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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
It feels quicker, i've not benchmarked.

Yes, you can always flash to another ROM later.

I have chosen not to include radio specifically, as it will update less frequently than the main ROM, saving download sizes!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
It's not - just press the trackball! ;)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dr3as:
I've no GPRS problems, just filled out the APN-settings manual and saved, and woops i was on the internet...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
For those who are having trouble with Streetview, download this APK and do 'adb remount' then 'adb push Street.apk /system/app'.

Or wait for 1.5. ;)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dhorst:
GPRS Issue

I will convert back to my stock rom en try again en write APN manually.

Let's hope I go like dr3as whoops on the internet!:)

I will post a reply when I am done!

modaco will 1.5 fix the GPRS function?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
What as your original ROM Dhorst?

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Paul,

Echoing everyones sentiments that you're doing stella work and a credit to the community.

Just a couple of suggestions for the next build ( it they aren't too involved )

It would be great if it could include a simple way to correctly format the SD card, so it will take apps ( Fat32, Ext3, Linux Swap ).

Also to include an app that will do the app transfer to the SD card - there's so much to confuse a newbie like me, and not only cant I find App2SD, but sure I remember reading it,s no good for your ROM.

cheers:):)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
You don't need to do the transfer manually J-Zeus, once you have the partitions everything happens automagically.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dhorst:
Sorry my English is not so good

I had the Stock rom NLD 1.0.0.A6288

(hope that's the answer you where looking for)

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My Internet is stil working on the Stock rom

Thanks in advance
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] opallabtb:
anyone knows where I find the changelog from the radio 63.18.55.06_6.35.05.31?

or can someone please post the changelog from the radio

thank you!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
No changelogs for radios i'm afraid.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Don't want to take up too much of your time Paul, but if I may...

I'm having real problems formatting the SD card. I'm on a Mac w/ no PC access.

I've just creates a bootable Linux CD with Gpart on it - and running this I can partition the SD fine ( 8gig - 6700 Fat23, 750ext3, 40mb Linux swap* ).

But when I try to use it, it seems to mess up the ROM. If I plug it into the running phone, it'll not recognise the sd and want me to format it.

If I start the phone with it in it will cause the startup to get caught in a loop - showing the Hero logo with waving Android guy over and over. Have to battery out to stop it. Then if I try to start the phone again without the card, or with a different unpartitioned card, it does exactly the same.

Only solution is Nandroid restore. This is running your ROM 1.4, and latest radio xxx31.

cheers again:)

* I still have the problem whether or not I include the swap partition
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geovass:
works great! Thanks !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Modaco/Paul,

I'd just like to say thankyou once again, 1.4 is fantastic!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
J-Zeus, sounds like the partitioning isn't right, probably in the wrong order.

In Linux, from the command line type 'fdisk -l' and check it matches what you're seeing in GParted.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] _KaP_:
Filled out the APN settings manually and now 2G/3G works fine in 1.4 ROM. Thanks! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dr3as:
I'm not running swap or apps2sd since i ordered a new much faster sdcard and its not here yet. But so snappy and fast this build are, i'm guessing i just forget swap and apps2sd.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
dunno if it's my impression or not but i feel it faster when removing swap on this builds
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sayyas:
hi all

i install the latest redio and installed the rom but my hero keep startup and shutdown and keep doing this for long time !!!!!

have im don samthing wrong pls help????
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
if you're stuck on HTC logo that's just you forgot to wipe first
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sayyas:
aha

i will try it now

many thanx
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pecheurs7:
apn where in settings ?

where do u find the apn... thks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FunkAndSoda:
wow this works great, thanks for this paul!

im a noob and i have some questions regarding a2sd.

i partitioned my sd and installed modaco 1.4 and everything worked fine.

is there something more i have to do to install the apps on sd now or is that all?

do i have to run apps2sd? how do i know where the apps were installed?

somebody can help me with this?

thx in advance
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zeevik:
Excellent!

Good work.

It would be nice if you add Hebrew.

Many thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
Christ, I'm really sorry for quoting myself and repeating this question but it's pretty much the only thing standing between me and this custom rom.

Paul - please enlighten me :)

In an attempt to avoid being perceived as a repetitive a-hole :o I'll ask something else I've been wondering about.

Partitioning your SD-card with swap and a ext3 part. seems like a good idea. As I understand it, the ext3 is for getting the apps that would normally install to the phone, to be installed to the SD card instead - however if I have a class4 card wouldn't I rather have them installed on the faster phone memory?

Also, will already installed apps on the phone be auto transferred to the new ext3 partition?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] LuffarJoh:
Hi,

First off, thanks for this excellent and fast ROM.

