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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
As far as I know flash is not supported on Hero. Sense ROMs had flashLite something, and I think that CM ROMs - including CM - have no flash support at all. If I remember correctly when starting to work on this I did give it the trivial try of just copying the files of the flashLite from a sense 2.1 ROM but obviously that didn't work.... If anyone has a solution for this, I'll be glad to hear it.

Like I said GPS works good for me and I think for most (if not all) users of this ROM. My only other idea is try upgrading/reflashing the latest radio - I use 6.35.15.14.

Does GPS status find anything? If it does find satellites then the lock should just be a matter of time - although if takes more than 10 minutes I admit its very annoying, still try to wait longer and see if it locks eventually, then see how much locks will take after this "first" lock. If GPS status shows nothing at all, I think something is very wrong and have no idea - maybe reflash the ROM with a clean wipe - the "generic" solution to everything.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cyberon:
I am having this problem with elelinux froyo 2.0, is it fixed here?

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
See 2 posts above (we must have posted at same time ;))
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ante0:
I must say. 4.9 mflops linpack at 691mhz is great.

Also the boot time, 35 seconds after you press the power button you are already booted :D

Only thing I don't like so far is the inability to turn your display off at the lockscreen.

I know this can be fixed easily in smali, but I cant do it from work, alt edit an XML... cant remember which it is. hehe :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] martint235:
I'm having problems with this ROM dropping the 3G/H signal for some reason. I'm using the same radio as in the screenshots in post 1 except mine says PU rather than PH. I've always understood this bit to relate to geographic area so shouldn't matter. Is this the case?

Is there a better radio to use (T-Mobile in the UK)?

Other than that so far I think the ROM is really good. Waiting to see what battery life is like on a standard day (ie not adding apps etc and playing with the widget placements on the screen)

Ta
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Actually no you can't fix this with a XML edit (and smali is something totally different and if you find my bug in the "disassembled" smali code your a pure genius).

This is a "bug" I introduced when trying to disable the reboot menu when phone is locked. I have already fixed this and will release an update for it soon.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ante0:
Well, it should be in there. And smali is not that hard to read :P

I would just start by searching for the keyevent. But then again I might be wrong :P

You could bring up the rebootmenu when it was locked? Hmm. That is wierd.

Anyhow, Good work on this rom.

Sadly the drain seems to have not been fixed in the latest CM, but I guess it will sometime :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Just out of curiosity which XML edit where you talking about? I also found it very weird you can reboot your phone without unlocking it. Is there a way to fix this with an XML edit (instead of my code "patches")?

Can you please give more details about the battery drain. I still have not anyone willing to work with me on this issue - assuming its even a real issue.

I loss ~10%/hour with just display on, is that a "battery drain"?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ante0:
Well, the xml I was wrong about. That would only allow edit of the layout, i.e. the jobtab etc.

But you should be able to do it in the android.policy.jar. I've disabled the "Menu unlock" from there, you know where you can just press the Menu button to override the lockscreen. So I would guess something similar could be done with the Power button, by maybe sending it to sleep directly or something... Well idk.

It seems to be an issue yes. 10%/hour is not that much. I had my phone go from 50% to dead in less than 2 hours while it was in standby! :P

But lately it seems to do better. Im at 87% now after ~5 hours, this with restoring smses using wavesecure, 5 phone calls and 30 mins of music. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ziggy1001:
Which begs the question what was running and using the battery?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Ok thats for the info (about the XML), I have already fixed it in code, just if there was an option to fix it in XML and keep the code closer to the original XML would have preferred it.....

About the battery drain, when phone is on standby I think I loose about 1%/hour so going for 50% to dead in 2 hours is very bad. The 87% "report" sounds more like it. Let me know if you still experience drains and if you can notice in which scenarios do they happen....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] obyn:
just a quick report;

22h41m since fully charged.

battery at 73%

display 36% (57m on)

cell standby 19% (4% without signal)

voice calls 18% (12m29s)

phone idle 17%

rest is <5%

i think this is pretty good.

2-3 days without charge is fine by me.

and i run at 729mhz using smartass gov.

i installed the rom on top of elelinux 2.0 which i flashed on top of elelinux special edition. only wiped dalvik.

so i'm actually surprised it works this well.

i think i'm going to full-wipe before next release just to see if it makes any difference, but for now, this is the smoothest rom i've ever ran.

and i have no reason to do anything what so ever until the little lockscreen anti-sleep bug is corrected cause that's about it.

one single puny little bug.

and thats it.

hats off for erasmux. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wichle:
So, now I just rebooted the phone once again and now GPS is working fine.

