yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FunkAndSoda:
well im just a "poor student" ;-) but im willing to donate 10 euros to paul for his work. just a small thx for his effort.

if everybody, who likes his rom would donate a bit, it would be easy for him to buy a hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] niktheman:
Help please

I've tried both 2.2 Rom, and i can not get the market app to log me in, it doesn't even try to connect as i can't see any data going back and forth. Wifi still nothing, it has a connection as all other apps work fine with internet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ghoonk:
Does anyone reckon a number of us could chip in USD25 to USD50 into a common pot that goes into buying Paul a HTC Hero? I'd be happy to be the first to put USD50 into the pot to get this going, if Paul is open to this, and can set up a Donate facility on PayPal
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
You might subscribe on his site?!

http://android.modaco.com/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00

If you register you are able to choose an ad-free account for 10 pounds, or a super-account for 40 pounds a year. I do believe Paul is not the kind of person who needs or wants a Please Donate here button. :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Melmac:
Done, Its the best way to say thankyou for work he's already done. THANKYOU
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ghoonk:
I'm not stupid and I can read. Fact is, this pool is specific to getting Paul the Hero, not for running the site. I'd be happy to contribute to both, but I'd like to know that my contribution is also getting him closer to a Hero of his own for development purposes. :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fatouraee:
Hi. I used the Modaco Rom 2.2 and it is great but i have a porblem ( Sorry this is my first android Device ) I cant find the quick office app anymore. How can i get it Back. Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] varial:
I have installed the 2.2 rom and fully wiped (twice to make sure!) and im still getting loads of lag.

I only have 2G in the whole of my area and im wondering if this could be the problem or maybe the fact i have about 15 applications installed? (not done that apps to SD card).

Just for an example, sent a text, locked phone, 5 minutes later recieved one and goto unlock the screen and it hangs half way for about 4 seconds befor fully unlocking... then lags again trying to get to the actual text message. :(

UPDATE: I have removed twidroid pro as have been reading about that it can cause some lag, so far phone is responding much better. Anyone else has a problem with twidroid? going to see how it goes!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] oblika:
Yeah, I agree! I would also like to donate for the purpose of getting Paul a new Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lmart1n:
i would also donate USD 10 for Paul!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
Come on guys. Read Pauls remark in the first post in this topic

Finally, if you like the MoDaCo Custom ROMs, consider supporting MoDaCo by visiting the subscriptions page and upgrading your account.

I am shure he wouldt appreciate it if you subscribed to his site, instead of donating for a new Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
Yes, we know he'd appreciate, and plenty of people on this forum have been doing just that.

But he is also the only coder currently building ROMs for Hero and will be missed greatly.

If he was willing to take the donations in return for getting a new Hero for himself in order to carry on his great work, i'm sure plenty would like to help that along.

Of course, it's also a time thing, and money can't buy time... ;)

Of course, the alternative would be for everyone to mail HTC and tell them to give that Hero back to him! ;))

Would be good to hear Paul's thoughts anyhow?!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] standbackiamcrazy:
i have noticed this aswell, there seems to be an issue with the phone switching between wifi and gprs.. weirdly if i turn wifi on after ive loaded android market (as in since the phone has been turned on), it wont work unless i restart the phone... I am also using 2.2 i have low GPRS signal so this is a problem aswell, the phone tries to connect even when im trying to use wifi, but it cant because there is little signal.. very annoying
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tisungho:
I have the same problem even with Stock Rom, maybe this is HTC's bug

I found a way to get over without reboot the phone:

go to Setting - Wireless Controls - Mobile network setttings - Network operators - Select automatically.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tisungho:
By the way, I also have an annoying problem with the web browser:

when I open the browser, turn the phone to landscape mode, press search button to get the search bar and a landscape keyboard, I find that the keyboard + status bar are moving up and down when I hit a key
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ewans:
I get this as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
thanks (and to others who've commented); I'll give this a try...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] spacecat:
Can you flash an old radio over a new one?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
If people wanna donate to buy me a hero then that's very generous, and i'll buy a Hero and keep updating the ROM (not the Sapphire or Dream ones tho!)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ewans:
I will absolutely contribute!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jayjay:
So how do we contribute if we specifically would like the money to go towards a Hero? ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Here we go...

MoDaCo Hero Fund!

I can't emphasise enough that you shouldn't feel obliged to donate, but if you do, it's much appreciated!

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jayjay:
Don't want to toot my own horn, but I donated 10 GBP. It's not a huge lot towards a Hero, but if enough of us give what we can afford, this shouldn't be hard to achieve. Don't feel obligated to donate and especially don't feel obligated to donate 50 bucks - that's a lot of dough. Donate what you feel comfortable with.

