yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] willu:
HTC IME colours

The new colour scheme is a bit ugly, so I flashed the vanilla theme, but that doesn't switch the HTC keyboard back. So then I tried to install the vanilla HTC keyboard and got force closes. Here is what I did to make it work in one place so others searching for this can find it.

long press on a text field on your phone and switch keyboards to the default android keyboard

Download the "Low resolution version for Android 1.5" of the HTC IME from xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624416.

unzip that on your computer.

# connect your usb cable and then from your computer

adb remount # allows you to write to the main phone paritition

adb shell # connect to the phone

cd /system/app

ls # look at all the standard installed apps

rm HTC_IME_themed.apk # that name from memory - check the ls output

# rm any other 'system' apps you want to remove

exit # closes the adb shell

adb push HTC_IME_lo15.apk /system/app/ # push the unthemed HTC IME

reboot your phone into recovery mode and wipe the Dalvik cache # not sure if this is needed, but something was weird and this was one of a few things I tried

long press on a text field and turn on the HTC_IME.

Hope that helps someone else. (The important bits are the location of the installed apps, and the version of the vanilla HTC_IME you need put there)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] willu:
AAC files no longer play

I have one issue with this rom: AAC files no longer seem to play. :(

I have a ringtone I like that is an AAC file. I used to be able to select it as a ringtone. I can still select it, but it makes no sound anymore. I can't play it in the music app any more. And my file browser can't find an app to open it any more.

Any way to get this back?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JimmYDice:
I am using "FxCamera" from Market and you can enable there the geotagging option. In the original camera I didn't find the option too...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
I suggest not using it. I find mine runs flawlessly when I'm not using it.:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
Where do you go to enable geotagging? I can't find it anywhere.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] merlin699:
for me it works with this one:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] radine:
WMA Support

Hi Hacre

Just upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.5 and noticed that somewhere along the line you took out wma support.

Any chance of getting it back please?

cheers

paul
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Same here. Never had need to geotag, but that seems fine here
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FreXxX:
Heh, great Idea! Just to clarify: Only when I'm doing things, and the screen is on.

But hey, SetCPU maybe did the trick, i did not yet have any reboots. Maybe I will report on Monday again. Thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
I am pretty certain you will not have the issue using SetCPU ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] muppetofdoom:
Video playback

Hi, great rom but am i the only one who can't play my mp4 video's any more :( jumping and stuttering, any help out there for me ? cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gynjanynja:
Hi guys just a quick recommendation the rom seems much smoother on adw launcher and is butiful with Samsung galaxy s theme. And bare in mind all the memory hogging widgets I have as well (2 pure Calender widgets and multiple beautiful widgets). ADW FTW.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
Yeh I quite like the flow menu, similar to itunes but vertical. Only issue I have is that if I select a new song it queues it rather than play but think that might be my settings
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dcmedia:
Phone.apk

Hi,

i use dialer one and it works very well. Can i delete the original phone.apk without problems?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Do not remove it. It is essential for calls to work, so it will not function without the apk.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] umbrella42:
OMG! Geotagging is working excellent now! :D

Thanks a lot! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
A few questions about launchers. I am currently using Zeam and think I'm going to stick with that one. I also have ADW.Launcher and LauncherPro installed. I am given the choice of launchers when I start the phone.

If I click the use as default button when selecting Zeam will either of the other two run in the background?

Can I remove the other two launchers and if so, how do I do it?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
If they are on the system partition, remove the apks using a file manager that supports root, otherwise uninstall them normally. LP is in system by default afaik.

As for if they run in the background, probably not, though check using a task manager.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] asad510:
Next update is ??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
Thanks for the help. I'm still not sure what to do. I tried using Astro File manager but it didn't work. Is there a way to do it using Terminal?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
try with titanium
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lambstone:
Titanium is unable to uninstall LauncherPro
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ziggy1001:
I had that install a second launcher then un-install the one you don't want with Titanium
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mpdpsycho:
Hello,

I use the froydvillain 1.5 from 1 week and this is very horrible, the rom become very very slow, so slow that I can't receive phone call, and this happens just after the boot of the phone and even if I kill all the apps, or if it works after the boot when I want to use it at the end of the day I have to reboot it because it becomes very slow and at the end it's impossible to just listen music and surf on the web...:(

So everybody say that is a good and speed rom so do you have any idea about my problem?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Use a lower overclock, by flashing slower kernel. Change minimum CPU speed to be higher. Use ondemand governor in sleep, interactive in normal mode.

