yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Excalibur] elessarelfstar:
great rom

I flashed this rom today. Runs great, and smooth.

1. I get the same Camera Album issue others are getting, where the first picture flickers. It went away after I ejected teh sd card, then put it back in. But the problem I have now is that it keeps reverting the "selector" back to the first picture. I think this may be happening while it's still loading all of the pictures? (using the most current version, downloaded today. Nov 6 version/1.2)

2. I had a pleasant surprise when I tried a song from napster2go (drm2) and it worked. Of course this works on the official ROMs (wm10 and all), but it would never worked for me on the kavana ROM (tried several versions)
[HTC Excalibur] gospeed.racer:
the problems listed above by others are the same problem I was having in the camera album. The first pic keeps flashing and thats the one that is highlighted by the dpad (this is what he means by the cursor, its the item that is selected) and whenever it flashes (2 times a second LOL) it pulls back the selection. I think if he was to delete the 2 pics that I did the problem would disappear. I have not noticed the windows file flickering, but that is the same effect I get on those 2 pics.

verified on my other excalibur as well BTW. Its not a big deal for me, I just deleted the files and it was all good- just trying to make things easier!
[HTC Excalibur] tarascaassoc:
By cursor I meant the darkened bar that indicates what you are selecting.

I just noticed that it is not doing it at the moment. I have since performed a clear storage, connection setup and a re-sync with ActiveSync.

I was looking at the running processes and was wondering what HTCActivityLogExe.exe is for and how to disable it if it's unnecessary?

And, how do I stop the WeatherApp.exe and WeatherUpdateService.exe from automatically starting every time I boot the phone? I turned off automatic updating as described earlier.

Thanks again.
[HTC Excalibur] gospeed.racer:
To those using the latest and having the flickering pics, try deleting "pond" and "BG" from the pics folder (I did if on the phone, not via activesync) and see if it still has the flickering problem (it fixed my problem of refreshing the first pic as well)
[HTC Excalibur] tarascaassoc:
And speaking of the \Windows\StartUp folder, what is AutoShortcut for?
[HTC Excalibur] Billyvnilly:
I'm for vanilla rom, and then speeding that up.
[HTC Excalibur] gospeed.racer:
Here is a very crappy video of the problems with the camera pics:

Click here for Video
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
I have the same problem with my camera album I deleted a bunch a pics from the My Pictures folder and it seems to have fixed it
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Anyone else tryed to open up the Voice Recorder and got an alert about can't find Recorder?
[HTC Excalibur] tarascaassoc:
I can confirm the Voice Recorder error.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Anyone noticed that when listening to music with Audio Manager the dpad does not turn up or down volume, all it does is make a silent glitch in music?
[HTC Excalibur] jhunkab:
Trying it now.

I am trying this now.. a few quick observations:

- I prefer a clean optimized version

- Weather app to have some control to not load it always

- control on preventing loading of HTC activity logger

- OMAP clock settings should stick after reboots

will keep give this ROM a spin and note issues, if any.

Thanks for the effort to put together this ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] tarascaassoc:
I found the weather app and activity logger. Go to HKCU\Software\HTC\Bootlauncher\HTCSlidingPanel and delete the value referencing the weather app. When you reboot, WeatherApp.exe, WeatherUpdateService.exe and HTCActivityLog.exe no longer load. Apparently they are all part of the weather app.
[HTC Excalibur] torrentsite:
With Ricky's rom my keyboard is working...

What's the difference between those 2?
[HTC Excalibur] gospeed.racer:
what do you mean by "working"? If the keymap is wrong you will simply need to change it, the same way the Dash people needed to change Ricky's and Kavana's
[HTC Excalibur] kngri:
Continue to make this one better with maybe some classic games like mspacman, pacman and maybe frogger. :)

...lost my sms and mms messages after loading rom SEARCHING for answer. hehe.

thank you for you hard work the rom looks awesome.
[HTC Excalibur] lovebeta:
This is a great rom with all cutting edge apps. However when I use Kavana's rom, the memory total was around 48MB, while yours stood 43.56MB. I was wondering if this matters or not?

Also I couldn't find a way to make the OMAP setting permanent. It currently resets whenever the backlight is off. On Kavana's rom, I think the behavior was the CPU will be overclocked whenever the screen is on...
[HTC Excalibur] jhunkab:
Test thus far

- Issue with '0' (zero) observed in number only fields (e.g. BT pass code), does not let enter '0'.

