yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Android Development] takumi2k4:
Hey guys, great ROM!

Any way to make this faster than it is right now? :D

Been running this for an entire day now, there's some slight lag here and there and the music occasionally skips when it's doing something tasking like when I'm writing a text and sending it, but so far so good really. This might just be the FroYo ROM I've been looking for.

Again, great job on the ROM guys. Looking forward to whatever else you can do to make this ROM go faster haha.
[G1 Android Development] Sizzlincok:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831139

Do it.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Random

:D
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Tsheeley - have you tried the ota froyo and then rooted it with superoneclick? Just curious how the speed of that compares to this rom in your opinion.

My mt3g is no longer my daily driver, so I only turn it on to play with it, but I'm currently running ota froyo with minimal everything and setcpu 528-528.

It runs ok for froyo, but Donut was still faster. Thinking about nandroiding back to my oem donut with the newest radio and ezterry's 614 kernel. Now THAT will be ****ing fast!
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Thank you for taking my opinion with such high regard.

Unfortunately, I haven't tried it... and it's pretty unlikely that I will. I'm a REALLY lazy guy, and while the process is simple enough to do... it's far too much work. If I'm going to do anything - it'll be moving up to EZs new setup for that extra 14mb and then restoring my current Biff with the new kernel.

I will say though, that Biff 2.1 is leaps and bounds above Biff 2.0 - and the last CM6 I tried... and eventually I'll get my tweaking tips post in order for folks to reference to.
[G1 Android Development] takumi2k4:
Holy shiiiz.

Add in the fact that I'm using 128mb of swap (no JIT btw), this thing flies now. Wow. That's pretty much all I can say... wow.

I think I just found my daily driver now.

Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] austriker27:
hey guys so I have been running this rom for about 2 weeks now and its quite nice. very fast and more stable than others I have tried..

however my battery will run out in half a day and thats without wifi,only the occasional text and like 10 minutes talk time. whats the deal there??

also I cant access my contacts anymore! whenever i try it gives me a mssg about having to FC the acore.. always. its really annoying b/c now I basically cant call anyone unless I knowtheir number. any solutions? or do I need to reflash the rom?
[G1 Android Development] Sizzlincok:
Make sure you fully wiped your phone before flashing.
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
New Peppermint Theme

Hey Everyone -

A new Peppermint theme for BiffMod 2.1 is now (or soon as RoyalNight can upload) available. Special thanks to rachet789 for his testing and patience.

I've posted screens below to preview and you can download/comment at the BiffMod Theme Thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9021455#post9021455.

Enjoy!
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Is anyone else having problems turning off the new power control in the notification bar?

Let me clarify a little... I can turn it off and pull down the bar to see that it's gone, but when I reboot it's back. I've even tried turning off all the buttons... reboot... and the space is reserved, just blank.
[G1 Android Development] add119:
How can i get the android market?
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
By following the instructions on the First Post! Flash gapps to might help
[G1 Android Development] add119:
Nevermind i got the android market and thanks for the introduction.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Np bro, at first I thought I was on another thread, then I had to edit my comment lol. But yeah just make sure you flash the gapps and you'll be fine.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
For those interested, I finally got the basics of my tweaking post done.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Well just a friendly tip, try to optimize the rom size as much as possible to only use around %92 of the system partition, that should help a lot if you can get it to that point.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Im generally not worried about system size as long as it fits.. the same goes for extra passive apps (ie apps that the user may not use but are not run unless the user runs them.)

That said there are other reasons system is usually better smaller.

On theses non odexed roms the more apps we have on system the more odex files we generate on first boot. Now I know some wish this was faster, my real problem here is we are eating extra space on the data partition. Thus eating into space that may be used for the user.

Also apps that do open on startup slow down boot. I'd rather fewer of these but at least they close after boot.

The biggest offenders are things that require a persistant service 100% of the time in the background..

