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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jeremy89632:
Help needed on the Bug Tracking System.

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/bug/

There are many issues which require feedback (In short, more confirmation), if there is any which you could help us test out and leave a comment, we are more than happy to hear you!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tobens:
problem with flashin´ recovery image..

..at first - sorry for my bad english - its a mix of translator results and my one bad english..

I have big problem!

I try since hours to flash recovery 1.6.2 via adb..

at least I have bumped about post which indicates mine problem

^^ that one tells, that inn the folder /system should be a recovery.img folder..but there is no !!

..also doesn´t work the flash from the terminal..

..any ideas, how to flash the recovery.img !!?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jikuim:
Quick question, a small bug, but, my settings icon when I click the menu button from the home screen is just the keypad number 7...? Should I just reflash, is there a fix for this, is it a known issue? :x
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sharpzippy:
theres an update/fix for this....check out the 2nd post in this thread.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jikuim:
Thanks a bunch. I wasn't sure if that was a fix or not. Another quick question before I'm on my way...

Swype keyboard... I've tried 3 different apk's and none of them load up Swype on the phone. I have it selected in settings, but unlike the Android I was running from my old TP2 there's no option to disable the HTC keyboard.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MisterRio:
Three small questions:

Do we have screenshots of beta 4?

Which GUI is used?

Can we pick bootscreens and/or GUI?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] raym0nd:
Hi,

I just flash this from Villian 3.4 and this is indeed an awesome ROM!

Does anyone manage to get the internet tethering work in Windows 7 as plug n play can't seems to find the driver.

Previously I was using PDANet. If this ROM come with build in, there would be cool~
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
try the methods that RA-Amon provided in his first post See Link
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gr3m1in:
mate once you have it ticked in settings open up something you need to enter text into and then press and hold in the input box with your finger until a box pops up then just select input settings and select swype
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ariozo:
Hope the beta3 will work better on my phone :) Seems many not get the lagg but my hero laggs so hard it is impossible work on it. 3.4 not got the lagg but have try install beta 2 few times now and restart many times after, still realy bad lagg.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] countzeros:
Second that.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Those with lag; are you allowing the phone to boot up for the first time, installing all of your apps, then rebooting?

It's always slow on first boot...

I just hope you're not reflashing before a reboot. The rom is so quick for me... I wish I could find the cause of the lag for you.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ariozo:
wipe and flash, then it takes a while on first boot and then setit upp after that i reboot and after install the apps i use and then i try reboot it few times but still lagg..maybe just my hero that is litle strange tho :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marksyzm:
TBH most people developing wouldn't care, other than yourself
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dr3as:
Well, after a few days, mine is more laggy too :S A reboot helps alittle, but rebooting every day is boring :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tobens:
..i now tried all possibilities to flash the image via fastboot..

^^ the trick was, to copy the "recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img" also in the /tools - folder on the pc.. after that - simply "fastboot boot recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img" and thats it..! \0/

i´m so happy right now ;)

thx so far!

ps: can´t wait to flash beta3 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nemo0815:
One thing i noticed with this ROM is the comparably low 3G performance. It takes ages until a download from the market starts or a website has fully loaded. Besides that, i get very often a network error message forcing me to press a retry button (sometimes several times in a row).

Oh and I use the latest radio!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gr3m1in:
Several people including myself have had the exact same issues/complaints
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vorach:
i have found this link in htcpedia

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/23/nexus_one_999/

maybe nathan can make something for this problem
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shelnes:
I'll PM you a link for it later on, so I can get your opinion on it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] karma0321:
i think the lag issue is related to free memory.

i use Autokiller with a custom setting (the last 3 values i use in MB are 62,72,110) and my phone is really responsive. I just tried to set it with default values during the night to see if i can get the facebook sync completed (i finally got all my 400+ contacts available :D) because i supposed background sync got stopped in some way because of memory lack.. and actually i got surprises in the mornings :D

but i also noticed that the phone is a lot slower with default settings.

So maybe trying with Autokiller and some slightly higher values setting than default could solve the problem? the closer preset to mine i found there is "strict" which sets 60,70,80.

edit:i'm assuming here that the rom has no custom lowmem settings, i cannot really remember it because installing Autokiller is one of the very first things i do as soon as i flash a new rom :D, so if nathan has already changed those values, my thesis would be worthless :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xxbabiboi228xx:
I'm using autokiller,spareparts,& overclock widget all of those apps you can find them in market . Seems to speed up rosie a little bit more.With no battery drainage issues what so ever.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] piotrreq:
I don't understand apps2sd problem. I don't have /system/xbin/apps2sd file but I have /system/etc/init.d/04apps2sd and it works. So why it doesn't work to others - I didn't do anything special. Just wipe and flash. Or it doesn't work and I'm missing something?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tristan202:
NeXus Edit

For anyone who's interested, I have now ported my theme to work with VillainROM 4.0beta.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5847607#post5847607
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@holywood

Thats ok if you disagree but would you please give some more info on what you see/feel more sluggishness?

