yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
ClockworkMod or AmonRa ?

Would like to get recommendation from Elemag or anyone whether ClockworkMod or AmonRa is better for flashing the ROM ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ZeppeMan:
I do not recommend ClockworkMod. I had a lot of errors with it when backing up.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
i know AmonRa 1.6.2 is not fully compatible with CM5.0.7 so it probably is not fully compatible with CM5.0.8 either. Until the next version comes out, if you wana use CM ROMs, I think ClockworkMod is probably the only way to go.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
hmm.. that's interesting. I haven't tried backing up anything yet. So if AmonRa doesn't work properly and ClockworkMod can't backup properly, then what are our options?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ZeppeMan:
Or maybe it's just my phone :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
i'm using clockworkmod and i've had no problem 'till now... ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vitch:
Hi guys.

Thats a f****** great rom but no exchange calendar sync ...

Thank you for all.

C u
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
@Elemag

congrats for your fantastic work!!! i'm really enjoying 1.3.6 'till i saw that 1.4 is out :D

i was trying to get the OTA update but once i check for updates it seems to be no update available for me via CMH updater :eek: i've checked "display all rom updates"

anyway now i'm gettin the update manually ;) but if you can explain me about that OTA problem i'd be grateful!

now i'm gonna enjoy the fresh new 1.4.1 and looking forward for the froyo time :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kosmiq:
Hey Elemag, are there any working themes for this? Would themes that work with VanillaEclair 5 work with this? Sorry for the stupid question but regarding themes I have no experience at all, yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bugmenever:
Just a quick question: Is WiFi Tethering working on CMH 1.4.1? On the last releases i couldn't find the Wifi with my notebook and the phone freezed when trying to stop tethering.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
I will test USB tethering tomorrow and report. Today I can't.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
USB tethering is working fine. Just goto wireless & network setting and then tick Internet tethering..:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
What is the exact discrepancy of these two recoveries? :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
Wireless Tethering works fine. I'm testing it right now, writing this post with the very data connexion of my Hero. Woooo. Using the app "Wireless Tether for Root user" from the Market.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
I'm wondering about BFS vs non-BFS.

For what usage are they made?

Is that a matter of number of running apps? Non BFS manages better a lot of apps running and BFS focuses better on one app?

Or am I totally out of the question??

@Elemag you produce those kernels (and it is an pain for you!) but witch ones would you recommend for what usage?

No need to speak about clock frequency. I now what fit to my Hero. It just about BFS or not.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
BFS is better for graphics, especially 3D, but it has some problems with the GPS from time to time.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
I managed to use clockworkmod to flash ROM and discovered that jit-on, jit-off work fine. It means that AmonRa would not flash this ROM properly. This should a recommendation to use ClockworkMod for flashing, shouldn't?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
yep

i'm using clockwokmod and it is working nice 'till now ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prmd142:
Would like to report 2 issues.

The backlighting of the hardware buttons is always lit draining the battery. They are suppose to come on only when buttons are pressed or when trackball is moved and automatically switch off after non-use for few seconds. Can this be fixed. I know where my buttons are so I don't need backlighting specially in daylight. Atleast can I switch it off permanently? How?

I watched some youtube videos and now my memory is now just 50mb. I checked taskiller, and there are no background tasks running. Yet low memory. Cannot run opera and Android Browser together because of low memory. How do I get it back?

I have used some 2.1 roms... and this is by far the best I've used! THANK YOU :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bugmenever:
What kernel are you using?

I'm still on 1.3.6 with the BFS Kernel. Will update to 1.4.1 tonight.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
The new 176 / 691 non BFS.

BTW with the BFS Kernel do you get often some problems with GPS?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bugmenever:
Haven't used GPS with CMH yet. Will test it when i get home.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Importspeed:
having serious battery problems with this rom. Installed fresh after wiping everything to the newest version of this ROM. Unplugged the phone this morning at 7:30am and within 3 hours i'm down to 29%. I did not change kernals or anything.

Anyone else having this problem?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Maz422:
hi, this is kinda of a stupid question but i am not exactly sure..would there be any kind of problem if i go from EzHero 5.1 to CMH 1.41 after flashing.. as well as im sure that after i download one of the kernels i would need to flash it but what i was wondering was how would i know if my hero can take the 768 kernal and if it differs much from the BFS Kernal..this would be a great help to me. thx
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
auto rebooting...

hi everybody, hi elmag

anyone having auto-rebooting issues??

i flashed 1.4.1 this morning and my phone had 3 or 4 auto-reboots while having normal use :eek:

i don't really know the cause but in 2 times it rebooted while installing some apps and another 2 times while in standby!!

advices are welcome :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
You're probably using a kernel that maxes out your CPU abilities, and it can reboot or even lock up while put under heavy load. It happened to me too a few times, when I was installing a lot of apps simultaneously. If you're sure that your Hero can handle higher frequency, then give me some logs.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
You will surely boot normally with the default kernel, which is clocked at 264/576. If you want to try how much your phone can handle, try flashing another kernel. If it locks up or reboots too often, then use lower clocked one. Or play around with Overclock widget or SetCPU and the soft kernel.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
What says your "battery use"? Check if there is some app that can prevent your phone from sleeping.

