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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Good to hear, Nathan. I've heard that all the legend roms have a slow rosie.

At the weekend, I may try and build a stock vanilla ROM with jit. Presuming you have no objections, I am thinking about making an 'incremental' update.zip that just adds the changes (saves me uploading 100MB for only maybe 5mb of changes.

This is also an idea I had based on experimentation with benhaam's build.

Provided you have no issues with this (ill leave all credit to you....), I think this could tide over those wanting something new and fast to play with until a new Vanillain.

Good job with the market BTW.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Totally off topic, but has anyone noticed just how many Nokia ads have been routinely spamming the top of these threads...

Ovi

Maps

It's like advertising a GM truck on the Ford Forums or something.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marinierb:
Ads? What ads? :D

I'm running Firefox with AdBlock Plus.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chrisjasper:
Well, the N900 is a Linux phone.

Sort of
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geoff_allix:
I'm now getting a barrage of buy an HTC phone adverts. This seems even more pointless - horse and stable door?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marinierb:
Donation sent. I, too, don't like folks asking for money to buy phones or motherboards or whatnot. I like your work, I donate. Very simple.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] silfer:
can someone upload an update.zip for the htc chinese touch input?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Ok. Here's the deal. You give me the file or a link to it, and I'll make you one right now. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] btdag:
Best radio is always the latest, why wouldn't it be?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] olive22:
I find the "system" beeps/sounds way too loud with 3.4

Is there a way to decrease the volume (is the 3.1 update.zip applicable to 3.4 ?)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I think you can use that 3.1 update .zip

or get the free app "tone picker" to control all your volume levels easily.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I understand Benham isn't working on his roms until the HTC Hero 2.1 release?

Anyway, I've had the help I need from him now with his excellent work on the Legend. His work has really helped me truly understand porting roms.

In other news....

Someone has potentially found a way I can hugely speed up Sense in my Legend build (Villain 4.0 Beta) ;)

I'll be testing it tonight!

STAY TUNED ON TWITTER
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Now that is great news.

Personally I think it is silly of him to stop working on his roms as we still have not received proper official confirmation of those release dates yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] baldric:
Did anyone else see this on twitter?

http://www.htcheroblog.com/2010/03/17/htc-hero-android-2-1-update-schedule-leaked/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] del_toro:
@nprussell Sounds excellent. Im wondering, have you gotten gps to work on your legend build! Except for speed, it was my only issue when playing around with behnaams alpha legendary...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
I don't know if it's too late to do this already but when I was trying out the BeHero ROM, I noticed that during the setup it asked if it could save the settings and all to the SD Card so that I don't lose anything if I were to do a 'factory reset.' That might not be a bad idea for your ROM since we flash your bleeding edge ROMS after you somehow improve an already amazing ROM of yours.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nortynort:
Hi is there any way to change the market to the UK one or is everything about the ROM US specific?

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
if you read it you will notice it started here on xda anyway :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] olive22:
Tone Picker it is then. Works fine, thanks for the tip !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
That should be there by default. It's within the set-up apk file. If Nathan uses a different one, we can just switch for the existing one (not as though we use the setup wizard often, so performance shouldn't be an issue).

I see no reason Nathan would remove that...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
That's what I figured. I don't know how it's available in the BeHero1.3.2 'cause I thought that ROM was also Eris2.1 Leak based, same as VillainROM3.2.

In any case both you and Nathan's been doing an amazing job at this. Bar-none this ROM is THE best. It's stable, fast, unique, and most importantly... it works!

I was curious to know if a kitchen would actually be useful to cook your own ROM with the languages you want and the interface look you want. That way it would clear away the bloat and even decrease the number of requests.

I personally did like the default SenseUI myself
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I believe the next version will be senseUI as default, and themes optional.

As for kitchens, I don't have the resources to look at anything like that (don't know if nathan does though).

What I was thinking about was contacting the generous guy who offers free hosting of ROM stuff etc. and sorting out an account over there. Then, I could whip up a 'kitchen' full of update.zips that you can pick and choose from.

ie. A theme is just some files that are copied into folders with permissions. If folk submit requests in a meaningful place with a link to the download for what they want, I can just go through the requests one at a time, making individual update.zips for these.

Then, when you download a ROM, you just go to the update.zip thread and pick the customisations you want, and download a bunch of files.

