yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
It's very loud!

So now I am writing differently.

On all Slim ROMs, the sound works fine.

Mp3 playback at full volume does not allow me to get closer to my ear, as it is very loud.
[Desire Android Development] :
I found an hboot adjusting the system partition to 250 MB on alpharev but that one adjusts to 40 and 147 MB the cache and data partitions. will it be a problem? it seems for slimkat a 250 / 5 / 182 is required.
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
OP wrote:

"1. Recommendations / Requirements:*

- An hboot with at least 250mb on system."

So you can only change the Cache and Data partitions.
[Desire Android Development] :
i installed it on my htc desire, i was using cm 7.1, i did a clean install. The first striking thing is the slowness. I think this is the reason why there is no official release of android 4 on this device. Though the web browser is up to date with html 5, browsing is more than slow. It's nearly impossible to watch youtube videos, actually i have not yet achieved running a single one. I think i must revert to cm 7. Also we lose some essential features like video recording with the embedded cam.
[Desire Android Development] yellowpage:
This slimkat rom is wonderful. I put it on my old desire and it works like a charm. Updated hboot and recovery as suggested. Everything is working smoothly. Thanks for this wonderful thing spezi77.
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
You are welcome! A positive feedback a day, is a great motivation for me in order to keep up development @ xda. ;)

BTW, thanks very much for your donation -- that's highly appreciated! :good:
[Desire Android Development] yellowpage:
No problem my friend. Good to see your Pixel ROM coming as well. Keep on the good stuffs...:)
[Desire Android Development] ringprince:
osmand~

Has anyone succeeded in getting osmand~ [1] to work in this ROM? While I can install it fine, starting it reproducibly results in a restart (at the boot animation).

[1] Sorry, I am not allowed to post links: "https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdcategory=Navigation&fdid=net.osmand.plus&fdpage=2"
[Desire Android Development] biondi53:
[MENTION=5091819]spezi77[/MENTION] what do you think about android go? do you plan to port it?

regards
[Desire Android Development] DKLL:
How to upgrade my android
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
It's much too early to consider a port. I already tried to make a port of Nougat, but I had to give up because I wasn't able to accomplish it.

Of course, Android go will be optimized for (current) devices with weaker chips and low ram specs. We might see similarities with the HTC desire, but it doesn't mean that the OS can be easily ported over to legacy devices.
[Desire Android Development] gift adfree:
This is the rom if you want to use your htc desire in 2017 :laugh::silly::eek::victory:

Don't try android 5 or up for this old lady - these are not nearly as fast, responsive and

sleeky

than this awesome one here.

It would be great if the author could refresh the rom once in a while to include the security patches which are backported to android 4.4 :good::cowboy:

And now my problem.:

I wasn't running the latest realase and wanted to upgraded. I tried to do an (dirty) upgrade which didn't work I out. So I did the full monty - but still the same error when I try to flash the rom (did wipe all partitions upfront!)

E:Could not create file for updater extract in 'tmp/updater'
Error flashing zip ...

looks like twrp (2.7.10) isn't mounting /tmp. Is there a command to do it manually in twrp?

Thank's a lot!
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Try using 4EXT. Update works for sure.

If you want to experiment, create a missing directory in the TWRP terminal and see what happens.

mkdir /cache/tmp

mkdir /cache/tmp/updater

or

mkdir /tmp

mkdir /tmp/updater

or

mkdir /system/tmp

mkdir /system/tmp/updater

p.s.

Improvements are not always good for the system. It takes time to thoroughly analyze it. spezi77 is involved in new projects and I do not think it has time for previous projects.
[Desire Android Development] NemoCoOW:
It seems TWRP sometimes deletes the tmp directory when you wipe all partitions.

You can fix this with "mkdir /tmp/".

If that doesn't work check if the tmp folder exists and delete it. Now type the command again

Good luck
[Desire Android Development] userx404:
Does anybody else have problems with notifications in the notificationbar?

When i swipe down from the top, no messages/notificarion are shown. Tapping in the top rigth, to switch to the quicksettings, also doesnt work. With the empty notification field i have to swipe to left/right to see them.

I also tried to reinstall, with the same result.
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Are you describing the clean system operation right after installation as described in the first post, points 1 and 2?

If so, try again to set up partitions on the SD card using 4EXT.
[Desire Android Development] dwi336:
Thank you very much for building and providing the ROM. I'm using it since 6 month as a daily driver. If you could some times update the ROM, it would be very welcome.

