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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ashes:
Regarding battery life ...

I think I've a application that is consuming more battery than usual.

How long does the battery last ? In days / hours ?

With this utilization:

Wifi 90 min/day

Bluetooth 120 min/day

GSM 10 min/day of talking

The battery last 48 to 56 hours. Is this normal ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] thegreendroid:
Thanks, it worked after wiping and reflashing :) Does anyone know how to apply the VillainROM patches from the VillainROM site? Is it the same process as flashing the original ROM?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jUsT2eXy:
Correct. Same process.

Put fixes onto sd card

switch off phone

hold down home + power button

in recovery click flash via zip

voila

Ps... perform a nandroid backup just in case
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jpq:
Install juice plotter ... u'll see a sel exlanatory graph

Spare parts will also show where u use battery.

Tricks to spare battery life

- Set CPU ou Overclock widget to downclock when screen is off and/or battery is low.

- disable auto synchornize google and set synchronize via IMAP in mail with lower periodicity

-disable network location

A+

Jpq
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DarthOps:
I'm still having a problem with the camera even after the zip fix (I wiped the cache like the instructions said after the installation of the fix) Worse thing is that now the camera's exposure seems to keep on increasing until everything is totally overexposed and then it just crashes the camera, I'm also getting artifacts on the camera viewfinder screen :S

Does anyone know how to sort this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xavier2k3:
I can confirm this.

Also does anyone experience huge page when typing in text fields on internet forum like this with the htc keyboard?

Also can anyone confirm beebplayer and last fm don't work with 5.3? Does homersp's hotfix have to be reapplied?

Want to confirm before bug reporting.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xavier2k3:
Reboot or stop the sense process.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tepss:
After enabling A2SD GPS stopped working. Needed reboot with gps on.

Battery is a nice suprise really. Charged over night. All the time connected to web, updatin twitter every 15 min plus gmail sync active. ab 20 min of google navi, 20 min of calls, dozen of messages plus a lot of twittering plus emails, 20 min of youtube and some browsing. At midnight still 14% left - impressive.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dominiaz:
I can`t run navigation on google maps. I don`t have any navigation option (just shortcut in menu). How to run it on Vanillain 5.3?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] punkmonkey1984:
OTA update

HI this is on twitter

"nprussell

We just released a Villainrom OTA update app! Check villain forum. Oh... and 5.4 is coming today. Surprise!"

about 2 hours ago via HTC Peep

but all i get is force closes when i try checking to see if there is a update, all FC apart from the HTC software upgrade. :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mcduck1:
Its released: http://www.villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=222
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] punkmonkey1984:
I know i just found it lol, thanks tho,

To others the link above is for the OTA update guide and hot fixes to get it working !!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
nice! dl speed low

gonna wipe again!!!

download doesnt fully finish :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] flipper203:
Can someone mirror the version 5.4, I don't have access to villainrom at work
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
How do you find the OTA update ( sorry if this is a dumb question!:o )

DOH!!!! Ignore me - I'm a senile wreck in the corner LOL!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
5.4 up -

OTA built in!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mcduck1:
Server is using 95mbit, Currently 802 people downloading 5.4. 95 / 802 = reason its slow.

Give it a few minutes and things will be back to normal.

;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xangma:
What are the actual changes from 5.3 to 5.4? Besides this trippy boot up animation.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] offbow:
VillainROM 5.4 rapidshare link if anyone needs it

http://rapidshare.com/files/380376561/VillainROM5.4.zip
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xavier2k3:
Different visuals, most bugs are fixed by the looks of things, too.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mikael_t:
Google Maps Navigation

On Villain 5.3 there are 2 issues;

1) Navigation in default Google Maps only available in some markets, if you don't have it you need to install 'Google Maps [Brut]' (search for it in the forum)

2) The Live Wallpaper patch breaks the Navigation view (black screen with text overlay). Navigation works if you DON'T install patch.

- Anyone know what the status of Navigation/Live Wallpaper patch is in 5.4?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
stuck on villain splash, non wipe update from 5.3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phil_UK:
Bug - Friendstream

Hi,

Great work.

In 5.4 Friendstream only updates to Facebook. The share settings option has no option for twitter. It worked OK for me in 5.3 though.

Thanks

Phil
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
..........................
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xangma:
Not sure you understood what I meant. What's the difference between 5.3 and 5.4? And someone gave me an answer. And it wasn't you.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xavier2k3:
The Livewallpaper patch doest seem to be in. Not sure Navigator works, I'm currently in Italy and it doesn't give me the option to Navigate here but does in the UK but it said it couldn't go from my destination.

