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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] the orange bandit:
Had a downright weird experience today:

Running v0.7.0, upgraded over a working v0.6.1 install.

Today I was driving around Texas (from Waco to Corsicana to Tyler up to Lindale back to Waco) and ended up roaming on Cellular One from T-Mobile quite a bit. I have data roaming enabled.

What happened was, while roaming, the phone would temporarily become a brick. I say that because the screen turned off on its own, and then I couldn't get it to come back on. There was no reaction from the phone no matter what button I pushed (power, trackpad, etc), so it's possible that the phone powered OFF, but the only way to 'fix' it was to pop the battery. Then it would work fine for a little while.

If I was on a T-Mobile tower (even 'GPRS'), I was fine - this *only* happened while roaming (interestingly, the phone shows a little 'R' above the signal bars when roaming - handy. It happened several times (5-6) throughout the day, and in all cases the phone was not being used, so the screen turned off on its own.

It wasn't *immediately* on roaming, either - I could use the phone just fine. There was just some sort of time-out that completely froze the phone (or did something to it that required a battery removal to 'fix').

Back on T-Mobile towers, everything's peachy-keen - I've not had this happen to me since I started using this ROM, which is why I thought it was weird.

Unfortunately, I don't anticipate being back in those areas again for a long time (few months) so I'm unable to test further or test any fixes.

Anyone else have this?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joshlusignan:
Besides my phone call quality issue, I have only had one reboot. This was after installing setcpu and setting it up in auto scaling... uninstalled it and not a single reboot after. Do you have SetCPU installed and running?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Merged Cyanogen's changes upstream into our kernel today and have a new one for you guys to try. All credit for kernel changes/enhancements goes to the Cyanogen project. We are simply maintaining an alternate branch for the sake of Sense compatibility, they provide us all the goods.

Here's the changelog:

https://github.com/rmk40/virtuous-kernel-vision/commits/master

And you can download the kernel update zip here:

http://files.virtuousrom.com/vision/beta/virtuous-vision-kernel_custom_v2.zip
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] pyro9219:
This is my experience as well.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ddgarcia05:
Excuse my ignorance, but should this combat the black screens that some of us have been experiencing?

I've wiped everything on my phone before I installed the 0.7.0 and I still experienced the black screen. It's happens once every other day.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eViL D::
People with wake issues, are you using setcpu with sleep profiles?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wngmv:
My phone is slow as hell (slower than my old G1 on CM6)... Basically unusable. I did a full wipe. Followed every step.... Not sure if I liked Sense as well.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] meltedmoops999:
Wait till it updates lost apps and syncs it Google, HTC, etc. data and it should run as fast as the stock G2 Rom if not faster.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] pyro9219:
Not sure if this got snowed over or not, but I'd be suprised if I'm not the only person curious about this. Maybe there is a way to do it and I've not found it (ready alot using the search feature, but nothing as I can tell)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Esteef:
Can someone just explain to me why Sense is such a memory hog?

With Sense installed I have half the memory available of a Stock G2 or CM6....

I open just a few apps and the phone slows down significantly.....

Even OC'ed..

(RMK40)_Virtuous... it has nothing to do with you. I love your build... but damn the memory usage bothers me. ( and it doesn't help that I have OCD )
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] aedillor:
Battery Hog!

I love how stable the ROM is but it is draining my battery faster than I can type this..... well maybe not that fast but I am only getting 1-2 hours for every 15-20prcent. I used to get 4-5 hours every 10percent. Yesterday I had to charge my phone twice and after the second charge, I was down to 50% after only 2 hours. I seems there are way too much running in the background with sense and I noticed also that the screen blinks randomly where as the screen turns on and back off a lot text or email. I have not had any force close or crashes I gotta say. Did a clean install and wiped dalvik which helped with the random black screen as well. Great job on the ROM and looking forward to some updates soon.... ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] benlee337:
Droid x multitouch
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] codf4ther:
Yes. I have setcpu putting the cpu to 245/245 when the screen is off.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Yep, that's almost certainly the cause.

I run 245/368 ondemand (don't use powersave, it locks frequency at the lowest value) with the screen off and have yet to have a wake failure. I could definitely see how disallowing any form of scaling could cause the issue.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] taz2781:
I have it at 245/245 powersave, but put the priority to 100% and don't give me problems.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] the orange bandit:
Yes with a few profiles. But I don't have any issues when using the T-Mobile network - this has *only* happened while roaming.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
I also had it to 245/245 I'll see how this works, and also,i installed your new kernel because I saw thatit fixed the mac address thing and after installing I don't see a change

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] :
Love the Rom. Made my g2 so much better than before. Have had 0 issues so far
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eViL D::
You don't see a change in what exactly?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] faylix:
For those of you saying your phone is slow as hell, you're clearly doing something wrong.

