yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prove:
Hi, my phone got bricked using GPart live to turn my ext 2 into a 3 partition. Everything went fine using the program, turned off Usb storage, went into market and tried to download a program, when it started to install the screen when black.

Now I cant boot with sdcard in, I don't come past the white HTC screen

Without SDcard it starts loading the system but the loading is a never ending loop.

Tried to format SD with fakeflash, dosent help

Tried reflashing my rom with wipe and everything, dosent help

Any ideas?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nekromantik:
did you convert it while the phone was in Android or while it was in recovery?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prove:
In android =X I don't know why, really stupid.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nekromantik:
yes that would be why :rolleyes:

lol

you should have thought about it.

only thing I can think of is trying to flash a official HTC RUU update so you will get back to stock and will have to re-root.

If you have wiped everything and re-flashed then I dont know what else to suggest.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prove:
Yeah, I guess that its my best chance. Do you know which files that has to be on the SD for fake-flash and where I can find them?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nekromantik:
just need the update.zip on the root of the card.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qliratu:
Have u tryed using AM recovery?

If u load it like the clockwork recovery u can partiotion your sd-card in recovery mode,

works every time for me ;-)

http://www.multiupload.com/61STV8CPHL <-- fake flash version just like clockwork but whit partitioning options.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nekromantik:
Yes that could work, if the ROM you have flashed requires a ext partition, it will boot loop if you dont have a SD card in. So use clockwork to re-partition the card with a ext.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prove:
Im on DeFrost right now, does it require ext? I have to find a micro sd reader then I get right on partitioning.

Edit: I've been thinking if this don't work. Is it possible for someone to make an image of their full rom so that I can try and flash that? Because what I've understood the ones that are up for downloading e.g. DeFrost are not 100% complete.

Maybe some developer know's what could cause a boot loop so I (with some help) could make a flash containing just those files.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qliratu:
u can also try booting recovery, mount SD-USB..

remove update.zip from your root sd.

Place the file i posted above in your root (rename to update.zip ofc's)

Restart phone and enter recovery again (now u get a new recovery) go to partition menu and repartition your SD.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prove:
I loooove this forum! Thanks for all the help people, reformat the sd solved my problem. Thanks a thousand times! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
This thread has the objective of testing the latest Hero's ROMs available, through CPU benchmarking.

To perform these tests the following applications have been used:

Linpack 1.1.2 - GreeneComputing benchmark application for CPU and Dalvik VM performance. Measured in MFLOPs. [link]

BenchmarkPI 1.11 - Application used for benchmarking CPU performance. The objective is to calculate the 1st n digits of PI. Measured by a timer. [link]

Benchmark 1.03 - Softweg's test suite for benchmarking. All tests, except the GPU one, done here to account for CPU, Memory and File System performance. Measured by an internal score. [link]

All the ROMs were clocked @ 691MHz "Performance Mode" under SetCPU [link], unless specifiied otherwise.

After each ROM installation, the 4 applications were installed, Airplane mode was turned on, the phone was rebooted 2 times, and I clocked the 3rd boot time.

5 dummy tests were made prior to the real 5 valid tests, per application, so the results would be clearer.

The higher the score, the better, except for BenchmarkPI, since it is a timed test.

Non-JIT and non-BFS kernels were used in these tests.

Also, I forgot to time the Official 2.1 Boot time, my bad. Feel free to do it. :D

This work was made as a complement to Arkymedes 3D/OpenGL benchmarks. See his thread [here].

