yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fatefearfighter:
1- Am I the only one that had at least 5 or 6 Sense restarts in less than 48 hours? Pretty random aswel, while going around in the system, not doing anything special

2- Most of the times when I want to start the browser (called Internet now) it goes back to the homescreen. Starting it a second time helps to make it stick :)

3- Also, my phone never goes to sleep (settings - about phone - battery)

uptime: 43:58:23

awake: 43:48:25

how do I make sure it goes to sleep?

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I have the Beta 4.0 from the startpost, no hotfixes and installed

apps:

- 3g watchdog

- google maps

- quick system info

- google buzz widget

- spare parts

- handcent sms

- google goggles

- opera mini 5 (don't like it)

- sms backup

widgets:

- htc calendar widget

- buzz widget

- music widget

- mobile/wifi widget switch

sync:

all google services
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Try turning gps off (if it is off turn it on then off again) then restart with it off see if that makes a difference for your sleep issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Did you boot with GPS on or off? Is wifi enabled?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] -wilking-:
Ok thanks :)

I hope a fix will come fast :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@fatefearfighter

For the Sense restart issue, have a look at Spareparts (Activity Management) do not set to Aggressive - set to normal. This should prevent Sense to restart.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fatefearfighter:
I'm not sure anymore, with the current gps on/off-reboot bug in place it is hard to be sure :) Wifi is sometimes enabled for a few minutes, to do some heavy surfing, 99% it is off though.

I'll try that setting and see if it makes a difference. It had normal and aggressive, neither bullet was highlighted as being active. I hate that :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I take it you aren't using anthing else similar like MinFreeKiller or Autokiller? Autokiller can apparently cause battery drain (never experienced it myself).

Also, they could be killing sense...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fatefearfighter:
no I never used any of those things. I take it that the android system is capable enough to handle everthing. I like to behave as a consumer at this point.

I have used 'Advanced Task Killer Free' in the past, to manually kill an app or two when I needed to make sure they were not going to steal any of my precious 200MB montly data. Haven't installed it on this ROM so far.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Cool. See, many of us folks on here will have tonnes of fixes and hacks installed, and any one of those can cause problems :)

Well, if you have none of those, could you do an 'adb logcat' if you know what that means, and put up the part from just where a crash occurs. Just to try and see what's causing the crash (I'm finding this a very stable ROM, so I can't trace the issue)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fatefearfighter:
I would but I've never done that before. Explain me what I need (in short) and I'll set it up.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mantrajt:
As time goes by....it is getting really slow here!!!!

super user doesn´t loads....just a black screen

htcmail stopped pushing mail

same with twitter

It feels that with time the rom is getting "dumber"

Anyone having this problems at this moment?

Any new on updates?

thks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
you need to reboot every 24 hours or so with this rom as it currently is otherwise it justgets clogged up
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Redpizzi:
Loving this rom - besides to Clogging up every hour.

I would love to have

Stocks

Peep

Footprint

MmsZAP

News

News and weather

Teeter

and what is Maps Brut?

Taken away....

This is a good rom - but going back to VillianRom 3.4 cause i like the theme....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Maps Brut enables you to use google nav (with multitouch) outside the usa.

It can be uninstalled like any normal app.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Redpizzi:
Cool thank LennyUK

I cannot fault Co-Pilot for that...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
OK. See http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/

Once it's working, run the command

adb logcat > C:\Android\logcatoutput.txt

(presuming you are running windows).

Then open the file in notepad and remove any personal info (ie. do a find and replace on your name, your email address, the last part of your email address eg. gmail.com, your mobile number...) Then attach the file.

Or, just select the bit that came up when it crashes (might be easiest to just run 'adb logcat' and unplug the phone when it crashes. Then, the most recent lines will cover the crash. Just copy most of what you see, and check for personal info...)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DMzda:
Instead of unpluging your phone, you could just press ctrl+c , and it will stop logcat
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ratson:
i have to protect AutoKiller. it wont drain your battery nor kill your sense if you set it up properly. presets are safe to use.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] btdag:
Why would you want to "auto-kill" things, just means you need to re-load them into ram again slowing everything down. I don't get these task killer apps, waste of space IMHO. Android already kills apps when necessary, why bypass that process?

To put this in context, do you sit there on your PC in task manager killing apps which you're not currently using or do you leave them running in the background for when you do need them so that they don't take forever to load up again?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I also must protect AutoKiller, and re-emphasise that I haven't had any battery issues with it, although some people did report it.

BTW, any of the 'internal taskiller mods' could kill sense, but only if set up manually, or using a setting like extreme. Same for old-style taskillers if you don't add Sense to the ignore list.

