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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] appel_:
http://github.com/loxK/android_device_htc_hero/issues#issue/19/comment/311278
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Keefo:
Hi all!

is there an official site or anything where i can read change log's etc?

Just basicaly wanting to see whats in the latest version (as of today) and whats working/not working.

already tried Villans 2.2 build and Curently running Fusion Rom 2.2 and just wanting to try this sometime soon!

cheers

keith :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
how can i change anything in that file? I used the ES file explorer and opened the file as a textfile and when i try to save I get a error!

so how can i do this? =)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
What are you working on right now? I miss some features like camera, Facebook sync and others and just wondering if it will take long time to the rc/beta :)

Flashing the newest version every day, keep up the good work!

Sent from my HTC Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Camera works!!

GREAT WORK guys! - in build 08112010-191619.zip the camera works!!

Cheers!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
Wrong thread dude :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
WTF dude? He's 100% in the right place for that comment =)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maxisma:
I'll rename this thread for you guys as CM nightly discussion thread ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
So you think that a thread about a discontinued unofficial version og CM6.0 nightlies is the correct place to comment on changes in the official CM6.0 nightly builds?

WTF dude?

The thread has been renamed now so is right place now. but it wasent when he wote the post.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maxisma:
C'Mon, no offence :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Gensplejs (cool name! ): Guys, I thought there were only one nightly builds site - official or not.

Anyway I just had to share the

great news! (and would appreciate others doing the same as there's no change log).

I'm downloading today's build now (081210)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
@Maxisma

hi, would it be possible to replace the default ADW launcher with LauncherPro?

cause when i install LauncherPro..ADW keeps running in the background and i can't remove it.

i've tried to delete the ADW.apk from the zipfile and copied LauncherPro.apk into the zip... when i then flash the file it gives me an error because it can't find the ADW.apk

thnx in advance!

hoi,

odin
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Archie The Leper:
maxima isn't supporting this odin, as far as I understand it's a collaboration and the nightly builds are built automatically.

What you need is something like Root Explorer from the market, install that and take out ADW form system\app, I think, take a wee nose around, there might be other stuff there you don't need

Taking ADW from the zip would need you to resign it, I stand to be corrected on that though having never done it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yellowt:
Have you tried to rename the launcherpro apk in ADW.apk?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
cool peeps...will try both options :)

thnx !!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
deleting the ADW.apk with root explorer works like a charm!

thnx!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
as far as I can remember at the time, the nightlies didn't really change from unofficial to official with any thread change here to follow that. they moved to a new server with a better automated build process, but the codebase etc was the same.

maxisma, I think you stopped doing the majority of the xda thread discussions on it at that time, right? that was really the only change in the thread - you got busy with other things as far as I could tell.

but really, it's not such a big deal about where this guy posted it, look at what was posted in this thread previous to his comment, it's about the same stuff.

this thread IS afaik the most correct place to talk about this stuff.

it's not like the guy posted on the chocolate eclair 2 thread or something! LoL
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
if my memory of the old thread is correct, they use ADW because it's open source AND good. it's also quite similar in overall performance to launcherpro, but without the number of goodies (imho).

CM is strongly into open source, so it's a smart move to include ADW rather than launcher pro.

easy to change on your own as you found, although just installing launcherpro and removing all the widgets from your adw home screens would have given you the same result without any performance impact, except you'd have a tiny bit of space on your phone used by the not-running adw launcher apk file, that's all.

you really don't need to remove unused launchers to use a different one, you just need to remove all of the widgets from their home screens otherwise startup scripts sometimes remain and you'll find widgets running in memory that are never used by your actual running launcher.

I'm pretty sure that's a fair overview of what is actually happening.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gensplejs:
CM OSS

If you want Launcher pro just install it and remove AWD.

CM is open source. Thats why it does not contain the google bits (market, gmail and so on) or will ever come with a closed source launcher like launcher pro.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
@dkelley:

its more a thing of personal taste i think...there are just somethings about ADW that i don't like and overall LauncherPro just feels a bit smoother...but like i said its more a matter of personal taste so just moving the widgets doesn't cut it :D

the reason i needed to replace the file is because ADW kept running in the background and i wasn't able to stop it ( it caused some weird problems with launcherpro )

btw...did you try this nightly with the latest nindroid kernel?

i read your comment earlier and i agree that the standard kernel somehow just doesn't perform very good but with the nindroid 352-729 kernel this rom flieeeeees...

