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[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AMoosa:
Telephone keypad input panel

Hi All,

I've been using this rom for a few days and really enjoying it. I don't have any battery problems but do experience a little sluggishness sometimes,

The main problem is that I can't get the Telephone input panel to work. If I select itfrom the Input Panel list, the standard Windows keyboard is displayed. Any ideas?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] :
Phone bricked?

heya all.

I have just tried installing black touch v2 and right at the beginning of the install i got an error "image file is corrupt" and the install exited. now the phone will not switch on or show any sign of life....

1 - does this mean that the phone is "bricked"?

2 - is there anything that can be done or do i need a new phone?

3 - if the above is yes, any idea what went wrong - i really cant afford to try this again on another phone! :)

Thanks

u
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] :
Phone bricked?

it's a t-mob, ameo. i had previously upgraded to wm6

also, i do not get any charging lights with the charger plugged in.

cheers

u
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
Did you unlock it using Oli's unlocker first? Is it an X7500?

Have you tried entering Bootloader mode?

If you unlocked it then it's virtually inmpossible to brick, you just need to reflash it.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] daaterror:
Phone bricked?

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heya all.

I have just tried installing black touch v2 and right at the beginning of the install i got an error "image file is corrupt" and the install exited. now the phone will not switch on or show any sign of life....

1 - does this mean that the phone is "bricked"?

2 - is there anything that can be done or do i need a new phone?

3 - if the above is yes, any idea what went wrong - i really cant afford to try this again on another phone!

Thanks

pleae tell me u unlocked it first,,cid/sim....
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] daaterror:
YUP GOTO BOOTLOADER MODE....
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] :
i didn't unlock it first :( i've been a tard. is it possible to re-flash wm6?

edit: just found this:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=326953&highlight=bootloader

"Failed Unlocker - Solution for the "Black Screen"." -- good place to start?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] :
ok, the phone is re-flashing.

was the "image file is corrupt" error because the phone was not unlocked?after using olipro's unlocker, will it be ok to run the installer again or should i redownload the package again incase it is corrupted?

Thanks for your help.

u
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] JonSlater:
Mediaplayer theory

I tried this, and still got a lock up. As I've only recenbtly had to HR after a previous lockup caused, I think, by mediaplayer I'm relunctant to play further.

However, I have had a thought that maybe someone with more experience could check out/dismiss. Tweaks2k2 includes a VGA force option, by writing a file into the path of an executable. Could the same method be used to force WMP to run in QVGA?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
I would download again just to be sure. Good luck!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] JonSlater:
BTW, while there's little chance it would have worked, I tried forcing WMP to VGA anyway to see what would happen. No dice.

I've attached the mui file it writes if anyone here can disaamle it, see how it works and rewrite it.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pantaloonie:
Update on my battery problems

Well, I've run the 2.0 ROM for a couple more days as requested, my Ameo has now been through 8 complete discharge/charge cycles, including 2 full charges while powered down. My battery issues have not cleared up, I'm losing around 15% charge per hour, while the device is not in use. It is also taking an excessively long time to charge. These problems only arose after installing the 2.0 ROM.

I'm now resigned to having to ditch this ROM, and will be flashing the HTC ROM. Good luck to all those who are not having issues!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ice_coffee:
did you read my previous post about batti interfeing ??
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] leoni1980:
bluetooth dun problem with black touch

hi, i am finding that with this rom i unable to maintain a connection to my n95 via bluetooth dun when i want to get online without sim swapping. The connection is established without problem, however when browsing i find that every few minutes i have to wait whilst it re-dials (*99#) again. This is annoying on its own but also makes streaming from youtube or remote desktop impossible as after a couple of minutes streaming the connection hangs and doesn't attempt to reconnect. This problem was not evident in previous wm6 roms. I wondered if anyone else could try a dialup bt connection to their phone with this rom and see if they have the same problem, or if there are any other bt problems such as with car kits
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pantaloonie:
Yes, I've had Batti set to shut down at 1%, which is as low as it will go.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] raskell:
Lock-ups and Battery drain - PK V2.0

I have been finding my Athena locked-up every morning, needing a soft reset to get it going. I run Valksoft SpaceReclaimer on soft reset and it always finds 49808 bytes reclaimed after a lockup and it stops one running program in so doing. I have suspected that the Kaiser

10B comm manager VGA to be involved, so I removed it. Since then, no lockup and the mA drain on my battery status is nearly half during idle and consistently lower during routine use. If this is so, we would need to find another VGA compatible comm manager.

Can anyone else validate this?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
1. I've noticed this also. We're testing an update to see if it resolves the issue. Thanks for pointing it out.

