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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slimjimwoods:
does anyone know if this has SMS auto retry? 1.6 didnt seem to have it...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
If you notice that when you hold the back button for longer than a split second, a toast message comes up saying "Application killed".

Took me a while to learn how to press the back button for less than a split second. :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] luculuc:
No it's not that as I removed that option...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lifesaver800:
Hi all, i have a trouble with default browser on 1.7.2.

When i start it , it's loading for few seconds and then gone off.

I install Opera mini and it's working ok, but the default browser not.Dolphin browser HD has the same behavior like the default.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] diarti:
Hi, I couldn´t find a "how to" to this, so could someone please describe how to install the updates 1.7.1 and 1.7.2. I did a full wipe and flashed the 1.7.0, what to do next?

By the way, I forgot to do an nandroid backup, does this cause any problems now? what exactly is it good for?

Sorry, I know this are question which don´t belong here, but I couldn´t find answers in other threads...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minty1978:
you need to apply 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 in the same way you installed the rom, usually by flashing in recovery.

nandroid is usefull if you mess your phone up, it's just a backup that you can quickly restore to in the event of a bad flash, or changing something you shouldn't. it wont cause you any problems...just a good thing to do!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] diarti:
Ok, thank you very much!!! Will do so ;-)

But, do I have to do a wipe before the installation?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
where is that option to toggle "long press back" = kill app?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rustynuts34:
You wont need to wipe to install the updates
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] luculuc:
Go to settings, applications, development, it's there!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
Thanks luculuc! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Could you try an alternative sms app perhaps? Chompsms or GoSms?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
I recently discovered that I get a constant reboot whenever I attempt to use GPS.

Here's my last_kmsg.txt attached.

Scenario is I turn on GPS option, then fire up either Google Maps or the app GPS Status. About 2 seconds pass before I get a instant reboot of the phone. This happened again when the phone finished rebooting and GPS is already turned on.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bbogdann:
I had that problem too with GPS.

Why all live wallpapers don't work? I think one or two live wallpapers work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
That's a hero issue. Hero doesn't support 3D live wallpapers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Hmm weird... I've been using GPS a fair bit :)

What radio are you using? If not latest one, try updating?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minty1978:
i have to say GPS is really stable for me on this ROM, better than most other roms.

my radio is 63.18.55.06SU_6.35.17.03
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gynjanynja:
I swear I have done this but I still cant get rid of Ubuntu fonts. I have reflashed 1.7.2 and I also have gingerbread theme. Do I have to reflash 1.70, 1.7.1 and then 1.7.2? to get rid of the fonts?

Look 2 posts down
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Hi guys,

I'm using the same radio as minty1978, which is the latest one if I'm not wrong? :D

I tried it again today, didn't get a reboot. No idea what's going on :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gynjanynja:
Ignore previous request or comment please. Can you make this available so I dont have to sign up to villainrom? Thanks in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yadabwoy:
im running this rom and find it great so thumbs up ,, is there anyway I can get the sense ui dialer to work or a similar one instead of having 2 dialers and also a weather widget like the sense ui one thanks oh and also I cant get the liwe wallpapers to work just goes blank
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
Use Youlu Address book...

DialerOne, NubDial and a lot of other aftermarket dialers are rubbish in comparison!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JBNAquatics:
Yeah Youlu is really nice, after the HTC Dialer of course.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
The version you want is from 42turkeys, so google for

site:villainrom.co.uk 42turkeys ubuntu font

There should be a file factory for it there.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
The problem with Youlu is that it does not let you dial * or #. If you need to dial those regularly you'll need an alternative. I recommend Touchpal Dialer.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
I've never had to use either of those keys while dialing a number. If I need those keys for automated messages I can easily just bring up the native dialer during the call.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Yeah, not everyone will need * and # when dialing a number. And as you said if you need it during a call it's available through the native dialpad. However, I do use those keys for accessing some of my SIM services so for me, and possibly others, Youlu isn't a good option. I've been very happy with Touchpal dialer. It's got all the necessary features and it runs quickly and smoothly.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yadabwoy:
thanks will give it a try , why do all these roms have launcher pro or adw as launchers is it not possible to have the stock launcher instead and I cant get live wallpapers to wor can you help ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
They use custom launchers as they are miles more useful and feature packed than launcher2.

I installed LP on a friend's nexus 1, and he was trying to pay me for making his (unrooted and stock 2.2.1) phone so much better. LP is customisable beyond what you could dream of in launcher 2.

You could remove the apk and install launcher 2, if you wanted it that much...

