yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Custom_hboots.zip

I also use stock hboot and everything installs correctly.

Before installing the ROM execute "format all partitions (except sdcard)".
[Desire Android Development] _wook_:
I can't believe that my desire is working. Great work! I was just wondering, does xposed work?
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
This is a thread developer.

Check yourself and share problems.

Questions best directed to Threads in Forum Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
[Desire Android Development] _wook_:
Tried xposed installer v32 and v33 and i have the message:

Xposed is not (yet) compatible with Android SDK version 19 or your processor architecture armeabi-v7a).
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE: cannot locate symbol "_ZN7android14AndroidRuntime5StartEPKcS2_" referenced by "/data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/cachke/app_process"...

might be because of my partition layout?

EDIT:

Xposed installs so far (not tested the modules). I used Xposed v2.6.1 by SolarWarez, 20151129

Source: google

+

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45188739 will be useful just in case...
[Desire Android Development] obstacle3:
Many thanks for the ROM, nice'n'snazzy at least upon install! Here's my experience so far:

Bugs:

I can't adjust widgets/options of the lockscreen - when swiping down the lockscreen clock and clicking the 'settings' button that is revealed next to it I only get "Unfortunately, DashClock Widget has stopped."

When opening the Camera through some other apps (e.g. WhatsApp) the preview shows wacky artefacts, actually taking a picture works fine though (it looks like the preview image breaks at the wrong point, might have something to do with the changed dpi?)

Only one random crash/shutdown so far, happened at night so not sure what happened

Performance: I did y/y/y for a2sd, otherwise at least on my previous rom (CM7) I would only have been able to install an app or two because Google Services already took up half of the system memory for its appdata, and with CM7 the external appdata wasn't noticeable at all.

With SlimKat the system got extremely sluggish really quick when installing apps, I'm currently at 780MB apps + 73MB cache (my sd-ext is 2GB) and especially switching between apps is extremely slow. Individual apps can be snazzy once they're running but some background tasks (like installing an app) make the system completely unusable, when waking my phone even the lockscreen can take a few seconds to even render.... There's still 50+MB RAM available, so not sure what's going on.

In any case, looking forward to the next build! :) I'll see if noxdata helps with the performance and let you know!

Update: I re-did "a2sd install" with y/n/y which indeed left me with a fast ROM but too little space to install new apps, I also tried "a2sd xdata" after that but it gave me the same crazy performance hit as y/y/y, it wasn't anywhere near as bad under CM...
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
First of all, notice that the OP wrote clearly:

1. Recommendations/Requirements:

- A 512mb - 1.5gb EXT partition (EXT4 recommended) on your sdcard.
[Desire Android Development] obstacle3:
Just did a clean install of the ROM with the updated gapps from 3 January and the Play store is not working for me any more, the black one never even loads my username/google image and I get "Error while retrieving information from server: [RPC:S-7:AEC-0 etc etc]" when trying to install something, with the white one I get RPC:S-7:AEC-7(!) instead.
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
It would be best if you include logcat. I propose to do logcat command:

adb logcat -d > logcat_%date%_.txt

You send the file to the OP.
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
I confirm that LockscreenTargets is not working in this ROM. I will add it to the list of known issues. Thanks for reporting.

Camera preview distortion is not a bug in this ROM, but in the kernel. However, I believe that we will never get it fixed in the lifetime of HTC Desire. However, I don't consider it a big pain, as the primary function works.

About Performance:

The HTC Desire is not made for heavy app usage. You can do y/n/y for a2sd, to unlock the best performance in this ancient device, on the cost of limited space for apps. Y/n/y will store app data to the internal NAND and move the apk files to sd-ext as they are not needed frequently by the Android OS. Keeping app data in the internal NAND is beneficial to the app performance as the most read/write operations occur for app data.

Keeping app data in sd-ext (by doing y/y/y for a2sd) will allow you to run more apps on cost of performance. In this scenario, a2sd will store apk files and app data on sd-ext, slightly decreasing the ROM performance and your apps could turn slaggish when your SD card is the bottleneck (class 2). Perhaps if one has an ultra fast SD card, everything stays snappy.
[Desire Android Development] taninos:
I tried y/y/y with one of the best inexpensive ultra fast SD-card (Samsung EVO 16gb) and it worked awful over Slimkat but it actually works amazing over your CM11 that the reason I stick on CM11.

