[EVO 4G Android Development] Persnlmgr:
Whew...long night...but I was SO happy with where I'd gotten to with R4 that I was determined to replicate it with R5. I got damn close and actually, many things waaaay better.

So, please pardon the length of this "essay", but through trial and error I found out about certain MODs that work, and that don't, and thought I'd share and maybe save someone some time and grief.

The process:

I Nandroided my perfect R4 set-up. Wiped caches twice, rebooted to Recovery, wiped data, rebooted to Recovery, Flashed R5B Nightly 1, rebooted to Recovery, Flashed the recommended Radio file, and with crossed fingers, booted to the phone.

After a reasonable period of time VOILA!! The Phone came up perfectly, with Myn's set-up. I let it run a few minutes and booted into Recovery. Went to Nandroid, Advanced Restore and restored my Data from the b/u I'd just done. Rebooted into Recovery and Flashed the R3 Boot Screen animation (I really like this one because I can walk away from the phone and know it's booting 'cause of the sound). Rebooted into the Phone.

Again, VOILA!!! Fast, smooth as a hot knife through butter, snappy transitions, 3G, 4G, Wifi, camera all working, the whole shebang!!! So far, well...almost too good...so I did a Nandroid.

Back into Recovery, Flashed the custom Launcher w/ 5-wide App Drawer that "Chingy" made for me and rebooted to the phone. Success, again!! (And it's really starting to look great...)

Booted into Recovery, Flashed Dark Sand Theme Semi Transparent Status Bar, rebooted to phone. Success, yet again!!

Booted into Recovery, (and as my pet peeve is the redundant clock and alarm indicator on the status bar) I Flashed No Alarm+No Clock.zip (which I'd used w/ R4, and is from one of the mods, I just can't remember who...) and rebooted to the phone. ACK, BOOTLOOPS!!!! DOH.

So I did my wipe/reflash/restore-data routine using the mid-process backup, rebooted to the phone, (to make sure I was ok) rebooted to recovery, reflashed the launcher and the status bar, rebooted to the phone, and made another backup to this point.

I then tried no clock.zip and services_no_clock.zip with the same BOOTLOOP results, but again, fortunately, I had the backup. I restored to the last b/u.

I then sucessfully installed (individually, going through the "process" each time) Myn's Clear Lockbar, and the HTC_EVO_IME (the stock keyboard, I really don't like the black, "frameless-key" one, or Swype). I then booted to a just-about-perfect-phone with the one step left that I knew could really screw the whole thing up...so I made one last Nandroid.

Using ADB, I pulled the Lock Bar and Notification Bar, edited in my name to replace Sprint, pushed them back to the phone, rebooted and (after reinstalling my Google accounts, which always get screwed when you mess with the framework)...

VOILA!!!! The perfect EVO you see below!!

And all with only two small quirks...after installing the Status Bar MOD, the "4G" icon Myn put in the dropdown was replaced by the sync icon. (Although after reading through the thread, it seems others are having this same issue). It's really no biggie, as the sync icon does toggle the 4g...

...And there's a weird alphabetical code where the timecode should be in my SMS, but just on today's texts. Going backwards from yesterday the dates/times are correct.

Oh, and I noticed NO HULU in this one. Anyone know if it'll turn up as we go along?

I REALLY CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE FIRST BETA...THIS THING'S AMAZING!!!

Brilliant, Derek, just f-ing Brilliant!!!

MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!

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