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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
That setting used to be discussed often back in the 2.1 leak days. People used to recommend GSM Auto (PRL), but tbh I've used the default setting of WCDMA preferred for ages without issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Actually I think you're one of the majority, not the lucky ones. it's the unlucky ones who are having those issues - the quiet ones are satisfied, and many loud satisfied customers seem to exist (such as myself heh heh).

ondemand = better battery life than interactive? that's odd and illogical, but whatever works for you is what matters :-)

the 4636 thing is WELL discussed on xda - search the entire forum, not just this thread, for lots of legacy information about it.

guys, is it gsm-auto that used to be considered the best way to increase battery life with a data connection? if I'm right then try that mode.

however where I live, BC Canada, anything other than wcdma preferred ends up with too many dead areas without connectivity unless I allow roaming (at what I can only assume would be insane costs to me).

So I seem to have no useful options other than default. but in the past there have been many who have claimed a big improvement with other modes and there are even I think dedicated threads documenting the percentage of battery use with each method (using rather unscientific testing methods, but still it's a useful guideline).

search away, hope you find what you're looking for :-)

edit: of course pulser may well be correct that the gsm-auto thing etc is sort of old news now and maybe no longer true in 2.2 (or with our more up to date knowledge).

doens't hurt to try though right? have fun...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] neoski:
Cool rom. I was using today built-in music player. Somebody called me - couldn't pick up. Then vibrations keept on vibrating :). Then I couldn't unlock phone. After few tracks phone just gone shutdown. Really stable and fast! Greets!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
imho, and consistent with all these reports of issues with the stock player, I highly recommend a far superior third party music player. free versions of mixzing, meridian, and my personal recommendation MortPlayer (free app with separate download for it's accompanying free widgets).

far less cpu use, no wakeup issues, better UI by far, more features, blah blah blah.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
That's interesting, what's the technical difference between the two? I made the decision to switch to On Demand purely on the totally unscientific basis that when I watched current CPU speed it seemed to spend less time at the top end when in On Demand mode. Then again I only watched for a couple minutes, and to be honest I'm probably not spending as much time playing with the phone now as I was when I first installed the ROM, so like I said, totally unscientific. :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
well they should be relatively similar in the end result (where you noted a big improvement with ondemand) (edit: I should note that I feel I Get better battery life from interactive but I've only used it in froyd roms so far so can't say for sure, I also know more now than I used to about how to increase my battery life.... so it's not a scientifically tested result I'm seeing). interactive switches speeds WAY faster than does ondemand, and how it goes about deciding what speed to run at is completely different (hacre can elaborate or it's likely well described in this or another thread, better than I can do here).

the end result though is as I noted, it's a much faster switcher and logically speaking more likely to switch at intelligent times compared to other governors in a mobile android environment.

so while it'll pop up to high speed just like that (using mroe battery), it'll also pop down to low speed just like that too.

when I cared enough to study the logic of them both, it made more sense. battery life should, technically, be improved with it over ondemand, if not by a huge margin.

but as noted, who cares, do what works for you :-)

ondemand is perfectly functional. it does pretty well in older roms too.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Thanks for the explanation. I'll give Interactive another unscientific try and see if I notice a difference.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
heh heh :-)

if you find ondemand better than something in your usage habits or choice of apps may simply work better with it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] decal wren:
First of all, thanks for all of your work - this is a great ROM. Very fast and responsive, everything has been working better than any other ROM I have ever used with the following exceptions:

I remember reading somewhere in this thread that others were experiencing a lack of responsiveness in the notification bar, did we find a setting or anything else to fix this or is it still a bug to be fixed in the next release?

The other problem I am having is the speed in which the battery is going when I am listening to music(using headphones obviously) in comparison to stock, is anyone else experiencing this, I will try and find some time to do a proper test to prove that I am not just imagining this.

On a side not, when the phone is on standby and I have not been listening to music the battery life seems to be fantastic (80% with light usage after 10 hours when using juicedefender), I am using setCPU interactive 352/176 for screen off and interactive 576/122 for normal.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bigviv:
cool, will give all that a go

i thought after calibration things would be better, but nope!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
which audio player are you using? and yes, music does use lots of cpu even in background in froyo. I didn't use it that way in 2.1 or older roms really though so can't say about the comparison. my cpu goes down 6 to 8 percent every hour when listening to music using an efficient app like mortplayer and not using anything cpu-eating such as dspmanager. using the stock player I found more like 12-15% per hour of cpu usage in the background, although I didn't do any really scientific comparisons.

