yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
+1

So far Nandroid back up

Wiped everything

Flashed the new radio, then flashed VanillaEclair 3.2 (fixed) from here

Wi-Fi connected instantly

GSM connected no problems

So far 2G or 3G HSDPA, connected but slow to establish (but i do live in a dead spot radio signal wise!)

GPS locked on in seconds 2-5 secs (only an initial test, will see if GPS signal drops!)

BT headset usual A2DP problems, connects with phone but no audio

EDIT: Forgot to say I was in the UK and on T-Mobile
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I wanted to say I will provide a zip with radio included and one with radio not included, so that those who haven't got the latest radio won't have to download it and flash it afterwards.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Updates: button lights work now :)

EDIT: I will upload a test version for those who might be interested in seeing what it can do in 1 hour or so.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
OK where is it? :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Allmost perfect!

COOOL.

So... BT Audio and Auto backlight and then the rom is PERFECT!

Maybe you can get some hints for the auto backlight from the official rom. I know you say it works for you in 3.2 but apparently its not working for a lot of us users :-(

Anyay. VanillaEclair is the BEST ROM FOR HERO. I just want more than the best...... i want PERFECT :-)

Anyway when you get it perfect you just have to start over with froyo hehehe.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I have to work on the settings.apk to make it turn on the wlan, but otherwise it's very nice. I'm giving it another shot with the settings and then I will upload it.

Follow the thread :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
La, la, la, la.... waiting chief. F5.....

did u pass the exam

and does trackball work correctly as it should with update?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
OK who else is playing F5 lottery?

F5

F5

F5

:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Bad post.

NOW IT'S READY. UPLOADING...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
Strong hand shake giving, with with nod

Modules? they gonna be available right chief?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I haven't build them yet, only wifi module. I will build all the modules for the final release. This one is just for fun... A 3-4 minutes left to get it all done...

NANDROID IS YOUR FRIEND!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
2 nods more for the modules :D

vpn and loop

remember, make menu..., make, bam , done, and ofcuz, cp .... i push em meself. what say you
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Here it is. The VanillaEclair 3.3 BETA. Please read the info carefully and report your bugs.

http://www.vanilladroid.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=15

@heyodee

I will compile the modules for you in a few minutes.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
/lick you rock
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
And the modules for you mate...

Please let me know how the ROM works... I need feedback!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
Thanks man. On the final realease please include em by default...

cifs.ko too

thanks

Time to nandroid
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Radio?

Can anyone link the new Radio?

I have found some links but i really dont want to flash something i dont trust. Especially not the radio.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Yes mate, I will :)

Waiting for feedback.

From what I can see this is very fast. I mean faster than 3.0 by far. I'm currently trying to reproduce a very hard use, many apps running etc

@gensplejs

You don't have to flash the new radio mate... It's perfect with the old one.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
@Radug i know cifs works, does nfs?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
NFS is not supported.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Budius:
is there codes on this new version that u got from the oficial 2.1 ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
No, I haven't even got to see what's in the HTC update.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Just taking a backup and then ill flash.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
OK.

I'll be here for a while to see what you think of it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
I meant to ask what the modules were for and what are the benefits if any?

Currently re-installing 3.3 Beta, my Gmail account was not being recognised
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I had no problems with the gmail account... What does it do?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Booting on 3.3B.... lets see what happens.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Hmmmm. First boot gives me a choice on what app i want to run for config.... why? :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Just choose the second one, no problems. After you finnish the setup it will run again, just press the home button and everything will be fine. I forgot to take out one of the apps when I merged the cyanogen rom with the google apps package.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
OK logged in now. The second wipe and install went smoothly and quickly, logged in very quickly. I chose the first of the 2 options for setting up.

Also appreciated the keyboard no longer has the overlap with the emergeny only call button.

Re-installing all my apps from the market, further updates to follow :o
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Yes, all the graphical glithces are fixed now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I haven't found any issues so far. I've tested GPS, A-GPS, youtube, 3D, web, mail, FB sync, wifi, 2G/3G, touchscreen(lag appears to be gone)... the only thing for me to test is battery life which should be great as the phone sleeps properly at 176Mhz.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Big-Kahuna:
Do live wallpapers fully work?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
EDIT: Livewallpapers are not included in this Beta.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
So far no issues either, I think a night of observation should give an idea of what the battery is likely to be like. I shall continue testing.

Any clues as to what magic you have cast on this ROM? :p

The Kernel etc.????
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
The phone sleeps with me. Can you please see what the included SpareParts reports?

