yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] m4cc3r:
Version 2.1

Version 2.1 is smooth and fast. Great job Nathan!

A couple of observations after a few mins usage:

1. I've noticed that if you take a couple of camera shots and delete the photos straight away (i.e. from within the camera app using the trash icon) the phone reboots. In addition to this I took around 5 consecutive shots with the camera and it caused a reboot too.

2. Also, gmail sync still does not appear to work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mlanca:
the bluetooth is working?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shelnes:
Great first impression on Villain 2.1. Going to test it some more and give you some feedback.

:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I'm very suprised that you're still getting the camera problem. I'm not experiencing this... :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] m4cc3r:
Yes, it definitely happens on my hero. It's rebooted quite a few times now, I've just tried setting the resolution to 3MP (@ 4:3 ratio) and the camera app FCs after taking a few photos instead of rebooting now. Very strange....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sedinix:
65% and conection break :/ can someone upload on other server ?????
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gtot:
Looks fantastic.

How can i get Danish keyboard ? I used Expresso/Hybrid 1.2 before, and it had Danish keyboard. I use English language for the menus. I tried to download more locales but it only changes the menu language..

Any suggestions ??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I promise (hand on heart, etc), that my next task will be a language/locale update, and it'll be a minor, optional patch.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ratson:
Apps2SD needed

Hi,

Apps2SD would be really wellcome... please handle it with high priority...

thank you
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Argh & curses. I'm on a different 2.1/espresso rom, and having never had this issue with the camera, just read your post and its happened to me. Damn.

[sorry for hijacking thread]
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Sorry, as I've said before - I don't use it. I WILL get around to it, but it's not at the top of my list just yet. That spot is reserved for Gmail push! ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Did you both do a proper wipe before installing this one?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Are you saying it's happened on another rom?

I wonder why it's only happening for some people.. and not others.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kayceejayh:
Might be an issue on certain brands of memory card as most of the errors seem to occur with reading/writing data.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] aze2:
GREAT !!!

i will install ur rom in a couple of hour (download time is long in 4share)

if you can up into multiupload or an other (megaupload is good)...

but no realy a problem.

thx for your work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ratson:
I see, and thank you for your intention. gmail push is more important i agree, missing apps2sd just prevents me and a few other guys from using your rom, anyways i am sure you will fix this soon ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ashes:
One more for App2SD, it's a must have, in my opinion :)

I think it is not too hard to enable, it should be automatically, calling a rc.d init script, i guess.

Maybe you can take a look if you have time, or someone who has done it before could help.

Congrats on your good work
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] m4cc3r:
This has happened to me on all 2.1 ROMs I've tried.... Kagudroid 1.2.1, CKDroid 1.6 (beta), Chpoubs 1.7.

I definitely performed a proper wipe before flashing Villain 2.1 even though it's not required.

Also, the camera app only seems to crash when it's writing the image to disk - the same crash occurs when you use the SD card or the phone's internal memory as storage.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
If someone could put up a mirror, it'd be much appreciated! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
4share is crazy slow
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wizkid6000:
32 mins :o, wtf.... God damn 4share. Id mirror it but im currently running the internet from my tethered phone so it aint the fastest.

Is this going to be a foundation for No-wipe updates? i absolutly love this rom! just wish i didn't have to keep backing up all my programs.....

Great work! only issues i have come across is Phone calls are not registering as fast as they should, My phone doesn't start ringing till like 20secs after the call is made.

Bare in mind this isn't from your latest rom, im currently on 2.0.1 will let you know how the new one goes :)

Peace
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Yeah, that problem SHOULD be resolved now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Picarden:
Great rom... but.. i cant install and run Titanium Backup to restore my stuff. I think it needs "SuperUser.apk"... not sure.

Otherwise great! :)

Thx!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] flipper203:
Hello, I have an issue, I did a wipe and installed the version 2.1, but at no moment at the start of the OS I was asked to enter my gmail avvount information.....is it normal? Did I miss something?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
open up the market it will ask you to log in, alternatively do it via settings
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
works for me
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gtot:
Me too. just restored all my apps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Picarden:
Weird... i get "Waiting for SU request"... thought it had todo with something missing..

Will try wiping and reinstalling again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DnNuke:
mirror http://rapidshare.com/files/345297471/Villain2.1.zip.html

time to install it :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wizkid6000:
Woop will test and let you know, just had to start downloading again :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Going to install in a minute, will post my views

EDIT: Flashing now

EDIT: Gmail said I had an email, not sure if this was push or sync will test once I have restored my apps and data
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] adecot:
and calendar push ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dandowftm:
jesus rapidshare is sooooo slow today
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sedinix:
rapidsahare all slots taken :/ there are so many good servers like megaupload mediafire.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Please give us the hero boot screen back (or make it an optional flash)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] eujene:
working for me. and calendar, and gmail, and contacts
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
woop woop! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
You're welcome to the Hero bootscreen. Probably better suited as it's a hero rom...

