yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rondietz1:
Actually, on Launcher Pro preferences screens, I am now getting something even weirder happening, several of the options, when I click on them, the whole screen dims and the only thing I can do to get out of it is to hit the back button. Also have been having a lot of widgets not reloading properly upon awakening, I have to remove the widget and reinstall it on the screen. I really love this rom and all it's features so I think I'll go back to 3/3 for now, didn't have any of these way, way back then (over a week!).
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SysCrasher13:
I am getting a black screen when someone calls I cant see who it is, anyone else getting this?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
That could be an issue with your phone, but myself and I would guess many others use the autokiller app, which reschedules the allocation of RAM based on preset values. I keep mine set to "optimum" which tells the phone to constantly give me 40mb or higher, so I doubt it's a RAM issue.

Also, I just tried this phone "fix" from a few pages back, I forgot who said it but thanks! Even though the screen is black you can still slide the answer slider as if it were there and the call picks up, just did it and it worked.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
yeah I got the same thing on 3/8 and 3/10 intermittently. 3/3 was pretty solid, only issue I remember was the phone screen issue.

umm, everybody, have you even read this thread at all? wow.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
Those of you having weird display issues (including black screens), try this

adb shell "echo debug.sf.hw=0 > /data/local.prop"

Then reboot.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
I assume that is the same as changing it in the system build.prop, right?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rvturnage:
Thanks for the help -- no idea why I had to do this, but...

Weird thing was, the first time i went to try after reading your post clicking the list of apps in miscellaneous would do nothing...phone seemed to lock up, but I could use the "back" button and regain the ability to scroll or click. Long clicking an app name would give me bizarre options -- sometimes choose a category, sometimes choose a color from a list, sometimes from a color wheel. But not the expected page. Rebooted, and tried again, and was able to get the correct menu options to load and settings saved and tested.

So my LEDs are flashing again! Thanks, Ranger!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
Right, but values in /data/local.prop will overwrite values in /system/build.prop (except for ro.* values), plus they won't get overwritten when you re-flash.

And if you want to change it back, you can just rm local.prop.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] poashll:
I think when they added the profiles is exactly when the screen lag on a call issue started. Just for sh**s and giggles, I went in and deleted all but the Default profile. Now when I call my phone, the screen lights ALMOST immediately when the call comes in rather than right before my voice mail picks up. I don't think it is just in my head because it was a very long lag previously.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
Can this be done without adb.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
Anything you can do with adb shell can be done with Terminal Emulator.

echo debug.sf.hw=0 > /data/local.prop
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
I thought so, and had already made the change, just wanted clarification. Another nice piece of info, thank you. I edit a few lines in the build.prop every time after I flash, like the auto backlight, default brightness, opengles version, default ringtone, so if I wanted to add that into a created build.prop in data/local (or is local.prop in /data?), so long as the text was correct, it would overwrite the sytem, correct?

EDIT: you said *except* for ro. values, which means opengles, ringtones, etc. would NOT apply if they were in the local.prop, correct?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
Cool thank you for your time and info.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
Right, but again, you can't override values that begin with "ro." ("read-only" values) -- for example, ro.opengles.version. Those have to be edited manually.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Freeroot:
Yeah, I had the same thing and when you hold down the power button, airplane mode, silent mode and choose profile is gone, right? I went back to 3/8 after flashing 3/10 a couple times. I may try to re download it, but the md5 matched..
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
I just did the same thing, deleted all the profiles but default (can't be deleted), called myself 3 times and you're right it's A LOT better, I love it when I can think straight about issues, and you had the great idea, so THANKS. I also noticed the call ring delay in the build.prop is different than it used to be.... Can't remember what the delay was set to before, but currently it says 500 - which I would assume is milliseconds. Anybody remember what it used to be?

fyi this can be done with root explorer as well. I did it by creating a new file in root exp. onto my sd card, inputting the correct text string and named it "local.prop", then copied it to /data in no folder, worked. Still have yet to see if this changed my screen rendering issues, but I hope it does. Also, jasonmaloney is an android ninja, and should change his avatar immediately :P
[Hero CDMA Android Development] zanywood:
Well I had my first tick with #10 screen locked up apps wouldn't load. Rebooted and so far so good.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] 808Bill:
Swype Update

Swype had an update that appears to address the problems identified in this thread.

http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?2865-Swype-BETA-for-Android-UPDATE-March-2011
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rondietz1:
With my screen problems, the problem isn't with swype itself, it's with not being able to install it, the screen doesn't react.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jckeyser:
Which is great that they've given some attention to the bugs, but of course I have a new one now. Every time I try and download the apk it's unsuccessful.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] wjason:
Working fine for me here. Updated the installer and installing Swype now.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rvturnage:
Does this have any effect of the black screen for incoming calls? Thanks.

