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[G1 Android Development] webshark3:
Just thought I'd post a followup after a full weekend.

Battery - seems very good. No issues, never had to reboot after disconnecting USB, etc.

Overall - Just bought the wife a Samsung Intercept on Virgin Mobile. Also played with the Comet and Optimus on T-mobile. In style, performance, speed, and features, the G1 running Biff blows them away. I know they're "value" phones, but they're still brand new and 2 of the 3 running Froyo as stock (VM is 2.1).

So still really impressed. :)
[G1 Android Development] lil-devil:
i've beeen having a lot of problems with the new rom

every time i flash the rom i either have problems with the google app so every time i open either marketplace or the browser, it would fc on me

or the other situtation is when it does work, when the phone is rebooted it doesn't get pass the rogers splash screen

Any idea?

Thanks~
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
flashed this an hour ago and its running great with launcher pro awesome stuff. btw wheres the muti touch keyboard at? or is it not out yet. great stuff
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
The flashable update for the Droid X keyboard isn't out yet. However, I've figured out a way to get it on my phone. The Droid X keyboard is alright, but I'm not sure if I'll keep it or not. You need to have adb to install it this way.

First: Go here, and download one of the .zips at the bottom of the first post. I recommend not using the black one, because problems have been reported with that keyboard.

Unzip the contents of the .zip to your Android SDK tools folder.

Second: Backup the original LatinIME.apk, in case you don't like the Droid X keyboard, and want to go back to the stock one.

adb pull /system/app/LatinIME.apk

Third: Push libjni_latinime.so to /system/lib

adb push libjni_latinime.so /system/lib/

Last: Push Droidx-keyboard-kaosfix-v3.apk to /system/app/

adb push Droidx-keyboard-kaosfix-v3.apk /system/app/LatinIME.apk

I'm not sure if this is the exact same keyboard that RoyalKnight is talking about, but it should be about the same, if not exactly the same.
[G1 Android Development] Jigglyworm:
Slow internet

I just installed Biffmod 2.1 and I love how fast everything is, but theres only one problem. All internet browsing is just extremely slow. I click on a link, and it takes like 10-15 seconds before the page actually starts loading up. Even when i use speed test, It takes a whole minute before it finds a server. I feel as though I'm the only person having this problem. I'm running off WIFI right now and my internet is anything but slow. 16 megs down. =] I've also tried internet on 3g as well. Same issue. Downloading stuff from the market takes forever too. I haven't had any of these problems when I was running other roms.

This is my first post and I'm not much of an android expert, but I know the basics.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Correct that is the same post that I got the DroidX multi-touch keyboard. I just got done at my chiropractor and I just finished putting together the no wipe zip let me upload them to my servers and then you can download and flash them via recovery. Then you dont have to worry about using ADB.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Alright the No Wipe Update is available on the OP for the Multi-touch Droid X Keyboard, probably the best keyboard around besides swype, lol Anyways go get it while it is hot. Let me know what you guys think.

There is a white and black version. Place it on the root of your sdcard and boot into recovery and flash it via recovery. Reboot and you will be good to go.

Thanks to punk.kaos for getting it to work with the G1 in froyo.

Here is the download links:

Droid X Keyboard White

Droid X Keyboard Black
[G1 Android Development] jacsonmoore3:
Droid X Multi-Touch Keyboard <<< see thats why I love you Guys....you make my phone rock...who says I need a G2 when I got BiffMod..
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
amen to that.

and brand new keyboard is out so great flashing now.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
You guys asked for it so we deliver. That is what makes BiffMod one of the best...cause we listen to our users and take your request and actually do what you guys want. You say you want the Droid X Keyboard we give it to you, You said you wanted a circular battery we gave it to you.

