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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Rchard:
I wonder if this post have been posted earlier but does anyone have the issue running games on this rom. Almost all the games e.g asphalt 5, PES2011 force close on launch on the ROM version 1.0.1.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] the-nj:
I think that is not reconginzed it is written in the build.prop. and the dev might have a G2 so now by flashing that rom you have one too :-)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] crazyC:
Yes to radio and no to the lib files as I figured they were already the ones in there (as explained by rmk later I think)

It seems to have improved but not eliminated my issue with sudddenly losing reception for no reason. So far the evidence is that it recovers almost instantly now, but it does still seem to drop unexpectedly now and then.

Will run virtuous for a bit longer and then maybe revert to RMKs rooted plain version and see if it makes a difference.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
Can anyone help direct me to the instructions to adb push wifi calling back into this rom I have had no luck. I have the apk but can't get it working.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
I'll build a patch for this a bit later tonight and post it in the mods section of ROM Manager.

Your phone is clearly not reporting itself as being on the T mobile network. That's the only way swype and wifi calling would be omitted. Possibly a bad sim card. Either way we will get you sorted.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
Thank you so much!!! You definitely just made my year!!! It was driving me crazy but I am so glad you can help out.

Thank you!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Chinam4n:
I think it would be something like

I'm not sure if you need to mount or not, but make sure the apk is in your directory, if not you could try.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jmwils3:
ok, Ive looked all over this massive thread, and cant seem to find this issue anywhere else, but Ive been a huge fan of sense, and this rom, for quite a while, and this rom was the one I most looked forward to when rooting my g2. However, this rom seems to be taking issue with my microSDHC (Patriot 32GB Class 10), giving me two separate kinds of errors. The first, and infinitely more aggravating of the two, it cant seem to handle the amount of media (about 20gb or so of music) I have tried on the card, corrupting the filesystem as soon as i try booting it up after loading it, causing me to have to reformat the card to be able to use it at all, either in my computer directly or in the phone (which, given how long it takes to load that much onto the card, is understandably aggravating). At first, I thought it was an issue with the card itself, not unheard of, but it works just fine on CM7, MIUI, LiquidMetal, and others. Its just on Sense ROMs that it seems to take issue with this.

Additionally, something I noted today, was the inability to get this rom to work adequately with my a2sd partition (ext4). Does anyone know of a way I might enable this on this ROM? I find that, once enabled right, it tends to make a vast difference in speed of the UI.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gogothesaint:
can you please guide me to where i can download v0.95 beacaue after installing v1.0.1 i found out that it does not support arabic, and whether it is ok to install(downgrade) from v1.0.1 to v0.95

thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] karlonicolas:
Yes I'm also interested in ext 4. Hope someone can advise here how to use ext 4 in this rom.thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] vonmolk:
Thank you for the very excellent sense rom for the G2. I was wondering if anyone knows how I can setup to launch google voice search by pressing the button on my bluetooth with this rom? I have the application installed and would love to have that functionality back like when I had the stock T-Mobile rom on the phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Czechton:
I don't know for sure if this is to do with virtuous, but since flashing the rom it seems I am unable to properly change the default ringtone using ringdroid. When I set a new ringtone it seems to stick as the default for about 5 minutes after which it changes back to the stock ringtone. Has anyone else experienced/fixed this?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ninj:
What does the icon shows exactly? GPRS? EDGE? Also, have you tried more than one program to check your internet connection. Also, that could be a APN setting problem, check it in settings/Network/Mobile networks

These are only Gameloft games, do you have the same problem with other games? Try Angry birds, Robodefence free...

If it's only a gameloft related problem, try uninstalling them all, then delete the gameloft folder from your SD card, and install again. Lookout, you'll loose all your saved games that way. You could use Titanium backup to back it up before.

If it's a general problem, the trouble is beyond my knowledge, but i would try reinstalling the ROM, just by flashing through the recovery, without to wipe data (you could wipe cache and dalvik though).

I started to have reception problem yesterday too. I'll give it two more days and try a different radio if it goes on.

There's no A2SD in Virtuous, as far as i know (someone correct me if I'm wrong), so your ext is just useless here. Also, I've read, on a Leedroid thread, that ext3 is preferred, dunno why.

Please, search the thread with the search function, it's been mentionned some pages earlier.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] :
There is A2SD, but you don't need a separate partition. The app data just gets stored on the sdcard in a folder on the main partition. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ninj:
Are you speaking about the 2.2 (Froyo) new feature that allows SOME applications to be stored on the SD, if they don't require some special persmission?

A2SD is something different, which allows to really extend the system partition of the phone, thus allowing all applications to be installed on SD without they know it. It requires an extended partition on the SD card, and the A2SD application.