When you say you deleted the profiles -- do you mean in settings? I tried it, and didn't notice any change. May a tiny bit at most. Also, the profiles reappeared on reboot when I tried it.

Next question...how does one install the circle battery mods? I flash the zip, I still get no circle battery. Thanks again, everyone, for the help!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
So back to this ring delay thing in the build.prop, it was 1000, and the losalert was 1000 (if my memory is working, lol). now the ring delay is 500 and the other one is 2000. I'm going to change both and see if that helps. The ring delay being longer at 1000 only makes sense to me because it gains a .5 sec to build the call data before telling the phone to respond, so although I may not hear one of the rings my caller hears, the phone will theoretically make me happier, we shall see.

@rvturnage, I just rebooted and the only profiles is still the default, all the ones I deleted are gone. And to be clear, The phone black screen is still an issue, but it got better by 2-3 seconds, also could be placebo? And having made the above edit to delays and such, I did not notice a change.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
Re-read my post ;)

It might help with black screens, including on incoming calls. Just try it and let me know if it fixes it.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
I think it did - specific to the screen response issues on apps and long presses, not the phone, and I really need to stop calling myself, lol. I also think that deleting the profiles seemed to help too, but maybe I'm crazy. Just out of curiosity, why would this affect it? Also, since it has been =1 for as long as I can remember, there's obviosly something else going on.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rvturnage:
yeah, i thought others had reported black screens at other times -- wasn't sure which you were referring to. I tried it using Terminal Emulator, but get "adb: permission denied" message.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
type "su" first
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rubyknight:
Wrong thread, this is aospcmod, not nightlies
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
lol, I think he's on 3/10 and confused the dated release system aosp uses with the #number system the nightlies use, which I think is on number 15 or 16? Anyway hey zanywood, which ROM you on, figure out the releases and stop confusing us, lol.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pstevep:
didnt seem to help the black screen for me.. im going to try deleting the profiles to see if that helps with it.. since i dont use them anyway.. the screen does seem to respond a little better but the still plagued by the black screen..
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rvturnage:
D'ho. I knew that. alas, it's still a no go. :(

I feel like an idiot...I should know this. Should I not be typing adb shell echo when using Terminal Emulator? Now I'm getting adb: not found. :confused: Perhaps I should just wait until the professionals get the issue fixed in the ROM.:D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
Also, don't use "adb" when you are on your phone... ;).
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
Yes, you should not be using "adb shell echo...", just type the same command from "echo...".
[Hero CDMA Android Development] poashll:
When you are in TE, you are in shell. So no you shouldn't type adb shell.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rvturnage:
Thanks guys. Finally got it. Not sure if it helped with the black screen/incoming call lag or not. It appeared to, however since, i'd also removed the all the profiles except Default earlier I rebooted because that had been causing my profiles to re-appear. This time, however, the profiles remained deleted.

I've rebooted several times now, and it appears the FIRST call still has some significant lag -- about 4 seconds (just as the fourth vibration begins). however, subsequent calls are much, much better -- around 1 second lag. The answer screen shows up before the second vibration begins. I don't know if it was the profile deletion, the adb code, or a combination of the two, but it's definitely much better. Thanks for all the help, everyone!

Edit: Not sure if it's relevant, but my ringtone is an mp3 on my SD card. I may change it to a default ringtone and see if that helps with the initial ring after reboot.

Edit 2: Nope, ringtone doesn't matter. used one of the system ringtones and first call after reboot has the same lag. After that, lag is all but gone.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pstevep:
so after using the adb codes, it would appear that after the first call like the above quote mentioned it gets better.. i havent deleted profiles yet, just used the adb code, so it appears to help so thats awesome..
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
so, in theory, to make the ROM function properly we tell not to do the debug thing, wouldn't it be safe then to assume the line can simply be removed from the build.prop in future builds? jasonmaloney, can you elaborate in android speak what this change effectuated? also you = http://www.grfxpstore.com/attached_files/2008/2406/droidninja_prv.gif?1291083052
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rvturnage:
Thanks, Duce. No idea why mine refused to stay deleted. :) they finally got the hint and stayed gone, though.

Good to know which it was that helped. Can you explain what exactly did the adb code changed? Just curious. Thanks.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] zanywood:
Sorry I just used the # wrong im on aosp 3/10. Had one incident but running like a champ now!! Im so confused on who to go with aosp or cyanogen decisions decisions. Ill run one for a day than other for a day. Any check out those skull & dragon sliders "condemned soul" put out they rock!!! XDA is my best friend!!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] 24601:
OK duce, now I can't get the image of Lily Tomlin out of my head . . . one ringy dingy . . . two ringy dingy :eek:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pstevep:
from what i can tell from google.. because i really didnt know myself.. is that it has to do with the hardware acceleration.. im not entirely sure what it is doing to it.. i do know that 1 is on and 0 is off.. dont know if that helps at all.. im still in the process of learning some of this build.prop stuff myself..
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
I had a hunch that the reason people were seeing black screens everywhere (myself included on one particular build) was that something was funky with one of the recent drawing-related performance tweaks. So I posted how to turn off hardware acceleration.

