know I think it is my internal sdcard that is having trouble. What do I lose if I format it?
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Will flash this new build later... My manager just told me today I am up for a new phone Feb 18th, so this will probably be my last DD ROM... Now to start pondering my replacement! Leaning G2 or Moto X right now, but we will what drops over the next few weeks.
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
I use my rezound for work, and I have a G2 as my personal phone. I can't speak highly enough about the G2. Absolutely phenomenal phone that just works. I don't even have the urge to mess with it.
[HTC Rezound] tmanschuette:
+1

I rooted mine to debloat a little and flash the gflex splitview mod. Tried a couple aosp and stock based roms, but always went back to stock.
[HTC Rezound] bacon612:
Tried to download it again. I get an error msg when attempting to flash it in flys latest cwm. Is everyone else able to flash this? I'm confused.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
My son in just got one when his Commando died, he absolutely loves it and says battery life is amazing... Unless something crazy drops that's probably the way I'm going.
[HTC Rezound] onthehole:
Netflix fix baked in now? Is it time to give this one a go?
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Yes,it has been for a while now... After you install Netflix you will need to reboot the phone though so that the script can do it's magic. :)
[HTC Rezound] rgnicholas:
Hey, they do match... see the attached image. What probably threw you off was an extra "space" that was in front of the hash string. I had the same result but when I removed the space, all was good. Flashing and testing now (I'm one of those SIM'less folks)
[HTC Rezound] rgnicholas:
Hello again... just a report. Remember, I am SIM'less and use PagePlus (CDMA), so I am relying on the NV settings for data to work. The JB 4.3.1 ROMs work. I flashed the 01.28.14 build and MMS doesn't work for me. Interesting though is that data works... just not MMS. I tried it with the stock messaging app and with Google Hangouts... neither worked with sending a picture MMS. Is there a setting in the build.prop that might cause this? Any ideas? If I can't get it working, I'll have to revert back to a JB ROM until a solution is found. Thanks again!
[HTC Rezound] tompdillon:
OK, got it to format. Went into recovery and mounted USB Storage. Then plugged into a Windows machine and it would format it.

I was working on my Linux machine which didn't not find the device.
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Ok, so we're getting there! You had no data the last time too, correct?

Does your phone know it's own phone number?

Go to settings -> about phone -> status
[HTC Rezound] kkozma:
Another update. With the last release I noticed that the notification pull down was freezing and getting stuck on me. I believe I have a fix for it and am testing it now. Be on the lookout for another update today.

Edit: Or not. It just froze on me again.
[HTC Rezound] BBEgo:
I'm planning on installing this today. I just have a question:

If you're coming from an ICS Sense 3.6 ROM ( Nils' ), I read somewhere that the jump to KK has a file system structure change that will screw up my SD card. Can anyone link me to a guide to help me through this process?

Sent from my HTC DNA
[HTC Rezound] rgnicholas:
Yes indeed! You are correct. The data (for browsing, etc.) works this time. My phone is dead in the water until I set it to NV... then the correct phone number shows up... SMS works well regardless. For what it's worth, there are a couple of my usual apps which do not like the build... or maybe they don't like KitKat yet. When I try to install either Haxsync or Lux Autobrite, the phone will freeze and softboot.
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
The cards swap and the Internal becomes the default storage. I'd back them both up, clean them up and swap the contents on them or put back just what you want to keep.
[HTC Rezound] bbgreen:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35865313

Haxsync is for Facebook sync right? Well try the link above the o.p. modified the c.m.11 contact apk to sync just like ICS use to. Its best to set up on clean install but you don't have to just follow the directions.
[HTC Rezound] rgnicholas:
Yes, it syncs with facebook and displays things in HD quality. I may look at the solution you reference... with JB ROMs though, it works rather nicely.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
View attachment 2547426

Phone seems to not sleep when BT Headset is connected, whether in use or not in latest version... Sucking battery pretty hard.

Uhgg... Might try clean flash tonight.

EDIT: looks like a new new version is available, guess I'll try that.
[HTC Rezound] snpiee:
No DIAG Mode in Rezound with KitKat

Hi,

I just flashed this KitKat rom but what it did is reset my radios. Lost my phone number, etc. So basically I have to reactivate the phone again. The problem with that is that in this ROM, diag mode does not work. Dialing ##DIAG does nothing. Diag mode, is required to use tools such as DFS to enter the phone number etc. Is there a way to enter DIAG mode with this ROM?

Thanks,
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
no only possible with a sense rom bud....why did you reset radios when it was not needed? just outta curiousity....and dfs doesnt work on the rezound either...only CDMA Workshop....whatever you do in DFS doesnt stick after reboot just so you know
[HTC Rezound] rgnicholas:
You may have already seen this in the past (and I'm not sure it will work on these later ROMs) but it may be worth a try. I must say that I haven't tried it myself (so, proceed at your own risk) on a CM ROM above a CM7... back in the day. I hope you did a Nandroid backup before you got stuck.

Old way to get DIAG -> http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13397980&postcount=1

I don't think it could have reset your radios... BUT if you have your Rez programmed for PagePlus like me, you would need to switch the Evervolv ROM to NV mode... not SIM for it to pick up your cell connection.
[HTC Rezound] snpiee:
I did not reset radios. The ROM flash did something that caused losing of my radio settings (you know stuff like phone number, PRL, etc), I found out that with Rezound if you upgrade/downgrade radios, you lose your phone number/activation. I don't think these settings can get reset if you wipe certain partitions because I believe they are saved in the "radios". Also, DFS does work on Rezound. You can actually set NV Only with DFS as well. That's how I got my rezound to work on PagePlus, 3G data, MMS, Voice and all. On 9k port it seems like it dont stick but it actualy does. It does has its quirks I'll agree to that.

I tried this method and it did nothing. To switch to NV mode you need DIAG mode to work.