yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Android Development] :
Okay folks it has been a rather manic week for me which means I must confess things have taken a back seat including sorting things out on Biffmod, but my laptop and linux turn up on Saturday so github here I come! I'll be getting things moving forward this week and see where we are regarding Biffmod 2.2 so stay tuned.

Also we have a new member joining the BiffMod team who I'm sure a few of you will know from E-Xtreme and that is the fantabulous Mek so big welcome aboard to him :D

@ The BiffMod Squad, my apologies to all for my absence since taking the reigns from RK but be assured I have not forgot about you (plus I know you guys run yourselves :)) or the rom and will be updating Gdocs, so please keep an eye out and let me know what's going on and where we currently are. I have a few idea's for improvements and would like to get a brain storming session going. I thank you all for your wonderful support of the rom and your coninued efforts. You all rock!

Edit:~ New Gdoc invites sent out to the team.
[G1 Android Development] ZaneChua:
Experienced two random reboots today. Might have overclocked my CPU too far. 614mhz. Should clock it to 595mhz and see what happens. JIT and compcache are enabled, but we'll see. :)
[G1 Android Development] :
Compcache good, JIT personally if your gaming I suppose its alright not to my taste. Definately lower clock again personally I have mine clocked to 556mhz and max I would say 576mhz but try, test and let me know how things go.
[G1 Android Development] ZaneChua:
I'm not gaming, just using it for messaging and calls. Trying to get it as fast as possible for those two. I don't wanna go back to Donut because the messaging app hasn't been patched to handle more than 160x3 characters. It'll automatically convert the messages to MMSes. Will disable JIT and keep compcache at 18%. Not too sure about enabling swap.

EDIT: It just rebooted. Weird. I've already downclocked it. Lets try 576 instead.
[G1 Android Development] :
Well as I said 556mhz has always been the sweet spot, 32mb compcache which I have a g-script you can have if you want it that high. Swap hella no in my eyes, tis evil! Vibrate off on calls does actually help improve speed slightly on com.android.phone process. Again all just suggestions as no-one can give you a perfect guide, tis all about the testing and playing which is part of the fun ;)

Also try Auto Memory Manager (Link to guide and settings) with these settings in his guide. Again I set mine higher but thats because of my usage and in and out of apps all the time, test test and when your happy, hell test some more ;)

Keep me updated :)
[G1 Android Development] :
IrC Channel on the Freenode network.

Okay folks I have set up an IrC chatroom #BiffMod for any Biff heads out there want to chat or come speak to the team (I'll be there most of the time) a link for a webclient is in my sig, just click on 'IRC Here'.

Enjoy
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
I described my experience with that here in this post. Basically, don't 'hold' the power button. Just tap it and hold all the others until the screen comes up.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
So I'm running without JIT for the day now.

It's noticeably slower, but, this is the first time since the last update of Angry Birds that I've been able to get it to run... it usually just bombs out when I go to load a level. With it being so slow though, AB is pretty much unplayable.

We'll see how the rest of a JIT-less day goes.
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
If I put ringtones in /system/media/audio/ringtones and also have them in /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones, when I select them, will the system use the ones in /system/... or /sdcard/... by default?

Also; is there a way to change the left action button and right action button (like in ADW launcher) for the stock launcher?

I like to have a direct dial, and messages respectively in those positions rather than dialer (i just press green) and browser (i use an icon or google search).
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
I'm not sure which set it will use, it might double them up. It's probably best to have them in one or the other, not both.

Not sure about the buttons on the stock launcher, I went straight to ADW right away.
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
Ok, I put them all in /system/... No more in /sdcard/media... I still have other audio stuff in a separate folder on the sdcard and it doesnt seem to pick them up.

However, I did have to delete the stock ringtones from /system/media/audio/ringtones, to get mine to fit and they still show up. I tried to test them and see if they work and they don't, so I figured I would make sure mine work and they don't! No more ringtones for me?
[G1 Android Development] :
Don't as in what respect? As in don't show - Don't play? Can you play mp3's? Have you tried to play the ones on your sdcard manually?

