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[Hero CDMA Android Development] cirehawk:
I've been running 2.08 for a little over 15 hours now and thought I'd give a little feedback. I updated via DCUpdater and did not wipe. I had to clear Sense data once to get some of my HTC widgets back, but other than that it was a smooth upgrade.

I'll start with battery life first. I've never really had battery issues with the previous ROMs. Depending on usage, I would typically get anywhere from 15 to 28 hours (maybe a little more if I wanted to let it run until it died). Also, the Hero's battery has always had a mind of it's own on occasion. Sometimes the battery can drop 5 to 10 percent in an hour when doing nothing but sleeping, while other times it may show no drop in percentage after 2 hours. After the upgrade, I charged completely overnight. I took it off charge about 6am. It's now about 9:30am and I'm down to 86 percent. That's a little worse than I've been seeing with 2.072 lately, but like I said, the next time I charge fully it may act completely different. I'll report again after a couple days of usage.

I love the new config utility. Makes it easy to change things. I don't plan on playing with JIT for a while because I really like senseui a lot, but once I decide to try it out it looks to be fairly simple with the config utility. After a couple reboots and giving things time to settle down, the speed seems very good. I haven't done any measurements, but transitions seem smooth. My SD card isn't the latest class 6. I believe it is a class 2 and it's 16gb. Running apps2sd on it doesn't seem noticeably slow to me, though I suppose a class 6 would be even faster. If this one goes out on me, I'll definitely get a class 6 since they have come down in price. But this one is working just fine for me.

All in all, this is a very solid upgrade. Kudos as usual to damages and now TrevE. It's also good to see the theme server starting to get populated. I'm looking forward to the future upgrades.

P.S. I got the random sense reset that others mentioned once or twice, but that was early on after flashing the ROM. I haven't had one in a while (at least I haven't noticed one).
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jonnythan:
I'm still getting occasional delays in this ROM. I'm not sure what is in here that isn't in Fresh or Darch, but every now and then the phone is basically unresponsive for several (maddening) seconds. I don't experience this with other 2.1 ROMs. I've removed Log Collector, DC Updater, some Sprint apps, Friendstream. I did do a full /data and EXT wipe before installing.

Also, to note, I experienced this same issue on previous versions of this ROM. I really want to like this ROM and keep it because it seems more stock and maybe a little more polished.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] vrajpal:
Re: [ROM] DamageControl v2.08 | FriendStream, Theme Server, DConfig, more | Android

could you post the .apk? I would love to try it
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
wow, everyone is having so many problems....it's weird, i guess i just got lucky. First, I wped my sd and then put 2.08 on it. then i booted into recovery and restored to factory. after about 45 seconds, i told it to flash from zip ans it did, which took lessn than 2 minutes by the way. then i rebooted..... I'm not sure of the EXACT time, but the booting process didnt go any longer than 4 or 5 minutes.....

when my data connection wouldnt work, i connecter to wifi and set up accounts... it was still complaining, so i rebooted phone one my time, and everything was fine. .. my titanium workes, nothing was blocked, and all my connections worked fine, including facebook.

the only problem i had was with the lockscreen not changing but trevE helped me clear the cache......

I didnt do anything special, so i;m wondering, why all the headache and confusion for everyone else ?

and by the way, I havent charged my battery since updating, and its still full, with gps, facebook, mobile, friendstream and everything else running....
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Ska8erMush:
would there be any way to get the sliders themed? (like in people/peep/etc) like in fresh 2.0d that flipz made? that would make this rom perfect!

I love this rom, everything is working fine so far for me!

thanks!! :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] vrajpal:
Re: [ROM] DamageControl v2.08 | FriendStream, Theme Server, DConfig, more

jeez my battery has been going down like crazy. went from 100 to 68 in 4 hours, not sure what to do
[Hero CDMA Android Development] c0mputerp0et:
in order of install from recovery menu:

full wipe

DamageControlv2.08.zip

vanilla-lock-clock-delete-nomenu-flipz.zip

black-vanilla-lockscreen-flipz.zip

PhoneNoEndButton.zip

Once booted: Dconfig: dalvik heap > 24mb. Lowmem killer = high.

