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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] verkion:
Hi evil or RMK, any comments/suggestions/fixes/ideas regarding getting HTCSense.com to work again? It was handy for locating my phone and for "auto SMS backups".

Thanks!

verkion
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] weTec:
+1 ... any further hints on news on this topic?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Carphedon:
Ok, trying again, why do all my replys vanish?

I asked if others have problems in this rom with their data connections going into idle and programs not connecting properly afterwards. Day after, post is gone...

So i would like to kindly ask again if someone has problems with his data connections. It is kind of frustrating and happend on both of the desire z is tried.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tbalden:
its working here except the locating. sms backup and contacts are synced with virtuous 0.9. I think you just found the usual problems with htcsense.com that plague it from the start.

im on a htcZ tho, not g2, if that matters any.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] trapdogg:
First of all, this Rom rocks. One of the best Rom in my opinion. I would live it more if it had gingerbread screen off animation.

Is there a way to port?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gazenhokenz:
Does anyone know why when I type in landscape on my keyboard, the message will sometimes scroll up and stop typing?

Also is there a way to activate the enter key on the keyboard to send a message? thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] garz:
I personally don't have any problems at all with this rom. Its slick and serves as my daily driver. Besides, I hated the original msging app. So I over wrote it with the gingerbread release.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
you have to replace htc messaging app with either vanilla mms.apk or an mms app 3rd party, like goSMS, chompSMS or handcent... then the option should be in the 3rd party apps settings...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
is there a CM version of the gingerbread mms? one that has the "dark" theme? I am currently using CM6.1 messaging that was modded with the dark theme... any advantage to the gingerbread mms over the previous vanilla mms?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] adrieono:
How do i switch betweeb the HTC keyboard and Swype? I want to use Swype.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
tap and hold on the text input area, let go and you will get a pop-up asking about input method, tap it then select swype.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] adrieono:
Thank you
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
i apologize i was not trying to single you out of any kind, nor was i directing it to you. i guess i was just trying to give the devs a little slack for what they do for free. i have also had a little annoyance with the messaging application.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mrbmg:
I tried searching because I know I've seen something about this before but I have vanilla mms installed, and when I try to forward one of the dirty pics I get sent, it force closes even though it still sends the pic.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] phantomdroid:
I can recieve MMS but i cant send... nobody can recieve my MMS.. is there a Fix??
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] verkion:
Interesting...htcsense.com isn't actually recognizing my G2 as a Desire Z like it did before. I wonder if it has anything to do with the DesireHD Icematrix icon patch I'm using...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] collins521:
That's a bug in the htc messaging program that's been in there...I haven't seen a fix. Another reason why I replaced it with the vanilla sms app. That and the picture messaging issues
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] collins521:
Where is the gingerbread release version of the messaging app?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
just extract it from one of the 2.3 rom zips... it'll be under system/app obviously...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] collins521:
Ah gotcha..didn't know if there was one that needed altered for the 2.2 OS or not
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Gooler:
Is there a bug tracking system/known issues list for the project?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] yesshh:
No problem! I installed the vanilla messaging app and now all is well. I definitely appreciate the devs' work. I would never want to undermine what they do, or what you guys do by helping people like me that don't understand. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mrbmg:
Do me a favor and try to forward a mms to someone and tellme what it does please.

Keep fc on me, wonder if its a bug or a bad mms.apk d/l
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] collins521:
I just forwarded a mms to myself and didn't get any FC or anything
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mrbmg:
Well dang, probably means it's on my end :(
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] collins521:
I also have the vanilla mms app on here and not the one that came with Virtuous since it was always giving me problems with picture messaging
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Sparacis:
Hopefully someone can answer this for me I have been using this rom for a while now and noticed that it displays my model as being a G2 and not a desire Z like it did on the original rom. Maybe this has been answered b4 but I searched and couldnt find anything is there a way to change the model to display desire z instead of G2. Not a huge deal but would like to change it for personal preference.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] smoochiezz24:
@sparicus It shows as a Desire Z because the Rom is based off a Desire Z Rom, hence the sense. All of which is stated in the opening post. Really, what benefit would there be to changing it back? When would this change ever have proved itself useful? In my settings however, it does state that I'm on a G2 but that's probably because I am.

Sent from my sweet G2 :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] detox702:
@smochiezz24: The fact that you are on a G2 has nothing to do with the model number that shows. I could show my G2 to be a Motorola Cliq running Android 4.6 if I really wanted to.

@sparicus: There is a section in, I believe, the build.prop file that governs what model shows up. All you have to do is find that file, change that line, and poof. You have a Desire Z.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dictionary:
You're entirely wrong, lol. He said it shows as g2, and wants it to display Desire Z. Also, it has nothing to do with your phone. :)

Detox is correct.

