yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Reignzone:
If you're have a bit of lag.

Here are a few suggestions:

- Always, always, always...have a TASK MANAGER handy to "kill" processes when they are NOT in use. Also, double-check your running applications hourly; as several will auto-start themselves in the background, then run in the foreground...thus dubbing them, "resource hogs."

- Don't be a jerk...by filling your home screens with every widget imaginable, then post a reply stating that you're experiencing serious latency. That "lag test" isn't accurate considering every device will run differently based on whether or not you followed every step CORRECTLY to install this ROM.

- Get a "faster" SD card. Simple. Self-explanatory. SD cards are quite affordable, so don't be a cheapskate. You won't need a 16GB microSDHC...UNLESS of course you transfer and listen to a lot of music on your device. Stick with an 8GB - Class 6 card. That's your best bet. I have several spare cards (each being a Class 6) that I keep as backups.

- Finally, don't forget about utilizing NANDROID when applying changes, patches, upgrades, third-party applications, etc. Play it safe. Always perform a Nandroid backup when in doubt.

Trust me, I've flashed entirely too many ROMS for my own good. I've learned several necessary lessons along the way. Trial & error. Plain and simple.

Best of luck folks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] bluecluenj:
SD is a class 6

No widgets yet, was waiting to get things running right first

Taskkiller pro installed and used

Still too slow for everyday use on my device, so the question I have is, will reformatting the sd card with RAv1.2.1G also wipe the ext3 during the process or am I experiencing residual garbage on the card in spite of the recovery reformat/repartition process?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Reignzone:
Full data wipe!

Another set of suggestions:

- Data wipe before installing a new (full version) ROM.

- Reformat your SD card, (YES) including the partitions on-deck.

- Upon creating your partitions, be sure that the particular ROM supports whichever EXT you decide to use. For instance, EXT4 isn't supported by numerous HERO ported builds. (Some do though)

Now, when you say it's running "too slow" ---> perhaps you could specify EXACTLY what you're referring to when you determine how it operates in terms of speed.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] bluecluenj:
Yep, did the wipe and reformatted to ext3. I experienced an extremely long loading time in maps and browser (not internet data loading but the apps themselves) and then black screened for approximately 20 seconds returning to home. Messaging as well took about 15 to 20 seconds to load and loaded first with a black screen. After the initial sign-in setups on first boot, there was a loading screen for about 5 minutes. Going into settings took upwards of 30 seconds. Im sure there were others, I had the ROM running for about a half hour before I flashed back to cyanogen 4.04 which as we all know runs flawlessly.

Not being *****y with the devs, who work hard and are trying to get us all Hero, just stating my experience.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] 13bjunkie:
My MT3G report:

Class 6 8gb card with fresh partitions and reformat

Initial sign-in/set-up process ran fast

I've had no problems with loading screens

Messages are geting through

(missed a handful with 2.3x)

Going "Home" from Browser/misc apps got faster

after a few hours of use.

I'm using 64mb swap with swappiness @ 40

(96/60 was lagging a bit for some odd reason)

As far as calls go, 2 rings from caller before mine rings

(the lag doesn't bother me)

I believe I'll stick with this for a good while.

$0.02

Btw, thanks eVil for the great work
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] palexr:
As an aside, for those of you who are aving a problem with picking up calls, you could try delaying the voicemail diverting the call.

I found this on the UK Vodafone Magic forum

Just tried 25 seconds and it seems to work fine.

NOTE, as stated, this was on the UK Vodafone Magic site so it might well be specific to them. But in any case your network operator should have something similar.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pritesht:
Runinng 2.5xx previously

Crappy standard card that came with it, guessing its class 2

It seems slightly slower then 2.5xx for example when using the scroll ball to navigate the menu, also when I select an option it takes slightly longer to open.

Have had a few random reboots now, changing the screen orientation in copilot from portrait to landscape caused it to reboot. When ever I remove the sd card and plug it back in it reboots.

Changing pages on the home screen also seems slower, only have 1 page with icons and the only widget on that page is the clock.

Will keep it on for a bit longer and see how it works out, may end up going back to 2.5xx
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eatabagel:
The ring delay on Evil Hero 2.6 is so far the shortest delay I've seen in the many ROMs I've tried on my 32B.

The track ball lights up and then I get caller ID after 2 rings.

Regarding the code to extend call divert, I found this post on another forum:

http://www.mobiholics.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=249479&view=findpost&p=794061

Actually they got it from here in XDA but they didn't link to the original post.

"You can increase the time it takes for voicemail to pick up. I set mine to max 30 secs and I haven't missed a call I've heard. My phone seems to ring after 2-3 rings on the other end. This may not work for every carrier. I'm on Cingular in the U.S.

