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[Touch CDMA Android Development] mssmison:
I could throw up a rom with exchange, it won't be an ion rom though. Only non google phones use exchange and ion is google only. I don't really use exchange but if enough people want it...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] littlebrowntony:
thanks for the tip tatnai -- i'll try it out when i get a chance.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] craig0r:
The Hero has Exchange support, allegedly, so if we ever get that ROM running on our Vogues, then you're in luck.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
K-9 mail (check the market) has exchange support for email.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] oxsolid:
big center button

hey guys,

this is more of a curiousity then anything...

<Quick preface: i've been using your builds for the past 3 weeks and i think their awesome>

That big button in the center of the phone, with the 4 way directional surrounding it... does it do anything usefull???

Buttons:

**Top button: (awake|go home// if held down=application swap)-- It makes sense

**Side slider: (up=go back 1 /// down=more options//both=volume when blue keyboard is up)-- this is making sense to me now...after some early transitioning

**Camera button: (blue keyboard//tap twice=rotation)-- this works okay, but i'm guessing that your going to migrate away from its current function since we dont need the blue keyboard anymore

**Green Button=Call

**Red Button= (hangup||screen saver//if help down= powerdown phone)

******BIG CENTER BUTTON???

____________

The best use i can think of for the big center button is the application swap (the same as if you held down the top power button)... this would somewhat mimic the palm pre's functionality

if theres already a great use for the big center button let me know

EDIT: i suppoooooose that some applications miiiight use this button... but really does anyone use this button for applications instead of just tapping the screen?

Thanks,

Ox
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mssmison:
It does do stuff. You use the d-pad arrows to move around highlighted fields and the center button to select them, you can navigate without a touch screen.. It will also open/close the htc keyboard on text entry fields.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] lip:
Hi,

That would be really cool. I think Rogers is using cupcake with exchange built in.

BTW-regardless, its pretty awesome all the work you are all doing on this. Thanks. There are bugs still but man its cool!

LIP
[Touch CDMA Android Development] lip:
Bugs that I have found:

GPS works but in google maps it doesnt follow your position like it should...you have to continually manually update it.

Voicedial doesnt work, the application faults and you have to force close it.

The phone(sound) doesnt work through headphones.

Camera and video doesnt work.

The thing is very quick and puts MS to shame. Great work guys!

LIP
[Touch CDMA Android Development] d1rtyd33z:
system hangs after a period of time

Hi all. Nice work on this ION release. This is fantastic. I'm having an issue with the phone locking up after some time. I was on a long phone call, and in the middle I wanted to mute myself. The phone seemed to stop accepting user input, but the call was still operating. I could talk and hear, but I couldn't hang up, bring up the dial pad, or do anything.

I rebooted, fired up android and plugged my phone into usb to charge. When I came back an hour or so later, I couldn't get past the 'press menu button to unlock' screen no matter what I tried.

I enabled the GPS immediately after installing ION. I'll try disabling that and see how it goes. Just wanted to see if anyone else had this issue or knew if it was related to GPS.

EDIT:

I removed everything and started over. Now I can't get it to boot. It hangs in all sorts of random places. Maybe my SDCARD is dieing. I'll try replacing that.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
d1rtyd33z - haven't really run into that... if you install ADB using the files on DZO's site, then the next time it seems to lock up plug in your usb to your PC and type "adb logcat > system.log" and then upload the log to us and we'll see if we can figure what is happening.

mssmison - have you tried the thedude's rogers image? his build seem a little cleaner and easier to get to work on our phones...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
Not sure if it is baked into the latest images posted on this forum, but if you grab srwalters files form his site http://dasbrennen.isa-geek.org/~srwalter/gps it has GPS tracking sorted out. I used it to go up to Chicago this weekend using google maps directions. No bugs here. I did notice, however, that I needed to upgrade google maps even though it didnt say anything about an upgrade being available (I uninstalled then reinstalled from the market).

And yes, the phone sound does work through headphones as I just listened to some podcasts via beyondpod through my car's stereo this morning. the only think not working in this dept is voice through headset.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
I thought the latest updates were built in . . . my position is followed in google maps, but I can't get directions to work for some reason. maybe i'll try srwalter's files, but I was pretty sure vilrod incorporated them . . . will post back tonight.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
And try unintstall/reinstalling google maps. I was on the previous version (3.0, I think) and unintalled, then reinstalled and the version went to 3.1 (I think). It has directions for driving, transit or walking and all three version work for me no problem.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
The latest stuff from srwalter is built into the files on google code.

Google maps was also updated in the latest ion build... is it crashing for anyone else?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] kylo77:
Many Apps Force Close

I've followed the instructions and downloaded the latest code to my SD card. Android launches ok, modem connects automatically, browser works but many applications either force close or don't launch at all. (i.e. Google Login Service force close and Market doesn't launch; goes back to main screen. Also, the Google partner setup stops unexpectedly to force close. I have Max App Processes set to 4.