Best.
[Desire Android Development] obstacle3:
Hmm that's interesting, I might try out that CM11 build with the same SD and see what it does for me - I definitely had a fine performance with y/y/y on earlier versions of CM.

Just another bug that I found: USB tethering doesn't seem to be working!

Looking forward to the next build in any case :)
[Desire Android Development] desireleß:
which micro-sd did you use?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
New version has arrived!

Have a nice day!

;)
[Desire Android Development] M@c|-|oR:
Great news, mate!

:D

Coming from a previous version, is the full wipe needed, or we can just flash over?
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
I looked it up.

Works update from previous version, if A2SD is not installed.

Otherwise, you need to format all partitions (except sdcard).
[Desire Android Development] M@c|-|oR:
Alright then, thank you for the reply.

Downloaded, it's flashing time!

:D

P.S. God, did I miss flashing ROMs

:D

Since I got my self a Z2, I didn't flash anything - One X is using my daughter with SlimKAT, and Desire is using my wife.
[Desire Android Development] M@c|-|oR:
I might be inpatient, but I can't find this feature.

How do I choose the LCD density?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Settings > Display > LCD density

Was it that hard to find? ;)
[Desire Android Development] M@c|-|oR:
Obviously... :eek: :silly:

I was looking everywhere but there.

Thanks! :good:
[Desire Android Development] taninos:
Hi [MENTION=5091819]spezi77[/MENTION], could you make me a favor? could you compile 2.6.38 kernel within a zip file to be installed from recovery in the way you did with 3.0.16 kernel? Thanks in advance.

Best.
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
But the SlimKat already is based on kernel 2.6.38.

So?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
+1

You can do it by yourself. Just replace the boot.img within the zip of 3.0.16 kernel with the boot.img from Slimkat ROM.zip. Voila! :D
[Desire Android Development] Lord David III.:
oandbackup restore problem

First of all thank you spezi77 for your hard work!:good:

I have a problem with restoring my apps and app data (see attached picture). I am using oandbackup (https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=dk.jens.backup). I used serveral roms including slimkat on different devices and I had never problems to restore my apps and app data, so I think maybe it is a rom problem.

I took a logcat of restoring apps under slimkat and kitkang 3.1. Attached is the whole logcat and the logcat where the error occurs.

under kitkang I had no prolems. I don't use gapps and the roms were fresh installed with enabled A2SD. I hope someone could help me.
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
My hint: use TitaniumBackup instead.
[Desire Android Development] Lord David III.:
Found a workaround: https://github.com/jensstein/oandbackup/issues/57

Installing another busybox version, which is there provided, solved this problem.

It seems to be a bug of the busybox version. The issue opener reports a bug and then there was a commit to solve this problem in CM 11. (http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/66111/).
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Indeed it is clear that busybox compiled in this SlimKat is older than the KitKANG. The version is the same. The system works properly.

Many well-prepared applications, including Titanium Backup uses its own BusyBox, precisely in order to shut out the other versions in the system.

If you want, you can manually move the KitKANG busybox to SlimKat and it should all work. After moving, give the file

chmod 755,

UID 0 root,

GID 2000 shell.
[Desire Android Development] Lord David III.:
But I like minmal and free (i.e. FOSS) apps. oandbackup's apk is just 429 kB compared to 7.3 MB of titantium and it do its job very well when there is no problem with busybox. ;)
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
openbackup needs superuser. Try to install supersu by Chainfire and then see how to work oanbackup.
[Desire Android Development] Lord David III.:
I have no problems any more, like I said here:
[Desire Android Development] dado023:
Is this the most stable kitkat rom for our old Desire? ......i mean daily driver rom

Regarding video recording, i am assuming its not working, like in other kitkat roms, or not?
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Only in ROM with Sense operate all functions of the hardware.

Each user has a different definition of /daily use/daily driver/.

Simply install and use as you like.

There is no problem to record video with the help Videocam illusion. Probably because this application does not use hardware acceleration and writes to MOV. Unfortunately there is no sync audio/video.
[Desire Android Development] dado023:
Thank you for your reply.

