yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Yeah sorry Transformers is gone for now. it might come back in a future build, sorry. The lack of a Boot Animation saves on boot time. so you just get to stare at the Blue Android logo. Sorry again. If you and everybody want it back and loose a few min then I can bring it back in 1.9. It doesnt save a great amount of time but still it saves some.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Also this is the same exact Rom that the Testers have been running for the last 2 days, nothing changed. Felt like why change a good thing. I trust my testers and if you run into something and they answer you trust them. They know what they are talking about. My Testers are:

Jbazt_katuforzs Ohsaka Skip214 jacsonmoore3 cameron.t90 kingjehu

Thank you all for the great work you did and do.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
In the spirit of this ROM being as plain as possible... I think the plain stock boot animation is good. I mean its not that hard to copy your favorite bootanimation.zip file to the /data/local/ directory...

Attached is mine, ripped from some ROM i cant remember... Makes phone look like old school BIOS boot up sequence...
[G1 Android Development] skippy214:
you know and i do not have to have it, but if i did, would i just pull it from 1.7.1, then change to .zip?
[G1 Android Development] coolme90:
for some reason this rom is very slow :(
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Here is my Transformers BootAnimation. enjoy. just rename the file to bootanimation.zip, so just delete the transformers part.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
V1.7.1 is and was very slow. But V1.8 was just released and its a lot faster. Go download and install the new version.
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
On 1.8 now.....Gonna let it settle before I make any quick judgments. Right now it's a little slower than the official CM6.
[G1 Android Development] coolme90:
i am using 1.8, it takes very slow to open things and sometimes freezes. while others say its fast.
[G1 Android Development] bunu:
Ditto here. Really slow during setup. I'm going to do a 24 hour run doing the things I normally do and make a judgement after that.
[G1 Android Development] acuratlguy03:
love this new version... was running 1.7 for a few days and it seemed very slow with force closes. havent had any issues so far in the first hour like i did before. ive been flashing the zips twice before restarting and have been having alot of success on my 32b mt3g
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Did you guys follow the instructions in the OP, about what to turn on and what to turn off. just wondering. Just a little surprised, but like any ROM its trial and error some people get issues where others dont. Not saying you guys did anything wrong just trying to figure out whats up...G1forFun and UberMario I know you guys know what your talking about and I trust your posts so if you say its running slow then it must be, just trying to figure out why. But you guys should also know that Rom flashing isnt a perfect art. So maybe a reflash, might work. Just let me know.
[G1 Android Development] Jbazt_katuforzs:
The 1.8 rom did a 2 1½ hour on 3G browsing last night. When I woke up I noticed that my G1 is unusable. It lags and freezes. It took me like 10 years to open an app. Out of my curiosity find out the problem. My taskmanager is not performing!! This was the advanced task killer froyo from the market which is in beta (not sure). So I remove that app and install the advanced task killer free.apk and all is back to normal!!! The phone become snappy again, just like yesterday. After I set the autokill to aggreessive, frequency is when the screen is off the phone amazingly fly and its amazing, considering I installed luncherpro and 3D drawer is on, 5 docks all with widgets its still smooth and stable for me. For those who encountered slowness and lags with 1.8 try to check you task manager.
[G1 Android Development] Jbazt_katuforzs:
Yeah follow the instructions, after I flashed 1.8 I do the post boot up settings for 1.7 and it works like a charm!! @ initial boot it took me 8 mins to fully load up the setup screen.
[G1 Android Development] bunu:
I'm going to try again tomorrow. For now I'll just nandroid back to CM6.
[G1 Android Development] skippy214:
can you get that animation signed for me?, says error no signature
[G1 Android Development] mindstormmaster1:
I have flashed every Chromatic and htcclay rom out there but htcclay jumped ship to the HD2 and Chromatic 4.5 just seemed really slow so I gave this rom a try. Over all it seems faster, but does anyone else feel like all cyanogen 6 stable roms run slower then RC3? Could just be me, but while this rom works better its still pretty clunky.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
You dont run it as an update from recovery...