>> If you have a ROM request, just post it and I will test it. <<

​
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Changelog

Changelog @ 15/July/2010:

HebVillain 1.1.2 [link]

RoboMIX 0.5.5 [link - android.com.pl]

Changelog @ 13/July/2010:

Chocolate Eclair 1.1r2 [link]

RoboMIX 0.2.1 [link]

Changelog @ 12/July/2010:

Fallah 1.3 [link]

Changelog @ 11/July/2010:

Chocolate Eclair 1.1 [old link]

Changelog @ 9/July/2010:

aHero 1.1 [link]

Androbin CR4 - CMH 5.0.7 [link]

Chocolate Eclair 1.0.1 [link]

Cronos Droid 2.0.2 [link]

Cyanogen Mod 5.0.8 [link]

Daguu Espresso 1.3 [link]

Daguu Sense 1.0 [link]

EzHero 5.0.1 [link]

HeroDroid 0.7 [link]

Kimera 2.1 [link]

Official Android 2.1 [link]

SuperHero 2.0 [link]

Vanilla Eclair 4.0 [link]

VillainROM 12.0.0 [link]
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] scouzer:
Looking forward to the charts. :)

Holding off trying new ROMs for your results.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] noobhero:
quote for subscribe
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Graphs added. Enjoy.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Feeyo:
respect your work. Very nice work done here. Thanks :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
I'm tired, lol.

Almost 12 hours straight (with some pauses, obviously).

Thanks for the comment. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] scouzer:
As usual Kimera shows up and kicks the ass off whole dev teams.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pmicho:
Very interesting work. Thank you very much. You must have worked hard.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ibanez33:
Really?

From looking at those results I thought it was interesting to see there wasn't one clear cut better rom as they all seem to excel in different areas..

Although considering super hero is based off vr12 I was shocked to see sense adding 10 secs to the boot time....

As im running vr12 but using launcher pro and no sense widgets might aswell switch over... :D

Thanks for putting in the time to do this!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Detol Loki:
Very nicely done.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Nice work.

Only comment (take it as constructive criticism btw for next time, don't worry bout it), is that in the last graph, it's really pretty hard to see which bars are for each ROM. It may be my eyes, but I just felt it harder than the others. A little gap between each possible?

Nice work btw.

I was also interested to note that VR12 is 10 seconds longer to boot than SuperHero, despite both being based on very similar base ROMs, and made in the same way.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] winston6969:
I thought SuperHero was a stripped down version of VR10.3?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hansmrtn:
Great Job! Love it, but could you add Jit to them to?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
JIT is unstable and tends to lag the menus performance, though it increases the Linpack score. It may be seen has a ghost improvement, since you pratically don't have any advantage with JIT enabled.

I speak for myself. I prefer an overall fluid ROM than a JIT enabled one, that will FC every 10min and reboot every 30min.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mr._E:
I vote for this benchmark to be STICKY! Seriously good job and well worth reading.... :) Cheers m8!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rakig:
I'd like to see results with and without JIT enabled.

It would be a good measure of the performance improvements/losses possible on different roms (sense/AOSP etc..), and maybe even throw in a "# of FC's with JIT enabled during benchmarks" graph to show how stable/unstable it is.

Also maybe a game/fraps type benchmark would be useful?

Nothing like tripling all the hard work you're doing
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
The same way the results are very similiar without JIT @ Linpack application, the same similarity would appear with JIT enabled.

About the # of FC's, I would need a lot more time than 30 / 40min per ROM (the amount of time I used in these sequence of tests), and that is time I simply don't have, for now. To test the # of FC's and restarts I would need something like 3 hours of intense use per ROM, opening a whole bunch of different apps, basically "wasting time" until something goes wrong.

About the game/fraps type benchmark, Arkymedes is doing something similar. Read again the first post. You will find the link to his post there.

I will try to fix the last graph. Since it is made in Google Docs and updated automatically, it doesn't have the amount of editing settings as in Microsoft Excel.

I had to repeat the VR12 boot for a 4th time, because it was taking 90+ seconds, already overclocked @ 691Mhz on boot. The 4th time was the best I got from all the other 3. Maybe if there was a 5th try, the results would be more similar. I will check it now, since VillainROM was the latest rom to test, and I hadn't flash any since yesterday. I will edit this post in 2min, just to boot it once more. BRB. :)

Edit: 73 Seconds... The 70 seconds boot was made with Airplane Mode on. This boot wasn't.

