yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
The recovery and kernel aren't the same thing... I would recommend using darch's 1.7 RA at the first post of the darchdroid 2.8 thread. As for batter life and root apps, can you use root required apps at all? Or will no apps that require root access work?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
No sense apps will work with AOSP. I use beautiful widgets from the market and like it very much, so it might be worth checking it out :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donisewell:
Flashing question

I have tried to flash the CM6 rom for the Sprint Hero a few times and it hasn't worked. I think I may be missing something simple so maybe you guys could help. I've gotten either of the following two results after flashing: A never-ending boot loop OR it just sits on the HTC boot image and never finishes booting. I've left it for HOURS before with no results.

My setup:

*Sprint Hero

*Rooted with Androot

*Stock ROM (unfortunately)

*Latest ClockworkMod recovery image

When I try to flash the image I have both the Cyanogen .zip and the Gapps .zip on the root of the SD and use the ClockworkMod recovery to "install from .zip" first the Cyanogen .zip and then the Gapps. I've even tried flashing the BrainFuct kernel after the Gapps and it still just hangs on boot even after letting it sit for 30 mins. Suggestions?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Are you doing a full factory/data wipe?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donisewell:
Yes. I wipe:

*Factory/data reset

*cache

*Dalvik (or however it's spelled)

*battery stats

Thank you for the very quick response.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
OK try doing this: Flash the rom and the gapps only, and see if that loads. We'll worry about the kernel later.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donisewell:
Well.. I tried that the very first time. No go.

Could it have something to do with the way I rooted? Or is a root a root?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
A root should be a root... have you flashed any custom rom in the past? If not try flashing something, like fresh 2.4.0 or zen rom. Just something so that we can identify where the root of the problem lies :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rundmcarlson:
All my root apps work but whenever i open setcpu, it wont get the right settings. Then when i close it and open it again it does. I assume that if I never open it, it will be stuck at 19500 for both min and max values. It says it is granted root access but im confused why it never gets the values right the first time. I also have no idea what is causing my battery to drain so fast. to me 10% an hour is ridiculous. I have also noticed that the percentage seems to stay at the same number for a while, then suddenly drop a percent per minute for a few mins. Then it levels off again for a while and does the same thing over and over.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjjjjshab:
Which android-wifi-tether version works best with CM6 stable?

Any idea why the froyo version wasn't included?

Thanks.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Oh I understand now that's not a problem with you, that's an issue with the latest version of set cpu, it happens to me as well. You have to open it twice on every boot for it to apply your settings.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
I use wireless tether for root users version 2.02 (it's on the market). Wireless tether wasn't included because our heros don't have the built in technology that froyo uses I believe.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rundmcarlson:
Any ideas on the battery issue? I was planning on starting over because I can't get anything on my battery life. I turned off everyhting that uses internet and turned off everything except the actual calling feature. No wifi, bt, 3g/2g, screen brightness all the way down. Still I get 8 hours max out of my battery. Uptime ranges from 20-50% depending on the day and what I am doing but nothing will help. Tried setcpu, juice, batt tweak, kernel 14, nothing. I'm on the 9/09 nightly with kernel 14 and clockworkmod recovery. I completely wiped on install because my earlier cm6 rom was also giving me the same problem. There are no apps that are taking up batt or data so i have no idea whats going on. I'm at my wits end with this because I can't think of anything else. Oh I have also recalibrated the battery about 3 times.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
OK try this Look at the bottom of the post and download the battery tweak. Flash it from recovery, and then boot up. To set it up/start it, go to terminal emulator, and type this in:

su

batt-cfg

Since you're having battery issues, I would start with the preset #2 and see how that goes. Let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions! If this doesn't help your battery, don't worry, I still have a few more tricks up my sleeve :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donisewell:
I've only tried CM before. I just tried both of the ones you suggested and was still unsuccessful. I've heard of some ppl having trouble with ClockworkMod's recovery image. Could that be it? It has to be something with the phone that I'm missing if ALL of these roms won't work for me.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
That could be the problem, as if you were unable to flash any of those it's definitely something on your phone. Do this:

Download the attached file

Unzip it and place it where you know you can get back to it

Open up a cmd promp

cd C:/whereveritis/android-sdk-windows/tools

adb shell

flash_image recovery /whereyouputtheextractedrecoveryimage/name-of-recovery.img

reboot recovery

You should then be booted into a recovery with blue lettering and it should say 1.7 Darchdroid Recovery at the bottom. Let me know how it goes, and if this works correctly we can go from there :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
If you flash this does it mean you no longer need rom manager / clockwork mod?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Correct, you can uninstall the app if you don't use the recovery.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
What are the advantages to this over clockwork