Best ROM I've ever used. period. everything is smooth and responsive.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cirehawk:
And how long has it been since you charged/updated?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
i got it as soon as he released it, and it was always charging before then, i never stopped, because it always died
[Hero CDMA Android Development] aiwetir:
??

i searched found nothing
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Jason kiDD:
For those having the batter problems it maybe still that your radio is set to GSM Auto..

Simply put up the phone dialer type *#*#4636#*#* and then go to view phone info. Scroll down and view what your phone is set to. If set to GSM Auto then hit menu and hit select radio band. Upon selection the radio resets and you get a force close notification. Just hit close option wait a few seconds and then change to CDMA Auto. Exit program by pressing home and your battery life should be better...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Pyro8:
Second here...

Wonder how you wake phone up without menu and end call? :confused:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chfields:
End call button only disappears when on a call
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Kelvala:
Here is where I got mine from a different forum thread. I can't remember who posted it, but thanks to them :D

Swype Micro Black

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=710YW4I1
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chfields:
If you click on the paperclip beside the thread its in there
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
Thanks for the suggestion, but my TWS isn't even showing up. and when it does it is only 1-2%.

I think I'm going to just let it go a few days and see if it works...however, my GPS is not working at the moment. EDIT

GPS just started working, could be environmental, not within the ROM.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cirehawk:
Re: [ROM] DamageControl v2.08

How many hours have you been off the charger? That's what I'm asking.

Sent from my HERO200 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero CDMA Android Development] blu3g:
There were lags with the keyboard that came with the rom, so I installed the stock HTC keyboard and response is a lot better. I don't use the speech to text feature anyways, so it works out better for me.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chfields:
I have swype and the black htc keyboard and have no lag at all....
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
about 21 hours, and life is only just now starting to drop
[Hero CDMA Android Development] leshake:
After some trial and error, I figured what was wrong with JIT and making/receiving phone calls. I think it can be reproduced on all phones. Here's what I did:

Wipe, flash rom, flash flipz vanilla lockscreen, set launcher as default, changed wallpaper, flashed banned apps fix, dconfig - disabled sense and sprint apps,save, then enabled JIT only

JIT will be working (as per membench tests) yet if you call voicemail, the phone will freeze after ending call. the phone icon will remain on the notification bar for about a minute. during this time, doing anything on the phone will freeze it. if you plan on calling someone (or receive a call) instead of voicemail, it will drop call and force reboot.

it doesn't seem to be a problem with swapping or dalvik cache on SD, but more with the dialer or phone package being used in tandem with JIT. for now, i'm using the ROM with the vanilla lockscreen, everything else the same. HTC lockscreen could not turn off alarm in the HTC clock app leading to a really bad morning :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] uf20wop:
just installed swype, it's pretty neat,no lag at all
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
I'm sorry, but I can't say I buy this. 21 hours and at 80%? That's just doesn't happen.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
did I mention it's very cold, and I have no friends ?:eek:

lol, idk what to tell you, once i was done setting up my phone, i just spent all day removing apps and stock ringers, then left it alone
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
i tried to do a screenshot for you, but I cant do that without plugging it up... but i swear it says 20h since unplugger and battery is at 81%
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
obviously, you have no reason to lie about it, but it just seems ridiculous. Have you been using it at all?

I pushed the swype keyboard, but get FC when I attempt to make it default...where do I push the .apk file? /system/app?

