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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] riddick541:
they postponed the original upgrade again :( . Its now planned for April.

source:

http://translate.google.be/translate?hl=nl&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http://tweakers.net/nieuws/66169/htc-stelt-android-21-update-voor-hero-uit.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beffa_:
I have switched from Modaco 3.1 to Villain 3.4, the flash whent ok (did a wipe first) but the phone just stops at the boot screen. The first time I didnt to anything for 35min but thought that was way to long. So pulled the battery and it does the same thing again....thoughts?

Edit. I have done Nandroid backup in case
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] IcEman911:
I had the same problem as you.

You have to wipe dalvik via the recovery rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fuzzic:
1) I have now installed BRUT MAPS through the Nav Launcher, but when I start Google Navigator and click Navigate og View Maps it does nothing... Any thoughts?

2) Is there a guide online on how to do this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@IcEman911

I know those mentioned battery issues, I can ALWAYS solve them by starting from Zero. That means in my case I do start from partitioning my sd card and do all needed wipes, to avoid that any possible file could sit on the CPU.

Do to the fact I know that even MCR does have this problem (and MCR is presented as a non wipe ROM).

If YouTube is draining your battery even with plugged in charger, it is absolutely possible that the charger can´t provide enough power to the whole system (charge and app usage). As far as I know the charger provides 500 milliampere/hour that´s not really a lot of grease, compared to other chargers.

Use the newest radio and try if it is getting better or not, we have two fractions in this thread, those who have massive battery drain and those like me and Lennyuk who can confirm a good battery behaviour. So it´s not up to the ROM it is more up to your/my configuration.

Try to use newest radio, start from zero and lets see if your battery will last longer.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vvaleta28:
I look forward to your new rom legend, certainly as good as the villain 3.4, which is better sale.La. Congratulations.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] IcEman911:
If by MCR you mean Modaco then I didn't have any battery issues when on MCR especially when watching Youtube whilst the battery was being charged, which in itself managed to fully charge itself instead of depleting itself.

It does seem like the charger isn't providing enough power towards the phone let alone actually charging the phone.

I feel that I've installed it correctly though as I did the following:

- Wipe data/factory reset

- Wipe Dalvik-cache

- Wipe data/factory reset

Although I didn't do 'Wipe SD:ext partition' as most people would have done and this is because I don't have any kind of partition made, although I did previously but not since coming from MCR to VillainRom thus resulting in the partition being self deleted for some reason.

I'll try flashing the radio but I tend to prefer the EU version as it seems to give me better results compared to other versions and especially with the JU, but nonetheless I shall give this a try.

Many Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
@fuzzic

If your trying to navigate use nav launcher to get it started - it works for me

as for the phone thing, I am not sure exactly of the commands but it won't be too complicated, the hard bit will be finding the file of the dialer you want.

I don't think changing the dialer will change the Facebook issue though, I think this is an issue with the eris base itself.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kar1oko:
Do you have your ext partition as ext4? Eris based roms doesn't support ext4
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beffa_:
I did a wipe/factory

wipe dalvik

wipe/factory

then flashed the ROM again but same problem the quietly writes out and then nothing more happens. I do have a partition on my SD card, do I have to wipe that also? kinda stuck, thanks alot

Im almost sure I have EXT3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
is your ext a ext4? if so then that is your problem.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marinierb:
Has anybody checked birth dates in contacts? Do they match what's in Google Contacts?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
If I was you I would wipe the sd and re-partition it to make sure it is defiantely Ext2 or Ext3 then do another full wipe and reflash the rom.

Also what radio you running? you used a Villain rom in the past?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beffa_:
I will try that. No its my first Villain rom, used Modacos roms before and the radio Im not 100% but think its 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.09.26
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
If wiping everything and re-flashing still boot loops then I would flash the latest radio anyway even if it is what you have already just in-case (re-flashing does no harm anyway)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] claudefrog:
Yes, mine are all fine and syncd
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] claudefrog:
Radio

Anybody tell me what radio should be used for Villain 3.4 ROM please.

I am using 63.18.55.06EU_6.35.06.18, it works ok but not sure if any of the others are supposed to be better.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
The one in my sig is the newest and probably (in my opinion) the best.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] claudefrog:
Cheers Lenny, will grab it and give it a go :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vgkeeper:
Here is my feedback:

All the features are working well (BT, GPS fix, Wifi, 3G, Phone, messages, Sensor)

The rom is very fast, no lag. good work for it.

But my battery drains a lot (50% in 6h30) and i have a lot of FC: htc mail and BatteryTime, most of the time when someone call me, and the software easymoney don't want to work and always give me a FC.