The kernel has an improved scheduler, the pre-OC @691MHz and sleep @176MHz, cleaned OC table, button lights and other minor enhancements. You can see how snappy it is :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Budius:
Radug,

u know I think ur ROMs are just awesome.. so all my comments here is through a controls system design engineer point of view and focused to report down to the minimum details.

setup:

-Hero GSM UK unbranded

-new radio

-Launcher PRO

1st impressions:

-initial setup asked which was default application to run

-initial setup stayed in loop and I had to just click Home to skip it after I've completed the 1st time

-where is the keyboard with the MIC input ?

-camera app looks a bit slower to boot up

-is that the stock galley? uh it's ugly! ...hehehe...

-after starting the campera app the phone "froze" in landscape mode

-further testing in this issue showed that the accelerometer is not working at all... it stayed in landscape cause the camera forced the phone to change to landscape.

procedure:

-to make the test more fair I did not install neither auto-killer or spare parts (which I would usually do)

-Filled the memory with some random apps (skyfire, twitter, air control, GPS status).

-air control is in landscape and caused the same error, the phone froze in landscape.

-booted with all radios OFF and turned on after boot. GPS didn't bother to work, I had to reboot again and again and absolute no response from GPS =( neither on gmaps nor in GPS Status

-my next test would be have a drive + music, but it's pointless without the GPS.

-youtube normal, other video sites with skyfire normal,

-overclock is probably working nicely... I didn't felt any weird lack of speed with the screen off. As a matter of fact now the screen is off and I'm listening to music with no lag.

wifi ok, 3G ok, HSDPA ok, network coarse location ok, camera ok, video ok

Besides those hardware related problems the system as a whole navigate fast as usual. But remember that the 'usual' for me includes spare parts and autokiller, so it's expected to be a bit faster with them on.

As I'm doing this detailed review I would like to add that, although it does run VERY fast... The system as an overall lack smoothness in the transitions and scrolling menus (something that this new 2.1 sense achieved quite nice)...

shame I won't be able to use this any further as I use the GPS daily and the accelerometer bug is damn annoying... but I'm looking forward for the non beta version, and meanwhile I'll be back on my 3.0 nandroid.

thank a lot again Radug....

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edit:

Radug,

is there any report you would like before I flash back the 3.0?

I don't know how to create/dump them... u would have to write a quick how to
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
The lack of smoothness is caused by the default launcher. You can change it to Launcher Pro for example, and the lag is gone.

Thanks for your bug report, I'm working on fixing your issues.

EDIT: I would be very pleased if you could report your battery life... If you can't, then just try another launcher and see that the lag is gone... Thanks again!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Running super fast. No problems yet. Unlocks fine (at the clocks you put in)

2g ok

3gok

wifi ok
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Ok so... first bug. I wanted to test if auto brightness worked.

When i go into settings -> sound & display -> Brightness... well if force closes :-(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I know what causes that, no worries, I will fix it. But still, I haven't managed to fix auto brightness yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
compcache module and lzo compress/uncompress module
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I won't include compcache in the final ROM, sorry, but I will compile the module for you.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Budius:
Same here. =[
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
That's an easy one, as I said above.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Budius:
sorry my bad.

I was answering on the hero whilst playing Modern Warfare on the PS3 :)

anyway, sorry but I can't test the battery life as I

NEED

the GPS tomorrow...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
i wants it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BorderlineVX:
Thanks for this build. It's really a lot faster compared to 3.0 I think. And here are my observations with Build 3.3. I am always resetting everything before I flash any ROM (Factory, Dalvik, Battery, Rotation, SD Card partitioning).

1. Auto Brightness crashes - as mentioned before

2. Rotation Sensor w/o any function. Screen contents won't turn whatever I try

3. GPS has turned on only once but does not turn on anymore. Resets done to no avail here.

4. When pressing power to put device into standby, the charging LED turns on (green) and stays on.

5. During 1st boot the Google OOBE process would never finish and keep asking for the account / password. Bypassing it resolves this. But later I still had to enter the information twice and reboot twice before a 1st sync took place.

I am flashing again now to verify all this. Who knows.

BorderlineVX
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
As reported above somewhere,

Accelerometer is not working at all, not in any application or screen!

Similar problem with the camera, phone stays in Landscape mode.

Rebooting now to check! :confused:

Edit:

Just got a "The applications settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly please try again" message.

Logcat to follow!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
1. Will be fixed

2. I'm into it

3. Same as above

4. I've just tried it and the led doesn't go green for me.

5. Didn't get that, but I'll look into it.

Thanks for reporting.

What about battery life/overall performance?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BorderlineVX:
4. When pressing power to put device into standby, the charging LED turns on (green) and stays on.