This rom is *super* responsive on my phone... no wake issues.. no call issues.

Def faster than stock... almost as responsive as Cyanogenmod RC2 and waaaaay better looking.

Battery drain is acceptable.. It'll last till 10 or 11pm with heavy usage and all night with light usage.

New kernel is legit.. I finally broke 40 on linpack with all my normal apps and widgets running.

My only 'gripe' is I like the stock calendar better.

Might like the messaging app from the 4g-g2 rom a bit better too... i think its attachment dialog is cleaner.

Keep up the good work

- J
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mike96789:
Do i just flash the new kernal with rom manager or do i need to rename it as update and load it from recovery?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eViL D::
Good to know we're doing something right. :rolleyes:

The easiest way is to copy the zip to the root of you sdcard. Boot to recovery and flash. There's no need to rename anything.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] faylix:
just flash from rom manager
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jrojas_92:
Does anyones phone doesnt send pic messages?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joshlusignan:
This ROM is doing everything right. Flashed new kernel last night and battery life is very good so far. I havent expierienced ANY issues at all! Looking forward to following your ROMs again eViL and its nice to see you doing some collaborations aswell. I seriously cant believe the difference from my Nexus to the Desire Z. Thanks again!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
In the mac address, its still 11:22:33:44:55, I thought that the commit said the new kernel, included a fix for that

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] verkion:
Someone earlier in this thread mentioned they got the Voice Dialer working (apk extracted from CM rom I believe). I tried the same thing and it consistently crashes. anyone else managed to get it working? It allows the "headset button" on a bluetooth headset to be launch the voice dialing which is really handy.

Thanks!

verkion
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ntrujillo:
Have you guys tried the SuperPower app in the market? works wonders for me!

Heres the thread for it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=807989&highlight=SuperPower
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] codf4ther:
Same here with the latest kernel
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mike96789:
Just flashed the new kernal and on first impressions it seems smoother than it was before. Will report if i find any bugs. Thanks devs!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dansfloyd:
Been using the app for a few days now. Everything looks and works great. I've only noticed a few things, which are probably not issues with Virtuous.

• The Screen not coming on sometimes... but I set up a profile in SetCPU 245/368 ondemand for Screen Off, and that seems fix the problem. Normally set to 245/1113 ondemand.

• Hardware Search button is not working when using Launcher Pro (Not sure if that's a Virtuous issue or not...)

Keep up the awesome work, This ROM is one of the best I've found for the G2! About to try out the newest kernel.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PersianBoi:
So i got a quick question..does anyone know how to get the "SYM" working while using the physical keyboard? On the sense roms i notice that the additional symbols (alt+spacebar) doesnt give the popup symbols. And some other keys like the "J" doesnt give the aditional symbols when youd press and hold alt+J (or other letters forexample). im wondering if anyone has come up with a work around this, besides having to close the keyboard and use the onscreen keyboard to access those symbols. Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Fix for that was committed after I released the beta kernel last night. We're working on the kernel again tonight and will probably have several new builds (all of which include the MAC address fix among other improvements) to offer in the next few hours.

You can track our work here if you're interested:

https://github.com/rmk40/virtuous-kernel-vision/commits/
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
Sounds great thank you

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Alright new kernel build for you guys:

http://files.virtuousrom.com/vision/beta/virtuous-vision-kernel_custom_v2b.zip

Includes everything below, except BFS, which I've pulled temporarily from my local git repo.

https://github.com/rmk40/virtuous-kernel-vision/commits/
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
And here's another kernel build, which includes Cyanogen's commits from earlier today to bring us to up version 2.6.32.26.

Test Kernel 2C

Mind you, the aforementioned build is different than "b". Please try both and let us know which works better and why:

Test Kernel 2B
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] RaySmith1:
Thanks rmk40 for your hard work.

ok, I did try the new build but I had to do full wipe out, other wise the phone hung after full boot, I think setcpu is causing the issue and I can't removed unless do full wipe, anyway full wipe not big deal thanks to backup tools. thanks again.

Cheers!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joshlusignan:
Just flashed 2b kernel. No problems with booting, just a little longer, as per usual when flashing a kernel.

Friendly reminder to anyone having boot problems is to wipe cache and dalvik cache before flashing kernels.

Ill give this kernel a day to see how it performs. Thanks for the updates!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
Very noob, question, I have the desire z and when I try to wipe dalvik cache with CW it gives me an error saying it cant mount something (can't remember specifics, E:......), so even if I scroll down to the "yes...." And press it, it automatically returns me to the menu without doing anything it seems, you guys have this problem?