It's useful for small internal memory phones, like Desire. But users of other phones like Desire Z and Milestone should not need it unless they are compulsive app eaters ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Rchard:
Though i applied your way of solving the issue with gameloft and also konamis pes2011 but it still doesn't work. The games work perfectly on CM7. Thanks for your reply regarding this issue Ninj.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] abrakadabra_srb:
Hello everyone!

I wanted to play a bit with changing auto brightness settings. So, I decoded framework-res.jar using apktool (1.3.1), changed auto brightness levels in arrays.xml and then packaged everything back using apktool again. With this done, I tryed replacing framewor-res.jar but it resulted in bootloop. Then I have tryed to sign this apk (although I dont know if I am using correct certificates) with this http://www.mediafire.com/?6dv7chdcg7pdifn which I have found on modaco forum. After replacing the framework-res.jar again, I managed to boot the device, brightness levels are changed but now when I go to Settings it gives mi FC on settings like Sound, Display, Calls but WiFi, About phone etc work. Rmk or someone, do you know maybe what am I doing wrong? I suspect on these certificates, but the again maybe not? :) This is my first time modding the framework-res.jar

Thanks in advance, keep up the good work with Virtuous! :)

Never mind, I managed to get it to work after doing some aditional research. Mods can delete this post if they think it is not relevant :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bigmoew:
Yes I've experienced this (only for notifications), I've tried to install an ogg file from a galaxy 2 rom. I used htc.com's support method by putting it into a notifications folder on the root of the sdcard as well as placing it into system/media/audio/notifications. Every time I boot, the sound set resets, either by no longer finding the file or just randomly switching to another song. After setting it back to my file, it will last between 10 minutes or a reboot for the sound set to do mess up again.

Been using a custom ringtone just fine ever since 0.9.x, created from a song file on my sdcard, but this is the first time trying to have a different notification (on 1.0.1)

EDIT: Czechton, if you're on 1.0.1, maybe its the patch, because the last time i set met ringtone was after the wipe to 1.0
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Czechton:
Yes I'm on 1.0.1. I didn't get to test it on other builds since I flashed 1.0.0 only a few hours before the 1.0.1 patch came out which I pretty much installed straight away and only then tried to set a custom ringtone.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ExTREmE99:
Very nice rom, everythings running great!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blunted09:
does this rom allow rotating of home screen without opening the keyboard???
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] IMPEREAL:
@rmk40 I changed the sim card today and tried to flash again with no success. I'll wait for the mods fix. Thanks for the idea tho.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Kishtsang:
I had Virtutous 0.95 installed on my Desire Z, everything worked nicely. But when I flashed the 1.0.1 update I couldn't get htcsense.com working. I couldn't sign in and couldn't make an account. Went back to miui. Is this a known bug?

Regards
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] karlonicolas:
my query seems to be wrong. i realized upon downloading that only the libs are in benjamin's link.

so the rest of my query goes:

Also, anyone here from asia who noticed reception improvement using this updated radio?

My current radio is 12.28b.60.140eP_26.03.02.26_M

I bet my current radio is really old.

Thanks in advance.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ExTREmE99:
I had the same exact problem, but after setting up my other gmail account, the htc sense account showed up and worked fine after that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] k3y.m8ney:
This rom would be perfect if ATL+Space would enable symbols. I never thought that was a must have feature for me but I am considering going to CM7 just for that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jgro1976:
I know this has been brought up before, but wth is up with the camera not saving pictures? I took a ton yesterday, and went to look at them this morning, and they're GONE.

Same with the SMS messages, everything was fine and dandy until one morning, went to send one and all previous messages were gone. I've since started doing 6 hour backups, but still.

My biggest concern is the camera, I use my phone to take pics, a lot, but I'm gonna change roms if I can't rely on it to save my pictures.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
It's annoying me too. I've actively been trying to fix this. If/when it's resolved, you'll most definitely see a new release.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Had this happen to me today as well. Not sure what the deal is, looking into it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jgro1976:
Cool, thank ya much!!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] csufmedina1:
This has happen to me as well but all I do is restart my phone and the pictures appear again..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] 5thave174:
This happens to me, too. However, I find that the pictures ARE stored in the camera. The problem is only the Gallery doesn't "see" the pics. So your pics are safe but it's inconvenient to access them (I can get them with a file browser).

There was mention of this a while back in this thread. Do a search and see if there was a solution.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
OK so the picture I had it happen with is actually on the sdcard, just not showing up in the gallery for some reason. Use a file explorer and look in /sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA and see if your missing pictures are there (mine were).