Cheers,

Dietmar
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
You're welcome, Dietmar!

I would if I could . The only problem is that there are no more security updates being pushed for Kitkat, neither by AOSP nor by Lineage/CM. Their last update is from Nov 20, 2016.

Cheers,

Matthias
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
[ROM][Unofficial][4.4.4] LineageOS 11.0 based for Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 [2017-07-15] :

[ROM][Unofficial][4.4.4] LineageOS 11.0 based Galaxy S4 i9505 (jflte) [2017-07-09] :

Have you seen these threads?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Nope, that is why we have a need for device owners being interested in what's going on. ;)

Edit: P.S.: So, I'll try to update slimkat (if I didn't forget how to do this)! :cool:
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
It is unclear whether it is worthwhile to make new corrections.

Each of these additionally complicates the system and will probably increase its load, so overall performance will drop.
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
I will consider your point and carefully check device performance when adding the commits...
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Hey Desire owners!

I have been successful this weekend in patching SlimKat up to the security level of 2017-07-01 !!!

Enjoy release 8,

and have a nice day!

:cool:
[Desire Android Development] senseii:
Cheers! You never cease to amaze with your continued support of the old HTC Desire :)
[Desire Android Development] k3lcior:
Cant believe this forum is still active you guys are insane. :D

I think this Device has to be one of the most active development on the entire XDA, mind blowing. :good:
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
[FONT="Fixedsys"]RAM|CPUI|CPUF|2D |3D |DBIO|SCORE| ROM
---|----|----|---|---|----|-----|-----------------------------------------------
294|675 |288 |358|465|270 |2350 | froyo stock root
433|655 |290 |230|611|295 |2514 | CM 7.2.0.1
467|659 |286 |227|642|290 |2571 | SuperNova
423|649 |287 |254|760|295 |2668 | MIUI 4.1.2
756|705 |290 |258|555|260 |2824 | slim_20160404 + kernel 998MHz slim_20161104
736|707 |292 |256|604|260 |2855 | slim_20160722 (kernel 1113MHz)
753|711 |286 |255|599|265 |2869 | slim_20161104 (kernel 998MHz)
743|708 |290 |255|622|290 |2908 | slim_20160404 (kernel 1113MHz)
751|717 |291 |258|625|270 |2912 | slim_20160722 + kernel 998MHz slim_20161104
743|716 |287 |261|647|265 |2919 |liquid_20160722 + kernel 998MHz slim_20161104
756|717 |288 |263|651|270 |2945 | slim_20170723 (kernel 998MHz) ([COLOR="Red"][B]last update[/B][/COLOR])
746|705 |288 |260|726|255 |2980 |liquid_20160722 (kernel 998MHz)
750|705 |289 |261|734|260 |2999 | slim_20161104 + kernel 998MHz liquid_20160722
755|721 |291 |265|735|255 |3022 | slim_20160404 + kernel 998MHz liquid_20160722
750|719 |286 |262|731|280 |3028 | slim_20161204 (kernel 998MHz)
751|710 |292 |256|763|270 |3042 | slim_20160722 + kernel 998MHz liquid_20160722[/FONT]

I checked the performance of the last ROM version in Antutu 3.4.

I used the same testing method as in 2016.

I have done the test many times over different ways of installation, improvement and optimization.

The best result I got is 100 points less than the best result from this table.

In my view, is 100 points less in the test 3D is insignificant.

----edit----

After disabling "USB debugging" and/or "force GPU rendering" the result is increased by 130 points.
[Desire Android Development] userx404:
Realy nice to see this update :good:

I have encoutered problems on install.

(Did a full wipe before)
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
I suggest using 4ext-5r9-bravo.zip and using 4EXT to create fresh partitions.

You create one ext4 partition between 1024 - 1536 MB.

Do not create swap partitions. The remaining size will be created FAT32 partition.

Check the zip file checksum of the link and your resource.

They must be identical.

Now flash "ROM.zip".
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Have you been using Slimkat before on your HTC desire, or are you a new user? I am asking to make sure you have the right recovery installed and hboot installed.

Try to delete the zip from SD card and copy it all over again. Maybe the file got corrupted at the time when you unmounted the SD card.
[Desire Android Development] userx404:
I had the previous version installed but i switched to TWRP.
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Probably that could be the reason. Try 4ext.
[Desire Android Development] userx404:
Thanks. That solved the issue. Also the notificationbar-issue has gone after a clean install.

Are there any further cheats to get more memory used from SD? After installing 3-4 apps i got the message 'not enough space left'.