You have to actually copy that file onto your filesystem into the /data/local/ directory. I use adb from my laptop to do it. If you dont have laptop, you can download "ES File Explorer" which has the ability to request root access and make the system partition writable...

I'm not sure why some people are experiencing slowness....

My suggestions (aka what im doing):

1-Do a full wipe

2-Dont be scared by the longer than normal boot up process

3-Follow the instructions carefully, including the waiting and the reboots

4-Have a swap partition on SD card AND enable compache/JIT

5-Install "Auto Memory Manager" (free) app and try setting it on Mild. It never requires interaction like the "push button kill all tasks" apps...

I have no slowdown at all, and my launcher has 106 apps (including bundled apps). I run GenieWidget news, Power control, and Large Audio Manager widgets. I even tried running the Nexus LiveWallPaper and it didnt slow me down. I just found it annoying and enjoy the picture of my daughter more as my wallpaper. :)

If anyone who is having slow performance could send a complete boot up logcat, it would be helpful.
[G1 Android Development] Bzerk1:
waiting for black version, and i say YES to G2 style ^^
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
It's running better so far, before all the apps are restored. I will be posting my experiences with it after I play with it some more.

I just restored all my apps now. I went back to not having the MTD partition hack. All my apps installed, so Apps2EXT is working. I'm off to bed but my full report will be in tomorrow morning, lol.
[G1 Android Development] prusokas:
It lacks two things - black version and adw launcher!And thx for the rom ;)
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
You can download it from the market. As far as the black version, it's coming.

I've been unable to sleep and have been playing with this for a few hours. 1.8 runs like a dream. At least like an HTC dream should. I have no issues with it so far and will keep this ROM for as long as I can. I'll keep running everything to test the limits of this phone, but I'm happiest with this ROM than any other I've tried (CM 5.0.8, 6.0 rc2, rc3, and superfroyo 2.8.2, Biffmod 1.7.1). Great job, RoyalKnight. If I come across any issues, they will be posted on the tester log.
[G1 Android Development] Kristion:
@ohsaka: thumbs up for "Auto Memory Manager", great app, before i've installed it it was lagging but now it's flying, using the same settings (mild).
[G1 Android Development] Jbazt_katuforzs:
Yeah same here. Replaced advanced task **** with auto memory manager. Thanks for the info ohsaka.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
What I think I have noticed but haven't had time to confirm... is that Froyo seems to treat background/service applications differently. Or else 2.1 just wasn't reporting its process list the same.

After I install certain apps, they are suddenly just constantly in the process list. Babbler, Sipdroid, Slacker Radio... These programs are now starting on their own in the background and using memory. On 2.1 this didnt happen. So I'm thinking maybe certain people having slowdown could be a result of having too many "auto-start" programs (and not running auto-memory manager).
[G1 Android Development] ryaninc:
Okay, I've been using 1.8 since last night. Here are my initial impressions. When I first booted it up, it was really slow. Maddeningly slow. Apps would take upwards of 10 seconds to start, "force close or wait" messages every few minutes, keyboard would take 5-10 seconds to appear, screen orientation would take 15 or 20 seconds, etc. Even the podcast I was listening to would freeze every minute or so.

But after letting it settle in for a few hours, and after getting Autokiller, Autostarts, and LauncherPro all tweaked, it's now nice and fast. It definitely seems faster than 1.7.1, and I'm liking it a lot.

So those of you having speed issues, give it several hours to fully settle in. I also don't recommend task killing apps, they often use more memory than they clear. The combo of Autokiller and Autostarts (both root-only apps), really speeds things up, as does LauncherPro.

Those are my first impressions. Definitely faster now that it was, and it's seeming much snappier than 1.7.1. Thanks, Royalknight. Keep up the great work! :D
[G1 Android Development] ppm2014:
can not download ......
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
It does pick up after awhile....pretty quick indeed.

I heard that running all that auto-killer auto-start stuff can really take a toll on your battery usage. Any info on that?
[G1 Android Development] ryaninc:
My understanding (and I'm not an expert, so correct me if I'm wrong), is that traditional task killers DO affect battery life. The ones that have a "kill all" button or something can affect performance and battery.

