yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
Ah, good to know. I was trying to figure out why bone-stock Test5 was faster than the hodge-podge of stuff I usually throw at the build. That and Pershoot/Android Basement has nothing uploaded explicitly for Test5 (yet), I'm probably eating my own lunch by flashing JIT and OC hacks on T5 as you say traditional swap is doing. What about Compcache or any kind of backing swap? Cm5.0.7~ seems to automatically encourage a 24mb BS, or is Swapper just showing me the compcache as it resides in memory? Numbers look a lot like <compcache stats> output.

Which type of ext do you use? I keep upgrading to ext4 since is pushed in all the linux distros these days--it must be good for something.
[Android Themes] prince34:
ext4 is a journalistic partition. It keeps a record of what you do so that if somethings happens, it is easier to recover your data, etc.

It does incur some overhead as a tradeoff. I just use ext3.

5.0 is working great.
[Android Themes] digitaljeff:
dont run JIT.....its too buggy and in some cases will actually slow your phone....

cyanogen himself (along with wesgarner) said it is absolutely pointless on our phones (dream, magic 32A/32B).

i myself have tried it with limited success, way to many fc's, sometimes phone slows to a crawl.. somtimes it *appears* faster..

anycase, thanks Doc! love how your updates are always on par and your releases are fast!
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
Logcat's

Does anyone know where to send or post logcat's?
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
I am aware that ext4 is a journaling FS and there is some overhead to the journaling process, but ext2 under certain ROMs gets corrupted regularly. Ext3, by the way, is also a journaling FS.

I'm not going to debate you on stability; even Pershoot states it's "probably" not stable enough for daily use, but there's nothing misleading about Linpack's Mflops rating shooting up from ~2.1 to 3.5+ when JIT is enabled. I see a similar uptick in setCPU's short and long benchmarks, and that's JIT w/o overclocking. In fact, 710mhz w/o JIT gets about the same rating as JIT @ 528mhz.

What that all translates to in real-world Dream performance is unknown to me--I haven't done any controlled tests. I'm confident JIT would show improvements. Not to knock Cyanogen or WG, but it was thought not too long ago that those who used DangerSPL's revised partitions were inevitably building unstable ROMs and that such extra space was superfluous and yet, here we are . . .

Thanks for all your great work, Cloverdale!
[Android Themes] prince34:
This is way off topic from ME now, sorry Doc.

Isn't ext3 less journalistic than ext4? Or did i misunderstand someone at some point?

Doc, what do you recommend?

Also, OP probably needs the update about disabling swap in 5.0.

Just as a test, I turned on swap on 5.0, wow, major crappiness compared to it off.
[Android Themes] qwerty3656:
Any one else finding test5 less responsive than test4? I've tried swap and no swap. I have autokiller installed. I'm thinking of doing a complete wipe, but before I do, I wanted to make sure it wasn't the rom
[Android Themes] dimplechugh:
My battery sucks

This Rom is really best of all .But what about battery ? I have to charge my phone two times a day.Any one with similar prob.
[Android Themes] dmm0816:
is anybody having problems receiving texts with this rom?
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
I use ext3, only because ext4 can cause issues with certain ROMs.

This has been much more responsive for me. Make sure cc is not on.

Battery life is about 10-12 hours for me. Let the battery die, then with the phone off charge for two hours past the light turning green. Boot to recovery, wipe battery stats.

Also, do not have GPS on, etc.

This is a problem still with CM5.0.7.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Due to swap being counterproductive at this point, I removed the swaptions from the extras script. Additionally I posted a script in the OP to turn off your swap, and make sure it does not come back on. ERRORS ABOUT FOLDERS OR FILES NOT EXISTING ARE OKAY (when running swap_e.sh).

To run the script, place it on the root of your sd and in the terminal enter

su
sh /sdcard/swap_e.sh

then enter

free

to make sure swap is off.