I installed it from SD card. Thanks.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
i played with pandora and goggles,.... did a little bit of e-mailing, that's it

dont know if it matters, but i did keep turning screen on and off to play with the new weather backgrounds
[Hero CDMA Android Development] okcppcnut:
How do you get to the phone info from the dialer? Do you connect the call?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] okcppcnut:
That's crazy. Good for you. I am at 80% in about 4-5 hours.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] heroid007:
I//system/bin/sh( 51): Error reading block 65575 (Attempt to read block from f

ilesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan. Ignore er

ror? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Force rewrite? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Error writing block 65575 (Attempt to write block from

filesystem resulted in short write) while getting next inode from scan. Ignore

error? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Error reading block 65576 (Attempt to read block from f

ilesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan. Ignore er

ror? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Force rewrite? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Error writing block 65576 (Attempt to write block from

filesystem resulted in short write) while getting next inode from scan. Ignore

error? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Error reading block 65577 (Attempt to read block from f

ilesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan. Ignore er

ror? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Force rewrite? yes

I//system/bin/sh( 51): Error writing block 65577 (Attempt to write block from

filesystem resulted in short write) while getting next inode from scan. Ignore

error? yes

Every time I try to reboot, the system throws these errors for half hour before booting up completely!!! Any idea why is this happening? It starts becoming ridiculous if I have to wait 45 mins for every reboot!! Please help!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
did you block some stuff ?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
Try reflashing the ROM.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] leshake:
just open and install with astro or whatever file managing app you prefer. after you install it hold down on a text field and change input method.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] heroid007:
I haven't blocked anything and I have reflashed the rom like 4 times now!!!! Even when I wipe all the data and do a fresh install, I get these errors!!! :(
[Hero CDMA Android Development] okcppcnut:
Theme Server

The theme server works great. Thanks guys. This makes things so easy by flashing thru the DCupdater.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Genjinaro:
No you're right, something got messed up along the way. :( Its supposed to update both but isn't.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] superlinkx:
Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work. I was hoping an update would come soon, but this is amazing. I have had little to no lag, plenty of memory and overall great stability. Thanks damageless for all your hard work on this project. Makes my Hero perfectly useable until the Evo comes out!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
try re-downloading the zip file. Possible corruption? I'm not sure, sorry man.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Nak131:
just wanted to say that i flashed the banned apps fix and im not sure what i was expecting it to do, but when i rebooted i didnt have sense anymore, and i tried checking it or unchecking it in the banned apps section of dconfig but nothing seemed to make a difference so i just reflashed 2.08 and everything is back. no settings that i change in regard to the banned apps seem to stick... any ideas?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bigsc:
wow, I just installed a gps tracker, and battery level dropped like a stone.... BOO!!!!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
Guys, have you removed Peep? I'm going to push it back and see if that fixes it. I think it has something to do with that, because it only syncs with HTC Facebook for Sense, not the actual Facebook program...just a thought.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] heroid007:
Well, one thing that I can think of is I had fresh2.0d installed and made a backup of system and app data and used the same back up on damagecontrol to restore!!!! Maybe that's the reason its acting funky?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] barnacles10:
Hey guys, I had 2.08 running and had been running the expresso rosie. I decided today to wipe and reflash just to clear everything out, and now when I try to install expresso after the reboot its not showing. Any help?

none of the themes from dc update are working actually
[Hero CDMA Android Development] grifforama:
Anyone else getting chompsms working ? It's constantly FC'ing on me. I've uninstalled and installed twice.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] n388mm:
what is your memkill set too? ive had friendstream working with no issues when set to default and less.. havn't tried it on more.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] barnacles10:
yes flashed it via DCupdater, the same way I did last time.. anyone know of anything I might be able to try?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] riggsandroid:
A shot in the dark here, are you positive you downloaded the Espresso theme and not the standard Rosie? I know I almost did that last night....

:cool:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] barnacles10:
Yes, because I have it under existing downloads.. I tried flashing the black phone keys to see if it was isolated to expresso but after rebooting that wasn't there either
[Hero CDMA Android Development] barnacles10:
I'll try this n see if it makes any difference
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Mdawg112:
Love the update, any fixes for the wakelock yet?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mario23:
the lockscreen themes in dcupdater don't appear to be working.