Indeed, i see your point, it really comes to personal preference.

To me, visuals and cosmetics of rom is not important anymore, i would rather take stable and responsive rom than beautified one, because our Desire(bravo) is like an old PC, it cant handle rich kitkat roms, it tends to slowdown with time, but i see this rom has smallest file size i saw so far.

So, all i wanted is a comment from experience of users of this rom, is it stable and responsive?
[Desire Android Development] taninos:
Either Slimkat 9.0 or KitKANG 3.1 are both more or less the same about /system size, KitKANG 3.1 was really pruned if you compare with official CM11. Hence, it is just a question of trying. I really prefer KitKANG 3.1.

For better performance, what I truly recommend are [MENTION=2008455]kuskro[/MENTION] cpu's presets, find them here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64756876&postcount=887

In special, these parameters

:)
[Desire Android Development] dado023:
Thanks mate, ......that was really informative....the more i know the better.

And now, my volume down button refuses to function.....now i cant get into recovery.....just my dumb luck....its seems i will have to literally take my Desire apart to fix the button first, before doing anything.

Regards

Dado

EDIT:, lol, now i saw the screws, ....it seems i need to get some special screwdriver to unscrew it, looks like star.... my god, why did htc complicated it so much.
[Desire Android Development] kuskro:
FYI you can get into recovery with volume up button.

Best.
[Desire Android Development] dado023:
i was unlucky today, coz i opened up my Desire, and unscrewed it, so i tried to clean volume buttons, then this black slim flat plastic connection broke: http://i.imgur.com/SBeUQP8.png

now i rebooted with adb boot recovery, ....oh well, i am not sure if that black plastic strip is electrical connection or something else......but i managed to boot into recovery, huh
[Desire Android Development] kuskro:
Button Savoir App can help you if you spoiled the volume buttons.
[Desire Android Development] dado023:
Thank you mate, i wasn't aware of this app, i will certainly try it.
[Desire Android Development] fly23:
edit: opened a new thread: http://xdaforums.com/htc-desire/help/upgrade-recovery-s-t3302107
[Desire Android Development] dado023:
[MENTION=4286998]taninos[/MENTION]

which app did you use to tune and set those parameters?

thanks
[Desire Android Development] kuskro:
Trickster Mod works good.
[Desire Android Development] dado023:
battery night time

Every day in the morning phone is turned off due to battery 0% ...then i have to charge it again, even if i charge is full every night.

What do you think, is this related to rom, or probably old battery ?
[Desire Android Development] invisible132:
Same problem here. Battery is new.
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
On my Bravo, on a clean system, when fully charged the battery and lack of use, the battery consumption is 0.5%/h.

Try to find the cause of energy intake.

The problem could be hardware in the device itself, and not necessarily in the battery.
[Desire Android Development] YaSsIN225:
thnks bro

Is there a way to install this rom with this script

40ad2sdx-a2Recovery.zip

to allow sdext works auto

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thank you for your work
[Desire Android Development] SpiggyTopes:
Many thanks for this --- at last I can use my Desire again.
[Desire Android Development] lanceleyja:
hey

Is this comp with the desire 512
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
No, only with HTC Desire (bravo).
[Desire Android Development] crankcaller:
Thanks very much for this. I now have a backup phone again.

Cheers
[Desire Android Development] mesiu84:
Just wanted to ask about "not working" things in this ROM. What about recording videos with camera? I don't see any information about it in here, and I'm really interested in it. Thanks :D
[Desire Android Development] neoneuf:
It seems that all kitkat roms don't support video recording. However you can use videocamera illusion but it's not perfect.

It's too bad but it seems that it is something related to the evervolv kernel used by all these roms.

I think I'm going to try the following ROM : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1355660

which is ICS but based on another kernel and seems to support video recording...

So it seems we have to choose between kitkat or JB without video-recording or ICS with video-recording...

I have also noticed lately that when installing these ROMs, I have to prevent google play store from updating itself, else it installs an update of google play services which takes lot of place in memory and can not be moved to SD card and then the ROM becomes laggy...