Just wait it out. It took a long time for me before it worked. I didnt wipe update from 5.2 to 5.3 or 5.3 to 5.4 as i'm lazy and both worked fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] krypta:
Lock-Screen

Have anyone tried to change the lockscreen picture?

isnt working for me! o_0
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] trebiani:
5.3 was fast like hell! 5.4 is so slow, i can't even take a picture with the camera :-(

i'll try it again with a full wipe and if it's not getting better i revert to 5.3.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Deepy2k:
can't start with 5.4, it freezes after entering pin code with the message "Unlocking SIM Card..."

tried to Wipe & Re-Install, don't work...

ideas?

greetz deepy
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Phil_UK:
Very fast for me...did the OTA update too :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] trebiani:
after a wipe & re-install my hero is freezing too ...

btw.: my sim card is NOT pin protected

update: giving up! reverting to 5.3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gugi_sat:
HI guys

just a quicky what is OTA ( over the AIR), is it update ROM or part of ROM over the mobile internet or what , i could not get my head around, which is empty anyway......

now again i have to wipe and reinstall... slow down guys, i just installed 5.3 yesterday and 5.4 already out .....

well done Nathan

Regards
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] the1theycalldave:
i installer 5.4 and its stuck on the 1st screen with the lockbar saying no service i can do anything! i can restart or anything? i dont want to brick it if i pull out my battery :S
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] krypta:
lol here it only updates Twitter :D And there is no option for facebook :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
5.4 can't possibly be slower - it's pretty much the same build but with optimized images.

Wipe and try again if it's slow. It definitely shouldn't be!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Deepy2k:
Just pull out the battery, i had the same problem. Now returning to 5.3.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jendrassik:
Freezed to me too!

Stuck in the block screen with No service shown e the SD mounting icon in upper left...

Any solution?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Reboot the phone. try again. Did it once for me actually
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
I've just realised that I made a mistake with Friendstream. I will release a small OTA fix later/tomorrow :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jendrassik:
it seems to be the htc setup wizard to freeze...i have the HTC white screen freezed...

Rebooted 4 times...same trouble..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tepss:
Re: [ROM]26/04/10 - VillainROM 5.4: Release Version - for GSM HERO

flashed using ota, worked great. But htc widgets are missing?

Sent from my Hero using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sinnadyr:
Absolutely wonderful!!

Installed 5.3 just to notice the tweet about 5.4 and the OTA updater. Downloaded the OTA app and updated, works like a god damn charm. Wonderful theme and colors!

Thanks a lot <3<3<3

!!!EDIT: SMS splits, please fix
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
none of the livewallpapers load on sense, or am i missing something?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Stickman89:
Hope nprussel doesn't mind if I help you with this one...

On your device Navigate to:

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > HTC Sense > Clear Data

Report back if this resolves your issue, it should restore the widget...

Best Regards,
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] henky92:
damn! my hero freezes too after install... any fix?!?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
UPDATE:

Some people are having issues booting this for the first time.

I will completely clean up the build tonight, and release a cleaned up version tomorrow.

For those with no issues - enjoy :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tepss:
Re: [ROM]26/04/10 - VillainROM 5.4: Release Version - for GSM HERO

Thanks but reboot sorted it out. Great work. Gonna try wifi and gpa now.

Sent from my Hero using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] henky92:
well I didnt backup...:( how can i restore?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Fisgaz:
everything working GREAT!

only problem is friendstream only updating to facebook. option to update to twitter doesnt show up!

thanks!!

awesome work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jendrassik:
Rebooted for the 12th time..now it works..

any way to have htc theme back in future? thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
You can go to Villainrom.co.uk and download 5.3, or you can try 5.4

It's working fine on my phone, and the other admin's phones.

The problem is, there are that many thousands of people that use VillainROM now, if only 5% of people have problems, that's 50 negative posts on the forum.

Just wipe everything, and flash 5.4 again - the rom is fine. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] plazzTT:
Anyone have any tips on how I can restore the theme from 5.2?

Thanks for this, nprussell!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Check villainrom.co.uk forums. The relevant themes should be available in the 5.2 thread!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] the1theycalldave:
keeps freezing on the lockscreen! any news how to sort this? i would like to try this rom
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jonasback:
Hmm, navigation is gone in 5.4?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] trebiani:
i wiped, flashed 5.3 and everything was running fine again. but i had to try it again!! so flashed 5.4 and now everything looks fine.

except: sometimes when i start the VillainROM Updater i get the message:

Sorry!

The application VillainROM Updater (process uk.com.villainrom.otaupdater.ui) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] henky92:
keep on rebooting it works
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] crazyVII:
hang on first boot...

hey guys.. some strange issue...

i wiped...

i flashed....

i waited for first boot :) i saw the fancy boot screen :)

after waiting ... the phone hangs...:(( (@ first at the lockscreen... afterwards with white background... HTC, also at the lockscreen)

no idea.. why? everything clean before install... (latest radio rom)

would be glad for any help :)

thanks!

crazy sh*t...:

after rebooting and rebooting (3rd time) --- it works :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Eldholm:
Weather widget problem :(

I can´t ad any new citys in HTC weather. If a search for say "Antalya" i can find it but it says "null Antalya" and if i click it the weather program force close saying: The application Weather (process com.htc.weather) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Any solution for this ?? And the flipclock also is buggy. even if i have GPS upp and running i´m still just in "sweden" instead of the city i´m in.....

