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[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
I'm sure you have the "media" folder on the root of your SD..the only thing i can tell you is that I'm running zenulators backinblack img (lite hero where he's removed many of the widgets for better improvement) and EVERYthing works for me!

make sure the mddi stough is 320x480 in your default.txt

Oh..is the long press haptic feedback a possibility on this Hero stough yet? I installed Spare Parts but it doesn't seem to have that portion available..

*edit* i figured it out..i apparently had an older version
[Touch CDMA General] jsun21:
Thanks a lot, that did the trick!

TouchFlo running horrendously slow right now, hopefully it'll speed on when after a bit of use.
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
same problem here with fresh data.img built with mssmison latest hero full, plus the no ringtone problem (with all folders that were in /sdcard/media/audio in /sdcard/media/ringtones etc). reads sdcard as per settings, but not in albums/music/camera programs etc. will try building new data and running with zenulator's full or back in black, as there seem to be less problems with data.img files made from zenulator's.
[Touch CDMA General] sshark:
Still not receiving calls or SMS, my SMS are also not getting delivered :(
[Touch CDMA General] grktaurus83:
The "SMS not delivered" problem has been known for quite a while. As far as I know, mssmison has not fixed this yet. It isn't the fact that _HE_ hasn't fixed it yet, just that _IT_ hasn't been fixed yet.

I think a big "relax..." is in order for everyone mentioning this issue. This is honestly said to no one in particular, just that there has been a bunch of people talking about this even though mssmisson has _directly_ said that this is an issue and hasn't been fixed yet.

Other than that, I'm suprised at how well this build works for us (given that issues were talked about on the actual hero device).

All of the devs deserve some respect on all of what they have done.
[Touch CDMA General] thoughtlesskyle:
the best work around so far is to go on the market and download chomp sms or some other sms program since these arent the HTC build they will work fine
[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
A slight clarification..you will still get an icon next to your SENT message saying that it wasn't sent, even in chompSMS. The main benefit is you don't have the crazy lag found in the HTC messaging app
[Touch CDMA General] aross6:
Mssmision, any chance you could re-post your most recent system.img prior to the Aug 1st release? I like the exchange mail feature but cannot live without having everything sync (especially Contacts) like it did in your previous version and it seems that one is no longer being hosted at Google Code...

Thanks a million!

Edit: To avoid confusion, I am referring to your Hero Themed Cupcake Release just so you know...
[Touch CDMA General] sshark:
Nice! I did not know that cup caked based Hero Themed built has full exchange functionality...?! I will be tracking your post to get that answer. If that's correct, it would be an awesome news!
[Touch CDMA General] sshark:
Thanks for the msg. I tried using ChopSMS but does not work.

Also, I did not mean to point out this as a mistake but to-do for the future changes. Did not at all mean to send that wrong signal.

Also, I found that if you use older INITRD (one that's on his MEDIAFIRE a/c), exchange/POP sync goes without fail. If anyone's interested.:)
[Touch CDMA General] natefish:
This is an amazing build, mssmison! Between your Android Hero and NFSFAN's WM 6.5, I may never leave me vogue (well, maybe ;)). Thanks for the hard work!

Everything is running smoothly. There is no bluetooth support yet, right?

Thanks again!
[Touch CDMA General] lazyvegaskid:
what am i doing wrong? I have installed every build imagineable and found that one wont get sms or send them, now i cant even launch the apps or even scroll using the screen. I used:

Herolite bundle

zimage7-27-09

initrd new

rootf

blank data

any idea why im now stuck on the home screen and cant do anything, not even add an app using long press... nothing! please help i want to enjoy your build even more than i already have.

edit:

nevermind got it all to work... wow touchflo kills ram but i love the look of hero. I can wait till oct 11th for my sprint branded Hero and then my wimax samsung cell after... who would have known we'd get 4g in vegas almost first? loving technology more n more each day
[Touch CDMA General] htctoucher:
im having a really persistent issue trying to get android to even boot on my phone (sprint htc touch)

ive tried almost every img from hero to non hero and each one has the same problem

basically, i run haret.exe and the black screen with white text comes up as if it is doing something ( it gives a list of clusters out of range up to Cluster 1021 .. is that normal? )

then, it will say:

Orphaned long file name part "system.gz"

Auto-deleting.