The problem is what to remove and what to keep in the rom.. we could shrink what included to near nothing with 100 addons.. or make some common configurations.

The trick here is making it a bit more friendly than 100 zip files.

Even my install of biff was something like 5 or 6 zip files.. and some manually pushed files such as passion office. Much more important that the stock email app as I use k9.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Transfering the ringtones and such from internal to SD will help with that... but anything in system other than that I'm leaving to the world class devs we have here.

My tips are more aimed to the average user that wants to squeeze a little more juice without worrying about FUBARing their phone. :D
[G1 Android Development] puppetcarl:
just perfect
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Thanks! Glad to see it's already being put to use.
[G1 Android Development] choli0090:
Ok I saw the line mentioned. Under my \sd-ext folder I have..

dalvik-cache

lost +found

userinit.d

and it looks like the apps are being installed under the dalvik-cache folder, as I'm seeing something like

"data@app@com.protocol.x.su.fbs-1.apk@classes.dex 736.00KB"

Today I decided to totally clear off the card, & re-partitioned the card & added a 32 meg swap. Followed the initial instructions & the internal memory still keeps going down.
[G1 Android Development] athakur999:
Is there any way to get rid of the "Auto" setting for the screen brightness control in the power control widget? I think this setting is useless for our devices since we don't have a light sensor, right? Right now, it just adds a useless toggle point and all of the presets to choose from have this option in there.
[G1 Android Development] Remanifest:
CM 6.0RC2 was giving me all kinds of problems. It was so bad I reverted to 5.0.8. Today, 5.0.8 just stopped working (acore crashes all over the place), so I set out to see if RC3 was out.

I found this rom... did all the wipes, rebooted to fastboot, fastboot erase system -w, reboot to recovery, flashed this rom and the overclock, and DAMN it's sweet.

Thanks for putting this together dude.
[G1 Android Development] lax789:
Anyone know how to fix maps, it won't let me update maps, so it won't let me get places, or navigator.
[G1 Android Development] Remanifest:
Not sure what the issue is. Maps downloaded and updated just fine for me. Even got a weak GPS signal indoors.
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
First off: Holy smoke, this is fast! Great job on the ROM!

I've been having an interesting issue with the Power Widget though and was wondering if anyone else has this problem and knows of a fix: When I tap the Mobile Data icon it switches on fine, but when I tap it again it refuses to switch off. It does, however, update to "off" when I go into settings and switch it off manually there. Any ideas?

Other than that, great ROM - keep up the awesome work!
[G1 Android Development] wbales:
kind of random, but I can't install Google Sky Map in the Android Marketplace.....
[G1 Android Development] ryaninc:
For anyone curious, the updated Superuser app works perfectly with Biffmod. I just flashed the Eclair/Froyo version and it's all working nicely, I didn't even have to reapply any superuser permissions. Check it out here. :cool:
[G1 Android Development] RikkDoc:
Hey, this ROM looks fantastic and I'm very interested in flashing. The Apps2SD is the crucial element for me, and I'm sure for many others as well. I've got ~150MB worth of apps on ext4. Because flashing this ROM requires a full wipe, which includes an ext wipe, my question is:

What is the best way to backup and restore my ext apps? Should we just do it through Titanium? Nandroid? Or am I waiting for Google restore them all for me after the 2nd reboot following the postboot setup? Or are we supposed to manually reinstall all apps?

