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[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Yeah the new wlan.ko is in there, wifi is working. Any ideas what is new in the latest AOSP code drop?

I would say the build I'm currently using is faster than 1.5, but with the stability of 1.4.

Home screen scrolling is still not as smooth as donut roms ... massive improvement over 1.4 though. It does lag a bit if your screen is full of widgets.

I'll build the 3d gallery apk and see if it works, however launcher2 is still no go for some reason.

I will try to release on Sunday, as I won't have much computer time over the next few days.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
Just thought I let you know that the APN for "Vodafone NZ" is incorrect. It should read vodafone.net.nz
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psycho_nr_1:
is there a chance 2 get sense with 1 of ya updates?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] haakuturi:
I can't even see the Vodafone APNs - I had a T-Mobile one, and when I tried to change it to Vodafone NZ it disappeared!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TjerkW:
In my expierience this one is much faster than cyanogenmod.. but then again i had a lot of application on cyanogenmod which makes thing go slow.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tebbs2009:
how did you get these live wallpapers to work???
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
OK I'll add qtek's live wallpapers in the next build. Also Gallery which is currently missing (sorry, I didn't realise it wasn't there until today) should be easy to rip out of the milestone dump.

The camera is proving to be a pain in the arse to get working with my own kernel. Camera works with the stock kernel but performance of the rom kinda sucks. I tried with the 'Open Eclair' kernel and it works, but performance still doesn't seem as good. Not sure if this is because of the CameraService which is there now instead of a 'camera stub', or because of the difference in my kernel and the 'open eclair' kernel.

Anyway, bcrook has pointed me to the solution which looks painful, I'll start now but may not release for a few days.

Building a rom is hard .. especially one that you would want to use every day! :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
On top of that my laptop is freezing and rebooting spontaneously at least once per hour which is getting very annoying. I think my hard disk is about to die. :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tebbs2009:
Looking forward to the next rom, keep up the great work looking forward to using this as my everyday rom. Still confused to why I couldn't get live wallpapers to work but if there in the next build then happy days :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] gniouki:
Hello,

I'm trying this rom since 2 days.

It works realy fine, realy fast.

I've just one problem other than the camera.

With Blutooth, I can't activate it.

Is this a problem with the rom ?

Thanks from France.

Edit : I just see that it's in the first post.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Rom update - v1.2 is out

Version 1.2

- download

Fixed camera (thanks ncommander)

Fixed bluetooth (thanks Cyanogen)

Added Gallery

Added 'search by voice'

New kernel

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Sorry no live wallpapers in this release. I am almost finished getting all the basics sorted out, I'll look at live wallpapers and compcache next.

btw TjerkW was asking about YouTube being choppy, unfortunately this happens on all Eclair roms. There is no driver for hardware assisted graphics accelleration yet and this affects video playback, 3d games, as well as the jerky movement on the launcher when moving between home screens. I guess live wallpapers might also be a bit dodgy, we'll have to see.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] stangri:
So how does it compare to OpenEclair? Also, if the BT is courtesy of CM, does it mean it would have same random disconnect issues as the CM and OpenEclair ROMs?

thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TjerkW:
@stangri: this one is much more stable than openeclair.. and mainly targeted at htc magic 32B phones

@st0kes live wallpapers may use OpenGL and most of them do (because of fancy graphics). However tehre are also live wallpapers that are based on normal Canvas rendering instead of opengl. So those would run fine!

What is exactly the problem with getting opengl acceleration to work on eclair ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] andyp17:
Hello,

This rom is really fast and stable. But I have a few problems with it! I have installed v1.2 but the gallery doesn´t work. If I select the gallery-button in the camera app, nothing happens.

The second problem is, that youtube-vids aren´t working. The youtube-app is working fine until i select a video --> only black screen (but sound).

regards,

Andy
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Hmm ..thanks for the bug report, but the gallery button is working OK for me (at least it behaves the same way as in other Eclair roms I have tried). Could you get a capture of adb logcat when you have the problem?

@TjerkW HTC have not released the GPU driver for Android 2.1 yet, I suspect we won't get this until there is an official release from tmobile/vodafone for our devices. The driver for Android 1.6 will not work due to the framework and architecture of 2.1 being re-engineered. I'm keeping an eye on the G1 forum where development on an open source GPU driver could happen.

@strangri I'm thanking Cyanogen because of his tweet yesterday:

http://twitter.com/cyanogen/status/8508742021

Not sure about BT disconnecting on OpenEclair. I was using it to stream music on the way to work today and it works on my rom.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] andyp17:
Hello,

I have found another problem: When I choose a contact, the detail-view appears. Now I press the green button (call) and I get a force close. This error happens also, when I tap the shortcut for calling in the quick-menu (in contacts).

regards...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TjerkW:
@andip17 about your youtube problem, read reply #27 (3 before yours) and there you have your anwser. Please read before posting something.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] andyp17:
Here is the log, when i tap the "Gallery"-button in the camera-app.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TjerkW:
aaaah ik cannot download 1.2, i get

"The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable."

from megaupload... can somebody upload it somewhere else?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Rom release: 1.2.1 is out!

Containing .... my first implementation of live wallpapers!

Warning: This is an expermimental build, and is a bit buggy! It's just for those desperate for live wallpapers.

Download...

For some reason, the live wallpapers from XDA don't work, but wallpapers from the Market do work fine. So I've got a few issues to sort out :)

Edit: Looks like the wallpapers that dont work are OpenGL Live wallpapers.

Also it's worth noting that with live wallpapers on, I get home screen reloads. I will need to put in compcache with the next release. Also thinking about using a swapfile in the /data partition ... just to keep the swapping activity on fast storage - not sure if that has been tried before but I'll have a play.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TjerkW:
Cooooooool going to try it right now!

Thanks alot for the hard work!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tebbs2009:
Downloading now, will note any bugs found, question, when will we get auto orientation?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
I'll try and get compcache or some sort of linux swap working first and then tackle the orientation sensor.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TjerkW:
Works super ... really cool ... the starfield live wallpaper is a reall showoff.. will show it to all iphone lovers i know ;-)

However still some other issues:

- cannot install anything from the market: insufficient storage

- some applications are not in the market like twidroid, i think they are already compatible for 2.1, i also have an app in the market that should show up..
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
St0kes is compiling Eclair from source. Sense UI is proprietary for HTC, meaning that he would be getting into trouble (legally speaking).
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
I've managed to get the 3D working great using the CM kernel sources. If you add the libGLES_qcom.so from sanpei's rom, it messes stuff up with livewallpapers. The Gallery3D is not working due to some missing resources on the source code. I might be able to fix that. Launcher2 I forgot to add it when building :-/ Do you know how to compile it without having to build the ROM from scratch again?

Let me know how you fix the camera with source files. I've git cloned NCommander's drivers and they fail to compile... maybe I'm doing something wrong. :o
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] julz:
hoping to have voice search fixed soon! seems to work in other 2.1 ROMs so not sure what the issue is here.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
did you manually select the Vodafone network under networks?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DanGrover:
Im using this rom at the moment and its like butter, loving it. Looking forward to the update though it sounds great! Thanks for your hard work!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
I'll correct this in the apns-conf.xml for the next build.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
Cheers, it wasn't a biggie but thought I'll just mention it. Can't wait for your update as I'm loving the live wallpapers.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] heygrl:
Is it just the MyTouch or is it this rom that won't allow for HSUPA?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DanGrover:
I've just noticed that my android keyboard is totally fubared with regards to spelling. It works smooth as anything, but the spelling is totally weird. If I type "an", it automatically corrects it to Android, and other really weird ones like that. Just really basic words, it's correcting into something for more complex. It just corrected "in" to "info".
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
Go into settings >>Language & Keyboard >> Andriod keyboard and turn off "quick fixes" & "Auto-complete"
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DanGrover:
Haha, thanks man, but I quite liked the feature when it worked. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to fix it? I might try HTC_IME to see if that works. Swype works fine, it's just a bit laggy.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] heygrl:
Yeah, this Rom doesn't have HSUPA enabled for sure, probably among other things related to HSPA
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Here, Gallery3D working :) Only thing missing on mine to be fully functional and fast Eclair is the camera working... Btw, the Gallery3D without the qcom 3D drivers is slow. With it, it's fast and a breeze to use, the problem is the livewallpapers that don't work. Argh!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] grandpennerjoe:
swype keyboard

the swype keyboard app is named shapeWriter. you can get it in marked. you need the base app and a language pack ... in settings you have to enable it and then long press on textfield to choose the shapewriter...

have fun :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] johnw230873:
Found an odd bug today, when I set an alarm the time up the top right of the statis bar doesn't change, it is like it is not being refreshed. If I make the screen refresh by rotating the screen say in Messaging it then updates but stays static again until I force another manual refresh.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Live wallpapers are crap anyway, they just suck battery life :)

You are a step ahead of me with the 3d gallery! Was it an easy change?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
I took that Gallery3D out of CaNNon's eclair build as I couldn't get the Gallery3D to compile correctly :-/ It also supports multi-touch to zoom in-out. If you figure out how to get the camera going, let me know :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
I'll give it a go this weekend. Gallery3D is awesome by the way. I'm very impressed
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] baseman2009:
Do I have to upgrade to 1.5 (unstable) to give Gallery3D a try (because of 3D)?