I'll add it as a small update soon.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bram77:
Why not use google-code :). It's free, you'll have (more then) enough storage space, subversion support, a wiki and a issue tracking system. All for free!

I've been using it for quite some time now for several projects and it's near to perfect. If you're out of storage space (1GB for downloads and 1GB for your SVN repo by default) you can just create a ticket and they will upgrade it to whatever quota you need.

Some example projects of mine...

h t t p : / / code.google.com/p/xbmc-xbox-skins/

h t t p : / / code.google.com/p/xbmcontrol/

h t t p : / / code.google.com/p/xbmcontrol-evo/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I disabled the step-by-step walkthrough, as it was causing background FCs. It's easy enough to do it manually, me thinks ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hinz:
I'm uploading to mediafire right now, should be done in 10-15 mins
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nuumuun:
i'm impressed with your progress!

downloading now. will report on usage soon :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] riddick541:
I think i've found another bug. When I rebooted the phone, the contacts doesn't apply the view I gave it. It goes back to the default view: phone, sim, google and facebook enabled.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Thanks

Rom seems to be working well, just restoring my apps.

Sense force closed once although has been ok since
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Yeah, I actually just had a Sense FC. I pressed FC and it seemed to fix it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Yes it works for me.

Don't forget to reboot the phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kirillss:
where is link for download v.1.1? =)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] knudsen81:
he is only testing the 1.1 not uploading
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kirillss:
eh... ok thx... w8 more =)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Birba:
Can you please move the additional apps do data partition and make a non wipe version?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] knudsen81:
the google contacts sync and facebook sync do not work very good
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fabioccoelho:
Hi, why don´t include all HTC Widgets and ringtones?

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] androcheck:
One wish (maybe for the future): :)

Could you extend the /init.rc file and add some (maybe empty) init-script at the end, which lies under the /system/ partition.

This would make it easier for (power-)users to add custom startup-commands in this file, because I cannot edit /init.rc directly.

So just adding the line

/system/init.d/custom_startup

at the end of /init.rc would be great.. (and of course creating an empty custom_startup file).

Or is there some other way to run custom init-scripts at startup?

(On MoDaCo's ROM's I used the ramzswap.sh fpr my purposes.)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
1.1 is DONE!

Uploading right now!

Edit - it's a good one! :)

Changelog for 1.1:

Removed CPU Overclock

Removed Google Maps (see below)

Added NavLauncher (Thanks MadCow) - Use this to install Google Maps, or install from market

Added HTC IME Keyboard (WORKING!)

Added HTC Messaging app (WORKING!)

Added HTC MAIL (for Exchange) (Seems to be working... I don't use it, so please test)

Added HTC Contacts Widget (WORKING!)

FIXED Network Location (WORKING!)

A few bug fixes

STILL TO DO:

Market fix. As soon as I can figure this one out, I'll update the Rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Flame-R:
This ROM is great, every1 stop putting pressure on the guy he has done a great job, yes he might put in more on the update but stop ordering the guy, ask him properly.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] androcheck:
Nice! Can't await it! :)

Thanks for your work!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Waza_Be:
don't forget to let us know what's new in 1.1
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Flame-R:
yes i cant w8 to download this ha!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ilbulgaro89:
sounds good!!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kirillss:
we <3 u :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sgiannis:
HTC Hero.. buy or not?

Hey guys..

i've had my HTC Diamond for a year and a half now and i'm due to upgrade. Have been with Windows Mobile for over 6 years now but i'm intrigued by the Android OS. I can get the HTC Hero for £15 on a 18 month contract but what's putting me off is the 1.6 version of the OS. Is upgrading to a new OS (i.e the 2.1 you guys are talking about in this thread) as easy as with Win Mobile phones? And where should i look for instructions? Also would you get the Hero or the HD2? Can't decide...

Thanks a lot..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Flame-R:
Are man i cant w8! lol i want it on my phone now!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Fluesopp:
Duh.. Just as I flashed, you upload a new version... Oh well. Can't help it. :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Flame-R:
is it up yet?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mmiii:
...mmmh cant wait where is it ? :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shelnes:
New mirror

VillainROM 2.1 @ Mediafire --> here
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hinz:
Beat me to it

Ah well here's another mediafire

http://www.mediafire.com/?zydczi1k2wm
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I don't seem to have any HTC widgets have I done something wrong?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jealouskain:
The ROM is running smoothly.