Also Stock launcher has no configurable components.

If you go the ADW route I highly recommend v1.1.5, it's soooo much faster than 1.2.0.
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
Sorry didnt test more before that last post.

I rebooted to see if maybe the system just needed to update to get rid of the old (stock) ringtones from the list. That worked. BUT, now there are 2 of every one of the ringtones I put in the /system/media/audio/ringtones; one works, the other doesn't. I dont understand why there would be 2, I deleted the ones on the sdcard. They are all mp3.

The same thing is happening with my notifications, there are 2 of every one of my custom ones.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
So does that mean you'll eventually make a rom for me to flash on my mt4g? :D

LOVE the hardware but can't wait to get rid of Sense.

EDIT - Sorry, I see you already answered this question. Be with your family, we're not going anywhere.
[G1 Android Development] :
If you have checked and made sure that they have been deleted then do the following.

Move all the tones back to sdcard in a folder for example /tones/alarm /notification /ringtone, spelling the name of the final folders incorrectly stops the system picking them back up. Reboot.

Now you should find you have no ringtones/alarm tones or notification tones, this is good if so.

From there in Terminal su and enter...

mv /sdcard/tones/alarm/* /system/media/audio/alarms (edit the /sdcard/tones/alarm as you have it set)

Do the same for /notification & /ringtones

Reboot

Let me know :)
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
Ok, moved everything around and rebooted. Only "silent" was an option, so that worked.

went into terminal

su

mv /sdcard/.../ /system/media/audio/ringtones

cant move cause read-only.

I couldnt remember the command to make it r/w so i just jumped back into root explorer and moved it like that.

Without reboot, they show up in the select ringtone part, but do not play.

After reboot there are 2 of everything again and only 1 works, other does nothing.

I guess it's not a complete loss, but it's kinda agrivating to see everything twice.

If I can't get it figured out, I'll just go back to having my ringtones on the sdcard.

Also, any reason, other than linux being a little weird, why there is /sdcard/... and /mnt/sdcard/... ?

And back to launchers also. I'm sure there is (probably involving the framework.res) to change the buttons from dialer and browser to something else but; if I do go back with ADW, how do I get a hold of v1.1.5 and then put it on my phone? The only way I know is to flash it like an update.
[G1 Android Development] :
To mount system its su...

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

There probably is but haven't looked, let me know how that goes and the flashable version I'll post shortly.

ADW Launcher v1.1.5 flashable attached, also adw settings file to go with it, rename it adw_settings.xml.
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
I don't know that moving the files in terminal would be any different than moving them with root explorer, what are your thoughts?

Where do I need to put the .xml file?
[G1 Android Development] FHL09:
Market Issues

Is there anyone else having issues with applications coming back as not being found even though they are on AppBrain & some are ones I have brought, one I brought like 2days before switching over to BiffMod from Dwang which makes me wonder if this ROM is somehow making applications disappear, I like it for the speed & all but I need a fix or a answer for this as it really cripples it for me.
[G1 Android Development] takumi2k4:
So, I've been running my phone with JIT for more than a few hours now... and I think I'll be keeping it. Angry Birds is a lot more tolerable, it less of a slideshow and more of a game that just a little resource intensive. Hell, I can actually aim the birds properly now! There's that much of an improvement with JIT on.

Once in a while, the music would pause a little when I'm sending a text, but now it's totally gone. The home screen feels a lot faster too with JIT on, and the app start up times haven't seem to slowed that much at all. I mean, I don't notice a difference at all when I start my apps up.

Anyway, my setup right stands at 2708 kernel, 128mb swap, JIT on, 24 VM heap size, lock in home and messaging apps. And pretty much the settings that tsheeley posted earlier. As Shadowch31 said, test and test some more. I think I've found my sweet spot, so I'll stick with this until 2.2 appears haha.
[G1 Android Development] :
/sdcard - Just place on the root.