Thanks for your help and patience.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Thanks :)

Regarding the wipe, like I said in my main post (well actually second post ;)) my ROM and for example elelinux's one are very very similar (both built on CM6) so it does not surprise me that without a wipe it works good for you :)

I was just trying to say, if you do use the ROM without doing a full wipe before and have problems (FCs, apps/widgets not working and such) then I request you please do a full wipe before reporting these issues....

Like I said the locked screen off bug I have already fixed. Now working on these d*** lights problems (i.e. receiving a call when screen if off jogball does not light up). Everytime I fix one scenario a different one breaks, this code is evil :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
hey erasmux, I have a big video issue too (in my case with recording but it may affect playback too - can't tell you right now), although I'm loving this rom so far :-)

This video issue is the only serious bug I've encountered.

I was trying to record video wtih it last night, and it worked for a few seconds each time before it would start to perform really badly - video frame rate would drop to 0.5 or 1 fps suddenly, the sometimes speed up for a second or two and then stop again. it normally started recording fine for 10 to 30 seconds or so. first time it recorded for a minute before having issues. of course this was of moving targets etc in case that makes it more of a challenge on the phone (I believe it does since the encoder has more to do on complex moving material than on virtually unchanging scenery).

It was a consistent problem so it would be itneresting to read if others have this issue and of course you in particular erasmux :-)

If you do then debugging info should be easy to get. If you don't then I can try and provide you debugging info.

I didn't wipe before flashing this over "special edition" plus the SE camera fix patch, although before flashing special edition I did a full wipe minus ext (I never wipe ext any more, wiping dalvik with amon-ra 1.7.0.1 is sufficient to solve any issues there). So as this is the only issue I'm having, I suspect it isn't a wipe-related issue, but it's always possible of course.

If nobody else has this trouble then I'll do a full wipe and try again. However I'd rather not do that since it's nicely configured - easier for a couple of people to try taking 3 or 4 minutes of video while then walk around and see if the framerate halts once in a while.

please :-)

I'm prepared to accept if the issue is with the latest cm6 codebase. But I know that some of these froyo roms have recorded video just fine, others have always had issues, and I personally have never found out why.

cheers!

EDIT: I forgot to note that I'm running flykernel 11 245/528 smartass governor controlled by setcpu (with no profiles), 528 default speed kernel build.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
not to put down this rom at all, but for the record - every froyo rom has been able to do that since the first test0 build came out (first hacked partly-broken froyo for gsm hero a few months ago).

I've gotten 4.9 @ 691 on fusion, older versions of froyd (1.2.1 for example), nightlies, this rom, elelinux, hwmnbn's froyo rom, and so on.

So it's good that this one works right.

I think users should be more impressed with stability, rapid response of the user interface, battery life, features, general decisions he made when creating this rom, etc.

This is truly a very nice rom to use. :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] e2zippo:
Just flashed it, excited! But Android Commander hangs when i try restoring my apps. What's the issue with Titanium and CM6 roms, does the developer know about it? It worked fine for me in Froyd 1.4 last time i tried.

Could restoring with Titanium cause lags and crashes or is it the program itself that doesn't work?

Cheers!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ziggy1001:
It's been so long since i used a sense rom and even then i only used it for 1 day before rooting but in the stock rom could you add attachments via a file manager?

Not something i do much but i was a bit disappointed to see with all Froyo's i have used only pictures could be attached or at least i assume this was the case as Astro or Root explorer never appeared in the menu

Nice to see the CM file manager is added to the MMS and email attachment menu
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I tried to take a few 2 minute videos, it seems I get about 2 short hangs during the beginning (~30 seconds). Each hang is about 2 seconds. The logcat shows a "RecordThread: buffer overflow" every time it hangs. It seems to work fine for me after I get through the first 30 seconds or so of the recording.

Playback using the builtin camera app, works fine for me (although same hangs from the recording still exist proving the actual file recorded is also effected by these hangs).

I will try to look into this, although this seems like a though one.

Does anyone know if this problem also exists in the recent nighties?

People reported all kinds of FCs (also system related) and problems with apps after using titanium. I don't really know much about titanium as I do not use it. Feel free to use it, just if you have problems, please do clean wipe and reinstall without using it.

Regarding Android Commander, it is quite new for me. The one time I tried to use it, I also had some hangs. I just retried a few times until it worked (it will automatically skip already install apps :)). It didn't hang for me after disabling the screen saver (screen timeout set to 30 mins temporarily), and when I stopped doing other things with my windows in parallel - but not sure if this was just luck or a real "solution".
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
thanks, looking into it is great. I can't expect miracles - I have no idea where the problem originates so yes, it could be a very tough one.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Immortal_Baron:
about to downlaod and give it a try !!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Judim:
About Titanium Backup: I use it, but carefully. I don't backup nor restore system apps or parameters. Just the user apps. I also avoid google apps.