For me 10 GBP is nothing at all, compared to the speed increase I got from installing the new rom, so it's not even up for debate for me, whether it's worth it. I say money well spent! The speed increase might very well have made the difference between me taking back the phone and keeping it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PatternInChaos:
I'll invest in your hero right now, wohoo! I'm sure you'll get enough money in no time. I'm so glad you'll continue rom updates if you get the phone!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Thanks everyone, i'll keep you posted on progress of the fund.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
It will start again with Paul's new Hero ROM !

Glad to have Paul back and already donated to 'MoDaCo Hero Fund' with pleasure. :) Using MCR 2.2e with my Hero for two days, fast and stable so far. I understand that HTC will release official Hero ROM soon, probably in Oct. Hope it should be Android Donus and of course, please Paul tweak it for us :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
The official ROM will i'm 99.9999999% sure be 2.73.405.3.

When the Asia update goes ship we can grab some nice bits out of that tho!

Donut is only on the Bahamas (aka Click / Tattoo) atm...

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dayzee:
All smooth and dandy thanks so much Paul

Nicelad - to get apps 2 SD working, you need to create a Linux EXT3 partition on your SD card before you install the Rom. After that any aps will install to the ext3 partition automatically. Can confirm this works without a glitch.

Daysxx
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
1.1 installed with APP2SD and swapper working fantasticly, a marked improvement in speed and responsiveness, cheers!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pjcforpres:
I can't wait to get mine ordered! September 10th can't come soon enough! Thank you Modaco for the wonderful work, and all others involved in making other apps and packages!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] spiderman_anhvu:
The led doesn't work on this build :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Huey85:
LED working fine for me. although I never had an issue in the shipped ROM either.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] -nickx-:
No issues here with the LED, it blinks.. but somethimes it does strange things.

I receive an e-mail, when opening the e-mail and reading it. It takes more then 5 min's before it stops blinking.

But I had this before this build also.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Very basic questions

Hi All,

First - thanks to Paul for the work you've put in to this - I am VERY green to this, so bear with me and my questions.

1) I'm reading up on this before trying anything...and an important concern is I rum a MAC not a PC.....can I do all this stuff from Apple hardware. If so are there any specifc guides?

2) From what I read you need to partition your SD card - what size cards are you using and what size partition should you create? I assume you will have a card with 2 partitions.

3) Nandroid creates a backup file so you can always get back to how your phone was before you started - is this right? If so does it save all your personal info ( contacts, photos etc. )?

4) Your all referring to 'Radio' - I assume this is not a real radio LOL - what is it?

cheers all:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minogue:
I didn't partition my sdcard as I don't see the need for it. I have over 140MB of free internal memory and everything works just fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fullerlee:
Arghhh help

I installed the updates just fine.

I then tried to make an ext2 partition using this guide: http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Fat_Ext2_Partition

Now when I reboot it goes into a constant reboot cycle from HTC logo to Android logo etc.

When I go to the recovery console and try to recover, I get

"Can't mount sdcard, aborting. E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1."

Please help!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Also - when I start the phone holding down the power and home key - I get a graphic of a triangular hazard sign with an exclamation mark in it, nest to a phone lying on it's back ( which doesn't look like the screenshots I've seen on this site ). And I can't get out of this screen or do anything - I have to take the battery out and restart.

This on an unrooted Orange Hero....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] brampower:
Try to install the custom recovery image..

Here:

http://android.modaco.com/content/h...ed-recovery-image-on-your-device-permanently/

And tell us if it still does that stuff after doing that :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] oblika:
1) if you get the USB drivers working it should be no problem (except the partitioning tools - you sould be able to find them on mac)

2) I've read somewhere that its OK to have like 200mb ext3 part.

3) Yes it should as it backs-up the data partition too.

4) "Radio" is a separate firmware on the phone that controls the telephone and electro-magnetic emitting devices (gsm. bluetooth, and so on.). It is referred as radio and also as baseband.

hope this helps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nicelad_uk:
I've had this on now overnight and used it quite a bit. Its not the fast update that we've seen on the YouTube video.

To be honest, my T-Mobile rom that was installed doesn't have as much lag as this one. I'm not going to revert through as its nice to have all the extras such as root etc which I know I could do on the other, but this will be alright.