(however.. that file doesnt even exist on my SD card)

then it will say it is truncating to 23623bytes or something (i am not sure) and will not move for minutes only to give off some more numbers for example [ 135.415146] r5:00000000 r4:00000000 ... lots of lines etc i cant even write all of this... and seems to not stop (ive let it go for 30 min)

anyone have any ideas?

from what i can tell no one else is having this problem

ive deleted everything from the SD root, except for folder for my music, program files, documents and pictures, i am currently trying the latest mssmison but as i said before all of them have done the same thing and i have all of the files needed (haret.exe, system.img, initrd.gz, rootfs.img, zImage, default.txt for panel 3, resources folder and i even tried the blank data.gz provided)

hope someone knows i really want to get this working so i can sort of decide if android hero is gonna be my next phone (November plan is up = discount :D)

thanks guys

htctoucher
[Touch CDMA General] masalma:
awsome work dude, really appreciate it, i tried it on my vogue last night and works awsome, can't wait to get sms working again, i even picked up a second vogue today :) so far three and you keep making the phone sweeter and sweeter thanx a million man. and keep up the good work.
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
the cupcake themed build is the best & fastest IMO!:D
[Touch CDMA General] s0v3r1gn:
Thanks for the awesome build! I'm loving the Touch Flo Sense UI. I really can't wait to find out if and when the Hero is really going to come to Sprint.

I just spent about an hour going through and linking all my contacts to their Facebook accounts.

So far everything seems to be working great. I keep getting the msg not sent error with texts. But with the HTC app it still sends them, and I get no lag during the whole process of sending, thinking it didn't send and clearing notifications.

Keep up the awesome work!

EDIT: Just curious is there anything I need to do to make the SD card mount? Mine is not being detected. Music says that the SD card is not installed and Albums says no photos or video found even though I have both music and photos on my SD card. But applications like quick office can see all the txt files stored in many different folders on my SD card. Should music and albums be stored in a specific location?
[Touch CDMA General] jaredakelly:
is the rogers build have a working market? i constantly have force closes using it
[Touch CDMA General] mssmison:
This question has been asked soooo many times. Here's and answer again. No. Some sdcards on some units mount but not others. I'm working on a fix.

Market works but sd cards don't mount so that's why the force closes... Should have it fixed soon though as it's the same issue as the hero builds.
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
start clean. download zenulator's hero zip and zimage. use NO data.img, start it up and let it create one. once you go through all the crap (waiting, patience, etc, hit wait, don't hit force close, just wait - like 15 min) it will load up. set up your account, sign into google, etc.

Then, exchange drop in mssmison's hero full system.img; don't know if you need the old initrd.gz or if the new one works with the old system.img's. anyways, switch to mssmison's files but keep the data.img that you made with zenulators. now, albums will access the sdcard, and your market downloads will work.
[Touch CDMA General] jaredakelly:
does that really work? i'm trying it now
[Touch CDMA General] akyboy:
tried full and lite hero,... cant select ringtone ,.... have media folder in root
[Touch CDMA General] jaredakelly:
read 3 posts back and you will see that the sd card is not mounting
[Touch CDMA General] akyboy:
aaaaaaaaaa ok ok thats problem,.. tnx!

sorry
[Touch CDMA General] mssmison:
no that's not the issue, you rintones don't belond in /sdcard/media/ringtones. Just in /sdcard/ringtones.

Again, this has been talked about sooo many times, there's a little button for search.
[Touch CDMA General] mssmison:
so you're telling me that for you something in a data.img made the sdcard work? I can't see how that would work because nothing in /data.img has anything to do with mounting..
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
all I know is that I couldn't download from the market no matter what I did starting from your builds, could not see anything in albums even though it showed as mounting. I did this, and I can access everything fine in your builds and his builds. don't know why, just know that it worked for me. see if it is reproducible for you, let's see what jaredkelly finds. cool if it helps us figure out how to get it working reliably.
[Touch CDMA General] mssmison:
I'm glad it works. That's cool..
[Touch CDMA General] rodmann98:
Is it just me, or is the camera broken in all of these builds?
[Touch CDMA General] jaredakelly:
just one question for you and mssmison.......in zenulators build he has a rootfs.img.....do i use that while booting your build or take it out of my root before booting? i dont even know what that is
[Touch CDMA General] mssmison:
rootfs.img is not from zenulators build. It's from the google code page. Vilord made it and zenulator changed it. Please download the one from the google page, it's compatible with all builds.
[Touch CDMA General] akyboy:
hm i had them in that folder too,...

im getting com.htc force close,... strange
[Touch CDMA General] natefish:
I'm having trouble figuring out which data.img file you used. Can you give a direct link? I just let it create a data.img and stopped there. SD card and market work fine. But if you think it works better with a zenulator or mssmison data.img, then link it up, if you please :). I looked in the googlecode page and I couldn't tell which one you were talking about.
[Touch CDMA General] akyboy:
Clock/Alarms and Clock/Timer dont work

So ill be late for work tomorrow too :(
[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
Boss, have you tried loading a fresh start w/ zenulators files then swapping msmissions in..it seems to have solved most of the probs you've noticed for others
[Touch CDMA General] briggs81:
Just a little bug, trying to change notification sound in peep results in a force close. And social apps don't think they are connected to the internet, or at least don't initiate an active internet connection.

(Polaris user, so maybe just limited to us.. no idea)
[Touch CDMA General] TheKartus:
Even though it seems like the hero themed build has kind of taken a backseat to the real hero builds, I can't seem to get the messaging app to switch background colors. I switch the option, close the app, make sure it really closes and then reopen to no change. Just thought I'd let you know.
[Touch CDMA General] jsun21:
I did that, and everything works fine and fast =D
[Touch CDMA General] tatnai:
FYI a zenulator's data.img will not boot hero lite. I think this is because hero lite requires "Home", which zenulator's does not have installed. and yes, mssmison, doesn't seem to make sense, I know. i tried booting the latest hero lite with no data.img, didn't work. going to try it again as am wondring if it hit force close while boucing in my pocket. will also try the data.gz that didn't work for me before with it. if anyone that had the market/album problem has managed to get a fully functional hero lite running and has a work-around, please let me know cause I would like to use it.
[Touch CDMA General] aross6:
I for one love mssmision's builds and have been using his hero themed cupcake build since day one, But does any else think this thread is gettign confusing with all the different builds mssmision is working on? Hero/Hero Lite/Rogers/Cupcake and each have their own specific issues... it seems like its all getting jumbled.... maybe we need seperate threads for seperate releases?

Just my $.02... take it for what it's worth
[Touch CDMA General] aross6:
Is there a breakdown anywhere of what does/does not work on Hero Lite? From what I'm reading you have to change resolution to 320x480 and set lcd density for Hero Lite as well.... does this still end up making apps like GMail look squished? Lastly, are incoming/outgoing calls, SMS, and Marketplace working correctly with Hero Lite yet?

If someone could break it all down for me I'd really appreciate it!
[Touch CDMA General] natefish:
Hey tatnai, I'd love to know which data.img you dropped in after letting it create the data.img for you. Could you please link it here?
[Touch CDMA General] myshinynewtouch:
mssmison - i remember seeing that u had something about palm pre theme based donut build on your front page.. now i don't see it anymore, did u pull it down.. i tried to read a few pages before but i didn't find any mention of it.. are u still planning on releasing it...
[Touch CDMA General] TheKartus:
That sounds very very awesome.
[Touch CDMA General] natefish:
Really? If that sounds awesome to you, then that's great. IMHO, the Pre is a very boring looking interface up front. It's the smooth design and webOS (cards, gestures, etc.) that make it so cool...unless mssmison found some way to make a card-like interface.
[Touch CDMA General] mssmison:
yes I am, there's some networking issues I'm trying to figure out. As for all the other build questions. I'm running herolite myself and have no issues with anything.. so I'm not sure. I've also tried several times to get it to not work on boot with a fresh data file but everytime as long as I don't touch the 'force close' until I can see the setup screen in the background it's fine.
[Touch CDMA General] craig0r:
Has anyone else noticed that there is no "Home" application in Hero Lite? I even did a search through the entire device with the adb shell, and there isn't a single file with the word "home" in it.

Corrupt download? Or do other people seem to be having an issue getting the Home screen to come up?
[Touch CDMA General] Barogi44:
for the market do you have to have a data plan to install apps or does it use the mobile browser? also how do you install apps onto the sdcard from a pc, what folder do they go in?
[Touch CDMA General] craig0r:
This question should be asked in the aptly-named Helpdesk thread.

But..

To install apk files onto the SD card, make a folder on your card called "AndroidApps" and put any apk's in there. they will automatically be copied over to android when you boot.

As for the first question... that's really two very different questions.

The market does not use the mobile browser, it uses itself.

You need SOME kind of connection to the internet. If you're running a Vogue, then yes, you should have a data plan, as the vogue has no WiFi chip in it. I understand some of the other devices that do have WiFi chips are starting to function, and so you could use a WiFi connection instead of the mobile network.
[Touch CDMA General] katmandu421:
+1 for both
[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
Another way to install apps to card is to download the .apk file of the program somewhere via your choice of Android browser; then download Astro File Manager and select that file from wherever you saved it and you can choose to install from there
[Touch CDMA General] craig0r:
Just sayin... Hero Lite still doesn't see my SD card. (8GB SDHC)
[Touch CDMA General] Barogi44:
Thanks craig0r
[Touch CDMA General] mssmison:
OK. I think the data.img needs some clarification. They are transferable between builds. If you use my full build than the light data.img will be fine. Same goes for the other way. In fact you should be able to keep them between mine and zenulators builds..

And just for ****s and giggles I removed my data.img and booted herolite with a freshy. no issues at all. Set's up like all the others, reboots and loads home.

However, I am taking some 'friendly advice' I recieved and moving away from hero builds. Zenulator is doing a great job and honestly I'm just too busy to deal with all the issues with a buggy release. So I'm back to my themed build, rogers, and donut. I'll leave my hero stuff on the google code site. If I come across anything major for hero I'll update it but honestly running the sensui is kind of like running touchflo3d. Yeah it can run but you really can't enjoy it without the speed it requires.
[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
Defly feel ya! I can't wait til you get the donut stough working and whatever future "major" stough you'll find for Hero n Android in general! It's mad cool how much each of the devs builds or insight makes for a tasty Android pot luck, ha!! Keep up the fine work, boss!
[Touch CDMA General] craig0r:
You have issues running TouchFlo3D? It runs great on my vogue. Never had a problem, except for the SMS app lagging, but I think that's WinMo, and not TouchFlo causing that issue.
[Touch CDMA General] s0v3r1gn:
I can confirm that some how this does work. Can see everything on my SD card now. Thanks for the tip. Looks like soon I will be moving to zneulator's build anyway, since mssmision is going to stop working on hero builds for a while.
[Touch CDMA General] myshinynewtouch:
mssmison - may i suggest something - it is upto you if you want to do it or not, but is it possible for you to write a tutorial on how to for developing/modifying a build, lets say, which you see on htc magic forums. Sprint will soon be releasing their first android phone and I want to be able to enjoi the full experience I get with a proper android build customized for sprint. I want to be able to start learning how to make my own build, if possible.

Zenulator, is leagues apart from me, and I really need some handholding to start with.

I have no idea where to start with, what are the tools required etc. etc. Vilrod's thread is helpfull, but the information is soo dispersed. You can have something like a running tutorial where you update some information whenever you are free and would be chefs can learn from it. Atleast some basic steps to start with, so that I can go and research it myself if necessary.
[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
+11 to that.

I'd love a nice push in the right direction. I've been reading as well but not really thinking I have to start from scratch after all use guys progress. I really wanna know if/how its possible to modify an img you guys put out..kinda like we do with Custom ROMs on WinMo
[Touch CDMA General] adeyo:
Awesome! Can't wait + FEEDBACK

I agree! i am just looking for some stability and speed along w/ microsoft exchange support for my work email, all of which i found with your hero-themed build -still my favorite by far! (btw, any chance of getting one of your previous system images? i don't like the looks of the new bar that draws up apps and i also found success with voicedial features in your older system img)

BTW- I love the extended drawer, look forward to the additional home screens that you have in development!! :)
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
so your new cupcake build will have a palm pre look to it? any chance of giving us a screenshot when you have it finished?

i do have a question for you on your hero themed cupcake build, what is the swapper app for? it always crashes for me even upon starting android!
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
im still loving the hero themed cupcake build, very fast man, good work! please don't give up on it as im sure alot of us want updates. the pre look is ok but im not sure if it would be any better than hero as that will be my next phone.

anyways i was wondering how i can increase my incall volume when talking on the phone? i have it all the way up and it's still pretty low compared to the rest of the systems volume levels. :confused:
[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
hmm...i suppose you can just swith over to speakerphone if you need it louder, haa. I noticed also an app called Louder Volume Hack..dunno if it'll do what you want it to but it sounds somewhat promising..
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
speakerphone is actually very loud, care to share a link to that at all?
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
never mind i found it and you need to be "root" to use it. there is a free version but apparently it make your sound pretty distorted. i hope you chefs can make these builds "superuser rooted" from the get go so we can have the advantages that real g1 owners have. :p
[Touch CDMA General] aven_soulgazer:
The Palm Pre theme will be interesting. Wasn't interested in the Palm Pre or web OS but same thing as with the Sense UI, I just like to show off.

Can't wait. I've got linux on my PC, now I got to figure out how to get going with working on this stuff. Hope I can come up with something useful.
[Touch CDMA General] mixxy:
ahhh so thats the secret. ill try it again and see if the market seems to be working fine now and if itll boot
[Touch CDMA General] aross6:
AWESOME... of all the releases it seems Hero-Themed Cupcake is one of the fastest, looks best visually (as you can apply the 428 resolution), and can sustain the most amount of everyday usability on our Vogues. I'm totally stoked you've decided to focus your efforts back in this direction.

Any chance at getting MMS working properly?
[Touch CDMA General] Michel82:
Thanks mssmison! Your android system is the best working and looking. I've been using it on my polaris since the first release. I've also tried the other available systems but yours is the best.

There is one problem with your version though that doesnt occur on other systems; My GPS location is off by 200km to the south of my real location. Very strange. I've tested with nkhero and my location is spot on with that version.
[Touch CDMA General] jaredakelly:
First of all I wan to say thank you mssmison for these builds, the hero full is completely amazing. I don't know everyone complains about the speed its pretty fast for me.

One question, is there anyway I can change the brightness? Looks like the ability to change has been disabled?
[Touch CDMA General] rodmann98:
Thanks

I just wanted to say thanks mssmison. Your cupcake hero theme is pretty bad a$$. I love it.
[Touch CDMA General] prairiefire:
loop during boot using herolite?

Just got back after a week of being away. Looks like a lot of progress! I tried to boot herolite (clean install, with latest initrd, zImage, rootfs) without a data file, and then again with a data file and keep getting stuck in a loop with the hero logo (and VERY loud sounds! maybe I shouldn't have attempted this at work in my office :S). Am I missing something? Should I expect this loop to continue for 5-10 min or more?

My apologies if this has been mentioned (i seem to recall I read that someone else experienced this too but i've tried for 30 min and can't find it. The search button isn't helping much either.).
[Touch CDMA General] justjosh0368:
you have to disable auto brightness. it's right above or below the brightness setting. once you disable that you should be able to open the brightness control.
[Touch CDMA General] justjosh0368:
you have to open default txt and edit the resolution to 320x428 and add "lcd.density=160". i was having the same problems
[Touch CDMA General] KERKEDAGAIN:
320x480..shouldnt be a need to add the 160 since thats default
[Touch CDMA General] canyoufindben:
Are you sure? I couldn't ever get hero "lite" to run on anything other than 320x480.
[Touch CDMA General] TheKartus:
He is mistaken. He needs 320x480.