yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] colonel_lp:
if i try to link phonebook contact to facebook contact, all my facebook contacts are listed twice.... given up on fb.....

no-one else having 'facebook for htc sense' constantly syncing, even with auto sync unchecked, and facebook account existing but unchecked... i am constantly killing the process, and up it pops again....?????

EDIT:

OK SO I GUESS THE stockespressoforvillian5.zip replaces the updated HTC FACEBOOK APK ????????? any chance of this being updated?????

if installing this update is going to cause problems, maybe people should be warned...

cheers...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MrHill:
This rom is great.

I've just one annoying problem with the Youtube app: videos don't work. Anyone in the same situation? :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
A fix is being worked on, there is a problem with streaming media at the moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
Here how it go for me so far :

- Install whitout any problem ( just did a Data Wipe and put back my APN with a backup utility )

- 3G, Batterie, GPS, google and facebook sync all work fine

- No more contact glitch, titanium backup fully working, ....

- Market working

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Not working :

- Twitter sync ( maybe I did something wrong need to look into it, but I doesnt get any alert anymore ) ( anybody else got this problems ? )

- Launcher 1 or 2 isnt in the rom anymore, had to do it manualy. Now working ( to the limit of what it is capable, some glitch in it, but that aint caused by the rom )

- Live Wallpaper ( not even the option to choose them, even in launcher2 ) ( but seem to work for everybody else )

- FriensStream not available, even when trying to do a manual instal with the package given in the first post ( get an error, cant install )

- Youtube isnt working, can acces to the apps, see screenshot of video, but cannot be played

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So there you go, if anyone want to try the rom, it's real good, real fast, but you know what to expect in what will and wont work.

But knowing this rom I expect all those bugs will be fixed in the next release, hopefully
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
You probably need to push LivewallpaperPicker.apk to get live wallpapers to work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
you have a download link ? cant seem to find one that is working anywhere
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] werziluk:
think your on the money here....im going to investigate.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nemo0815:
No GPS again for me with this ROM. Wonder if i'll get one where this works again anytime soon...

Also lots of random FC when the phone wakes up from sleep (already mentioned by somebody else here). Speed also seems not so snappy than the previous one for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cyberon:
Same here! :mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] richuk:
Just flashed rom - all looks good so far, nice and fast.

One quick question, is google navigation available with this rom?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] colonel_lp:
I can confirm that installing the 'stockespressoforVillian5.zip' update recreated the permanent facebook sync problem...

please warn people on the front page not to install it....

If it is possible, i would love and updated version of espresso, i understand there are probably more pressing issues though..

cheers....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xxbabiboi228xx:
I dont see how all these people are having all these problems with this rom . No problems on this end what so ever. Well 2 things i dont use data cause i dont have data i use wifi and i dont use gps cause i have nav in my car already oh and one more thing i dont use ap2sd cause i dont have use 4 it besides that everything is working like expected. Another great job to a good dev thanks nathan
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] richardtrip:
The problem is not in the boot.img (nathan used the modified boot.img).

For openvpn users there is no openvpn binary, so you need to push that from an older version. Also some missing symlinks.

adb remount

adb shell chmod 4755 /system/etc/init.d/05vpn

adb push openvpn /system/xbin/.

adb shell chmod 4755 /system/xbin/openvpn

adb shell ln -s /system/xbin/busybox /system/xbin/bb/ifconfig

adb shell ln -s /system/xbin/busybox /system/xbin/bb/route

adb reboot
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mrbubba999:
The only problem's I have so far is YouTube not working and applications like Babbler and Seesmic force close when phone comes out of sleep

The keyboard us also laggy, about 2 seconds behind my typing, which means letters get missed
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Plattendoktor:
Try it here :cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] j0bro:
Well my brain feels a lot better now, I reflashed the radio update and what do you know? My 3G connection seems to have re-stabilized itself and all the stacktraces and warnings in LogCat have disappeared. No more connection retries for all background services, so this must improve my battery life as well!

Using the Amon-RA recovery, I noticed that flashing a radio update means that only on reboot the radio image is actually flashed. This tells me that it is an action that is always meant to be done lastly, ie. *after* a ROM flash. This could very well indicate that my Hero was in a corrupted state before.

It also does a format of a CACHE of some sort (I am not aware of any details that are going on there though).

Anyway, I am a happy camper again ;)

Something completely different: can someone tell me whether it is possible to uninstall the custom apps like aNetShare, AutoKiller, [brut] Maps, etc.? Or are they baked into the ROM?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
thanks gonna give it a try tonight
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marka2k:
Total noob on Flashing ROMs on the Hero, I did the Gold Card procedure and was able to flash a generic ROM RUU_Hero_HTC_WWE_2.73.405.5_WWE_release_signed_NoD river.exe as suggested I renamed the VillianROM5.1.zip to Update.zip and place in the root of the SD Card held down the Power and Home Key to get to the recovery menu and select apply sdcard:update.zip but get a error 'Verification failed installation aborted' Someone please point me in the right direction.