Sorry ratson ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Personally, I think a manual taskiller is quite useful. Point taken on a PC, but remember that you will notice sense getting slower with lots of stuff open at once. The autokiller won't get involved until RAM drops pretty low (you can check the default settings if interested), but it starts killing empty stuff at about 30MB IIRC.

That's not much to be running on, given it has ~256MB RAM to begin with. Would you run an XP box with 256MB/RAM with only 32MB RAM free?

I use Taskiller with the 1x1 widget, and have it set to kill only when I tap the widget. So, if things get sluggish, I can tap it and get performance back if required. If I'm putting it away for a bit in my pocket, I'll tap it and that will shut down anything that was going in the background, stopping it using battery. The exchange sync and gmail work fine anyway, as do calendars and notifications...

I take the point about it taking longer to load apps, but I don't really notice it. The only ones I reckon you'll see it in are Browser and other large things, but browser will probably end up closed by the internal taskiller if you have more than a tab or 2 open (to save RAM).

It's an interesting debate, but I think it's up to you. I swear by my taskiller, but that's me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] emadsami:
Thanks Nathan for that great rom, looks like the long-awaited rom from HTC been released, works great for me, so major bugs despite that you mentioned, no FCs at all, but only has a problem at least for me:

#bug

some app when ask for super user permission (Like connectbot, Titanium Backup, openvpn...etc) it gave a black screen titled with SU request without the usual allow deny buttons, then gives a message says: "Sorry: Activity SU Request (in application superuser permissions) is not responding"

Force close --- Wait

Anyone have suggestion to resolve this problem ??

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the bad English

Edit: Problem resolved, had to enable USB Debugging...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fatefearfighter:
Am I correct when I assume that I need to be connected through adb logcat when the crash occurs, otherwise I won't be able to retrieve the logs?

Or can I connect after a crash and get the logs, as long as I remember at what time the crash occured?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] an0therus3r:
I have run this baby for a few hours but i didn't expect that much lag on it.

I have run behnaam's release and imo was much faster, gonna wait on the speed fixes and see what happends ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Flame-R:
i havent had 1 force close and ive been using this rom since the daay it was released!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Keefo:
+1 (except for the APN one everyone gets), its been amazing!!

Great ROM, not had to reboot or anything since release!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ratson:
you mix task killers and minfree management, what AutoKiller does. please read http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/faq and http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/details , you will see that it will make your battery last longer and speed things up because cache will be loaded into the freed space. and you are true, android handles memory very well, that's why i let people tweak android's inner mechanism.

AutoKiller features a task killer starting from v2.0 in order to let you kill specifically the task you want to finish.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
You can connect afterwards, although good luck finding the crash ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
APN FC can be fixed- download APN backup and restor from market (Free) and delete all apns. Then go back in and you'll not get the FC.

HTH
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] craig0r:
I'd like to report that Navigation is working almost 100% on this ROM in Canada. The other ROMs I had tried before now either wouldn't work at all (even with BRUT.AL Maps) or the text-to-speech wouldn't work. Now it's all working, except that the green bar at the top says "Unnamed Street." I'm not exactly sure what's supposed to show up there, because the street I'm actually on displays fine at the bottom.

Thanks for making this ROM. I've finally found a 2.1 ROM I can keep! (I'm currently unemployed, but when I get a new job, I'll be sure to donate ;) )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
Thanks for the great work. However, I'm getting a Resource not found exception when booting (not sure what's causing it):

E/AndroidRuntime( 138): Uncaught handler: thread AsyncPlayer-NotificationServic
e exiting due to uncaught exception
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): *** EXCEPTION IN SYSTEM PROCESS. System will crash.
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: File r
es/raw/fallbackring_htc.ogg from drawable resource ID #0x2050000
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.content.res.Resources.openRawResource
Fd(Resources.java:859)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at com.android.providers.settings.SettingsProvid
er.openAssetFile(SettingsProvider.java:499)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.ope
nAssetFile(ContentProvider.java:194)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFile
Descriptor(ContentResolver.java:510)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(Media
Player.java:713)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.media.AsyncPlayer.startSound(AsyncPla
yer.java:62)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.media.AsyncPlayer.access$200(AsyncPla
yer.java:33)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.media.AsyncPlayer$Thread.run(AsyncPla
yer.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can
not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.content.res.AssetManager.openNonAsset
FdNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.content.res.AssetManager.openNonAsset
Fd(AssetManager.java:410)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): at android.content.res.Resources.openRawResource
Fd(Resources.java:856)
E/AndroidRuntime( 138): ... 7 more

Could it have something to do with my notification sound file being on the SD card?