If you look in /system you'll see the file build.prop and change the line ro.product.model=G2 (I'm assuming, I'm on another ROM.) to Desire Z, and then put the file back on your phone. If you have Root Explorer, you can edit the file directly from within it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] smoochiezz24:
Ahh, I must have read it wrong, ill bow out gracefully on that topic. I'm just curious ,in what situation would changing the model help. Like, Would changing their model help anyone having problems with htcsense.com? Maybe their model is coming up as a G2 (which is vanilla Android) so that's why its not working...

Sent from sweet G2 :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
Just a thought-why or how is it that in CM i get most of my battery used by the android system, where in this rom i get most of my battery usage out of the screen/brightness? the only thing i could think of is that CM has more going on constantly, causing the system to work harder..so i guess I'm glad virtuous doesn't. :D

sent from my V I S I O N.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] beta199:
Was this correct?

Hi, I just installed last night on my stock Desire Z the 0.9 ROM with the standard kernel, everything went fine. Then, to recover my data I restored the "cache" and "data" partitions from the previous backup (stock Desire Z)

As the author warns NOT to restore the system settings with Titanium Backup as this defeats the purpose, I am wondering if by restoring the cache and data was the correct action or did I mess something about the new ROM configuration?

Thanks for the reply, I am fairly new to this, and learning.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] smoochiezz24:
@patrickhuey I dunno, on my phone ,system takes up no less than %85. I do however have my brightness on like %20. But it might have something to do with the fine optimizations evil and rmk have included in this Rom. It takes a lot of power to well, for the lack of a better word, power that pretty screen u got. I think if u lowered your brightness, u would start to see system take up more of that percentage.

@beta sounds good 2me. Idk if I would have personally restored the cache but I don't really see any harm it could have done. U said everything went perfectly, so yeah you seem to be good 2go

Sent from my sweet G2 :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] edwill44:
To the developers I again say thanks for the ROM. I have to say that the phone sleeps like a rock now. I went to bed last night at ~1200 with 45% charge. Just got up with 40%. Excellent job....

Sent from my G2 cruising at 1.1Ghz
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] U Flippin Idiot:
Won't play Videos

No matter what I try I can not get this to play videos. I tried looking thru the forums but can't make it thru all 308 pages. When i play local video from phone I get error and also on youtube. Anyone else had this that they were able to fix?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] skulk3r:
have you tried:

1) Wipe cache/dalvik

2) Reflash after wipe

3) Load previous ROM

?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hoffreaper:
I haven't had any issues with this ROM and playing videos either on the Youtube App or just playing local videos on my SDCARD. If you are trying to play a movie on the screen make sure you have it re-encoded for a smaller screen size.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
posts like this are really very useless... please people, when posting an ISSUE, please post exactly what you have ALREADY tried, so that we aren't just flailing around in the dark with a mace trying to hit something that's a mile away... if it's something you can easily reproduce, please post the exact steps taken to reproduce it... (ie: from homescreen, tap on message in message widget = messaging FCs)

it would also be very helpful if you list at the very least:

ROM / Kernel Version, SetCPU/cpuTuner/overclockWidget profiles (if any), any system level mods you may have applied (notification power strip, themes, vanilla replacements). It would make it a lot easier for those of us who are willing to help, to actually be able to help you instead of just throwing darts at a dart board after being sprayed in the face with pepper spray and hoping one of them sticks

also, mentioning page numbers is useless, due to the fact the amount of posts per page can be changed and many people user higher post per page counts to view the forums... so if referencing a particular post, please right click on the post number and "copy link to clipboard" then paste in your referencing post... this SHOULD all be elementary... but apparently people are just way to damn lazy... that's unfortunate...

this was not directed directly at U Flippin Idiot, but more of a general statement to EVERYONE who posts issues... reading these forums has become quite a headache lately, as much of the time we (the helpers) are left to make assumptions (mother of all ****ups)... we who would like to help, thank you kindly for following these very simple and easy steps to GETTING BETTER HELP FROM US!!! =)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] the orange bandit:
Can you give more information, also, as to what videos you're trying to play locally? Is it a file you recorded with the phone, or one you downloaded somewhere? Can you upload it here or link us to the download so we can test it out?

