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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] e4f:
erasmux,

I'll put my two cents worth. The ROM is simply the best on the amount of merit. I use it from the very first version, I will use next.

But

There are two bugs (or features I can not accept). First one – led indicator. I need it, because often I use it in front on me on the table during some boring meetings, and I want to know is there some IM or event, by led notification. Trackball works only for Gmail.

Second issue is more important. After first time flashing, the phone started to go to network by using nearest APN. It is very bad, because my operator provides alphabetically nearest APN “active”, if you choose it, you request prepaid internet traffic, and during the same second you pay $15… The worst thing, that I can not do something with this, except one way: flashing ROM and first boot without SIM. After first system boot, I switch of mobile internet, insert SIM, change APN, and enable mobile internet back.

Actually, I am not sure, that it is a problem of ROM, but it would be better if I gave $15 to you, than to operator…

Anyhow, I am waiting for the next version, I do will use it. Thanx.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PAGOT:
Hmm:P I was crying to eran so he shutsdown the notifications. Because by me the trackball always flashes everywhere :D (So I had to put my phone in my pouch the other way arround. Chin up :P

I think he will suggest to you. Clean wipe and reflash. The trackball notifications work (gtalk, gmail, call, sms, etc). Atleast on my phone
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prupert:
The creator of Floyo (Erasmus?) has already said he will look in to changing the LED indicators for the next release (mentioned in previous posts, look through the last 73 pages ;)).

Apparently the Cyanogenmod 2.2 code is broken for the Hero's LED, so what we have now is the best that Erasmus could achieve for the moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maverick31210:
PLEASE EXCUSE THIS GUYS;

I have been searching all over and trying to flash an ext2 zip on moto droid. this thread came up in one of the many searches and it it actually being updated so i hoped some could give me a download link to an ext2 file that i could flash using the old update.zip method.

any help at all here would be greatly appreciated, once again i apologize for the interruption.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prupert:
I think you are confused. EXT2 is a type of file SYSTEM, not a file itself. You can't FLASH a EXT2 file, since an EXT2 file doesn't exist, instead you FORMAT a files ystem.

You may have heard of FAT, FAT32, NTFS? These are all file systems, that you format a hard drive or flash drive to, so it can then organise files on it. These are Windows-based variants. EXT, EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 are all Unix variants.

I am guessing you read somewhere you need to create an EXT2 file system on your Memory card, to allow Android to install apps to the memory card.

The easiest way to do this is to use a custom recovery tool. According to this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=755694) you need to use ROM Manager and the ClockworkMod recovery image (http://www.clockworkmod.com/) for your Moto Droid. You can then boot into the recovery image and FORMAT your memory card so it has the required EXT2/EXT3 file system.

You can also do this if you have a memory card reader and use the Linux operating system (like Ubuntu and the tool Gparted).

Make sure you read up thoroughly about how to use ROM Manager and the Clockwork Recovery tool.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Regarding the first issue like said above, I will look into it for the next release.

Regarding the second issue, its not a problem specific to this ROM (is there any ROM which doesn't do this?). I will see if I can do anything about, but can't promise anything.

I am not sure this is of any help but there is this trick to skip the setup wizard:

http://pocketnow.com/how-to/android-quick-tip-how-to-bypass-touch-the-android-to-begin-video

This forum section is for the Hero GSM, hence any files obtained here will be useless at best (and harmful in worst case) for your moto droid. I suggest you search or ask for the files you need on moto druid forums.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 梦月09700:
so far 1.01 is the best 2.2 rom,make us new rom，waiting.....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
Right finally reflashed and got this rom to work but had to use the patch that was created for VR10 to get Apps2SD to work... Have to say it's a wonderful rom and is a joy to use... Only really issue for me(after apps2sd) is adw some times runs slow...

Now my question is this... Our there any good themes for this rom?? And also why can I not change the boot animation??? Have tried several times to flash a different one but they never show..

Anyway great rom hope next one is even better..

Regards

Lohtse
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BuzzFuzz:
It's hard to release new ROM after superb 1.01

U can give us some beta unreleased stuff just for boring sunday :cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] noobhero:
which patch is it? do u have a link?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
PLEASE DO NOT use any patch for the app2sd. This "patch" is already integrated into the floyo ROM (all version) and is not necessary.

If you have problems with the app2sd, let me know and I'll work with you to find the cause of this problems. This way, if there is a real problem, I can fix in the next version.

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
Does anyone else find the internal task killer overly aggressive in this ROM? I find Zeam has to restart after I do pretty much anything and whenever I check I have about 80% free memory. Is there any way to make it less aggressive?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622666

Although since it does not happen to the rest of us (well doesn't happen to me, and the first report I am getting of it), I would guess you a bigger problem, like some app which is hogging your memory. You can test it by doing a clean install, installing only Zeam, and I am pretty sure it will not happen to you....

