yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Android Development] Davidp65:
Sprint boot animation, etc.

Hi,

Just for the heck of it, I went into spare parts to see if I could change the boot animation to the default sprint one. Everything appeared to load ok. It prompted to reboot. When it rebooted, I got the stock Mikfroyo boot amination.

For some reason, whenever I change something on this rom, it never changes to what I expect. It always stays the same.

I know how to manually change the boot animation, but since I have been having so much trouble changing anything on this rom, I thought I would try something easy.

Do you have any idea why I can't make any changes to your rom?

Also, I read your earlier post regarding battery life. My battery life is terrible.

As you can imagine, I am using pretty much your stock rom.

I've tried to use CPU tuner to tune the performance since the benchmark always comes out low. If I do that, it does improve, but I have to set that everytime. Why is it doing that too?

Regards
[EVO 4G Android Development] Shauli20:
Mik, I'm having strange issues with 3.25. First of all, my phone is not as snappy as it was before. Second, the flip clock animation is very sluggish and it randomly will briefly display 0 as the hour. Third, every now and then after exiting from an app the HTC logo appears again and it needs to reload my homescreens. It seems that Rosie crashes.

Any idea what's going on? Should I try a clean install?

Thanks

Sent from my EVO rockin' MikFroYo!
[EVO 4G Android Development] tbgreen89:
Awesome rom! I love the theme! Everything is smooth. Did a clean install and it all went well. Battery Up time 5:30 - Awake time 1:05 - Battery at 65%. No setcpu. Just using apps that came with rom. AutoKiller Memory set at Aggressive. I will give it a few days and if it dont get better ill try another Kernal. But so far so good i supose! Good job!
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
ok... like i said before... i do things a little different than most dev's here.

thats why not everything that u can find all over the forums will always work.

i will say again... a lot of the reason it wont is most of the time not my fault.

so... with the boot animation... keep in mind that i did change the location of it to be in /system/media instead of the usual /system/customize...

now... spareparts used in this rom is not really spareparts... its actually leoparts and it comes form a dev over at the nexus 1 forums.

that would also explain why most features on it wont work... but im using it cuz it still gives u more options.

as for bat life... all i can say is that u need to try a diff kernel or try out some different settings.

there isn't one absolute way to make sure u have great batt life unless u on airplane mod all the time.

there is a million factors that come into play with batt life.

i was gonna post my stats again once my batt dies today so u guys can get a better look at how it runs for me... but again... what works for me might not work for u.

best advice i can give u on batt life is to think back to when u did have a good batt life and use the same kernel as back then and the same settings u had.

or keep trying out new things until u hit the one combo that works.

batt life is something that no dev can promise u... they can only say that it should be better... but they cant guaranty it, cuz u simply dont have the same exact phone/location/apps/etc. as they do.

as a final note i will say that if u not happy with how things are set up... this might not be the rom u want... keep in mind that if u liked my theme u can always get it from the themes section and run it on any other rom that u like better.

i always say that the best rom for an individual is a rom that gives u what u want when u want. (thats why learning how to make your own is the best way to go btw...)

whether it is looks, speed, apps, updates, support, etc. doesn't matter... bottom line, u gotta be happy with what u use... if u not, try a different one until u get the one u r happy with.

i hope that sort of answers some of your questions... if u have a specific thing u wanted to do and didnt work.... feel free to pm with it... i always help.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
i think u said the magic words here "clean install".

nothing like what u got is happening to me.... and i dont think to anyone else so far.

there wasn't as many d/l of this version as there was for version 3.2 but still... i would think it would have shown up if more people had issues like u do.

its always hard to make just an update zip and expect it to work 100%.... cuz i dont know what u could have done with your phone since the last time u flashed my rom.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tbgreen89:
Has anybody tried HTC's Kernal #17 with this rom???
[EVO 4G Android Development] housry23:
Wow, all these Rom's for the EVO! This one looks great!. I just flashed Azrael's newest today and have been playing with it, but this one looks so tempting. I will give Azrael a few days and then I'm trying this one next. I wish I could just multiple boot all of them and try them out at my leisure and pick which is best...lol. Anyway, thanks for your work on this and this just might be the Rom for me, although Azrael's latest is very fast and my battery life is better than ever. I am still going to give this a try though.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
i thought i was clear... maybe i wasn't clear enough...

only the first time u boot there will be a few fc's.... wait maybe a minute and then reboot.... all of those fc's should be gone and everything should be working the way it was before only with downloadable htc widgets.

if u happen to get an fc after the second boot... ignore it... it will never popup again. (fix_permission sometimes is still running even if the phone booted already)
[EVO 4G Android Development] jordant2:
Sorry I just woke up, lol! Ok, Let's see some lockscreens!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
lockscreens will have to wait for tonight... sorry... i didnt even decoplied the apk yet to look if the text color is connected to the com.htc.resources or not...