Regarding LWP, are you trying to use a 3D one not supported by the hero graphics processor (or its lack thereof)?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yadabwoy:
ok makes sense or should I say mkes froyo lol , im trying to use the live wallpapers that come with the rom like the green smoke one it just wont work do I need to flash an update to get lwp to work ? only reason I think the stock launcher is better is that launcher pro crashes at times as well as adw
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mGi00:
no good

Sorry for the delay,

xmastime ... sure you know :-)

So I tried both the programs, but unfortunately the issue is the same ... the send button is still unavailable.

I will try to find out how to change this.

Im curious does anybody have the same issue? When no could you send me the radio version u´re using thx. (my is below)

Can I provide some info so you could help me?

I have another question, in the car I have the phone mounted on the front window. When somebody calls me and I answer the phone where can I find the speaker button, or something which enables it ... so I dont need to use bluetooth handsfree. Is it available or am I looking for an antique.

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Tap the menu key, and all your buttons will appear :)

On behalf of the VR crew, we'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas, and hope you have a great new year.

While I won't be about over the holidays, some of the other guys might pop their heads round the door :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gynjanynja:
Thank you I will try latet
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
two minor bugs..

First is every so often I have to reset my sound and display to what I want as it resets it self to default ones..

And second is everytime I try to install X-Plane the phone reboots... Have plenty of internal/external and ext2 space left so it's not an issue due to this(least dont think it is)

Any ideas????

oh one final thing wish to use default lock screen but it it does work ie there is no lock screen. have to use lockbot pro and pattern screen....any ideas what I need to do to sort it out???
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
OK. There is a defualt lockscreen in the ROM by default, as I remember testing out the "double slider" on it, for lock/silent/call/SMS :)

Not sure what you've installed to change that, but I guess it's an app of some sort.

Not sure what you mean about resetting sound and display, but I've left my phone in both silent mode and set volume modes for about a week each, and it seems to have stuck OK.

I use auto brightness all the time, and it seems OK. Used to use manual, but no issues there either, just fancied trying auto again.

Currently looking into X-Plane, but it isn't appearing on the market. How did you manage to buy it? (Is there a way to trial it maybe that I'm missing?) This suggests it's not hero compatible, and I think this will be too large to run on hero tbh...

EDIT:

After a bit of research, we decided that the ARMv7-based CPUs are powerful enough to run X-Plane, but nothing less would be sufficient. We set up the application in the Android Market so that it will only show up to people who have phones with an ARMv7-based processor. This means that right off the bat, there will be some users who won't be able to find the app in the Market. This is normal. In this case, your device isn't able to run the application at a reasonable frame rate, so you have no reason to purchase it.

Sorry, not gonna work on hero, as it checks in market for ARMv7. Hero is ARMv6 :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
x-plane came via andappstore.com

so how can I restore default lock???
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
OK. Can't see it, but I asked a friend who had the app on his tablet to try it on the hero, and it didn't work.

Seems the 30MB APK is too big for our phones, and dalvik crashes...

Regarding the lockscreen, seems you've done something that has removed it. Flashed anything over framework-res.apk, or any themes? Added any apps that "override" the lockscreen, as they could remove it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
flashed Kalagas Mixed Theme FV1.7 then lockbot
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
MAJOR PROBLEM. I DO MEAN MAJOR....Just Spent 6 wasted hours reflashing and then reinstalling this rom and apps.Did because of issues mentioned earlier and also because SUDDENLY all apps dissappears after a reboot. And no matter what I did just couldn't get them back... So reflashed.... Trouble is completed reflashing and re installing 500+ apps etc then restored contacts,calender and sms's rebooted and guess what all the ^&%^&%%*&^% app s have gone again...Looked in applications tab in settings and they are all listed but sizes are only showings as 0.00kb!!!! WTF all settings etc that restored of from 2 days ago so can't see it being the thats caused this.... Does anyone have any ideas as to what the hell is going on????
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
That is weird...

Having 500 apps could cause the random strange things you see, as I guess something disabled the lockscreen...

But presuming you use A2SD, is the partition good and healthy? Sounds like something is up with that. Can you see the apk files when looking in /data/app, and does ls -l show sizes?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
use ext2 and had reformatted and re partitioned card and no can't see apps when look in mentioned folder
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
Apps2sd.log shows this

Invalid SD ext directory:

Logging mounted devices for debugging:

rootfs on / type rootfs (ro,noatime)

tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=600)

proc on /proc type proc (rw)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)

none on /acct type cgroup (rw,cpuacct)

tmpfs on /mnt/asec type tmpfs (rw,mode=755,gid=1000)

none on /dev/cpuctl type cgroup (rw,cpu)

/dev/block/mtdblock3 on /system type yaffs2 (ro,noatime)

/dev/block/mtdblock5 on /data type yaffs2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)

/dev/block/mtdblock4 on /cache type yaffs2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime)

Also if I try to install anything phone reboots straight away!!!!!!