Do they need to be resigned with this release?

Everything else is working great since I cleared dalvik cache.

Thanks
[Hero CDMA Android Development] n388mm:
just wanted to post a status update..

flash rom last night over fresh 2.0d with factory wipe and davik wipe.

charged over night. running htc clock and weather, android power control, powermonitor battery, friendstream (2 hr updates), calander, and music widgets. sent a few texts and emails. made a couple calls. browsed facebook. and its currently at just about 8 hr since unplug with 67% battery left and 2% time without signal.

pretty good i would say. not as much as with fresh but with fresh i wasn't using the htc clock and weather or friendstream widgets..

did have sense reboot on me once when i was installing 5-6 market apps at a time.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] barnacles10:
I tried deleting it and reinstalling. No luck. I also tried clearing davlik and when I do it takes awhile then says its unable to clear. But the next boot up takes a while which leads me to believe it is actually clearing. None the less, still no themes are working
[Hero CDMA Android Development] vrajpal:
Where did you get the apk for the stock Keyboard? is HTC_IME.apk the same one? I tried it and it would not install, the swype apk didnt install either...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cirehawk:
Wow, are you saying you've been off charger for 21 hours and your battery is nearly full? Or are you saying it's just not starting to get low?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cirehawk:
I hear you. I have NEVER seen a claim of battery life that good. If it's true, I would never flash another ROM for fear that I'd never get battery life that good again. :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] smw6180:
I did when I first installed. Others did as well. Going into/out of airplane mode seems to fix it for some, simple reboots fixes it for others.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Mdawg112:
EDIT: Sorry didn't see the answer was already posted.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] roadster92:
Have you try to turn off the mobile network option and reboot the phone? once reboot go back in and turn on the mobile network again. I did have issue the same as you, i just reboot the phone rerty and it turn ON.

Hope this help
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Genjinaro:
Nah, didn't remove anything. I made sure I logged into Peep as well since I knew Friendstream used it.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] barnacles10:
Did a wipe and a davlik wipe n got my expresso back :D. My davlik wasn't wiping so I had to upgrade to the new recovery image, or newer, 1.6.2. Worked like a charm after that
[Hero CDMA Android Development] posguy99:
You keep saying this, but you don't ever describe what you think is wrong. Some applications force a wakelock ON PURPOSE, so without details, what do you expect anyone to do?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] posguy99:
Yes, by all means, bypass the fact that the filesystem on the phone is messed up. That makes PERFECT sense.

Wipe the phone. That will cause it to reformat and remake the filesystems. Then see if you still have a problem.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] heroid007:
Thanks, but I have wiped dalvik cache and restored to factory default before install..... still having issues...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Bielinsk:
Can't seem to get the rotary lock screen to work at all. Clear weather and lockscreen loads without a problem. But tried both Rotary ones since and neither do anything.

Also reflashed 208 and tried the rotary again, still didn't do anything.

I searched the thread, didn't see anything.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] smw6180:
Did you remove the htc lockscreen?

adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
mv HtcLockScreen.apk HtcLockScreen.bak
exit

If that still doesn't do it for you, there's a thread by JsChiSurf in the themes forum that explains.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Bielinsk:
Thanks smw6180

I read a ton and somehow must have totally missed that ....

Thanks for not flambasting me.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] smw6180:
That one's easy to miss. :) I take it you're all good now?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rank78:
new to app2sd, how do i activate it if its checked by default?

what else should i have selected in DConfig? there are a bunch of settings and i want the best performance. IE, SD swapping and the number, moving dalvik and audio to SD, 16mb or 24mb dalvik heap? i don't want to bother with JIT though since i want to keep sense.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Bielinsk:
Yea all set, thanks
[Hero CDMA Android Development] wirelessness:
I was about to do a full wipe and re-flash but tried clearing the Sense Data...one more time and it worked. I must have cleared it 3 or 4 times.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ziggy682:
In my opinion, the fact that Friendstream is not updating is totally related the the Facebook and Peep syncing issues that all the 2.1 ROMs have.