A reboot is also a good idea (check it is off after the reboot also).
[Android Themes] MINUS Stl:
Workin great on my end, Doc. :D
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
saving battery in CM5

I also recommend using the testing.apk released in 2008, an AnyCut shortcut, or *#*#4636#*#* from the dialer to restrict the radio to whatever radio signal is predominant in your area, i.e. GSM only or WCDMA only. Keeping the radios from hunting has added at least an hour of battery time for me, and I'm in a solid 3G-UMTS-HSPDA area now.:D
[Android Themes] qwerty3656:
I did a clean install and now it runs great. I havn't had much luck upgrading this ROM w/o a wipe.
[Android Themes] DefTaker:
Really? I find that swap does not slow down Test5 on my G1. However, without swap, I can't multitask with Pandora as the stream immediately crashes. So 5.0.5 has swap disabled then? I guess I'll keep using 5.0.0. Again, thank you!
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
No reason for you to change. I do notice quite a difference though.
[Android Themes] prince34:
I noticed a significant difference not so much in speed after getting an app running, but general responsiveness, especially after just turning on the phone.

I also disabled autokiller and it seemed to get just a little bit better.

Running great as always. Thanks Doc.
[Android Themes] DefTaker:
I was wondering since you removed swaptions (I'll assume to prevent users from enabling and then complaining) can I just remove all the files you have in the bin folder from 5.0.0 and move them to any further updates? I'd like to have the option to enable them without having to go through the fuss of setting up a userinit.sh and userconf file again. :)
[Android Themes] unclefrancis:
I'm with DefTaker. options are nice. I can stream music, browse and txt with no closes on my g1 with my small swap. I'll admit that I take a hit on speed after a time with swap enabled but I've recently discovered GScript and disable/enable swap using that . I love this theme and latest font. I hope you're not getting burnt out. I certainly appreciate the work you've put into this. No big deal setting up userinit myself, I'd have to set it up with straight cyan anyhow.

Note I mentioned speed, not performance ;)
[Android Themes] xboxissocool:
ram hack

I go to the terminal and do su extras but i cant find the ram hack option...help please i am running 5.0.5 version of this theme!!!!
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
I have no intentions of making it unusable, just making it accessible only to those that actually know what they are doing, and why they want swap.

There is no ram hack available for the current kernel. Sorry.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
By the way, I know I made a comment about being burnt out on twitter. I am not stopping with this theme. I will still be updating, but I am just not in the mood to be experimental right now (which is a good thing for the users of my work :) ).
[Android Themes] JAguirre1231:
That is a good thing, last time you got experimental we got this theme from you: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=662611
[Android Themes] SG_Shadow:
No swap?

I'm running test5 and I removed swap, per your instructions on the front page. It may sound contradicting, but my systems seems to run faster with swap. Maybe its just me. I also love the blocking of ad's on apps/browser. Amazing.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Depending on your uses, swap could help. I just want it to be up to the user, and not something people will use to complain about.
[Android Themes] chucky80:
Big Thanks

Thanks so much for this wonderful theme. Your theme is great and it makes a difference when I get to show off my phone. Thanks for your hard work!
[Android Themes] Neffstarr:
thanks bro

about to flash it in a few min.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
I added the black calendar widget.
[Android Themes] Houka420:
After all the grief & headache, I'm surprised you still do it. Thanks so much for everything you do at the expense of your time. Means alot :D
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
I like where this theme went, I will keep it going. Screw the complainers.

Anyways, updated to Test 6. Enjoy.
[Android Themes] satanix:
Thanks for the updates! love the theme mate.
[Android Themes] damngood98:
wow! fast and skilled! i don't care what that anderwebs guy says about ya, you're alright w/me! :D btw, for whatever reason, cyan's test6 by itself wouldn't play nice with my phone until i added your theme. i like your theme but if i find out your adding something in your themes that's making my phone addicted i'm switching to anderwebs team!
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
My experience too. Cyanogen should check out your scripts :)

BTW, Doc, while I don't doubt your coding/technical acumen one iota, it is my experience that the swap issue I was experiencing, and you may have experienced, is not due to linux-swap seriously degrading cm5tx/your themes' performance, but an incompatibility between compcache backing swap (seeming automatic in cm5tx) and linux-swap. For me, this has been a perfect study in why Cyanogen's <4.2x userconf's contained, in comments, the statement that backing swap and linux-swap are mutually exclusive. Running cm5t6, your 6.0 w/100mb linux-swap and compcache-off, JIT, and dumfuq's OC kernel = ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM! :D
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
Ok so the answer to this will probably make me want to hit myself and others want to hit me too. Because i know i've seen this in here at one point in time or another but i just can't seem to find it again. But the alternate boot animation on the OP page, does that just get flashed from recovery?
[Android Themes] :
Yup. And god is it sexy. :P

GJ, again, DR. I hid back at Donut for a while because I seriously couldn't afford one little issue with my phone, but now everything's ok and I can test again.