Also done a nandoid backup+ext and worked fine even ext was backed up so apps are there....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
500 apps is insane. That has got to be some kind of record. I don't even have that many apps on my computer!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] desean:
i am no expert but this part reads like your ext partition is corrupted. maybe you backup your sdcard contents (using your PC), re-partition your sdcard again then restore using a last good working backup.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
Done that 3 times now and as soon as I do a final reboot the issue am having occurs.......

As stated have even done a backup inc ext in recovery mode and when I check the back up alls there.

as to the amount of apps well have had that many installed for months and never been an issue...

And incase some one suggest it.,.... Have formatted card as just fat32 and checked using various utils on pc and it doesn't throw up any issues...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
well what ever the dam issue is in doesn't matter whether the apps are installed to EXT2 or SD card (yep 4 time of reflashing and reinstalling) soon as the phone is rebooted they are nolonger available but before reboot they are..... so the issue seems to be rom related and not card related.....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Sounds weird... Not heard of any similar issues. I've rebooted countless times without issue though :(

Something is going on with the mounting of the SD card... I remember someone suggesting using the Floyo apps2sd "fix" or something, though I never had any issues with A2SD in general... Might be worth a shot.

Failing that, perhaps try VR12 briefly, install five apps, reboot, and see if they persist... If not, install the stock hero 2.1 and see if they persist there, as if not, something massively wrong has happened, and you might be best starting from scratch on an ruu, though I doubt that...

The fact they disappear after reboot suggests the EXT partition isn't being mounted or "seen"...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
hmmmm ok trying another rom as we speak. Have wasted far too many hours with it due to things going wrong...

but if continues phone is off in the bin(as in a REAL Bin)....just sick of it.....Android has for been the worst os have ever had for issues....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
What? Android has been the best OS I've used (including desktop OS's)... I am wondering if your issues may be as a consequence of 500 apps all hooking into the OS and whatnot... Certainly, Android wasn't intended on the hero for more than 100MB worth of apps, pretty much, as A2SD is a 3rd party modification...

It does seem strange, but I can't think of a reasonable explanation for this :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Throwing away your phone, sounds good to me :eek: might have one last app "disappearing" issue but then all problems will be solved ;)

Btw, You don't have the ext even mounted?!

I suggest, restore a working backup, reboot and make sure it works. Then install the FlyKernel-12a-CM-App2SD-Compcache update I just added to my FlyKernel post and this should hopefully fix your problems. After you get everything working, upgrade to ext4, as it is more stable and less error prone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bellor:
@erasmux: if I have programs loaded onto the ext partition, can I upgrade to ext4 without losing them?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Yes, in RA recovery (at least in 1.7.0.1), you use the menu to upgrade from ext2 to ext3 to ext4 and your data should not be lost (have a backup just in case). Note that the ext2 to ext3 is reversible (you can convert ext3 back to ext2 without losing data), but in order to go back from ext4 to ext2/3 all data on this partition will be lost. Also note, that previous versions of flykernel, including the tweaked flykernel-11c which comes default with FV 1.7.2 does not support ext4, flykernel-12 does (including pre versions).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bellor:
I have flykernel 12a and ra recovery 1.6. I suppose i could upgrade then since i do have the option in recovery.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
just moved to your floyo 1.2.0 and all works fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All apps are fine and there no issues!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol veeeeerrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy strange

just to confirm I should not have to reinstall apps if up grading to ext4???
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bellor:
Nope, you won't lose any apps when upgrading. Still, what happened to your hero seems very strange. Obviously rom related... but also device related. More like an interaction of the two.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lohtse:
spoke way too soon.had 11 reboots in less than two hours....phone is now to be binned..... USELESS and unreliable........NOT getting another droid phone....For me Android has been the worst phone os ever had and have had smart phone since the SE R380(which I still have) have had Palm,uiq,symbian winmo and Android.... Winmo in the beginning was bad but ended up being good and stable.UIQ was one of the best....Android since have had the HTC Hero has been a complete nightmare for me.... All I can say to the custom rom developers is Thank you for all your hard work was always welcome just a shame about the OS it's self...

Again thank you..

regards

Lohtse
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Xalexalex:
I'm having loads of problems with the touch screen: the lower part of the screen almost never works, (the menu and other dock icon are impossible to tap), and I get similar problems while writing with any kind of keyboard (std, HTC, Swype) if I tap on the edges of the screen.