Running 5.3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Kenny5743:
Prompt please, what file from the firmware you want to change that after installing the firmware on desks htc Sens nothing?

And yet, what files need to edit to change the desktop picture and a picture lockscreen imposed immediately after the firmware !?!?!?!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] the1theycalldave:
how many times did u have to boot it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stefan1975:
here it freezes upon booting as well. I can get past the fancy bootscreen to the lock page. sometimes it has no service and sometimes it connects before freezing.

what i did was:

wipe/factory default

wipe calvik

wipe ext

flash 5.4

reboot

i rebooted 4 times and tried re-wiping everything but it freezes every time. I am using recovery 1.6.2 and the latest radio from the radio thread.

oh and when it hangs all leds but the trackball are lit.

any pointers or do i have to go back to 5.3?

thanks a lot for your effort!

stefan
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bornin:
Stop the presses, HTC EU Publishing on Twitter they are testing 2.1 on hero and they will release ASAP :-)

U
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
I installed and booted as an upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4 without wiping. It went fine for me (positive feedback). :) I checked with logcat from an adb shell to see that things were ticking along.

Is there a way to get the original Rosie Sense look and feel back? I liked it more. :) Also, the USB symbol on the notification bar is fuzzy - I'm guessing it got hashed somewhere along the way?

Good work on the ROM though. Fast! Just got to test the battery - excellent on 5.3. 2 days before a charge was required!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
whats there to clean?

cant get live wallpapers working on sense but fine via launcher 2

hows the slide port coming along?

thanks for your work and those who helped
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] knudsen81:
Where the latest tweet at @htc_eu is Latest in Support - Application Upgrade - HTC Sync 2.0.33: HTC Sync™ lets you synchronize Outlook and Windows Addr... http://bit.ly/9KjS6R

2:11 AM Apr 25th via twitterfeed
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jendrassik:
Is there a zip file to put htc theme back? I only found Metamorph but it only put the bottom bar.

Thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jonasback:
Guys, am I the only one who can't get navigation to work? The "navigate" button is gone in maps..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xxbabiboi228xx:
wheres the twitter link where you seen this ? Last Tweet they had was april 24. April 1st past along time ago my friend enough with the jokes
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] trikko:
On 5.4 if you remove custom htc lock screen, is vanilla lock screen messed up & transparent?

How can I uninstall stock apps I don't use?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
stuck at unlockin sim card after a full wipe, back to 5.3 for now

i'll wait for tomorrow update

great theme thou :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] j0bro:
Exchange not syncing?

I've been running VR5.3 since it came out.

I have set up my business Exchange account, which it gladly accepted. It has synced exactly one mail message and nothing more. Something I missed here?

I also noticed that the Legend version of the Mail app is used, but not the Legend widget (including the extra display versions with the white/red mailbox icon).

Can somebody confirm that Exchange sync is defective in this ROM?

EDIT: relay that order, I screwed up somewhere. Re-added the account and mail starts to drip in again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Bornin:
Its from today but maybe less official then i thougt, ill post it when i get home so you can see im not making it up.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] romdroid:
I think HTC apologized for the delay of 2.1 and still didn't give any exact date..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xangma:
HTC_NL ... I think.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jensni:
Access to http://villainrom.co.uk/

If you have problems connecting to villainrom.co.uk, try using theese DNS servers. 208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

Jens
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] j0bro:
You are right, this is what they have to say:

In english:

Source (in dutch)

Let's wait and see what they are up to! Personally I think they will only be releasing an OTA updating app to keep us happy for a few more weeks, until the update itself is ready to be released. I know there was talk about such a pre-update update anyway.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] melodaf:
Live Wallpaper ?

Which patch should I install in 5.4 ? The same I installed in 5.3 ? (I did this, but the phone is back to hanging on the splash screen)

Nevermind, after a long time it is back online ! And Matrix code falling in the screen ! =)

(but the apps and add widget buttons got a arrow and a plus sign over the three dots.... )

Yeah, patience really pays back.... ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
u got lw working on sense?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] The Anti-Garry:
I used the older versions of this, works GREAT! I am LOVING this splash screen :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Morak75:
Differences between 5.0 and 4.0 ? (cdma/gsm ?)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Coolness57:
Thank you ! I like this ROM !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Geeum:
OK. I will wait a bit because I just read that this ROM can't handle the +xx in the contacts, and all my contacts are stored like this.