I personally always prefer using terminal or adb as I never quite trust third party apps to do the job properly. But thats just me :D
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
I kinda feel the same way on that. But I hate typing on the little keyboard and not being able to paste and stuff just a little bit more.

Is the .xml file just default settings or your personal settings?
[G1 Android Development] noodleinjar:
Does this work on the Lg Ally
[G1 Android Development] :
Using the menu on the keyboard...

menu+c = copy

menu+v = paste

I love the keyboard, I can type faster on that now than my big keyboard on the pc lol

And there my settings that work best for me, you may tweak at will. Wouldn't be much point if they were just default lol
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
yeah true, but I like to turn off everything I can to get quicker speeds, rather than fancy stuff.

I still havent been able to get speeds like the first post or tsheeley.
[G1 Android Development] FHL09:
shadowch31; Can I flash another version of GApps over this, maybe like a older version or the most recent from CM forums, just to get the market fixed & stop applications from not showing up.
[G1 Android Development] :
Cant really answer that due to my continued refusal by my phone to play nice with my G1, I'm looking into getting a second G1 to use for devving as my poor mobile is never switched on anymore, its always flashing something and hoping the dev phone will then allow me to flash BiffMod finally with an ext partition :D

Just need to save up or have a look on ebay for a 'brick' to jtag.

Hop into the IrC channel, web client link in my sig. Can chat easier there and faster ;)
[G1 Android Development] davil124:
trying this rom right now, so far so good
[G1 Android Development] Gravityrat:
Just loaded this ROM and I had to say awesome job.

I am absolutely loving it and it loaded right up for me.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
There is a problem with things coming back. When I first flashed ADW 1.1.5 (renamed to launcher.apk) and didn't remove the stock launcher, on a reboot, it could randomly come back. When I flashed the multitouch keyboard, the stock keyboard would come back. It won't come back anymore. I removed it with Titanium backup.

Case in point: Titanium will remove certain **** if you want to replace it. Otherwise, it might come back. I don't know if it's the ROM, as I haven't been on anything other than BiffMod since August.
[G1 Android Development] captaincrook:
You can use "remove_launcher stock" to rmeove the default launcher should you decide to install another.

As for things coming back, I usually "rm -f" the APK then use ADB from the PC or "pm uninstall" from the phone terminal app to uninstall the app data. Haven't had any case of things coming back, ever.
[G1 Android Development] rwp71:
Loving the new TMo speed on my G1

I can't believe the speed I am getting.
[G1 Android Development] FHL09:
Shadow, buddy, it is still playing up, I tried a few things after what we did in IrC.

I flashed CM5 GApps & that caused a boot loop (luckly I did a Nandroid).

I then flashed Septembers GApps & found the market was still 1.82 & not working AND gmail was force closing.

So I gave up & reverted back to the GApps given in this topic at the start now everything is working but still some apps are hidden, I will tinker with what I have & dig into the vending.apk to see if I can't find something to fix it but if you can get something first that would be great.
[G1 Android Development] :
I'll have a look into it later on fella, well no point carring on now as you have me on IrC :D
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
I came across another thing last night that I didn't even think to check after reflashing.

3D gallery just takes too long to show me anything at all, let alone all of my pictures.

Is there some weird settings I'm not finding or something?
[G1 Android Development] :
There is a trick get the gallery working and once done shouldn't need doing again, even if you flash!

Open gallery and leave it to finish syncing, scroll along to next blank set and repeat till its all loaded (or as loaded as it gets).

Now open each folder and leave it again to sync, going along till there blank and let it sync and repeat till all folders have been done and all thumbnails loaded.

If you find that in a folder not all pictures load then simply close the folder, open another and go back. The missing pictures should now start to sync.

Don't rush and make sure EVERY pics has loaded properly in thumbnail view.
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
Ok, I tried that but just got impatient. I'll let it sync all the way through.