The only thing is that my current location is set on "Rosario" but I live in Belgium :-s

If I try to use Google Maps and ask my location, it is the same: Rosario, really strange indeed...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] remeez:
Hi Nathan,

Let me just say that you are the man. I am a newbie and this is my first time that I flashed my hero. You are really my hero, this rom is awesome.

I tested the Camera and it is working fine for me.

Gmail push worked fine on startup straight after install, but after I rebooted didn't work.

When trying to link a contact to a facebook profile, the select contact dialog is empty.

Keep up the good work.

Will post more issues.

Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] adecot:
in push mode ? realy ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
All widgets have gone, wipe and reflashing now
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
Alright, just installed 2.1 plus Espresso, and it works good so far.

One problem is that when you add a widget HTC and Android widgets are combined in the same list, so you get 2 music widgets, 3 calendar widgets (2 HTC and 1 Android??), 2 photo frame, 1 picture frame, 2 photo album. it's as if every HTC widget is also divided to the amount of styles it has.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] raym0nd:
I have done a wipe but still see double widget and clock during startup. This is a minor issue. I have also flash the Espresso-Rosie Optimized, seems cool, juz that the main home screen widget and shortcut is on the 4th screen once i flashed, but I have shifted back to the 3rd screen which is the main home screen. Other than that, will do more testing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ashes:
Well, my network location is not working
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
consider yourself lucky to have the widgets there :) I lost all mine
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] painreliever83:
Been using it for about an hour now, seems good so far. Seems much faster than previously and that call issue I reported *seems* fixed. I'll keep an eye on it. All in all, excellent! Just need the HTC widgets back & I'll be happy :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
did you manually wipe?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 13oots2:
I don't seem to be experiencing any issues with this build and am very happy. Some people seem to be having issues with double widgets and other problems, so I have listed how I prepare the phone and flash the ROM, please bare with me if these are basics, it works for me.

You need RA-Hero v1.5.2 installed for the process.

I) Wipe SD:ext partition

II) Wipe Dalvik-cache

III) Wipe data/factory reset.

IV) Partition SDcard

V) Mount USB and transfer Villiain 2.1 ROM to SDcard

VI) Flash ROM

I realise some of these steps are self repeating but I seem to have few issues with doubled widgets and contact problems.

Have added a few applications from the Market to speed things up still and can report that the Overclocking widget functions perfectly as does Spare Parts.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] genius.lizard2:
first media fire say: Processing download request...

second say: Temporarily unavailable
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] raym0nd:
Chinese Input FC.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ashes:
HTC Locatio Services is always crashing ... :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bt1980:
holy crap, you've been busy!

wow... nprussell... do you ever sleep?

Even though it's been a while since I've had anything other than Kagu loaded up, I feel like my donation has been worth it. I guess I'm gonna give Villain 2.1 a whirl today :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] genius.lizard2:
please upload to Depositfiles Or MegaUpload.Megaupload is best for me
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Yes

Just wiped and reflashed now, seems all fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Nice to see your high level of commitment Nathan - good job :)

One issue which I think I flagged before --

When writing a text, I have to enter who I'm sending it to.

So if I type someones name, rather then showing me one or two lines with their phone numbers, I get about a dozen lines, showing me all info on them, such as address, notes etc - all on different lines. So for example if I type 'Adam' I should get:

Adam 0000 123 4567

Instead I get:

Adam

2

High St

Any

Town

Daughter

Lucy

0000 123 4567

etc.

Only major bug at the moment!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I seem to have no contacts......

Used my back up to restore, said restored fine and they are nowhere. Never had this problem before.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
still having trouble getting calls...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Sounds odd, but try adding your google account on top of your existing one... Sometimes the contact sync is a little buggy
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I know the cause of this. I'll get a hotfix up ASAP (tomorrow more than likely, as I need my phone on all evening).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Yeah just tried that

Restarting the phone now, will delete my google account and add again in a second then try to restore them again.

Other than this its looking like a great rom Nathan

A real keeper
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wssiu:
Htc-cime doesn't work. Force close

Seems because of old version.

I get a semi-work one after flashing another version

However, only handset and panyi work. Others simply don't show up

Chinese location names still missed.

And some Chinese words also missed. Only shows a rectangle

The above functions work in hero/espresso hybrid

Thank you foryour hard work
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I had to tell google to manually sync first time, contacts have restored now I think.

Strange but hope I now have it sorted.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DnNuke:
another mirror: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1PRXH3HT
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
Awesome. Also I chipped in on the donations. nice work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I'm sorry about this. I'll sort this in the hotfix. I will also look into adding a multitude of languages for 2.1.1 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
@ Dolby, and everyone else that's donated - thank you very much. I'm getting closer and closer to a Dev Hero.