On astrid, i can't sync with RTM, and i can't find anything with pagesjaunes (french app) or Wapedia as if i had no network connection (As if some apps couldn't access to internet)

But if i launch internet, all is ok.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beffa_:
Well it started up now so It seems good so far! Will try it out and give some thoughts later on. Thanks alot!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
It is a common problem with all eris based roms that apps are not able to access the internet to display content e.g. adverts however this affects some apps a lot more than others.

I have heard it is fixed in Legend based Roms which is what Nathan is using for the next big VillainRom release.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
Grrmbl...

Still can't get mms to work, even after manually adjusting (in mmszap) the portnumber to the port specified by Vodafone here in the Netherlands. The rest of the data displayed in mmszap should be OK according to the Vodafone website.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
That sounds strange to me, why don't you try the 3.2 fix from the wiki?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] orgasmatrond:
Is it possible to sync only pictures and birth dates from Facebook contacts (like in stock 1.5), instead of syncing them and making them contacts? All the Facobook contacts are messing up my contacts list in Handcent and Phone...

And also, a lot of my contacts are duplicating them self, without me knowing why. The worst I've seen so far was a contact with 6x the same number... :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I had this problem a while back, I went on google contacts via a pc and then merged all the doubles together (it is really easy) then have not had a problem since.

This is assuming you are synced with google contacts.

As for Facebook this is a limitation with the current eris based roms
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tatsu99:
it may be a stupid question, but it is possible to restore sms with titanium backup? I did a full restore but my sms are lost :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I don't use it but I thought you could
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] krypta:
You can use

- Online SMS Backup & Restore

or

SMS Backup

hxxp://code.google.com/p/android-sms
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tatsu99:
Me too :( I'm looking for it but can't seem to find the correct file to restore... mail is ok, data is ok, but sms are lost :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] leedtourwood:
You don't have to show all facebook contacts. People -> Menu -> View.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] orgasmatrond:
My contact aren't doubles in the People list, but in Handcent. My guess is because there are multiple numbers for each contact, but they dont show in People. I deleted all the Google contacts from my phone and resynced it, and that partle helped, but all the numbers that are different between Facebook and my People are still doubles in Handcent, even though they are "linked"...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
As a battery life update for you guys

with a bit of use, some wifi, texting and generally looking at the phone I have lost just 5% in 8 hours today.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beffa_:
Well after I have restored my apps the phone freezes right after boot up and I get 3g connection. What to do now? Can I uninstall apps from my PC in some kind of way or in the recovery? thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Yea, updating (err re-flashing) the radio update seems to have helped massively here, awake time is now small again, the phones not heating up in my pocket, and I've only lost 10% since approximately 8am this morning (~7 hours), which is a massive improvement on the other day.

With regards to the radio update's there was a while there where I was flashing one every week or two, but haven't had a new one since the 09.26 release required for the initial 2.1 leak a month or two ago (back in December, maybe?). Does that mean HTC have stopped working on the radio, or its as good as its going to get already? :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I doubt they have stopped working on it, just that we have had no more leaks for this phone yet.

But it is pretty good at the moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beffa_:
I dont want to spam this but Im kinda stuck here with no working phone. I think maybe a app called Voice caller ID is making the phone freeze once started up, I hav no time to kill anything so dont really know what to do.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kar1oko:
So, Am I the only one with this issue? It happens to me since 3.0b4, and only with Villain. I suppose is some stupid switch or configuration...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Wipe flash and try again? Third time lucky :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
homerunbattle3d crashes when trying to get in main menu
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Has this ran on previous versions of VillainRom or is this the first time you have tried a VillainRom (or this game)?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
it worked on another rom not sure which lol as im flashing roms left right
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Wiley87:
No problems with the ROM so far, GPS is working correctly. Video did stop after 3minutes, but I believe this was a personal fault accidently changing from landscape to portrait in Gallery. Will do a few checks later just to make sure.

Regarding battery life. Even before rooting my phone, my battery life was incredibly bad. I don't think I could go 24hours without the phone turning off, though this was due to wifi being on a lot of the time. This ROM has actually INCREASED battery life, no radio updates just a clean wipe and install. 8 hours with screen off while I was asleep and the battery was still on six bars.

One slight problem on my part, I cannot seem to get my MMS working. If anyone could tell me what to specifically type from this guide, I would be very grateful. Being a n00b, I don't really understand what things I should be typing and what bits I should leave out. I am a UK User with an Orange branded Hero, using the Orange network.

hxxp://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=VillainRom3.2FixesMmsSettings

Thanks in advance
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
So the next version is infact going to be based on the Legend leak (the WWE)? If so I would really like to see some speed improvement because the current leak is so slow (pretty much like stock 1.5).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
oh and photo frame widget shows up twice
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samadhi23:
flashed it 5 minutes ago ... and must say .... WOW !!!

awesome ...

testing it ....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I am currently working on some optimization techniques which may be looked at in the next villainrom. I'm in discussion with Nathan about the ROM that will be used as a base, but we won't release a slow ROM, don't worry about that.

