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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] NisseGurra:
+1, its a really fast rom. Good work. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
Gonna slam this mother onto my hero when i get home :) is it just the same process as loading modaco? Nandroid backup then an update.zip?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] OttarA:
Yes, its the same way. I'm also looking forward to trying this one, just gotta get home first
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marazi:
this rom is super fast...!!

if you want to use the htc keyboard, you can...

download links here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=567294
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Says factory wipe first.

Aha. Thanks marazi :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
1 thing ppl...... is htc sync working with this rom? mine not working.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Thanks for the clarification, Benhaam. I will use your rom. Keep it up man!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marazi:
i really doubt HTC sync will ever work on a "vanilla" rom (i might be wrong though).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulosman:
absolutely brilliant my friend. thankyou loads for this. i think i'll keep it on until 2.0 for Hero is out cos it is lovely to use. SOOOO responsive. if the few broken bits are fixable too it will be perfect but even as it is I'm happy with it.

got a few 'android.process.acore...' crashes but that might be cos I restored too much from my MyBackupPro (dicitionary maybe?) but other than that, amazing work bud

cheers, Oz
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
so how we r going to sync contacts??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
If you use a gmail account to store all of your contacts then whenever you wipe all you need do is enter your gmail details on device start and hey presto! No need for cables or anything!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] E2K:
Great progress!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Mount apps folder as R/W
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kroosh:
Hi behnaam

I have a Magic ROM that I would like to port to Hero. I would appreciate your kind help pointing me to a howto guide or so.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marazi:
i would highly recomend using an gmail account :) it makes it all so easy :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
thnx bro..............
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
So who has tried the rom out? Waiting here to do mine...has anyone else any hints / tips etc??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Foka002:
I tried it and all I wanna say is WHY would anyone like to change nice looking Sense ui to this ROM ?? I understand it's maybe faster and it's based on 1.6 and blabla but Updated Hero with Modaco ROM is quite quick and stable. Thats only my opinion.

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marazi:
im using it now, and has since it was released last night, i think its pretty fast, and works great (except the parts missing obvious).

Its kinda nice running something else than sense ui for a change, its great and all, and paul has done a tremendous job on the modaco rom.

But sometimes i think its alright to use something different for å while :)

So keep up the great work on this rom :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
Ok so installed rom and played with for last half hour or so, impression's are as follows...

The rom is REALLY snappy and fast (awesome) no lag like with Sense (even on the MCR roms).

Nice change of 'theme' text and icons are all as Google intended, looks really cool and is a welcome change from Sense.

I didn't realise that the Facebook/Flickr/Twitter integration were HTC added?? No Facebook sync for contacts (well not that i can find and are more than happy to be told i'm wrong here as this is one thing I do miss if this is the case?)

New market is as cool as i had hoped for, screenshot's in the app's/games are really useful and taken a page from Apple's book here well :D

Will add more as i find it but once the non-functioning aspects are working i will run this rom till eclair drops for sure, mad props to Modaco for his work on MCR too.

Behnaam you are a legend mate and i'm sure we will all give a 'donation' to you as with Modaco for your ongoing work :D

Moj

Oh and the voice search facility is VERY COOL!!! Works a treat, distinguished all the phrases i spoke into it....great stuff!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marazi:
yeah, that is HTC added, but it is included with the stock android 2.0 (eclair) release, but not this one...

If you have been using the facebook integration with your google contacts, their pictures atleast should be saved with the gmail contact, so you will have their picture on this rom :)

but you prob already figuerd that out :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Just because we like it better dude. It's a matter of personal preference.

As a side note, I've noticed that the market does not find some apps (e.g. where did we park, meteo lite). Is this a known issue? Is there a solution?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulosman:
I have this same problem. cant find ebuddy or StatusNote and I love those apps. Had this ROM on since last night and I LOVE it. sure its not as slick as SenseUI/TouchFLO but like marazi said, its nice to try something different for a while.

I've installed most operating systems there are on my PC's/Laptop over the years just to play with them. I enjoy messing with all the things I can with my phones too ;)

Hopefully the few niggles with this rom will be sortable soon. behnaam dude, you've done an amazing job. you and Paul should work together and cook up some AWESOME stuff!

