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[G1 Android Development] yo9gnc:
if you have nothing to read, let me raise a problem. i can`t sleep at night for that :)

we have this rom, which is based on this rom.

htcclay is now on the dark side ( hd2 ). so blacktigerX kept the tradition and updated htcclay`s rom on cm6.1, froyo 2.2.1 and so on.

why in the hell his rom always works ok (on my phone) and cm6, biffmod >2.0 get me just the g1 logo at first boot? what is the difference ?! what`s the diference between those 2 kind of roms (.zip) ?

the question is ofcourse for those who cand look into the zip files and understand something.

p.s. i must say that for those who read this topic, i`m the one that can`t use usb on the phone, so no logcat for install.
[G1 Android Development] billquinn1:
If you can't use USB then I assume you are not doing "fastboot erase system -w"

You can try the flashable wipe from

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=834812

That should work for that. Once that is done, be sure to delete or rename the Android folder on you SDCard. Then flash as normal. Some how you need to really wipe system. Thats the key.
[G1 Android Development] yo9gnc:
i have also a post there :) yesterday. so ... nope. that`s not it. on that rom, i also just use the available wipe methods. and it works :(
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
Thanks for responding so quickly. That makes sense what you said and what I've seen with it being more responsive/quicker to recognize back to back input.
[G1 Android Development] MemeHime:
I installed the HTC keyboard but when i go to Input method on the keyboard to change to the htc keyboard, nothing comes up. it goes straight back to the keyboard. i tried flashing the rom again and also installing HTC_IME.apk and then rebooting before selecting it in the settings option and still when i go to the Input Method, nothing comes up. i also tried other keyboards on the market and the same thing happens, when i press Input method it goes straight back to the keyboard. i really like the sense keyboard, can anyone help?
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Maybe you could find someone with a computer and a USB cable? Without the logcat, its just too hard to guess.

Put your SIM card into an old phone and mail me your phone, I'll fix it. :)
[G1 Android Development] yo9gnc:
i have a computer and a house full of usb cables ( even phone`s original cable ). but my phone have seen the ground too often, too close :)

i know how to use adb. my phone doesn`t :) i`m not really the "noobiest" person. i admit that the usb connection issue to my phone is a hardware one (it works if i press the bottom of the phone). but still ... why some roms ( even biffmod 1.9 and until 2.0 ) work and some won`t? that was my question.

for mailing the phone, really, the only issue in that, will be the cost of the operation. for the mailing (and return), i think that i`ll buy another phone rather than let it in a world trip :) . this phone was opened into pieces ( by me ), tried to fix it but i need another case, and many more.

anyway, thanks for the proposal.
[G1 Android Development] crypysmoker:
... So you know your USB problem is hardware related.... but you dont think the roms not loading is?..

I have a person I ve had to reinstall roms at least once a week on her G1 because she lieks to drop it. Every week "Im getting those force close messages again and my phones broke" I get it, load a new rom, works once it leaves... Finally after months of doing this I got tired fo it and took her phone for a few days to look it over. I found out that the exact place she had dropped it who knows how many times was right above the sd card slot, which in turn made it to where the sd card wouldnt fit right or stay in one place. All it took was a plopping it on the table or dropping it into a pocket and the rom would go haywire.
[G1 Android Development] nakeman:
the Gtalk is a little bit lag (and accidentally disconnect so easily) ... or am i the only one suffering?
[G1 Android Development] yo9gnc:
so you`re telling me that if i`ll flash for 10 times biffmod 2.1, and after each time i`ll flash ... let`s take this rom, it will, randomly, flash any of that roms (as in once the biffmod will work/or not and once other rom will work/or not). if you`re ready to bet, i`m ready to make a video :D
[G1 Android Development] mrodrigues5:
Anyone know why 3g doesn't show up on my status bar anymore? it is now replaced by an H
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Its the same thing as 3G, sometimes faster...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Downlink_Packet_Access

It doesn't indicate a problem.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Make your own keyboard.

http://www.gimpsta.com/themerlo/main.php
[G1 Android Development] phiredrop:
Does it still work if you select "Reboot" from the power menu? Usually that's when mine would start boot looping...
[G1 Android Development] jonbron:
best rom for g1 to date

Holy crap, Biff... this is HANDS DOWN the best rom I've

ever

had running on my G1. It's lightning fast and everything works - no force closes.