Also note this ROM has the default settings of the CM, noting overly aggressive unless you changed it yourself.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
Yeah I'm a bit confused actually because zeam still seems to be running when i'm in another app (XDA App for example) but when I press home zeam appears to restart ie all widgets have to reload. As I said I always have about 80% free memory (when I check with ks Launcher)

Not sure why it keeps restarting.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] e2zippo:
Thanks for a great tip! Makes a great ROM even better!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prupert:
no probs, great to do my little bit to help out this amazing ROM. Up until this ROM came out, I was on a bit of a downer with my Hero, seeing the Incredible, Desire and N1. But now, my Hero is fast enough and feature laden and reliable enough (when Orange's cr@p network decides to work) that I really can't imagine upgrading until I am forced to by Orange!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] QuAn64m:
When i try to setup the E-Mail Client i get a FC. Its impossible to get new mails, cos it always crashes. Anyone heard about this Error?

EDIT: i did a full wipe and flashed the rom again, but it still dont works :( any idea ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tlc77:
Hello,

I try to use OpenVpn, evrybody have a "tun.ko" module compatible with this ROM ? :)

Thanks !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
You don't need tun.ko, openvpn works without it because this module is built into the kernel....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tlc77:
Ah ok i understand, thanks for your help ! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alciby:
First of all i wish to apologize for the poor English

I'm what you call a newbie in the flashing world, and i would like for some clarifications before i start the flash procedure.

I have the original 1.5 Android hero:

Specs:

Band base: 63.18.55.06EU_6.35.06.18

Kernel: 2.6.27-8dd6deee HTC kernel

Compilation: 2.73.405.5

Soft Vers: 1.00.A6288

As you can see i still use the firt version of android in my hero (refused the upgrades notifications)

I've been reading the XDA forum, several different post's, on how to flash like the "Complete Newbie Guide to Root & Install a Custom Rom", as far i understand to install the Floyo 1.01 i should use the Universal Androot, to first root the phone and then aply the recovery image, the AmonRa 1.7.0.1.

After this as far i understand the phone is ready to be flashed with a new room.

Then it's recommended to backup the original room.

After entering in recovery mode, i must install put the room in my SD card by using the USB-MS toogle mode, and copy the image to the sd card.

After make the procedure off the Newbie Guide, finally i'll make the flash zip.

Now it comes the questions...

Starting from the beginning wath is the amonRa? Did not quite undestand! The other question is about the Kernel, after install the new room, do i need to install the Flykernel 11. or it comes included with the room?

About the RADIO, i did not quite understand what it is! Must i upgraded it to? AFTER OR BEFORE aply the new room.

Another question is how do i prepare the Sd card to use app2sd? And if i change the card do i need to flash it again? (currently i have a 2Gb card)

Last question about the battery calibration, i've read about calibrate after install any new room, is this a must?

About data backup, i am concern about the backup of the contacts, i have my backup pro installed, can i restore the contacts in android 2.2 from a 1.5 whit this program???

Once again, i hope i make my questions understandable.

Bottom line i just want to know a QUICK step by STEP to aply by the fist time a NEW ROOM..

Thank's in Advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
The general process should be something like this:

1. Start by succeeding to root (flashing a custom recovery) and booting it.

2. First thing that is recommend is indeed to make a nandroid backup of your existing ROM. Since you don't have an ext partition yet, so choose the first option "nandroid backup" (after you'll have an ext partition you should choose "nand + ext backup").

3. Then you can repartition your SD card and create a 512M ext2 partition (swap 0, and rest for FAT). Please backup all the data from the SD card before you do this as it will be erased. After you repartition it, you can restore the data to the FAT partition. This only needs to be done once. Once you have done this, theoretically you never have to do this again.

4. Now you can install custom ROMs, just do a full wipe (the "wipe data/factory" and "wipe SD:ext partition") when you switch ROMs (right before you flash the new ROM).

Further notes:

a. After you have a custom recovery you can flash a updated radio whenever you want. Does not matter before/after the ROM. It should even work with your old ROM. You will also be able to go back by flashing an old radio (although no reason to do this). You can download the latest radio from here:

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?307-Gsm-Hero-Radio-Roms-Download-Links

b. Regarding using backup programs and such, these programs can cause trouble. Especially if your upgrading from 1.5, I would suggest you forgot about it.

c. Given point b above, you need to somehow preserve your contacts. Best way is to sync them with your google account and then you can retrieve them easily with the new ROM. I suggest you make sure all your contacts are stored in your google account before you started messing around with changing ROMs.

Good luck.