I'm a firm believer in scouring the pages and pages of replies before asking a question in a new post. I've just finished doing that for this thread and didn't find my answer, but I apologize if this has been addressed. Thanks so much for everyone's help.
[G1 Android Development] infinitybiff:
Nice. The updated voice search stuff also works like a charm ;)
[G1 Android Development] ryaninc:
Yes it does, I'm really liking it. Froyo FTW.
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Just had a very interesting case of boot-looping. I eventually pulled the battery and had to reboot twice to get it initialised to ADW again, but all my widgets were still missing. I have no idea what happened to cause it as my phone was in my pocket when it started. Maybe someone else has experienced something similar?
[G1 Android Development] gibletzor:
Loving this ROM! So much faster and more stable than CM6 RC2. I am among those who can't get Apps2ext to work as well though. Followed the setup instructions in the OP. Not a dealbreaker, but would definitely be nice to have all that extra space! :)
[G1 Android Development] athakur999:
I've just about finished two full days on this ROM (v1.5 that is). Here's my initial impressions:

1. A few random reboots within a few hours of installation but it's been stable since.

2. Battery life is a bit worse than I had on SuperD but I've also been doing alot of app installs. Overall, I'd say battery life is much better than all of the CM5 based ROMs I've tried. This is my first foray into a Froyo ROM so I can't compare with other CM6 variants.

3. Disabling compcache and just using a 32MB swap partition on my SD card seemed to provide better responsiveness to me.

4. No issues with missing SMS/MMS but I'm not a heavy texter so YMMV.

5. I haven't ran into any boot loops

6. I get the "application is not responding" warning more frequently than I did on SuperD but it's not unbearable by any means. No actual FCs or application issues (besides Waze but I've had trouble with that on every 2.x ROM I've tried).

7. I don't use apps2ext so I can't comment on that.

Overall, I wouldn't have any hesitations recommending this as a daily use ROM as long as you're willing to deal with a little crazyness those first few hours. Great work biff!
[G1 Android Development] Dhruv94:
hey guys, i was just wondering if theres a way the live wallpaper feature can be fixed..

when ever i try to select one it shows me the preview screen then crashes..

also.. is there any froyo rom with live wallpaper support working?

i have a rogers htc dream

thank you.
[G1 Android Development] santet:
apps2sd ext doesnt work for me

after flashing this rom most of my apps on the ext partition do not show up.

i even wiped my extension partition once and restored all my apps after flashing but the only thing i got from that was a low memory notification.

i once even tried running firerats script but even that did not help. Can anyone give me the general steps they went through (excluding wiping the ext partition) which got this rom to work for them, cos i have been following this rom since its release and still cant get apps2sd ext to work properly.
[G1 Android Development] Sisqo:
great rom, seems fast and stable
[G1 Android Development] Abhi_UK:
If apps2ext is not working for you in this rom then I suggest you just download the newest nightly as that will have improvements and then use firerats all in one script which now has easy apps2ext with an apkmanager allowing you to choose internal or ext partition.
[G1 Android Development] athakur999:
I haven't had any boot looping but I have experienced alot of weirdness with ADW Launcher. I normally use ADW, but it seems like when I go into recovery and then boot back into biffmod, Launcher2 takes over. The weird thing, my home screens are setup exactly as they were under ADW, but shifted to the right by one (e.g. what was normally screen 3 became screen 4). If I reboot again, I get ADW back but it's all reset back to the stock configuration.

I deleted Launcher2.pk from /system/app and so far haven't seen the issue again. I think something is confusing this ROM during some boot scenarios and make it mix up the launchers.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
In general they are not bad tips.

* The setcpu just note some users may in rare cases have issues with 595. Also the 122 if your phone can successfully wake from sleep uses a lower voltage.. otherwise the speed you mentioned uses the same voltage as the 240.

* the bigger question is JIT.. yes we all agree a complex bit of logic will run faster with jit.. thus if you want good linpack scores enable it. We find however the time for applications to load however usually causes the system to overall run noticeably slower for most tasks. So gaming may be better with it, but there is a reason for the recommendation to keep it off. This may be less of an issue with the 2708 kernels :)
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Well I added the hboot to asserts, so that's less one flash for spoof lol. I may try to add your cm nightly kernel extractor to the rom, but we'll see
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Thank you so very much for the feedback. Since I'm not a dev and no nothing about any of the code behind all of this it's nice to have some professional opinions about the tweaking.