If you don't find anything try this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6308944&postcount=1

If that doesn't help, wait for your phone to reach 5%, go to recovery, wipe battery stats, power off (not reboot), plug to charger and wait for the led to turn green. This will recalibrate your battery.

Even if this doesn't help, I am out of suggestions.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
Yes, it can be configured to turn off after some time, but I noticed that they are constantly on today, after seeing your post. Can you tell me what is default behavior in the official build?

The system will try to keep at least 50 megs of RAM free, so that's normal. If you use TasKiller, kill your Youtube. If it doesn't show up, check your TasKiller settings.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
I don't know, I use AmonRa 1.6.2 recovery and it flashes everything correctly, however does not back up everything correctly.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
Yes to both questions. However flashing another theme can bring you different apps that might not work and it will bring you a different framework-res.apk that can break something.

Anyway, this is working superbly. Gonna attach it to first post :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I highly recommend ClockworkMod. I get zero errors when backing up. I get no errors when restoring either but there are more manual steps to take such as manual wiping (including dalvik which is under the advanced menu for some reason).

once you learn it's odd menu system you'll find that it's in many ways much more powerful than amon-ra. I DO wish it did bart backup and restores though.

oh and I wish it was VR updater compatible.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I went from 100% to 25% in about 10 hours today, with nothing special in the Battery Usage.

Also, when I get a text or a call from someone not in my call log (so it seems), I get a soft reboot.

I'm flashing the default kernel to see if it helps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prmd142:
Thanks for the reply... The default behavior with official 1.5 rom and some custom 1.5 based roms like modaco 3.2 is.... the backlights turn on when any of the front hardware buttons are pressed or when the trackball is moved. After a few seconds they automatically turn off preserving battery and stay off until hard buttons or trackball are called into action again.

This problem i've noticed in all the 2.1 based roms I've used. I think this is one of the major reasons why all 2.1 based roms are performing poorly on battery life. It would be really useful to me if I could somehow turn those lights off permanently forever as I already know the position of buttons. I expect that this will significantly improve battery life.

With the low memory issue..... yes I killed all apps including youtube. I checked taskiller settings and there are no ignored apps or any problems there. However a reboot solved the problem but I've not used youtube since then so don't know when this problem will surface again.

Otherwise than this, this rom is the best, most stable 2.1 rom for htc hero. Thanks again for the wonderful work and taking time to address issues.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
An OTA update that will make you use RT2 will come soon. It also includes better "breath-like" jogball notification (thanks witysimon for the entire lights library, I just edited it a bit for the leds to work alongside jogball lights) :)

@iiro -- I used my phone for today with casual stuff -- 20-30 mins talking, an hour with GPS on, flashed the black theme, played a bit RT2, 2-3 youtube videos and my battery is at 56% now... So tell me which kernel you used (I think you wanted 264/691, just confirm) and I will flash it to see how is the battery drain.

@prmd142 -- I will check again the keyboard backlight, but

-- I don't think it's the main reason for the battery drain, in my opinion overclocking is

-- it will be a lot easier to disable the backlight than to make it work like in the official ROM

Memory issue -- as I said, it's configured to give you 50 megs of free mem, if you need more, check this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622666
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
WOW! :-)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
What is RT2? I'm just to exhausted to figure out what acronym it is. I sure will be ashamed when I will see the answer and say: ah yes of course. But for now I just don't see.

