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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Assigning photos to contacts

I found that if I used people to edit contact details to assign a pic to a person, the MOST worked fine, and only a couple caused a FC.

But if I did it the other way around - using Albums to set a photo as a contact pic, it worked 100%.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] guik:
Thanks again for your works, small donation...

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] akirainblack:
Thanks, that appears to work perfectly :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nufradio:
Good Job !

:D

5UY80439RN850562M donation number !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Storken:
1. can not delete contacts

2. Facebook contacts is Unamed
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] akirainblack:
Nathan has remarked on the Widget's issue in the past. His solution was to remove every widget, reboot the Hero and then add them to the pages again IIRR.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] akirainblack:
1. Press and hold on the contact and select delete.

My exact process:

brought up menu

Selected people from the list

Pressed and held on contact I wanted to remove

Delete contact

confirmed

I've not tried via the phone interface.

Oh and to add to my list. I really liked the other way of accessing contacts (the one that was completely black with white lines dividing contacts) if there's any way to add that again :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Storken:
i did that dont work contact stil there
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] akirainblack:
What type of contact? Phone, gmail or facebook?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
@Akrain

It was the stock Vanilla contacts app. Not only do I prefer that myself, I also think it's a necessary app to include in this rom until all issues with contacts have been resolved.

@ All

I'm not just sitting back doing nothing btw... I'm taking all the feedback I'm seeing from the donators in here, and working on fixes bit by bit - or trying at least. Hopefully, the public release will be even better! (No, I can't give you a timescale on that just yet - Tuesday/Wednesday at this rate)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulb42:
Hi,

Great work with the ROM, very fast and smooth, and everything seems to be working so far.

For those with syncing problems, I did find that contacts weren't being synced initially - but rebooting the phone fixed that.

However.... the battery life seems much worse than the previous betas, it's gone from a full battery to virtually empty overnight (about 1hr of actual use, the rest with the screen/WiFi off).

Also, I had to pull the battery this morning since the phone had completely locked up - though this could be related to the virtually empty battery problem.

[The battery might not be a problem - I've just realised that I'd left the 'stay awake on charge' on - does anyone know if this doesn't work right and will stay awake even when not on charge? Once it's charged I'll see if the battery lasts with that option off]
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulb42:
I'm fairly sure I can guess the answer to this question, but will upgrading from prerelease to release involve a wipe?

How about future releases - will they all involve a full wipe?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] anderwlu:
thank for your work,

MY number is

4E353071F7010143U
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] eujene:
@nprussel

Still unable to set wallpaper to vanilla lockscreen after deleting standard one from htc. and you promised to sort it out :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Still transparent???

Bah. Thought I had sorted it. I'll have another look.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
hi i cant see what the features are for this rom :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
It's not on public release yet mate. As soon as it is, I'll post the full features list :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
yea i know, just wanted to know whats featured
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I'll write one up later/tomorrow and post it. Sorry, don't really have the time at the moment - busy with the rom!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
The sense ui restarts a lot. no FC message or something. just as I leave a program it begins loading the sense all over again. that's pretty annoying, though manageable for now...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Rui-Cruz:
Is it only me having problem with mobile data connection? , no automatic APN , and still doesn`t work to put them manually.

Otherwise real good. battery time also seems fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lifeblue:
Hi,

I have problem,I can not use google map street view.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Don Vincenzo:
I had that problem last night, but think it was because I'd done a restore of all my Apps using Titanium Backup...guessing something I installed through the restore started messing with the Sense desktop - reflash fixed the problem for me, and its been stable ever since...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Yes - replicated.

Restoring my apps with Titanium backup caused this for me too.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Don Vincenzo:
Yeah - first time I just did a batch restore, which caused the problem. What has seemed to work successfully though is installing through the market, and then using Titanium to restore the app's data/settings. Have done this with some of my apps (Spotify/Evernote/Locale etc) with no Sense errors...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
Haven't restored anything with Titanium backup, I do have it installed though. I'll uninstall it and maybe it'll go back to normal...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] beerbr:
There is one small bug since first release but quite annoying...

- It seems that when you press back after you look at any list in the contact (in 'people'), you will brought back to the specific position of the list. This makes really difficult to explore contact list (in 'people') because you have to re-scroll the contact list page every time. The 'Back' button should bring you back to list where you left in.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dany_my:
Big problem

I have a problem with the new version...