PS: and about the battery calibration, personally I never do it. Some people claim it improves battery life. I would say start without it, and if you experience bad battery life you try it (although need to do it right, something like: fully deplete battery, full charge with off, then wipe battery stats).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prupert:
Not tried it, but install K9 from the market, it is like a souped up version of the stock email client. Try that and see if it still has issues....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Sorry, missed this message. If you get a FC with a clean install (full wipe, no apps installed), can you please detail the steps you are doing so I can try to recreate the problem on my side.

Additionally, if you can generate a logcat of the problem (i.e. using "adb logcat > logcat.txt") it could be helpful.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prupert:
amonRa is a recovery tool that is used to flash new ROMs to your phone. Flashing new ROMs doesn't affect amonra as it is saved to a different place. Even if you install a ROM that doesn't work, usually you can still boot to amonRa and flash a working ROM. Once you install amonRa, if you turn the phone off, then hold Home whilst pressing the power button and keep on holding Home, it will boot into amonRa, from there you can flash a new ROM (called flashing a zip file), do a nandroid backup (to save the existing ROM you are using to if there are any issues you can go back to it) and partition your SD card.

No, the flykernel is already a part of Floyo. You can install a new Flykernel if you want, with custom CPU speeds, but if I were you, just stick to the Flykernel that comes as part of the ROM.

The RADIO is what the phone uses to communicate with the wireless network. It is like the firmware for your GSM phone, allowing you to access the 3G network, use WiFi and GPS. You flash it separately from your ROM, but in the same way, by flashing a .zip from amonRa. BE VERY CAREFULL, if you mess up and flash a ROM wrong, you can recover, if you mess up and flash a Radio wrong, you can kill your phone. Only ever flash the correct Radio for your phone and never interrupt the process when it is flashing. When using amonRa to flash a Radio, it

will install the Radio image and then go back to the main amonRa menu. You then need to choose Reboot, it will then go to another screen where it actually saves the Radio image. It will then reboot, back into amonRa if i remember correctly. Leave it for a minute, just to be safe, then choose reboot again and the phone will load your ROM.

You can use amonRa to partition your SD card (create the necessary folders and filesystems) for you. Doing this will wipe everything on your SC card, so make sure you backup all the stuff you want first, then choose partition SD card and just choose the default values it suggest. This will then prepare the card to app2sd. If you change the card, yes, you need to partition the new card. Also, remember, if you use app2sd, all those apps are installed on that card, if you then change the card, none of those apps will work, because they are on the old card, not the new one. You will have to reinstall all those apps again.

I think the rest of your questions have been answered.

For a step-by-step guide, try here:

http://theunlockr.com/2010/09/27/how-to-root-the-htc-hero-androot-method/

then here:

http://theunlockr.com/2010/09/27/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-hero-2/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] alciby:
It did cleared a lot the process...

I'm going to prepare my phone for the first FLASH...

Although i think i'm going to stick with the same Radio that i currently use. Like you said it could brick the phone and i think o need to read more from the link that Erasmux posted. One thing though is it better to in the future aply the new RADIO? For what i've seen there's a quite few of them, and i do not know if they will optimize the usage of the Hero with the android 2.2.

Another lame question, how to you gays backup your contacts beside Google sync? When need to restore them?

I never quite got the active sync working. It does not recognize the phone, i don't know if it's a Windows 7 compatibility.

THANKS
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yasin12:
You could press menu inside contacts and choose import/export and then choose export to sd card.

Theyll be saved as one .vcf file. All youll have to do to restore them is to repeat the above steps but choose import from sd card instead of export to sd card

Sent from my froyo hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
HTC Sync doesn't work with this rom since it needs Sense to work.

As for radios, once you find a radio that works well for you just stick with it. It is not necessary to update radios all the time. I'm using the same radio I was using since FV 1.1.1. I have tried the latest radio but found it didnt work as well as the old one. I've heard others saying that you can brick your phone by flashing the wrong radio but has anyone actually bricked their phone? I have flashed 4 or 5 radios overall and never had a problem....other than crappy reception.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] medo159:
Yeaaaaaaah U R The MAN!

Thanks a lot mate, I've been looking for such a fix for a long time :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] QuAn64m:
E-Mail Client Setup

I know the problem now.

The FC came after setting up the client. So the client tried to recieve all my E-Mails. There were too many E-Mails with Attachment > 5 mb. All together i think it was more than 200 mb. I deletet these Mails from the server and startet again to setup the client. Now it works. No FC since yesterday.

Thanks for your quick reply erasmux.

sorry 4 my bad english :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
As far as I know you can only brick your phone if you play with the SPL - so please don't unless you really know what your doing. At least in theory, even if you manage to mess up both the ROM and your recovery you can still install a RUU through the SPL - although you will then have the pain of rerooting. As far as I know playing with the radio is perfectly safe, worst case you can always reflash the old version through recovery.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zorxd:
hey I was wondering, is there a way to perform a "make menuconfig" or something equivalent (to generate the kernel config file for the hero)?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I think you are a bit confused those instruction are for making the ROM not the kernel. The kernel is prebuilt in my ROM sources. The kernel sources are available separately on my github (see my flykernel xda thread).