So I suspect it's a media scanner issue, which is a lot better than missing pictures. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] 5thave174:
Yep. I just checked and my missing pictures are all on the SD card too.:rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jgro1976:
Yeah, a reboot fixed the issue for sure. I'm using the stock gallery app instead of the default one that comes with Sense, but the Sense gallery didn't find them either until I did a reboot.

Weird.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kara mustafa:
the same problem i had today, i just had unmounted and mounted sdcard in settings and then pictures appeared. For me it looks like media scanning

BTW

i think stock htc sense launcher is smoother than moded one.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] k3y.m8ney:
Good news theres active progress. Hopefully you guys can figure something out.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kobexu:
Great ROM! But I am confused about the ram on this build. I think the total RAM available is 372MB for G2 on Virtuous ROM. However, the device should have 512MB theroatically and i remember it was about 448MB when on CM 6.1. Do anybody know the solution for this?

Also, I did notice a lot of lags when open menus and apps especially for the first time.

Thanks a million.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bongd:
The lag you're encountering happens with any ROM for the first time. It happened to me even with CM7. But after you use it for a bit, things smooth out and it becomes very snappy.

Don't forget to delete battery stats in CWM's Recovery Menu and do a few charge and drain cycles. A lot of people complain about the battery and do nothing about it... I'm getting up to 40 hours on a charge and I'm streaming movies via Wifi and 3G, playing emulators, browsing and texting all throughout the day without any problems.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ninj:
Hey speaking of battery stats, what is the "official" best way to restore your battery stats at best after a wipe? "Doing som charge cycle" seems a little too loose to me :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bongd:
There's no "official" way, but here's the a post from Qazme that sparked the conversation regarding battery calibration. Someone else might actually need to be credited but whatever, same **** different pile.

It's important to do when switching ROMs. I hate seeing people switch to new ROMs and *****ing to the developers that it sucks **** and that they're going to try the ROM they used previously (which they've inherently calibrated just from regular use). Grr... really pisses me off, especially seeing how hard the devs work and then having a dumbass newb flip them off. This is not to say that you're a dumbass though lol... end rant.

To add to this, you could just as easily kill the battery stats file in CWM's Recovery Menu in about 2 seconds. And I suggest bump charging. Charge the **** out of your phone and unplug the power cable for a few seconds. Continue charging it for at least half an hour and maybe do this a third time.

Also, when you drain the battery make sure it's dead as a door nob. When the battery dies and your phone literally shuts off, remove the battery and pop it back in. You'll notice a minute or two of juice is left. Kill it and remove the battery... keep doing this until it won't boot. I actually leave the battery plugged in after it's dead because of the vampire drain factor. You don't need to do this, and I don't normally do this... but to squeak out every last bit of juice you could.

FULL charge and FULL drain. Let your battery stats file rebuild with the NEW ROM and NEW kernel. If you don't, you will have a battery stats file calibrated for whatever other inferior ROM and/or kernel you were using prior to using the lovely Virtuous package. I may sound a little extremist but if you want the best performance then adhere to these guidelines. Even killing the battery stats and doing a few charges and drains without bump charging will definitely be a lot better than doing nothing. Sometimes ROMs and kernels are similar and you see no difference in battery life, sometimes a new ROM and kernel drains the battery in a few hours...... might as well do this, right?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kobexu:
thanks for the tip, but what about the ram? does anybody else experience the same problem?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
You've got to be kidding me. I never really knew about the battery stats thing. I did it for my G1 and it completly screwed over my phone so I always hated doing it. But this is.. interesting. When wiping my battery stats, where should my battery be? And how many charge cycles should be done when switching ROMS? This is kind of a taxing task but I would really love having 40+ battery hours like some people.

Sent from my Rooted God-like HTC Vision running Liquid Metal.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jgro1976:
Something else this ROM has been doing that drives me nuts, I'll set my display settings to either automatically adjust brightness, or a set level, and every couple of days it defaults to full brightness and wipes out what I had it set at before.

Anyone else having this problem?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Eclypz:
I was bored, so I've been fiddling around trying to get the 3g+ icon working, as mine is always stuck showing 3g.

I noticed once you flash the .27_M radio, and boot from bootloader it works. But once I reboot the device again, it goes back to 3g icon only.

So the only way for me to get the 3g+ icon is to flash my radio, boot from bootloader into OS, and never reboot again.

Its honestly not a big deal to me because I'm pretty sure its just an icon not displaying properly. My speeds appear to be unaffected, but I remember reading a few pages back about somebody pulling their hair trying to get this icon working.

Bell DesireZ

Rooted via gfree

Virtuous 1.0.1

Standard Kernel (above testing was done with stock HTC kernel)

.27_M radio

Rogers Wireless network
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ExTREmE99:
I've noticed my phone has been syncing very often, is this a bug regarding htc sync because it seems to show the sync icon in the notification very often. Im worried its draining the battery ( in about 4 hours it drained 50%)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] havocnl:
I've seen this question before in the thread but no answer...