So maybe try mortplayer or mixzing or similar. I prefer mortplayer to all the other free offerings currently. I'm pretty picky about music players - my 2nd job is as a professional musician and recording engineer/producer. So at the very least I expect stability, as good sound as possible within the limitations of each codec, a really easy to navigate and fully featured user interface, and nothing crazy to do to start listening to my music how I want.

So mortplayer just plays my /sdcard/Music/ folder structure perfectly without any silly playlists etc which are completely superfluous imho. and it's UI (and widget UI) are dramatically superior to the standard UI designs such as mixzing/meridian/stock (which are all vaguely similar to me on the surface, although mixzing has lots of nice goodies like an EQ and meridian may actually have the most powerful playback engine on android, video too, with tons of codecs... but imho at the expense of some nice user interface features and it just always gives me the impression of being a little heavier in resource use than mort or even mixzing... that's just my subjective impression though and it's a great player also - mort is best for someone like me though).

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kieranc:
Hmm. I've been using 1.4 for ages at 729MHz with no issues. Upgraded to 1.5 without a wipe and had a random reboot. Did a full wipe and reflash. Had another random reboot after a call so I downgraded to a 691 kernel. It's just rebooted again despite this while I was using adb. I'll try a slower kernel still but I dunno if it'll help...

Attached is my last_kmsg.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sizanx:
Hey,

Really nice and fast ROM. However I got me a couple of issues:

1. Most of times when wanting to go from standby to lockscreen I have to press like 4-5 times before the screen turns on.

2. The most annoying problem is that it randomly boots, I havn't found a pattern yet.

Tried to change CPUSpeed with SetCPU and set the screen off to 255-365 something. I have wiped everything, flashed it twice, I am using the 652mhz kernel.

One more thing, it's more related to the stock Phone app, I can't get it to sync all of my contacts to facebook even though the names perfectly match... Any ideas?

Btw it could be cool if it was possible to make a link button like in HTC Sense to manually link them - proberly not an important task at the moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Try using interactive governor or ondemand governor in sleep?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] walkinhotdog:
How do you change it so that its trackball notifications for everything except charging? Any way other than the adb thing (i dont know how to do it)? Maybe replace files within the rom zip file? Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Justinas:
i found that disabling Juice Defender solved the lack of responsiveness of notification bar... But without enabled Juice Defender battery time sucks...I am using this rom for a week, have configured it well and have no reboots in last days, but battery... And I would like to mention, that I am not hardcore user, just sms, some gps (30min/day) and wifi(most) or 2g online all day.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gynjanynja:
Just upgraded from 691mhz to 729 and the rom is amazingly responsive and fast. I love the twlauncher but 4 me there is not enough customisation 2 use at the moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] decal wren:
You were right. It was juice defender causing my notification bar lag. Odd really as nothing else appears to lag.

Will try another media player and see if this improves things... I take it that it is a general froyo fault then in comparison to stock sense 2.1 player.

Final point. Using zeam... really impressed with speed and stability. Is more basic than adw but loving the swipe actions. I have down as phone and up as app list.

Thanks for all your replies.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
Hmm...just had a strange issue. I was out walking the dog. His name is Busa and he is a Shepherd Husky Cross.....but I digress. I was listening to music, cuz me and the dog have nothing to talk about, when I wanted to turn the volume down (ok...up actually...to hell with my hearing). The volume buttons were unresponsive, so I took my phone out of my pocket and found that all of the buttons were unresponsive, as was the touchscreen (which was off). My phone was essentially dead, and yet the music continued to play on. I was forced to pull the battery to reboot. I'm running stock kernel. Music player was Mixzing. Anyone else have this issue?

This leads me to wonder if other times when my phone seemed to be dead and required a battery pull was there stuff actually continuing to run in the background. I'll end as I started. Hmm...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Hmmmm. Send busa my regards first of all. :) What minimum CPU speed are you using, as often this is set slightly too low, causing the phone to have trouble waking.

Failing that, try changing sleep governor to on demand or interactive, and see if that helps
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] |Shifty|:
Link Facebook

Does anyone know how to manually link one of your contacts with a facebook profile on this ROM?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
edit contact, press menu, join
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Neo Cortex:
I used SyncMyPix from the market
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] |Shifty|:
Thanks guys!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] OneTwoPi:
I had this once while driving. Someone called I tried to answer with the button thingy on the earphone cable. They already hung up, music started playing, phone was unresponsive as you digressed. Had to pull the battery...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sizanx:
Yeah it worked :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Izzien:
Any way to fix imagewarp in landscape mode?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
It's a known issue with gallery in general on hero. I don't have the issue much, but really you're best just to use a third party gallery app.