EDIT: For anyone who is having the same problem, apply this update.zip:

VillainROM4.0-com.htc.resources-signed.zip

To get technical it removes the compression from res/raw/fallbackring_htc.ogg in /system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk. The compression caused it to not be loaded.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bullys1974:
#bug

when u set a ringtone with zedge then you cannot reboot anymore...

only wiping 1 and 2 helps.. otherwise you´ll be stuck at preparing sim card on boot

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
See my post just above yours (#433), the update.zip should fix it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dglockitt:
apps2sd

Hi when I do the ls -l command this is my output:-

J:\ANDROI~1\TOOLS>adb shell

# ls -l /data

ls -l /data

prw-r--r-- system system 2010-03-21 18:44 gps_nmea_fifo

drwx------ system system 2010-03-21 18:38 backup

drwxrwxr-x system system 2010-03-21 21:02 system

drwxrwx--x system system 2010-03-21 17:07 anr

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-21 17:06 app-private -> /system/sd

/app-private

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-21 17:06 app -> /system/sd/app

-rw-r--r-- root root 105 2010-03-21 17:06 fix_permissions.log

drwxrwxrwx bluetooth bluetooth 2010-03-21 18:40 btips

drwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-21 17:06 DxDrm

drwxrwx--x system system 2010-03-21 21:02 dalvik-cache

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-21 17:06 drm -> /data/local

drwx------ root root 2010-03-21 18:46 property

drwxrwx--x system system 2010-03-21 21:02 data

drwxrwx--x shell shell 2010-03-21 17:06 local

drwxrwxrwx wimax wimax 2010-03-21 17:06 wimax

drwxrwx--t system misc 2010-03-21 20:41 misc

drwxr-x--- root log 2010-03-21 17:06 dontpanic

drwxrwx--- root root 2010-03-21 17:06 lost+found

#

However when I navigate to the /system/sd/app directory it is empty? Do I have to use the recovery utility to manually move my apps to SD?

On another matter..I can't seem to get my twitter app "Touiteur" to work, it just says loading feeds and does not connect to the stream. Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bullys1974:
thx dude... will try tomorrow :)

n8 bullys
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I have mirrored this update.zip file to the link on my sig, as usual. Credit added :) Uploading just now...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DMzda:
Small issue: When the browser is opened, it usually (3 out of 4 times) closes straight away. When you open it again, it opens up fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
Here's another one which fixes the crash when selecting the camera button in Gallery (I'm working on fixing the rotation bug as well). Just apply it as a normal update.zip.

@anon, thanks :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Hi all,

I only returned from my weekend away an hour or so ago, so I haven't had chance to read all of this yet.

I will read through all 40-50 pages tomorrow.

I'd just like to say thanks to anon (Pulser) for the massive amount of support in my absence.

Anyway, to the interesting bit.

SPEED FIX MISSION begins tomorrow!!! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
No probs. Details of what's been happening on the server front sent by pm. 3 mirrors (1 in uk, 1 in Norway, 1 in Canada ). I've also pmd you a way to upload future roms much faster using rsync.

Welcome back though :) I'll sort out passwords and ssh keys with you tomorrow, and give you a rundown of what's where...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bad4ss:
#bug

#bugs

Maybe a bug, but my battery drops 1-2% every 10mins, this is when the screen is off, everything is switched off, don't know what is causing it.

Even tried Juice defender - no change to problem.

.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bunnygum:
Thanks for that. It worked and so does Villain 4.0
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
I actually don't think the speed is that bad. Sure, it could be faster, but for me it's enough.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mantrajt:
SPEED FIX MISSION begins tomorrow!!! :)[/QUOTE]

Great news about speed enhancement for next days, waiting for it....

thanks

question: Do you think the official 2.1 version for hero will be like Legend Rom or like Eris Rom that has less features than this Legend dump?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Morak75:
Welcome back nprussel. Obviously anon help a lot, so do one or two other guy, thanks to them.

Speed may be good enough, it is still lagging a lot when lauching apps or keyboard. So I can't wait an improvment :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] woolmonkey:
#bug apps2sd is not working I tried running the script manually from /system/xbin and it fails I found this problem in the script. I changed system/etc to /system/etc. But it is still not working. The hot fix has been applied.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] craig0r:
Even if the Hero update is lacking some of the features you enjoy in the Legend ROM (or other features,) I'm sure the xda/htcpedia folks will be able to incorporate features from other ROMs. Try not to lose any sleep over it. ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Morak75:
Have you tried the hotfix of this thread for that ? You can find it here.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] woolmonkey:
Yes I have run that a couple times still no app2sd

Ok I think I have found the problem I set the ext partition to ext4 which the default kernel probably doesn't support. Does it support ext3 or should I just stick with ext2 when I reformat my card?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kendong2:
ext3 works.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ratson:
I have the same problem, my battery drained during the night and so i wake up late :| it was at 60% at 24h....

i have in logcat many MMSZAP related entries, actually i dont need MMS at all, uninstall it and see if situation changes...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] raajkay:
Process force close message

I have noticed that when the autosync is on and the screen switched off, there is a force close/wait message for the mail process when the screen is switched on. I have used spare parts to set the phone to sleep when the end button is pressed. With the same setting in 1.5, I did not receive such an error.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
+1 for this fix, used this app to delete APN's (as my 3g was not connecting even though it said it was) (had to download this app online and now have the apk if anyone else needs it).