2. Telephone input panel to work? Are you referring to the one in Fingertouch or the actual phone? Sorry, haven't had much sleep so this may be a stupid question.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Thanks for this. We're adding it to the bug list and looking at it. So far the bug list is comprised of Windows Media, battery issues, and this. Just to let everyone know that we are looking for fixes. Whether or not the battery issue is a WM6 feature that's broken or corrupt or whatever, we are looking into it nevertheless.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
I run that software and haven't had the issues...but will be talking to the core team for further testing. If you guys can find another comm manager that will work, we'll test for compatibility and consider it for burning. Remember, it has to be freeware for the long run.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] bobflood:
Pawel062,

Appreciate feedback ....

Last night I performed a hard reset (of 2.0) but first made sure that my unit was at 100% charge.

Overnight and so far today, the unit has barely lost any charge - it's still at 90% with the phone and bluetooth on - haven't had time to do much else today.

It certainly hasn't attempted any sort of discharge / calibration sequence - might that be because it started at 100% charge ?

Battery life therefore now appears to be OK.

I have still noticed a couple 'hestations' but no full lock-ups so far.

I'll start loading up applications and see how we go from there.

bob.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] lpsi2000:
Just some more information on the battery issue. After 5 discharges / Recharges, I could not take it anymore. I flashed the Base ROM used for this ROM. I am looking to eliminate the radio and the kaiser plugin. I should have an answer in a couple of days. I am testing Radio and I don't see any battery issues so far. Tomorrow I will install the kaiser plugin to test.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
Which Radio are you testing V1.50 or V1.45? I flashed V1.45 and it seems to be more battery friendly I may flash back to V1.50 and test with nothing else loaded.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pantaloonie:
I had no battery issues when using the 1.0 ROM with radio 1.50. I was also running the HTC Home plugin.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnwalk:
well it isn't the kaiser comm manager. I can't get that to load. says doesn't have enough permission. everything was good with the battery yesterday. went to bed with a full charge. exactly eight hours later. it woke me up with the battery alarm going off. I just can't get it charged off the car at all.

also when I looked at it wifi was connected this morning.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] lpsi2000:
Yeah, I know 1.45 is good. I just want to ensure 1.50 does not have any major issues. I know it is not as good as 1.45 when it comes to battery usage, but it does get me better wifi and 3g
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] lpsi2000:
Good to hear...

Thanks,
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
johnwalk

I am having the same issue with the comm managar not installing please post back if you find a solution I will do the same.

Thanks
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnwalk:
its a strange one. I had it working last week. then I hard reset two days ago and it come up with that error message. might do another flash tonight. 3rd time lucky.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Flavio:
I have also had numerous lockups when installing software from a fresh hardreset, very frustrating to have to start all over again 10 times! I also suspected the Kaiser Comm Manager. I have not installed it now and no lockups anymore. BTW I run in 128dpi.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
I lockup once every two days running at 128dpi no comm manager, the top of the screen right side where HTC X button resides gets corrupted right before it locks.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] apd:
Mine is fully charged now - have just read this and am going to try the same thing to see what happens. Will let you know.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] apd:
Right - third hard reset on this ROM for testing purposes. This time with a green charging light... Will let you know tomorrow.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnwalk:
im doing the same, allmost fully charged. see you on the other side.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
Are you going to re-install software or restore from backup?

I may try this as well; I can't go 8 hrs without needing a charge now :(
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pantaloonie:
The plot thickens..... after having my battery drain by midday today, I charged it up fully, and removed the HTC Home plugin - I haven't uninstalled it, just not displaying it. Took it off the charger at 3pm, it's now nearly 10pm and and I'm still on 80%. Looks like I may have found the cause of my problems.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
Wish mine was that simple I never installed the HTC Home Plugin (never like it) Hope this fixes yours though :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] apd:
I have no HTC plugin installed or Kaiser Comm Manager. Did the hard reset a few hours ago. Now down to 60%. I'm afraid I may have to leave this lovely ROM - this level of battery drain is just too fast.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Midget_1990:
My athena has lasted 96 hours using only 10% of teh battery (standby) using stock 2.0, nothing installed/changed
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pawel062:
thanx midget. i have 2 guys on my live with battery problems so well see how this goes. maybe well fix the problems somehow.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Midget_1990:
Guys with the battery problems: could you try installing this and see how things go?