This build is big progress from what I read here and I've seen this issue posted already but without a solution. Any guidance would be helpful.

great work to all involved...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
kylo77: delete your data.img and any data.gz from your card and it should work.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] kylo77:
Deleted the data.img...that worked...thanks vilord!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] longjohn1980:
My experience

I also had a lot of problems with Android recently such as force close errors, apps not downloading or installing correctly, just overall fustration. I tried to delete my data.gz and data.img, no luck. I even tried reformatting my card and starting over fresh with no luck. I tried every suggestion that I could find here in the forum, and everything that I could think of but I ran into the same problems. Then, I switched to a new memory card and viola! every problem that i was having disappeared.

My experience with android since then has been excellent, very smooth and snappy, maybe 4 or 5 force close errors in the last 5 days, most likely due to literally dozens of apps I've installed and tried, pretty darn good considering that a lot of people who have real android phones leave comments on the market about apps force closing, tells me that the errors that i have encountered are most likely due to the app and not this great port.

The only problem that I have now is that my phone only rings one time. Its not that big of a deal just something that could probably be fixed pretty easy by one of the geniuses behind all this great work.

Keep up the good work guys, this gets better and better by the day!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mssmison:
We know about it only ringing once :)

Okay with this mornings developements of the rru for the new hero build being released I am moving all of my efforts to it's development. According to haykruo (who did the first hero release) it's way faster and smoother on the dream so it should run okay on ours once we get it running. This means that I will not be working on a rogers build with exchange support or the camera any more. I know DZO's said he's working on the camera in his spare time and since I don't ever use the crappy little camera on this phone I'll leave it for him.

I'll update as soon as I've got it running.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] stoked:
Been trying to preserve my screen calibrations between reboots, however I can't seem to get it working.

I have it set to:

set cmdline "ppp.username=mobile@jamamobile ppp.password=telecom mddi.width=320 mddi.height=428 msm_sdcc.msmsdcc_fmax=32000000 pm.sleep_mode=0 board-htcvogue.panel_type=1 no_console_suspend vogue-ts.XMIN=479 vogue-ts.YMIN=367 vogue-ts.XMAX=3743 vogue-ts.YMAX=3743 vogue-ts.PMAX=440" boot

But when I run Haret it says Unknown keyword: 'vogue' and doesn't load. Tried editing to make sure everything's on one line, and then it just doesn't load. Thought it might be difference in encoding between windows and linux, but I'm using textpad on Vista which should preserve file formats.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] lip:
Thanks for all your work.

Doesn't Hero have exchange support?

LIP
[Touch CDMA Android Development] pchasco:
Google maps locks system

Everything in Android seems to be running well for me except for maps. When in maps the UI will freeze after some time. The device still response to adb. I am running the Bell radio 3.42.5 and GPS is enabled in settings. Also, the device will hang instantly when clicking the "My location" button within maps.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] lip:
I think I have the same radio and I am on Bell and maps works for me except GPS wont' update but I think there is a fix for that as someone mentioned.

Is camera working for you?

LIP
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
I dumped my data file, replaced my system image, using all of the new files with bell 3.42.50 radio. I've even tried the zimage-bootstop images, which also work on my phone. With all of this, GPS continues to work great and tracks just fine in a vehicle or walking, but I get a force close when i look up directions in google maps (i can pull up the directions drop down, pick my location or a point on the map, after I click "Go" it brings up an empty map with no route, but with the direction buttons at the bottom; I click the direction buttons on the bottom, or anything pertaining to directions in the menu, and I get a force close. does not matter whether I have gps on or off). The google maps version is 3.1.1, which is the same version as the latest on the Market. I even tried installing the 3.1.1 on the market, but it doesn't install (built for a different instance of android - plus I've already got 3.1.1). I've got nothing left to try to get directions to work in google maps; anyone have suggestions?

SOLVED: lcd density of 128 is incompatible with google maps directions on my vogue. took the entry out of default.txt, granted my screen doesn't look as nice, but maps works!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] pchasco:
Nope. The camera doesn't work for me either. That's one of the things that they mention they need to get working on the google code site in the original post.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] stoked:
Awesome. Can't wait to try this on the vogue. The Hero release build should likely have exchange support actually.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] refthemc:
Sounds great, i just hope the camera gets fixed soon because i actually use the crappy little thing a lot. lol
[Touch CDMA Android Development] rLovett:
Im having a strange problem. I was running the latest android fine as my full time os for the last month or so. Every update went smooth. I tried the bootlock-test kernel and when I went to run android via haret it never went to 100% or said Gogogo. I tried reverting back to the latest kernel on the site thinking everything would be fine. Same thing, it wont go to 100%. It just sits there and locks up the phone untill I soft reset.