But I have two issues:

1. Have anyone else experienced problems with syncing google contacts? I get a error messege: "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

2. When adding new contacts you can choose if the contact should be displayed with first name or last name first. Called "display name". If I choose "Andy Droid" it shows as "Droid Andy" and vice versa. Somehow the options has been switched.

Any ideas?

thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
A2SD isn't strictly necessary on Hero unless you install a TON of stuff. Yes, if you do go the A2SD route, existing apps are transferred automatically.

Keyboard languages:

English, Frence(?), German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugal (?), Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

Not tested any languges other than English obviously.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
J-Zeus, i had exactly the same problem. Try putting your SDHC card into a card reader, mount it onto your Mac desktop, open Disk Utility and reformat the FAT32 partition.

Pop it back into your Hero and all should be good. And don't forget to wipe too!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Version 1.4.1 is now online.

- Fixed Streetview

- Restore Chinese IME

- Fixed update script to not error if device is not wiped

You can safely apply this over the top of 1.2/1.3/1.4 without wiping.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] packetlss:
Swedish dictionary is in there, only the locale that is not there.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
stripealipe - did you do that after all the linux Gparted partitioning that I'd done - ie partition in linux with main fat32 partition and ext3 800 - then put it back into you mac and using OS X Disk Utility, format ( Dos ( fat ) the larger Fat32 partition you created in linux?

Hope that made sense.:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bastardadmin:
modaco is da man ;-).. I did not see an issue listed which I experience with my stock (virgin) HTC Hero.. and is a known issue for other stock users and this is a Calendar Sync issue.. it is not related due to the fact that the Hero has a calendar called 'My Calendar' and only puts the appointment on the phone and therefore doesn't push it back to the Google cloud.

I will explain.

In Google I have three Calendars (own calendars) called Private, Family and Business. When I enter something in this calendar (in the cloud) it gets pushed down nicely to the device. When I make a change in the cloud, this change is also being pushed back as it should. What does not seem to work is when I delete one of these entries on the phone whilst on the go on 3G, or in the office on wifi.. they are not being replicated back to the Google Cloud. I waited up to 30 minutes, shutdown the application (even with a task killer) and found out that the only way is to turn off Data Synchronization in Settings for the Calendar. So it seems to be a Synchronization issue as it works without glitches on my iPhone 3GS.

Are others having this issue as well and was it fixed with this ROM update?

Thank you all for your feedback.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nicelad_uk:
Paul,

Probably a daft question, is 1.4.1 the same version as the YouTube video's I've seen from you or is this before that?

Just hoping to get rid of that annoying HTC Clock refresh thing.

Cheers,

Rich
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Yeah, it is a very similar version, with no clock flip.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
J-Zeus - Yes, i Gparted all partitions, FAT32, Linux and EXT3 first, which should have worked tbh, but when i then put the SD card into my mac, copied the recovery and new rom images across, unmounted and put it into my hero and flashed, it didn't like it.

Just kept looping at the HTC welcome screen.

So i shut down phone, took out SD card, mounted on my mac, formatted the FAT32 partition using Disk Utility (It will only let you touch the FAT32 anyway) and then tried again and all was good.

Let us know how you get on dude...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Just took the plunge, this is awesome!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Just done that Stripe - still hanging on boot 'Hero' graphic - I'm really struggling with this partitioning saga:(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robertosandros:
just flashed then and everything is working superb.

thanks heaps paul! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
Alright, thanks Paul and packetlss. Will flash after work.

Damn it's tough to accept your a total noob again having been pretty knowledgeable coming from the WinMo scene :p

Oh well, happy to learn :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nicelad_uk:
Cool, presume it only works with the digital as the analogue still flips round. :( shame, like those HTC Clocks.

Good work though, seems really nice and fast now!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I know what you mean! :)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Taking feature requests for 1.5. ;)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Huey85:
smooth as silk and the keyboard lag has gone down HEAPS.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaffacake:
Could you put 1.5 at the front of the filename? If you have more than one ROM on the SD card, it's impossible to see which one is which as the filename is too long for the screen :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Good call :)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Stripealipe ( or others ),

When formatting sd card in GParted, does it matter which order you arrange the partitions? On the partition bar dispaly, from left to right I have ext3 800mb, Fat32 6.5gb, 40mb linux swap. Is that OK ( or doesn't it matter )?

Also, do I need to make oe parition 'primary'?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
It should be FAT32, EXT3, SWAP.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dhorst:
Reply Post: GPRS Issue

It Worked!

I Reverted back to my back up .IMG and copied the ANP manually to modaco 1.4.

uncheaked GPRS, copied the ANP's in the ANP list and saved.