www.htc-devs.com/uploads/Athena/Athena%20Project%20Battery%20Test.cab

also, are you using teh bt/wifi/device heavily?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pawel062:
thanx midget. guys please test this cab if u have battery problem or even if u dont and want better battery life. these edits were to be originally in 1.0 but it was decided they are not needed. me and midget remembered about these today and decided to upload and see if this helps. remember guys do not leave bt and ir on for long periods of time as that really drains battery no matter what rom and can be cause os some of these problems.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnwalk:
ok now hard reset. the first thing I installed was kaiser comm manager. htc plug. I do like the big clock then resco explorer. kaiser installed first time no permission errors this time. then set real vga to 128. but its the same problem as before. if I power off. then on wifi remains connected. still think its trying to drain battery. was on the phone for an hour and a half. but power cable remained in. now off so see what its like in the morning. I understand that a battery callobration is a good thing. but this seems to have a bug. so let you know tomorrow how it went.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] apd:
I have always had BT on all the time - whichever ROM (WM5, early WM6) - as I use a BT8010. I use the Ameo as a phone as well as a data device (satnav etc etc etc). I can't do without BT. However, I used to go thru a whole day and not need to recharge, even with BT on all the time.

Am about to install the Cab and will report back. Thanks again for all your hard work:)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] apd:
Done

See above re BT - yes, but no more than before

Wifi - no

Device - no more heavily than before. But screen set to lowest backlight setting and turn backlight off after 10s (and unit after 1min). DirectPush is enabled.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] daaterror:
Mp3 to midi converter

Anyone got softtware so i can get my batt filoes...cheers
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] jasonmoe:
Im going to give it a try.... What does it do?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ice_coffee:
Wow you really don't have an athena yet do you !! I always kind of assumed you had bought yourself one but were keeping quiet about it until the community reimbursed you, which would be fine considering the hard work you have put into the project, but seeing as you did not know the athena has no iR, I truly take my hat off to you for a rom well made especially with no device to test on !!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
After installing vTap I did a reboot later in the day and it had lost my password - not sure if it was vTap that caused this problem but as far as I can remember (which doesn't say much) it was the only thing I'd installed that day.

As a result I had to do another hard reset.

When I get to work I plug my phone in and obviously did that the day I'd done the hard reset (at 3:30 am!) so the phone hadn't calibrated the battery properly. I now seem to be suffering battery drain, is there anyway I can force a battery calibration?

Also trying to change the options on Batti I get "The file 'batticfg' could not be oppened" - I'm sure someone else has mentioned this but can't find the solution - sorry!

The other problem I have is sometimes the icons at the top on the status bar (battery, 3G, time etc) are blurred out - sometimes just one other times more than one of them and occasionally when this happens my Ameo freezes completely and requires a soft reset - while I am typing this I tried to get into my device to get the Batti error and had to do a soft reset, I entered the password (4 digit simple password) tapped unlock and ... nothing.

Before I was getting 'The password you have typed is incorrect' this time just nothing, it 'blinked when I hit unlock but did nothing, I could still change the password, after another soft reset, the same thing happened. As I was about to panic I tried again and it let me in. Scary eh?

Sorry for rambling, but anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

[Edit] Re Batti problem - I can change the program settings via the programs manu - I was trying by click ing on it then selecting Settings - presumeably a path problem? It also shows temp of 91.9 C which is obviously wrong...[/Edit]
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] englefield:
Anyone else get file not found clicking 'tourch.exe' ?

tom
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] spacecat:
how do u install this when i download it is not a cab file?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] spacecat:
funny you should say that but it never crossed my mind that he had one! especially as he has had to get so many guys to test his roms and tweaks
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] the_shamen:
wm5torage

Hi

For those having problems installing Kaiser commmgr, make sure the commmgr process isn't running. You need to do this in Settings>System>Memory>Running Programs, if it is....kill it :D

I have had problems with both V1 and V2 ROM with wm5storage. First I couldn't get it to work at all with HTC Kaiser today plugin, as it seemed to be accessing the Microdrive for some reason (could this be the battery drain?). Once I had sorted this, I find that my laptop detects the Athena as a USB drive, but any sort of serious data copy causes it to disappear from my laptop. I also can't deactivate wm5torage at all, requiring a power cycle.

I didn't have a problem with wm5torage on the Dopod WM6 ROM.

Ta and great work guys
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] mackaby007:
Re: PK's Athena will be shipped to him within a week..

You're quite right guys, PK still has no Athena. The donations seem to have stopped as of late. If you like and are able, you can still donate towards his Athena via the donations link to the Athena Project. I know many of you already have...Thank you for supporting the cause.;)

If the shortfall for his device is not any smaller by Monday coming, some of us on the team will personally top it up to ensure a device can be bought and shipped to PK by mid next week. He has worked on the ROMs like a trooper and truly has earned it twice over in my books. He still hasn't even seen his own ROM running on a Athena. If you think he's done a good job so far with the team....wait 'till he gets one in his hands.