Beautiful theme, as always!
[Android Themes] anomalous3:
Still the best theme out there. Love it.
[Android Themes] dmm0816:
i haven't been on much lately but i just saw the test 6 from CM...does anyone know if the sms problem has been fixed?
[Android Themes] :
I think he fixed that in test 3 with a hotfix, and completely fixed in test 4.

I've personally NEVER have experience a missed SMS so I couldn't promise. I also missed test 4 and 5. :P
[Android Themes] acids7n:
can this be used on alan's 32a port? or do modifications need to be made first?

update: yes it can be used on 32a as is
[Android Themes] dmm0816:
oh ok...i tried test 5 but i was missing a lot of sms, might just go ahead and give it a shot anyway...thanks bro!!!
[Android Themes] rudeguy:
I'm liking it! One questions....how do I remove swap? I downloaded the swap_e file but have no idea what to do with it..
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
this is also found around page 40
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
Swap

Alright DR. Serious props for all that you have been doing with this, it's amazing! The only question i have, is swap automatically off? I think i remember you saying something about it a few versions back but i didn't see anything about it on the OP just about the swaptions being removed. You said before you use wireless tether alot, do you have any issues with it and not having swap? My phone works fine while i'm using wireless tether, it when i have it going for probably more than an hour and i go to shut it off my memory it at 0 and i have pull the battery to get it to shut off. But after i turn the phone back on it's fine again. Now when i have swap enabled my phone is just fine. Just curious to see if you or anyone else has seen anything like that. Keep up the great work!
[Android Themes] legend221:
Excuse my ignorance and I attempted to search the thread before asking this.

Can this be flashed on top of SuperBadCM5 V1.2.3?

The theme is just so streamlined and I want to sport this myself so Im hoping its compatible :D

If anyone can elaborate I thank you in advance for your input.
[Android Themes] koreancanuck:
I think it would. Of course, you can just nandroid and flash :D

I flashed Darkstar over SuperBad before and it was fine.
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
Flash over another ROM

I believe themes, in most cases, have xmls written for a particular ROM's kernel, so if the kernels match, flash away . . . although beware that the most recent release of this theme (6) seems to top-off the cache partition with my DangerSPL, so if SuperBad's ROM uses that more than Cyangen cm5 does, watch out. I had to format my cache partition today just to avoid recovery-mode error messages. I'm merely guessing about cause-and-effect here, Dr., please correct me if I'm wrong! :)

BTW, cm5t7 is out!

http://cyanogenmod.googlecode.com/files/update-cm-5.0.7-DS-test7-signed.zip
[Android Themes] paoloc67:
This theme is compatible with test 7 ?
[Android Themes] legend221:
Good guess, SuperBad v.1.2.3 is not compatible with this theme.

Tried for a good hour maybe.

Luckily we can still use Darkstar v2.0 Link Here with that Rom version

Thanks regardless for the people that replied back to me.
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
Hey DR. just went to flash and it say's there's no signature.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Read the OP.
[Android Themes] pyro_steve:
Your work is bomb never a doubt in my mind bout that...but if ya gonna change the way you install it might be cool to place on your OP where to get Metamorph and stuff like that. Just an opinion to help some that may not know...cheers and thanks for the work
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
I bet it works now.

I think that if someone cannot search google (or the market) for metamorph, then they probably should not be flashing themes.
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
whining

Doc, I have no doubt you got this theme to flash/install fine in Metamorph, but I went to use it the first (and second) time and . . . what a trainwreck! Force closes, soft reboots, incomplete images -- ugh. You lost me with this change of venue, so to speak. Any chance you could release your themes as update.zips as well? Is that a lot of extra work for you? I'm tempted to reflash v6 on top of test7, if that will fly.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Interesting... I have not flashed it yet myself, so I am not sure yet. I will figure this out.