And how often did you reboot after flashing the ROM?

@tristan202

GREAT! :D ... I hoped you would read my hint!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaiderX303:
would love to know what your rosie speed fix is as ive been working on legend rom for days and had no luck getting rosie to run smoothly
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
1) Be sure to reboot the phone 3 times before commenting on speed (I'm not suggesting you didn't, just stating a fact). The scripts run on the first three boots, so only after the fourth are you seeing final speed...

2) MMSzap is included, since you cannot access the settings APN screen without a force-close. (There is a fix for this though- download APN backup and restore from market, and select delete all. Then you can go in there fine).

I'm just sending myself an MMS (T-Mobile UK) to see...

EDIT: It works fine for me, without running MMSZap, so I guess YMMV, although I suppose mmszap could be automated now or something like that...

Either way, working here without any changes...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Please go to 'adb shell' and post the output of the commands:

cd /data
ls -l

where the bottom line reads "LS -L" in lowercase.

That will tell us for sure...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Nathan's away for the weekend, so you won't hear anything till after sunday. I'm holding the fort for him just now, but he's not told me the secret yet lol!

I'm sure we'll find out when he's looked at it and back after the weekend.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] D3_:
I didn't have the /system/xbin/apps2sd either, but the commands you posted gave the results you stated previously, which would mean apps2sd was working, though I installed the apps2sd hotfix just to be sure. I get the same results with the hotfix as I got without it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Strange. It seems some need the hotfix and others don't. Nathan agrees with me that the file should be needed, so I guess it must be some left-over from a previous ROM that did it??? Hence why the hotfix is in red in my sig...

Oh well... so long as it works fine, I guess there's no issues.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] piotrreq:
# cd /data

# ls -l

prw-r--r-- system system 2010-03-19 20:55 gps_nmea_fifo

drwxrwxrwx wimax wimax 2010-03-19 18:59 wimax

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-19 18:59 drm -> /data/local

drwxrwx--x system system 2010-03-19 19:01 anr

-rw-r--r-- root root 105 2010-03-19 18:59 fix_permissions.log

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-19 18:59 app -> /system/sd/app

lrwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-19 18:59 app-private -> /system/sd/app-private

drwxr-x--- root log 2010-03-19 18:59 dontpanic

drwxrwx--x shell shell 2010-03-19 18:59 local

drwxrwxrwx root root 2010-03-19 18:59 DxDrm

drwx------ root root 2010-03-19 22:14 property

drwx------ system system 2010-03-19 19:05 backup

drwxrwx--x system system 2010-03-19 21:34 data

drwxrwx--x system system 2010-03-19 21:34 dalvik-cache

drwxrwxrwx bluetooth bluetooth 2010-03-19 22:07 btips

drwxrwx--t system misc 2010-03-19 22:15 misc

drwxrwxr-x system system 2010-03-19 22:15 system

drwxrwx--- root root 2010-03-19 18:59 lost+found

So it's ok. And I dit ful wipe + ext. Strange...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mantrajt:
Some issues so far:

-3D gallery doesn´t crate all thumbnails, slidebar at the bottom of the screen doesn´t work.

-Camera photos still greenish and noisy.

-Speed, obviously, in animations and loading screens.

-Screen feels a little unresponsive, maybe associated with speed.

That for the moment, good job!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] holywood:
@Phanes

Well, it probably depends on config, but for me, with friendstream, people and mail widget homescreens and switching between them is noticeably slower, it lags quite frequently, also, opening mail application takes noticeably longer. This is after >5 reboots, so i doubt that's the issue ;) after 2 reboots i restored my data with my backup pro, and that was the biggest difference so far, i think it easily took twice as much time as it did on 3.4 (call log, around 1000 sms and few mms messages).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Too51oll:
# bug FC while trying to change APN settings :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] booster55:
I have to agree with him: The difference in speed in comparison to Villain 3.4 is clearly noticeable, even after 3 reboots. Of course, I'm not complaining - it was expected and I don't think it's worse than with the stock-1.5-ROM or unbearable or something. :) I'm very curious to see if it gets faster than 3.4 with the upcoming fixes.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
Yep, got it off the market and it works flawlessly.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaz31:
Same results as above, also did a full wipe plus ext.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] holywood:
I started commenting after over 5 reboots, as stated above, and don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining, just wanted to express my observations, reading other comments ;)

I see, i didn't even try to access the apn secreen as apn's work for me out of the box without any issue, so in that case, if i get you right, i can just delete mmszap. Thanks for clearing that up for me :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phanes:
@holywood

Nathan mentioned that speed would be noticeably slower than 3.4, as for me I would not say that it is THAT much slower, as I wrote 4.0 is almost as fast as 3.4.

