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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Aratheba:
Advanced Task Pro issue?!

Hi all, does anyone have problems using 2.9 and Advanced Task Manager Pro?

I'm not currently using modaco 2.9, but another cooked rom based on the same modaco's base rom and I have a problem using Advanced Task Manager Pro: sometimes I get messages stating that the system process has died and right after pressing terminate, I get another message stating that process com.google.something.apps has died too. Pressing terminate here too, the first message appears again and everything keeps cycling. The only way to make it stop is to shutdown my Hero! :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lord_Phoenix:
Hello guys, faced one issue. Re-partinined my SD card to have FAT32 + EXT4 + Linux-swap. 2.8 could not load anymore with SD card installed and nothing helps, just rebooting in a loop. Rolled back to nandroid backup with 2.9 and it's working. Tried everything to keep these partitions and 2.8 but no luck =( So I have a questions: how people use SU permissions with 2.9? MarketEnabler is working but Better Terminal Emulator is not working when typing su. Also is 2.9 using my linux-swap partition? And do anyone have idea how to make 2.8 work with current partitions?

Thank you for your help in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
I can't quite remember but I don't think 2.8 has EXT4 support built into the kernel. Teknologist's kernel (in 2.9) supports EXT4 so that is probably where things are coming unstuck when you try to use 2.8.

2.9 will not use your swap partition unless you have swapper turned on - I don't think. The 2.9 kernel uses compcache which is a RAM based swap system. You can google "compache" to find out more. You should not have swapper installed for 2.9 in any case otherwise you lose the RAM set aside for compcache swap (since you don't use it but it is allocated for swap) and you have switched back to using SD based swap.

I haven't checked but I don't think the system has been configured to have compcache use the SD swap partition as a backing store for the RAM swap (hence my guarded answer on whether the swap partition is used in 2.9). Most likely it is not configured for SD-based backing store as that would assume everyone has set up a swap partition, and things would likely break if you didn't have a swap partition on the SD card.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lord_Phoenix:
Thanks for your reply, so the problem with booting is only because of ext4 exists on SD card? I thought it's because of APP2SD and partition was deleted. Here is the statement from History version:

2.8

MoDaCo Custom Kernel 1.2 featuring additional filesystem support (EXT4, NFS, CramFS, SquashFS 4.0), CompCache 0.5.4 modules and DroidWall support

So I thought 2.8 also supported ext4. :-\
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
Yes. I use Advanced Task Manager Pro. I don't have any problems. You need to manage the programs excluded from being killed when idle. The HTC checkin service as well as most HTC backend services should not be killed otherwise you are likely to kill off something vital to the OS. This is usually what happens when the system gets into a loop like this.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kntp:
Some bugs I found out, sorry if it was already mentioned...

Alarm clock sometimes does not ring, only vibrate (if it is on), happened three days stray since installed MoDaCo 2.9, I restart start again...

And if you put the HTC calendar to sunday be the first day of the week (really used in Brazil and other places) only the title up changes, but the day don't... it makes saturday became monday and so on...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
I have updated now to MCR 2.9.

Now I have a big question about App2SD.

I have made a second partition with 512 MB on my SD Card.

Then I have updated the ROM from 2.8 and let the phone go for about 45 Minutes to start.

How could I see, that Apps2SD works finde and can I make some configuration on it?

I don't see any Button or something....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
It would appear so - as I said, I couldn't remember if it did or not. I always use EXT3 - I've never changed my SD card since the first MoDaCo ROM.

The looping usually occurs when it doesn't like something about the SD card partitioning or format or data it thinks is stored on the SD card for apps. You can usually test by trying boot without the SD card installed. You could have tried re-flashing to see if the problem went away or clearing the data (doing a factory wipe through nandroid) and then re-flashing.

AFAIK, all the MoDaCo ROMs try to install apps on the SD if a second partition with EXT2/EXT3 (and EXT4 recently) exists. There is no need to do anything special like run A2SD manually - it is all done during the first boot after re-flash.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
You can't really do anything to massively modify the Apps2SD process - it's not like it is a "real" application. All it does it make some links so that the data is put on the SD card via some Linux file linking.

You can check as per the post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4890944&postcount=2164
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
OK, I did what the Post say, but I don't really understand.

Is it okay to post a screenshot and could you please say to me, if its okay, or not okay?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] denvro:
You see the folder app (4th line) is a link (first letter on that line is an L) and at the end of the line you see it's linked to the location

/system/sd/app.

Same for app-private a couple of lines down. So everything is okay!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
Oh, okay, wow. Thank you!

I saw, that there is only 94 MB Space on internal Memory. That's normal?

A last question to that:

What is, if I want to downgrade or use a ROM without AppsToSD onboard?