Is this a known issue, do have any solution?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Alessandro
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bellor:
There are skme solutions which you can search for in the general froum, but they are all quite DIY. This is a fault which is well known by HTC, so warranty should be no problem. Just make sure to flash the original 2.1 rom before you take it to the store. Just a question, when did you buy your phone? Was it new when you bought it? I ask because I bought mine in april 2010 and I was under the impression that newer lots did not have this problem anymore. I am also hoping this is true, for my phones sake.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I assume from your posts, you did NOT do a full wipe which is necessary. There are detailed instructions, wrote by the developers of the different ROMs and kernels - we spend a lot of time writing them because they are necessary. You can choose not to follow the instructions and blame the phone, just know that it is not really the phones fault....

If you want a working ROM on android it is very very simple:

1. Go to recovery. Wipe everything in wipe menu.

2. Install a ROM with good reviews (i.e. Floyo - what did you I think I would recommend)

3. Reboot and install NOTHING!

verify it works well.

For this point on, when configuring and installing apps do it gradually until you find which app(s) are causing your problems....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Xalexalex:
Waitwaitwait... this problem arised only with FroydVillain. I'm flashing my "old" CM6.1, see if it resolves.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bellor:
I told you... search in the general forum. There has been a lot of debate in those threads over whether the problem is custom rom related or just a hardware flaw. Some guys do seem to have gotten it after having installed a custom rom, but others got it with the original roms too. I tend to believe that it's mostly just coincidence that the touchscreen started to misbehave after a custom rom installation. This problem has been acknowledged by HTC and they do repair it free of charge. The thing is that other people have had your exact problem, and after it started happening (with a custom rom or an original one), whatever they did (without actually fixing the hardware flaw - which is the touchscreen digitizer), the nonresponsiveness of the bottom 1cm of the screen kept coming back.

There is one test you can do to see if it really is hardware related. When the screen does not register input, try pushing on the top corners of the screen

(without touching outside the black part of the glass) and try to use the keyboard. You don't have to push extremely hard (just increase the force without going overboard), but if the problem is with the screen, the keys should start to register the touches.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geniy1982:
I've noticed that in this ROM the quality of sound is for some reason worse than in 1.5.0. I had to use MixZing's equalizer to turn down trebles, bacause hi hats and hissing consonants sound as if a razor is running across my brain. As for headphones, I use quite decent ones, Sennheiser CX 300-II Precision. Are there any kinds of sound drivers for Android to sort this issue?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Timmac:
Shamelessly c&p'ing this from villain forums-

Have installed 1.7.1 and then 1.7.2 which was supposed to fix things not showing up in the market but I still can't see some?

Main one I'm looking for is tweetdeck, another is flixter. They just don't show. I tried market enabler, but that didn't help...

Hope someone can guide me? Thanks in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] merlin699:
did you wipe the market-cache?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Timmac:
Cheers man, can't believe I forgot that!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] merlin699:
I have to come back to the apps2sd issue. my memory is getting low and drivewatch tells me that I only have 170mb instead of 512.

in the nandroid backup folder the "ext.tar" file has just 1.00 KB, I think that (automatic)apps2sd is not working for me (it always worked like a charm on VR12).

yes I did a full wipe, moving apps manually to sd with app2sd works.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geniy1982:
My question ignored?:(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] darthrevan:
Does anyone know, which apk file is critical for google backup to work?

I deleted this ones

"AndChat.apk

CPUSpeed.apk

Calculator.apk

CarHomeGoogle.apk

CarHomeLauncher.apk

ChromeToPhone.apk

DeskClock.apk

Development.apk

Facebook.apk

FroydVillain-1.5.0-release-signed.zip

GenieWidget.apk

GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk

HTC_IME_themed.apk

MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk

Music.apk

PassionQuickOffice.apk

PicoTts.apk

Stk.apk

Street.apk

TtsService.apk

Twitter.apk

Vlingo.apk

YouTube.apk

ZeroXBenchmark.apk

com.twitter.android-1.apk

kickback.apk

kz.mek.DialerOne-1.apk

nindroid-v3.1-122-691-nologo-release-signed.zip

soundback.apk

talkback.apk"

and it does not seem to work. After I reinstalled rom no settings were downloaded nor apps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] androguns:
SD card issue

Hi,

Just flashed the latest version.

I followed all the steps and did complete wipe.

However, when my phone turns on, there is the sd card icon in notification area. When I pull down the notification bar, there is a msg that reads "SD card safe to remove. You can safely remove sd card."

Also, it seems that the GPS is not working.

I have wiped again and reinstalled the ROM but the issue persists. It seems that the sd card is not recognised...

How can I solve this?

Thanks in advance...

** I noticed that the Baseband version on my phone (63.18.55.06OU_6.35.15.01) is different than that in the screenshot (63.18.55.06OU_6.35.17.03)... Can that be the reason? What might have happened? How can I correct?