What is see and feel is, that rosie is a bit stuttering.

Like you wrote you have a lot of stuff on the phone, opposite to me I remove a lot of that social bloat, and I do not store 1000 sms. But thats all different from user to user.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tristan202:
SenseHero for VillainROM 4.0

By popular demand I have now ported the theme from VillainROM 3.4 to 4.0 beta2. I have also made and included a lot of files I felt was missing to make the blueish teint shine through the entire system.

Get it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=653292
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nicknyhk:
anyone else got gps issues? i got the latest radio and reboot with the gps status as on but still it cant pin point my location..im still able to get the cell triangulation one though
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] skedone:
nice theme triston i really like it. also at anyone i have installed the googleserach fix thing but i still have that graphics glith or do i have to install the other file as well
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
Ok so on the Google Earth front...we all know that it doesn't work on any 2.1 Hero roms due to Google inserting some processor specific code....i've dev'd a few apps myself so can appreciate how all of the libraries etc work but as i see it unless someone can dismantle the code for the Google Earth apk and then hunt down this rouge code we won't ever be able to use Google Earth? Or will Google update it once official Hero 2.1 is out?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] raym0nd:
How do I install the default HTC Chinese Input?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I don't think this is possible. I guided someone through trying it on Villain 4.0 Beta 1, but it FC'd, since it was designed for the hero framework as opposed to the legend base of this ROM.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jwwd:
Bookmark sorting

Hi all

I just rootet my HTC Hero a week ago, and have already tried several ROM´s - and the last 3 days I have been using Villain 4.0 Legend Beta2 - and its working perfect. Thank you very much.

I have found one thing that is not working:

Sorting of bookmarks in alphabetic order changes back to default soring (newest or most used) after restart of browser or reboot of phone.

Its not a big deal - just wanted to let you know. Anyone else have this problem?

Best regards,

Henrik

Ps. I really really hope the GPS battery drain issue will be corrected soon. Is it correct, that we have to wait for a new version from HTC before it can be solved?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chunan93:
I ported HTC_CIME from Legend TW released on March 25 and it runs well on my Villain 4.0 Beta2. Hope it works on yours as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nemo0815:
Yes, got the same problem. Never had a fix with this ROM.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mutasim:
Anyone else experiening, caller ID problems? I'm missing all my calls because my phone rings but I cant answer it or see who is calling.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
The call issue seems to be in part related to the mp3 ringtones. I have just converted a few to ogg, and it seems to speed up the time it takes to get the call through.

Test and see
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mantrajt:
For if anybody cares....

Open your contact list and touch any of your contact pictures, there you get all possible actions to do with that contact, another android 2.1 feature. :)

Greettings
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] raym0nd:
Thank you, it works :) It would be best if there is a Simplified Chinese version as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chunan93:
No problem.

You can just change to Simplified Chinese in Touch Input Chinese setting.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bornin:
Nathan, your blog isn't working, any news on the new beta?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] case0:
How do you enable the swap?

'free' shows that it's not being used, and swapon -a isn't working. Any ideas?

Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
The blog and site are currently down due to our host having server issues. There are no new blog posts just now (I was on the site when it went down :(), but I'm sure nathan will let us know, either by his blog (I'm sure this will be fixed soon) or by twitter/post here.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
You can't get swap on 2.1 ROMs yet. We need kernel sources to enable it :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] raym0nd:
Thanks, found it, perfect! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gr3m1in:
strange, the entire VillainROM.co.uk site is down not just the blog

EDIT: ahh anon explained it above
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] case0:
Ah ok. Thanks for the quick reply :)

Seems good so far, cheers for all the hard work russel et al.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xodeus:
Could anyone please make an small updated package of this ROM with all fixes? It would be nice with one package instead of flashing ROM, then fix, then fix, then fix. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
What are 'all' these fixes? Do you mean the Rosie fix etc.

The trouble is, that people won't all want the same fixes. eg. how many % of the users here want the chinese input method?

We're working on something which will solve this issue in the near future, but our server's down right now :(

I am currently in the process of moving the entire site onto our backup server. When this is done and working, I will post a link, although the site may be a little bit slower. If I get time in the next few months, I'll look at some automatic failover stuff, but it's overkill at the minute...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] B1nny:
WOW!

it looks great!

right now im using your 3.4 version.

i think that i'm going to flash your next beta, cause i use GPS pretty much for in car etc.

and i'd like to use the 3d gallery..

keep the good work up!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Decaux:
HTC Sence stopped working. The error message pops up from when I input my SIm code. IE I cant really use my phone. Should i re-flash or something?