Moving Data to SD with a2sd can yield to corruption of the filesystem. I had problems with that in the past.
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
ROM works well with a2sd.

If you remember to unmount from Bravo before removing the USB cable, it will not damage the partition.

Of course there are other memory extenders. I have no experience with them.
[Desire Android Development] dwi336:
Slim-bravo-4.4.4.build.9.0-UNOFFICIAL-20170723-1445 works well. Flashed it over Slim-bravo-4.4.4.build.9.0-UNOFFICIAL-20161206-0005 with TWRP 2.3.1.1.

Thank you spezi77 for the great work.
[Desire Android Development] FaserF:
spezi77 I am real fan of you.

The newest version is running awesome on my desire, upgraded from 04/12/16 version.

It is unbeleavable what you have done with our old HTC Desire :)

I am really enjoying your work and I am really excited to see your work with the new Android Go
[Desire Android Development] ltGuillaume:
Any chance you could add spoofing in order to successfully install the MicroG Framework? Here's the patch for KitKat: https://github.com/microg/android_p...r/patches/android_frameworks_base-KK-LP.patch and here's more info: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki/Signature-Spoofing
[Desire Android Development] yellowpage:
WOW, new update with 2017 security patches. This is excellent work spezi77!!! My Bravo will never retire. :)
[Desire Android Development] MetinKale38:
I don't know why, but my rom was incredibly slow, but after switching to Mounts2SD instead of A2SD (without clean install, just installed the app on the existing rom) it got super fast again.

I dont know, what could cause that, both use mounts (and not symlinks like Link2SD), M2SD only applies some linux tweaks, i dont think that should be the cause.

If someone experiences significant performance problems, they can try M2SD, it will clear A2SD, no reinstall needed.

Edit: i did some comparison: swap/zram could also be the cause M2SD also changes them, the default swappines of the rom is 20, M2SD sets swappines to 0. ZRAM will still be used (72.47mb, dont know whats the default in this rom)
[Desire Android Development] maxcesar:
I confirm.

Without Mounts2SD it was impossible to install any app. Memory full.

I installed Mounts2SD from play store and now I was able to install many programs:

- file manager

- sygic (with at least 2 full nations)

- chrome

- and many more.

Thank youfor your wonderfull job.

Max

I've also installed No-Frills CPU. This way the phone is more snappy.

What kind of governor do you suggest to avoid conflicts and other problems?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
It sounds like a2sd installation doesn't work for everyone, and/or has a problem under certain circumstances. I have no idea how to fix that without someone gathering more facts on the technical side.

I personally think that a2sd is the more thoughthru solution, and would bring better results assuming that it works flawless.
[Desire Android Development] vitos_rnd:
I tried to revive my old phone. Flashed successfully, but phone does not boot, only Slimkat logo flashes on screen. How to boot my phone?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Try to take a logcat.

My guess is that you didn't meet one of the prerequisites mentioned in the OP.
[Desire Android Development] yellowpage:
I spent some time today and updated with the latest rom. for the first try, i followed the clean install steps but i encountered some weird behavior. Then, I did full wipe and installed the Dec build. Same result. The third try, I deleted everything in SD card ezcept for the July rom and gapp. Clean install. This time, everything works fine.

I installed some apps and got the storage full message. Use mount2sd and things are fine again.

Thanks for this wonderful rom and all the people contributed their comments and ideas.
[Desire Android Development] Sbranzo:
New installation here! Going gappsless with the help of fdroid and yalp store. I'd like to squeeze a bit more battery and power and Google Service are too hungry for this device.

I started today with the usual FOSS app and this old old phone is suprisingly useful. So thank you for this exceptional rom!
[Desire Android Development] cembellines:
This rom is stunning, thank you! I had to use Mount2sd, the terminal emulator method didn't work
[Desire Android Development] userx404:
I also noticed this behavior and had the same troubles in the past. I can report that the sequence is essential for success.

- Wipe system,cache,dalvik

- install rom

- reboot, let settle the them

- reboot

- terminal, su, a2sd, ...

- reboot

- reboot to recovery

- install gapps

- reboot

at this point you can modify settings, install apps, ...

It's not recomended to combine steps (reduce reboots) to speed-up the procedure.

I also have to move data to card. Otherwise i'm not able to install any app due to memory lack.
[Desire Android Development] cembellines:
Gracias compañero por las instrucciones pero no hay manera
[Desire Android Development] desireleß:
Could you tell me step by step to get Mount2sd working? I have never used it on bravo :)
[Desire Android Development] yellowpage:
After you have gapp installed and boot into system, launch play store then install Mount2sd. (Do not install other apps yet.)

