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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tynor:
Cronos Gingerbread

Feeyo is now out with a new beta of his Gingerbread ROM, which runs really great. Almost everything working, still bugs with camera, but he is going to fix that aswell according to his sayings.

More information here:

http://www.cronosproject.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=620
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Looks like GB for Hero is approaching prime time!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Schiehallion:
Ckhero, you can test the keyboard and market app, can't link you as on my phone but downloads will be somewhere on the boards. Im on froyd and using them
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Utking:
Feeyos rom is awesome, its blazing fast, and i dont have to many FC :p didnt know the hero could run 2.3 this fluid, i almost feel it faster than vanilla 2.2 :) currently bugs are camera and recorder, gps is a bit weak but functions properly ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] UbuntuBhoy:
Where did you get the CM7 pre-alpha nightly from ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] G8D:
Nah he's still banned.

He might be unbanned if he actually requested it, but I doubt he would.

In related news... Cronos Ginger 0.0.7 is amazing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Viper780:
is there the slightest possibility to see an Gingerbread Port with Sense on the Hero or do we have the same troubles like FroYo?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kiwi89:
We wont see a sense port until HTC release a 2.3 rom for a device with the same res as the Hero.

Even then we may still run into problems.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
since froyo sense has proven to have a seemingly highly-improbable-to-solve camera issue, it will only be worse for gingerbread sense.

honestly with all the changes in gingerbread I'll be surprised if htc manages to get sense running on it at all.

but then I also never expected to see gingerbread vanilla working on the hero in any useful way, although camera still remains to be seen and there are a couple of very slow display issues (transitions, some 3d rendering stuff, and so on).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Cortiis:
Cronos Gingerbread 0.0.8 beta, unarguably the best gingerbread rom (picked this from Dkelly :-)). I feel it is much better then anything Froyo. SuperBlazingly fast and stable, some minor glitches with the camera, for 0.0.8 you have to flash what 5 zips and ext4 is still not supported. Still, the best .period.

If you can live without the camera, give it a shot and I can bet you wont be coming back to XDA soon.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
One of the devs over at CM has got the camera (sort of) working now! A fully working GB ROM gets closer every day. Once feeyo gets his hands on this...

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...esters-needed/page__view__findpost__p__123297
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sjknight413:
Feeyo has finished CG 0.0.9, the camera works :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mljjlm:
When the fix was out, he was pretty damn quick to get the ROM patched! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maycon_filgueiras:
anybody knows when will be avaiable to download here? :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
there will be more devs working on Gingerbread but we will have to wait.

CronosGB will never be here , but u click the link in my signature and u can download it . everything works even the camera thanks to SteelBytes :cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mansn:
I just wanted to say that I flashed the latest Cronos Gingerbread (0.0.9) and it works fantastically well. For the first time in ages I can now actually go running with Cardiotrainer and listen to music at the same time as having audio announcements. GPS works, the camera works for barcode scanning, google maps 5 works in 3D. Apps from the market don't seem to freeze on install either. I'm sold and will be sticking with gingerbread for now.

That reminds me: I should try angry birds now :-D

Edit: Tried Angry Birds 1.4.2 - force closes on open!

Edit2: Tried Angry Birds Lite 1.3.5_beta2 - force closes on open.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cartman333:
Move all apps to your internel storage from sdcard what has forceclose
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
Bizarre, Dell havent released their source code yet there is a forum open for them (ok not directly Dell) and a custom rom too (again not directly).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mansn:
All my apps are on internal storage. I don't have anything on SD at all. Has anyone managed to get angry birds to work on Cronos Gingerbread 0.0.9?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rustynuts34:
Angry birds working quite well for me i moved it to phone : )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Cortiis:
Cronos Gingerbread 0.0.9 beta is out. Everything works now. Blazingly fast, super stable and better then most Froyo ROMs (you know which ones I mean, the baddies :-)

Just installed the ROM used Titanium backup to restore 41 apps, not even a single FC. GPS works like magic, battery life awesome.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Cortiis:
It is automatically moved to the SDCARD. Open Angry Birds from -Applications- and click "Move to Phone". It should fix the error.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] electricfonk:
where can i download 0.0.9 ??? didn´t find anything
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Cortiis:
Find the link in my signature. There are 4 flashable zips. Flash all of them with reboot after each.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] o_tiger:
Just for information : On XDA App - we don't see the signatures!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
For your information : Buy a PC!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Grindboy:
Well now I know what I'm spending tomorrow doing!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
if you read the official thread about that rom you'll see that we've all had no trouble with it by following the basic rule outlined in the thread: if something FCs in gb, go into settings->applications, find the file, see if it's currently installed on sd card. if it is, "move" "to phone".

voila.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
ewe. no thanks. but my mac shows sigs just fine ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Mansn:
Thanks a lot. I was totally unaware that GB actually installed some items on the SD card by default. For this reason I had no idea that this was going on.