Not ideal, but unless anyone has any ideas about logistics, I think it's the only thing I can contribute at the moment...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] countzeros:
BeHero 1.3.+ are based on Legend.

hXXp://htcpedia.com/behero-2-1-sense-rom-hero/soft/htc-hero-rom.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tony28:
Ok but what is the last one ?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MartijnGP:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=563757 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] srochdi:
Hi I'm new to all this stuff,

I have HTC Hero ROM: 2.73.405.5, and Radio: 63.18.55.06EU_6.35.06.18

I tried many times to install VillainRom3.4 but when I enter the command:

fastboot boot IMAGE_NAME.img

Iget this: downloading 'boot.img'... FAILED (remote: not allow)

any idea, pleaaase ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Yes, you can't use fastboot boot any more, as the SPL checks the boot file is signed by HTC. The useful boot images are NOT signed by HTC, but by test-keys that won't allow this to happen.

See some of the stickies on goldcard method for a way to get round this...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] olive22:
I had the same issue, coming from the same ROM & Radio.

The guide here:

hXXp://theunlockr.com/2009/08/27/how-to-root-your-htc-hero-in-one-click/

is the one that worked for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
You've read my mind. That's the exact same thing I was thinking of too. Rather than setting up a kitchen which I believe is complicated, just have the default SenseUI, or even just the clean version and then download the appropriate update.zip files to get it to the way you want it. That way you don't have to go through too much hassle of looking through threads either.

Maybe if the theme designers even just upload their work on to the site that'd be great too. That would truly make it an open platform where you can really make your phone look and work the way YOU want it it to work.

I'm no theme designer or programmer for that matter but I did notice that all updates are in the update.zip format where you can put your fixes and customizations in it and just update your phone with it.

Edit: I don't know if you were referring to him but here's a guy who's offering free hosting with unlimited bandwidth for ROMs and Themes. hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=637925
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
Then in that case moving the VillainROM to Legend would be a great move and make updating it even more painless.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Yup :) VillainROM 4.0 beta will be based on this, so all the better for the community in general...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
i cant take the waiting any longer
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pananza:
Have a talk with Paul over at Modaco. He has some kitchen scripts running on severals ROMS (not only his own) that allows users to simply tick checkboxes for that they want and then a combined update.zip is generated with only the features you tick. Much simpler than having to install say 10 different zip's.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Good point. I forgot about that. I'll ask about that, since he did say he'd let any dev use it. Obviously, it is only available to MoDaCo premium members, so in order to keep everything 'open', I would also make the update.zips available free, but I'm sure we would be able to drive some business Paul's way...

@Nathan (if you're around), are you interested in a kitchen? If you're not a regular on MoDaCo, I could see if Paul would sort out a VillainROM kitchen. If you'll be away at the weekend, I could help out as and when...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
didnt some dev make a kitchen app here? one of exits93's has kitchen
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@anon2122

AFAIK Paul provided the kitchen functionality to other dev´s too. Maybe it would be a good start to ask him nice. I don´t think he will turn you down.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stephenophof:
Can't wait for VillainROM 4.0

I'm sure it will be a beautiful ROM.

There's one annoying problem I have with VillainROM 3.4:

- When playing music in Hero Music Player, after playing a song, it automatically repeats the song one time. It doesn't goes to the next song, so I manually have to push the button to start the next song, but maybe it's just a bad flash or something.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@stephenophof

just go to the playlist and choose "Play all"
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Not that I've seen, although I'm quite probably wrong. I took a quick look but didn't see any mention of it on exit93's ROM...

Anyone know more about this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
check repeat is not on, top right of music app screen to arrows - make sure its not selected
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stephenophof:
That works. Thank you very much! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=619262&highlight=kitchen

check second download link at bottom of 1st post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633246&highlight=kitchen
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@stephenophof

... ur welcome
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
PM'd him... Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Cheers. I missed that ;) Must read more carefully. By kitchen, I'm hoping that an online one will be possible (ie. you tick the boxes on the webpage and download your baked ROM), although I need to hear back from Paul obviously.

I'll certainly have a look at that at some point.

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

A kitchen would be a nice step forward in puncto customization. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Yeah. That's what I'm thinking is the next step. Now just to see if I hear back from Paul. Failing that (and maybe anyway), I'll look at using the ROM hosting offered over here to host the update.zip files for anyone who knows what they want and doesn't want to wait on a ROM to be cooked for one little mod.

eg. When exchange fix was released, I made a tiny update.zip (8KB IIRC) and that would be ideal for just downloading and flashing, as opposed to going and re-downloading a whole new ROM.

Although for anything major, an online kitchen is probably the best way forwards...

EDIT in response to your edit:

What advertising??? (I'm using FF with AdBlock plus. I'll disable it and see...)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
:D my fault, turned ABP off ...

If I am not totally wrong, there is a free kitchen script (thread) but just for Linux.

