yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] QQCH1:
The only speed/stability between Froyd and Lox's alpha release (on twitter two weeks ago) is gps fix (Froyd 1.4.4). Camera works in this release, I don't know why not in nightlies, maybe because Lox is on a hard job.

FroydVillain is a great rom, i'm using it, but, to me, it has too many apk installed (which can be deleted of course) and drain battery (1 day with data and gps, 2 days for Lox release), but still no bug.

When CM6 will be out, you'll propably can compare the roms and say "It has been made in Froyd !!!!" if you want, but now, nightlies are just CM6 tree (not things of other roms) with Hero's system files (akmd & camera bugs included).

Hope there'll be a CM6 RC1 for Hero soon (with Froyd or selfmade bugfixes, osef in french :) ) and Froyd 1.5 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I know that. I was referring to the combination of tap to focus and an actual working camera of course... as you'll see if you read back a bit in the topic where it came up first.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
and AGAIN I was referring to the speed/stability of froyd 1.5. read my signature, I've been using a prerelease build of it for days now. it's THAT speed I was referring to.

Boy, I must have been vague in my posts yesterday guys, sorry about that. It's the only reason I can think of why everyone missed the point of what I was saying.

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
That sounds awesome!

Where can I get this prerelease?

oh, does its cam have touch focus mode?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
No need to get the old pre-release. Final one is released in the main dev forum here :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
I'm glad it actually wasthere! Just a misunderstanding and "hidden" mode :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
anybody try this since the 4th? camera still borked? any other issues in the last 10 days' builds?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
whats happening? the rom size have been the same veeeeery long now.... have anything been changed?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
couldn't resist and just installed the latest nightly...cam is still screwed :D

*

but on the good side of things...:D

i found this tweet from Lox dated august 16th with a request to test out a new cm6 alpha build and check the

jogball/notifications and cam...

and guess what...

the friggin' cam actually works :D:D:D

http://www.4shared.com/get/jVcO12aO...sionid=16891D57E2ED54C162D2A3DDD0560161.dc209

have fun peeps :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
i flashed over the BFS Flykernel, turned off window animations in spare parts,

enabled JIT...at 652 speed the rom is flying !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Which BFS kernel? Mine? Or is there some other BFS also for hero (hoping)?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
cooooool...

well HWMRN is dabbling in bfs I think over at his website if you want to mess around with what is either a different take on it from yours or possibly your code pushed into his kernel... could be either way of course, sharing being the way it is...

:-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
BFS is a "general" patch prepare by Con Kolivas, I am guessing we both used his patch as the base :)

Still am always interested to see alternative implementation, you got a link to this website? (can't find it on google)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
I used Froyd 1.5 for a few weeks - right after it came out.

It worked beautiful, but last days it started to reboot more and more often. So I flashed 13/9 nightly build, and it works beautiful.

My question is: should I wipe data, cache and dalvik every time I update to a new version?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Theoretically, yes you have to otherwise you "might" have problems. When it's really inconvenient for me, I sometimes try without it - especially since Froyd and CM6 are so close there is a good change it will be ok. Still if you have problems, yes you need to do a clean install....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
yes erasmux,

i meant your asskicking Flykernel BFS :D

sorry for confusion...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
no confusion, was just interested to know if there is another one around :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bbogdann:
I want to know what doesn't work until now in this ROM....thank you
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
HWMRN is at http://www.cronosproject.org/forum/

his "fast" kernel is somewhere on that site too, the stock on in that rom isn't bfs though, bfs is an optional flash afterwards for his previous (couple of weeks ago) froyo rom I think.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
fwiw I know what bfs is (I'm a developer) and where it comes from, I was just making a very small joke re: the history of HWMRN. :-)

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
it doesn't make coffee :rolleyes:

try it, it works nice for me ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
then you're doing something wrong.

it made my coffee, nice dark hot mocha, drinking it now. it's a little pixelated but tastes wonderful.

Coffee was laggy the first time it brewed, took a drink and no flavor at all, put down my mug and then was awash with great tasting coffee.

ever since that first time it's been nice and snappy though :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
s*%t ... I thought it should be able to do it

could you write down the exact steps? I'm a lil bit familiar with terminal
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
sure, but just this once. I think this should go into a faq section somewhere...

su

cd /data/app

chmod -R 777 *

rm *

exit

exit

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

disclaimer - I'm JOKING - this will remove a lot of important applications. it's a joke. don't do it. I'm not responsible for your typing in something that I just put up here as a joke.

DO NOT FOLLOW THOSE INSTRUCTIONS. If you do that I'll come and find you and punch you in the face.

I don't care how far I have to travel, I'll find you.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
Great ;-)

Tastes fantastic.