5. During 1st boot the Google OOBE process would never finish [...]

After flashing again and setting up the phone all over this was gone, no problems anymore.

The rotation and GPS problem remained unchanged. This time the GPS would not turn on at all anymore.

Battery lifetime - hard to say at this point. I would need to run this build a little longer to measure the drain. I was just busy flashing and resetting everything a couple of time. Will feed back once I have some data there.

Best regards,

BorderlineVX
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
Enclosed are 2 logcats :(

Aside from these problems, this feels an incredible fast ROM, especially considering it's a Beta
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
1. Here too.

2. Here too.

3. Here too.

4. No green led here.

5. no crashes fo far.

And a question. What about the gallery. Is it supposed to be the 2d one or did you just forget the 3d gallery?

Also google maps is still pre installed but ill just kill that with adb.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jnk1348:
Same as above....

1. Here too.

2. Here too.

3. Here too.

4. No green led here.

5. no crashes fo far.

It's indeed very fast, spare parts shows that the phone sleeps correctly, and adb confirms the frequencies.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Budius:
no need to kill (unless u really don't want to have it at all) but if u go to the market it updates to the newest version with no prob.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
One other thing I have noticed is my 2G/3G does not drop out when Wi-Fi connected, usually only if a message is being sent would I have these both present. Currently both on continuously (except for when the Wi-Fi sleeps on screen off!)

EDIT:

Correction, Wi-Fi seems to be on 100%
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Summered:
Then again, that "lack of smoothness" is in all the scrolling menus, for example in settings. That flaw is seen in all vanilla ROMs I've tried.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] noobhero:
soo excited!! but have gotta work on weekends and need a working phone,

so, i'll stay on 3.0 for now..

hopefully all things will be ironed out by sunday night +8 gmt :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
Yes, it's a 'feature' of AOSP ROMs, but obviously not a good one. No matter how fast you try to speed AOSP ROMs with JIT or OC, it never becomes as smooth as Sense ROMs. Some people think HTC has an accelerated video driver working or something like that. So it's a trade off I guess, whether you want your phone to respond fast or respond smooth.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
8h since unplugged, 2G data on overnight, 1% of battery is gone. So the battery drain is no longer there.

If I fix GPS and Accelerometer fast, then 3.3 will be released today. And about the gallery, that's the vanilla gallery and also the one that cyanogen went for. If he thought that it's better to stick with that rather than going for the 3D Gallery, I'll stay with the vanilla one too. And BTW, the gallery in the official 2.1 HTC ROM is 2D ;)

Thank you all for beta testing this one. If you still have it flash, try to see if there's a lag when the phone is in sleep and you get a call.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
Sweet! Thumbs up for 2D Gallery!!

And 1% batt drain with data on overnight is freaking awesome!! And I thought 4% batt drain with data off overnight was good when I was on Kimera 1.8!

*presses F5 every few mins*
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gabitech:
+1 for 2D gallery as well

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I'm working on it. I'll be back with updates ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
GPS fixed, Settings.apk fixed(brightness FC), only accelerometer to go :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
OK so. I had 2% battle drain with 3g and sync on during the night. awsome!!!!!!!

I think 2d gallery is great. You can allways put 3d in added suggar.

I really hope you can find a fix for by audio and auto backlight in the official release. That would make this rom perfect.

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] msnxda:
Not to forget bluetooth a2dp

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Yep, I'll try that too ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jnk1348:
I had about 4% battery drain overnight (plane mode), but it's normal cause the battery was not 100% charged; 100% level lasts much longer than lower levels!

And btw: I made some tests whith skype, and I have absolutely NO lag when receiving a call. Good job, RaduG ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
I've tried the lib a2dp from the official release but still no luck there. I will release 3.3 after I fix the accelerometer and then I will work exclusively on A2DP now that I have a BT headset.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jnk1348:
I might have found another bug: I often cant't witch ON/OFF airplane mode. Either nothing happens, or the phone takes a while to turn airplane ON or OFF. Plus I can't turn "GSM Only" or "Only 2G" ON. It automatically goes back to WCDMA or 3G.

Now that I've rebooted it looks fixed, but you may want to make some quick tests on that... Just in case ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Please copy the logcat when you get that. Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
Great news. Have the following been fixed.

1. Auto Brightness (Fixed)

2. Rotation Sensor (In progress)

3. GPS (Fixed)

4. LED turns on (green) and stays on.

5. During 1st boot the Google OOBE process would never finish and keep asking for the account / password. Bypassing it resolves this. But later I still had to enter the information twice and reboot twice before a 1st sync took place.