Launch M2SD, on the top-right corner, hit the 3 dots... and choose "Application Settings".

Hit the button to enable startup script.

Under the middle tab (Hit "the wrench" icon), you see Applications checkbox is ticked. (I only move app to SD and didn't touch others.)

That is it!:)
[Desire Android Development] smekla:
just installed this ROM into my good old HTC Desire but i can't sign in to google services - it keeps saying "Couldn't sign in. There was a problem communicating with Google services. Try again later.". The internet connection works fine.

Any thoughts anyone?
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
If you want precise help, describe the problem exactly.

Nobody knows what you've done before and how you connect to the internet.
[Desire Android Development] Finsku:
I had to take my old Desire from table box because I need to repair my main phone.

I installed this ROM and it works great... sad part is that I couldn't get A2SD to work (I think...).

After 1.5Gb EXT partition (EXT4) and A2SD install (y,n,n) I had only ~60Mb free space for files. I couldn't install for example Chrome. Clean install ofc.

I reinstalled a2sd but on this time I did it with y,y,y.

Got 158Mb free space for apps (better than ~60Mb).

Maybe I will try m2sd method (yellowpage step-by-step) later to test if I could get couple Mbs more :) And (ofc) I'll give another try to install with original (A2SD) method.

Thanks again for the great ROM. And bravo is a old Android phone!

Android Go later, maybe? ;) (I would try to port that if I had any talent/experience to fork/work roms)
[Desire Android Development] aleks.spv:
slightly modified the firmware, added services microG

after flashing dont install any gapps.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NotarWoYFelQJcmcC-J-YwC7jBnw80Vk/view

about microG

https://microg.org/

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-microg-gmscore-floss-play-services-t3217616

setting up services in pictures, in Russian

https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=746495&st=3220#Spoil-61146663-7
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Oryginal Slim-bravo-4.4.4.build.9.0-UNOFFICIAL-20161206-0005.zip

microG MOD Slim-bravo-4.4.4.build.9.0-UNOFFICIAL-20161206-0005.zip

diff:

5c5
< 1 file, 128189930 bytes (123 MiB)
---
> 1 file, 134053133 bytes (128 MiB)
7c7
< Path = Slim-bravo-4.4.4.build.9.0-UNOFFICIAL-20161206-0005.zip
---
> Path = MOD\Slim-bravo-4.4.4.build.9.0-UNOFFICIAL-20161206-0005.zip
12c12
< Physical Size = 128189930
---
> Physical Size = 134053133
503,504d502
< 2008-02-29 03:33:46 ..... 11993630 4723297 system\framework\framework-res.apk
< 2008-02-29 03:33:46 ..... 3757835 3734725 system\framework\framework.jar
1001a1000,1006
> 2018-01-09 08:33:42 ....A 14859776 6857012 system\framework\framework-res.apk
> 2018-01-09 08:22:16 ....A 3674175 3655719 system\framework\framework.jar
> 2017-06-13 23:25:42 ....A 2756358 2040633 system\app\GmsCore.apk
> 2018-01-04 11:43:04 ....A 198785 190784 system\app\GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
> 2017-10-24 16:27:08 ....A 21872 19183 system\app\GsfProxy.apk
> 2017-05-26 18:38:10 ....A 1816869 1506392 system\app\Nominatim_Geocoder_Backend_1.2.2.apk
> 2016-07-25 19:44:54 ....A 54468 50796 system\app\Mozilla_UnifiedNlp_Backend_1.3.2.apk
1003c1008
< 2016-12-06 01:39:47 223794073 128034660 985 files
---
> 2018-01-09 08:33:42 231424911 133897157 990 files
[Desire Android Development] blackout1:
Will this rom work with the HTC desire 610 (EU)a3ul?

Anyone tried already? or is it for all desires?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
No, it will only work with HTC desire codename bravo.
[Desire Android Development] blackout1:
Is there any possibility to make it work on a 610 too? would love that, is my all day phone so would like to get one updated version too.
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Maybe someone with a 610 and a little experience in porting or compiling ROMs could do that. But this is the wrong device forum for your idea.
[Desire Android Development] senseii:
Hey [MENTION=476929]Spezi[/MENTION] did you happen to see this : https://www.xda-developers.com/unofficial-lineageos-15-1-android-go/

Any point keeping some hope for the good old Desire?
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Hey, unfortunately I don't have hope for HTC Desire. It doesn't mean that Android Go is going to work on HTC Desire.