Is this not allowing me to run virtuous to is full potential because I'm unable to wipe it during an install?

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] triniscorpio:
anyone having a problem with sms not sending? its happening a little too frequent and it always seems like the phone keep trying to send it because it keeps vibrating until i delete the unsent message. any suggestions? fyi i have already tried a full wipe.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ShanksG1:
Has anyone had call drops or signal blackout at times. I make a call sounds like the signal fades I can't hear them and call drops.other times randomly there's no signal at all I have to reboot.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rinsxi:
Everything except MMS is working on my G2 TMO USA. Any Ideas? Great work!!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ShanksG1:
Mines started doin that also out if nowhere
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Latisteel:
I've been using for about a day and its been getting really laggy...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stryder5:
Did you wipe everything before flashing?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eViL D::
The ROM does not lag. You have a 3rd party (market) app that is causing this.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ShanksG1:
What about signal failing and call drops
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eViL D::
I've never had either. Maybe you're in a fringe area. Does wifi calling drop for you?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rsxtypes72:
I just wanted to let you know I tried the kernel 2b & 2c. They both made my phone freeze within seconds of trying them. Yes I wipe cache before flashing the new kernels. Also the "H" icon keeps constantly changing from H to 3G to E to G back and forth. I read on CM forums its normal. I hope that's what it is also MMS not working here either.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tookewl4skewl:
rmk I noticed that about a week ago that you posted a version of the pershoot kernel to solve the BT not working issue with the virtuous rom. It has been updated several times since then and was wondering if you could make an updated version of the kernel for virtuous users? Thank you so much for your dedication and effort, much appreciated!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joshlusignan:
Running 2b kernel since unplug this morning. Sitting at about 60% battery, 5 hours up, 2 hours awake (WiFi on, streaming music for a bit). No freezing, lagging or reboots to report. So far it seems kernel 2 had better batt life for me. Gonna charge up and give 2c a go in a bit.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mykeldrip:
2 feature requests!

1.audio boost!

2.stock keyboard port!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] NXUS:
Trying out kernel 2c, fixed htc hub htc likes (before always got an error: could not connect to server) htcsense.com working now too! I'll report performance in a few days, and as for the poster who said they freeze the phone, not happening to me

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tookewl4skewl:
frustrated, sorry.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stryder5:
For audio boost, check out DSP Manager: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=750765 I don't know if the APK there will work for you, but if it doesn't, find one that does.

For stock keyboard, I believe you are referring to Swype. If that's the case, there are many threads on how to restore Swype after flashing a new ROM.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
I'll fork his kernel and maintain a working Virtuous build if he's not doing it already.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
Do I need to rename this update.zip or what? I'm still kind of new and I know I couldn't get it to install through Rom manager and through recovery. How do I go about renaming a Rom that doesn't have ".zip"?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sharkdude28:
anybody else having fcs with voice search?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Crusher16:
After watching any youtube video, my phone slows to a dead crawl. Requires that I pull the battery to fix.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Phawkes:
No issues here.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] MATOPETE:
You MUST be permarooted before you can do this and have s-off
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
Anyone?! How do I load this Rom?or make it .zip
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ThaGeNeCySt:
Are you permanently rooted with Clockwork installed? If so...

Download ROM

Connect Phone to PC/Mac

Turn on USB Storage Mode

Put zip folder on SDCard (anywhere of your choice)

Open ROM Manager

Boot into clockwork recovery

Scroll down to Backup & Restore and make a backup of your current ROM (in case you don't like this)

Factory wipe, delete cache, go advanced and clear davlnik whatever, battery stats

Return to main clockwork recovery screen and choose "install from .zip"

Scroll through your SDCard until you find the ROM

Reboot phone when finished.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
Thank you sir. This is prove that there are people on this forum that actually want to help..and yes I am. Do you think you could provide me the link for the rom? Because whatever reason I think I got the wrong one. And this process would be the same if I wanted to go back to stock and put the latest Bacon bits on my phone?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] haensgn:
overclocking?

Hey rmk or evild how do i overclock 0.6.0? Im lost in the woods here. I thought i remember seeing info on it, now I cant seem to find it.

Also this rom seems to charge at a MUCH slower rate on computer drip charge...

Is that even possible? I ran outta Juice twice so far on computer charge with no user apps running. Its as if sense is defeating my charging rate... I've only seen that on a Moto Driod p.o.s..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ThaGeNeCySt:
that is what the recovery is for... if you don't like it, boot into clockwork recovery, choose backup and restore... then restore from your backup that you made prior to flashing this new ROM and it'll be as if you never installed Virtuous in the first place.