Thank ya :D:D:D

(anybody, DO NOT TRY THIS! It deletes a lot of apps)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
09182010nightly --> cam is still f****d :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Latoc:
I got the cam working by pushing the camera files from elelinux 1.9, but the problem is now different: I can take pictures but video shooting is dead, whereas I could take videos with stock nightly but no pictures...

Since every rom dev managed to get the cam working fully,

I wonder why it is still not fixed in the nightly builds...?

Too bad, because otherwise those builds are so fast and stable it puts every other rom to shame !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
or you guys could just use floyo .08. it's basically this, but working, with erasmux's kernel, in a rom assembled by erasmux, and it's actually virtually flawless (aside from one newly agreed-upon bug where people get voicemail notifications upon reboot when they don't have voicemails.... but that's a minor problem I think).

edit: I'm running floyo by the way, and I just discovered something! it's video recorder, for the first time I can recall in any froyo rom in the hero, has tap to focus! and it works! go to video recording, before you start recording tap to focus on your target distance focal point, watch it focus, then start recording, the focus sticks. JUST LIKE WITH SENSE!! YAY!!! I'm posting this here since it's likely a CM6 thing since I have discussed it in this thread in the past... nice to see it's working in erasmux's cm build. odd that the cm nightly itself doesn't have a working camera/videocam though...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Aaaaand CAM WORKS!! (09222010) :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] iRobert:
I wish we could make the cam just faster ... but I guess the hardware of our lil Hero just sucks here :-)

When I record a vid its blurry most of the time.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
the trick is to keep the camera still and let your targets move. moving the camera results in blurry video on the hero. also stay back from your targets - like moving kids etc, too close and they'll blur more.

and make sure to tap-to-focus in the video camera mode BEFORE you start to record - like all phone cameras of this design you can't focus while recording video, but at least in floyo 0.8 you can tap to focus in the video camera before hitting record so hopefully that is true in the latest nightly also.

I've been back to froyd 1.5 for the past couple of days to experiment... sure enough it executes games etc FAR faster than any other rom on the hero, but it's UI seems to lag at times and generally isn't a smooth in the UI as floyo 0.8.

I'll try this new nightly and see how it works - probably really similar to floyo.

Good to hear the cam works! :-)

That's basically the only thing that was broken here but not in other froyo roms on the hero, right?

Now they just need to figure out why the hell your phone can be sitting stationary and suddenly the screen will rotate to 270 or 90 degrees... stuff like that is a pretty big bug yet all of the rom developers seem to be unable to accept that it's a bug.

IMHO it's a bug if the screen rotates when the phone has not only NOT been rotated but has actually remained entirely stationary for a few seconds.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
camera works. video camera works but doesn't have tap to zoom (at least not enabled by default). after trying tap to zoom in video camera the camera UI hung and had to be exited early when the responsiveness timeout alert popped up. tapping the settings icon for the cam during that time also did nothing (of course, since UI was hung), so I couldn't see if there was an option for tap to focus in the camera.

JIT is off by default, enabled it, tried to reboot, did a boot loop by itself a couple of times then resolved itself and now working fine.

love the startup animation fwiw :-)

I have lots of app in my ext partition - why didn't it pick them up? does ext-based apps2sd work in this build? I can't see anywhere that I can enable it or control it in settings (froyo-style controls are there of course), so it seems my ext apps are being ignored by this rom. either that or it wiped them by itself upon running the rom the first time (or during flashing process) which would totally suck since it's how I auto-install my apps when flashing all of these different froyo roms all the time.

If I have to go back to a titanium restore for this rom it will be irritating...

Just confirms - nightlies aren't for regular use and tend to have issues not found in other roms. Too bad - I was curious to see how this runs... and I'll still mess with it, but so far floyo 0.8 is very similar without the headaches.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
i don't really think these issues you are talking about are really issues :)

afaik CM6 is just pure froyo;

so no ext-partition stuff and such...if you want to use apps2sd just go into

cm-settings and activate the option ( just leave it at automatic and move the

apps you want to manually )

for me this rom really works like a charm

i flashed over the Flykernel10a (BFS) and with JIT enabled ( no bootloops here )

it runs so smooth. the camera for me is not that big of a deal...it works...nice :)

if batterylife is decent i think i will actually keep it on the phone for a bit

its really fast smooth and responsive; gps locks within secs ( when i'm outside )

thnx for the rom! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
Has anyone tried the 09/23/2010 build? I did a wipe/flash to 09/23/2010 and I'm getting an error when trying to start the camera: "The application Camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again".Sometimes I get "Camera error: Cannot connect to camera". I've tried to run it again and again, a reboot, another wipe/flash and the problem still persists. I've returned to 09/22/2010 and the camera works just fine. Anyone else got this issue?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] peelsky:
dkelley, would you mind comparing froyd, floyo and cyanogen in terms of battery drainage? I am one of the unlucky, having huge drainage problems on froyd (up to 1% per minute when browsing). Heard that ninpo localized the problem, but this new cyan nightly is indeed tempting?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Not issues?

video camera hung. big issue

apps2sd doesn't support ext partition. huge issue considering it's CM who invented it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
my bad :o srry for the incorrect info
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
haha, cheers, no worries. I post REALLY WORDY LONG POSTS so I don't expect most people to bother or care enough about what I say to remember those sorts of things.