What *exactly* is the error when it doesn't play? Does it just freeze your phone (that's a known issue with the YouTube app), or does it actually show a message 'video unable to be played', etc). Are you trying to use a specific video app (separate from the default included ones?)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mike96789:
I don't know if this has been posted or not, or if anyone has tried it. But on the HD2, there is a widget that was created to turn off the screen in Sense ROMs, I have just tried it and it works. Go to the forum below, download the apk and install it, thats it. I guess this for all the other lazy people out there that does not want to reach up to the power button to turn the screen off. Try it!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878819
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] xanth:
As someone said further up, you need to change /system/build.prop and then it'll work. I've got a Desire Z bought in the UK and the following are the lines I've changed (taken out of the original ROM)

ro.build.host=AA107

ro.product.brand=htc_wwe

I believe the AA107 is the Desire Z specific part (because if I remember right AA108 comes up as Desire HD - I could be wrong though).

Then also you need to change the following in /system/customize/CID/default.xml

From:

<item name="device_name">T-Mobile G2</item>

To:

<item name="device_name">HTC Desire Z A7272</item>

Again this is for the UK Desire Z. I actually just replace the /system/customize/CID folder with the entire contents of my original stock ROM which has a lot of extra HTC*.xml files, I don't think that's necessary to change the name though.

And the final reference is in /system/customize/MNS/default.xml right at the bottom in the MMS ua_string. The original Desire Z has:

<item name="value">HTC_DesireZ_A7272/1.0</item>

Personally though I'm on O2 UK so to fix the the small MMS problem with that network (because O2 don't recognise the Desire Z) I have mine set to:

<item name="value">XDA Exec/arcsoft-mmsua-3.0.0.xx</item>

Their much older XDA Exec / HTC Universal which they do recognise/works perfectly for me, but again this is only because of O2 and the last one only needs to be changed if you care about the MMS useragent.

I did however need to hardreset/wipe all system data for the changes to take effect though.

htcsense.com is actually broken at the moment and only the very earliest accounts actually have full access to the site. If you contact HTC they'll tell you that newer accounts only have the phone finder (which is very slow to work), ring my phone etc. To my annoyance I didn't find this out until AFTER I'd deleted my fully working account with the idea of recreating it since I was doing a hardreset and it seemed cleaner - Terrible idea that turned out to be! As such I don't know if the G2/DZ makes any difference, but I've already changed mine back to DZ anyway as written above :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] imsuperjp:
I replaced the HTC msg app with the vanilla one but pressing enter still does not send the message and I dont see an option to enable it? Help?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
yes it's in the options...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dustrho:
I'm giving this ROM a try as I normally use CyanogenMod, but I have a question to ask. How can I disable the haptic feedback of the capacitive buttons (home, menu, back, search)? I'd prefer to have no haptic feedback of any kind on my phone, so if someone could share that information with me I would appreciate it.

Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Delta105RUS:
Is anyone having problems with youtube? It keeps saying that the video cannot be played.

RUS4LIFE
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] imsuperjp:
Ok im blind then bc i dont see it anywhere
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bouzouki:
settings>sound setting>vibrate feedback, last option at the bottom.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
hmmm... maybe it's the version of vanilla mms I'm using...

I'm using the one from here: THIS POST

maybe it is slight more modified than just the "dark theme"

try that one... just don't forget to rename the apk to com.android.mms.apk

edit: I did just double check my settings and "send on enter" is indeed in the settings on the version (above) that I'm using...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] burtcom:
No, you are the only one who is having any problems with youtube :)

seriously, there is an issue with some versions of the youtube player -- search this thread for youtube.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] imsuperjp:
sweet it works now. Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] champgetem:
I'm not sure if poster but I have this rom and my led light isn't working.....it was before....jus wondering if anybody experience this if so what can I do?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eViL D::
Sounds like you flashed another kernel.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Delta105RUS:
Yeah, that fixed it. A few days ago I flashed the htc kernel (no oc 806MHz) to solve the flashing lock screen problem (which it did). Now I flashed the advanced kernel and YouTube works but to lock the phone I need to click the button like 3 times before it actually turns the screen off.

Still a great ROM. Sense rules.

Thanks!

RUS4LIFE
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
have you tried the killscreen app? If you can spare ~$0.67USD This mod is a wonderful addition to this rom =) I personally use the launchkey app for a "quick menu" and in that menu is a link to the killscreen app, among other things... but you can also set the long press search key to directly launch the killscreen app...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ninj:
Hi. Before the questions, I would lie to thank you for sharing this. Here I go :

1. Since i installed these zip, just after sliding down the locker on a wake up, my screen will show upside down, quickly coming back to normal position, in a very fast animation. No matter what is to be shown after the unlock, it appears upside down for a 1/10th of second and flip in 3/10th of second. I may try to take a video. In fact, all a new bunch of animations appeared. For example when I quit the weather app, it shrinks with no transparency, remain shrinked to 50% size for about 0.5 second, and disappear. It's uggly.