if its not... u will get your while lockscreen with black text... if it is... it kinda means that i have to change everything to white if i want black text.

i had a plan to actually make that happen one day... something in the gtx style... but its tones of work and i would probably need to know a little more before jumping in to it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Jimdog420:
I've tried the new kernel from ziggy for a day now. It's the fastest(1550 quadrant scores)one so far for me, and ive tried them all. Still too early to say on batt life. Good work on rom BTW. Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] jordant2:
I can wait. The Rom has been great so far.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
im glad u like...

i know ziggy kernel is good... but still not quite 100% for the evo... so i think ill skip it for now.

but im happy people r testing it with my rom to see how it work with it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] oigonzalez13:
flashing as i type this so stoked
[EVO 4G Android Development] Greenfieldan:
Definitely the best themed Sense I've seen...I'm not sure I'm willing to give up LauncherPro for this yet though. But as far as theming though it's gorgeous. You have me considering it...
[EVO 4G Android Development] jjones1983:
Just flashed, (not so) patientialy awaiting first boot :). I've been on Myn's essentially since I got my device about a month ago, so I'm anxious to see how it runs. As beautiful as the theme is, I'm more interested in the performance as I know for a fact I'll be reverting to Launcher Pro Plus anyhow...
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
ok... so a quick update on the lockscreen...

this is how it works... the actual images for it is inside com.htc.resources... the text color for the lockscreen can be taken care of.

now... since the slide down to answer actually uses the same exact images as the lockscreen i would need to change the text color for that also... so it would take me sometime to experiment and find the correct location for that specific text cuz im not sure if its in com.htc.resources or inside the phone apk... i can probably pull ioff a white one with black text on it... but i can't promise anything yet... i will wait a little longer though cuz i need to update the rom with the new 3.30 files that got updated and still need time to really dig into some files so i can get that white lockscreen going without messing up the slide to answer.
[EVO 4G Android Development] FastJoe78:
I noticed in spare parts that you have something called launcher2...how do i use this...also how do i use the different boot animations cause, I love you ROM...just not the boot animation...
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
dude... im not sure how much u know about the packages and such... but u dont have to really use sense if u dont want to, and still get the theme...

im not sure if u r on cm or another rom that was originally sense, but u can feel free to use the packages from my rom to get the animations and black&thing i got going.

same as i said above.... even if u dont use sense... some htc apk's u have to use... those are skinned also and like i said on the first post... no more ugly htc purple gray.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
gotya... well... i didnt really invest in the boot amination... i actually used the android default one thats already built in to the framework-res...

the reason for that is that i dont want to waste 5mb on a boot animation and u guys can always add an animation u like instead if u fell like it.

as for the spareparts thing... there seems to be a lot of options in it that wont work, i never tried the launcher2 one... but its basically the default android launcher.

im running the new RUU update right now so i can't check what works and what wont right now... but if u really need to know just try it for yourself.

for the bootanimation u look up zips in the theme section.
[EVO 4G Android Development] FastJoe78:
Thanks again, you are most helpful, Sir. I noticed the new ROM...I'm still playing with yours though and falling in love with it minute by minute...
[EVO 4G Android Development] VDub2174:
Nice looking ROM!! I may have to flash this when I get home from work. I like what I have now but I'm always down for something new.
[EVO 4G Android Development] raw_tunes414:
that rom is amazing....like the work and dedication put into it....but seems to drain battery heavy...is there any adjustments you have for this rom or plans for the future?
[EVO 4G Android Development] colima95:
Same here love this rom but battery is killing me and yes wipe batt stats . Not a rokie been with android rooting since it came out hope it will be discuss , please just batt and i am rollong thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] alammori:
You might want to try the new kernel from Ziggy471. It looks so promising.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
not sure what to say... batt is fine for me here...

im using SetCPU... maybe try that to see how it goes...

worst case... always try a different kernel to see it works better for u... thats a conclusion i got a long time ago, that not all phones like the same kernel.

i might put in the new htc kernel on the next release i hear good things about it... which is a good idea anyways since all of u guys can then flash what ever u like without have "left overs" from the king kernel (some files still exist even after u flash a diff kernel, but have no effect).
[EVO 4G Android Development] jjones1983:
Oh I know, I was more referring to the widgets and what not. The theme still looks beautiful in LPP, and the animations are butter smoothe. What's strange is it benchmarks slightly below the other two ROMs I've tried, but literally feels twice as snappy. Further proving my long standing view that benchmarks mean absolutely nothing. Great work man, really enjoying it so far.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
feel free to stick with azrael if u'd like... i have my theme up in the themes sections... i gotta update it a little bit... but 95%-99% of it is there.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Haze69:
Hey Aamikam your the man, this rom is amazing (fast, nice, awesome animations, and battery life) my battery life had always been horrible considering I'm a heavy user, I've always dealt with my battery dieing quick and the common 100-90 in a matter of minutes but with your rom it stays at 100 for a good amount of time and slowly drops with hard use. I've tried almost everyrom and none come close imho.

Thanks for all your work man
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
im happy to see another happy user with great batt life.

and i'm saying again, for everyone... in the end of the day, batt life is really individual thing which can not be guaranteed to u guys as a "one size fit all".
[EVO 4G Android Development] zerowonderboy:
This is not a big deal to me and im having great battery life like i said before but it seems like my battery will stop at a certain percent, then drop rapidly, then stop, then drop a few, and so on is there anyway to stop it from doing this if not no big deal.
[EVO 4G Android Development] CheesyNutz:
nice work its BRIGHT lol not a big white fan but i have to say im impressed
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
ohhh k, gotya...

well... i think i see the same kind of behavior... screen off the batt is pretty solid,.. turning it on it starts to go down... but it still gives me about 20 hours... so im happy.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
it looks brighter in the images... i originally wanted it white... but decided on more silverish look... cuz i know white is too much.

anyways.. im happy u like.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
guys,... googling mikforyo got me to see a video review of my rom that was made on version 3.0 a while back... i added it to the first post... just in case.

the review is from zedomax.com and its a pretty quick one, but its a good one... so its worth adding.

anyways here is the link:

ZedoMax.com MikFroYo v3.0 review

im sorry i didnt post it before... cuz i did find it a while back... but just for u guys to check out real quick.

also, ver 3.25 is a little bit faster if u ask me, and still got more things going on in it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] zerowonderboy:
Ya either way im getting great battery life great ROM cant thank you enough for ur work and u always respond to everyones questions. This is probably the only ROM i havent changed in in a whole week because its just so smooth and gets the job done.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
good to know... i always try to make sure u guys get what u want... even if i personally dont use it.

i wanna also open a "fixit" thread... so that i can help people that got stuck on things not working for them on the rom they r using... like making sure different themes work on all roms, mods etc.

i know i might be killing some people if i do that cuz then roms wont be so exclusive... but hey... i think options is what makes android so good compared to other phones... so i hope other devs wont mind me taking their work and making it work on all the different roms out there.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
guys... i got a quick question for u... back in the day i made a complete theme for windows mobile htc sense... i was wondering if u guys like it and would like to see me port it over to android.

i cant make it look exactly the same... but if u guys like it... its worth a shot making something similar to it.

anyways... here is the screen shots from my old theme.

dont be shy... tell me what u think and if its worth porting... if i will i will als invert all the screens to white on black instead of black on white (kinda like tha android market black theme that has been around for a while only for all the screens)

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[EVO 4G Android Development] Haze69:
yea, i think that theme would like nice, i personally like white on black more, and a few others in some previous post wanted something similar too
[EVO 4G Android Development] protoadies:
I still love your windows design. Im still running it on my diamond. I personally would love to see it ported as best as possible
[EVO 4G Android Development] cochese2323:
Just flashed the update zip.... currently running the previous version.....it installed fine but when I tried to download an app from the market it wouldn't download. It would pop up the notification for the start of the download for a split second and then it would disappear and no app installed..... any ideas?
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
wipe market data from settings... that should do it.

if not... im really not sure.... i know my update zip didnt work so well for everyone... so if u still having issues... try a clean install.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
still man... thats cool... i thought everyone on the diamond left for newer things.

but i guess a theme is something u can transfer between manilas.

i wanted to port it in the past... but just didnt know android good enough... it took me a while.. but i get pretty much everything now... i can make it happen.

yea... inverting has been in my head for a long time now... but i never got to it.

i take too much on myslef sometimes...

anyways... i promised i would get dusk theme ported... so thats a project by itself cuz i would need to also creat a little of my own to make that happen... same for porting my old theme...

i would still need to create.

and i gotta get some diff color selections and fix the rosie mapping and a bunch of other tiny things.

i think with the colors i can finish it up in 2-3 days max.

dusk theme... not sure.. might take a while... and my theme might also take a while... all the other things would probably take me a day or two also.

i usually work quick cuz i know where everything is and what to do with what and such... but we'll see... hopefully after Thursday i will start to move things around.

i also wanted to make the white widgets on a 4x4 layout and since my biggest project is kinda separating htc apps from its resources... im not sure when i will be able to finish everything up.

lots of things im planning on doing basically.

i hope ill get a chance to finish most if not all of them.