My pc dont recognize the phone at all!

the phone is showing me that he is connected buy in the computer -nothing happen! (I choose "use as a hard drive" an either "mobile network sharing")
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] akirainblack:
Have you tried HTC Sync? The latest version is 2.0.18 IIRR and I've had no problems with 2.0.8 or 2.0.18 with my phone at all.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stephenophof:
Thanks Nathan for this ROM, but the only problem I have is that Google Maps Navigation is still not working here :(

It closes in about 5-10 seconds after starting it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
After playing around a bit with the ROM some more impressions ...

I like the launcher, very elegant ... better than the HTC half-round version.

My battery consumption is at 1%/hour ... not too bad!

Like the new dialer also.

Unfortunately I can´t open links, is this known as issue? Browsing is possible but I can´t open 3rd application links leading to the internet (e.g. F1 app). A small bug, contacts do show after reboot always SIM and phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
Here's another round of honesty; Apart from the eyecandy, I can't really discover any major progress to be honest.

Thus far, all major issue are still here or have returned. To name a few once more

- contact issues; deselect sim-contacts, reboot, and they're back

- gmail push, still a no show

- widget issues, had to reinstall the ROM 4 (!) times for all the widgets to show in the list, but now I see all of them twice. And yes, I wiped, 4 times.

Work needs to be done.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
Posted same post twice...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] izmar:
So day 2 of using pre3.

My Gameboid app is still slow, but this has been the case for all 2.1 ROMS.

Typing is also somewhat slow, I find the phone has to catch up to my typing speed, never had this problem before.

I think I'll be switching back to modaco 3.2b for now, until a complete, stable release of this comes out (that runs gameboid smoothly? :)).

There are several things i love about this ROM though, and there are far more positives than negatives (see older posts).

I just need something that runs my gameboid a little quicker :)

Maybe once I beat pokemon, gameboid speed won't be such a deal breaker for me :D

I'm still very excited to see how the final version runs!

Continue the wonderous work nathanial :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@MisterRio

"Work needs to be done." ...

Ähm ... why don´t you drill yourself your next ROM? Men, get your tone straight ...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
Not my intention at all; just trying to give feedback. Still much respect to Nathan off course!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Apart from the eye candy - how about the benchmarking? The overall performance? Stability? Other than the widgets/contacts issues, it's pretty stable, isn't it?

It's a huge improvement from any of the previous version.

It seems that you're implying that I haven't done any work other than change a few pngs, which clearly isn't the case.

Verion 1.0 4 weeks ago had hardly any working HTC widgets, poor performance and a multitude of other issues.

Villain 3.0 Beta 4 only a week ago was sending 90% of calls to voicemail... that doesn't happen any more. Messages aren't having issues any more (MMS still doesn't work).

The changelist, however subtle, is huge for this release. I just need to put it together.

Here's a couple of points which I consider to be Major progress:

- Calls no longer route to voicemail.

- Calls no longer take up to 20-30 seconds to come through

- The phone boots around 10-12 seconds faster than perevious release

- ALL HTC apps & widgets now work (some slightly buggy, but they work)

- Additional 10mb of free memory on killing apps

- Overall phone menu navigation and scrolling significantly smoother

- More stable overall

The widget issues are new btw. I believe I've sorted it 100% now anyway, ready for the public release.

If you're interested, it was caused by the weather widget. If you manually remove it from the far left screen, it'll cause a FC of Sense, then all the widgets will show on the list. The other way is to end the Sense process manually, and restart it. After widgets have been removed from homescreens that should solve it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
Was a little bit short on text back there, I was postong from my Hero, which went great btw. Sorry for having annoyed you, that was not my intention at all. I'll post my experiences so far more detailed tomorrow.

First of all; i AM happy with the work you're doing. Makes my Hero look and feel real nifty. You're also absolutely right about the overall speed, that has greatly improved. Thumbs up for that!

However, I don't want to pretend that every mentioned issue has been sorted out in this release. And yes, maybe I was hoping too much for them to be resolved, maybe it's the old me, dunno. I supposed I just hoped for an even bigger climax.

Pls don't get me wrong, I was trying to be supportive, but I was a bit too harsh in that one post. But keep working on them known bugs ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] andready:
Maybe is the same problem, but I have problem with Mybackup pro and appmanager. The programs only let me install one app and then it crash. It's a long way with 60 apps. Thanks for the new ROM:)

Andready
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I had the same issue using my backup pro as well. took me a long time to restore everything.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Anyone having any camera issues at all?>
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 13oots2:
Thought I would focus on the plus points rather than negative. very fast, almost 100mb free after killing tasks and good battery life. Have been nearly day and a half with WiFi on and still have 83% battery left, then again I do have 3000mAh but it's double beta 4:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
Looks like since i have removes Titanium backup the sense works better. no restarts.

I am not having any camera issues.