Edit: ah yes of course! Raging Thunder2. OK.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vitch:
hi guys,

i have been testing this rom for 2 day with an update this morning and what i can say is : WoW ! Dude your are between genius and crazy, for sure more next to genuis :P

but i have no exchange calendar sync, no option in menu, i know that i can push i apk that work but if that can be include in the Rom that's be great. i have test some vanilla rom that have the option.

battery life seem to be good but the rom is a bit laggy but i came from a OC rom so maybe its not objective ...

something else i have problems with vocal command, i speak to my hero but it only search for the work i said with google no command, i can't call someone ... i notice that i use french local and maybe command works only in english.

last little thing for this Rom, music player doesnt play .wma file... not very bad but still a bit enoying.

thank for all your job dude you roxx hard.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
only vanilla roms I've ever found that in are 2.2 froyo roms. never seen it built into any vanilla 2.1 roms. unless you're thinking of superhero or similar roms which are actually sense roms with lots of sense stuff stripped out--- but they're not actually vanilla which is why it works there.

just download CorCal.apk, push it to /system/app, chmod to 755 (I think), and use the corporate calendar widget that will show up after reboot.

have you rebooted after use for a while?

is it doing any updating in the background (the updating icon would appear in notification area if so)?

give it some time...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
Sorry, but the update is postponed to tomorrow morning since I want to make a simple script that updates the build.prop, but obviously I need some sleep first.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Importspeed:
thanks for the suggestions. I'll try it out.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
After flashing ROM with ClockworkMod, the jit-on & jit-off works fine and wireless tether for root users also works fine (no freeze when stop tethering).

I have seen someone posted that AmonRa is not fully compatible with CynogenMod. BTW, if anyone encounters any issue of this ROM, maybe trying to flash with ClockworkMod will solve it.

Great great chef !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
I've been using 141 for awhile and like all other aosp ROMs I've tried, sometimes internet doesn't work after awhile .

I use apps like apndroid that disables internet by changing the name of the apn. So after I enable data, I can see the little arrows blinking but browsers simply don't work and thinks the phone is offline. With fast booting ROMs like VE4, its still not that bad since a reboot is the only way to recover but CMH doesn't boot as fast. This doesn't happen to a lot of people but I do see people asking about it occasionally in the various AOSP ROM threads.

I've since flashed back to Sense cos only Sense ROMs don't have this issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] irmantas:
Flashed latest version of CMH to my hero and flashed 176/691 kernel version, but still my phone auto reboots...

... same problem here.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mcrosmar:
Maybe your phone doesn't support 691 MHz. Try 264/576 MHz kernel....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] codnik:
Let me get this straight... To backup my apps and my app-related data (whatever stuff my apps have saved for me, like which stages I have beaten in a game, my scheduled tasks on Astrid,...), and just that, my best option is to do a backup with Titanium Backup?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] irmantas:
I have tried other ROMs in past and all worked great at 691MHz. My phone reboots and on 264/576MHz
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
Thanks forma tour Londra reply And help!

Since i flashed the 1.4.1 I'm using the default kernel,so i can figure out how much good is your job.

I wanna tell that the phone has had no more auto reboot after yesterday's :-o

Really don't know the reason...anyway i'll check with today's performance ;)

Btw if can be useful to someone using Juice Defender can help with battery + data usage!! Recommended!!

Have a nice day...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kosmiq:
How about this one? :)

http://android-users.deviantart.com/gallery/25811362#/d2ub6wo

I might test it myself later on when I get around to flash the kernel again.

@irmantas JIT on or off?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ales100i:
So does this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=729554

;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Yeah, I used the 264/691.

So far so good with the default kernel. I think it might be my battery starting to die, though. :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
Yes. That is the best way to do it. And I would recommend you to buy the pro license to get automation in the whole process. It is what I have done. And for each flashing, I can keep everything (except for the google apps) like it was before the flash. And I can say that a lot of ROM have tried my little Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
which recovery did u use to flash? clockworkmod or amonra? if u're using amonra, u might wana try clockworkmod, it seems to work better with cmh.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] irmantas:
yes i'm using amonra, where can i download clockworkmod recovery image?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
ADW launcher !

@Elemag while your'e on the way to produce an update, maybe it could be time to update ADW Laucher system also.

Llook here http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/2010/07/adw-launcher-1-0-0/ there is the 1.0.1 system version (for CM).

It could be nice to receive it OTA...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
go to Market and look for Rom Manager. alternatively u can just search the forum.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
Rom manager is included in this rom isn't it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
yes think u're right. forgot about that..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] veribaka:
I haven't tried GPS yet, but let me thank you straight away for working on NDrive, it boots now :)

Best rom I tried so far, hands down!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
OTA update is out now, note that it will disable your JIT, if turned on.

Later I will push the upgraded ADW Launcher.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] crytic:
Signature verification failed - should I redownload or is the upload corrupted?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pharrisee:
worked for me, I'd try a re-download.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vitch:
thank for your answer.

i have reboot my phone several time for testing, laggy feeling is a global feeling but it is not important the rom works great and animation are pretty fast.

as you said now i remenber that only sense and 2.2 based rom have exchange calendar sync, i will push my apk back.

this mornig i have listen some music this headphone. button on it work sound is OK, but no notification bar icone for headphone.

thx elemag for all.