Autokiller, on the other hand, since it has root access, simply tweaks Android's core memory management to allow fewer apps to run at once. So it doesn't constantly run in the background like a task manager does.

Autostarts, from my understanding, works the same way. It disables apps from starting by using root access, also preventing it from needing to run all the time in the background.

Again, that may be somewhat incorrect, but that's what I've read. I certainly haven't noticed any battery hit personally from using those two apps together. Hope that helps. :cool:
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I concur with what ryaninc said. AutoKiller and "Auto Memory Manager" are not actively doing anything. They tweak system settings... remember all the arguments over swap related parameters? "I like 20! I like 60! Blah blah blah". Now people can argue over the memory manager settings also.

While the spirit of this ROM is "As Plain As Possible", I can see an argument for including one of the automatic memory manager applications since it seems to make a big difference in performance for alot of people.

Can some people take the hit and UNINSTALL their memory manager and report if their performance immediately goes back to "poor"?
[G1 Android Development] TrOjAnUK:
Well I personally cannot see any difference using or not using Auto Memory Manager.

Same speed with or without... G1 Black
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Like I was mentioning in one of my earlier posts, I think it may only help you if you have a lot of apps that are auto-starting as background services.

Download "SystemPanel Lite" or something similar (I like SystemPanel's UI) and see what running "Background" processes you have. I still have a ton, but I think Auto Memory Manager kills them off as needed to support the "Active" processes...

List of "Background" processes:

A Online Radio

Amazon MP3

Calendar Storage

Fantasy '10

Gmail

Google Search

Market

Media COntainer Service

My Uploads

Pico TTS

Superuser

Titanium Backup

Voice Dialer
[G1 Android Development] _nobody:
can we get the black bars?? thanks
[G1 Android Development] asolis:
Im unable to import my contacts from my sim card on all of the 2.2 roms. Is there any application I could use for this?
[G1 Android Development] TrOjAnUK:
I may have mis led you on my last post, the rom runs great!! it runs great with or without the memory manager :) Im a happy user!!!
[G1 Android Development] acuratlguy03:
i def agree with you about running the task killer in agressive and frequency at screen off. My mytouch got bogged down last night and virtually was unusable, so i downloaded and tried it out and it has been running flawlessly! DEF recommened!!
[G1 Android Development] skippy214:
If this is happening with all 2.2 roms then you may try looking under general? but never run into that problem before.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
At first, it was very slow, but after it had time to settle it sped up. I flashed it last night and have had it over 13 hours and everything is running great even without the memory manager. The boot time does take forever, but until there’s a better way to implement Apps2EXT, we have to live with it. At least booting up is not something you have to do often after the initial setup. I’ve always been the one flashing ROMs and being upset about how everyone’s is running faster and smoother than mine until today. I’m quite happy with this one. I don’t even have anything to add yet aside from that.
[G1 Android Development] mindstormmaster1:
You guys know that its super easy to just tweak the bar and make it black as well as the notification window if you just go in to cyanogenmod settings change them to black and then restart. I did that and it works great! So I really see no reason to theme it. Oh and I agree after a day this rom settles in and starts running great!
[G1 Android Development] _nobody:
weird... is anyone having the same problem,

when awaking from sleep, my screen doesnt goto the unlock slider screen. it goes straight to home.

i dont use the screen lock pattern but even before flashing 1.8 the slide unlock screen still showed up.

i flashed from 1.7.1 to 1.8 without a wipe if that makes a difference, it was working fine in 1.7.1

is there a setting or option to enable this?
[G1 Android Development] Jbazt_katuforzs:
just the bar. Will be uploading the file tom coz im about to go to sleep
[G1 Android Development] _nobody:
just upgraded the radio too, bump for some help
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
I first want to thank all the support this Rom is getting now, Thanks Everybody for sticking with it. Like Biff said when he came out with this Rom, I am not a Dev nor do I claim to be, I havent gone to school to do any of this. The stuff I do I have picked up on my own and learned from asking questions. I also piece things together very well. The speed issues you guys were getting at the beginning could be caused from not allowing the Rom to settle in enough, truly due to the scripts I have implemented this Rom after first boot takes a lot longer then most roms to start running perfect. I have been running it for the last few days with no autokiller or autostart and my speed was nice fast and smooth, I installed both of those apps last night and yes they both together make the Rom run even better. Thanks Ryan for figuring that out.