And would changing over cause me to lose my saved nandroids
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
It's an overclocked recovery, and it makes nandroid backups in about a minute. Also, it is more "compatible" with AOSP roms, meaning that it shouldn't give you any issues, and it will allow you to use the full features offered in CM6. And no, changing won't lose recoveries, you'll just have to move them to the nandroid folder from the current clockwork folder.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laie1472:
Sup impaler a man I tried that auto killer slowed my cell down way way to much I don't think it's needed wen ur using firerats recovery mod I have like 320 MB internal free so wen I took it off bink there's all my speed again werid but just thought I'd post it

Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
I extracted the file - and put RA-Darchstar.img on my c: drive -

I typed in flash_recovery /c:/RA-Darchstar.img and it didnt do anything that I could tell - then I told it to reboot into recovery and it booted into clockworkmod recovery ?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjjjjshab:
No luck with the 2.2 from the market... it should work with the standard cm6 kernel, correct?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Hey, that's cool, like I always tell people, what works for me may not work for you. Try it and make it your own :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
That's correct... if it doesn't work try downloading the 2.0.5 beta from their website, let me know how it goes.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Were you in adb shell mode? Did you have the # sign next to the command? You can do this from terminal emulator also FYI, just put the .img onto the base of your sd card, go into terminal emulator, and type:

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/name-of-recovery.img
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtom2444:
ALL text messages I'm receiving have this as the message:

//ANDROID:Provisioning successful CFGv320c.0=07cMPSoD7Fr//CM

Any ideas what to do? I'm using handcent btw
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Do you use Sprint Visual Voice mail? If so, then that's the reason for these texts. Just blacklist 9016 in handcent to stop these messages.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtom2444:
Yea I just flashed the zip so you must be right. But how exactly do I access visual voicemail? I don't see it listed on the app list
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Hmm, you should if it installed correctly... try reflashing the zip, and if you still don't see it in the apps list, you'll have to manually push it to system/app via adb.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
I cant find the nandroid folder to paste them into - I have them multi-selected in root explorer and am looking around for a place to put them - i know it worked because darch's recovery loaded

maybe I need to make a nandroid first and it will create the folder ?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Yup that'll work :D Glad to see that it worked out for you
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
Yeah - im making my first backup with it now -im going to stick with it - but it doesnt seem to make backups any faster - not that im in a rush -

im assuming the only way to go back to clockwork mod would be to flash it from rom manager -
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Correct, and for me the 1.7 recovery is about twice as fast, I couldn't stomach how slow clockwork was IMO :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
I will prob go back - im still waiting on that first backup to finish! nearly my entire screen is filled up with .................................................. lol

thanks for your help loading it - but gonna go back - was still waiting - so i just shut it off and am reloading and will flash clockwork

your help is always appreciated!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
No problem, always happy to help, it's odd you're having that long to backup. Mine usually are done after 3 lines of ........ on the overclocked 1.7 RA :eek:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
yeah - i was even giving it the benefit of the doubt that maybe it was because its the first one

now - I loaded up - got to my splash screen - then it just vibrated - went back to splash - loaded into recovery - hoping a restart will help

edit - nope - im going to try again to make the nandroid backup - and will just wait it out - apparently my phone did not love it that i took the battery out mid-backup -
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
OK let me know how it goes
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
10 characters -
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
any help would be awesome - backups wont work - it filled my entire screen with......................................................... - so i did a wipe of data/cache/dalvik and tried to re boot

same thing - splash screen / vibrate / splash screen / back to recovery

is there some way i can flash clockwork recovery via adb ? if so, is there a link to the files i need somewhere ?

i tried doing nand + ext backup - it says:

Error : Run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Hmm I'm not sure, I don't know if clockwork can be flashed from adb... so you can't reboot into regular CM6 or flash the zip?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
haha - man - i didnt even think to try to flash my cm6.zip file - such a simple thing and it didnt even cross my mind!

thanks!