You can get Facebook to sync sometimes buy changing the memory killer settings back to stock, but it still won't always sync at the times you choose in the settings. I have noticed the exact same problems with Peep on all the 2.1 ROMs.

I believe Friendstream just combines these two apps, so the problem still lies with Facebook and Peep. I know putting the memory killer settings to stock help it sync a bit more reliably, but it's still not 100%.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] vrajpal:
Re: [ROM] DamageControl v2.08 | FriendStream, Theme Server, DConfig, more

where did you get the stock keyboard apk I searched around and found HTC IME apk, is this it? because I tried installing it from and SD card with no luck
[Hero CDMA Android Development] smw6180:
Yeah I didn't have the patience for that. A re-flash fixed it for me and probably took less time and frustration than clearing sense 4-5 times :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] celith:
Are you using A2SD? If so, have you wiped EXT? Do you have swap on SD?

In fact, have you tried booting without the SD card in the phone at all?

The error looks (to me) very much like a bad memory location. If so, hopefully it's on the SD card and not the internal memory.

Just some thoughts to try.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] scott2020:
I had 100% charge at 10:00 this morning, and now at 8:00pm I am down to 30%. I have my Gmail set up, no phone calls, no texts, good signal area, little web browsing. Usually I take off the charger at 7:00am and at 11:00pm I am at around 40% with the same or more usage.

I am taking off the Friendstream widget to see if that helps. I have it refresh every 2 hours.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] blu3g:
I just pulled the HTC_IME.apk out of a previous version before the new keyboard was implemented. You have to push it through adb for it to work.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] wtphoto:
other than a perma sync when I first flash I have no issues with facebook or peep I did have to replace the HtcFacebook.apk with the one from 2.07 after that everything was good
[Hero CDMA Android Development] digitalscars:
ap2sd is not working (correctly), wiped everything and not sitting at 64mb free. i think apps2sd is working but also copying twice or something. tried fixing it, and still not working. should not have that low free, didn't with other 2.1 rom after manually fixing it.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] vrajpal:
Thanks for your response. Could you explain how to "push the apk through adb?" I'm new at this and any instruction is much appreciated.

Thank you
[Hero CDMA Android Development] illan380:
That was the same thing I was thinking. I have tried everything to fix it. Can anyone help?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] celith:
If you partitioned your SD card correctly, then A2SD is almost certainly working. I was around that number before I moved the Dalvik cache to SD, which then moved me up to (currently) 110 megs free.

Try using DConfig to move Dalvik to SD and see if you like the results better.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] illan380:
If you don't mind me asking, What's the correct way to partition the SD? I went 1024 of ex2 that I converted to ex3. The dalvik is on the card too
[Hero CDMA Android Development] celith:
Most people don't need more than the default 512 for EXT, but more isn't going to hurt you other than leaving less for FAT (and thus less space for files, pictures, music, etc).

Are you sure dalvik is on the card? You have to manually enable that option through DConfig in 2.08. If it is, I can't think of any reason you shouldn't easily have >100 megs free on internal memory.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ehiggins:
What's the advantage or disadvantages to moving the cache other than the free space
[Hero CDMA Android Development] illan380:
I went into dconfig and enabled the dalvik on sd. Its at 68 megs. The last dc rom without the apps2sd I was running the same
[Hero CDMA Android Development] blu3g:
first you take the HTC_IME.apk and put it into the tools folder of your android sdk folder. then you have to sync your phone to your pc via usb. enter a command prompt by searching cmd in your start menu of your computer. you'll have to cd into your android sdk folder. so for me, my folder is called "android-sdk-windows", your's could be different. but once you have done that, type in the following:

cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools

adb remount

adb push HTC_IME.apk /system/app

adb reboot

and that should reboot your phone. once it's done booting, you should have the stock keyboard.