I have also experienced

6.Wi-Fi on 100% I have set Wi-Fi to sleep when screen off, to no avail, still on otherwise battery drain would have been better. (I may revert to the original radio to try)

7. A2SD. I assumed it was on until I got the memory full message (I will however check my SD card). Unable to activate via adb

Thanks for all your efforts

+1 for 2D Gallery :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] heyodee:
Pretty sure its tied to bug in Settings.

F5,F5....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
1. Sorry to disappoint you but auto brightness is not fixed, I only got rid of the FC. BUT now the system recognizes the sensor, the problem is that the settings.apk from cyanogenmod does not include a auto brightness option.

6. I think I have fixed it, I have to check.

7. A2SD is enabled by default for me. I have an EXT2 partition, EXT4 is not supported.

At the moment i'm struggling to get accelerometer working.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
It seems that I can't get the accelerometer working. I'm giving it one last chance. If it doesn't work, I will release it with the two specified bugs: A2DP and accelerometer.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
Hi Radu

IMHO I believe it wouldn't be representative of your good work to release a ROM without the accelerometer, as this is, I believe, an integral part of the modern SmartPhone.

Maybe have this as a Beta release 2 until fixed
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Yes, sure, it won't be the final release. I will post a new thread with BETA mentioned, ofc... just flashing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
:o

F5

F5

F5

:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Really impressed. Runs super smooth. I found on 3.0 it lagged when going from screen-off to screen on with your OC widget settings, but this beta works perfectly.

One thing you seem to have removed is the menu menu press to wake up phone and unlock, which I liked, but otherwise its super!

Also, 2d gallery is super!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
You mean 3 known issues. a2dp rotate and auto brightness. :-)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
And that's why I think the Sense builds have an accelerated video driver or library somewhere? The look isn't different, but maybe it uses a different library for getting the pixels on the screen, one that is modified by HTC to use 2d-accel from the Qualcomm chip?

It's the only logical conclusion I think, and the reason why things like ADW-0.7 seem way smoother on a Sense-rom (with the Sense-launcher disabled) or SuperHero then on _any_ of the AOSP roms.

Performance overal is awesome of the AOSP roms (app-start and things like that), but the UI always seems a bit slower / laggier. A shame really.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joaann:
The faster ROM I've test.

Good job RaduG!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] -2y2k-:
crono's was really slow, dont know what your talking about...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
Yes as far as I can see, I now have pictures for contacts I previously did not have
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jens.bergqvist:
I don't. That's odd, I have to do some more testing...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mavgink:
holy sh*t!

just installed it + jit package +overclocked

Linpack says: score is: 4.56 damn! it flies!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
To make facebook work you have to add the facebook account from the accounts and sync menu!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dpjohnston:
Everything seems to be okay except for Facebook Sync which has stopped working again for me. I have had similar problems to those already described by others.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gatsu_1981:
This is the way I always did.

But Facebook sync was working for me in the 2.0.2.

Maybe it's a multilanguage issue, since someone told that it's working, but for me (I wiped everything, I even started on a new fresh SDHC) it's not working at all, it added 3 Facebook profile fields to every facebook contact, but no one of them take me to that person's profile, since they take to mine profile always.

Can you please repost the Facebook app from 2.0.2?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
also how do I get rid of the navigtion app which is the app drawer? tried looking for it with root explorer but couldnt find it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterpfa:
I had done a Wipe and Fresh install on this ROM, in the options once signing in to FaceBook I chose the sync all option. I now have, through choice, my existing contacts with the facebook option (in contacts) and FaceBook only contacts that were not previously on my phone, with all status's being updated.

Using English language, all works perfectly (embarrassed to say until Radu told me I wasn't aware this feature was available! :o)

+1

I'm more than happy so far! :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
Facebook sync works, I've been flashing test ROMs all day long everytime testing sync. And I'm using at the moment. I first add the google account, then install facebook, go to accounts and sync an add a facebook account and it works perfectly! I don't know if it's related to language or location, since I'm using EN/GB.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
while this is working, i noticed that when you view a picture and changed orientation then back out, its garbled.

I think team villain has got it down perfect
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mobydeek:
- The Nexus Live Wallpaper doesnt seem to load at all (even on preview) - all other wallpapers are fine

- A line of pixels seem to be cut off in buttons 1 2 3 in the Dialer

- For some reason the Facebook-Contacts sync doesnt seem to work

+ 3D Gallery works after flashing the fix :)

Still, its pretty damn good! Thanks RaduG

Anyone know of a decent Flickr Sync/Upload? (theres no clear winner in the market :S)