That should fix it. :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] matti537:
Call forwarding

ROM is very nice, except for the launcher getting stuck every now and then I'm very happy with the ROM.

One think though, before I installed this ROM I used call forwarding to another number in order not to be off line during the roming. However, now after FroydVillian is installed and working and the call forwarding is disabled, every time I restart the phone the icon of call forwarding appears in the notification bar although the call forwarding is actually not enabled. When going in the menu to the call forwarding section and the phone does the status check, the icon will disappear again.

Probably a forgotten bit in the configuration or something like that.

Thanks for the great work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ducamie:
any idea on how to get a theme like this running on this rom?

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/bugless/78385-theme-pack-get-your-theme.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Try updating the launcher via the market (it's Launcher Pro), since we don't develop it.

As for forwarding, I use Hullomail, and it's working fine here on T-Mobile UK. What network are you on, since forwarding is a network-side setting.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
Never had any issues with the widgets at all nor disappearing displays, must have been your phone there dude.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] matti537:
I actually meant call forwarding, but that is also network related ;)

Using the Orange network...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erdidier:
I have a camera problem

Sometimes if I want to take a picture,the camera is always stuck and requesting to force close
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Umm. My voicemail is using call forwarding :)

Forward when unreachable is the only one I use for now, but I could also enable forward when busy or forward always.

Hullomail uses forwarding to pass your call on to its systems. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mainstreamer:
Anyone knows how to resolve the battery drainage?

The rom is superior to others, but sometimes it goes down 10% in a couple min.

Any fix?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Have you followed the instructions given to everyone else who asks this question? Also, what are you settings/config?

1) Use the stock (no overclock) kernel, since OC is pretty much redundant on a ROM as fast as this on stock speeds.

2) Set your minimum sleep speed to be slightly higher, and set sleep governor to ondemand.

3) If you still have issues, change the main governor to ondemand.

4) Have you tried using SetCPU instead of CPUSpeed?

5) Have you tried flykernel instead of nindroid (some people say it helps, others think it's no difference)?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Iamhero123:
Firstly, ta for the Rom, it's the fastest stable one I've used, and the best looking too.

Only niggles is that it doesn't vibrate on silent mode, I have it set to always vibrate in settings but it doesn't, any ideas why? and the trackball doesn't flash when I get new SMS's.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
If you figure out how to do this (uninstalling default launcher), please post your methodology. I've also switched over to Zeam, and am thinking that I can get rid of LP to free up some space.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
titanium works for me
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
As far as I know you cant remove LauncherPro with Titanium.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
then why does it ACTUALLY WORKS for me? did you even try?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
For vibration in silent mode, you gotta check your notification settings: Menu->Settings->Sound->Select "Always" for Vibrate under General.

This ROM is made in the way that the trackball only glows for missed calls/market updates/etc. SMS notifications are through LED only.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] punkmonkey1984:
Trackball messed up

Ok my trackball keeps lighting up flashing on its on at random times, and cant see, no way to stop it apart from text a message to myself that seems to cancel it out,

Yes iv searched the fourm, and iv updated my market apps, yes all of them, read my messages that were unread, and checked my emails for any new ones, it really starting to annoy me, is there a way to disable the trackball light altogether

Any idea's guy's and girls
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
Yes I tried. "Can't remove system app." ARE YOU SURE IT ACTUALLY WORKED FOR YOU? See, I can be an ass too.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
it is actually gone for me so i don't know wat's your problem.:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Try clearing your Market cache and check for apps that might need updating but isn't showing up. The Market is funky nowadays. Menu->Settings->Applications->Manage Applications->All tab->search for Market->clear data
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dilema:
also, i remember ninpo saying something about usb debugging causing this too...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] adicken:
Download link is down. Anyone any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dcmedia:
thanks, but when i take a call from my contaclist i must close afterwards the contactlist from the phone.apk and then from the dialer one app. That's annoying a little bit.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kams19:
Hi VillainRom Team,

I had installed your latestFroydVillain 1.5.0 ROM. The ROM is really good and smooth. I am on 3 UK mobile network and use skype on my htc hero very frequently. when i tried to install and sign in for the first time on your ROM, it doesnt sign in but force closes.

The version of skype is latest 10.0.12 which my wife is using on her htc desire (upgraded to official Froyo)

Please can you let me know if i need to do something different to use Skype app on your Rom.

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stooby:
Strange....I'm using this ROM on 3UK with the same version of Skype and it's working perfectly!

I didn't have to do anything to make this work, I just installed it and it worked.