I d'ont know if someone has a solution to this problem ?
[Desire Android Development] xMDKx:
Uhm, when I try to install any app the device restarts... Tried installing from Play Store, downloading and opening in device and by adb install, same thing all the time, the device just restarts.

Any idea on what it can be, or where I can look to find more info about this?

Thanks for the rom!
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
You are welcome!

Could you please take a logcat while you make a reproduction of this issue? I am not a clairvoyant.. ;)
[Desire Android Development] xMDKx:
Yup, here is it. In this case, I've tried to install FDroid from Downloads.

Thanks for the reply!
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Get rid of Google applications.

There are alternatives:

Free and Open Source Software

Amazon Appstore

Samsung Galaxy Apps

and many others.

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You forget the good camera for android other than Gingerbread, which operates the kernel of snq-.

[KERNEL][GB/SENSE] 2.6.35.10-g3f43272 [v06] | OC1152 | LZMA | fixes +addtl modules by snq-

KERNELS SNQ
[Desire Android Development] Pai Mei:
Hi Spezi and thanks for your great work!

I'll try your rom and I hope it is stable. Does anything not work?

I have to use the Desire as main phone. Do you think this rom is good in this way? Or you can suggest me another your rom?

Thanks a lot!
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Not working:

* video recording

* MMS

Daily use:

Ask other users here, I don't use my Desire on a daily base.

Or you can suggest me another your rom?

This depends on your personal taste.

Have a nice day! ;)
[Desire Android Development] ukanth:
[MENTION=5091819]spezi77[/MENTION] , Amazing to see that you still continue developing for beloved Desire. I admire your passion ! I moved on from desire after using for 5 long years and now using oneplus X.

I wish you buy oneplus X and building for it :D

Again thank you so much for your contributions !
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
... or for Oppo A30.

Are you a headhunter? ;)
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
You're welcome. I also accept gifts.. :D

XD

Honestly, a good friend of mine has given me a htc leo as gift.
[Desire Android Development] cable_guy:
Hi all, long time out of the Desire game but want to try a new ROM, this one looks good.

I have HBOOT 0.93.0001, and these are my partition sizes, but I'm unsure whether I can flash this as the requirements say 250M in System, am I right that I need to change my partitions before I use this ROM please?

e% 203.1M

/dev 203.1M

/mnt/asec 203.1M

/mnt/obb 250M

/system 147.6M

/data 40M

/cache 969.1M
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
It is written in the first post:

- An hboot with at least 250mb on system. These include stock hboot or 250/5/182 hboot.
[Desire Android Development] cable_guy:
I can't figure out whether what I've got is stock Hboot or not though
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Your question should be asked in section Q&A.

Now in this thread gets garbage.

You should write how you receive the size you specified.

I assume that you have a HTC Desire (Bravo / A8181) and the unlocked bootloader.

Otherwise it is not possible to partition your cache was nearly the size of 1GB.

You run the command

fastboot oem listpartition

and together with the result of the command ask your question in section Q&A.
[Desire Android Development] nickolasemp:
Error installing

Hello,

I want to try it too, but I fail when trying to install the zip file.

The Hboot is correct, the sdcard as far as I understand is correct, I could easily install oxygen again (yeah, I know gingerbread!)

In TWRP it clearly states that I have sd-ext as ext4 and 1.5Gb.

In the beginning I fully wiped everything, even the sdcard. I mkdir /tmp/ cause apparently it was needing this.

No it only says that some of the symlinks have failed, without stating which ones. Any help?

C:\Users\~\Documents\personal\Desire>fastboot oem listpartition

...

(bootloader) [radio]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=497 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [hboot]:(RAW) block start=497, size=6 (768 KB)

(bootloader) [sp2]:(RAW) block start=503, size=7 (896 KB)

(bootloader) [mfg]:(RAW) block start=510, size=6 (768 KB)

(bootloader) [sp1]:(RAW) block start=516, size=9 (1152 KB)

(bootloader) [wifi]:(RAW) block start=525, size=5 (640 KB)

(bootloader) [recovery]:(RAW) block start=530, size=36 (4608 KB)

(bootloader) [boot]:(RAW) block start=566, size=24 (3072 KB)

(bootloader) [system]:(YAFFS) block start=590, size=2000 (264000 KB)