Hats off, my good sir.
[G1 Android Development] DroidDavi:
I will be flashing as soon as I get home
[G1 Android Development] domex2k:
Yep it sure did:confused: i wonder if it was already an issue with the nightly used for 1.5
[G1 Android Development] athakur999:
I did a fresh install of 1.5 (moving from SuperD after doing a full wipe) and I don't see any option to use ADW Launcher. Do you still need to install 1.3 and then flash 1.5 on top to get it?

Otherwise, so far so good. I got a few random reboots at first but it's been stable for an hour or so now. Now, just the long wait for the market to install all of my previously installed apps. The 3G access at my work is terrible and the app I need to get onto wifi (T-Mobile Hot Spot Connect) has apparently decided it wants to be the absolute last app to be auto installed. Wish you could re-prioritize the auto install list :)

EDIT: OK, kind of weird. I did a fresh wipe and reinstall again and again, no ADW launcher. Then I went through the settings an enabled JIT, disabled dithering, etc. and rebooted and after that ADW showed up. No idea but it seems to be sticking around at least :)
[G1 Android Development] phiredrop:
You mean it did start a boot loop? Sorry for making you try.. :(

In my experience, all Froyo ROMs on my MT3G have had this issue. Some of them started a boot loop right away, some of them wouldn't start until I turned the phone off and on again (even days after use with wifi connecting/reconnecting to different signals).

I've tried Biff's, HTCClay's, and a handful of Cyanogen's. The only 2.2 ROM I have found that has a 'fix' for the wifi boot loop it is Cyan's RC2 which someone posted a flashable zip (and it appears to only work with RC2).

Not to get too off topic there.. but that's been my experience.
[G1 Android Development] dzasta:
Just tried rebooting from power menu, no bootloop.
[G1 Android Development] phiredrop:
Was that with wifi on and connected?
[G1 Android Development] DroidDavi:
hey i want to know if there are apps i dont want in the gapps could i just delete the apk file from the gapps file i dont want amazon mp3
[G1 Android Development] dzasta:
Yes. I have wifi on all the time and it was connected while i was at work.
[G1 Android Development] quierotacobell:
If ADW isn't showing, delete Launcher2.apk from /system/app, and install ADW.Launcher.apk using root explorer or whatever file manager you use that you can access /system/app.
[G1 Android Development] wbales:
G1 brought BACK TO LIFE....just to think they don't sell these in the US anymore...

Biff, totally digging the rom

the only thing for me is I want to get rid of the stupid white status bar and make it black........saw the Theme was a black bar, but tried flashing it and didn't work :/

other then that, THIS IS MY ROM v1.5

Thanks tons dude!
[G1 Android Development] docsparks:
Jesus. Can not get wifi to stop sending me into bootloops!

Connecting to a WPA\WPA2 network?

connects fine, stays fine, the second i press a button, reboot!

Now have read pages upon pages. Flashed Arm9crash fix from other thread, still reboots when connected to my wifi.

[SOLVED]

Anyway, without a sim card. I was skipping through the initial setup, and experiencing no reboot. Did all things as far as CM performance settings.

Made a nandroid

Restarted-> Connected to my Wifi. Got reboots.

Restarted-> Put in SIM card, after finished loading, More reboots. Right after 3G Connects.

Wiped all again.

Left SIM card in, Restarted. Got to setup screen, got the 'expected reboot'

Restarted again, got to skip setup still, But no reboot from 3G.

And now no reboot from having Wifi Connected.

So the intial setup of this rom, the SIM card must be there to avoid any reboots from any form of data transfer for some reason.

Again, i still haven't logged into my google account.
[G1 Android Development] DroidDavi:
this rom is great im having a blast
[G1 Android Development] choli0090:
Hi Everyone,

I am also having an issue with Apps2Ext. Followed what was on the OP & did notice after the reboot, that I had 85 megs internal free. I started to do a restore with titanium backup & after my apps restored, I got the "low space error"

A couple of question. To my understanding the ext partition is under \system\sd. Is this still correct? If so, I am not seeing it on my card, even though I have a 1 gig ext partition, in which when I went back to install Cyan 5, it didn't have any issues. The only partition I don't have is a swap partition.

I did use 081110-Cyan Nightly's & also used Firerat's Apps2ext script, before I did a full wipe & installed this rom. The only thing I didn't do was the erase command under fastboot.

By chance, should the sd card memory free section list the "Ext" partition space free in addition to the internal & Sd ?

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] Kristion:
Formatted the card and repartitioned it from the console. After that I've put the card into the card reader on my laptop and copyied v1.5, gapps and the 614mhz mod, flashed them in the same order and the bootloops were gone. I had only one reboot, but nothing serious. Aplying the arm9 fix crash doesn't help, try a fresh install and you'll be fine. Great ROM, I've decided tot stick to this one because it's soooo fast :D. But there is still a little problem, after I reboot the phone all the widgets are gone and the screens have the same widgets from the first install, can smdy help me with this?

LE: having the same problem again, the boot loops started again. I think I'll give up... practically i've made a clean install, could it be a hardware problem? after i've connected to wi-fi started to have problems.
[G1 Android Development] cameron.t90:
after gapps is flashed just delete it through titanium if you have it. along with anyothers you might not want.
[G1 Android Development] Eduardo911:
giving 1.5 a whirl now. has there been any improvement/solution to slow rotation when opening the keyboard?

love the rom so far (totally worth the 3 full wipes in the past week or so haha)
[G1 Android Development] infinitybiff:
Yea, sorry for all the updates and changes. I'm liking this the way it is now and don't have plants for 1.6 for a week or 2.
[G1 Android Development] athakur999:
The ext partition gets mounted under /sd-ext now in newer ROMs. Try going into adb or the terminal and type in "mount" and you should a line that says something like this if it's mounted properly:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext type ext2 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Ok, brightness issue is still persisting. I think I'll do a clean install using Ohsaka's SuperWipe over the weekend and we'll see how it goes then.

Something else I've noticed is that some of my apps (all the free one's excluding GMail, from what I can tell) sometimes disappear from the "Downloads" tab in the Market and then reappear eventually. Is this a Market-related thing, because I recall it also happening with other ROMs?
[G1 Android Development] captaincrook:
Anyone else notice wireless tether causes the phone to heat up really bad?
[G1 Android Development] skippy214:
Did you use some type of back up when reinstalling your apps? ive noticed that same deal when using titanium to put all my apps back, but i know they show up most of the time anyways.

and this issue has been with alot of the froyo's ive flashed.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I think its in the TitBak docs somewhere... Just install (and optionally unisntall) anything from market, and it should cause everything to show up.

Working as designed. :) Same reason an engine heats up really bad if you keep it floored for a long time..
[G1 Android Development] skippy214:
Lol nicely put!
[G1 Android Development] captaincrook:
Just checking. About 15 min of usage it was the hottest the phone has ever been times two. Got a little worried about it and had to check back and make sure its ok. Good to know. ;)
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
and now that one person has likened your phone to a car you feel safe

lol

but yeah, it will get 'hotter' and it will kill battery

just use usb tether.

if its for a game console.. get a proper internet connection , and lay some cable ffs
[G1 Android Development] geekoo:
Is Biffmod 2.1 based off CM6.1 RC? Or the CM6.0 nightly builds? Cyanogen says that CM6.1 has a lot of performance upgrades, so just wondering if BM2.1 has them too.
[G1 Android Development] TopazUser1:
signal problem

the signal on this rom dosnt stay persistant. sometimes itll go to no bars. and mostly itll stay at 2 bars. anyone having the same problem and has found a solution? maybe a different radio works better? any suggestions?
[G1 Android Development] adame09:
Difference

whats the difference with biffmod and cyanogenmod 6 i flashed both but they bothe seem almost the same the only difference i noticed is the themes
[G1 Android Development] XxKOLOHExX:
you can check the second op in this thread and see all the changes :D
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
get a better carrier
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
LMAO!