Turned GPRS on and Whoops it's working.

Thanks for the help!!

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Sorry for the English!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Is there any way to load a nandroid backup to the emulator? I really don't feel like flashing the phone again now :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geovass:
Does anyone knows how can backup my apn settings?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dr3as:
I would love a 2 rom version. One with extra apps, and one without. I dont need buisnesscard reader etc

BTW, love your work :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] enlightener:
any chance for a clean "1.5" (the htc update package 'as-is', without any build ID ) ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ammurad:
Paul, I read somewhere that the new htc update will have selective camera focus by touching the screen to choose what you would like focussed.

Would it be possible to port that over into the 1.5 build?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jhericurls:
Touch focus is available already for this 1.4 release.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wiible:
Bluetooth headphones A2DP

Hi Paul

Since upgrading to 1.4.1 and the latest radio I cannot play music through BT headphones. I can see the music time skipping about 2-3 seconds for every 1 second that should have gone past, but I get no sound.

Has anyone else got this issue? Is it time for me to do another update from scratch of the ROM and RADIO?

Cheers

Ben
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Emmsna:
I have to say WOW! Hardest thing was getting the adp and partition right. I did a wipe - I had to re-setup my phone and email and lost smses etc but for some reason it remembered all of my apps - they were all there! And it automatically set up 3 three apns! Didn't have that before, had to manually set up the one I had!

Tell me about the swap and ext3 partitions I set up - do I need to do anything to make it work, to move my apps to the as card? Or did it move my apps when I did partition as I was on 1. 1 when I did that. is that why I had them after wiping and installing 1. 4
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jthm23:
Got it too, latest modaco, latest radio and no sound in my BT headset (plantronics 590).

Sometimes the crazy seconds thing is there sometimes no but the headset stays muted.

In the control panel, I can associate, and the phone says the headset is accessing the phone & the media.

I wiped, rewiped and wiped again before/after flashing Paul's rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nelly1977:
hero stuck in boot loop :-)

Hi all, upgraded to hero 1.4.1.

Carried out ext 3 partition per 2 proedures and all appeared fine with partitions.

phone now stuck in boot loop. :mad:

all post i can find for this error report concern with ext4 partition but mine is set to ext 3.

attempted re-flash of rom, still no good :confused:

any help greatly appreciated
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minogue:
And i still do not understand why people are creating 2 partitions on their sd card.....

i have 130Mb Left after installing 1.4 wihout making an extra partition... Thats more than enough...

G1 Users and Magic users use 2 or 3 partitions and yet still do not reach our 130+MB left of internal space and i can understand that.....but it is not needed on the HTC Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Well this is driving me crazy - sd partitioning

On Mac, with no PC access. Booting Mac with Linux CD running Gparted partitioning software.

No matter what I do I'm always running into the same problem. I start with a clean Dos (Fat) formatted 8gig sd card. In GParted I partition it into 3.

6.8gig Fat32 primary, ext3 800mb, and 50mb Linux Swap. I have tried various orders, with the last being as written above ( from Pauls suggestion ).

I have tried curing the problem by then mounting the sd card on my Mac OS X desktop, and using Disk Utility to format the 6.8gig partition ( from Stripealipe suggestion ).

All to no avail. The symptoms are:

Put formatted card into phone. Turn phone on. 'Hero' word appears, and it locks there. Have to remove battery to shut down.

Try to restart without a card. Same problem.

Try to start with second good ( unpartitioned ) card. 'Hero' word appears with chime. Little green guy wave at me from 'Hero' word. 'HTC' word appears with chime. Screen goes blank for 5 seconds - then back to 'Hero' word with little green guy.

What seems strange to me is that the problem goes from card to phone.

Only cure is a Nandroid restore.

ahhhhhgrrrrrr:mad::mad::mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Good work Paul.

Where has the the thumbnail view gone in albums?

Also if the phone has the tun.ko module should we be able to use the vpn app on the market?

Any idea whether the missing sms problem has been fixed?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
If you have a boot loop you probably didn't wipe.

Bluetooth headphones problem i'm looking in to.

VPN, I don't know, I've not used it, but i've included the tun.ko module by request.

There is no missing SMS problem.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Do you mean with the stock rom? I meant generally with the updated roms.

A lot of people beg to differ on that one (on the stock rom). Both me and my colleague at work have not received SMS messages. The only way to ensure you got them all was to install an SMS to email app to get them in your email. I believe a lot of others have had the same issue with the original hero rom on other devices.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I haven't heard a single report of it happening (or experienced the problem myself) on a Hero device. On other devices running Hero ROMs, yeah...