Step 1. Key in the following into your phone *#61# then press the call/send button. This will return a telephone number and the current delay time before voice mail kicks in .

Step 2. Write it down.

Step 3. If you wanted, say, 30 seconds, before the Voice mail activated, then you would put 30 where the nn is in the following string and the telephone number from step 2 where the xxxxxxxx is.

Key in **61*xxxxxxxxx*11*nn# followed by the call/send button and it should update the delay.

For example, it would look like this **61*xxxxxxxxxxx*11*30#

If your phone reports the delay time, you can check by following step 1 again. "

Works on T-Mob, O2 and Orange in UK, so looks as if its universal.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Jim_DiGriz:
HTC Sync

After I updated the version V2 to V2.6 I have now big problems with the HTC Sync: after I connected with the USB Cable the HTC Sync program doesn't recognize ny HTC Magic and when I click in the menu to "PC Synchronization" I'm getting the error message: the process com.android settings was canceled.

I wiped before updating and also formatted the ext2 partition. After update I turned on the spa switch with 30 swapiness.

Does anybody else have the same problem?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] djchiena:
i'm having an issue when someone calls me. when the phone is asleep and someone calls, the trackball lights up and the phone vibrates, and then the ringer sounds. that's as far as it will go as i cannot pick up the call using the green accept button; the screen also stays black so i don't even know who called me. anyone having similar issues?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
You CANNOT remove the memory card while the device is on since it uses APP2SD. Meaning, all your apps run from your memory card. That is why you were getting reboots.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pritesht:
Ahh right that would explain it, I'm sure it never used to happen before but guess it must have.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dkirchik:
I have a question.. I have the mytouch on AT&T network, when I do the APN Settings theres no click bubble for me to get the phone with this rom to use it, How do I get the phone to use AT&T's APN settings.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
You should be able to go to APN Names, then click Menu>New APN.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dkirchik:
I have done that, it doesn't allow it, it's very odd, i've been trying to work around it, it'll save but not allow me to select it for the phone to use it.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dkirchik:
I have done that, It does save, but does not allow me to switch to that APN Setting. I can't figure out a way around it.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
2.6x online now. Audio recording should be fixed.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] palexr:
I had a similar kind of problem with another ROM. I think in the end what I did was delete all the the other APN settings in the listwhich finally gave me the option to "tick" the one I wanted (I may have had to reboot after deleting all but the option I wanted as well):confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] palexr:
eVIL, is this a complete reflash job, with reformat, wipe, etc, or can I just flash without all that?

Great job by the way.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Ameel_Beshoori:
I just keep getting the Hero screen loop over and over again... not sure what's wrong here.

I'm using 32B UK Vodafone, I wiped all data and formatted the SD card with the 3 partition option on the recovery menu, I installed the update.zip file and then converted ext 2 to ext 3... the only thing I don't know how to do is make sure I have the latest radio and SPL installed because I'm from Noob Central.

Anyone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Jim_DiGriz:
Still have the same problem. Was in the V 2.6 the HTC sync removed. Otherwise it's strange that the USB drive is working but there si no notification for HTC sync.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] palexr:
OK, majorish issue, paid apps are not downloading. Just been into the Market and My Downloads, went to download a purchased app and it just get stuck at "Authorising credit card..."
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Joeya7x:
You might want to convert the ext2 partition to ext3 first, wipe data, than flash the rom.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] androidpanda:
What's wrong with this......?

Hi All,

Just installed 2.6x - seems okay to me, will report back.

I open a terminal window type "free" (without the double quotes) and it

reports that I have

96Mb RAM (all of which is used)

96Mb SWAP (of which 40MB is used).

Now I thought that the 32B Sapphire had 192Mb of RAM??????? Mine is a UK Vodafone Magic

What do you see on your phones? Have I done something wrong when putting on the engineering ROM? I've never upgraded my RADIO (whatever that is) - all the details are at the end of this post....

Can I check something else - eViL D: are you suggesting that we use a swap file in addition to the swap partition set up on the SD card? I'm a bit confused about this. Or should we be configuring swapper to use the swap partition: /dev/block/mmcblkp3?

My worry is that if you have both swap and a swap file turned on then the SD card will be hammered, and could actually give worse performance....?

Cheers, Jon

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.19.26I

Apr 20 2009, 15:30:43
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Joeya7x:
Getting the same thing, we are supposed to have 192 mb ram and i only have 96 as well. checked using terminal and system info.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Format your ext partition with Ubumtu, then wipe and flash.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
You can try to flash without wiping, but I always recommend it. And, paid apps will then need to be redownloaded.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Be patient, they will download.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
No, I only recommend a swap partition. But, it is your phone, do what you feel. ;p
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eatabagel:
I still haven't flashed 2.6x. I'm using 2.6 right now.