I was the one who posted the screenshot with the speed test. Even in a big apartment building I get very good reception. Anyone who is getting few bars on their phone, can you tell us what the signal strength is?
[G1 Android Development] ivans13:
Has anyone who tried this tried experimenting with various combinations of jit/swap/compcache?
[G1 Android Development] drbobb:
I gave biffmod a test drive, but found that the home button doesn't work, no matter whether using stock launcher or ADW. Which annoyed the hell out of me.
[G1 Android Development] FHL09:
Thanks Team

Hey Team BiffMod!

I just want to thank you for making a dwang of 2.2 if you understand what that means.

It works great on my Magic & is the fastest & most stable I have used & I tested many ROMS on my magic, trust me this is the best in my views, keep up the great work.
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
That may be due to a bad wipe beforehand. I had things like this happening to me too, and it turned out that I wasn't wiping properly before flashing. Follow the instructions in the OP to the letter and maybe try Ohsaka's SuperWipe.
[G1 Android Development] drbobb:
Well I did wipe all from fastboot, like I always do when switching ROMs. So I guess some crap on my SD card's fat partition must be to blame, else I have no idea.
[G1 Android Development] :
Did you double wipe? Check my links in sig for complete wiping guide. It seems to be very rarely mentioned these days but its so important to wipe twice, this is due to some files being persistant and only loose functionality and not removed properly.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
The SuperWipe flash low-level formats the partitions from Recovery mode while the partitions are not mounted.

If you want to test it, do this:

-Boot Recovery

-From console, run "mount -a" and then "du" (du is disk usage)

-Flash SuperWipe (dont forget to reboot back into recovery)

-From console, run "mount -a" and then "du"

You will see all the partitions are EMPTY...
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
its a bug somewhere in settings

do a full wipe and titanium restore things one by one if you want to find out which bit it is

or wipe data and manually restore a known working data, use clockworks advanced restore or after wiping data, on command line if you using RA

mount /data
cd /data
rm * -r
unyaffs /sdcard/<full path to your 'working' nand>/data.img
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
works best if you wait for a full moon and do it naked, after eating 6 pancakes
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
In Titanium Backup, after you click "restore all missing apps" and it shows you the list, there is a radio button that you select "apps only" as opposed to "apps + data"...

It's a PITA because you have reset everything in the apps, but you don't have to do it like that every time.... Try it once, if "problem/bug" goes away then you can decide to spend the time to set up all apps again. Then force another full backup in TitBak of all apps. Ta Da. :)
[G1 Android Development] androgiallo:
the 2.1 version works great on my g1....great work...can't wait for 2.2 version of the rom!!!! :D
[G1 Android Development] austriker27:
So I flashed to this and it seems very nice. Stable, fast, and we shall see about the breaking factor for me: battery life...

Also I have am issues with gmail. It won't open. It persistenatly force closes. Also I restored my other mail app, maildroid using titanium backup and it wont open either. Each time both FC when I open them.

I also restored a widget using titanium but it wont show up under widgets when I try to put in on the home screen.. I have installed it from the backup numerous times..

I was thinking the widget and maildroid problems might be a result of the restore via titanium- anyone know??

TO install gmail I used the gapps link from the OP. Is there a newer version of gapps that I can flash?? or should I just reflash the gapps?
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I would wager that 90% of problems people have is due to Titanium Backup restoring data... 9% due to hardward problems...

Try wiping and reinstall. Then test Gmail first thing, before any restoring of your apps from TitBak.
[G1 Android Development] nakeman:
Thanks Ohsaka.

it would be nice if this warning is also included in the OP :P
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
It's just my intuition. I have never taken the time to do any specific experimentation to prove it...
[G1 Android Development] MemeHime:
tried that as well but still when i press input method, nothing comes up. and even when i disable the android keyboard but enable the htc_ime mod keyboard, nothing comes up.
[G1 Android Development] Zico 10:
There are so many apps that don't need the data restored with it, so if you take a few minutes and restore all of them with "app only" in Titanium back-up and then go through the rest one at a time (I do them when I feel I need to use them), then you can avoid most problems that come with installing a ROM.