Thought so :) Glad you got it going.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jamiehuckerby:
Thanks!

Been a follower of the Villain teamm for a while now and have used a number of the ROM's released by them.

Using FroydVillain currently for a few weeks now and am very happy and impressed with this version. No problems other than GPS (fixed very quickly and easily following help in this thread), and also a couple of problems from LauncherPRO (obviously not a Villian problem), but other than that. Great!

This has given a new lease of life to my Hero, so thanks very much for all your hard work. Will be donating to the Villian team very soon, as i do recommend to everyone who is happy with the work these people put in.

Thanks again and please keep up the great work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alioooop:
been a while since last update, whats happening? :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mehumummo:
I think it doesn't detect that my ear is on screen since it keeps putting calls on hold if I keep my phone too close to my head ;D

(Not rly that funny when it happens during some serious business :rolleyes:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
The hero lacks the hardware to do this. Only the Droid Eris in the hero family has the proximity sensor
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mehumummo:
I never had any ear problems on 2.1

I always tought that hero is able to detect ears.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
Are you sure?

Oh and the gps issue, I dont know how relevant this will be but I found it while searching the net http://tutorial.downloadatoz.com/how-to-fix-android-gps-issue-including-samsung-galaxy-s.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
maybe because 2.1's call screen hold button is not on top left corner?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robbo990:
In Call Settings - I changed to - Left Handed Use - and it moved the Hold button to the Top Right corner of the screen - and I don't tend to knock it there
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rd-Target:
Or else just download the application 'Proximity sensor'

It'll do the trick on the Hero using the light sensor.

Works like a charm
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Plus one on trying out that app :) IIRC it's quite good, though I don't really have the hold issue.

As for GPS, it is fixed AFAIK, so other than upgrading radio, it should work out the box with 1.5. If not, by all means try what was suggested above, but I don't know if said menu exists on hero...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
can somebody please check their battery usage page please and list the top 3/5 things that have used the battery up. Also would be nice to know the 'usage time' it tells you when you click on one of the processes.

I was convinced that the display started taking up way more battery since i started using some of the Froyo ROMS, so I went back to a 2.1 ROM.

My battery status at the moment is 21h 46m since unplugged. 52% battery left. My top 4 battery use are:

Cell Standby 32%: Time on 21h 46m

Display 30%: time on 52m

Phone Idle 19%: 20h 53m

Voice calls 16%: 8m

Would be nice to compare. Not sure whether Froyo ROMS use more on display (which would make very little sense to me). or whether 2.1 ROMS use more on cell standby etc.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] unforgiven1988:
i was using froydvillain 1.4 and it worked fine.. 1.5 works even better(good work guys!!)... but i had just 1 problem..i wiped,flashed the rom, flashed the kernel and it all went fine.. after a random freeze (happened while setting the launcherpro dock shortcuts) i had to remove the battery(the screen was on, but the phone was unresponsive at all)..and after a reboot the clock on the notification bar and all of the notifications turned off (or turned white?!).. i mean, for example, when i download something, the notification icon and progress appear, but not the writings (name of download,%...).

i did a full wipe and it worked like a charm.. until it freezed again and after removing the battery to reboot, the same **** happened again...

i'm using 63.18.55.06OH_6.35.15.01 baseband, kernel@691 with boot animation.

has anyone had this issue too? now i'm wiping again, hoping that this won't happen for the third time.. (i hate to reset all of the shortcuts and widgets every time :-P)

any suggestion?

edit: i managed to fix the clock by unchecking and rechecking the "show clock" in the "CyanogenMod->User Interface->Status bar", but the notification are still icon only...

i just noticed that CpuSpeed is set to 123-691 interactive, with "enable CPU Settings" unchecked (never touched it..kept as default..should i change it to 176(or more)-619 conservative?)

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robbo990:
AFAIK - I have the CPU Settings Box ticked - and if your experiencing freezing or lag - you should set the minimum to 352Mhz as some people have an issue with waking at 123Mhz
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] liljom:
When will you release something new?

I'm craving for flashing something. I started to flash the Cronos Froyo 1.2.0

I can't wait the new version, Froyd 1.5 is so wow : )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] garywongwm:
I have the same random freeze when I picked the 123-691 kernal. I can feel the phone is quite "warm" after just about 10 minutes of usage. So, the freeze may because of overheat. So, I update the Froyd to 123-652 kernal, and it works perfectly with similar speed, that is the speed I use since Froyd 1.1x. May be the high heat cause recalcuation and freeze. Now it is still "just" warm but so far everything is great! Thanks for the team, to make my hero getting a new live after using Froyd.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
fwiw it's not just gallery that has that issues, so does the game joyland bounce. the game has a workaround I found by setting it's options to run the game in portrait mode instead of landscape since it's when it autorotates it's own screen to landscape that the exact same corruption occurs. So there's something a little off somewhere in the rotation rendering code in froyo on the hero still.