I do have some issues with messaging. some messages i get just get deleted by themselves after I read them (both in Messages and in ChompSMS), and I am also using SMS Popup.

I dunno which app is causing this to happen, maybe it's one of them, maybe the rom itself, but I didn't have any of that in previous roms (using the same apps).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Flame-R:
downloading and using now!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nikiforos:
I am just done with customizing and installing apps to my hero and I must say WOW, good job mate. This is one FAST and very stable.

I had to flash it 3 or 4 times in order to get all the widgets appearing, and they are doubled now but not a big deal as long as I have all the widgets I need. Other than that, there are still problems with the music app buttons, and facebook thumbnails which I don't really care about. To be honest I was not expecting it to be this good.

Thanks a lot.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mastakillaa:
some HTC Widgets not showing up. Wiped about 6times and finally got it all bad...but all doubles...lol...its fast:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mastakillaa:
some HTC Widgets not showing up. Wiped about 6times and finally got it all bad...but all doubles...lol...its fast:D well done!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] byung:
Hi,

I am a newbie to Android phone. After reading this thread, I decided not to wait for HTC official release and want to try this ROM. However, when I tried to backup my original ROM using "Recovery Flasher", it said "Backup fail". Do I need to root my machine before I can do this? If yes, can someone let me know how I can root my machine?

For sure I will donate to this great work. It's just that I can't even start.....

Thanks in advance.

Rgd, Bill
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HippoEmily:
Flash new version like a charm, thanks Nathan.

I've tried to install the HTCPlurk.apk and success setting plurk account, but when I run Plurk it ends up with Error/Exception.

How can I installed HTCPlurk.apk in this new build?

I've seen u put HTCPlurk in beta 3, any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] andready:
Strange problem

My htc widget disappear after a reboot and some come back again after another restart. Very strange
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Tested camera and all fine:)

But still seems to have the issue that it's not taking in emails overnight ( I received 4 but the phone showed none in the notice bar in the morning ).

Also ( sorry to repeat ) can we have the original HTC dialer back? I find this one not nice to look at, clunky to uses, and importantly very bad at sorting contacts when your trying to find someone to call from your addresses.

cheers:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] owt:
my 2 cents

Hi all,

Good rom endeed! My remarks :

- problem to access to attachment in mail client (exchange account). nothing append when press on "view attachment".

- I still can create a new google contact. Contatc telle me "contact created" but unable to see it in contact list or google mail.

anyway, it's a very usable rom !

thanks for all nathan.

/Olivier Paris
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
i'm assuming you've flashed the AmonRa recovery image?

Bill, are you able to get into the recovery image? Hold HOME, press Power to boot... Let me know where you're trying to backup from!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tibor Gáts:
Hi nprussel,

- Can you please put out a list of features of your ROM (or changelog) in this page? Or at least a link to it: I didn't find it anywhere...

- Yesterday I played with the VillainROM3.0beta4, but finally I had to return to the old system (Modaco 3.1). My problems were the followings:

- VillainROM didn't see my old Ext4 partition, hence I could not use Apps2SD. I need it (with the dalvik-cache moved to it too), because I use more than 200 applications, and Hero's internal storage is miserable.

- I tried to migrate my old emails, SMSs, settings, etc. I could not figure out how can I do it. I tried "Backup for root" and "Titanium backup", none of them could restore my previous SMSs, emails, rosie settings. Can you please link to your rom a page with simple instructions how can one migrate from a 1.5 OS without loosing important data?

I really would like to donate your work, but first I have to be sure I will be able to use it. Thanx for your job anyway!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] spacecat:
Zooming camera crashed my fone. But generally v good
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Sounds to me like he is having the trouble trying to flash the recovery image, maybe he is on a protected generic rom that you can't exploit the easy way.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
There is no changelog yet

And no apps to SD either, however I believe this should be fixed for the final v3.0

No idea why you are having that trouble with your data, I use My Backup Pro and it works fine everytime (except on the new donators beta i had to restore my apps one at a time)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] byung:
Thanks for prompt reply.

I haven't rooted, or backed up my system before.... I am attracted by the 2.1 features and want to try (and support your great work).

When pressing HOME and Power together, it showed a phone with "!" sign and can't go further....

Really thanks for your help. =D

Rgd, Bill
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Ok the first thing you have to do is flash a recovery image to your phone. This can usually be done using the method you tried however with that message you got that will mean you are on the latest generic rom for your phone where this method of quickly flashing a recovery image is blocked.

I believe you now have to try the "goldcard" method, something I have not had to do before so someone else will have to talk you through it (or find a link)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
The GoldCard method is straight forward, even for someone with little to NO PC knowledge.