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I'm very glad you guys are taking my "little" work so serious. It means a lot to me. :)

Also, the last graph was updated, and the differences between the ROMs are clearer now.

Thank you all, once again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] poochie2:
Great stuff, the boot times made me test Vanilla Eclair 4 and it rocks (UI was more responsive to me than ezHero 4.0)! I'd suggest to add (for the future) the amount of free RAM after rebooting with standardized autokill settings. Vanilla Eclair scored very very well here, better than other rom I have tested.. a shame I cannot get the HTC dialer in vanilla roms :-(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] killer4o:
Awesome work :) I'm happy to see daguu roms score that high - maybe this will help flzyup gain some popularity because apparently his work is on par and sometimes better than most of other devs' work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] btdag:
I'm quite busy with RL (real life) at the moment. I'll do some more benchmarks when I get a chance but I need my phone working at all times at the moment. Ideally I could do with a second phone for benchmarking so if anyone knows of one going sim free or has an old spare they aren't using I could put it to good use.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
You can't get the HTC dialer, but you can get Dialer One, which does the same thing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Thread updated.

Chocolate Eclair 1.1 added.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] revolted:
Exelente trabalho e muito util...

very good ROM... in use on my Hero right now!!

Very good work... vote this for sticky..............

Parabens shokkapic
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
could you test Fallah 1.31?

I just flashed it, and it works very smooth. I want to compare it to the others.

Thanks in advance!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Downloading now.

>> If you have a ROM request, just post it and I will test it. <<​
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Thread updated.

Fallah 1.3 added.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
thank ya man : )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
still no tests of cyanogenmod 6.0 for gsm hero? It's a great rom with only camera previews being hte major remaining issue. considering it's froyo, should be tested here. it's more stable and reliable than some of the 2.1 roms you're testing here...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Since they're night builds (auto-compiled everyday), some previous builds might be faster than the current one, and vice-versa.

I prefer to wait until a released beta version. Not alpha.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rakig:
It would definitely be cool to have a 2.2 benchmark so we know what to expect from the 6.0 mod (maybe try it once a week with the latest 'working' nightly?)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
Awesome work here. Really fantastic. Thanks!

First off all, sorry for my bad english. I have a proposal. The graphics are little bit confusing. I would prefer that you are making a ranglist in the end of your first post. For example;

Sense Roms:

- Boot Time

1)

2)

3)...

- Limpack

1) ...

....

Non Sense Roms:

....

Overall:

.....

This allows you to quickly assess the Roms.

I hiope you understand what i mean.

regards.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Thanks for the comment.

Actually, I had already thought on differentiating Sense and non-Sense ROMs. Something as putting the Sense ROMs on the top of the graph, and the non-Sense ROMs on the bottom.

Instead of making a written ranking, I could organize each graph in decreasing order. That means, the best ranked ROM at each test would be the 1st in the graph, the 2nd best would be the 2nd in the graph, starting from the top.

What do you think? :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
Yeah nice idea. But I think you also should do a mixed/overall graphic ranglist with sense and non sense.

I would also love to see a graphic where you have tested the battery life but I think that's too much work :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Graphs sorted by score.

Do you guys prefer this way, or in alphabetical order? :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
well, to be greedy LoL, interactive graphics that can have switchable ordering would be great LoL

but the ordering is fine with me (not that I matter) :-)

Aside from froyo missing, and yes I understand these are just images, but I'd love to have hyperlinks to the rom's xda page so we can compared features/notes. but again, I know that's not possible with images (at least not in a forum like this), so pointing out the following would be nice:

sense/no-sense

- 1.5/1.6/2.1/2.2 differentiation

- device.locale of rom this is built upon (could be shown as hero.europe/hero.taiwan (or where ever that rom was from, sorry for my terrible memory)/nameofotherdevice.locale/cyan6/cyan5.08/cyan5.07)

but I'm being greedy - it's amazing what you've done here, great work, please keep it up.

when including froyo just note that it's the alpha build (I highly recommend using the alpha build, it's current and (imho with my moderate understanding of where they're at with this rom build) shows very likely the final performance people will get with froyo on the hero).