::feels dumb tonight!! haha::

trying it now - will let you know how it works
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandelay007:
outstanding! i cant believe i didnt think to try that! I'm new to android - but im not new to thinking!

i will flash clockwork mod - then all should be right again!

thanks!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
No problem, happy to spark the neurons :D Let me know how it goes.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul96:
What's an ENG HBoot
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
It's allows for fastboot commands and it also turns your spl off, so you can flash a custom flash screen to replace the boring HTC one.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdweiler:
Is there a way to move the dalvik cache to the sd card in CM6?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Hmm, not entirely sure, but I think you may be able to. Doesn't the firerat mod recovery allow you to do this?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul96:
Is fastboot the same as being in recovery mode? Also, what does spl mean
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Fastboot is not the same as recovery, and to be honest with you I have absolutely no idea what SPL actually stands for :)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rundmcarlson:
If I'm running the batt tweak i should have setcpu off correct? I already did because I believe they do the same thing, just in a different manner. I am still using it to see if it helps...I noticed that i get great life when idle or on 3g but calls suck it up. about 6-7% in a 30 min phone call. But I would expect calls would be highly consuming.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
That's correct, you should NOT be running the tweak and set cpu, as they'll conflict and slow down your phone while also draining the battery.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ethereal45:
This is a bit random, but I think something must have been messed up with my setCPU that just finally kicked in, because holy **** my phone just got about 10x faster. I was messing around with it and then all of a sudden its like it kicked into overdrive.

Programs are opening up extremely fast, and the whole phone doesn't have that sluggishness anymore.

No idea what happened, because I've been running CM6 for a while now....

Edit --- Do I need to reinstall the signal bar fix after upgrading to the newest CM6 (no wipe?)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Issue I am having lately..

Everytime I charge my phone to fully charged,if I leave my phone on (not powering down and off ) I get FC's with Launcher Pro and ADW. I then have to reboot and it runs fine. My set CPU settings for normal use is 691/352 and screen off 352/352 both set for on demand. I've tried many of the various settings and it doesn't matter what I set this too it still on wake up gives force closes. Any suggestions ?

Also..when trying ADW again (been using LP ) I notivced several double icons in my app drawer..Is this normal ?

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rundmcarlson:
Thank you for your help. It doesn't seem to be helping too much. I had downloaded juice defender but I'm not using it. I would prefer to get good battery life with as few programs running as possible. Especially since most are getting twice my life on the stock cm6. Do you have any other ideas on what might help?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
You should probably reflash the signal fix, but be aware that some people are having metamorph trouble while flashing it on the newest cm6.

Sent from my HTC Hero running froyo: take that, Sprint!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Do you use apps to SD? That may be where th double icons come from. As for the force closes, let me know if you do use a2sd and then I'll tell you what I think for fixing it :)

Sent from my HTC Hero running froyo: take that, Sprint!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
If your battery is that bad even with all the tweaks, you mat have a bad battery. Try flashing the rom on top of itself, no wipe, to possibly clear up any rom issues but to be honest sounds a little like a bad battery to me.

Sent from my HTC Hero running froyo: take that, Sprint!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhotondm:
Hey. Did we ever find out what the android.process.acore is that runs in the background? I have two of those processes running in the background and each take up almost 6mb of space. I am running the newest version of LP plus. I remember reading one person said it was from LP. Just wondering if it is something I should be worried about?

Sent from my Hero running CM6 Froyo BFS.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdweiler:
Don't know, not using it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liangbk:
stable kernel

so impaler, what kernel are you using with CM 6? what works for you? i'm using the stock one with CM 6 but want to try an uncapped one, which do you recommend?

is there anyway to get back the stock kernel if it starts crashing a lot?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teedo757:
This is random and a search in the thread did not bring up anything so is there any way to make the icons in the settings menu have color again? Just wondering if I missed a setting somwhere to toggle it on.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
I believe that it is from LP, and you only need to be worried if your phone is having major lag issues :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
I recommend the BFS #8, as it's amazing to put it mildly! If it doesn't work out for you, all you have to do to get the stock kernel back is flash CM6 on top of itself, no wipe. You won't lose any data or settings, but the original kernel will be restored. Hope this helps, let me know if you need anything else :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
You'd have to flash a theme to do that... Like this one. Hope this helps!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Nope..not using that app. I do have bookmarks to sd loaded,but have no bookmarks loaded.This is most frustrating. I had to reboot this 5x's yesterday to get it to run at all.

