yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hkfriends:
anyone can help?

In v2.2, adb shell

type ls, will have some control chars in the windows prompt ??

# ls

ls

←[1;34mcache←[0m ←[1;32minit.goldfish.rc←[0m ←[1;34msbin←[0

m

←[1;34mdata←[0m ←[1;32minit.hero.rc←[0m ←[1;34msdcard←

[0m

←[0;0mdefault.prop←[0m ←[1;32minit.rc←[0m ←[1;34msqlite_s

tmt_journals←[0m

←[1;34mdev←[0m ←[0;0mlogo.rle←[0m ←[1;34msys←[0m

←[1;36metc←[0m ←[1;34mproc←[0m ←[1;34msystem←

[0m

←[1;32minit←[0m ←[1;34mroot←[0m

#
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
those are ANSI Escape codes to set various things on your terminal, e.g. Bold, colour.

1;34m is foreground dark blue bold, for example. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

ideally your terminal would interpret these codes, and show the colours.

you can also alias ls so that it doesn't do this.

hadn't noticed that myself though, interestnig.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] packetlss:
try issueing this command to stop ls from using colors

alias ls='ls --color=no'
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hkfriends:
great, now i can see the correct text !:)

but need to type this command everytime.... don't know any where to hard code this while in startup ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arene:
Just donated some bucks.....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulehmoo:
Chucked a fiver in. Lol.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] spacecat:
can i withdraw some money from the fund please i installed the new rom and now my signal is worse than before about £20 should cover it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ewans:
Did you update the radio as recommended?

Regardless, that's not a nice comment - Pauls work is superb, and this Rom is not the end - are you saying you won't install others in the future?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Wanna get into cooking ROMs and etc. Just have some questions that would help me alot if answered:

Are there any good resources to start with as a noob chef of android ROM development?

Can I change thing around in MCR update.zip, resign it and then flash the update.zip or are there anything im missing?

What is the best signing tool for update.zip's (and apk's) if developing under Vista?

Do I have to use a linux enviroment to cook the ROM's in?

Thx in advance!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulehmoo:
I have a suggestion, next time.

Pastebin.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chabsie:
Evaluation

What is everyone's honest opinion of the latest ROM... I've heard some good and some bad
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JBNAquatics:
I heard the real release is coming out tomorrow because the Nordic version is missing some essential stuff. Upgrading to the new official release will disable A2SD so I'm hesitating on it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phil_UK:
Donated.

Think of us all when you're in your new Porsche Paul :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
Did you try a data wipe using the option in the Nandroid recovery image?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zeed82:
Yes, I did the wipe from the rescue menu (home+power).

I think that the problem is in some system app modified in modaco version that is launched at system init and it have problems with some config (bad partitions in sd or similar). The problem is I dont know what is that app.

What is the last version you used before installing the last modaco version?

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] aleck_eagle:
I tried The new modaco 2.2 and drizzy v1.0 Rom.. Unfortunately, all the same problems exist.

1>search in browser in landscape mode, keyboard bounces.

2>sms delivery report time shows 7 mins. later than actual.

3>Advanced task manager does not show memory inso and system tab force closes (the 3rd problem is what i dont like),

I'm quite sure there is some problem in these modified roms(even the modaco one, Ive tried them all) because when i install the rooted unmodified rom from modaco the 3rd problem is solved it works fine(not that i really need this app. its just that some where in the back of my head i feel something is not right in the rom that causes this, which might later on be a problem with some other apps also). and i also added a2sd later on which worked fine. and the 1st and 2nd problem exists in all the roms(modified, unmodified, rooted, and unrooted stock roms). if you could please solve the 3rd problem it would be gr8.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jesterz:
*ding*

is anybody picking up where Paul (modaco) left off ? I'm willing to come out of retirement (s200/prophet cook) and start playing around now that I have a hero too :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
2.3 will be out this week ;)

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
I'm interested in some of this information too. I've had a look around developer.android.com, and people have suggested the Dream forums, but I still haven't really found anything that's been much help in actually modifying/updating/cooking a new ROM.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jesterz:
cheeky bugger ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Paul, have you received the Hero yet?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Nah, it'll arrive Tuesday I imagine!

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
Heya Paul,

Seeing as i kindly got everyone onto the 'donate a hero' way of thinking, do you think you could check something for me?

It's driving me mad, but no matter how i format my new 8gb Sandisk SDHC card, my Hero refuses to create thumbnails in the DCIM/.thumbnails directory.

It creates the directory itself, but no thumbnails get generated.

I'm not alone on this, and i'm thinking most probably have similar problems without realising.