Here is how I flash Roms: I boot into recovery, Wipe All, repartition my SDcard (32MB Swap, 512MB EXT4) then I flash the Rom. If coming from another OS version (1.6, 2.1) then I would also do a Wipe System before wiping all. I have learned if you are coming from 2.2 wiping system is not necessary.

Also I just posted the first Theme for this Rom built by Alan090 its a Galaxy S theme for BiffMod V1.8 and ADW. Go ahead download and flash away, its a nowipe install. Enjoy. It looks amazing. Thanks Alan090. Its on the OP.

I got great ideas for 1.9 might take a little longer to implement these things, I also gotta find a way to cut down boot time. If any other Rom Flashers want to help me with this send me a PM with your gtalk and we can collaborate to make this Rom the best and fastest out there.

Sorry for long message Hope you all are enjoying V1.8.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Due to major differences in 1.8 from 1.7.1 you should wipe all, repartition sd and reflash. Then you wont have all that issue.
[G1 Android Development] eXase:
I noticed swap is on from the boot, which has a negative effect for me as a ton of apps stay in memory and chew through my ram.

Just a suggestion to others to check for that if apps keep starting up
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
If you have too many apps open, install Auto Memory Manager. It kills process and programs when memory gets low.

If anyone flashes BiffMod 1.8 with the Galaxy S theme, can you please post a screenshot or two? I want to see it before I try.
[G1 Android Development] alan090:
screenshots posted later
[G1 Android Development] fatduke720:
Is there anyway to adjust the stock launcher settings on this rom, or do I have to install ADW / LauncherPro?
[G1 Android Development] burn317:
Loved 1.7, put 1.8 on yesterday and it seemed rushed. My home key was not responsive at all it seemed like, system was nearly unusable until I took off the market widget and lowered the number of particals in the live wallpaper. Nearly every menu lagged until I installed adw launcher. The entire system still lagged way too much after. Went back to 1.7 this morning just so I could have a usable phone while at work. Any suggestions on making 1.8 as quick as 1.7 on my mt3g?
[G1 Android Development] burn317:
Oh also the auto app download in market to restore my apps seemed stuck at beginning download, waited about an hour and still no luck getting apps restored.
[G1 Android Development] _nobody:
thanks mate, did a wipe and reflash and everything is working perfectly
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Swap is not the same thing as ram. Nonetheless, the suggestion of installing "auto memory manager" should help.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Thanks Alan090 its a great looking theme.

Its Stock Launcher (Launcher2) which means Basic, Simple, Reliable, Stable, Fast, Smooth, Launcher2 is original software that comes with Froyo made by Google. The Rom world has been spoiled by ADW and LauncherPro and others like it not saying these are bad at all the Devs for each of these have done amazing jobs with them. But the problem with these are we have given up stability for options. Now with me choosing to put Launcher2 in this Rom gives you the option to install any Launcher you want and keep it updated. so if you want options go install one of the Launchers from the market.
[G1 Android Development] fatduke720:
Thank you for such a quick response. I was only asking because everything seems to fly on this rom. I am loving it so far. The only issue I have is scrolling through home screens seems slow but maybe that's just because I am used to adw and launcherpro. Anyways thanks again for such a great rom and keep up the awesome work.
[G1 Android Development] Kaos Chase:
I'm trying to flash 1.8 and my apps keep getting installed on the phone taking up major memory.
[G1 Android Development] burn317:
When I originally flashed it I wiped my system and formatted my sd, think tonight I'll try a system wipe and keep my apps on sd from 1.7 and see how that works.
[G1 Android Development] jacsonmoore3:
try re-flashing then make sure when you sign-in to google you turn off automatic, by hitting MENU....then set up ur your setting then reboot..enjoy...let me know if that help
[G1 Android Development] jacsonmoore3:
as you can see I have 84apps install in I'm using MTD Hack
[G1 Android Development] alan090:
no problem

I just kanged the pngs from various mdpi frameworks I found :P

I just put that up there for the screenshot request I saw for the theme

I took out the obv viewscount++ from my thread and here are the images direct

screenshots for theme
[G1 Android Development] Jbazt_katuforzs:
reflashed the rom., flashed your theme. after the reboot im having plain blue wallpaper as the background. and a skined bar. is this normal? does anyone having this?

edit: figured it out. excellent theme.
[G1 Android Development] skippy214:
Hey jbaz, what did you do to get off the blue background
[G1 Android Development] biglo:
Just out of couriousity I notice that in your change log it says that your not using the frpatch anymore just scripts for app2ext. So what is really the difference in the two? The boot time is always like the same lol :)
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Just posted in the OP a step by step instructions posted by

Ohsaka

So if you are running into any issues and you did not install they way the instructions say then reflash and follow the instructions in the OP. Glad you all are liking it still, enjoy. I will be working on V1.9 soon.

I have been running 1.8 for last 4 days with no issues. or slow down.
[G1 Android Development] Kristion:
same problem here
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
I havent flashed the Theme yet, but what kind of stuff have you done to fix the issue.

Anyways looks like dumfuq and pershoot have released OC Kernal Hacks for CM6, so I will implement the 614 Hack in the next build. I have found that 614 is the most stable without having any reboots. So Excited:D
[G1 Android Development] cameron.t90:
should i be able to flash the 614 oc without any problems? or should i just wait for 1.9? lol
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
I just posted the 614 OC hack on the OP, so go ahead and download and flash away. I just did it and with SetCPU, set my max at 614 max and 528 min. No issues yet. I flashed it right on top of V1.8 no wipe. Go enjoy let me know if you run into any issues.

Edit 1: Dont worry OC still works awesome, I just wanted to apologize I just realized that my OP looks ridicules and annoying I will fix soon. sorry.
[G1 Android Development] Makir:
Battery?

I've been running 1.8on my G1 for several days. It's fast and I love the G2 extras, but my battery is gone within a few hours. Anyone else having this problem? Any advice?

Thanks,

Matt
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
It all depends on how you have the Rom setup. Mine with moderate use and only have widgets on 3 of the 5 screens and those are just FB, Twitter, and setcpu. And I have been getting 10 hours out of mine with moderate use. Now if you use ADW or Launcher Pro and load up the screens with widgets and garbage that you never use then yeah your battery is going to die fast. Ever since Eclair I think all after market launchers just destroyed battery life. cause they are just another app running in the background. Also users think they need all these useless widgets on there screens and why. just so you can look at what the weather looks like around you, Just look around. :D :) lol

sorry not to be mean or anything and not to go on a tangent. just my opinion. Thanks for liking V1.8. V1.9 is going to be even better.

Try wiping the battery settings. and reformat the battery.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Thank you!

I just want to say, I love this ROM. It's beautiful. I made it through the slow start and even installed the Auto manager. Seems to run pretty smoothly. I especially love the G2 flavor.

I only have had one issue, a few times, where the phone freezes up and I am forced to reboot, which takes a loooong time. I'm not sure what is causing the freeze but, i will install dumfuq's OC Kernel an see if that fixes the issue, maybe.

**Crosses Fingers**

:p

**Update: The Kernel installed beautifully, No wipe, phone is running very smoothly now

@ 614MHz Max/512MHz Min. Still had a few times where the phone freezes and I'm forced to reboot to fix it. No idea what is causing it, tho.
[G1 Android Development] fritzmann:
Why not just go back again to app2sd with fireat's patch without long boot time. People on mt3g dont need it and g1 user should know how to put a file on sd and write a line in terminal for app2sd.

It is no big deal.

Thanks for continuing this nice ROM.