To let you all know, I was working on a very quick, very trimmed down Eclair 2.1 ROM before I started this. I'll be releasing that next week or so. For now though, I'm focussing my efforts on VillainROM; as Lox, Exit & jnwhiteh have already released impressive Vanilla roms.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] salahag:
Great work Nathan, it keeps getting better.

- No .acore FC anymore, so far.

- MarketEnabler worked for the first time. :D I got the superuser permissions page. (This time I tried it before signing into my google account first, could that be the reason!).

- Got the double clock/weather on first startup.

- See double HTC widgets in Add list. except for "Clock", "People", "Photoframe" and "Weather".

- In HTC photoframe, there's always black strips on top and bottom of the frame, that wasn't there in 1.5. I hate android photoframe cuz it blurs photos.

I'm ganna test more, then do a manual wipe this time and flash it again and see if anything is different.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
yea, the Vanilla roms by such as Kagudroid and CKDroid are amazing, and I would like to see more focus on the Sense UI rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] irispen:
just downloaded villian2.1 (first time to download this rom)

now, all 2.1 got almost same speed... (they just updated there roms)

and this rom is the fastest 2.1 i believe.

but still, im coming back to modaco because of its ultra fast rom..

i hope that this rom will be fast as madacoROM..

If i were given a chance to compare this rom to others:

Villian:

Stability: 95%

Speed: 85%

Hybrid Espresso:

Stability: 85%

Speed 75%

ModacoROM:

Stability: 99%

Speed: 100%

but of course, i know that modaco is just 1.5

NICE WORK.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] docertabum:
nprussell, excellent job! I like your ROM very much. I prefer Sense UI as well. If I understand it right it does not contain APP2SD at this moment. Do you have any estimation when it will appear in your ROM? Or is it possible to install it somehow after I install your ROM? Thanks!!! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alexperkins:
Same as J Zeus, Im having problems with the contacts lookup when typing a text message

Its getting alot of the same entries with like Nick (1) Nick (2) Nick (friendof8057054:804545) and then you get the Nick (phone number)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fantastxmw:
mobile setting widget works not correctly. Once it turned the network off, it cannot turn it on again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
remember you can always hold power and turn it off/on from there

Or download APNDROID
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
Same here. It was the same on 2.0.1 also.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 13oots2:
Only one minor problem so far, People widget still displays poor resolution pictures. It seems to be in all the 2.1 ROMs that I have tried and the problem seems to be that pictures are almost doubled in size but still fitted within the same area, parts of the image are cropped in the display box.

To be honest it is a minor problem to me and the advantages offered by the rest of this release far outweigh this. Amazing work Nathan will happily be making a second donation this time next week (Pension day lol).:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] salahag:
I wiped and reflashed, now add to the non-doubled widgests, "Bookmarks", "Mail", "Messages" and "People".

That's really weird!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] aziz831:
Great work, dev.

The update made the phone faster and much more stable.

The phone still crashes after 3-4 pics, I just tried it. :confused:

Thanks for bringing back the 1.5 dialer i liked it better (faster).

My only problem with it still is the keyboard lag. I have sound on keys disabled and no vibrate on keys either. The only thing i have enabled is predictive text which i really need, makes typing that much faster and easier.

Is it just me or others still notice keyboard lag too?

Edit: After my phone crashed the first time after taking 3 pics it rebooted, and now I can take limitless pics without crash...odd.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluetigger68:
No push for me in 2.1 and no syncing of tweets or facebook stuff.

The only regular sync working is the sync of the htc-mail application.

Had one FC after a Call, contacts crashed.

Every entry of a contact is shown as a single line when selecting a contact to send a sms to, sb mentioned that already.

No pics of google contacts on the first sync. Pics are deleted and when starting the sync process manually the pics are deleted online as well. This is a major bug. Happened before, has already been fixed.

greets
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Diamond777:
Been testing all morning and I have encuntered few FC on phone app and acore forcing close. Messaging comes laggy but good enough for beta testing. Other than that it is pretty stable and quick! Of course espresso lags alot so I restored and got rid of that.

great job
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] langer hans:
Here's a mirror at my unused server. No waiting, no captchas, fast speed. But I will look how much traffic this will get!

EDIT: Way too much traffic, sorry...

Will try this, hope this time I won't get any FCs...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] baldric:
Unknown Contacts

Hi, I have had a quick search but didnt find much.

When i add facebook to sync i get all my contacts showing up as unknown.

is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks, Loving the ROM.

Matt
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mlanca:
hi i have a problem i don't have the clock widget of htc why?