I can format my original 2gb Sandisk SD standard card in any way using any machine, utility etc, and this works fine. Thumbnails are created inside that folder and Album browsing is super quick.

Other than that, the 8gb card seems to operate normally, either formatted whole as FAT32, or partitioned for apps2sd use.

If anyone else could check their DCIM/.thumbnail directory too that'd be appreciated!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zeed82:
Reboot problems(fixed)

I just found and fixed the problem. The problem happened becouse my second sd partition was ext4 (I changed it to ext2 and all work fine!).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
The only reason I asked was wondering if there was any difference from the Retail one, and the PR one you had from HTC, wasn't an engineering sample or something was it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Nah, my PR one was full retail!

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PatternInChaos:
Hey I was wondering if anyone else had problems getting a sound when a sms comes in? I installed handcent sms app and got sound there. Tried reupdating the lastest rom, too, but no change. I'm wondering if it's just my phone..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slimfady:
Just do a master reset, It will fix the SMS issue. It's probably one of your apps that's causing the issue.

Edit: oops, my bad, I thought you were talking about the issue of not receiving SMS. I have sound with handcent and MCR 2.2 anyways
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PatternInChaos:
Hm strange.. I did a wipe and flashed the 2.2 rom. Now I get a sms sound but not the one I set up. It's just the first one in the list.

I'll flash an older rom now and see what happens..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PatternInChaos:
Edit: seems like my fault, I only changed the sound in the sound&display settings but had to go to messages and change it there, too. d'oh
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ethan3686:
guys i am getting the hero in india...just wanted to know if this update will work for the indian version or not??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bowow:
im intterestin, what do you mean with "master reset" ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
Yay! wait and prepare for that :) any idea of improvement or adding apps :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slimfady:
Settings --> Security --> Factory Data Reset
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FrAN_oC:
will 2.3 be based on new 2.86 release?

RGDS!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
Why footprints app always start by itself? I use Astro and can see its process running without anyone start it. Use MCR 2.2e, is it normal for hero and what is its intention to automatically run?

Thanks,
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
I would also like to know this :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JBNAquatics:
There's a little issue I noticed using the Modaco ROM. Whenever I open Pandora, the music app also opens too which is strange...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I will be restructuring the ROMs a little for 2.3 - there will be a WWE core version and a Chinese core version, then an addon pack to apply to either which takes you from core to enhanced.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FrAN_oC:
Great news Paul.

I can't wait until you release 2.3!!! :D:D

RGDS!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Is linux-swap enabled in the user.conf? Or do I have to use swapper?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
I'll check when I get my Hero back, but I don't think user.conf is used atm... If you put userinit.sh in /data/ instead of /sdcard/ it should work tho!

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
I'll try that as soon is I get back home, thx!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geovass:
Paul, is there a way to delete htc scenes from your ROM ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] salmanbodla:
Dear Paul,

May I ask to address (if possible) the following issues in your ROM updates:

1) The blurring/pixelating of the contact pics when calling or being called, especially the contacts whose pictures have been manually assigned from Albums (Facebook ones are far better!) This problem has been discussed in another thread but no solution so far. What do you think is going wrong??

2) Another Albums issue i.e. the Thumbnails not being created in certain SD cards, especially microSDHC 8GB class 6 cards. Thumbnails are created normally when the 2GB factory-supplied card is used. Although this 2GB card is otherwise slower, the Albums app works much faster and smoother with it. Again, could you please explain why this is happening? Can it be corrected in your ROM updates?

Many thanks! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkodr:
I second that! Well, maybe not to completely delete them, but to give us the option to.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tisungho:
Hi Paul,

Is it possible to fix bouncing landscape keyboard and status bar when searching in web browser?

Thanks for your effort!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phil_UK:
Are you on O2 by any chance? If so not a ROM issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freddy87:
just tried other custom rom!

now back to modaco!

i love it!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Yes we ran into this with a mobile app a year or so ago at the office.

O2 (I think Voda as well) runs all image/jpg content (and probably others) through a caching converter which totally frags the quality but bring down all the sizes as well.. It was most evident on what were originally high quality photo's (2-3MB in size, it'd attempt to shrink them to < 100KB).

We got around this by using SSL, which obviously has its own disadvantages, but worked well for the application. As a client developer there's alternative ways around it as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phil_UK:
OK. Well if you go into the network/APN settings and use 'bypass' instead of 'O2web' that may solve your problem, and probably speed up your data connection too. :D

Phil
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Ah, nice one.

I don't have O2 card (or associated problems anyway), but it's a good tip!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] salmanbodla:
No. I am on Orange, and am using a white unbranded Hero, with the old stock rom + a Sandisk 8GB class 6 microSDHC card. Card once formatted from within the phone --> didn't correct the issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
Paul, could you give me some info on what happens when flashing ROMS and wiping.