the thing that im always scared about is getting gingerbread popping on me and making me redo stuff.... also the new htc sense might popup... again... remaking things.

as much as it would be great... it would be more than just a little bit of work to adjust everything.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kngri:
it looks nice must have on your next release... :o)
[EVO 4G Android Development] tonwarr.the.incredible:
Lol... too much time on yourself?? Do you mean when you're sleeping? You're one of the more selfless and modest people on XDA, at least IMHO.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
thanks man... i see that u r praising me at some posts here and there also... so thank u again.

helping out is a nice thing to do... although sometimes people do like to make sort of demands instead of requests... but still, if i can pull it off quick i go ahead and do it... if not, i will try to get to it when i can if i can.

i never donated or anything like that... i always just took. but, i did figure that when i can give something back i will.

thats why im trying to help out people that need help with stuff that i can, when i can.

thanks again for the good words man.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
i will try... it will take a while to pull it off in a good way, but on this theme i also kept it all black and silver... no colors at all besides the icons.

i think i will completely redo everything... from text colors on buttons/menus etc. to menu icons and such.

one thing im not sure about yet is whether i should jump on some windows mobile taskbar icons or not.... but ill figure that out also sometime.
[EVO 4G Android Development] cochese2323:
Should I do this before or after update install?
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
after u update.

im not sure why u having issues btw... but if u went into /settings/applications/market and did the "clear data"... it should work...

once u do that u should get the confirmation screen as if its is the first time u use market.

also, try running the fix permissions script from rommanager... thats might do it.

there are a few more ways u can go about doing things to fix up stuff, but thats a little too long to explain.

but, like i said before, if the just update version is not working good for u... a clean install is the only real thing i think u can do to make sure everything runs as it should.

personally i always do a clean install.

i found that 9 out of 10 times it will give me better results as to how everything runs.
[EVO 4G Android Development] cochese2323:
Sounds good I am on the older version right now I think I am just gonna do a clean install to avoid any other issues....and it will give me something to do sitting at my desk today......thanks again
[EVO 4G Android Development] tonwarr.the.incredible:
No problem! :) I'm going through some life changes right now due to my own, sometimes, erratic behavior and honestly, as cheesy and off topic as this is, XDA has been a place I can escape and your calm demeanor and unselfish attitude has truly been food for my soul! I visit your thread daily, whether I'm currently running your ROM or not. Lol... don't worry, I'm not a cyber stalker, I'm just realizing the importance of keeping an upbeat attitude and surrounding myself with good intentioned people. Anyways, rant over, sorry XDA...lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] cochese2323:
Got the clean install rolling. Looks great. Love this ROM. By far my favorite
[EVO 4G Android Development] drslevy:
I thought i was the only one that felt that way. Definately not rant mode there. i work retail right now, been doing it for the last 7 years and im about to loose my mind, XDA i think has been saving my sanity to some extent.

I'm thinking of doing a video walk through for u mik. i have finals this week too so ill let you know what i'm planning by the end of the week.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kline1:
How can I get the 4x4 rosie with the white widgets..... because I flashed the zip in the 3rd post but it installs the original black widgets...... anybody can help me out on this......... thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] killhr:
I like that theme thumbs up
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
i didnt make a 4x4 version of the white widgets yet... im doing everything 4x5 first cuz thats what i use on my phone.

i never got to making it a 4x4... but it will.

so u will probably have a version of it sometimes on friday.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kline1:
Thanx brother....really appreciated looking forward to it,,,,,.....BTW Great ROM
[EVO 4G Android Development] evolishesh:
LOVE THIS ROM!!! Aamika! If I wanted to try a different kernel, can I just flash one or does have to be modified by you so it can work on this awesome ROM?
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
Just flash... it should be fine.

All kernels out there seems to be universal... all should work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
here is a pic of my batt life... i forgot to post it yesterday and my phone died anyways before i go a chance to take a screen shot...

anyways... for the next day i had a little bit more than lite use.

awake time approx 5 hours.

as usual, i dont turn any processes off in the background.. they all run and my sync's r set to every 4-6 hours.

email is instant.

i got 1 day and 5 hours out of it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Haze69:
Hey guys ive always seen people with 30 hours of use and always thought that was impossible considering i could barely get half a day, with miks rom i can get a full day of use but i think i found what really kills the battery, if u disable the data connection when not in use, it can make a huge difference, im currently at 34 hours uptime with 3 hours of awake time and still have 32 percent left. This may not make a huge difference for everyone just posting my experience, maybe it can help others
[EVO 4G Android Development] Shauli20:
So I'm back to 3.2 because of a messed up Android Home backup.

Can I flash your animations on 3.2?

Sent from my EVO rockin' MikFroYo!
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
yeah... it should work... u qwill also get some extras with it.