And what is, if I want to have the Apps in Phone Storage, not on SD?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
It's about normal - free internal space will still vary depending on how many applications you have because some files (optimized code files for applications) are stored on internal memory with the stock MoDaCo ROM (the files reside in /data/dalvik-cache).

If you do away with Apps2SD, all your application packages also get stored on in ROM (internal memory) - so you will have less than 94MB of internal memory without an Apps2SD set up and the same applications installed.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
OK, thank you. I know, what you mean!

OK, I ve asked the wrong question. :D

What happens to my Apps, if a new ROM doesn't have Apps2SD in it.

Then all Apps are to hell?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] denvro:
Today I went back to 2.8. I realy love the speed of 2.8. I had the same problem with my 500MB ext4 partition on my SD card. The Hero started boot looping at startup. After formatting the partition back to ext3 2.8 works very fine again.

I'm going to stay on 2.8 now for a while.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
Yes - although maybe not that dire. The new ROM won't know about your installed applications sitting on the SD. So generally, you'd have to re-install the apps.

Alternatively, you could also manually copy the files sitting in your SD partition (from the directories seen earlier when seeing if Apps2SD worked) to the appropriate areas in your ROM (/data/private-apps and /data/apps). That may or may not work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kalewsiukas:
new rom

hey guys

im new in android, so maybe someone can write me how to write a new rom in to my htc hero?

thnx
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] an0therus3r:
Did you even read the first post in this topic ?

For the complete newbies, these are the steps you need to take with a 'virgin' Hero:

Any one can give me a link to the 2.8 version from MoDaCo, just incase 2.9 doesn't fit my needs?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Aratheba:
Thanks, your hint seems to work! I've just added htc checkin service and few other services and now no crash at all (ehm...at least till this morning! :P).

What I cannot understand is why I didn't have such a problem with my stock rom?!?! :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
I don't know what your stock ROM was - but if it was an early version, the checkin service didn't exist. In fact, to get some of the efficiencies and speed of the later ROMs, I think HTC re-organized many of the components. As part of that re-organization, they probably joined some of the components together to achieve speed - but it would have made those "super" components critical to the stability of the Sense UI - and killing that "super" component would result in the effect that everything relying on it start complaining.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liden:
I have the same problem with the alarm. It seems like the phone thinks it has a headset connected.

Someone that have a solution for this? Please!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
Here's the link to MoDaco 2.8

CLICK

Now, I have a new Question: :o

Paul gives us in the first post the ability to delete some apps.

I'd like to delete: - stockapp and -peep. I don't need it anymore.

Did somebody deleted that on his Hero?

Could you tell me please, if it's okay without that or must I calculate with problems. (e.g. failures in working with Hero...)

Thanks! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jhericurls:
That's the first thing I do after I install a new rom is delete stock,twitter,footprint etc... I think they slow down the phone and works better without them.

Running 2.9 and everything is working and quick.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
Nice!

Did you delete any Apps more? Or only this three?

(I like Footprints very, I can't believe that anybody delete this great piece of soft... ;) )

Edit:

I don't need this WiFi Status App. Is it possible do delete?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Aratheba:
I had a 2.73.xx then I guess the checkin service was already there right?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Wavescure add on pack updated to 3.0.0.34, which fixed battery drain / partial wake issues!

Changelog: http://feedback.wavesecure.com/pages/3560-general/suggestions/351952-android-change-log

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] craig0r:
Huzzuh! Thanks for the update, Paul.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] anarchyuk:
got my hero on t-mobile today thanks to you no more than 10 mins later im rocking with your rom! makes my touch diamond 2 look like crap!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slimfady:
How do you remove stock? Can't seem to be able to remove it using Application options or QuickUninstaller.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] denvro:
Check the first post of this thread. There's a link to the Modaco forum where everything is explained.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
Could I uninstall more Apps I don't need?

Could somebody give me a Hint?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Yea, delete /system/app/WifiStatus.apk, the same method used to remove all the other (generally) useless tools, like Footprints :P

Reference: --> http://android.modaco.com/content/h...-core-chinese-with-tck-featuring-wavesecure/#
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
Ahh, yeahh, I did!!!

Thanks to you. Now Peep, Stock and Wifi Status is going to the past.....

Thanks.

Something short to this Forum:

Because of YOU, I have the feeling, that I knew more about the system!

Thx to all made that happens!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ZenorGR:
Can anyone confirm if Andnav2 is working on 2.9?

It stopped working for me after 2.7 or so(force closes).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] thierry_b:
Re

I try it with modaco 2.8 => force to close also :-(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] srt4mn:
Tried to do some searching around on the topic, but is anyone else in the US using T-Mobile not able to send MMS messages using this firmware?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bigballa592:
does this work on cmda hero?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
There's a CDMA Hero forum here, but yes, Modaco has released a version of his MCR for the Sprint here here:

http://android.modaco.com/category/409/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/

This ROM doesn't work on the CDMA Hero though.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
Hi,

could someone answer my question:

I've about 50 Apps on my Hero. It says that there are almost 40 MB free Space on my Hero.

What is faster?

The Apps with Apps2SD on my Transcend Class6 16 GB SD Card (about 9MB speed on WIN7)

or:

The Apps on the phone and no changes?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
The speed increase is going to be marginal in having your applications installed on internal memory. The optimized code for your applications sits in dalvik-cache which is already on your internal memory. The application code is only read once at run-time (when it is first loaded into memory) so even with some of the application bootstrap information residing on your SD card (with the executable code in dalvik-cache), you are only going to be penalized when the application first loads up into memory - and that is arguably going to be small for a fast SD card. The downside of having the applications stored on internal memory is the number of applications you can install. So you trade-off marginal speed increase at application start-up for number of applications available on the phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] phamil4066:
FAILED (Remote: not allowed)

Is there a straight forward RUU which flashes to your custom ROM. I've tried installing the updated recovery image but all I get is FAILED (Remote: not allowed)

If not, can anyone help with my problem? Basically I have the unlock code for a Orange UK simlocked Hero, but it wont' take the code, and I am told I need to update to Modaco's custom rom before it will work.

Regards...PH
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gabe3:
I'm loosing about 15% of my battery in 11 hours while I'm asleep at night. Any idea whats causing this? I have 3 mail accounts set to update once a day. Any idea whats causing the drain? I don't use twitter.

The other question is, can modaco include the android market from 1.6? so we can see screenshots of apps in the market.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jpalo:
You sleep too much ;)

Seriously, I haven't done any measurements, but 15% in 11 hours doesn't seem that bad. Do you have bluetooth turned on? Have you configured it so that wifi is turned off while phone is sleeping?

What is the reception next to your bed (or wherever you keep your phone when you sleep)? Poor reception = more battery drain. Also if you are on 3G area, battery is drained more.

You said you don't use Twitter, how about syncing contact info from Facebook?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gabe3:
bluetooth is off, wifi is on, but apparently, after I lock my device, a few minutes later wifi must turn it self off. because when I use my device again 20 minutes later, wifi takes about 5 seconds to connect, because I notice the wifi icon doesn't show up for a few seconds.

my reception is poor where I sleep. I'm using a gsm hero on tmobile usa, so I only have 2G. and no facebook syncing.

I followed a little guide on improving battery life here:

http://www.gamaze.com/blog/2009/08/improve-battery-life-for-the-android-based-htc-hero-smart-phone/

hopefully that will help, I'll find out tomorrow morning.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] E2K:
maybe there are apps still running in the background?

I use task killer before I go to sleep, to clear all the apps that were still running. Maybe that will help also?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] TylerDurdenK:
Stuck in a loop

I am trying to apply Modaco 2.9 to my new T-Mobile G2.

I have managed to get the recovery-RA-hero-v1.3.2.img installed and have booted to that.

I have placed the update.zip onto the SDCard and have installed it with seemingly no problem.

However when I try and reboot the phone I just get a loop from Hero screen to HTC.

I ........................................................

Cancel that, after waiting about 5-10minutes on the looping screens, it has just started up.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mrmaakhija:
Can some one help me,

I have installed recovery-RA-hero-v1.3.2.img and MCR2.9

but when i goto adb shell it displays special character before the file name

is there a solution for same.

please help Thanks:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Poischack:
Use a real OS ...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
mrmaakhija,

I'm using Windows 7 and I have the same problem too :-) I also would love to know the real OS people have been talking about ;_;
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xanadu:
It's easy:

# xanadu@xps:~$ adb shell

/ # mount -a

/ # flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.3.2.img

flashing recovery from /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.3.2.img

/ # xanadu@xps:~$
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
yep, set an alias for ls without colours before listing the directory structure, "alias ls=ls" should do it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] naTTan:
Guys would there be any problem if i remove the launcher.apk? Since we have rosie is it still necessary to have the old launcher?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] craig0r:
Hey, rather than act like some kind of snob because you're either too poor or your computer sucks too much to run Win7, why not try either being helpful or stfu.

To anyone asking about this "real OS," Windows 7 64-bit has some issues with adb, although I hear it can be forced to work by first installing adb/android drivers on a Vista-64 machine and then copying them over or some jazz.

However, if you're running Windows 7 64-bit, then your PC is certainly capable of running a Virtual Machine. Any flavour of Linux, or WinXP 32-bit would be your best bet. VMware probably has the best USB support. It's what I use on my Win7-64 machine. If you don't have access to VMWare Workstation, you can get VMWare Player, which is free, and I'm sure you can find a number of Linux VM's for it on torrent sites (don't worry, Linux being open-source, it is perfectly legal to download them.)