Is a wipe required boefore upgrading to 1.5 from 1.4?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] kbeezie:
Nice, now we gota get this into the 32A LE/1.2 (god I hope the next 2.1 update is OTA, that might make your life a hell of a lot easier.)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lk2:
I have found several non-critical bugs using 1.4 version of this ROM.

* When I plug my earphones, there isn't a icon on the status bar that indicates that it's plugged. I don't know if it's a 2.1 problem or if it's a ROM problem.

* When I block the screen (using the red end-call button), the up-down volume buttons are still working. You can try it using any music player.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
That's not a bug. It's supposed to be like that. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Shinrei:
Just flashed the rom, great stuff, really fast. Thanks a lot for your hard work !

As I like nice graphics, I browsed the Android Theme section but couldn't find any Android 2.1 theme... unless Android 2.0 themes do the trick ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Rhodizzle:
Thats not a bug, It's a feature!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lk2:
Not for me! :D I don't want the volume go down when I put the mobile on my bag :D

Well, I can survive with that... :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
I was trying to get 1.5.1 out of the door tonight but I've not been successful in getting the camera working ...

As this is a key feature for most people I'll not release until this is working.

yeah can't wait for the impending 2.x update .. the 3D stuff we currently have is good but buggy as hell :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] primaxx:
St0kes, take your time.

Your work is pure quality, and absolutely worth waiting for. (It is not a coincidence that you were the first I donated to...) :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lk2:
I'm trying to get working the Launcher2 app included on the android source code. I have compiled the APK succesfully, but it's not working (only black-screen).

Do you know what can be the problem?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
If you take a look in the logcat, it complains about librs_jni.so file and EGL libs missing some functions. My guess is, the compiled version of that file is missing something that only exists at Nexus One. I've tried copying the file from a nexus one rom, but it fails to load the module.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] :
The launcher2 is possible. It's in a few other 2.1 ROMs. I'm waiting for this to be a tad bit better (It's still pretty much best 2.1 ROM imo). As soon as Camera & HQ works I will be keeping it permanently.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lk2:
Thanks dferreira. I forgot to take a look on the log... noob matters I suppose :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
We are always learning :)

Today I learnt that kernel 2.6.32 has been released on the source.android.com. I've compiled it successfully for our sapphires, the problem is that there isn't any wifi drivers from Texas Instruments yet for this kernel released to the public (Google has it already). I've been looking around, and there are alternative drivers that we can use, so that we get independent from Qualcomm, regarding the wifi working. The beauty about this kernel is that it has native 3D support for us, plus hundreds of optimizations, resulting on a faster and much more battery efficient rom. I'm also wondering if there aren't any alternative drivers for the camera too. I would love to make this device as independent as possible from others drivers...

Anyway, back to research :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lk2:
There are great news, doesn't it? I can't wait to have a better performance on my Sapphire :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] primaxx:
Dferreira, you are also putting up some great work here, so now you too can go and grab yourself a couple of beers.

Thanks! :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Yeah, shame we are in different countries as it would be good to talk android over that beer!

Cheers for the donation, you are awesome. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Thank you guys :o If I visit Oslo or London, I'll be sure to drink a beer with you guys :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] primaxx:
Same to you, St0kes and Ferreira. :)

(St0kes; nice move at HTC on Twitter, hope it worked out!)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
So I've compiled yesterday kernel 2.6.29, together with the wlan.ko that goes with it. I tried it on my ROM, and its not stable at all... the syncing breaks, don't know why, the phone takes a long time to wake the screen, etc. But I'm not sure if it's a problem with my Google Apps package or not.

St0kes, attached is the boot.img and the wlan.ko that goes with that kernel if you want to test it out. Anyone brave can test it too :)

Get the Amon_RA recovery here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4029315&postcount=1

In fastboot mode:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot boot recovery-RA-file.img

Wait for it to boot Amon_RA's recovery and when your device is detected with: "adb devices", do this:

adb shell

mount /system

exit

adb push path_to/wlan.ko /system/lib/modules/wlan.ko

adb reboot

There, you'll have new kernel 2.6.29 + wifi working. Like I said, initial testing on my ROM resulted in an unstable device, I haven't tried it yet with St0kes Eclair.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
I thought you were testing the 2.6.32 sources?