Then went to APN menu and pressed "restore defaults" now everything seems good.

#bugfix

Edit: actually the apn list no longer FC's but i still can't connect. strange.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ratson:
what shell this be? does somebody know?

V/MmsSystemEventReceiver( 3243): Intent received: Intent { act=android.intent.action.ANY_DATA_STATE cmp=com.android.mms/.transaction.MmsSystemEventReceiver (has extras) }
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] claudefrog:
I have been using this ROM all weekend and to be honest it is near enough spot on.

Only issue I have is that:

1. Have to manually refresh Friendstream

2. Mail accounts have to be manually syncd, tried all settings but none work

3. Have to use Taskkiller periodically as the phone becomes sluggish

Apart from that it's very stable and fully useable as a daily use phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] drygmasken:
+1 Experiencing exactly the same
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Anyone else having problems with mobile network?

It says 3g is connected and data seems to be getting sent and received yet no apps can connect.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kevinlow:
All my apps connect without any problem here..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
yeah mine were last week, but now its not :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] spacecat:
best news is that mobile internet sharing is working again and very quickly too so dont have to use pdanet anymore and i can connect to https sites

nice one NP
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kevinlow:
I edited my apn manually..found that some details on the apn setting gone missing after 2 days..

After manually key in all the details the connection works again..even with all the widgets..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Yeah as far as I am aware I have entered all the correct info and still not working. I will keep working on it.

As far as I can tell APN is set up correctly and it is connecting to 3g however it only seems to send data and never receive. Anyone got any ideas?

Or shall I just wipe and reinstall? in which case I need the APK for titanium backup :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mantrajt:
Hi

I'm experiencing some push problems with Twitter, sometimes it updates sometimes it doesn't.

HTCmail behaves the same way as does gmail.

Sometimes I usually get updates or mail when I pick the phone and use it for internet browsing.

Anybody experiencing same issues?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jeremy89632:
I am looking through the fixes section and I noticed that there is an apps2sd fix.

If I do not use apps2sd and I don't intend to, can I still apply it? Will this update.zip activate apps2sd?

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
No need if you don't want to use it. It ONLY fixes apps2SD, but won't activate it unless ext2/3 partition is present on SD.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Right I am about to wipe and reflash (3rd time now) hopefully my mobile internet will start to work again now :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vido.ardes:
I have been using it all weekend, and I have to say I am very impressed. The only problems I have found have already been mentioned (push not working properly and GPS not working without reboot) but I have moved Davlik to SD, using apps2SD on ext3 partition, removed the TTS packages and used the trackball fix and I am actually quite impressed with the speed. I was expecting it to be quite bad, but it certainly useable, my new daily until Russell releases his speed fix anyway. While the push problem is a little annoying it's nothing I can't live with, and the new features (espcially the new browser) is excellent.

Great work again!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
What push problem? Exchange or gmail? My gmail push is working fine (just tested it).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
yeah mine was working fine as well (until my 3g went crazy)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mirotrem:
Connecting 3G or EDGE is a function of the gprs_attach to the SGSN, not so much the pdp_activate you attempt when trying to connect to an APN. Your pdp_activate utilizies your gprs_attach setup to get to the GGSN from the SGSN. Basically, I think I'm saying that you having 3G doesn't have much to do with your APN being right or not.

I can't think of a scenerio where your APN is connected and you don't have dual connectivity..unless there is some sort of firewall functionality on the phone. What do your APN settings look like? A wipe may indeed be in order.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
After a wipe I appear to be having the same problems. it is now telling me "it can't find a reliable connection"

Does anyone think I should trya re-flash of the radio as well?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] drygmasken:
My Gmail push seems to work fine, but HTC mail seems to need manuall refresh, same with friend stream.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jeremy89632:
Can I use this trackball fix on my villainROM 3.4 as well?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Hmm this appears to be seriously messed up now.

maybe its a problem with my carrier and I should contact them.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bad4ss:
#ideas

Can we have the ringtone trimmer included? I can't find it in the market.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Keefo:
dunno if this has been mentioned before but i just noticed that when texting the shaddow that does on the buttons to show that you have pressed it is about half way below the actual button.