yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] QAN:
Several bugs

I have installed AP4 according to the manual and it went like clockwork.

After four days of havy use I have noticed some problems:

1. On sunday and monday I had several problems with the microdrive. Several times the drive vanished in Resco Explorer or there were strange files, or complete directories were read only. Everytime a softreset solved it. I decided to flash my device again and now everything works fine.

2. I use TomTom very often. Installing works fine but with the latest versions 6.032 build 8351 and build 8355 I have problems. It happens very often when I am navigating and I change te route, that when TomTom is recalculating, the program gives a error saying that because of an error it can not calculate the route. Only a softreset solves the problem. Tomorrow I will test the wm2003 version 6.03 on AP4 to find out if WM6.1 is the problem.

3. Today I had several problems with the radio version 1.57. It was already installed when I used AP3. After entering my pin the device connected to the intenet but there was no trafic possible. A softreset solved it. But this happened several times today while driving on the road. I also noticed a problem I had in the past with my universal. While I had te problem I disabled the phone, but the connection stayed. There was also trafic. Very strange.

4. Another thing that bothers me is TouchFlo itself. Sometimes it makes it impossible to select text. Within TomTom the screen does not respond as it did in AP3. You have to press hard and for a longer time before TomTom noticed that you pushed the screen. The same TomTom has no problem on my HTC Touch Cruise (Polaris).

5. I used F-Secure for months now but now it will not install. I had to install compact framework 2 first.

6. I noticed another thing this aftenoon. When I was in TomTom te diable call button will minimize TomTom and you cannot see it anymore with WkTASK. First I thought it hd crashed but after starting it again I noticed that the program was running in the background.

7. This evening I was browsing with RSS hub and Opera. I was hitting a link and on te page was a flashvideo. After Opera had started the page was loaded but just before it was finished Opera shutdown completely.

8. I want to end this review with saying that I also have the probem with the battery indicator not showing the 100% energie level, the htc album freezing my device, iGO8 not wanting to start, Opera not wanting to start mediaplayer after hitting an mms link. Internet Explorer does, and several websites use a specific fonts which result in a webpage with very large text. E.g. http://mobiel.nu.nl/pda which normaly shows small fonts. I have no probem with it on AP3.

Beside all these problems I like the rom. Route66 workeds perfectly on AP4 so I can live with the TomTom problem. A few weeks ago my plus account ended and I did not renew it yet.

QAN
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rhedgehog:
OK, battery bug seems to be getting worse, charges fully and light goes green, all battery meters read 93%, even when still plugged in!

I am also experiencing problems with the internet as detailed by Qan. It works fine for a while and then it stops and i have to soft reset. Am going to flash back to 1.50 radio as i never had a problem with that - although i am a bit worried about flashing a radio on the pre-release as it does not have the locked SPL that would be in the final release, but i suppose if i use an updater that only contains the radio, it shouldn't be a problem (famous last words!!).

I have noticed that my touch screen seems to be much less sensitive. This I am guessing is down to touchflo waiting to see if you are going to scroll and therefore it is not picking up the quick taps. Annoying, and possibly the one thing that will send me back to AP3 dual. The touch itself bugged the hell out of me for being so unresponsive on the touch screen, but the touch dual was much better. This seems to be at the level of the original touch and not sure it is something i can live with.

This is not to detract for the rest of the ROM. It is superb, and the current bugs are minor, and no doubt the guys and gals of the AP team will fix them all in no time. I just am not a big fan of touchflo and would rather it was not there. but hey, we all have our own personal tastes.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] beginner:
I am unhappy with the autorotation of the screen (you can imagine while you are driving).

The device is times no responding because maybe touchflo way of work.

I don't see special speed or capacity improvement from ap 3 and times speed is lower than generic 6.1

Bluetooth disconnect more often, but not sure if it is because I moved radio 1.53

The other point I see is that there are too much stuff programs for me. I use other ones and the problem is memory...

still waiting a vainilla version, if it is possible.

I would like to be a technician in order to understand the memory improvement this rom has meaning, may I ask somebody to explain please?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] eaglesteve:
May be the auto orientation is taking up too much valuable resources, and slowing down the system. It may be better if the vanilla version removes this and hopefully let the device gain some speed advantage?

I don't even use the vueflo for internet browsing. It was a curiosity just for about five minutes when I got it new. I got a spining headache using it.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
Just been charging my phone - a while ago (half hour?) it was on 98% and the light was still amber. Just checked again and light was green with 97%, went down to 96% then back up to 97% while still plugged in and light green, unplugged it and it's on 96% then 95%.

That's the only bug I've found (if bug it is) and love AP4.0 so far.

Thanks team!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pawel062:
the screensensitivity is not touchflo :p it has to do with the sensitivity setting in the registry. this is determined by the tapping u do to align the screen on first boot. the config app will allow u to adjust the sensitivity(40000 for me instead of the 9000 it is originally) and also allow you to turn off the scrooling.

vueflo orrentation will also be turned off by the config app(there is a exe in windows and in the first versions also in system a exe that turns off the rotation). about opera. the final will have it cooked in also making the storage available like 113MB :eek: +/-, depending if i decide to cook in anything else or not.

battery problems cmonex said she would send me a new battery driver. nothing is wrong with ur phone. its just the code i guess in battery driver was patched incorrectly or something like that.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] PDAMerlin:
Hi all

Is there any reason why my device should loose its password settings for GPRS connection, VPN connection and Exchange Activesync connections whenever I turn the device off (full turn off hold power and then yes)?

If I soft reset its fine when it restarts, but if I full power off and turn back on, all the connections prompt for a username and password...

Cheers
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rorydaredkign:
how ranodm? tried a hard reset? and you are talking about ap4 yes? i had ranodm graphic problems which were fixed by a hard reset..
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] mardibloke:
Why should they not charge, they have to develop the software and provide the servers and infrastructure to support the product. Am sure if thier costs were zero they might give it away.

Fair comment about the security risk of going via their servers.

However I use it for the one neat feature that you can take a photo on PDA and it automatically uploads it to their server, hosts the photo, and sends a link via IM to whoever you are chatting with. All with a neat simple interface that non-geeks can use.

You have to applaud them for just that feature.

If you have another/better solution to do the same thing I would be real pleased to hear about it.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Mahmood:
at last after a long time of thinking i upgraded to AP 4.0 and if u don't want to break the device and to have a smooth upgrade procedure u need to have .Net framework or above and it will upgrade to AP 4.0. and also after upgrading i had no problems at all everything works fine and i must say the VueFlo is the best feature just like an iphone but one thing it rotates when u rotate the device and thats very nice now installing some sofwares and see if everything works perfectly. Runs faster the AP 3.0 and also the touch abbillities are running smoothly !!

GREAT job Athena team !! will report if i come an error after installing some sofwares !!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] cmonex:
I don't see why you think the battery thing is a bug.

what HTC originally did was round the value up to 100% whenever it went over 90%. so you would only see 90% or 100%. and also they limited it to 10% percents, you know that very well.

so I removed that limit, but that also removed the round up to 100%, so if the battery is old and charges up to only 95-96% there is not much I can do about that - I can make it round up to 100% whenever it gets over a specific level (95?), but the rest seems to be hardware limitation (either in Athena or in old battery).
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rorydaredkign:
hmm

the thing is, with ap3, i had resco today like i said, and it gave readings in single percetages including but not exclusive to 95-100% and all the ones inbetween..

its not a problem, just was disconcerting at first when i turn it on first night after flashing ap4 and it goes down 4% in about 50 secs..

if it cant be solved because of hardware, obviously nothing can be done, but to us ruffians it seemed like a bug

Rory
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] karneson:
I trust cmonex to know what she is talking about. Nothing about battery technology is exact, and HTC probably rounded the thing by 10% because of that.

I think that we have been enlightened to the fact that in this device battery charging is limited, not handicapped by a bug.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] lakeman:
not a bug, just accurate

I watched cmonex go through this on irc and had confirmed this on my phone

its not a bug , just the readings are now more accurate
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
It's interesting to see that the one that got the most votes isn't a bug.

This is one damn stable ROM. Hat's off and a big thank you to all that have worked / are working on her.

All the testing certainly seams to have paid off.

Bet you still get some idiot complaining when it's released because the coffee maker included doesn't make his particular brand of coffee or something. ;)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnripper:
the prerelease is the best rom i vever had, can we only have the exe that turns off the screen rotation?

this is my only problem with the new fantastic rom.

thanks again boys great work.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] irus:
there is an exe called vueflo orientation toggle.exe its in the windows directory i think
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnripper:
thanks it worked!!!!!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] eagle 1:
The only issue I have noticed is that intermittantly, I lose icons on the settings panels. Sometimes after using device for several hours, I noticed that the settings/system panel only had 12 icons, and the settings/connections panel only had 5 icons. Weird nothing else seems to be causing any issues. A soft reset brings back all the icons.

I have an early pre-release version, but other than the icon issue has been relatively stable. Only other issue, has been with not waking up after overnight charge, but I believe that is due to Sprite backup and not a Rom issue because recently installed a new build of sprite backup.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] cmonex:
if that's true then that's nice, resco probably has its own algorithm to make it single percentage independent of what the battery driver reports.

in any case I might be able to modify the driver to go to 100% when the led is green, so you won't complain more. :P
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rorydaredkign:
:d

we do complain a lot dont we. I think eagle1 got it right... we all have ticked the box for something that isnt a bug, which is testament to the amazingness of ap4

on another note, i got a p1i today, so i think my athena has been demoted which is really sad :(

but my p1i is so good its untrue

Rory
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] QAN:
I love AP4 too, but I keep having problems with the microdrive. The last two days it happened five times. When I want to write a file to the drive it keeps saying the parameters are wrong. After a softreset it will copy the file and there is no error.

I love the vueflo but I would like an add-on with which I could specify a blacklist of application. When an application that is on the blacklist is has focus it would prevent vueflo to change the screen orientation. This feature would solve a lot of irritation.

QAN
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
Or you could just go to the system folder and run it from there....
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] cmonex:
that infamous config app can change the vueflo settings for you

either temporary toggle or permanent enable/disable - those settings are fully independent of each other (so you can turn it on temporarily even if permanently disabled).

app will be in the final AP4 of course.

to make the toggle work only for certain apps, that would not be as trivial, you'd have to hook to certain API's to detect when your blacklisted app is in foreground. but sounds like a nice project, maybe one day.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] cmonex:
1. not worth trying it

2. how would you even get a link to the prerelease? is there a link that hasn't been removed?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] fatouraee:
hey cmonex. do you guys have any idea when ap4 will be released. i read that you said it is pretty much done and all you guys need to do is upload. is that true... :)

again thank you ap team for the great work...
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
It's out people....go get it!!!!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] tepss:
i got ap4.0 platinium. anybody knows how to disable screen autorotation. found it really annoying as its too sensitive. couldnt find toggle.exe anywhere on my device, belive me, i was looking for it for last half an hour.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] theobabis:
settings\system\athena config app\vueflo
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
1. To temporarily disable it go to Start, Programs, System and click on "VueFLO Orientation Toggle".

2. What I did to disabled it at start up in case I wanted to use it later was just copy this shortcut to my Startup folder.

And it was posted before :p
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] sergiopi:
the shortcut isn'the start menu. The file is in window dir and the name is vo.exe.It switch between on and off the vueFLO
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Brau0303:
I flashed on Vista Home Prem 32bit, (acording to the procedures in the How To) I had no issues, I disable the auto screen rotate feature because it does not work well for my usage (not a bug just a personal preference) the battery charge indicator - the factory battery driver was actualy designed to read in 10% increments and would show 100% if it read the charge level anyware between 90 - 100% cmonex actually fixed it to read the real percentages of charge. i have had no real issues with the release rom or the many pre-release roms i tested. granted i also have been leaving my athena in the default screen resolution. I have run tom tom 6xx with no issues with the full usa map set and select poi's enabled. the only real issue i had was i got a messed up device icom in wmdc but that was caused by another incomplete wm6.1 rom i was running and i was able to resolve it.

My 2 Cents. Cheers

BR
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Brau0303:
A 2nd thought, if you want to you can map a button to the file vo.exe in the windows directory to anable you to toggle the auto screen rotate on/off very easily.

Cheers

BR
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
Hello everyone,

I'm the Editor-in-Chief of the XDA Portal. I received the Pixel 3 XL in Just Black for review from Google. I also have the Pixel Stand and Pixel USB-C Earbuds.

I posted part 1 of my review here: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-3-xl-camera-software-design-pixel-stand/

Have posted a ton of little tidbits of information here: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-3-google-pixel-3-xl-minor-features/

And my announcement article also has a ton of information: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-3-google-pixel-3-xl-specs-features-pricing-availability/

But if you have any other questions, I'm happy to answer them now that the review embargo has been lifted.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] tkdsl:
How long does it take to fully charge the Pixel 3 Xl using the the stand ?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
I've only tested one full charge cycle with the Pixel Stand, but it took about 2 hours and 37 minutes to go from 5% to 100% battery. About 59 minutes to go from 5% to 50%.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
Does audio sound '40%' louder, as Google claims? (I know it doesn't, but is the difference appreciable?)