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/msm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/android-msm-2.6.32
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Yes I am, but I haven't managed to compile it yet with the alternative wlan drivers embedded on the kernel itself. That is the kernel cyanogen used to build the msm_hw3d drivers from :) which is the most recent kernel that wlan.ko compiles and works :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Ah ok, got you.

I've also tried using 2.6.29.6 (CM's sources). I found it pretty fast to begin with, but got slower and slower. 3D Gallery worked great. After a while I got application hangs and occasional random reboots though. I don't know whether it's the kernel (I don't think it is) or the libs we're using from the Legend dump that is causing these problems.

Wesgarner mentioned in the OpenEclair thread that OpenEclair has a memory leak with 3D accelleration enabled, which causes the phone to soft reset when all memory has been used. I suspect we have the same problem as we're using the same libs and kernel sources as him.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] sutiban:
St0kes, I tried openeclair yesterday using launcher2 and I have to say that you have spoiled me with your kickass 1.5 rom :-) It ran sooooo slow before I even got my apps installed.

Expect some beer money on the 15th ;-)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hi_john:
i ve installed it on my touch 3g its working fine but only one problem when i play vdo it just play the audio with blank screen how do i fix it dude
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
Apparently if you press menu - 'high quality' it improves the chance of it playing properly.

I'm surprised people are using 1.5 though, I find it very crashy! :p
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dferreira:
Compiling right now my ROM with new kernel 2.6.32 with the new drivers, let's hope they work :D If they work, you should be able to integrate them into your ROM too, as you also compile from source ;)

EDIT: doesn't work... I'll probe some more before giving up on this. The kernel 2.6.32 makes the ROM really fast, problem is no WiFi :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hi_john:
which video playing software do i have to use? please advice
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] madsnod:
Hi,

First and foremost I want to thank stOkes for an excellent ROM.

I have tried several 2.1 ROMS and always end up with 1.6 again as they are too clunky next to 1.6.

I do, however, have a problem that is driving me crazy and was hoping someone had seen this before....(Incidentally I have seen this on all "Non HTC sense" ROMS and not just this one).

After setting up facebook, using the method of adding the account in the account settings, I can see that all of my facebook contacts are present in the address book. This, is good.

If I click on the icon on the left I can also see that the little facebook icon is shown on the popup speach bubble menu on the right hand side.

However when I press the facebook icon the only profile I ever see is my own.

Even if I actually enter into the address book details for an individual and press the facebook profile directly I still only ever see my own profile (For reference facebook always shows my wall when selecting the profile of someone else)

I have tried manually syncing, deleting and re-adding the account and syncing all, or syncing only users with existing contacts in the address book. Same result.

I have entered into my facebook account using my computer and deleted the facebook for android application and then added my user again in android. The application deleted from the web application appears again, but still I cannot access the profile of anyone else.

Also, of note, is that, although all the facebook contacts in my address book show phone numbers obtained from facebook, email obtained from facebook, there are no photos imported that should be shown in the left hand side icon on the address book.

So the import is certainly working up to a point as it shows the name of the facebook contact, the email, the telephone, etc..but no photo, and the profile simply shows my own only.

I have use a couple of htc sense roms on my phone and I have been able to see profiles for here. However, I do recognize that the htc sense uses its own facebook application on the web page.

Any help appreciated. I have seen this problem on 1.4.1, and 1.5 of the rom (And of course other 2.1 ROMS)

I have also ensured that I am using the engineering SPL and that my sd card was recreated with only swap and fat32.

Many thanks in advance. This is a really frustrating problem on a really fantastic ROM.

James.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lk2:
I found a new issue related with earphones: when I'm using "Listen" por podcasting, with 1.6 ROMs the "handsfree push-button" works as a play/pause button. Sometimes it fails and put playing "Music" instead of "Listen", but it usually works great for me.

Now, with the St0kes 1.4 ROM when I'm using Listen, if I push the handsfree button, it doesn't do nothing...

Cheers :P
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] st0kes:
I think that would be an issue with 'Listen' rather than the rom. The headset button works on DoggCatcher.

@madsnod sorry I have no idea with the Facebook issue ... are you also running the most recent Facebook app from the Market? I'm pretty sure the 2 are integrated.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lk2:
I'm not sure... with 1.6 it worked fine, but it was updated... I will try with a friend mobile :P