Angry Birds (normal latest version) runs like **** though, so I'll give the 1.3.5 a try which is supposed to run much better according to this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=827593

I tried angry birds lite. That doesn't force close - it opens and closes itself automatically.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
When are people going to give up that Angry birds will never run smooth on any rom on the Hero. As much as I love to see it happen. Well I will have a new phone in 11 months, maybe then it happens. Hero Rev 2 or something will come out. Got no idea.

But I do love GB now :D everything working, Not as smooth as butter yet, But for me now my daily rom. :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
I have never had an issue with Angry Birds at all (well, apart from the odd miffed gf)

Incidentally I kept getting an FC when going into market on GB. Did the usual clearing of cache etc but still nothing. Re-installed Froyo. I will say it was surprisingly quick.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
hahaha yea :-)

by the way, imho the hero rev 2 is the desire, no?

:-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
so yea, the special version of angry birds 1.3.5 that someone hacked extra textures into does work as well as you can get on the hero - sometimes smooth, sometimes not, but best we can get. dunno where to get it though, all I know is I have it running and like it.

and yea, what's with these gb market issues? mine's perfect with the market - in fact much better than any froyo rom. froyo = market issues sporadically. gb = no market issues. I hope the gb market fcs some people are getting can be resolved cuz those of us without those fc issues are really happy :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
Actually it was the first paid version if IRC.

Yeh I had to reinstall froyo unfortunately. Although to be fair I always use LP for my screens so I dont think I would get too much benefit from it (unless.....)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] factualpuddle:
hmm, never had a Cronos rom, anyone able to compare it to Floyo, in terms of speed/smoothness?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ChosSimbaOne:
Does anyone knows what plans freeyo has next as it is still in beta? what is his future plans?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] L0cke:
Have you guys seen this CDMA GB release - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=864403

'Theme Chooser' and the 'Rotary Lock screen' are things I would want to see in our versions.

EDIT: Seems to be new CM7 features :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MentalDeath:
You can get the rotary lock screen on Feeyo's GB just have to choose it via CyanogenMod Settings, Settings>CM Extra>Input Settings>Lockscreen Style, then choose which you want slide or rotary
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] L0cke:
Ah, didn't know that. Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MentalDeath:
NP, just wish it had the option for messaging and phone calls that would be cool, but then again would be a pain to get it to work since it can only rotate two ways. =\
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
you should try that lockscreen replacement GoTo. it's a paid app but does stuff like that while using one single rotating unlock thing similar to the cm one.

very sexy.

but also a bit of a battery eater like all lockscreen replacements seem to be.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nchary05:
I have installed GB 0.0.9 and was working fine, however when I installed google apps, it went into animation loop ... this thing happens twice... any advice ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
Well u should wait awhile because without gapps cronos bg stays on CRONOS bootscreen only 10 seconds. But with gapps should take about 1 minute to fully boot.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
which gapps? it works great with the 20101225 ones
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BillDoor:
hmm, just installed Tasty Froyo 1.2, that seems to be running nicely, what is there that's different/better in Cronos 0.0.9, I'm very new to this, so please don't slap me down! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
well tasty isn't actually a gingerbread 2.3 rom. it's a froyo 2.2 rom with some of the things taken from gingerbread. tasty also runs at a different screen dpi than other roms (before modifying anything at least) so it "appears" to give you a higher screen resolution. it's kind of a neat trick although you can do this more or less with any rom if you have skills. still, as a freshly flashed rom, tasty is the only one of it's kind for the hero and he's put a lot of work into making it that way.

gingerbread however offers you the new gingerbread applications manager (which is vastly superior to anything from 2.2, 2.1 or 1.x roms), the gingerbread text selection tools (again vastly superior to predecessors), and many other things which I'm sure we'll come across in time. For now, for me, those two features alone are worth using gingerbread right now on my phone.

so I do :-)

but plenty of great roms exist with older OS versions such as tastyfroyo and so on.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BillDoor:
thanks, I realise tasty isn't 2.3, just wondered if it was worth upgrading from that to GB, but as I type I'm backing up ready to install it, 3rd new rom in 4 days!! As someone who's never done this before, I feel like I'm getting addicted to upgrading it!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Haizum74:
Oh, its just the start of things lol:eek:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] factualpuddle:
Currently using Floyo 1.2, and loving it, and am sooooooo tempted by GB, i've been waiting soso long, haha, but.. I absolutely suck at backing up my apps.. i think last time i tried it ****ed all my widgets up and it justsynced and downloaded a lot of the apps that didn't back up for some reason? haha... *sigh*
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
oh yeah, it's coming
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BillDoor:
Hmm had a problem with this

First my back up failed but I flashed it anyway then it seemed to work ok but I couldn't seem to setup the Google account, where do you do this?