It´s on MoDaCo or it´s here at XDA.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Lol. It's only when you disable ABP that you realise just how good it is :D

I'll maybe take a look later, but I'm currently needing to finish off my programming task. It's meant to take 6 weeks, but I've got it pretty much done in 1, being as it's just making an enigma machine in java, and faffing with android has made me learn some java...

@topic, I'll report back if I hear anything or make any useful discoveries, but I think I'm gonna try and finish this project off...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
problems with the VillainROM 3.4

I have a few problems with the VillainROM 3.4

1. sometimes reset the phone itself.

2. if I want to write an SMS and I turn the phone horizontally, the KEYBORD does not rotate.

3. I use task killer when he runs down and I can not use it

is there a solution to these problems?

Best regards
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@samm000

please read back the last 20 pages for point 1 + 3.

point 2 could be solved through a new and clean flash.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PatcheZ:
i had that happen to me too... it was so weird. just watched my phone reboot right in right of me...

*** could not SIM UNLOCK my telus hero with this rom ***

-not sure if it's android 2.1 or the villain rom (sim unlock worked when i reverted back to a 1.5 rom)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] claudefrog:
Google Buzz

For all you social animals out there, Google Buzz is available in the Marketplace and I installed it on Villain 3.4 ROM, works a treat.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] carlx:
does any one have a problem with the phone ring after either using the head set or the usb connection, this is the second rom i've used and i keep missing called's i have to reboot just to get my phone to ring (or vibrate for that matter)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
@Phanes

i have reed the last 20 pages an i didn't find anything that can help me solve problem 1 and 3 because my phone completely restart i see the htc quietly brilliant logo.

Taskkiller is the one that sometimes stops working or it freezes. It does not create problems for the phone at that moment i can use every app only taskkiller not and i get the popup "taskkiller has stop working" and then i can choos to wait or to close it, if i choos wait i can wait for a long time.

problem 2, i have tried to reinstall the rom a view times and i always install the roms clean (all wipe)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
SIM unlock won't work in any eris leak rom (the Eris is CDMA so there is no SIM in them, hence no software to deal with unlocking). This should be fixed in villain 4 which is based on a legend leak...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@samm000

did you format your sd card before flashing this ROM?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
@Phanes

Yes i have
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
have you autokiller and spareparts running on your phone?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Morak75:
I'm tuned on Twitter, can't get no sleep nprussel!!! :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MartijnGP:
1 and 3 appear to be linked. The explaination is rougly 3 to 5 pages back I believe. Basicly, the task killer can kill the app, but it can't free the memory for Android. Eventually, the phone will run out of RAM and reboot.

Btw, you know the difference between a reboot (Hero splash first, then the white background HTC - quietly brilliant screen) and a Sense reset (glowing HTC logo on black background), right?

I did what people here were suggesting. Took away app managers and rebooted without GPS. Now it uses about 1% every hour, instead of every 5 minutes :) Thanks for the tips everyone.

Looking forward to the 4.0 ROM. A shame I won't be able to test it during the weekend. I do need to be able to rely on my phone for work, but I think 3.4 is reliable enough. What exactly is going to be new in the Legend ROM anyway? Battery life (again?) I read about FriendSream on Twitter. Too bad the main social nework here in the Netherlands (Hyves) isn't integrated. But that's not something Villain is going to fix.

Just hoping the default Android lockscreen will be there. I got it on 3.4 by removeing HtcLockScreen.apk through ADB, but the background is transparent now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] boypower:
Hi!

Can Somebody Plz fix or help me fixing the HSPDA sign in taskbar to just look like as other G and 2G in taskbar ... so it can go with the theme plz ...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Stickman89:
18/03/2010

hspda_resource_fix_Villain3.4_update_signed.zip - *Visual Fix*

Fixes the hspda resources to remove the underlining beside the statusbar icon.

** The above fix has been ammended for Villain3.4 and to fix an issue with the resources that I ammended in Manup456 SenseHero theme, which in this case will also resolve the issue in Villain3.4 as he is using my ammended resources with my original error/mistake in**

Hope this helps,
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marinierb:
Huh? I unlock my SIM every time I boot my phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rafynet:
that's funny, because in my car the bluetooth works, I can make and receive calls and it doesn't disconnect.

it only disconnects if I try to connect a stereo bt headphone and to listen to mp3s
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Waza_Be:
Ouch, just tried this ROM and was so suprised!!

How can you live with a blue/black/green theme??? As i love the design and the shapes, this theme is really a pain for the eye. Please put OR blue OR green everywhere...

Anyway, the work on the ROM is fantastic.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
I use taskkiller no autokill and yes i have spareparts
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@samm000

Did I understood you right that your phone is rebooting from scratch? It is not rebooting Sense, it is rebooting the complete phone?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Menelaoxda:
I've a problem with mms, I've configured mmszap, but the service still not working
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@Menelaoxda

Which network are you on? Please post your mmszap settings.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Keefo:
+1....