Is your data connection working ok? (APN's etc.)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] withoutwings:
If you have a titanium backup made of your Skype settings from when it last worked (and automatically signed in), try restoring that backup. This worked for me on 10.0.0.8 but should work for you too.

Sent from my HTC Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] moonroy:
Gaaaah!!! After reformatting the card and partitioning from the recovery mode, it was working until today. All of a sudden the phone complained that the card was full. I had a couple of gigs available so I wanted to check out what was wrong. Connected the phone to the computer and it rebooted! When it had finished booting, the card was damaged! This time, I could not access anything even from the recovery mode... Had to partition and format it AGAIN!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FreXxX:
Sadly, yesterday again I had a totally random reboot. But it is much better now. Let's see, this was the 614Mhz kernel, so I think I should go back to 576...

Is there any way we will get a kernel with more options of Mhz, so that I could limit a even faster kernel to a lover Mhz without flashing a new one? Think this would be very nice.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jacky51:
Sync PC

I have no problem aside this ROM can be the life of the

battery. Small question anyone knows the best way or software

to synchronize contacts and others with a Windows PC?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
If you fully remove CPUSpeed and use SetCPU, it should solve the issue. But we can't add more speeds to the kernels, as that would significantly reduce the battery life due to the number of speed transitions that would be needed to go from low to high speed. Hence you need to flash a kernel for speed changes.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dcmedia:
Bluetooth carkit

Hi,

with this rom i can connect the phone with my carkit and i can call with it, but when incoming a call, the ringtone is audible only from the phone and not from the carkit. With other 2.1 roms and older i heard the ringtone only over the carkit.

Is there a solution?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MarkMcLovin:
Does anyone know what these are in the battery history?

UID 10060

0

1010

And why Dialler is sending/receiving quite a bit of data?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Fess2Fess:
Hi all,

I use this rom since its very first day and I love it. That said, I had some issues using it which are gone now (I hope, but It seems good) :D

My problem was when the phone woke up.

After I unlocked the phone, It was freezing. I had to lock it again and woke up again (3-4 times sometime) to become it usable.

I though It was my launcher (adw) so I tried LauncherPro then zeam... same behaviour.

According to this thread I tried to replace CPUspeed by setCPU(2.02 and 2.03). No more luck.

So I also removed setCPU after erasing data and forcing close in app manager, and now all is working perfectly well :D :D

Wanted to share my experience, maybe it can help someone.

However, I would like to know, what is the frequency when the phone is asleep?

Is there a way to find out?

Thx in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dekamano:
Hey,

been using froydvillain since 1.3, never had any problems until now :). When i'm listening to music, then after like 10mins into it, the music starts lagging/slows down 50% or something.

Any ideas?

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] punkmonkey1984:
Thanks ill try that and see how it goes, im thinking it might be USB debugging also (maybe) :confused: :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
set yr screen off frequency to 352mhz, it should solve yr problems. to see the frequency when the phone is asleep, i think u need to use ADB but i don't know the specific commands.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
Hi,

Just switched to this ROM, loving it so far :) Now i need to restore all my apps, contacts, messages etc! Was just wondering if it had apps2sd working like in villainROM12? do i need to create a partition again like this?

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/vBwiki/index.php?title=Apps2SD

Had a search through the thread but couldnt find a difinitve answer. Your help is greatly appreciated :D

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
I'll add another bit of info about my experience with the flashing trackball, don't know that this will actually be helpful or not. I have no data plan for this phone. I also have all mobile data set to OFF. However, I often get this message in the notification area saying "You have lost data connectivity because..." and then the rest of the message is cut off, can't read it. Anyways, this is no fault of the ROM, as I had the same issue in the stock 2.1 ROM. However, with the 2.1 ROM this noticifation did not cause the trackball to flash, whereas FroydVillain does cause the trackball to flash.

This is probably all useless information, but just thought I'd share it anyways. :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marka2k:
Yes it does.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
I had the same issue with the msg being cut off with the original 1.5. Just curious...why would you buy a smart phone but not have a data plan?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
this rom is quite trigger happy with regards to the trackball flashing. it also flashes on mine without any apparent rhyme or reason. some people say it's because of market updates but not everyone likes to update ALL of their apps to the latest versions so there's bound to be pending updates in the market. only good thing about it is the flashing does eventually stop, else i think it would drain the batt quite a bit if it flashed non stop 24 hrs a day, and not to mention irritating the hell out of me if it did.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lukesky:
is your screen off when u're at the 10 min mark? if yes, what's your screen off cpu frequency?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] -rev-:
Upgraded to this ROM yesterday and really liking it so far. The only real issues I'm seeing at the moment are the photo gallery rotate issue which is well known and that it can be slow to pick up on installed apps/widgets when I go to add one to the home screen. After long pressing the home screen and choosing to add an app/widget, it can take 10-20 secs to give me the selection of apps/widgets. It's not a biggy really. Apart from that so far so good.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
ok thanks :)

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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Json_81:
MMS is not working for me. Can't send or recieve.