Regarding the instruction to build the ROM, they actually might not work now, as I am working on a new version and have clean the build process a bit. I will hopefully get around to updating the instructions when I plan to release a RC for the new version in the next couple of days.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zorxd:
Yes thanks, I was confused because I saw kernel sources in the kernel-msm subdirectory, but it is 2.6.35 so unrelated I guess.

So basically, I just need to put my compiled kernel (what format? zImage?) in device/htc/hero/kernel and the modules in device/htc/hero/modules?

Or it isn't as easy?

If you want to do a RC I suggest you investigate the use of the conservative governor while the screen is off. After more testing I can confirm that the idle battery life improve a lot over smartass.

Also would it be possible to clean the repository from useless files such as those for other devices? Maybe I could help?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
So many different thing in such a short post....

1. What are you trying to do? Build the ROM or the kernel? If you trying to build the ROM from my sources, I highly recommend you wait until I stabilize at least the RC candidate as my sources are not stable right now..... I really hope to get this done in the next couple of days (if not tonight).

2. The repository has "useless" files from other devices because its the CM repository. These source are basically the CM sources with relatively small number of tweaks/fixes on my side. I need them to be as close as possible to the CM sources, so no I can't clean up those "useless" files. Sorry.

3. Regarding conservative:

How much power are you losing in idle with smartass? How much with conservative?

I am losing about 0.5%/hour with smartass (when phone idle screen off). Even if it can go down a bit, its not important, I now have at the very least 4 days of phone idling without recharge (pretty sure its more like a week for me, but sorry can not not use my phone for a whole week to test this).

I assume you are having bad idle battery life with smartass which really shouldn't happen.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zorxd:
I already compiled the ROM (1.01). I was looking to compile a kernel next. I thought it was integrated but you clarified this, thanks.

Ok, I understand, no problem.

Well since I am running floyo I never got more than 2 days with smartass. And I don't use my phone much, however I have sipdroid running in background (as well as emails etc.) on a W-CDMA only network.

With conservative I get about 3 days. The fists percent go down a lot slower than the lasts ones however so I can't tell a real %/h.

I wish I could have a 4-7 days battery life however!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Actually I do most of my tests at the high percentages (around 90%). Obviously you can't check it with 100% since in some sense we charge it "above" 100% and it will show 100% (if I fully charge it, it takes a lot longer to go down from 100% to 99% than a "normal" percentage).

So make sure you phone is in the 85-99% range before you goto sleep (for results comparable to mine). Now when you wakeup check how much it went down and divide by how much hours passed.

Note that I do not have anything running in the background (as far as I know).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BreTT57:
Hi all! I've exacly the same problem with Handcent and paid version of Launcher Pro. Somebody have a solution please?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Symondo10:
Hi everyone.

Really impressed with floyo. ive tried froyd etc n this one seems the most usable and reliable.

just started to notice that when i use the camera and then close it i hear a strange "click" sound that comes from the camera not speaker. when i go back into the camera the phone crashes and reboots. ive tried all the other main rom providers and the cm nightly build dated today.

if i use 2.1 it works fine.

sorry if i'm not upto date but are people still having problems with the camera or is it just me lol

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Do you mean that you have this problem with all other 2.2 ROMs also or just with this version? Specifically I am most interested how is the latest nightly (as I am about to release a new version based on the same code)?

Just to verify, you are doing full wipes right? i.e. does the latest CM nightly give you this problem after a full wipe?

Additionally, can you pull the last_kmsg (i.e. using "adb pull /proc/last_kmsg") after this happens to you and send it to me? (preferably with latest CM nightly but floyo 1.01 also ok)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] obyn:
come on! download link for 1.1.8 already! :>

edit:

came from cm6 nightly 134.

did full wipe just to be fair and because i'm bored.

Floyo-1.1.8 + flykernel-11c-CM-729-176-nologo flashed.

not a big fan of the icons/theme though. purple and teal? :|

phone did one reboot just after initial boot, but it usually does that.

feels a bit faster than my previous setup.

i'll report back with more nagging if necessary. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Floyo 1.1.8 released.

This was actually meant to be a beta release or something but it seems too good to be labeled a beta.

Like I said on the first post, I intend to release at least one more version in the next week or so.

Please let me know of any problem you find.

I am especially interested in any problem with notifications (led or jogball), because I want to push this fix upwards to CM, maybe even get into the CM 6.1 release.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sphinxy:
I would download but my work has blocked mediafire, rapidshare etc....looks good erasmux. I'm looking forward to trying it, especially the built-in shortcuts for wifi etc. Definitely handy!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minn1009:
Nice job erasmux.. downloading