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deeren:
:D:D Most of us just shifted from windows where we are used to customisations, registry tweaks and bla bla. so whenever there is something to do on the hero, we'll do whether needed or not hahahaha

we use a2sd even if not needed, we kill with taskkiller even if there is no lag....:p:p:p:p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MrBrown666:
@J-Zeus: try this one:http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/

stick to the calculations (512MB ext3 and 32MB swap and rest for fat32)

and the order.

works like a charm for me.

and remember to wipe before installing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
1.4.1 installed, and runs fine - I did a wipe with 1.4. :D

Boot loop ONLY appears in relation to formatted SD card:(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Here are a few hero related threads.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=549386

EDIT: The other links I posted were re-posts with them being directed to the original thread.

I was really hoping this was resolved!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tofrost:
fot those with the boot-loop problem... I had it too .. partiotioned my SD-Card with a fat32, ext4 and a Swap partition. After the update, the hero just went into the boot loop...

then I booted the recovery image and deleted the ext4 and swap partition with parted. After that I made a new ext3 and a swap partition. After reboot everthing was fine :)

here you can find the way I did it :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaffacake:
"The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

This is happening continually after a clean install, I wiped first.

Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
And hey people, can we make sure we have a good search through these forums, especially this ever growing thread, before bombarding Paul with questions that have already been answered.

He's got plenty coding to be doing... ;)

Thankyou!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] itolson:
Works great for me, its what it should have been released with.....

it would have put most of the reviews right and given the device a much better launchpad.....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Hey guys,

I would like to delete several apps (quickoffice, spare parts, sms migrator and wireless tether). Do I have to delete their respective .apk files from /system/app? Which ones? I really can't see any files that seem to point to those.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] LuffarJoh:
Same problem here. But I have found out it might be Googles contact sync that causing it. try turn it off and see if the problem disappears.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liden:
HELP!!

Help!!!

I have just installed Pauls ROM and it is very nice except for one major thing.

I cant connect to gprs/3g. I have manually filled in Telias APN but i dosen´t work!!!

Could anyone please help me?? Please!!

BR Andreas
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaffacake:
It went away by itself, or so I thought, but I did disable Google sync along the way. Thankfully I don't use it, so I'm not exactly fussed.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaffacake:
If you get the APN settings correct, it will work.

Backup your new image, then restore to your old (working) backup, carefully note down the working settings, then restore the broken image and configure as required.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nemo0815:
Question: Can i still install the official HTC ROM update once it's out or do i have to modify/uninstall something first then?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liden:
I have already done this twice and it dosen´t work.... :mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tofrost:
same problem here. Happened after editing one contact. Google sync is deactivated all the time.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaffacake:
I get both of these issues. The second is quite annoying.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slimfady:
I'm on 1.4 and I have the exact same problem. Using wired headphones for now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Piotrekk:
Halo from Germany!

I installed the 1.4 rom yesterday and almost all things are working without any issues. The improved performance is just incredible! Great work!

The only thing that doesn't work is audio streaming to a stereo bluetooth headset via A2DP. When I was on stock T-Mobile rom there were no issues, I could listen to all my music wirelessly.

Unfortunately this does not work any more. Tried the stock radio and the newest posted by Paul. The audio player seems to start playing a track but I can't hear the sound through my headset and the time progress bar runs quickly forward, about 4x of the normal speed. So it shows a time of 0:20 although only 5s elapsed... Can someone reproduce the issue?

Pio

edit:

just found http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4453342&postcount=440 ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
Is everyone with BT problems using the new Radio?

Edit: ah, guess not...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Piotrekk:
I'm using 63.18.55.06_6.35.05.31 but the issues also occurred with the stock rom (don't know the build #)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yans:
have installed this rom and its great. great stuff.

time for a stupid question - does this mean that now i have rooted it and installed this rom is it unlocked to other networks?

thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
MoDaCo this is crazy work done by you, big up for your work! My android got totally translated to Swedish after the 1.5 install! Swedish isn't even a official language for android now, strange huh? ;P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
omg 1.5 already and i just leeched 1.4.1 :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yans:
crikey! just realised we are on 1.5! i only installed 1.4 this morning!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] C45hY:
Hey,

How about adding a backup and restore application to the custom rom, so before you wipe upgrade you can backup your apps and stuff and restore them after it done.

I've been using Backup for root
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Winkelpaleis:
I also have problems with version 63.18.55.06_6.35.05.31.

BT Audio does not work with my car radio.

That's why I installed again version 63.18.55.06_6.35.05.15.

And ofcourse I did install 1.5-update-hero-modacocustomrom-signed.zip :)

Thank you for all your great work Paul.