Ive tried replacing system.img/intrid.gz/everything including removing my data file. Anyone else experience this ever? Is there a debugging mode in haret I can enable to see whats going on?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
If it is locking up without ever getting past the haret screen I would suggest two things.

First, I'd try changing the vogue screen type to 0 or 3 to see if that alleviates it.

Second, I'd hook up your SD card to your desktop PC and run a scandisk/chkdisk on it. On my phone (nfsfan rom) I can just hook it up in "mass storage" mode and then I can run the chkdisk.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] rLovett:
ran chkdisk, everything was fine. Formatted sd card again and its still locking up. strange.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
what does it do when it locks up? sit at a white screen, sit on the linux screen?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
the skinny on resolution

the problem: google maps does not work (force close with any action using directions) with LCD density of 120 or 128, but you love the "hi res" feel of that setting. also, some programs are sensitive to pixel height and need a screen height of 480 to see everything (i.e. weather.com, cadrebible), but you don't like the scrunched look when you set the resolution to 320 x 480.

Solution: set resolution in default.txt to 359 x 480 and delete the lcd.density entry, and you get the "hi res" look (more screen real-estate), all programs that I have tested so far show everything and work fine (programs do not seem as sensitive to resolution width), aspect ratios are correct, and google maps directions works!

The only problems I've noticed are 1. on linux boot you cannot read the words of the black screen, and 2. the HTC IME keyboard is married to a screen width of 320; it works, but has a chunk of empty space toe the right. the cupcake keyboard runs just fine, and I prefer it anyways. i was able to keep the same screen calibration settings.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
I tried your settings, I was hoping that it would make things less fuzzy for me. It just made everything smaller, and still fuzzy. I currently have my res set to 240x320, so that it is sharp. This is very limiting though. You then have to use the cupcake keyboard, no others will fit.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] oxsolid:
headest / earbud -- volume control

I've been tryig to reduce the volume on the headest with no luck... currently the headset blasts sound into my ears, and none of the volume control methods i've found can reduce it...

i think its awesome that the headset works, so I'm just hoping its something easy that i'm overlooking...

Thanks

-Ox
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
In call volume can't be changed, for other audio press the camera button and use the volume up/down buttons while the kdb is displayed.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] indypb:
Hanging up @ Linux screen?

Sorry guys if this is a noob question, but I searched through here and didn't see anything exactly like what's happening to me....

I've tried repeatedly to load, using two of the three system.img, but it always hangs up saying:

mount:mounting/dev/block/loop0 on /data failed: Invalid argument

Failed

Failed to mount/data

/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

-#(flashing curser)

Aaargh, what am I doing wrong?!? Thanks....
[Touch CDMA Android Development] pchasco:
I've had a similar problem three times. The first time I corrected the problem by using new copies of all the files. The second time my SD card was corrupted. I had to reformat it with an SD reformat tool I found online. The last time the SD card was corrupted beyond repair, so I had to throw it away.

Windows Mobile operates the SD card at 25mhz and I never had an issue with it there, so I lowered it to 25mhz in Android using the boot parameter and haven't had an issue since.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] pchasco:
GPS

I've verified that it's not maps crashing my Vogue -- it's definitely GPS. I downloaded a GPS status application from the Market. It causes my phone to hang when launched. Once I was able to regain control of my phone, presumably because Android unloaded the App to reclaim space, but the second time there was no such luck. I'll try to get a log using adb bootcat.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] indypb:
Hmm....I'm assuming you'd change that in the default.txt? How do I specify 25mhz?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] pchasco:
You'll need to modify you're default.txt and change the "33000000" to "25000000":

set cmdline "ppp.username=3096422236@vzw3g.com ppp.password=vzw mddi.width=320 mddi.height=428 [B]msm_sdcc.msmsdcc_fmax=25000000[/B] pm.sleep_mode=0 board-htcvogue.panel_type=1 no_console_suspend"
[Touch CDMA Android Development] rLovett:
Neither. It looks like the loading bar for haret fills up all the way and just freezes. I still see haret and the loading bar at what looks like 100% but it never moves from there. It doesnt say gogogo or launch anything. Id kill for a flashing white screen at this point. Is there a debugging option or something in haret to possibly see whats going on?

edit: I pressed send after it got "stuck" and it loaded android fine. wtf? Might have been coincidence. Everything seems to be working now.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
Some updates...

I had posted an updated initrd last night, but it had regression with data connections... so if you have last night's initrd, please update again this morning.

Also, I'm back to using my system-ion.img... just like it better ;)

And Martin built some camera code!!!

I've updated initrd and my system-ion.img to work with it...

It is only preliminary, it only lets you take one picture then you have to quit out and go back in.