So feel free to donate further if you can and want to. If there is any surplus amount by the time we have enough for his Athena, the funds will go towards the continuing development of the ROM and further development for the Athena. Free of charge to this great community, as usual.;)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] halljames:
Well I have installed the ROM, but none of the add ons other than TCPMP.

I just wanted the Real VGA modes built in, and the extra speed increase and I must say it does seem snappy.

Having the media player problem though.

EDIT : Solved my media player problem . Ran it in 192dpi, went into the media player options and took off the option to start in library (which I never use) and it now runs perfectly within the other VGA modes.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ComFranky:
Hi all, ist the " Athena Project Black Touch Edition by PK 2.0 " available in German ??
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
Didn't work for me :(
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] mr Lee:
it did work for me however :confused:

Thanks for this tip :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wonderboygr:
Battery Problem

i have done the following, keeping in mind the battery calibration thing that wm6 has:

machine: x7500

1. pk2 rom clean flash, no appz other than just the rom and only time and date on today screen, flashing was done with 100% battery, rebooted, let it stand by with the battery power and sreen options all unchecked, BT on and phone mode on.

battery drained very fast indeed until off, recharged it, took about 9 hours, then power on, and the battery still drains fast. let it go off alone, recharged it to 100%, power on, battery lasts 8-10 hours.

Since the pk1 and pk2 roms are based on the same wm6, the

calibration should be there as well so..

2. flashed pk1 rom with the same options as with flashing pk2, there isnt any drain of battery. phone has 90% after 1 day, 80% day 2, 60% day3 and so on, lasted 1 week total. wathched also 20 min video and spoke 2 hours on phone during this week, also used igo 2006 se for 2 hours.

in my opinion there must be something in pk2 rom other than the other reasons mentioned in the posts before responsible for the consistent drain.

i hope this info will help towards finding a solution for the drain problem

kepp up the amazing pk work, it is by far the best.

i flawlessly use pk 1 for the momment

finally, i will install www.htc-devs.com/uploads/Athena/Athena Project Battery Test.cab on pk 2 rom with the same options as above and will report back
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] pa6fou:
is a french translation about to be released ?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] sergiopi:
Worked for me too, having a DOPOD wm6 Rom an RealVGA
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] halljames:
I am pleased my little tip is working for somepeople. I was almost about to go back to an offical ROM cos I use media player a lot for opening files from File Explorer, and everyone was saying it was something to do with the library, so found this option and he presto.

On a technical note, in lamens terms, what is different about this ROM that makes it so fast.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
I had a HUGE issue with the password myself. This happened to me with a stock WM6 ROM. Never tracked it down just performed a hard reset cause I needed my device for work but I was locked out completely. I think there was another core team member that had this issue with a stock ROM as well. I no longer use the password. Just weird thing to happen as it never happened under WM5...just WM6.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Yes, that's because it wasn't in the HTC custom package we cooked into the ROM. You can search and download it if you need it. It's just a shortcut to a program that isn't in the ROM. Hope this helps. :-)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Many hours of implementing tweaks, testing and hard work from those directly involved. A good start is to check out registry tweaks if you're interested then look around the forum, even under other devices, to see what everyone is doing. Hope this helps....and fyi, we're implementing more tweaks as we speak. :-)

Once we get this media player and battery issue behind us, we can move on to greater things for this ROM...and maybe a final version in 3.0...until another OS update is released. We'll just have to see.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
So far so good :)

12hrs light usage (data mostly) no BT and only lost 30%

Out of curiosity what exactly did the cab file change/add etc?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Ok guys, we're VERY close to making this the BEST ROM EVER!!! Keep the bug reports coming in while the core team fixes them. We are soooooo close. :-)

We'll be going back through the thread and try to identify any other bugs previously reported and try to get on top of those right away. We are all trying what time permits. Thank you all for your feedback and patience. School, work, life just doesn't permit the team to dedicate the time we really want to spend on this project. ;-)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Since you're curious, let me help.

Open the CAB file with WinRAR, then look over the files with notepad. It'll tell you EXACTLY what was modified. Hope this helps! :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
I am by no means a programmer but it appears that it disabled power managment????? or the fact that the parameter is '0' means it enabled it?

Sorry if I am talking in circles.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
Just realised I had not made a donation to the project but yet been using the resources, thank you all for the time to answer all my quesitons and helping out when I have had issues and also thank you for a wonderful ROM

Confirmation Number: 6DX92933T41162828