Oz
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] NisseGurra:
Maybe the apps u miss in store is for android 1.5?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
I'll fix issues as soon as I have time, probably tomorrow
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marazi:
sounds great, your doing great work, and im looking forward to see some updates :)

wish i could help in some way, so just let me know :)

(anything else than cooking, never tryed being a chef, but can help with anything else)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
thnx so much bro.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
guys.. i just found out that my wifi isnt working. i mean i can enable wifi but it doesnt get auto ip from my office's dhcp server and if i set ip manually it doesnt browse websites.

then i went back to 1.5 cupcake and wifi started working. then again flashed to 1.6 and again wifi doesnt work.

any idea?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Yeah, I can't find those either.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CombinedEffort:
Great work behnaam - I look forward to more releases.

Only unexpected problem at the moment is the Calendar Widget not working. Anyone else?

Cheers,

Rich.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
I'm back on Modaco now....Donut rom was cool and really good to play with, will return to it once camera, bluetooth etc are involved :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] j2kquest:
Same here, been using the ION rom since it was released and love the 1.6 improvements.

Going back to MCR 2.8 When everything is fixed then i'll be switching back to ION.

So until i get the whole pack of donuts or even eclairs, guess i'll just have to nibble on some cupcakes
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erikwt:
Hi behnaam,

How do you compile for hero? Are you using LoxDev's build method? I'd love to know how you do it so I can contribute myself.

Erik
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Don't discuss other thing than this ROM in this thread, If you have questions about kernel compiling, it has it's own thread.

Behnam :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
any1 about this prob yet? i tried again after wiping and flashing this donut rom but no matter what wifi doesnt doesnt browse.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaapschaap:
My wifi workes perfect, i like this ROM verry much, nice to play with 1.6 it's verry responsive and faster transition (i think).

I tried the advanced launcher for cupcake (1.7 instead of 2.1 version of the program), but it gives a force error, didn't try the replacement version of it (couln't get adb to work, if anyone has the right drivers? or a other way to replace the homescreen i will try)!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] flye:
Is there not any way you could like force the audio through the headphone-jack?

And mute it through the speakers? Cause if that would be fixed (in some way) I would use this ROM as my main.

Great work so far! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
Weird. then how come my wifi isnt working. everything else works pretty fine. :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
when can we get another update i hate the htc sense ui i like this plain and simple and fast but would like it fully functunal so hope in a few days this week all will be working?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] KinkyGolab:
i had problem whit my wifi to it dident find my wifi accses-point the problem is u cant us - in the name of the acsses-pint my name whas dd-wrtBG i needed to sheng it to ddwrtbg, the my hero find my acsses-point
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
update just installed the rom great rom just needs all the other featurs enabled but would prefer this over any other rom great work keep it up with loads of updates goodluck.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joandroid:
Thanks for ur work. I just tried and works perfectly. Can't wait to see it finished and can finally leave the bad HTC Sense interface.

Thanks a lot again! :cool::D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bgorin:
Thanks for your effort, this rom is great !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ZenorGR:
Thanks for your hard work, behnaam and the other developers on this forum.

Looking forward to the next version of this ROM :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
found a bug whilst in stanby mode and you plug in the charger the light shows green its supose to show orange however if you power down the phone then charge it shows orange strange and seems to charge very quick maybe can look into this bug thanks again cant wait for additional features the way android should be without htc sense it makes sense.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
There is no extended apn list I had to manually put my vodafone uk apn settings and then it worked.this would be great if all the apn settings were added so when I setup for the first time I can log into my google account.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
behnaam: bro any update? and any idea why my wifi isnt working? wifi starts but cant get ip from dhcp and if ip is set manually then cant browse internet. no pages loads.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jchatard:
First thanks for this great ROM! I was in search of vanilla ROM for a long time now.

Just to note: Wifi works great for me!

I do have something wired about the Market. There are a tons of application I can't find anymore nor install, while I could with an official or Modaco ROM.

After having dugg on the topic, I found several reasons why this could happen:

- Location change: no I'm still at home

- Network provider change: no still the same

- Language: tried French AND english (btw was working great with both language with Sense powered ROM)

- Device name/Model number: I think this is the clue.

As it appears int Settings > About phone > Model number : Google Ion.

But I'm not 100% sure this is problem. Maybe this is just because of Android version 1.6 and application I'm looking for aren't yet ported to this version.

Was just wondering. As an example anyone succeed in installing "Twidgit Lite"?

Once again, many thanks for this great work!

Jérémy
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] macshade:
Great work

Very nice work, i couldn't wait to test 1.6 and it paid. This rom is great.

I was using Modaco Rom and despite's is ROM beeing great i had some diferences i will point.