(bootloader) [cache]:(YAFFS) block start=2590, size=40 (5280 KB)

(bootloader) [userdata]:(YAFFS) block start=2630, size=1461 (192852 KB)

(bootloader) [datadata]:(YAFFS) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [local]:(RAW) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [misc]:(RAW) block start=4091, size=5 (640 KB)

(bootloader) [spcustom]:(RAW) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [cpld]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [microp]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [rcdata]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [a1026]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [tp]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [wimax]:(RAW) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

(bootloader) [nv]:(OTHER) block start=0, size=0 (0 KB)

OKAY [ 0.098s]

finished. total time: 0.099s
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
1. Check the amount of bad blocks:

fastboot oem partition_test system
fastboot oem partition_test userdata
fastboot oem partition_test cache

2. Create a new partition completely from ext4 using recovery 4EXT

3. Show the recovery 4EXT log ( in menu: copy recovery.log to sdcard) when you try to install the ROM.

.
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
I do not see.
[Desire Android Development] nickolasemp:
:eek: sorry. Done now!

By the way, I installed the gapps after the reboot of the a2sd and I cannot connect to Google's servers. Should I try another package of gapps? I tried both with my personal Wi-FI hotspot from my phone and from my job's network (just in case).
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Take the limit to 998 MHz

In this ROM, it is worthwhile to set a limit to the value of 998 MHz, which is the default value for this device.

The maximum allowable operating frequency processor in the SlimKat is exceeded by almost 15% more than the default value for the device.

In the summer during hot weather could result in permanent damage to the physical connections between the chipset and motherboard.

I do not know what you mean by "Google's servers", but after logging in google play store works without a problem.

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Android does not, but the memory controller. It's enough.
[Desire Android Development] senseii:
Spezi, amazing work on this ROM. Super smooth and fast.

One issue I found is in Settings and select Security it crashes the settings app with 'Unfortunately, Settings has stopped'.

Apart from that no other bugs and amazing ROM. Cheers!
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Thank you! I have built a new version, and did a quick test, but was not able to reproduce the issue you mentioned. I only tested with German language setting. If you should encounter this issue again, please take a logcat and post it here.

Cheers.. and have a nice day!

;)
[Desire Android Development] gummbah30:
Hi spezi77,

thanks for a great rom! I installed the last version yesterday and noticed a large battery drain (100% to 0% overnight. The battery is not new anymore, but on standby the previous GB rom easily lasted multiple days. Any ideas?

cheers

gummbah30
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Hi gummbah30,

maybe recalibration if your battery could improve things.

Cheers!

Sent from my beanstalk'd & hellspawn'd N4.
[Desire Android Development] Katonka:
Updating Google Play Services

Hi,

I am using the SlimKat Apr-8 with A2SD enabled and the linked gapps. Installed Google Photos, opened it and tried to update Play services through the shown pop-up. It fails due to not enough space.

Play Services is filling up the internal space directly after deleting all of its data (~45MB) in the settings.

Is there a work-around for this by configuring A2SD differently or do I have to flash some newer gapps?

Cheers!
[Desire Android Development] gummbah30:
thanks, will have a look. Although at first sight it didn't look like a battery calibration issue (nu jumps in reported battery capacity during charging/discharging).

cheers

gummbah30
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Gravity Screen to wake up and sleep the screen

It works great Gravity Screen. I advise to use an older version, because it is much, much smaller than the current.

Personally, I use 1.82.
[Desire Android Development] galaxxian:
First let me say, a great Rom. The Desire was my alltime first Smartie, and i think it was (is) a great one. So, a hilly way lie behind me to make my phone usable. But now it works. And i say again: A GREAT WORK [MENTION=5091819]spezi77[/MENTION]

I used SlimKat on my S3 and my S4mini for more than 2 Years, so Slim was the first joice for my Desire after i read that there is a new (Slim)rom for the Desire out.

read here: i do so, and after installing a view apps (more than under Froyo/GB) there is the "not-enough-disc-space"-message pop up. aaaargh. i think a2sd manage this problem, but it looks like not. then i use "brain", a fine thing, maybe. and i run the a2sd-command once more with the answers Y/Y/Y. after restart and apply, i had many, many free space.

cheers