The link is here btw: http://files.virtuousrom.com/vision/virtuous-vision_froyo_rom-v0.6.0.zip
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ThaGeNeCySt:
I can't speak on the pc charging issue but.. as far as overclocking... load up a terminal emulator (or do it through adb if you choose)

su

insmod /system/lib/modules/z_oc.ko
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] elfysrfr:
Yeah i got same issue with youtube app making phone super non responsive. Any ideas?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] haensgn:
why does the kernel only oc to 1017 mhz? Why not 1497?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] edwill44:
When I used the command my clock throttled down to 528/245. What am I missing? Im using setcpu for verification. I cant get it to go beyond that. Thanks for the help....
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ThaGeNeCySt:
try this:

rmmod z_oc.ko

insmod /system/lib/modules/z_oc.ko pll2_l_val=70

if you don't like that clock speed, adjust the 70 higher or lower
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Lingj:
When I do this, it says that I can't open z_oc.ko
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Armani G:
if I do this command will it stick??
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gaalaagaa:
I have the same doubts.

We need more explanation about that overclocking kernel.

Is it done with ADB or Terminal Emulator?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] PatrickHuey:
installed the rom, but i dont think i can overclock. i looked through this post and seems it is at least to 1017, but im stuck at 806?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] haensgn:
Unfortunately it did not work for me. Upon typing:

rmmod z_oc.ko (I get)

rmmod: delete_module 'z_oc' failed (errno 2)

I know its installed correctly as it is overclocked still after that command line.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
That's not really helpful. Can you explain why you think they are awful? I need concrete facts, not an editorial. Otherwise how can we improve them?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] luis86dr:
Awful? Working great for me. Running v2b. Haven't tried c yet but b is running immaculate.

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Going to try something a bit different today. I'm building direct forks of the Cyanogen and Pershoot kernels, both modified to work with Sense. I'm going to offer these up without any modifications except what's required to have them work on Virtuous.

Look for these shortly.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tookewl4skewl:
my apologies, I have just spent so much time trying out different kernels, but they keep draining the battery way too fast than it seems they should. I even tried the kernel stock PLUS one, with no overclock and battery was still draining significantly fast in comparison to stock kernel on stock rom. I've wiped the device and allowed to run on 3G with no 3rd parties apps installed and am still losing close to 30% battery life over the course of two hours.

Thank you rmk, I really appreciate the time and dedication you're putting into helping us end-users. I noticed that pershoot kind of overlooked the changes that you suggested to him in your post within his thread.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mykeldrip:
nope i mean stock 2.2 keyboard...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zainqaiser:
Hey guys m having a problem that wenever I watch videos on youtube app on fullscreen..and then close it....my fon experiences a serious lag....I cannot even do anything...then the only solution m left wid a battery pull out...after that it works normal....anybody havin similar issues???
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dhickman:
Great work, a couple of issues

I have switched from the N900 and really like the G2.

Since this is new to me, I like the sense interface.

The issues so far for me are.

1. Exchange sync issues with calendars and contacts/

2. System has strange response when waking from power button or track pack press. Screen flashes and goes black. Usually I can get back in if I wait a few seconds or open the keyboard.

These are the big issues for me.

Battery consumption seems fine, but I came from a N900. I also run super power to keep the phone off of 3+g and wifi when not needed.

This is really cool work.

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tookewl4skewl:
I've had the same issue with black screen but I found that if you hold down the power button until the restart menu options pop up, this will bring your screen back to proper usage

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Evil has a fix for this. The newer kernels we built have it incorporated and should not be exhibiting the issue. Which one are you running?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dhickman:
V2c from last night
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gaalaagaa:
I have no issues to report other than my screen sometimes not coming up which its most likely fixeable. Ill report again in a few....
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tookewl4skewl:
Right now I'm using pershoot's kernel... anxiously awaiting your revised version :)

Sent from my htc.desireZED
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Phawkes:
Ok I know there are alot of pressing issues for some people such as these black screens etc, but is there any word on getting a working locations and car panel app? Seems like that kind of just faded away. I'd love to have these features working on this phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Yes, that's going to be fixed in the next release. We haven't forgotten about anything, don't worry. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rmk40:
Here are a couple new kernel builds. These are from the latest sources with only necessary changes in order to get BT/FM/Hotspot working. Aside from that, they are identical to what Cyanogen and pershoot provide, respectively.

Download Cyanogen kernel for Virtuous (Git)

Download pershoot kernel for Virtuous (Git)

Let me know what you guys think.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joshlusignan:
Great, thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] luis86dr:
Downloaded pershoot kernel. Seems very smooth. Lost a lot of scaling options but seems good. What's everyone running under scaling with pershoot?

[G2/HTC Vision]