(To be honest, I backup my wifi parameters (passwords and SSID). This is a system parameter, but this one does work.)

It is the way I always do with Titanium Backup and I never had any problems. And neither with Floyo 1.0. It just works.

@Erasmux: Thank you for the nice rom and kernel. It feels good.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saj222:
This is pretty much what I do too. Never had any problems. :cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zorxd:
Wow. Sounds so simple and so clean. Is there any reason for NOT trying this :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Titanium Backup is to big for me to use, im abit slower in just reinstalling the apps from the market, and the 3 wifi's I need to add, don't need a program for it, that bugs more then im used to :P

For the rest, this rom rocks, clean, fast and stable
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Latoc:
Exactly.

Don't backup or restore system apps and parameters and you'll be fine.

I've used Titanium forever and never had a single problem with it, just use it for user apps and settings and you can restore on a different rom with no danger at all.

It's pure logic here: user apps are universal, system parameters are not !
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zyborg:
Google Services Framework force-close

Keep getting a force-close error for Google Services Framework (proces com.google.process.gapps).

Is anyone else experiencing this? Possible fix?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Do a full wipe, reinstall the ROM, install nothing on it - expect of course the optional packages you chose from the main post (i.e. the google apps update if you use it). Do you still get it? I assume not (from a long experience with these problems). I would guess it is because you did not do a full wipe when installing it, or some app you have installed (for example titanium backup has caused such issues for some people).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zyborg:
I DID use Titanium Backup - but carefully - to restore my calendar appointments, text messages and call lists. Do you think that an install of the Google Apps update will fix this problem?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
All I can tell you, is that I helped someone out with the exact problem you are having who has also used Titanium Backup very carefully.

He did a full wipe and then did not even install Titanium backup and the problem has not reoccurred. To the best of my understand the problem IS caused by Titanium backup, but again impossible for me to know something like this for sure.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Floyo 1.01 update released.

New themes also on the way....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] decal wren:
I can confirm that I am also having the same video lag problems. They only seem to happen when a lot is going on. If I video something relatively still it seems ok. Running at stock speeds but opted for the noboot screen kernel. Do we already know that all 2.2 rom have the same problem or can we try and identify one for a fix.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I think this is the only issue currently still open in 1.01. Sorry, I gave it a quick look and tried to find a "quick" fix but have nothing for now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Latoc:
Calendar appointments, text messages and call lists are all part of the SYSTEM databases and as such must not be ported from one rom to another... even if you do it carefully.

It's like if I want to kill someone "carefully", it's not going to change anything as to the end result !!! ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cambria83:
I'm another user than can successfully use Titanium Backup on this ROM with no issues. I literally only restore user apps, settings and wifi networks.

The ROM itself is fantastic. Without a doubt the best 2.2 ROM currently available for the Hero. Thanks so much for the work put into this! I'm just about to flash the incremental update.

Can anyone recommend good screen off setting to use in SetCPU? I don't really know what I'm doing, so tips would be welcome :D Battery life is the only thing I favor in Froyd 1.5 at current.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
yes, from a lot of experience I can say that tit back is fine.

As they say, it's how you use it that counts ;-)

congrats on getting 1.01 out! unfortunate about the video issue but understandable. Will be interesting to see how it gets resolved eventually and how many other roms suffer from the same issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
You don't need a sleep profile, the smartass governor (default) will do it for you :)

You actually don't need SetCPU anymore, I still use it to monitor things but other than that its now useless :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cambria83:
Awesome! Thanks very much! I might just uninstall then :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zorxd:
Does google maps navigation continue to works if you turn off the screen with this ROM? (does it continue to give voice directions?)

does it uses the android keyboard from cyanogen latinIME?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
Ok I decided to try it again. Did a full wipe (I hate doing full wipes) and flashed 1.0 and then 1.01 incremental and then booted. Hope I wasn't supposed to boot up after 1.0 and then reboot into recovery before flashing 1.01. Things seem to be fine so far. It is very smooth as usual erasmux. I haven't tried much yet. I installed Zeam and then removed ADW with Titanium. Hope that was ok to do.

Question: Do I need to flash the GPS settings? What does it do? Will GPS not work without it?

I love your roms erasmux. Keep up the good work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] prmd142:
Can someone provide md5 checksum for floyo1.0 and 1.01 please!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] etherspin:
Have loved the speed and stability of this rom until my boss asked about me getting his voicemail, turns out I had eleven unread recordings cause Sms isn't working, i've tried chomp and handcent. Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wayferer:
Have you tried flashing the MMS update zip?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] etherspin:
No I haven't, is that specifically for this rom?