I remember reading somewhere that 122 was causing folks to freeze up as well - I never experienced it myself, but I figured I'd bump it up to save folks some frustration (and yelling at me for my tip messing something up.) If you look at my tips post for CE in my sig, I actually had 122 suggested originally. How's the voltage on 160?

I'll add a note for folks to check out your opinion of the JIT switch and they can decide from there if they want it.
[G1 Android Development] austriker27:
I did wipe it several times in recovery mode and did a few other wipe things..

I flashed it to this ROM a few weeks ago and this problem just came up like a few days ago...
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
I've flashed the white Droid x keyboard 5 times only to have it disappear upon reboot. The black one stays but is hard to read in sunlight. I removed the black one with titanium and now the srock one pops up. What's the deal here?
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
You say you wiped...

But did you SUPER WIPE!?!?!?!? :)
[G1 Android Development] 1024k:
Could you explain how to perform a super wipe?

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Check Ohsaka's sig, there's a link to a post that has a link to a .zip. Get the .zip, flash it, reboot and flash the ROM and the rest of the goodies. I sometimes flash the Superwipe twice - just in case.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Last night I flashed the 614 kernel over the oem froyo. Went without a hitch, and boy does this sucker fly!

And get this - battery life is HUGE. Currently running 528-614, interactive, newest radio and spl. Really thinking about trying to biff or cm6 again so I can play with swap.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
So for Pandora and Navi simultaneously you say JIT on? I've always left compcache off because I figure the phone needs all the ram it can get.
[G1 Android Development] DeeVoc:
Same here, it also drops my twitter/facebook credentials on every reboot, which isn't as annoying as having to flash the droidx keyboard every time.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
I lol'd. :D
[G1 Android Development] 1024k:
I saw but can't wipe using volume down home back and power also via fastboot, someone do know why?

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] ZaneChua:
@tsheeley Have you tried sparksco's rom? How does it compare with Biff 2.1
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
I don't think so. I've never been the flash happy sort.

All in all, my actual my ROM history has been fairly small. I started off on CM... just before the whole Cyangate fiasco. I tried a sense our two, but stayed there until I found Cannon's Complete Eclair. When CM6 first came out it didn't agree with my phone well, so I stayed on CE until Biff was recommended... which is more than likely where I'll stay.

It took a bit of work at first to get Biff 2.0 working for me, but once I did, I've been in love with it ever since. With the devs behind it, it's unlikely I'll be falling out of love anytime soon. (And I also reference my laziness, it's a good amount of work setting up a build you're happy with.) :cool:
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Um, you download ohsaka's SuperWipe and save it to your SD card, reboot into recovery and flash SuperWipe as if you were flashing a ROM or a theme. It will wipe your system completely.
[G1 Android Development] mulletcutter:
anybodys else's phone slow down when playing music, pandora/music player. jit on, compcache 18%, lock home in memory, heap 24 and 614 OC. When playing music everything slows down, scrolling, openin apps, txting... what would cause this? mytouch 1.2
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
omg, you mean when you make the phone do stuff in the background it gets slower?

ffs someone should make stuff that uses cpu not use cpu

fix it!!!!!!!!!!!
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I blame Firerat's MTD patch. It flips the multi-task daemon's setting from 8 to 4. And with the music daemon defaulted to 5, the daemon scheduler puts the foreground app in purgatory mode approx. 2 times per millisecond. I keep telling him to fix it, but he is focusing on cleaning up the DirectX libraries so we can all play Call of Duty Black Ops.
[G1 Android Development] mulletcutter:
when i read this in my head it sounded like a little girl....

when i play music in the background it shouldnt make my phone slower, i still have more then 60mb of free ram. Its then only thing i run in the background that makes my phone act like this.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
i have the same issue with mine thats why i dont play music on my phone its slows it down to a crawl thats why i stopped putting music on my phone.
[G1 Android Development] takumi2k4:
Use swap.

2708 kernel, 128mb swap and no JIT on my G1, no lag whatsoever while I'm playing music and sending texts.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
This could be one of those cases that Ezterry spoke of where it's best to keep JIT off.

Note to self: Add disclaimer to tips post that the tips listed work best for me and that your own mileage may vary.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Hey all how's it going? just dropping by to see whats going on. You know gotta see how my baby is dong from time to time. lol. Anyways. I gotta say This MyTouch4G is freaking awesome. I loved it so much and after my wife started messing with it I had to make a few adjustments but I went out today and got her the White one. the Video Chat feature along with everything else about it is amazing.

Yet again thanks for the support and keep enjoying BiffMod.
[G1 Android Development] ZaneChua:
Just tested sparksco mod. I didn't really test it because i didn't like the theme. I find that the Default Biff theme is nicer, so i switched back to Biff. Tried Biff 2.1 with the 2708 kernel. It really is so much faster than 2.0. I'm not sure if i should have swap. I've turned compcache to 18% and JIT on. What are you personally using?

@RoyalKnight6190 Thanks for all the hardwork for Biff 2.1. I really enjoyed it. Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] takumi2k4:
As a sidenote, the media player I'm using is PowerAMP. I'm pretty sure PowerAMP is much more resource intensive than the stock player or any other player in the market, so the lag shouldn't be that bad in those others.

I'll see if Ezterry was right about that tomorrow as I'll be running the ROM with JIT on all day. Can't wait to play a slideshow of Angry Birds in the middle of class haha.

Oh yeah, your tips are actually quite awesome. I followed exactly as you said and they have managed to squeeze out some more. So thanks for that!

@RoyalKnight: Thanks for the epic work on this ROM! Is it possible to see a ROM with this kind of awesomeness on the MyTouch 4G? I should be getting one myself whenever T-Mo lets me finally upgrade lol.
[G1 Android Development] metalfangs:
I use doubletwist and can still multi task with little to no lag. Swap enabled.
[G1 Android Development] arsonist63086:
hi every on at xda im a new member to xda but not new to the site and love the info on here thank you again...

ok so i just upgraded my g1 from a rooter 1.6 os to this wonderful and bad ass rom :D which runs nice on my g1 once i got it to my likeing , only issue i have with this rom upgrade from the 1.6 is that it constently disconects my IM client evrey time i use the web browser or any network bassed app even when its in sleep mode .. the im client is nimbuzz and its set to always stay conected.. if any one can help me out or point in the right direction it would be grate ... thanks again biffmod team the rom is grat (other then the cronic disconect) :) ......
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
lol

If you think that an app which streams music should not use resources, then you may have a point. Fact is it needs resources.

And you don't have more than 60mb of free RAM, you are demonstrating just how naive you are.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
My personal setup is mostly just as it reads in my sig and in the tips post... I'm usually fiddling with one setting or another for some fine tuning.

I don't really use it for listening to music, that's what my iPod is for... or for playing many games, except for Zenonia and a few time killers, that's what my PS3 is for. I've got it pretty tightly integrated with my desktop - I'm right in the middle of unplugging from DirecTV and going full streaming via the 3... but that's another tale - so it's perfect for my needs of an extension of my PC (thank you LogMeIn, Dropbox and Transdroid).

Lastly, throw in my geek toys.... working tricorder, lightsaber, iTunes remote, xda app, swype - it's a decent utility phone for a part-time tech.

Thanks for the kind words. I always defer to the devs for the final word on things - but if it works for me, I try to share.

I'll most likely get around to doing the new Ez setup this next weekend. With what I've been hearing, I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to go with JIT off when I do... run it with the recommended setup for a bit to compare.

As a side - has anyone had any experience with my notification bar power widget issue?

PS - I'm going JIT-less for tomorrow with regular Biff.... we'll see how it goes.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Yes, that is what I am hoping for. lol But we will see. I am taking a short break from deving right now. I am just enjoying time with my family right now.