Thanks for all the support you guys are truly the best group of Android users.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
thanks for putting such a great rom together. one issue i came across first boot after flashing droid x keyboard boot took a bit longer then normal but looks really good.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Let me know if a reboot still takes longer, but it took longer probably cause it had to install the droidX keyboard app and the new lib. But reboots should be back to normal. I am going to see if Sisterchick can mod it and make one droid X keyboard for each of her themes. shes awesome so I doubt it will be hard for her.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
I chose to not overextend myself and get a G2 or MT'4G' for $500 without a contract (I'm on an Even More Plus Plan) only because of BiffMod. I can wait until I can afford it because my G1 is the **** and I don't have any urgency to replace it. I'm happy to always know what's coming next as a beta tester, and the future, even for G1 owners, is bright. The mt3g OTA update will be the gift that keeps on giving, lol.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
sure will ill let you know. and lets see what other colors of the keyboard she can make.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
no new phone till my contract is up and gingerbread phone comes out ill be sticking with my phone even if i switch company's ill use it then too.
[G1 Android Development] wuziq:
i noticed in the install process outlined by Ohsaka, we're supposed to let the screen go black / let sync finish completely before proceeding. is there an actual reason behind this, or is it to get a warm fuzzy? not trying to be antagonistic, just wondering :)
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
You already changed your sig, thats awesome.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
It allows the rom to and all the background stuff going on to settle in. If you run a logcat, you will see what kind of things are getting installed and put in place, its crazy. This should be a practice you should do after installing any rom. After installing roms I usually go play a round of MW2 then I come back and start messing with my phone. its just a good habit to get into.
[G1 Android Development] metalfangs:
Yes thank you!!
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
gotta be quick about it hahaha lol in 2.2 is it possible to be able to change icons in the app drawer if?
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
I'm going to flash the black version of the Droid X keyboard, even though I already have the white one installed.

Is anybody having any problems with the keyboard? For some reason my keyboard seems to think I'm pressing a different key. For example, a lot of times when I tap the letter "B", it puts in a space instead. Anybody have that happen a lot?

Also, I adb pushed the black keyboard to my phone earlier, and it looked just like the stock keyboard, but had black letters. Is this what the black keyboard actually looks like?
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
Using Launcher Pro or the default 2.2 Launcher?
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
I am not having this issue black version has a black tint to the entire keyboard. Now with the Droid X keyboard when you push alt or shif make sure you repress them again to go back to normal. If you press alt it will stay in alt mode, same as shift. its just how the keyboard is.
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Weird.. this is what my keyboard looks like, both when I adb push the keyboard to my /system/app/ folder, and when I use the flashable update for the black keyboard.

I'm not really sure what's going on. I think I'll just stick to the regular LatinIME for a little bit.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
That looks like the same keyboard I have. like I said a black tint. What issue are you running into. Thats the Droid X Keyboard.
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Oh. I just figured it wasn't since it looked a lot like the regular LatinIME that I usually use. There isn't a problem then. I think I just misunderstood. :p
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
if you go into text messaging and you use on-screen either way you will see that its different, the voice button is different and all around its a better keyboard. Also if you use the external keyboard you will notice a very nice auto spell feature that is built in. But yes you have the Droid X keyboard.
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Since I have a MT3G, I don't have an external keyboard. Sounds pretty cool though.

And about my problem with it registering the wrong key, I think I just have to get used to using it. I'm already starting to type faster with it. Thanks for the updates.
[G1 Android Development] batyjewfro:
Battery

I am not sure if this is the ROM, the kernel, my battery, phone, or something else entirely but my battery does not last when I make a call. For example, today I received a call and I know that I had at least 85% battery, no more than 1-2 minutes later my phone shut off due to no battery and would not turn back on. When I was able to plug it in and turn it on, the battery percentage displayed on the lockscreen said, as expected with a power loss, 0%. I have had issues with other ROMs when on calls, but never to this extent. I really enjoy this ROM and would hate to have to move on if I can avoid it.
[G1 Android Development] nakeman:
i am proud of using biffmod ;)
[G1 Android Development] kneelingwarr:
Awesome rom

First I wanted to say GREAT rom, very quick and stable. Easily the best Froyo thus far. I havent had any real problems except that when I am first setting up the phone I was pulling the SD card out to add new apps to it etc and once the SD card is pulled out my phone would freeze. Dont know if this is a bad install or what but I figured I would throw it out there. I dont ever pull the card except when im being lazy but it might be worth looking into.