Here's what's going on in "Android speak".

Android has a component called SurfaceFlinger, which deals with drawing to the screen. By default, SurfaceFlinger is built to automatically use hardware rendering if it is available. But for testing purposes (e.g. running in a simulator), SurfaceFlinger has a setting that allows you to force off hardware acceleration. To do this, you set debug.sf.hw=0. That's what you just did -- disabled hardware acceleration.

So why does this ROM have debug.sf.hw=1 set? There's a little history involved here.

Once upon a time, on some unnamed phone running some unnamed ROM, some unnamed person noticed that their build.prop explicitly listed debug.sf.hw=0, disabling hardware acceleration. They realized this was causing them slowdowns and other issues, so they changed the 0 to a 1 and posted about it. Then other people started making the change too.

Now while this may seem like the proper solution, the fact is that this setting only exists for debug purposes, and its only function is to turn hardware acceleration OFF. If you dive into SurfaceFlinger's source code, it makes changes based on the setting if and only if it is set to 0. Setting it to 1 has no actual effect other than to have it not set to 0. In other words, setting it to 1 is the same as not setting it at all.

Somewhere along the line, someone decided to start throwing debug.sf.hw=1 into our build.prop. This line does absolutely nothing. So to answer your question, no, just removing it would NOT do the same thing as explicitly setting it to 0.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pstevep:
that is a lot more in depth than my answer.. thank you for that, makes a lot more sense now..:D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
seriously, androninja avatar NAO!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mumbaiyya:
Just had my GPS crash after 20 mins or so. Everything else seems to be fine. The google emails seems to have stopped!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] contactwajeeh:
Mine is going flawlessly though I dont use gps. has been running for a day and a half. AOSP you rock. Thanks a lot for all your efforts.:)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rvturnage:
i've got a 3 hour drive to Tuscaloosa tomorrow, so I'll be giving the GPS a decent workout. We'll see how it goes!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] lykoi626:
vvm still no go

o.k. tried everything stated and recommended and still get message "unable to play message"....anyone else have any other ideas....only started happening with 3/8 and 3/10. And before anyone says it yes i know phones are different and im sure someone running 3/10 has it working just fine...please help

thank you in advance

Aosp is greatness
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
What methods did you try? I got mine to work by flashing the zip for vvm and using TB to restore the data only from froyo, worked fine. I did have to re-restore the data around 3/01 when the android version changed from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 but it's been working fine for me.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mumbaiyya:
That's what I did as well and restored VM for me fine as well.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] zanywood:
Anyone running s0be's kernal and which version?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pstevep:
im running 57 currently, but i have been running 47 up until that point since it came out.. i actually prefer his kernel to the one that comes in this rom..
[Hero CDMA Android Development] lykoi626:
did froyo version with tb...did download of edify version....did another file download and used data only restore with tb and all that...just quit working with all methods around 3/8 whereas would go right in prior....thinking about goin to google voice...any input please
[Hero CDMA Android Development] RVDigital:
Scary. Phone acted as if it where bricked.

SO I have been using 0310 since its release and the phone has been running GREAT. While going through one of my power charge/discharge cycles today(after calibration), the phone finally shut itself off due to the lack of power. I confirmed that it was completely drained as it would not turn on off the charger. After a few minutes connected to the charger, the phone powered on.

After about an hour of charging, I went to check/use the phone and noticed it was VERY warm. As I pressed the menu button to bring up the phone, the screen came on and went off. The phone ceased to respond after this. Any and All attempts to power the device on failed. At this point I figured a Temperature fail safe had kicked in and let the phone sit for a few minutes. After returning to the phone, now cooled down, I attempted the power on process again. STILL NO LUCK. The phone was plugged into the charger and the battery had been replaced after I took it out during the initial fail. When pressing the power, the orange amber charging light would go off (as if it was booting) but then come back on. The phone STILL failed to respond. I inspected all of the battery contacts and performed basic troubleshooting.

I let the phone sit for about 10 minutes and plugged it back into the charge and attempted a power on again. THIS TIME, the phone powered on. While writing this post, the phone has now completely booted and is charging,

from 1%

. Indicating that the phone was not charging at all during the initial hour (thus the heat, energy has to go somewhere). I have not begun to deduce if this problem is battery related or something more. I just wanted to throw this out in case anyone else runs into such an issue. I have found at least one other recent case of another non-rooted user with the same issue.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] RVDigital:
Umm, what? :confused:

Your post is WAY too brief. Are you talking about Sprint VVM?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] .PHil:
How can i get the old 4x4 music widget back?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
Yeah he was asking for help earlier. Sucks your phone got all moody, buy good it's working again. My question about the vvm would be if he was on gb prior to 3/8, and if so, how the data restorer did not work?