I'm bad about wordiness. get told taht at work too...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
well..about the video hanging when double tapping to focus...

it works ok for me...if i double tap a green square thingie appears on the

screen and focuses on the object of my choice

as for the ext-part not working...i don't consider it to be a problem

CM6 gives me plenty of freespace ( 150/160 mb ) and if i run out of space

i can move just the apps of my choice to the SD-card ( which in that case can be a

fat32 formatted card, no ext-part needed )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ziggy1001:
Interesting:)

I guess your sig is about as up to date as mine is;)

P.S i would never compare you to Steve Jobs no1 he generally doesn't seem to keen on people customizing a standard OS (how much time and money do Apple waste trying to prevent jailbreaking) no2 i have never seen you post asking people not to look at naked ladies on our hero's:p

On battery life here's my 10 cents of all the recent roms i have read about and used there are always some people who have dreadful battery life whilst i generally get good (not the same) but normally 2+days battery. If you have crap battery life it's either your normal usage is high usage or some rogue app is using too much

Calibration definitely helps as does using a conservative OC try something like 576 it's almost 10% OC ignore Linpack scores and see if it makes any practical difference to using the phone

By doing this i now have elelinux 1.9 running 3+ days:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
:-)

I'll take the kudos re: steve jobs comparisons - I'm happy not to be like him in those ways. Especially the porn way. I can even supply an apk for it if you want... heh heh

re: battery - yup, that pretty much sums up my experiences too. I've gotten through saying as much in a few different threads over the past few days.

re: ext - I agree, that isn't my point though. I'd have a big hassle to get my phone setup the same way it is now without the new rom picking up and dalviking (just created a new verb!) those apps. my titanium backup has tons of stuff that I don't want to restore and would no doubt fill my apps "partition" on the phone when only half way through the restore. I'm infamous for the # of apps/games I install... I know I know, but my phone is my personal pocket portable laptop replacement. I actually use this stuff!

So I need ext. and it's really odd that it doesn't work in these nightlies. CM is why we have ext apps2sd in the first place afaik.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
oh, and I've purposely left my sig as is. I still truly believe in froyd most of all - the dev work going into it and the proven speed results are undeniable. But I'm liking floyo right now for it's nice, light, quick UI, although yes it runs apps less quickly than froyd does.

sig updated - now I say what I want to about floyo.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saj222:
Ask and ye shall receive. :eek:

How's the coffee working for you today? :p I think the @mods should change your "title" to Official GSM Hero ROM Tester.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Yes, 09232010 broke the cam completely :|
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
i flashed the DarkTremor a2sd file over the 09222010 nightly and it works like

a charm :) so for those who want to use a2sd flash it!

*seems like flashing the a2sd update somehow 'activates' the LED bug...

red led constantly on...grrrrrr
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
the latest nightly rocks :D

at default speed ( which is 576@ondemand ) with JIT enabled the rom

feels sooo friggin' smooth, so i'm gonna try the default kernel for a while

to see if batterylife is good before i flash the Flykernel10a

i've flashed over the darktremor a2sd file again and moved dalvik to sd

which gives me 161mb free space at clean install

the LED bug has been fixed ( supposedly this nightly contains ninpo's fixes )

cam works like a charm, tap to zoom works in both cam and video

so for those that want to get a taste of CM6...this is nightly you want to try :)

cm_hero-09252010-011011.zip

*flashed the Flykernel10a-BFS; running at 528/176 minmax still smooooooth :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
Thanks for ur reports. I realy like to read them to see how is the progress of CMH. Go ahead.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ArchaosAngel:
anyone has market missing from the rom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
you've got to flash the gapps yourself...just search the topic for it or google

for 'gapps mdpi 09172010' or some like that...

*you can get the file here...almost at the bottom...gapps for CM6...mdpi

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_version#Google_Apps
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] getbacker:
The latest Nightly CM6 build for Hero is really awesome :) .. I'm enjoying it so far.

However, it would be really great is someone could help me install Launcher2.apk(default android 2.2 launcher) in this build. I have tried 2 methods and non work... they've worked before on the previous version(really old ones though since I have started using Froyo roms after almost a month).