However, I have moved on to a newer device. So, I am no longer up-to-date with HTC bravo developments.

Have a nice day ;)
[Desire Android Development] senseii:
Thanks so much for all of the years of hard work that you put into the HTC Desire!
[Desire Android Development] renziago:
I know it has been a while since the last comment, but I recently dug up my old desire.

I’ve tried flashing this rom, but the phone gets stuck while booting. The slimkat logo keeps being shown.

Rebooting did nothing as the device just repeats the same symptoms.

Is there any solution to this?

I also flashed the hboot from this post.
[Desire Android Development] Ulumia:
How do I run a list of recent applications on this ROM?

Pressing the Home button repeats the action of the Search button
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Settings->Navigation->Hardware Buttons->Enable custom actions-> [What you like]
[Desire Android Development] Sage:
Ahh slimkat. That takes me back.
[Desire Android Development] Ulumia:
Evervolv AOSP nightly 4.4 from the Evervolv Team is much better than this ROM!!!
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
That's not true.
[Desire Android Development] spezi77:
Hey little boy!

In the future, please think twice about what you want to describe in your post. It shows your lack of respect. Nobody asked you to compare this ROM with others. It's fair if you let everyone make up their own minds.

P.S.: And by the way, Evervolv are my early heroes in the HTC Bravo custom rom scene.
[Desire Android Development] Ulumia:
I apologize for this post

After a few days on Evervolv AOSP nightly 4.4 I got the same bugs as on SlimKat

So SlimKat is a better ROM because it is configurable and swap enabled by default.

Now I am on CM6
[Desire Android Development] Brookbond:
This ROM is still going strong on my old Desire, but I have a question. I am now needing to keep the screen on permanently to satisfy the requirements of another app I am running 24/7 on this device.

Just to put you in the picture, this phone now sits on my bench 24/7 providing a gateway to the internet and runs permanently, but it only works properly when the screen is on (a requirement of the app I am using). Being an AMOLED screen, luckily this means low power consumption and will run for long periods on its own battery, and in conjunction with a Screen Filter app, the screen brightness can be turned almost completely down, even when it’s still on.

I have discovered the setting in developer options to keep the screen on whilst charging, but I would like the option to keep the screen on permanently even when not charging. The maximum time I can choose to do this within the developer option settings is 30 minutes, but I cannot see any ‘always on’ option when not charging.

Is it possible to do this, either by modifying a setting in android itself, or by adding a light weight third party app? Ideally I would like to do this without adding another app if possible, but I am open to any suggestions to achieve this.

The requirement is just to cover the eventuality of a power cut where the screen would go off after 30 minutes without external power. The battery is good and lasts many hours on battery.

I would appreciate any input from anyone with knowledge of this. Thank you all for reading. This is a great ROM, and continues to run well. Thanks to the original developer of this ROM. Fantastic job!

Hope you can help. Tony
[Desire Android Development] Sage:
Use tasker. You can set non standard timeouts for display
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Only 2.7 MB after installation. I don't know of a better method and a smaller application.

Screen Alive - keep screen on - Apps on Google Play

Choose custom timeouts for screen lock. Toggle between system & custom timeouts.

play.google.com
[Desire Android Development] Brookbond:
Hi, thanks for this, I will check it out. Very much appreciated.
[Desire Android Development] kisgeri:
Hello! Has someone the 20161206 version? Looking for: Slim-bravo-4.4.4.build.9.0-UNOFFICIAL-20161206-0005.zip

This was the original link to it, but unfortunately there are no mirrors...

I cannot install the latest for some reason. 4ext recovery just aborts with error code 7 and tells there is some error in the zip. TWRP tells: E:Could not create file for updater extract in '/tmp/updater'

SD card is a 8G with an 1G ext4 partition and the rest FAT32, if matters.

Thanks for any help!
[Desire Android Development] ze7zez:
Mirror Desire ROMs
[Desire Android Development] kisgeri:
Thank you for your help! Saved for later purposes...

Anyway finally I managed to flash the newest one, I just had to flash the hboot again for some reason.
[Desire Android Development] nO.One2:
could you please upload the HBOOT you mention in the first post?

in the thread u link to, the download is removed..

and when i use stock hboot I can't install apps, due to no free space after installing ur gapps. :(

*edit: ofc i did the su -> a2sd install -> yny...