When we do a wipe and then flash, does *all* data get wiped, flushed etc

Is anything left untouched or is the entire system wiped and replaced?

I'm trying to get to the bottom of the thumbnails not being created and any info you can give would be appreciated.

Cheers!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] crash515:
Can any user of this rom tell me if they have any delay with custom mp3 rington like in oryginal ROM form HTC?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] furius:
app2sd

I'm new to Android...

Can any user help me how to check if apps are installed on sd card or on internal memory? I partitioned my sd with fat32, ext3 and swap, i flashed the ROM with modaco 2.2c but it does'nt seem to move apps to sd...

I also installed "root explorer" and I expected to explore the ext3 partition but i can't see it on the file manager app...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deeren:
i am sure it's in the sd card. dont worry. well as long as you already have root explorer installed, browse and check whether the applications are in data/app or system/sd/app

If the applications are in data/app , it means they have been installed on the phone.

If they are in system/sd/app , then it means it's on the sdcard allright and u r good to go :)

Cheers/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] furius:
Thank-you very mutch cor your answer...

Really it seems that apps are in both positions (data/app and system/sd/app)... and when I install a new app internal memory decreases...

... so ext3 is equal to system/sd/app?

Can I explore ext3 from dos command line with some adb shell?

Sorry for dummies questions...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] axellink:
Slight feature missing. did anybody use the feature where you could sync only certain groups in your contacts? This feature was present in the old firmware but is now missing.

Before you could go to People > Groups > Menu > Sync groups and the select the groups you only wanted to sync. this is not present with the new version. Also I can't alienate Google contacts as well. Annoying change for those who don't sync their contacts with Google.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deeren:
try to download 2-3 apps ( anything for free on the market) and just check where had it been downloaded to.

i mean to data/app or system/sd/app
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
/data/app gets symlinked to /system/sd/app - so /data/app isn't really there... ;)

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] furius:
thank you modaco!

so what I can read from the internal memory widget or from the settings->memory-> available internal space (or something like that... I have Italian interface :-) ) is not corresponding to the fact??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] furius:
wifi tethering

I tryed wifi tethering and it functions very well without added costs on my provider (vodafone italy)... but I have a questions: during wifi connections with my laptop and during 3G download, my device warm up too mutch and battery goes down very fast... is it normal? or I risk to let explode my hero like it appened to some iphone?? :confused:

thanks to this wondeful community

I love you and I'll donate soon to help modaco go on in its developments!

:cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stripealipe:
Can anyone give me advise on the above? Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
If you start youre PC with a live-cd i.e. The Ubuntu-linux distribution, you are able to see youre ext3 and linus-swap partions on the sd-card.

But there is really nothing much to see. I checked and just found out that the free space on the ext3 partion is much smaller then when i created it. From 512Mb to 410Mb. Thats for me the prove the apps are installed on the sd-card ext3 partition
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] atsavlis:
So I have a weird situation.... I was curious about the appstosd function on my phone as my phone mem drops whenever i install something, and checked the directories you wrote above.... The funny thing is that both directories for me are identical...!!! All my apps are shown in both places... Are my apps being installed in two directories simultaniously??? :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] furius:
Look Modaco answer at prev page: it seems that on data/app are only links to system/sd/app...

If I right understand...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] felikz:
when will debian really work easily on the phone (not in the current way, everybody has it own "frickelings" :-D )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] salmanbodla:
I second it. Please help on the thumbnails issue. It regards the .thumbnail folder within the DCIM folder on your SD card... and more specifically with faster 8GB class 6 cards (sandisk + transcend). Please help anyone!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] eJLIFe:
Seems I'm running into a bit of trouble installing this ROM.

For some reason during the installation it fails when trying to set permissions to /usr/xbin/busybox. Has anyone else ran into this situation? I tried a different ROM from Qteknology and the installation worked just fine.

I'm trying to escape the constant restarting of TouchFlo and hopefully speed increases from the MoDaCo ROM.

myTouch 3G / tmobile.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
This is a ROM based off of the Sense UI from HTC. I'm pretty sure it's not going to work on a myTouch. Sorry =(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
I feel like a bit of a traitor, but I'm temporarily trying out Drizzy's ROM, it seems in general quicker (again), but the delay in phone calls (incoming and outgoing) seems to be back again. Interesting things to come I think as it looks like there's always going to be further enhancements to the Hero!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jamesking420:
I still get the lag on phone calls on MoDaCo 2.2c... Didn't know it had ever "gone"? Is there a fix of some sort..?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Mine was far, far better from 2.0 onwards, the dialer was almost unusable before that. But now that I think about it, I think this coincided with the release of the 06.18 radio release, which would make sense as the phone/dialer I'm under the impression are released with the radio updates not update.zip system ROM's.