Thanks Paul! Great work on getting this out and such an easy process to follow.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] johnboywilson:
Dayzee can you help me or send me in the right direction to getting apps to sd to work. Also how do you partition your sd the right way. I dont have partition thingy program! I tried tweetin you but not sure if it went through.. :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fullerlee:
Nandroid to the rescue.

Here's what I did to fix it:

-Formatted the sdcard using another device.

-Booted into recovery console (power on+Home)

-adb shell: mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard -t vfat

-adb shell: Made the nandroid dir structure on the sdcard

-adb pushed the nandroid recovery files

-adb shell: nandroid-mobile.sh -r

-adb shell: reboot

Phew.

Note that my issues were caused by me incorrectly partitioning the sdcard, and mucking up /etc/fstab amongst other things. The issues were NOT caused by modaco's update. In fact, I'll be installing that again shortly!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] r1sk:
Hi ,

well , ive got some questions..

if you don't mind.. :)

well i got my Hero , just a day ago .. so im pretty new to all this..

i didn't manage to root my phone with a video that i found which showed step by step instruction , so that was easy ..

but now that i want to put the new radio and the new rom on my phone.. i get a little confused i was sitting about 2 hours looking over and over this post . and i still don't understand what exactly i need to do to patch the new radio and the new rom..

- i was looking for another step by step instructions for guys like me but didn't find ..

if someone have the time and the power to walk me throw with this i would be really happy. >:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jabbypants:
I want to install this as mine lags really really bad can only have 5-6 icons on screen(no htc widgets) and it lags moving about the screens, but this look hard to me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
Actually I was wrong again. Well...the contacts are in Gmail but that's just names and email not phone numbers. I don't keep my phone numbers in Gmail. But everything is still there when I had a look. I guess Android stores that info seperate from the ROM.

But what thing that still annoys infinitely is that my locale only has English which means I can't use any other IME or CIME. I think it's a Rosie config in the CID but I haven't worked out which file is controlling this. If anybody knows please let me know.

I'll try removing all the CID files except the default and see if I can force Rosie/android to just use the default.xml file rather than which ever one it is looking at now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
That is normal for an urooted phone. What you need to press some buttons to get to the recovery menu. err...unfortunately i can't remember it off the top of my head what those buttons are. It is somewhere in the forum though.

As suggested by someone else it is easier to load the custom recovery image on to the phone then you get the menu straight away.

Even easier if you just make it permenant (there is a thread that shows how to make the recovery image permenant).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
My LEDs are working fine but I noticed a different bug.

Now when I'm listening to music using the music player the sound will stop and not come back when a notification sound is played. The sound for the music player will stop even if it is on Silent Mode. The music hasn't stopped playing but it seems that the sound drivers forgot to switch back to the music player.

What used to happen was when I got a notification the notification sound would play then the music would come back on. If it was in Silent Mode then I would still get a gap in the music as if the notification sound played.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ewans:
Done! :-) :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
Again thank you very much for your work Paul!

The only problems I'm having with 2.2 are:

> The jumping landscape KB when google searching in the browser

> One of my BT-headsets (SE HBH DS980) needs to be re-paired every other day or it wont work properly

Besides that, it's fantastic!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Thanks peeps - live donation counter...

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Golgo, do they occur on stock 2.73.405.5 ROM too?

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] OttarA:
Donated ;) How mutch is a hero over there now?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Depends, will keep an eye on eBay. A T-Mo G2 seems the cheapest option...

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
They're only £370 (possibly cheaper too) from expansys: http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=184566

shouldn't be too hard to get all the way there!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
just slapped in a tenner for the Hero, Paul; thanks again for all your work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
£363.39 at Handtec, white sim-free
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
I honestly haven't tried, but a valid question, no doubt :P

Can I flash stock over 2.2 without wipe?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
Can someone confirm if it's ok to remove the Custom Locale app?

I located it in System/SD/app but i've not removed yet just in case...

Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] monocay:
+ 5£

keep it rolling people :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Yeah, you can actually just uninstall it in the usual settings->applications page!

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] belfastbob:
Just added my donation, without all the work that you put in paul, my Hero would have been sent back long ago, now I think I have a mobile device that is worth talking about. Hope you get one soon. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
Yeah, thanks Paul.

+10GBP from myself :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] oblika:
Great!!! I like the fund thingy! I'll donate as soon as I get home.

Paul, have you thought about adding bash shell into your ROM? (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=537827&highlight=bash)

And If you have any work that we (/I) could do for your ROM, I would like to help. So please tell us if you have any task for us;) (Or maybe PM me)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
In Sweden ROM version 2.73.405.5

http://www.htc.com/se/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=671&news_id=254

?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slimfady:
+10£

I guess we'll be there by tonight :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I like the idea of adding the bash shell, I should draw up a list of what is worth putting in. It can all go in /data/xbin, so it doesn't need to take a bunch of space.