Maybe other person's can confirm my finding's.

Inside my house the network signal is horrible, many times my phone losed network.

With this 1.6 ROM it seem's a little better, don't know why, but i think it as better signal.

It shows 3 bar's with other rom it showed only two bar's. And with the other rom when someone called 50% of times was directed to voice mail. In this rom it seem's better.

Also this dialer is quite fast, the sense UI was sometimes sluggish. Many times i disconected a call and as it was sluggish i disconected one call and made another because the interface was slow on response.

I'm dying to see the 2.0 ROM in action, i guess now this phone will be perfect.

Yhank you all for the good work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
i have noticed wifi works for me but it doesnt pick up all wifi networks maybe another bug hope this can be solved.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jesterz:
thread stuck
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
yea about time hope this gets updated cause its such a nice rom if it works properly please all rom cookers help out on this one we are not getting 1.6 for hero the atleast we can do is make our own waiting for a update been abit quiet latley hope this aint gone dead otherwise its back to sense ui and i dont want that.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
The build.prop causes the Market issue, replaced it from the one in Amon_RA's ION 1.6 ROM. Im still working on trackball and camera, then I will release next update... compcache will also be activated in the next release :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
thats great just a request please when you get all things working can you keep this rom clean as possible and not adding third party apps into it and please ex4 support my card has the following partitions below.

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 512B 15.4GB 15.4GB primary fat32 lba

2 15.4GB 15.9GB 512MB primary ext4

3 15.9GB 16.0GB 32.0MB primary linux-swap(v1)

so i can't get my apps 2sd hope to have support soon phone memory quickly filling up but i have up to 143 mb free program memory wow thats alot compared to htc sense 70 to 80mb

the charging problem is supose to be orange when chargong but shows green can you check it out thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Could I ask what compcache is and what it's for? Thanks for your hard work man.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=compcache
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Hey Branwen, thanks for your help on googling that man. Couldn't have done it without you. Unfortunately I still can't understand the benefits compcache brings to us as users, so if maybe someone could take the time to explain that in layman terms, that would be really cool.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
"This project creates RAM based block device (named ramzswap) which acts as swap disk. Pages swapped to this disk are compressed and stored in memory itself.

Compressing pages and keeping them in RAM virtually increases its capacity. This allows more applications to fit in given amount of memory."

So it effectively gives the device more RAM to use, making it faster
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
That I understand. Thanks for taking the time to explain it, and sorry for not understanding the first time :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] brettlzz:
hey, quick question here I am wondering how do i flash this on my phone? i have amon-ra recovery image, do i just rename to update.zip an flash or do i have to flash witht the CleanION1.6.zip name?? thanks...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Sorry, I sometimes get a bit lazy. Glad I could help in the end :)

Either works. But do a wipe first as mentioned in the instructions
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] brettlzz:
Cool... thanks heaps!! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] awsy44:
Did anyone manage to get connected to a pptp vpn? , i have been trying for sometime now and can't connect, the same pptp vpn i have tried on the iphone and its working perfectly, is it something to do with the rom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
I'll will switch to technologist's kernel on next update with working tun.ko for pptp vpn connection :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaapschaap:
Any indication of the time we have to wait, the 1.0 version just misses a lot (most important is trackbal for me/apps) if that is fixed i will stay on this, for now i have to flash back because i can't use some apps right now! Not to rush you ofcourse!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
True! Frankly, I will stay on this rom even if it takes months to fix all the stuff, but I'm so anxious for news I must have checked the thread five times or so during the morning.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
In about a few days, my team just won national league haven't been home for a few days :P keep your eyes open for updates on the thread ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Killbom:
Very interesting.

Will test when u have gps, trackball and camera running!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaapschaap:
Congrats ;) What sport? (offtopic i know)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sibbor:
Soccer/Football... AIK won the Swedish league and my team, Elfsborg, ended up on third place ;-)

behnaam, what changes do you have up your sleves? Even with the kernel sources out the development seems very slow on our Hero devices. I was expecting more stuff to work out of the box...

Like the trackball etc... that would actually be great!

Just a status update. Won't test this ZIP out just yet. Keep up the good work though!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Yes it's AIK :)

Now on to your question:

My first work on the list for next version is to get technologist's kernel working correctly on this ROM since it has ext4 support and compcache plus more.. Second is the trackball and last camera. Kernel work is almost finished, trackball won't hopefully take long time, but the camera may be the harder part of getting things working.