Anyone else have issues?
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
sorry about that doc. don't know where my brain is today. just one of those day's i guess
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
will see soon. about to flash myself...
[Android Themes] Houka420:
This is my first time using Metamorph. Installed the latest version of Metamorph from the market, copied theme to sdcard, started Metamorph, select Unzip/Extract new theme, select theme (wait for it to unzip contents), applied all & all seems to be working without a hitch so far. Also applied Black Bar & Black Search without a problem. Came from a clean wipe followed by 5.0.7t7, then Gapps.
[Android Themes] Houka420:
It's the least I could do. ;)

There has been 1 problem I've noticed. After applying anything that needs a reboot in Metamorph, it asks if you would like to reboot now or cancel, I press reboot now & the button doesn't appear to do anything. However, after about 10 seconds or so it automatically reboots. It may be a problem with Metamorph, I'm not sure, but it has happened every time after applying anything requiring a reboot. It has not affected anything being applied but I just thought I would throw it out there.
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
Well, I just did a complete wipe, so I bet that'll make it go off as smoothly as it did for you.

I'm almost certain the issue lies in Metamorph. Maybe it's a software conflict with something else I have installed. We'll see if this clean install smooths out the wrinkles. :D
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
Working fine for me too. Amazing Job! Keep up the great work!
[Android Themes] zimphishmonger:
The gmail stuff is included in the zip, but you cant apply it because its not mentioned in the .xml file
[Android Themes] DarkMerc:
I just installed Cyanogen's 5.0.7test7 Rom - loving it. I also love your theme. Keep up the good work :).
[Android Themes] JAguirre1231:
This is because it is replacing actively used system files (The framework-res.apk which contains 90% of all images). While morphing it, there is a brief period where it does not exist fully (This is when Metamorph moves it from the temporary directory to overwrite the old file), this causes the system to reboot.

Same thing happens when pushing the files manually.
[Android Themes] Houka420:
Thanks for the info on Metamorph. I figured it had something to do with Framework-res.apk since it was happening everytime I applied any such file. Good to know
[Android Themes] QBANIN:
I Have 2 issues.

1. Can't flash 7.1 version (something about signature), 7.0 is ok

2. Calendar widget: Black font on dark-grey background is almost invisible. Please change it to something different (white i.e).

EDIT:

3. Clock font on top bar is to dark too.

Thanks
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
How did you flash 7.0?
[Android Themes] QBANIN:
With Metamorph
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
I'm about to flash here shortly. Will update if it works for me or not.

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[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
7.1 is working just fine for me.

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[Android Themes] jlaholton:
I keep getting an error. Says theme control file could be missing... Am I doing something wrong? Suggestions?
[Android Themes] Infinite76:
what version of Metamorph yall running because its not working for me either? Never had a problem before. I think i may be running the wrong version.
[Android Themes] DarkMerc:
The new version of metamorph was giving me problems too - but it still installs - it just complains alot on the way for no reason.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
If it is not recognizing the theme control file, re-download the metamorph. If it still does not like it, unzip it yourself and run as an existing theme.
[Android Themes] koreancanuck:
Metamorphing the newest version worked fine :)

Changed all the text colors and looking all good!!

Thanks Doc.
[Android Themes] legend221:
Will test this evening via Metamorph and definitely give it a second shot :D

Thank you for your time and support Cloverdale.

Much respect to your work and all you do to advance the Android scene..
[Android Themes] jlaholton:
I'm running Metamorph 1.9.8.5 that i got from the market. I could change to the black bar with metamorph, but I can't get it to do anything with this theme.

Thanks for your help Doc
[Android Themes] RootNBoot:
Download Metamorph from Market, place Dr. Cloverdale's Magic Elixir zip on root of SD, Load Metamorph, then select Pick existing theme, you should see the zip for Dr. Cloverdale's Magic Elixir7.1, select the theme, then look for the xml file i.e. Magic Elixir7.1.xml, then select apply all and watch it go. Metamorph will prompt you on the changes so make sure you keep tapping continue. Then reboot and you're done.
[Android Themes] jlaholton:
Thanks RootNBoot. Thanks again Doc for an awesome theme!
[Android Themes] studjuice:
I don't like using metamorph :( it takes way longer and it screwed up all my widgets so i had to re-place them.

And why is the text in the notification bar black? it's impossible to read when the brightness is turned down :(

Edit: didn't read the updated OP... it's in spare parts! Sucks though, have to reboot for the change to take place :/
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
You have to change the text color in spare parts just like it says on the op.

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[Android Themes] studjuice:
Lol, that's new. Guess the OP changed since the first few times i read it back when this came out... :P

Thank you sir

Wait, but now there is no extras feature in terminal :( that was cool and i had a super easy way to change swappiness
[Android Themes] digitaljeff:
the extras was just a script, pull it out of an old release, place on sd card and run it via terminal...

but as recommended by all the big boys (Cyan, wesgarner, ect ect) do not use swap
[Android Themes] EggPieAndCoffee:
There's an option in metamorph to just ignore the warning messages.
[Android Themes] rynosaur:
I guess I need to find the technical explanation for why they said this/why everyone keeps chiming in with this no-swap mantra. In my book, going without swap is anathema to running an optimal linux file system, and if their code/kernel is well-constructed then having it sit there unneeded won't hurt. It's like my uncle telling me to run Solaris every time I mention linux, since that's what he loves and technically, it might be the most powerful and stable free Nix out there.:)
[Android Themes] 3Shirts:
If this is a stupid question, then flame away, but does this work on Nexus One version of CM5.0.7 or is the similarity only in name?

EDIT: Nevermind, did a nandroid and just tried it. The answer is no :(
[Android Themes] :
It gets bashed a lot harder with 2.1's way of killing off old running applications. That's a good enough reason for me.
[Android Themes] diapper:
So I have a MT3G from T-Mobile when I try installing this it always hangs with the last install of framework-res.apk.

I have now tried this with cg 5.0.7-t7 and the stable build. Tried full wipe and fix_permissions even. What could be causing this?
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Sorry, but this is so much easier for me to do it this way.

You need more space in /system.
[Android Themes] :
If the images display wrongly - I'm sure a few of them a referred to under different names on the N1. Just go through and rename them to fit. ;)
[Android Themes] nubskillz:
I had this all working fine in cm5.07beta7, i installed 5.0.7 stable and tried to flash this again and its now stuck on 29 of 29 framework-res.apk
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Metamorph can do that. I am asumming you made a backup as metamorph instructed before flashing. Just use the back up and try it again.
[Android Themes] oileoi:
I had the same problem trying to install this on CM 5.0.7-test7 but after trying a few times magic elixir was finally flashed in my phone.

I'll try flashing the new stable CM 5.0.7 and then flashed magic elixir and will post my findings here.

EDIT: Have flashed the new CM 5.0.7-DS and then Magic Elixir and have no problems installing it. However, I had to restart Metamorph 3 times before succeeding and applied each sub-theme one by one, otherwise Metamorph would get stuck on 29 of 29 framework-res.apk. It's working great now ;) thanks Dr. Cloverdale very nice ROM and very fast! wow.....
[Android Themes] Trunks2834:
Hey doc, don't worry about people like that. The true fans of your theme will stick by you because we all know that you've put a lot of hard work and your own personal time to make this awesome theme for us all!

Oh and even with the stable versio, 7.1 flashed the first time for me. So for those of you having problems with it just try again, it does work.

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[Android Themes] cloverdale:
That is exactly why I switched to metamorph, instead of installing apks, it replaces files in the pngs, and zipaligns when doing so. The result is very few things that are version dependent, and so there is no need for me to update with each ROM (and no need for anyone to wait on me). I realize it is not perfect, and can hang when flashing, which is exactly why I avoided its use for so long. Now that cyanogen allows the change of the text from spare parts (changing text color is the trickiest thing in theming), it is too easy for me not to use metamorph. As long as you have ample space in /system, it should not hang. Thanks to all that support and use my work.

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[Android Themes] SpinTX:
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[Android Themes] diapper:
Thanks! Did 'rm -rf /system' via recovery/adb shell and reflashed cm5.0.7 and DrCME 7.1 and I'm back in business. Appreciate the quick reply!

Not sure if thats the best or safest way to go about clearing up space in system but it seems to have worked... lol