But so far I've only seen it in those two apps, with a workaround for the game and the knowledge that gallery3d is a pos that I avoid whenever possible.

End result - completely happiness :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
he's sure. he's on the villainrom development team. just look at the number of posts.

there is no "ear" or proximity sensor in most smart phones... stupid but true. the workaround in 2.1 was to automatically turn off the screen during calls or lock the screen during calls or somethign like that. that's true in froyo I know for a fact but imho that feature is somewhat broken in this rom for some reason. I see the double-tap to unlock image in the middle of my screen sometimes when talking on the phone, but it doesn't actually work - the buttons are all still responsive.

I'm having deja vu - I know I typed this a while back. there used to be a really cool double-tap to unlock feature in froyo on teh hero but somehow it's gotten borked in recent weeks.

Something for the devs to work on in the future...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kieranc:
FWIW, I've had no reboots since going down to 650MHz kernel. 729 was PERFECTLY stable on 1.4. I guess that says good things about how fast it's pushing the hardware now!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
also note, after using tons of roms for months on my hero and understanding clock speeds, overclocking and understanding my hero's limits very well (it can easily handle 691 and up to 710 without issues), I've finally gone down to the stock kernel speed of 576MHz. it's still just as fast as at 691 for gaming so there really isn't any reason to use a faster kernel. the JIT and dalvik stuff Hacre did for froyd 1.5 makes severe overclocking completely unnecessary imho.

And battery life is a little bit improved with a lower top clock speed, always a nice thing on a hero.

If you run anything that actually runs better at higher speed, try it at different clock speeds with froyd 1.5

I see no real difference even in a game like NFS shift which is JUST barely fast enough to be a fun playign experience while still having a slowish framerate. it runs pretty much the same way at 576 as it does at 691. and raging thunder 2i s just as buttery smooth at 576 as at 691, where on most other roms it struggles. so why bother with a higher clock speed just to shorten the life of my phone, have a hotter phone, and eat more battery?

there's zero reason to overclock over the default kernel imho. I used to be a huge overclocker, but things are so different running froyd 1.5 now, there just isn't any speed increase that I can notice at 691, 651, or even 729 which I've played with. I mean, it could be maybe 1 or 2 fps faster, but you don't notice that at all.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darthrevan:
reinstalled with full wipe.

Found where to enable vibrate for sms:) It was somewhere in sms app settings, I think. No random reboot. No more rotating bug with gallery 3d. But still I think there is something with memory:(

After a day with only task manager, settings, startup cleaner, messaging and fbreader running I have only 80 MB of free memory. There are no more apps running(at least task manager shows no more) and just a few of services. After reboot with the same apps I have around 110-120 MB.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] angerfist2009:
Is there any program can download that will backup all your sms messages but only restore certain ones??

The sms programs for deleting messages are useless and since i updated to this rom and updated handcent i cant delete messages from handcent or the stock message app.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cenata:
Hello there,

Can anyone tell me if there is a kernel that supprots the default 528MHz or something arround. For better or for worse I want to run at stock speed :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
Hmm, ya know I was bloody sure I read somewhere about it. Most likely I was reading about the light sensor in that case lol
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cupofmilk:
after i end a voice call, while using a BT headset, it restarts my phone :confused::confused::confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stupiduglyllama:
Hi guys

Been using the ROM for about a week and a half, its pretty darn good, the battery life (for my phone anyway) has improved a significant amount from VR12. And its a heck of a lot faster doing some things (especially restoring SMS messages, 2.1 ROMs took FOREVER, whereas this takes an awful lot less).

The only issue I seem to be having is that the browser just decides to close whenever it feels like it. But I don't think its the browser itself, because I've tried using Dolphin and it does exactly the same thing. I was using the 691 Mhz kernel because that was what I've been using before. I switched down the 652Mhz kernel to see if that would make a difference, but doesn't appear to have done. It did fix a minor problem where the Market wasn't showing my downloaded applications however... Everything else seems to run as expected.

Cheers.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Hmm. Are you using autokiller with a higher than normal preset? (or equivalent)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stupiduglyllama:
I've been using autokiller on Moderate, but then I've tried turning autokiller off and it doesnt make a difference..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Strange... I'm almost certain this is your issue. There is no need for a task killer on this rom, so try totally removing it after resetting to default settings. That should then fix it after a reboot.