If you're not already running 06.18, I'd give that a go straight away
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ChrisChavez:
I'm getting the same problem when trying to flash! :confused:

I don't understand as I wiped everything (ext3 included) and 1.5.1 flashed just...

Anybody know what's going on with 2.2???
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
Again, this is for the Hero only, unless I am mistaken. This will not work for the myTouch or G1.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ChrisChavez:
OHHHHHHhhhh.... OKAY. I feel REALLY dumb now.... gonna leave. Thanks for the help.

Ugh =/

*tail between legs*
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] eJLIFe:
lol, well, that makes two of us. I probably should have got more rest last night. My apologies to people who scratched their heads.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Cynabal:
I keep getting force close with .acore what's causing this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Paul, or anyone else...

Has anyone tried upgrading Android to 1.6?

Any issues with you 2.2 rom?

Any usefull info for going to 1.6 ( can you get back like you can with rom flashing using Nandroid )

cheers:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
As far as I'm aware, noones done a version of the 1.6 for the Hero as yet. The only ROM's using this base version are Cyanogen's Magic and Dream ROM's.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cmsweet21:
im getting errors while installing this ROM

E:Can't chown/mod /system/xbin/busybox

(No such file or directory)

E:Failure at line 41:

set_perm 0 0 04755 System:xbin/busybox

Installation aborded.

:(

my sd is partitioned into 3

Firmware 1.6

help please
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] justbabu:
This ROM is for HTC Hero only as far as I know.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cmsweet21:
ya just being dumb ass. after i posted this iv read the same prob so i got the answer.. hhas .. /sory
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Foka002:
Hi,

I've installed this ROM before i created Ext partiton. How can I now transfer all apps from phone memory to created Ext3 ??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tkm89:
Will do it automatically. You won't have to do anything.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Foka002:
lovely thanks ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
Is there by any chance an ETA on 2.3?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Today or tomorrow all being well, trying to fix a few issues atm!

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] furius:
if you are fixing some bugs... I have problem with quickoffice... it crashes immediatly when I try to launch the application...

thanks for your work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
You're the best, Paul!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
Great! Looking forward to it :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] james_white:
I've extracted the custom recovery image to the main folder on the sd card but when I open up a command promt in there and enter in the first line 'adb shell reboot bootloader' it says 'abd is not recognized as an internal or external command...'

What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
'abd not recognised'?!? Are you using adb or abd?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] james_white:
:o...

Sorry lol

Works now :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kingklick:
his download link isnt working for me.... wont dl past 3/4% :confused:

can someone post the file or put it on rapidshare or something?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kingklick:
anything you can do about the dl link Paul?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Golgo:
Go to the "tools" folder where you extracted the Android SKD to first, then run the commands.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kingklick:
can no one provide a dl or different link othe4r then paul's?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] james_white:
http://content.modaco.net/hero/2.2-update-hero-modacocustomrom-core-signed.zip

Is what I used.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
I have just realised that when pressing the phone button all of the numbers have weird letters underneath them. I'm running 2.2 core.

Any ideas Paul?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
Oh. that's an easy one. You just need to go to Custom Locale (or i guess you can do it in normal locale settings) and change your local to en-GB (or whatever english you are using).

This seems to happen every time you reboot the phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
Have a look on the first few pages of the forum. Someone set up a mirror for the ROMs.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Excellent thanks, thats also fixed some date format issues I had!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] iammorris:
Does anyone know if Paul is planning a 2.3 release any time in the next few days? I'm ready to flash this ROM but I don't want to bother if he's going to release a new one in a few days, as I'd rather just wait for that.

I tried asking him on Twitter but received no reply. Does anyone have any information?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ZenorGR:
Read page 112 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PS4AndroidHacker:
MoDaCo 1.5.1!!!!!!!!

I flashed it and now I'm hooked. This "THE FASTEST" Hero ROM I've EVER had yet. And it has Flash support!!!??What's really going on!? I'm staying with MoDaCo until something bigger and better comes out. My home screens just fly! Can anyone explain this to me!? It's just a rumor but this is like making a deal with the devil! It's the Devil's ROM! Ha Ha Ha! Loving this Hero build MoDaCo,keep up your outstanding work!Great Job!:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
Not too sure why you are waiting. You can install the ROM in 5 minutes and then spend another 5 minutes if there is a new version. I would suggest you install and get the benefits now.