Does anybody have lower HSDPA (3G+) speeds with this ROM?

My speeds don't go higher than 0.94 Mbit/sec, tested this with multiple speed test programs with servers nearby. I should have a maximum of 3.6 Mbit/sec, and i live in an area where i have full reception. With my HTC Hero i got speeds from 2 up to 3 Mbit/sec. So the cap of 0,93 Mbit sucks...

Also called my provider and the analysed the network poles/transmitters near me and there is nothing wrong there... Should have full speeds HSDPA here...

I had higher speeds with my Desire Z if recall correctly, but don't know with what ROM anymore...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Rumbi:
Look at my Signature. This test has been performed with Virtuous 1.0.1. So i would say it's not a Problem with the rom itself.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] karlonicolas:
just flashed the new radio 26.06.02.27 with the libs posted by benjammin. curiousity killed the cat, but not my DZ.

i was afraid of flashing the new radio using hboot. i am currently running a g2 eng hboot on desire z up to now, and so far, it still works.

(earlier, i erroneously flashed a g2 enghboot (0.72) and i realized this was wrong when the phone refused to boot.)

well, so far so good. no problems with wifi on using the new radio and the libs. will let everyone know about battery consumption and reception later.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] crazyC:
I am still very new to both the Desire Z and android itself, and so please excuse me if I ask something where the answer is 'cos thats just how it is'.

My experience of Virtuous has been good. my only major issue is the reception disconnect that has been improved if not entirely eliminated by the updated radio (seems only me or one or two others have this issue anyway).

Questions :

Is there any way to stop the phone from unlocking when the keyboard is opened? My initial googling suggests that 'not really' is the answer.

I am having issues with launchkey implementation on the personalise button - only to the extent that it takes ages to open. Is this just how it is or is there something I can do?

I had a phone call come over my bluetooth headset while the phone was in my pocket, that was fine, but the screen was unlocked by the call and stayed unlocked? This mean that things were selected while the phone was in my pocket as I did not realise it was on and unlocked? Is there a work around or have I not ticked something?

Many thanks for any advice.

C.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] havocnl:
Hmm i'll reflash my radio and radio libs and see what happens then...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
I'm assuming rmk is working on a gingerbread version for tthe next release.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] bongd:
It's really not engaging at all. Delete your battery stats and that's it. I don't know how well it'll actually rebuild the file. But if you're paranoid and want to squeak out the absolute best performance without any doubt in your mind, absolutely kill the battery and charge it right to the brim. Nothing complicated or engaging at all.

I'm not an expert on the subject and don't develop for the Android, but I imagine it might be best to do a couple charge cycles. I'm unsure if it's advantageous to kill the battery stats and rebuild them from a dead or fully charged state. I do mine when it's charged and have always had great battery life. No task killers, no disabling GPS, etc.

I don't think this is always 100% mandatory, but because of the contrast between certain ROMs I think it's appropriate to do before commenting on battery life of certain ROMs. It's not fair to developers to switch to something new and label it as being a lousy piece of **** when you could just be a victim of circumstance. This is just another negative thing that is going to cause developers to lose their vigor. The community should embrace devs and thank them for their hard work. It's only fair that we be courteous and PROPERLY review their work if we at least have half a brain in our heads.

***

Regarding Swype though. I have a Canadian Desire Z from Bell and I found that if I restart my device, I have to change input methods from and back to Swype. It won't Swype unless I do this, but the keys work normally.

When I upgraded to the latest ROM I DID delete the installer.. but now that it's installed I still have this problem. I'm going to wipe next ROM or kernel release, but I'd like to know for my own sake whether it was something I did or not. I remember someone else commenting. Search isn't working ATM, otherwise I'd definitely search for that post. Cheers!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
We're not yet. I'm going to look at the Gingerbread Sense leak for the HD but a port would never be a candidate for a "Virtuous" branded release. If I decide to do anything with it right now, it will be in the form of a generic ROM.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ninj:
A big thanks for finding this post out and quoting it here. I'll do that ;)

I have two more questions:

1. Is it advised to charge the phone around 10-20% battery left or only very close to 0%?

2. Are you sure a battery calibration is rom-dependent? I thought calibration only builds a table of matches between a voltage and a %.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] blast0id:
you can SAFELY let it shut off automatically before charging... but me personally I usually charge @ around 5%

but the phone will shut off long before any damage is done to the battery, at least this is what I've been told... now if you let it shut off automatically due to low battery and then let it sit for a while (day or more) then you're probably damaging the battery...