I noticed in the user.conf that:

compcache = 1

cc_backingswap = 0

linux_swap = 1

Is there a reason why both cc and linux swap are both on? Evil did you find that having both of these on led to better performance?

I went ahead and turned compcache off and the performance didn't suffer. There's a little hesitation before switching home screen. Is compcache better for eViL Hero?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] nicotera:
Great Rom

I was able get wifi working with a few commands in the terminal app I downloaded.

It still does not run fast enough to keep in touchflow so I'm running in saphire.

I noticed the search within the contacts of exchange seems to shut down. Is it because I have both google contacts and microsoft exchange?

Great rom thus far.

Thanks

Frank
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Compcache is not working with the rom atm. So that was probably more placebo than anything.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Wifi was always working.....

What about TouchFlo??

I don't use Exchange AND Google contacts, but i've never had People close while searching.... Try disabling contact sync on one or the other and search.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] nicotera:
Great Rom!

I posted to the original thread sorry!

I just wanted to know if the search in contacts has given any one else trouble in exchange.

Also if your a t-mobile user, the wifi will work fine if you do a few terminal commands to invoke the magic drivers.

I am using this rom in the sapphire mode as the touchflow will slow down after just a few widgets are loaded.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks

Frank
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
This is a sapphire/magic rom, there is no need to invoke anything. I don't understand why or what you're doing here.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] phillip_hooper:
Any reason to leave compcache enabled if it's not working?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
It doesn't do anything if it doesn't work. But, if it puts you at ease, turn it off.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Issues with Plurk, has anyone seen it running?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Johnny Blaze:
The 32b has 192mb ram. The RAM id allocated with certain amounts reserved that's why you only have 96 free. Swapped will use swap file or partition. Not both at once. Partition shouldbe best
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ishanISCOOOL:
Hey Evil D your rom looks really nice :)

Can you or anybody please make an add on patch to make it run on a 32A device, here is the link to 32a kernal http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=553350

Regards

Ishan
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] phillip_hooper:
Thanks. I didn't know if it made any difference, I just don't like the errors it gives - just OCD on my part. Also, great work on the ROM - best one I've used yet. How did you get the charging light working? Did you use a script to watch ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Reignzone:
Compcache w/ back_swapping.

Evil, once you get this particular feature working...everything will be solid. Your ROM runs like a dream, on a Sapphire that is. Lol. PUN INTENDED! :cool:

I'm very pleased with the progress your ROM build has made over the course of time. It's gorgeous. Keep up this hard work boss...it's looking good.

Still, might I suggest working on EXT4 support, integrating the STOCKS widget and the application, get Plurk and the widget to be fully functional, and that transparent notification bar. ;)

Thanks again.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Reignzone:
Uh-oh, Speghetti-Ohs.

Issues: v2.6x

- Still FC in the Wallpaper Gallery selection.

- Still FC while using the People Search.

- First boot ANR interruption.

- Setup is slow due to SU requests from Swapper continue until accepted.

That's about it so far.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] palexr:
No luck on the market paid app download front I'm afraid. I left them downloading for 30 minutes and no joy.... (on wifi)

I've gone to the dark side, cyan' experimental ROM with a dark theme (enoch). Not saying I wouldn't stay with yours, just that I have ROM flash madness :eek:

I'll be back, as he said.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Hrmm, sorry guys, I don't have problems disabling swap.

Is your SD formatted into 3 partitions?

Use swapper to turn off swap, if it fails, go to advance settings and change the swap to the linux-swap partition.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] djchiena:
Don't be sorry at all :)

Yes my SD card is formatted and wiped to 3 partitions and my device was wiped prior to loading the rom.

I changed the swap to the linux swap and i was able to disable it afterwards.

Now the new thing i found is that i can't disable the stupid notifications for the twitter app. No matter how many times i've turned it off, the notification keeps popping up when it auto-refreshes itself
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mahmutuslu:
Sd Card format issue without linux

You can use paragon's partition manager with an sd card reader, just follow the fat32 --> ext2 or ext3 --> swap (32 mb) sequence. I managed to find a portable version at mininova.org.

By the way the 1.3x version is good one but we usually had hickups especcialy when we use the phone module ('boring')
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mgorman:
This is by far the best Hero ROM for the 32B. I have tried Champion v2, JACx 1.3 and both had their share of problems. I installed this one and it has so far, knock on wood, worked flawlessly. I got the wifi to enable with the restart method and all other features (multi-touch, screen rotate, downloading apps) work just fine.