Also, if one of these great users could help me out, I have searched and cant find a "phone keypad" keyboard. I spend most of my time driving and cant text as well on the QWERTY keyboard as I can on the phone keypad. There was one in Zachattack's Sense Rom... If anyone knows where I can find one it would be greatly appreciated.
[G1 Android Development] lil-devil:
Well after reflashing about 50 times and many different ways i still can't get it to work.

i guess i'll wait out till 2.2 comes out~

Keep up the good work: )
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
I think every HTC_IME.apk has that option. Install one of them, and go to the keyboard settings, and there should be an option to use a phone keypad to text with.
[G1 Android Development] Necrobutcher:
Is there a chance getting a the Droid x Keyboard with german support.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
looks great with themes im using black theme and the white droid x keyboard looks awesome there is a slight issue with the reboot takes a bit longer but its no huge problem i thought id let people know.
[G1 Android Development] nakeman:
i flashed this rom for 4 times. it was success for the 1st & 2nd, but it crashed after auto-sync and it got a loop in the boot up. what i learnt after that is.. patience. i tried to flash it and let it settled for a few minutes for every single stage. it was fragile before everything completed. don't hurry to do each steps, just let it settle for a while. and finally i made it at the 4th time.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Yes, let the phone settle!!!! The best way is to run 'ddms' from your computer with the phone connected over USB. 'ddms.bat' is in the same folder as adb.exe, so its most likely already in your path. Your phone device ID will be listed, highlight it, and you will see a nice color coded logcat scrolling by as the phone runs. The phone is settled when nothing is scrolling except the occasional 'GC_EXPLICIT' or 'GC_FOR_MALLOC' message... (pic attached)

On the battery issue, a friend of mine (with an Incredible) mentioned that phones will go into 'fast charge' mode if charged with USB while turned on. (maybe for Incredibles only, haven't read up on it yet)

I was not liking my battery life, and charged the phone with it turned off on the AC charger. And it took HOURS to charge, even though it was showing up as 100% charged from USB. I'd be curious to hear anyone else's experience charging AC with phone off...
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
thats how mine looked i switched to the white keyboard because i couldnt see the keys right black on grey keys not the best design but looks nice.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
that happens to me but im hitting the key to low which caused me to hit the space bar.
[G1 Android Development] unclefrancis:
Are you serious dude?
[G1 Android Development] Virgilus:
Hi, my friend using an acer liquid E really like this rom on my HTC Dream.

He asked me to put it on his phone, but would it work on his device as well as on my HTC dream?

Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
I just flashed the white multitouch keyboard and it seems much more responsive and readable in sunlight than the black one. I'll stick with this one for good. Thanks again RoyalKnight.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Fiiiiine, now I have to try the keyboard also! Why I can't I ever just leave my phone alone! lol
[G1 Android Development] metalfangs:
Haha! I'm the same way, flashing white keyboard now.
[G1 Android Development] wuziq:
minor issue: if you're in CPU Settings under Performance Settings, and you want to go back to Performance Settings, you have to hit back twice.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
You guys are welcome. Sisterchick is looking into making mods with more colors also. anyways I love the Droid X keyboard. I used to include it in the Rom then Ohsaka and I made executive decision to stay True to the Original froyo as we could. lol But yes its a great keyboard.
[G1 Android Development] batyjewfro:
I'll give that a shot, don't have an AC charger with me, but I can get one and see if that makes any difference. Thanks for the advice.
[G1 Android Development] captaincrook:
Is there a way to get the stock KB back? I've learned the DroidX kb doesnt play too well in terms of calibration.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Erase the droidX keyboard apk from /system/app and replace the libjni_latinime.so file in /system/lib with the original one from the biffmod2.1 ROM file.
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
Come on, now! You need to go here and sign up!
[G1 Android Development] lil-devil:
I'm not 100% sure with using ac charge, but turning your phone off to charge the battery will for sure increase your battery life