I think chomp might be partly to blame, I was using that and installed handcent expecting Sms to flood in but nothing came so I messaged myself and it worked!

So all the messages chomp didn't receive... are they lost in the ether?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mrsatan:
Wi-Fi Issues

I really want to like this ROM as I think it has wonderful potential, but I can't seem to get the damn Wi-Fi to work right on it. It will be fine, then after sleep it wont be able to connect even though it says it is connected. Usually a Rom will try and disconnect then reconnect quick when this happens, yet Floyo 1.0 just sits there and errors until I disconnect it and reconnect manually.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Yes you can flash 1.01 over 1.0 whenever, reboot not need between flashes, and (hopefully) no wipe needed if your already using 1.0. I will update the main ROM file to already include 1.01 later today.

About the GPS its *optional*, the "europe" GPS settings are default, the other files update it to the other GPS servers. Not sure how much this effects anything but if you have GPS problems might be worth a shot.

Flash it through the recovery as is, it will check the integrity before it flashes and refuse if the files have not been downloaded right....

I really have no idea. SMS works fine for me like always (MMS are not enabled by my carrier so can't check them). Tested it yesterday, tested it again now, both sending and receiving work. I even received some real SMSes already with 1.01....

Like always, the generic solution is, do a full wipe, reinstall the ROM, do not install anything on it (not even chomp), check if SMS work. Now install Chomp (or handcent whichever you prefer), does it work? Assuming the answer is yes continue with your regular install.

Anyway else having this problem?

Not relevant for this version, the mms application does come with ROM (only in 0.8 it did not).

Works fine here. I pressed "on" and wifi already connected..... No ideas, sorry.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] etherspin:
apologies,my version is 0.8, when I searched the forum and opened the thread for that version it went here anyways!

I shall upgrade and see how that goes, if anyone knows of a way to force the carrier to refresh so I can retrieve the sms messages that never arrived please let me know!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wayferer:
seemed to fix the problem i had :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
I occasionally experience lagging with this Floyo 1.01 (mostly after wake-up). Probably, it could be from low sleep frequency. Anyone has this same issue, and what should be the proper way to fix it? BTW, this is the best ROM ATM :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] e2zippo:
I've never restored any system apps or parameters so i should be fine.

What about the options dkelley mentioned (not wiping the ext partition)?

Just tried it and i get a lot of FC in many apps, will try titanium and see what happens.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ementat:
I believe this is router or WiFi AP issue, not the ROM. I experienced the same problem with my old 3Com router. As soon as I changed it to new WiFi AP all my problems with WiFi are gone. This is something related to key renew interval.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nicolasfoto:
OK I know this is a stupid question, I'm sure I had the answer just now..

How do I get the coloured icons in the bottom bar, like erasmux's first image in post one?

This Roms is fantastic so far btw..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Can you please elaborate?

I am using the default 528/176 kernel on 1.0 and now on 1.01 and experience no such problems.

I do not see any relevance to the sleep frequency but you can try to use SetCPU to up the min frequency if you really want.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lynx2k50:
Hey.

very nice Rom! Thanks.

Can u please upload the keyboard your are using in this Rom? It has the standard HTC theme.

best regards.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
erasmux,

will it be possible to flash over the revert-back-to-stock file from elelinux over

your rom?

hoi,

odin
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gp4004:
you can flash the vanillia theme from froydvillain 1.5!

i've got a fc if i try ti reply in the mail app...

and unable to compose an email ...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I still not just an expert on theming, but generally it seems most theme files change some basic apks (not just the resources but also a different compile of the code, with maybe custom changes and pull from the CM repository at a slightly different time).

Therefore, I think, that although themes built for other ROM might work (or partially work), flashing them is asking for trouble. If you do choose to flash them and have problems please make sure they are not because of the theme.

I don't have any FC not in the "Email" application and not in the "Gmail" application.

See my reply above to odin, if you have flashed a "theme" not for this ROM then that is really asking for trouble.

If the problem persists on a clean install (without a foreign theme), and you can send me a logcat of a problem on a clean install it will be very helpfull.

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
The HTC_IME keyboard is included in the ROM, just long press a text box to get the menu and select "input method". Personally I need hebrew so I use either AnySoftKeyboard (free on market) or Smart Keyboard Pro (paid on market).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] petsasj:
Just one question. I thought that handcent reads SMS messages off the stock app.

If you remove it, does handcent work?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
thnx erasmux...i will flash your rom and maybe, just to try it out, flash the

themefile from elelinux ( although your theme is pretty sweet too :) )

i'm really curious about the rom as people are saying it's even smoother

than FroydVillain :cool: