yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] androidpanda:
Huh? RAM is RAM - how can you conceal it from the kernel?? Or is there something about the "free" command that is different to the version on a "standard" linux? Admittedly I know sweet F.A. about the Android architecture, but this seems a bit weird.......

Also, I'm still not sure what moving apps to the SD actually does? Aren't the apps installed in ROM, so won't affect the amount of free RAM - apart from their footprint when running????

On the POSITIVE 2.6x absolutely ROCKS! It's super fast: I have working Wifi, VPN, and have just downloaded my paid for apps (you must be connected via GPRS/3G - not via Wifi). One thing I'm not sure about is whether the swappiness is being set correctly - if I look with swapper it says it's at 10, but then I don't know what good swapper is for, since if you've already made a swap partition on your SD it seems to get used automagically.

eViL D: great work. This one's a keeper.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] AshdenGlenn:
Tmobile mytouch HELP PLEASE

OK so every hero update i try takes 30sec to ggo back to the home page.... WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!?!?!?!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
All 3 partitions?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Johnny Blaze:
The Kernel loads after the spl. Its the same as using a non updated vista with 4gb ram. You know its there but the os doesnt see it. Some ram is pre allocated to the radio and gps, some is reserved for address space so that also is not usable. Since terminal is running on the android os and not the spl it will only show 96mb as total ram. A few coding edits will allow the free command to report the actual physical memory but this will not give you more access to the other 96mb of ram. Remember we are not on standard linux since it is running on top of a spl. Moving apps to sd does us no benefit since we have more available space thatn the paltry memory the g1 had for programs.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] bcrook:
Evil - any chance you could patch your kernel source to make a 32A kernel? I could make an update that would enable this ROM to run on 32A boards but it would not be using any kernel enhancements you have made as it would be using a 32A patched 4.10.1 cyanogen kernel.

This ROM seems excellent. Keep up the good work.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tazz9690:
only problem I have with this is the volume. When I put it up all the way, it is way too loud! Everything is so distorted so I have to turn it down a few notches. Not that big of a deal, but still, it would be nice to not have it all fuzzy like that. I am afraid that it will blow my speaker. Though I do have it down to where it is normal, i sometimes forget when I take it out of silent mode and am reminded of how bad it sounds when I get a phone call lol.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mgorman:
That exact same thing happened with me.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
I running the 2.6x and having problems setting up Active sync for Exchange.

I enter in my details, it authenticates, ask what I what to sync, thinks about it for a few minutes then goes back to the start of the setup wizard.

I have tried a wipe and reinstalled but no joy
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Thanks, I will look into it.

To be sure, are you syncing with Exchange 2003 or 2007?

SSL?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
yes 2003 and yes it is ssl

It seems to authenticates fine but then the screen goes white and wizard just restarts
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
I just setup my exchange 2007 account and it went through just fine. Are you doing a manual setup or auto? Are you getting to the point where you select which things to sync, like mail, contacts and calendar?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hammy559:
Okay, I partitioned my SD card with the three partitions using RA recovery image. I wiped the data before installing the rom yet it is taking an unnecessary amount of time getting to the home screen when I press the home button or return from an app.

Any suggestions? :confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Samar_Djo:
adb shell

free (or only "free" in a terminal)

see if you really use your swap...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
from a fresh install

Click on the mail icon on the desktop

Click on the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

Click Manual Setup

enter in details

select SSL

click next

"phone goes away and checks my user account information and then returns"

Select to sync Mail / contacts and clendar (I have also tried with all not selected)

Click finsih

Phones says processing

Screen goes white

phone flicks back for 1-2 seconds on the Manual Setup setup page

phone then automacticlly flicks back to Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync page

I have used this in the past just not with this ROM.

Our server is Exchange 2003
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] shizzyraw585:
Ring Delay

eVil,

2.6 is a fantastic ROM, even with the stock settings this thing flies. And I'm pretty heave on the widgets. I run the flip clock, search bar, calendar widget, small music, email preview, and the people widget. I cranked the swappiness up to 96/60, bumped the minimum frequency of the processor to 300, moved the market, browser, maps, and street view caches to the SD and I really haven't noticed much of a difference, basically I think this might be just about as good as it gets.

However the one thing that still kills me is the ring delay. It's weird, some calls come right through and the phone rings almost as soon as the track ball starts to flash. Other calls can take two to three rings to hear an audible ring tone. Even more frustrating, often when the phone rings and I hit the answer button or drag the screen down to pick up, the phone will kinda freeze up on the "slide down to answer" screen. I cant hear the other person, and they can't here me so I don't think the call is connecting. I notice that these problems are more predominant on forwarded calls, which kinda sucks because I am a Google voice user.

I have been searching long and hard for a ROM that doesn't suffer from this damn ring delay, but I haven't found it yet. Do you think that this is something that will ever be fixed, or am I doomed to vanilla Android?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] adelco93:
This is kinda a hero problem, have you tried cyan's im sure his have no ring delay, but pretty much every hero rom has the ring delay.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] bluecluenj:
I had the same problem also. I also used RA recovery to reformat and partition. I wonder if the recovery is somehow not completely reformatting or partitioning properly......
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] shizzyraw585:
Double Post
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] shizzyraw585:
Yes I have tried Cyan's ROMs, which are excellent and don't appear to suffer from the ring delay. I just couldn't live without the Rosie sexiness. I even tried some Hero themes, but it just wasn't the same. I guess I want my cake and wanna be able to eat it too :rolleyes: . Oh well, I guess I'll just keep calling people back after I miss their call. I'll be sticking with eVil's 2.6 for now as it's by far the fastest Hero ROM I have tried (pretty sure I have tried em all). Lets hope that this issue can one day be resolved. I'm willing to do my part (test, donate).
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lumsdoni:
Not sure If Ia m doing something wrong here but this is REALLY slow on my VOdafone UK magic.

I have a Mac.

I used Paragon Partition Manager to create a 6.4GB Fat 32, 1.1GB Ext 3 and 64mb linux swap.

Performed a wipe.

Installed update.zip

Opened swapper and set it to use partition. 32mb file, swappiness 40.

It is awfully slow. Is there something I have done wrong, or a way I can check the partitions are ok. I hate using Parallels, is there a way to check partition from OS X?

Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eatabagel:
Yeah the ring problem is a real problem with all Hero ROMs. If you look a couple of pages ago there's a solution that jsut tells your phone company to delay transfering the call to voicemail a little longer. And it works. I still get the ring delay, but now I have time to actually answer the phone before it moves the call to voicemail.

The caller just has to wait like 10 rings before I pick up. Haha.

But this is off topic now. Back to the development...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Johnny Blaze:
You are formatting fine. No swap = loading screen.

32mb swap = sluggishness

Try 96 loading times will drop fast. Swappiness 40
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] bluecluenj:
Cool thanks I'll try that the next Hero I flash. So basically the RAv image really isnt applicable to Hero ROMS then? Or is there a way to change what that image does automatically? If not I can do it manually with my G1, just real convenient to do it through recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ishanISCOOOL:
Please Evil D :o I beg you :D

or tell us how you fixed the charging led problem
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] shizzyraw585:
Off topic? Really? It seems to me that the ring delay is probably the last major hurtle to tackle in regards to development of this ROM and others.

Thanks for the tip about having the provider delay transferring the call to voice mail, but unfortunately 30 seconds is the max for T-Mobile, and I am already there.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Remember, if you are using Swapper and make changes, you will need to tell it to use the external swap via advance settings. Otherwise, it will only create a swap file, which is not as fast.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Are you using ringtones off of SD?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] zeroplace:
Sorry to ask, what might be a redundant/noob question, but when you say partition... Im confused. Is this just a folder on the SD Card named Fat32 with subs of Ext3/Linux-swap? Or is it a physical partition and how would I accomplish this. Thank you and again... sorry for the noobish question.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] phillip_hooper:
Actual partitions. Check this out:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=543985
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] jaangunnar:
I was, and was getting the delay. is there a fix, or is this just not an option right now?

thanks evil, this is great work you're doing.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] shizzyraw585:
Good question. I haven't changed it from standard 4, which was the default. However there is about 50 ringtones to choose from, and I don't think you pack that many. I think that there are some on the SD from a back up I did from aother ROM. How do I make sure that I am using ringones from internal memory andnot the SD?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
The build-in ringtone manager will only look at internal memory.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Johnny Blaze:
Have you tried to add the memory patch to increase free ram...from 96 to 106 and see if that helps any in the rom?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
2.7 is now online.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] finalgear:
lol i cant keep up with you evil:)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] AshdenGlenn:
partition

to partition i just do it in that one menu right???
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] majaz:
Best Rom I've tried so far!!

Very happy with this rom.. Will be test my bluetooth stereo headset tomorrow!! Thanks Evil!!! :D

How does this work though??? No EXTRA APPS (However, an app pack zip is an extra download. Includes a batch file to auto install to internal memory (copy to C: and run bat, assuming adb is installed on C

etc...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Download the zip, extract the folder with contents to C:, then open up the folder and open the batch file. It should work fine, but I will admit that my adb is on my D: drive in a different subset of folders.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
If you have issues with paritioning, click the Ubuntu link on the first post. It's super easy and really is the best. It is a pain because you have to reboot out of windows to cd, but if you have 2 computers, run one with Ubuntu.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] cran:
apps to sd

evil, i'm not quite understanding how to install apps to sd? I use astro to install my backed up apps and it seems like the internal memory is going down as I install more apps. you stated :99% of apps preloaded onto internal memory (any other apps will go to sd unless you have the apk and direct it to internal . but how to I install apps to sd (ext3)??
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Joeya7x:
sorry evil but i am still a little confused on how to install the apk's..

(note*using a mac)

does that effect it.?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
If you use adb, you can push them to system/sd/app, that should work.

***BTW, you should have plenty of internal memory to install apps anyway.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ripmeck:
hey evil . i love your rom. im on 2.6xx. about to download 2.7 and try it out.

just one quick question. i have a 8gb class 6 card with 512mb ext3/ 96 linux swap. how would i go about setting up my swap. in swapper there is a setting that says "use swap partition" . am i suppose to check that? because when i do that and type in free it shows swap size 0. when i "use swap file" it shows swap total :191784 used:61956 free:129828 . is this right? because it still lags a tiny bit but i know it can run smoother.

thanx and your doing a great job!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
In swapper, set up swap size, swappiness and then go to advance settings and check swap partition. Then click back until you see the on/off. Press on and the app will go through the setup sequence.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
hrmm....

copy the apps to your sd card and use astro to install them....

sorry, I don't know the commands.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Joeya7x:
yeah i tried using my old vista pc, no luck, used my mac using terminal, got this message "Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_UNEXPECTED_EXCEPTION]"

and the manual method using AppManager, and says it cant be installed on my phone... kinda strange.. i was able to install just SetCPU and nothing else... I'll try redownloading the zip folder, maybe it was corrupt during the download.. BTW thanks for the great ROM, the only ROM I will use on my day to day use.

UPDATE** I tried redownloading and still no luck, here are some screenshots when trying to install it through terminal and on the phone itself...

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/josemeraz/DSCN1744.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/josemeraz/Screenshot2009-09-17at104444PM.png
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ripmeck:
i did this and everything went fine. but im still getting loading screens. would a reboot fix this problem?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eatabagel:
So in other words there's no native apps2sd support in this ROM?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Bump up the swappiness.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Yes there is. But, if you want apps on internal memory you have to do that manually.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
You can get all the apps from the market, I just try to make it convenient.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
I haven't seen this.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wschom:
I installed this ROM tonight and have had no luck with the bluetooth. I can only get the media sound to work. The phone side does not want to enable.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lumsdoni:
EXCELLENT WORK!!

After installing Cyanogens 1.4 recovery - I was able to format SD on my Mac through ADB really easily.

Installed this ROM and it is the only one I have used so far that has a decent speed. WIll not be going back to native ROM now.

One question. I have set swappiness to 60, size to 96 and it is fine. However, when I download apps from Market my internal memory is still going down.

I know there is plenty of room anyway but wondered if there is some step I am missing to get the apps2sd to work, or do I have to download that seperately?

Once again -thanks for this ROM.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wschom:
Did a little further testing with another BT headset. The first was a BT8040 and the second an h700. Neither headset would connect for phone audio. Oh well... back to the plan ROMs.

Props to you evil. This is a nice and fast ROM. Just gotta have my BT.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eatabagel:
As usual, great job. It is snappy, but all these ROMs have been very snappy lately, with no load screens, the way they're set up to run. So the real test is stability for me now since I can't tell the difference anymore (all these placebo effects... hehehe). Thanks for all your work!

I tried to install the application package but I have a Mac so I can't run BAT files. I went into ASTRO (downloaded from Market) and tried to install the individual APKs in your apps pack I get the following error:

Application not installed.

My Account 2.0 could not be installed on this phone.

(same error for all APKs, not just My Account-- that was just an example) Also I have already turned on install from unknown sources from the settings application menu.

Are people having any luck with the BAT file? Do I need to find myself a PC somewhere with ADB? Or is there an ADB push command I can use?

Edit: Nevermind. I got it... just copied the APKs to /data/app_s as the batch file said.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pizzlep0p:
is anybody else not able to sign on with this update
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pizzlep0p:
i was able 2 sign on now im havin a prob connectin 2 wifi
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lumsdoni:
NOw having problems with SMS notification - it never plays the SOUND alert.

I havechosen a sound and set it up for notifications, volume is up as well. IT vibrates and flashes the trackball but no sound.

Any ideas?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Rroet:
The definition of FAST being mentioned in the first post is slightly overrated.

It takes me 30 seconds to open a browser, 45 seconds to open up my calendar ... gmail takes about 20 seconds.

This thing is freakingly slow.

I'm using a HTC Magic 32B

I'm running a Class 6 SDHC card with a 500mb ext3 partition and 32mb swap. It's been completely wiped prior to starting. Including a wipe of /data on the magic itself.

Still it's slower then a turtle learning to speak english.

It's however a great and stable effort. I hope you can tweak out the slowness in the future.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] adelco93:
it took me less than 4 seconds to open the calendar, 13 to open the browser, and 5 seconds to load gmail, and i opened all of these in quick succession of each other. This rom is fast, you should work with your swap settings a little bit and maybe use taskiller to kill unwanted apps like footprint.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Rroet:
Odd how my findings differ from yours. I'll try to work a bit more on the swappiness.

Did you tweak anything on the cpu mhz's ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] jaangunnar:
If the notification tone is coming from the SD card, it won't work. it only looks in internal memory for ringtones.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lumsdoni:
I am only using the default ringtones on the ROM so surely they are in internal?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] sortos:
HTC Keyboard

For some reason I can never get the keyboard to work when I use Evil's ROMS. Am I doing something wrong? I have done a full wipe, format the EXT4 and tried EXT3. I have a linux sawp set up. I am using an HTC Vodafone Magic 32B
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] czadlo:
Is there a way to switch to the original Launcher? (Like the social network integration but not the laging.) I see that the Launcher.apk is include in the ROM but with I view the applications listing, Home says 0.00B. Clearing the cache for TouchFLO doesn't help either.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Jim_DiGriz:
HTS Sync

Just installed the v 2.7x in jope that with this version the HTC Sync will work but the same problem as before: no connection and thry to change the synchrnonization setting getting an error message.

For me it's pity for that I now have to take another Rom especially because the V2 worked.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hk5354:
what is BFS?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] jonstanley2:
I need help!!!

hokayyy,

I rooted using the one click method at theunlockr.com. In their downloads section they recommended Evil hero roms.

So I had the fat32/ext2/linuxswap and cyanogen 4.0.4 on my mt3g 32b previously and it worked flawlessly.

Im using amon ra's recovery image 1.2.1g

I went to convert ext2 to ext3 after booting into recovery

and proceeded to wipe and flash evil hero v2.7x

everything loaded correctly and I now have evils hero on my phone but its sluggish and always reloads the hero screen randomly.

How do I check if it converted ext2 to ext3 successfully?

Previously when I had cyanogens 4.0.4 it said in settings>sdcard and phone storage, that I had sd card total space and available space AND it listed secondary sd card total space and availale space. (Im assuming that was the second partition aka: ext2) Below, it had internal storage space.

BUT now on evils rom when I go to sd card and phone storage it only lists total space on sd card and available. below, it has internal storage.

Does this mean that I dont have 3 partitions correctly now?

maybe thats why its so sluggish?

Please help with answers and details if you know of anything I missed or can do to optimize my mt3g. THANKS
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wicked_beav:
Is this what you were talking about.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=560271
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wicked_beav:
Evil, that link I gave you was in response to the question here...

Originally Posted by Johnny Blaze

Have you tried to add the memory patch to increase free ram...from 96 to 106 and see if that helps any in the rom?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] scargoll:
Hello,

No, i think it's this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=555499 , with 106MB of ram with this : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4323885&postcount=8 .

Good work eVil, your rom is near perfect for me !

Scargoll.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wicked_beav:
You're right scargoll, my bad... wrong link, but I think both are a great idea.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Reignzone:
I second those notions.

Evil, they are coming up w/ some impressive stuff to utilize less disk space lately. Might I suggest taking advantage of this in one of your next builds and possibly referring to it as "experiemental."

That way it's obvious to folks that it will be merely a test-run to really put that idea to work. :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wicked_beav:
What amazes me though about all these roms is that going from one to another... sometimes one may be faster than the other then the next time the others may be faster. But the even bigger question is why such a disparity between cellphones using the same rom in regards to speed. It just seems to me that there shouldn't be that much of a difference where we are complaining about the loading screen.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] prophetz:
This is the first time I have suffered from the hero boot loop! I gave up on it for now.

Who knows what people are doing when trying a new ROM. Wipe dont wipe, format, dont format.... This would be my guess. I have installed ROMS with out wiping just to see what happens..

Great work Evil, Your last rom kicked butt!