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
That's rather odd... I don't use ADW, so I'm not all that familiar with it either :confused:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
If this keeps up,I may wipe everything and go with something else.:(

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Well try this first... reflash CM6 on top of itself, no wipe. You won't lose any data, and if it's a CM6 problem, it should get fixed. Let me know how it goes!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wingchun222:
Please help :( my hero took a poop.....

So I installed Cyanogen about a week ago and everything was running perfect.... until this afternoon. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to see what time it was and it was sitting on the initial white background with htc in green. No matter how long I let it sit it just sits at that screen. The last thing I installed was auto killer last evening and set it to strict, everything seemed fine. If I hold down the power and home button it takes me to the:

hero xc ship s-on hboot-1.47.000 (hero2000)

microp-0110

touch panel-syn0104

radio-2.42.01.04.27

Mar 1 2010, 16:02:39

clearstorage

Delete all user data?

<action> yes

<send> no

Thankfully I did a nandroid backup last night.... but I have no idea how to get to the point where I can restore it. PLEASE HELP lol

Thank you in advance, all of you guys are awesome and your help is greatly appreciated!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
OK, pull the battery, and reboot into recovery by holding down home and end call. Then, restore the backup. Let me know how it goes!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Tried this..locked up solid.:(

Pulled battery and it came back up after 10 minutes hanging on the animated boot screen,nothing was working properly..3 more reboots and it still isn't acting right..I don't know how,but it almost acts like something is corrupted...:eek:

Going to wipe everything and try to load a different rom I have already downloaded and see what happens. Weird to say the least. Don't know if something is letting go in the phone or not, but it should show up with a stock type rom too.

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Since you're wiping but you also like CM6, I would just wipe and reflash CM. But I understand if you're trying to build a base-mark to see whether it's the phone or CM.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Yup..gotta see if what I have is fubar or not,and it doesn't hurt trying out a few other roms in the process too I guess.

I'm going to try the NFX rom and see if it does the same. My wife wanted me to do something with her phone and this one looks nice and it appears like it's pretty stable and has all of the sense stuff she likes. If it works on mine without issue I'll load it on hers.

I just don't understand why all of a sudden mine started acting it. It's run real good since I loaded it. I haven't been downloading anything or making any changes.The only thing I can figure is I saw where LP did a ota upgrade a few days back.Since then I've had problems. FWIW..I have no wallpapers or market on mine anymore.. anywhere even on the sd card :confused: It's like things are just disappearing. Might be a symptom of something more drastic going on on my phone too, I honestly don't know wtf is going on with it...

Thanks for your help

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
No problem, I hope you figure out what's up with your phone! Let me know if you need anything else :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberhound:
I have a couple of questions....

1. One of the main reasons I rooted and flashed to CM6 Froyo was to get Bluetooth voice dialing. Now, I understand that at some point that got taken out of the ROM. But, I have read threads with instructions on how to reload it into the ROM using a the voicedialer apk from a prior RC release. I saw three ways to do it. One way was to use terminal emulator, one way was to use an ADB shell, and the last was to use Titanium backup to uninstalll the APK that came on the the stable ROM and then install the APK that came with the prior release. I chose option 3, as it seemed to be the simplest way to do it. Anyway, the net result is that when I hit the button on my Bluetooth, the app opens and asks for a command, I give the command, and then it acknowledges and promptly crashes and I have to FC. Any thoughts as to what I can do to make it work. I really wanted this feature since I drive alot.

2. After I finish a phone call, more often than not I go back to the lockscreen. I find this annoying. It happens everytime I end the call with the physical end call button, and sometimes when I hit the onscreen end call button. Anyway to adjust this behavior.

I like the CM mod overall way better than the stock 2.1 I had from Ntelos. But, I would like to get these two things cleared up if possible....

Thanks for any advice in advance....
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
1. Sounds like the file wasn't installed properly... try fixing permissions with rom manager, but if it still doesn't work after that use the adb method to extract and then push the new file.

2. I know, I hate this too, but unfortunately that's the way it is

Hope this helps, let me know if you need anything else :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberhound:
Thanks, since I am little new....how do I use the ROM manager to fix permissions?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Open up the rom manager app (if you don't have it it's on the market, get the free version), hit fix permissions, and then reboot :)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberhound:
Errr...nevermind....I opened the ROM manager and clicked Fix Permission and off it went....
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpaler747:
Cool let me know how it goes!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j_preu:
Where can I get some live wallpapers that will work on the Hero. I tried a search but came up empty handed.