EDIT: I spoke to soon. I was in the browser and I hit the home button and the HTC logo popped up and all my icons had to reload. what causes that to happen?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] djchiena:
Mine does that all the time whenever i try and make a change in settings. I can't change my wallpaper and it seems that the phone gets really slow after some time
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mgorman:
its only happened twice to me on this ROM. if the wifi issue can get fixed this rom would be perfect
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] fattalis:
thanks i just keep restarting with same card lol and and it finally worked
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] fattalis:
ok now that everything is working, only problem is some times lag but not bad i still like it.

but for some reason the wifi tether wont work..
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
There is a work around.

Turn off wifi, reboot and then enable tether. The tether app should start the wifi.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mgorman:
I was having another issue yesterday. I was intermittently not receiving phone calls. The other phone would ring like 3times nad goto voice mail and i never got any notification on my phone. I was also getting a lot of the mini-reboots last night where the HTC splash screen comes up and reloads the desktop.

Also, has anyone had problems with the htc weather widget? for some reason its picked a city thats about 45min from me and i cant get rid of or change it as the current city.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] nextelbuddy:
Just curious this is my first HERO rom on the mytouch and i like it a lot. when first asking to setup it asks for your Twitter and Facebook logins and i did.

i can not find facebook anywhere though only twitter. i can add widgets and short cuts for twitter but i can not find facebook anywhere, how do i access facebook?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mgorman:
if you go into the contacts one of the options on the bottom is called "Updates and Events". Here you will see your facebook stuff. You can only see updates, its not an actual app like one you would download off the market
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] nextelbuddy:
thanks man well it looks like ioll try another ROM or go back to the Cyanogen ROm unfortunately as much as i love the look and feel of this HERO rom.

its getting way too slow and im down to 50 % battery life in a matter of 3 hours and WIFI and Bluetooth and GPS is turned off and has been and havent even downloaded any apps yet.

yes my SD card is partitioned using the recovery app and i also converted my ext2 to ext3 as well to see if that would help.

wish i could get this thing to speed up and was hoping it would after the ROM cached more items but its just not doing it it seems.

great proprs to the guy who made this rom though a lot of hard work i see went into it.

i will miss the active exchange sync of MAIL and CALANDER that i wont get with a non hero rom
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mgorman:
Evil can you work on some battery life improvement for the next release if its at all possible?

thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Hrmm...

How is your swap configured? Swappiness?

Basically, your userinit?

Class memory card?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] shadowleo85:
dont know y yall r having issues with batter life mine seems fine... and last all day

i have swapper set up at swappiness 20 and swapper size 96 works uber fast
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mgorman:
I didn't touch my swap stuff. What ever the swapper app set it as thats what it is and i have a class 2 4gig card, the one that came in the my touch. ive got a class 6 in the mail right now headed my way.

also i've been having an issue with calls not coming through to my phone and also text messages taking 20min to arrive on my phone. I will call my phone with another phone and it will either ring 3 times and goes to voicemail or just rings and rings and it never rings on my phone.

Thirdly, lol, I get the HTC logo whenever im in the weather app for an extended period of time or the browser. I've transfered my cache to my sd card but it still does it.

And last but not least, i have a screen brightness widget and i cant get it to change. I've disabled the auto backlight in the settings but that only works once. If i want to chagne the brightness again i have to go into the settings and enable/disable it and the brightnesss will stick.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
1.4Ob is up.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] djchiena:
sweet i can't wait to get back to work on monday to flash this.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eViL D::
Not too happy with 1.4, gonna make some changes....
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] FenderGuy:
I think this is the best Hero Rom so far , but I noticed this phone is lagging big time at the moment since I flashed over to the 2.6 ....

Yes I have the stock class 2 card, but 2.5xx was faster
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tazz9690:
You hit the spot with this one Evil. It's been running perfect with me. The initial boot caused lag, but now that I have everything up and running, it's wickedly fast for me.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eatabagel:
Still on 2.6, not yet on 2.6x. For all I know this issue has already been fixed in the latest version. (I'm just reluctant to move on because I don't want to do another wipe and install since it's running smoothly right now and I don't really use the camcorder to record video).

I've had the phone lock up and not respond to me a couple of times already. Just 3-4 times in the past 3 days. Each time, I've had to do a battery pull. From what I can tell this mostly happens when the phone becomes inactive and sleeps.

So, phone sleeps. Screen blacks out. Good night, kon banwa, sayonara. No response to button clicks. Battery pull needed.

The other time was strange. It might have blacked out due to inactivity. It was plugged in through USB for charging. There's that nice familiar orange recharge LED that I've so far only gotten with the Evil Hero ROM, and then it goes green after fully charging. As soon as I pulled the USB cord from the phone, the LED stayed on and green. I clicked the buttons, they lit up, but no screen response at all. Don't know what happened, it was just unresponsive despite the lit up buttons. Battery pull needed.

That's it for my bug reports.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] FenderGuy:
What radio should this rom have? Also was the BT ever fixed?