Take it easy on me I did read and search but still confused.

Thank you!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] djmace:
I followed the below trying to get ap2sd to work but now i cant install anthing from the market.

adb remount

adb shell chmod 0755 /system/etc/init.d/*

adb shell mkdir /system/sd

Anyone know how to fix that?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
never had any problem while flashing ( got lucky I guess ) but I never rename the file. Maybe try to keep the same name, and click on the option "choose .zip " and select the file.

Might work :S

But somebody with more experience that me might be able to help you more
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] werziluk:
Got a fix sorted for the facebook syncing/espresso issue, it was also adding the friend stream widget which will obviously not work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] colonel_lp:
@j0bro,

does your GPS work after reflashing the radio,,,, mine not working, is the killer problem for me, i use GPS all the time....

I uninstall any un-needed system apps from within Titanium backup...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lezroy:
is there a problem with the camera in this rom? i've noticed when looking at photos on the computer that they are pixellated and video recording is a lot poorer than before i rooted my phone.

thank you
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MojUk:
great rom all awesome except as mentioned before mms not working. except for that this is soo sweet :D

also for anyone who is interested, below is a response from HTC UK & IE:

'Dear Customer,

Thank you for your enquiry about when customers in the UK will receive Android 2.1.

Answer

We don't have any confirmed release date.

If these steps have not helped, please let me know by responding using the link provided and I will be happy to check again for you.

Best regards,

Bo

HTC'
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gu_de_o:
Thanks, I will find it useful since I'm experiencing the sync issue. A question; Is it just to flash this zip-file?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] werziluk:
Yeah just flash it like you did the original espresso zip, should work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marka2k:
Got it figured out. I missed the step on putting in the custom recovery image. Thanks for the reply!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geofwbay:
Bury bluetooth car kit not working with this ROM

I have found this ROM to be very good apart from one killer point. I have a Bury Bluetooth car kit which normally works perfectly. With this ROM (and the earlier versions) my phone will pair and connect but when a call is made or received there is no sound. A cheapie bluetooth kit that I also have works fine so the ROM obviously can work, but I need the phone to work with the Bury kit as it does when the phone is loaded with one of the Legend based ROMS. If anyone else has experienced this problem and found a solution I would love to hear it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PulpzillA:
hey anyone got a working friendstream.apk?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] colonel_lp:
I can confirm that reflashing the radio will fix non working GPS.... please add this suggestion to front page...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] werziluk:
Im working on this....im sure nathan is too.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] case0:
Brut's version of Google Maps which is in the rom has google navigation, but personally I think it's a bit crap, it's not like the one that you get in the US version of Google Maps. Better than nothing though.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dave_1927:
This is talking an absolute AGE to download.

Thanks for the update though - looking forward to getting that refresh sign off my toolbar!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shark0807:
I just installed the new patch to VIllian, was impressed until I tried Microsoft Exchange. After I put in all of my settings (for buckeyemail, you have to do it manually), It successfully brings me to the exchange activesync settings where it asks if you want to synchronize mail, contacts, a/o calendar. IN any combination of synchronizations I click "Finish Setup" in which after about 30 seconds of Processing... it returns with the error "Failed to create the account. Please try again later."

Since I'm going to work, and all of my contacts are backed up via Exchange, I'm going to have to go back to my backup for now. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I know that there was a system-wide shutdown of Exchange yesterday and part of this morning, but it seems to be working now (I was able to receive mail after class this afternoon before I switch to the new ROM).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] princedwi:
I've been informed that HelixLauncher will suit my needs just fine. Its definitely snapped up the ROM even more, but I'm curious why live wallpapers isn't working at all...I try and set wallpaper, and it's not present. Downloading a live wallpaper in the market won't give me a separate selection of where to select the wallpaper.

Anyone experiencing the same issue?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PulpzillA:
sounds good buddy! if possible could you message me if you manage to get it working. Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
got the same problem, go back a couples of page ( maybe 3 ) there is a post with a link. In that webpage you will find the livewallpaper.apk

install that and see if it work. I myself will try it tonight, but right now I'm at work so I cant.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] craig0r:
A big difference between Android 1.x and 2.x is that the Bluetooth API is not included in 1.x (as Google hadn't finished it in time.) So in the 1.x ROMs, developers had limited resources to make bluetooth work, but they obviously did it. When 2.x came out, it changed the way bluetooth is accessed by the OS, and thus changed the way the bluetooth drivers work. We have a hacked kernel in this ROM, where xda'ers have ported the drivers from HTC's cupcake kernel, but that's not ideal.