EDIT: lykoi626, did you ever update the version of vvm, like on sense rom, cuz there was an update a month or two back that most people did not do. If you did that, you would maybe need to get more detailed to get better help, like which version you have and what rom you came from and if you had gb prior to 3/8.

sent from a series of tubes
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
From what? Theres tons of music apps with that size on the market.

sent from a series of tubes
[Hero CDMA Android Development] lykoi626:
more info

sorry yes sprint vvm having issues since 3/8
[Hero CDMA Android Development] bks0101:
Interesting VVM thing on my end. Did the usual Wiki fix after flashing 3-10, it's always worked for previous releases. When I open VVM, I get familiar T-30 (I think it is, phone is not in front of me right now) error. However, when I call and leave a message from my wifes phone to mine, the message comes thru just fine, I get the voice mail icon in the notification bar, and when I open the notification bar and click on the message it plays it like normal. First I've seen VVM give the T-30 error, but actually be working fine???
[Hero CDMA Android Development] babygirl17_06:
I am running 3/10 now but Monday I was running 3/8. My husband works for his aunt and uncle moving mobile homes and sometimes I go with them. They usally have a Garmin GPS that they use to get directions but something happened to it and it quit working. The only option we had was to use the GPS on my phone. I was kinda worried cause I knew some were still having problems with the GPS losing signal. We had no other choose so we gave it a try! We picked up one in Philadelphia, Ms and took it to Oakland, Ms. That is a 120 something mile drive that took us 2 hours and 30 minutes to drive! Then we used it to navigate around the town for places to eat and to find other stores. Never had a bit of trouble out of the GPS! It never lost signal and it took us exactly where we needed to go! Now I have got my husband's aunt and uncle wanting a phone like mine!!! Way to go on this AWESOME rom!!!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] lykoi626:
vvm

appreciate the help very much....was using gb version 3/7 believe the second update of the day...version of vmail was 5.0? was latest update from sense rom...have current prl and such from a sense update as well when flashed 3/8...

the symptoms are this:

download the zip that has updated version of vvm as well as the core mobility tb files....I install the apk but do not open after install (click done) I then move all three core mobility files to the titanium backup file folder...next I proceed to tb and click the data only button to restore just the data from the vvm program. I load the vvm proggy and it initializes just fine....sends the activate message and I recieve provisioning successful message via text. Whenever I get a voicemail it will show up in the program but when I try to play it it says "unable to play message" not matter what. I can send myself a voicemail via compose and it will play but nothing from the "network". Tried changing recoveries and such and nothing seems to fix that bug....

Again thank you very much for your help and responses

currently running gb 3/10

no app2sd or firerats mod

dark horse theme

and all current and updated tb and such

Aosp is greatness
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
So it worked in 3/7? just nand back to that backup vvm in TB, go to recovery wipe cache, then in advanced wipe dalvik, flash 3/10 over top, flash vvm, boot, restore data only, should work.

EDIT: for fututre reference if you are flashing over (no data wipe) you should NOT have vvm issues, as the data remains. I haven't had to restore vvm data but twice: first time was when I came to GB from froyo, second time was when Gb went from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 which was on 3/1 I think. If you are wiping every time, then you would have to restore vvm data every time.

sent from a series of tubes
[Hero CDMA Android Development] wwejr4540:
Just updated to the latest Swype, then rebooted and got the blue box. Swapped input methods (Android/Swype) and it is fixed - until the next reboot I presume.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Nilxchaos:
Can you post/pm the installer apk? Everytime I try and install it, it gives me a parse error.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rubyknight:
For all you app lovers, here's a couple tidbits.

The latest version of Helauncher officially (in my world anyways) kills Zeam and Launcher Pro in speed and comes with perfect Sense(ew), froyo, gingerbread, and other jawdropping themes that match alot of the available cm7 themes.

And the latest version of Winamp is epic, to put it simply. Download it now to see the features yourself but that's just extra bonus points. The real fun is its extra integration features that make it work with cm7 volume key track skipping and the lockscreen controls. And you don't even have to freeze or uninstall the default player.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] CrashV2010:
Will the flash 10.2 be implemented into this rom?

My GingerBreaded Sprint Hero.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] wwejr4540:
I started the Swype installer and it upgraded to latest version of installer, then I uninstalled Swype, started the upgraded installer and it downloaded/installed the latest version of Swype.