Anyone know why my backup failed and how I can sort it?

gone back to tasty for now
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] mattatua:
Just noticed PCD has an MR3 update available dated 11/30/2010. Downloading it now. Anyone got any ideas what it fixes/conatains?
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] dougthug:
The only thing the Word document that was included only states the update provides a 'Qualcomm security update'. I'm about to run the update. I'll post an update after it's finished.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] dougthug:
Well, that was uneventful :|. I don't recall what the version numbers for anything were, but nothing appears to be different. I was really hopeful a Windows Phone update from 6.5 to 6.5.3 or better would be included, but not happening. I guess the security update is fine and dandy, but anyone flashing this update hoping for something exciting, I didn't see it. Oh well :).
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] brent372:
Damn.... I would say the only thing that would make me flash at this point would be a bump to 6.5.3

Looks like I'll stick with MR2
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] Monfro:
New radio!!

I have extracted the new Verizon rom.

It includes a new radio: 2.37!!

The packages are quite old...see screenshot.

I have to examinate the most interesting part...drivers :)

Let's hope for something new.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] segadc:
Wow. Yeah if you see any fixes let us know. I am going to stick with MR2 until there is a good reason to switch to MR3.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] Scott:
What OS version did it ship with? 21889?
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] dougthug:
21887.5.0.86
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] DavidinCT:
The word from PPCgeeks is that someone checked all the files, all you need is the just radio for the update (posted at ppcgeeks).

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/2009089-post14.html

Just the radio with RUU, phone needs to be unlocked (If on PPCgeeks don't forget to click the above link and say thanks !)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6775037/VZW.2.37.Radio.zip
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] mcnutty:
Hehe, forgot to come on over here and post this. Thanks for keeping things up to date over here. I don't post as much on XDA mainly because the forum doesn't have a good phone interface that I know of. PPCG has http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/wiforums/ (only works on phones), but I can't seem to find anything for XDA :(
[Android Software Development] ilangoadigal:
For anyone hoping that Android 2.3 would natively support Arabic/Persian/Urdu, it doesn't seem like it. I just downloaded the API and loaded al-jazeera up in the emulator. Here's what comes out

I guess we'll have to wait for the next update (which won't fix this)
[Android Software Development] leoon:
http://d.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.html

According to this, Arabic is supported?
[Android Software Development] ilangoadigal:
Unless the released version is different from the API, it's not. The only thing changing the locale does is to change the time to Arabic numbers. This is with the Egyptian Locale enabled.

Though I very well could be wrong so if someone gets Arabic working in the emulator please let me know.
[Android Software Development] nagasumi:
i guess arabic will be supportes in the official version ,, since it's said so in the site !
[Android Software Development] choghok:
Whyyyy?

What is the problem really? Why is it so freaking difficult for Android to fix this, when apple supported right to left languages all the way from the start.

I was looking forward to 2.3, but it seems like it is not as good as I hoped.
[Android Software Development] caveman007:
No official Arabic support and no paid apps in my country (Kuwait) are holding me back from getting any android phone, I really want the nexus S though.
[Android Software Development] Nanan00:
My guess is it is a very low priority item due to user base.
[Android Software Development] Dr.laser:
can you try to change the font?
[Android Software Development] ilangoadigal:
Smartphone growth in the MENA region is huge. Really Google could adopt one of the third-party solutions for Arabic and incorporate into the base Android architecture and this problem would be solved, but they don't.

How and to what? The only options available in the emulator are to change the locale.
[Android Software Development] Dr.laser:
its done by changing the font in "/system/fonts/"

before that i think you need read-write permission
[Android Software Development] ilangoadigal:
This is in an emulator in the Android SDK and I was testing to see if there is native Arabic support. Obviously that is possible on rooted phones but only if there is a third-party developer to create Arabization libraries for the specific architecture of the phone.
[Android Software Development] IRTFM:
This is bull crp.

Just saying.

This really pisses me off. I am thinking of withdrawing my vast moral sponsorship of the Android platform until they start taking my language seriously.
[Android Software Development] asaad399:
joining letters was ahope but not the big deal

indeed RTL support must be built in views and layouts like swing
[Android Software Development] choghok:
Arabic letter problem

The problem is not arabic fonts, they are there as you can see on the picture, the problem is how to display them, they should be displayed from right to left and not from left to right, also they should be linked together like handwrited latin and not disconnected like printed latin.
[Android Software Development] codexc:
Provides the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. The algorithm is defined in the Unicode Standard Annex #9, version 13, also described in The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0 . Use a Bidi object to get the information on the position reordering of a bidirectional text, such as Arabic or Hebrew. The natural display ordering of horizontal text in these languages is from right to left, while they order numbers from left to right. If the text contains multiple runs, the information of each run can be obtained from the run index. The level of any particular run indicates the direction of the text as well as the nesting level. Left-to-right runs have even levels while right-to-left runs have odd levels.