When the official HTC release comes out, we *should* see better bluetooth support.

EDIT: Speaking of bluetooth, I've noticed that while bluetooth is switched on, (even if not connected to anything) it doesn't sleep. Checking the battery history in Spare Parts shows that enabling bluetooth constantly consumes the battery. I've taken to turning it off when not using it, and my battery life has increased incredibly.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] colonel_lp:
You can just reflash the villain5.1.zip without a wipe, worked for me.

remember to do nandroid backup..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] j0bro:
Bah, everything I said before I must take back; this "going well" lasted for a good few minutes after which everything went offline again... what the **** is wrong here? I am going back to a Legend-based ROM for now to see how that goes. Maybe I'll flash back to this ROM, maybe I won't.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] princedwi:
Confirmed that live wallpaper works great. :) wow...redeye scanner live wallpaper makes my hero look like a cylon! very impressed. Sadly, it goes away when in standby and unlock..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
yeah it is one of the problem, gonna give it a try tonight cause I want to see how it look. But I'll probably stick with my current theme.

Live wallpaper anyway most take more RAM and I like my android fast
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dave_1927:
Hmmmmm, it's coming up as 'verification error' when flashing. (62 files)

Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] immya:
hi guys, been using 5.1 for a few days and i noticed some bugs

1) volume rockr doesnt wok when phone is sleeping (if you wanna change music volume quickly, you must first awake phone)

2)cant stream videos online

dont know if this is on just my phone, can someone confirm

but other than that, its lawles!

ty
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gu_de_o:
Flashing the file is not working. At first I thought the reason for it not to work was because the zipped file contains folders that are in an order which they're usually not in these kinds of zip-files to flash. I mean, it contains a folder for mac users etc.. So i just unzipped the file in windows and picked out the specific folder so that the zip-file then looks like what I suppose should be correct. When I then tries to flash it it doesn't wokr. It then says that I'm missing the friends"something".apk instead.

I think I'll try the easy solution and just re-flash the phone instead.

Thanks for this anyway
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] damooman:
Re: [ROM]05/04/10 - VillainROM(SprintPort)5.1: for GSM HERO - BETA

Is anyone else having trouble with their contact groups, when I try to load the people widget I just get a the keyboard on a white screen?

Sent from my VILLAIN using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bmaster001:
I have a problem: I installed 5.1 without problems at first. Then I restored my old rom with nandroid (i forgot to backup my contacts), and then I tried reinstalling villain 5.1. It showed me the blue sparks for 5 minutes, then the display stopped moving. It's like that for 45 minutes now. "Adb shell" doesn't work anymore (device not found). What's the best thing to try now?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
from the 158 pages that I've read in this thread. I would go for this trick that did worked for some people ( including me )

Remove the battery of the hero, unplug the SD card, put back the battery, restart the phone.

It seem the rom ( only on the first boot after installing ) have some difficulty with the sd card.

Nobody had that problem I think on 5.1, but on 5.02 it was a common problem. So give it a try
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] werziluk:
ooops sorry did that quickly before I popped out, back now and sorting it now. I have an update that defo works but its only to be used on a fresh install.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bmaster001:
Thanks, I'll try that. I wasn't sure if it was safe to remove the battery during the first boot after a flash.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] werziluk:
Right those who have been using 5.1 and experiencing facebook sync problems try using an apk installer or adb to install this file.

http://www.4shared.com/file/258528166/d05e4a2d/HtcFacebook.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
yeah it is safe dont worry.

At least never heard of anyone having a problem by doing that

Did it myself and my phone still work fine
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] case0:
@bmaster001

You should try that yeh but I doubt it will work. Coming from 5.02 to 5.1 requires a full wipe, or at least it did for me and most other people, otherwise it gets stuck at the bootscreen, even if you remove the sd card.

So most likely you will have to do a full wipe and re-flash 5.1.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chushev:
My GPS starts working only if I turn it on and reboot the phone while GPS is on. Then it works as expected until I reboot the phone again for any reason and I have to reboot it one more time with GPS on to get it to work AGAIN.

Another huge problem with the GPS is that when I get it to work I also get a severe battery drain. And the battery drains even if the GPS is turned off. It drains in about 12 hours with wifi, 3g and gps turned off.

How do I stop this battery drain!?!?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterxiter:
The java application force closes.

It continuously try's to search for jar files, displays the message to close and continues to search. It continues doing that and i have to kill the task.