2. How to uninstall all that safely, assuming i made a nandroid backup only AFTER the first flash (shame on me), and i have a Virtous 0.9 Desire-Z?

3. Could you explain with some details what does really do this double flashing? Like "why does it have to be flashed, not just an app?", "why are there two steps?", "what are the changed made, and where?"...

4. Is it easy to change the icons? I would lie to make them a little less colorful ;)

Thank you again for all that!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
if you nandroid between flashes, you should be fine, just flash your backup and you will just have the stock default power strip notification options...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rajbaba2:
Idk if someone has said or asked this but can u flash this with cwm 3.0.0?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
as far as I know, that isn't possible... 3.xxx versions are for 2.3 roms only... due to ext4

edit: you can actually flash the 2.3 roms with cwm 2.5.xx but you'll have to flash cwm3.xxx to be able to do any backups of the 2.3...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rajbaba2:
Aww sucks i was thinking of flashing mess around make it perfect and create a back up then go back to gingerbread but thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mo94:
Love the ROM but it is missing something VERY important to me that seemingly every other ROM has - auto correct/spell check in text messages. On Gingervillain or Cyanogen, if I type "il" it will turn it into "I'll". But Virtuous doesn't do that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] collins521:
Do you use the stock keyboard or swype?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mo94:
Stock hardware keyboard.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eViL D::
You haven't looked hard enough.

Prediction is there Settings->keyboard->touch input->Hardware keyboard settings->prediction
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
I just want to note this after hours and hours of personal frustration... lol... silly me... but just incase this saves some other people trouble when trying to create their own theme with the UOT Kitchen...

USE THE framework-res.apk FROM THE FIRST FILE (power notification update zip), NOT THE ONE FOUND IN /system/framework on your rom currently... to be even safer maybe flash the first zip, boot up, then take the framework-res.apk from /system/framework and use that one to upload... (edit: tested by taking the framework-res.apk directly from the power notification update zip, and it worked as it should have, flashed and booted with no loop or weirdness)

will update with some screenshots in a bit =)

wil be happily donating to the virtuous crew and the UOT crew come payday!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zainqaiser:
is anyone else havin battery drain issues....like i get to 50% after 6 hrs with barely using it....with my wifi,data,gps all off and brightness on auto.....n yeah with bt headset......any suggestions????? btw m using the kernel that came with the rom...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rrmzr1:
Idk maybe a lil. With pershoots kernal I I'm at 50% after 9hr and 10mins. I overclock to 1.2gz with screen off profile. I'm also using juicedefender
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mosrobit:
Really stupid question..

Is there a way to only have two-three screens on this rom instead of seven?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
No sir, 7 is standard with htc sense, or at least all of the newer versions.

sent from my V I S I O N.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] felixk87:
This should be a sticky!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mosrobit:
Thanks, this is my first HTC phone and sense experience so I'm new to all of this. Guess it's back to ADW, but I really like the HTC widgets.....:(:(
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] felixk87:
Have you adjusted the notification/sync setting for your various apps/twiiter/rss feeds?

My phone does the same thing. I'm using stock .9 kernel, auto brighness, no bt, just a handful of widgets (batterybar, titanium backup, doubletwist, wifi toggle). I have twitter set to only sync when I open it and decreased the sync frequency of other apps. In total I get average of 12 hours of battery lofe.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] verkion:
Just thought that I'd let everyone know...I changed one thing in my build.prop and HTCSense.com started working again. All my SMS's are auto-synced etc.

ro.build.host=HPA008

Thanks!

verkion
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] more2come:
Check your apps... Some bad coded apps keep your phone busy and prevent it from going to sleep mode.

I'm using the same config and my phone is running for about 22h and I'm still at 55% . And I used my phone quite frequently.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
The current/latest version of the Google Voice app seems to be causing substantial battery drain, as evidenced by high partial wake times. I've seen this the past two days on my own phone. Tonight I downgraded to the previous version to see if it helps. I can't confirm whether it does or not yet, but here's the apk anyone else interested in experimenting:

http://files.virtuousrom.com/apps/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice-v0.4.2.8.apk

Just install normally.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] patoberli:
My HTC messaging app crashed today again and removed all messages again :(

The mobile was in stand-by when I received a new message. I pushed the wake button, but didn't saw any new message in the notification bar. Then I unlocked it and also saw no '1' in the messaging app. Tried to open the messaging app, but it hung. Pushed the back button and the app was forced closed. After that I opened it again, but all messages were gone.

I've attached the system_log output from the time that happened.

You can see a LOT of sqlite errors in there.... I guess that's the problem?

The message arrived around 9:33 in the log file.

I hope this helps somebody to point me to the error.

It's Virtuous 0.8.1 with Kernel 1.0.4.

pato