What should be my plan of action?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vgkeeper:
+1 for the voicemail bug for french users of the operator "sfr".

To listen to my voicemails, i have to compose "123", which is recognise by the phone as an emergency call (this problem has appear with 4.0 beta 1 and it was ok on 3.4)

i can't listen my voicemails, please, fix this, it would be great, thank you!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
OK Folks.

The VillainROM website is now back up, albeit at reduced speed.

You can find it at the usual address, villainrom.co.uk

The bugtracker, wiki and blog are also back up.

I am going to leave the holding page in place, with an updated message, for the time being, in case we have any more trouble.

I'll remove it tonight all going well.

Sorry about this guys. I'll try and speak to the host and see what's going on...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stickyasglue:
Non of the HTC widgets seem to work for me, just the empty widget nothing like weather or news work?

Any ideas, ran all hotfix zips
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freaked9:
Nathan: can we expect the next beta within the next 1-2 day or should i start installing beta2?:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Should be tomorrow. Not had much luck with the hardware yet though. I'm hoping tomorrow will be a good day.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gr3m1in:
any chance you can rip out some of the fixes from the new sprint hero 'leak'? or do you have to give it the hard slog to fix it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Those are only for Hero... They won't work on a legend-based rom like this :(

HTH
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I will take a look at this myself. Any ideas what 'fixes' you want though? ;)

I mean, it's a big ROM, so if there's particular stuff you want (like Rosie), I can look into it... but this will be the whole eris issue again... You know, SIM contact issues, MMS, etc.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gr3m1in:
Yeah i just figured bits of the code might make the job easier;)

The only things really needing fixes IMO are the hardware probs (specifically the battery/sleep/GPS issue) hence thinking if this has an updated kernal or what not it might give people some insight on how to fix the issues quicker than working it out from scratch
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
I've had a quick look at this, but never managed to find anything. I'll work some more on it n3t week.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Konradwalsh:
no not really... normally says hero.. just interesting really
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
Fair play dude, hard going i think but if you sort it then mad props to you!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I'm about to flash my attempt at a port on the new CDMA 'final leak' from DamageControl...

I bet I've forgotten something and it doesn't work ;)

EDIT: Knew it- forgot to extract the boot.img and only put in the old kernel. I just tried to use the villain boot.img! Doh!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
IT HAS BOOTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

woot! Then com.android.phone & acore keeps on force closing :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mattyguk:
@nprussell. As promised, a small donation has been sent, and i'll look to top that up, after a couple more releases. Thanks for your hard work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Morak75:
Can you make another way to donate ? As allopass ? I have few credits to use ^^
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
"swapon -a" only works if there are swap partitions marked as such in the fstab definition (it is after all just a standard Linux kernel at the end of the day). Use the swapper application to take care of everything nicely. Remember to configure it to use the swap partition (on SD), instead of a swap file. Works on mine.

If you want the ramzswap option, you'll have to wait for the kernel sources to be released before someone can hack that in.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mcduck1:
Info to all:

Bug tracker and download will be down for ~10 mintues due to kernel upgrade. If it fails my testing there will also be another 10 min downtime in a few to roll back to another kernel.

You should all be sleeping anyway ;)

Edit: Everything is back up.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Aniquibobo:
Nice. Thanks for info

Ani
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] IVBlindfireVI:
The site is still down for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
It's definitely back up over here :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] drygmasken:
Can't get in either. Tried Ctrl+R and F5 numerous times but still nothing :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Geeum:
Hi guys, just flashed this.

Though rosie and navigation seem wuick, it's a whole other story when doing things. For example, when I receive a call, it takes up to 3, 4 seconds befor the screen shows the number and picture. Also, I sometimes miss calls because when I press answer (either on the touchscreen or the phone button) it won't take it.

I'm seriously thinking in downgrading to an earlier build :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mcduck1:
Hey

The server is definitly back up. No idea why your unable to access, there is no firewalling in effect on that site.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
how you getting on with your cdma rom port? or did you give up :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] case0:
This might be just a coincidence, but did anyone else get an email from Google thinking that I've bought a Nexus One??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gr3m1in:
I got the exact same thing mate
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kopite42:
HEY guys,

I`ve been using the rom for a while now and its great :D

ONly issue I`m having is I cant seem to hook my phone up to my pc as a disk drive.

I plug it in and the phone asks what I want to do. Click mount as disk drive and nothing :S

IS this a known issue(couldnt find anything throughout the post)