I did a blind restore for the first time in a while with this version of Biffmod and I found that my battery was dying within 7-8 hours with minimal use. I did a full wipe then restored apps how I normally do and things are perfect again :)
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Thats +1 for the "restore 'app only' from Titanium Backup" theory...
[G1 Android Development] nakeman:
I found the Gtalk is a little bit lag and slow.. just wondering is it related to this issue... ( am i the only one got a lag Gtalk? :confused:)
[G1 Android Development] puppetcarl:
lol

isn't that normal?
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
I meant to comment on this sooner... so you actually have +2... I never restore the system data, and I only back up the user apps. For me, that's about 90 or so.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
I like being able to restore most of my system settings, but since I haven't seen any issues, I will continue restoring everything for ease of use.
[G1 Android Development] TL@:
Flashed this ROM on thursday, works like a treat. Really great ROM (came from 2.0.1)

Restored all my apps with their data but didn't restore system data (except the Bleutooth pairings)

In 2.0.1 had 30% battery life at the end of the day, now I have between 60 en 70% left at the end of the day (1600mAh battery from eBay) so I'm really happy with it.

It also has less lagg when returning to the home screen, best ROM ever (tried almost all of them which are availible for the G1)

It still disconnects the BT sometimes, but not as much as with 2.0.1.
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
1. Are you installing it as a program or just pushing it to system?

2. You have allow install of non market apps checked right?

3. You're using low res for froyo right?
[G1 Android Development] :
I agree. I seem to have a lot of problems with this. Its generally OK, though, if data was from same ROM. If I backup data from like a Donut ROM then move to a Froyo ROM, there does seem to be some issues. Mainly FCs.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I also do that. The thing is, when you are coming from a donut ROM for instance, or any setup that is significantly different, then I think the 'restore everything' from Titanium can cause problems.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
On Point!!

+1 for me also. Although some DATA is nessasary like game saves and notes and such, most apps are easily restored by app-only then logging in.

One thing I noticed is Facebook, Skype, T-Mobile Social and things of that nature that require sync, it's less buggy if I restore just the app then go into Settings>Accounts & sync and Log into each one separately, allowing each to sync before logging into the next as opposed to restoring app+data which freezes up the phone and causes loss of data, FC's and reboots.

On another note, can i just say, I am extremely pleased with this latest BiffMod paired with this "2708-enabled custom kernel". My phone is DOMINATING!! (voice from Wolfenstein Enemy Territory)

I have tried many FroYo ROMs lately just before flashing this latest v2.1 and none even come close to the performance of this. I have no FC's. No reboots. No freezes. My phone is super fast. And i have tons of memory & space with 164 apps installed and counting.

BiffMOD Squad is on point!! Mega props to you all!!

Also, Mega props to you Ohsaka for all that you do but especially that "SuperWipe"! That is OutStanding!
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Actually, i just got back from Florida. Drove down and back. Noticed at some points I had H, 3G, 2G and even G. So, I was guessing H was like 4G. But, i never looked into it.
[G1 Android Development] ivans13:
Disappearing droidx keyboard

Hi, I installed droidx white keyboard on BiffMod 2.1 and it works great. Later I installed new radio drivers and 2708 kernel. And now... my droidx keyboard disappears after rebooting. It is there the first time after flashing it in recovery, but the next reboot and it is gone.

Any ideas? Thanks! :)

Edit: If your droidx keyboard disappears after each restart this is how to fix it. After it is gone you will only have the default androdi keyboard. Uninstall it using TitaniumBackup (it is a system app), and then reboot into recovery and flash droidx keyboard again, it should now stop disappering... at least it did for me. :)
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Technically it could indicate 3G, 3.5G, or 4G speeds. There really isnt a set standard that the providers have to follow, so forget about truth in advertising. :)

If you go into Settings -> About Phone -> Status and look at "Mobile Network Type" it can be: ( for T-Mobile network)

UMTS = 3g (2Mpbs?)

HSDPA = 3.5g (14Mbps in theory)

HSPA+ = 4g (42Mbps in theory)

I'm in the major metro area of Houston, TX and I get constant "H" but only HSDPA, no HSPA+. If I run the Speedtest.net app a few times in a row, I will average out to around just below 2Mbps. So basically its 3G for me...