There are several different leaks to ne looked at before anyone says they're all slow. Im currently running v0.2 of my alpha release, and am thinking speed is ok. Rosie is a touch baggy, but otherwise it's faster than the base I used...

There's still plenty of optimizations needing done, such as odexing, but I'll see what Nathan has in mind first, as villain 3.4 works.

Also added a2sd on my Rom, and its doing ok. Gps works and battery life good.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
Sounds good. The WWE Legend rom is without a doubt the most stable 2.1 rom out there, but the speed really puts me off (I'm used to lightning fast roms, Modaco, VillianROM etc). Looking forward to it :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Yeah. Performance with the exception of Rosie is really good. I'm thinking about trying my optimisations on some different ROM bases, and maybe a bit of odexing as I mentioned before. There are quite a few different releases now that I'll take a look at, although I think nathan may have one in particular that we'll work on...

Anyone got any suggestions on optimisations...

Also, I've been looking at this for a while, but does anyone know how you make up odexes for system apks? If I can get this going, performance should be quite a bit better...

I've seen numerous scripts using dex-wrapper, but none have worked so far, and I was hoping there would be something I could pop my apks through on my PC (to make use of my 4GB RAM and big processor etc.) to get it done...

Anyone?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@anon2122

Give Paul a shout.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] GertAage:
Have been running Villain 3.4 for three days now! It started up slow and laggy, but now its ok, guess thats because it needs restarting a few times.

There are smaller issues that doesn´t bother me, but one thing thats a pain, is that after installing nav launcher and Brut maps, the Navigation button in the navigator launcher doesn´t take me to the full navigator within maps. It launches maps and gives me the option of choosing destination, but when the routeplan comes up, there is only the "show on map" line, the "navigate" line is missing. I was on herodroid 0.3 before and there it worked ok.

Is there a way around this bug, cause I like the navigator launcher panel, instead of starting up through menu, choosing nav launcher and starting the navigation through there?

I also feel the battery drain, 50 % after 6 hours with a little bit of everything, but i have gotten used to always having a charger with me, so what the heck.

Else than that, very nice job on this rom ;-)

By the way, tried a Legend rom, and to the cookers, I really love the friendstream widget. Looking forward to 3.5
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bornin:
after a few days of use there are 2 things that bother me.

First one is the theme but I understood Nathan will publish a hot-fix to get the Sense theme back.

Second is I am missing the stock weather/clock widget with full screen animation. Of course i can install the HTC widget but that one is bigger and I like to have the 4x4 weather/clock widget, 3x1 calendar and some 1x1 icons on the bottom.

any way of getting that widget back?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lwk123:
why i open the usb debugging, then HERO WILL HAND???:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Thomazzanten:
I still can't get Wifi tether or aNetShare working. SU request is no problem but I won't get internet.. Very strange! :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dcmedia:
bluetooth issue

Hi, i have found a solution for my problem with the hands-free bluetooth.

I have exchange the two files in system/lib/bluez-plugin (audio.so, input.so) with the files from 3.3 and it works for me. File transfer i haven't test it.

Why there are different files in 3.3 and 3.4?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liorry:
anyway we get a non-themed Sense UI version? :\
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stari4ek:
reboot after restoring.

it helped me. (I had exactly the same "problem")

probably killing some process through task manager will force reloading restored database, but I don't know right process.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stari4ek:
I'd like to remind for all those people who complaining about (non-)working gps, good(bad) battery life

The main problem of all roms based on Eris leak is GPS problem:

- boot with turned off GPS, and you will have great battery life, but non-working gps

- boot with turned on GPS, it will work fine, but device won't go sleep, even if you disable GPS through widget/settings

There were some rumors, that re-flashing radio rom helps. It didn't help me at all (I updated radio to the latest one after flashing 3.4)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Just a little update. I tried odexing using a script 'borrowed' from a liquid 2.1 ROM (seemed generic enough) but I got bootloop :( I guess certain stuff can't be odexed. Until I can find out what stuff can't be odexed, I'll give it a miss for now...

I'm currently making a new revision of my optimsied ROM, based on Benhaam's 1.1 version of Legendary ALPHA. Optimising the APKs and adding A2SD right now.