@naTTan: Why not try it out? You can always make a nandroid backup in case things get too screwed up, or you can always just "adb push" the launcher.apk back in. I *think* that should be ok, but maybe Rosie relies on something in the launcher package.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] naTTan:
Yeah most of the dream users with Hero ports are removing it, i was thinking of doing a nandroid before removing it, but was thinking is anyone here had any prior knowledge will report soon i guess.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] o7hafiz:
hey i had a problem loading then custom Radio.......... the unboxing to fone screen wont go... its there since lastnight.

lastnight i was trying to load a new custom Radio for g1.i loaded a radio frm the link above.. idk before the problem i coppied it to my sd. wiped .. then update frm sd .zip then selected the radio (update-hero-radio-63.18.55.06IU_6.35.08.22-signed.zip ) it did something the asked to reboot i did but then the open box with an arrow pointing at a fone screen came up.. and its there till last night i tried removing the battery .:/ same issue..

NEED HELP tnx
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] craig0r:
"i was trying to load a new custom Radio for g1"

so you're trying to put a Hero radio onto a G1? That won't work.

If I misunderstood your post, and you're putting it on a Hero, I would try flashing the radio again, and failing that, I would run the official 2.73.405.5 RUU update and start rooting again from the beginning.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Poischack:
And the troll win again ... be cool man.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] NikosA:
Folks, since 2.9 I can't use the WiFi. I always get "network error(s)". Anybody else with the same problem?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FormelLMS:
No, WiFi is ok on 2.9
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] NikosA:
I decided it was about time to wipe evrything and build-up from scratch. It works. Sorry for the unnecessary post.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] an0therus3r:
Running 2.9 since a week and was playing around with google contacts.

I added a contact with street/location information with it and synced with my Hero.

When i opend contact on my hero and did find location it gave me this error:

"android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. - Force close" error."

Is this a known problem with this firmware ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] blackplatypus:
Is there a way to make permanent changes to the init.rc ? Every time I reboot the Hero it re-creates it with "default" values. I would like to change the PATH and LIB environment variables (permanent). Do I really need a new ramdisk image?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kiz:
Is anyone getting force closes with google maps now? Any time I try to search for anything, it FCs on me.

Getting really frustrating now as I realise how handy maps has become for me in the city!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xanadu:
Works fine on my unit under MoDaCo 2.9
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] an0therus3r:
Thanks for the "unintended" hint.

When you mentioned google maps i realised that when you want to find locations you need to have maps installed.

When it was in "stock mode" i thought it was default there but i guess not.

*downloading it atm*
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kiz:
Thanks, maybe I need to do a hard reset. In fact, maybe even just a reboot will solve it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Sergio PC:
Try reinstalling google maps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BeepBob:
I am getting force closes on Maps as soon as I search for an address, street, etc. here. Have tried installing Maps again from the market just now, no luck.

Have you been able to fix it, kiz?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] an0therus3r:
It's working fine here after installation (previous problem is gone now).

Maybe you could clear data/cache and if that doesn't help a hard reset maybe?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JBNAquatics:
Hey Modaco, I have a little request. The new firmware update on the Sprint HTC Hero has an onscreen mute/speaker icon. I was wondering if it's possible to implement that on the next update? It'll be pretty convenient (more so than the "hold call button to activate speakers" option).

Here's the pic from beerpla.net:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kendong2:
i second that. this is amazing, i use the handsfree most of the time i talk on the phone, and i find it very annoying to open the menu for that. lol the first few times i hung up because i pushed the "hang up" key, being used to do that when i want to turn the screen on... ;)

pleasepleaseplease make it happen :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kiz:
For some reason the thought of trying to reinstall or clear cache/data for the maps app completely escaped me, so instead I did a whole hard reset last night. Despite the obvious pain of getting everything sorted back to how I like it (took about an hour), Google maps is now working great.

I guess it was about time I did it, I hadn't hard reset since many roms ago.

If you have already reinstalled it and tried clearing the userdata via the "Manage applications" menu, I can't suggest any alternative, sorry :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] craig0r:
bluetooth bugfix/feature request

Hey Paul.

Great work, I got my Hero on Telus just after MDC 2.9 came out, and I'm loving it.

One thing I've noticed is that when I'm listening to music from my Hero via bluetooth, and say, and email or text comes in, the bluetooth audio cuts out, and the email/text notification comes through the phone speaker, then the bluetooth audio carries on. I think it would be much better if the notification sounds played through bluetooth as well, overtop of the music, rather than interrupting it.

I'm not sure if this is an easy fix or not. I'm fairly sure that it would be something in the kernel to do with audio routing. It's not a huge deal... with the BT API making it into eclair, the 2.0 update from HTC may address this. I will email HTC about the issue as well.