- Not able to connect via BT to sync

- Observed flicker on windows\startup folder

- Battery life is BAD -- this may force me to abondon this. I have new high capacity battery, that easily last 2 days for me, but this ROM burned it in 18 hrs. I am guessing weather app is to blame (i had disabled auto-update)

- I will try with disabling weather app altogether, if that does not improve battery, then I will revert to earlier Kavana ROM

- Esmertec Jbed works great with gmail (generic) in this ROM, it had issues in Kavana's version, any one knows how to get this version so that I can install it on Kavana 6.1 ROM?

-- for now I am inclined towards going back to Kavana/Ricky Vanilla.
[HTC Excalibur] tomiglio:
Windows media player wont play any videos from the phone,not even the ones that i have filmed with the phone's camera.That's not a big issue for me as i can always use any other video players like core player or tcpmp.

The keyboard issue i got it fixed thanks to stylez,and the camera album got solved after deleting all the picture that came bundled with the rom.

windows live wont show on the screen even if i enable it with chme configurator.

any way this is a great rom.keep up the good work.:)
[HTC Excalibur] tarascaassoc:
I noticed a random keyboard freeze when I tried to activate the keyboard lock by holding the * key for a few seconds this morning. The phone appeared to still be working, just the keyboard and navigation buttons didn't seem to work and I was able to shut down the phone by holding the power button for a bit. I restarted and have not seen it occur again yet.

The navigation keys seem to be very sensitive in java apps. Specifically I was using Gizmo5. It acts like there is a fast repeat rate with no pause before repeat so menus will repeatedly pop up again unless I'm very light and fast with the button presses. It's mostly an annoyance. It didn't happen with other ROM's.

The setting to encrypt everything put on the microSD card at Settings/Security/Encryption does not work. It errors with "The settings could not be saved."

I'm going to be going back to another ROM for the time being but I'm impressed at the progress made on this one. I will try again if I see a new version released, though. I also look forward to a possible true vanilla ROM based on this one.

Keep up the great work.
[HTC Excalibur] kash2k7:
cant sync with bluetooth

y there is no syncing with blue tooth available.
[HTC Excalibur] torrentsite:
I tried but it didn't work....when I install Ricky's rom it's OK
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
put all files in windows folder

this fixes

all video

and all ring tones eg aac

voice recorder
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Oh nice thanks for this Ricky... :)
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
id love to help you people on this thread but i cant help because nrgz38 dose not what my help so im very sorry:(
[HTC Excalibur] tomiglio:
thanks mate,windows media player issue is fixed now.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
The media player issue is fixed in version 1.3 which is coming out tonight or tomorrow at the latest. It was a problem with trying to blend in the Streaming Media player. As you can see from Ricky's files, all he does is replace all the video decoder DLLs. So just have a little bit of patience and we'll get through this together and have a perfect ROM at the end.

p.s. My phone's been on "standby" since Friday morning and now (sunday morning) I'm only at 79% battery...
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Yes makes sense it's been on stanby all the time good job you got a BJII as your main device.....
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Actually the G1 is my main device now. :)
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Ok my point was that your point was totally irrelevant to anyone that actually uses there Dash as there main device... A general usage would be more useful..

How many phones do you need? Do you have 3 ears? :p JK
[HTC Excalibur] tomiglio:
Sorry mate,I didnt mean to offend you in any way. I only poined out an issue,and I pointed it out on the thread of your Rom,the place where you would normally get a response from the author of the Rom,right?

I was asking you for a solution,not rickywat. Just happened that rickywat came with the solution that fixed the issue. But,like i mentioned before, I was asking the author of the Rom,thus you,for a resolution.

Once again I want to say that this is a great Rom, and you did a great job so far fixing the issues.

In the end it's really not so important who get the issues fixed,but the thing that matters the most is the fact that those issues get fixed, for the benefit of the whole xda comunity,right?
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
what will be new in v3

hey NRGZ28 wat will be new in v 1.3, just c urious as to what bug fixes will be sorted out and wat goodies may be included. Oh Omapclock permanence after reset etc needed!!! tnx looking fwd to ur good work!!
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
If u need UK keymap go back about 4 pages and follow steps i put install eT9 uk in sig reboot then copy the .txt pad i posted in the eT9 folder on phone that sorts it :)
[HTC Excalibur] MrPhoni:
From my point of view, it's definetly the best ROM I ever saw and the first one which works perfectly. For me version 1.2 is awesome - with a battery lifetime I never had before with other ROMs.

Last but not least, it's the first ROM where I do not have any trouble with my german keyboard layout - from the beginning. Choosing XT9 German was all I had to do.

Setting up my device after flashing is now a 3 minutes task and not something for a Saturday afternoon for fixing, like it was before.

Thanks again, NRG - you're my star.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
NRG is amazing... :)
[HTC Excalibur] torrentsite:
Keyboard is working!!

Thanks everybody, NRG - you're my star
[HTC Excalibur] outragis:
I agree 100%

Really looking forward to future additions! Thanks again for your hard work, and remember people ***** no matter how good something is! they are jealous!
[HTC Excalibur] iamanalog:
You know how i feel about your work nrg, before this rom i had almost all of your releases on my phone. Now i look forword to seeing this rom become amazing.

Keep up the great work man.
[HTC Excalibur] gospeed.racer:
NRG, can I make a few suggestions? I think with your new release there needs to be a "bug report" thread, where the people that have true issues can post them. Users NEED to understand that there is a big difference between a "bug" and a "feature request". The keymap post for example, that is not a bug- the user should have simply asked how to make it work, instead he complained that it doesnt "work". It would be great if you had the power to delete the posts in your own thread (the ones out of line, or not following the topic)to keep everything straight- can you be issued moderator powers for a thread like this? That may keep it easier to follow. Also, this thread (or these threads if the bug report one makes it) needs to be stickied.

Your doing great work, please dont give up on us users that truly respect your work and will continue to use it. At the same time, please try to be understanding that Ricky and others are trying to help. I know you are not ready to release your kitchen, and I hope Ricky and his followers can respect that. Keep up the great work man!
[HTC Excalibur] Billyvnilly:
yea i think there needs to be a sep "relevant" bugs thread, and leave this one to "*****ing"

Its strong work NRG.

I've seen battery life, the 0 problem, and the symbol key issues ive reported fixed, so I'm thrilled with your work!
[HTC Excalibur] tuantuti:
thanks NGR for the new ROM. it sounds like a good ROM from other posts. i would love to try flashing it but i can't seem to work with Rapidshare.

anyone have the mirror link that is not rapidshare??? if do pls share with me. thanks a lot. i really want to try this ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
my rapidshare account just expired tonight so thats probably why...
[HTC Excalibur] tuantuti:
no, its just my ip address problem. do u have any other mirrors?? thanks NGR
[HTC Excalibur] sphinx780:
Hey NRG,

Hope you get back up to snuff health-wise soon. Thanks again for the hard work on this. I feel like most here love your work and sincerely appreciate it.
[HTC Excalibur] tommytutone:
Resolved WM6.1 DRM problem?

Has anyone found a resolution to the incompatability between WM6.1 and "Plays for Sure" subscription services like Rhapsody/Napster? I really hope this Rose ROM is the answer.

When I was running 6.0 I could sync with Rhapsody just fine, but since moving to Kavana it's never worked. My phone appears to sync but when I try to play music I get an error that "This is not a valid Windows CE application" and my phone basically crashes. I have to pull the battery and reboot.

I'm not a "power user" per se. I'll use Kavana, Ricky's, or Rose, whichever one will let me play subscription based music. I just sold my MP3 player to get this phone, and now my 8GB microsdhc is worthless. (I know I can get music other ways, but I like to pay for the convenience.)
[HTC Excalibur] tuantuti:
this thread should be sticky. i'm surprise why it hasnt been sticky yet???
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Oh I know it should be fore sure, its all right if its not stickied because it will always remain up top.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
It was stickied before but I asked the mods to unsticky it. I figured if I cant find my own thread in the forum anymore, everybody else will have a hard time also. :)
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Oh and thanks to your donations so far, I was able to renew my account at RapidShare for free :) :p
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I actually removed the DRM components from my ROM, because I figured.. hey.. who would listen to DRM MP3s on their phone ?! Guess I was wrong. They do take up a little bit of space, so if I have space left to put them in for version 1.3 I will, but I can't promise anything :)
[HTC Excalibur] outragis:
again, nice work! :)
[HTC Excalibur] kngri:
1st, thank you for your work.

My question is,

Can you make a bare to the bone - extra clean "Rose 1.2" rom, with no extras only keeping the black look that it has now.

things to keep in the rom (sample)

Office Mobile

Connection Setup

PHM RegEdit

USB Storage

Java

Calculator

Adobe reader

CeleTask

... just the basic needs.

Once again we love your work, Is this possible or do i need to pay for you to do this?

-Thank You.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
This will be done for sure. I just thought I'd iron out all the bugs out of this ROM first and then, I will release a plain vanilla version. To be honest, I will probably use the plain vanilla version on my device as well, as soon as I get it done.... I don't like a whole lot of "bells and whistles" either. Heh Making a vanilla ROM is easy (IMO) and I would never ask for money for that... :o
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Oh sweet, I am exciting for the vanilla rom to come out... :)
[HTC Excalibur] kngri:
how about a couple of classic games to use when we are bored at the office, LOL. Games like MsPacman, Pacman and Frogger...

:):):)
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
thats stuff you can easily install yourself with a cab :p :p
[HTC Excalibur] Empel1960:
Hi NRGZ28,

With the PHM registry editor version in your ROM is not possible to import settings as in the previous ROM's there is a way you can incorporate the other version in your new release?

Great work with your ROM....:D
[HTC Excalibur] akurit:
I havent had a chance to try 1.2 but I have tried the ealier version and it looks great.. very smooth a few freezes...but im sure 1.2 has improved on that...I look forward to dl'ing to my phone again perhaps at 1.3

mmmm whats that smelll.... smells good ..whatchya coooking?

ROMS?
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Install Pocketnester and download some game roms and you will be set to go with your classic games man.
[HTC Excalibur] LiverpoolFCfan:
I had tried this prior to posting, but I am still unable to get some keys to work correctly - that is why I asked if Rick could help.

Using this method, most keys and Alt-keys work OK - but the TAB never works for the Zero key. And the long keypress of the comma does not give a semicolon, long keypress of the period does not give a colon.
[HTC Excalibur] tomiglio:
NRGZ mate,u should put a countdown timer on the thread :)

Time till the next release....:)

Really looking forward v1.3
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Actually I'm putting together a list of issues I need to work on for the next release. Here's what I got so far...

Put DRM back in

comm manager internet sharing icon missing

fix 0 problem in some fields ?

power saving reg edits!

bluetooth activesync ?...

replace htc streaming media player with HTC's verison (drop the idea of implementing Technology's version)

Anything else ?
[HTC Excalibur] jasonusmaximus:
please put DRM back in
[HTC Excalibur] gospeed.racer:
...and that right there would keep me from ever downloading software that contained it. Why you feel the need to market this stuff like a used car salesman is beyond me:rolleyes:

NRG, sounds great- keep up the great work! Did you see the video I posted with the flashing icon? Weird stuff, just wondered if you ever verified it on yours
[HTC Excalibur] germansak:
It seems that's all fixed to me. Please upload it! I'm so anxious.
[HTC Excalibur] torrentsite:
I like the like it is....but bluetooth active sync would be great:)
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Which is what turned me off from putting it in my ROM. No matter how great it is, the way he "markets" it pisses me off to no end...
[HTC Excalibur] reggaepoo:
Vista Skin

Stylez? Where'd u get that vista skin? It maaad!!

Bless
[HTC Excalibur] jonj:
Would you consider the battery life issue a bug at this point? Seems as if a number of us have seen this be an issue?

As others have said, love the ROM otherwise - great work and wish people would stop complaining!
[HTC Excalibur] rma1482:
Excellent ROM

Love the ROM...flashed my phone a couple of days ago with it and am loving it. Keep up the good work!:D
[HTC Excalibur] iamanalog:
I dont know what battery problems your going on about i've seen the battery life on my phone go up, no longer do i see it drop to 40 from 100 after moderate use.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Version 1.3 upped guys.. please download and test.

This will probably be my final version (bugs fixed or not). Too much drama for me for one ROM....
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
No man come on keep this up man, please.... Do not just stop on here man bring this ROM to perfection...
[HTC Excalibur] germansak:
Well I wish I could say something to change your mind but I completely understand why you would choose to do it. I'm not against the remake, but things didn't flow the way they should have.