And a suggestion, if you're someone like me that llikes to have their phone on all day, you should get an extra battery and a charger. The battery will cost you about 6 bucks each and the charger I bought mine for 4 bucks on ebay
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
I'm not sure if this is faster or "all around" better in the few minutes that I tried it, but I LOVE the auto-spell feature when using the physical keyboard! Thanks for posting that update! :D
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
I usually charge my phone at night but use it as an alarm clock so I can't turn it off. That's one thing I miss about my Blackberry... It would turn itself on for alarms (I know technically it was never 'off' but close enough...)

Also, thanks for the tip on the 'battery' charger vs. the phone charger. I just got a new battery and couldn't figure out a way to keep both of them charged without much hassle. Here's a video showing how one of those works. I could find them on ebay for about $10-$11 with 2 spare batteries, or about $6 by themselves.

Does anyone know if my battery stats would get too screwed up if I swap back and forth between my 2 year old 1150mAh battery and my newly bought 1400mAh one?
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
I'm having another problem with the Droid X keyboard.

I want to use the Droid X keyboard, but sometimes when I reboot my phone, the regular LatinIME.apk pops up instead of the Droid X keyboard. When I go to Input Method, it only shows Android Keyboard, and not Multitouch Keyboard, which it should when the Droid X keyboard is installed. When I open up the keyboard in a text field, I can only type about three characters on the keyboard, and then it force closes. Anybody have any idea why this is happening? It shouldn't be going back to the original keyboard.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
Digging the red theme going to flash multi keyboard later. Great theme like to see a red theme keyboard. Great job.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
I rebooted a few hours after flashing the white keyboard. The phone went back to the black one. I'll try flashing it twice, just to see how it goes.
[G1 Android Development] TopazUser1:
no android market!

can someone please help me. i love this biffmod2.1 rom but i cannot find the android market on it. i have no idea how to install it. help
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Download the gapps from here, and flash it in recovery. They're not the same gapps as the one in the OP, but they work better, in my opinion.
[G1 Android Development] TopazUser1:
thanks alot. how do you like the rom so far?
[G1 Android Development] HrtSmrt:
Loving the rom.

I do have a slight problem though. Search is down ATM so i couldn't see if it was a known issue, but my signal seems to be crapping out a lot more than it used to. I'm used to my data being ****ty, but i almost always used to have signal; now it tends to come and go

Just wondering if i can do anything about this.

Keep up the good work!
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
*sniff* *sniff* :(

Its the same file as "gapps-mdpi-tiny-20101020-signed.zip" except I took the time to download the latest updated files from the Market and include them.
[G1 Android Development] HrtSmrt:
Now that search is working i saw that one other guy had the same problem which is that the signal doesn't go past two bars. That appears to be the max.

Not sure what the problem may be or if there's a fix...
[G1 Android Development] MattCB72:
No automatic location

Hi!

I have flashed BiffMod 2.1 with Gapps today on a T-Mobile G1. But since the flash the automatic location (weather, news, google) doesn't work. The option for automatic location (via mobile network, not gps) is activated.

With CyanogenMod 5.x it worked fine. What's wrong?

And some apps (like the market) are still in english.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Did you the gapps file from the OP post?

Did you fully wipe before installing?

Did you reinstall an older version of a gapps apk using 'restore all' from Titanium Backup?