I think everyone will really appreciate it - and don't you think it would be interesting to see if speed increases or decreases in froyo from now (alpha0) to release? It shouldn't, but I've seen decreases with some other roms as they "fixed" things... you never know. :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rakig:
I love the ranking by score, much better than alphabetical (easier to pick out which is faster etc...)

If its possible, maybe make the font-color of the rom names (i.e. Kimera, ChocolateEclair) be one color if its sense and another if its AOSP (i.e black for AOSP, blue for sense?)

other than that (and my last suggestion of the weekly 2.2 build for comparison) I think you've pretty much got it perfect :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
I had already planned on colouring each bar of the graph depending if it a Sense ROM or AOSP.

But, the tables and graphs are being build in Google Docs, which doesn't currently have support for bar colouring. I might try another alternative soon. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Beppemi:
Nice work, really interesting.

Thanks soo much !!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MentalDeath:
thx very helpful
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ProfessorAsian:
I would be interested to see how Froyo stacks up to these roms.

I am surprised Chocolate Eclair is doing so well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
Well done. I really like it!

I would prefer different colors for sense / non-sense roms.

Also i would like to see a Froyo Rom. Maybe you can test it but u choose the color gray (for unstale build) :)

Love your work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Euthanatos:
I just tested CM6 alpha0 with BenchmarkPI. 7390 ms is my score
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
holy moly! and this is why we want froyo tests, even alpha0 ones, in the list OP :-)

nice result there Euthanatos! now if they coudl just get the friggin camera working without FCing and with previews and video working....

in the meantime I'm a VR12 man again at least until my trip is over this coming weekend. eats battery but works great...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Due to the overall interest of our fellow users, I'll be testing CM6 alpha0, after I finish testing ChocolateEclair 1.1r2. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rakig:
You rock Shokkapic.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
ChocolateEclair 1.1r2 added.

(I will not benchmark CM6 today. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] embrion:
Great benchmark :)

You could also test Cyanogenmod 5.0.8 for Hero to check how it compares to ezHero.

RoboMIX would also be a nice addition.

or at lest check one of the most popular in 1.5 times MoDaCo Custom ROM (now 2.1)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Cyanogen Mod 5.0.8 is benchmarked.

RoboMix is a "copy-paste" of different things. It's not even optimized.

And I don't want to go back to 1.5, no specific reason.

2.1 is the present, 2.2 is the future. 1.5 is the past. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] embrion:
Sorry, I don't know why I thought CM 5.0.8 is some other 5.0.8 :P

MoDaCo IS 2.1, it WAS 1.5 :) I believe many ppl would be interested in how does it compare to other ROMS :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] -2y2k-:
no offense to Ark because he doesnt have the time

but i think you should take over doing 2D benchmarks as well
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
i agree colours for sense and non-sense would be a nice addition... not too difficult to implement either surely...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
It is. I don't use Microsoft Excel. I use Google Spreadsheets.

If I had to use Microsoft Excel I would need to upload each image, everytime I added something. With Google Spreadsheets, it is automatic.

I generate one graph, publish its image, and everytime I edit the graph the image will be updated.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
fair enough. Perhaps you could edit your 2nd post then and included sense or no-sense in the change log for fellow ROM novices like myself? Thats if you know whether each ROM has sense or not, obviously.

Nice work anyhow.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Graphs redesigned, because of the fellow ROM novices like himself... Aahah, just kidding.

I haven't finished yet, so if the graphs look funny, don't worry. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
now we're talking. see how much more the data means with good presentation...

much appreciated.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
You're welcome.