for now i can't say much about batterylife but i don't think it will beat CronosFroyo because that rom has got really great batterylife...there are just some CM options i really miss both in CF and FroydVillain

as always...i really like your input!

lat0rrrr

odin
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
whoooohooo :D

i snatched the Gallery.apk from CronosFroyo and pushed it via ADB and now i've got a perfect working gallery on CM too :D

nice...very nice...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
sweet, agreed about personal preferences etc and missing things that could be nice :-)

also agreed about battery life, played with froyd overnight, it's sure fast at some things, but for stability and battery and just a full release-quality rom, it's cronos for me right now.

re: launcher and running in background and removing widgets, I just mean that if you remove all widgets from adw homescreens, then use homechooser or wahtever it's called from market to make launcherpro your default, then reboot, you should not have adw running in background any more nor should it have any performance or memory side effects that would require you to actually remove it.

If I'm wrong then that's cool - I love learning new things, and maybe if it's setup as the default launcher then android runs it no matter what homechooser's settings are. Could be, but what I described is I THINK how it works. it's certainly how it works when more than 2 launchers are installed :-), so the only room for uncertainty in what I described is in how the original /system/app/ installed launcher operates in android. If it runs no matter what, even if it's not set as default launcher in the OS (homechooser or not), and even if it has no widgets configured to run, then that is something I need to learn :-)

I'm like a super user, not a rom developer - I learn what I read and I base my knowledge on personal experience where I can, hard facts where I can, but also on what the majority says (including developers) if I don't have personal experience and hard facts. :-)

so I could just be wrong.

and hell, I have bad days :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
well...as for the launcher issue...like i said...LauncherPro was behaving really strange and i just could not stop ADW running in the background ( at least that's what i think happened :D don't know for sure though :o )

from my simple non-developer point of view( i've got a perfectly developed biodefense-mechanism against mathematical/technical stuff and such :) )

the two were conflicting somehow

only that is the reason i removed adw...since i did launcherpro is running just fine ( i had adw/launcherpro/zeem running side by side on CF just fine with homeswitcher ;) )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Is it just me or is the camera still not working on the latest nightly?

The preview is working but I can't take any pictures. I succeeded to have it do a beep and make the preview black but now pictures. Other times trying to take a picture made the phone "freeze" in the sense no buttons where working - I had to reboot it with Call+Menu+Off. The weird thing is that the preview continued to update.

Also in the Gallery3D I had occasional graphics bugs (looked like the picture interlace was way off).

I have tested the cm_hero-08122010-005744, wipe everything, flash + google apps (gapps-passion-FRF83-signed.zip). Then play with it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Same here so am on cronos :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] L0cke:
Is anyone else getting a static orange LED at times. So far I think it seems to happen from being plugged in to charge. After disconnecting from the mains/USB the LED turns orange and stays on. Have to reboot to clear it :S

Also what happened to the CM Updater app, or is that not being used any more?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gondolkodot:
I've problem with power widget "data switch". It's can turn but cannot turn off. So I have to turn off by using Setting menu.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cowai:
Linpack..

Is it just me or do everyone get low linpack scores?

At 710mhz I get no more than 3.7 mflops. I got 4.7 on cronos.

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I think that with that kernel the speeds arent "real". Meaning your device ain't at 710 even though it claims it is. Your linpack is one indication of this. Another is that my device always freezes at 710 but here it works fine. I think I also read this somewhere at least about previous versions of the nightly builds.

I have no idea what the real frequency is.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cowai:
So..

So it means you can't overclock any over default? What kernel do you use?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Personally, I am actually still using a sense 2.1 ROM....

But you can try my kernel from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=730471

I would also appreciate any feedback you have regarding it.

Note that I do not know how the default nightly build kernel is really behaving. I am pretty sure that the 710 setting is not 710. Other than that I have no clue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I'm using the cm_hero-08122010-005744.zip along with Ninpo's kernel, and everything seems to be working great. As for the linpack, I get a score of a little over 4.8 MFLOPS. :)

You are right about the camera not working, though. I can see the live preview, but it doesn't actually take pictures.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Eddie1506:
Using cm_hero-08162010-011355 nightly and it has three big issues:

1. GPS cannot lock to satellites. Network location works, but no GPS lock

2. Battery drain is doubled comparing to official WWE release of 2.1 for Hero

3. Camera not working

Anyone else has these issues? (well, besides camera obviously)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] asad510:
camera should be working
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] oohoy:
how come 0814 built is missin from the list ? thats the one i got on my hero now. runs great so far except few apps FC rite away

nevermind... just realized im in the wrong forum. meant to view CDMA, duno how i ended up in GSM. better run now before i get beat up ~ ~
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Eddie1506:
It doesn't in the latest nightly. Classic bug, preview works but no pics are taken.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] igor.tonky:
Yup, same here. Just flashed 08/18 nightly - no difference in camera or gps.