I hope you continue developing stuff for us (like Miniweather, which I think it's better than the HTC one) and improving this ROM. You will always be the father of this amazing ROM and I'm sure we all know that, even Stylez and Rick, I don't think they had bad intentions and I hope you can iron things out between you and work together as a team.

Thanks again and congratulations on this ROM

P.S. Sorry if something I wrote was not entirely clear but English is not my main language and it's very difficult to express some things.
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
This is directed to Tech,

Do not reply to this posting or in this thread.

Stay out of NRG's threads just like you wanted him out of his.

Or you will be seeing "The Light"

Good Day :cool:
[HTC Excalibur] surfing10:
I don't understand one thing.

Why this thread isn't sticky?? NRGZ28 made such a great work here.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
I don't know I think we are waiting to iron out all the bugs.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I asked the mods not to sticky it. This thread will remain at the top on its own... it has enough activity still. I think when I'm done with the ROM, the mods can sticky it for future reference for newcomers, but for now.. there's no need really :)
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
So are you going to continue ironing out all the bugs...
[HTC Excalibur] sphinx780:
Hey NRG,

I hope you keep working on this ROM but as others have stated, I completely understand if you choose not to and thank you once again for all of your hard work on it. Just like a good album, I prefer the original artist over a remake when the choice is there to be had :D

Once question I have, and I honestly have no idea if it's possible but I'm sure you'd have a better idea on it than most. With the HTC weather panel, do you think there would be anyway to get the update connection working with the t-zones internet proxy? Not a big deal b/c I'd be dumping it the minute you decide to bless us with mini weather for this ROM (if you choose to do so, of course!)
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I guess getting miniweather to work with this ROM as well is the next logical step. You will have a working miniweather by the end of the day today ;)

As far as getting it to work with the proxy... not sure. Try searching the forum for a solution getting the HTC Home PPM plugin to work with the 5.99 tzones or even the "Manilla" interface. It's the same software with the same .exe's running the show in the background.
[HTC Excalibur] tuantuti:
im so excited. gonna install 1.3 and report back to all. thanks so much NRG. im so bored w the Dash and now u have given me back the love :D
[HTC Excalibur] sphinx780:
You Rock. I'll see what I can turn up and get an answer up here if I find.
[HTC Excalibur] nhung:
Say it aint so.

Thanks for the great work. I hope you do not stop improving this ROM. If you do stop, please consider posting your kitchen.
[HTC Excalibur] jgrv:
Great job NRG! just having small problems in version 1.2.. HTC Album wont load images correctly.. RAM memory is very low so If you open SMS plus Camera and then try to open the CommManager it will fail.. oh and if you go to \Windows\StartUp with File Explorer the screen starts blinking.. that's strange..:confused:
[HTC Excalibur] tuantuti:
i think im gonna burst to tears. ive given up on rapidshare, such a pain. anyone with a kindest heart pls share a mirror link pls. im dying to try this ROM, rapidshare is blocking all ip from my country :((
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Then you will look your avatar! LOL :D In all seriousness, I hope someone comes along and uploads it to mediashare or something. I'm a work now and I dont have the bandwidth for it... but I'll try.
[HTC Excalibur] mactron:
http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=QSLR7DB7 here you go!
[HTC Excalibur] tuantuti:
thanks NRG. i hope to download it soon from some mirror links. otherwise i can wait. im going to bed now actually. be patient be patient :o:o again thanks NRG for the ROM, so excited :D
[HTC Excalibur] tommytutone:
1.3 is great!

Thanks NRGZ28, this is a great ROM. Installed flawlessly, seems very functional, and just flat-out looks awesome. (And my Rhapsody music works now too... yeah I was that guy!)

I'm going to be keeping this one for a long time. :D
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
That's great to hear man, glad you like it. And I'm glad DRM works right, as I never had anyway to test it, I just kind of dropped it in there.. heh Good news though... :p
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
MiniWeather 1.3 is ready to be released with support for this ROM. Here's some screenshots... Look for the .cab in the miniweather thread! :P
[HTC Excalibur] Empel1960:
Hi NRGZ that's great news, just waiting for you to update the thread...:D
[HTC Excalibur] kngri:
AWSOME!!! [RoM], Thank You for your work and support.