So far we have...

- nano

- busybox

I would like to add...

- dropbear

- bash

Anything else? I wish Hamachi was Open Source, compiling that for Android would be amazing!!!

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] christonge:
My £10 sent ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] domi55:
+10£ ;)

Yeah I also like the idea.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
seconded dropbear, please Paul. It does support authorised RSA pubkeys (in both directions) right?

thanks much (already donated) :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Zuber:
What's the link for making a donation again ?

Might have more success if you put the link on first page/include in sig. etc.

Zuber
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I believe so.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] domi55:
Here you go: MoDaCo Hero Fund
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jayjay:
And if you're still hestitant about donating. Ask yourself: Did Paul's rom make my Hero faster and do I think it's fair that some people make thousands copypasting fart apps from tutorials for the iPhone? Here's your chance to compensate someone worthy of compensation.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I did only release the ship ROM with a few tweaks early... I appreciate everything but don't wanna be accused of taking the piss!

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FunkAndSoda:
Great i already donated yesterday to his paypal account. Im glad that so many users Do the Same. Thx to all.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
*buys a Hero*

;-)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] licenced:
You got enough? Cool! Was wondering as the counter seems to have gone to zero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I topped it up a little myself, but thanks to everyone who donated!

I'll be in touch with a special little something for donators... ;)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] LeeDroid:
just spotted teh Tweet! Sweet! glad your still on board paul!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
Hey all, I am expecting a Hero in the mail next week (super excited!) and need some info on installing the radio images.

I have a basic understanding of flashing the recovery image, doing a backup and getting the MoDaCo ROM installed, but I have not found any instructions on how to install the newest radio image which is recommended.

Can anyone help me out on this? Do I do this before flashing the recovery image, or before the ROM?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] domi55:
Wohoo... Sounds really good :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] LeeDroid:
Just flash via the recovery image in exactly the same way you flash the rom.

Drop the Zip file onto your SD

Boot into the CM recovery image

select flash any zip from sd

select your radio

restart your device

hope this helps :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
Thanks very much!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
great to hear !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Damn I didn't get a chance to donate :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gadgetgaz:
reboot cycle

Hi all. I am very pleased with this ROM and I decided to get a new 8MB microsd card that is class6 so that I can have a swap partition and an ext3 partition for apps2sd to work.

I partitioned the card on my pc using Paragon partition manager.

I have put a 7.2GB partition at the beginning of the card, then a 300MB ext3 partition, then a 39MB Linux swap partition at the end. They are assigned as primary partitions - is that correct?

I get a constant reboot cycle with the Hero logo and the little android who pops his head into the "O".

No problem, I thought, I'll stick the old sdcard in since I haven't altered it.

However, all of my installed apps have disappeared off the phone. I know I can get them back from the marketplace but what have I done wrong?

I understand that apps2sd will work automatically if it detects an ext3 partition and it seems to have half worked by at least removing the apps from the phone. Maybe it has in fact moved them to the ext3 partition but I can't read that.

Does the swap partition get automatically recognised by the ROM as well or do I have to do something with it?

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] big_amir:
Thanks Paul for the great work. I have now made a donation and hope to be a more productive member as i am a bit of a leecher at the moment. :o
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JBNAquatics:
Hey guys, I finally managed to partition my SD card and created the ext3 and everything. When I did a wipe using the custom recovery image, I noticed I still have the previously installed apps on my phone (not on the SD). How do I do a completely clean wipe of the Hero as if it was from a factory?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
For those that are still donating to the 'Hero Fund' (there's a bit in there again now), that will fund the next ROM-project, be it a Tattoo, Pulse or a i7500... ;)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lmart1n:
donated some eurs (mar.l... @gmail.com)

;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jphooiveld:
Sipdroid problem

Anyone else using sipdroid with modaco rom? Before flashing it I could always call someone and sipdroid would automatically take over from regular dialler if it has connection to the SIP server.

Now it doesn't work any more. If I call someone using the contacts it will always use the regular dialler instead of sipdroid taking over. It's like some kind of event listener / hook isn't working anymore. I can still enter phone number in sipdroid itself and use it that way but curious if someone has the same problem and has found a solution.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
@modaco:

Just asked someone who installed the new official ROM and the jumping landscape keyboard-thingy is present there too so I guess you're of the hook ;)