Can't remember the battery life on 2.1, though :)

on nightlies i get about 1.5 days with wifi or 3g constant on, with average usage.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Eddie1506:
About the battery, if I leave it be without 3g or wifi, it gets about two days. As soon as I switch 3g or wifi on, battery starts rocketing down insanely.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jgro1976:
I have the orig. MyTouch, and I'm having the same issue with GPS, kind of frustrating since my weather apps rely on that. As does Maps, and a few other apps I use. I did get Foursquare to work last night, so maybe that was a random fluke. Also, and this could be my location, lots of network errors when in the market, market closing when trying to search for apps/update my apps, etc. I'll attach a log if I need to.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
DOGPILE!! BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
just one question, why isnt the camera working? I mean it works on almost every other froyo hero rom but not this rom :\
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I'll explain this once more.

these are nightly builds. they are not intended for reliable daily use by anyone, even the developers. they build when they're scheduled to build. if unfinished code is checked in, a broken rom comes out.

camera isn't perfect yet in froyo, believe it or not, and also plenty of other things these guys are doing could easily bork the camera.

So that is why it isn't working. other devs are having these things go on too but aren't releasing builds nightly. I've read of camera issues in experimental builds of froyo AFTER having a previous release with working camera from hacre, feeyo, and I think elelinux (might be wrong about him) AND the dev of fusionrom (I think).

UPDATE (somewhat helpful this time LoL): if you want a working froyo rom that has cyanogenmod settings and is really similar to what you'd get out of these nightlies but with a more finished product (who WOULDN'T want that?) AND has flashable themes, try elelinux froyo 1.4

it's in this forum, great product.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
thx, will lock at that :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
Whats happening, nothing new in a week now?...

Sent from my HTC Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] qrweqrwe:
The best froyo based rom I used.

But if could be more options in advance call setting that will be perfect.

Like

1 the log of black list blocking.

2 the contact only options, etc.

3 also with log.

Thanks great guys.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Hey, great! Elelinix v1.5.1 is MUCH faster and stable - and the cam works.

Only problem is the denisty/resolution isn't set correctly which makes gmail headers WAY too large and mobile formatted web pages wrap too late (and the view sometimes scroll too little to reach the cursor).

But since the latest cm6 is so slow and unstable (and can't take photos) elelinux is godsent!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
The process akmd often takes up 80% cpu and stalls the system.

Anyone knows what the AKMD process is?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
The compass and accelerometer driver.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Ah yes. I don't need sensor or compass.

I've tried to stop akmd and delete it (from system/bin/) but no luck. Read only even when SU.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Adb remount :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Thanks!

I've just installed FroydVillian v1.4.4 (also froyo). It's solved ALL my problems! - even better than elelinux 1.6 (it had huge gmail headers). Camera works, gmail headers are normal and akmd doesn't run amok :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=762206 (must be downloaded in 5 packages and installed sequencially before rebooting).

At last a 2.2 ROM that works! I'll keep an eye here on CM6 nightlies though.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tchen520:
Thanks for you ..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Anyone knows where to get the latest gmail/google apps for cm6 ?

FroydVillain 1.4.4 has an newer/better version of Gmail than I've been able to get for CM6.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
there's a download @ cm wiki:

originally posted by: thepittbull

For those with this issue, I suggest that you upgrade to the latest google apps pack, which can be found at:

http://www.tap3w0rm.com/hosted/andro...816-signed.zip

or

http://android.local.host.name/ds/ga...816-signed.zip

These are taken from the CyanogenMod Wiki (at http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...MDPI_devices_2 )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stealthopts17:
anyone running the new nightly?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
Whats New in the release?

Sent from my HTC Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
First thing I noticed is that the keyboard background image has been fixed and isn't see-through anymore. Also, pinyin doesn't crash anymore.

I flashed cm_hero-08312010-010341.zip, gapps-mdpi-20100816-signed.zip, and FlyKernel-10a.zip after a full wipe.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
Would love if you could report some more, earlier I flashed every nightly bus changed recently to froydvillian and just want to know if its worth changing back :)

Sent from my HTC Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Seems pretty much the same as the last nightly, although I see News & Weather application missing. The Power Widget preferences have been updated with a live preview of the widget.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
okej but does the camera work properly?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Sadly, no. The live view works, but taking a picture crashes the camera and doesn't save the picture.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
okey :\ then I wont change but I think something big is coming soon so I will keep an eye on the nightlies :) so there is nothing new in the cm settings? =)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I guess all the CM6 stuff has been added.