Also, the white balance is way off and can't be adjusted... actually nothing can be adjusted at this point, and video recording still doesn't work.

But, you can take pictures!!!

It should be up on google code in a few minutes, just watch the description, if it is up to date it will say camera
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
trying it out now. I don't really ever use the camera either, so it doesn't matter to me if it still doesn't work...

Ok I get

[ xx.xxxx] android_power: wakeup (0->0) at xxxxxxxxxxx (2009-06-30 xxxxxxxxx-utc)

over and over... is there something new needed in the default text?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Rotund:
I get the same as qwho. Wakeup over and over.

I tried moving my data.img and had it rebuild a new data.img. Same results.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
shouldn't be anything new needed, I haven't changed anything on my phone... I can try with a fresh data image and a blanked out default.txt again to verify... has anyone else tried and seen it working?

You both tried with new system-ion.img and new initrd.gz, right?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
If you are having problems booting the new system-ion.img, it *requires* the latest initrd with camera updates V2.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tetrismonkey:
help with gps on verizon

so i have searched both xda and ppcgeeks trying to understand why gps is working for so many people with their android phones but not working for me

i think the whole issues started when i flashed to Verizon's 6.1 update

i let CUSTOMIZATIONS run (didn't know at the time)

i was able to find a tutorial to get back to a good starting point

http://wiki.ppchaven.com/index.php?title=Pocket_PC_WIki:FIX_VERIZON_GPS

however when i get to step 5 and 6 i don't know what cost rom i should use

my questions is for anyone using Verizon with android and a working gps

where should i go from step 5

please help

also thank you all for your hard work i love using android
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Rotund:
Apparently my initrd.gz was a little off. Did you release 2 really close to each other? The comment didn't seem to change.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
nate, I use NFSFAN's final 6.1 ROM. Other have had success with the 6.5 roms, but I never bothered as I switched to android instead.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
So you re-downloaded and yours is working fine now? I will try that.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] prairiefire:
looks good. obviously the quality of the picture taken is poor, but it seems to work for me. I also noticed now that on the lock screen of the phone that it now knows that i'm on Bell. Phone appears initially to work as it had with the previous system image and initrd i had (from June 26th).
[Touch CDMA Android Development] ~David:
I'm getting the "wakeup" problem on boot as well. It just keeps looping over and over.

Completely cleared my card and re-downloaded all of the files. Still does it.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
Same here, even tried the bootlock zimage. No dice.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] stoked:
I dropped in the new system.img and initrd.gz and had no problems so far.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Rotund:
People with problems may want to check their download against the SHA1 sum you can get from the download page (click on description)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
I am going to try and download the files from my linux box at home and put them straight on the card via a card reader.

Has anyone who did a full replace of all their files been able to get this one running?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] margosmark:
Yes I have do as someone else said, download and do a checksum with SHA1 (use download them all plugin for firefox, it'll checksum for you too ;) )
[Touch CDMA Android Development] craig0r:
ringtones that only ring once

I may be close to solving the issue with ringtones that don't repeat.

I checked out the metadata on the ringtones in the soundResources.zip file (presuming they are a direct copy of what's included in Android by default) and came across an interesting discovery that's almost certainly the solution to this issue.

Some of the files have a tag called ANDROID_LOOP that is set to "true"

I haven't checked every single file, but the couple I did check out match up accurately to the files that do/don't play in a loop on the phone. I'm currently installing a tag editor to deal with this, and will report back (hopefully) very shortly.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
craig0r that is great news! I'll see if I can run a script to update all the files in the ringtones folder, then I'll update soundResources.zip and also the system with the new files.

On a side note, I wonder if the resources zip from haykuro has the problem, or if the sounds already have loop = true...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tetrismonkey:
i have a few more questions about getting my gps to work so pm'ed you please take a look when you have time

thank you again for all your hard work
[Touch CDMA Android Development] craig0r:
I've fixed all the files in the zip. I'm about to test them out, if it works, I'll stick the revised zip file up on the google code site, attached to Issue 2
[Touch CDMA Android Development] craig0r:
fixing ringtones

OK, so I "fixed" all the tags on the ringtones, but it didn't seem to have an effect. Going back into the file tags, I noticed that the "ANDROID_LOOP" part had been saved in lower-case, not UPPER-CASE as the working files seem to have. I've tried a couple different tagging applications, and they've given the same results. I think I can do it with Audacity, but that's a huge *****, cuz you can't just edit the tags and save the file, you have to export the file as a new ogg. It's a lot of clicks, but it can be done. I'll try it out on just one file and see if it makes a difference, before wasting my time on all of them.

EDIT: Sweet, it worked! Don't tell my boss, but I've been working on this for the past couple hours at work, and I'm about to go home. I'll look into finishing it tonight, although I'm going to the Sonic Youth concert, so it might have to wait until tomorrow morning.