I've checked the APN, it is exactly the same as I've had in other roms (and it's correct according to Tele2). Internet connection works perfectly.

I tested my simcard in an old SE phone, and MMS was working there (with the same APN settings as I have in my hero).

Tried to search the thread and villainrom forums but no luck.

Anyone got any idea?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vorcigernix:
Default kernel helped in my case a little. Still not fast as before, but not unusable.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] petsasj:
Is there a planned update for FV1.5.0?

All the random reboots due to SetCPU and so on seem a bit tiring =/

Also would love to see the new CM 6.1 features. The camera updates, the DSP features included in the CM parts bit, and so on.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Yes, updates are planned, but we don't announce release dates.

Reboots are fixable, as I am now getting none.

As for DSP, that should be in the ROM already in "DSPManager" as Alankila worked on it for Froyd :) But we will merge etc for next release.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
I'm having trouble with the facebook sync... it hasnt found 80% of my contacts because of different names between my contact list and my facebook friends list. Is there a manual way to link profiles to specific numbers? :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] faizo:
FroydVillian 1.5 is my second ROM for the HTC Hero (GSM). And I must say, this is better than the also popular Elelinux_v1.9 in terms of speed and stability. I had a lot of lagging issues with Elelinux, where the system would just freeze and eventually enter a lagging phase.

FroydVillian 1.5 is excellent so far, with no major problems at all. One thing though i noticed is one time when I resumed from a lock screen after recieving a text, the screen froze and the colours of desktop looked really weird, almost like a 'techno' style... That was REALLY weird... locked the screen then resumed and it worked fine again... Haven't had that glitch yet... Will update incase it does.

Thanks Hacre & team for the phenomenal work on this ROM! Excellent performance!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nomnompie:
I had that happen once and I think it was because of the kernel or speed I was using. Woke my phone up and there were a bunch of purple lines. I've seen it happen to other roms too though. On one rom I woke up the phone and the lock screen was upside down, and it was all green and red and weird looking lol.

I haven't had it happen since that one time with Froyd 1.5. I'm on the default kernel now and using minimum speed of 352 I think. I had wake issues and issues playing music. Sometimes when I'd play music after waking the phone, the music would lag and my phone would freeze up but the music would continue, resulting in a battery pull.

The only thing I have a problem with is YouTube. When viewing videos if you rewind a video it doesn't rewind until you do it a second time, the screen just freezes, and sound will play, and finally after about 10-15 seconds the video will catch up. Does this when starting a video too.. Wasn't like this in 1.4.1 as far as I recall. Anyone else seeing this issue?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
yes, you can do that manually.

edit contact>press menu button>join>select fb profile.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
doesnt always fire up

I love this rom!

And am done changing roms so really wantt ostick with it.

But .

often when its asleep , i have to keeping pressing different buttons to get it to fire up and present the lock screen.

also sometimes it hangs and comes back asking if i want to close or wait.

As I undersand it , a full wipe is where get into the recovery screen and individually wipe all five options.

I didnt however format the SD card . so it still has the ext2 partition.

Is it worth formatting that too ? will it cure the above?

any help would be appreciated.

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] descenpet:
sleep wakeup issue is usually because of your minimum clock speed is too low. up the screen off frequency by a step or two, to 352MHz
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wapz:
1.5.0 with Flykernal-10a and my pc doesn't recognize USB anymore. Anyone have similar problems? USB debugging is on.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jamesking420:
Does this ROM support EXT4 partitions for A2SD?

Thanks,

James
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Does the computer recognize the USB disk drive? Does adb work within recovery?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jamesking420:
Also, does anyone have any idea why Titanium back up isn't installing Market links? It's restoring app + data but the market links aren't going on (free version, not pro).

James
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wapz:
It didn't even recognize a pc, it said AC power. After retrying many times suddenly it worked and it recognized the pc again. Really strange :-(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tenchi0205:
:confused:I also facing this problem. But found no answer to solve it yet. Some fellow in Villain Forum have successful send n receive MMS, I did follow as his steps, but fail to get it work for my Hero.