I'd recommend you head over to Theunlockr.com to read how to do it!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
As promised:

The good news:

- It's FAST

- It's far more stable than any previous release

- Original bootscreen is back. Don't like it to pretend being a Nexus One.

- Booting is fast

- Overall, it looks very cool

- It steems to have more free memory

- Multi languange support

The bad news:

- Widget issues; they either don't show or show double

- Contacts issues

- Gmail Push

- Google Maps Nav not working

- Browser shuts itself down/doesn't remember last visisted page

- Facebook contacts show blurry picture

- Downloading from market sometimes very slow (don't know if this is ROM related though)

- In music widget, something's wrong with the buttons

- Unable to delete SIM-contacts

- Apps on the homescreens looks like to have been selected/show the blue selection box

Nice to haves:

- Ability to install Google Earth

- Multitouch in Google Maps

- A kitchen

- that includes different bootscreen options

- and also different Sense-interface options
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] drygmasken:
My phone reboots after 1-5 pictures :(

Also had some problems with sound clicks when I listen to music with my bluetooth headphones.

But only when screen is off. Maybe overclock widget causes this.

Didn't have this problem with Vanillain. Also using overclock widget.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I have just taken 10 pics at 5mp fine, and loaded gallery (albums) from camera fine as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Someone just donated $0.01

That's less than 1p!

I lol'd!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I haven't had a single issue with the camera on default settings. I wonder why it's fine for some....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Strange one, Roms seem to do that.

We need a form people can fill out to tell us exactly how they flashed and if they are running any third party camera apps and apps 2 sd (ever!).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] drygmasken:
I use stock camera with default settings.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
LOL send him the link!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Thats why he donated that, didn't even realise you could donate that low.

Will cost paypal more to process it. Lol
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Cromwell1:
Just donated :-)

Thanks for your great work :-)

Just wanted to have a look at the PRE-RELEASE Rom and cant wait to test it :-)

My Donation ID : 8RA11292B46135907

My E-Mail Address is dasistmeineemail@gmail.com

Regards,

Marco
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Konradwalsh:
my exeperience has been very stable

Camera is perfect

Problems:

Gmail Push

Cant add faves in Contacts

Browser

In my apps list, Messages, GTalk, Settings and Spare Parts have two entries.

get a NetLoc BGP FC randomly

Market downloads very slow on either 3g/wifi

not switching to Hsdpa

otherwise.. i am delighted with this rom. There are other issues but i dont care for them llike Nav and Music
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Gmail push is a known problem

I have no problems with adding favourates

Browser is known but you can use Dolphin

Not got doubled apps (but have had in previous version of VillainRom)

My market seems fine to me

And I think your phone does switch to hsdpa it just doesn't show the H icon, this is a problem in a lot of 2.1 roms.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] murdoch1:
Music Player

Hiya. When playing Music using the built in HTC Music Player - unable to adjust the volume when screen is locked. used to be able to do this I recall.

I have tried Rock on but music stopped playing intermittently.

Cheers

Andy
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
I had two FC / restarts today.

One when I was using maps to navigate - Nework on, bluetooth on, GPS on.

Just restarted on it's own.

Second was when I was using camera - after taking 2 pictures it restarted itself. I then tried again taking a number of pictures, and there was no problem.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] piotrreq:
I've just did a couple off pictures (about 10) on default settings and the phone rebooted :(

And I can't send or receive files via bluetooth
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulb42:
Following my battery problems, I recharged and let it run - still the same problem (4-5% used/hour).

I reflashed, and left it without installing any apps/widgets etc - battery was fine (3-4% overnight), so it's not a problem with the ROM, I just need to work out what was draining the battery.

I did find after reflashing that I had problems with doubled/missing widgets, but it had been fine the first time... going to try for third time lucky...

Still seems really fast and I've had no other problems, though I've not had time to do much with it yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Flame-R:
great ROM had a couple force closes but i just click "wait" and it seems to be fine,

its fast,

dont know about the battery power hasnt been fully charged since i put it on since i broke my charger.

i like the 1st background but i want to see other 1's and now i cant get it back.

all in all very good ROM thanx np, your actually my favourite DEV.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
My battery consumption was 1,2%/hour the last 19 hours with enabled WiFi.

The power usage of this ROM looks very promising at the moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Storken:
I notice a litle bug in the pre rom

in the dialer when you push the contact

it dont call the primay number
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
I have had this problem as well.

I end up long pressing the contact and selecting the correct number from that page. A little annoying but a good workaround.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dolby71:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2191455/htc_wallpaper_01.jpg

enjoy