C U all.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
sorry man... what's up with the OTA update???
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
-- Raging Thunder 2 now works

-- edited a bit the lights driver
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
thanks elemag!! even the top!! ;)

i'm really enjoying this rom!!!

donation on the way :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joaann:
I don't see OTA updates in 1.3.6, I don't know why.

Flashing 1.4.1 and trying now.

Edit: With 1.4.1 works fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
There isn't an update from 1.3.6, cause 1.4 is a complete rebuild and am trying to use the updater only for smaller files.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
Do not use "apply now" after downloading file. Use "apply later" and then goto Rom Manager to update that .zip file. Work for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
Any change or improvement log of lights driver ? So I can verify it's working !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
Just edited the "breath" interval.

And here you are an unofficial AmonRA 1.7 recovery (attached) in which the trackball press function ain't working. You can use the call button instead or try to fix it.

http://www.multiupload.com/VMGDZC1IWA md5sum: 967688d4f3dc0a2ef3d63c3132f9418a
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
autoapplying the update with CMHupdater is not working :confused:

manual apply via rom manager (&clockworkrecovery) has gone right!

no rebooting etc.etc.

seem all right!

thanks again @elemag
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Importspeed:
Thanks Elemag for the battery suggestions, it seems to be working a whole lot better now.

Just a question with regards to the lights driver. Did you edit the "breath" interval to be longer in between flashes? I find it quite fast and would prefer a slower notification. Also, is there a way to have only the trackball notification and not the LED?

Thanks! Great Rom!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
Good that the battery tips helped. I also had problems with mine and recalibrating it seemed to do the stuff :)

Yes, I edited the breath interval to be a bit longer, as was suggested by the author. And yes, there is a way to have only trackball lights, but you'll need to do some things by yourself: Check this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6896611&postcount=18, download the flashable zip, extract just the lights.XXXXX.so, if needed, rename it to lights.hero.so and push it via adb to /system/lib/hw.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
Hmm, I really havent applied the latest zip through the updater, but anyway, for now I'll just leave it as it is cause I am tired of flashing 1.4.2 and restoring all widgets...

By the way, anyone tried the recovery?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cyberon:
Great work Elemag, to me the rom is perfect, well almost perfect, just a really small thing missing. :p

On other roms we have a option to disable mobile data from the settings menu, is there a way to add that feature to this perfect rom?

Sometimes we need to use 3G to voice but would like to have mobile data disabled.

Do you think that is possible. :)

Thanks.

Ps: I use toogle data widget, but it would be nice having that feature in settings.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
This is only a feature in the HTC Sense interface, thus, it's not available in an AOSP rom, or a CyanogenMod rom for that matter.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bordapapa:
Hi guys,

I'd like to ask for some help...

Interesting, but the CM Updater won't find the 1.4.2 update when I try to check for updates. I'm running 1.4.1, and I have both the experimental and stable ROM options ticked in the settings menu...

Any suggestions? :S
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elemag:
Please give me logcat output.

@everyone, ADW laucher update is comming tomorrow, alongside with a working script that will patch your build.prop to the latest version, so you won't lose JIT after update.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sameh_elhakim:
i can't enable Apps2SD from setting when i have ext partition and swap file !!!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Importspeed:
excuse my noobness. I tried pushing through adb and I get a msg saying that it is a read only file. I renamed the middle part to "hero" too

any suggestions?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Importspeed:
nevermind. I got it to work. Thanks again Elemag!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mienaikage:
I plugged my new headset into my CM Hero today and the battery went down from 100% to less than 15% within an hour. I hadn't even used it :/ Battery stats says that my display used 40% of the battery power in less than 2 mins O.o
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
jit check

hey guys

i've updated 1.4.2 yesterday and i'm guessing how to check if jit is still enabled (as was on 1.4.1) or not.

so, how can i check if jit is on/off?? what's the command to check via terminal emulator??

thanks! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bugmenever:
Check your Linpack Score ;) Without Jit @ 691 it is about 3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rootbox00:
How is the Battery Life compared with VanillaEclair 5?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vikern:
Maybe it has been answered before, but why have you chosen to have wifi teetering enabled as default after full wipe? It drags out my battery like crazy..

And where can I disable it?:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] freakness51:
oh yes!! after enabling i really got it :D

thanks a lot!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
My battery life had an improvement after flashing the default kernel.

Still getting the random soft reboots, though. :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bordapapa:
I've sent a PM with the logs!

Thanks !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mainstreamer:
Where's the download link for 1.4.2? When i click the links provided here i get 1.4.1?

Thansk