Im on Orange UK

i have gone into my APN settings and in there, by default it has my Orange Internet setup (selacted as preferd)

and then one called Orange MMS which seems to be setup correctly (not selectable to be preferd)

BUT i went to MMSzap and have set up that anyway, here are the settings i have used...

MMSC : http://mms.orange.co.uk

username : Orange

Password : Multimedia

MMS Proxy : 192.168.224.10

MMS Port : 8080
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Menelaoxda:
Vodafone

MMSC:

http: //mms.vodafone.it /servlets /mms (without space):p

Username:

Password:

MMS Proxy:

10.128.224.10

MMS Port:

80
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
@Phanes

Yes my phone is completely rebooting not sense reboot
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Keefo:
did you format EVERYTHING before flashing??

not just the SD card?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@samm000

Please do the following. DL Villain 3.4 again, format your sd, wipe your phone (all 3 - dalvik, factory reset and ext), flash 3.4 again (DO NOT USE THE FILE U USED BEFORE, USE THE NEW DOWNLOAD).

BEFORE you install your apps, see if you can reproduce the reboot.

@Keefo

Do the pre installed settings (MMS) match your settings in mmszap?

(Issue can be MMSC and/or port)

@Menelaoxda

same for u
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Keefo:
the settings in my Orange MMS APN and MMSZap match yup yup
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tony28:
Thanks MartijnGP :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Menelaoxda:
same, the Vodafone mms and the mmszap setting match
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
I allways do a complete wipe so i format every thing (all wipe) incl the sd card
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@samm000

and do not use any backup tool!

@Keefo + Menelaoxda

No password and username is required? If the settings are correct (somebody posted that VDF/operator ports may vari) then there is an unsolved issue with MMS/ROM usability.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
I will try it later again, must go to work, i will write you when i have done it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samm000:
i have just one backup for my files and thats my comp i dont use tools
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Menelaoxda:
Yes, VODAFONE IT not require any username and password, i ever use this settings
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@samm000

The main point is to make an completely new start. New flash with new downloaded 3.4 file. No use of Titanium Backup or corrupted files which are backed up elsewhere.

If you can reproduce the reboot with a completely new start, then there is a problem with the hardware. (Maybe sd card is getting to hot, mine did that or something else is wrong with other hardware)

If the problem not raise again after a new start, then one of your apps may cause this problem. E.g. spareparts (activity management on aggressive causes reboots).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@Keefo + Menelaoxda

If nothing helps, we have to wait for Nathans new 3.5 release maybe the MMS issue is solved on Legend basis (no need for mmszap)

@Nathan

Point 3. is the key, you had to configure yourself the files due to the original would have not work on 2.1. Thats what autors/writers call an inspiration ... I would say, keep going! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Menelaoxda:
Ok, thanks a lot!! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Keefo:
Mine has a username and password...

also, why is MMSZap even needed?

and why is my Orangeinternet and Orange MMS in separate APN's?

I have actually got it to receive and send MMS Messages, but i have no idea how i did it...

just removed my orange internet and started messing with the settings in my APN's and MMSZap

Its almost like when i send/receive and mms the phone isnt switching to the correct APN...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@Keefo

"Mine has a username and password..."

Did see that ...

"also, why is MMSZap even needed?"

To make MMS run.

"and why is my Orangeinternet and Orange MMS in separate APN's?"

thats nothing new, AFAIK MMS does use a seperate APN (at least my operator does this)

"I have actually got it to receive and send MMS Messages, but i have no idea how i did it..."

:D I know that, and you are looking and searching how you did it

"just removed my orange internet and started messing with the settings in my APN's and MMSZap"

You need the correct MMS APN and the corresponding port.

"Its almost like when i send/receive and mms the phone isnt switching to the correct APN... "

You are on the right path.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Just a general post directed to all:

If anyone has any requests for themes etc. (preferably pre-built into Rosie for Legend), let me know and I'll try and get a repository of them going.

Also, any little things people want update.zips for... (except WaveSecure- they host the file themselves, so you always get the latest version there :))

I'm looking at getting a 'virtual kitchen' where you can just take a collection of update.zips (at least initially) and apply them.

Possiblyin the medium-term, I could write a local executable that you'd run, that would read in a list of possible modifications from a website, then offer you the choices. You'd click what you want, then it would download the files and compile the update.zip on your own PC...

Any thoughts (BTW the last one would probably be Windows only, as java is the only cross-platform language I know, and it's crap IMHO)?