Thanks again!
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Does anyone have a link to the apk for the 2d gallery? The 3d gallery is slow as **** and I hate waiting for silly gimmicks.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Didn't 2.0 have both? Or am I not remembering correctly?

If it did, you could always BART, flash the old Biff (the one from 2015, not the young Biff from 1955... don't want to create a time paradox, do we? ), pull it and then BART back.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
I guess I could nandroid back to oem 1.6 and pull it from there.
[G1 Android Development] AndDiSa:
If you have an old nandroid backup, you can also extract the app using unyaffs from system.img and install / copy it directly on the phone. So you don't need to do a nandroid-restore ...
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
what is unyaffs? Is that an app or an adb command?
[G1 Android Development] AndDiSa:
unyaffs is a command running on linux (most likely also for windows) which extracts the contents of an yaffs-image (yaffs is the file system type which is used by android for the filesystem on nand).
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
What is the purpose of the "simple apn"? I can't find much info on it anywhere.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
So what would the full command look like, and would I run it from adb or shell?
[G1 Android Development] AndDiSa:
Here you can find a mini Tutorial and links where to download the programm. It has to be executed on your pc, not on the phone.
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
Here's a zip to flash from recovery that will delete 3D Gallery and install 2D Gallery for you.
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
Peppermint Theme

I apologize for delay in uploading. In the meantime, you can get this theme here.
[G1 Android Development] metalfangs:
Everything looks great, except for the bevels! Sorry if it sounds picky but the bevels on the andy and on the bm logo are way too big and far from the edge.
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
That's why they make vanilla and chocolate. : ) Thanks for your input.
[G1 Android Development] ZaneChua:
Awesome. just what i needed. Thanks sister. :)
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Thank you!! That's super awesome of you.
[G1 Android Development] ibraheeemz:
HI all

I am using biffmod 2.1 since the day it was launched. I am just asking a question (I am sorry if some of you may consider it irrelevant ):

I want to install the new Radio i.e. 2.22.27.08/2.22.28.25 & hboot 1.33.0013d.

Is it safe to install this radio while I want to continue using Biffmod 2.1 and any new releases to come?

I just want opinion of BIffmod dev team if they consider it right to use biffmod with the new radio or not!

My current radio is 2.22.23.02

Thanks a lot in advance for any help
[G1 Android Development] :
Oh Hell yes and yes and my god what are you waiting for? YES!

The new hboot and radio are fantastic on our little g1's and big props to EZTerry for his work on it. I suggest using a third party back-up utility if your worried about restarting and then downloading and flashing the port that EZTerry has posted in his thread for BiffMod once you upgrade.

Just follow the simple instructions and you can't go wrong fella.
[G1 Android Development] ibraheeemz:
I am much thankful to you shadow for your response. As you are using it, I just want another simple observation from you,

people have posted about battery drainage while using this radio, what is your observation? does it really drain battery quickly or it seems normal as previously?
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
I'm using the newest radio and SPL on my G1 with BiffMod 2.1. I have not observed any increased battery usage. As Shadow said, just follow the instructions by Ezterry at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9057973&posted=1#post9057973.

FYI, Ezterry is a big part of the BiffMod Squad. I believe his patches will soon be incorporated into the latest nightly builds of Cyanogen Mod as well, so you will likely see support for the new SPL in all Dream/Sapphire ROMS/kernels going forward.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
im to scared to even try putting the new radio up lol ill stick with my 2.22.23.02 radio
[G1 Android Development] ibraheeemz:
I think you should try as well. I am using the new radio now and it seems fast. Will update about battery usage but I think it will have no such effect as someone posted.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
i havent done anything though fastboot before just recovery ill download the files but ill look into more be trying.
[G1 Android Development] droidmage:
Its really very simple and well worth it. I just recently got fastboot working and am very happy I did. For the longest time I could not get it workin due to windows vista problems with the drivers. If your using windows vista/7 I highly recomend using PDAnet to get the drivers installed properly.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
I'm going to be doing mine over this weekend... I'm looking forward to it with all the things I've been reading.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
patches are already in the CM Kernel src , but needs to be configured , in the same way a kernel for a 32a needs to be done.
[G1 Android Development] Gravityrat:
My G1 runs a lot better with Ezterry's radio and SPL.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Excellent!! Thank you. :D
[G1 Android Development] jp2dj1:
i as well i'm having fastboot problems. i don't know its because W7? in my old WXP computer it worked??... :confused: any tips please:o
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Won't he need the new kernel? ezbifftestkernel or whatever it's called?
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
Yes, you are right.