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/Bidi.html
[Android Software Development] Et3rnal:
Google took alot from samsung in Nexus S n 2.3 and probably they'll take what samsung have done wit hthe arabic as well "No RTL" :\
[Android Software Development] codexc:
please can see you my topic here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=864048

this way can showing arabic chart correctly
[Android Software Development] Alazmy:
Waiting for the official release

I think it will be fully supported in the official puplic release (I optimistically hope that) because this is just an emulator and many files are missing compared to the ROM.
[Android Software Development] ilangoadigal:
Someone on an early Gingerbread build on the Eris took a screenshot, having the same problem.
[Android Software Development] xdabens:
The eris build is based off the SDK so it would have the same problems the SDK might have.
[Android Software Development] Heema:
will find out in the final release

Hey guys, there is a little note after the locale section in the sdk release note in android developers web.

"Note: The Android platform may support more locales than are included in the SDK system image. All of the supported locales are available in the Android Open Source Project."

so let's just be optimistic that Arabic will be there in the official release, though the note mentioned for locales!
[Android Software Development] asaad399:
no BIDI even in honeycomb!!

see this

groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/664c4331a9c69b72

!!!
[Android Software Development] Franky12345:
Works fine in my case. Using Arabic Froyo ROM on Samsung Galaxy S. Havent tried webpages but native messaging app perfectly shows Urdu characters.
[Android Software Development] ilangoadigal:
Oh man that sucks :/
[Android Software Development] johnnie93:
Samehere buddy Google hates kuwait and arabic countries
[Android Software Development] Franky12345:
For my arab friends ;). Webpages works too. Froyo does natively supports right to left languages such as Arabic and Urdu. Even swype supports arabic/urdu alphabets
[Android Software Development] ilangoadigal:
No it doesn't. You have a rooted phone and downloaded a 3rd party rom that supports Arabization and has correct libraries, or you have a specific local distribution of the phone software that supports the language. I did the same on my HTC Incredible. This is not the same as native support for the language for obvious reasons.
[Android Software Development] abo.saud:
JUST SAMSUNG who support Arabic in her Android Phones

but the origenal stock Android doesn't support Arabic

let us hope Google will support Arabic in the Final relase of 2.3
[Android Software Development] Franky12345:
Yes it is. Thats Arabic region stock ROM. Check http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=844312
[Android Software Development] shehriih:
so disappointed !!

حاجة ترفع الضغط

Why don't u try arabic , israel , it might works LOL
[Android Software Development] lubeix:
You can enable (unoffical) arabic support for your ROOTED android though... ;)
[Android Software Development] quadratic:
No, it isn't. That is third-party support added by Samsung. It is not native Android support.
[Android Software Development] Franky12345:
Okay, atleast Samsung did something for its customers :D
[Android Software Development] mr.r9:
The thing that pisses me is that a developer called Y6b open sourced his code which supports Arabic. So why can't google take it or at least contact him?

10 million years ago we had the same problem with WinMo & we used to rely on 3rd partt software.

It's just very very disappointing to have to do the same 10 years later :mad:

Thank you Google:rolleyes:
[Android Software Development] nagasumi:
yeah dissapoiting ! ,, i'd love it if dev's take y6b's project and include it in their roms at least !

there'll be a better support for sure !
[Android Software Development] afriza:
Arabic support in Honeycomb

Here are some snapshots of arabic support in honeycomb preview

Http://bit.ly/honeycomb-arabic
[Android Software Development] ahub1988:
Sonyericsson Xperia Eclair now supports Arabic, in new updated fw 2.1.1.A.0.6
[Android Software Development] betizad:
open sourced project by Y6b

Do you have the link to the open sourced project by Y6b?
[Android Software Development] YafaKlan:
HTC Evo 3 D - no arabic support. you get the letters. but sometimes they are right to left (as they are supposed to be) and sometimes they arent. and they are always UNCONNECTED.

I'm tired of waiting and searching for root methods then searching for the proper Arabic libs to install. Although I hate the closed source world of Apple, honestly they are starting to look pretty good now.
[Android Software Development] quadratic:
Once someone figures out how to root the EVO 3D you'll want to visit http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=985504
[Android Software Development] ultra99:
GUys, any updates or news on this for GB 2.3.5?
[Android Software Development] lebdiabolic:
Guys

just for your info.

I use the samsung galaxy tab telstra (australian version) and it does not support arabic.

My sms are unrecognisable and i cannot read arabic websites however one way to read everything correctly is using Firefox browser. I dont know why but Dolphin and the nativr browser dont read the arabic letters correctly. Same goes for all the applications facebok and twitter included.

But Firefox does!

that tells me Froyo and Gingerbread support arabicand firefox has the means to connect the characters.