I'll list some of the new things out:

- Input Settings

-- Haptic feedback tweaks

-- Long-press home settings

-- lockscreen music controls

- Sound settings

-- Notification focus

-- Always play on speaker

- User Interface

-- Power prompt

-- Render effect

- Automatic backlight
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
okey but all that was in the previous build to =)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
@dkelley

Thanks a lot! - I tried it but all the links are broken due to the "..." in them :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Ah got it (medium and HD/high density builds):

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#Google_Apps_for_HDPI_devices_2
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
I'm runing the newest build now (didn't wipe first, though).

The new thing I've noticed:

- Cam starts faster - and I can tap to focus (if it had worked) but it still does't take pictures.

- More apps - like (I think) amazon MP3, Chrome to Phone, facebook

Haven't run it long enough to check battery and stability.

@iiro: Did you wipe everything before flashing?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
****, sorry, have no idea how that was pasted so literally.

http://www.statusuppdateringskomplex.se/elelinux/gapps_mdpi_update.zip

this one is compliments of elelinux, please don't overload his server with downloads people.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
tap to focus is brilliant!! FINALLY!!! that's terrific news. I'm sure they'll fix actual picture taking before "release" version. tap-to-focus is a huge feature that only sense roms had before now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
And 09012010 is out.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
Orh doh! I must have misunderstood it's behaviour. It seems they've simply changed the visualisation of the cam taking a picture and it reacted so late it happened to freeze with a focis symbol just when I tapped.

The new version 09012010 has the same issue. Back to FroydVillain 1.4.4 for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
oh SURE!!!

get me all excited for nothing. no tap-to-focus here folks, move along, nothing to see here.

speaking of froyd.... wait until you see the performance coming up... (which of course will end up in these nightlys after a while since hacre/ninpo's work is rapidly becoming a part of all of the best froyd roms).

;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ptitneo:
Hey guys

tap to focus does totally work on my hero with 09012010, it's just not activated by default (tiny semi-transparent "settings" icon on top right corner, it's one of the first options) - wow so many other settings btw - but I still can't take pictures as when I hit the shutter button the viewfinder turns black and the ui freezes :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
pre-note: <disclaimer> please don't flame me for posting this intelligent, honest and hopefully optimistic information, even though I happen to mention something positive about a "product" from the VR team. I'm posting this because I was honestly shocked to find out the following information, and hoping that sharing it will show people that this feature actually IS coming to CM sooner or later. </disclaimer>

HOLY CRAP - I'm running an internal beta of the next froyd (1.4.9.2 currently) and it HAS TAP TO FOCUS (in settings as you mentioned) AND it TAKES PICS Just fine!

woohoo how Ironic that I had that feature on my phone already and didn't even know it LoL

So if it's in froyd, which is partnering (maybe poor choice of word, they're not partners but share some of their best development efforts) sort of closely with CM, then you can bet it'll be in a future CM build as well since many of froyd's new (unreleased) features are going upstream into CM.

So hang on for a bit and I'm sure you'll see tap to focus working in this rom.

Cheers!

UPDATE: only dumb thing is that tap to focus and autofocus are mutually exclusive in the camera app. I tried it myself to make sure. so you HAVE to tap before taking a pic or it'll be out of focus... silly. I hope they can have a combined option soon!

UPDATE2: ANOTHER even DUMBER thing - it doesn't work in video mode, only in camera mode. CM devs working on camera app (if you are actually working on it), please take that tap to focus feature and enable it for video recording.

it's the whole POINT in having tap to focus.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] QQCH1:
twitter.com/cyanogen/status/21807545077

It's already in CM6 since August 22nd. There's just no CM6 official release for Hero...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
yup, but it's broken in the gsm hero builds which are about as official as they get for us right now. and it's odd that it's broken in those builds when the same code works in froyd.

anyway, as I've said again and again, hold out for it, it'll come. if you prefer a pure CM way of doing things, I'm sure it'll happen eventually. they'll be getting the massive speed/stability improvements from hacre's froyd soon enough anyway, if they want them (would be silly not to).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Tap to focus works just fine in CM6 nightlies, but it has to be enabled first from the settings. :p Still, it's no use when the camera itself doesn't work.