Redesign concluded. (I think it looks ok, now. :D)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
You are doing a brilliant job, this is great.

Just a small observation: even though SuperHero is considered a hybrid, it is in fact based on a Sense ROM, so it should not be considered Vanilla.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Thanks for the tip. I had some problem trying to figure it out which category should I move it. What made me move it to Vanilla was the sentence "build without SENSE UI." found in its thread.

But since its a derivative from VillainROM 10.3 and has HTC Widgets and Apps all over it, I should had considered my choice better.

>> Fixed

Time to test MoDaCo, RoboMIX and CyanogenMod 6. :D

Regarding CMH 6: Should I flash the Official Nightly Builds or Alpha Preview ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaduG:
MoDaCo, if it comes with the default kernel, will be more functional but slower :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
I used all the default kernels, except in one of the ROMs that had BFS enabled, and it was a kernel made by the same ROM developer, so I plan to use MoDaCo default kernel aswell.

Regarding CMH 6: Should I flash the Official Nightly Builds or Alpha Preview ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] embrion:
Ppl at my local forum use Alpha and I think it is safer option than automatic nightly builds.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
After further thinking, I will not test 2.2, for now.

The reason is because 2.2 has JIT enabled and in my tests none of the ROMs tested had it. So I'm planning on testing 2.2 when I test other 2.1 ROMs with JIT enabled aswell.

This will just happen after July 20th, for some different reasons.

This is a work in progress and it depends on the time I have. So don't expect me to do it all in 2 or 3 days.

~ shokkapic
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] embrion:
Makes sense but please check out MoDaCo any maybe RoboMIX in your spare time :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
Well done. The graphics are very good sorted :) Thank you.

I can understand your decission with FroYo but i think Jit on or off doesn't really matter. Ecaler, 2.1 doesn't have Jit, so ich should be tested without Jit. FroYo has Jit, so it should be tested with Jit. FroYo is the next generation.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
I've MoDaCo flashed right now, but since I'm using the 2.1 version, it doesn't have an OCed kernel, yet.

I might have to test it @ 528Mhz. :/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Never, ever, let me tell that sort of things.

RoboMIX 0.2.1 added... and I can't believe on the results.

I'm re-running the last test, just to make sure.

Edit: Fixed. Maybe a bug happening in the last test. But RoboMIX is still a hell of a fast ROM.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] embrion:
:D

It's DEV might not be one of the most well known here but he knows what's doing :) What was the result before correction?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
Hey shokkapic.

Can you maybe test CM 2.0.2 with this patch?

http://www.cronosproject.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=115

You have to take: Added: 01 Jul 2010 / 2.6.29-25-OC

I would like to see if its making any difference.

Best regards.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
I think this thread should be sticky : )

Who's with me?! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
The difference is that it is overclockable to the max frequence possible (710Mhz as I read on that thread).

Since I perform all the tests @ 691Mhz, it doesn't make sense to patch that kernel, because the differences will be little to none, afaik.

But I might try it, but only after July 20th. I still have one more exam to go. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Ahahah. Thanks. :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Psyed:
I'm with you! Make it sticky :)

Great work :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
I'm also with you.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Links added in changelog (2nd post) to each rom, for faster searching.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
Hows the Fusion 2.2 benchmark coming along?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
First off all, read the thread.

Second: Fusion is a 2.2 rom with Jit enabled

Third: shokkapic has hier exams till 20th. No updates till this date.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
Ahaha thanks for the answer. :D

f_padia read this:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
oooh ok ok calm down mate. :p

Thanks for the more appropriate response shokkapic.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
With L.O.V.E my friend :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wraku:
Could you please test the

Modaco Custom ROm r5 :)

Have not found it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shokkapic:
I can't. The ROM default kernel only isn't overclockable. I need to test it at 691Mhz, not 528Mhz.

I will test it once an overclockable kernel is released.