Any1 experiencing this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dr3as:
Strange, suddenly, after a few days use.. It says no space avalable when updating a app.. I'm not using apps2sd...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterxiter:
Exact same thing happened to me with 5.0.1 while installing a big game, and i had enough free space. I think it was Raging Thunder 2, don't remember.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] colonel_lp:
did you reflash the latest radio?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] colonel_lp:
yeah, i had that too when trying to update handcent sms.. no idea why...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Demologic:
Re: [ROM]05/04/10 - VillainROM(SprintPort)5.1: for GSM HERO - BETA

great rom . just moved from modaco 3.2

Sent from my VILLAIN using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] j2kquest:
Same kinda thing happened to me

wiped data etc etc

flashed rom everythings was fine

reapplied an app backup from "my backup pro" then i get the low space warning

cannot send texts now as theres no space on the phone.....the same app back up worked on 5.02

:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Decaux:
Some merkin which also based his ROM on the damageless leak tuned up his lockscreen: http://geekfor.me/fixes/vanilla-lockscreen/

It wont apply directly for us using 5.1; is it too much to ask to review it and see if its relatively easy to tweak so it works with this ROM or GSM and such?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] case0:
Re: [ROM]05/04/10 - VillainROM(SprintPort)5.1: for GSM HERO - BETA

I'm guessing I'm the only one with this problem seeing as noone else has mentioned it (since 5.1 at least I think), but does anyone else's automatic brightness not work?

Sent from my VILLAIN using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maarch:
It seem to install and appear in my option but both with sense enable or disable ( using launcher2 ) I have no livewallpaper choice in it.

I have to go online to download one, anybody got the original live wallpaper database ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] princedwi:
In the marketplace, you can search various live wallpapers. I haven't had too much luck with keeping it after it sleeps, but that's how you get em. Not too bad of an fps either.

Somehow, I'm just disappointed with this rom. GPS doesn't work, I cannot use droidlive (pauses at the buffer), youtube fails to load any videos, and even with helixlauncher, it's quite sluggish. Sigh. I might abandon my hero if even these cooked roms cannot fit the bill for 2.1. :(

All roms are so finicky..you lose some features, you gain some. So many incomplete-featured roms out..it's depressing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marka2k:
Anyone got MMS working on Villain 5.1 on AT&T? Had it working on the stock ROM but after upgrading no go with my settings.

If you have it working please post your APN so I can see if there is a difference.

Thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
Does this fix actually work for VillainROM5.1? It only did half the facebook pic updates.

EDIT: Also, is it just me or is it 'cause it's a CDMA port 'cause my phone doesn't alert me when I have new voicemail. It happened to me in 5.02 as well but was fine with Legend port 4.0B2.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
The fix mentioned here should work. It worked for me 'cause it's set to Sprint by default since it's a Sprint Hero ROM. You'll have to do it from adb shell.

hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6027891&highlight=telephony.db#post6027891
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] twobunnyrabbit:
When you quit any program that uses the GPS, it doesn't turn it off, even though the top status bar doesn't display the satellite dish icon. You either have to go back to Settings->Location and uncheck "Use GPS satellites" or add the "Power Control" widget onto your screen for quick access.

Once you have done this, the battery life is amazing. To get more, you can turn off Auto-Sync too.

Only minor issue is that I couldn't get apps2SD to work with what was mentioned in the previous posts (lots of wipes and flashes). Maybe related to my SD card (crappy Class 2 16gb). But not too fuss about it.

I haven't had a single FC with this rom compared with 5.02. Before I usually have 1 or 2 application/background process FCs. I thought it maybe related to apps2SD, as this was working in 5.02. Also, was wondering if FC'ed apps keeps the phone awake? May also explain battery drain.

Anyway, I'm very happy with this rom. :D

Thanks for the hard work Mr. Russell.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marka2k:
I read post #450 it's confusing is there a better guide somewhere? Otherwise I will wait for the next version and hopefully there will be a solution cooked in.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arshad14:
The only other way that worked for all the other ROMS was the MMSZapp but that doesn't work on the CDMA Port 'cause I've tried that first already. Other than that, you're out of luck.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ZED_pt:
You should all keep in mind this is a beta version,dont expect it to be flawless.

Always good to point out the flaws off course...just need to keep an open spirit. :)

I cant manage to install the friendstream apk you posted...everything else installs fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bhellim:
Is there a way to change fahrenheit to celsius in this rom? I'm in Taiwan and we use celsius instead of fahrenheit.Tnxs for this great rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shark0807:
Looks like it was an Exchange Sync error, seems to be working now, so installing the new ROM. It looks really good from what I could tell so far.

EDIT: Alright, I lied. After a clean wipe and confirming that Exchange does work on previous versions, VillainRom 5.1 does not support Microsoft Exchange Activesync. If you try to finish the setup, it informs you that it failed to create an account.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] HomerSp:
Here it finally is, a working patch for apps2sd (tested on a new install and on an old)! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] abukaka:
I applied both app2sd fixes (thru adb and the zip file),

and it works for me on the first boot, after I reboot I can't install anything from market or from file manager, but I can still install apk thru adb, any clue?