First method: Is by executing a few commands using ADB which I got from another forum..

adb devices

adb push Launcher2.apk /sdcard

adb remount

adb shell

su

cat /sdcard/Launcher2.apk > /system/app/Launcher2.apk

reboot

Second method: If the above did not work then I'd directly install Launcher2.apk which would replace ADW launcher.

Now, the second method works and I can use Launcher2.apk.... but after a phone reboot ADW launcher kicks in back again :(

I know that the default launcher is laggy but that's kinda ok as I don't see it slowing down my phone. It just gives the default android 2.2 look..

Would really appreciate if any Dev could help...:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
to remove adw you have the delete the *.apk from the /system/app directory

you can either do it via ADB or rootexplorer ( like i did )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] getbacker:
odin13.. thankz for reminding me about the rm command. I had tried that before but I made some mistakes(basically I tried the first method and since I did not have any other launcher my phone was stuck on the boot screen indicating that the method did not work ) and did not want to try it again.

Now, I have removed ADW without making any mistakes and the default launcher2 is up and running... :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ziggy1001:
Does the little green box appear in the camera as well, i'm using Floyo and only get that in video
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
well the green thingie is there but i don't think it actually focuses on the

object of my choice when i double tap.. focus = auto

but apart from this both cam and video work fine

*my bad; it does work...default focus setting is 'auto'

just change it to 'touch' ...tap once for focus, twice for zoom
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deadfazel:
Hi everyone

Well, i must say THIS ROM ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!

this is better than elelinux 1.9 and froydvillain 1.5

The errors that ive seen so far :

1_fruit ninja force closed(i tried fix permissins but no luck)

2_persian/arabic wont work in browser(in messages it works great)

3_ive installed swype and dosent work proprly.its like that the word library is missing

And on question if i flash fly kernel 10

And someday want to go back to 2.1 htcs original what i must do?

Any help will be appreciated

Thanx again
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
specify going back to 2.1 htc original please :)

you can either flash a custom 2.1 rom ( which i would advise you to do as

you will keep root access etc. and there some pretty good ones out there...

imho they are better than original htc rom )

if, for whatever reason, you really really need stock htc again you can flash

the original RUU from the htc site if i'm correct

whatever you do...read some of the excellent tutorials / topics in the general section before you really really go back to stock htc

good luck!

hoi,

odin
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
It would be appreciated if you please at least give some reasons why it is better than FV 1.5.

Thanks,
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deadfazel:
Yeah,of course my freind

1_cyanogen is faster and smoother in default clock speed.

2_Fv dosent support farsi/arabic .

3.cyanogen has no bloatware and pretty much lighter.

4_great boot animation and great wallpapers in cyanogen of course
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deadfazel:
Thank u,

I didnt define my situation good enough,

In terms of kernel i meant if i flash fly kernel 10 and i go back to rooted 2.1 htc,imust flash another kernel?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
All ROM updates I have seen, always also include a kernel which is appropriate for the ROM.

So if you change the kernel, to say flykernel for example, and then flash a new ROM it will "reset" your kernel to the one included with that ROM.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darfbozo:
Woooah, a great boot animation AND great wallpaper ??!! - Well then I simply HAVE to install it ...

</sarcasm>

PS - What happened to reason number 4?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
just install one of the nightlies and judge for yourself :)

( do a BART of NAND backup of your FV installation first so you can

allways revert to the rom of your choice )

hoi,

odin
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] krispijn_s:
I must say... the nightly from 30 sep. is awesome. You have to do a bunch of stuff yourself, but it is really nice.

By stuff I mean:

-flash the flykernel10a

-add the htc_ime mod

-extract and push the gps fix from froyd

etc.

After that it's been stable, though the infamous battery drain is still there (screen uses a lot of juice). But I love that fact that this version finally groups widgets from one app (like the music app) instead of having 5 entries for that app. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tonyleeloveyou:
I found that there is no Google Account Access

in the version of last night about 2.2.1
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] asad510:
im sorrry

hia im sorry for being a twit earlier on can u for give me and i will love to check out this rom and what do i flash
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maxisma:
It's alright ;-)

Just download the most recent .zip from the FTP, flash it, then flash the GApps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hansvonhoden:
is there a buglist or changelog for this Hero CM6?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maxisma:
Read. The. Thread.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hansvonhoden:
i understand that these nightly builds a created automaticaly BUT is there anything that is showing the current progress status?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maxisma:
Read. The. Thread. :(

In particular, my mention about the bugtracker.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hansvonhoden:
thanks for beeing helpful! :rolleyes:

btw. read this thread now 3 times.