I had this happen to me with the 'News and Weather' widget and it was because I had installed an old version from Titanium Backup.
[G1 Android Development] MattCB72:
Yes, yes, no. :-)
[G1 Android Development] spark916:
I dont know it is only me but is anyone else getting slow speeds at times? cause i can be in my text message and it just slows downs
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Oh, sorry about that. I didn't know that the gapps were the updated version.
[G1 Android Development] :
I get this a lot. It seems as when my myTouch wants to go from 2G to 3G I almost always lose service. Then I usually have either no bars on 3G or full service.
[G1 Android Development] captaincrook:
Thanks. :D
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
i had a random reboot happen to me today after i pulled my phone out of my pocket to see if i had anything (sms,email,missed call) i have no idea what caused it but i though i let everybody know.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
would be a good idea to also let people know what silly setcpu settings ( if any ) you have
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
I dont have any setcpu. It just happened I guess something caused it but don't know what.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
well , that could explain it

I've not looked at the kernel, so I don't know what its defaults are

but other kernels I've looked at have crazy low ( presumably to attempt to save battery ) min cpu

get setcpu and set the ranges between 245 and 578

it will be more stable
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
im useing the kernel that came with biffmod

"2.6.34.7-cm6-biffmod ezterry@zack #2"
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
which I have not looked at

tbh, it probably is sain

I've never installed biffmod, but from what I see its a proper rom and not some themed up Frankenstein "lets get out of the milky way and back on our g1's in under an hour" file pusher rom
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Its my 20101031 kernel, rebuilt in the biffmod full build from repo.

It boots with sane oc/uv levels. (I then set it to 595/122 myself but while my phone is happy with that yours may not be)
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
DroidX keyboard giving me FC when I use soft keyboard....

Edit: Nevermind, I reflashed it and it is working. I probably messed it up last night testing SuperWipe and installing the new +15Kernel.
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
I've been having some issues with the brightness settings. Every now and then, when I try to unlock the phone, it would jump suddenly from full brightness to very dim. If I turn off the screen and then turn it back on then everything is fine.

Has anyone else been having this? I can't seem to reproduce it at a time when I have a logcat running (though it has happened when plugged in - I just have rotten luck).
[G1 Android Development] MattCB72:
Hi there!

The automatic location works now. I don't know, what went wrong. But after a while it did work. Probably a problem with my provider?
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I remember reading something about a bug with AGPS awhile back... Maybe it was related to that. I have always found that after I do a complete wipe, the best thing to do with GPS is go near a window or get clear sky and then run a GPS app (I use 'GPS Status'). Once it gets an initial idea of your location, subsequent GPS reads are fast. Maybe your initial lookup just kept failing till you were in a spot with better GPS reception?
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
I have a couple of questions about the DroidX 'multi-touch' keyboard. What is 'multi-touch' about it? I see that it's pretty quick to show keys if I slide a finger around, but don't see any functionality relating to touching it in more than one place...

Also, it was mentioned earlier that it's supposed to lock on "Shift" and "ALT" when using the physical keyboard, unlike the stock one, but I prefer it the other way. Is there a way to turn that off? Or at least a way to always see if "ALT" is locked on? It seems like only sometimes there is a little down arrow to show that. I can't find a pattern for when it shows and when it doesn't. Either way, I'd just rather it never locked anyway...
[G1 Android Development] kneelingwarr:
I have tried each HTC.IME that I could find and it seems to FC every time, any other advice?
[G1 Android Development] lolmensch:
the sense in multitouch is that it recognizes two keys ater eachother faster. so you didnt lift one thumb of one key while already having pressed down another key with your other thumb.

that improves your writing speed significantly. if you write with one hand there is no difference.

http://www.gimpsta.com/themerlo/index.php there you can create your own htc_ime, depending on your current os lvl (froyo,eclair etc)
[G1 Android Development] kneelingwarr:
Thank you very much for the link it works! I greatly appreciate the help as opposed the the antagonizing comments!
[G1 Android Development] zay012:
How did you get the htc ime to work? I only got fcs even with the custom keyboard