Unfortunately, still too early for any kind of public release (not enough performance gains yet :(), but I'm hopeful there might be something possible out of either this ROM or RaiderX03's Legendary ROM

Hold on... RaiderX303's Legendary is odexed! I might be looking at it next...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
i dont see a 1.2 only 1.1
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Oops! :p

I meant 1.1 compared to 1.0. Must pay more attention when posting...

Both posts fixed for correctness...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] crazyVII:
GPS (on boot) or NO GPS

thanks for the info!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Anyone interested in the legend ROMS:

http://htcpedia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2275&page=12 post 116 includes a boot.img which has been optimised according to post 113. I'll test this out tonight on my current development build and let you know.

@Nathan, I'll not PM you this, since I'm sure you're flooded with them, but I'll let you know if it works, as the changes should be easy to port to out legend ROM as it's just a couple of setprops and kernel config settings...

Just to clarify, DO NOT FLASH THIS ON VILLAINROM! This is only for those who are interested in Legend dumps (particularly Benhaam's Legendary).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gunniz:
I'm using aNetShare now to reply. Just turn mobile network off/on after you have started sharing. Worked fine with Wifi tether aswell.

And by the way, thanks for a great ROM!

Love my hero just a little bit more now :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nscxp2005:
This ROM Release is Fantastic!!

Really smooth, very responsive.

Looking forward to the next release with the Legend ROM.

Keep up the excellent work Nathan

NSCXP2005
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tristan202:
I can't recognize any of the issues with gps that people have. Mine works just fine if I enable it when phone is already on. I use it together with iGo. And I haven't noticed any battery drain after using gps. Perhaps I'm just lucky.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shelnes:
I really have no issues with this ROM. Just love it more and more as time goes on. But, I must say, that for the guy (or girl) who is able to fix the http connection problem from within apps (like astrid, wapedia etc) will get a beer from me! For sure!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stari4ek:
As for me.

If I boot phone with GPS tuned off, than turn it on, load GPS Status (simple app, which can show progress of satellite fixing) I will see, that phone can't find any of satellite. But if I reboot it with GPS turned on - I can catch at least 3-5 satellite (from my house).

On other hand, I just rebooted it once again, turned GPS off. But uptime is nearly equal to active time, that means that phone doesn't sleep =(

Have you done smth. specific during installation? autostart-cleaning? some specific stuff in config? Does navigation work for you, if you disable wifi/gsm and leave GPS only in location settings?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] henro:
I second that!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
That means downloading and installing MmsZap, which is already installed in 3.4?

You sure that will work?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mattyguk:
+1 Me too!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gunniz:
Again, I want to thank you for a great ROM.

It's ALOT faster then the original 1.5 ROM and actually a bit less buggy :cool:

Just one thing; when listening to Spotify it's quite laggy when scrolling down webpages and stops for a few seconds when turning off the screen. Maybe the autokiller is too quick?

If you need any server-side PHP for an app or whatever, let me know if you want help :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] thespeed:
I am trying to install the rom but it hangs

on the HTC quietly brilliant screen :confused:

I did remove the dalvik cache and reset everything

and updated the radio.

Just hoping that its coming alive.

I really like the custom roms
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beffa_:
I had the exact same problem. What I was told was to was to wipe the SD card partition if you have any? And make a new one. Else just wipe the SD card clean and wipe data/factory, wipe dalvik and flash again, it should work after that it did for me.

A question also for me, I have a really bad Wifi connection, it comes and goes and is very poor, is this somethin you all get?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Xian_2:
Got an error message on mmszap. Not able to save mms config settings. Anyone ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Danmalone72:
What sort of benefits does this rom have over the Mr.Bang rom because the mr bang one seems to be with out any flaws to speak of .. it is a 1.5 rom though i think what are the new features i can't recognize anything monumental in the change logs.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] v33r3n:
hey can anyone tell me how to sort out exchange on the 3.4 rom.

i loved what nathan had done with 3.3 but was bit concerned about battery life so updated to his 3.4 rom. looks reallly nice so far but was wondering if nathan could sort out exchange with this rom??

great work otherwise and thanks for all your hard work..

ps if anyone knows a workaround to using exchange till its workin thru the rom pls tell me. i dont now how to use mmszap so if that is the work around pls tell me how to use it!

thanks

v33r3n
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dabrown:
Hi v33r3n I followed the info in post #5458 and it worked for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] v33r3n:
hey i had a look at that post and downloaded the email.apk and it works and lets me use exchange as a individual app but didnt undastand how to use the adb system. tried using the unlockr method but a bit worried if i delete my drivers i wont b able to sync properly like before.

also related to that i have sync workin, my phone recognises the phone in htc sync but when i try to link my syncs onto the phone again it fails.... this didnt happen on 3.3 so not sure if ive done something wrong....

thanks for any help in these matters!

v33r3n