I visited Best Buy to try them out, but the display units are crippled, and have no internet, and no pre-loaded media, so i could not compare anything other than ringtone previews. Of course, those only play out of one speaker, so I couldnt compare at all really.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Zorachus:
Does the 3 XL ship with 9.1 or slightly updated version of Android 9, compared to what current Pixel 2's have ? Dark mode is rumored to be coming in more stock Google apps, like the Phone, the Google Now news feed panel, etc... is that on the Pixel 3 ?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
I don't know about "40%" louder, but it definitely sounded louder than the Pixel 2 XL.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
It doesn't ship with Android 9.1, but it does run a newer version of Android 9 than what's in AOSP. Fun fact: when you enable "dark theme", the Google Feed (now called Discover) does seem to react to it and turn dark mode on. I believe that's new with Feed.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] slayerming2:
Hello,

Thanks for the insightful review. So given what you've seen on the pixel 3. What would you want and expect google to execute with the pixel 4?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
I don't see the Pixel 4 getting rid of the notch, but I do want to see the bottom bezel mostly eliminated.

Faster wireless charging. Google came out the gate with a 10W wireless charger in the same week that Razer came out with a 15W one and Huawei is coming out with a 15W one also tomorrow.

Can't speak about battery life yet, but more mAhs can't hurt.

4GBs of RAM is starting to show its age, especially for anyone who plays mobile games. 6GBs of RAM would be a nice bump.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] zainqaiser:
What do u think about the scatches on back issue? Is it really an issue or people have blown ot out of proportion?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] slayerming2:
Okay got it thanks! Just curious, does the pixel 2 xl case fit on the pixel 3 xl?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] uicnren:
Physically yes, they fit. They are almost identical in size.

However, the 3 has buttons in different positions, so if the case has button covers, it likely wont work too well.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] krabman:
Have you rooted it?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] bsg411:
More mAh?? How about at least not going backwards and decreasing the battery capacity. Also 6 gb of RAM is mandatory next phone.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] TheUndertaker21:
Rootable?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] krabman:
Yep, this is XDA where the first question on this page should have been "How did you root it?" Keep in mind not, if it was rooted. We shouldn't have to ask that... :)

Anyhow, all kidding aside, while we all figure it's a go confirmation would be nice.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] gwertheim:
How's the battery life? Will it last longer than a day?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
Nobody has used it long enough to say if it's really an issue. I baby my devices so it's less likely to happen to me, but we'll find out once it's in the hands of the general public.

Yes, my Pixel 2 XL's Fabric Case does fit on my Pixel 3 XL. However, the volume rocker is a bit loose. Also, the position of the top microphone is different on the Pixel 3 XL and Pixel 2 XL, so you'll be blocking out one of the 3 microphones by using a Pixel 2 XL case on a Pixel 3 XL.

See the diagrams here: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7157629?vid=0-906551887502-1539656529603

I'm waiting until factory images are available before I attempt to root it.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
Unfortunately, I, and nobody else really, have used it long enough to give you an accurate estimate of the battery life. My Pixel 2 XL's battery life was decent (5-6 hours of SoT), and I don't expect worse on the Pixel 3 XL.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Guides, News, & Discussion] gwertheim:
Thx for the info, can you keep us updated once you get more info?
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
Hello everyone,

I'm the Editor-in-Chief of the XDA Portal. I received the Pixel 3 XL in Just Black for review from Google. I also have the Pixel Stand and Pixel USB-C Earbuds.

I posted part 1 of my review here: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-3-xl-camera-software-design-pixel-stand/

Have posted a ton of little tidbits of information here: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-3-google-pixel-3-xl-minor-features/

And my announcement article also has a ton of information: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-3-google-pixel-3-xl-specs-features-pricing-availability/

But if you have any other questions, I'm happy to answer them now that the review embargo has been lifted.

---

Sorry, I don't have the smaller Pixel 3 on hand, but the two devices are basically the same apart from the different screen sizes/notch.
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] killakarl:
Is the screen completely flat? For screen protectors. Can you also dock the phone horizontal and still use the features? I think it was careless of the designers, if you could not use the USB C headphones while it charges on the stand(vertical).
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
It's basically flat. It slightly curves at the edges, but nothing like the Samsung Galaxy series. You can dock the phone in the Pixel Stand horizontally, but the new UI only appears in portrait mode. I agree it's an oversight - all it takes to enable landscape mode in Always on Display is to change a single boolean value in the framework: https://android.googlesource.com/pl.../+/master/core/res/res/values/config.xml#1192
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] GizmoFreak:
Is the stand worth it? How much time does it take to charge phone completely?
[Google Pixel 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] MishaalRahman:
The Always on Display integration is really neat but I'm guessing someone will figure out how to trigger it for any Qi wireless charger soon, so I'm not sure if the Pixel Stand will be so unique in the future. It charges the device fully in about 2 hours and 40 minutes, but about 50% in 1 hour.