But Ezterry has made it easy by porting BiffMod2.1 with the correct kernel and made it available for download on the site with the instructions.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
I know, bless him. :D
[G1 Android Development] :
Yes he will but... I have a way to get any (so far) nandroid you have working with the new radio and spl. ANYONE wanting help to switch to new radio and spl catch me in the IrC channel for personal walk through step by step with me.

Also anyone wanting to run an old backup with the new radio and spl again get in touch with me on IrC and I can walk you through it.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Can you write up a tutorial? I'd be really curious because I've wondered if my nandroid of oem 1.6 would work with the new spl, radio, and ezterry's 614 kernel. Now that would FLY.
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
Fantastic, thanks for the quick/easy fix!
[G1 Android Development] :
I will do tomorrow fella, I have Super D, E-Xtreme & EZ's ASOP all running the new hboot and radio ;)

I haven't seen anyone hit an error yet with it, as long as the instructions are followed properly.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Niiice.... Honestly the only reason I truly care about anything higher than 1.6 is the speech to text in any field.

Other than that I'd be perfectly content to run Donut forever.
[G1 Android Development] rabidkangaroo:
Voice dialer

What's up with the voice dialer? I long press the green/call/send button and it brings up the bluetooth voice dialer. But I do not have a BT device nor do I have BT set to on (I checked). Can I control the action of long press of green button?
[G1 Android Development] ibraheeemz:
thanks shadow for your runtime help. I will look forward to restore backup but last night I was havaing some problems with it so I flashed the ported biffmod and it is working fine. Also let me confirm, I have not observed any difference in the battery usage before and after the upgrade, So, anyone having confusions should stop thinking about it anymore and jus flash and enjoy

Good work ezterry and other biffmod team for making our lives easier and faster :)

now waiting for biffmod2.2 lol
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Just saying.

Replaced my custom boot image with this one i made:

Just thought I'd share. I like purple. ;)

Would love to get this as the background image for Amon_RA recovery. Been trying to get it but, I think because of this kernel I'm on, I can't do it. If anyone can do that, that would be awesome.
[G1 Android Development] ZaneChua:
PDANet? I don't see where you are going. But i didn't even require drivers in my windows 7 home premium. I just plugged my phone in, downloaded the android sdk. Used commandline to cd to the android sdk's tools directory and typed all commands from there.

It's good. I already used it the first time i flashed Biff 2.1 :)
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
why do you think your kernel has anything to do with recovery?
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Maybe it doesn't. I dunno. But, since I was trying to flash this through fastboot, I thought that had something to do with it.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
so

your trying to flash the splash via fastboot, using a mostly locked down hboot and you think it has something to do with the kernel which is not running?

Why?

edit

one sec,

not the splash but recovery, your trying to flash recovery with an hboot which we know can't flash recovery.

why do you think its the kernel's ( which is not running ) fault again?
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Recovery is stored in a different place than the Rom and kernel.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Um, I honestly don't know. lol All I know was i failed to do what I wanted. I flashed the phone back to the engineering SPL & latest radio and still couldn't do what i wanted so, now I'm re-doing everything. No biggy.

I wanted to try another ROM anyway (which failed). Flashingall back now.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
so you couldn't flash recovery with a full eng spl?
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
No, I had no problem flashing the recovery. The problem was getting my image in the background of the recovery. I couldn't get it to take. I thought it wasn't flashing the recovery but, then I figured out it was, it just wasn'ttaking my image.