Hope that answers your questions for now :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marazi:
:) sounds great :)

keep up the good work :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] b0z0:
First, I'd like to thank you for your great work. This ROM is really great !

Second, I was wondering if there were any reason why some packages of the official Android repository seems to be be missing in the ION ROM (I'm thinking about GoogleSearch.apk, IM.apk or Sync.apk).

PS: sorry for my bad english...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
behnaam: bro as Lox_Dev's kernel got compcache and ext4 support u can try his kernel too if that helps in solving the problems quickly. cheers man.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
I went back to the latest modaco 2.8 pauls rom with technoligst 1.7 kernel great combination but i don't know what it is that wants me to come back to this rom.

I have the best already but could it be that this is better could the ion 1.6 rom be the best of the best once its all working. Now i want to flash this ion rom back on again damm i hate this flashing all the time feels like i keep playing tennis but i have to admit there is something about this rom the cleaness, the speed, the original look, the amount of free program memory,.

Once it gets ramzswap update technologist kernel its gonna be f..... S... Hot awesome (don't ya wish your hero was Fast like mine don't cha don't cha) ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] j2kquest:
Spot on buddy
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] awsy44:
I love it man, i just need day to day things for the mean time, as soon as they're on the ion 1.6, I just love the multitouch apps, the mail and sms htc has made, 7 pages makes it cooler too, dont know its tempting!, would their ever be a port of sense ui?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
A port of Sense UI?? What for this Clean ION ROM?. You'll get your sense UI port with Android 2.0 in the coming months
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kendong2:
so we have 1.5 with sense, people struggling to get 1.6 without sense working, now you want the sense from 1.5 ported to 1.6 which is not really working at all? i don't know mate, but i would bet my money on "you're gonna wait for 2.0 with official ported sense"... ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] awsy44:
You guys are right, to be honest the only thing i really miss when i do go to 1.6 ion , is the multitouch browser, is their a chance of porting that?, or does the multitouch all come in one pakage
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ozxobez:
I finally rooted my T-Mobile G2 and this is the first rom that i'm trying. At last I got rid of Sense UI now! Hope to see a 2.0 full working rom soon, but 1.6 is also ok! ;)

Keep up the good work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Will be using Lox's community kernel instead, works better for cooking with :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
any news on a new release yet? keep coming back to this rom cause i find it very responsive.

lets just hope it stays that way and does not start to get slugish in anyway when the bits are added. This is the only thing that worries me at the moment hope you can pull it off without any sacrifices.Do you have a ETA on the next update i can't sleep at night untill it gets released please release so i can sleep :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
i am happy to beta test here if you need any testers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] iammodo:
loving my htc hero not looking like a windows mobile phone yay, cant wait till camera and gps are working
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Lox kernel now working fully on the ROM thanks to some help from the great lox! Now I'm going to work on camera and trackball!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frandavid100:
Benhaam, do you think those of us using your previous release will have to wipe before installing the next one?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
great news. all the best for camera and trackball. :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CombinedEffort:
I know it's a bit late in the day, but my number one request would be a working headphone socket - my phone doubles as my PMP and I'm not such a tw@t as to walk around with the speaker blaring out ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] E2K:
my hope is to be working backwards:

ie: take the 1.5 rom and strip it of HTC, and add ION apps. Learn how to do it, and replicate it when Hero 2.0 update hits.

This way you will always have everything working. camera, trackball, remote, headphones, usb, wifi, lights, every single thing that exists on the phone will work perfect.

but 1.6 without sound, trackball, bluetooth, camera is also nice! keep up the good work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
Still waiting for a update was hopeing today really need a few features like apps2sd and ext4 support.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jutley:
The extended APNs list - With most Operators

can you add uk networks to the APN list ie uk vodafone cause it dont work i have to manually enter the settings all the time when i flash.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
I've added the

HUGE

apns list to next release
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Poischack:
The problem is that htc have done many modification on the kernel.

I take a look but it's a huge work to port that to new kernel.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bgorin:
When i'm trying to type fast on the keyboard, it's like it can't handle the speed and none of the letters are displayed in the field even they poped up. Is it because the ION 1.6 doesn't have the multitouch ? Because even if the keyboard with htc sense was very laggy, i didn't have this issue.

I've another question, all your work you're doing now on the 1.6, will it be used when the 2.0 will be out ? Or we should start from the beginning again ?

Thank for your work, your ROM is definitely my favourite ;)