One other thing, I can see the "Orange France" MMS settings are nowhere, maybe I can help (it's in french but you can figure it out, I would just put the relevant information but I'm not sure what is relevant !)

http://www.blog-mobile.com/Android/Trucs-et-Astuces/parametrer-les-mms-orange-sous-android.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] foxmeister:
I found switching off Facebook sync resolved this issue.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
Also just found that simply going into accounts and pressing "cancel sync" then doing a manual sync works.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nerval:
back to legend then I guess :\
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Is it that much of an issue for you? I removed the SIM contacts back for the Eris leak, although I guess if you have several phones, and you swap SIMs about, then this may not be a good enough solution
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cosmic76:
to install I do full wipe or i can only update the 4.0b2 :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jens.bergqvist:
That didn't work for me. For some reason Google Calendar sync is acting up and unless I completely deactivate/reactivate sync it stays "locked in sync"...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shelnes:
You have do wipe. This one is CDMA based, 4.0 is not
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cosmic76:
Ok thanks, but there's italian language? and work in italy with fast internet HSUPA?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ricostuart:
Only problem I see on mine (did a straight flash from last beta to this one) is that the lock screen no longer has a bar along it. Its just the background image plus the date/time, etc.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mljjlm:
why is that a problem? :S
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lennyuk:
thats a theme thing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Morak75:
Je crois qu'il est préférable de garder une rom gsm pour les français ou même les européens. mais pk, telle est la question ^^

GSM isn't better than cdma for europeeans ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tristan202:
Just reflashed the rom, and the bug is there. It is not caused by my theme. But it bothers me that I can't find it and fix it. I have looked through every apk that could be related to it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
since it's just a CDMA port it won't do anything bad on gsm phone

it's not like flashing the radio
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mardurhack:
Hi! First of all thanks Nprussel, for your hard work ;) I think you're spending (succesfully!) a lot of time developing this rom. But I noticed some performance bugs and a graphical glitch: the glitch appears when you go to People--Menu/View. It doesn't show "Google, Phone, SIM" etc. Only black spaces. Even if I believe it could be the modded theme you installed by default (why not the stock one?) causing it. The performance loss appears during some basic operations: Composing Messages (laggy keyboard and , Scrolling pages, pinch2zoom (almost unusable!) and notifications bar scrolling (it's just a liiiittle laggy...But you may not care about it ;) ). I made a little comparison with my previous rom (and currently running until major problems are not fixed), mrbang 1.5 based, and performance is plenty better than Villain 5.0. Scrolling is smooth, pinch2zoom works flawlessy...But, obviously, you can't enjoy 2.1 feature...and market apps! Any idea on how to solve this performance issue?? It's weird that performance decreases while we keep updating roms! :P Should be the opposite!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saar73:
the 2 arrows means sync right?

coz its appear always next to the "H" signal :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yegengovender:
Wiped and flashed from villainrom 3.4 to this Rom. Very happy to see that I didn't have to re-install my apps. I notice that inline images in gmail is now working, and the browser handles some embedded flash that wasn't working in the 3.4 Rom. Can't wait til the dialling issue is resolved, cos that's when this officially becomes my everyday Rom.

Keep up the excellent work Nathan. Coffee is pretty cheap here in ZA, but I'm definitely buying you a cup.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] melodaf:
Oh yeah I got it. But I missed the Gallery button in the bottom bar (it turned again to the Phone button) and the arrow and the plus sign on left and right corners are also back.

But the 3d Gallery doesn't seen to work..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] knudsen81:
i'm on villian 5,3 used the rom updater and now on 5.4 it's nice release
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ian_4614:
problem with mail sync,,, when I access me mail in the MAIL app,, I find this does not sync with mail when I go into it on my PC,,, is this normal ?????

To be clear,, what I do with mail on my hero is not reflected when I go and look on my pc.... am I missing something ??

Ian
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] knudsen81:
do we still need too reboot with gps on to get a gps work?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bomsch:
Change Lock Screen Wallpaper VillainROM 5.4

Hi,

like your ROM, it is really fast and stable and i like the skin. But i cant change the lockscreen wallpaper. Is there any trick or does anyone have same problem?

Bomsch
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hilwood:
a new 5.4 come out....flashing right now!! thank you for your great works:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Smallguy17:
Is there a way to get original "home screen bottom thingy" back? :o

Edit, do i have to wipe from 5.3-5.4?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FireFly3k:
Your ROMs are amazing but is there any way to restore the boot image and the theme? I'm sure someone has worked very hard on it and it looks nice but I like the old theme better.

What do you guys get with Neocore benchmark. I get about 24.8 fps without sound and 21.3 with sound. Both on 5.3 and 5.4.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] apesgrapes:
looks gorgeous, especially the battery icon, but can't get past unlock screen. will try flashing again with a few reboots (battery pull style).

edit - no i won't, i'll just flash the fix :cool: