[Miscellaneous Android Development] freddy999:
Sorry you feel that way.

I did, if you want to note, give you the answers to your questions above. The boot animation is indeed the standard bootanimation.zip located in /system/media, just like most android devices.

The screen issue is related to the hardware overlay memory allocation. Several people are working on sorting it out, but the workaround of simply going into the developers options and checking the disable hardware overlays seems to solve the issue. At the same time, since that is not persistent between boots Vampirefo added both a patch and then incorporated that patch into both the batville ROM and the original i708q based ROM that causes the machine to boot with that box checked.

My reply to you was not an attempt at having you "being battered by someone making brownie points" nearly as much as a reaction to the tone of your posts here and in other threads. From my point of view, what I see is several very dedicated folks who have invested who knows how many dozens or even hundreds of hours of their valuable time being asked very demanding questions that if you as the asker had taken even a few minutes of your time and read more than just 16 pages through you would already understand the answers. If you find that take offensive, I am quite sorry but I am calling it as I see it. A few brownie points in this online forum means absolutely nothing to me and not worth the time it takes from my work. I am here, because by my nature I am a problem solver, and thoroughly enjoy solving complex issues. I want to see the thing work, that is my nature. I am the kind of guy that if something breaks around the house I am likely to fix it before I throw it away anyways and go buy a new one. The truth of the matter is that my training, profession and skills currently are not in this area and although I have compiled a few ROMs in the earlier days of android, and have written many engineering applications we use internally in my work, the real contributors here have far more insight into the current state of the art of these devices than I do. And I fully recognize that.

Now, on a personal level, I have no gripe with you and as such I do sincerely apologize for obviously causing you discomfort. My goal in the comment was to maximize the time the real contributors, guys like Vampirefo, have to work on the real issues, in pursuit of both doing what they love and with skills most of us do not have the time to develop.

And I will try to be of help on the screen issue, unless you refuse the offer.

"Screen occasionally goes crazy and goes black forcing a reboot" are your words. That is one of the first issues identified and the current versions of all ROMS have the workaround patch. So something is an issue to you or you are simply not using the up-to-date materials at your fingertips. So if you really want to solve it, I suggest you tell all of us all what exactly you are running, which version of the ROM (the link you downloaded it with would be nice), what predicates having the problem, what options you might or might not have invoked in the framework of the system, etc. Does it go blank and reboot after a screen rotate? Does it lock up before the reboot? Have you placed any other constraints on the system, say forcing 2d rendering in some way or does it only happen with running specific applications? All of this kind of thing is necessary to enable someone to duplicate the problem which is a major component of figuring out the cause.

Freddy999